Aoki thought for a while, smiled and said to Chrysanthemum: "If you make up for it, I'm afraid it's really bad for our crop baby, or rough and rough, so it will be stronger." He turned to Liu Yunlan again and said, "Eat when you're hungry, don't eat anymore." Chrysanthemum is right, everything has to be eaten. ”

Liu Yunlan nodded obediently when she heard this.

Chrysanthemum pursed her lips and smiled: "Of course." Brother, do you think, what good food did we have in our family a few years ago? Don't you just eat some corn grains, and even white rice is not eaten often. But aren't you, Brother Huaizi, and your father and mother all good-looking? I was just in poor health when I was a child, otherwise I wouldn't be like this. It can be seen that whole grains are the most nourishing, and you can't eat meat and not eat those things just because your life is good now. ”

As he spoke, Aoki nodded again and again, feeling quite sudden.

At this moment, Zhang Huai outside shouted: "Auntie, Aoki and Chrysanthemum? You can't sleep all of them, can you? ”

Aoki hurriedly put down his books and went to the courtyard to talk to Huaizi, and Chrysanthemum taught Liu Yunlan to read and write under the lamp.

Liu Yunlan looked at the crooked words she wrote, and said with a red face: "Sister Chrysanthemum, am I too stupid, your brother teaches me every night, I can recognize this little bit, and the writing is ugly to death, this old man can't hold it steadily, and I feel that it doesn't listen to the call."

Chrysanthemum shook her head and smiled: "What do you want to do with that?" I didn't go to the Xiucai exam. You just have to practice these words well, and look at the ledger or something, and it won't take much effort. We have a shop, maybe one day we will hire someone to do some small business, so don't you have to keep accounts? ”

Liu Yunlan nodded, and wrote seriously for a while, Chrysanthemum persuaded her to rest, and the two went outside to talk together.

The faint moonlight sprinkled on the courtyard, the bamboo shadows were swaying, the peach trees were thick and green, and the only thing that was disappointing was that the cat called Spring howled like a little baby crying, which made people have a layer of goosebumps. When Yang saw his sister-in-law come out, he hurriedly greeted Liu Yunlan and said, "Yunlan, come here." Mother will tell you something. ”

Chrysanthemum smiled when she saw it, knowing that her mother was going to talk to her sister-in-law about those things to pay attention to when she was pregnant, so she took a small bench and sat down in front of Aoki and Huaizi and listened to them.

Zhang Huai whispered to Aoki for a long time, and when he saw Chrysanthemum coming out, he smiled slightly, beckoned to her, and whispered, "Sit down and tell you something." ”

Chrysanthemum couldn't help but smile when she heard him say this, and asked, "What did you two say?" Shinto. He moved the stool forward.

Aoki smiled and said softly, "We want to dig a basement in the back mountain and go out through a tunnel from the backyard." ”

Chrysanthemum asked in surprise, "Why?" ”

With this little property of your own family, you don't need to be so frightened to find a place to collect it, right?

Huaizi said solemnly: "You don't know, whether it's to prevent people or disasters, it's always good to prepare more back roads." Digging a tunnel leads to the back mountain, also in case; Digging a basement is not just to hide the silver, and the silver is not hidden for miles—mainly to hide some food and things. If you don't need it, you can hide it in the cellar; If you use it when something happens, isn't it better than anything else? ”

Aoki nodded and sighed, "Actually, many people will keep a hand, but you don't know." We haven't done this before, we don't have anything to hide; Now that I have something and some money, I naturally have to hide some. It also means guarding against those corrupt officials and servants - they are the biggest robbers, and when they meet the black-hearted, they will rob whatever they see. Who do you go to reason? If there is a disturbance, maybe even someone will get in. ”

Chrysanthemum was shocked when she heard this, and suddenly remembered that in her previous life, she heard her mother tell an old saying, saying that when someone renovated and built a house and demolished the old house, she took out a lot of silver dollars from the wall; He also said that whose family dug up gold bricks and so on, and they all said that they had names and surnames. At that time, she wondered, why didn't the ancestors of these people tell their descendants where to put their treasures? Because it was dug up like this, it was all by chance, and it was the one who saw it, and no one would return it to the owner of the house according to the inheritance.

Now it seems that when the ancestors of these people hid the money at that time, in order to keep it secret, even their families hid it, and maybe they didn't have time to say it when they died, so it became a headless public case.

In a previous life, people would keep their money in the bank; Those who are particularly wealthy, who are not worried about the current situation, will deposit their money in Swiss banks. However, in ancient times, people liked to hide their own private treasures, and they really hid them everywhere. Speaking of which, it's all insecure.

Anyway, Chrysanthemum felt that their proposal was very necessary, and if the little people didn't let go of their cleverness, they might be tossed to death.

Zhang Huai smiled: "Who hasn't done this kind of thing with a little money?" I was chatting with the shopkeeper in Xiatangji and heard him talk about a strange thing. He said that a footman surnamed Zhang had bought a piece of land in the town to build a garden, and he would have been doing business in Xiatangji since then. As a result, when construction began, several small gold bricks were dug out of the ground. It was a wealth from heaven. No one can fight for this ownerless thing. The man who sold the land was so angry that he couldn't say it - if you want to say it's yours, then why didn't you dig it up when you didn't sell it? ”

Chrysanthemum sneered when she heard this—isn't this the same thing she remembered just now!

