Chapter 189: The Great Change of Xishui Village
Does Yongchang want to escape?
He didn't have that idea at all, and he still enjoyed it.
And he also believed that what her princess said was true, if he was gone, the princess might be a little sad, but she would also keep packing up valuable things and running away with people.
He understood that according to his earlier negligence to the princess, he could still expect people to follow him to death?
What I can do now is to be more attentive, and strive not to die early and live longer.
He was sure that as long as he was in one day, the princess would not think of running.
"Didn't you say you had to take a good rest, why are you busy again?"
Seeing that he was busy again, Yan Mu'an was a little curious, and Yong Chang smiled half-truthfully: "If you are not diligent, what if you can't cover the princess in the future?" ”
Yan Mu'an gave him a thumbs up, "Be conscious, I think you can achieve great things." ”
"It's not good to disappoint the princess."
"Then you work hard, I also have to talk to the flower steward about the next arrangements, and I will help you no matter what."
Yan Mu'an turned around with a smile, seeing her brisk steps, Yongchang continued to look down at the defense map on the table, and then called someone in to reply.
The visitor had been there for a while, hiding in the shadows.
"Lord Yu, the person has been properly placed, the wound on the other party's body is quite deep, and he has been poisoned, and he has tried his best to heal it, the husband means that he can only give strong medicine, but the strong medicine hurts the body, once it is used, the other party is afraid that he will not live for too many years."
Yongchang raised his eyes, "Despite the medicine, it is guaranteed that you will not die within five years." ”
The person who came quickly retreated like a ghost, and Yongchang continued to look at the defense map in his hand, and circled one of them with a pen.
On the third day of the loss of the three princes of the Heavenly Sage, Yongchang, who had not gone out in recent days, took her princess out of the city, because Yan Mu'an said that she wanted to see the spring outside the city, and went to see how Xishui Village was doing.
In the spring, the eyes are full of fresh green, which is particularly pleasing to the eye, Yan Mu'an admires it along the way, the carriage stops and stops, and comments from time to time, "To say that in addition to the difficult road here, the scenery is really good." ”
No matter how good it is, there is not much development.
Walking to the foot of a mountain, I looked around, "I think this place is quite flat, and there are hundreds of acres of land reclaimed, right?" ”
Yongchang said, "Brother Huang is already working on this, recently there are displaced people who have come to settle to open up wasteland, this kind of place can form a small village, a family can plant a few acres of land, and they can be hungry for a year." ”
"It's still less."
Yan Mu'an remembers that a colleague of her used to say that the family of three in her family adds up to less than one acre of dry land and one acre of paddy field, but they can't eat all the grain in a year, and the yield is high; second, the policy is good, and there is no grain tax; The third is that because the living conditions are good and the food is less, the food produced by the land will naturally not be eaten.
But none of the three conditions in front of him is available, the yield is low, the output of one mu of land does not exceed 300 catties, the grain tax is not low, the food conditions are not good, and there is more to eat without oil and water in the stomach.
If you want to have more food, you have to have more land, but a person's physical strength is limited, how many acres of land can he plant?
"Speaking of which, the production is still low."
Thanks to Grandpa Yuan for making her rich for so many years, she often dumps leftovers to feed the chickens.
Yongchang thought about it and then opened his mouth, "My mother-in-law is very talented in managing the fields, and the yield of the land under the name of the county lord's mansion is more than half that of ordinary land, and the yield per mu last year was more than 400 catties. ”
Yan Mu'an turned his head to look at him, and then patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "I understand what you mean, you want to govern the land." ”
"The point is that I don't know either, so I'll ask my cousin to come back."
Yongchang said 'um', and the two of them didn't get into the carriage anymore, so they walked along the official road, listening to the murmuring of the stream, and smelling the birds and flowers.
Xishui Village has changed dramatically, and before it can get closer, I can hear a burst of noise, the ground that was once entangled in vines has been turned deeply, the fresh soil is exposed to the air, and the neat rows of wheat seedlings have broken through the soil, and there are a few square fields with green vegetables.
There are old people busy working in front of a row of tents, and the bamboo strips are flexibly shuttling in their hands, seemingly weaving back baskets; A woman was squatting in the field, as if she were weeding, and beside her was a basket with grass. A man pushed the wood down the mountain, and the wood tumbled to the ground, hitting a row of stakes and stopped, and another man from the mountain carried the wood away.
Walking into the village, with the wind, there was not only the smell of grass and earth, but also the smell of pig manure, "Sister Zhou's pig has been raised?" ”
"Raised, Zhou Wu helped buy piglets, and also bought two sows and a Lang pig, Zhou Wu is quite concerned about this place, as long as he is free, he will run here."
"Yes, it's her sister who is in charge here."
Seeing Sister Zhou coming here from a distance, those who were busy in the village also put down their work and followed, Yan Mu'an sighed, "Look, I still delayed other people's work." ”
"The princess is here?"
"I've seen the prince."
Sister Zhou was thinner and more energetic than before, seeing these people who were running to kneel on the ground, she quickly asked them to get up, and said: "I have to be free today, I just want to see how everyone is doing, and the emperor and the prince are also very worried." ”
There are good people who laugh like children, "If you go back to the princess, we are all doing well." ”
"Yes, yes, our new house is being built, and in two months we will be able to move into the house, and there are rich and kind people in the city who have sent us some tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans, and we are going to live a good life."
"I also raise chickens, all of them are raised together, and when our house is built, we will divide the chickens, and we also collect herbs for the pharmacy in the city, and there is an income."
Everyone is talking about the good life they are living now, although their days are still bitter in Yan Mu'an's eyes, but compared to the streets they lived in before, they are indeed living a good life in their longing, after all, this place makes them see hope and have a vision for their future life.
Yan Mu'an looked at a bamboo fence not far away, with some hay drying on it, thinking that it was their herbs, and said with a smile: "I still underestimate you, it's only been a long time, you guys will live your life, and this summer will be a good little village, I think this place is good, the mountains are good, and there is water, it is a good place." ”
"When this year's winter is not so busy, we will dig a well in the village, although there is water coming down from the mountains, just in case."
At this moment, the man on the mountain also came down, knelt down and kowtowed, standing aside happily, Sister Zhou pointed to a strong man, and said: "Princess, this is Li Dayong, the newly elected village chief of our Xishui Village, who is capable, and now he is leading people to cut trees on the mountain, and when the trees on the top of the mountain are cut out of a part, they will also open up the wasteland on the mountain. ”