The leaves were blown off by the autumn wind, and the rice was dyed golden.
Everyone who grows late rice is busy sharpening their knives and preparing to harvest the joy of autumn. The old man is not idle, and finds a group of people to go to the ponds in the mountains to fish for crabs. This is the letter from Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. Said, save a small part for the old man, and send the rest to Shuiyunjian.
The old man is also waiting. The two thousand acres of land belonged to his family, and it was used by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. There were also eight crabs along with the letter. Each usage was written in the letter, making the old man curious. Feeling warm again.
Crabs and shrimps were picked up, and the people of the Bi family cheered from time to time. The old man took his granddaughter Xin'er and Liu'er and stood aside watching.
"Grandpa, should the big crab be eaten raw? I heard people say that it is good to eat raw." Xiner licked her lips with her tongue there, and asked, she didn't eat too many crabs.
Children’s family members generally don’t eat these things that are easy to get sick. If they accidentally eat them, they may die. Only last year, she only ate them a few times, which is still very small. Fry, bite in the mouth and scream, but there is no meat.
The old man touched his granddaughter’s head. "It stands to reason that it should be eaten raw or drunk, but the letter written by Xiaobao and the cuckoo said that you should not eat that way. And drunk crab, otherwise it's easy to eat something wrong, let's eat steamed crab."
"Also let Shuiyunjian make the steamed ones. The ones made there are delicious." Xin'er believes in Shuiyunjian most for dinner now, and her own chef doesn't eat what she cooks.
"Okay, okay, just eat Shuiyunjian. Don’t be afraid of eating bad stomachs. Take the clippers to the Huayuan County Yamen, and then send some to Shuiyunjian, let them do it first, and then go back. eat."
The old man agreed with affection that he was actually eating between the water and the clouds. There was a recipe specially for him. He saw that he had picked up nearly a thousand catties, so he was sent to the Zhang family and asked them to taste it first. After a while, I have to give some. According to the Zhang family's habit, there are good things to be distributed to the dealer and the servants. The more than 500 government servants are not enough to be divided.
In Huayuan County, Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan, and Li Xun were also waiting for the shrimp and crabs from there to bring them over. It was a great meal and enjoyable.
The mountain road has been repaired, and the other roads in Huayuan County have to wait a few months. There are too many people to stand up and there are many roads to be built. There is money in the yamen’s account. At the beginning, it was 80,000 guan, plus various taxes collected later. , Let Zhang Zhong confidently repair the road to any place where there is a home, except for the kind of individual residents living on the mountain, all other places will be repaired.
Not only was it repaired in places where there were people in the county, but the surrounding Linxian County was also dedicated to repairing a large road. The staff were hired directly from Linxian, and Linxian was also discussed with Linxian. After the autumn harvest, Linxian provided manpower and Huayuan County provided tools For the road construction materials, several main roads in Linxian were also repaired.
The yamen in Linxian County secretly happily, while agreeing, while saying that Zhang Zhong is stupid, so much money, just for the convenience of transportation, even helped Linxian to build roads, and kept some of them by himself. What people say, stupidly come out to help others.
Of course, the people in the yamen of Linxian county are just jealous, especially the yamen. While talking about Huayuan County magistrate Zhang Zhong's lack of heart, while admiring the good days of Huayuan County's yamen, each with a knife on his waist. Riding under him, the clothes he wears are also well-fitted and tidy.
The yamen in Huayuan County unexpectedly hired a lot of people to wash their clothes for the yamen every day. The yamen in other places only had one set of clothes, and the people in my own family would wash them. Huayuan had seven or eight sets, and they were divided. season.
When doing things in the county, the government officials elsewhere or paying for food to eat, or bullying a small shop, Huayuan County not only immediately brought food, drink and medicine, but also a small stamped card on it. With numbers written, as long as you eat in a store in Huayuan County, you can use a small card to settle the bill. There is a prescribed number. When the time comes, these stores will take the small card to exchange money or tax deductions.
In this way, the yamen in Huayuan County can persevere in their training no matter how hard they are, and with good food supplies, they are strong and physically strong. They are pulled out to compare with others, and the yammers in other places can't lift their heads.
In this contradiction of taking advantage and scolding Zhang Zhong for being stupid, Zhang Zhong again sent up the tax and rent that should be paid this year, causing an uproar in the DPRK. The people in the DPRK knew the original Wen county magistrate. After receiving the rent for a year, I thought that Zhang Zhong would write a discount this year, but I didn't expect it to be five times the usual amount.
The news quickly spread to the surrounding counties. The magistrates of these counties bit their teeth one by one. Huayuan County sent so many, what should I do here? I still want to find an excuse to reduce the exemption. I keep a little more. Compared with Huayuan, I dare to do this. I won't want to continue the county magistrate next year. I can't do it.
At this time, Zhang Zhong did another stupid thing. He negotiated with the surrounding counties to rent their land to grow vegetables in the winter, and some materials to be used also came from the yamen. The yamen would spend money to collect the materials first. Sell it to Zhang's family for a certain price. This is done in his own name.
