The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

The people outside heard that the midwife asked Li Xiu to use force, and was brought out with basins of blood, but Li Xiu's cry could not be heard. It is estimated that the midwife blocked his mouth with a cloth towel, afraid that he would bite to the tongue.

Besides, shouting is a waste of physical strength. It may take a long time to give birth to a child. The mother must conserve her strength, otherwise the mother will run out of energy and the baby will be stuck in the birth canal, which will be dangerous for both of them.

Li Xiu has experience in childbirth, so why don't you remind him to know that there are some things that don't require a midwife? Didn't the family hire a midwife before? Even the youngest doctor, Lin, was reluctant to hire a midwife. It was Li Xiu who gritted his teeth and gave birth to the baby alone. of.

Both the people inside and the people outside felt that time passed very slowly, and the servants came in and out countless times, and everyone finally heard that the delivery room said that the baby came out of the head, and everyone became excited.

Another quarter of an hour later, a baby was crying from the delivery room, and the midwife said loudly, "Congratulations Lin Fulang, you are a little brother."

Lin Huzi couldn't help it at this time, no matter what the delivery room was, he opened the door and walked in quickly: "Brother Xiu, are you okay?"

Lin Chengzu was already an adult man, it was not easy for him to enter the delivery room, so he could only wait outside for a while to deliver the baby. Momo took his younger brother out and showed him.

Lin Xiazhi didn't have these concerns. He followed Lin Huzi and said as he walked, "Xiao Qiu went to the kitchen and brought the goat's milk and rice cereal."

In the room, Li Xiu was lying on the bed exhausted, and Lin Huzi stood beside him to wipe his sweat.

Midwife Momo quickly wiped the newborn baby clean, wrapped it in a soft and comfortable little padded jacket, and carried it to Lin Huzi and Li Xiu: "Look at this small nose and small chin, you can only tell that it is a handsome little guy , with a broad and full forehead, is a blessed one.”

Lin Huzi and Li Xiu already have two male sons, and they are happy whether the child born at Li Xiu's age is a male or a brother.

Lin Xiazhi leaned over to look at the newly born younger brother. Newborn babies were all red, with wrinkled skin, and sparse lanugo on the top of their heads.

Fortunately, Lin Xiazhi had seen newborns before, but he didn't dislike his younger brother's ugly appearance: "The nose looks like Ah, and the mouth and chin look like Dad, all of which are based on the advantages of Dad."

"Brother Xia still reads these at a young age." The midwife glanced at Lin Xiazhi, "Brother Xia, come to hug my brother?"

Lin Xiazhi quickly waved his hands: "I don't dare to hug, my brother looks so small, his bones are soft."

Everyone in the room was amused by Lin Xiazhi's appearance. Lin Huzi had three children, but he had experience in holding children. He carefully took the youngest son from Momo, and looked at him lovingly. .

The youngest son is almost as old as his grandson, and Lin Huzi's feelings for him are different from those of the other three sons.

Li Xiu has been having seizures since getting up in the morning, and the offspring feel very tired after the child is born. Do you want to deliver Lin Huzi and Lin Xiazhi and his father and son out of the delivery room, and order the servants of the Lin family to clean up the delivery room together, so that Li Xiu can go early rest.

Lin Chengzu has been waiting outside just to take a look at his little brother, but everyone has forgotten about him, and he can't say anything about it. After all, one is his own father and one is his own brother. Now that Li Xiu has rested, he can only wait. In the evening Li Xiu wakes up and comes to see her younger brother again.

After Li Xiu gave birth, it was time for the Lin family to have lunch. The family hurriedly ate lunch, and the two men went to attend to their own affairs. show.

When Lin Chengzong came home in the afternoon, he heard that Ah Mo had given birth to a younger brother today, so he put down his books and rushed into Li Xiu's delivery room, lying on the side of the crib that Lin Xiazhi asked Carpenter Tang to prepare, watching his younger brother laughing silly.

The new addition to the Lin family, Lizheng came over at noon to give gifts, and in the afternoon, other people who were close to the Lin family also sent gifts.

The Lin family prepared hard-boiled red eggs, and each family returned two eggs and it was over.For those families who did not send gifts, the Lin family also sent a hard-boiled red egg.

When Li Xiu's wounds healed, the delivery room asked the Lin family to wrap Li Xiu tightly at noon when the temperature was at its highest, and move Li Xiu from the delivery room back to the bedroom for confinement. The delivery room smelled too bloody and was not suitable for her. Maternity and baby.

Li Xiu went back to the bedroom, Yang Yusheng was approved by everyone to see him, Li Xiu pulled him to close the door and whispered something, Lin Xiazhi, an unmarried brother, was unanimously excluded by the two of them.

The name of the younger brother of the Lin family has not yet been decided. According to the habit of picking names in the Lin family, the brother’s name is chosen to be a solar term that is close to the time of birth. However, the younger brother of the Lin family was born at this time, and the two solar terms closest to him are the vernal equinox and the startling sting , the names of the two solar terms are not suitable for my little brother.

Lin Xiazhi didn't want his younger brother to be called Lin Chunfen or Lin Jingzhe, he insisted on asking his family to give his younger brother a nice name.

The nickname was chosen, and Lin Xiazhi gave it to him, and it was called Rice Cake.

