When running errands in the capital, Hanlin Academy, and the emperor's side, all Bai Anheng needed was to be cautious and diligent. As long as you can cope with the emperor's occasional questions, you can finish the things at hand as soon as possible. On weekdays, whether you are a person or when you do things, you need to be careful and careful, even if people are stupid, but only the word caution must be kept in your mind, and the official cannot be lost.

But when it comes to the place, being cautious is not enough. This place in Hexian County is not Jingli, even if my father has become the prime minister, it is far away from the emperor of Tiangao - even the emperor is far away, let alone my father?

If you usually don't dare to move anything, you just blindly handle things carefully, just afraid that you will be the top official in the future, but if you act too fast and advance too much, if there is something, whether you can keep it well or not.

Therefore, although he seemed to be at ease when dealing with those people in the past two days, Bai Anheng had a lot more brains and responsibilities than before.

The sky was getting dark, and the things ahead were finally over, so he asked the little guy to play the lantern, crossed the path behind the mansion, and arrived at the main entrance of his house, raised his legs and stepped in, and when he remembered that Han Yu was still waiting for him to have dinner with him in the backyard, his steps involuntarily became brisk.

All the way to the inner courtyard, I saw a few little girls guarding the door of the hut specially prepared for Xue Tuan'er. A sharp-eyed little girl at the main entrance saw Bai Anheng, and hurriedly opened the curtain and said, "The second master is back!" ”

On the window of the main house, the dim light is reflected, which makes people's hearts warm and comfortable, as if soaking in warm water.

The corners of his mouth rose unconsciously, and when he walked to the door of the room in a few steps, Han Xiao had already greeted him, looking at him with a smile.

No matter how tired and difficult it is during the day, as long as she comes back and sees her thinking about herself so much, all of them will be gone.

Holding her hand with his backhand, he followed her all the way inside, cleaned his hands in the basin, took the towel she handed over, wiped his face, and seemed to be a little less tired.

Relieved, he turned his head to look at her with a smile: "What are you busy with today?" ”

"I've received a letter from Beijing today, and I'll read it with my grandfather after I've finished eating in a while." Han Xiao smiled and led him to the table, filled him with food, and then sat down with him, "There is also a letter from the Fifth Princess, I will talk to my master in detail later." ”

Bai Anheng nodded, there are some things that are inconvenient to say at the dinner table, in case he is distracted again, maybe he won't even be able to eat.

After eating and rinsing their mouths, the two of them went to the inner room and sat on the kang, Han Xiao took the letters, and Bai Anheng read them one by one.

After he had read it all, Han Xiao Fang took out Han Xiao's letter, pointed to the last page and said, "I don't know if what she said is true or not...... This line of people has eaten it at home, but can it really be planted in the mountains and wasteland? ”

Bai Anheng looked at Han Xiao's letter, nodded and smiled: "This is true." As he spoke, he took Jiang Zhe's letter again, "Two years ago, His Royal Highness Fifth asked someone to take some corn seeds to try, originally to try how much this line can produce per mu, but it doesn't seem to be a lot, and people may not be used to eating it, so they didn't take it seriously." As a result, at the end of the first year, the people who went to the fields to try planting came back and said that although the yield of this thing was average, it was drought tolerant, and it could survive in the mountains and sands. ”

Han Xiao didn't know about farming, judging from Han Xiao's letter, she didn't seem to know where to hear about it before, saying that the harvest of this line was good, so she mentioned a few words to His Royal Highness the Five, but she didn't expect that the yield of this thing was average, but it could be planted in those fields that were not suitable for growing food.

"Then this line is going to be planted in our area?" Han Xiaolai didn't mention it in detail in the letter, but he just mentioned it to himself. But now that Bai Anheng is reading Jiang Zhe's letter, could it be that His Royal Highness the Fifth Highness is preparing to let Bai Anheng plant this kind of thing in Hexian?

Bai Anheng nodded: "Your cousin's letter said that the emperor already knows about it. This is a good thing, as the farmer who can grow in the wasteland can have a harvest and will starve to death in a disaster year. "Especially the drought, the climate here in Hexian is dry, and there will be drought for at least four or five years in ten years, and the rain in the remaining years is barely enough to plant the original crops. Since this thing called corn is drought tolerant, it is better than having no income at all.

As he spoke, he slowly put away Jiang Zhe's letter: "In a few days, someone from the Five Princes will come over, along with the emperor's secret decree, telling us to open up the wasteland here, plant that thing first, and see how the harvest goes." "If the harvest is really good, this is the merit given to them by these two Buddhas, three years later, only this one, their future will be worry-free.

Although he also helped him in the first two years of this matter, the trial planting Zhuangzi found by His Royal Highness was the Bai family, and it was also Bai Anheng's contact to help him. can get such a result and send it to himself, which still makes Bai Anheng feel ashamed.

pressed down the awkwardness in his heart, and raised his hand to pinch Han Xiao's nose: "You and the Fifth Imperial Concubine really have good luck!" ”

is just a joke from her daughter's family, Han Yu helped herself a few times unknowingly, and also saved her life. It's just the occasional whim of the five princesses, who can help the Fifth Highness in such a major event. If this thing can really be harvested, the emperor's heart will really be completely biased to the side of the Fifth Highness.

