"Oh my god!"

This time it was not only Mei Berry who was surprised, many people who had never been far away since they were children, or who had fled and knew that they had fled to a wealthy place, couldn't help but scream when they were about to arrive in Fucheng.

From the foot of the hill, they looked at the houses with various stripes of rags on the slopes of the hills, and they didn't know that they were about to enter some raiding cottage.

"Why is it so broken?"

Plum berries looked down on the map, and now they still look at it in disbelief.

"Gunjun ......"

The prefect Xiang Yi, who went down the mountain to greet Mei Berry, was washed white in his official uniform.

Mei Berry looked at it a little unbearable.

Xiang Yi was also very happy when he saw Meiberry, and everyone got out of the car on the way up the mountain.

Mei Berry is not hypocritical, and this mountain road is not impossible to walk, but she really wants to ask, "Is there really no sedan chair?" ”

"No, the yamen has no money to invite, if you let those catch fast, I'm worried that they will snub the county monarch."

There is no money to say that it is justified and well-founded, and Meiberry smiled awkwardly.

She wondered again why she was so poor here.

Standing on the mountain road, the plum berry raised his eyes and looked at some fields and farms at the foot of the mountain, which were growing well, but in fact, the fields were well cleaned up.

Even sweet potatoes and potatoes were planted, and there were some crops she didn't recognize.

"In fact, if you raise a group of donkey carts and ox carts that specialize in pulling goods, and transport vegetables and grains from the mountain to the mountains every day, you can also create jobs."

Mei Berry walked beside Xiang Yi and whispered.

Xiang Yi raised his eyes and looked at the plum berry, as if he hadn't thought about it.

"It's good to just go down and carry it yourself every day."

Plum berries: ......

"It's a waste of time to get these every day, after all, you can't spend time going up and down the mountain every day."

"That's not it, as long as you get more one day, and besides, there is farming in the mountains or something."

Xiang Yi's answer is mainly not an oil and salt.

Mei Berry took a deep breath and couldn't help but say, "However, there are always some ordinary people with inconvenient legs and feet, women, children, and frail people, right?"

Can't everyone be asked to have the possibility to go up and down the mountain? Of course, there are pillars to work on, but like I said, the pillars have to spend time doing this on a regular basis, which is somewhat a waste of time.

If someone specializes in hauling and transporting goods, creating jobs and freeing up other people's time, they can do more. ”

Mei Berry said a long list of words in one breath, but in her heart, she felt that Xiang Yi was not a little shaft.

But soon, Xiang Yi said something that Mei Berry had no way to answer.

"Junjun, Xianyao is bitterly cold. None of the people you said will survive. ”

It was like a punch of hot cotton blocking her chest, and Mei Berry's heart was filled with guilt and embarrassment.

Her self-righteous eloquence seemed to be wrong.

"However, thanks to the woolen clothes and cotton taught by the county king, our life here has been much better in the past two years."

Xiang Yi smiled, the corners of his eyes bloomed with deep lines, pursed his somewhat chapped lips, and said, "This year, we also got the seeds of 'watermelon' here, and we also planted them, I heard that they are delicious." ”

"Yes, it's delicious!"

Plum Berry's mood was lifted again when she heard the watermelon.

"When I get to the state capital, I'll take a good look at the situation here!"

Mei Berry's tone was very firm, and Xiang Yi grinned and laughed when he heard it.

"The lower official is looking forward to what the county lord said."

When she arrived in Fucheng, Plum Berry realized why the place on the map was relatively dim and looked dilapidated and old.

The houses and walls are made of black or dark gray stones.

This is true even with the wood that builds the house.

Therefore, the plum berries are seen on the electronic map in large areas of black.

Mei Berry had previously wondered if it was black from the smoke of the rice.

And the so-called color is probably because the people of Fucheng feel that this black pressure is too ugly.

So every house found some colored objects, such as leaves, shabby fabrics, and all kinds of messy and useless objects to cover the roof.

That's how it looks like you're here to outsiders—ugly and poor.

