Because of Li Er's words, Zhao Chen's whole person was idle, and he didn't have to get up from the warm quilt every day before dawn, yawning and going to the morning court.

Li Er said that Zhao Chen could focus on the school palace, the affairs of the early dynasty and the yamen, but after ten days and a half of a month, Zhao Chen was as good as a stream, and from the next day onwards, he put his 'energy' on the school palace.

simply had nothing to do in the past few days, Zhao Chen slept until he woke up naturally every day, woke up with his own wheat and waited for washing, and then, the rest of the day was busy with other things.

Approaching the New Year, the Hou Mansion began to get busy, Zhang Lu was busy buying New Year's goods, this year is different from previous years, Zhao Chen is now the Hou Ye, during the New Year, the family must be full of guests.

There are a lot of things that need to be handled, Zhang Lu takes people with him, and goes back and forth between the east and west cities and the fourth floor every day, and when he comes back, he often pulls the whole car of things to the house.

This is life, even if Zhao Chen has a supermarket, he can buy all the things he uses with a casual stroke, but in that case, he will lose the joy of life.

In the kitchen of the Hou Mansion, since entering the wax moon, it has not stopped, the people of Guanzhong are particular about the New Year, since entering the first month, the kitchen can not use the knife, so many things have to be made into semi-finished products in advance, and when the guests come, they will go directly to the pot.

Of course, this kind of attention is paid to the rich and noble, as for the people's homes, come and go, just so much food, during the New Year, you must see a piece of meat residue in the bowl, then it is quite a loser!

When I got up in the morning, it was already midday, and I washed up briefly. When you get dressed and go into the hall. I saw Zhang Lu directing his family to carry bags of grain onto the cart.

These were the other days. The Lu rice that Li Er sent to him, more than 200 quintals, was transported back from the imperial city by Zhao Chen under the command of Zhang Lu.

"Master Hou!" Zhang Lu, who was originally busy, saw Zhao Chen coming out of the back house, and immediately threw down the work in his hand and came up with a smile.

"What is this?" Zhao Chen nodded, looking at the truckloads of grain, and looked at Zhang Lu suspiciously. Puzzled, asked.

This is obvious, it is the posture of pulling out all the grain, Zhao Chen was a little puzzled, and thought that there was something wrong with the granary.

"Master Hou, now that there is a flour grinder, the price of wheat has increased several times!" Zhang Lu had a smile on his face, and hurriedly explained to Zhao Chen.

It turned out that since Zhao Chen took out the machine for grinding noodles, it was originally a lowly wheat in this era. All of a sudden, the tide rose, and on the contrary, the originally hot millet and other things were exchanged with wheat overnight.

So. Zhang Lu thought about it, take out more than half of the food in the house and go to the market to buy it!

"Then our family is no longer alive!" Zhao Chen looked at Zhang Lu inexplicably. I can't figure out what Zhang Lu thinks.

Now, the Hou Mansion is also home to the old mansion. Counting hundreds of people to eat, this food is not enough. Zhang Lu actually thought about taking it out and buying it.

"Master Hou!" Zhang Lu saw that his Hou Ye's face was already slightly displeased, so he quickly wiped the cold sweat on his head, looked at Zhao Chen and explained: "Just because there are many people in our house, I want to buy all the grain, and I will buy some millet back!" ”

Difference! Wheat is now on the market, has become a sought-after commodity, buy wheat, and then use the wheat money to buy back millet, one comes and goes, two hundred quintals of grain, can be exchanged for nearly three hundred quintals.

Zhao Chen's mouth moved, and he originally wanted to say that the Hou Mansion was not short of that bit of food, but if it was gone, he directly told him that it was no problem to use grain to make wine. But when the words came to his lips, he thought about it again, and became: "Go as you want, remember not to let the people in our house go hungry!" ”

"Master Hou, don't worry!" As soon as Zhang Lu heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and said to Zhao Chen: "According to Master Hou's instructions, our house is full of three meals a day!" ”

Zhao Chen didn't have the patience to listen to this, waved his hand at Zhang Lu, and paced towards the hall. Zhang Lu is actually a good person, very suitable for the position of housekeeper, since he came to the house last year, Zhao Chen has almost never been in charge of the house, he threw the money to Zhang Lu, and became the shopkeeper.

"I can't do it without a woman in the family!" When he entered the hall, Zhao Chen sat down at the dining table, and when he waited for the food to be served, he couldn't help muttering.

When Li Chengqian came, Zhao Chen was leading a large group of people around the remote open space, surrounded by a wall.

Now, it's already the beginning of spring, but if spring really comes, it will be a long time. Therefore, Zhao Chen thought that he could build a greenhouse on this vacant land and eat fresh vegetables during the arrival of spring.

"Chang'an Hou is so leisurely!" Li Chengqian is already familiar with the Zhao Mansion, except for the study in the back house and Zhao Chen's bedroom, the rest of the places are basically open to Li Chengqian.

Leaving the followers he brought in the front house, Li Chengqian was alone, wandering to the side courtyard, and as soon as he entered the side courtyard, he saw Zhao Chen directing the wall there, and suddenly opened his mouth in a weird way.

