Chapter 106: Summer Solstice Strikes Back
"Ahem...... Hehe, who is this godfather? Why haven't you seen it? Seeing Xu Ming's helpless expression, Xia Zhi could only laugh twice in embarrassment, and then pretended to ask innocently. While asking in my heart, I have been scolding myself for being stupid, today this matter has always been mysterious, I obviously know that I am still stupid and stupidly bumping forward, you said when you were stupid, but now you are stupid, I didn't see the young man sitting on the main seat, Xu Ming sitting on the side, according to Xia Zhi's speculation about Xu Ming's identity, I'm afraid this person's identity is not simple.
And according to Ma Shang's attitude, I am afraid that he also knows the way, just now he obviously wanted to hold his own, but he didn't move as fast as himself. Xia Zhi raised his head again to look at the young man who seemed to be smiling, only to feel that he was stupid today.
"Come on, you're embarrassed little girl, what about the momentum before!" Xu Ming was very helpless, on the way here, he praised the summer solstice in the sky and on the earth, but he didn't expect that this usually mature, stable and intelligent little girl would give the little master such a unique opening mode. He had to wonder if his godgranddaughter had been dropped, why didn't he recklessly lift the curtain without waiting for anyone to get out of the car.
But on the other hand, Xu Ming thought of Xia Zhi's words just now, it is estimated that he has not seen him for so long, and he misses him a little, so when he saw his carriage, and because the little master sat on it, he didn't get out of the car for a while, and he didn't see others, the little girl was naturally worried, so she couldn't wait to lift the curtain.
"Okay, don't say anything, today we are accompanying your grandfather Ma to come to your house to dig sweet potatoes, didn't you tell us before that the yield of sweet potatoes per mu is as little as a few hundred catties, and as much as a thousand catties. Now we're just here to see if your little girl has anything to say. As for the one next to me. The surname is Lin Yunlei, you can call Brother Lin! He also came with us to see the sweet potatoes! β
It is said that early this morning, Marchand led the little master to his medical hall, which frightened him. However, although he was surprised that this little master was not staying at the northern border and running to this Niangniang Town, what was even more surprising was that the first thing this little master asked when he saw him was, "I heard that Uncle Xu accepted a well-behaved godgranddaughter?" βγ
At that time, he was frightened in a cold sweat, thinking that this young master had his hands and eyes all over the sky, and he even knew about the fact that he had taken in his granddaughter. Later, I pondered. I'm afraid it's not that the little master's hands and eyes are up to the sky, but that the traitor next to him told the little master everything around him.
And according to his understanding of Marchand, although he has not been a military attache over the years, he is still worried about the food and grass problem in the army. When he knew that the matter of the double-cropping rice and sweet potatoes of the Dao Tian family was definitely going to be reported, not to mention that these people were all placed in the four northern counties intentionally or unintentionally.
Now that a good opportunity can enrich the northern counties and solve the problem of food and grass for the border soldiers, the master must be very concerned, so he will send the little master down to inspect, presumably the master will not be able to leave.
"This must be Uncle Xu's goddaughter, I am the son of your grandfather's old friend. This is the first time we met, Brother Lin didn't have any greeting gifts for you, and it just so happened that I still had a few silver ingots in my money bag. I'll give it to you, take it and buy some candy to eat! β
Lin Yunlei said and took out a quick silver ingot from the money bag on his waist, and looked at the head to say that there were five taels.
The corners of Xia Zhi's mouth twitched, and she took five taels of silver to buy candy to eat, and people thought that her family was really rich and had nowhere to spend it, so she let her child take five taels of silver to buy candy to eat. I'm afraid she took it, and other people's small grocery stores don't have the money to open it.
What's more, whoever meets for the first time will give silver to the meeting gift, and after saying that you want to give a bigger one, you will give five taels. Grandpa Gan gave a good jade pendant, Grandpa Ma gave hundreds of acres of land, your old friend's son is not so demanding, but this is too low-grade. I have to say that this time the nature of the summer solstice is leaking out again.
Lin Yunlei looked at Xia Zhi's constantly changing face, while secretly muttering to himself why he was so naΓ―ve, from the time he saw the little girl rushing into the carriage and lifting the curtain, he wanted to tease the little girl, but he couldn't hold back just now, and took out five taels of silver to tease Xia Zhi.
In fact, Lin Yunlei not only learned about the Tian family from Ma Shang, Xianglou is also his industry, the shopkeeper has already written to him about the Tian family's planting of out-of-season vegetables, he came not only for sweet potatoes, but mainly to inspect his industry in the four counties, and now Niangniang Town is his last stop, and then he will return to the border.
Speaking of Lin Yunlei's life experience, in fact, he is the youngest son of the former General Zhenbei, the younger brother of the current General Zhenbei, and now he is seventeen years old, his parents died early, leaving only the eldest brother Lin Yuntian as a relative. In peacetime, one of the two brothers manages the affairs of the army and the other manages the grain and grass in the army, but the north is in peace, and the food and grass in the army are insufficient and the expenses are large, so Lin Yunlei bought some private property and had to subsidize the expenses in the army from time to time.
