Chapter 243: Plan Ahead
When Qiao Lan was having a good time in Wuli Town, a big thing happened in Tongzhou, the governor of Tongzhou sentenced Xu Bixia, the eldest daughter of Lord Xu who married at the beginning of the year, to be the concubine of Zhang Luona, and one was a three-room, so virtuous and decent, it became a beautiful talk in Tongzhou for a while.
Don't look at this matter far away, it seems that it has nothing to do with Qiao Lan's eight poles, but the matter is deeply related to her. Xu Bixia's father-in-law, unfortunately, is Fang Dingkuang.
In other words, this matter was also made by Fang Dingkuang, this jade-like son, he was really blinded by his personal feelings, and he was thinking about "Qiao Yi" dressed by Qiao Lan. In order to get rid of the domination of the family, he married a woman who he didn't want to marry, and after marrying someone home, he thought that he could go back to Wuli Town to find Qiao Lan, but who knew that his father Fang Yunchang also said that he must marry a wife and have children, that is, if he marries a wife, he has to have children.
It's okay to marry a wife, but children are not born if you want to.
In order to have children, he had a good time with his new wife every night, and he was in the prime of life, so he didn't lose money, but after a few months, there was no good news.
At this end, Xu Bixia was also afraid, to what extent was she afraid, she took the initiative to help Fang Dingkuang take a concubine and let him toss, even if she had the eldest son, it didn't matter, it was better to toss others than to toss herself, it was a big deal to go to the mother and keep the child.
What happened so far away, Qiao Lan was naturally ignorant, even Fang Dingkuang, she might not have thought about it for a long time, there were really too many things to worry about.
The wheat and rice fields on the west bank are vacant, and she wants to arrange for people to prepare the land so that she can plant another crop, but Yu Dana persuaded that the land on the west bank is not fertile enough. Planting one after another is not conducive to the recuperation of the land, and she thinks so, so she can only regret to dismiss the idea.
In the "Farming Book", it is mentioned that alfalfa and milk vetch can be planted to fertilize the field, if you can plant some in the West Bank, or even money and good land, it is excellent, but many inquiries, but no one knows these two grasses at all. There is no in this era. Or maybe there is, but not by these two names.
There are only 50 acres of pepper land and 30 acres of sweet potato land left on the west bank, and these two plots of land have kept the long-term workers busy. Yu Dana handed over the West Bank to Feng Dalang and Second Uncle Lu. Running to the land of money every day.
There are 300 long-term laborers in the land of money. The soldiers are divided into two ways. More than two months have passed along the way to build a dam and clean up the land that was dug up in the treasure hunt. The levees are beginning to take shape, and the land is in shape.
In the past two months, Liao San and Yu Shiguan have been mixed into the long-term labor team many times to find out, and with the spy Dahei, ten people stood out and became small leaders, each leading a team of thirty people.
Dividing the people below into small groups, this is called divide and rule, which is very common and effective, but when it comes to Qiao's house, new regulations are given to make it go to the next level.
Ten groups, from one to ten, are numbered by the lead draw. The Qiao family arranged for people to evaluate these ten groups once a month, and summarized them every six months, and the top three in the overall ranking were rewarded, and the last one was dismissed, and it was the whole group together, including the leader.
Although it sounds complicated, everyone can understand the essence of it, that is, do well, reward, do not do well, fire, and quickly, they realize that this is not simple at all, they do well and then they are not applauded, and the whole group is really good if they do well.
Because of this, the people in the group who don't like to work hard are miserable, and the surroundings seem to be full of overseers, wanting to rest their feet and stretch their legs, and immediately a few sinister eyes swept over, that feeling, don't be too sour.
The diligent squad strives to be upstream, grabs the top three, and the passable squad also chases after me, so as not to be fired at the bottom. Every day, the long-term workers of the money land are full of energy, the hoe in their hands, the iron pickaxe dance vigorously, so that the effect is obvious, the progress of the money land reclamation is advancing by leaps and bounds, changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The embankment has begun to take shape and is still being heightened and widened. According to Qiao Lan's meaning, on the top of this embankment, you have to be able to walk a carriage, and when you reach that scale, you can kill three birds with one stone, be a road, make a city wall, and stop floods at critical times.
Some people say that the "Qiao family" is worrying, but some people look at the Qiao family's sake and call it "taking precautions".
On the first day of September, the harvest continued, and at night, the farmers dragged their tired bodies home to rest in preparation for the next day's labor, and at the same time, the celebration of the harvest of the Qiao family was in full swing on the west bank.
The roaring bonfire, the creaking of roast pigs and sheep, and the crowd of people singing and dancing, everything is so beautiful, depicting a scene of singing and dancing.
The long-term workers in the West Bank were allowed to bring a family member to the West Bank to participate in the celebrations, and the opportunity was precious but limited, and some of them brought their fathers, some of them brought their wives, and some of them brought their daughters-in-law......
The ten leaders of the beautiful land of money also entered the West Bank for the first time, although every scene on the West Bank was shrouded in the night, and they could not see it clearly, but this star was enough to shock them, was this really the West Bank? The deserted West Bank...... However, think about it, isn't the money and land also under the arrangement of the Qiao family, in their hands, slowly becoming decent?
