After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Yingbao blinked: "Any disease can be cured, Uncle Wu, you must eat it, you will be healthy after eating it."

Wu Daozi smiled, "You little girl is really a spirit."

As he spoke, he put the pill in his hand into his mouth, chewed it, swallowed it, and nodded: "Well, the sweet and sour taste is good, and there seems to be hawthorn in it."

Ying Bao smiled awkwardly, peeked at the tumor on his neck, saw that it hadn't grown any more, breathed a sigh of relief, and said mysteriously: "Uncle Wu, don't believe me, my medicine is the best, even Chen Zhu was cured by me." That's it."

Wu Daozi waved his fan and asked casually, "Who is Chen Zhu?"

"It's the son of Patriarch Chen. His thigh was seriously injured and he was about to die, but he was cured by me." Yingbao praised herself vigorously, "Do you think I'm powerful?"

Wu Daozi laughed and said, "Excellent."

"So, Uncle Wu, you must take your medicine well, and this pimple on your neck won't grow any longer." Yingbao boldly pointed out the sore feet of County Magistrate Wu.

Thoughtful, Wu Daozi took another pill to check and smell it.

Yingbao looked back at the second uncle, saw that he had retreated to the eaves with Wu Rui, and said to Wu Daozi, "Uncle Wu, my family has grown a lot of cotton, which can be used for weaving or making cotton clothes and quilts. Ramie is much stronger, would you like to see it?"

She knew that if Wu Daozi wanted to stand out in the year-end assessment, he would have to do one or two great deeds that would benefit the country and the people during his tenure, and his own cotton would surely be the greatest achievement of the county's parents and officials in the future.

Once cotton is promoted and planted, it will largely solve the problem of people's clothing and cold protection.

Yingbao didn't understand these things before, but she had read a lot of them, and she knew a little bit about those official affairs.

"What cotton?" Wu Daozi was really interested.

Ying Bao pulled out a bag of cotton, a lump of cotton thread and a piece of cotton cloth from under the bamboo basket, and showed them to Wu Daozi one by one.

Wu Daozi took it and watched it carefully, his eyes became brighter the more he looked. "What species is this? Where did you get it?"

"This is the cotton grown by my family. I bought the seeds from a peddler. They are said to be Fanbang seeds." Ying Baoyi told Wu Daozi, "My family planted it last year, and the yield per mu is several hundred catties. .”

Wu Daozi sat up straight suddenly, and asked Yingbao seriously: "How many families in your area grow this?"

Yingbao counted with her fingers, "There are about a dozen households, and they don't plant much. Each household only plants a few acres, not as much as my family."

"Your family also gave their seeds?" Wu Daozi asked, "Are there any left?"

"Yes, but my family's cotton seeds are all distributed to the villagers. After the autumn harvest, my family will have a lot of cotton seeds again."

Wu Daozi stood up abruptly, looking at Yingbao with burning eyes: "Little Yingbao, can this kind of cotton really produce several hundred catties per mu?"

"Well, if it is good land, it should be more than a few hundred catties. Last year, my family produced nearly a thousand catties of seed cotton on more than two acres of land. This year, my family planted more than 20 acres, and it is estimated that it can produce ten thousand catties of cotton."

Thousands of catties of cotton can be spun as many threads as we can weave, which is much better than planting ramie.

Wu Daozi's excited eyes lit up, he walked back and forth a few steps with his hands behind his back, then suddenly turned and went out.

Yingbao is in a hurry, she still has the most important thing to say.

"Uncle Wu, I have one more important thing to tell you."

"Huh?" Wu Daozi turned around, "What's the matter?"

Yingbao ran up to him and said quietly: "The Wei family in Fucheng wants to reverse the case for the Han family."

"The Wei family in Fucheng?" Wu Daozi knew about this Wei family, and it was said that his family had a close relationship with a certain county king.

"How do you know?" Wu Daozi asked.