"Who's up with that?"

Along the way, Mei Berry felt that she really couldn't agree with this aesthetic.

Xiang Yi's face also showed a look of approval, he couldn't tell which generation left the rules from, and he didn't want the people to change them, but Mei Berry could see that Xiang Yi didn't like it very much.

However, Xiang Yi also felt that Mei Berry must not like it, so they cleaned up and renovated Mei Berry's house.

When he heard that his house would not be like the common people, Mei Berry was relieved at that time.

But when Plum Berry looked at the dark mansion with her eyes, her face still showed a momentary sluggishness, and she didn't know what to do.

"Why is it so colorful black?"

If it weren't for the reflection of the sunlight when Mei Berry saw the delicate cornices, Mei Berry would really suspect that Xiang Yi had brought him to some fire site.

Looking at it from afar, it was a big black mass.

It's still dark up close!

Even if the geology of this place is very distinctive, the stone is black, and the wood used to build the house is also that kind of ebony, but it doesn't have to be so black, right?

"No, isn't it white?"

Mei Berry really felt that she couldn't see this aesthetic, and her eyes were dark in the real sense.

She doesn't discriminate against colorful black, she just doesn't like black!

It's summer!

How much is black endothermic?

Isn't it going to be roasted when you go in?

"Originally, the master suggested that I paint the walls white, but the lower official thought that wouldn't it be the same as the mourning hall?"

Berry: "......?" ”

Mei Berry really wanted to say that they must have never seen the white-walled and tiled Hui buildings in the Jiangnan Water Town.

It's all white and black, and people are the freehand beauty of ink painting, how did it become a mourning hall for you?

"I think...... Is there a place else to stay? This wall, I think, can be whitewashed. ”

Mei Berry refused to be a black house, and on Xiang Yi's hesitant face, Mei Berry said again: "Add money to work." ”

"That's okay, please also ask the county monarch to move to the backyard of the yamen for a temporary stay."

Hearing the money, Xiang Yi's honest and loyal appearance for the people just now broke instantly, and Mei Berry looked at it and called it a good guy!

The backyard of the yamen is much better, although it is not exquisite, but Mei Berry thinks it can be seen overall.

You can live if you can see it!

It took a day for Mei Berry to settle down, and that night Xiang Yi said that he was going to hold a banquet to entertain Mei Berry and those who came with Mei Berry.

Mei Berry was a little embarrassed when she heard this.

There are a lot of people she brought to work, and if the yamen directly entertained her, it was really expensive.

Mei Berry even rested in the house, and when she changed her clothes, she asked Yin Jiu and Qing Shi which restaurant Xiang Yi's banquet was held in Fucheng.

After all, there are so many people that the yamen can't eat when they set the table.

It's just that after she asked like this, Yin Jiu and Qing Shi's faces became a little stranger.

"What's wrong?"

Through the subtle changes in their expressions, Plum Berry sensed that something seemed to be wrong.

"Actually, the banquet ...... Maybe you don't have to use one person per table? ”

"Well, yes. In the case of a restaurant, there are also several people per table. Where's the banquet? I was so tired that I didn't listen carefully. ”

"Back to the county, it's in the county office."

"Oh~"

Because of the two less questions, Mei Berry ate the ancient version of the boxed lunch.

For the first time, Plum Berry knew that the banquet could be held like this.

Nearly 100 people were eating boxed lunches in the yamen, and they didn't even have a place to sit, holding each other's boxed lunches and looking at each other, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

Originally, Mei Berry herself wanted to show exaggerated expressions such as surprise, stunned, and collapse, but she finished showing it to Yongyuan.

So, Mei Berry could only pretend to be calm and comforted: "Okay, there are still two pieces of meat in it." The food is not bad. ”

After Mei Berry finished speaking, she saw Yongyuan take out an oily chicken butt from her lunch box in horror, and she was so frightened that she immediately looked down at her lunch box.

Fortunately, I'm a little chicken leg. (End of chapter)