Pastoral Jiaoyi's mother and father are here

Chapter 174
At night, red lanterns were hung under the corridors of the three big tile-roofed houses, illuminating the courtyard brightly.

Gu Xiangsi sat on the grand teacher's chair behind the case, clapped Xingmu in his hand, drank tea, waved a fan in his hand and smiled lightly: "Let me tell you a joke first, to ease the atmosphere."

The elders and villagers who were kowtowing melon seeds and drinking tea were really muttering in their hearts, whispering to each other, whispering to each other.

The joke that Gu Xiangsi told was very common, it was a story about a lazy man.

There is a village called Lazy Village, where all the old and young are very lazy, and they are about to die out. A lazy man, he went to Qindong Village and defected to his uncle in order to survive.

But when he arrived at his uncle's house, he didn't do anything, and even let people take care of his meals. Uncle couldn't take it anymore, so he drove him away.

Before he left, his uncle gave him some big cakes, which he put in his bundle and hung around his neck.

He was tired and hungry and wanted to eat cakes, but he thought it was troublesome to untie his bundle, so he lay on the side of the road and waited for someone to pass by to help him untie his bundles and feed him some cakes.

And it was true that a person passed by, he begged this person for help, this person was lazier than him, the lace of his hat was out of his chin, he refused to raise his hand to hook it up, and kept his mouth wide open, waiting for the wind Blow here, put the tie back on for him.

And just like that, both slobs were dead.

One had three pancakes hanging around his neck, and because he was too lazy to untie his bundle and eat the pancakes, he died of starvation.

One is that the mouth is too open, the mouth is dry for a long time, and the thirst is dead.

After Gu Xiangsi finished telling the story, she took a sip of tea, smiled and shook her head and said, "Don't you think these two people are ridiculous? How can they be so lazy? Hehe! This is true, living is a waste of air, Dead waste of land, right?"

Others were fine, but those who really raised lazy sons were blushing. Fortunately, it was too dark to see who was blushing and who was pale under the lamp.

"Okay, let's tell a joke and an inspirational story today. Although the protagonist of the story is considered a fool by some people, I think his perseverance is worth learning." Gu Xiangsi patted the wood, Speaking of the story of Yugong Yishan.

This story is familiar to many people, but not many people understand the true meaning of it.

Because some people, just like the wise old man, think that Yugong moved mountains is a matter of insanity, but they don't know that Yugong sees the farthest road with the most simple heart.

This is how great wisdom looks like a fool, looking at the most stupid people, but seeing farther and going further than opportunistic people.

After telling this story, Gu Xiangsi looked at the bewildered elders and villagers below, and sighed with his fans folded together: "If there were no Foolish Old Man who led his descendants to move the mountains, how would future generations be able to get out of the mountains, how would they be able to plow the fields and sow seeds in the mountains?" , to extend to future generations? This is like, the ancestors plant trees, and the descendants enjoy the shade, which means that they can receive the shade of the ancestors."

This is a joke, a story, a story about how lazy people die of laziness, and a story about how hardworking people persevere to benefit future generations.

The two educations, one positive and the other negative, are thought-provoking, and many people have begun to think about life.

If they learn to be lazy, they will eventually be dismissed and driven away, right?Then even if there is bread, they will starve to death.

If they are as hardworking and persevering as Yu Gong, even if their generation does not become rich, the next generation can continue to work hard, and they will always get rich and honor their ancestors!
Liu Laizi and his family also turned pale because of Gu Xiangsi's two stories.

They are all farmers who depend on the sky and the land for their food!
No one's family is the place to raise a grandfather. If their son doesn't work hard now, even if he doesn't end up like a lazy man in the future, he will have a difficult end!

What Gu Xiangsi wants is this effect, to correct some people's three views with the help of some fables, don't always think that everyone is your parents, and you have to give you absolute help when you reach out to others as a matter of course.

If a person wants to live a good life, he must first suffer bitterly and then sweetly. Only by working hard on his own can he truly make a fortune.

Those who are opportunistic will never become masters.

A down-to-earth person may not necessarily end up working hard to get rich, but he can avoid the storms in this life and end up in a difficult end.

