In the evening, Situ Yue took a shower, covered his hair, put the mask Fang Yun gave him on his forehead, put on a piece of homely clothes, and went to the emperor's tent.

"Come on, I told you to lie down in the car as soon as you get back." The emperor put down the book, and now the emperor was staring at the trembling heirs of the Seven Kings family who were reciting essays.

Situ Yue invited Ann, and sat on the embroidered pier that Liu Jinzi had moved, watching the eldest sons of the three and five kings' families hunched their necks and waited aside.

"Where is grandfather testing their homework?"

"I'm taking the school's Chengxian examination. The two of them stopped studying a long time ago. Why do I still take the school examination?" When the emperor said this, he stared with a straight face and looked angry.

"Grandfather atonement." The two brothers knelt down together, so frightened that Situ Chengxian, the eldest son of the Seventh King's family, wanted to kneel down too.

"Hey, what a big deal, grandson doesn't know how to do it, let's eat first. They have been away from Beijing for a few days, and they are just not familiar with memorizing. You give them a limited number of days, and then you won't punish them. Write in capital letters."

"You don't need a heavy hammer to play the drum. Forget it. I'm getting old. I can't control so much. If you love to read, just read. If you don't read, forget it. I don't have the ability to force them to study every day. Get up, Chengxian, books. Put it away. Liu Jinzi asked them to serve, and I will bring my grandson to dinner today, let the third, fifth, and seventh eat by themselves, and don't run back and forth."

After a while, the ladies of the palace came up with small ceramic pots. Judging by the portion size, it was full. Five grandparents and grandchildren sat at a round table. The first thing on it was a whole braised elbow, followed by braised pork. Liu Jinzi broke it with a chopstick. He opened his elbows, and changed another pair of chopsticks for the emperor to place in the small plate in front of him.

"I don't like to get tired of eating, so tell Concubine Yu not to eat too much."

Situ Yue was completely unaffected, picked up a chopstick, not to mention, it was really delicious, there was sugar in it, fat and thin, it was very delicious.Then I picked up a few more chopsticks.He ate it in big mouthfuls, and seeing that he was about to pick it up, the emperor couldn't help it, "Don't eat too much, this kind of greasy food is easy to eat and spoil your stomach. If you don't digest it, you will feel better."

"Grandson likes to eat it, it's delicious, Cheng Ju, you go out and tell me, just say that I like this elbow, and give him some money."

The second dish was braised pork, which was very good in appearance. It was delicious enough, so Cheng Ju went to enjoy it again.

"It would be great if there was wine, a big bowl of wine and a big piece of meat."

"Forget it, you won't learn how to be particular about it." The emperor asked Liu Jinzi to fetch a small jar of tribute wine, gave a small bowl to Situ Yue, poured a small cup each for the third prince Chengtai and the fifth prince Chengtang, He poured a cup for Chengxian, the eldest son of the Seventh King's family, and warned him, "You're still young, a little is enough, don't drink as much as your elder brother, he's already grown up."

The grandparents drank a glass, and Situ Yue drank a small ceramic bowl of tribute wine, only to find the aftertaste mellow, so he asked Liu Jinzi to pour another small bowl.

"Enough is enough, don't pour it down after drinking this bowl, it's strong aftertaste, easy to drink, drink less, just these two bowls, after drinking you go back and rest, don't come out to hang around again." The emperor After rambling on, Situ Yue ate two bowls of white rice with braised pork and knuckles and went down, drank the wine in the bowls, shook his head, only felt a little dizzy, knew that his head was starting to get dizzy, stood up and was about to say goodbye .Chengxian was about to send her back to the carriage, but the emperor stopped him, "Sit down, your elder brother is not dizzy yet, let Fang Ziqian take her back."

Fang Yun came out from the shadows, helped Situ Yue out of the tent, put him on the carriage, and complained to her, "Why do you drink so much? The wine is so strong, I only dare to drink one bowl, and you still drink it?" I ordered two bowls." After laying out the pillow for her, Situ Yue smiled and leaned on the pillow, "I don't want to eat with them." His eyes were very clear, and he didn't look drunk at all.

