Maybe it was because he had walked a few extra steps the day before, and the next morning, Zhu Yuan began to have a fever and cough again.

Dai Sanchun came as soon as possible, and after taking medicine for two days, he finally got better. It snowed again on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, and in order to avoid further physical problems, Zhu Yuan was cautious and did not go out of the door much for several days.

Freehand, blank, Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi are rotating in a row.

The huge mansion can't stop all day long, buying daily necessities, buying servants, cleaning and repairing, etc.

In a blink of an eye, it was the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month.

There is no thirty this year, and tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve.

Early in the morning, Freehand asked Zhu Yuan how to prepare for tomorrow night's ancestor worship, and she had asked people to carefully clean up a courtyard on the east side of the mansion, which could be used as an ancestral hall.

Zhu Yuan listened to the freehand and said this, with a strange expression.

To sacrifice or not to sacrifice, that's the question.

After all, according to the new personality, the ancestors all lived well in Jinling City.

However, the Spring Festival ancestor worship is also a great gift in this era. Not to mention large households, even if they are small households, they must not be sloppy at all.

When you get to Zhu Yuan, the key is, who to sacrifice?

Not to mention the brand-new false ancestors, even if they are real ancestors, the future generations can rarely trace back to this era six hundred years ago.

In the end, it is better to give up.

Faced with freehand doubts, Zhu Yuan did not explain the reason.

How to explain it?

After breakfast, I remembered that on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, it should be the day of pasting Spring Festival couplets.

However, I also remember an allusion.

Regarding the Spring Festival couplets, the legend is that Zhu Yuanzhang personally promoted them, because on the day of the New Year, the micro-service made a private visit and found that there was a lack of festive atmosphere in the market, so Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to ask every household to post Spring Festival couplets to show joy.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang, it was generally popular to hang peach charms.

Always replace the new peach with the old charm.

In the end, let them operate according to the rules of this era, except for the cancellation of ancestor worship, what else should be, Zhu Yuan did not make a Spring Festival couplet in advance to show the intention of presence, in the next three years, what you want is a low-key.

Near noon, in the north wind, which was getting colder and colder after the snow, six small boats of different styles leaned against the dock outside Zhu Yuan's mansion.

In addition to a group of men, women, and children dressed in coarse cloth, there were also all kinds of chickens, ducks, rabbits, fish, geese, deer, pigs, and sheep in cages or bundles, fresh or dried.

Zuo Qi took two small servants to greet him, and together with Zhao Xu, who brought people over, he commanded everyone to move these livestock and poultry wild goods into the house from the small gate and temporarily store them in an empty courtyard in the outer house. Then Zuo Qi was responsible for greeting everyone, and Zhao Xu led several of the elders to the backyard.

Blank is waiting here, followed by two little girls.

After looking at a few old men, and seeing that although the clothes were old, they were all clean, so he nodded with satisfaction and said, "Come with me." ”

Everyone turned to the direction of the west courtyard together, and said to a few old people while leaving a blank space: "You can give the adults a bow later, and you don't need to make a big salute." ”

Again, they respectfully agreed.

In fact, Zhu Yuan's original words were that he was not in good health, and he was always kowtowed to people older than him, for fear of being knocked away.

Of course, blank will not say the original words of his own petty officials.

Moreover, it is not recognized.

Let's just say that the Ya Po who brought people over yesterday, a slut, she thinks that even if the other party knocks his head into the soil, he can't damage his own petty officials in the slightest, why don't she kneel?

It's just that she is a girl, of course, whatever the petty officials say, she will do.

When you come to the west courtyard, you will pass through most of the garden and arrive at a hall located not far from the east side of the inner house. Liubai ordered everyone to wait first, and only opened the curtain with Zhao Xu to enter the door.

In the hall that is also as warm as spring, Zhu Yuan, who is wearing a loose green robe, is talking to Dai Sanchun, who is sitting opposite him, in the tea room on the west side, while occasionally holding a pen to write.

On the afternoon of the day when Zhu Yuan fell ill again, news suddenly came from Wu Wangfu.

Lao Zhu told Dai Sanchun, the eight-rank imperial doctor under the Tai Hospital, to live on Zhu Yuan's side for the next three years and take care of him carefully. He also said that in the future, all the medicines needed by Zhu Yuan can be directly taken from the Tai Hospital without going through the court.

Dai Sanchun took his apprentice Sanqi to live in the mansion together.

Liubai knew that his petty officials were preparing a very important book list, and he waited with Zhao Xu for a while. After Zhu Yuan finished writing a few strokes, he raised his head, Zhao Xu bowed his hand and said, "Little official, the tenant who gave the New Year's gift has arrived, and there are still a few elders who want to pay New Year's greetings to the little official, and they are already waiting outside. ”

Zhao continued to speak, took out a gift slip written on red paper and handed it forward.

