No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

The snow had not melted yet, and the Li family had almost nothing to do every day except for the housework. They had to huddle in the house, doing some odd weaving work and chatting idly.

The topic they mentioned most was naturally Sanlang, who was about to go to Chang'an to take part in the Spring Examination, and Erlang, who had no news. Regardless of whether Li Sanlang could pass the imperial examination this time, his status as a candidate had already been determined. If he failed, he could come back to continue reviewing for three years and take the exam again, or he could spend money to buy a small official position.

It was also because the family had accumulated some savings that Li A Niang dared to have such wild and imaginative thoughts, but she did not dare to tell anyone about it for fear of being laughed at.

"Alas... I don't know Jiro..."

dong dong dong -- dong dong dong --

Then the dogs in the yard began to bark one after another: Woof woof woof -- woof woof woof!!!

The unhurried knock on the door interrupted the conversation of everyone in the room. Li A Niang stood up, lifted the curtain and looked outside. Sanlang and Silang also poked their heads out from the study.

I saw two black dogs, Soy Milk and Fried Dough Sticks, constantly lying on the gap in the courtyard gate and sniffing, and the whining sound seemed to express doubt.

Who is outside the door?! Why does it smell so familiar?!

Suddenly, the two dogs seemed to recognize something, and their attitude immediately changed 180 degrees. They sat behind the door and whimpered excitedly, with their two tails behind them leaving afterimages and hitting the ground with bangs, which was completely different from their ferocious appearance a moment ago.

Looking at the happy faces of the two dogs, at this moment, everyone seemed to have an unspoken expectation.

Li A Niang asked in a trembling voice: "Who is it?"

"Mother! It's me!"

It's Jiro!!

Li Sanlang and Li Silang were the first to rush out of the door, kicked the two dogs away, lifted the bolt and pulled the gate open with force.

Standing outside the door was Li Erlang, who looked weather-beaten.

After a year, Li Erlang, who had no news at all, finally came back!

“Second brother!!”

Faced with such a warm embrace from his two younger brothers, Li Erlang let go of the reins and hugged them back tightly.

After not seeing him for a year, his two younger brothers have grown taller, especially Silang, who used to be a chubby little dwarf, but now he has grown to his chest!

"Sanlang, congratulations on being on the list!" Li Erlang patted his third brother on the back and was sincerely happy for him to be on the list.

"Second brother, I have done very well in my studies this year. Now I am among the top students in Class A. The teachers all praise me for my promising future!" Li Silang hugged his second brother's waist and spoke coquettishly.

Li Erlang reached out and poked Silang on the forehead: "Although Master's words are meant to be modest, I think you must be good! Well done! "

For a moment, the surprise of the elder brother's return home turned into the three brothers standing outside the door of the yard to relive their brotherhood, and no one wanted to step into the yard.

Finally, it was Aunt Li who spoke up: "You two, why don't you let your second brother in quickly."

Li Erlang then looked towards the yard and saw the whole family coming out of the house.

After not seeing him for a long time, the grandfather and grandmother, who were about to turn sixty, looked even older, but they still looked at him with a loving smile. The father and mother supported the two old people, also with a look of relief. There were also the elder brother and his wife. The little niece in the elder brother's arms had learned to walk and could call people very fluently. At this time, she was looking at him, the strange uncle, with confusion.

Jinniang was the one who had changed the most. In the past, when the whole family was together, she always stood timidly at the back, making it difficult for people to notice her. Now, she pulled Tuanlang and walked up with a smile on her face: "Second brother must be tired after the journey. Come in quickly. My mother and I will prepare lunch early today to welcome you back!"

Seeing his sister change so much, Li Erlang was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and took out a hairpin from his arms and put it on his sister: "Second brother was unable to attend your coming-of-age ceremony. Yesterday, when I came out of the barracks and passed by the state capital, I saw this hairpin and thought of buying it back for you."

"It really fits the bill."

Li Jinniang shyly adjusted the hairpin on her head, whispered "Thank you, second brother", and then stepped aside to let her brother in.

After this interruption, Li Sanlang and Li Silang finally thought of letting their brother in first.

Father Li pulled the horse to the backyard, and when he returned to the main house, he saw his second son taking out things from his bag one after another. They were all gifts prepared for his family. Even the youngest girl, Li Niang, received a small gold bracelet, which was the most valuable of all the gifts.

Xu Qing refused to accept it, so Li Erlang directly picked up the little girl's fat hand and put it on her: "I have been appointed as a fourth-rank captain by the general, and my salary has increased a lot. Although this bracelet is made of gold, it is very small and not worth much. It doesn't matter if Li Niang wears it. When she grows up, you can melt it and make it into earrings."

When they heard the news that Li Erlang was given an official title, everyone was amazed. Grandma Li even clasped her hands together and prayed to the sky, "Ancestors may bless you."

Since Li Erlang said so, Xu Qing no longer refused and accepted the bracelet for her daughter.

"Our family is finally blessed with many happy events. Jinniang becomes the manager of the cotton mill, Sanlang passes the imperial examination, and Erlang is appointed an official!" Aunt Li smiled from ear to ear, sweeping away all her past worries.

After sitting for a while, Aunt Li happily took her daughter and daughter-in-law to the kitchen to prepare lunch. During this time, the men stayed in the main room and chatted.

"Have you received any news from Yue Lang?" Li Erlang was most concerned about Ji Qingyue, so he asked immediately after calming down.

Unfortunately, the hopeful Li Erlang ended up with his brothers and younger brothers shaking their heads in denial.

It's been a year, where is Yue Lang?

At the same time, Ji Qingyue, whom Li Erlang had been thinking about day and night, was in the county, or to be more precise, in a painting.