The county magistrates were happy now. Zhang Zhong rented a thousand acres of land at once. He only rented it for a few months. He paid 50 cents for one acre of land. He wanted to make that kind of vegetable place on so much land. , This material will have several thousand sticks, even if it is a 20% price, you can get a thousand sticks of income.
This is a county of 1,000 acres. At that time, local people will be hired to help with farming. After a few months, the people who are hired will make more money than they will be farming a year. When they scold Zhang Zhong for being stupid, Several county magistrates also breathed a sigh of relief, and also wrote a report, raising the highest amount of money and food paid in the county this year, which was double the amount in previous years.
I wanted to keep some for myself, but none of the county magistrates who were forced by Zhang Zhong to dared to stay more, and it was not worth it to stay less. As a result, all of them were tortured and almost went wrong.
He scolded, hated, and liked Zhang Zhong again.
Not only that, Zhang Zhong also asked Zhang's family to open the game store in several counties first, using maps of several counties, and assigning some villains to the poor people in several counties. In addition, a large number of handicrafts were made in several counties. All the poultry and livestock in all counties were collected, and the chickens and piglets were delivered at very cheap prices.
It is precisely because of this that the surrounding counties earn enough money to double the money and grain they handed in this year, double the rent, and the people's life will be good enough. Someone secretly gave Zhang Zhong the fortune. For a moment, the money spent these few times can't be paid if the total amount is less than 40,000.
Forty thousand Guans, how much land and population should I buy? It was used by Zhang Zhong to take care of the neighboring county.
Every day, things from other counties were pulled in by carts. Zhang Zhong arranged for people to build more than a dozen large warehouses and put them in different categories. Poultry and livestock were directly slaughtered and frozen. For a time, the restaurant in Huayuan County I started to buy all kinds of blood tofu, and the government officials also went home all day long.
There is also a road to Linxian on Yaowang Mountain. When Zhang Xiaobao and three people were waiting for the crabs and training people, a small team of five cars came from there.
"Xiaobao, tell me, what exactly does your family want to do? The first time I saw doing good deeds like yours did, so much money has been made for nothing."
Li Xun's eyes moved with the five cars, and he touched Zhang Xiaobao next to him and asked.
Zhang Xiaobao shook his head, "I don't know, maybe Dad feels that he is leaving, and wants to give more benefits to the people here. It is not easy for the people to live, so he can help if he can."
Li Xun thought for a while, and felt that apart from the reason Zhang Xiaobao said, he couldn’t find any other reasons. He glanced at the trainer and said, “I don’t know when the crabs and shrimps will come over. Eight crabs, I have to use them well."
"It should be coming soon. Grandpa Bi will definitely deliver what I caught earlier. Don't be in a hurry. I'll cook a few more dishes for you." Zhang Xiaobao was also slandered by Li Xun's question.
Li Xun stared at that side. When a motorcade appeared over there, Li Xun happily said to Zhang Xiaobao: "Here, here comes."
"Isn't that right?" Zhang Xiaobao squinted his eyes, not feeling like the team where the old man gave people gifts.
"Isn’t it? It’s what I gave you. Twenty carts. I don’t usually see them here. I have someone transported them from another place. It should be 22 to 23 carts, but they can be shipped all the way, the outermost. You can’t eat it, you can only throw it away. This thing is good, and it’s about to be grown elsewhere. There will be vegetables to eat in winter."
Li Xun waved over there.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were curious, the convoy gradually approached, and when they stopped in front of them, and the covered curtain opened, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan froze for a while, and then became happy.
Li Xun walked over and brought one over. "Haven’t you seen it? White cabbage is grown in Hebei Province. It is inconvenient to transport. There has been no human transport. This year, the output is large. I hope to grow some in more places. , It was also available elsewhere in the past, and the color is different.
I know you always have to get something you haven't seen before, so I'm here to bring it to you. The taste of white cabbage is better than other cabbage. Sending these is enough for your family to eat in winter. "
"White cabbage? Chinese cabbage? No, why did it come out at this time? It should be some time later." Zhang Xiaobao touched the cabbage with his hand. He didn't expect to eat the cabbage. It's still a long time.
"So that's it? Yeliu Wang Jian set up food. It's just cassava in the plate. It's called cassava? No wonder you can't find it. Now, let's make pig-killing vegetables." Wang Juan also reacted, and she checked a lot of things. I wanted to find all kinds of useful and familiar things to use, but I didn’t expect that the ingredients needed for sauerkraut, which I always wanted to eat in winter, were around me.
"Yes, this is it? Will you eat it? You can eat it with stir-fry or stewed tofu." Li Xun nodded next to him, and said: "Naturally it is this season, otherwise when will you wait?"
"Prodigal, you can plant some other vegetables first, and then plant this one. This thing is hardy and wastes a chance to plant other things. Are there any seeds? Get some more for me, there are some new things that appear elsewhere. , Get it all, what about fried and stewed tofu, I will tell you how to eat this thing."
While talking, Zhang Xiaobao drew his hand into the cabbage core, took a handful when he came out, and handed it half of it to Wang Juan, and the two of them ate it raw.