Two days later, the brigade started to move towards the port of the canal. Wherever the road passed, the road was paved with loess, and the people avoided it.Situ saw that the wheat along the way had turned yellow, touched the ears of wheat, started to zoom, and went back to find the emperor, "Grandfather, grandson sees that it is time for the summer harvest of wheat, and we have already occupied the road by walking, so don't let the people avoid it." Well, let them come out to harvest the wheat. In this weather, the wheat has to be dried after harvesting. It takes half a month to pay the emperor's grain, and it takes about a month to transport it to the big warehouse. If it is a few days later, the ears of wheat will dry and fall to the field. At that time, even if you want to pick it up, you can’t do it. If it really falls in the ground, after two months, the field will be full of wheat seedlings again. If you don’t end up with only stalks, it will hurt your heart to pull it out, but it will take a lot of energy if you don’t pull it up.”

The emperor thought about it, and nodded. The brigade went to a county called Anshui to stop temporarily and let the people harvest the crops. Situ Yue himself took the guards of the palace and went out to the village near the county to watch the people harvest the crops.

The whole family, old and young, joined the battle. In the world at this time, women are more popular to bind their feet and move slowly. The younger ones cook and wash at home, and the older ones go to the fields with their husbands and sons. In the back, the wheat was tied up with wheat stalks, stacked together, and a place was cleared, and the ground was leveled with a shovel, and the ground was stepped down bit by bit with bare feet off. This place is called Yang wheat field.

The strong laborers in the family bent down to cut the wheat, and put it behind them after cutting. The children in the family were picked up and carried to the wheat raising field just now, and the wheat was spread flat. If the rich people started with donkeys or mules crushed.This step is called grinding.Repeat several times to try to thresh the wheat.

After rolling, use a wooden fork to pick up the wheat straw, use a big broom to sweep the wheat grains into a pile, mix the soil and wheat grains together, use a dustpan to continuously shake out the soil, leave the wheat grains, and pour them on a clean and dry On the ground, start to dry.

This process is very simple, but it is very tiring to do it. If there is no animal in the house, people have to pull it. The stone roller itself is heavy, and the weather is hot, so it is sweating profusely.

He started to go out before dawn in the morning, and returned home in the evening wearing the stars and the moon. The peasant woman at home cooked the meal and delivered it to the family with a shoulder pole. For no reason, Situ Yue thought of Bai Juyi's "Viewing Barley".

The Tian family has a leisurely month, and people are busy in May.At night, the south wind blows, and the wheat is covered with yellow.

Women and aunts eat with lotus baskets, and children and children carry pots of oatmeal, and they go to the pay field, and the young and strong are in Nangang.

The steaming summer is rustic, the back is scorching hot, and the heat is exhausted, but it is a pity that the summer is long.

There is also a poor woman with her son next to her, holding a fringe in her right hand and a basket hanging in her left arm.

Hearing the words of his care, those who hear it are sad.The family land is exhausted and the taxes are exhausted. Pick up this to satisfy your hunger.

What merit do I have today?Nongsang had nothing to do.The official salary is three hundred stones, and the year-old Yan has surplus food.

I am ashamed of reading this and will not forget it all day long.

At this time, the yield of the wheat field was extremely low, and it was already a blessing from God to be able to harvest hundreds of catties per mu of land. In later generations, the constant yield of thousands of catties per mu is like a myth now.

The weather was very hot, and the fields beside the ditches were covered with weeds. When the women went back, they kept digging some, and they could cook porridge, or dry them and save them for autumn and winter to satisfy their hunger.

Situ looked at it for a day, and went back with a long sigh. After seeing the hard work of the farmers, he wished that those officials who didn't work and got paid for nothing would immediately drive them back and spit out all the free pay in previous years.

