Everyone can see that Hou Ye has been in a good mood recently, and the words that often hang on his lips are "it's okay". If a student fails an exam, he will smile and say "it's okay", he will say "it's okay" when the glass in the office is kicked by a football, he will "say it's okay" when the fat cook accidentally burns the kitchen, and even the eldest lady will say "it's okay" when he breaks the head of the young master.

The Hou Ye also agreed to all the questions asked, and in the past few days, he whistled and didn't know how many Spring Palace paintings he had painted for his students, and the brushwork was delicate, the posture was peculiar, each of them was a classic, but a sentence popped out of his mouth from time to time, "It's dead!" "It makes the students who want to draw uneasy.

Ma Du dried the ink on the drawing paper and handed the painting to Qi Tai, "Take it, you kid who didn't see it is still quite sullen!" ”

Qi Tai was originally a simple good boy, but after a few years of mixing with a bunch of old fritters, his face is getting thicker and thicker, "The student is also helpless, he has been married for almost two years, but his clumsy stomach has not moved at all, and the second elder in the family is very anxious, so he came to Mr. for advice." ”

"Asking for advice? That's a nice thing to say. I heard that you are going to work in the household department, it is the oil and water yamen that everyone wants to go to, but you can remember that the emperor hates greed the most, don't stretch out your hand, you will be arrested if you stretch out your hand! ”

"Thank you, sir, for teaching, and the students will remember it."

"Well, go ahead, make a man well!"

Just after sending Qi Tai away, Ma Du was cleaning up the things on the table, and a series of footsteps entered the office, and said impatiently: "I have already painted three people today, and I want to come back tomorrow." ”

"The class has an axe, the old man is profound, and you don't need to show me your three-legged cat kung fu." Ma Du turned his head and saw that it was Bo Qi who had entered the office.

"I can't compare to you, didn't I go to the city to see my relatives? Came back so soon. ”

In the battle with Lin, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun captured a lot of Meng Yuan's royal family, but Bo Qi has always ignored it, not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't dare to ask.

may think that it is strange and expensive to raise so many people, Lao Zhu suddenly threw it to Bo Qi a few days ago, and lived in his Guogong Mansion, and Bo Qi went to meet them in the past two days.

"It's better not to see it, it's very disturbing and expensive, there are dozens of mouths at home at once, and it costs money to eat, drink, and Lazar." Bo Qi sat on the chair with a wistful ass.

"Tell them that you are not the rich emperor of the past, and let them all save some time. If you want to save face yourself, then don't complain about anything. ”

Bo Qi waved his hand, "The old man is not here to listen to your lesson, the pump you asked me to make last time came out, and it is something that pumps water from a low place to a high place." ”

"Oh? You really have the ability, didn't you say that this is making profits for Daming's farming, don't you want to do it? ”

Bo Qi shook his head and sighed: "Da Yuan owes a lot to the people of the world, even if it is a little compensation that I have done. But one yard is one yard, and you can't miss the design fee you should give, and the old man has been poor recently. ”

"Ben Hou is full of words, and not a penny will be less. By the way, you might as well be a good person to do it to the end, help drum out the wool loom, and the design fee is up to you. ”

Bo Qi sneered, "Don't think that the old man can't see it, once the wool loom is drummed out, the Mongols will definitely become vassals of the Ming Dynasty, if this matter can't be avoided, it can't pass through my hands, the old man doesn't want to become a Mongolian sinner." ”

"It's your biggest sin to let them starve and freeze on the grassland Gobi, if you don't want to, forget it, anyway, they will be able to do it one day. Let's go, take me to see the pump to inspect the goods, and when I pass the customs, I will go to the account office to get the silver. ”

"No, the old man has already brought it!" Bo Qi beckoned outside the office, and the two students came in with a suitcase.

"Go back!" Bo Qi sent the students away, and said while opening the box: "The old man didn't follow your train of thought, because he couldn't reach that kind of speed sealing at all, so he had to find another way." You can easily draw water from a low place to a high place, even if it is stagnant water, I don't know how much more convenient than a waterwheel, come and see the old man's masterpiece! ”

Mado leaned over expectantly, and when he saw the contents of the box, he almost didn't get into it.

Bo Qi looked at Ma Du and said: "Although this thing is simpler, it can fully meet your requirements, how can you not believe it, or do you want to repay the debt." ”

"Believe, of course!" Ma Du was very familiar with the contents and indeed met his requirements, but he felt that spending five hundred taels of silver to buy a pressurized water well was a bit of a loss.

"Then don't be stunned, hurry up and take the old man to the account room to get the silver."

"I'm not in the mood, I'll open a note for you and you can get it yourself." Ma Du returned to his seat and picked up the brush, "By the way, hasn't there been any movement in the court these days?" ”

Bo Qi said with a smile: "Do you want to ask the emperor if he has issued an order to arrest Zhu Liangzu in Guangdong, the old man has helped you investigate in the past few days in the city, and I am sorry to tell you that there is no movement at all in the calm and calm in the court, and the emperor has not mentioned it in the past few days." ”

"Impossible, the emperor can't rub the sand in his eyes, maybe he has already sent someone from the pro-army Governor's Mansion to secretly go to Guangdong to check his evidence."

"I don't know, I can't inquire about the identity of the old man. By the way, there will be no pro-military governor's mansion in the future, and the emperor changed it to Jinyi Guard a few days ago! ”

Ma Du's hand couldn't help but tremble when he heard this, and the brush fell on the paper he had just written, dyeing a heavy black spot......

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His leg didn't hurt anymore but his heart was still hurting, Li Jinglong didn't understand why he was thrown into this poor country, let him starve, and didn't save him when he was humiliated and beaten, but he knew that all this was what his father meant.

