Chapter 124 Sadness Flows Into a River (Bless the Motherland, Bless Book Friends, Happy Double Festival)
Tiedan's daughter-in-law has stayed in Linjia Village since then, and she has no intention of leaving.
Last night, I was dizzy by Tie Dan's sip of wine.
What happened after that was basically between being dizzy and half-drunk.
It's just a little discoloration in bed in the morning, which proves that everything that happened last night is real.
The major matters of breeding and planting in Linjia Village were basically handed over to the women, and the old man's thoughtfulness was indeed not enough, and Lin Ran was worried that they would feed them to death.
The main thing is that the heavy and tiring work is left to the old man, and the care and feeding are left to the woman.
"Father, mother. Father, mother..."
A tightly wrapped little girl in the Lizheng Hall rushed in.
"Changle is such a big north wind, not in his own palace, running to the queen mother, how cold is the road..."
Empress Eldest Sun said distressedly.
"Father, mother. Do you remember the potatoes grown in Changle? Zhang Dali heard His Majesty's orders and immediately changed his strategy.
I saw him step on the edge of the barrel and grasp the root of the potato with both hands.
"Up..."
Under the gaze of His Majesty Li Er and Empress Changsun, as well as Princess Changle.
A potato plant was pulled out of the barrel by Zhang Dali.
More than a dozen fist-sized potatoes were hugged tightly together, and dozens of potatoes of different sizes were wrapped around it, no wonder they couldn't pull it out.
These potatoes and eggs are simply hugged so tightly that there is hardly any gap in between.
"Father, there are so many potatoes, and this plant has so much production."
Princess Changle cheered happily.
Empress Eldest Sun opened her mouth even more in surprise, and she was speechless for a long time.
His Majesty Li Er was also stunned by the potatoes in front of him, the potatoes planted in the wooden barrels in Changle were obviously much higher than those in the fields of Linjia Village.
"Li Kai, tomorrow morning, bring Zhang Dali to the Xiande Hall and pull out this bucket of potatoes in front of the cultural relics and officials."
"The last will obey."
Li Kai, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, said loudly.
"Father, they moved the potatoes of the sons."
Princess Changle pursed her lips aggrievedly, and said with big eyes.
"Changle is good, Changle has grown up and is sensible, and the yield of potatoes grown by Changle is too good. The father was going to let the ministers see what the potatoes grown by Changle looked like. At that time, all civil and military officials will praise Changle. ”
"Mother, is what my father said true?"
Princess Changle pulled the sleeve of the eldest grandson queen and asked.
"Changle, of course it's true, the queen mother was stunned by the potatoes planted by Changle, not to mention the civil and military officials? How about trying to steam so many potatoes at night? Didn't Lin Gongzi say that it can be steamed and boiled? ”
Empress Changsun stroked Princess Changle's hair and spoke.
"Guanyin, it makes sense. Tonight, let the Imperial Dining Room prepare some steaming and cooking. At that time, Cheng Qian will also be sent a few, so that he can also taste the taste of the potatoes grown by Changle. ”
"And the younger brother of the green sparrow, the father should not forget the green sparrow." Princess Changle added when she heard this.
"Okay, and the blue finch."
His Majesty Li Er responded happily.
At night, there was a jubilant atmosphere in the Lizheng Palace.
Because of Princess Changle's hard work, the potatoes have finally been harvested.
In order to praise and encourage Princess Changle's hard-working image among princes and princesses, His Majesty Li Er specially held a family banquet.
All the princes and princesses in the palace attended the family banquet, which made Princess Changle take the limelight.
"Father, these soft and sweet potatoes are so delicious. The green finch likes to eat..."
The little fat man Li Taiyi said with a happy face next to His Majesty Li Er, and he didn't forget to eat potatoes in his mouth.
"Qingque, this is planted by your sister Changle herself, of course it's delicious."
His Majesty Li Er replied with a smile and stroked the little head of the green sparrow.
