Chapter Seventy-Three

The woman looked low-browed, without a trace of arrogance, I am afraid that she had endured a lot of hardships in the palace over the years, and she had become so cautious everywhere.

Now, after being rescued from the palace, although she can't appear in front of others blatantly, at least she has a son to rely on, so there is a little more brilliance in her eyes.

When Tang Xiaoshi saw "mother-in-law", she was stunned for a moment, she opened her mouth, and she didn't know what to call it.

Call mother-in-law? Tang Xiaoshi and Chu Ming have the name of husband and wife, but they are not husband and wife, she really can't say it.

Calling it aunt or something else seems too much.

It's a tough thing to handle.

The woman also seemed to see Tang Xiaoshi's embarrassment, and said with a smile: "You are Xiaoshi, right?" Ming'er has already told me about the agreement between you, and before you accept Ming'er, you can call me Aunt Huan. ”

Aunt Huan carefully looked at Tang Xiaoshi's appearance, and the more she looked at it, the more she liked it, knowing that it was Tang Xiaoshi who managed to save her from the palace, and she was still a little grateful.

"Aunt Huan is good."

"Uncle Fu, you wait for me outside, I have some private things to say to Xiaoshi."

Uncle Fu went out in response.

"I came here today, first, to thank you for taking me out of the palace, no matter whether you accept Ming'er's feelings for you in the future, I will be grateful to you for pulling me out of the sea of suffering, otherwise I don't know when I will be able to return to my child."

"The second is ......" Aunt Huan wanted to say, but she stopped talking, reflexively closed the door and closed the window, what she had encountered in the palace over the years made her have to be more vigilant, "The second is that Ming'er told me that you are dealing with your stepmother Zhao, presumably this will be useful to you." ”

Aunt Huan pulled out a yellowed letter from her cuff, which had been torn into several pieces, but it was put together again.

Tang Xiaoshi saw the inscription in the lower left corner of the letter at a glance, it was Zhao.

After a cursory glance at the contents of the letter, Tang Xiaoshi was surprised, it turned out that Zhao's hand had reached so far, not only by virtue of Tang Huairen's identity as Prime Minister Tang Huairen, but now she even intervened in the draft in the harem.

On the letter, from the concubines around the emperor to the princesses of each prince, what position to go to, and which marquis to marry, the price was clearly marked and clearly written.

The harem is also a world, and the wife of a prime minister of the Zhao family does not have the ability to buy and sell concubines in the harem, so she must have a partner.

The recipient is her accomplice, and it must be one of the most ruthless characters in the harem.

Tang Xiaoshi looked at Aunt Huan and asked, "If you want to confirm this letter, you still need to find the recipient, Aunt Huan, where did this letter come from?" ”

"I have to clean the Deqing Palace every day in the palace, and there is a library in the palace, and I found this residual letter in a collection of poems when I was cleaning the dust of the books. Supposedly, such an important letter would have been destroyed, but for some reason it ended up in the poetry collection of the Library Library. Aunt Huan replied.

Tang Xiaoshi asked again: "Which concubine lives in Deqing Palace?" ”

"Deqing Palace lives in the Qing Concubine." Aunt Huan replied, "But the library in the palace is public, and all the concubines in the harem can borrow books there." ”

"Isn't there a record of the borrowing of books?"

"Of course, this one exists, but the book is in the collection, and I haven't had a chance to consult it yet."

Tang Xiaoshi felt a little regretful, now that she has not inserted a spy in the palace, it may not be easy to investigate this matter to the bottom of it.

The Zhao family is different from Tang Huaiyi in Yangzhou City, she is deep-rooted and deeply involved, and it is impossible to rely on the poisonous fang □□ force alone.

Tang Xiaoshi sometimes thinks that in an era, sometimes we have to use the methods of this era to solve problems. For example, in this feudal era, there is no need for real evidence, and the powerful can use his power to decide a person's life and death, and all suspicions and suspicions will become his reasons.

Therefore, even if you can't fully verify the letter in your hand, as long as you can use it well, it is "evidence".

After finishing business, Aunt Huan took her leave.

This was unexpected by Tang Xiaoshi, Tang Xiaoshi thought that she was asked by Chu Ming to say good things. Fortunately, no, otherwise Tang Xiaoshi would look down on Chu Ming for this.

The Zhao family's affairs are in a hurry, at least they have to wait for the eagle slave to rush to Chang'an and send the "big gift" prepared by Tang Xiaoshi to the Zhao family, and then start at that time, I believe this scene will be more exciting.

The most important thing at the moment is the matter of the displaced people.

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Under the lights, Tang Xiaoshi used a homemade simple charcoal pen to concentrate on outlining the lines of the painting.

There are also triangle boards, compasses and other drawing tools on the table, which are all made by Tang Xiaoshi herself, and she has not yet used the drawing tools of the Chu Dynasty, including the brush that she has learned for a long time.

The lights at night are dim, the light is insufficient, and when drawing some thin lines, it is very eye-consuming, Tang Xiaoshi has been painting for more than two hours, and his eyes are a little unbearable.

But she still has a few drawings missing, and the time cannot be delayed any longer, and the composition of the equipment used for cultivation must be drawn tonight, and if it is delayed any longer, when the displaced people finish developing the dry land, the time for cultivation will be missed.

In fact, even if Tang Xiaoshi crosses, even if she is an agent, it does not mean that she is omnipotent, she studied medicine in college, not engineering, not mechanical design.

So it was very difficult for her to design a set of farming tools.

But she had to design it. Because she could not count on the farming tools of the Chu Dynasty - hoes, not even decent iron catalpa, and the mechanization of this era was still at the lowest level.

Tang Xiaoshi couldn't expect the homeless people to be able to plough the dry land in a short time with a hoe alone, and the amount of work was too large. The dry land has been dry for many years, and it is much harder than other cultivated land.

The second is the water supply system, she once bet in front of Ge Liuyuan that she can lead the water of the West River up, this is not a joke, but she really wants to make "the water flow high".

In the twenty-first century, this is simply effortless, with electricity, gasoline, and pumping machines...... A qiē will be caught by hand; But here, there is no energy, no automated machinery, Tang Xiaoshi can only use the power of nature as much as possible.

When the sky was bright, Tang Xiaoshi stretched her waist, and there were three stacks of drawings stacked in front of her, which were all her hard work.

A stack of farming tools, plows, turbines, and so on.

One stack is a water lifting system, which uses water energy to lift the water of the West River upwards.

A stack is an irrigation system, and the water that is brought up is not easy to come by, and every bit of it has to be irrigated.

Tang Xiaoshi believes that as long as these three things can really be made, that dry land will definitely become a good cultivated land for a bumper harvest every year.