The Divine Doctor and the Crazy Concubine: My princess is very cool
Chapter 7 There's Water
Shangguan Qingge slept all day and was woken up by hunger. After waking up, she wanted to go out to see if there was any food. When she opened the door, she saw Old Man Li waiting for her at the door.
"Miss, you are awake now. I found that there is still a thorny problem."
"What's the problem? Tell me, is there anything to eat? I'm starving."
"Yes, yes, yes, Miss's meal has already been reserved."
She saw the food on the stone table in front of her, walked over quickly, sat down and started eating. The food was still warm. Old man Li was really thoughtful.
"Tell me what's going on."
Old man Li sat down opposite her and said.
"Miss, although the water problem has been solved and we have grain seeds, it will take at least a quarter of time to plant and harvest the grain. So, I want to ask you, will you stay in our town for the rest of the year?"
"No, I have other things to do, so I'll leave in early July at the latest!"
When Old Man Li heard Shangguan Qingge was leaving, he panicked. Seeing Old Man Li's nervous expression, she asked.
"What kind of crops do you usually grow?"
"The most common crops are rice and wheat, but they take a long time to harvest. If the young lady leaves, everyone will starve to death before the crops are harvested."
"Don't you grow sweet potatoes?" Sweet potatoes are a high-yield crop that grows fast, likes high temperatures and is drought-resistant. This is the most suitable situation for growing sweet potatoes. Moreover, when the sweet potatoes are not bearing fruit in the field, their vines and leaves are edible, which is a good choice for feeding pigs and cows.
"I don't understand, what is sweet potato?" Old man Li looked confused. He had never heard of sweet potato and had never seen one.
Shangguan Qingge remembered that sweet potatoes are foreign and have not been produced in China since ancient times. I don’t know what dynasty this is, but the way people here speak, dress, and use writing are similar to those in ancient China. Although it is a different time and space, the development time is the same. This dynasty, there is no! sweet! potato!
Looking at Old Man Li's puzzled eyes, Shangguan Qingge was so confused that his face was filled with black lines.
"Oh, I heard from Master Yuanyu that sweet potatoes are a product of the West. They have high yields, are easy to survive, and are resistant to cold and high temperatures. I happen to have a seed here, which I'll give it to you, as well as a book on planting. You can study it. As long as the planting is successful, everyone's food will not be a problem!" As she spoke, she took out a sweet potato and a manual on planting sweet potatoes from her sleeve. The sweet potato was fresh. She had bought it at the vegetable market before she was blown to death in her previous life, and it still had a little mud on it. The planting book belonged to her master. This strange old man liked to plant something when he came back, but whatever he planted died. For this reason, she bought many manuals on vegetables, grains, and flowers for study, and also bought a lot of seeds, but there was still no way to change the fact that he was a plant killer!
Old man Li took the book, opened it and took a look. There were not only texts inside, but also color photos. This was truly a magical book. The pictures on it were exactly the same as the real objects. If it wasn't a magical book, what else could it be? He put the book and sweet potato in his arms, protecting them like treasures, and thanked Shangguan Qingge repeatedly.
"Old man Li, I'll leave the matters of Jianche and planting to you. I need to take care of some other things. If they are not particularly important, you don't need to come to me during this period."
"Okay, okay, leave it to me, young lady, don't worry!"
After Old Man Li left, Shangguan Qingge waited for Nanny Qin and Dong'er to come back. They had been busy these days and were also helping out.
"Mammy, Dong'er, we have to go back!" The first sentence the two heard after they came back was that they had to go back. Mammy Qin was a hundred percent against it!
"Miss, the Zhenbei Marquis's Mansion is not in the capital now. If we go back, I'm afraid something unexpected will happen."
"But if I don't go back, how can I avenge my mother? Do you think Liu will let me live here peacefully? She will find a hundred ways to kill me. Just because she hasn't come here yet doesn't mean she won't come in the future. Instead of waiting here, I might as well go back and fight them."
"But, Miss!"
"Okay, no buts, we must go back, Mammy, don't you want to avenge my mother?"
"I do, of course I do. I even dream of killing Liu, but how can we do it?"
"What to do? There will be a way when the time comes. Dong'er, what about you? Do you want to go back?" She looked at Dong'er who was standing beside her without saying a word.
