The Blessed

“Salt-tolerant plants, at present we can only choose cassava, sorghum and cotton, if we can improve the condition, we can also plant some mulberries to raise silkworms, which has high economic value and could drive other civilians more. But it should be impossible in recent years. And, sorghum, cassava and cotton are all one-season plants. We grow and reap them in the same years. But mulberries are perennial trees. Once the sea water flows back, even if they are salt-tolerant, they’d be drowned.”

That was his final conclusion after some thorough considerations. Compared with cassava and cotton, he preferred sorghum, which could be taken as food and also be used to make alcohol.

“Isn’t cassava poisonous? And the sorghum, that thing is used to make brooms. Why grow so much? Shall we plant cotton next year?”

When Han Fei heard what they said, he asked curiously. He was not optimistic about cotton. He heard that its output was not high and hard to manage.

“Hehe, forget about cotton. Too troublesome. Every June and July, we still have to hire people for the topping pinching. Fifty thousand mu of land! That would be a huge project. Besides, the picking would also be a big problem. But cassavas are different. We could bundle them up and throw them into the river. After soaking for half a month, they’d get poisonless. And I heard it tastes not bad, especially suitable for stuffing the belly when people suffer from famine. As for the sorghums. Who said we can only make brooms with them? There are a lot of other uses. I plan to grow sorghums all. Then next year, we would earn a mountain of gold and silver with them!”

Finally, Ling Jingxuan even got a little excited. Now, in Qing Kingdom, it was usually rice wine or flower wine. The cost was high and its degree was low, so it wasn’t strong enough. And the grape wine he made was only suitable for women, besides, due to the problem of raw materials, the yearly capacity wouldn’t be high. But sorghum wine was different. Next year, he even planned to build a sorghum wine factory in the village next year. By then…heihei, would it still be a problem to get rich?

“Oh? You look like you’ve got all your plans for the next few years?”

Yan Shengrui walked over and hugged him around the shoulder, he liked his confident appearance, especially attractive.

“Of course. Or why would I have bought so much land?”

The curvature of the lip increased a little because of the good mood, and the unabashedly confidence was stained between the eyebrows. He believed that after they succeeded planting things next year, a lot of landlords and squires would follow them to buy the salt-alkali land in the nearby counties, right? At that time, because of the pressure, the county magistrate would come consult with him how to grow things, not only he wouldn’t be hiding anything, but also he  would teach them in details, in the year after…heihei…those people would only grow things but didn’t know how to use them. And they could only sell their sorghums to him. And he could purchase them at the lowest price, and then set a branch in each county of Cangzhou. Then, within three years, he could become the biggest wine dealer of Qing Kingdom!

The more he thought about it, the more thrilled. Ling Jingxuan seemed to have seen that the silver was like having legs and running toward him, wearing that ostentatious smile.

“Hehe…Only judging by his looks we know we did the right thing to buy land with him.”

Others looked at him, amused, and didn’t ask the specific things. And Han Fei even said that jokingly. Although they didn’t know much about Ling Jingxuan, they knew that every time he revealed that kind of smile, he would be 100% sure. Of course he also felt thrilled. He’d definitely have big money to make following him.

“Second elder brother, don’t you think that our eldest brother has the potentiality of being some kind of profiteer?”

Ling Jingpeng flexed his elbow lazily on Ling Jinghan’s shoulder, looking at their big brother.

“You only know now?”

Throwing him a lazy look, Ling Jinghan unceremoniously patted off his hand. If not, how would they big brother have made such a huge fortune in only a few months?

“Uncle Ling is more than a profiteer, he is also a rare talent of running a kingdom. If he participates in the examination, he’d certainly top the list!”

Chu Yan said that like a little old man, but the way he looked at Ling Jingxuan was full of admiration. He liked learning things by Uncle Ling’s side most. Every time he saw him talking with others, or directly communicated with him, he would learn a lot of different things. If possible, he really wanted to stay by his side forever.

“So you should learn more from him.”

Don’t get bullied by others like before, that was what Chu Ci did not say out. In the two lives, he only felt he owed Chu Yan big. If it hadn’t been him, he would have been…at such a young age…

“Hey, are you taking me as a dead one since I don’t speak? You say this and he says that. Why do I feel like you are being sarcastic of me?”

“Haha…”

Seeing that they had gone further and further, Ling Jingxuan found it amused and held his hands around the waist. Others all burst into laughter, and left their laughing on this wasteland. Maybe except Yan Shengrui, no one had ever expected that at this time next year, everyone here was no longer what they looked like today. And when they recalled this, it would have already been the most precious memories in their lives.