Pastoral Jiaoyi's mother and father are here

Chapter 235 Going to the Countryside for Inspection (Part [-])
upper river village

When Yang Baihua and the others returned to the village, Wu Shuan and Tao Niang went home, and she took her little grandson to the field.

The palace sent people to deliver a lot of things to their family, so they must invite these elder brothers to go home for a cup of tea and rest, right?
Whether it's the coachman or these servants, they all came here on orders, how dare they have tea and be lazy at the princess's friend's house?
A group of people moved their things into Wu's house one after another. Be careful with the last few pots of flowers. They were packed in a horse-drawn carriage along the way. The people who held the flower pots were two people sitting in the carriage, lest they would get on the road. Give the bumps a break.

At this time, some women and children in various households in Shanghe Village had just eaten, and they hadn't gone to the field yet!

Suddenly seeing these people moving flowers into Wu's house, many people gathered together.

Like the members of the Wu family, they had never seen such a beautiful chrysanthemum, and it was a rarity at first glance.

"Tao Niang, why did you go to Xilan City and brought so many flowers back?" An old sister-in-law came over, touched the green chrysanthemum lightly with her rough hand, and said, "What's wrong with this flower?" And green ones?"

"Acacia said that Prince Jing gave it to King Zhen's mansion. It was newly bred in the palace last year, so there is also the chrysanthemum garden in the palace and King Jing." Tao Niang has always been a mortal, and in the village she also He is not the top one, but when he has the opportunity to show off, he still wants to show off.

Wu Shuan helped everyone move the flowers. They had heard that the green chrysanthemum was so rare and precious, so they didn't dare to ask for it!It was because Xiangsi said that there were many chrysanthemums in King Jing's garden, so they dared to accept this pot of green chrysanthemums.

"Hey! Only the Imperial Palace and Prince Jing's house have it? It's really a rare item." An aunt also came up to touch it lightly, but she didn't dare to touch it, her hands were too rough, and she was afraid of breaking the delicate petals.

A group of people gathered around, watching these people move pots of flowers to Wu's house.

These colorful chrysanthemums, this is the first time they have seen such a big one.

And the chrysanthemums bloomed bigger, much bigger and more beautiful than the chrysanthemums grown by some people in their village.

After moving the flowers and things, one of the leading servants cupped his hands to Wu Shuan and said, "Master Wu, please stay, we will go back and report to you. Take your leave and stay."

As soon as Tao Niang heard that they were about to leave, she turned around and walked over and said with a smile: "How can you not drink your saliva after working for half a day? Brothers, you can drink your saliva and rest before going back."

"Thank you Mrs. Wu, I'm here to help at the order of Steward Zhao, but I don't dare to ask for credit. Madam, wait a moment. Steward Zhao in the mansion may have other orders, so I really don't dare to slack off here." The servant is also eloquent and extremely respectful.

Wu Shuan didn't know much about these big families, and when they said they had something to leave, he told Tao Niang and went to see them off.

The servant thanked Wu Shuan for sending him off with great sincerity, and then led the horse-drawn cart away with everyone.

After they left, some people were envious of the Wu family's death, so they went to the King's Mansion of the town, and the young master and wife were all appointed.

Some people said sourly: "Young master and madam, it's just that these servants are sensible, so they just look up to us rural people."

Tao Niang didn't care about people who couldn't eat grapes and said grapes were sour. She laughed and said a few words with everyone, and then went home to look at the chrysanthemums.

Many people stretched their heads to look at the chrysanthemums in Wu's yard, they were so beautifully arranged.

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On the Tiandi side, Yang Baihua was also proudly showing off, who made He Hualiu say that they were destined to make a futile trip before, and that people who love each other are princesses, so how can they still fancy the little things their family gave them?Maybe even the gate of the palace cannot be entered.

How is it now?Not only did they go in, they were also personally invited in by the head steward of the palace. They didn't even need to make a notification, they just walked in, envious, right?

"His sister-in-law, you guys are really riding in a sheep cart, and what kind of shoulder... did you enter the palace?" An old lady who had a good relationship with Yang Baihua was sitting on the ground talking with Yang Baihua at this time.

