Chapter 203: Building the Mountain Road
This year is a festive harvest year for the Tian family, Aunt Tian and Aunt Tian returned to the Tian family early with their children. Xia Zhi was impatient to entertain these people he didn't know, and he didn't plan to go out after sending Aunt Tian and Aunt Tian away. But they obviously didn't want to let go of the summer solstice so simply, and they asked to meet the lord of Fuxiang County.
There was really no way, Xia Zhi had no choice but to lead Tian Lichun and them to Niangniang Town, not to say that it was just to hide from those people. Xia Zhi had plans to take Xu Ming to the Tian family for the festival earlier, but now that the Tian family is coming and going, Xu Ming is reluctant to go over because of the trouble. Xia Zhi can also understand, so she took this time to accompany Xu Ming, and in the past few years, both Mrs. County and Ma Shang have taken care of the Tian family, Tian Lichun and their children give New Year's greetings to Ma Shang and Mrs. County Ling on the one hand, and expressing gratitude on the other.
In the first month, Xu Ming's hospital didn't even have a fly, and the summer solstice dragged him hard, so Xu Ming moved to Xiuzhuang and lived with them.
Boss Tian and Tian Lao Si completed Li's instructions, and not only added four maids, four Xiao Si, and a janitor Yang old man, and a Yang mother-in-law who cooks rice. As for the inconvenience of female relatives at the end of the summer solstice, it cannot be solved by taking up time. The Tian family has newly added a population, and the yard built before is a little crowded, and the Li family means that it will be built on the original basis after the New Year, and the current house is being renovated.
Speaking of which, although the Dawu Dynasty explicitly prohibited the abduction and trafficking of women, girls and children, it also did not prohibit regular people from engaging in human trafficking. Due to the lack of abundant products in the Wu Dynasty, the population base was not large. From time to time, people starved to death on the streets. The imperial court in order to save the lives of the people. Increasing the number of people does not prohibit human trafficking, at least the poor can have something to eat through it.
Although in the past two years, because of sweet potatoes and double-cropping rice, most people do not say that they are full, so they will not starve to death on the streets, and there are fewer people who sell their children and daughters, but there are still many people who sell their children and daughters for various reasons in life. It was when there were a lot of people in Renyazi's hands, so when they went to Niangniang Town and Renyazi to talk about the situation at home, a bunch of people came out almost immediately for Tian Laosi and Tian Laoda to choose.
For these things, what do Tian Laosi and Tian Laosi and these honest farmers know, although they pity these people, but they can't all go back, besides, Tian Laosi and Tian Laosi are not brainless people, if this person is good, buy it back.
If there is a person with bad intentions, the house will be disturbed. I don't know what the result of the heavy one is. So in the end, the two brothers had to ask Mrs. County Ling for help, which was another reason why the Li family sent them over on the summer solstice. Because the Tian family has not had the opportunity to express their gratitude for the New Year, this time they let their children hide and come to the New Year, and they also thanked Mrs. Yixian Ling.
So this time they came out on the summer solstice and brought two maids and two Xiaosi, these maids and Xiaosi were all sold by their parents who signed a death deed, which means that if the master is not gracious in this life, he can only be a subordinate for a lifetime. Following the summer solstice, they came out with a maid named Xiaoyu, twelve years old; One is named Xiaoxue, thirteen years old.
One of the two Xiao Si is named Ah Dong, fourteen years old; An Arvin, fifteen years old. Originally, Ah Dong and Ah Wen planned to go back when they sent them to Niangniang Town, after all, they couldn't stay with them for a long time on the summer solstice. But now that Xu Ming has moved in, Xia Zhi asked them to stay and take care of Xu Ming temporarily.
And for the county lady's vision of the summer solstice is still very admired, the four maids in addition to Xiaoyu and Xiaoxue, as well as chrysanthemums and plum blossoms, both of them are fifteen years old, honest and steady without crooked thoughts, not to mention, but also once worked as a maid in everyone, quite sophisticated, the Tian family is in need of such a person.
In addition to Ah Dong and Ah Wen, there are also Ah Shu and Ah Tie, these two people are slightly older, both about twenty years old, but they are unstable in their work, and at the beginning of the summer solstice, they still wanted to train Tian Lidong to become the big housekeeper of the Tian family, but they didn't expect him to join the military camp and follow Zheng Sheng, and now that they have seen the two of them, they don't know the intention of the county lady to help them choose these two.