After the story is finished, if the weather is in modern times, it would already be eight o'clock. They should all go back to rest and get up early to go to the fields tomorrow.

But Gu Xiangsi didn't know for the time being that the reason why these people suddenly became so honest was because some words that Yang Baihua let the fat woman spread had an effect.

After everyone left, Xiling Yan got up and took her hand, went for a walk under the moon, and went back to their two-in-one courtyard in Shanghe Village.

Chu Qing and Fei Shu came forward, bowed their heads and bowed respectfully: "My lord and concubine. The young prince and the princess have already slept peacefully. The servants are going to prepare hot water for the lord and concubine."

"En." Xiling Yan is used to bathing every day. In the past, there was a hot spring pool in the Wangfu, but now that she came to Shanghe Village, it is not as convenient as in the Wangfu.

Gu Xiangsi was quite tired today, reasoning with these people, and distributing chicken, fish, meat, eggs and farm tools to them. It's true that people and money have gone out, and I don't know how much I can get?
Zhen Xi and Qiao Xue have been busy in the kitchen, making some scallion wontons, and now they are boiling the water pot.

After Chuqing and Fei rinsed and fetched water for the prince and princess to wash their faces, they also sent their supper to the main house.

Zhen Xi was burning water behind the stove, but Qiao Xue had already called Liefeng Moyun to help, and scrubbed several buckets again, including the bathtub that had not been used for a long time. , Looking back, when the prince and princess take a bath, they can also smell a little more fragrant.

Gu Xiangsi was really hungry again. After eating a bowl of scallion wontons and some soup, Chuqing and the others prepared water for a bath.

To be honest, her habit of bathing before going to bed was not developed by Xilingyan, but her habit in modern times. It would be uncomfortable if she didn't take a bath for a day, especially now that it's almost April and the weather is getting hotter. If she doesn't take a bath every day , It is difficult to sleep peacefully.

Chu Qing and Fei Shu are two little girls, despite their young age, they know a lot.

After sending water in, they backed out, closed the door, turned around and called Qiao Xue and Zhen Xi, and asked them to enter the East and West Wings to accompany Xiaoshizi and Xiaojunzhu.

This little boy is fine, he can go behind the curtain by himself for getting up at night.

But the little princess couldn't do it, she got up in a daze, and if no one took care of her, she would treat everything she touched with her eyes closed as a pail, and urinate immediately after she put her buttocks, that would really piss people off and make them laugh to death.

Qiao Xue was the servant girl who had been serving Baozhu all the time, but it was the first time for Zhen Xi to keep vigil for this little prince. She slept on the Arhat bed in the outer room. Death can't hear orders.

Chu Qing and Fei Shu went to the kitchen again, cooked a few pots of the leftover glutinous rice balls and wontons, and then took out a portion and gave them to the guards Mo Yun and Lie Feng.

Anyway, it will be ruined if left overnight, for the sake of their hard work, let's reward them!

"Thank you, sister Chuqing, this wonton is really delicious." Mo Yun and Lie Feng are two extremes, Lie Feng has a lonely personality, but Mo Yun is the most sweet-talking man.

Chu Qing glared at him angrily, turned around and pulled Fei Shu back.

Fei Shu covered his mouth and smiled, squeezed his throat on purpose and called softly: "Sister Chuqing, why are you like this... Oh! Sister, spare me, spare me!"

Chu Qing blushed and slapped her face, this bad girl has learned to tease people?

Fei Shu and Chu Qing were fighting in the front yard, but they didn't listen carefully in the back yard, but those guys practicing martial arts at the door were all very sharp!
Mo Yun has a thick skin, and even though these brats laughed at him with teasing eyes, he still ate supper calmly without knowing why his face was blushing.

Liefeng ate a mouthful of glutinous rice balls, frowned and looked at Mo Yun and asked, "You don't really like Chuqing, do you? She belongs to the princess, not a woman who can be played around with by you."

"Yes! You're right, Chu Qing belongs to the princess. Unless I'm crazy, I would have the guts to look at the girl next to the princess." Mo Yun ate the wonton, but he was complaining in his heart, just like the princess. A person with a temper, could the little girl she brought out be a good stubble?

