Yun Chu hasn't seen Wen Wen for more than ten days. He only heard that he was very busy.
Because it was snowing, Yunchu couldn't find him because Wen Wen said that his wife liked to build snowmen with him when it snowed.
Thinking about it makes me feel romantic. The love of people in the Tang Dynasty was really good.
Another person who has the same love is a bookkeeper recently hired by the Yun family, named Du Brau.
Shrike is the name of a kind of bird. Its main features are a large and strong beak, with a hook and notch at the tip of the upper beak, slightly like an eagle's beak. Its wings are short and round, usually in the shape of a convex tail. Its feet are strong and its toes are hooked. It is ferocious in nature.
It eats very cruelly. It usually sticks some small birds, insects, or small beasts such as lizards on the spikes, and then uses its big mouth to tear them into pieces and eat them bit by bit.
Those that cannot be eaten will be stuck on sharp thorns to dry, so that when food is scarce, they can be kept to continue eating.
Du Brau has nothing to do with this kind of bird's temperament. He is a scholar with a very gentle temperament, but his studies are not very good. He failed to pass the Jinshi exam and failed to enter the Sixth School of the Imperial College. He makes a living by settling accounts for others.
In fact, this was the fate of ordinary scholars in the Tang Dynasty.
When he came, he brought a little boy about seven or eight years old. The little boy didn't look so confident and timid. For some reason, he didn't see Du Brau bring his wife over. After all, the Yun family's accountant
It includes food, accommodation and wages.
Er Fei, the servant girl who does needlework for the Yun family, likes this man very much, and even more likes the boy who always looks at others timidly.
Naha gave the candied haws to Er Fei because she found it sour. Soon, the candied haws will appear in the little boy's hand.
For some reason, Er Fei even took the time to mend the old clothes of the Du family and his son, which made the Du family and his son look much neater. However, there was still no smile on Du Brau's face.
"If you think I'm good enough, just say so and I'll move in with you. We don't ask for a matchmaker to marry you, we just want to be able to spend our lives together by our side.
My husband and his wife are very good people. Even though he bought me, as long as I ask my wife, she will definitely fill up my household registration and erase my lowly status.
In this way, when Xiao Dong'er succeeds in his studies, it won't be a drag on him."
Du Brau looked at his son tugging at Er Fei's skirt, then nodded and said, "Okay, but the matchmaker's words are still needed."
In the evening, when Yu Xiurong mentioned this matter to Yun Chu, Yun Chu laughed silently.
When Er Fei first entered the Yun family, he was actually the most depressed person. He only wanted to live a relaxing life in the Yun family for a few years. When the old man could no longer work, he would find a way to kill himself.
People who want to live but are a little tired of living.
It seems that the past few years in the Yun family have eliminated her idea of being tired of life, and now she knows how to actively pursue greater happiness, so this is a good thing.
"I feel that Erfa is used to being at home. Even if she gets married, she can continue to be a needlework lady at home. Anyway, I like Erfa very much. She talks little and works carefully.
Take a closer look, the second fat man and that Du Brau are a good match, and they might even be able to have children in the future."
Whether the second fat man can have a child mainly depends on Du Brau's ability. If he is powerful enough and his fertility is strong enough, it is possible for a thirty-nine-year-old woman to have a child.
Yunchu felt that fulfilling the happiness of others was a common conscience that a conscientious capitalist of the Tang Dynasty and a big landowner should have.
Only by squeezing with moderation and expropriating with moderation can the feudal dynasty of the Tang Dynasty last longer, and only then can big capitalists and big landowners have more and longer good lives.
Otherwise, when Huang Chao starts reciting his famous poem "The city is full of golden armor", the big capitalists and landowners will have no choice but to be thrown into the huge stone mill and ground into pulp.
Yu Xiurong prepared a dowry of two thousand yuan for Er Fei, and the other servant girls also collected a dowry of two thousand yuan for Er Fei, plus the many copper coins that Er Fei had accumulated at home over the years.
Bronze Hairpin, led by Xi Niang, went to Du Brau's dormitory over there in the humble house.
She became the wife that the matchmaker was marrying.
Winter has entered Chang'an, and many people in Chang'an have nothing to do during this season, so things like getting married have appeared one after another.
People in Jinchangfang began to get married in groups, which was a sign of affluence. Yunchu would occasionally choose one or two families to attend the wedding, and every time they were treated as honored guests and sat with a group of old men with white beards.
It was in this lively month of November that Yun Chu finally received the news of his promotion - Wannian County County Magistrate.
Yunchu was a little disappointed. He originally thought he would become the magistrate of Wannian County. Unfortunately, the magistrate of Wannian County is still Magistrate Zheng Mingda and Zheng.
It’s not that you’re being gentle and don’t work hard, but that if you want to impeach an upright official, it’s not enough to just have evidence, you have to go through a long judicial process.
