Chapter Ninety-Six: Qing Nai Beauty is Always Affectionate

Fang Youcai stood on the dock and looked at the bow of the boat a little anxiously.

Since his identity as the chief housekeeper of the Tamsui Town Office was confirmed, except for Zhao and Ju who came to Liuqiu in person, he almost no longer went to the dock to greet anyone. All his family members were also sent to Tamsui, and Freshwater has expanded to the limit in the past two years, which made him suddenly relax and think about teasing his grandson all day long.

He doesn't care much about things, but he is reluctant to take the position and privileges of this big housekeeper, which makes the righteous teenagers somewhat ashamed. Therefore, in the past two years, the relationship between him and the Yixue boy has become more and more stiff, although it has not been bad for Tamsui, but quarrels are always inevitable.

It was precisely because of this that he was extremely sensitive to the instructions from Zhao and Ju on land, and he knew one thing very well, if Zhao and Ju felt that he had done too much, just a note would make his current position disappear. Therefore, when he learned that the ship that came this time had raised the red tasseled pear spear flag representing Yang Miaozhen, although he was a little reluctant, he still came to the dock.

Over the years, Yang Miaozhen has followed Zhao and Ju, and at the end of each year, he will come to inspect on behalf of Zhao and Ju. It not only reassured the immigrants who were originally the Red Jacket Army, but also announced to the rest of the immigrants on the island who was the master here.

"Duncan, Duncan!" Thinking of this, Fang Youcai shouted.

"Come on, come on, I said big housekeeper, what are you doing so fiercely?" Duncan came over with a big grin, and he was carrying a little guy on his back, the little guy was obviously half-blooded, with both yellow black hair and a white high nose, and his eyes were as blue as the sea like Duncan's.

This was Duncan's son with his native wife, who had a wife when he was in Venice, but never had a son, so he loved this son so much that he ran around with him at the age of two.

As he spent more time in Tamsui, he could be regarded as having understood Fang Youcai's situation, and the respect on the surface was naturally not less, but sometimes he inevitably had to say two words. If he hadn't carried his son on his back, he would have to eat Fang Youcai's old feet, but with the child on his back, Fang Youcai was a very childlike character, and he was afraid that he would fall on the child when he dodged, and his feet would not be able to stretch out.

"It's so windy outside, but you bring the little Marco out!" Fang Youcai didn't kick Duncan, but took the child out of the pocket on his back, and smiled like a chrysanthemum on his face: "Little Mark, call grandpa grandpa!" ”

Little Marco sprayed his face, and Duncan laughed when he saw it, and Fang Youcai was not annoyed.

"Big butler, the fourth lady has disembarked." Ah Mao's eyes were sharp, and he shouted loudly.

Fang Youcai returned the child to Duncan, and then remembered what he was going to tell him, glared at him and said, "You kid knows how to cheat and be lazy all day long, has the stained glass in the fourth lady's room been decorated?" ”

"Don't worry, I still want to earn a job for my little Mark, how dare I not care?" Duncan muttered.

When Duncan was in Venice, he had seen churches decorated with stained glass, and now fresh water is also rich in glass, so he naturally remembered the decoration method of his hometown, he was actually a very clever man, and there was enough glass for him to experiment, and it took half a year to really find a set of decoration methods. The four ladies will live in the imitation European-style palace building prepared by Tamsui for Zhao and Ju this time, and one of the most important is the stained glass decoration.

Before Yang Miaozhen stepped out of the gangway, her heart was still empty, as if something extremely important had been lost on land. When I saw the fresh water, I felt that I had settled.

This is her man's place, and she is here to watch out for her man.

The dark clouds on her face dissipated in an instant, Yang Miaozhen walked ashore quickly, Fang Youcai and others greeted her, but her face changed, and she went straight to Duncan.

"Duncan, your son give me a hug!"

A year ago, when Yang Miaozhen came, little Mark was still in her swaddling bag, and she liked this mixed-race child very much at that time, and now she grabbed it in her hand to hug her. Fang Youcai's greetings were blocked, but he didn't feel embarrassed, Yang Miao really had a temperament, and he was well known in Tamsui.

It's strange to say, when Fang Youcai hugged Little Mark, Little Mark sprayed him with saliva, but when Yang Miaozhen hugged him, he still smiled. His mouth was still babbling, and he didn't know what to say, Yang Miaozhen carried him for a few steps, and only returned it to Duncan when he reached the side of the carriage.