"Sister Huang, it's amazing. Can Qingque grow potatoes with Sister Huang next year? ”
Li Tai ran to Princess Changle's side, took Princess Changle's little hand, and asked kindly.
"Okay, I'm afraid you'll eat it secretly."
Changle scratched the tip of Li Tai's nose and said with a giggle.
"Sister Huang, the potatoes are not ripe, and the green finches will never eat them."
Li Tai assured with a solemn face.
"Okay, that's it."
His Majesty Li Er and Empress Eldest Sun looked at the children who were laughing together, and their faces were full of warm happiness.
The ministers of the Xiande Hall this morning were surprised to find that there were more wooden barrels in the Xiande Palace.
There were still withered branches in the barrel, and for a while the ministers were talking about it, and they were all speculating about what it was.
"Everyone must have seen the plants in this barrel, everyone must be curious about what this thing is, right? I might as well tell you that this is a potato from Linjia Village, as for whether the yield of 10,000 catties per mu is exaggerated, let the Janissaries pull out the potatoes, Zhong Aiqing will see at a glance. By the way, this is my princess, Changle planted it with her own hands. ”
His Majesty Li Er did not forget to increase the image of diligence and kindness for Princess Changle in front of the ministers.
After all, in the future, there is a chance that Changle's concubine will come from the mansion of these ministers.
Zhang Dali, who had already been prepared, heard this, and immediately walked to the side of the wooden barrel, with yesterday's experience in pulling potatoes, Zhang Dali stepped on the edge of the barrel and grabbed the root of the potatoes with both hands.
Under the gaze of the civil and military officials of the early dynasty, the whole potato was pulled out of the barrel with mud and soil.
"......"
The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were all gasping for air.
Even Prime Minister Fang Xuanling was mentally prepared, but he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
It's terrible.
In addition to the round potatoes, even the round potatoes are full, and even the soil has become a rare object.
It's unbelievable.
"My dear mother! If there was such food, why would my father and mother, my three brothers, and my two sisters starve to death......"
Niu Jinda rushed to the potato like a madman, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.
Many civil and military officials shed hot tears.
Everyone knows what happened to General Niu's family.
He was the only one in the family who survived strongly.
Everyone else was starved to death in the former Sui Dynasty.
In this situation, even His Majesty Li Er had to be moved.
"Aiqing, don't be too sad, the people's lives will be better after having potatoes."
His Majesty Li Er gently opened his mouth and comforted.
"Your Majesty, the minister's heart is bitter! Why didn't this potato come out sooner to save the minister's parents and relatives......"
Niu Jinda is full of tears, making those who see it cry, and those who hear it are sad!
With the first weeping General Niu taking the lead, soon there were the second and third ministers who spoke out their grief together.
The court was flooded with sorrow......
"It should be a day of great joy, General Niu, don't be sad anymore."
Prime Minister Fang Xuanling walked out of work and walked to Niu Jinda's side and comforted him.
And he glanced at several generals who were in the forefront of the military attachés.
Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong, Wei Chi Jingde and others understood and immediately stepped forward to drag Niu Jinda back.
It was only in this early period that the dynasty was able to proceed normally.
"Your Majesty, this is auspicious! It should be popularized in Datang as soon as possible, and the days when the people were hungry will be gone forever. ”
Imperial Doctor Wei Zheng came out of the class and said.
"Wei Aiqing, what he said is extremely true. I have that in mind, too. Next year, next spring, my Chang'an City will be filled with these high-yield potatoes, so that the people can begin to live a prosperous life. ”
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty."
Hundreds of civil and military officials congratulated one after another.
"Erlang, what happened in the Hall of Xiande this morning?"
His Majesty Li Er returned to the Lizheng Hall after leaving the court, and Empress Changsun asked.
Princess Changle asked with a blink of beautiful eyes.
"Remember, for this reason, your imperial brother was also grounded by his father."
His Majesty Li Er responded gently.
