Little wealth

Josh remembered that he had been talking about going to Lucheng to have a look, but now that the child is still young, he cannot be separated from him. That little chubby boy is happy to see everyone during the day, but at night he will look for him everywhere, and he will yell when he sees no one. Crying, the kind that no one can coax you.So he didn't dare to leave the child himself, so he could only stay at home to look after the child most of the time, and he also took care of the oil workshop here.

But with Aqiu around, Aqiu took care of most of the time.

For the time being, the family only has industries on both sides of Anyang and Lucheng. There are so many shops that are enough for them to manage, so they are not in a hurry to open too many new shops.First manage the shop and property on hand well, and the income for this year should be a considerable sum.

In addition, they will go to Kyoto next year, and he is not sure how long they will go there before returning, although he thinks they should not stay there for a long time.

It is also worth mentioning that Ah Qiu and Chen Tuhu... He only now knows that Chen Tuhu's real name is Chen Guang, but few people in the village call him by this name.

The marriage of the two has finally been settled, and it will be at the end of the twelfth lunar month of this year.

This year, Chen Guang bought a homestead next door to their house, and he is hiring someone to build a new house. He plans to get married after the house is built, and then move to live next door to their house.

Now Chen Guang is in high spirits on happy occasions, his face is flushed, he is happy to see everyone, and his voice is loud and loud.He is building a large pig farm now. The pig farm is built on the side of the original old house. There is also a distance from the neighbors, and there is a bamboo forest separating it, so the smell cannot be transmitted. Go to someone else.

But if he raises pigs in the future, he will probably ask others to help him raise them.Now he has brought two young apprentices under him, and plans to pass on the skill of butchering pigs to the apprentices, and he will become a rich man and accompany his new husband in the future.

The whole Sihe Village is developing with a kind of thriving vigor, and the life of the people in the village is getting better. Whether it is dressing or mental outlook, they are much better than before.

In the past, their village was a well-known poor place, and people in neighboring villages were unwilling to marry their daughters and brothers into their village. Now, the matchmakers from nearby villages are running to their village very frequently. Weddings were also arranged one after another.

Of course, Josh only listened to what others said about these things. Ah Qiu often ran outside, and would tell him all kinds of gossip about the village when he came back.What he didn't expect was that his cheap father sold the house in the village and moved to another place with Wang Guihua and his two sons.

As for where to move, he did not send anyone to inquire.

Even though they are father and son, they are not biological after all, and there is no affection between them.It should be said that as early as that cheap father acquiesced to Wang Guihua to marry Yuanchen with six taels of silver, the little affection between their father and son had already been broken.

At the end of September, the canals in their village were repaired first.

Just at this time, the county magistrate took people to the countryside to inspect and came to sit at their house.

"Cousin, you are here, are you here to inspect?" Their master Zhao went to the store and has not come back, Josh went out to meet the customers with the child in his arms, and greeted this cousin by the way, saying Talk about putting a waterwheel at the source of the canal.

"Ahhhhh..." The little fat brat yelled ahhhhh when he saw someone.

"Yes, I want to go to various villages to see how their water canals are being repaired. I just came to your village today. Everyone is tired and thirsty, and I want to come to your house to ask for water. This child is really good-looking, It became so big in a blink of an eye." Fu Wenqing felt inexplicably stressed when he saw this little boy who grew up and looked more like a grandfather, and only dared to tease the child with his hands, but did not dare to reach out to hug him.

It's just that for some reason, this kid seems to like him very much, and every time he sees him, he will climb into his arms, and he can't dodge even if he wants to.

"Hug him, Xiao Erbao seems to like you very much." Josh handed the little fat man who climbed over to be hugged by Master Fu, and ordered someone to bring some tea and snacks. He also prepared some meals by the way, "Cousin, you should have lunch before leaving, it happens to be almost noon now."

"Ah oh oh..." The little Er Bao who has been raised too well recently has a face full of baby fat, and is still a baby with a toothless smile.

