It was the fifteenth day of August when the Xie family searched for the little white horse to send to the Cui Mansion.
Cui Xie thought that Xie Ying was not at home, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was so ordinary, but he didn't think that he had found a live baby and sent it to someone. The mare was a few months older than his little white horse, and when she arrived at the new stable, she didn't recognize her birth. She snorted twice at the native horse and ate and drank in the feeder.
The little white horse sprayed at it angrily, turned around and bit Cui Xie's clothes, and barked twice, as if he wanted Cui Xie to drive away the horses that had taken up its food trough. It's a pity that the new horse was not another horse, but was sent by its owner's object. Even if it looks awkward, his owner likes it how he sees it.
Cui Xie hugged the little stallion's face, comforted it in a low voice, fed him a piece of rock candy, coaxed it to stop barking, turned around and touched the new mare in front of him, and also found the newly-made mare. Beast candy to feed it.
The mare calmly sticks out her tongue to lick the candy, and the little stallion is so angry that she hits her master's waist with her head. But Cui Xie's heart has been taken away by the person who sent the horse, looking at the new white horse as if seeing its owner, hugging the horse's neck, rubbing his face on the horse's forehead, without turning his head. He gave the little stallion a hand and pursed his mane perfunctorily.
At this time, if Mr. Lu pointed at the horse and asked him to write a poem, he might be able to write a good poem that was not inferior to that of Xu Zunsheng at the beginning of the country, "The white horse was brought to the imperial front by Zhu Fang." It's a pity that Mr. Lu went out with people to drink and celebrate the festival, and he couldn't urge him to study. Cui Xie looked at the horse and saw Xie Ying again.
However, he couldn't stay in the stable for too long. The heads of the two villages in Beijing and Qian'an brought their family members and village households, waiting to see him.
They all arrived two days ago. Because he was busy with homework and had to study make-up, he didn't have the energy to arrange the affairs of the village, so he kept waiting in the mansion. It was rare for him to rest today, so the two village heads asked to see him together, asking him to look at this year's account books and arrange affairs after the autumn.
Cui Xie went to the main hall to listen to them, Cui Liangdong handed the account books of the two village heads and the Mid-Autumn Festival gift list to him, and stood at the beginning to introduce: "This is Cui Zhuang head of our Changping village, this is Jiaxiang Village. "Liu Zhuangtou..." After a pause, he continued, "Liu Zhuangtou was a family member who was married to Mrs. He was the most loyal to the son."
The two Zhuangtou gave their names and were about to kowtow to Cui Xie. He hurriedly gave Cui Liangdong a wink, told him to stop the two, and said, "Stop saluting and get down to business."
Cui Zhuangtou of Changping was particularly anxious, because his Zhuangzizi was producing cotton, and it was time to rush to harvest it, so he wished he could hurry back and watch. And Qian'an's hometown only grows wheat. At this time, all the summer crops that should be harvested have been harvested, and there is no need to plant the second crop. Liu Zhuangtou, who was newly brought up, wished he could live in the Cui family and look at Cui Xie more.
Cui Zhuangtou rushed to talk about the rice harvest, and then mentioned the cotton, fruit trees and mulberry trees planted in the village, and reported the account in a flowing stream, so that he could quickly go back and grab the harvest. While listening, Cui Xie held the account books from previous years, and saw that the rice harvest was not very large, only a little more than a stone per mu of land, which was more than 100 catties. Qianba" was so different, he couldn't help shaking his head.
Although he didn't speak, Cui Zhuangtou clearly saw the disdain in his eyes.
Cui Zhuang gritted his teeth in a hurry: "I don't dare to say that I will tend to the crops, but after all, the paddy fields in northern Zhili are not as good as the ones in the south, which can be planted twice a year, and can produce more than one acre of land and one stone. It’s a lot. If you don’t believe me, you can ask someone else’s family. Although our family is not very high-end, it’s not the one who has a small income!”
Liu Zhuangtou also whispered: "The weather is dry this year, and our good land near the river is a little dry. Every day we have to point the tenants to fetch water and water the land. Rice is harder to serve than wheat..."
Cui Xie shook his head and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you two, I'm not saying that I have any dissatisfaction with the harvest. It was almost the same harvest when the master was at home. Now that he is out of office, you can still do things with peace of mind. I am very satisfied. Yes. I was thinking of plotting a few acres of land on the estate and finding someone to build a factory, but I don't know where to build it."
Open room? Field room
Cui Liangdong was also very puzzled, and asked for them: "Do you mean to build a house without a roof?"
Of course not, he just wanted to build a factory in Changping that could steam flower water.
Cui Xie coughed lightly, shook his head and said, "It's the kind of house with a big drying field—the ground needs to be leveled, enough to make things dry; the house needs to be spacious enough to accommodate a hundred or ten people working in it at the same time. Live, but also have a cellar."
