National teacher, your man ran away

The weather on the second day was very good, the sky was clear in the early morning, and the clouds on the seaside were different from those in the north. The flowers looked like fluffy cotton balls, which were very cute. I heard that they came to the seaside to inspect the catches. As far as the situation is concerned, the stewards of the other courtyard diligently arranged the carriage to the pier early in the morning, and also prepared a rich breakfast. After the breakfast, the group went to the pier early.

They said it was early, but in fact, when they passed by, the fishing boats docked at the pier had already shipped their goods once, and all the serious and good things were picked up, and the rest were set up at the pier to sell them for wholesale. The hawkers, after spending a little money to buy these catches, sort them out by categories, and then carry their burdens to sell them in the streets and alleys, earning a small amount of money, which is also a major local feature.

The person in charge is also a person who knows how to do things. He heard that the owner's family is coming to the pier to watch the fun, so he specially ordered someone to reserve a private room with a good view at the restaurant run by the Su family on the pier, and ordered someone to buy it. After picking up the excellent catches from the pier that day, each of them is put together separately, and after being enjoyed by the masters, they can be used for cooking. Lunch is also arranged at the restaurant on the pier.

Compared with the crowded wharf in Qingjiang County, this place called Guangxing Mansion has local characteristics. Apart from fishing boats, there are many high platforms lined up all around. They are made of huge stones mixed with rice milk. The soldiers on the side patrolled and guarded day and night. Needless to say, this place must have been one of the main battlefields where Dayuan fought against the sea monsters back then. Compared with ordinary commercial docks, it has a bit more killing spirit belonging to the battlefield.

However, perhaps because of living near the battlefield all year round, the people here are very tough. Yao Yixin stood in the restaurant and saw with his own eyes a thin and thin husband downstairs selling fish cakes, holding a handle of fried fish cakes He beat up a ruffian who was quick to take advantage, and the people next to him were still clapping their hands to encourage him, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with the little husband beating someone.

Yao Yixin: "..." From this point of view, I am so kind to my ex-husband, Master Guoshi!

The "samples" bought by the person in charge are basically all kinds of seafood that are considered precious ingredients in this time and space, such as abalone the size of an adult's palm, fat fresh sea cucumbers, big lobsters with claws, and chopsticks. The prawns and all kinds of sea fish that he can't name are all as long as an adult's arm.

However, the painstaking efforts of the manager may be in vain. These precious seafood are excellent for a table-top banquet, but they are not suitable for purchasing as military supplies. Because of this, the price of seafood of this quality is extremely expensive , Second, the output is too small, not suitable for mass purchases.

Yao Yixin sighed, it seems that if he wants to find cheap seafood that is suitable for processing in the workshop, he still has to go to the fish market by himself.

Ordering people to send these ingredients to the kitchen to prepare lunch, Yao Yixin said that he wanted to go down to the pier for a stroll, Su Nianbai hinted at his two unreliable fathers with his eyes, Su Mengquan immediately turned his head and pretended to look at the scenery in the distance, Hu Qingyang smiled, lowered his head and coaxed Yao Yan, who was sitting on his knee and gnawed his fingers: "Ayan, Uncle Hu asked the kitchen to fry small fish cakes and grilled prawns. Are you going to share with him?" Brother go down to play, or stay here to eat?"

"Eat fish cakes! Grilled prawns!" Shan Jing Yao Yan immediately abandoned the cheap elder brother Yao Yixin without any morals.

"Then I'll accompany you, the pier is too messy." The National Teacher stood up very consciously and walked to Yao Yixin.

Yao Yixin really wanted to say that I have Supervisor Bai, so I don’t need to trouble you, but seeing Su Nianbai’s handsome face that seemed calm but secretly tense, for some reason, Yao Yixin suddenly softened, and said that the hedgehog was outside The sharp thorns are very scary, but only they know how soft their hearts are. He has never resented Su Nianbai before, but now seeing him wanting to make up for it but being at a loss, his heart suddenly softened .

"That, or you can hold the money bag for me." Yao Yixin took out the money bag and handed it to Su Nianbai. There were many people at the pier, and he brought a lot of banknotes for the purchase this time. It was not safe to put it on him. But don't worry if you leave it to the Master of the National Teacher for safekeeping. If those pickpockets can steal the money bag from the Master of the National Teacher, they will basically be mentally prepared to spend the rest of their lives in prison.

Su Mengquan and Hu Qingyang pursed their lips and looked over secretly, only to see their son take the money bag expressionlessly, but the tips of his ears hidden in his black hair were suspiciously stained with rouge, and they immediately sniggered unkindly Woke up, I didn't expect that the son of Kaolin Zhihua in their family also had such a shy side.

