A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 195
Yongxingfang.

As the sun was setting, Huaiyu came to the west side of the house. It turned out to be a garden and even a greenhouse.After Huaiyu moved here, she planted some vegetables here.

He planted a piece of rapeseed outside, and then planted spinach, carrot, white radish, mustard greens, shallots, parsley, leeks, garlic, ginger, broad beans, peas, fungus, lettuce, onions, etc. Among these vegetables, spinach was also grown in the Sui Dynasty. A new dish introduced with eggplant.

Carrots, lettuce, and onions are all seeds brought by Huaiyu.

He also planted peppers, saffron, green beans, green beans, cucumbers, potatoes, zucchini, pumpkins, etc. in the greenhouse where Li Yuan used to plant flowers.

Next to the greenhouse, Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, yellow bud white, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, celery and other vegetable varieties that did not exist in the Tang Dynasty were planted.

Even some potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes were planted in the greenhouse.

The several batches of vegetables he planted in Huaiyuanfang house, as well as the potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes that he brought back from Longyou for transplanting, are about to be harvested.

Now whenever he is free, Huaiyu likes to take care of these fruits, vegetables and food, especially the varieties he brought that are not available in Tang Dynasty.

Li Yuan's greenhouse is very good. Although the Tang people did not have glass greenhouses or plastic film greenhouses, they directly repaired the house, leaving some glazed transparent tiles on the roof, opening more windows on all sides, and pasting the windows with paper, so that the greenhouse can be bright. A certain amount of light allows flowers and vegetables to photosynthesize.

Dig a ditch indoors, put the flowerpots on the ditch on a shelf made of rope and bamboo, pour hot water into the ditch, and apply thermal fertilizers such as oxtail and sulfur to increase the indoor temperature. To promote the blooming of flowers in the greenhouse.

This greenhouse flower cultivation technique is said to be still in use in later generations.

Huaiyu felt that this kind of technology was a little behind. Before winter came, he asked craftsmen to remodel the greenhouse and added a firewall inside.

The structure of the fire wall is said to have been used in the Han Dynasty. Huaiyu just slightly modified the fire wall technology, matched it with the heated kang and earth dragon, connected each other, and opened the flue, so that it can burn firewood when it is cold. The temperature in the greenhouse rises to maintain a desired temperature.

Apart from more firewood consumption, there are no other disadvantages.

With this thing, Huaiyu can also eat peppers, fresh corn, cucumbers, beans, and carrots in winter.

Watering, fertilizing, artificial catching insects.

Just like a hardworking bee was busy, Huaiyu heard the faint quarrels coming from the old Wei's house next door.

Hearing the indistinct voice, which seemed to be mixed with crying, Huaiyu couldn't help being curious, he quietly approached the wall of the two families, and listened carefully.

The two families were separated by a wall of rammed earth, about seven feet high. There was a vegetable garden on the Wu's side, and a vegetable garden on the Wei's side.

Compared with Huaiyu, this was originally the garden of Lujiang King Li Yuan. The house of Wei Zheng's house was built and given away before, but it was much simpler and took up a lot of land, but the house was very simple and not elegant. The garden, Wei Zheng has lived in it for several years, but he hasn't taken care of it seriously.

Peeling paint, cracked beams,
In the garden, Wei Zheng led his family to reclaim wheat fields, rice fields, and vegetable fields, and even planted a mulberry tree to raise silkworms.

He used to build a few thatched houses in this garden to brew Weigong wine, but when Ma Zhou impeached him last time, Li Shimin took away all the pots, pots, barrels, etc. that he used to make wine.

At this moment, in the vegetable field next door, the spinach that Wei Zheng had grown himself had died for some reason.Wei Zheng likes to eat this kind of vegetables introduced from the Ni Borna Kingdom the most. After eating them at the palace banquet, he deliberately found the seeds to grow himself, but it failed.