Yingbao then told about Chen Laoshuan's going to Fucheng to bring back a group of people.

Wu Daozi rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"Anyway, I'm not a child of the Chen family, Uncle Wu, you must not listen to other people's words."

Yingbao said everything he wanted to say, and then he left: "I'm going home, Uncle Wu, if you have time, you can go to my house to play. In autumn, the big gourds I planted will grow up. By then Give you two."

Wu Daozi smiled slightly, "Okay."

Yingbao bounced around to find the second uncle, and when she looked back, she still didn't forget to tell her: "Uncle Wu, you must take your medicine well. I'll come back after a while. My pears are almost ripe, and there are also peaches."

Wu Daozi nodded with a smile.

Coming out of the county government office, Jiang Erlang wiped the sweat from his forehead, he didn't know if it was hot or what, he actually admired his little niece in his heart.

It's not easy for me to talk to Mingfu, but my little niece actually babbled so much, and let the high officials take her medicine, and Mingfu actually agreed.

Hey, I have to learn from my niece.

It's not early at this moment, and it's a little unsafe to go out of the county and drive dozens of miles home.

Jiang Erlang simply decided to go back the next day, and now he happened to be strolling around the county town to do some shopping.

This time, he and his eldest brother got more than 100 taels of silver from the sale of fine golden ears and snow fungus, and he earned back all the frills of marrying his wife before.

With this money, Jiang Erlang decided to buy something for his wife and children.

Huzi and Erni bought some pens, ink, paper and inkstones, as well as copybooks and books, and bought a few bolts of nice-colored linen for their wives and children. After that, they parked the mule cart in front of a nunnery, and went in alone to ask Yanru return visit.

The old nun doctor in the nunnery said that women like Yanru who have been without menstruation are not easy to conceive, so Jiang Erlang should not have too much hope.

Jiang Erlang was slightly disappointed, but quickly thought about it.

Anyway, I already have a son and a daughter, so it doesn't matter whether Yanru can have children in the future.

In fact, Jiang Erlang already knew the result before marrying Yanru, and asking now is just an explanation for himself.

Yanru was married before, but she was divorced by her husband's family because she was infertile for three years.

Yanru had told Jiang Erlang about this point.

So Jiang Erlang didn't ask his parents to hire a matchmaker for him, nor did he let his family members know about it.

The county seat is eighty or ninety miles away from Chuanhe Town, so as long as I don't mention Yanru, no one in Chen Village will know about it.

...

Yingbao and Erbo wandered around the county town, bought books, copybooks and other things for my younger brother, bought some face cream and rouge powder for my mother, and finally went to Jiukang Medicine Hall to buy a lot of spices from the Western Regions.

These spices are very expensive, and a few packets cost her 20 taels of silver.

The spices she buys are all seeded, like pepper, coriander, garlic, shallot, etc.

Back home the next day, Ying Bao immediately planted those seed-like spices in the cave and watered them thoroughly.

I don't know if I can live, but whatever, as long as I can live a tree, I will earn money.

On this day, Chu Chu came back with her younger brothers Chu Yan and Chu Qing.

"Yingbao, they just came to see, there is no other meaning, you... you don't mind?" Chuchu pointed her fingers awkwardly, afraid that Yingbao would not be happy to dismiss her.

Yingbao: "I don't mind, you can take them around, there are apricots on the tree, you can pick some apricots for them to eat, and then follow me to the pond to catch some shrimps, and have dinner at my house at noon." '

Chuchu smiled, stepped forward and hugged Yingbao, "Thank you Yingbao."

So, a large group of children carried bamboo poles and nets to salvage apricots and shrimps.

It's a pity that the pond is not big, and the production of shrimp is limited. After fishing for half a day, only half a basket can be fished out.

Taking advantage of the second cousin's absence, Yingbao secretly fished out half a basket of loach from his breeding puddle, and then brought a group of children home with satisfaction.