First, there is a joint review by the junior three divisions, and then by the big three divisions. After the three divisions' joint review, it has to go through the Yushitai and the subordinate provinces for review, and then it is submitted to Changsun Wuji for review. After Changsun Wuji checks it, it can be placed on the emperor's desk.
This time usually takes at least half a year.
Yunchu becoming the county magistrate was something that everyone expected, so there weren't many surprises.
Since the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was built, pesky creatures like pigeons have begun to appear in Jinchangfang. They live under the eaves of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, pooping while flying, and countless people have been infected.
The monks in the temple love all living things, so they asked people from Jinchangfang to find ways to get rid of these nasty pigeons.
So, at night, some people climbed up to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and caught pigeons one by one. Hearing that the meat was delicious, Yunchu got hundreds of wild pigeons.
Yu Xiurong didn't understand Yun Chu's practice of cutting off all the pigeon wings but not killing the pigeons for soup.
"There was an old bird thief who kept many birds at home, including thirty pigeons. I asked him for it, but he was humiliated."
Yun Chu said angrily.
"Bird thief? You mean Danyang County Duke Li Keshi? Why does he humiliate his husband?"
"The old bird thief's pigeon can carry messages, even if it travels thousands of miles, it can travel back and forth with accuracy.
I asked him for pigeons, and he asked me to give him a bay-red horse in exchange, which is really not a son of man."
"Of course the bay-red horse won't do it. Didn't your husband say that he would give you a generous gift?"
"I told you, and I said it was the best mutton-fat white jade, but the old thief thought I was humiliating him, and even took a knife to fight with me.
If I hadn't seen that the old bird thief was getting older, I could have knocked out all the teeth in his mouth to prevent him from scolding me in the most vicious words."
"Homing pigeons can carry messages, and Danyang County Duke is known to love birds. I'm afraid it's inappropriate for my husband to ask for it rashly, right?"
"There's nothing wrong with that. He first asked if our family's quilt business could be given to his family to run in the Danyang fiefdom.
After being rejected by me, I asked him again for a homing pigeon, and he asked for a bay horse. I refused, and then he was humiliated. This is not bad. You rejected me, and I rejected you. Let me see if there is still greed.
The old thieves still want to worry about our business."
"Why are these people like this? The quilt business is our family's exclusive business. How can he open his mouth like this?"
"Hmph, you look too high on these veterans. In fact, they are all a group of veterans who have come through troubled times.
When we first fought the war, we were not necessarily fighting for the country or the people. We were just trying to gain personal wealth and make the world peaceful, and everyone was greedy.
Did you know that the old thief has more than 8,000 acres of land in Danyang? I heard that the courtyard of his land is a military stronghold.
I don’t know why he raises so many Danyang people. You may not know that there are two places in the world that produce good soldiers, one is Guanzhong, and the other is Danyang soldiers.
If Su Dingfang asked for the secret recipe for quilts, he would give it to him. Even if Liang Jianfang asked for it, I would give it to him and others would not.
Wen Wenwen told me that when dealing with these veterans who are worried, you must know what to do.
Otherwise, God knows, I will be tricked by them one day.
Back then, Emperor Taizong had been suspicious of his brother Li Jing and had been supervising him all his life. As a result, Li Jing also spent his whole life in vain.
I want to know now, Emperor Taizong is a rare open-minded person. He doesn’t even doubt people like Hou Junji, so why should he doubt Li Jing?
All we can say is that there must be something suspicious about Li Jing.
The old bird thief is far inferior to his brother. He built his house in Danyang like a military stronghold, and I don’t know who he is guarding against."
When he was with Yu Xiurong, Yun Chu had no need to hide his true thoughts.
Since I was promoted, I naturally wanted to visit the homes of those veterans. Although my promotion had nothing to do with them, I still went from house to house with the idea of drinking water and remembering my roots.
It's fine when I go to other people's homes, but something is wrong when I'm at Master Li's home. All he talks about is money.
Logically speaking, he should not be short of money, but now he has fallen in love with money. What is the reason that makes him so hungry for money?
Yunchu was going to wait for Wenrou to come over and ask him to check to see what this person was going to do.
Yunchu really wanted to have a group of homing pigeons. If he developed one, it would be very convenient for him to communicate with Di Renjie in Bingzhou.
As for Pei Xingjian who is far away in the Western Regions, or Zhang Jianzhi who is in Tuyuhun, it is impossible to communicate with pigeons. There are too many kites, eagles and so on in the northwest, and there are not enough pigeons for them to eat.
It is basically impossible to domesticate wild pigeons, so what Yunchu cares about is the eggs laid by these pigeons. After the eggs hatch, he will take the mother pigeons to stew soup and guard the young pigeons by himself. In this way, there are
Maybe a flock of domestic pigeons will come out.
Although Yunchu didn't know how to tame pigeons, as a descendant of Tiger Balm, he still knew that pigeons' ability to sense the geomagnetic field and their unique love for the nest were the key to taming pigeons.
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