"Okay." Fu Wenqing had no choice but to hug the little white fat man, and the two stared at each other. The little white fat man was drooling at him with a smile. Three points of joy.Suddenly he felt that the uncle was not so scary, and the little white dumpling was a little cute.

"I just wanted to tell you something, but you came here unexpectedly." Josh remembered that he still had something to talk to this big cousin, so that he would not have to take their master Zhao to the Fu's mansion to find someone up.

"Well, what's the matter?" Fu Wenqing looked up at Josh and asked while teasing the child.

"It's like this. Master Zhao made a new type of water wheel, which is a little different from our original water wheel. You can see if it can be used in the villages near the river. Let me tell you this. Maybe I don't quite understand, I'll let someone bring the model over and run it for you to see." Fortunately, he asked his master Zhao to make a small model in advance, and Josh asked his servants to fetch a basin of water and make it A piece of bamboo raft came over.

Seeing this, several other officials gathered together to look at it, "Is this a waterwheel?"

"Yeah, it's a little different from what you saw before. Look, here is a disc. As long as someone turns this disc, it can drive the waterwheel to turn." Josh started to demonstrate for everyone.

A disc is attached to the side of the water wheel. As long as someone turns the disc, the disc will drive the wheels, and then one wheel will lead to another wheel, and the water wheel on the water will start to rotate. The water is carried one by one, and the water flows downward, and the whole water wheel starts to move, carrying water and pouring it on the bamboo raft, and the water flows out along the bamboo raft.

"Did you see? Our waterwheel is completely different from the old-fashioned waterwheel that can only be operated by the difference in water potential. This new waterwheel can be pulled by manpower and animal power. It can be used in the vicinity of our villages, as well as in places where there are rivers in the plains."

"This is good!" Fu Wenqing looked at the small water cart with bright eyes. When the water cart moved, he saw the beauty of this water cart. "Is this thing made by your master Zhao?"

Others also nodded in agreement, "Yes, this thing is good."

"Of course." Josh said with a look on his face, otherwise do you still expect me to be a carpenter?

In the end, Mr. Fu and the other adults didn't even eat lunch, so they left with the waterwheel model and the person who brought him.Josh asked Mr. Fu to talk to their Master Zhao about something. He is a talker, and if he really does it, he really doesn't know anything.

When Master Zhao came back at night, he said that Mr. Fu had gone to look for him.

After that, the government hired Master Zhao from their family as a technical guide, and led a group of carpenters to build a new type of waterwheel. The new type of waterwheel that was built soon arrived and was installed near the village near the river. They also installed it near their village. one.

On the day the waterwheel was installed, adults and children from the whole village ran to see their waterwheel.

***

It just so happened that the newly built canals were open to water, and many families in their village planted a lot of Chinese cabbage this year.

Their family bought a few more acres of land this year, and also planted a few acres of vegetables after the autumn harvest.

In addition to the cabbage, there is also an acre of chili peppers. He has left chili seeds on all the chili peppers harvested in the summer. These chili seeds are just planted with an acre of chili peppers.

Before winter came, all the Chinese cabbage and peppers in the field were harvested, and the recovered Chinese cabbage was piled up in the yard of my house. I also harvested a large number of persimmons in the village, and invited the women and elder brothers in the village. My son came to help me make spicy cabbage and dried persimmons.

It just so happened that the pigs at the farm had grown fat and big. They bought a few big fat pigs to make sausages and bacon, and they also bought a lot of pig legs from outside to make ham.It happened that the family raised a group of ducks and made a lot of cured ducks and sauced ducks.

In short, Josh prepared a list of all the foods he could and would do that he thought of, and asked people to prepare the materials, and then taught these people in the family how to make these things.As well as all kinds of mountain delicacies, we have prepared a room full of New Year's goods.

After these things are done, it is time to send someone to Kyoto.

It happened that the guards from the Hou Mansion were still there, so Josh asked them to help send a large number of New Year’s goods to the capital. In addition to sending them to his elder brother and brother-in-law, he also prepared an extra copy to send to the capital. Give it to Fu's house.I also thoughtfully wrote down the recipes for making these meals and attached them, so that others don't know how to deal with these things.