I have earned a lot of silver, but there is a lot of silver, and there is no way to produce less grain in the north, which is a typical money that cannot be spent. Transported from the south, the road is far and difficult to walk, and it takes a long time, and although the south is better than the north, where is the overall situation of the Wu Dynasty, at most, it is not worrying about food and clothing, as for how much surplus grain Lin Yunlei does not say very clearly, but it is not far from ten, so every time he sends someone to the south to sell grain and transport grain, it is very difficult.
His eldest brother Lin Yuntian received a letter from Ma Shang, and was very happy when he heard about double-cropping rice and sweet potatoes, and then there was a waterwheel, and he felt that the problem that had plagued the army for so many years was finally going to be solved, and at the same time he was also curious about the Tian family, this small farmer actually had such a great ability, not only could grow double-cropping rice, but also recognized overseas sweet potatoes, and even stepped on the water wheel to design.
Originally, his eldest brother planned to come in person, but there were many affairs in the army, and he couldn't get away, and he happened to meet Lin Yunlei to inspect the industries in various places, so Lin Yuntian asked him to go to Niangniang Town, if the situation is true, he will go to the imperial court, and when the time comes, these will be promoted, not afraid of no food harvest, and it can be regarded as benefiting the people.
Ten days ago, his eldest brother sent a letter to Marchand, just because he was delayed a little when he was checking other properties, and he arrived in Niangniang Town this morning, so he rushed to Tianjia Village non-stop, if you look closely, you can still see a little blue under the corners of his eyes, obviously lack of sleep.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that the Tian family's double-cropping rice, sweet potatoes, waterwheels, out-of-season vegetables and fish in winter were all thought up by such a little girl. And he heard from Ma Shang that this little girl was not only that, but also helped Xu Ming find a lot of medicinal materials, and even asked Xu Ming to accept her as his goddaughter.
On the way here, he had been listening to Xu Ming talk about how smart Xia Zhi was, but the real person still surprised him, it turned out to be an eight or nine-year-old child. If Lin Yunlei knew that Xia Zhi was just an eight- or nine-year-old child, and his actual age was only seven years old, he still didn't know what Lu Dao would be surprised about.
Lin Yunlei thought a lot here, and Xia Zhi was not polite over there, and took the five taels of silver handed out by Lin Yunlei, Xu Ming and Ma Shang frowned when Xia Zhi saw this action, this little master was obviously a transfer, but I didn't expect this girl to dare to take it.
Over there, the summer solstice turned out to be five taels of silver but said: "Brother Xie Lu Xie Lin, I love sugar the most, not only I love sugar, but my sisters, sisters and brothers in my family also love sugar very much, if they know that Brother Lu Daolin gave me five taels of silver to buy candy to eat, I don't know how Lu Dao will envy me" Xia Zhi pretended to say, and patted himself on the head after speaking,
"Look at me, I forgot, Brother Lin must not be a stingy person, this meeting gift must be shared by everyone, if they know Lu Dao, they will definitely be very happy, I know that Lu Dao meeting gifts are given when people arrive, but I still have to thank Brother Lu Xie Lin on their behalf!"
Since you gave me five taels of silver as a meeting gift, then you should also give five taels of silver to other children, I have said so, and I have thanked them here on behalf of them, see if you give it or not, let you come up and tease the child, the child is not so fun.
"Huh!" Lin Yunlei didn't expect the little girl to say so, not only generously accepted his silver, but also begged for silver for his brothers and sisters in the family, but what she said was justified and justified so that he had to give out these silver, the key is that he didn't bring so many ingots of five taels of silver, you must know that the Daotian family still has nine children in addition to the summer solstice, where did he get nine five taels of silver, and there are more broken silver taels in the money bag, except for these, there are only some whole silver tickets, but since you give the summer solstice five taels of broken silver, then you have to treat everyone equally. Lin Yunlei was blocked for a while and had nothing to say.
A smile flashed in Xu Ming's eyes, and he knew that this little girl was not a loser, seeing that Lin Yunlei was now blocked and speechless, in fact, he was still very proud of Xia Zhi in his heart. Xu Ming is appreciation, Ma Shang's feeling is completely different, although he is Lin Yunlei's father's subordinate, Lin Yunlei also politely calls him Uncle Ma, but compared to Lin Yuntian's face all day long, he is more afraid of Lin Yunlei's smiling face all day long, I don't know when Lu Dao was calculated, so at this time, seeing that Lin Yunlei was blocked and had nothing to say, Ma Shang was afraid that he would find himself to settle accounts in the future, so he hurriedly stepped forward to solve the siege:
"Ha Luha, we came to see sweet potatoes on the summer solstice, it's past noon, and it's dark without moving!" However, Marchand's clearance is obviously not skilled, dry, and deliberate when he hears it.
It's still dark, you also know that Lu Dao has just finished noon, and it's still early before it gets dark, this is too obvious, Xia Zhi couldn't help muttering, but since Ma Shang spoke, looking at the face of the hundreds of acres of dry land, Xia Zhi said along the way: "Zhilu said Grandpa Ma, I'm going to call my father and grandpa, do you and your godfather Brother Lin want to go in and sit!" β
"No need, you can go quickly, we will wait here, and then go directly to the field!" Lin Yunlei saw that Xu Ming and Ma Shang were looking at him, so he had to open his mouth and say, joke If he went in to meet the nine children of the Tian family, how would he give this meeting gift.
"Okay, I'm going to call Daddy" Xia Zhi turned around and entered the house, shouting Tian Laosi loudly. (To be continued......)