Tao's dowry came to Zhuangzi to report that the house had been tidied up. Tao Shunqin, together with Mr. Lin San, sent Mrs. Tao and Lin Jinrong to Zhuangzi to recuperate.
At the time of separation, although he had already agreed with Lin Shenzhi that he should study hard and pick him up to live in Zhuangzi every ten days and a half, he still burst into tears and stamped his feet, dragging Mr. Tao tightly.
Don't let go of your hands.
Mrs. Tao couldn't bear to leave him, but she knew that nothing was more important than her son's future. She immediately ordered Lin Jinyin to take Lin Shenzhi away, and without looking back, she held Gong's mother's hand and got into the carriage.
"What a big bubble!" Lin Jinrong shaved his face and laughed at Lin Shenzhi. When everyone saw it, Lin Shenzhi cried until his nose ran. He also blew a bubble. It was so funny no matter how you looked at it, everyone couldn't help laughing.
Lin Shenzhi was so shy that she threw herself into Lin Jinyin's arms and rubbed Lin Jinyin's nose full of snot. She was so surprised that Lin Jinyin screamed in disgust, which made everyone laugh even more. Even Mr. Tao watched from the car and couldn't bear it.
He couldn't help but laugh out loud. In this way, some of the sadness of separation was dissipated.
Because he was worried that Tao's illness would not support him, he had to walk for nearly three hours on the two-hour journey. The journey was long and boring, and the carriage was warmed by the fine silver charcoal.
She had fallen asleep long ago, and Mother Gong was also dozing off a bit. Lin Jinrong quietly opened the curtains a small slit and looked out.
The carriage was walking leisurely along a river. On the opposite side of the river was a vast, uninhabited land. The white crystals on the raised soil reflected dazzling light in the sun, as if they were snow that had never melted.
.Lin Jinrong asked Tao Shunqin, who was riding a horse, softly: "Uncle, what is on the ground? Why is it so shiny?"
Tao Shunqin narrowed his eyes and smiled lowly: "Nanny, this is saline-alkali land, which is a land that repels brine. Those shiny things you see are leached salt. Nothing grows in this kind of land."
So this is a chlorine-repellent land? Lin Jinrong's eyes widened: "I heard that a siltate-repellent land that has been silted out can also become fertile soil and good farmland? Can it grow high-quality rice?"
Tao Shunqin was well-informed and spoke eloquently: "Yes, that's called a silt field. In some places, after April every year, when the rainy season arrives and the water is the turbidest, alum water is released to irrigate the fields, and over time it becomes self-contained.
Good farmland.”
Lin Jinrong asked seriously: "What is alum landscape?"
"It's the river water after April." Tao Shunqin didn't mind her annoyance and explained patiently: "The river water at that time was the turbidest and smelled of alum, so it was also called alum mountain water or Tianhe water."
Lin Jinrong's thinking jumped very quickly, and he immediately said: "So, didn't the people who spent the land price to buy the saline-alkali land make a profit?"
Tao Shunqin was stunned for a moment, and then he caught up with her thoughts. He saw Lin Jinrong staring closely at the salt-alkali land, his eyes shining, and he was slightly excited. He thought of how she had pestered Tao Fengtang in exchange for gold and silver, vowing to do it.
The move to make money immediately made him smile and frown: "Nanny, it is not easy to get silt fields. Firstly, there is water from the Tianhe River, and secondly, canals and weirs must be built to store water and drain water. It is not something that one household can do.
It can be done." He joked with good intentions: "Otherwise, this large area of saline-alkali land would not have been bought long ago and turned into fertile farmland? Qingzhou and Hepingzhou do not have the conditions for siltation, so no one will want these saline-alkali lands!"
Lin Jinrong smiled faintly and retracted his head. Qingzhou and Hepingzhou did not have the conditions to be in the fields now, but later, they clearly implemented this method of silting the fields. Lin Jinrong lowered his eyes and stared at the complicated hollow grass pattern on the lid of the copper stove. , my thoughts drifted back to the past.
At that time, Lu Mian's relationship with her was still good.
One morning, he handed her a small bowl of crystal rice: "Ah Rong, come and taste this rice."
He had always been taciturn, abiding by etiquette, and his smile was only a slight smile. It was rare to see such overt joy. She smiled and took a bite, savoring it carefully, but she didn't notice any difference: "It's almost the same as usual. "
The trace of pride on his face was even more obvious: "You can't eat it, right? This is grown in the siltated salt-repellent land. Who would have thought that the salt-repellent land where nothing grows can turn into a fertile field where good rice grows?"
But at that time, she had grown up in a boudoir and didn't know what a salt-repellent land was, nor did she know what a silt-repellent land was, so she just smiled: "Yes."
She thought that he would not let her taste the rice for some reason, and hoped that he would continue to talk. However, Lu Yan stopped talking and just buried his head in eating. Say nothing when eating and say nothing when sleeping. This is a rule he has followed since he was a child. She stopped asking him. After that, no one mentioned it again.
A few days later, news came out that Lu Yan’s biological mother, Tu, had made a huge deal. With only a small amount of dowry money, Tu bought more than a dozen land areas connected to form a large area, and then that The brine-repelling land was promoted by the newly-appointed Taiming Mansion. With an order, the people were recruited, and the water of the Zhujiang River was used to create fertile land, which was worth a hundred times.
The third room of the Lu family claimed that it was Tu who had a dream at night, which brought blessings to the soul. Lin Fengzhen categorically did not believe it, and concluded that it was Lu Jin who had cheated on others and that his wealth had fallen into the hands of outsiders. She was very unhappy because she couldn't catch Lu Jin's tail, so she had to take it out on her and call her ungrateful. , knowingly failed to report.
