People who will come to the palace to be maids and eunuchs are basically from poor families.
Xu Yu is naturally the same, I heard that she was bought into the palace when she was only seven or eight years old, but after she entered the palace, the family has not broken contact with her, which is also a rare thing in the palace.
Because although most of the maids in the palace have relatives to visit, they basically come on holidays, and no relatives will come to visit.
Only court ladies whose families are near the capital, or those with relatives near the capital, will visit occasionally.
So on this point, the people in the palace still envy Xu Yu.
Man Bao listened to Ma Fuming's report while eating, and then said: "In this way, although Xu Yu's family is poor, he should be living well."
Manbao's family used to be poor, and she always felt that being poor was nothing, as long as she was happy, she would not be too sad.
Ma Fuming said: "The servant also feels that Xu Yu is living a good life, and many people in the palace envy her."
Compared with the servants, the life of the maids is much better than them. Of course, it does not mean food and clothing, but because the maids still have family members to look for, but the servants who are sent to the palace basically have no family members. up.
Even if there is, it is just their own delusion, they know it in their hearts, and the family may not have much affection for them.
Not to mention that they have to endure physical pain all the time.
Even Ma Fuming, who didn't know Xu Yu very well before, couldn't help but envy her after inquiring about her.
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other, and decided to check Xu Yu's aunt and family after leaving the palace.
Yin Yu thanked Ma Fuming, let him go down, and then said to Bai Shan: "I went to find Man Bao yesterday, and met Xu Yu in her yard, and I didn't think she was different, did you feel that?" wrong."
Man Bao thought: She may feel wrong, but Keke can never be wrong. Xu Yu secretly peeped at her several times, but once or twice she released a faint hostility.
Bai Shan thought in his heart: He might be wrong, but Uncle Zhou can't be wrong, right
He didn't believe that bad guys could hide in front of Uncle Zhou, but Uncle Zhou seemed to be able to follow around Man Bao instead of staring at the bad guys all the time.
The last time I let Uncle Zhou stare at the prince was to pay some livestock, maybe...
Bai Shan turned his head and said to Man Bao: "When Xiu Mu and Brother Zhou tell me to leave a cow for me, I don't know if he has entered all the numbers."
Man Bao understood and said angrily, "I forgot about it."
He said to Keke again in his heart: "I forgot, why did you forget too?"
Keke: "... host, I didn't scan the cattle brought back by your fourth brother."
If it doesn't scan it, it means it doesn't exist here, so naturally it won't remind the host to include it.
Zhou Zhoulang didn't drive the one hundred cows he bought back into the city, and he was not a tiger, so where to put so many cows in the city
And what to eat is also a problem.
So they put the cattle outside the city, set up several farmyards in a village, and asked their men to guard them.
His original intention was to go to the city to find Man Bao and Bai Shan to discuss whether it is possible to put the cattle in the Bai family's Zhuangzi for the time being. He knew that the Bai family had a Zhuangzi near Yongzhou in the suburbs of Beijing.
In the end, he didn't expect his parents to come to Beijing, and happened to meet Bai Dalang getting married, so he couldn't hold back and drank two more glasses. In addition, he was tired and exhausted, so he slept until dawn the next day.
But he doesn't have to worry about where the cattle go, because Man Bao took the land to cultivate himself, and he has a lot of places to settle.
The next day, except for Liu Liulang, who opened the restaurant, and a few children who had to study in the pharmacy, everyone else went out of the city to Pu Village.
Of course, before going to Pu Village, Liu Liulang took them to see the cows and people outside the capital.
Then the group sent another 100 cows to Pu Village.
They set off in the morning, because the cattle moved slower than the horse-drawn carts, so they arrived after noon.
When the chief and tenants of Pu Village saw the mighty cow, they opened their mouths wide in shock, unable to utter a word.
The head of the village was the first to come back to his senses, and immediately went up to the old Zhou head to salute repeatedly, and praised: "Master Zhou is righteous, Mr. Zhou is worthy of being an imperial doctor, the doctor is benevolent, and he has brought us so many cattle."
Old Zhou Tou: ...
Zhou Zhoulang was afraid that his father would respond as soon as his head got hot, so he rushed forward to speak, but his father said quickly: "Master Li Chang, you misunderstood, this cow is for sale."
The chief's movements froze, he looked at the cows with a stiff head, and asked with trembling lips, "For sale, for sale?"
Old Zhou nodded and said with a smile: "If anyone in the village wants to buy it, I will ask my fourth son to give you less."
The head of the village straightened up, and thought to himself: Forget it, everyone is about to run out of food, let alone buy a cow, and can't even afford to buy a piglet.
Disappointment was also visible on the faces of the villagers.
Old Zhou didn't take it seriously, what was he thinking, how many years did his family work to afford a cow, and gave it to them for nothing
He would rather drive the cattle back to Qili Village than give them away!
But although he doesn't give it away, he can give it to them for farming temporarily. There is no way, the winter wheat is about to be sown, and these tenants are so lazy that they haven't started weeding the field yet.
And these cows also need to be trained, and it happens that it takes a while for the cows to be numbered and naturalized, so let them use this time.
The villagers were overjoyed and then sad, and after the great sorrow, they were happy again. Anyway, they were very happy, so they just stared at the cows with piercing eyes and stopped moving.
Zhou Zhoulang said with a smile: "I heard from my niece that you have a hundred households, and it just so happens that I have a hundred cows here, and the family will take one back for you to use for now, but you will be responsible for the fodder for the cows. "
Everyone naturally responded without any problems.
Old Zhou Tou added from the side: "You have to be careful, don't let them get tired. These cows were all bought from the grassland, and they have worked hard all the way from the grassland to here."
In terms of serving the cattle, the people in the entire Pu Village combined are not as meticulous as Lao Zhoutou, and he has always been watching and taking care of their cattle.
Years later, Master Bai also brought a bull and a cow to their family. It is said that Man Bao paid for it a long time ago, and the cow was successfully conceived before he came out...
Thinking of this, Lao Zhou couldn't help being homesick again.
Just as he was thinking about it, Zhou Zhoulang and the others had already divided up the cattle lively. With such a division, not only did they have a place for the cattle to live, but they didn't even have to worry about the fodder for the cattle. It was very simple.
Zhou Zhoulang quietly said to Zhou Dalang: "It's still Manbao who knows that I need a place to stay, so I prepared such a place a long time ago."
Zhou Dalang stared at the person who was working not far away, and asked, "What are you doing?"
Zhou Zhoulang glanced at it and said: "Build a house. Didn't Man Bao say that he wants to build a small village here, so that it's convenient for you and Dad to live in, and it's also convenient for us to settle down?"
Zhou Dalang was startled, "Why haven't I heard from her?"
Zhou Zhoulang pointed to Zhou Lijun who was not far away and said, "What Lijun said, he also said that Bai Shan and the second young master of the Bai family also paid for it."