"Dad, if you don't go to the city with us, how can we rest assured?"
Song Guangyan got the document from the court and was about to take office. The document came at the right time. Spring plowing was about to begin, and he was just in time to organize his manpower to avoid any trouble during the spring plowing.
Zhuang Yuan Lang has thought about these things and plans to pack up his things tonight, bid farewell to Mrs. Yang, Zhao Xueli and others tomorrow morning, and take office.
Unexpectedly, his father would not agree.
Mr. Song waved his hand: "Before you came, I was doing fine."
Song Guangyan was so beaten that he couldn't speak. After a long while, he said: "That's not always troublesome to the Zhao family."
Mr. Song was unhappy, his eyes widened, and he looked arrogant: "Ask them, do they think it's troublesome for me, an old man?" If he didn't say anything else, without him here, the cooking on the other side would be bad.
Song Guangyan opened his mouth, but his wife reached out and tugged on his sleeve. He wanted to say, why don't you bother? He eats food every day, and the whey is always hot when it is delivered. His father
It seemed natural, but his cheeks felt hot with shame.
Seeing this, Mrs. Xu helped persuade: "Dad, it would be great for us to be together. Qingran and Qingran can't live without you."
Song Guangyan's son and daughter nodded hurriedly, and his daughter Song Qingran said: "Grandpa, let's go together!"
Song Qingran kept his head down and said nothing. He didn't want to leave. Fengxia Village is so interesting. You can find Zhao Yuanrang and Zhao Yuanji through the hole in the wall. There are many children of this age in the village. They followed the adults in the morning.
They practiced boxing and kicking together, and even had someone to accompany them while studying. Besides, he was learning archery from Zhao Yuanrang recently, but he hadn't learned it yet.
"Qingran." Xu called out.
Song Qingran pursed her lips and her eyes flashed: "Grandpa can stay if he likes. Second Grandpa and I will accompany him."
As soon as his brother said this, Song Qingran's eyes immediately showed a look of envy. Who didn't want to stay, but as a daughter, she understood what her parents meant better.
Mrs. Xu glared at her son, not knowing what to say next.
Mr. Song twirled his beard: "I was taken care of on the road before, but now I have to leave? There are so many students in the village, why don't you help me take them away? If you can bring everyone with you, I will move with you."
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"Besides, what's wrong with the village? Doesn't Qin Gao still live here? If you become an official, the village won't be able to let your father go, right?"
What does Song Guangyan mean by this? His father is old and he is really afraid of causing trouble to the Zhao family.
Mr. Song waved his sleeves and said, "You can go ahead and leave me alone. I won't starve to death here."
Mr. Song had a straight face, obviously his mind had been made up.
I'm afraid that if Song Guangyan said anything else, the father and son would become estranged. Song Er hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Master, you can go directly to the city to take up the post. I am here, and besides, it is not far from the city to Fengxia Village. What's the matter?"
I will go to the city to find you."
Song Guangyan opened his mouth, but Mrs. Xu pulled his sleeves again.
Xu said: "I will stay here with the children. I will go to the city. If I am not busy, I will come back to the village and stay in the courtyard of the city."
Song Guangyan had no choice but to nod. He would definitely be busy for a while when he first took office. He was afraid that he would not have time to go back and forth to the village.
Mr. Song glanced at his son and snorted in his heart. Why, his wings have hardened. Do you think he can stretch out his arms and legs after getting Tongjuan?
If he hadn't been asked to lead people to survey the land, let his reputation spread far and wide, and thank Datou for his memorial, would he have been able to obtain this position so quickly?
As the saying goes, apart from being able to read, he is nothing.
Fortunately, someone was clearing the way in front of him, so all he had to do was follow.
Mr. Song said: "When you take office, don't make your own decisions when something happens."
Seeing that things were settled, Mrs. Xu hurriedly went to get some water to drink. Unexpectedly, she heard her old man say this and almost choked.
How can any father say that to his son? Don’t we all have to say, don’t listen to others easily and make your own decisions?
Song Guangyan was startled.
Mr. Song continued: "People may not be as good as you in reading, but in terms of intelligence and how to govern Taozhou, there are many people here who are better than you."
