Liu Chuo really didn't expect that his whim would attract many speculations, and the judge from Mingzhou couldn't help being curious, so he came to ask him.He immediately took out the three green bamboo carvings, dumbfounded, and explained the whole story.

The judge was also very speechless, but after seeing these three objects, he finally understood why Liu Chuo recognized someone who pretended to be a "recorder" and sent Liu Qingdiao, and even he could recognize them at a glance—these three objects This object and the ordinary green sculpture seem to be two different works of art.

Tong San didn't cherish feathers like Liu Chuo did. He was curious, so he went directly to Pang County Magistrate.County magistrate Pang called Tang Haogen, and after going around like this, Liu Chuo finally knew that the craftsman was just a 16-year-old boy.

Originally, he thought that the one who could carve such works must be an adult who has outstanding literary talent, knows calligraphy and painting, and has his own unique views on literature and art, but suddenly someone told him that this is a person whose parents died and who only rely on bamboo weaving on weekdays. It was carved by a young man for a living, and he became very interested in this young man.

He sent someone to look for Song Yuyan, but the person who came back only brought back four armrests, and said: "The young man is waiting outside the door, he said, you might as well wait for the officials to look at these four armrests before making a decision. Do you want to see him?"

Liu Chuo was not offended by Song Yuyan's "ignorance", but looked at the four arm rests with great interest.

The first armrest is engraved with a picture called "Feng Zhaotai Captures the Traitor and Picks Up the Volunteer".

Others were confused, but Liu Chuo, as an official of Jinshi background, had read a lot of books before and after the imperial examination, especially familiar with classics, so he quickly figured out what this picture meant:

Feng Zhaotai was the governor of the Tang Dynasty, famous for rectifying the local government. Whenever he served as governor of a state, he would punish those cunning subordinates for their fraud, so as to prevent the people from being oppressed by them.

Although his purpose was for the common people, he still offended the subordinate officials, so that five out of ten transfers he was falsely accused by his subordinates and demoted by the court.

Liu Chuo frowned: It was precisely because the Zhou Dynasty witnessed that the subordinate officials in the Tang Dynasty had too much power and cheated, so they repeatedly belittled the status of the subordinate officials. Therefore, it is relatively difficult for subordinate officials to cheat and frame the governor nowadays. .So this picture may not refer to the subordinate staff.

He looked at the second arm rest, which was about what happened in the early Zhou Dynasty. It was about a powerful man named Ma Ximeng in Linzi, Qingzhou. He was a big landlord who owned hundreds of hectares of land. handles, and then use these handles to force the government to cooperate with it.

The third and fourth armrests are engraved with similar stories.

No matter how dull Liu Chuo was, he could still see the meaning of these stories on the arm rest. He felt that if the other party didn't intentionally come to ridicule him, then it was to remind him.

But what reminds him?

Here are subordinate officials and powerful landlords. He quickly figured it out. Didn't his recent government decree violate the interests of those powerful and wealthy households?

However, he has always thought that he is the governor of a state sent by the imperial court, and he wants to attack the landlords powerfully to prevent them from annexing the land. What can those landlords do to him?

Thinking of this, he was a little unhappy, and his love for this young man named Lu Fang also faded, so he gave some money to send the young man away.

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Song Yuyan wasn't surprised that he would make this trip in vain. If Xinzhizhou could listen to persuasion easily, he wouldn't be so hasty to summon the folks to dredge the river.She believed that there must be many powerful eyes and ears of landlords in this yamen, and those people must have persuaded him, but he still insisted on going his own way.

But he is also a good parent, he has his own ideas on major issues, maybe he will change his mind one day.

Not long after Song Yuyan went back, the shopkeeper Lou came to the door again. This time he entered the door with a pleasant smile: "Song Dalang, you are easy for me to find this time!"

Song Yuyan knew why and asked: "It's not that the shopkeeper Lou doesn't know that I live here, so why is it hard to find?"