Zhu Yuan was told about this yesterday, and asked a few more words, knowing that New Year's greetings are customary, and gifts are not counted. After all, the tenants pay the rent every year, and the rest of the food is lucky, and there is nothing to give.

This time it is regarded as the initiative to marry filial piety after the change of the owner's family, and I probably hope that Zhu Yuan will not increase the rent or take the tenant.

Zhu Yuan put down his pen and got up and said, "Let them come in." ”

As he spoke, he motioned to Dai Sanchun and invited him to sit with him.

A moment later, five old men who were all sixty years old and above entered the door and saluted Zhu Yuan together.

After a brief answer, Zhu Yuan invited the old people to sit down.

After chatting a few more words, I soon learned that the tenants who cultivated the fields under their names were mainly from the three surnames of Mu, Fan and Zhuo, of which the surname Mu was the most, and three of the five old people in the small hall were surnamed Mu, accounting for nineteen of the thirty-seven tenants, and the other two surnames were one nine, one was six, and there were three foreign surnames.

Zhu Yuan saw that the three foreign surnames were obviously excluded, but he didn't care about these details, but asked about the land harvest, crop types and farming details in recent years.

Then came the time to complain.

Some say that the lack of cattle in the village may affect next year's spring ploughing, some say that last year's excessive rain led to a poor harvest, and some say that the neighboring village grabbed water too fiercely and injured their own families.

Zhu Yuan wanted to have a general understanding of the agricultural production situation in this era, but he didn't expect it to be these. It soon became clear that this was the reaction of several old people who were worried that his new master would increase the land rent.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Zhu Yuan could only give up.

It was probably confirmed that the new little master was very talkative, and several old people mentioned in due course that the fixed rent of one stone and two buckets per mu was too heavy, and they tried to see if they could reduce it somewhat. The more he spoke, the more he sighed, and after one of the old men suddenly knelt down, the hall instantly knelt on the ground.

What else can Zhu Yuan do?

It is said that the land he obtained should have belonged to the official land, that is, the confiscated land confiscated by the Western Wu court from the officials or noble officials of the previous dynasty. Even if Freehand said before that it is a good paddy field, and the fixed rent per mu is one stone and two buckets, Zhu Yuan felt a little ruthless at first glance.

In this era, the upper limit of yield per mu may be two or three stones, but it must be a good year with good fields and smooth water.

In ancient times, agriculture relied heavily on the sky for food.

If there is a slight drought and waterlogging, the yield per mu will plummet.

Finally pulled the person up, everyone sat down again, Zhu Yuan was about to speak, seeing Liubai glancing at him, thinking about it, he pushed the question back and asked a few old people how appropriate.

After a few discussions, it was quickly re-determined to be one stone per mu.

Ignoring the blank little expressions of resentment, everyone chatted a few more words, and several old people left happily.

There will be a lunch later, and Zhu Yuan will no longer come forward.

Waiting for Zhao Xu to lead people out, Zhu Yuan said to Liubai again: "Since you have brought Lilly to pay New Year's greetings, each family will give the usual copper coins as a return gift." ”

Leave blank space to speak.

She thinks that her own petty officials are crazy.

Is there such a mess?

However, realizing that Dai Sanchun was present, Liubai still stopped talking and left the small hall in a soft promise.

Here, Zhu Yuan returned to the tea room on the west side and sat down again, while taking the gift list and looking at it, he asked Dai Sanchun, who was sitting next to him, "Mr. Dai doesn't think I'm sloppy, right?" ”

Dai Sanchun actually noticed the helpless look that had just been left blank, picked up a page of the book list that the two had discussed before, and browsed, and said with a smile: "The petty officials are generous, and the people around them think about the master's family, and it is inevitable that people who live hard will have to think more about it, it's all right." ”

"Mr. Dai is well versed in the Confucian golden mean."

Zhu Yuan smiled and didn't say anything more.

In fact, with the heart he has honed in his two lifetimes, if it is really important, his ears will definitely not be so soft. But on the one hand, Zhu Yuan really didn't care about the rental income of the ten hectares of land. On the other hand, in this era, in his current position, Zhu Yuan must also show a certain posture.

Putting down the gift list, Zhu Yuan also picked up a page of the book list on the table, changed the subject, and said: "Mr. Dai, I really don't add some medical books, this is a good opportunity." The order will be sent out in the afternoon, but it won't work if you think about it later? ”

Dai Sanchun shook his head and said, "No need, I have my own collection." Other medical books can also be borrowed from the hospital or colleagues. But a petty official, maybe you can tell the reborn in advance about the teachings you mentioned? ”

Dai Sanchun said, with a rare expression of expectation on his always serious face.