The female family members of the local county magistrate's family went to the concubine to stand there in person, preparing for the various needs of the concubine, and trying to meet all kinds of needs.Concubine Zhen has always been used to extravagance, and now she has complained to the emperor several times when she went out, from the local people who don't know how to wash clothes to eating, they take out some things that the court ladies don't eat to fool her, scaring the county magistrate's family I almost made an apology.

This matter made Situ even more bored, the emperor went out, and the expenses were charged from the household department.Before Zhen Yingjia returned to Jiangnan this year, he went to the Ministry of Households to pay money as usual, saying that he wanted to build a garden for the emperor to visit. Situ Yue hated him to death at that time.

Situ Yue asked the petty official to calculate the prices in the south of the Yangtze River, and counted the food and drink where the emperor and the brigade lived for a few months as money to take away, and asked Zhen Yingjia to sign and draw a deposit.Finally, he said with a warning, "Master Zhen, now the accounts are accumulating more and more, you should get out as soon as possible."

Judging by Concubine Zhen's current attitude, the Zhen family has no plans to withdraw.

Situ Yue returned to a small courtyard of the county government office. Cheng Ju and Yunxiao four or five servants from the palace filled the water. Situ Yue went in to take a bath alone, leaving Yunxiao to sit on the steps outside to embroider.At this time, the emperor sent someone to invite him.

Situ Yue wore his hair and gauze, and walked slowly to the emperor's courtyard alone.

"Looking at it all day today, how is it?" The emperor looked at some memorials in Beijing by a candle.Seeing Situ Yue coming in, he closed the booklet and asked her,

"The first half of this year is considered to be a good weather, and the people's food seems to be a few catties more than in previous years. Now I just ask God to open his eyes, and it will not rain in the next month. If it really rains, the grandson begs the grandfather , let those guards follow to snatch the crops, squatting at the gate of the county government all day long like an old man, whistling and pointing at the passing girls and daughters-in-law, this morning I was beaten like this What a bastard, what the hell. If there is someone who takes advantage of others by working for them, takes advantage of them, and stains their innocence, pull them out and chop them up on the spot at the intersection, and see who does it again."

The emperor's bodyguards are all from good families. In addition to thoroughly investigating the three generations, they also have to look at their own character.Even if the hidden guard pretends to be the guard of Habayashi, he will not do such an inappropriate thing.It must be a guard of some palace, and he dared to do so with a little relationship.

The emperor knew in his heart that it was the guards of the three and seven kings who were so indiscreet.After the grandparents had dinner, they sent Situ Yue back to rest. The emperor immediately called Fang Yun and asked the guards how they were doing.

"The guard couldn't control the waistband, and the peasant woman's family didn't dare to speak up. Firstly, it was useless, and secondly, it was shameless. Moreover, the guard was the younger brother of the Seven Kings' concubine. Seeing that he dared not speak up now, he became more and more energetic. The county government even took advantage of the daughter of the county magistrate's family. When King Rong met him face-to-face, he immediately beat him fifty times. The guards of King Rong's mansion have always been ruthless, and the guard of Seventh Prince's mansion has been abolished. Seven Wang Nai complained about Rong Wang today."

The emperor nodded, sighed, and stretched out his hand to let Fang Yun stand up with support. "People say that dragons have nine sons, but sons are different. I have fourteen sons, and one died when I was young, and the one who deserved the most was killed in the flames. The younger ones can't see it, and the older ones are confused. Mediocrity is mediocrity. I don’t know how the country came about, and I don’t know how difficult the ancestors are. I only want to enjoy myself and don’t plan for the family. The one who can plan is a girl. If Junming is a boy, I will leave the country to her.”

There was no way to answer these words, so Fang Yun lowered his head and installed a wooden stake.

"But I can also see that now that I am still alive, Jun Ming still has some scruples. I am afraid that her sixth uncle will not be able to suppress her by then."

Fang Yun continued to install wooden stakes, and the hands supporting the emperor trembled, and the emperor had already noticed.After all, it is my own grandson raised by myself, so I won't go any further.

The author has something to say: The story in the article quotes Bai Juyi's "Guan Yimai" If you are interested, you can read the translation at the end.

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