Shopkeeper Lou didn't see that she was asking the question knowingly, so he said, "Well, I said that you are hiding something from the 'recording party', and it is deep enough."

"The shopkeeper Lou was joking. The recorder is my name, and I haven't crowned it yet, so this name is basically not used. Why do you hide it from the shopkeeper Lou?"

Shopkeeper Lou was dumbfounded, but his purpose of coming was not to really blame Song Yuyan, but the showy operation of the state government office, which not only let the artisans of the bamboo carving shop hear about it, but also spread to the rich and powerful landlords in Mingzhou there.

Although these people are not afraid of anyone, they don't want to provoke Xinzhizhou from the beginning, so they plan to "make friends with him first", and plan to find a bamboo carving from "Lufang" as a gift to Xinzhizhou.

Originally, this matter had nothing to do with the Lou family. After all, the Lou family did not occupy Guangde Lake and Dongqian Lake to fill the lakes for polder fields, and it was not within the scope of the renovation in Xinzhizhou.However, Lou Gao's father, Lou Hao, was a clerk in the Yamen, so he had something to do with the matter of looking for the clerk. He couldn't find anyone, so he could only ask his son to inquire.

Lou Gao also inquired for a long time, and finally found out about Tang Haogen through Pang County Magistrate, and Song Yuyan from Tang Haogen.

Lou Gao felt that the name sounded familiar, and after thinking about it, he remembered that this is the person who brought out the exquisite bamboo weaving last time and created a new trend in the food industry!

So he asked Shopkeeper Lou to come over again.

But this time Song Yuyan didn't intend to cooperate with anyone. After hearing the intention of Shopkeeper Lou, she said: "Shopkeeper Lou, this bamboo carving was just carved for fun in my spare time. I didn't intend to put it in the shop. Sell ​​it, so I will make your trip for nothing."

Shopkeeper Lou naturally saw what she was saying, and he was not taking Joe, so he was also anxious. Does this kid know that this is a good opportunity to make a name for himself and make a fortune? !

But no matter what he said, no matter how much saliva was spent, Song Yuyan's attitude remained unchanged, and the shopkeeper Lou could only turn to her to buy green bamboo carvings.

Song Yuyan said: "The liuqing carvings that were carved before are all in the hands of Liu Zhizhou. I spend most of my time on bamboo weaving now. I really don't have any new liuqing carvings to take out."

Shopkeeper Lou even made a mistake in that small calculation, so he could only leave regretfully.

However, he felt that Song Yuyan's repeated refusal of the olive branch he offered was very disrespectful to him, so he planned to follow Song Yuyan's lead after returning and let the craftsmen below also carve such green sculptures.

However, he also knew that he failed to find Song Yuyan to buy bamboo carvings, that is to say, unless he could get the Liuqing bamboo carvings in Liu Zhizhou's hands, it would be impossible for the craftsmen below to imitate Song Yuyan's carving level and style.

So he went to instigate Lou Hao again, asking Lou Hao to use Liu Zhizhou's bamboo carvings to ponder.

Lou Gao was very angry when he knew his little trick, and called him to him and scolded him: "We are in business, and the other party is not willing to sell, so you try to force him to submit by changing ways. Isn't this a forced buy and sell?" , how is it different from the robbers? And do you know who Song Yuyan is? If you really drive him to nowhere, then the Song family will definitely confront our Lou family!"

Shopkeeper Lou was a little aggrieved, and he was not convinced: "Isn't that a side branch of the Song family..."

Lou Gao patted the table heavily, all the stationery on the table trembled, even Lou's shopkeeper trembled.

"Of course he is an offshoot of the Song family. In the past, he was also a rascal with no father, no mother, and no one to protect him. But you don't ask how many people have been with him after his prodigal son returned! Don't mention the Song family, just say Dianshi from Cixi County, scholars from Mingzhou, and Du Yan, the No. 4 Jinshi this year, who came to Yangzhou to become an official, which one can be underestimated?"

