Several children came over and gave water and cheese to Xie Chen.
"The cheese is newly made," Xiao Niuniu said to Xie Chen, "Amma Yang just brought it out from the cheese shop. It's not sour and sweet."
Seeing that Xie Chen didn't move for a long time, little Niuniu took the initiative to pick up a piece, stretched out her hand and tried to feed it to Xie Chen. Xie Chen bent down and opened his mouth to take it, and little Niuniu smiled.
Such a group of children have been locked up in the stockade since they were born, and have never seen the outside world. But this is not enough, and they will still be remembered.
Xie Chen suddenly felt that Jiang Wei had done something wrong back then and should not have left such a situation.
"Sir," Zhao Luoyang said, "what did you find when you went out today?"
Xie Chen was about to speak when he heard Song Guangyan say: "No, there may be bandits passing by, but it is not a large number of people, so there is nothing to worry about. Tomorrow the people from the village will start to leave, and I will lead the people to escort them ten miles away."
Zhao Luoyang said: "My lord is still thoughtful."
Zhou Quan is a fart! If Xie Chen wasn’t a scholar, he would have already cursed.
Zhao Luoyang walked to Xie Chen: "Master Xie, don't worry. After the people in the village leave, we will take care of the old and weak left behind."
Thank you for believing this.
Zhao Luoyang continued: "I hope that the animals will grow strong this year. I told the clan leader that this time I will take the people from the village with me to sell the animals."
Zhao Luoyang deliberately paused for a moment when she said this. She looked at Xie Chen: "Master Xie...is that okay?"
Xie Chen and the Zhao girl looked at each other, with expectations flashing in the girl's eyes.
Xie Chen was speechless for a moment.
Zhao Luoyang continued: "You have been in Taozhou for so long and you often come to the stockade, but you have found out that the people in the stockade have any evil intentions? Can the door of the stockade be opened?"
Xie Chen naturally hopes that the door of the village can be opened. He knows what this village is like better than this girl.
Zhao Luoyang said: "I want to take the kids to the city to buy food. We are so big in Daqi, why are we trapped in such a small place?"
Xie Chen nodded: "It's time for everyone to come out and walk around."
Zhao Luoyang showed a smile: "Your Majesty, you must be true to your words and cannot go back on your words. Your Majesty is the censor of Daqi and the imperial envoy to Taozhou. What you say is what the court means. Many people in the village pay taxes every year.
, the imperial court should protect its own people."
The Zhao girl's words immediately penetrated Xie Chen's heart.
Yes, you should protect your own people, not to mention that the princess has sacrificed so much for Daqi.
Xie Chen said: "Should."
"Can you please stay a little longer, sir?" Zhao Luoyang said, "I want to see everyone live a good life."
Xie Chen followed Zhao Luoyang's gaze and saw that the men and women in the village were busy setting tables and serving food. Today, all the people in the village gathered together to eat.
The long table was placed so far apart, and the food on the table were all brought from their respective homes. It was a farewell drink and a blessing feast.
Xie Chen was toasted by the people in the village. Although he only tasted it briefly, he couldn't stand the large number of people who came, and Master Xie felt a little overwhelmed.
"Can they come back?"
At some point, Mrs. Bai sat next to Xie Chen and whispered something like this.
Like a basin of ice water being poured down from the head, Xie Chen suddenly woke up. I don't know what he thought of. Xie Chen's eyes were firm: "Yes, you can come back. With me here... you can come back."
Mrs. Bai said: "What if it can't be done?"
"Then I will," Xie Chen said, "put on the table all the things that were not explained clearly a few years ago."
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The next day, Zhao Luoyang watched the people in the village march toward the northwest, where there was more pasture.
Mrs. Bai looked at Zhao Luoyang: "What are you going to do next?"
"It's quite eventful." Zhao Luoyang said with a smile.
Mrs. Bai sometimes finds it strange how a girl from the Zhao family can think about so many things and do one thing after another in an orderly manner.
Just like Luoyang brought people from the village to see him off today and prepared shoe soles and insoles for everyone. These were all made by the female family members stitch by stitch. Who can not be moved by this friendship?
Zhao Luoyang kept waving to everyone and sent them two miles away.
What Mrs. Bai didn't know was that Zhao Luoyang actually wanted to move forward because the charm points given by everyone were too much and she couldn't bear to separate like this.
Zhao Luoyang said, "You have to be careful." Even though Nie Shuang's men were at the village, he still had to be cautious. After all, Bai's movement was limited.
Mrs. Bai nodded: "I understand, this is what I'm telling you."
After saying this, Mrs. Bai said again: "Go and see Brother Yu more often when you have time. When you are here, he will be in much better spirits." Mrs. Bai visited her nephew several times after that. When his nephew fell into a coma, he was really in trouble.
It's heartbreaking that Chen's mother also told Mrs. Bai many things about Xiao Yu's childhood.
That Princess Yu in Beijing... Mrs. Bai sneered. One day, she would have to teach Princess Yu how to be a mother.
Zhao Luoyang returned to the village all the way.
What to do next is naturally what everyone is thinking about, which is to repair the village. Last winter when everyone was repairing the dung cellar, they thought that by making money, they could renovate the house next year.
Spring plowing cost a lot of money, but the money for repairs had long been left in the village. Mrs. Yang took the money, Zhao Xueli, Feng Laosan, and Shi Ping pulled the donkey cart, and the group bought back several carts.
Qingzhuan, Zhao Xuejing and others were making adobe bricks in the village.
The whole village is much livelier than usual, and everyone has smiles on their faces. This is your own house, how can you not be happy?
As for which family should be repaired first, there was no telling. Everyone went to the Zhao family, and the Zhao family came the most. They gathered in the Zhao family's yard to discuss anything. Besides, that was their main family, and they were the official ones.
But the face of their whole village.
The wall was expanded a lot, and a large shed was built in the yard. From now on, when the Zhao family came, they would go into the shed. It could keep out the rain in summer, and in winter... at least there would be a place to sit.
I need to build an extra stove.
Old Mrs. Yang pinched her waist: "Why do you think of my stove? If you don't change it, you won't change it. That's it. Whoever wants to eat in the canteen must not miss our home."
Everyone laughed together. The Zhao family's kitchen must be repaired. Just say that those who patrolled at night could get a bowl of porridge from the Zhao family's kitchen every time they came out. That was specially left for them by Mrs. Yang.
Yes, although I later asked the canteen to do this, from time to time, I always want to come here to eat.
While everyone was laughing and talking, Tao suddenly felt a heat in his pants, and then his feet became wet. There were women standing around him, and everyone came to their senses almost immediately.
"The third child of the Zhao family, your wife is about to give birth."
Mrs. Tao didn't know exactly when the baby in her belly would be able to come out to meet people. It must have been around this month. When she gave birth to Yuanji, she had stomach pain for several days. She never thought that this pregnancy would be so easy.
Everyone was busy helping her into the house. Zhao Xuejing invited Mrs. Wen to take a look. Oops, the child's head was in front of her.
So, before the Zhao family could recover, a baby cried, and Po Wen came out to announce the good news that the Zhao family had a new baby.