Yao Yixin and Su Nianbai walked all the way to the pier, the more people walked, shoulder to shoulder, Su Nianbai frowned, the smell of the pier was too bad, the smell of sweat mixed with fishy smell, and all kinds of strange things The smell was mixed together, which made Su Nianbai, a patient with a cleanliness disorder, almost collapse. However, looking at the little hedgehog walking beside him, Su Nianbai pursed his lips, took the initiative to take a step back, and opened his arms, faintly. He tightly hugged Yao Yixin in his arms to prevent him from being hit by others.

Yao Yixin walked and watched all the way, but didn't notice Master Guoshi's little tricks at all.After the morning market, the stalls on the pier mainly sell some small seafood, such as sixties, razor clams, octopus, small crabs, small conch, etc., as well as bundles of kelp and dried seaweed. And so on, there are many kinds of dried fish and dried shrimps in the sun. When I asked about the price, it was much lower than his psychological price. After thinking about it, Yao Yixin decided to go back and think about it.

Their workshops must be purchased in large quantities. Originally, he wanted to order directly from the Su family business. After all, the business is resident here, and has a good face. It is also familiar with the local conditions, and long-term large-scale orders are relatively stable. Prices can also be negotiated for discounts.

However, after seeing it here, Yao Yixin changed his mind. He wanted to open a seafood processing workshop in the local area. He thought that the seaside had just experienced war for a few years, and the lives of ordinary people were not stable. Not enough, but now it seems that the self-recovery ability of ordinary people cannot be underestimated. Unexpectedly, in just a few years, life here has returned to almost the same as before the war. If it weren't for the watchtowers and garrisons outside the dock , Yao Yixin almost forgot that this was once a battlefield.

He wants to add more nutritious and calcium-supplementing seafood to the meals of the soldiers guarding the bitter cold north, but he also wants to add some ways to make money for the war-torn coastal fishermen. If it is a branch of the home workshop, it must be able to increase a lot of employment opportunities here, right?Moreover, with the large quantities of purchases in the workshop, these hard-working fishermen no longer have to squat on the pier to sell so hard.

Moreover, the reason why he has the confidence to open a branch factory here is because Yao Yixin has finally received a clear answer to a question he has been thinking about recently. With enough manpower, he can naturally prepare for the branch factory with confidence.

This can be regarded as a win-win cooperation between him and the Master of the National Teacher. Yao Yixin looked at the Master of the National Teacher who barely held his breath and followed behind him. He was also inspired by the incident of Baishu. Every year, there will be some secret guards who are forced to leave their jobs due to injuries or other reasons. Because of their status, if these secret guards do not have the permission of the National Teacher's Office, they can only be black households in the Su family's Zhuangzi for the rest of their lives. A life of worry is what many ordinary people dream of all their lives, but there are also some people who don't want to be a shameful shadow all their lives.

And what Yao Yixin has to do is to use the Yao family's public status to give these people a chance to appear on the household registration book in an upright manner. In this way, they are not considered old and homeless. It's as leisurely as it is on the farm, but at least I have a free body.

Su Nianbai also agrees with him to do this, it's not that he really wants to imprison those resigned secret guards, it's just that these people have special identities, some of them are still injured, it's too risky to let them out, but it's fine to put them in Yao's house Well, in the eyes of Master Guoshi, Yao Yixin's Zhuangzi is basically equal to his own family's Zhuangzi. To be more precise, he pays more attention to Yao's security work than his own Zhuangzi. Even if Wei wanted to do something in Yao's house, he couldn't escape his eyes and ears.

In terms of the desire to control, it is estimated that there are not many in the entire Yuan Dynasty who can match the master of the national teacher.

Therefore, the two hit it off, one needs to give his former secret guard a free life, and the other needs well-trained manpower to develop his career territory, direct introduction of talents, and even save intermediary fees.

After looking around, Yao Yixin and Su Nianbai went back together, just in time for the lunch to be ready. The mountain spirit Yao Yan just ate a large plate of small fish cakes, and then ate ten more. After a few skewers of grilled prawns, I touched my still flat belly, and joined the army of raiders for lunch.

I have to say that sometimes some high-end banquets are really different from the home-cooked dishes that Yao Yixin is good at. These banquet dishes that require the chef's decades of experience and various secret techniques are not only exquisite and gorgeous. The taste is also richer. The three of the Su family are used to eating this kind of banquet dishes, but they don't think it is, but Yao Yixin and the mountain spirit Yao Yan are eye-opening.

Not to mention those deep-sea fish, shrimp and shellfish that only sea monsters can catch in this time and space, just a stewed sea cucumber with goose feet is so fresh that it is almost swallowed by the tongue.Yao Yixin has heard of sea cucumbers with green onions for state banquets in his previous life, but rural people like them, let alone cook them themselves, have never even eaten them. In this time and space, because deep-sea fishing is not easy, sea cucumbers are rare ingredients. It is even more difficult to find in the market, Yao Yixin thought, probably only by following the elders of the Su family, can they get such a state-level meal, right?

