After the summer harvest, there is summer planting.
Since Xiang Nan was a member of the clan, five big horses were donated, so the villagers saved a lot of manpower on pulling manure, hauling water, plowing and raking the land, which made everyone very grateful to Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan also reminded Bai Jiaxuan to teach the Yu tribe members not to let a grain of food escape from the original land.
Because if we sell the grain now, we will not be able to buy back the grain we sold even if there is a drought next year and we spend ten times more money.
?But after all, the villagers still have to pay public grain and taxes. If they can''t sell the grain, they have no money to do these things.
Xiang Nan realized everyone''s difficulties, so he opened a grain station in Yuanshang to purchase grain at a price that was 20% higher than the market price.
For a time, not only the villagers of Bailu Village, but also villagers and grain merchants from dozens of miles around all transported grain to Bailu Village and sold it to Xiang Nan.
Xiang Nan also purchased nearly two thousand stones of grain, all of which were deposited in the ancestral temple.
He also ordered people to plant trees around the temple and pile up boulders and vines.
?Such a strange approach also puzzled the villagers.
“What are you doing, little fairy? Summer is not the season to plant trees~”
“When he plants trees, he always plants small trees, but he plants trees as thick as the mouth of a bowl~”
“It’s good to plant trees for shade, but what are those rocks for?”
The villagers talked about it and felt it was incredible.
But Lu San, Zhang Ziqing, Tian Xiao''e and others could all see that Xiang Nan was setting up a formation around the temple.
There is such a patch of trees outside Zhongnanshan Villa. It doesn’t look very big, but when you go inside, it feels like a trance formation. If you are not familiar with the road, it will be very difficult whether you are going in or out.
“Hei Wa, why are you doing this?” Lu San asked curiously, “If we surrounded the temple, wouldn’t there be no one to burn incense?”
“Da, no one will come to burn incense next year.” Xiang Nan waved his hand.
From the beginning of spring next year, there will be a severe drought for two consecutive years, with no rain falling, thousands of miles of bare land, rivers and wells drying up, and no harvest. By then, it will be too late for the people to escape, and who will come here to burn incense.
At that time, only hungry victims will come here.
?And the grain he saved was only enough for Bailu Village to eat, and he couldn''t get any extra grain.
?Those victims cannot get food, so driven by hunger, they will directly start looting. This phenomenon is not uncommon in years of great disasters.
In the drama version of "White Deer Plain", Guo Juren is a wealthy person who was eaten by the victims. He relied on his martial arts skills to fight against the victims, but was beaten to death by the victims.
?Hungry and anxious people are no different from wild beasts and will not have any sense, so Xiang Nan has to be on guard. Otherwise, his granary will not be a life-saving magic weapon, but a suicide poison.
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??While Xiang Nan was preparing the grain depot, Lu Zilin''s plan to harm Bai Xiaowen was also in progress.
??He inquired and learned that Bai Xiaowen was greedy. After marrying his wife, he was so demanding that his face turned pale.
??Mrs. Bai Zhao was forced to guard his door at night. Whenever he heard any movement in the house, he started knocking on the window to remind Bai Xiaowen to take care of himself.
So Lu Zilin took the right medicine and found a young widow to hook up with Bai Xiaowen.
??Bai Xiaowen has been married for several years and has long been tired of his yellow-faced woman. Once he is seduced by the handsome little widow, he suddenly seems to have lost his soul.
?However, he knew that Bai Jiaxuan had very strict rules and did not allow his family or clan members to do anything wrong.
??In order to correct the evil tendencies in the past, many whips and boards were broken, and even rice fields were fed to Bai Shitou''er, Bai Xing''er and others. Under such severe punishment, he did not dare to do anything wrong, lest he be beaten in public, which would be painful and embarrassing, so he persisted.
However, the little widow was instructed by Lu Zilin, but she refused to let him go easily. She would hang out in front of him every now and then, stroking her hair, rolling up her sleeves, and adjusting her clothes, which made him excited, and she was suffering every day. middle.
?Finally, after the autumn harvest, Bailu Village had another bumper harvest, so they specially invited a troupe to sing.
??When the villagers were crowding in front of the stage to sing an opera, the little widow grabbed Bai Xiaowen and threatened him not to speak out, otherwise she would say that he was acting like a hooligan in the dark, and then took him to the woods outside the village.
??Bai Xiaowen was excited and nervous, excited and scared, but finally, under the initiative of the little widow, he completed his first derailment.
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Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.
After the autumn harvest, Xiang Nan continued to purchase grain and continued to store it.
He had already saved two thousand shi of food, but it was still not enough to eat, so he wanted to save more.
During this period of time, the affairs between Bai Xiaowen and the young widow were also gradually reported.
It turns out that after having the first time, Bai Xiaowen fell in love with this feeling of breaking the taboo, so he ran to the little widow''s house every now and then.
As time goes by, there will be no airtight wall.
What’s more, Lu Zilin set him up to do this. Even if others didn’t see it, Lu Zilin would deliberately publicize it.
Sure enough, one night, after Bai Xiaowen finished eating, he went to help make peace with the old Liu''s family on the pretext that there was housework. As a result, he went out and sneaked into the little widow''s house.
Immediately afterwards, Bai Jiaxuan blocked the little widow''s bed.
Seeing that the good son whom he had worked so hard to teach, had high hopes for, and was planning to let him take over as the patriarch of the clan in the future, was now so self-willed and degenerate, Bai Jiaxuan fell to the ground without even taking a breath.
??Thanks to the lame man who was patrolling the night and found him in time, he called for someone to carry him home. Otherwise, Bai Jiaxuan would have been furious to death on the spot.
"It''s okay, I''m just out of breath." After Xiang Nan was invited, he took a look at Bai Jiaxuan''s condition, and then said to Wu Xiancao and Bai Zhao.
"Then save him quickly." Wu Xiancao said quickly.
"Hei Wa, please save your uncle Jiaxuan." Bai Zhao also said, "Grandma is all looking out for you."
"Don''t worry." Xiang Nan said and applied a needle to dredge up the blood. After a while, Bai Jiaxuan spit out the blood, and his whole body became calmer.
Xiang Nan then gave Wu Xiancao a prescription for replenishing qi and blood, and asked her to take the medicine and give it to Bai Jiaxuan.
“Uncle Jiaxuan, you have to be open-minded about everything you encounter.” Xiang Nan then said to Bai Jiaxuan who woke up, “Everything can happen to you in your life.
?But don’t be afraid when things happen. When you encounter obstacles, just get over them. When you encounter pitfalls, just get over them. When you are tired, just rest. There is no need to force yourself. There is nothing you can’t overcome. "
When I was a child, I felt like the sky was falling when I failed in an exam. But after the real-time transition, this kind of trivial matter is simply not worth mentioning.
The same is true for many things in life. At the time, it seemed like the sky was falling and the earth was falling, but after the incident passed, I realized that it was nothing at all.
So the most important thing is to open your mind and keep an open mind on everything. There is no mountain of fire in the world that you cannot get through.
??Bai Jiaxuan opened his eyes. Although he was awake, he didn''t say a word.
Xiang Nan knew it, but he didn''t think about it yet, so he didn''t say anything more.