Chapter 44: Backyard
Looking at the back of Togo Heiji's departure, Masara breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the benefits of being a lord are really good, and I have two wives all of a sudden. Just hope there isn't a fire in the backyard.
Stepping out of the council hall and hurried to the backyard.
Speaking of which, this is also the first time that Masahiro has carefully looked at the courtyard where this family lives. The courtyard is large, with a small pond in the middle, and a small mountain spring flows down from the hill on the north side of the courtyard, and finally converges into the pond. There are seven or eight wooden houses scattered around the pond, the largest and tallest of which is located on a small hill, which is where Masa-ra stayed last night. The courtyard is surrounded by a four-metre-high wooden mud wall. At this time, next to the pond in the middle of the courtyard, two girls of thirteen and fourteen years old were playing with each other, and under a big tree not far away, a young woman was holding a little girl of five or six years old and whispering softly. What a beautiful place of poetry and painting.
"Your Highness", Matsumiko, who was holding the little girl, first found Masashi standing not far away, and hurriedly put down Tian Miko in her arms to salute, Tian Miko next to her obviously had just been told by Matsumiko, and did not shout "big brother" as before, but stared at Masahiro with big eyes flickering. The meaning of the look in the eyes of the political conscience must be asking if there is anything delicious.
Kikuhime and Tsuru by the pond were also alarmed by Matsumiko's voice, and immediately hurriedly sorted out their clothes, and then walked over to salute Masayo with a blushing face.
"Hehe, it's all there. Are you all settled? Masahiro found out for a while that he didn't know what to say to them, so he had to ask casually.
"Your Highness, you have settled down, and the concubine and Tsuru and Sister Matsumiko all live there", Kikuhime stretched out her jade finger and pointed to a few wooden houses under the hill. Thinking about it, they all planned to be close to Zhengliang's residence, so that it would be convenient to serve Zhengliang in peacetime.
"Well, is the meal ready?" , Honestly, after evaluating all morning, Masato felt a little hungry.
"Your Highness, it's ready, the concubine will go down immediately to make arrangements", Ju Ji said immediately.
"Let's just take it here and eat, just spread a cloth on the ground", Masara suddenly wanted to eat in this beautiful courtyard, so that it seemed that there would be a picnic feeling. The request of the head of the house was not to be disobeyed, and everyone immediately went down and made arrangements.
Soon, the food was all laid out. Today's food is more abundant, in addition to multigrain rice (finally no need to eat porridge), there is also a small plate of wild vegetables, a small bowl of marinated pork, and a few pieces of dried fish. Marinated pork is pork obtained from hunting wild boars before, and dried fish is dried some time ago. Except for the cereals, the rest can be regarded as a famous recipe. Since it was the first time for the three women to eat with Masa-ra in this bizarre way, they all seemed a little restrained, and under Masa-liang's repeated requests, they lowered their heads and began to eat in small bites. But the little girl Tian Meizi didn't have this scruple at all, she stuck to Masaliang's side as usual, and while eating a big meal, she said vaguely to Masaliang, "Big brother, don't you have any big fish to eat today?" Where are there a lot of big fish? Xiaoyu pointed to the pond in the yard.
"Ahem... cough...", Masahiro, who was eating, was almost choked by the little girl's strange request, and the little girl seemed to be obsessed with the steamed fish he improvised last time. Ju Ji and Tsuru next to him were so amused by the scene in front of them that they wanted to laugh extremely much, but in order to maintain their image, they closed their mouths tightly and endured it, and their bodies trembled slightly. Matsumiko, on the other hand, was nervous.
"Well, Mei Oda, I'll get it for you later!" , The right hand gently rubbed the little girl's hair, and Masato said embarrassedly.
"Well, well, big brother, I will make such a big fish for you to eat in the future", the little girl said very seriously when she heard that Zhengliang promised to make a big fish for her to eat in the future. …,
"Okay, the big fish made by Mei Oda must be delicious," Mashiro said happily. What an innocent child. And the atmosphere that turned out to be a little dull because of the restraint was also enlivened a lot because of the little girl's words.
Soon after the meal was over, he motioned to Matsumiko, who was about to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and so on, Masarashi took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and handed them to the girls one by one, and motioned for them to look at the contents of the papers. Kikuhime and Tsuru were both taught writing by their fathers, Togo Heiji and Kosuke, so they were able to read, and Kikuhime was also good at writing. And Matsumiko,It's a time when I'm helping Masato sort out the text of the territory school.,Masa-liang accidentally found that she can also read.,After careful questioning,I learned that the road was taught by Matsumiko's husband.,For this Masato once felt extremely sorry.,If Matsumiko's husband wasn't killed,,It is estimated that he will be another powerful retainer of his own.。 At the same time, I secretly felt fortunate that although Kyushu was a place of exile, I had met so many people with cultural heritage at once. In this era, teaching was controlled by monasteries, and most peasants did not attach importance to reading and writing.
"Kikuhime, you will be my registrar, responsible for the minutes of each appraisal meeting; At the same time, the coins of the territory are under your care, and the coins can only be allocated after my approval; The last thing is the management and support of the orphans of the warriors in the territorial law, and I will arrange some ashigaru to cooperate with you, and there are some implementation rules that I have formulated in detail, you can take a closer look", Masara said to Ju Ji first.
"Yes, Your Highness, the concubine understands", Ju Ji replied with a salute. In fact, Togo Heiji has fully explained to her, and Kikuhime is also determined to play the role of the lord's wife.
"Matsumiko, you have to arrange for a few women to continue to take care of the fields under the mountain, and at the same time, there are dozens of homeless women in the current territory and farmers who can't take care of the fields alone, you can arrange them according to the previous methods, apply for a few more fields with Dongxiang Pingci, and focus on planting the crops I requested; At the same time, you are responsible for the specific management of the farm tools and relief regulations in the territorial law, and there are some details I have formulated on the paper", after instructing Kikuhime, Masarashi turned to Matsumiko and said.
"It's... Your Highness", Matsumiko was at a loss for a moment when she saw that the lord had suddenly arranged such an important task for herself. Zhengliang waved his hand, smiled at her, and cast an encouraging look. Feeling Masayo's eyes, Matsumiko blushed, lowered her head and hurriedly responded.
"Tsuru, in addition to taking care of my daily life, you can help them more," Masahiro said to Tsuru later. Crane didn't expect that he had just joined Zhengliang's backyard, and his identity had not yet been determined, so he had an arrangement, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly responded. Looking at the women in front of him, Masara was very touched in his heart, according to the concept of later generations, Masara did not plan to put them in the backyard as vases, and in this era of Japan, many lords' women were responsible for work, such as cleaning and capturing the heads of samurai, preparing meals before the war, organizing farmers to carry out farming, etc., so it was not a shocking thing to arrange some work for them. The deepest goal is for them to have something to do and work together to avoid backyard fires.
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