Qu Hao came to take office quietly by himself, and when the magistrates and squires of Tongbei County were still making preparations to welcome the new county order, they would never have thought that they had arrived.

After lunch, Qu Hao asked his subordinates to find a local to lead the way, and took the three of them around the fields. After looking at the land in Tongbei County, Mai Xiaohuan probably guessed the crux of poverty here, just like what was written in the "Qingcheng County Chronicle", most of the land here is sandy, which is not suitable for growing valuable food crops, and the mountains are full of bushes, and even the thick trees with the mouth of the bowl are difficult to find.

"Do you see something?" Qu Hao saw that Mai Xiaohuan was observing very carefully, and from time to time grabbed a handful of soil and pinched, rubbed and even smelled.

After looking at a few plots of land, Mai Xiaohuan didn't answer Qu Hao's question, but turned his head and asked the local what crops were planted here and what the yield was.

The local shook his head for a moment before he said, "What can grow like this!" Growing wheat is not enough to pay the rent! The beans were fine at first, but then they were not as good as the year, and if there was a drought, there would be nothing left.

"Don't you use manure and open canals for irrigation?"

The local didn't understand what Mai Xiaohuan was saying at all, and he stuttered for a long time without saying a complete sentence.

"Big brother, let's get in the car!" Mai Xiaohuan pulled Qu Hao and them into a car, and after the car started, Mai Xiaohuan replied: "I guess the reason why Tongbei County is so poor is because of the land, it is not suitable for growing food crops, and the people have never thought of planting cash crops, so they ......."

Qu Hao asked Mai Xiaohuan if there was a solution? Mai Xiaohuan promised that he would try his best to find a way, but it was basically impossible to turn sandy land into fertile land. The current situation can only be alleviated by fertilizing, nourishing the land, and changing to suitable crops.

Back at the inn, Mai Xiaohuan asked Qu Hao about her plans, but Qu Hao asked her if she had any suggestions. Mai Xiaohuan sighed secretly, people like his father-in-law and Brother Qu are probably destined to be officials by nature! Quick thinking, level-headed, and quick response.

But don't just talk about it! After all, he has never been in contact with officialdom, and he looks confident when he sees that Brother Qu is also confident, and I believe that he must have his own ideas and countermeasures. Mai Xiaohuan, who wanted to hide from the idle, was still assigned a task by Qu Hao, asking her to write down all the ways she could think of to improve the sand, and hand in any good suggestions.

Mai Xiaohuan happily agreed, but she also had a request, she wanted Qu Hao to inquire about the land price and housing prices in Tongbei County, and buy herself a Zhuangzi near the water source.

After staying up for half a night, Mai Xiaohuan wrote a proposal on how to improve land desertification and increase crop yield based on his memory and impression.

When the three of them were about to separate after breakfast, Mai Xiaohuan handed it to Qu Hao: "Big brother, the task you gave me has been completed, and it will be up to you next." ”

"Don't worry!" Qu Hao's plan is to buy a Zhuangzi in his own name to conduct experiments for Mai Xiaohuan, and give it to her after success, in case of failure, the risk will also be borne by himself, the eldest brother. A few thousand taels of silver is nothing to the Qu family, but it is definitely a lot of wealth for Mai Xiaohuan's family.

Qu Hao ordered his subordinate Zhuo Qiao to drive the sisters home, and their royal bodyguard Tang Yujun accompanied his father to the capital to inspect the new dim sum shop, otherwise he would have followed him upside down.

After waving goodbye to Qu Hao, Mai Xiaofang saw that no outsiders were there, and complained to her sister in a low voice: "What kind of shabby place is this in Tongbei County, what kind of land do you have money and no place to spend it, how can you buy land here!" More than a thousand taels of silver! Even if you don't do anything, it's enough to spend a lifetime, why are you such a loser! ”

"Second sister, we will have many, many thousand taels in the future."

Mai Xiaofang expressed her disbelief, she felt that if her sister could earn back a lot of the money she took out, she would be content.

Because they took a long detour to Tongbei County, this time the sisters walked on the road for more than two days before returning to Shaxi Village. As soon as she stepped on this land, Mai Xiaofang was like a cheerful bird flying out of the cage, moving from the car to the outside, sitting on the wheel and humming a small tune, greeting people from afar, whether they were men or women.

The two daughters of the Mai family are back again, and now his family is more lively, but Xiao Huanniang can finally breathe a sigh of relief, with these two children in Mai Liu's family and her newly married daughter-in-law, it should be more restrained!

Some of them left after a few words with the sisters, while others followed their carriage all the way to the door of McWan's house.

There was someone at home today, Mai Xiaofang jumped out of the carriage and went over to push the door, and as soon as her hand touched the door, she heard a voice in the yard: "Since you have more than 100 taels of silver to buy a house in the county, I don't believe that there is no silver to treat our mother." ”

"Eldest sister, we have already taken our share of the silver! Why are you still here? You also know that my family's money has bought a house, and there is really no extra money to pay for you and Qiaoyue. ”

Is this a quarrel between my mother and my aunt? Mai Xiaofang wanted to push the door in, but Mai Xiaohuan grabbed her, she had to figure out what was going on before she could go in and persuade her!