When the group of guards came back from Kyoto, it was almost New Year's Eve, and the group of people who came back brought back several carts of New Year's goods for him, and brought him back a letter written by his elder brother, which contained a letter It was written to him by the little prince. He wrote in the letter that he liked the gift they gave him, expressed his gratitude to them, and hoped to see them and their two younger brothers soon.

There are also two small handprints on the envelope, presumably made by the other two children.

When he saw the letter, Josh couldn't stop smiling. He was happy for two days because of this, and he slept with excitement at night.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Ah Qiu got married in a bright red wedding dress.

Because Aqiu went out from their house, the betrothal gift from the Chen family was converted into a dowry by Qiao Xu, and he also prepared another dowry for Aqiu, and returned Aqiu's deed of sale to Aqiu. .

Seeing Ah Qiu being held by someone this day and walking step by step to the Chen family next door, he was still very happy for Ah Qiu.

The wedding wine was not set up at their side, but there were more than [-] tables set up at the Chen's next door, and the whole village was invited to dinner.The whole family also went to eat next door, and the two children helped the couple roll out of bed, and each of them took a big red envelope.

After Aqiu got married, he moved to live in the courtyard next door, but he still came back to them every day.I still eat three meals a day with Chen Guang and his wife. The stove next door has not been used since the first day of cooking.

Once the happy event of the two families is over, it will be the New Year.

This year's Chinese New Year, their family's New Year's Eve dinner had a full three tables, and the family gathered together to celebrate the New Year happily.

***

In the middle of March of that year, they set off from Anyang and took a boat to Kyoto.

It’s just that the uncle at home, Chen Yan and their mother didn’t go to the capital with them. The uncle wanted to stay to look at the shop, and Chen Yan was pregnant and about to give birth. Their mother was worried about a lot of things at home, so they Did not go out with them.

So the last ones to go out were only their family of four, the old housekeeper's servant girl, and accompanying guards, as well as an accompanying doctor invited from Anyang Town, and a small medicine doctor brought with him. child.

As for Caiyun and Caixia, Josh left them to work at home.

After the year, that girl Caiyun made an engagement with Wu Asan, and their marriage is scheduled for October of this year. I don't know if they will be back by then.Before leaving, he explained these things to his mother, and if they didn't come back by then, he asked his mother to help host.

In the end, Caixia was the only girl who didn't intend to get married, and now she became a big girl in their family, and she still brought two little girls to work.

It took a little less time to travel by water. They set off from Anyang in mid-March and arrived at the pier in Kyoto at the end of the month.

Fortunately, the two children were not seasick, but Josh himself was a little seasick. Fortunately, it was not too serious, but he spent most of his time lying in bed resting and sleeping.It was the first time for the two children to go out on a long journey. At first, he was worried that the two children would not get used to it. Who knew that the two children were so excited that they were about to disembark from the first day they boarded the boat.

"Master, we are here."

"Is it here?"

"Yeah, we've arrived at the pier in Kyoto, we can get ready to disembark."

"Ah! That's great! Hurry up, let's get off the boat first. If there is anything to clean up, you can do it." When he heard that he could get off the boat, Josh felt that the whole world was shining brightly, why seasickness? The disease was cured without medicine.

After the family changed their clothes and combed their hair again, they got off the big boat surrounded by everyone.

When his feet landed on the shore, he felt that his whole body was at ease.Sure enough, the air on the shore is relatively fresh!

"Old butler."

"Second son."

Before they came, they informed the Hou Mansion and the palace, and when they arrived at the pier, both the Hou Mansion and the palace sent people to pick them up.

Finally, after discussing with the old housekeeper, after obtaining the old housekeeper's consent, Josh decided to take the carriage sent by the palace first, and together with their master Zhao, they took the two children into the palace to meet the Holy Majesty and his elder brother. , Go back and live in the Hou Mansion.

As for the accompanying things, they should all be sent to the Marquis Mansion first, and when they are packed later, they can be sent wherever they should be sent, and there will be no mess.

A group of people got into different carriages and went to the imperial city together.