Early the next morning, Chu Qiu came to Lin Yue's house, and without Lin Yue's instructions, he took the initiative to fill the water tank, split the firewood, and sweep the yard.

When Lin Yue saw it, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After talking about Chu Qiu yesterday, Lin Yue also deeply reflected on herself.

Although the old house is not good, it is Chu Qiu's home, and he directly said that his house is a stinky ditch, which is too embarrassing for Chu Qiu.

According to Lin Yue's impression of Chu Qiu in the past, Chu Qiu was afraid that he would retaliate, and he had to sue Chu Chun at the worst time, but as a result, Chu Chun didn't know anything, but Lin Yue couldn't stand it and confessed to Chu Chun.

After listening to Lin Yue's story, Chu Chun didn't speak for a long time, and then sighed for a long time and said: "Yue'er, you are afraid that I will get angry, so you didn't gossip about me, in fact, I saw my father and Feng Zhaodi with my own eyes......"

It was precisely because he saw it that Chu Chun was even more ashamed of himself.

He and a few villagers went to Zuoshifang to discuss the resumption of work with Chu Xia, and when he passed by the city gate, he saw Chu Shiyun, who was nodding and helping a woman to get into the carriage.

The woman was dressed in jewels, silk and satin, and her lower abdomen was high and bulging.

Not only Chu Chun saw it, but all the villagers in the same carriage saw it, and they all saw this woman clearly, Feng Zhaodi, the daughter-in-law of the old Cui family in Chujia Village---- and the later Qinglou girl, ---- had a leg with Chu Shiyun before the locust plague.

Not long after Chu Shiyun came back, Feng Zhaodi's belly was already very big, naturally it couldn't be his child, but he still smiled at Feng Zhaodi, like a stray dog trying his best to beg for bones.

Chu Chun couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Fortunately, the villagers took good care of Chu Chun's face, so Quan Dang looked away as if he didn't see it, and did not take the opportunity to mock Chu Chun.

Now there is another incident of Chu and the dog grabbing bones......

Chu Chun felt that he was humbled to the dust, and he was really not worthy of Lin Yue.

Lin Yue sighed and said to Chu Chun: "You work hard, although there is lunch in the workshop, but it is inevitable that there will be times when you are hungry, you should bring some food to work every day, so as not to starve." ”

Lin Yue lay down and slept.

Chu Chun was stunned at first, and then his eyes turned red.

Although Lin Yue didn't say it explicitly, the underlying meaning was that if Chu Chun gave Chu some food without her knowledge, she would not be able to see it.

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At noon, Chu Qiu hesitated whether to go to Lingnan Village, and suddenly heard the sound of gongs on the village road.

Chu Lizheng shouted at the door while beating the gong: "Listen to every family, whether it is a nursing child or a bedridden old man, they all gather at the door of the ancestral hall, and no one is missing!" ”

The ancestral hall in the village is only open during the New Year's holidays, what happened this time?

However, it should be a good thing to see Chu Li smiling so brightly that his teeth are dazzling.

After a pillar of incense, all the people in the village gathered in front of the ancestral hall.

In front of the ancestral hall, there is a table with an incense burner on the table.

On either side stood four imposing guards.

In front of the table stood a eunuch in a red tuanhua robe, accompanied by several officials, including Ling Qingyue, Wang Wenqian, and Wang Xianling.

Seeing that the villagers had arrived, the eunuch nodded to Wang Xianling, and Wang Xianling nodded to Lu Zhutou.

Lu Zhutou took a basin of water from Erzhu's hand, brought it to Chu Xiangling, asked Chu Xiangling to clean his hands, and then burned three pillars of incense and inserted it in the incense burner, making Chu Xiangling in a fog.

Seeing that everything was ready, the eunuch cleared his throat, took out a bright yellow cloth from his arms, and chanted loudly: "Chu Xiangling, a peasant girl in Chujia Village, take the order!" ”

All the officials fell to their knees in an uproar, and the villagers also fell to their knees in fear.

