Xu Hui and Xu Heng are not people who have never seen the world, so they naturally know what kind of real luxury is - using pearl grinding powder, pounding silk as pulp, melting gold and silver as lacquer, and inlaying white jade as steps...... It's hard to explain all this. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This kind of poor and extravagant people, who often wash pots with sugar water and use candles as firewood, are not only numerous, but many of them. Not to mention anything else, just talking about Dou Kai in the north of Shangdang County, Liang Jiao, Liang Kui, and Liang Dou in the south, they are all competing with the emperor for pleasure, sprinkling gold and silver jewelry all over the sky, smashing antique accessories, and taking money inappropriately. Compared with these people, Cui Lin's various styles can only be called pampered at best. But it's one thing to be a bystander, it's another thing to know that such a person is going to come from home.

The children of the Xu family of the Shangdang, regardless of their concubines, have been trained by the court, and they have been simple since they were young, and they will never be extravagant and wasteful. Hearing that his future wife spends money like flowing water, Xu Heng's displeasure is inevitable, not to mention that he will marry Cui Lin, even Xu Hui, who thinks of Cui Lin's glorious deeds, can't help but sigh again and again.

Even if the two of them knew that this marriage was to disrupt the political situation, and in the increasingly fierce political struggle that even affected the northland, the sacrifice they had to make to seek stability for their own development for a few years could not hide the sorrow in their hearts.

"I was depressed during this time as a Heng'er, because I had a heart, but because of my own responsibilities, I couldn't be with her, but I didn't expect it to be such a trivial matter." Just when the two brothers and sisters were silent, they saw Xu Pan striding in, not listening to the guilt in the corner, but waved his hand unusually heroically, looked at his nephew who looked at him as his own, and said loudly: "If the husband is standing in the world, if he can't even surrender to a mere woman, how can he make a contribution?" Instead of worrying...... Ahem, Hui'er, didn't the third uncle mean you! You're not a woman, no, no, no, you're not a woman, wait, it's not right......"

was gagged by him like this, the melancholy on Xu Heng's face disappeared, and Xu Hui took two steps forward, looked at Xu Pan with a smile, and asked with a little playfulness: "Third uncle, before you got married, did you toss and turn and couldn't sleep because you missed your beauty?" Otherwise, how could you think that your brother would go up to the top of his 'heart'? ”

When Xu Pan heard this, his face changed greatly, and he shook his head hurriedly: "Hui'er, you can't talk nonsense, if Wanniang hears it, my ears will suffer!" ”

"Hui'er-" Xu Heng stretched out his voice slightly, signaling his sister not to talk too much.

Xu Pan and his wife Lin Wan have a good relationship, which is famous in the entire Shangdang and even in the north, even if Lin Wan gave birth to four daughters in a row and injured her body, she may not be able to give birth to an heir, Xu Pan has no complaints. He acted like this, which made Lin Wan ashamed, and she sought medical advice everywhere, hoping to take care of her body and leave cigarettes for her husband. If Xu Hui's words were heard by Lin Wan, she would take them seriously...... Who knows what kind of turmoil will arise?

Xu Hui knew that he was in proportion, so he didn't say more, but changed the topic and asked: "If Hui'er remembers correctly, the third uncle coincides with Xiu Mu ...... today."

"Wanniang took Yuan'er and Shu'er to find her sister-in-law, saying that she wanted to learn how to draw patterns." Xu Pan spread his hands and said helplessly, "I stayed alone in the courtyard to practice martial arts, I was a little bored, and I saw that the weather was quite good today, so I came to you to hunt with me!" ”

Hearing the word "hunting", Xu Hui frowned slightly, and said with some disapproval: "Spring hunting, Xu will accidentally injure the young beast and the pregnant female beast, which will inevitably hurt the heavens and the earth." ”

Xu Hui has always disagreed with Daqi's argument that "insisting on hunting can maintain a martial style", and in her opinion, this kind of action can make some people who "have gained a lot" become extremely self-righteous, but also make people more bloodthirsty.

It is understandable that she has such an idea, after all, the so-called hunting of the nobles of the family is basically to enclose a place and throw a group of animals into it - most of them are deer, foxes, rabbits, roe deer, etc., which are relatively docile and do not hurt people very much.

Once these preparations were made, the clans would drive the hounds and chase the beasts to a very small extent. At this time, the children of the nobles with hunting bows will appear, even if the archery skills are not good, it doesn't matter - in a small area, an arrow will shoot slowly, no matter how bad the archery skills are, there will always be a time to hit, right?

For this kind of "hunting", Xu Hui is not even interested in watching it, let alone being deceived by the so-called "war record" like many noble women, and discussing who is more heroic with a red face. Due to the popularity of the family, the so-called "hunting" left her with too deep a bad feeling, and as soon as she heard Xu Pan say that she wanted to hunt, Xu Hui subconsciously found a reason to refuse.