The deeper the cellar, the lower the temperature, so there is no need to put too much ice when storing and alcoholizing the flower water.
Cui Liangdong's eyes lit up, looked at him and asked, "Isn't your son going to set up a bookstore for our family?"
Cui Xie laughed: "We don't have any craftsmen who can print in color, what do I do with a bookstore? I want to officially build a place for Xiao Liang to make flower water, and then find someone to plant a few acres of flower fields. In the future, our family will not only make flower water and soap, but the ink pens made by your little brother Shen will also be useful, so we can't all be crowded into the shop and my yard, right?"
Cui Zhuangtou took a peek at Cui Liangdong, and said with a bitter face: "But our family is all a good paddy field. We need to fill it to build a house and plant flowers. It's really..."
Cui Liangdong said impatiently, "You can do whatever the son wants to do. You want your wooden head to think about this? Can you come up with what the son of the supervisor wants? Besides, the son doesn't want you to fill the paddy fields. Is there a yard, are there mulberry fields, cotton fields and some broken mountains? Where can I find a place to build a yard!"
After scolding Zhuang Tou, he smiled at Cui Xie, "Young Master, do you think I'm right?"
Don't make trouble, it's too ugly for a middle-aged man to be cute.
Cui Xie couldn't bear to look any further, he glanced away, and said to the two people sitting below, "I count the few months that our family has spared a thousand taels of silver, and the net profit will always be three or four. Hundred. Isn't the money still sitting on the cupboard? Just in time to build two houses—"
Cui Liangdong hurriedly said, "I can't use so much money! It's my own land, and it is cheap to hire people in the countryside. There is a kiln for burning bricks in my own community. A brick wall, it will cost fifty or sixty taels to the sky! My poor boy has been in the house for a long time, what can't he do, he has been running in the kiln every day recently, telling him to stare at the house, and he must build it for the son Reliable!"
Cui Zhuang looked at his attitude of licking his ass, and he understood the majesty of Cui Xie at home. He stopped talking about disappointment, and muttered in a low voice, "You don't dare to get in the way of the eldest son. It's just a matter of time, for fear of spoiling the good land."
Yes, who said that there is no hybrid rice and chemical fertilizers in this era, and you can only increase your income by buying more arable land.
Cui Xie glanced at him understandingly: "People who farm the fields naturally cherish the fields. Our Cui family has cultivated and passed down the family for generations, and the land is the foundation of our lives. I also love the land and don't dare to occupy the land indiscriminately."
Speaking of which, he was caring about his own construction of a pure dew factory, but he forgot to care about the land issue, which is the most important thing for farmers. This people's work is not doing well. He thought to himself and asked kindly: "Is our land far from the water source? Is there enough water? The most important thing for farming is water and fertilizer. If the water is not enough, I want to squeeze some money. We should dig a well and dig a well. , it's time to build a waterwheel, build a waterwheel..."
The two village heads were flattered and asked: "Young master really gave us money to dig a well and build a waterwheel? If you want to build a larger keel waterwheel, the wood alone will cost tens of taels of silver. It's not easy to build! "
Cui Xie was the one who instigated and encouraged the audience at the Qixi Festival to get a thousand taels of silver, so how could he take this amount of money into his eyes, smiled lightly, and said, "Food and land are the foundation of people's lives. No matter how embarrassed the family is, if you can squeeze out some money, you should be able to manage the land. People around us have bought it. It’s not convenient to buy more land, but you have to think about intensive cultivation and produce more food.”
The upper half of Zhuangzi in Changping is paddy fields, and water is the lifeblood. When the water level is low due to drought, the whole village has to go to the river to fetch water to irrigate the land. If there is a keel car to pump water from the river, Xiaohan will not be afraid. The water pumped up can irrigate their hectares of land, and they will still have a good harvest!
He was so excited that his eyelids almost doubled, and he nodded again and again: "When I go back, I will explain the grace of Master Bai to the tenants and family members of Zhuangshang, and ask them to work hard for the son and help Brother Xiaoliang build a bright and bright compound as soon as possible. house!"
Liu Zhuangtou also stared at Cui Xie with a good look, with more complicated meanings in his eyes.
Cui Xie saw that he had something to talk to himself, and also guessed that he was going to talk about the Liu family, but he didn't ask him immediately, but said the business first: "I want to build a big yard in my hometown, but not If you want someone to steam the flower water, you have to boil the alkali blocks instead."
Alkali
The soil alkali sold outside
Their son is a good scholar, how did he think of making such rough things for cooking and washing clothes
Liu Zhuangtou couldn't understand for a while, but Cui Xie smiled and said, "The Zhuangzi in my hometown has little income, is far away, and rarely comes to Beijing several times a year, so I don't want to call you here at will. To make something, we have to use what we can use at home and in the store. You can send it to Beijing when you make it, and you can make a few more trips. It’s not a waste of time on the road…”
His smile gradually faded, and he glanced at Liu Zhuang: "Besides, there are many things in Zhuangzi that can make money, and your life will be easier."