"What's that called Jianyu? Listen to what Steward Zhao said. The town's king's mansion is really big, bigger than our entire village. You have to take a sedan chair if you don't use a car to walk. In the yard where Baozhu girl lives by herself...then Just like the new house built by Acacia, the stove in the small kitchen is covered with white porcelain. There are three large pots and two stoves for cooking soup. There are only two or three cooks. Some cook and some cook soup. There are also snacks, and even two maids who boil water and make tea! In addition to sweeping the courtyard, tending flowers and plants, sewing and mending, Baozhu alone, there are more than ten waiters. What!" Yang Baihua was not exaggerating this time, she had met so many people.

"Huh? Baozhu is a child, so there are so many maids and women to serve?" It wasn't that one person was surprised, but everyone present was shocked.

"The small kitchens I'm talking about are the small kitchens provided by the masters of their courtyards. It is estimated that the large kitchens in the palace are even more surprising!" Yang Baihua heard that Gu Xiangsi was going to take them to the small kitchen, and she really thought it was What about the kitchenette!
Who knew that as soon as they entered, the kitchen was twice as big as their kitchen.

Wu Bing was eating, so he also tasted an abalone, drank some venison ball soup, ate a few mouthfuls of fish and some vermicelli.

Because there are more children, they all look greedy, how can he sit and eat alone as an adult?He just ate an abalone, but Yang Baihua forced him to eat it.

What Gu Xiangsi asked to prepare was a medium-sized food box, with five layers, just enough to hold three dishes, one soup and rice.

She really has people preparing a lot, can't she really just get an abalone on the plate, right?

So, on this plate, she asked someone to put four abalones on a plate. The vegetables and soup were also sufficient, and there was hot water underneath.

Adults are also greedy, but there are not many of these things, not enough!

A child just cut a small piece, just like eating candy, the taste is gone after a taste.

Some people didn't care about these delicacies anymore. What they were more curious about was the fine powder that was said to be made of sweet potato flour.

"This kind of fine powder, and that kind of jelly, Acacia has taught us Shuanzi. When our sweet potato flour is finished, we will build a few large stoves at the entrance of the village, and set up the big iron pot that we used to kill pigs in the past. Make fine powder." Yang Baihua stopped showing off now, but sincerely told everyone about the fine powder.

Xiangsi said that it is best to add fine powder when it is cold and freezing, so that the fine powder can be soaked in the river, and it can be taken out and frozen to dry.

Anyway, fine powder is also a cumbersome job.

But Xiangsi told her that the imperial court would set the price of sweet potato flour at one tael per catty and give away instructions on how to make jelly.

But not everyone can make this fine powder well, the imperial court will send people to teach some people in various places how to make fine powder.

At that time, the price of fine powder can be set at five taels of silver per catty, and it will only be supplied to the rich and relatively large restaurants.

And when the time comes, they will have to pay [-]% of the tax to the imperial court if they add up the money they earn from sweet potato flour and fine flour. This is also the reward from the imperial court for helping everyone.

Yang Baihua did the math, sweet potato flour paid [-]% of the tax, fine powder paid [-]% of the tax, minus the [-]%, they could still make a fortune!
They can get three taels of silver for a catty of sweet potato flour and a catty of fine flour. If they get a hundred catties or a few hundred catties, they will be able to push the old roof to build a new big tile-roofed house in the spring of next year.

When the villagers heard what Yang Baihua said, some people became a little greedy.

"Fifty percent of the tax is too much, isn't it?"

"You are just greedy and insufficient. How much the imperial court has helped us in vain in the past two years, and how much the emperor has bestowed favors on the people of the world, do you have no idea?" Yang Baihua got angry, stood up and scolded the other party with his hands on his hips Said: "What kind of person are you? Let the cows work without feeding the cows, and eat your mother's milk for many years, even worse than kneeling lambs! Just wanting to get nothing in return, this is ungrateful, and it is no wonder that Acacia helped us The village only dares to help a little, and does not dare to donate too much money to help our village, because it is afraid of people like you."