Although Lou Gao has no talent, he knows that the future of a scholar is immeasurable. Even if he fails to pass the exam, that pen can bring the living to death, and the dead to life!

Moreover, if the Lou family wanted to gain a good reputation, how could they not have these literati to publicize for them?So if Song Yuyan was offended, even if Song Yuyan was unable to challenge the Lou family, it would definitely not be a good thing for the Lou family.

As for shopkeeper Lou, after all, he is from their Lou family. Although he has been the shopkeeper of the Lou family for a long time and his eyes are higher than the top, he doesn't want to give up easily.

After careful consideration, Lou Gao decided to transfer Lou's shopkeeper away from Cixi County, let him return to Fenghua County, and put him under his nose to watch.And he went to Song's house in person to meet the young man himself.

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After summer, heavy rains occurred frequently in Mingzhou. Song Yuyan was worried that the frequent typhoon would lift the roof of his house, so he took out a sum of money to repair the roof of the house first, and then planned to replace the collapsed west wing. Build a new house.

However, it would cost a lot of money to rebuild a house. She worried that the cheaper thatched house would not stand the test of the typhoon, and the more expensive tile house, she worried that her wallet would not be able to withstand the test.

Just when she was thinking about whether she should find a way out, Lou Gao appeared in this alley of Xingxianfang.

He came in a carriage, and although there were many rich people in Xingxianfang, there were very few families with carriages, so his high-profile appearance immediately attracted the attention of the neighbors.

Some children who were playing with the bamboo horse saw the real horse, and they were not interested in the bamboo horse. They ran around the carriage one after another, looked at the black horse, and let out a cry of envy.

"Hey, Sun'er, look, that's a carriage!"

Sun'er came back from school with a ten-year-old child in the same alley, and saw the carriage parked at the entrance of the alley, so the child pulled him and shouted.

Sun'er paused, and glanced at the carriage, feeling a little envious in her heart, BMW, that's a man's romance - this was what Song Yuyan said, she took him to report to Qiru's private school, and then saw the county school The cars of the wealthy second generations at the door expressed such emotion, "No matter what era it is, BMW is a man's romance! Of course, it is also a woman's romance."

Although she didn't understand what this meant, it didn't prevent Sun'er from keeping it in her heart.Now seeing with his own eyes the envious eyes of these neighbors and children, he seemed to understand the meaning of these words in an instant.

"We can always see it in the county school, what's so strange?" Sun'er looked away, a little impatient to go home, he wants to go home to make money, and then buy a horse when he grows up, and he also wants to own a BMW!

"But it's rather strange to appear here with us." The child said, and ran forward to join in the fun.

The driver of the carriage seemed to be inquiring about something, the child heard a familiar name, so he waved excitedly at Sun'er: "Sun'er, they seem to be looking for your house!"

The curtain beside the carriage was lifted, and a man stuck out his head, looked at the child, and asked, "Do you know where the Song family is?"

"Sun'er belongs to the Song family, he can take you there!" Seeing him, the child was not as bold as before, but flinched a little before whispering.

The man nodded and got off the carriage. He came to Sun'er, looked him up, and asked, "Are you Song Dalang's younger brother?"

Sun'er looked at him warily, and said, "I am."

"I'm looking for your brother, why don't you show me the way? You can get into the carriage with me, and we'll go in together."

Sun'er ran away immediately: "Brother said that you can't go with strangers casually, if you want to find brother, just follow me, I won't get in your carriage!"

The middle-aged man, even Lou Gao, was taken aback when he saw his alert and vigilant appearance. He was the only one standing outside the carriage while the other children were surrounded by the carriage. He also refused when he invited him to get on the carriage. Now, if it was another child, he would definitely not think about "you can't leave with strangers".

In this regard, he became more interested in the "big brother" in Sun'er's mouth, so he asked the coachman to wait outside, while he brought a servant and followed Sun'er to Song's house.