"Steward Fang, I'm a little tired today, you and Shibin and Han Fan will come to my residence to talk. You have arranged to come, and tomorrow I will check everywhere, starting from the farm. After getting into the car, Yang Miaozhen glanced back at Fang Youcai and said unhurriedly.

Fang Youcai's heart moved, and he felt that Yang Miaozhen's expression this time was different from when he came for Zhao and Ju before.

Yang Miaozhen was not in a hurry to pass on Zhao Heju's instructions to everyone as he had been to Tamsui a few times before, and then went around and returned to the Great Song Dynasty. This time, she just told a few housekeepers in Tamsui that she would not return to Da Song for a short time after she came this time, and then began her inspection on the second day.

Agriculture is the beginning of all industries, even Zhao and Ju, who came through in later generations, have always kept in mind the words "there is food in your pocket and do not panic", so the first place Yang Miaozhen inspected was Tamsui Farm.

At the beginning, the nine units of Zhao and Ju to Tamsui, with the growth of population and the prosperity of all industries, especially the issuance of Liuqiu gold dollar coupons, gradually did not meet the needs, so in the past two years, Tamsui's institutions have been reforming. However, regardless of the change, Freshwater Farms still retains the most freshwater workforce. Today, there are more than 50,000 freshwater residents, of which more than 10,000 are in freshwater farms.

The farm has three sections: the Grange, the Fishery and the Deer Garden, and the Grange is naturally used to grow rice, which is also the largest source of food for freshwater. Nowadays, there are more than 180,000 acres of rice fields in Tamsui alone, and the developed place has crossed the "Guandu" of the later generations and entered the boundaries of Taipei. Because the natives and immigrants in this vicinity have a good relationship, and several tribes have entered the Naturalization Bureau as a whole, the six granges under the farm are scattered in various places, although a dock fort has also been built, but it is not as heavily guarded as the Yilan side. The application of a large number of semi-mechanized agricultural tools, the popularization of cattle and horses, the optimization of rice seeds, coupled with the excellent fertilization of water and soil, make the yield of today's flowing and ripe fields extremely high, and the paddy fields of freshwater granges alone have an annual output of 620,000 stones.

Freshwater fishery is with the gradual relocation of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, started a little late, there are more than 50 fishing boats, more than 1,700 acres of fish ponds, daily fishing boats can catch more than 5,000 catties of fresh fish, although it is still insufficient, but the development is extremely fast. Zhao and Ju have also instructed that freshwater fishing grounds must be stepped up, which can not only provide sufficient animal protein for the residents of Liuqiu, but more importantly, cultivate a group of sailors hidden among the people.

Although the deer park has such a name, it does domesticate hundreds of deer, but the main ones are pigs, cattle, sheep, horses and other large livestock and poultry. Because a large amount of alfalfa and other fodder is grown in the dry fields, and the rice is harvested year after year, these livestock can be raised in large quantities. In order to raise these livestock that provide meat and eggs, more than 2,000 people have to work all day long.

According to Zhao and Ju's arrangement, livestock manure is often cleaned, generally poured into the fishing ponds, used as fish feed, and after a year or so, these fish ponds will be drained, the sinking silt turned out, as fertilizer buried in dry fields or under mulberry trees, fruit trees.

"Fourth lady, this method of the official really works." In charge of the farm is Zhao En, an old family member of Yuzhang Villa, who is an unhurried character, and when he talks about this field, his face is full of smiles.

"It's done very well, I wrote it down, and I'll talk to the officials." Yang Miaozhen is also in a good mood, judging from the data given to her by Zhao En, not only the children of Tamsui Primary School have meat every day, but ordinary people can also eat eggs and meat every three or five days.

All of this comes from my own trip to Yuzhang Villa.

Thinking of Zhao and Ju, Yang Miaozhen's face flushed again, she frowned slightly, recalling what had happened since she met Zhao and Ju, and felt more and more that she couldn't see through him. There seems to be nothing in this world that he doesn't know, and even far away in Jiangnan, he knows that there is a Yang Miaozhen on Shandong East Road.

Everything is under his control, the war between the Hu people and the Jin State in the northern Xinjiang, the climate and products that are sought abroad, he knows almost everything.

But this time he sent himself here to beg, could it be that there is something he can't control?

Thinking of this, Yang Miaozhen was in a trance.