The other party's face was so blushing that she couldn't lift her head when Yang Baihua scolded her, and the others also looked shy. Most of them had complained about Gu Xiangsi secretly, thinking that she had become a phoenix by flying on a branch. The money is gone, and if they want to return them to Shanghe Village, they should help everyone get rich!

Anyway, she still has a lot of money, and if she divides them, it is enough for the entire Shanghe Village to become rich!

"You people don't even think about it. No matter how rich and rich the Acacia family is, it belongs to them. If they are willing to give it, they are kind and kind. If they don't want to give it, it is their duty, right? After all, after all, Acacia Do you owe us so much? If there is no one to repay favors, who would dare to owe favors in the future?" Yang Baihua went to Zhenwang's mansion today, although they were also very envious of such splendor and wealth, but what they wanted was to return If the family works hard and earns money, they will be able to be lords and wives in the future, but they never thought that they would suck the blood of lovesickness to fatten themselves.

This man!That's really the case, if you do something for the village with good intentions, no one will thank you later, but will talk about you behind your back.

In short, no matter how much you give in vain, some people still think you are stingy.

Because their idea is that since you are rich, you should share a large box of money with each family, so they think you are really good.

But why don't they think about it, other people's money doesn't fall from the sky, if they want to be rich, they won't work hard to make money?I always think about getting something for nothing, and I don’t feel ashamed.

As the saying goes: Don't help the poor if you help the emergency, and don't help the lazy if you help the poor.

Visible!Makes sense.

After being scolded, everyone became honest.

Think about what Gu Xiangsi did to Shanghe Village, it was all done by themselves.

Otherwise, why would Gu Xiangsi treat them so politely when Yang Baihua's family went to Zhenwang's Mansion?
Didn't Yang Baihua's family also beg Gu Xiangsi for help, but only for help instead of reaching out and asking for money?
Yang Baihua's angry and indisputable scolding can be regarded as waking up part of this group of people.

But there are also some people who are still stubborn and greedy, and only want to take advantage of others and get something for nothing.

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In the first ten days of November, when the cold weather began to snow and freeze, everyone began to build stoves and cook pots.

Xiling Yan personally led the envoys of the Three Kingdoms to visit the common people, and naturally he went to Shanghe Village, which he was most familiar with.

Bei Gongzhen also came today, she approached and looked at the slender fine powder that was like noodles falling into the water, and the color of the boiling water changed, she was very surprised and said: "I didn't expect this sweet potato thing to be so It's amazing!"

Lan Jue also walked over with an otherworldly fairy appearance. He looked very interesting, so he borrowed someone else's colander. He stood on a high mound, clenched his fist and punched it for a while, and then Returned it to the other party, turned around and walked down and said with a smile: "This is indeed physical labor."

"Physical work? Then I can do it!" Bei Gongzhen rolled up her sleeves and was about to go up to help enthusiastically...

"Come back!" Bei Gongli stepped forward and grabbed her with a headache, and said, "With your strength, if you punch down, you will definitely destroy the colander, so what else can you do?"

"Hiss! That's right, their colander looks like ordinary iron, right?" Bei Gongzhen saw that they were sweating profusely, and wanted to help!I was also afraid that she would be too strong, and she would break the colander later.

Do not help!Watching them work hard makes me feel uncomfortable.

"Princess Tianyue, this is what they need to do. You can help them once, but you can't help them for a lifetime. It's better not to help them this time." Xi Lingyan walked over, looked at the busy people, and said to Bei Gongzhen : "Your concubine's sister once said a word - to help the needy, not to help the poor, to help the needy, not to help the lazy. This sentence, I always think it makes sense."

"The lord and the concubine are both very right. Instead of giving someone a thousand dollars for a while, it is better to teach them a skill so that they can live on for a lifetime." Although Lan Jue was a little afraid of Gu Xiangsi because of some things.But I have to admit that Gu Xiangsi is a calm and wise woman.

Gu Xiangsi can see clearly and thoroughly many things that make them all bewildered by the authorities.

Dongfang Ao has no interest in these things, and he doesn't care at all if Dongyue Guoxing is not prosperous.Now, he only wants to find Liu Qing's body, and hopes... Let her be buried in peace!