He just wants to have a docile little wife, but he doesn't want to get a tigress to go home and set up rules for him every day, and take care of him according to the family law.

"If you don't like someone, don't flirt with them. The princess said that if you flirt without marrying, you are a hooligan." Lie Feng frowned and looked at Mo Yun and said, he was afraid that he would get angry, and he would die without a place to bury him. .

"Ahem!" Mo Yun didn't expect Lie Feng to say such words in a righteous manner. It is true that those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black!
Look, how long has he been serving the concubine, he knows so much for this little guy.

Lie Feng jumped three steps away from Mo Yun, this person is really disgusting, if you want to spray it, don't spray it on him, okay?Nearly soiled his supper.

"Hey... Lie Feng, where are you going?" Mo Yun saw that Lie Feng disliked him and ran away, so he wanted to catch up with Lie Feng and ask Lie Feng if he had a sweetheart?

Think about it or forget it, a man like Lie Feng is a natural bachelor, and he is a little bit confused, who would be willing to marry him?Isn't that the same as living with a log?
Gu Xiangsi, who was bathing in the room, was eaten by someone.

She agreed to make a fuss for a while, but she looked at this man's posture, is she sure she will go to bed after only one fight today?
"Seeing you being wronged makes me feel distressed and angry." Xi Lingyan hugged her and kissed her cheek, making it clear that she was going to break the contract again.

Gu Xiangsi sneered, she knew that women should not listen to what men say to you in bed.

Liar, dare to talk to her is nothing, right?See how she teaches him a big liar.

Xiling Yan fulfilled her wish and went to play with his concubine. After getting out of the bath and going to bed, he really brazenly continued to make trouble with her, and finally...

At the end of his fuss, when he was most completely relaxed and dazed, Gu Xiangsi poked his waist with one finger, and tapped him a few times in a row, the world was completely quiet.

Little boy, is it really a waste of fame to think that she is the heir of a century-old medical family?
hehe!Are you honest this time?Don't bully her?
Xiling Yan is really dumbfounded, you are really hard to guard against such a daughter-in-law who dares to treat you cruelly, and you feel cold in your heart.

Gu Xiangsi pushed away the man on her body, helped her waist out of bed to wash, and then climbed into bed to sleep.

call!In the future, for the sake of her sleep quality, let's deal with this man like this!
Xiling Yan was wrapped in such a close hug by her, alas!Don't let him touch, and always like to hug him so intimately while sleeping, it's too much a test for his self-control.

Since Gu Xiangsi opened her eyes and completely became the ancient Gu Xiangsi, she has always felt insecure. She used to hold the orb, and she could not sleep well.

It wasn't until Xiling Yan was by her side that she gradually felt a little bit more secure.

Now, as long as she sleeps with his human-shaped pillow, she can feel at ease. If she can't hug him, she will have uneasy dreams. Even before she got married, she would always sleep with her mother Ning Yezi at night. Woke up in a dream.

This habit is terrible, but she doesn't intend to change it.

After she fell asleep, Xi Lingyan adjusted her sleeping position, hugged her while lying on her side, and kissed her lightly on the forehead.He has always known her uneasiness. If she is not tired, it is absolutely impossible for her to sleep peacefully like this.

Fool, do you really think that he doesn't care about her body so much and always loves to torment her endlessly?
Wasn't it just to let her have a good sleep, he always tossed her like this at night, and when she was tired, she slept more peacefully.

……

Early the next morning, Gu Xiangsi changed into a dark blue and brown jacket, and went to the field with a hoe on her shoulder.

The one who agreed to help everyone cure diseases and insect pests, went with everyone to the fields of the most seriously affected people.

Now is the season when the red spiders in wheat are frequent, and the barley planted by this family is about to be killed by these red spiders.

Seeing that this year's harvest is about to disappear, the family is anxious.

Gu Xiangsi went to Tiandili to inspect it. It was quite serious. She promised her fellow villager that she would go back and make medicines. This is more complicated. She tried to use ancient things to make pest control pesticides!

Now that the drought is severe across the country, and there are no watering machines in this era, it is impossible to wash away these spider mites with water.