Sure enough, within three days, someone from Beijing came again. The one who came clearly said that it was a person sent by the five princes, but one of them had a white face and a soft and gentle voice, but it was the father-in-law secretly sent by the emperor - the father-in-law did not receive the holy order and was not allowed to leave Beijing in normal times.

With the emperor's secret decree, Bai Anheng personally sent a safe person to reclaim the wasteland and sow crops.

Here in Hexian County, because the weather is dry, there has been no rain in the past few years, although there was a snowstorm last year, but it is even more forced to live nearby villagers to flee to the east, although there are not as many people as there are in Dexian County, but there are many people. The rest of the vast wasteland, and even the hills and sands that were useless in the first place, all came in handy this time.

Bai Anheng is much busier than before, and he has to be busy with daily official business until the lights are on. Han Xiao simply asked people to clean up the room in the west and set it up according to the layout of his study, so as to save him from running on both sides of the front and back. He also ordered a man to prepare every day those food and drinks that would lower his anger and lower his heart, so that he would not be busy.

His wife is virtuous, and Bai Anheng feels more like a fish in water when he is busy, tossing back and forth every day, until the time of spring ploughing, and the prescription is slightly relieved.

The men who sent out were all left in the towns and villages, and now that things had already begun, we could only honestly wait for the results to come out - at least until this autumn.

There are still a few months before the autumn, and when Han Yu has just received the letter sent from Beijing at home, Bai Anheng is in the mansion, and he also receives the secret report sent back by the secret agents sent down.

I opened one of them, and I couldn't help but frown as I looked at it. One side is responsible, and the original forces in this place also have their own connections and collusions. My father had already explained these things to me, and even my father-in-law and eldest brother who returned to Beijing to report on my work had also taught me a lot in private.

But what he didn't expect - he thought that when the new officials took office, the officials below would have to give themselves some face in the first year, but they didn't think about it, so they were so forced to do it!

A hint of coldness flashed in his eyes, this batch of grain and seeds were all ordered by His Majesty in Beijing and sent by himself, if it was so cheap for this group of insatiable low-headed snakes, it would be better for him, the newly appointed county magistrate, not to go home and farm earlier!

I was thinking about how to clean up this matter, when I saw someone in front of me hurriedly come in and report: "Master, Dexian County Urgent Report, Turkic Knock on the Side, I have already robbed a few villages!" ”

The news has been sent to the capital in an expedited manner for 800 miles, and Hexian is close to it, so the generals guarding the pass in Dexian sent people to ask for reinforcements.

Bai Anheng raised his eyebrows, put away the letter in his hand and got up and said, "Where is the person?" ”

"Wait ahead."

"Let's go, let's take a look." If it weren't for this, Han Sheng wouldn't have had to go to the military department to experience the training, and he wouldn't have to wait for three years to be sent to Hexian this time!

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There was a large bag of letters in his hand, and Han Xiao opened it with a smile. Subdivided, in addition to the letters from the Bai and Han families, how many of these letters are written to themselves?

One is Zhao Rulan's, and the other is sent back by Li Yun, who has long been married to office. In addition, there are a few letters, all of which were sent by friends who were better at home in Beijing.

I read my mother's and Han Xiao's letters first, but they were just some homely things. casually opened Li Yun's again, and learned that she gave birth to a daughter at the end of the first year, and now her life is not bad, so she put away the letter with a smile. After the last, I picked up Zhao Rulan's letter.

Since Zhao Rulan's county lord's mansion was built, she has returned to her original social circle in Beijing. has an identity and a place, and everyone is happy to cheer her on. Even if it's herself, if you don't have kung fu, you have to visit her at least once a month or two.

picked up the letter, it was just an ordinary greeting, and only half of it was seen, Han Yu raised his eyebrows, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth - Zhao Rulan finally had a body again, and it had been four months.

breathed a sigh of relief, she was much better off than she was at the beginning, and now that she has a body again and moved out of the Song family, she will be able to rely on her in the future.

called Xia He: "You go to the local women who help and ask them, but what is our local product here, which is beneficial to pregnant women?" ”

Xia He was stunned: "Pregnant woman? ”

Han Xiao nodded and smiled: "The county lord has a body, it's been four months. ”

Xia He nodded with a smile: "This is a good thing, but it can be regarded as looking forward to one!" I'm going to ask. ”

Xia Chan also came over and looked at Han Zhen's belly: "I still think I'm a ......" Before she finished speaking, she was slapped by Xia He, who hadn't gone out yet, and Han Xiao also glared at her - this girl is getting more and more bold, but she has to show her a family quickly, and if she doesn't marry out, she will be about to turn the world upside down!

A few people laughed, and hurriedly ran into a small house outside, and replied at the second gate.

Han Xiao didn't know what was going on, so he asked Mother Sun to go out and ask, and when he came back, he heard: "Someone from Dexian County came to report, saying that the Huns had called, and at this time the second master took someone to the Duzhan jurisdiction, and I don't know when I can go back, so that Mrs. doesn't have to worry." ”