People who come to the palace to serve as maids and eunuchs are basically from poor families.
The same goes for Xu Yu, of course. I heard that she was bought into the palace when she was only seven or eight years old, but her family has not lost contact with her since she entered the palace. This is also a rare thing in the palace.
Because although most of the maids in the palace also have days when their relatives visit, they basically come here as holidays, and no relatives really come to visit.
Only palace maids whose homes are near the capital, or those who have relatives near the capital, occasionally come to visit.
Therefore, at this point, people in the palace still envied Xu Yu.
Man Bao listened to Ma Fuming's report while eating, and then said: "In this way, although Xu Yu's family is poor, he should have a good life."
Man Bao's family was once poor. She always felt that being poor physically was nothing, and that if she was happy in her heart, her life would not be too sad.
Ma Fuming said: "I also feel that Xu Yu's life is good, and many people in the palace are envious of her."
Compared with the chamberlains, the palace maids live much better than them. Of course, this does not mean food and clothing, but because the palace ladies still have families to look for, but the chamberlains sent to the palace basically have no family members.
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Even if there is, it is just their own delusion. They know in their hearts that their family may not have much affection for them.
Not to mention that they have to endure physical pain all the time.
Even Ma Fuming, who didn't know Xu Yu very well before, couldn't help but envy her after asking about her.
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other and decided to ask someone to check on Xu Yu's aunt and family after leaving the palace.
Yin Hui thanked Ma Fuming and let him go down before saying to Bai Shan: "I went to find Man Bao yesterday and met Xu Yu in her yard. I didn't feel that there was anything different about her. Do you feel that she is different?"
Wrong."
Man Bao thought: She might feel wrong, but Keke would never be wrong. Xu Yu secretly peeped at her several times, but once or twice he released a hint of hostility.
Bai Shan thought in his heart: He might be wrong, but Uncle Zhou can't be wrong, right?
He didn't believe that any bad guy could hide in front of Uncle Zhou, but it seemed that Uncle Zhou could only follow Man Bao around and couldn't keep an eye on the bad guys.
The last time Uncle Zhou kept an eye on the Crown Prince, he paid tribute to some livestock, maybe...
Bai Shan turned to Man Bao and said, "When Xiu Mu comes, Brother Zhou and I told him to leave a cow for me. I don't know if he has all the numbers."
Man Bao understood this and said angrily: "I forgot about this."
He said to Keke in his heart: "I forgot, why did you forget too?"
Keke: "...Host, I didn't scan the cow that your fourth brother brought back."
If it is not scanned, it means it does not exist, and naturally it will not remind the host to include it.
Zhou Lang did not drive the hundred cows he bought back into the city, and he was not a tiger. Where could he put so many cows after he had rushed them into the city?
And the feed they eat is also a problem.
So they put the cattle outside the city, set up several farmyards in a village, and asked their men to guard them.
His original intention was to go to the city to find Man Bao and Bai Shan to discuss whether they could temporarily put the cattle in the Bai family's village. He knew that the Bai family had a village in the suburbs of Beijing, near Yongzhou.
As a result, he didn't expect that his parents came to Beijing and happened to meet Bai Dalang getting married. He couldn't help but drink two more drinks. Being tired and tired, he slept until dawn the next day.
But he didn't have to worry about where the cattle were going, because Manbao took over the farmland and cultivated it himself, so he had plenty of place to settle.
The next day, except for Liu Lang who ran a restaurant and a few children who wanted to study at Xuetang Pharmacy, everyone else followed him out of the city to Pucun.
Of course, before going to Pucun, Liu Lang took them to see the cows and people outside the capital.
Then the group sent another hundred cows to Pucun.
They set off in the morning. Because the oxen moved slower than the horse-drawn carriage, they did not arrive until after noon.
When the village chief and the tenants of Pucun saw this mammoth oxen, they were so shocked that they opened their mouths wide and could not utter a word.
The head of the village was the first to come to his senses. He immediately went up to Old Zhou, bowed and saluted repeatedly, and praised: "Master Zhou is so righteous. Master Zhou is worthy of being an imperial doctor. He is a kind-hearted doctor, and he has brought us so many cattle."
Old Zhoutou:......
Zhou Lang was afraid that his father would agree if he got hot-headed, so he immediately pushed forward to speak. His father had already said quickly: "Mr. Li Chang, you have misunderstood. This cow is for sale."
Li Chang froze in his movements, looked at the cows with his head stiffened, and asked with trembling lips, "For sale, for sale?"
Lao Zhoutou nodded and said with a smile: "If anyone in the village wants to buy it, I will ask my fourth son to give you a discount."
The headman straightened up and said to himself: Forget it, everyone is running out of food. Not to mention buying a cow, we can't even buy a piglet.
Disappointment was also visible on the faces of the villagers.
Old Zhoutou didn't take it seriously. What was he thinking? How many years had their family worked to afford a cow, and it was given to them for free?
He would rather drive the cow back to Qili Village than give it away!
However, although he didn't give it away, he could give it to them for cultivation temporarily. There was no other way, the winter wheat was about to be sown, and these tenants were too lazy to even start pulling weeds and loosening the ground.
Moreover, these cows also need to be trained. It happens that it takes a while for the cows to be numbered and naturalized, so let’s lend them to them during this time.
The villagers were very happy and then very sad, and after the great sadness they were a little happy. Anyway, they were quite happy. Everyone stared at the cows with bright eyes and stopped moving.
Zhou Lang said with a smile: "I heard from my niece that you have a hundred households. It just so happens that I have a hundred cows here. One family will take one back first and give it to you for the time being. However, you are responsible for the fodder that the cows eat.
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Naturally, everyone agreed without any problem.
Lao Zhoutou added from the side: "You have to be careful, don't let them get tired. These cattle were bought from the grassland, and they have been working hard all the way from the grassland to here."
When it comes to serving cattle, the entire Pucun people combined are not as careful as Lao Zhoutou, but he has always personally taken care of their cattle.
Later in the year, Mr. Bai also sent their family a bull and a cow. It is said that Manbao paid for it a long time ago. The cow was successfully pregnant before he came out...
When Lao Zhoutou thought of this, he couldn't help but feel homesick.
Just as he was thinking about it, Zhou Lang and others were already dividing the cows among themselves in a lively manner. Not only did they have a place for the cows to live, but they didn't even have to worry about the forage the cows ate. It was very simple.
Zhou Lang quietly said to Zhou Dalang: "Man Bao is still very good. He knew that I needed a place to stay, so he prepared such a place early."
Zhou Dalang stared at the people working not far away and asked, "What are you doing?"
After taking a look at it, Zhou Lang said: "Build a house. Didn't Man Bao say that he wanted to build a small village here so that you and your father can live in it and it can be convenient for us to stay?"
Zhou Dalang was shocked, "Why haven't I heard her say that?"
Zhou Lang pointed to Zhou Lijun who was not far away and said, "Lijun said that Bai Shan and the second young master of the Bai family also contributed money."