When he was young, his father was fighting abroad, and it was rare to see him all year round, but Li Jinglong knew that his father loved him at that time, and he often wrote to him and brought him a lot of gifts.

When he was a child, he was a rattle, a cloth tiger and other gadgets, when he was seven or eight years old, it was an enlightenment book, and later it was the Four Books and Five Classics, and when he was older, he was given a BMW armor.

Yes, Daddy must have hoped that he would become a famous general like him, but he seemed to be going the other way, and Daddy must have been disappointed to throw him here to punish him.

But what's the use, will you become smarter or braver because of it? No, maybe his younger brother Zengzhi is the best choice, and he just wants to live happily as he wants.

Pop, there was a soft sound of chopping wood at the bottom of the pot, and a little spark fell on the surface of his feet, Li Jinglong hurriedly spat and grinned and rubbed. He got up and lifted the lid of the pot, and the steam immediately filled the bottom of the shed, and the thick rice porridge was bubbling, and the tantalizing rice fragrance emitted made people salivate.

A pair of his boots cost five taels of silver, but most of them turned into a decoction into his stomach, and there was not much rice left at home, but fortunately it had been boiled until the summer harvest.

Li Jinglong walked out of the shed, raised his eyes to look at the sun that was already past noon, and said in his heart: "Why haven't the three of them come back?" ”

A middle-aged man walked past the door with a sickle in his hand and beckoned, "Are you going to go down to the ground?" When I saw Cuihua, they asked them to come back for dinner. ”

"You really don't know anything in your next life, you want to call me my seventh uncle and grandfather."

My father doesn't want him anymore, and he still cares about his mother's bullshit seventh uncle and grandfather, but now he has to ask for help, so he can only say patiently: "Okay, the seventh uncle and grandfather saw Cuihua and let them come back for dinner." ”

Li Jinglong stiffened his tongue and deliberately said vaguely, "Seventh Uncle and Grandpa" didn't care, and said with a smile: "I know, but the three of them may not come back, they are busy at this time, why don't you kid go to help." ”

Li Jinglong was speechless for a while, "I...... I...... I don't know how to do farm work! ”

"How can there be farm work, just have a lot of strength, I'll go first."

Li Jinglong was stunned for a moment, took out a clay pot from the house, scraped the rice porridge in the pot one by one, and found two black pottery bowls to knock on the jar, and went out with a rope.

The golden wheat waves could not be seen at a glance, and I vaguely saw people bending down in the ups and downs in it, and the sturdy men and women were harvesting in front of them, holding sickles in their hands, bending their arms to hold a tuft of wheat, and the snowy sickle was cut off with a few swishs, and they shook their hands and put them behind them.

The old man followed, took out a handful of wheat and divided it into two strands, skillfully tied a knot, and tied a wheat figure with both hands, and stood in the field like a short and fat man.

The boy was the last to pick up the ears of wheat on the ground, and if he saw a locust, he got up and went to catch it, which was a rare delicacy. Li Jinglong didn't know the Zhao family's wheat field, so he asked the direction of "Seventh Uncle and Grandfather" and hurried over.

As soon as he arrived at the ground, he saw that the wheat piled up into a hill was moving slowly, and below was a thin and thin figure, Li Jinglong tilted his body and waited to see the person's appearance clearly, and said in surprise: "Cuihua, you have such strength!" ”

He didn't say that it was okay, Cuihua subconsciously looked up at him, but his body fell straight and fell backwards, but fortunately, he was not hurt when he was cushioned.

Li Jinglong put down the clay pot in his hand and helped Cuihua up, "Don't be reckless if you can't carry so much." ”

Cuihua shook off Li Jinglong's hand, "You don't look good at home, why did you come here!" ”

"I'm not a dog, I'm here to bring you food, well, by the way, I'm here to help you." Li Jinglong looked at Zhao He and Xiao Shu, who were immersed in cutting wheat in front of him, and shouted: "Grandma Zhao, Xiao Shuan is here to eat!" ”

Xiao Bolt heard the voice and ran over, "I'm starving!" He picked up the clay pot and poured himself a bowl of porridge, and drank it with a snort.

Zhao He slowly walked over with his waist in his hands, his face was drenched in sweat, he sat on the grass on the ground, took off the handkerchief on his head and wiped his sweat, and said with a smile: "I came just in time, I thought I would go back to cook for you, but you brought the food." ”

"I can walk now, and I have hands and feet to serve you." Li Jinglong handed the porridge bowl to Zhao He's and looked at the wheat field that was about to be cut to the ground, "It's okay, it's almost finished!" ”

"This is just the beginning, all the way to the crooked neck tree in front of us is our family's land, and the tree was planted by my father himself!"

After just one glance at Cuihua's fingers, he felt dizzy, "There are so many, how long do you have to cut this, and how much land do we have?" ”

"Not much, ten acres, it was divided in the county in the second year of Hongwu."

Ten acres of land doesn't sound like much, and it can't be compared with the Li family's 10,000 acres of fertile land, but it looks like a big piece, and if you continue to do this, you will get the Year of the Monkey.

"Grandma Zhao, why don't we hire someone and give him food when we harvest the wheat."

"Where to hire people during the busy farming season, our family's land is small, and no one else has dozens of acres of land." The old lady's eyes turned red as she spoke, "People like ours don't have a strong labor force in the family, and even in a peaceful and prosperous world, there is no way to live, woo woo......"

Li Jinglong couldn't see women crying the most, no matter whether they were old or young, he patted his chest and comforted: "Grandma Zhao, don't be sad, don't you still have me at home." ”