At this moment, Wei Zheng's wife, Mrs. Pei, complained about Wei Zheng. At first, she blamed him for growing such spinach, saying that he had never grown it before.

Slowly it became that Wei Zheng shouldn't always make trouble with the Wu family next door.

"Okay, you were promoted to the county, and you were promoted to Sanji, and there were rewards, but you insisted on jumping out to impeach others on that happy day. What did you say? It turned out to be good. Not only was he fine, but Bo Shenghou , but the county you got is gone, the rank is not promoted, and the rewards are gone."

"Now I'm not allowed to make my own homebrew. Originally, I was counting on rewards and money from private brewing to marry Wang Xueshi's family."

Wang Xueshi is good at wine, he is known as Doujiu Bachelor, he is from the Longmen branch of the Wang family in Qi County, Taiyuan. Before that, Wei Zheng brewed his own wine and often sent wine to Wang Xueshi. Wang Xueshi's family reluctantly considered marrying the Wei family, but Wang The bachelor's wife asked the Wei family to contribute 100 million accompanying wealth before agreeing.

This is not a small amount of money, although for the famous families or emerging nobles, it is only a mere thousand dollars.

But for Wei Zheng, they never got the money together.

The ancestors of Wei Zheng's family were also officials and eunuchs, but when he was young, his father died as a guest in a different place, which made Wei Zheng even have to become a Taoist priest when he was young.

Since investing in Yuanbaozang, although he has been an official for more than ten years, he really doesn't have much savings, and the official salary alone is actually not much.

In the past, Wei Zheng's homebrewing was quite famous, and it was able to subsidize many households. Even Xueshi Wang was willing to marry the Wei family because of Wei Gongjiu.

That is the Taiyuan Wang family. Wang Ji's elder brother, Wang Tong, is called Wen Zhongzi by his disciples. It is extraordinary to be able to call him a son. He opened a school in Longmen and has more than a thousand disciples.

Among the more famous ones are Wen Yanbo, Du Yan, Xue Shou, etc. These are all the Zijin ministers in the court. Even Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Li Jing, including him Wei Zheng, have also attended Longmen Academy.

Wang Ji's family is the home of the Wang family in Qixian County, Taiyuan. The family has settled in Longmen, Hedong for many years. Wang Gui, who was originally building the East Palace, also came from their family.

Don't look at the [-] million that Wei Zheng usually drags, but he can't escape the common customs. He also wants to find a wife of five surnames for his son.

But Wei Zheng's family background, his official position, five surnames and seven families in the Kanto, who would like him?Wei Zheng and his wife tried their best, and at last they fell in love with good wine, and Wang Ji, who was in a poor family, followed his fancy and kept sending wine to Wang Ji, so Wang Ji reluctantly agreed.

But Mrs. Wang was very unhappy. In the end, with her husband's consent, she had no choice but to ask for 100 million yuan in compensation. Marrying with your Wei Zheng family would damage the family's status, and she had to be compensated. outside.

It's just a thousand strings.

But Wei Zheng was stumped.

Now Wei Zheng can't make wine, and he has cut off his donation to Xueshi Wang, and he can't make up the family money.

This matter may turn red at any time, after all, Wang Ji's wife has always disagreed.

Mrs. Pei has been complaining about Wei Zheng there, saying that he shouldn't be so angry every day, otherwise Wei Zheng will not get a big reward this time when he is promoted to the rank, and when the time comes, he will pay for it and make it together. up.

But now that the marriage has finally been settled, it seems to be going badly, and Mrs. Pei is in a hurry.

"Other people are officials in the court, and they make friends everywhere. It's good for you, you make enemies everywhere. After so long, you can't even borrow a thousand coins."

Wei Zheng slanders people very much in court, but he is speechless when he hates his wife.

"Or, let's sell this house and replace it with a smaller one. This house should be worth two or three thousand yuan,"

"Isn't it embarrassing for an official to sell houses and land, and the Wang family looks down on them even more."

Wei Zheng sighed.

