Chapter 948 - Official Residence 9
This ornament is made of a piece of black and white jade, and the carver ingeniously carved the whole piece of jade into a beautiful garden in the south of the Yangtze River, and the black impurities became the roof, the land, and the human hair.
In other places, flowers and trees, houses and streets are carved, and even small vendors come and go, vividly showing the customs of that place, and showing the beautiful scenery of Yanyu Jiangnan one by one on this small ornament.
It's not that the county order hasn't seen good things, but at this moment he was still attracted by this exquisite jade ornament, including the people who came to congratulate the county order on his birthday, and all the people in the county town who came to congratulate him on his birthday were amazed and watched for a long time.
Seeing such good things, he naturally wanted to meet the people who offered these things, and soon, Murong Ting and Murong were both brought into the door by the gatekeepers and arrived in front of the county order.
The hall where the county order celebrates his birthday is very large, and it is full of celebrities wearing silk brocades, but Murong Ting's face is light and breezy, and he does not have any cowardice when he sees a big person, and his whole body has an excellent bearing.
Murong Shuangshuang, who was beside Murong Ting, naturally did not embarrass her father, and walked beside her father with a calm and regular face.
The county magistrate looked at Murong Ting, stroked his beard and asked: "This jade ornament was presented by you, looking at your dress, it is not like a person who can afford to buy such a jade ornament, is it carved by yourself, the craftsmanship is good." ”
Murong Ting bent down and saluted: "Back to your lordship, this jade was originally inadvertently obtained by the grass people in the mountains, because I am grateful that the lord is very good to the people under his rule, and has not increased taxes for many years, so I am grateful in my heart."
The grass people wanted to give the adults a gift, but the grass people had no long things, and the only thing they could get their hands on was a little experience in jade carving, except for medical skills, so it took half a year to carve this jade ornament, which was not a good thing, but this was already the best thing that the grass people could take out. ”
In fact, when Murong Ting said this, he was still a little ashamed in his heart, because he was completely greedy for his daughter's credit, but Murong Shuangshuang had persuaded Murong Ting before, she was too young, such a jade ornament was said to be from her hand, and the credibility was too low, and others didn't know that Murong Shuangshuang had previous memories as a plug-in.
The county order was particularly happy to be said by Murong Ting, he asked himself that he was definitely a good official, although it was inevitable to accept filial piety, but he had never exploited the people, he had been in office for so many years, and he had never increased taxes privately, and he was definitely a good official for the people, so the county commander felt that Murong Ting's words were absolutely true.
Because he was happy, the county order immediately waved his hand and asked people to take out a letter of silver to Murong Ting as a reward, the county order, as an official gentry, in this troubled world, is the one who is not short of money, because Murong Ting's words are good, and the reward given is extremely happy, so that his subordinates will get the reward of Dafeng.
Murong Ting didn't look at it on the spot, and after accepting the reward, he and Murong Shuangshuang left the county order's house after celebrating the county order's birthday again, and returned home until Murong Ting opened the big reward given by the county order with excitement.
Murong Ting had already secretly touched it before, it was four very big hard objects, and when he opened it, it was indeed a row of ten silver ingots weighing five taels, a full fifty taels of silver, this is a windfall, and it is also a clear road, because it is a county order reward, you can use it at will without worrying about the greed that does not have long eyes and wants to come to Murong family to fry oil and water.
Although strictly speaking, the jade ornaments are worth hundreds of taels in the hands of people who know the goods, but the county order does not want to swallow it directly and does not give money is already a rare conscience, although this time it did not reach the attention of exempting taxes before, but with these silver, it is worth at least four or five years of tax use, and the tax crisis is finally solved.
The family has money, Murong Shuangshuang and Murong Ting's first thought is to nourish the body of the She family, Murong Ting, as Langzhong, although his medical skills are not top-notch, but it is enough to help people maintain their health and regulate their bodies, and the fact that She's body cannot be regulated before is still the reason why there is no money in the family.
Murong Ting took a certain amount of silver to the town's money village to exchange it for four silver ingots that used to be one or two of them, as well as ten hangs of one thousand copper coins, and then went to buy ten catties of japonica rice, ten catties of millet, and a bunch of fat pork for boiling oil, and finally Murong Ting bought two more silk flowers of ten cents, a large bag of caramel sugar, and spent half a tael of silver before going home.
The silk flower is definitely the most enviable jewelry on the women in the village, although Murong Shuangshuang disliked the rough workmanship of the silk flower and didn't want it at all, but She was very happy, and when he took the silk flower out, he was still hot for a while by the women in the village.
Now is not the peaceful years of decades ago in the mouths of the old people, at that time it was said that ordinary people's homes, that woman did not lack a few silk flowers, a few copper hairpins, a good family, gold and silver.
Now it's not done, the world is very chaotic, the people can't eat enough, where is the money to buy jewelry, not to mention gold and silver, even the copper hairpin can't afford to carry, a silk flower is enough for people to envy.
In fact, the county order was even more generous than Murong Shuangshuang and others thought, because after the county order's birthday, several officials sent a hundred catties of japonica rice and a hundred catties of fine noodles to the Murong family, and also informed Murong Ting that their family's taxes would be exempted for three years.
This is really an unexpected joy, of course, when the officials left, one person had thirty extra copper coins in his hand, which was enough for the whole family to eat two meals of meat, which was definitely a lot of extra money, and several officials were very happy with Murong Ting's upper path.
Because the officials came too high-profile, the affairs of the Murong family could not be concealed at all, and soon everyone in the village knew the benefits Murong Ting had gotten, because Murong Ting had been gracious to the township for so many years, but no one felt jealous, and they were all sincerely happy for the Murong family.
Of course, the villagers didn't know how many good things the Murong family had, they only knew that the county order rewarded fine rice noodles and silver last time, of course, in the hearts of these villagers, they would not have thought that the county order would give such a reward of fifty taels of silver, everyone guessed three or five taels of silver, and dared to guess ten taels at most.
No matter what, Murong Ting, who is a good man, has benefited the whole village, and now Murong Shuangshuang's family eats polished rice, white flour, and millet porridge every day, and three meals of meat and vegetables are matched every day, and the family is making up for it very well.
When the life of Murong Shuangshuang's family was getting better and better, Fang Kexin next door was depressed, knowing that he couldn't leave this world, Fang Kexin, who was already dead, began to think about making some money-making deals.