The little rice cake bloomed a few days after it was born, and its small face was white and tender, as soft as a rice cake. Every time Lin Xiazhi saw her, she wanted to kiss her.

Adults will carry some bacteria on their bodies, and babies have weak resistance and no antibodies against these bacteria. He will wash his hands and face every time he sees the little rice cake.

The servants who served Li Xiu's confinement were also required by him to cleanse every day, the bedroom was cleaned twice a day, and the diapers replaced by Xiaonian Gao had to be dried in the sun before being tender for him.

As an older brother, Lin Xiazhi is more concerned than Lin Huzi and Li Xiu, always thinking about how to make his younger brother more comfortable.

The ration of the small rice cake is rice paste and goat milk. The goat milk has a strong smell and needs to be boiled with almonds or tea leaves to get rid of it. However, children have weak stomachs, and Lin Xiazhi dare not give the small rice cakes a drink that has added almonds and tea leaves. goat milk.

Fortunately, within a few days after he was born, Lin Xiazhi heard that a family in the next village had given birth to a cow. Lin Xiazhi hurriedly asked his servants to go to that family to milk fresh milk every day, so that the ration of Xiaonian Gao was enriched.

I don’t know if it’s because the nutrition kept up with Li Xiu’s stomach, or because of the milk that Xiao Nian Gao drank after he was born, his size grew faster than other babies, his hands and feet are strong, his arms and legs are like lotus joints, He is very likable, every husband who comes to see him at Lin's house hugs him and does not let go.Xiao Nian Gao has a very good temper and never recognizes anyone. She can hug anyone who comes, and if she is lucky, she can even get his smiling face. Everyone says Li Xiu is very lucky.

Lin Chengzu and Lin Xiazhi also loved Xiao Nian Gao very much. There was only a few months between Xiao Nian Gao and Lin Chengzu's upcoming child.

Not to mention Lin Xiazhi, he is a foreign soul, occupying Xia Geer's body, and the little rice cake is the first little life born after he came, which gave him a lot of sense of belonging to the land of Jingguo, A special love for the little rice cakes.

In mid-March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the improved papermaking technology recorded in the small book by Lin Xiazhi before can be put on the agenda.

Xuan paper is mainly made of a special kind of bark, which is processed through various complicated means.The paper made in this way is of course very expensive, and the improvement of papermaking mainly starts with raw materials.

The ancients were actually very smart, but sometimes they were too rigid, and later generations would follow the things made by the ancestors in a serious manner, without thinking about innovation and improvement.

Lin Xiazhi thought that as long as it is wood fiber, it can be used to make paper. I don't know if it is bark, but other things can also be tried.

After the servants in the family got used to taking care of Li Xiu and Xiaonian Gao, Lin Xiazhi asked them to collect the stems of various plants and dry them for papermaking.

Lin Xiazhi only knew roughly how to make paper, and the servants repeated experiments according to his requirements, but the paper they made never met Lin Xiazhi's requirements.

The ancients used a brush dipped in ink to write on paper. The roughness of the paper surface determines whether the paper is easy to use.

Before the paper was finished, the farm that Lin Xiazhi entrusted Cheng Wenliu to help find had already been found.

The farm that Cheng Wenliu was looking for was on the other side of Jiangning County, covering an area of ​​about 45 mu. There were many houses for tenant farmers built in it, and the real land that could be used to grow food was only [-] mu.

Of the 45 mu of paddy fields, there are 35 mu of paddy fields, [-] mu of medium paddy fields, [-] mu of low-grade paddy fields, and the remaining [-] mu of dry fields.

The owner of the farm was in urgent need of money, so he sold the farm cheaply. Cheng Wenliu rushed over as soon as he got the news. The paddy fields were worth 600 taels, the houses in the farm and other repaired houses were worth 300 taels, and there were also livestock and crops in the field. Adding up all the zeros and zeros, this farm is worth at least 1000 taels of silver.However, he was in a hurry to change hands and planned to sell it for 950 taels, which is equivalent to giving away the crops in the field for free.

The crops in the field have to wait a few months to mature, and now they are only worth a dozen taels, which is not too cheap.

"You can buy it for only 950 taels?" Lin Xiazhi was surprised. It seems that he didn't have a clear understanding of prices in this era.

"This Zhuangzi has no other place to earn money except farming, it's only worth this price." Cheng Wenliu explained, "If there is a pond or is next to a river or stream, the price will have to be increased. If you are lucky, there are hot springs and so on. A rarity, the price has at least tripled."

"Well, I don't need those with hot springs either. How many wells are there in Zhuangzi, and are the water levels high?" Lin Xiazhi asked.

With dozens of acres of fields, there is no way to grow crops without water, and there are still those tenant farmers who are left behind. He has to go and see for himself how to deal with them.

"Don't worry about the water. Since there are paddy fields, it means that there is no shortage of water in the farm, and the water level in each well is not low." Cheng Wenliu took out a piece of white paper, drew the topography of the farm, and circled the places where there are wells. Indicate the functions one by one.

A total of thirteen wells were drilled in the [-]-acre farm, ten of which were used to water the crops, and three wells were used for the living of the tenant farmers.

In the past, tenant farmers could grow [-] acres of land by relying on these wells, and it was the same after Lin Xiazhi took over.