On this trip, the Li family left the steady chrysanthemums and plum blossoms, Ah Shu and Ah Tie to help the family, and let Xiaoyu and Xiaoxue take care of a few girls.
On the first day of the summer solstice in Niangniang Town, he pulled Xu Ming over, and then sent Xiaoyu to tell Mrs. County Ling about the next day's visit.
When Xia Zhi came back from Mrs. County Ling with a large army in the afternoon of the next day, he dragged Xu Ming into the study prepared for Zhao Tian and Zhao Yang, and Xiao Xue followed her and shouted such discord with the rules, but Xia Zhi didn't care at all, and only ordered her to guard outside the door, no matter who came over, she must report to her.
"Grandpa, what do you think this is?" Although Xia Zhi wrote a letter to ask Lin Yunlei to pick her up to the barracks, she always felt like a mountain in her heart with corn in her arms in the past few days, she didn't vomit or feel unhappy, she always felt uneasy if she didn't understand the situation clearly, she needed a reassuring pill.
Xu Ming saw that Xia Solstice mysteriously escaped a small cloth bag from his arms and put it on the table, thinking that she had found some novel and good medicinal materials, he was looking forward to it, and opened the cloth bag nervously, but he looked at it a lot, but it was something he didn't know, and subconsciously raised his head and asked Xia Solstice.
"What kind of herb is this?"
As a result, because he couldn't behave too rudely at Mrs. County Order, Xia Zhi, who didn't drink water in the morning, squirted out the tea that had just been put in his mouth like this, fortunately, Xu Mingli was far away, and there was no one in front of Xia Zhi, but he had to be whispered a few words by Xu Ming.
Xia Zhi looked at Xu Mingdao stunned with a teacup, "Who told you that this is a medicinal herb!" This voice was a little angry, but after saying this, Xia Zhi immediately suppressed his voice and whispered, "This was given by the one who issued the decree that day, saying that I should plant it well." In order to prevent the news from leaking, I didn't even say anything to my family, and I had already written to Lin Yunlei and asked him to take me to the barracks to plant these things, presumably it should be safer and safer than Tianjia Village. It's just that I don't know the bottom of my heart. Don't know what to do? The latter words, Xia Zhi said helpless and helpless.
However, Xu Ming was confused by Xia Zhi's words. Xia Zhi was named the county lord, and it was Li Degui who issued the decree, and he naturally knew about it. He also knows very well what Li Degui is doing and what he represents, and 'the one who gave the decree that day gave it' doesn't mean that it was given today. Thinking of this, he hurriedly opened the cloth bag and dumped the contents on the palm of his upper left hand, intending to see what it was. But no matter how he looks at it, if he doesn't know it, he doesn't know it, and he doesn't know it. I haven't even seen it.
"What is this?" Xu Ming was holding the corn in his hand, with an inexplicable expression.
"This thing is called corn, I once saw its record in a parade miscellaneous, if that miscellaneous book is not wrong, it can be eaten as food, and the yield is high, but it should not be my species, I don't know how that person got this kind of thing!" Xia Zhi didn't know if Jin Shang knew what this thing was, but she didn't want to hide it from Xu Ming, so she could only talk nonsense.
"You said this was given to you by the one up there?" Xu Ming did not doubt Xia Zhi's statement. As early as several decades ago, the Wu Dynasty had trade with overseas. It's also normal in some travelogues.
"Well, I was stuffed when I was looking at the embroidery, and even my grandfather didn't know it!" Li Degui praised the Xia Solstice embroidery for being good, and took away the Guanyin embroidery embroidered by the Xia Solstice to the county lady, Xu Ming naturally knew. For the second day of the summer solstice, I went to the county government and the county lady to make amends, and promised to embroider another Guanyin embroidery for her. Fortunately, Mrs. County Ling is not a person with a small belly, and she also understands the situation of Xia Zhi at that time, and when she saw that she promised to embroider another one for her, she happily sent Xia Zhi out of the door.
Xu Ming thought about it, I am afraid that today's intention is not to let anyone know about this matter, I am afraid that the fight is also the same attention as cotton, and I want to wait for the summer solstice to be planted before announcing it to the outside. It's just that this time the matter seems to be more hidden than cotton, if Xia Solstice doesn't say it, he doesn't know about it at all, and they are all kept in the dark when they come to Lin Yuntian. Xu Ming's first reaction was, didn't he believe Lin Yuntian and them today?