When she was absent-minded, a young man pushing a cart rushed past her with a shout, Yang Miaozhen woke up in a hurry, and frowned: "This kid is a little familiar...... Isn't that Yu Zhu? ”

It was Yu Zhu who pushed the cart, shirtless, with the kind of thick leather belt that is unique to the escort around his waist. The cart contained a cart of bricks, a wheelbarrow that was so common in Tamsui that the strongest lad could use it to push six hundred pounds of rice across the ridges.

"It's winter, and the people of the escort team are helping to clear the fish pond, if we only rely on us, where can we do it!" Zhao Endao.

"This kid is in the convoy? Wasn't he extremely badly governed by the Han Domain, why did he still get into the escort team? Yang Miaozhen smiled.

"People are so weird, he is over seventeen, according to our rules, when he reaches seventeen, he can choose, whether to continue to study in the primary school, or enter the unit to assign work, most of the others continue to study, he prefers to work, and he has to go to the escort team. But this kid has changed a lot now, although he is still bluffing, he is very willing to do things. Zhao En also smiled: "The villain often says to Han Fan that this is the second him." ”

Li Ye's original troubles, Yang Miaozhen still knew a thing or two from Qin Dashi and others, and she was also quite emotional in her heart, such a naughty character was also treated by Zhao and Ju Shengsheng, not only cured, but also brought over by Yu Zhu.

Yu Zhu was concentrating on pushing the wheelbarrow to run fast, pushing the cart is also particular, if it stops, or if it is slightly unbalanced, the car will roll over. Therefore, although he clearly saw Yang Miaozhen, he never stopped to salute and greet, Li Ye had already taught him that he had to focus when doing things, otherwise it was better not to do it.

"It's here!" Seeing that he was close to the destination, he gradually slowed down, and when he arrived at the place, he moved the bricks on the car every six pieces, and laughed: "I am already twelve cars today, Lao De, how many cars does Zhang Xianbao have?" ”

The man known as Lao De was a black and fat man in his early thirties, with a fat body like a landlord and old wealth, holding a pencil in one hand and a paper in the other, and looked at the paper with a smile: "Eleven cars, a lot, not much." ”

"One car less than me?" Yu Zhu's eyes widened: "I don't believe it, Lao De, did you count wrong?" ”

"Get out of the way!" As he was talking, someone suddenly shouted angrily behind him: "Good dogs don't get in the way!" ”

Yu Zhu pulled the car to avoid it, wiped the sweat and spread his legs, and the man behind him asked Lao De while getting off the bricks: "How many cars are there?" ”

"Twelve cars, one more car than you, offer treasure, you are going to lose to him today." Lao De laughed.

"Lao De, Ge Lao Tzu, how can I lose to him as a turtle son!" The man sneered, "Look at me! ”

Yang Miao really walked over here, heard the man's Shu accent, turned around and asked Zhao Xidao: "There are even Shu people among the immigrants?" ”

"Even the Xia people have it, let alone the Sichuan people?" Zhao En said with a smile: "This guy was seventeen years old when he came, so he never entered the elementary school, he is a man who can eat, he is a thunderbolt temper, but Zhu likes to tease him, no matter what they do, they have to try." The bookkeeper is called Wang Laode, but he is a character who can get fat by drinking white water, don't look at him like this, but he has some scheming, and he learned to read and write and settle accounts with the night school of the school, and he is a fine person. ”

Yang Miaozhen smiled, all kinds of characters in Tiannan were all contained by Zhao Heju, they were just dead roads and buried goods in the original place, but when they came to Liuqiu, they could always be found useful.

"I'm optimistic, I'll go back." She beckoned to Zhao En: "Depending on the situation, you are extremely busy, don't say hello to me, I know the way back!" ”

"The villain won't send it, the fourth lady is careful on the road." Zhao En is not polite, he is used to staying in Yuzhang Villa, he knows that those etiquette and politeness are false, and only by doing things sincerely can he get Zhao Heju's attention. Xiang Fang has wealth, when he first arrived at Yuzhang Villa, he only relied on his mouth, and he was never trustworthy to Zhao and Ju, but later when he built a new Zhuangzi, he was honest and hardworking, and he was immediately raised.

Yang Miaozhen walked back along the ridge, smelling the fragrance of the grass between the fields, and her mood suddenly relaxed. A feeling that was not on land enveloped her, and she felt that she was extremely unrestrained here. She took a deep breath and turned over and rode her horse, looked around again, and whispered to herself: "This is my man's, I have fought for my life, and I must take good care of it!" ”

Thinking of Zhao and Ju, she looked north with some melancholy, if Zhao and Ju could gallop with her on this boundless field, how good would it be.

"I wonder how he's doing now?"