Orion's favorite little wife

Chapter 176 The Tenant
Han Lin held his daughter-in-law's hand happily and smiled more than anything else.

March in Yangchun is the season when flowers bloom and spring is warm. Even though spring comes late in the north, it will come eventually.

In a blink of an eye, Li Ji has lived in the Han Mansion for more than three months. He has grown from a weak body when he first left the capital to a handsome young man now.

Seeing his cousin's body getting stronger day by day, Chen Ping was happier than anything else.He sent someone every few days to report his cousin's physical condition back to the mansion.

Even the old Marquis Weiyuan, and even Concubine Shu cried with joy when she learned that Li Ji's body had received the best care and had become normal now.

Recalling that year, when she was seven months pregnant, she was scared by the black cat raised by Concubine Feng and gave birth prematurely. Although the court lady who was holding the cat was sentenced to death with a cane afterwards, no one knew that it was Concubine Feng who instigated it.

For the sake of her son's body, Concubine Shu has exhausted her mind these years. Now that she knows that her son can finally live like a normal person, she can't help but chant "Amitabha! Bodhisattva bless you!"

At this time in the Han Mansion, Li Ji was happily trying on new clothes, and the clothes he brought out from the palace couldn't be worn anymore.Either short or thin.The clothes I'm trying on now are all made by my cousin in the sewing room for him.

The round-neck gown in a sunny color after a rainy day, worn on his well-scratched body, further accentuated the image of a good man in troubled times.

Hearing Sanbao's talking and laughing from a distance outside, he hurriedly asked the little eunuch next to him to open the door.I saw little San Bao'er grabbing the door frame and shouting, "Little uncle, we are going out with our godmother, do you want to go?"

"Where are you going?" Li Ji asked with a drake voice that had changed his voice. "Let's take a carriage with Godmother and go down the mountain to see the land."

Hearing that he was going down the mountain in a carriage, Li Ji was even more excited than Sanbao, "Wait for me, I'll go too!" After speaking, he ignored the others and ran out first.

Running to Xiaoxiao, she habitually stretched out her hand, and compared her from a distance, "Cousin, I'm taller than you."

Looking at the boy's proud smiling face, who would have thought of the sick chicken a few months ago?When she first came here, she was about the same size as Xiaoxiao, but who knew that after the new year, she just jumped up a big chunk, and now she is half a head taller than Xiaoxiao.

Ouch!It's just unreasonable!Thinking about it makes me discouraged. My own size will be like this in this life. It is already good to grow up like this. People are lucky.

In the bright smile of the young man, Xiaoxiao was convinced, the reason was "Whoever made me a woman, the height of a man will always have an advantage over a woman."

A group of people sat in two carriages, escorted by guards, and descended the mountain mightily.

Along the way, the previously empty mountains and fields are now populated.Especially in the fields on both sides of the road, it is full of vitality and spring.

It is impossible for her family to farm the 1000 mu of land by herself. Xiaoxiao planned to recruit long-term workers and tenants from the beginning.

It was bitterly cold in the north, so Xiaoxiao asked people to post a notice in the town that all tenant farmers who are tenants of the land of the princess will only receive [-]% of the rent in the first year when the princess’s house produces seeds, and [-]% of the rent every year thereafter. Some thin land rents are even lower.

People who saw the notice rushed to tell the news, and even families from other towns came to share their land.After all, there had never been such a low rent before.

Xiaoxiao has thought about it, she has the title of princess, and others dare not do anything to her, otherwise she will be smashed by other landlords.

Within a few days, more than half of the land was rented out.For the remaining ones near Xiaoqingshan, Xiaoxiao plans to find a long-term worker to plant rice, after all, her family has the right time and place.

There is another reason Xiaoxiao didn't mention, that is, the people who came to the farm from afar, one by one, came from afar with their children and children.This era is not like modern times, there are people who drift south and north, and work hard for their dreams.

And in this ancient time, no one was willing to leave their hometown unless it was absolutely necessary.

Especially in the chilly spring season, the whole family is wearing thin clothes, looking at you with hope, you really can’t tell that there is no land, you go back, such words!

In Xiaoxiao's memory, there is such a deepest family. It was an evening, it was getting dark, and someone knocked on the door outside.

The concierge, Uncle Qian, opened the door and was shocked. The whole family was almost frozen to death.Hurry up and let people into the concierge first, let them warm up first, and let them drink some hot water.

After asking his grandson to find Butler Ding, Uncle Ding asked about the situation and went to look again before replying to Xiaoxiao.After listening to Uncle Ding's narration, it was a family of six, two husband and wife, with four daughters.

As soon as Xiaoxiao heard it, she knew that this was a family with a story.When I asked later, it was indeed a very old-fashioned story.

The daughter-in-law gave birth to four daughters in a row, and the mother-in-law pointed at Sang and scolded Huai every day. These couples and their children endured it.But the mother-in-law actually listened to someone's instigation, and sold her eldest granddaughter behind her son's and daughter-in-law's backs in a frenzy.

The couple knew about it, and firmly opposed it. No matter how much they prayed, it was useless. The couple took their four children and escaped overnight.

The desperate family heard that Princess Anping was recruiting tenants, so they came here with their last hope.

Looking at the couple who are not very old in Mingming, but their faces are full of wind and frost, and then look at the four little girls who are sallow and thin, but very sensible.Of the four little girls, the oldest is only about ten years old, and the youngest is not as old as Sambo.

The first sentence Xiaoxiao uttered was, "Have you eaten?" The couple took a long time to say it intermittently, "I have eaten, it is the hot noodle soup made by the kitchen lady in your house."

Seeing the whole family's faces full of reminiscence, Xiaoxiao felt sad.Xiaoxiao asked them to negotiate with Uncle Li on whether to rent land or work as a long-term worker.

Looking at the family of six again, they patched and patched their clothes, so I asked Mother Lan to give them some cotton cloth and cotton at home, and let them make jackets and blouses.

Hearing the princess's order, the family wept with gratitude.However, the residence of the family of six is ​​also a problem. It is not possible to build a house in this kind of weather. The house is also in short supply, and there is no vacant house for them to live in temporarily.

Later, Aunt Ding thought that there was a small warehouse in the kitchen, and it could still accommodate people after it was cleaned up, but it couldn't accommodate their family of six.

Later, it was Xiaoxiao who asked the couple to temporarily live in the small warehouse, and the little girls to temporarily live in the back room.

The family of six temporarily lived in the mansion.The couple Xiaoxiao seldom saw each other, but these four little girls saw each other every day.

Especially the two older ones, who scramble to work every day, and they are quite discerning, and never make do with the house.Helping with getting something, filling a stove, sweeping the yard, as long as it is within their ability, the two young ladies will rush to do it.

It is said that the children of the poor are headed home early, which is not false at all.
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