Farmer’s Blessed Girl

The five people moved carefully on the tree, and kept throwing the green dates down. Zhou Liru and Zhou Ligu and Bai Shuping picked up two dustpans. Daji and two guards who were waiting on the side also bent over to help pick them up, and soon the dustpans were picked up. Couldn't let it go.

It just so happened that someone came to call them, "Young masters and ladies, we are going back for lunch."

Only then did Man Bao get down from the tree in disappointment, then sat on the grass and put on his shoes, "I only picked the dates, let's take a look at the pears after dinner."

Bai Shan responded with a full mouth, "Okay."

Several people took the green dates back to Zhuangzi, soaked some of them in well water, washed them and put them in a basket, and planned to eat them as fruits after lunch.

It's just a pity that the few people who planned to go out to play after lunch were not able to make the trip, because they were a little sleepy after they were full. After all, after running for a long time, they were still a little tired, and they got up early this morning.

Seeing them yawning and looking out, Mrs. Liu said, "The sun is shining right now, you should go to take a nap first, and talk later when you wake up."

Several people felt that the days were still long and the idea was not bad, so they yawned and went to sleep.

But when he woke up, Lao Zhoutou didn't allow them to play anymore, he said, "I've already inquired about it, the place where Zhitian is not very far from here, and the carriage will arrive in about three quarters of an hour, so we Here's to see."

Man Bao was still thinking about the pears in the orchard and said, "Dad, it's not urgent, we still have four days of vacation."

"Why aren't you in a hurry?" Old Zhou Tou was about to get angry. He said, "Didn't you see that someone in Zhuangzi is already farming winter wheat?"

"This capital is too north, and Yongzhou is a little norther than the capital. You can only grow wheat for one season. If you can't make the wheat green before it snows, you will have to wait another year before you can plant wheat, thank you."

Man Bao said, "You can grow beans."

"It's even worse to grow beans so well," said the old Zhoutou, "Hurry up, don't be lazy, why are you lazier than your father?"

Zhou Dalang smiled and said, "Dad, she's not lazy, she just wants to play."

Mrs. Qian said to Man Bao, "You also said that you are going to Yongzhou to see the lanterns. If you don't go today, how will you see the lanterns tomorrow?"

Man Bao was shocked and immediately said to her father: "Dad, let's go now, it's only three quarters of an hour, soon, we may be faster on horseback, and we'll be there in two quarters of an hour."

Bai Shan also cleverly pulled out their horses, and after asking the old Zhoutou the direction, he got on the horse and ran.

Old Zhou Tou opened his mouth wide, turned his head and asked Zhou Dalang, "No one is showing them the way, what are they running for, and what if they go the wrong way?"

Qian Shi had already packed up and heard the words: "There are people on the road, they know the name of the place, they will stop people to ask, there is a mouth under the nose, are you afraid that you will not find the way?"

Old Zhou thought about it too.

Mrs. Liu asked Zhuang Tou to go with them. He knew the way and was familiar with the neighborhood.

From the capital to Yongzhou, there are only a few low mountains along the way, and many fields have been opened up and become large farms.

Zhuangtou sat on the cab and chatted with the old Zhoutou, and said, "Near here, the villagers' fields are only a few, and more are the farms and the land of the elders, so the people in the villages in this area are basically all It is a tenant farmer, and the family has only a few acres of land, and the rest are all rented and planted by others, or there is no one mu of land, and it is all rented."

The old Zhoutou asked: "How many years has it been since Dajin? They have completely defeated the land?"

Zhuang Tou gave a wry smile, glanced at Old Zhou Tou's hand, then glanced at the back of the car, then lowered his voice and said, "I see that you are a farmer just like me, and I will not hide it from you. They were the ones who lost everything, of course, there are also people who lost the land themselves, but most of them were bought back by the imperial court and returned to work as farms."

"I don't know why, the court has recruited so many officials, and there are not enough jobs and fields every year, what should I do if I don't have enough?"

Old Zhoutou: "What should I do?"

"That can only be taken from the hands of us ordinary people. The yamen directly took a little money and requisitioned the cultivated land we had cultivated to be used as working fields, and redistributed some raw land. But look at the raw land, there are so many plants and trees, one year You may not be able to open two acres, and you can only plant beans first, people will starve to death, who will open that little land? It’s better to be a tenant farmer.”

The head of the old Zhou was dumbfounded, so why did their full-bodied job fields come like this?

Zhuangtou still didn't know the identity of Lao Zhoutou, so he just asked with a smile, "I'm going over there, the owner bought the land there?"

Old Zhou returned to his senses, shook his head and said, "No, it was my daughter who split the job field."

"Your daughter?" Zhuang Tou was puzzled. "Is your daughter the concubine in the palace? That's not right. I don't see any Zhuang Tou who is in charge of a job field near here. I've never heard of an empress who still has a job farm."

Only then did the old Zhoutou become proud, he straightened his chest and said, "It's not the empress, it's the official, my daughter is an imperial doctor, or what kind of editor, she is a book repairer, as for the fifth grade, she became two officials, so they are divided. We have bought a thousand acres of job fields, and this time we went to see that job farm."

Zhuang Tou opened his mouth wide in surprise, and closed it after a while, "This, this is the official, oh, you have enjoyed the blessing of a daughter."

Old Zhoutou squinted his eyes, and finally found someone to talk to, he and Zhuangtou nodded and said, "Isn't it true, among my sons, no one can compare to my little girl, she is a child Just filial piety, she drank egg water when she was a child, and thought she would secretly leave it for me to drink."

Zhuang Tou carefully recalled Zhou Man, and said after a while: "You are so young, so you can become an official? No, I remember that the old lady seemed to have said that that is the future young grandmother of our family."

"Yeah, our two families are engaged, and the one who is engaged to your young master is my little girl, and they are working together in the palace. My girl is an official, and your young master is also very good. He is studying with the prince. "Old Zhoutou added another point to show off, and lowered his voice: "Do you know the prince, that is the future emperor."

And his son-in-law is now studying with the future emperor. Rounding up is that his son-in-law and the emperor are classmates. Thinking about Lao Zhoutou, he feels breathless.

Zhuang Tou also felt a little breathless.

The capital, no, it was Mrs. Liu, the Zhuangzi from Yongzhou, who bought it to settle down and provide some fresh vegetables, fruits and grains to the family in the capital, so there was no special person to choose and manage.

In order to be able to integrate into the capital and Yongzhou, and to have less trouble, Zhuangtou and tenants were selected from the local area, but she also dispatched the family's servants to Zhuangzi to manage or work. After all, those are her confidants.

Because it's not a sale, but an employment relationship, Zhuangtou and the tenants don't know much about the owner, and the owner's young master is actually studying with the prince...

Zhuang Tou was dazed for a while before he realized that his boss was so powerful? He never knew.

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