Chapter 2563 drought resistance one (make up for yesterday)
This kind of fighting with others is Bai Erlang's favorite thing. It doesn't take too much brain work, and he has the upper hand, which can make people suffer secretly. Just thinking about it makes him excited, and he can eat more at night.
Eat half the bowl.
Mingda was quite troubled at first and could not experience this kind of fun, but when he saw that Bai Erlang refused Bai Shan and the others' invitation for two days in a row, he went to Xincheng to watch the steward rent a shop to others, as long as he saw the smile on the steward's face.
Stiff, he was very happy, and even she couldn't help but feel happy, faintly touching that edge.
So the couple went to the new city together and sat in the shop every day, looking down on the steward to receive the business travelers who came because of the notice.
With two masters here, the manager didn't dare to do anything, because Mingda and Bai Erlang had set the floating range of the rent early on, so he couldn't even raise the rent to scare people away.
So the business travelers who the stewards had spent a lot of effort to find, turned around and made a contract directly with the princess, paying the rent to get the shop.
The stewards almost wanted to vomit blood when they received the news. They had been looking back and forth at this shop for several days, and they were about to close the deal. Who knew that Princess Mingda would appear halfway through?
They didn't dare to go to Princess Mingda, so they could only go to the princess' steward angrily.
Although we didn't say it explicitly, you accepted so many gifts from everyone, and both parties hinted at it from the beginning. You rented the shop to us at a low price, and we sublet it to others. As a result, we spent all the effort to bring business travelers from outside, and you
Turn around and cut off our beard?
If there is no such truth, can we still talk about the morality of the world?
Compared with the interests between Jianghu Daoyi and master and servant, the princess and the consort were sitting in the shop next door. He neither dared to agree to return the business trip they had signed to them, nor to allow them to do so.
They made too much noise...
If the princess and the consort knew what happened here, there would be no need to take his life.
So he could only reluctantly return the things he had collected before, and even subsidized a little by himself. He said heartbrokenly: "Our princess and the consort are watching this matter in person now. You have also seen the two notices on the street and at the end of the street.
, before our shop is fully rented out, it will be impossible for you to rent out the shop at a high price."
"That's not what you said before..."
"I didn't expect the princess to value the shops on this street so much," the steward said, "This is a street in the new city. How many people are there in the new city? Our princess has countless properties, not to mention there are shops in the capital.
The income from a fiefdom is quite a lot in a year. How did I know that the princess would personally manage the property in the new city?"
"Anyway, let's just consider ourselves unlucky in this matter."
"How can this be done..."
"Why can't this work? I'll give you the lowest rent for the shop you rent. The location is good. Even if you can't rent it out, you won't lose money if you use it to do business." He secretly threatened: "Princess
Just sit in the shop next to it, everyone takes a step back, hello, me, hello, everyone, otherwise if we make a fuss, I won't get any favors, but you, and the master behind you, can get away with it?"
They stopped talking for a moment.
But I still feel unwilling to give in. There are not many people in this new city now, and if we spend so much money on renovations, we will definitely lose money in the future.
A few people gritted their teeth and decided to go back and tell the owner that the matter would have to be postponed for a while.
They manage the property for their owners, and if they suffer too much loss, they will be punished at the end of the year.
A lot of shops were rented out at once. Mingda was very happy, Bai Erlang was also very happy, but the emperor was not very happy.
This year there is a drought in the Yongzhou area of the capital, and there is more or less drought in other areas of the Central Plains. Therefore, this year’s field holiday is not only moved forward, but also extended by three days.
Officials who needed to go home to farm were given a total of fifteen days of vacation together with their holidays, which was a full half-month holiday.
He thought that his daughter would follow the prince-in-law back to the palace to stay for a while to accompany his old father. However, after the holiday, his daughter did not even live in the capital and went directly to the imperial palace.
Oh, Bai Er was also on field leave, because he said he was going to plant the land in Huangzhuang, and his boss gave him a note with a confused look on his face.
Wei Zhi also took farm leave, but he did not take fifteen days off, but ten days off. Even ten days was not pure. After returning from the fields to the mansion every day, he would still handle official duties.
Wei Zhi had a piece of land in Yongzhou, which he bought himself.
There was a drought this year, so he personally followed the long-term workers to fetch water to irrigate the fields, then watched them plow the fields, and rolled up his trouser legs with them to plant rice seedlings.
Unfortunately, that land was very close to the land where Lao Zhoutou made Man Bao a dowry.
Because of the drought, the two new tenants this year regretted it. They also had land at home, but they did not expect that the spring drought would be so serious. Obviously they could not plant so much land, so they had to return the full land.
When Lao Zhou saw it, he couldn't help but talk about it and took his sons and daughters-in-law to farm the land.
Man Bao and Bai Shan simply took field leave, wore big straw hats, rolled up their trousers and went to the fields.
There is no canal here, so we can only open the upper field ridges and let water down one by one. However, the water in the river is less, so everyone can only carry water.
It was impossible for Man Bao to carry water, so they pulled a bullock cart and put the water directly on the cart to transport it. As a result, when the cart arrived at the edge of the field, the water was almost spread.
Even if the bucket is covered with a lid, it doesn't work very well.
The two of them squatted on the car and looked at the bucket in a daze, "It would be nice to have a water truck."
There are water trucks specially designed to transport water, but where can they find them at this time? Moreover, water trucks are expensive to build, and they cannot directly pay more than the cost of harvesting just to cultivate the land.
Lao Zhou came back from knocking the big clods of soil in the field. When he saw the two children staring at a few barrels and frowning, he glanced at the ox cart and couldn't help but exclaimed: "You guys have spilled it all the way."
What a waste of water.”
Say to them, "You wouldn't pick a few big leaves and put them in a bucket and put the lid on..."
Man Bao and Bai Shan's eyes lit up, and they both remembered that the villagers like to put a lotus leaf in the wooden bucket when they go to fetch water, so that when the water shakes, it will not spill a lot of water.
Man Bao immediately jumped out of the car and said to Lao Zhou: "Dad, don't worry, the water will not be wasted. If it falls on the ground, it will be eaten by grass. When the grass grows, our cows will eat it."
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Lao Zhoutou: ...We are so idle. There is no water to drink the rice and wheat, so they have to eat grass first.
The two men led the ox cart to haul water again.
Compared with other farm work, hauling water is not too strenuous.
When they arrived at the river, Bai Shan and Man Bao took down the wooden buckets from the car and filled them with water. Man Bao picked some big leaves and put them in the bucket before closing the lid.