"Princess, our family has a mulberry forest. I thought I would pick mulberries this year and buy them to supplement the household income, but there were a lot of insects all of a sudden. Please help me with the mulberries!" A tall black and strong boy, Wearing a coarse brown jacket, he cupped his hands and bowed foolishly.

"Mulberry worms? There is a ready-made method for you. You can prepare the medicine yourself when you go home." Gu Xiangsi turned to look at this person, and told him the method of treating mulberry worms.

Emulsions made of cotton oil and lime to control cottonworms, and emulsions made of croton and soap to treat mulberry insects have good effects.

"Make an emulsion? How do you make it?" The big fool was really dumbfounded, he raised his hand and scratched his head, with a dazed expression on his face.

"Eh? It's not troublesome, I'll teach you how to make it later!" Gu Xiangsi thought about it carefully. It's really impossible for these ordinary people to understand such a complicated way of making.

"Thank you princess!"

"Thank you princess..."

A group of people bowed their hands to Gu Xiangsi gratefully. Why didn't they realize that Xiangsi's brain is so easy to use?
"Tobacco stems, crotons, basil, deer vine, tripterygium vine, pyrethrum, etc. can also treat insect pests very well. How to refine and extract it is more complicated. I will ask the prince to discuss it with the Ministry of Finance later. This kind of potion can be made to help you plant good fields and create a bumper harvest." This time, Gu Xiangsi will not only inspect the land to see what diseases and insect pests have appeared, but also to see if the water conservancy project can be overhauled starting from Shanghe Village. Develop animal husbandry.

In ancient times, because the common people were oppressed by powerful nobles, or were squeezed by merchants and landlords attached to the nobles, they had no spare money to develop animal husbandry, which resulted in high domestic fur prices, and even the cotton and linen industry had fallen. There are signs of being gradually monopolized by some businessmen.

If things go on like this, the common people can only rely on the fields for food, and other external incomes are out of the question.

So she wanted Xiling Yan to talk to Xiling Chu privately about major water conservancy repairs, and even the construction of shipping canals. These things will gradually come, and it will take six or seven years. The canal was built, and the casualties were heavy.

Therefore, the construction of the canal will inevitably take many years. Six or seven years is a small estimate. In the case of ancient manpower, it would take ten years!

Forget it, let Xilingyan build urban water conservancy and farmland water conservancy first!
Regarding the matter of the canal, let their uncles and nephews discuss it slowly later!

Anyway, this credit cannot be theirs, it must be the emperor's idea, only in this way can the country be stable, the emperor is wise, and their uncles and nephews will never leave.

Xiling Yan was not idle either. She took her children to the fields, dug up a lot of wild vegetables, and even killed a pheasant and a rabbit.

There was even an unlucky quail that hit its head on a tree and died. It was quite fat, and it could be used to make soup for the children when it was taken home.

Lord Xiling had previously told his father that his sister had lost weight and wanted to make up for it. Gu Xiangsi hummed and sneered for a while, but Baozhu, a chubby girl, is simply overweight, okay?
In order to meet the normal calculation standard, Baozhu not only cannot make up, but also has to lose weight due to being slightly fat!
But children are growing, and they can't lose weight just because they are slightly fat. After all, it is not conducive to growth and development.

Originally, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law would blush when they saw Xilingyan's face, but now they know that she is not a poor son-in-law, and now those big girls in the village who think they are village flowers are looking at this girl more and more. The king of the town was very happy.

Xiling Yan didn't see the winking eyes of these big girls at all. He held his daughter in one hand and a vegetable basket in the other. He was dressed in a blue cloth and had a wooden hairpin. .

"Father, after you came to Shanghe Village, after spring, the peach blossoms still grew up against the hills." Lord Xiling grabbed the corner of his father's sleeve, holding a bunch of bright yellow and lavender wild flowers in the other hand. The chrysanthemums and asters are intended to be given to my mother when I go back to make her happy.

"Son, I don't like peach blossoms, I only like thorny roses." Xi Lingyan was carrying a vegetable basket, which contained wild vegetables such as purslane, wild amaranth, and Houttuynia cordata.

Lord Xiling looked up at his tall father, and sighed in his heart, his father is indeed a man with unique taste.

(End of this chapter)