Song Guangyan seemed to have some sense. Cao Ben returned to Beijing, but Xie Chen stayed behind, saying that he would wait for the spring plowing before returning to Beijing. He also successfully took up his post in Taozhou. Asking himself, let him devote himself to planning.
There won't be such a result, but many things will happen in a haphazard way.
Either it's pie in the sky, or someone secretly arranged all of this.
Song Guangyan looked straight at his father. Did he know anyone in the court? After being a son for so many years, he recently discovered that the person in front of him was not like his father, but like his ancestors.
The ancestors of the Song family were all extremely powerful people.
"Then who should I ask?" Song Guangyan was too embarrassed to say directly. If something happened to him, he would just go home and find his father. How old was he? He had already given birth to two children. How could he act like he had not been weaned?
Song Zhuangyuan has always been very thin-skinned.
Mr. Song said: "Don't come to me." He really didn't have the confidence to come up with a solution for what this evil boy encountered.
"That……"
"Looking for your junior sister."
Song Guangyan's face suddenly turned red, but then he thought about it, I'm afraid it will really be like this in the future. After he was admitted to the top exam and became an official, he had never been as happy as these days. Moreover, he just worked, and everything changed.
It's getting better and better.
He always went to study in the government and the academy. Not only did he not get a bad reputation, but he was said to think about the people and let him choose. There was no way he would take this path.
It can be seen how unimportant his thoughts are.
Song Guangyan said: "Then before I take office, should I also look for my junior sister?"
Mr. Song looked out the window and said, "Go and see if you can qualify."
After Mr. Song finished speaking, he put his hands behind his back and went to the back room.
Mrs. Xu looked at the bundles placed on the kang and had to pack them back. As she was packing them, Mr. Song got dressed and went to the yard. Apparently, he went to Zhao's house through the hole in the wall.
Suddenly a thought flashed through Xu's mind, her father-in-law wouldn't want to renew their relationship, right? Then should she make a match?
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Zhao Luoyang is very busy, because after starting the "rural credit cooperative", farmers kept coming to ask about the situation.
There were only six villages before, and four more have recently been added. The total number of people there is more than 1,200 households. Zhao Xueli and the others had never dared to think of so many people.
At first, more than a thousand households went to the government office to sign documents. Later, the clerks from the government office simply came to Fengxia Village, which resulted in many people coming to the village every day.
After the weather warmed up, Fengxia Village also began to repair houses. There was no time for major repairs, but many houses needed to be reinforced and the roofs had to be re-roofed to avoid any danger when there was heavy rain.
This was planned by Niu Daochang and the others from the beginning. They bought bricks and soil in advance, so it was much faster to get started. The ground in the village was also paved with stones to prevent it from being difficult to walk when it was muddy.
Even with such a simple tidying up, it really made others envious, especially when they saw the "big canteen" in Fengxia Village, everyone's eyes gleamed.
Darling, you don’t have to cook at home. As long as people go out to work, he and his family can come here to eat. If there are few people working at home and many people coming to eat, just pay some money. Even this is cost-effective.
Fortunately, the weather will get warm in a while, and there is no need to light a fire at home. If we can eat outside, we will only have firewood and manpower left.
Other villages also wanted to follow suit, but after returning home, they found that it was not easy to do it. It required the willingness of the whole village. In Fengxia Village, even if there are no men in the family who can do manual labor, the women can still do some needlework, and the whole family can still go out to eat.
, can other villages do it?
Since the first crop cannot catch up, the next crop cannot be left behind.
Everyone is more determined to do spring plowing together.
Zhao Xuejing was telling everyone about the rules: "You must do the work assigned to you well. After you have done your own work, if you do other work, it will be counted as work points. In the future, the work points will be exchanged for things and money."
"If you don't do the work well or don't finish it, you will be penalized with work points. You won't be given so much work next time. If you don't earn enough work points or get money, don't blame others."
Blacksmith Wu, who was mixed in the crowd, nodded subconsciously when he heard this, but Mrs. Qiao next to her rolled her eyes. She knew the details of the Zhao family, so why did she suddenly start shaking after not seeing each other for several months?