"Father, the potatoes are ripe, but Erchen doesn't have such a strong effort, Cuizhu and Changle can't pull them up, and the maids in the palace can't make it, Erchen thinks it must be too much."
Changle flashed a pair of big eyes, trotted to His Majesty Li Er's side, snuggled in the arms of His Majesty Li Er, looked up at His Majesty Li Er and said.
"Oh, take me to see it."
His Majesty Li Er was immediately interested, this is a food with a yield of 10,000 catties per mu, which is related to the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and the suffering of the people.
"Erlang, the concubine is also going to take a look."
"Okay, Guanyin, go with me."
So Princess Changle held her father's hand with one hand and the queen mother's hand with the other, and jumped towards her palace.
"See Your Majesty, see the Queen Mother······"
The palace maids and chamberlains of Princess Changle's palace bowed respectfully and bowed to worship.
"Get up, serve Changle well in the future, and I will definitely be rewarded."
His Majesty Li Er was overjoyed and said loudly.
"Your Majesty, Queen Xie."
The palace maids and chamberlains responded happily.
"This, the potatoes are really exactly the same as the potatoes that my father pulled out with your imperial brother in Linjia Village last time, come and try it for my father."
After His Majesty Li Er finished speaking, he grabbed the root of the potato with great strength and pulled it hard.
Something unexpected happened, His Majesty Li Er actually lifted the entire wooden barrel from the ground, and the potatoes were still swaying in the wooden barrel intact.
The swaying appearance seemed to mock His Majesty Li Er's weakness and powerlessness······
It really made His Majesty Li Er so angry that he gritted his teeth, and His Majesty Li Er, who didn't believe in evil, made a comeback, and this time he increased his strength a little bit.
The result is still the same, just adding to the troubles.
"Erlang, could it be that this potato has taken root at the bottom of the barrel, otherwise how could it be that Erlang's divine power would not be able to pull it out?"
"What Guanyin said is extremely true, Changle. The yield of this potato must be very large, and it is not the result of your careful care day and night. ”
"Father, Changle and Cuizhu take care of it several times a day. Presumably, there must have been a lot of potatoes in the barrel, but now I can't open the barrel, and I knew that there was no need to grow in the barrel. ”
Princess Changle said helplessly.
"It doesn't matter, there are many generals in my Praetorian Guard who have amazing arm strength. The father asked them to pull out the potatoes from the barrel for Changle. ”
His Majesty Li Er looked at Changle with a distressed look on his face, and hurriedly opened his mouth to comfort.
"Thank you father, my father is really good."
Princess Changle jumped happily, in order to express her gratitude to her father, Changle ran back to the princess's room, reluctantly picked two fries for her father and mother, ran to her father and mother, and stuffed the fries into the hands of her father and mother.
"Father, mother. This is what Erchen has managed to save. ”
Changle said with a smile in his eyes.
To be honest, the remaining fries are no longer enough to survive this winter, and Princess Changle thinks that she must go to Linjia Village before the year, otherwise how will this year be?
The days without fries are extremely painful days for today's Princess Changle.
I haven't been to Linjia Village for a few months, and I don't know if that young man is okay now?
Could it be that she will also be remembered at some point?
Lin Ran sneezed deeply at this time...
"Who's talking about me?" Lin Ran inexplicably thought of the appearance of a little girl.
I haven't seen you for a long time, and I don't know if Miss Li Le is doing in Chang'an?
She must have eaten the fries she gave her last time, can she still be happy without fries?
How much does Lin Ran want to go to Chang'an to deliver French fries to her?
But for the sake of safety and to respect people's privacy, Lin Ran has never asked about Miss Li Le's past and family situation.
What's the use of asking?
When people want to tell you, they will tell you.
Didn't want to tell you, asked.
It's also a smeared lip on the lips······
Lin Ran won't find that kind of uncomfortable, this way of getting along is what he likes and yearns for!
Li Kai and Li Xuan, the commanders of the Praetorian Guards in the palace, personally led five Praetorian Guards with amazing arm strength to the palace of Princess Changle.