Xu Pan didn't know what Xu Hui really thought, and thought that she was like thousands of women, with a compassionate nature, pity the poor and the weak, so he shook his hand disapprovingly, and said: "In the past few years, the disaster and famine have been really fierce, and in the slightly short and shallow mountains, not to mention roe deer rabbits, even tigers, leopards and jackals, have been eaten alive by hungry homeless people with green eyes, for safety, it is not good to enter the deep mountains and old forests, even if I want to hunt, there is nothing for me to hunt." It's rare that last year it was just that the Yellow River burst its banks, Taiyuan County was not good, but the harvest of our party was not bad, the people could survive, and there were fewer displaced people pouring in...... Let's go out for a walk, don't deliberately drill into the woods, hunt when you see animals, and have the right to go green if there are no animals, what do you think? ”

His words were all about this, and Xu Hui couldn't refuse anymore, so he agreed conveniently.

Xu Heng was already depressed because his fiancée was too arrogant and extravagant, and he would not refuse Xu Pan's proposal. After agreeing, the three of them went back to the house to change their clothes, took the riding and archery equipment, and ordered someone to lead the horse over, and then ordered the accompanying parts, and left Xu's Dock Fort together.

It was March, and the warbler flew and the grass grew.

The three uncles and nephews who came out of Xu's Wubao raced a horse, and after expressing their depressed feelings, they didn't have too much to hurry, so they dismounted together, and ordered their followers to lead them, while they walked in front, pacing slowly, and saw many people in shabby clothes, but quite clean, busy in the countryside, or wiping the sweat on their heads with their sleeves, and walking from the trail to the direction of Changzi County with great anticipation.

Xu Hui stopped and stared at the people digging the canal for a moment, and then showed a knowing smile: "Although this scene can be seen in the disaster year, but when you see the same scene in the harvest year, the feeling is always different. ”

Xu Heng agreed with his sister's remarks, so he echoed: "The harvest is good, and the people have more smiles on their faces, even if there are many fewer people who work for relief, so that the speed of building the city wall and digging the canal has slowed down, it is also gratifying." ”

"It's just that no matter how good the harvest is, the land and harvest of our party are limited in the end." Thinking of the deserted land in the border counties, Xu Hui sneered at those high-ranking officials who only knew how to squeeze the blood and sweat of the people for pleasure and had no long-term vision.

So much wasteland, even if only 30% of it is reclaimed and only half of the grain is collected, it is enough to feed more people, get more troops, and have stronger combat power. It's just that these people only care about their immediate interests and do stupid things like killing chickens and eggs...... However, the more incompetent the enemy, the more advantageous it will be for them, and when they have occupied those places, it will be enough to give the people the tools and the ploughing oxen to use for farming. It's just that...... When it comes to farming, it is indispensable to talk about technology, and as soon as this is mentioned, Xu Hui's expression is a little gloomy: "It's a pity, even if my grandfather recruited many old farmers early on, promised them heavy profits, ordered them to study farming technology, and found many craftsmen to let them improve their farming tools, the progress is not very great." ”

Xu Pan has always been more open-minded, not as thoughtful as his nephews and nieces, and said with a smile when he heard the words: "Everything should be good, as long as you work hard, a drop of water can also wear stones, you can't develop it today, you can't improve it, and you may not be able to get it out in the future!" What's that? Yes, the blast furnace, which allows us to make coke from coal, instead of charcoal, is an object that makes iron and steel, from the broken drawings that my father found in ancient books, with only one idea, to the real realization of this technology, but it took more than 20 years! How many times, the veteran and skilled craftsmen shook their heads and sighed, saying that it was impossible, impossible, and my father must have remembered it wrong. If it weren't for the father's insistence that they wouldn't be mistaken, it was just that they didn't think of the most critical layer, so they felt that it was impossible, and they rewarded them again and again, and worked hard to the end...... Isn't it done? There is also the strange doctor surnamed Duan, whose father secretly gave him all the heinous criminals at the cost of his reputation, so that he could use them to test medicine. That guy has achieved nothing for many years, and he dares to cheekily ask his father to continue to ask for money and people to ask for medicinal materials, seeing his look of not being ashamed, but proud, several times, I want to smash his quack and make my father wake up. But now, what is the identity of people? The living dead, the great miracle doctor with white flesh and bones, his reputation spread throughout the Northland, and when the dignitaries saw him, in order to invite him out of the museum, they had to endure his strange temper and respectfully shout 'Doctor Duan'. ”

In the previous example, Xu Heng had no opinion, but when he heard Xu Pan mention the "Duan Divine Doctor", Xu Heng twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, and only said after a while: "If I remember correctly, this great divine doctor has been nesting in Changzi County, and he refuses to move half a step no matter who comes to invite him, he is obviously very self-aware, and knows that once he leaves our protection, with his temper, he will definitely die." ”

Seeing that the two of them were talking about the divine doctor Duan Fu, Xu Hui also made an interest: "Speaking of this great divine doctor, I just thought that he hadn't asked his grandfather about being a death row prisoner for a few days, and he didn't know what he was doing recently." Why don't we just take it and see him? ”

After that, Xu Hui smiled and said meaningfully: "By the way, ask if there is any medicine that can make some restless subordinates 'unadaptable', 'incurable for a long time', and no longer able to meddle in affairs." (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )