Mountain wild man Ziwang and his wife

Chapter 361 Being looked down upon again
The next day, Pei Jie left this remote mountain village after having breakfast at Yin's house.

He opened the curtain of the carriage and looked back, thinking that if the Eighth Prince could marry this girl, it would be a great help. Although he couldn't see through this girl's fate, he could tell that she was blessed.

It is a prosperous life.

Moreover, he knew the situation in Huaishu Village before, and all the changes happened after she came to Huaishu Village.

In the past, the old Yin's family in Huaishu Village was actually very ordinary, like thousands of wealthy households, with no long-term vision.

After putting down the car curtain, he shook his head, to see if the Eighth Prince was so lucky.

A little overhang.

Yin Tao didn't know that Pei Jie had thought so much. When Pei Jie walked forward, Yin Tao told Xu that he wanted someone to dig a well.

There is no well in the Yin family's house, because Yin Tao uses big bamboo to draw water from the spring on the mountain when he asks people to repair the house.

But if it really doesn't rain, the mountain spring may dry up.

So it is still necessary to dig wells, and the money for drilling wells comes from the village's public bank, and every household is asked to buy as many tanks as possible to store drinking water.

Yin Gui called the village elders together to talk about preparing to dig a well, and asked everyone to buy a large tank to store water if they had spare money!

Because when Yin Gui told everyone not to sell grain during the first snow disaster, no one listened to them, which made them unable to buy food in the subsequent disasters. In the end, Yin Gui came forward to buy high-priced grain and they survived.

But other villages were not so lucky. Too many people died in a disaster. Most of these people died of starvation rather than freezing to death.

So who is not afraid?

Which family does not have a few relatives who starved to death in the snowstorm?

This time when Yin Gui spoke, no one in the village would not listen, at least they all bought two large tanks.

People in Huaishu Village started to buy large water tanks, and people from other villages also rushed to buy large water tanks, which made the water tanks in the town and county more expensive.

Conformity is a common human psychology, especially after a tragic disaster, so people are like frightened birds.

Buying water tanks has become popular. After all, when I see others buying water tanks, I ask, big brother, why are you buying so many water tanks?
Save water, what if there is a drought this year?
Ever since, people who were frightened by the disaster went crazy to buy water tanks.

The major tile kilns are working overtime to make big water tanks, and they took advantage of this trend to make a fortune.

Huaishu Village has decided to dig wells. Yin Tao's plan is to dig four large wells for irrigation and don't care about the water quality, and two sweet water wells for food.

Sweet water wells are not easy to drill. This is a test of the experience of the well-drilling master.

Yin Gui spent a lot of money to hire a well-drilling master from Linxian County, and the master brought his own well-drilling team to live in Huaishu Village.

With such a busy schedule, the housewarming party of Yuanwai Huang's family in Xiaohe Village began.

The Huang family invited the head of the village, the mayor of the town, all the officials of the county government including the county magistrate, well-known squires in the county and the town, etc., and opened a table for an entire hour. There are seven tables at this end.

The person who replaced Pei Jie as the county magistrate in Antu County was a Juren in his fifties called Cheng Pengju.

Cheng Peng's family was poor, and after being admitted to Juren, he took the exams several times in a row, but he failed in Sun Shan. His family couldn't afford him to study, and he was too timid to accept the land donated by others around him. I don't have much background, and I'm not very good at making money.

So he only found a job in the local county school, and because his parents were exhausted from the exams to support him, and took medicine for many years, his family was really struggling, and there was no money to use it to find an official.

This time, thanks to the disaster in the south of the Yangtze River, a large number of official positions in the court were vacant. There was a leak.

Cheng Pengju almost went crazy with joy when he got the letter of appointment. He knelt in the room alone to thank His Highness the Eighth Prince who had revealed the affairs of the Jiangnan Mansion.

(Yin Tao: "..." The Eighth Prince of Lao Shizi is obviously a good old lady!

The eighth prince who was hunted down: "..." I don't really want everyone's thanks. )
In fact, after this turmoil, the emperor deliberately asked people to promote more sons from poor families and use less sons from aristocratic families, just to break the monopoly of aristocratic families in officialdom and break the balance in officialdom.

Of course, even if a child from a poor family has been an official for a long time, he may take refuge in a superior official or a family, but in the end, the concept of taking refuge in an official position is different from that of the family.

It's profit that you rely on, not a family like a family where everyone is prosperous and everyone is harmed. When the critical moment comes, it's very easy for others to sell you.

Yin Tao just looked at Cheng Pengju's wife and could tell that the newly appointed county magistrate had a hard time. The county magistrate's wife was obviously not yet fifty years old, but she looked older than her grandma. Her grandma's hands are rough.

This lady was very kind and reserved, and the squires and wives sitting beside her seemed to be supporting her while talking, but their smiles were mostly mocking.

This group of people ridiculed Mrs. Cheng secretly, but they clearly disliked Yin Tao and Xu Shi and others.

When they were seated, no one wanted to sit at the same table with the female family members of the Yin family.

Mrs. Cheng saw that there were still vacant seats at the table for the women of the Yin family, so she hurried over to sit at the table with them, which made the gentry and wives very dissatisfied.

The Huang family arranged for several young mistresses to sit with the Yin family members, and the third young mistress of the Huang family softly invited Mrs. Cheng to the main table.

Mrs. Cheng smiled and said, "I'll just sit here. It's next to the window, it's transparent, and it's a bit stuffy to sit in."

After finishing speaking, she smiled at Yin Tao and the others.

Yin Tao and the others naturally smiled at her.

Mrs. Cheng didn't want to sit at the main table, and the Huang family couldn't do anything about it. After they sat down, the squires muttered in a low voice: "It's nothing more than a pheasant.

It's just a county magistrate, and this official's life will come to an end here! "

"That's not what it is!"

"Magistrate Cheng has no backing. If he wants to manage Antu County well, he has to rely on our family's help. Without our help, it would be a joke for him to gain a foothold in Antu County!"

"This lady of his can't get on the stage, she will only hinder him!"

A group of squires and ladies spoke sour words in a low voice, but Mrs. Cheng on the other hand saw that Yin's family was eating well without serving them at the table, so she felt that it was very easy to get along with each other.

She chatted with Mrs. Xu very quickly. The two of them ate and talked about their children and grandchildren, and said that women do side jobs to earn some money to subsidize the family. After chatting with Mrs. Xu, Mrs. Cheng asked again Some things before and after the disaster in Antu County, such as how the big guys were doing before the disaster, what kind of livelihood people in the village had, and what happened after the disaster.

Yin Tao ate in silence, she had good hearing, and those people at the main table lowered their voices to damage Mrs. Cheng's words. Now she was observing Mrs. Cheng, thinking that this lady is not simple, those eyelids A shallow woman may have misunderstood this simple magistrate's wife.

(End of this chapter)