Xiangling finally knew why she was cleaning her hands and burning incense, it turned out that she was the hero of this holy decree, so she had to "pounce" and kneel down to listen to the decree.

The eunuch read generously: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Chu Xiangling, a peasant girl from Chujia Village, Lin'an County, Anling County, is knowledgeable and reasonable, and has a smart personality, building a hornet array and a toad array to save the danger of the locust plague in Anling County; Knowing the righteousness, not afraid of hardships and dangers, looking for a dark way, stabbing Yuda, saving the danger of Yuguan Beihu, women do not let the eyebrows, I am very relieved. He was immediately canonized as the village lord of Chujia Village, Lin'an County, Anling County, and admired this!! ”

Chu Xiangling: "......"

Chu Xiangling looked confused, what did she hear, she was canonized as the "village master" by the emperor?

I've heard of princesses, county lords, and county lords, but I've never heard of village owners, why do they sound so much like "stupid pigs"?

I can refuse this title, it's so fucking ugly!!

Seeing that Xiangling was a little stunned, Ling Qingyue hurriedly coughed lightly, Xiangling woke up at this time, and reluctantly bowed three times and bowed nine times, and reluctantly accepted this really unsightly title.

Everyone got up one after another, and Ling Qingyue stuffed some silver to the eunuch who passed the decree, and sent it to the entrance of the village with a thousand thanks.

Xiangling took out the holy decree, looked left and right, how to look at it, how to think that the name "village owner" was too ugly, and it seemed that he didn't know what kind of bird the village owner of a village could have.

After a while, Ling Qingyue came back, and when she saw Xiangling's face full of light, she asked, "What's the matter, is she happy and stupid, or are you not very satisfied with the title of village master?" ”

Xiangling said with a bitter face: "I thought that I would be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver and a reward order from the household, but I didn't expect it to be a 'village master' title, and it is not as good as the 'village flower'." ”

Ling Qingyue couldn't help but laugh and said, "You fool, you really take gold as Tukola." The title of 'village lord' doesn't sound good, but it's much better than the reward decree of the household department and the reward of a thousand taels of silver. ”

"Where's the good?" Xianglinghu asked, she really didn't know the gold content of the village owner.

Ling Qingyue said firmly: "From now on, you don't need to kneel and bow when you see officials below the third grade. ”

Xiangling was taken aback, there was no need to kneel and bow, this was a matter of human dignity, and she smiled so much that she couldn't see her eyes.

Ling Qingyue continued: "You can keep 20% of the annual field tax paid by Chujia Village. ”

Xiangling's brain immediately turned into a small abacus, and she quickly calculated that if it was a bumper harvest year, she would be able to get an extra three or four thousand catties of grain every year, although it was not worth much silver, but this was a privilege given to her by the imperial court, which was equivalent to being among the privileged class.

Ling Qingyue continued: "The affairs of Chujia Village are under your jurisdiction, and you can decide whether the people on this land or even an ant will stay or not, you decide. ”

Xiangling knew that Ling Qingyue was secretly poking and poking at the old mansion.

Xiangling shook her head and said, "I'm the 'village master' now, let's be more generous......"

Ling Qingyue "poofed" and was happy, just now she disliked the "village master" like a "stupid pig", and now she has begun to accept this title.

To be able to get this title, it can be said that Ling Qingyue used all her relationships, including the Yun family.

The reward of the Great Qi Kingdom for unmarried women is basically within the royal family, such as princesses, county lords, and county lords.

There are very few rewards for external women, and for more than 100 years since the founding of the Great Qi Kingdom, there are only two, one who saved the life of the former emperor and was posthumously named the head of the township after his death; One is the queen's righteous daughter and was named the pavilion master.

Because after the emperor ascended to the throne, he implemented the state and county system, and there was no township and pavilion system, and the county was directly governed by the village, so Xiangling was named the "village master".

The status of the village head is equivalent to the level of a third-rank official, so there is no need to give courtesy to officials below the third-rank level.