Maybe next year, they will be able to bring their families to participate in the celebrations in the West Bank, or even the celebrations of good money, just like the long-term workers in the West Bank...... The leaders' hearts couldn't help but become more surging......
Qiao Lan never put on a lofty posture, during the celebration, she also went to the bonfire to have fun with the long worker, Feng Qixiang is not "close to the people", but he is close to Qiao Lan, seeing Qiao Lan having a lot of fun in the crowd, he has to condescend to play with her.
Zhu Qishan learned that the West Bank was celebrating a bumper harvest, and he paid a private visit again, came secretly, and walked secretly, except for Qiao Lan, no one knew that the county magistrate had come to the West Bank to have fun with the people.
The family members brought by the Feng brothers are fathers and mothers. The two old men were also quite interesting, when they saw Qiao Lan, they knelt down and worshiped her directly as a living Bodhisattva, and after being helped up, they said a lot of words of gratitude with gratitude, and the other family members also looked empathetic.
When she heard that the two old people had set up an immortal card for her, burning incense and kneeling every day, she almost broke the gong, thinking that I am still alive!! and treat me as a dead person, what kind of trouble is this?! Although she also understands that the immortal card is the same as the eternal lamp, it is used to pray for the living to pray for blessings and longevity, and she herself also lit an eternal lantern for Liang Maohua, but when it is used on herself, hehe, no, I don't accept it.
Yu Dana understood his master's temperament, and immediately had a deep talk with Feng Dalang when he turned around. After Feng Dalang went home, he asked his father and mother to remove Qiao Lan's immortal card, but every time he burned incense and worshiped the Buddha, he had to pray for her first.
The bustle of the West Bank does not cease until the middle of the moon.
That night, the Chen family in Qingshan Village was not calm, Huang Hongmei started, and gave birth to a male baby in the early morning, which is the third male grandson of the Chen family and the first son of Chen Shenghua.
Chen Laohan turned out a yellow and old word, which was written with four idioms: gold and silver jewelry, Fulu Suxi, promotion and fortune and glory of ancestors, which were the names he prepared for his grandchildren, obviously, Chen Yuehe and Chen Yueya were not included, and Chen Yuezhu and Chen Yuedie were also included, and the reason why Chen Yuezhu could be among them was because the fortune teller said that she was destined to bring money, so Chen Laohan made an exception to give her the word "pearl".
Without much thought, the child's name was decided, Chen Yuefu.
Except for Liu Laohan and Chen Wang, everyone else was not very happy, who let Chen Yuefu come out to make trouble when the autumn harvest was busy. Even if it was his first son, Chen Shenghua didn't care much, he just thought about whether Liang Maohua would be even more unhappy to come back because of this. gave birth to a son, Huang Hongmei was not very happy, she would rather be a girl, so that she could leave without hesitation, but it turned out to be a son......
Huang Hongmei swayed between going and not leaving, stroking her little monkey-like son, maternal love was supreme, she couldn't bear to leave in the end, and she still had a trace of extravagant hope in her heart, Chen Yuehe and Chen Yueya are Fu'er's sisters, no matter how many conflicts between adults are, Fu'er is innocent, they may recognize Fu'er, just like they recognize their sister-in-law......
The next day, the news of the Chen family's Tianding spread, but the Chen family did not send red eggs, so everyone congratulated each other face-to-face.
The contradiction between Huang Hongmei and Chen Wang's family is big, even with Chen Yuefu, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has not eased. Huang Hongmei in the confinement didn't even have a person to take care of, as for the chicken that replenished the body, hehe, there were no eggs, let alone the chicken, in the end, Chen Shengli learned that she had added a little nephew, and brought twenty eggs and half a catty of brown sugar over, so she was able to replenish some vitality.
Huang Hongmei took Chen Shengli as a life-saving straw, and Pear Blossom cried about her situation with rain, and said that it didn't matter what she was, but the child was innocent......
Chen Shengli is already charitable, and she herself is about to give birth, so she empathizes, and she especially cherishes her little nephew, and she has tears in her eyes for a while. Huang Hongmei saw the opportunity, struck while the iron was hot, and talked about the constant sister-brother relationship between Chen Yuehe and Chen Yueya and Chen Yuefu......
Chen Shengli was moved by the words and agreed to help with the item. Fortunately, she now thinks Hu Yang as the sky, and when she comes home, she will talk about it like this.
Hu Yang sighed secretly, his daughter-in-law is too kind-hearted and easy to be used as a gun. He didn't say much, just asked Chen Shengli to think more about how Liang Maohua came over after two confinements...... Chen Shengli's face turned white, but he couldn't raise the heart to go to the West Bank to talk about Xiang.
When Liang Mao peanut Chen Crescent, Chen Shengli was seven years old and remembered.
At that time, after Liang Maohua gave birth, she couldn't even sit in confinement, so she had to work in the field, and she injured her body because of this, and she couldn't get pregnant again.
Huang Hongmei cried that she couldn't eat well, the milk was not abundant, and her son Chen Yuefu could only drink rice soup to make up the numbers, but Chen Yueya never drank even a drop of breast milk, because Liang Hongmei had no milk.
Hu Yang couldn't bear to be sad about his daughter-in-law, and said that she could mention two sentences, but not more. Chen Shengli was still thinking about the original thing in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, but he just nodded sullenly, but he didn't know that when he saw Ya'er, he couldn't open this mouth. (To be continued.) )