Bai Erlang thought so too, but, "But isn't the weaving workshop a place where weaving cloth and making clothes? What can they do?"
Yin Ju also said: "Who would send them to do such a thing? It's not possible for other counties... Although the relationship has been a little tense recently, it is not possible to do this, right?"
Zhou Man also thought about it seriously, and shook his head, "When Bai Shan comes back, we can ask him, maybe he still quietly offended someone we don't know."
Everyone: ... They looked at Zhou Man silently, how could they know that you were not the one who offended
Zhou Man was very confident, and said: "Besides, I don't think it's a big problem if you send people to farm in Zhuangzi and let people watch them."
Farm work is so easy to do, she is confident that she can be transformed.
Daji and the guards came back soon, and brought back the identity information of their mother and daughter. Although it was a self-report, it may not be true, but even the investigation has a direction, right
"... Her husband's family name is Lu, her maiden name is Qi, and she is from Qizhou. Her husband's village is on the edge of Qingzhou, so the news spread here, and she was kicked out by her parents-in-law's family, so she came here directly. "
Zhou Man asked, "Is she really good at farming?"
"She said she would, but she also said that she is good at raising chickens and cooking. Because she was told by his wife, Zhao Ming gave her preferential treatment and let her go to the kitchen. She can just do some vegetable growing work. .”
That's not the case.
At this time, there are not many people left in the house on the edge of the official field outside the city. Therefore, there are still a lot of thatched houses available for four people to live in one room, unlike before, where eight people lived in one house. Not enough to live in.
When the mother and daughter arrived at the place, they took their clothes and daily necessities. The officials knew that Master Zhou had arranged for them, so they generously allocated an empty house to them.
It is much more comfortable for mother and daughter to live alone in a room.
When she entered the room, Aunt Qi threw her burden and the things in her arms on the simple wooden bed, looking around.
On the other hand, the young Miss Lu quickly adapted to the environment, and after tidying up her things, she held a wooden bucket and looked at her mother, "Mom, it's time for us to fetch water."
Aunt Qi glanced at her and wanted to scold her. There was no reason, so she felt panicked in her heart, but she was afraid that people outside would suspect that she was not a loving mother, so she could only restrain her temper, stand up with a gloomy face, and Carried a wooden bucket.
But as soon as she opened the door, the gloom on her face disappeared. She squeezed out a soft smile, and reached out to hold her daughter's hand, leading her to go outside, "Let's ask someone where to fetch water."
The relationship between people in Zhuangzi is not bad, especially at this time, they can eat enough, are in a good mood, and treat others more kindly.
The women who lived on the left and right saw that it was not easy for her to be a widow with a child, so she took the initiative to guide them, saying: "There is a drinking river at the other end. We fetch water from that river for everything we do."
As she walked, she said: "Water comes from there. Every day, people take turns carrying water. The county magistrate was merciful and ordered him to make several stone jars and put them in the big kitchen. They have to carry water twice a day, once in the morning. After dinner, once in the evening after dinner."
She said: "That's water for drinking. It needs to be put in the tank for a while, and it has to be boiled to drink. This is what Mr. Zhou said. There are many bugs and evil spirits in the water. If we can't see it, it doesn't mean it's not there, so The water at the entrance must be boiled. If you want to drink water in each house, you have to go to the big kitchen with a bamboo tube, by the way, sister, you belong to the kitchen, right?"
Aunt Qi hesitated for a moment and then nodded, "I'm a cook, and I said I want to cook."
"That's it. Boiling water is also the job of your kitchen. You can ask your manager to know how much to boil."
Aunt Qi followed her closely with a wooden bucket, walked through one field after another, saw that the fields on both sides had been opened, but the soil looked not very good, so she hesitated and asked, "This is the official field we want to plant. ? It doesn't look very good."
"It's not an official field, it's an open field," the person leading the way introduced: "Have you seen this one, here and there, and there is a large piece of open field over there, the adults asked us to raise the land, wait Plant some pasture and beans in the spring of next year, and it will be good to raise them for a few years."
Aunt Qi is from Qizhou, Qizhou has a small area and a lot of people, every piece of land seems to be very precious, and few people use it for grazing, so she was surprised, "Planting pasture?"
"That's right. When the time comes, we will raise chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep. All of these will need grass. How suitable is it that we can fertilize the land after raising these livestock?"
Although she didn't quite understand what Magistrate Bai said, she was obedient and knew that this area was used to grow beans and pastures to raise livestock.
"This is a wasteland. It was abandoned before, and now it's all blooming. Next year, we will plant melons and beans..." When they got to the river, the guide waited for them to fetch water, and pointed to the tunnel not far away: "See, it's official land. I heard that it's the county magistrate's job. The land is good. One-third of it is planted with wheat, and the wheat is new. I heard that the yield is extremely high. I don't know how high it is."
Did Aunt Qi stand on tiptoe and look over there
The guide urged her, "Hurry up, it's almost time for lunch."
Only then did Aunt Qi speed up and helped her daughter carry half a bucket of water, but the guide was here, and it was hard for her to let a little girl carry water and go back empty-handed, so she stretched out her hand and walked back with her .
"In two days, go to Zhu Sanlang and ask him to make you a pole. It's much more convenient and easier to carry water with a pole. You can't borrow the pole in the kitchen."
At the beginning, it was possible, but later I found that it was difficult to get back the borrowed poles, and there was a big opinion whether I borrowed this or not, so the big kitchen simply refused to borrow it.
They can only make their own shoulder poles, and the best one is Zhu Sanlang.
Aunt Qi responded and asked, "Where is the vegetable field?"
"It's right by the river," she said with a smile. "Just now we carried water to the upper reaches, and we walked down a certain distance, and that area was planted with vegetables. We ate what we ate, and the long-term workers who were transferred away ate. It is the vegetables we grow, and the surplus can be sold in the market."
But the money belonged to the county government, so they took the opportunity to enter the city at most.
Aunt Qi's heart moved, and she asked, "Did the vegetables from the weaving workshop in the city also come from our village?"
"That's right, not only the weaving workshop, Yushantang, but also the county government's vegetables are all taken from Zhuangzi, so it's not common to go to the city to buy vegetables."
Because although their vegetable fields are large, there are also many people who eat them.
Aunt Qi quickly said: "Then next time I go to the city to deliver food, let me go together, so I'm familiar with it."
"No, this has nothing to do with you," said the guide, "delivering food is Zhu Sanlang's business."
"It's okay, I can help."
The guide frowned and looked at her, "How can you help? If you are free, you still have to grow vegetables. Let me tell you, everyone has to do enough work every day. If you can't finish it slowly, we will It won't help you."
It's okay to help a group once in a while, but it's not okay to do it all the time, not to mention she still wants to go to the city to deliver food.