Goose feet full of gelatin meets sea cucumbers full of collagen. I don’t know how much broth is used to carefully stew sea cucumbers with goose feet. Both goose feet and sea cucumbers are very chewy, and every bite can be delicious. Tasting the delicious taste of the thick gelatin and broth, it is simply unstoppable!

After lunch in the restaurant, Su Mengquan and Hu Qingyang took the mountain spirit Yao Yan back to rest. Yao Yixin couldn't fall asleep when he had something to worry about, so he simply dragged the Master to continue wandering around the pier.

It’s past the time of the morning market, and all the stalls on the wharf have withdrawn. It’s not that they don’t want to sell. It’s just that there are no oxygen bottles or ice in this time and space. Many seafood will die soon after leaving the sea. Therefore, once these people miss the morning market, they will hurry home with their burdens, slaughter and marinate the seafood before it dies completely, and make various kinds of seafood. Dried seafood, although not as valuable as fresh ones, can still be exchanged for some copper coins so as not to lose money. Therefore, the docks are almost empty at the moment.

wrong!

Yao Yixin and Su Nianbai stared at a few small figures squatting on the ground picking up things in the distance.

"Brother, these fish and shrimp are too small, how can I eat them after picking them up?"

"That's right, brother, let's try our luck on the beach, shall we? Digging up some sea worms and roasting them is better than this."

"Don't go! The last time Xiao Qi was touched by something like that, he lost a leg. How dare you go into the sea? Do you want to die?"

"But those fishermen are all going to sea!"

"People can afford water scorpions, can we afford them? Don't talk about it, wait until I figure out a way!"

A few small figures walked away slowly, and the small bamboo baskets on their backs were filled with a small number of pitiful dead fish and shrimps.

"What's going on?" Yao Yixin frowned.Since those dead fish and shrimp were discarded by fishermen, they must not be suitable for eating. He was a little worried that these children would spoil their stomachs.

"You'll know if you just ask?" Su Nianbai beckoned and asked the accompanying guards to ask the guards who were patrolling near the pier.

After a while, the guard came back with suppressed anger on his calm face.

"My lord, my subordinates have inquired. The patrolling soldiers said that these children are all orphans who lost their parents in the Siren War a few years ago."

"It's them? Didn't the imperial court allocate the money to support the orphans after the war?" Su Nianbai didn't go on, needless to say, this money must have been corrupted by someone.It's just that this money is too inconspicuous among the many appropriations of the imperial court, so their talents didn't notice it.

"My lord, I'm afraid that even a penny of that money will not be spent on these orphans!" The guard said angrily, "My subordinates have inquired, and they said that these orphans have always been helped by their neighbors, and they used to go to the beach. I dug some shells and the like to sell them, and together with the relief from some kind-hearted people nearby, I could barely make ends meet. However, some pale pink transparent sea objects suddenly appeared on the beach outside the city a few days ago. If they touch it, they will be poisoned. One of them lost a leg because of touching it. Since then, the older kid who took the lead has restrained the others from going to the beach, and only stays at the pier every day. Do some odd jobs while picking up some dead fish and shrimps that others don’t want to make a living.”

"Where is the governor of this place?" Su Nianbai said coldly, the imperial court didn't care much about this kind of small border city, but a few years ago when they were fighting the sea monsters, the master of the state had replaced it for the convenience of wartime management. Strictly speaking, a group of county officials, these people can be regarded as single-handedly promoted by him. Most of the ordinary people are not very defensive against "our own people". He dared to make such a scandal of embezzling post-war orphan relief funds within his sphere of influence, and he was so angry that he almost wanted to kill him.

"Don't worry, don't worry, I think the most urgent thing is to settle the children first. If you go to investigate the case now, what if you startle the snake, and these local snakes jump the wall in a hurry, what if you go to kill people to silence them?" Yao Yixin hurriedly persuaded. He is most familiar with the routine.

Su Nianbai glanced at the guard, and the guard immediately beckoned and led the two of them away, probably to find where the children lived. As for how to settle the children, Yao Yixin was not worried at all, let alone the country. The teacher's political status in Dayuan is the Su family's own, and the other courtyards in the local area are large enough to settle these children.

Encountering such a bad thing, the two of them were not in the mood to continue hanging out. Moreover, Yao Yixin also knew that Su Nianbai's temper must be taken care of when this kind of greed for the orphan's alimony happened. Yao Yixin couldn't let him continue to accompany her, so she simply went back to another hospital with him, maybe she could help settle the children together.

Back in the other courtyard, sure enough, the guard had already brought these children over, and there was a stretcher behind him, on which lay a half-grown child with a face as pale as paper, and a shabby thin body covered with an old thin quilt , the color of the quilt can no longer be seen, and patches of various colors are mottled on it.