Since returning from Lingnan, Li Chengqian has always called Zhao Chen Brother Chen when there are no outsiders, but now he is called Chang'an Hou, it is obvious that this guy is extremely unhappy in his heart.

"If you have something to say, don't come to this!" Zhao Chen gave the shovel to the stone on the side, and then patted the plaster on his hand, and then walked in front of Li Chengqian and looked directly at Li Chengqian.

"Will there be a big drought in Guanzhong next year?" Li Chengqian's words were not shocking, and he met Zhao Chen's gaze, almost without thinking, so he asked bluntly.

Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment, and he wanted to pretend to be surprised on his face to express his shock at the first hearing of this matter, but unfortunately, after working hard for a long time, he could only show a wry smile, looked at Li Chengqian and said, "Who did you listen to?" ”

"You already knew that, didn't you?" Li Chengqian's whole person, when he heard Zhao Chen's words, immediately trembled with anger, looked at Zhao Chen with a hideous face, and almost yelled.

"Tell me first, who told you that?" Zhao Chen was very curious about this person, he was from later generations, and naturally knew that in the second year of Zhenguan, the entire Guanzhong suffered a major drought, and the crops were not harvested, and the people could only sell their sons and daughters in order to fill their stomachs.

However, how could the person who told Li Chengqian know this?

"It was Wei Zheng who said it!" Li Chengqian raised his head in frustration, looked at the clear sky above his head, sighed, and then looked at Zhao Chen and said, "Wei Zheng listened to an old farmer in their house the day before yesterday, and he wasn't sure if it was true, so he came to find out your tone!" ”

It turned out that Wei Zheng came back from the morning dynasty the day before yesterday, and when he passed by the workshop, he heard an old farmer in the workshop talking there, saying that there had not been a few snows in the entire Guanzhong this year, and he was afraid that there would be a big drought in the coming year.

Hearing this, after Wei Zheng went back, he thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more unreliable he became, so he simply put on civilian clothes, specially found the old farmer, and talked carefully.

Zhao Chen was dumbfounded when he heard this, he originally thought it was Li Chunfeng of Qin Tianjian, but he didn't expect that it was an old farmer.

However, it is reasonable to think about it carefully, the old farmer is counting on that bit of crop every year, and naturally he knows everything about the crop.

As the saying goes, Ruixue is a mega year, and there has not been a few snows in the entire Guanzhong this year, and the old farmers who have a heart have naturally thought of the crops of the coming year.

"Brother Chen, isn't that so?" Li Chengqian explained the ins and outs, and then stared straight at Zhao Chen and asked nervously.

Zhao Chen wanted to say no, but looking at the clear sky at this time, it was just spring, and the entire Chang'an had slowly warmed up. After a little silence, Zhao Chen had to sigh and nodded at Li Chengqian.

"Why?" Li Chengqian's face was full of pain, the drought in Shandong had just passed, and that kind of tragic scene had already been deeply imprinted in Li Chengqian's mind because of the newspapers. Now, as long as he closes his eyes and thinks that the whole Guanzhong will become like that in the future, Li Chengqian will have an urge to go crazy.

"What, why?" Zhao Chen's heart, in fact, is also a little uncomfortable, drought is the power of nature, even in the future, there is nothing to be done, so the only way is to wait for the drought to come.

"Why, you already knew, but didn't tell me?" Li Chengqian looked at Zhao Chen painfully, and the whole person looked at Zhao Chen almost frantically, and asked in a painful tone.

"What can you tell you?" Zhao Chen met Li Chengqian's painful eyes and asked unceremoniously, "Can you stop it?" Or, tell you, hello early to get ready for rain? ”

"Isn't there any way?" Li Chengqian raised his head, looked at Zhao Chen, and said with a gaze that was almost pleading: "Brother Chen, you are an immortal disciple!" Can't even you stop the drought? ”

"Don't be stupid!" Zhao Chen looked at Li Chengqian in pain, shook his head regretfully, and said: "I told you a long time ago, this is nature, and people are nothing in front of nature, understand?" ”

As he spoke, Zhao Chen sighed and said, "Now, what you have to do is not to think about stopping it, but to think more about what you should do when the drought comes!" ”

"Brother Chen, can I ask you something?" Li Chengqian listened to Zhao Chen's words, suddenly fell silent for a while, raised his head and looked at Zhao Chen and said, "Can you tell me, did you withdraw from the court because of the drought when you came back from Shuofang this time?" ”

"What nonsense, how is this possible!" Zhao Chen was like a cat whose tail was suddenly stepped on, looked at Li Chengqian and exclaimed: "I'm just doing this for the school palace, I don't want to be distracted!" ”

"Really?" Li Chengqian looked at Zhao Chen with suspicious eyes and asked suspiciously.

"Don't believe it!" Zhao Chen waved his hand directly and said to Li Chengqian. (To be continued......)

PS: Last month, the Lord of the Xuanfeng Netherworld Alliance, the head of the house, and the monthly ticket owe more than twenty, and every time you make up for it, you will bring a number in the chapter!