"Third uncle! Third uncle!"

The little girl took Wang Chong's hand, and the smile on her face was very bright.

Wang Chong bent down and hugged the little girl, the little girl took advantage of the situation to wrap her arms around Wang Chong's neck, stretched out her hand to cover her mouth, and whispered in Wang Chong's ear, "Let me tell you, A-Niang has made a lot of delicious food!"

Wang Zhong laughed, "Oh? Is it a lot?"

"Many, many, many!"

The little girl opened her hands to describe, her expression and tone were somewhat exaggerated.

Wang Zhong said, "Then let's go back quickly and see what my sister-in-law has cooked!"

"Go back! Go back!" The little girl shouted happily.

Wang Chong held the little girl and just entered the second door, and saw Wang Li come out with an anxious expression, and saw Wang Chong's expression was the same, and his face was full of smiles, and he did not see fatigue and strangeness, and his expression was a little darker.

But I still can't help but be a little worried.

Wang Zhong took the lead in greeting Wang Li and said, "Sister-in-law!"

"Uncle has worked hard!"

Wang Li saluted Wang Chongfu.

"It's just sitting in the tribute courtyard for a few days, it's very hard, but it's the sister-in-law, who manages the home and the outside, it's really hard!"

After getting along with Wang Chong for a long time, Wang Li knew that Wang Chong had always been polite to him, and he didn't shirk it with Wang Chong, so he immediately changed his voice and asked directly, "Uncle is hungry?" Do you want to shower and change clothes first, or do you eat first?"

Wang Zhong said, "Let's take a shower and change clothes first!"

Wang Li hurriedly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to take Wang Qian'er from Wang Chong's hand: "Sister Qian'er, come to my mother and let your third uncle go to bathe and change clothes."

Although Wang Qian'er was reluctant to give up her third uncle, she also knew that the third uncle had just come back, so she obediently stretched out her arms and let Wang Li hug her.

There was hot water burning on the stove, but Wang Zhong didn't let anyone prepare.

In the past nearly two years, whether it is a hot summer day or a cold day, Wang Chong has always bathed in cold water, Wang Li didn't understand it at first, but after a long time, he slowly got used to it.

Wang Chong walked to the bathroom, bathed in cold water as usual, and then changed into a loose wide-sleeved regular clothes, and then came to the side hall dining hall.

Taking advantage of Wang Chong's bath, Wang Li had already asked people to bring the prepared meals to the table one by one, and the round table of the Eight Immortals was full

"Third uncle, hurry up, hurry up, if you don't come again, I'll finish all the delicious food."

Wang Chongyi hugged the little girl in his arms: "Fortunately, the third uncle came quickly, otherwise wouldn't he have to pick up the leftovers of my sister Qian'er!"

"I've been suffering in the Tribute Courtyard these days, so Uncle eats more!" Wang Li helped Wang Chongxian scoop a bowl of hot soup to relieve the fatigue of many days.

"Thank you, sister-in-law!"

"Auntie, I want to drink soup too!" The little girl next to her saw that Wang Li gave Wang Chongsheng soup, and immediately shouted.

"Okay, good, my mother will give you sheng!" Wang Li doted on him, and while speaking, he put another bowl of meatball soup in front of the little girl.

"Third uncle, meatball soup!" Wang Qian'er showed off the meatball soup in front of her with Wang Chong as if she were offering a treasure.

Wang Zhong rubbed Wang Qian'er's head and said, "That sister Qian'er can eat more, eat more to grow up quickly!"

"The third uncle eats it too!"

"Let's eat together!"

With Wang Qian'er, a living treasure with an active atmosphere, after eating a meal, the food is more delicious than in the past.

The next morning, Wang Chongzheng was lying on a bamboo recliner on the edge of the bamboo forest outside the backyard, holding a pu fan in his hand and a eucalyptus table next to him, eating tea leisurely and blowing the autumn wind, so happy.

Not far away, there were cooking smoke birds rising up, and Yu Chu's second daughter-in-law was in front of a simple stove made of red bricks, holding a skewer of meat, carefully grilling.