"The last general will see Your Majesty, see the Queen Mother."
"Get up, send the Praetorian Guard to uproot the potatoes in this barrel."
His Majesty Li Er commanded Li Kai.
"The last will obey."
"Zhang Dali, go and pull out the potatoes in the barrel."
Li Kai said to a young Praetorian Guard with five big and three thick, tigers and bears.
"No..."
The young man walked out of the queue. Came to the barrel, took a deep breath and crouched down.
He knew that since His Majesty had let himself pull potatoes, he must have let the Praetorian Guards come after trying it himself without success.
Therefore, Zhang Dali did not dare to slack off, and gathered the strength of his whole body to his waist.
Grab the root of the potato with both hands and let out a loud shout.
"Up..."
Sure enough, it got up.
The script is still the same as the script just now by His Majesty Li Er, which is to get up with a wooden barrel.
"Your Majesty, can you step on the barrel?"
Zhang Dali asked awkwardly.
Now, if you don't step on the barrel like this, this potato will not be able to be pulled out alive or dead.
"Changle, what do you say?"
"Father, yes, anyway, there are two potatoes in this barrel palace."
Princess Changle opened her mouth to respond.
"In that case, let's step on the barrel."
Hearing this, His Majesty Li Er opened his mouth to command the embarrassed Zhang Dali. "Guanyin wants to know the expressions of the ministers when they see the potatoes unearthed, right?"
His Majesty Li Er continued to speak with emotion.
Niu Jinda, the general of the Right Marquis, cried into a tearful person, and many ministers wept one after another. There is a reason why General Niu cried, the people had no harvest for three consecutive years in the drought, and his family was starving to death, but General Niu survived, and God asked him to help me to lay down the Tang Dynasty......"
Speaking of this, His Majesty Li Er couldn't help but redden.
"Erlang, it's all bad for concubines, concubines shouldn't ask these sad things..."
Empress Eldest Sun said apologetically.
"Guanyin's words are serious, you have good intentions, and this matter is also a good thing, but it is just that General Niu touched the scene and was overly sad, which is also human nature. It's all the previous dynasty that caused trouble......"
"Erlang, the concubine remembers that Erlang said that she was going to visit Linjia Village once a year ago, I don't know when I will leave?"
"It seems that Guanyin wants to go out of the palace with me, okay, on the first day of the next month, we will go to Linjia Village together. More than three months have passed, and I really miss that young man..."
His Majesty Li Er said, the corners of his mouth hung with an arc.
Under Lin Ran's repeated emphasis, the mother Sun sat for a whole month of confinement before she was liberated.
In the past month, she was raised by Lin Zhengtai and Lin Ran for nothing.
In the words of his son Lin Ran, these are not enough to compensate for even one-tenth of the pain suffered by his mother.
The words of this sensible son made Sun secretly wipe his tears several times.
The full moon wine was placed in the square, which was the first big joy since Linjia Village moved to a new house.
Lin Zhengtai named his daughter Lin Guo, and her milk name was Guoguo.
The son's name is Lin Hou, which means kindness and stability.
The square of Linjia Village was filled with a hundred tables of good banquets.
Many of the ingredients were seen by the villagers for the first time.
Tiedan's daughter-in-law Yuzhi stared at the bright cold tomatoes and shallots mixed with cucumbers, stunned like a wooden chicken.
She'd seen cucumbers, but where did she get this thing out of winter?
Tomatoes are food she has never seen before, and the color alone is mouth-watering.
"Iron Egg, what kind of joke is this?"
"Look at what you haven't seen before? Tell you the old lady, this is a tomato, remember, don't embarrass me in the future......"
Today's iron eggs are no longer the iron eggs of the past!
If it weren't for the two balls below, it would be really possible to go up to the sky!
Yuzhi was stunned by his bear, and nodded honestly.
It made Tie Dan have an indescribable smile on his face.
This feeling is cool in one word!
Two words, it's so cool!