Later, after thinking about it carefully, I felt that this was less likely, and if they didn't hand over this matter to Lin Yuntian today, they might have other considerations, and then heard Xia Zhi say that this kind of son was from overseas, Xu Ming knew a little in his heart.
Although the Wu Dynasty did not prohibit trade with overseas, it did not welcome overseas people to stop and stay in the Wu Dynasty, the people of the Wu Dynasty have always been xenophobic, and they are not very friendly to non-natives, especially the war that occurred in the Wu Dynasty decades ago was said to be caused by overseas spies, and the common people were even more displeased with the overseas merchants.
Although the emperor of the Wu Dynasty was forced to close the overseas trade for some reason and allowed the merchants of the Wu Dynasty to trade overseas, he did not know what method was used, so that the overseas merchants not only did not sell their things in this dynasty, but were gradually squeezed out, and slowly there were no merchants to the Great Wu Dynasty.
Although overseas countries did not discriminate against the merchants of the Wu Dynasty in the past, nor did they restrict their movements, they did not let them know about some things about the lifeblood of the country, especially about crops. For this, the arrogant Wu Dynasty people were not angry in their hearts, but they also disdained it.
It is conceivable that this time, the right prime minister faction took a lot of effort to get this corn seed, but they didn't expect that it would be exploited by Jinshang a little bit in the middle, and there would be not much left.
When it comes to overseas trade, it's no wonder Imagami is so careful, you must know that some people have long proposed to let overseas businessmen do business in Dawu, but Igami has not expressed his stance for a long time, and this matter has also been grasped tightly by the right minister's faction. Although the summer solstice used an excuse to find sweet potatoes overseas, but the thing was found in Dawu in the end, and those old things can't use it as an excuse.
"It's okay, if you let you plant, you can plant well!" After thinking about it, Xu Ming handed the small cloth bag back to Xia Zhi and said easily, "But this matter, except for talking to the general, don't talk about it!" "If you can Xu Ming, you want Xia Solstice not to say anything, but if Xia Solstice goes to the barracks where to plant corn, you have to tell them.
Hearing these words, Xia Zhi was obviously relieved. Hey, I didn't expect that planting corn here not only requires labor, but also labor, and I think she is the most tired farmer she has ever had. She was afraid that if she accidentally destroyed not only the Tian family, but also Lin Yunlei and them would be affected by her, then she should really be cut by a thousand knives.
With Xu Ming's words, Xia Zhi's mood was much better. Xia Zhi took Tian Lichun and they stayed until the fourteenth day of the first month, and they saw that it was about to pass fifteen, so they were urged home by Xiaoyu and Xiaoxue, but when they left, Xia Zhi did not forget to pull Xu Ming back to Tianjia Village and spend fifteen with them.
With the addition of people to the family, the Li and Zheng families are also much easier. After the fifteenth day easily, everyone got busy with their duties.
Xia Zhi pondered the ten-mile mountain, saying that she got the title deed of the mountain for more than a year, she was ambitious before, and wanted to make enough money to be able to buy this mountain, but she never thought about what to do with it, only knew that there should be a lot of things on the mountain.
But now Xia Zhi doesn't want to do anything, she just wants to bear the brunt of repairing the mountain and building a road to Zhaojia Village. She wants to build a mountain road to come out, so that it is more convenient for people on the other side of the mountain to go to the town every time, and they don't have to spend a day and a night to enter the city.
Just do it, Xia Zhi found Tian Laosi, and then pulled a few young people in the village and entered the mountain. Xu Ming didn't leave after the fifteenth year, and when he heard about the idea of the summer solstice, and the fact that they were going to enter the mountain, he had to follow it, and the summer solstice had no choice but to respond.
The idea of the summer solstice is good, but how huge the Shili Mountain is, how difficult it is to build a road from it, Zheng and Li saw that she was determined, on the one hand, they felt proud at the same time, but they couldn't stop worrying in their hearts, there were people who died in the mountain, maybe what they would encounter when they went in the summer solstice, how to make them not only hearted.
At the foot of the mountain farewell to the Tian family and the village chief, Tian Laosi led a group of people into the mountain, because the New Year has just begun, there is snow in some places in the mountain, in fact, the summer solstice plan is just to try to see if you can cross the ten miles of mountain, to the other side of the road Zhaojia Village, if there is no big obstacle, then she will find someone to clean up the mountain road, for people to walk, if it is really impossible to do, then she has no way, here is not modern no public tools for her to use, she can not break a larger rock. (To be continued......)