"Wherever the young lady goes, Dong'er will go. It was the young lady who saved Dong'er's life, so of course I will listen to you." Dong'er still remembered that three years ago, when she was first bought into the Shangguan Mansion, she was assigned to serve Shangguan Qingyun, but Shangguan Qingyun had a strange personality and would beat and scold the servants at every turn. Servants who signed death indentures were often beaten to death. In public, she was the well-educated and well-mannered Second Young Miss Shangguan, but in private only they knew that she was a devil. Shangguan Qingge felt sorry for Dong'er and begged Shangguan Qingyun to give Dong'er to her. For this, the young lady knelt down to Shangguan Qingyun, kowtowed three times, and imitated the barking of a dog three times. Only then did Shangguan Qingyun give the dying Dong'er to Shangguan Qingge. Fortunately, Dong'er was lucky and survived thanks to the careful care of Nanny Qin.
Such kindness made Dong'er determined to follow Shangguan Qingge for the rest of her life, no matter if there were mountains of swords or seas of fire ahead.
"Okay, starting tomorrow, I will train you two. I don't ask you to become peerless masters, as long as you can protect yourselves."
"Okay, we'll listen to the lady!"
Shangguan Qingge asked the two of them to put aside all the things at hand and concentrate on training. Different training directions were formulated according to the situations of the two people. Dong'er was young, and the training difficulty was greater than that of Nanny Qin. Although Nanny Qin looked old, she was only 38 years old. Due to the poor living conditions in ancient times, the average life expectancy was not high. In addition, Nanny's long-term work made her look like she was in her 50s or 60s. Therefore, Shangguan Qingge also specially formulated a meal plan and some skin care plans for Nanny. Nanny's age, if placed in modern times, some people look like an 18-year-old girl. Unfortunately, this was ancient times. Women from officials and wealthy families could live very well, but people from ordinary families, or even those at the bottom of society, would not live a satisfactory life.
In addition to learning self-defense fighting skills, Shangguan Qingge also taught the two how to use various guns, just in case. In the face of absolute power, any skills are scum, but even the most powerful people are afraid of hot weapons, and the fear is due to insufficient firepower!
Time passed quickly, and half a month went by in the blink of an eye. The training of the two was quite effective. With the scientific trainer, adequate nutrition and the hard work of the two, in half a month, the three of them seemed to have been reborn. Shangguan Qingge's body was no longer malnourished. He gained weight, grew a little taller, and his dry hair began to turn black. Dong'er also grew taller, and his body shape was similar to Shangguan Qingge's. Nanny was no longer old and frail, and the whole person became more flexible. The originally wrinkled and dry face was smoother.
On this day, the three of them had just finished their morning training and returned to the room when Old Man Li came over.
"Miss, our simple car and water channel are ready. Please come and inspect them."
Shangguan Qingge and the other two followed Old Man Li to inspect the results. The canals in the village were well dug, and each pond had a drainage channel so that the outflowing water could flow directly to the farmland. They walked all the way to the underground river and saw a huge simple cart in the stone pit with a large piece of wood inserted across the middle.
"Old man Li, why don't you use it?"
"Miss, we want you to check it and confirm it is correct before we use it."
Shangguan Qingge came all the way here and was very pleased to see that everyone was doing the same thing as she had drawn. It turned out that the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated. The first puddle she designed was three meters deep, four meters long and three meters wide. The first stream of water from the Jianche would flow into here first. The reason for doing this was to prevent the surrounding wild animals from running into the village and accidentally injuring the villagers in order to drink water. Extended canals, one meter deep and one meter wide, were dug from the three sides of the puddle. The water from the two canals flowed to the farmlands on both sides, and the water from the middle side flowed to the pond in the village.
"Good, everyone has done a perfect job, now pull out the wood!"
"Come on, come on, pull out the wood and divert the water!" Old man Li shouted excitedly. A group of strong men pulled out the wood, and the cart began to turn. The first stream of water flowed into the pit along the wooden channel. At this moment, everyone was cheering. They finally didn't have to worry about having no harvest due to lack of water, or starving to death due to lack of food.
"Old man Li, you should find someone to build a high fence to surround the car, leaving only a place for water and a door. I'm worried that someone will fall into the deep pit. Besides, with the water, wild animals in the mountains will come down to drink the water. It would be bad if someone fell in and polluted the water source."
"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to do it right away."
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