Qin'an County is located in Longnan and belongs to the Shaanxi Chengxun General Office in the Ming Dynasty.

Qi Biaojia was exiled here for the countryside for reform because she opposed Zhu Youxiao's view of science as the last, and raised the status of miscellaneous science and craftsmanship.

As a famous family in Shaoxing, Jiangnan, he was not used to the wind and sand in the northwest at first, but now he is like a local Qin person, and he can even yell a few Qin opera.

These once famous talents from Jiangnan did not come here to enjoy life, so according to Zhu Youxiao's will, the court did not give them any generous treatment. Apart from the special subsidy equivalent to the entitlement of students, there were only ten acres of official land for them to farm to experience the hardships of the farmer.

Therefore, Qi Biaojia is a Ming version of rural teachers. Unlike the current rural teaching teachers, they did not come voluntarily, but were forced to come.

However, over the long period of time, with the simple morality of the local people and their desire and respect for knowledge and culture, they also began to fall in love with this place because they could easily obtain spiritual satisfaction here.

In Jiangnan, more and more scholars gradually moved away from Neo-Confucianism due to the guidance of the court and began to pursue various strange and strange theories, people here could at least accept their own classics and allow themselves to pass on their own knowledge.

As the sun sets, Qi Biaojia, who is rolling his trousers, is struggling with his hoe and turning over the soil only three inches thick. He plans to plant potatoes that have been widely popular recently in this half-sand and half-sized sandy land.

Otherwise, his whole family would have to eat porridge at the beginning of the year this year. When there are no grains to harvest in spring, they can only eat porridge for the whole family.

With a huff, the hoe, which was missing in one corner, pierced into the land under Qi Biaojia's waving. Qi Biaojia couldn't help but breathe, and her forehead was already slightly sweaty. But if compared with him two years ago, he would have found that this young man who was weak in the past had a little tendon, and his calves with rolled trousers became much stronger. He stepped on the ground barefoot and stood firmly.

His wife, Shang Jinglan, a famous female poet in the late Ming Dynasty, had a thorn hairpin and cloth skirt, holding a small moon hoe in her hand and lit a small hole on the sand that had been turned over by Qi Biaojia.

These small pits are used to plant potatoes. Potatoes are asexually reproductive, so they are very fertile and easy to plant. They are especially suitable for family farming like Qi Biaojia.

Qi Biaojia and Shang Jinglan's daughter Qi Deqiong were six years old at this time. They were just the little girl in the general corner, but they looked pretty well-behaved and charming.

Qi Deqiong followed his mother, carrying a vegetable basket in his hand, and the vegetable basket contained potato tubers that had just enough to cover the vegetable basket.

The vegetable basket was woven by Qi Biaojia himself asking the local old farmer. The woven was a bit sparse and ugly, but it was barely enough to hold potatoes.

Qi Deqiong carefully threw two or three potato tubers into the small pit dug by his mother Shang Jinglan, and then waited for his mother to re-cultivate soil to cover it.

Since these potato tubers were finally brought from the county magistrate, Shang Jinglan dared not waste them, so he told his eldest daughter not to throw too many of them, and could only put two large ones in a pit or three small ones.

Qi Deqiong is very sensible, but she already feels a little sour in her heart. A few years ago, she could still lie in the wet nurse's arms and act coquettishly, but now she has to work with her parents.

And his wet nurse also had to undertake the main farm work because her father was not familiar with farming, such as wheat sowing, which is technically employed.

Qi Lisun is Qi Biaojia's second son, and he is only two years old now. Because the only wet nurse who came with him and took her eldest son to do farm work for several miles, she could sleep and take care of him, so she simply placed him on the edge of the field to do it.

Qi Lisun was very sensible. His fat little hands held the soil on the ground, neither crying nor making a fuss. He just saw the unripe melon planted beside the ridge and could not help but pick it, but accidentally rolled directly to the ground.

Qi Lisun was slightly stunned and got up by himself. Seeing that his parents didn't notice that he had just fallen, he couldn't help but giggle.

Here, Shang Jinglan did not notice that her youngest son was so naughty. She was digging a hole and saying to Qi Biaojia: "Brother Huzi, after planting potatoes in this field, I have to take Deqiong to Guangdong and Guangxi. You have to take these two children in the house. In addition, take time to find a doctor to see his mother (wet nurse). A few days ago, she kept saying that her legs were weak and she could not leave her in the house."

Shang Jinglan is now basically a peasant woman, so she no longer calls her master and slave family. What's more, they are childhood sweethearts, golden boys and jade girls, so they don't have these magnanimous people in private.

The father Shang Jinglan mentioned was Shang Zhou Zuo, the current governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

The Shang and Zhou Zuo were different from their son-in-law Qi Biaojia. He experienced many hardships when his father died early, so he was relatively pragmatic, so he was considered a practical official after passing the imperial examination.

Zhu Youxiao did not take his anger on him because of his son-in-law Qi Biaojia's disrespect. Shang and Zhou Zuo did not dare to complain about his son-in-law being released from Longnan. He even dared not help or use his power to say hello to local officials and ask them to take care of Qi Biaojia.

But because it was the birthday of the Shang and Zhou dynasties soon, Shang Jinglan had to go back to her parents' home to visit her relatives.

Qi Biaojia is still a guilty person now. He cannot leave Qin'an County according to the will. Unless there is a special order from the emperor, let alone his father-in-law's birthday, even if his parents leave, they must report it to the cabinet and submit it to Zhu Youxiao for approval.

Therefore, Shang Jinglan had to go back to her parents' home with her older daughter alone.

Qi Biaojia's eyes were a little reluctant. When she remembered the scene of talking with her father-in-law in Lanyuan, Shanyin County, she couldn't help but burst into tears. Finally, she hurriedly covered up and said, "My student, Yang Zenghui, passed the sixth place in the Shaanxi Provincial Examination, can be considered as a rush to the test list of the exam. I asked him to take my famous post to find Wang Siren and then ask for advice from Shiwen, and then go to the capital. You can go with him and take a boat south from Sichuan Xuqing to Guangdong and Guangxi, and be careful all the way."

"Don't worry, if you are stable today, it is no longer as good as the thieves in previous years. As long as you pass the Qinling Mountains, it will be much smoother to get to Sichuan. It's very difficult to get out of Sichuan. Fortunately, you can take a boat, which can be considered a trip back to your hometown. After all, you haven't returned to Jiangnan for many years and have never taken a boat."

After Shang Jinglan said this, Qi Biaojia couldn't help but laugh: "Yes, it's also a bunch of water. After paying my birthday to my father-in-law, you don't have to hurry back. Go back to Shaoxing first. It's probably almost Qingming next year. Let's sweep the graves for me. I'm an unfilial son, probably not in this life."

Shang Jinglan nodded and responded.

Qi Biaojia still couldn't help but instruct: "I heard from the county master that the south is not peaceful, and the Zheng pirates are still not honest. Although Guangdong and Guangxi are not places where pirates gather, you have to be careful, so that your father-in-law can be careful too."
Chapter completed!