Zhu Yuan refused: "Mr. Dai, let's wait patiently." ”

Dai Sanchun was unexpectedly arranged by Lao Zhu to live in it and became a guest-like existence, Zhu Yuan was puzzled at first, and he didn't understand until the other party confessed what happened to him recently.

It's just that about the things that the two agreed on at the beginning, Zhu Yuan felt that it was safest to wait for three years.

Even if he says it now, there is not much that Dai Sanchun can do.

Dai Sanchun didn't want to add medical books, so Zhu Yuan didn't mention it anymore, sorted out a few pages of book lists, and finally browsed and examined.

These are the books that Zhu Yuan wants Lao Zhu to help collect.

The book list is full of ancient Chinese scientific and technological works, such as "Qi Min Yao Shu", "Mengxi Writings", "Examination of Work", "Tea Classic", "Water Jing Note", "Building the French Style", "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Ganshi Xingjing" and so on, involving agriculture, geography, astronomy, mathematics and other aspects.

Zhu Yuan also wanted some traditional subsets of scriptures and histories at first, and the day after moving in, he was told that the two-story library on the south side of the garden overlooking the lake contained hundreds of books, and most of the mainstream classics such as the Four Books and the Five Classics were not lacking. Moreover, it was obviously used as an ornament by the owner of this yard at the beginning, and all kinds of books are brand new, so there is no need to trouble Lao Zhu anymore.

Zhu Yuan, who was recuperating in the house, asked the two girls to take some books to read, which were all very good engravings, and he was curious about the identity of the former owner of this mansion.

The two girls didn't know, so they asked Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi to inquire with the surrounding lake people, some said that they belonged to a Pingzhang adult, and some said that it was a Dalu Huachi's summer business, but they didn't understand it in the end.

Zhu Yuan will no longer delve into it.

But I also know that there are many lakemen living around.

At present, this later Liangzhou, and the south of the former Huanzhou and Yingzhou, are connected at this time, which are scattered dozens of families, Huanzhou is also directly connected to the southwest shore of the lake, this island as a whole is like a fungus from the shore of the lake.

The reason why Zhu Yuan did not take the land route when he came that day, but took a boat, was mainly because the mansion that occupied the southeast corner of Liangzhou was only accessible by waterway, and there were no doors on the west and north sides. After thinking about it for a while, I understand that this is the former owner of the mansion who took the initiative to isolate in order to show his identity.

Not only that, according to the lakeminers relayed by Zhao Xu and Zuo Qi, the island where the mansion was originally located was not allowed to be entered by outsiders, and the lakemen on the island moved in one after another after Zhu Yuanzhang broke through Yingtian.

The other side.

Liubai conveyed the reward from his petty officials in the past, and he was happy to see those tenants, but he was sullen because he failed to prevent the petty officials from messing around.

Let's just say that the six little girls I bought yesterday are all the kind that are more outstanding after selection, and one is only three dollars.

Not to mention the rent reduction part, it's just that today's reward will be given out thirty-seven times at once, which is more than ten little girls.

It has always been a tenant who honors the lord's family, and I have never seen such an upside down.

Sadly returned to the west courtyard, saw Freehand standing on the verandah not far away, left a blank and walked quickly, was about to say what had just happened, let Freehand persuade the little officials more in the future, found that Freehand looked at a direction, followed her gaze, next to the rockery on the south side of the garden lake, a few plum trees were in full bloom against the surrounding snow.

Liubai was also stunned for a moment, and his eyes turned red in an instant.

Instead, he sensed that someone was approaching, reacted, and saw that Liubai began to cry, so he hurriedly took out a handkerchief to help her wipe it, and while driving away the two little girls behind Liubai, he reminded in a low voice: "Don't cry, it's not good to be seen." ”

Blank tried to stop his tears, but he was already a little sobbed: "Freehand, little ...... Miss...... Miss ......"

