Li Yu felt as if his words had invisibly offended Cheng Chan, and scratched his head embarrassedly, "I didn't mean that...... Uh, why don't we get out of the car and take a walk? ”

Before Lao Xu went to hunt game, he had already led those soldiers to bury the pot to make food, Zhaoshui and Xingshen were helping on the side, and Yu Xi was staring at the side of the road, not knowing what he was looking at.

"Sir," Cheng Zhan walked behind her and looked into her eyes, it was just a clump of dry grass, and she didn't understand what it mattered about.

"What do you see?" Yu Xi asked.

The second monk Cheng was puzzled, so he had to answer honestly, "The student saw a clump of dead grass. ”

"Did you see only the dead grass?"

Cheng Zhan didn't know what the mystery was, or what Zen Yu Xi was playing, racked his brains and pondered, "This bush of wild grass grows here and no one knows about it, and it is not as good as the rice seedlings in the rice field that are carefully cared for by the farmers, just like the difference between the common people and the nobles in the world......"

Yu Xi smiled, "It's good that you can think of this, but I don't want you to write a text to make a discussion, it's the rainy season, but you see that the weeds on the side of the road are withered like this, the leaves and grass tips here are all scorched and even withered, I'm afraid it hasn't rained here for a while." ”

Cheng Chan was stunned, she didn't think about such a superficial aspect at all, and then showed a teachable look, "Mr. really knows the subtleties......"

"You," Yu Xi shook his head with a smile, "I've been in Beijing for a long time, and I always like to think about things in complicated places, we went out of Beijing to let you understand the customs and customs of various places, which you can't learn in the study, and you can't use the same set in the study to use it on this." I heard that your Hou Mansion has several Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing, and you have always helped your mother with her affairs, but do you know how the harvest of the Zhuangzi is? ”

"In recent years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the harvest on the Zhuangzi is very stable, and each Zhuangzi can pay about 1,000 taels of silver every year." Cheng Chan often looked through the account books and answered quickly.

"The harvest was really good."

"Although the harvest of Zhuangzi is stable, in terms of income, it is far less than that of the shop." Although there are a few Zhuangzi in the Chengenhou Mansion, they can't look down on the silver taels handed over by Zhuangzi, and the Zhuangzi is mainly to occupy a land.

Mrs. Cheng's own dowry silver was very little invested in Zhuangzi, and it was basically invested in the shop.

In these years, the country and the people were safe, and the imperial court did not suppress commerce, so commerce was very developed, and many farmers left their hometowns to engage in business, especially in places like the capital, where businesses gathered, and the income was much higher than farming.

"Agriculture-oriented," Yu Xi sighed, "If everyone follows the example of that businessman and shakes the foundation of the country, I am afraid that the tragic scene of decades ago will reappear." ”

Cheng Chan was puzzled, "At that time, the people of Qianyan were not happy, it was because of the superstition of the faint king, not because of the heavy business, the students thought that it was the nature of businessmen to pursue profits, if there were no merchants, how could the capital have the prosperous scene today, and how could the treasury of Daliang be full today?" Businessmen can't shake the country's foundation. ”

"But if everybody follows the merchant's profit, who willingly stays in the field and cultivates, and who will tend the crops? Without farmers, without crops, without harvests, without food, how can we live? Do you rely on swallowing gold to absorb jade? Yu Xi frowned.

"Everything in the world has a certainty, why should you worry about it, sir," Cheng Jin dragged a stag over happily, interrupting the argument between the two, "Today's luck is good, there is venison to eat." ”

"Yo, these antlers are good." Lao Xu only hunted two pheasants, and when he saw such a strong stale, his eyes lit up, and he stepped forward quickly, looking at it with a happy face, "This antler is so good, it's good to keep it for soaking in wine." ”

"Okay, Uncle Xu, you can dispose of this deer." Cheng Jin only hunted any rabbits and pheasants a few days ago, and she was very happy that she had such a big harvest today, "It's a pity that it's summer now, and eating venison is easy to get hot and dry, so it's better to add some herbs to nourish yin and remove fire later." ”

Lao Xu responded one by one, took the stag from her hand with a smile, and whispered to Wen Shao'an, "Later, you can drink some deer blood, which is excellent for men, and I will keep this deer antler wine for you......"

His voice was not loud, but Cheng Jin's ears were very sharp, "He is still young, he doesn't need those, and it will not be good for him to make up for it in the future." ”

"Poof-" Yang Zhong didn't hold back, squirted out, and kept squeezing his eyebrows at Wen Shaoan.

Fang Wu looked at Wen Shao'an meaningfully, and even Lao Xu was holding back a smile.

Wen Shao'an's expression remained unchanged, and he smiled at Lao Xu gently, "I don't need these, if it's convenient, Uncle Xu might as well leave a copy for my two senior brothers, they can use it." ”

Cheng Jin reacted at this time, blushing like an ordinary daughter, but holding his stomach and laughing.

However, Yu Xi blushed and glared at her angrily, "The girl's family should also have the appearance of a girl's family." ”

"She is as powerful as an ox, where does she have the appearance of a girl's family?" Although Cheng Chan is smiling and angry, he is defending Cheng Jin openly and secretly, Yu Xi feels funny, these sisters are indeed deeply affectionate, and they protect each other like old hens guarding their cubs all the time.

After getting along these days, the relationship between her and Cheng Jin has become much more natural, and she no longer regards her as Queen Zhuang Jing, and she is trembling even when she says a word, but no matter who Cheng Jin used to be, it is different from what is said in the history books, she is a very insightful person, and she is still very willing to talk to her.

"What do you mean by a fixed number?"

Cheng Jin was still squatting aside to clean his hands, and Yu Xi came over and asked for an understanding.

"Everything in the world has a fixed number, the sun, the moon and the stars, the morning and the twilight, the origin and the extinction, the birth, the old age, the sickness and the death, the sunny day and the rain have a fixed number, which is beyond the reach of manpower. Cheng Jin said indifferently.

"These years are good, the crops are good, the crops in the fields are enough to feed so many people, and it is natural to abandon agriculture and start business, but what if there is a famine? Without a good harvest, the crops in the fields cannot feed these many people, and what will the people feed on? Yu Xi asked sharply.

"What do you mean by a good year? What is a bad year? Cheng Jin simply sat down, "My girders have a vast territory, and when it was a good year, there were also drought and flood locust plagues in states and counties, how did they solve it before?" It was the imperial court that borrowed merchant grain for disaster relief, and the merchants directly transported the grain to the affected prefectures and counties, and then the imperial court paid the silver taels, and the disaster relief efficiency was not known to be much higher than that of the previous dynasty. Why were merchants able to deliver grain so quickly? Profiteering is Tuer. ”