Aoki said with a smile: "It seems that next time we build a house in Xiatangji, we have to dig carefully, maybe we can dig out something." ”

After laughing for a while, Chrysanthemum said: "Since you want to do it, let's do it well, and this matter should be done sooner rather than later." If you want to keep it secret, you can't dig in the daytime, you have to dig at night, and the masonry and wood must be prepared. ”

Zhang Huai nodded and said: "I plan to build another house in the west, and I will also build a cowshed in the backyard, so I will buy more bricks and stones for this reason, and no one will calculate how many bricks we will use." ”

Aoki also said: "I want to build a stove room behind the West House, in order to take a bath, otherwise, when your sister-in-law gives birth to a baby, she will take a bath at her mother's side in winter, and it will be easy to blow the wind." I can just buy masonry, too. ”

After the negotiation was settled, Zhang Dazhuan and Zheng Changhe were called, and the two families gathered at Zheng's house to discuss together, and naturally they all agreed.

Zheng Changhe asked with a broken face, "What is this new county order like?" Huaizi, didn't Changyu say it carefully in the letter? ”

He was particularly frightened and frightened—it had not been a few years before he had met such an officer. If he still has nothing as usual, then he is not afraid, the so-called "barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes", but now that the family has land and a house, well, and a car, will he be blackmailed by the officials?

Zhang Huai shook his head and said, "I said a few words hastily.

Greed is certain, otherwise I wouldn't have written to me about it. When it's time to pay the summer tax, you'll know what tricks he'll play. ”

Seeing that he was very worried, he smiled and comforted: "Uncle Zheng is worried, we agreed to dig this underground storage room, isn't it just to guard against that corrupt official!" Moreover, there are a lot of merchants in Xiatangji now, and there are even people in the Fang family who are officials, and they don't dare to mess around if they think that corrupt officials, but it is certain that there will be more apportionment. There's me and Aoki Li out there, so don't worry. The workshop belongs to the whole village, and the village chief will not ignore it, and his family's long wind and rain can also help in Qinghui, and he can communicate with him if he has something to do. ”

Zhang Dazhuan smiled at Zheng Changhe and said: "With the two of them taking the idea, we will work hard as we are old." Don't worry about it, save the babies and come to solve us. ”

Zheng Changhe smiled and nodded, looking at his son and future son-in-law, feeling a lot more steady.

The lights flickered, reflecting the faces of the old and young people in the room, flickering on and off. Although Yang and He were bowing their heads to do needlework, the melancholy on their faces could not be hidden, and they often stopped their minds after a needle, forgetting to continue working; Liu Yunlan was also uneasy, but when she saw Aoki and Chrysanthemum looking calm, she also settled down, held Yang's hand, smiled and comforted her and He softly.

Zhang Yang is very angry, he is still young, and he is studying, the so-called "scholarly spirit", the most unbearable thing is to see these dirty and ugly things, such a person can actually be an official?

He said with a full face of anger: "The imperial court just asked these people to corrupt the discipline, so they should be corrected one by one, and the world should be restored." It's a pity that Brother Changfeng fell off the list last spring, otherwise, there would be a jinshi in Qingnan Village, and it would be a bit taboo for the dog official. ”

Chrysanthemum looked at this half-grown young man, endured it, and thought that this house was full of his own family, so he said: "Yang Zi, you should know when you read history books that no matter which dynasty, there are corrupt officials, even if the Ming monarch governs the country and has clear politics, it is inevitable that there will be such people." It's not a good thing to kill one or two, and someone will make up for it if you kill it; It's useless to be cynical alone. If you have the heart, you should think of standing tall in the officialdom, being a good official, being a big official, being a high-ranking official, standing on a high place and fighting with these people, maybe you can maintain the relative clarity of officialdom. However, this road is by no means easy. How many scholars were as upright and simple as you are now before they embarked on their official careers; But when they really embarked on a career in office, some people have not yet defeated the corrupt officials and traitors, but they have been defeated by them themselves - they have become people like them. ”

Zhang Yang was speechless for a long time after hearing this, clenching his fists and not knowing what he was thinking.

Aoki said with a smile: "If you don't have the ability to be an official, it's useless to say anything; But if you want to be a big official, you can't do it without some means. It is really difficult to have the ability and means to ensure that the official position is secured, and not to degenerate into a corrupt official and traitor! ”

He doesn't know how to be an official, and this feeling comes from the management workshop, and he often talks about some economic history with Chrysanthemum and Zhang Huai, so he thinks a little more.

Zhang Huai glanced at his younger brother and said, "What can Changfeng do even if he wins the Jinshi?" At most, if he is a petty official, will that Li County Commander take care of him? I heard Changyu say that he is a backer in the court. What your sister chrysanthemum said is right, first of all, you must think of a firm foothold in the officialdom before you can say anything else, otherwise, you will take your own future and life in vain, and I am afraid that it will not be able to do anything. ”

Chrysanthemum smiled and winked at him and said, "That's not necessarily, Yang Zi is still young." Our village will be counting on him and Xiaoshi in the future, and if you want me to say, Li Changfeng is not as good as them. ”

Hearing this, everyone laughed, diluting the gloomy atmosphere, and Zhang Dazhuan said happily: "Haha! Son, do you hear me? Your sister chrysanthemum praises you for what you can do! ”

Zhang Yang couldn't help blushing, and was a little excited!