The days passed day by day, and Xiaocao, who originally planned to live in Dongshan Village until the end of February, was quickly disrupted. On the day of the 16th, an unexpected visitor came to Dongshan Village.
"Zhu Junyang, why are you here? You didn't say anything in advance, you are doing a surprise inspection, you!" Yu Xiaocao got off the cover early in the morning, and when she returned home, she saw a few more horses in front of the door. It was found that Zhu Junyang was sitting on the kang, eating the nuts she fried years ago, and there was a small pile of peeled hickory nuts in the small plate next to her.
Zhu Junyang raised his eyebrows at her, crushed another hickory nut in his hand, carefully picked out the kernels inside, and put it into a small plate. After finishing all this, he said, "Didn't I want to give you a surprise? Why? You are not welcome? Did you forget about Grandpa long ago with brother Han by your side?"
For Xiaoshitou who said "Brother Han" every mouthful, this master has long been upset. You must know that there is such a wolf with a big tail waiting, he has already accompanied the little girl back to visit relatives, spent a new year in Dongshan Village, and then returned to Beijing together. It's been more than a month since the little girl came back. I don't know if that guy showed his hospitality while he was away
"Oops! Who knocked over the vinegar jar in this room, it smells so sour!" Indus took the silver fox fur cloak that Yu Xiaocao untied and hung it on the pear tree hanger.
Seeing Xiaocao's face flushed from the cold, Zhu Junyang gave up the warmest kang head. Xiaocao took off her shoes and sat down, and he covered her legs and feet with the small quilt that was on his lap. Then he pointed to the pecan kernels he had peeled, and cursed with a smile:
"You little heartless, have fun in Dongshan Village, don't you think about it? It's been more than a month since I came out, and I don't know how to write a letter to my father. This early in the morning, I will go to the mountains, and it will not be with that surnamed Zhao. Did you go together?"
Yu Xiaocao grabbed a small handful of walnuts and stuffed them into her mouth. Her cheeks bulged and her big eyes turned into crescent moons, like a little squirrel eating a pine nut contentedly. Hearing this, she gave Zhu Junyang a sideways look, and said, "Brother Han, you are as free as you are? He has gone to sea to train soldiers, how can he have the leisure to set up rabbits?"
"Brother Han...you are quite affectionate. Why have you never called me 'Brother Yang'?" Zhu Junyang felt sore in his heart. The little girl always called him by his first name and was not polite at all.
Seeing that he stopped peeling the walnuts, Yu Xiaocao quickly patted his hand to remind him that he was waiting. Hearing his sour words, she looked up at him and said seriously: "Call him Brother Han, Treat him like an older brother. Or... you want to be my older brother too?"
"No!" Not at all! Seeing that the walnut kernels on the plate disappeared at a rapid speed, Zhu Junyang hurriedly speeded up the speed of pinching the walnuts, "However, I am not very satisfied with the way you call me."
"What do you want me to call you? Junyang? Yangyang? Xiaoyang'er? Baby Yang??" After blurting out the nasty names one after another, Yu Xiaocao was pleasantly surprised to find that Zhu Junyang's ears turned red.
Zhu Junyang dowry coughed twice, cleared his throat, and said, "When I was young, I used to call myself 'Ruizhi', and only a few close people knew it..."
"Okay, then I'll call you Ruizhi!" Yu Xiaocao followed suit, "Zhu Ruizhi, the walnuts are gone, I still want to eat them!"
"Eat less snacks, breakfast is heating up in the pot for you!" As soon as Liu Shi entered the door, she heard the voice of her youngest daughter, Da La La, ordering the king of Yangjun to help peel the hickory nuts, and couldn't help but glared at her.
"Put hickory kernels into the porridge, and it becomes nut porridge, which is also delicious!" Yu Xiaocao quibbled, her little hand secretly reached out to Zhu Junyang's peeled walnut kernels, and quickly stuffed a piece into her mouth. It's like a little squirrel stealing food.
Mrs. Liu couldn't control her, so she said to Zhu Junyang: "Prince Yangjun, don't spoil her! Throughout the twelfth lunar month and the first lunar month, she ate snacks as meals every day, and she didn't like to eat dinner! She gained a few catties during the New Year Meat, she is fine, not to mention, she looks a little thinner."
Facing Zhu Junyang's scrutinizing eyes, Yu Xiaocao hurriedly argued: "Who said I'm thin? Look at my little face, it's almost like a bun face. Mothers are like this, always feel that their children have lost weight , trying to turn people into fat little pigs."
"Raising pigs?" Mrs. Liu nodded her forehead, put away all the hickory nuts and hazelnuts on the kang table, asked Yingchun to put porridge, buns and side dishes on the table, and said, "If the pig farm is full of you, It is estimated that those who raise pigs will lose money!"
"Mother—did you say that about my daughter? I am such an exquisite and beautiful doll, but you compare me with a stinky pig. I am angry!" Yu Xiaocao took the opportunity to act like a spoiled child to her mother.
Mrs. Liu pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "It's not me who said it first, but you first compared yourself to raising pigs. This pot, mother will not bear it! Eat up all of these, otherwise you will not be allowed to eat snacks today !"