Whole chickens and fish were brought up by the soldiers, filling the square with the smell of meat.
"That's a waste, isn't it? How can we eat so much at the same table? ”
Tiedan's daughter-in-law Yuzhi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"Be a little louder, what is wasted or not wasted, our Linjia Village is not lacking anything now, we can't eat and feed the pigs, and tens of thousands of pigs are waiting to be fed..."
"Iron eggs, something that we couldn't eat before, now use it to feed pigs? You're not crazy, are you? ”
"You don't understand, why are you still blind? If you have the ability, you can also give Lao Tzu a pair of sticks, and Lao Tzu will let you eat in different ways every day. ”
"Double rods are born when I want to? You've got to have those two great seeds......"
Tiedan's daughter-in-law Yuzhi retorted vigorously.
"Hehe, the seeds of my iron egg, my daughter-in-law takes them away several times a day, only the daughter-in-law knows best in her heart......
Tie Dan leaned close to Yuzhi's ear and whispered.
"You... Iron bastard, bastard... If you don't collect such seeds, the old lady won't accept them in the future. ”
Tiedan's daughter-in-law Yuzhi replied angrily.
"No, daughter-in-law. I don't know it's wrong......"
"Thank you for your support, today I Lin Zhengtai is the father of three children, happy, come and raise the wine bowl together, toast..."
Lin Zhengtai's voice sounded over the square, allowing Tie Dan to temporarily avoid the embarrassing scene.
"It's done..."
"..."
The villagers picked up the wine bowls one after another and echoed loudly.
After a bowl of wine, the villagers' hearts and bodies became warm.
"This year's winter is so fucking cold, if it weren't for the village chief to build a new house for everyone, I think most of the old people in the village this year would have to go to the ancestors to chat."
Lin Zhengliang's words sounded over the square and received warm applause from the villagers.
"Let's all take the opportunity to give our village chief a bowl of bar. Thank you for bringing Linjiacun a happy life now. ”
"Okay, let's give the village chief a bowl of wine."
The villagers all stood up and filled their bowls with wine.
"Since the villagers are like this, the younger generation is disrespectful. The younger generation does it first as a respect, and after drinking this bowl of wine, the younger generation still has something to say. ”
Sun watched all this quietly, an extremely happy smile rippling on her face.
"Okay, dry this bowl of wine, listen to the village chief's lecture."
The villagers raised their heads and drank all the wine in the bowl, waiting for Lin Ran's lecture.
"This winter is particularly cold, and if it continues like this, the elderly and children will definitely have the possibility of frostbite, a few days ago I found a combustible substance in the back mountain of our Linjia Village, which is this black coal. This thing is flammable and easy to preserve, it is a good thing for heating and keeping warm, I have drawn a drawing of the stove for this coal burning, and sent it to Chang'an, and the news from there is that it will arrive tomorrow. So starting tomorrow, our folks will start working hard for a while, digging enough coal for our winter, if you want to make money, you can dig more, let's sell it to Chang'an......"
Lin Ran's words echoed in the sky above the square for a long time.
"Well... Good... We follow the village chief, we follow the village chief. ”
As soon as the villagers heard about it, there were coals and stoves for heating, and they could sell them for money.
One by one, they slapped hard as if they were bloody.
At noon the next day, Hou San used a carriage to pull a carriage of stoves and returned smoothly from Chang'an City.
Of course, these stoves were entrusted to Cheng Chumo and asked Su Guogong to come forward to negotiate with the Ministry of Industry, and now the manufacturing process of Datang is basically monopolized by the imperial court, not to mention that iron is a real control tool.
Ordinary flat-headed people don't dare to trade without permission, even Lin Ran, a martial cavalry captain, is not easy to use.
Lin Ran first put one in his mother's room, and then put one in the room of the two nurses, Guoguo and Lin Hou, which made his mother Sun's heart very warm.
I didn't expect this pair of double sticks to be so blessed, and I was born with such a good brother to love.
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