Sun'er ran fast, and as soon as she stepped into the house, she called out, "Brother, the BMW is here."

Song Yuyan: "?"

Bai Can in the room was also confused, but he understood that the Song family was expecting another guest.

He thought to himself, it was true that he had a good relationship with Song Yuyan back then, didn't he see that every time he came to look for Song Yuyan, he would almost meet Song Yuyan's other friends visiting? !

But he came back to find Song Yuyan this time, in fact, it was also for breeding white wax worms.

Although he wanted to breed white wax worms before, he shelved the plan because the conditions were not met.It's just that Song Yuyan also reminded him that besides the ash tree, privet is also suitable for raising ash worms. Compared with ash tree, privet is more common in Mingzhou.

If he transplants privet, ash trees, etc. to make a forest garden, it will not only increase the cost, but also consume time, and they don't have so much time and money to waste.So it's better to find a mountain forest with more privets and find a way to rent it out.

Another problem is that it is difficult to find white wax worms on trees before laying eggs and larvae secreting white wax, so it is not easy for him to find white wax worms to breed.

So for the past year, he has been paying attention to which woodland has more privet or ash trees, and he has also planted a few privet trees in the open space around his home. Whenever he finds ash worms in the wild, he will be careful. They brought them back to their family's privet tree for foster care.

His family members also discovered his abnormality, so he reluctantly told them that these white wax worms can make money.After finally stabilizing his family, he found that many white wax worms would die before the wax was secreted, so people in the Bai family didn't quite believe what he was telling the truth.

Song Yuyan knew that aquaculture requires a lot of capital investment at the beginning, and it will not be 100% successful.If she has sufficient funds, she can help Bai Can and figure out a systematic breeding method. Unfortunately, both Song and Bai are poor households.

When Sun'er came back, the two of them were only halfway through the conversation.

Song Yuyan asked Sun'er, "Who is BMW?"

Naturally, Sun'er couldn't say anything, but Lou Gao's servant outside stepped forward to explain his purpose.Bai Can had heard of Lou Gao's reputation, and knew that he might have important business with Song Yuyan, but his business was trivial in comparison, so he offered to leave.

Song Yuyan said: "Everything is said to come first, first served, I entertained you first, how can I let you go just because he came?"

Bai Can said, "That's Mr. Erlang of the Lou family. I'm worried that you've neglected him and caused trouble for yourself."

"If he was an arrogant person, then I would have offended him long ago. Just sit down for a while, and I'll go back as soon as I go."

Then Bai Can sat anxiously. When Lou Gao entered the courtyard door, he saw that the clothes on Lou Gao's body were made of the famous brocade material. There is such wealth.

After Lou Gao entered the door, he looked around and felt that the house was really simple, and of course it couldn't be seen compared to the pavilions and pavilions of the Lou family, but he didn't have the arrogance to look down on Song Yuyan because of this.

Song Yuyan explained to him that there were guests at home, so he needed to wait for a while, and he graciously expressed his understanding.When he saw that the guest Song Yuyan mentioned was just an ordinary citizen, he was slightly surprised, and suddenly remembered the allusion that his wife Zhu Shi often told the children, "Meng Changjun invited guests from all vassal states, regardless of high or low, and all treated them with courtesy." "Treat each other", and the sage of Confucius accepted disciples, and pursued "education without discrimination"...

Although he couldn't say anything good, he only had one thought - Song Yuyan was of good character.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help being curious. When she was a ruffian, her conduct was inferior, and she was a disgrace to scholars.But why such a sudden change?

Just as he was diverging his thoughts and fantasizing, some conversations entered his ears. He only heard "ash worms" and "ash trees", and he came back instantly and "eavesdropped" with all his attention stand up.

Song Yuyan glanced at him quietly, seeing that he had finally become interested in this matter, the corner of his mouth ticked imperceptibly: the investor has been found.

System: "You told Mrs. Tang before that you have no business acumen, but you are born with a heart."

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