farming female castellan

Chapter 421 I didn't receive any news

Duke Zhen Guo looked at Chen Zhongyan quietly and said, "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I will always protect Your Highness."

Chen Zhongyan nodded: "Okay."

Chen Fan and Zhang Ci saluted Duke Zhen Guo, who said: "I admire you two very much and thank you for everything you have done for the people of Daxiang Dynasty."

Zhang Ci smiled and said: "As citizens of the Xia Kingdom, we have no regrets for the country and the people."

Duke Zhen Guo followed Chen Fan and others onto the boat and sailed towards Yuanshuo County.

Chen Fan accompanies his sons to read, write, tell stories, stand on the deck and watch the scenery every day, and never hangs out in front of the Duke of Zhen.Duke Zhen Guo also didn't look for her. He looked for Chen Zhongyan and Zhang Ci when he had something to do.

As the winter solstice approached, Chen Fan took people to make zongzi.Duke Zhen asked her, "Do you still have the custom of eating rice dumplings during the winter solstice?"

Chen Fan shook his head: "The saying of eating on what solar terms is all about finding a reason to satisfy your cravings. Now that the Daxiang Dynasty is full of food and people, you can eat whatever you want at any time. I want to eat glutinous rice, so I'm going to make zongzi and make zongzi. Rice dumplings, and some fried rice dumplings.”

Zongzi was boiled with eggs and duck eggs, and Chen Zhongyan brought a duck egg to Duke Zhen: "Eggs cooked with zongzi are more fragrant."

The zongzi was boiled in the pot all night. In the early morning of the winter solstice, the cook made some porridge and ate the zongzi dipped in sugar.Zhen Guogong only ate half of red bean stuffing, saying that he was too old to digest glutinous rice.

Chen Zhongyan said: "Our taste is rather strange. The egg yolk and meat are salty, but when dipped in sugar, they are sweet."

At noon, the cook cooked a pot of glutinous rice, fried sesame seeds, rolled a few small glutinous rice balls, and wrapped a few deep-fried glutinous rice balls in the pan for frying.

Duke Zhen Guo frowned: "Are you eating glutinous rice all the time?"

Chen Fan nodded: "I just suddenly got a bit greedy, so I wanted to eat more." She cut up two deep-fried rice dumplings, "This is stuffed with vegetable meat, and this is stuffed with sesame seeds. Would you like a bite?"

Lord Zhen took a sip each: "It's crispy and crispy. It's really delicious, but I can't eat more. Mrs. Chen is virtuous and knows how to cook so much."

Chen Fan smiled lightly: "I want to cook something for my husband and children, so I cook for myself. In the countryside, women are always in the kitchen, and the younger sisters in our family can also cook well."

The corner of Zhen Guogong's mouth twitched slightly: "I heard that your boys also cook and work in the fields?"

Chen Fan nodded: "Labor is honorable, children should support themselves. I also thought that when my younger brothers grow up, I will build a house for them to marry and live in separate families. generation to generation."

Lord Zhen Guo said something more, Chen Fan always said what the country is like, and what they want to do in the country.Finally, she sighed: "We are going to live in Yuanshuo County farming, but only one seventh brother is close, and the other brothers and sisters are too far away."

Duke Zhen looked at her with a complicated expression.

After half a month on the boat, all kinds of nourishing soups and waters were brought to Lord Zhen Guo every day, expressing his filial piety to the elderly vividly.Every time Lord Zhen Guo looked at these food, he would stare at it for a while.

When he arrived in Yuanshuo County, Lord Zhen looked at Chen Fan's house and frowned: "The house is a bit small."

Zhang Ci smiled lightly: "The house of a farmer's family is as big as this. If we add some fields, we can have three meals a day all year round."

Duke Zhen said in a low voice, "You planted so many fields in the past, why now you only want a few acres of Susukida?"

Chen Fan spread his hands: "My uncle bought those fields for me, and the Liu family bought the fields for the children. We had no money at that time, so we had to grow more food to survive. Thanks to the mighty grace, those lands turned out to be blessed lands and made us famous.”

When the words from ten years ago were repeated again, Lord Zhen felt his ears hurt.

Zhen Guogong lives in Chen Wangfu, while Chen Fan and Zhang Ci live in their own home.She looked at Zhang Ci: "I didn't have a chance to say along the way, how many people did they come?"

Zhang Ci smiled: "Even if it's your own home, you have to be careful."

Chen Fan punched him: "Then go and watch on the roof yourself. How is the situation here?"

"We'll find out when they come."

In the evening, some guards came to the house.Yunfeng said: "They came with several people, some scattered in various villages, some living in the city, about 600 people lived in the military camp. About 200 people pretended to be a dozen caravans, and wanted to enter the mountain in batches. Here's where they're registered."

There is a piece of paper on the desk with detailed information written on it.Chen Fan looked at the products such as salt, rapeseed oil, fur and cotton, smiled and said nothing.

Yun Feng continued to report: "They are scattered around various villages and the City Lord's Mansion, and someone is watching them."

Zhang Ci nodded: "Remember to contact me at any time."

Everyone chatted about work for a while before the meeting adjourned.

Chen Fan yawned: "It would be good to let them increase the income in the mountains."

"Well, stay a few more days. Don't try to spread the news." Zhang Ci nodded.

The customary names for each cottage are still there, so people can wander around as they please.

Duke Zhen Guo stayed in Prince Chen's Mansion for a few days. The two guards went out every day but did not receive any news.He said he would go to the barracks to have a look, and Chen Zhongzhu accompanied him.

The leader of the barracks is Zheng Baili, a sixth-grade Zhenwei captain.He accompanied the Duke of Zhen for a walk through the snow in the mountains, and then stood at the entrance of the village.

The soldiers guarding Yuanshuo County were all replaced by Zhen Guogong. They said that they had not received any news from the other side of the mountain.Now that it's snowing, there are no merchants on the other side of the mountain to do business.

Duke Zhen's expression was ugly, he stared at the city wall, and said coldly: "A cottage, how could the wall and the gate be built so well?"

Zheng Baili said in a broken gong voice: "That's why I am happy, and since it is not on the territory of Yuanshuo County, we have nothing to do with it."

"What kind of business do people over there usually come here for?"

Zheng Baili said: "Sell some mountain products, tea, and coal. It is said that there are mines there; then buy some sugar, oil, seasoning, cloth and porcelain from us in the past."

Lord Zhen waved his hand and walked back.Soon, a group of people walked to the gate of the village and said they wanted to do business there.

"Heavy snow has closed the mountain, and our village does not accept people entering the mountain." They were directly rejected.

A soldier shouted: "My brother passed here a while ago, but he hasn't returned home yet, and I don't know how the business is. I want to find my brother and go home with him for the New Year."

Shouzhai's answer: "We are only responsible for guarding the village, and we don't know any brothers. The mountains are preparing for the New Year, and there is no business to do. You should go home early."

"If my brother comes back, can he come out?"

"Of course you can. As long as someone wants to go out of the mountain, we will let it go after inspection. But now the snow in the mountains is so thick, your brother might spend the New Year at a farmhouse or an inn."

The soldiers insisted on entering the mountain, but the guards said they would report to the village owner for approval, and they waited for half an hour before letting them go.

(End of this chapter)