Mrs. Pei couldn't help crying, "Mrs. Wang told me today that the accompanying family only asked for 100 million yuan, but our family didn't give it for so long. It was insincere, and she said that at most it would wait until this time. At the end of the month, or else I will not mention it in the future, she is sure that we will not be able to pay the money,

Pity my son, I finally had the opportunity to marry a girl with five surnames, and meeting such a father..."

"Stop howling!" Wei Zheng was annoyed by his wife.

"What are you shouting at me if you have the ability? If you have the ability, you can continue to impeach this impeachment and that, and scold Wu Huaiyu, isn't it right next door? Ma Zhou went to the emperor and offered a strategy. He has to give 200 million yuan to the mansion directly. Zijin, you also play with your pen every day, and you end up making people hate it, and you don’t even have the money to marry your son..."

Poor and humble couples are sad.

Wei Zheng is now the fourth-rank official of Shangshu Zuocheng, but when he encountered these things that had to be paid, he also got stuck.His wife, Mrs. Pei, has suffered a lot, and now she can't bear it anymore because of her son's marriage.

"Mrs. Wang said that if I hadn't come from the Pei family and the same family as me, this matter would have been a thing of the past. Now I will give you the last chance. If you can't take out the 100 million compensation before the end of the month, don't mention this matter in the future. "

"Hurry up and think of a way, don't just squat in this vegetable field and look at your few spinach plants, they are already dead."

Wei Zheng really didn't have many good solutions, "Why don't you borrow the Beijing debt, and first scrape together the 100 million yuan."

"100 million is just a family fortune, and 100 million is indispensable for Pingli."

"Then borrow more."

"With your name Wei Zheng, you can't borrow 200 million Beijing debts."

"You can take this house as a mortgage, and you can sell it. The son's business is important." Wei Zheng said with a dark face.

Wu Huaiyu listened, at first he was just a joke, but later he couldn't help but feel very emotional, it's not easy, although he thinks this matter, he also blames the Wei family, who made them greedy, insisting on clinging to the Wang family in Taiyuan Marriage with five surnames.

Wouldn't it be good for you to marry your son the daughter of an ordinary official and a small gentry?
If you don't have that strength, don't force yourself.

But after thinking about it, I feel sorry for the parents in the world, who doesn't want to pave the way for their children.

Huaiyu was not in the mood to laugh at others, and got up to leave, but accidentally knocked over the bucket, making a loud noise, and the voices of the two people opposite stopped immediately.

They were also rushing to talk just now, and they didn't expect that the more private words they said would be heard by others, especially since Wu Huaiyu's house is next door.

"I didn't expect that Shouyang Hou still has the hobby of listening to the wall?"

Huaiyu originally wanted to leave quietly without making a sound, but who knew that just a few steps away, a voice came from behind, and Wei Zheng was lying on the top of the wall.

The wall is also seven feet high, Wei Zheng is really good at it.

"Wei Gong, I'm watering the vegetables here. I didn't mean to eavesdrop. Next time Wei Gong talks about something, remember to talk in the house. There is such a wall between our two families. If you water the vegetables, I will also water the vegetables. , it was not intentional."

As he said that, Huaiyu held up a handful of spinach in his hand, "Look, I just pulled out a handful of spinach, and I'm going to go back to fry it. This spinach is really tender green."

"Wei Gong, I heard that you also like to eat spinach. I'll pick a handful for you and tenderize it."

Wei Zheng looked at Wu Huaiyu who was holding the spinach in his hand, and he felt mixed emotions in his heart.

At this time, his wife, Mrs. Pei, was pulling his trouser legs, and whispered from below, "Wu Erlang recently opened a new home store called Changshengtang. I heard that the cost is very high. Why don't you talk to him and take the house to him?" He first pledged a sum of money, and quickly gave Dalang's compensation and Pingli to the Wang family first, and then we can discuss the marriage."

When Huaiyu heard this, his heart moved, and the fish took the bait.

(End of this chapter)