Farmer’s Blessed Girl

Man Bao said: "I asked, neither Xia Wulang nor Xia Qilang are the children of the Xia clan chief, Xia Qilang is also the grand-nephew of the Xia clan chief, but Xia Wulang and him are separated by several rooms, but he still supports Xia Wulang's study very much. , I usually have a lot of help, and I also let various families in the clan help, obviously, they want Xia Wulang and Xia Qilang to take the exams and examiners first, and then pull out the clan in the future."

In fact, this is a common strategy used by many small country gentry families. As long as a family member comes out with an official, he can bring the entire family, or even the entire village, up one level.

You can tell by looking at Manbao. On Tuesday, Lang wrote back and said that after the news of her becoming an official came back to Qili Village, the village went to buy firecrackers and put them back for a day. The only way is to buy a little more and come back to set off firecrackers.

And last winter, the county decided to build the road from Qili Village to the county seat, directly widen it and fill it with soil. I heard that it is almost the same size as the pipeline now. Two carriages.

Even the path that went over the mountain was simply repaired.

This is the hidden benefit that being an official can bring to the village and family.

Not to mention the increased subsidies for seeds and farm implements when persuading farmers to teach mulberry, and even when paying taxes, the county government's assessment is not so harsh.

In the past, a pound of hemp was always given an extra 2 taels, but now the extra 2 taels are given, and the yamen officers will take the initiative to take out 1 taels and return them...

This is a typical one who attains the Tao and ascends to heaven, ahem...

Man Baodao: "But I don't think solo Lele is as good as the crowd. Apparently, some of the Xia clan elders also think the same way. Didn't they agree with me when I proposed opening a clan school that day?"

Bai Erlang asked, "You want to bring down their family?"

"Nonsense," Man Bao glanced at him and said righteously, "Am I that kind of person? Although my surname is Zhou, I also have Xia's blood flowing in my body. Will I harm Xia's? If children can read and read, even if there is no examiner, there will be other benefits. If nothing else, after reading, they will always be more literate than others, and it will be easier to find a job and make money, right?"

Bai Erlang said: "Their purpose is not to let them do accounting or do some paperwork to make money, but to become a family of officials. You almost cut their way as an examiner."

Man Bao shook his head, "No, when this generation earns money, and the next generation is rich, it can be cultivated again. Why do you have to use the power of the whole family to support these two now?"

Bai Shan interrupted the argument between the two, "Okay, what you choose in the end is also a decision of the family, we are just a proposal, why are you still arguing? It's like you can make a decision."

Bai Erlang and Man Bao stopped arguing, but Bai Erlang still commented, "You guys are really treacherous."

Man Bao accepted it without refuting.

Bai Shan didn't refute, they just wanted the Xia family to have no time to trouble them in the past 20 years, and Xia's people probably won't bother them in a decade or two.

With this purpose in mind, when they set off for Hongtian Village the next day, they dressed up, put on the best clothes they brought, hung the best accessories, and combed their hair neatly and smoothly. car to go.

Old Zhou Tou also put on his best clothes and made up his mind to lose.

Hongtian Village is a big village, much bigger than Qili Village, and the Xia family is the most populated family in Hongtian Village. Of course, there are several other surnames besides the Xia family, and they are not particularly small.

In such a large village, if children go to school, they have to walk three kilometers to the town to study, which seems not too far away, but the cost of repairing is high, so there are not many children in the village who can really afford it.

However, the Xia family is still the family that can send the most children to school.

When Manbao's carriage entered Hongtian Village, it attracted the attention of the busy villagers in the field. The main reason was that their horses were good, so they were not ordinary people at first sight, so the people who heard the news immediately carried their hoes and went back to watch the fun.

While walking back, he was still talking loudly, "I heard that Zhou Yin and Xinniang's daughters have come back, I'm afraid they are not going to fight with the Xia family."

"Look at this, Zhou Yin is prosperous, why didn't he come back?"

"I heard from the Xia family that he died early, his daughter was raised by his brother and sister-in-law, and his daughter was the one who wanted to develop."

"Who is Zhou Yin?"

"You don't know him, he is Xia Yan's door-to-door son-in-law."

Many young people don't even know who Xia Yan is, but who cares about him, look at the excitement first, and they will know in a while.

The carriage went to the village, and Patriarch Xia personally came to pick up Zhouman and the others. Seeing so many villagers watching the excitement, the smile on his face was a little reluctant.

Fortunately, Man Bao, who got out of the car, gave him face very much, and stepped forward to greet him with a smile.

Patriarch Xia breathed a sigh of relief, then turned to invite Old Zhoutou and the Qian family to go inside, saying, "Please invite me from the in-laws, the elders of the clan are all waiting at home."

When the villagers saw that they didn't quarrel, they were peaceful and harmonious, which was rather boring, and those who knew something about the inside story said in doubt: "It's strange, it's not that Zhou Yin's daughter came back and not only took away the house where Xia Yi lived. , have you taken away all the previous fields, why didn't they quarrel?"

"Yes, when did Patriarch Xia have such a good temper?"

Everyone still wants to go to the Xia clan chief’s house to watch the fun. The same village with different surnames is an enemy, especially in the same village where your family is relatively big, but my family is not much smaller than yours, there will always be some friction.

The young people of the Xia clan didn't want to be laughed at by them, so they first occupied the wall and outside the door of the Xia clan chief's house, and foreigners couldn't squeeze in at all.

Man Bao and the others entered the yard of the Xia clan chief, and when they looked up, they couldn't help but pause when they saw that there were people at the door of the wall.

Patriarch Xia probably knew their intentions. Although it was embarrassing, he didn't drive them away. It's better to be laughed at by people from the same clan than by someone with a foreign surname, right?

So he smiled awkwardly at Zhou Man, and then said: "The children are naughty, don't take offense to the in-laws and the eldest lady."

Man Bao is not surprised at all, because she has seen a lot, and the people of Qili Village also like to pick up the walls of her house.

Just not so much.

Because there were too many people to sit in the house, they sat down in the yard.

Patriarch Xia also asked Xia Wulang and Xia Qilang who followed behind to see Zhou Man, "Last time in a hurry, the eldest lady has never seen Wulang and Qilang, right? They are your brothers."

Although she is not surnamed Xia, she is still a granddaughter, definitely not a granddaughter. This is the last stubbornness of the Xia Patriarch.

Man Bao and Xia Wulang Xia Qilang saw the ceremony, then looked left and right and asked, "Where's Uncle Yitang?"

Patriarch Xia didn't think that she would not open the pot and lift it, so he twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "He went to the county town to pick up his wife."

It was only then that Man Bao remembered, yes, yesterday Xia Yi finished moving things and left the keys on the street, so the county government released his daughter-in-law and told him to pick him up the next day.

Yesterday, Zhou Dalang and Wu Wulang didn't go to pick up the keys. After inspecting the house, they directly had the locks changed. Now the house is hers.

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