Liu Zhuang's head and throat were blocked, and he said "Ai": "Master, we are used to those days... Now we are much stronger than before!" Now the dowry from the Xu family and many elderly people from the Cui family have left , He became the head of the village, and those people from Liu's family were gradually getting better.
Seeing how sad he was, Cui Xie gave Cui Liangdong a wink and told him to leave with Cui Zhuangtou, leaving Liu Zhuangtou alone to speak.
Liu Zhuangtou sat on the chair for a while, and his voice was still a little dull when he spoke again: "Young Master... I can't believe that you still think about us... Last year, when I planted the grave for my wife, I could see your filial piety, except for you, Master. , who else cares about our wife..."
Cui Xie really didn't think about them when he was in Qian'an. Although he also went to the grave at that time, he didn't go to Jiaxiang Village because he didn't want to deal with the dowry brought by Mrs. Xu. Even after he took charge of the family, he didn't specially promote the Liu family to accompany the room, but after he was in charge, the servants naturally wanted to treat the people of his mother's family better, in order to please him—
Liu Zhuangtou took care of Zhuangzi logically, and when the Cui family wanted to pick a girl, the Liu family would also be the first choice.
He sighed slightly, and said in a warm voice, "You have worked hard all these years. No one cared about who the family looked like back then, so there's no need to talk about it. Now that I am in charge of the family's affairs, I can also do a bit of the master, so I will give it to you. Find something to do."
When he made soap, he decided to use soda ash to make pancreas. Before, he only made a plan, but it has not been implemented yet. Now he has the money and time to do it: "Cui's rouge shop sells soap, bath beans and For pancreas, the pancreas should use clean and good alkali, but the ones sold on the market are not clean enough, so I thought to ask you to arrange for people to refine the alkali. How can you live?"
Liu Zhuangtou sighed: "Our family members and the tenants in the fields should have worked for the master. What kind of money do we need? This is what we should do. The son has taken great care of us, and we dare not ask for those !"
Cui Xie said: "This is not an easy task. You have to dissolve the alkali you bought, remove the dregs, filter out the fine dust, filter it again and again until it is like water, and then boil it into lumps, so that it can be incorporated into the pancreas. You also need to eat clean and good alkali, and you also need to wash clothes. You can’t get it after you filter it once. After two months, the weather will be cold again, so I have to give you some hard money…”
Liu Zhuangtou was about to stand up and salute again, but Cui Xie took a step forward and held him down, grabbed with one hand, and held down such a Zhuang householder who went down to the ground every day.
Liu Zhuang bowed his head, bowed on the chair, and said with joy and sadness, "Young master's strength is just like ours... just like our uncle. When the girl first got married, the uncle was like this. A pair of strength, pressed down like a hill when pressed against a person."
No wonder this body learns martial arts so quickly, it turns out to be a family learning origin!
Cui Xie patted his biceps quietly and asked curiously, "Are you talking about my uncle? What kind of person is he? Did he look like a hero?"
Liu Zhuangtou recalled for a moment, his face full of nostalgia: "The uncle is eight feet long, and his body is full of tendons. Life is heroic, and he has good marksmanship. When our old thousand households were guarding at Taoyuankou in Fucheng, I don't know how many people are chasing and begging to marry our uncle!"
Cui Xie couldn't help but feel a little fascinated: "Is he actually a good man with a length of eight feet? Then I will..." If I can grow so tall and strong, the princess will not be able to hug Xie Ying, lift him to the horse, and then myself Stride behind and take him around on horseback
His thoughts were surging, and it took a while before he remembered Liu Zhuangtou. Fortunately, the other party was in a trance and didn't notice his gaffe.
He tapped on the table lightly, hooked Liu Zhuangtou's soul back, and said, "I was just about to bring something to my grandfather's house, and the two families walked around again and kissed each other. Who is the reliable person you brought? They make a trip for me, if they can't do it, you can make a trip yourself and help me deliver the things there."
Liu Zhuang's head suddenly raised his head and asked in a voiceless voice, "I, can we go to Yulin?"
Yes, the current Cui family is not the original Cui family anymore. Master Cui is not here, and the successor of the Xu family is also divorced.
Liu Zhuang looked up at Cui Xie, with tears in his eyes: "Xiao is willing to go, Xiao's family has been born in Liu's family from ancestors, and there is nothing more suitable for that family than Xiao."
It is great that you are familiar with the Liu family!
Cui Xie showed him a pure smile, took a wooden board and a sharpened pencil from the wall, spread paper on the wooden board, raised Erlang's legs to support the board and said, "Then tell me about my grandfather's family. The age, appearance, temperament and hobbies of relatives... I have never met them, you can say more, so that I can write to them according to the words and phrases. "