From time to time, Wang Zhong opened his eyes and glanced at them, and then closed them again.

"Grains of salt!"

"Cumin!"

"Brush the oil!"

"A little peppercorn!"

"Brush the oil again!"

"Finely chopped green onions!"

「……」

Wang Qian'er sat on the small pestle next to her, staring at the churning barbecue in the hands of Yu Chu's second daughter-in-law, and kept swallowing her saliva.

"Brother Zihou is really good Yaxing!"

was directing Yu Chu's second daughter-in-law to barbecue, when a familiar voice suddenly sounded.

Xu has just entered the period of voice change, and his voice is a little different from before, a little more hoarse and harsh.

Wang Zhong turned over and got up, saw the person coming, smiled and arched his hand, "Who am I, it turns out to be Brother Zecheng, who came to the Humble House, it is really full of splendor, and it is full of splendor!"

After getting along with Wang Chong for a long time, Changbai gradually got a little understanding of Wang Chong's temperament, and knew that Wang Chong liked to joke on weekdays, not as rigid and pedantic as those old masters.

"It smells so good!" Changbai's little servant sweat cow was already very diligent to help Changbai make a small pestle and let Changbai sit down next to Wang Chong.

Wang Chong beckoned to the little girl: "Sister Qian'er, come here!"

Wang Qian'er ran to Wang Chong's side, her big black and white eyes were full of curiosity, and she kept looking at Changbai for a moment.

From ancient times to the present, people have always been happy about beautiful things.

Men like beautiful women, although green vegetables and radishes have their own loves, but they have their own characteristics.

And women, naturally, also like good-looking men, what jade tree is in the wind, merry and graceful, face like Guanyu, majestic and elegant, extraordinary demeanor......

And Changbai is the best among them! Inherited Sheng Hong's good skin, intelligence, and the calm and sophisticated of his maternal ancestor Wang Taishi, although he is still young, he is already very good-looking.

If you only talk about appearance, Wang Zhong is really not as handsome as Changbai.

"This is your uncle Changbai, the third uncle's best friend!"

"Wang Qian'er, meet my uncle and ask him how he is doing!"

Wang Qian'er immediately broke free from Wang Chong's hands, and learned what her mother Wang Li taught her in the past, and blessed her body to greet Changbai.

Changbai was stunned, not because of Wang Qian'er's salute, but because of the sudden change in his identity, he was still a little unaccustomed to it for a while.

is a junior at home, and the oldest cousin of the same generation has not yet married, but now he has become an uncle in other people's mouths.

Although it was unexpected, Changbai was obviously quite happy, when he took off the jade pendant he was carrying from his waist and sent it to Sister Qian'er's little hand: "I often hear Zihou mention his niece at home, and he praises him a lot, but when I see it today, it is really smart and cute, and when I meet for the first time, this jade pendant is a gift from my uncle to my niece!"

Naturally, he was afraid that Wang Chong would refuse, so he said it to Wang Chong.

Pity! Changbai underestimated Wang Chong's cheekiness a little.

Without Wang Chong's reminder, the little girl was full of smiles, pinched the jade pendant, and said happily and crisply: "Qian'er, thank you uncle!"

"That's good!" Changbai raised his hand and rubbed Wang Qian'er's little head, with a rather bright smile on his face.

"Childe, the meat is roasted!" Yu Chu's second daughter-in-law came over respectfully with a plate of golden and oily barbecue that had been roasted with bamboo skewers.

"Well, you go get some juice, and I'm going to have a few drinks with Zecheng."

"Slave and maid, go now!"

Yu Chu's second daughter-in-law is now arranged by Wang Li's family to be a leading grandmother by Wang Qian'er's side, responsible for taking the two little female envoys in Wang Qian'er's room.

On the eucalyptus board next to it, there are thin-crust pancakes that have been prepared long ago, shredded cucumbers, and mixed sauces.

Wang Zhong spread out the pancakes and put them in the palm of his hand, grabbed a few meat skewers and placed them on them, grabbed the pancakes and buckled the lamb that was still a little hot on the bamboo skewers, and with a strong pull of his other hand, he pulled out the bamboo skewers, and then spread the cut vegetarian vegetables, poured some sauce, rolled them, and handed them to Changbai.

