Chapter 14 Names of Towns

The two of them sat on a slow ox cart, and the speed was comparable to the speed of a turtle.

As Lao Niu moved forward slowly, he met many enthusiastic villagers on the way, and Lin Zimo greeted them one by one.

and introduced them to Su Xi one by one, so that along the way, Su Xi called countless uncles and aunts, but none of them were right.

From the time he went out to the present, because Lin Zimo was greeting people he knew along the way, everyone chatted a few words, and walked for almost half an hour before leaving the village.

As soon as he got out of the village, Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief, it was really these villagers who were too enthusiastic, and the last time they met by the river, they had completely different attitudes, could it be because of the difference in people?

I really didn't expect that Lin Zimo's popularity in the village would be so good, and I didn't usually see anyone coming to the house?

I didn't expect the man in front of me to be so talkative, and everyone who greeted him could chat so patiently.

Obviously rushing to the town, but still patiently answering their questions, treating everyone with the same attitude, is this the way to communicate with these simple villagers?

Su Xi looked at the man in front of him who was concentrating on driving the ox cart, thinking wildly.

Lin Zimo found that Su Xi was staring at him, and in addition to doubts and incomprehension, there was also a trace of worry in his eyes.

I knew that she was worried that if she went late, the venison would not be sold.

"Lady, don't worry, I've been growing up since I was a child, and if I drive an ox cart, I'll be in town in about half an hour, and these venisons can be sold, and I've already told the shopkeeper of the restaurant before, if we go over now, these venisons just come and let them use them to get those ordered meals, and they won't be able to do anything." Lin Zimo explained.

"Who cares if you sell these things or not, I just wonder why you can drive the ox cart so fast, why did you walk so slowly in the village just now." Su Xi turned his head to the side and asked casually.

"Lady, you don't often go out, I don't know, there are often some children in the village who will play on the road, if you don't hurry slowly, when the time comes, if suddenly a child runs to the road to play, it may not be too late to control the ox cart, then it is very likely to hurt them, so I drove the car slowly." Lin Zimo said seriously to Su Xi.

"So why do you treat everyone the same way all the time? Don't tell me they're all the same for you, there's always going to be a difference, right? Su Xi casually took out the fruit that had just been given by a lady in the village from the basket and threw it up and down to play.

Lin Zimo looked back at Su Xi, and when he saw that she glanced at him inadvertently, he quickly turned his head to the side, feeling that she was more real like this, unlike her a month ago, she always didn't feel like a person here, and now she occasionally inadvertently revealed some true temperament, which became more real and fascinated him.

So, he smiled: "It's different, but when I was a child, my father didn't care what the people in the village treated him, he had the same attitude, and after so many years, I also remembered what attitude to treat them, not to mention, at the beginning, my parents were seriously ill one after another, and the people in the village helped a lot, and those who had money borrowed money, and those who didn't have money often sent their own dishes to us, so this is what they should do." ”

"Oh." Feeling that Lin Zimo didn't seem to want to continue, Su Xi didn't continue.

Looking at the woods passing by, Su Xi changed his position a little uncomfortably.

After sitting in the ox cart for nearly an hour, this body should be pampered, and this wooden board is hard, and I have long felt uncomfortable and want to vomit.

Seeing that Lin Zimo was sitting in the same posture as when he first got into the car, sitting straight, Su Xi was embarrassed to bring it up.

Lin Zimo saw that Su Xi couldn't sit still, and knew that this was her first time doing an ox cart, and her body couldn't stand it, so she slowed down the speed of the car a little more.

"Lady, there are about three miles or so away, let's sit for a quarter of an hour, you bear with it a little, if you really can't stand it, it's okay if we stop and rest for a while before leaving." Lin Zimo recovered his turtle speed in the village and said to Su Xi.

"It's okay, you hurry up, let's get rid of the things as soon as possible, this meat is too fishy, and I feel uncomfortable with the smoke." Su Xi's tone was not like just now, and he became weak.

Lin Zimo was a little anxious when he saw Su Xi's uncomfortable appearance, but fortunately, the town was almost there, so he accelerated the speed of the ox cart.

After a while, I saw the stone tablet in the distance, on which were written the three big characters of Taoyuan Town.

Seeing this stele, Su Xi knew that the original name of this town was actually called Taoyuan Town, if it was said that it had nothing to do with Taoyuan Village, she would not believe it.

Then I asked Lin Zimo about the origin of Taoyuan Town, and I knew that it was indeed related to Taoyuan Village.

In fact, Taoyuan Town was not originally called Taoyuan Town, but Song Yuan Town.