Seeing that Liubai was mentioned, Freehand inevitably followed the red eyes, hugged Liubai and hugged him, and still persuaded him: "Miss likes plum blossoms so much, buried under the plum tree, it is also a home." ”

Liubai nodded his head lightly, and suddenly with a little hatred, he said: "It's all because the old man has no opinion, so the Wang family is ruined." ”

"Don't say this," the freehand tone was a little more stern: "Forget these things in the future, we will only live ours." ”

"Well, well," Liubai nodded again and looked up at Freehand: "When are you going to ask the little official to let him take our family to Jinling?" There is still a war in Shandong, and it is snowing again, and I am worried about my mother and brother. ”

Freehand glanced at the two little girls not far away, pulled the blank space and walked in the direction of the inner house, and said: "Don't worry, King Wu's subordinates all have rules and will not mess around." And they all fled to the village early, they were able to take care of each other, and they had savings in the past, so they would be fine this winter. As for the matter of asking for petty officials, petty officials ...... You also know that although he has won the official, after all, when he first arrives in Jinling, he will have to live in seclusion for three years, and he is afraid that he will not be able to do so. When I'm done with it recently, I'll talk to him about it, and it's not a problem to find a way to help us send a letter back to Yizhou. ”

With such a freehand persuasion, the blank space finally eased up.

Thinking about it, I can only put away my mood and talk about what I just did.

After listening to it, he smiled and nodded his white head: "No wonder Miss used to say that you have a stuffy mouth on the surface, but you have a lot of thoughts on the inside." We slaves and maids, who don't expect the master's family to be generous, you have to be stingy. ”

Blank but insisted: "But the little officials are too generous, and they will give away twelve girls at once." I just thought, in this case, let those tenants come and serve, this is also the rule. ”

According to freehand estimates, this mansion needs at least thirty servants of all kinds to support it.

Yesterday, Ya Po brought people over, but the little official only bought twelve. He also said that he likes to be quiet, and if he needs other things in the future, he can temporarily hire the surrounding islanders, just like the Lin father and son who are currently in charge of driving the boat here.

Zhu Yuan is like this, and they can only agree.

As he spoke, he came to the small kitchen dedicated to the master's house, and saw the two beautiful women in the house who were preparing lunch for the little official with the assistance of a pair of little girls, and immediately pouted again, and stopped and refused to enter the door, and his eyes were full of vigilance.

Yesterday, I selected the servants and maids, and a little girl was only three times, and the unit price of the other four newly grown girls was only five times, and these two ...... But it took a hundred and seventy. As a result, six maids and four servants seemed to add to the deal.

This makes Liubai still itch when he thinks about that tooth woman now.

Because he disliked the food she and freehand made was not delicious, the little official only wanted two cooks at first. As a result, the tooth woman used some clever words to stuff two scourges.

Liubai still remembers the tongue of the tooth woman.

What escaped from the north to sell the second house of a large family, serious background, was a decent old Confucian daughter, the appearance is also outstanding, originally had to be corrected, recently encountered a big disaster had to cut love, not only needlework and cooking skills, but also calligraphy and painting.

What is a concubine who was personally trained by the old man of Suzhou Zhishi before his death, she is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she is even better at adjusting the spoon with her hands, and it is even more rare to have a soft and charming temperament like water, and she is absolutely considerate.

At that time, seeing that the petty officials asked them to write books and paint on the spot, they were so moved that they almost couldn't help but rush over and tear up the mouth of the tooth woman.

What Maggie?

A twenty-seven!

One twenty-five!

Maybe I even concealed it.

Even if...... It's still a little more attractive now, but it's all old women soon, and they dare to open such a high price.

It's a pity that she is soft-spoken, and she only dares to slander, but she can't stop it.

The petty officials didn't even make a counteroffer!

also named these two old women, who were reading the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" at that time, one was called Qingqiu and the other was called Luoshui.

Liubai also read the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

Qingqiu, isn't it a fox's nest!

Luoshui ...... Since the water has the same temperament, why don't you simply melt and flow into the lake like the snow water!

Anyway, she is only willing to call them Qingniang and Luo Niang, in a few years, when she turns thirty years old, it will be even worse, a green woman, a Luo woman.

Fortunately, the blank is the most worried, she and Freehand were not kicked out of the inner house last night, and replaced with these two.

But he is still vigilant.

Because a few years ago, I quietly flipped through a forbidden book hidden by Miss, and I accidentally learned that some young Xiaolangjun just liked that kind of very old woman.

In case of......

Well.

Thinking about it, I think about it, I think about it, I and Freehand, the age is not young, and the freehand is actually twenty years old.

Freehand watched the preparation of lunch, went out of the small kitchen, and saw the blank at the door staring at the two vigilant and full of inner drama in the house, and couldn't help but smile and click on her head again: "What are you thinking, go and tell the little official, you can eat, and then see if Mr. Dai wants to be together." ”

Blank but unconvinced, he complained in a low voice while moving: "If you had learned some cooking skills earlier, you would not have been disliked by the petty officials." ”

Freehand glanced sideways, and felt the threat of the two women in his heart, but he was helpless, so he just whispered: "I'll give you this original word, go quickly." ”