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"If the sheep is slaughtered in the morning, you can taste it!"

The little girl next to her couldn't wait, and urged Wang Zhong to help her roll one too.

If you just eat meat skewers, the taste is also good, but if you eat too much, you will inevitably feel tired, after all, there are too many seasonings on the meat skewers, but if you add a pancake, some vegetarian dishes, the taste is completely different.

As soon as I took a bite, Changbai gave a thumbs up!

Although the Sheng family has no shortage of delicacies and delicious food, and there is no shortage of chefs with exquisite cooking skills, it is rare to see such a simple and rough way of eating.

And the way to eat meat skewers wrapped in pancakes is also more popular in the north in later generations, Changbai's ancestral hometown is Youyang, and these years it is with Sheng Hong to be an official outside, but also mostly in the south of the Yangtze River, less in the north.

And whether it is Sheng Hong or Wang, they are all southerners, and they naturally prefer to be southerners in terms of diet.

Changbai has always talked about rules, and there has always been a fixed time for eating, and it is the first time to be so casual, and the craftsmanship of Yu Chu's second daughter-in-law is really good, and this meal is more than half an hour.

Wang Chong also went into battle in person, pulled Changbai to barbecue together, and taught all kinds of key tricks one by one, but the little belly that Wang Qian'er ate next to him was round and bulging.

Changbai used to be busy studying at home, and the door was not out of the door, but now he suddenly visited, Wang Chong was really a little surprised.

After eating barbecue, the time is past noon, Wang Zhong led the cypress to walk around in the small bamboo village, now the small bamboo village, is no longer the small village that only has more than 60 acres of fields in the past, after the development of recent years, the scale of the small bamboo village is getting bigger and bigger, the farm and not to say, only to say the field, on the basis of the original, and increased four or five times.

Some of them were newly reclaimed wasteland, while others were bought from small landlords in ten miles and eight villages.

What really interests Changbai is the almost semi-self-sufficient production chain on Wang Chong Zhuangzi.

Today's Baishui Village, basically attached to the small bamboo village to live, the villagers are not short of work, the poor people who used to be unable to say their daughters-in-law, as long as they are not lazy, now they are all looking for matchmakers to say goodbye.

However, in just over a year, Baishui Village has become the richest village in ten miles and eight townships, and the name of Xiaozhuzhuang has spread throughout Yangzhou.

If it weren't for the blessing of Sheng Hong, the general judge of Yangzhou, I am afraid that I would have been surrounded by people and eaten it.

After walking around, looking at the orderly various areas, Changbai couldn't help but be a little breathtaking.

Although it is still in the most primitive handicraft stage, the reasonable planning has already had a bit of the meaning of the assembly line, and the operation seems orderly and fast, and everyone performs their own duties and cooperates quite tacitly.

"This is the unique thresher on Zihouzhuang?" Changbai looked at the thresher stacked in front of him in the corner of the barn, his eyes full of curiosity.

Wang Zhong smiled and said, "Yes, this is a threshing machine, which uses gears to drive the shaft to rotate the drum, and these "tentacles" on the drum can form an effect similar to beating, so that the grains on the ears of rice fall off, saving a lot of effort."

Saying that, Wang Chong also asked Changbai to sit on it and feel it, but unfortunately it is not the busy season for farming, otherwise, Changbai can also experience the fun of harvesting rice on the spot.

Next to the thresher is the windmill, but the windmill is not unique to Xiaozhuzhuang, but has appeared many years ago, but the degree of popularity is not particularly high, and the windmill is quite skilled to build, ordinary carpenters may not be able to do it.

Changbai has been studying all the year round, although he has been to Zhuangzi, and he has also learned about agriculture and mulberry with Sheng Hong and the farmers on his own village, but he has never had such a detailed contact with farming, only on Wang Chong's side, he really saw those things that were not in the books in reality.

"This can only be used for rice?" Changbai asked with some curiosity.