It is said that many years ago, Taoyuan Town was still a nameless town at that time, and it was a barren land, and there were few people, because the land was not cultivated, and there was wasteland everywhere.

One day, the new county magistrate, Song Yuan, came here to take up his post.

Song County Ling looked at this wasted town, although the land is fertile, but because there is no one to cultivate, it can only be wasted.

The good upper ground gradually becomes the inferior land as time grows.

Song County Ling couldn't bear it, so he took the county government and other literati to run to farm when they had nothing to do.

But this crop work is really hard work, how can a literati in Song County, who has no power to tie the chicken, do such hard work?

So, Song County Ling thought that it would not be enough to rely on a few of them literati alone, not to mention that they could not cure the symptoms but not the root cause, or they could not even treat the standards.

The top priority now is that there are too few people in the town, there is no one, how can this land be cultivated?

After thinking about it for more than ten days, Song Xianling thought that he had found a way to attract people here, and that was to develop this place into a prosperous place.

You know, this town happens to be between three continents, and if you make good use of it, it's not just a transportation hub.

It is located in the middle of the three continents, the southeast is Qingyan City of Qingzhou, where is the economic center of the entire Qingzhou, if it can be connected with Qingyan City, this economy and trade is still worried?

If this town becomes rich, are you afraid that no one will come?

What's more, in addition to Qingzhou in the southeast, there is also Yuzhou in the southwest, where Jincheng, which is rich in cloth, is only more than 100 miles away from here. As for Hu Zhou in the north, it is ruled by the Hu people, so don't think about fighting this place for now.

So after Song County Ling discussed with his master, he organized a team of people to do this reselling work, not to mention, this work is indeed profitable.

It took a year to lay the foundation for the Song County Order, and the county government set up these two specialty shops in this town, and gradually, the reputation went out, and more people began to come to the town.

But the people who come and go are businessmen, and there is still no one to cultivate this land!

Just when Song County Ling was worried, he saw that the three-year term of office had passed halfway, but the economy was up, but their Qingguo was an agriculture-based country, and no one cultivated this land, so his political performance could not go up, and his political performance would mean that he would stay in this position without changing, which made him full of ambition how good?

However, God still treats him well.

Heavy rains and floods broke out in Yuzhou, leaving hundreds of people homeless and displaced, so many people fled to this place, coinciding with the country's new policy, which can be tax-exempt within five years.

As a result, the Song County Order, which was in operation at the time, opened the door of the town, accepted countless displaced people, helped them rebuild their homes here, and avoided many people from starving to death, which also added to his political achievements.

So when the three-year term came, he was promoted to the prefect and went away, and the people here called the town Song and Yuan Town in order to commemorate his merits.

After more than ten years, a big official suddenly came to the town, and I heard that Taoyuan Village here suddenly gave birth to a son in one day.

So after more than ten years of marriage, he still has nothing to come out, so he came here, hoping to have a descendant to pass on.

But how could the people of Taoyuan Town let outsiders set foot in their 'holy land'? This is at stake in the fate of their entire village!

Although there is no way to verify whether the 'holy land' is true or not, it is better to believe that the rest are not credible, and they can't let people enter this place anyway.

But this big official can't afford to offend, although I don't know how big an official it is, but he can definitely control their life and death.

So the village chief at that time proposed to the big official that he let the big official live in this Taoyuan Village for a while to see if he could get pregnant, because they had lived here for generations, and they didn't know what was special about this Taoyuan Village, so they wanted the big official to feel it here and see it for himself.

Fortunately, the big official begged for a son, and he had no children, and his wife didn't know how many tears to leave.

So, in order to show their piety, they settled here.

It's strange to say that they have not come out for many years, and they became pregnant after living here for a month, and in order to ensure that they can give birth to this hard-won child smoothly, they lived in this Taoyuan Village until they gave birth, and finally became a man in one fell swoop.

So the happy official asked the villagers what the reward was, but the village chief at that time refused in order to protect the village, and only asked the official to ask him not to spread the matter, just because he did not want to disturb the peaceful life of the villagers.

The official agreed, and finally gave the three words Taoyuan Town, and changed the name of the town of Song and Yuan Town, originally the town people did not agree, but at that time the identity of the official was finally clear, and he was the only hereditary prince who followed His Majesty to conquer the world and was crowned, which can be said to be under one person, above ten thousand people, who dares to disobey his order.

So, the three words of Taoyuan Town were decided, and it is said that the three words on the stele in front of the town entrance were the words he personally mentioned.

Su Xi didn't ask Lin Zimo how he knew so clearly, he just listened to this as a story.

Story, who knows if it's true or not?