He was standing in the warehouse on the mountain counting the seeds harvested this year.

During this year, Ji Qingyue was forced to stay in a secret room for eight months and was not allowed to go out. With nothing to do, he could only focus on farming.

Thanks to the positive blessing of the magical land, the highest planting efficiency can reach a harvest once every two weeks.

As a result, Ji Qingyue accumulated a huge number of seeds.

To this end, he expanded the warehouse on the top of the mountain from the original one to more than a dozen today, all built with dried bamboo.

Since he didn't know how to kill sheep and he needed goats to help transport seeds up the mountain, whenever he craved meat, the poultry in the cages and the fish in the water would suffer heavy casualties.

Fortunately, Li A Niang had made complete preparations. She kept one male of each poultry for breeding. If she wanted to hatch eggs, she would put the male chickens, ducks and geese back into the main group and separate them after a while.

The goat transport team has also expanded from the original four to seven. Now they no longer need food to lure them and can skillfully carry seeds up the mountain.

The fruits on the hillside are preserved in large part through air-drying and candied processing, and are made into dried fruits and preserved in jars.

Among growing so many kinds of crops, Ji Qingyue feels that the most troublesome one is cotton. Picking cotton takes a lot of time and energy, which is simply too torturous.

But cotton is as important as rice, so of course the more seeds the better.

Just when Ji Qingyue was worrying about how to simplify the picking process, he accidentally discovered a vine covered with thorns on the hillside.

He was carrying harvested cotton branches at the time and did not notice the unusual vines. As usual, he carefully walked through the vines, but he slipped and tripped.

Not only did he drop the cotton in his hand, but he was also pierced with countless bloody holes.

Ji Qingyue was immediately furious. Picking cotton was hard enough, and he was even injured by the vines. So he immediately made up his mind to remove all the vines!

After wiping the dust off the wound, Ji Qingyue picked up the cotton branches on the ground with a frown on his face.

But when he was picking up the cotton closest to the ground, he found that the branches were tightly hooked by the thorny vines on the ground!

So he tore hard, snatching the cotton from the vines, and finally picked up the branch without much effort.

Just then, something unexpected happened!

Unexpectedly, the branch was picked up, but the cotton flower on the branch was completely separated from the bud and stuck to the vine on the ground! !

A light bulb suddenly flashed in his mind, and Ji Qingyue immediately put down the branch in his hand, cut off a piece of vine with a knife, carefully held one end, and brought it close to his eyes to observe carefully.

This vine is covered with sharp barbed thorns on both the stem and leaves. No wonder getting pricked by it hurts more than a needle prick. It hurts once when it pierces the flesh, and it hurts again when the barbs tear you apart when you pull it out.

Then, Ji Qingyue tried to move the vine close to the cotton on the flower bud.

With one stick and one pull, the cotton was pulled out effortlessly! !

Complete and without impurities!!

This is exactly what he wanted!!

Ji Qingyue was so excited that he wanted to kiss the vine, but reason told him that he would be the one who got hurt if he kissed it.

In the next few days, Ji Qingyue continued to try to use these vines to make a handy cotton picking tool.

After trying several methods, he finally found that the simplest and most effective one was the one he made at the beginning: wrap the vines around a wooden stick, wrap the handle with cloth strips, and secure the loose part in the middle with a thin rope.

By sweeping, pressing and rolling a stick wrapped with vines like this on the top of a cotton tree, you can almost pull out all the cotton from a whole cotton tree, while other impurities such as dead leaves will not be hooked up.

One thing to note is that when using vines to assist in harvesting cotton, you must ensure that the cotton in the field has been dehydrated and dried to a certain degree so that you can hook the cotton out without any trouble.

With the help of the new tool, Ji Qingyue happily expanded his cotton planting. Later, he found that the new tool was easy to use, but the damage rate was very high. Often, after confiscating a few plants, the barbs on the vines would lose their function.

Ji Qingyue changed his mind and realized that after all, vines are not like metals and are too soft. It seems that he still needs to find a way to transform them into metal.

So, after returning to Shandan County, he immediately went to buy an embroidery needle.

These embroidery needles are of different thicknesses and lengths and are used for control experiments.

He first heated the tip of the needle with fire, bent it while hot, and made the straight embroidery needle form a barb. Then he found a piece of bamboo and drilled enough tiny holes on it. He then inserted the needle end of the embroidery needle into the tiny holes and connected all the needle holes in series with a tough metal wire to prevent the hook from being pulled out during picking. Finally, he clamped another piece of bamboo behind the bamboo as a "thimble" to reduce the metal fatigue caused to the metal wire during pulling.

In this way, Ji Qingyue made several crochet combs in a row.

After trying it, Ji Qingyue found that the thinner and denser the needles were, the better they worked. However, thin needles were not as durable as thick needles, so he chose a compromise and used medium-thick embroidery needles to implant them into the bamboo strips as densely as possible.

The effect of using the "needle comb" is very significant. Ji Qingyue no longer has to rush to harvest the cotton trees before the cotton withers. He can use the needle comb to pick the cotton in the field and put it into bags, saving the effort of carrying branches and a lot of time.

In Lijia Village, it was almost noon and the Li family’s dining table was filled with steaming dishes, several of which were learned from Ji Qingyue.

Mr. Li took out the wine that he hadn't finished drinking during the New Year and planned to have a drink with his grandchildren.

Li Erlang picked up a piece of fish. This sour soup fish was made by Jinniang herself, and it was 70% to 80% similar to Ji Qingyue's. He suppressed the sadness in his heart and turned to ask, "Sanlang, when are you leaving?"

"We have to set off after February 2nd." If we walk a little faster, it will take at least half a month, and after arriving in Chang'an, we will have to rest for a few days to adapt.