Wang Zhong said, "It can also be used for demicting!"

Changbai suddenly said, "No wonder my father admires this thing so much, and even made a special trip to write an excerpt for it, and go to the official's house!"

"If this thing can be promoted, the people of the world will benefit greatly!"

Changbai turned to look at Wang Chong, bowed his hand, and said in a sincere tone: "Bai is for the people of the world, thank you Zihou!"

"I didn't create this thing, I just modified it according to its characteristics to improve its performance." Wang Zhong said modestly.

"This is what Zihou said

？」 Changbai asked.

Wang Chongdao: "Everything in the world has its own laws of existence and development, in ancient times, our ancestors of the human race, out of the wilderness, from hunting for a living to slash and burn, until now, everything is progressing.

In the university, it is said that knowledge is in the object, and the object is then known, is it true?"

Changbai was stunned for a moment, looked at Wang Chong with a smiling face, and said again: "Please teach Zihou!"

Wang Chong said: "In Yu Chong's view, the so-called way of a saint is nothing more than the daily use of the people!"

"The Way of the Saints! The people use it every day!" Changbai's eyes widened, and the child's hole shrank suddenly, very surprised.

"I don't know what a saint is in Zecheng's eyes?" Wang Zhong asked.

Changbai came back to his senses, thought for a while, and said, "Those who preach the world and educate all people like the most holy teacher can be called sages!"

Wang Zhong looked at the threshers in front of him, at the windmills piled up in the corner, at the barn full of rice, turned around and walked out, out of the warehouse, all the way out, until he came to the edge of the field and did not stop.

Wang Zhong pointed to the continuous farmland and asked, "In Zecheng's eyes, what are these?"

Changbai looked in the direction that Wang Zhong was pointing and said, "It's a continuous field, and it's a golden and brilliant rice!"

The township test was held in August, and now it is late August, not yet September, and there is still some time before the autumn grain harvest, but the rice growth in the field is quite gratifying, the rice ears are gradually turning from shriveled to full, and the eyes are gradually turning from green to golden.

"In my opinion, these are the lives of ordinary people!"

Wang Zhong said: "Ordinary people in Qian, the family is only a few acres of thin fields, if the year is good, when the wind and rain are good, the family population is small, and the grain planted can barely be satisfied, but those with a large population can only be planted from the squire's wealthy households at the beginning of the leased land.

All kinds of taxes, servitude, labor, and food and clothing for a whole year depend on the output of the fields, but if there is a famine, drought, locusts, and floods, there is still surplus food in the families of the rich families, but the families of ordinary people can only sell their sons and daughters, or sell themselves as slaves and servants, and life and death are in the hands of people."

When Changbai heard this, he nodded thoughtfully, "Yes, these fields of rice are indeed the lives of the people!"

"We study hard day and night, in order to enter the imperial examination, in the future, to be the ruler of the official, to govern the world for the imperial court, if in the future, then Cheng will be sent to the local area, then Cheng has ever thought about how to govern? that the people may be rich, and that the treasury may be full?"

"I think it's nothing more than resting with the people, encouraging farming, and dredging water conservancy!"

"Knowing that he may have to govern the place in the future, he foresees how to govern and how to herd, and this is also a good thing."

Wang Chong's explanation made Changbai suddenly brightened, and suddenly said, "I see!"

Wang Zhong asked again, "If in the future, someone can find out the yield of 1,000 catties per mu, so that the people will no longer have to worry about being clothed, then I sincerely think that this person can be called a saint?"

"A thousand pounds per mu?" Changbai was almost not taken aback by Wang Chong: "If this is the case, this person can naturally be called a saint!"

The king looked up at the heavens and the earth, as if he had a feeling, and said with great emotion, "Establish a heart for heaven and earth!"

Then he raised his eyes and looked at the fields in front of him, looked at the farm next to Xiaozhu Mountain behind him, the oil mill, and continued: "Make a life for the people!"

Then he looked at Changbai: "For the sake of the saints, continue to learn! Peace for all generations!"

"If you can accomplish this in this life, you will not come to this world in vain!"

Changbai was already shocked and speechless.