"What do you mean to pay for us! If my mother hadn't been angry at Yonghe's house, would she be in a hurry to go back? If she hadn't been in a hurry, would she have fallen and injured herself? I told you that the money for this medical treatment must be paid by your family, and if you don't give it today, someone will come and ask for it tomorrow. ”

"My mother obviously fell at the door of my sister-in-law's house, why do you have to say that I was injured because I got angry after a quarrel with Brother Yonghe! It's been a few days since my mother fell and injured herself from the county seat, how can you count this account on our heads! ”

"If it weren't for the fact that the thing that was neither big nor small allowed my mother to enter the door, and said those ugly words in my mouth, how could my mother be angry and rush back! Isn't that tiring? How old is she! I was in a bad mood and tired, so I fell, and you said, if I don't look for you, who should I look for? ”

This time, the sisters also understood, and the grandmother wanted to enter the eldest brother's new house in the county seat, but was rejected by Chen Hanting. After coming back, she fell and was injured at her mother's house, and at the behest of her old man, these people took turns to go to their house to ask for money for medical treatment.

Just like Mai Xiaoling was injured last time, everyone wants to slaughter their family as a fat sheep, and if they succeed, their uncle and aunt will not have to pay a penny, even if they are not successful, the reputation of their family's unfilial piety will spread after several times, even if they can't get the silver, grandma's anger is almost out.

Damn Chen Hanting, Mai Xiaofang greeted him and his ancestors for eighteen generations, and pushed open the door vigorously, auntie! Dare to come to the door to bully my mother, let her know today that the door of her own house is not so easy to enter.

Hearing the sound of pushing the door, Shan Cuihua and Mai Qiaoyue stopped arguing, and seeing that it was the two girls who came back, the sadness on Shan Cuihua's face was replaced by a smile, and they finally came back.

Mai Qiaoyue smiled wryly, her luck is really enough, how can she let her two nieces see this kind of scene! She wanted to explain a few words, but suddenly remembered that her sister-in-law Wu had said that as soon as the two girls came back, they would take things home in large bags. Didn't the younger siblings say they had no money at home? Then use things instead of silver, and ask my mother for some supplements and clothes to go back, do you have your own share? While the sister-in-law didn't know, the two children came back, of course, they picked up the best and took it.

It's just a carriage today! The two of them didn't bring anything except the burden on their shoulders, so they wouldn't have been picked up by the county lord! Even if the county lord doesn't want to see them, there is still the county guard's mansion! The county watchman's wife will let them come back empty-handed, which proves that either the nieces have an accident or the county watchman's office.

Mai Xiaofang saw her aunt looking behind the two of them vigorously, and thought that she was waiting for rescuers: "Auntie, you and my mother just quarreled, why!" Say it and I'll hear it! ”

Where does Mai Qiaoyue still have the heart to care about quarrels! All she wanted to know now was why the two nieces hadn't brought anything back this time. Was he driven back by the county lord's disgust, or something happened to the county guard's mansion: "Xiao Huan! You tell my aunt if something happened in Qingcheng County, this time...... How...... My aunt wanted to ask, why didn't the county guard and the soup clerk send someone to see you off! ”

"Auntie, you are confused because of your grandmother's illness, and you still haven't woken up and talked in your sleep! The big brother who drove the car was the one who sent us both back! ”

In the past, you all came back with a cart of good things! Of course, I was anxious if I didn't see anything good today, but some words couldn't be said too bluntly, and outsiders heard as if I was thinking about my niece's things.

"Mother, where's our carriage!" Mai Xiaofang helped Shan Cuihua to walk into the yard, she wanted to settle down the somewhat haggard Shan Cuihua and then come back to her aunt to theorize. After walking half of the courtyard, she didn't see the carriage that the county guard gave to her sister, and she had a bad premonition in her heart.

Shan Cuihua let out a long sigh, the last time the two children went back, they should have asked them to drive the carriage away, and now the child asked, how can he explain it! At the same time, she was also secretly glad that she had let the two children take away all the valuable jewelry, otherwise she didn't know if there would be any now!

"O your carriage! I know where it is, your eldest brother-in-law sits on it to school every day! Pity your grandmother! A lot of age, the number of times I've been in a carriage can be counted in a slap. ”

It seems that the carriage given to him by his stepmother has contributed a lot in the past few months, picking up kisses for the eldest brother, and pulling the grandmother, and now it has become the special car of the eldest brother's "champion" brother-in-law. This carriage is usually reluctant to sit in it, and these people are really not ordinary thick-skinned!

That Chen Hanting is too shameless, Mai Xiaofang asked Qu Hao's subordinates to pull him to Pingliang County, she has to meet that shameless guy today, and don't let him pay a price, Mai Xiaofang feels that she has to be mad.