She felt aggrieved and hid in the room crying. Lu Yan asked her why. She wanted to save face and didn't want to cause any more trouble, so she refused to say anything. The two sat facing each other for a long time, and Lu Yan finally just sighed. She left without saying anything. Although Lin Yuzhen never scolded her about the matter again, she always carried a gun and a stick to remind her not to forget the relationship between aunt and nephew. She was simply at a loss what to do.
Now that I think about it, the funny thing is that she is the one, they were arguing, arguing, arguing, etc., what did they do to her? She really just eats carrots and doesn't worry much.
Ah, it’s too far away. Lin Jinrong raised the curtain again and looked carefully at the silvery salt-alkali land outside. I wonder who still owns this land? How much is it worth? She has to try to get this land. Got it.
Before arriving at Zhuangzi, Tie Huai, Tao's companion and steward of Zhuangzi, came to pick him up with several young stewards. Tie Huai was about forty years old, dark and fat, and he followed Tao from Qingzhou. The old members of the Tao family came, and they were sincerely happy for the arrival of Mr. Tao and Tao Shunqin. They rushed around diligently, picked up a group of people and brought them into Zhuangzi, where they were quickly settled.
Although this Zhuangzi was Tao's dowry, Lin Jinrong had heard about it countless times, but it was his first time here, so he inevitably had a lot of novelties and looked around endlessly.
I saw that Zhuangzi was not big, but he had all the internal organs.
The third courtyard is accompanied by two small cross-yards. The third master Lin and Tao naturally live in the main courtyard. Tao Shunqin is placed in the west cross-yard. In order to avoid suspicion, Mr. Shui lives in Tie Huai's house. Lin Jinrong lives in the east cross-yard. Although there are only six rooms in total, including the main room, the wing room, the pure room and the wing room, the walls of the courtyard are covered with winter jasmine flowers, the ground is paved with blue granite, and there are an old pomegranate tree and a blooming wintersweet. There is a stone table under the tree with four stone benches. The branches are covered with wintersweet, fragrant and fragrant, and they bloom right under the window of Lin Jinrong's bedroom.
There is also a well under the west wall. I heard that it has been there for many years. The well stone has been polished so smoothly that there are no chisel marks. The water inside is sweet and sweet, which is rare good water. Lin Jinrong didn't believe it and immediately shouted
The wife who was cleaning the yard brought half a bucket of water and tasted it. After tasting it, she smiled happily.
It was night, and the Tiehuai family cooked a table of sumptuous and fresh country home-cooked dishes, such as freshly slaughtered live sheep, plump carp just caught from the nearby river, and chickens fed by themselves in the village, freshly harvested from the fields.
Pulled out the white cabbage that was so sweet from the ice and snow, as well as soaked wild fungus and freshly made tofu.
The preparation is simple, but the taste is extremely delicious. Lin Jinrong moved his index fingers. Not only did he eat an extra bowl of rice, he also persuaded Mrs. Tao to eat half a bowl more, plus a bowl of red date and black-bone chicken soup.
She and Mr. Tao had few people here and didn't drink, so they ate quickly. Outside, Mr. Lin San and Tao Shunqin kept drinking until the second watch. Tao was exhausted and went to bed early, so Lin Jinrong naturally took on the role of hostess.
When the responsibility came, he ordered people to investigate from time to time to see if the charcoal pot was burning well, whether the drinks and hot dishes were served in time, and he also ordered the kitchen to prepare hangover soup.
After doing this several times, Mother Gong was surprised by how sensible and thoughtful she was, and wanted to see how far she could do it, so she told everyone to follow the fourth girl's request. Seeing that she had arranged everything properly and orderly, she couldn't help but secretly
Surprised.
When Shao Qing was young, Tao Shunqin asked someone to come in and tell her: "My uncle said that the fourth girl is young and has been tired from traveling today. There is no need to wait for service anymore. She can rest first. Mother Gong and the Tiehuai family can take care of her."
Mother Gong got the order and tried her best to persuade Lin Jinrong to rest. Lin Jinrong thought that Mr. Lin San was an alcoholic. Tao Shunqin was afraid that he had a lot to say to Mr. Lin San, so he stopped insisting and washed himself up and lay down.
Have a good night's sleep.
The sky was dimming, and Lychee came in to help Lin Jinrong get up: "Did the girl get disturbed last night?"
Lin Jinrong heard that there seemed to be something in her words, so she hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?"
Li Zhi took the poplar comb and combed Lin Jinrong's long black hair to the end: "It's nothing, it's just that the master drank too much last night, and then he got a little bad, so he went to get Mr. Shui up that night to help him with his pulse and prescribe medicine.
.This place is small, you can hear the slightest movement, and the women don’t have any rules. They come in and out with loud noises, so I’m afraid of disturbing you.”
The gynecological sage was treating Mr. Lin San? Lin Jinrong wanted to laugh a little, but also thought that Mr. Lin San might have caught a cold in the wind on the road, drank too much at night, and contracted the disease due to the combination of cold and heat. Since Mr. Shui is known as the gynecological sage,
It’s not like he couldn’t see such a simple symptom well. Then he stopped smiling: “I slept very soundly and didn’t hear anything. I’m afraid my wife was disturbed?”
Lychee said: "Don't talk about my wife, even my uncle was alarmed. I heard him talking in the main courtyard at night."
Lin Jinrong packed up, asked Guiyuan to clean, and took the lychee to the main courtyard to find Gong's mother to inquire about the situation. Before reaching the main room, she smelled a strong smell of Chinese medicine. Gong's mother squatted in the shelter of the corridor, guarding two small stoves
There were two medicine jars together, and he held a cattail leaf fan in his hand. He stared at one of the jars of medicine without blinking, with an extremely serious and cautious expression.
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A new chapter has begun.
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