Yu Xiaocao looked at the two meat buns that were bigger than her fist and a big bowl of porridge, immediately wrinkled her face, and said, "Mother, let's talk about it. I'll eat a bun, okay?"
"No! I ate half a bowl of noodles last night, and if you don't eat more in the morning, you want to become a fairy!" Liu Shi resolutely rejected her bargaining, "Hurry up and eat while it's hot, the buns are brought back by you It’s made of roe deer meat, it’s so fresh!”
Yu Xiaocao rolled her eyes, and suddenly she smiled brightly at Zhu Junyang, who was watching the mother and daughter fighting, and said, "Ruizhi—you haven't had breakfast yet, right? Let's enjoy it together!"
Mrs. Liu patted the little hand she was passing the buns towards Zhu Junyang, and said with a straight face: "Junyang Yang has already eaten with us, so don't think about stuffing them with others. I've done the math, I'll eat all of these If you go down, at most your stomach will swell, and it won't support you!"
Yu Xiaocao cast a pitiful little look at Zhu Junyang. But facing the scorching eyes of his future mother-in-law, Zhu Junyang could only make a helpless expression towards the little girl. With the mother-in-law on one side and the daughter-in-law on the other, Zhu Junyang had to lower his head, pretending to be very busy, and continued peeling walnuts.
Yu Xiaocao resignedly picked up a meat bun, and chewed the salty and delicious side dish as if venting her anger. After eating up the two meat buns, she poured Zhu Junyang's peeled walnuts into her porridge , I added some raisins and haw jelly, and drank it all up. Uh—Xiaocao burped, touched her bulging belly, and thought about cooking some soup for digestion.
Mrs. Liu saw her youngest daughter leaning on the quilt sitting or not, she smiled and glared at her, and said: "The weather is fine today, take a rest and take Yangjun Wang around the village to digest food. At noon, Cook your favorite seafood feast. Braised prawns in oil, small yellow croakers with salt and pepper, steamed scallops, stir-fried squid... ”
Yu Xiaocao didn't have the chance to eat seafood in her previous life, but she has a special liking for seafood after time travelling. The seafood cooked by her mother is delicious. Every seafood meal makes her eyes shine and her mouth water. In order to empty his stomach to eat seafood, Xiaocao dragged Zhu Junyang for a few walks back and forth in the other courtyard halfway up the mountain. Originally, she wanted to take a walk in the village, but she changed her mind when she met the curious eyes of the villagers.
When the king of Yangjun came to his fief, he naturally had to accept the visit of Tanggu officials and check the tax by the way. After the rise of the Yu family's greenhouse vegetables, it drove some industries in Tanggu, and even the tax revenue increased by nearly 20%.
Yu Xiaocao has already told about her work in the Tang Gujian Breeding Base, and has received Zhu Junyang's full support. The decision to encourage land reclamation was also adopted. As for the land needed for the farm, Zhu Junyang directly expropriated the fields of the squires and landlords, and won praises by reducing or exempting taxes on other industries. Some people who are engaged in business feel that it is profitable, and even squeeze out their heads to contribute to the Zhuangzi, which they have little output. Of course, those farther away from Yujiazhuangzi were directly ignored.
After the summer harvest, when the corn was planted, the Yu family's farm had begun to take shape. There are more than 20,000 mu of high-grade fertile land alone, and the sum of medium and low-grade farmland is no less than this number. Nearly 40,000 mu of farms, the annual output can be seen.
There were jealous officials in the imperial court who often put eye drops on Yu Xiaocao in front of the emperor. Said that she received an errand from the imperial court, and instead of doing her job well, she only cared about benefiting her family. Those who are close to Xiaocao naturally want to speak for her. It is said that she is sharing the worries of the imperial court and has made great contributions to the promotion of high-yield crops. There was another storm in the court, and the verbal confrontation about Yu Xiaocao's behavior started again.
However, these little grasses are completely ignored. Regarding the establishment of the breeding base in Tanggu, she had reported to the emperor in advance, and the emperor also expressed his support. The sooner the high-yield corn and winter wheat are promoted, the sooner his subjects can get rid of the plight of hunger and cold and move towards a well-off society.
As long as the "big boss" above her head is on her side, what others say has nothing to do with her. She doesn't want any fame. Those who impeached her are just jealous that she will make money? She has to make a lot of money to make them greedy to the end!
Now under Yu Hai's hands, there are already a group of experienced tenants. No matter how big the stall is on Tang Gu's side, there are not many things that require Xiaocao to do it himself. Her task is just to impregnate all the seeds with spiritual power in advance.
This process is very simple, but very necessary. Yu Xiaocao made Xiao Butian petrified into the form of a cat, running chicken soup in several warehouses piled up like mountains, rolling a few times, spitting a few times, or urinating a few times—the last option was given by Xiao Butian Shi Zhenzhen protested. He is a civilized heaven-replenishing stone, how could he do such an uncivilized thing
In short, under the joint efforts of Yu Hai at the helm, Yu Hang's help, and several stewards he promoted, Tang Gu's breeding base is proceeding in an orderly manner. In addition, the farm has King Yang as the backstage, so naturally the green light goes smoothly all the way...