Dongfangxian came out today just to relax. After all, she is the mother of two children. The little thought she had for Xilingyan was also because after seeing how powerful Gu Xiangsi is, she completely extinguished the flame in her heart. .

In just over a month, after she came to Xilan City, after hearing so many things, she didn't keep Gu Xiangsi at a respectful distance. Could it be that she was thinking about dying?
Nangong Che came here today for a purpose, she had seen it, and now the royal family of Xihe Kingdom, Xilingchu's generation has only two princes, both of whom have countless wives and concubines.

Even the cousins ​​of Chu in Xiling are mostly married.

The first-rank officials in the DPRK and China are all bad old men, and the prime minister's mansion and the general's mansion are also showing signs of decline. Some of their sons are either married or ineffective, and it is useless to marry them.

Instead of picking those people to marry, it is better to be a side concubine for Xiling Yan. At least Xiling Yan is young and trusted by His Majesty the Western Emperor of Xihe Kingdom. Not small at all.

Father Huang said that the leader of the Suzaku Army of the Eastern Moon Kingdom is Dongfang Ao, the leader of the Xuanwu Army of the Nanyan Kingdom is Lan Jue, and the leader of the White Tiger Army of the Beiju Kingdom is Beigongli.

As for the leader of the Qinglong Army of the Xihe Kingdom, everyone in the world thought it was Feng Qiji, but in fact, it was Xilingyan, the uncle of the emperor.

In Xihe Kingdom, Xiling Yan is not only the leader of Qinglong Army, but also the person in charge of half of the Tiger Talisman of Xihe Kingdom.

In this regard, Xiling Yan's uncle and nephew also lied to everyone. Everyone thought that the Tiger Talisman was in the hands of Xiling Chu and Feng Qiji.

In fact, Feng Qiji didn't have a tiger talisman at all, and the other half of the tiger talisman was always in Xiling Yan's hands.

If it wasn't for someone sent by her father to remind her, she would almost have miscalculated the situation of Xihe Kingdom's power.

"Princess Folian, this town king is as cold as an iceberg and hard to melt, his princess! That's a volcano, bang! If you provoke her to erupt, it will kill you All the bones were reduced to ashes." Dongfang Xian and Nangong Che were talking, squinting at those lustful people from the corner of their eyes, smiling with red lips, full of contempt and disdain.

Nangong Che still wore a white veil when she went out. Although she attracted many people to look at her because of her blue eyes, she was far less attracted by the enchanting beauty Dongfang Xian.

Xiling Yan took them to Xishan to see the farm and orchard.

As soon as Bei Gongzhen saw a large orange orchard with green leaves and kumquats, it made people salivate.She ran over, picked an orange, opened it and tasted it, nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's delicious, it's so delicious. Second brother, try it, this orange is so sweet, only a little sour, with thin skin Thick, it’s the best tangerine I’ve ever eaten.”

Bei Gongli was forcefully stuffed with two oranges by his sister, his expression of helplessness and headache is really hard to describe.

Dongfang Xian usually has a demonic spirit, and he is also a down-to-earth master.She also walked over, picked an orange from the tree, peeled and ate a piece, turned her head to look at Dongfang Aoxiao and asked, "Brother Ao, do you want to eat it? It's really sweet."

"Wow! There are fox peaches here!" Bei Gongzhen has already run to the kiwi fruit orchard next door very quickly. It can be sour to death.

However, Sister Wangfei is pregnant with a baby and likes to eat sour food, so she can pick it up and bring it back to Sister Wangfei to eat.

Dongfang Immortal came over, looked at the fruit-laden fruit tree, pointed to it and said with a smile, "Isn't this Mateng fruit? Your Beiju Kingdom has a different name from our Dongyue Kingdom? However, where you are, you should seldom see it. This kind of fruit, right?"

"That's right! I ate it before, and some merchants brought it back from Nanyan Kingdom." Bei Gongzhen felt that she was the frog in the well, and she had never seen many fruits, and many flowers and plants.

There are the most plum blossoms in Beiju country, as well as chrysanthemums and some plants that are not afraid of severe cold, but there are very few fruits, almost all of which are shipped back to Beiju country from other countries by merchants.

(End of this chapter)