This is the kid who lost a leg, right?

Yao Yixin's heart felt sour, and she saw the oldest child walking over with the other children, knelt down straight to the Master of the State Teacher, and respectfully kowtowed three times.

Su Nianbai didn't stop them, he received these three heads, firstly to reassure them and let them live here with peace of mind, secondly, he also made up his mind to seek justice for these people, the last thing in his life He hates that someone is greedy for money from his pocket, even if it is the country's money!

What's more, these people are greedy not only for a sum of money, but also for the life-saving money of these orphans who lost their parents in the war, damn it!

The Master of the State Teacher walked away with a dark face, and the older boy in the head suddenly turned pale. He didn't know what he did wrong and made the nobleman angry. He stood there with his waist bowed awkwardly. He has passed the point of being ignorant At a very young age, he knows who can change their fate. Therefore, the guard came over, took out the token of the National Teacher's Mansion, explained his intention, and immediately followed him, but there was no other way to come. They There is no more grain of rice to make porridge, and if they don’t eat any more, they will die sooner or later by relying on those dead fish and shrimps. In this case, why not give it a try?

He bet right, the people in front of him are different from the people in the official mansion he has seen before, just now when the guard entered the door, he even asked the gatekeeper to invite a doctor to treat Xiao Qi, he was at that time I know, I am right this time.

However, Su Nianbai's reaction made him inexplicably uneasy.

"Well, don't be afraid, he's just angry at those corrupt officials who withheld your life-saving money, it's none of your business, by the way, I'll take you in to eat something first, and then show this kid, he seems to have a fever " Yao Yixin hurriedly brought these children to the backyard together with the guard, there is a small yard specially used for entertaining guests, called Qiuluyuan, which is just the right size to house these children.

There were several doctors accompanying the Su family. They were worried that the news would leak out. Naturally, the guards did not dare to invite doctors from the outside. Fortunately, there were doctors in their own home. When they invited the doctors, they lifted the old quilt, and a stench immediately permeated the air. However, none of those children backed away, and they all looked at the child on the bed with concern.

The doctor checked it carefully, and then sighed: "It's no good, I have to amputate his leg, or he won't survive this month."

Yao Yixin couldn't bear to turn her head away, and the other children couldn't help crying. There are no prosthetic limbs in this time and space. Without this leg, this child's life is over. He is still so young. They didn't have to take the risk of going to the beach to collect shells to survive, Yao Yixin really felt that it would be exhausting to cut those people into pieces.

He had just heard from the guard that these post-war orphans’ support fees were specially approved by the National Teacher, because the amount was not large, and he never thought that even such a small amount of money would be greedy for money. At least, the alimony approved by the National Teacher for these orphans is based on the standard of [-] Wen per person per month, including food, repair and maintenance of the residence, and clothes for the four seasons. The local area is considered to be a well-off family. As long as they don't squander, these child support fees are enough to raise these children well.

However, no one thought that there would be people who would not let go of the orphan support fee of more than a dozen taels of silver per month. This is really too much!

Asked to arrange for these children to wash and rest, Yao Yixin went to the kitchen with a heavy heart, planning to arrange some warm and light food for these children. These children must not have any serious food to eat. If they eat too much all of a sudden, instead Not good for the stomach.

Let people use honey as the stuffing, wrap some small sugar triangles, then divide each person into two or three, and make some steamed buns mixed with flower sauce, this kind of steamed buns not only look good, but also taste better than usual White steamed buns are more nutritious.

Yao Yixin also ordered people to find some lentils, yams, lotus seeds and japonica rice, and prepared to make a pot of lentils, yams, lotus seeds porridge that nourishes the stomach and spleen.In the previous life, his parents didn't pay attention to health care when they were young, and when they were old, they had a bad stomach. They were worried that their medicine would harm their bodies. Yao Yixin specially found a lot of medicinal food porridge and so on from the Internet for them to eat as a meal. Persist for a long time, the effect is much better than taking medicine.

After dinner, Yao Yixin found the leader of the group of children, and wanted to ask him what was going on with the child support.In the end, the child said in a bewildered expression that they had never heard of the government giving them child support. Some of these people originally belonged to their clansmen, but unfortunately their parents were dead, and the clan couldn't afford to support them. Everyone is struggling to support all the children of their own family, so how can it be possible to raise children for other people's families?No way, they gradually got together, relying on the occasional relief from kind people and their own efforts to survive starvation.

It's just that they are all half-grown children, at the age when they have a big appetite and can eat, and no one wants to go out to work, and the local economy and people's livelihood have just recovered, and there are not many things suitable for them at this age, so that these The children who were supposed to be happy under the wings of their parents are now all skinny and skinny. Although Yao Yixin lived in the countryside in his previous life, he is already very happy compared to these children. At least, his parents have never been hungry. Him and sister.