In the next few days, Wei and Xie were fine.

Xie Zhiyun occasionally deals with the trivial matters of the back house, but he is not too busy.

During this period, I went to visit Cui Ji once, and saw that her complexion was much better, and she was much more energetic, and she was also a little relieved.

However, Cui Ji told her: "The Guogong Mansion is like this, when you are busy, you will be busy, and you will be relieved of your leisure time." ”

She sat back on the bed, emaciated, with a feeble paleness.

In her, Xie Zhiyun could see Pu Liu's weakness and tenacity.

"This country's mansion is big and big, and small is small," Cui Ji looked at Xie Zhiyun seriously, "Say small, we are just this family, we can't be more than parents and brothers, and we're not more than flesh and blood, and many things are easy to do." ”

Xie Zhiyun listened to her quietly.

This feeling was not obvious two months ago, but now she can clearly feel Cui Ji's ardent expectations for her.

This expectation is inconsistent with who the two of them are.

After all, Cui Ji is Wei Ji's stepmother, and she also has her own biological flesh and blood.

Cui Ji continued: "If you say it's big, it's big. ”

She took a breath, waved her hand to prevent Xie Zhiyun from serving her, and lowered her head and ate a mouthful of white fungus pear soup.

"Under the rule of the Guogong Mansion, there are many people, all living beings, as small as a grain of rice, as large as a mountain, all have to be worried about by the Guogong Mansion."

"Do you know how many people, acres, mountains, rivers, and vegetation there are in these eight states?"

Cui Ji raised soft eyebrows and looked at Xie Zhiyun quietly.

"Grandpa Guo is fighting abroad to protect the people, and the rest of the Guogong Mansion must work hard to let the people who can survive have food, clothing, and family reunion, and will not be separated from their wives."

Cui Ji patted Xie Zhiyun's hand: "I used to do these things, but now I have to hand them over to you slowly." ”

Xie Zhiyun was a little stunned, she didn't answer immediately, just greeted politely.

"Mother's health will always be fine, and everyone can feel at ease when there is a mother at home."

Cui Ji shook his head.

She looked inexplicably and looked down at her slightly rough hands.

is also a daughter from a family, she was only born 20 years earlier than Xie Zhiyun, and her fate is completely different.

This is not her misfortune, nor is it Xie Zhiyun's luck, it is just a different fate.

Cui Ji's heart stopped, and she raised her eyes to look at Xie Zhiyun.

"Niannian, can I call you like that?"

Xie Zhiyun was really stunned this time, she blinked her eyes and blushed inexplicably.

"Mother, why do you call such a childish nickname?"

Cui Ji chuckled softly.

"Where is childish, what a nice name."

Cui Ji's voice was long: "Bo Qian is the same as Grandpa Guo, it is not the same, you have a good time with him." ”

This is the first time Xie Zhiyun has heard her talk about things between husband and wife, but he doesn't feel ashamed, he just thinks that she has feelings, so he said, "Okay." ”

Cui Ji knew that she didn't take it to heart, but she wasn't in a hurry.

It's still a long time.

She sighed, "What do you think of Han Zhao?" ”

Xie Zhiyun smiled: "Han Zhao is very cute, I think she is very easy to get along with." ”

Cui Ji thought about it for a while, and said: "Then you can play with her more, she has a cold temperament, she will not take the initiative to get close to people, and she is a little lonely in the house." ”

Xie Zhiyun said: "Okay, mother can rest assured." ”

After coming back that day, Xie Zhiyun always felt that Cui Ji's words were a little strange, she thought about it, but she couldn't think of anything, so she chatted a few words with Mama Jia.

Mama Jia thought for a while before she said to her: "Miss, I see that the Duchess of Guo is an excellent character, she treats people softly, loves her children, and treats all children equally. ”

"And seeing that she gets along with the second lady and Mrs. Li, you can see that she has no bad intentions, probably she is really in poor health, and I want to hand over the errand of the Guogong Mansion to you as soon as possible."

Xie Zhiyun thought for a while and said, "That's a good thing. ”

When the halberd came back that night, he told her about the days of errands.

"Of the more than 1,000 displaced people outside the city, only about 600 are willing to settle in the city, and the rest want to leave Yezhou in the spring, and many want to return to their hometowns."

Xie Zhiyun said: "Six hundred people is not a small number. ”

Wei Ji took a bite of the hot meat bun, swallowed it into his stomach in three or two times, and took a breath before continuing.

"In the past few years, the war was fierce, and most of the fertile fields outside the city were deserted, and then our family settled in Yezhou, and the people returned one after another, and the fertile fields outside the city were re-cultivated, but at that time it was a field divided by households, and many rich households also had a part of the scattered fields, so that the people had the capital to settle down."

In fact, most of the people in the city are engaged in small business transactions, all kinds of food shops, rice, flour, grain and oil, cloth and refreshments, etc., but everything that can be used in life, there are all sold in the city.

There are also some people who live on the outskirts of the city and on the edge of the city, and go out of the city during the day to cultivate rice and grain, which can be regarded as peasant households living in the city.

Compared with the peasant households in the same village and county, except for one more Yezhou household, the rest is no different.

The displaced people have no status, in fact, they are all black households, so they do not have to pay taxes, which is the reason why many people live on the streets after losing their loved ones.

One person eats enough and the whole family is not hungry, there is no need to pay taxes, there is no need to think about saving a mouthful of rice for the family, there is wine today and drunk today, and one day can live one day.

But they also want to return to their roots.

If it is cold today, Yezhou is warm and warm, and when the spring flowers bloom, they will leave and continue to embark on the way home.

Although Xie Zhiyun is in Xie's all the year round and hardly goes out of the house, she is not a boudoir lady who does not listen to things outside the window.

"And don't mention the outcasts who want to leave, where do the outcasts who want to enter the city live, and what do they do for a living?"

Xie Zhiyun asked.

Wei Ji was not surprised by her keenness, he put down his chopsticks, thought for a while, and said: "The fertile fields outside the city are almost all gone, and now there are only dry fields in poor locations, and there is a shortage of people in the city for night incense, cleaning, night security, fire brigades, etc., and those who are willing to do these hard jobs are registered." ”

When the guard said this, he couldn't help but scratch his hair.

He grinned and said with some self-deprecation: "To be honest, it is much more difficult to deal with these trivial matters of people's livelihood than to fight. ”

The halberd shook his head: "I have a headache when they shout. ”

Xie Zhiyun pursed his lips and smiled.

She gave Wei Ji a bowl of lotus root pork rib soup and asked him to replenish his brain, and then said, "Actually, it's easy to do." ”

She said: "It turns out that there is an old gentleman in the family studies, who once worked as a doctor in the pre-Qin Guozi Studies, and I have been taught by him and have a deep memory of him. ”

Xie Zhiyun raised his eyes to look at the halberd while reminiscing.

Her apricot round eyes were slightly raised, and a touch of brilliance flew out from the tails of her eyes, and her black grape-like glass eyes shone brightly, swaying out of a room of starlight.

There seemed to be sparks in her eyes.

Xie Zhiyun said to the guard: "The master once said that the people's livelihood is to give the people what they need, what they want, what kind of life they want to live, the court will try its best to meet it." ”

"Most people don't want to be rich and rich, they just want peace and prosperity," Xie Zhiyun said, "If you are willing to listen to them, see their suffering, and solve their difficulties, then Yezhou will get better and better." ”

(End of chapter)