The Daily Life of a Rich Peasant's Boy in the Imperial Examination

Sun Shan saw that everyone was pointing at the guano and talking about it, but no one asked, "Sir, where did this guano come from? Where can I buy some? I want to use it to dam my fields, too."

The people of Yuanlu County are really too clueless. They can talk about gossip a little, but serious issues must be raised first.

Sun Shan secretly rolled his eyes and gave a very bad review to the onlookers.

Sun Shan winked at Gui Ge'er again.

Gui Ge'er understood immediately and whispered a few words to Sun Dalang.

So Sun Dalang asked in his broken Yuanlu dialect, "My Lord, this...this bird droppings...I...I want to buy some...where can I buy it?"

After saying that, he let out a long sigh.

Ah, that's what it's like to be stupid. Words are hard to recognize, and the language is hard to learn. I've been in Yuanlu for more than half a year, but I still can't communicate normally with the locals.

Sun Dalang glanced at Sun Shan stealthily, his eyes full of admiration.

Their master is different.

Although it is said in a jargon-like way, the locals can understand what it means.

He is worthy of being the smartest man in Sunjia Village in the past hundred years, and worthy of being the first Jinshi in Zhangzhou Prefecture.

After Sun Dalang asked this question, the onlookers woke up from their gossip.

Yes, the purpose of their coming here is to find out why rice grows so well.

Now that we have figured it out, our next goal is to make our own rice grow just as well.

Lord Sun said that the rice grew well because of the use of bird droppings. If they could also use bird droppings, wouldn’t the crops grow just as well?

The brave old man stepped forward and asked anxiously, "Master Magistrate, where does your guano come from? Did you buy it from somewhere else? Is it expensive? I want to use it too."

After the old man finished speaking, the onlookers spoke one after another.

They all turned to Sun Shan and asked, "Yes, magistrate, please have mercy on us and tell us where you got the guano. We want our rice to grow well. Please, kind magistrate, tell us."

The grain in the fields is the farmers' life-saving food. If they can harvest a few more buckets of rice, they can alleviate their hunger.

Wang Xiancheng, the county magistrate behind Sun Shan, also wanted to take the bird droppings home to use as fertilizer.

He is already a big landlord in Yuanlu. If he could use these bird droppings, wouldn't he be able to harvest a lot more grain?

Emma, ​​I’m so excited just thinking about it. I can’t wait to go to Big Bird Village to dig up the bird droppings.

County Magistrate Wang was very careful in his work. After Wang Jiaxing came back and told them that the bird droppings were in Da Niao Village, he actually sent people to the back mountain of Da Niao Village.

When the servant came back, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth. He described the bird droppings on the mountain behind Da Niao Village even more exaggeratedly than Wang Jiaxing, saying that there was as much bird droppings as the mountains in Yuanlu.

Even if all the men, women, young and old in Yuanlu County went to dig, it would take ten to eight years.

There are so many bird droppings that it can be rated as one of the "Ten Wonders" of Daqian.

When the Wang family heard this, they refused to believe it and thought the servant's words were too exaggerated.

The servant added, "Master, I know you won't believe it, but it's the truth. The amount of bird droppings is so great that you won't believe it until you see it. Once you see it with your own eyes, you'll know my description isn't an exaggeration; it's even an understatement."

Human cognition is limited, and it is impossible to imagine what has happened without experiencing it.

The same goes for the servants. If they hadn't checked with their own eyes, they would have no idea that there was so much bird droppings in the mountains behind Da Niao Village.

After the servant said this, Old Master Wang clamored to go and see him.

County Magistrate Wang and Master Wang tried their best to stop the man.

He is old and still so noisy. If something happens, he will have to observe mourning.

County Magistrate Wang stared at the back of Sun Shan's head quietly. At this moment, he already understood the purpose of Sun Shan's visit to the experimental field.

It's easy to guess that Sun Shan just wants to sell bird droppings.

After so much preliminary preparation, the ultimate goal is to make money by selling bird droppings!

Look at the experimental fields on the main road, look at the guano being carried out in such a bright light, look at the shill just now - Sun Dalang deliberately asking where to buy guano. All of this points to the purpose of Sun Dalang wanting to sell guano.

The ultimate goal of selling guano is to make money.

Emma, ​​this Sun Shan is so scheming.

He planned carefully and laid out his plans at every step, trapping the people step by step and ultimately achieving his goal.

County Magistrate Wang suddenly thought that as soon as he stepped into the yamen today, he happened to meet Sun Shan, and it was such a coincidence that he was led to the experimental field by him, and it was such a coincidence that he met the spectators.

So many coincidences mean that this is not a coincidence at all.

Sun Shan must have a purpose for bringing me out.

County Magistrate Wang took a step back stealthily, and the alarm bells rang loudly, requiring him to be extremely alert.

County Magistrate Wang now highly suspected that Sun Shan was waiting for him in a dark corner, and that he would be captured as soon as he appeared.

Why don’t I meet him on weekdays, but only today? There must be something fishy going on here.

If Sun Shan knew what County Magistrate Wang was thinking, he would definitely cry out for injustice.

What about waiting in the dark? Bah, don’t think too much about it, it just happened to happen.

Sun Shan smiled secretly when he saw the people's anxious look.

Haha, I've waited for so long just for this scene, just waiting for you to take the bait and willingly come to buy bird droppings.

Hehe, the fish finally took the bait.

Sun Shan did not directly ask where to buy bird droppings.

Instead, he pointed to the paddy fields and said, "Fellow villagers, please follow my steps and listen carefully to what I say. We'll talk about the bird droppings later."

Everyone looked at Sun Shan in confusion, not knowing what he was up to.

Is there anything more important than guano at this moment?

Mr. Sun, please stop keeping us in suspense.

Sun Shan walked forward regardless of anything, and Gui Ge'er and his guards hurriedly followed him and wrapped Sun Shan tightly.

There are too many people today. What if there is a mentally ill person?

Although the people of Yuanlu were eager to know about the bird droppings, they were always gossipy and followed involuntarily.

Sun Shan came to the first experimental field. The rice here was grown naturally, and they only needed to catch insects and no fertilizer.

So the crops look crooked and uneven, and it's obvious that they were cultivated by a lazy man.

The onlookers clicked their tongues and whispered to each other.

An elderly man, discontented with the situation, pointed at the paddy field and cursed: "Whose land is this? How did it become like this? What a sin! Such good land is wasted, and the seedlings are wasted."

In the first purely natural experimental field, the rice was sparsely covered with grains of rice, and it looked like a complete failure.

The experimental field was very large, so people felt very sad when they saw it.

One of the men pointed at the experimental field and said with deep sorrow, "If you don't want to farm it, then do it! God, you must be struck by lightning if you plow the field like this."

Sun family guards plowing the fields:......

The man is absolutely right. This kind of farming will bring punishment from heaven.

It's such a waste to cultivate such a good paddy field.

When Sun Dalang, Sun Erjie and others were farming, they would have loved to work hard if Sun Shan had not explicitly forbidden them.

Although they were not experts in farming, they were pretty good at it. This was the first time they had grown crops like this, and they were very nervous and afraid of being struck by lightning.