Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Chapter 226: Kick the Man Out

"The harvest in the city can be completed today." Although Wu Yuan didn't know how to grow crops, he went to check on the work in the fields every day.

"You are lying to me, I don't believe it." When Chen Gu came out, the fields at home had just started to be harvested.

Wu Yuan pointed to the rice fields behind the county government office and said, "If Young Master Chen doesn't believe me, you can go and see for yourself."

"Just look at it."

Chen Gu followed his followers and went directly to see the harvesting of rice fields.

When he looked over, he saw a thresher that the man was standing on in the rice field. "What is that?"

"Oh, that's the rice thresher invented by our city lord." Wu Yuan said.

Chen Gu walked closer to take a look, then imitated the man and picked up a small bundle of unthreshered rice and put it into the thresher to thresh.

He couldn't stop hitting until his arms were sore. He was still not satisfied and rolled up his sleeves to wipe the sweat off his face.

"This machine is so easy to use. The soil is very fertile. I'm sure the yield per mu will be quite high, right?" Chen Gu asked as he looked at the soil.

Speaking of the yield per mu, Wu Yuan looked proud, "The old farmer calculated it yesterday, and the yield per mu is estimated to be 200 kilograms."

"Two hundred pounds?"

Chen Gu almost dropped his jaw in shock. Is there so much? Their most fertile fields could only produce 180 kilograms at best.

"Yes, we'll know the exact number in the next two days once the rice is dried today."

“How can you grow such a high yield?”

Wu Yuan raised his face proudly, "We also planted it according to the new method that the city lord said."

Chen Gu was silent. What new method was so good? It seemed that he had to ask the city lord later.

After watching for a while, he followed Wu Yuan back to the county government office.

Lin Yinan had already asked someone to cool down the cooked mung bean soup, and Chen Gu drank five bowls in one breath before stopping.

"City Lord, your rice thresher is so useful, can you sell us a few?"

Chen Gu sat down with a thud, and picked up the sunflower fan on the table to fan himself without any image.

Lin Yinan sat upright, his chin slightly raised, his eyebrows and eyes calm, and said in a light tone, "Not for sale."

"We are old acquaintances, so I'll give you a higher price."

Having tried it and knowing that the thresher is very useful, Chen Gu was a little anxious. If he had this machine, it would save a lot of trouble for the farmers on the farm to harvest.

Lin Yinan shook his head and pointed to the two baskets of salt in the corner that had not been put away.

"Go look at that."

Upon hearing this, Chen Gu stood up, frowned, looked at the things in the basket, reached out and picked up some and put it in his mouth.

"Salt?"

"Yes, this salt is produced by us. As for the thresher you like, I would like to cooperate with your Chen family to jointly sell these two items. What do you think, Master Chen?"

Lin Yinan nodded, a smile on his face, his expression indifferent, but the words he said were like a thunder that exploded in Chen Gu's mind.

Chen Gu's mind went blank for a moment, and he swallowed hard. He asked dryly, "Do you have salt in Longtan?"

"Yes, we can produce about 200,000 kilograms per month."

After a moment's pause, Chen Gu quickly came back to his senses and bowed to Lin Yinan, saying, "This is a serious matter. I need to go back and report to my father before making a decision. Lord City Lord, can you let me take the salt back with me?"

"Of course it's no problem." Lin Yinan turned around and said to Lin Fu, "Ah Fu, go get two clean jars."

Then he instructed Lin Yiheng, "Brother, have someone bring back a thresher and have Young Master Chen take it back."

The things were ready quickly and Chen Gu stood up and said goodbye.

"My Lord City Lord, I will go back and report to my father now."

Lin Yinan nodded slightly to him, "I'll wait for good news here."

Chen Gu had three horses harnessed to the carriage, and with a few guards he left Longtan County and rushed all the way back to Yongqing City.

It only took half the time to get back to the Chen family.

Chen Xianming was sitting leisurely in a chair drinking tea and listening to the housekeeper talking about the harvest situation on various farms.

This year is another year of bumper harvest, and he was in such a good mood that he hummed a little tune.

"Master, the young master is back!" A servant came in hurriedly to report.

He raised his eyelids and looked at the man in front of him, thinking that he was joking with him and did not believe what he said at all.

"Didn't the young master go to Longtan County? Why did he come back so soon?"

The servant frowned anxiously, "Really, he is directing people to carry a strange thing here."

As they were talking, Chen Gu was seen being supported by servants into the hall, with the guards following behind him carrying something.

"What is that?" Chen Xianming quickly sat up straight and asked the servant.

"Young master hasn't told me yet, so I don't know." The servant said and stepped aside.

Chen Gu stepped into the hall, stood up straight and saluted Chen Xianming, "Dad."

After the ceremony, he told the butler, "Butler, have someone bring in two bundles of unthreshed rice."

The butler walked out of the hall and told people to do their job. He never asked any questions about the young master's orders.

After a long journey, Chen Gu was tired and thirsty. He didn't care about etiquette and grabbed his father's teapot and poured it into his mouth.

Chen Xianming squinted his eyes and looked at him. He saw that Chen Gu was still wearing the same clothes he had worn before he set out. The hem of his clothes was covered in mud, and his clothes were dirty and wrinkled. His shoes were covered in mud. His hair was disheveled, and there were dark circles under his eyes. His beard was untidy, and his whole body exuded an unpleasant sour smell.

I really want someone to beat him out. Was his son robbed on the way?

Chen Xianming blocked his nose with his fan in disdain, "Gu'er, go down and wash up and have a rest."

After pouring the whole pot of water, Chen Gu burped comfortably, and without paying any attention to his father's disgusted look, he sat down next to him.

Ignoring his father's words, he took off the bag on his back, took out two jars and pushed them in front of Chen Xianming.

"Dad, look at this." As he said this, he grabbed a handful of greasy hair.

Chen Xianming was even more disgusted, but seeing his son looking at him with sparkling eyes, he could not bear to refuse his kindness, so he opened the cans and saw two cans of salt, one coarse and one fine.

He leaned in to smell it, then looked up at his son, "Is it salt?"

Chen Gu nodded excitedly, "Dad, try it."

Chen Xianming had no idea what he was selling, so he tried the two salts obediently and gave a thumbs up, "Good quality, where did you buy it?"

At this time, the housekeeper came in with a servant carrying rice.

The servant put down the rice, and Chen Gu said to the housekeeper, "Housekeeper, let everyone go down."

The butler looked at Chen Xianming and saw that he had no objection, so he waved his hand to let the waiter go down and closed the door of the hall. Then he walked to Chen Xianming.

Chen Gu stood up and picked up a small bundle of rice. "Dad, look carefully!"

As he said this, he demonstrated how to thresh the rice in front of the two of them.

He took off two handfuls of rice, and Chen Xianming could no longer sit still. He stood up in astonishment, picked up a small bundle of rice and started to work on it himself.

"Where did this thing come from?" After trying it twice, Chen Xianming already knew the benefits of this thing.

Chen Gu sat on the chair with his legs crossed and said proudly, "Dad, this thing is called a rice thresher, and it was discovered by Longtan."

Chen Xianming immediately understood that his son had rushed back from Longtan. He pointed at the two jars of salt on the table and asked, "What about the salt?"

"Produced in Longtan." Chen Gu didn't keep it a secret any longer.

"There is a salt pond in Longtan, why didn't we know about it before?"

He looked at the butler, who shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

When the butler heard that there were two jars of salt on the table, he hurried forward to dip some to try. After the test, his cloudy eyes flashed with a sharp light.

"Master, this salt is all top quality!"