Bai Erlang thought the same, but, "But isn't the weaving workshop just a place where we weave cloth and make clothes? What can they do if they sneak in?"
Yin You also said: "Who would send them to do such a thing, from other counties... It's not like that. Although the relationship has been a bit tense recently, it's not like that, right?"
Zhou Man also thought about it seriously and shook his head, "Let's ask Bai Shan when he comes back. Maybe he has secretly offended someone outside that we don't know about."
Everyone: ...They looked at Zhou Man silently, how could they know you were not the one to offend?
Zhou Man was very confident and said: "Besides, if you send people to Zhuangzi to farm and have people keep an eye on them, I don't think the problem will be too big."
How could farm work be so easy? She was confident that she could be transformed.
Daji and the guards came back soon, and brought back the identity information of their mother and daughter. Although it is a self-report, it may not be true, but the investigation has a direction, right?
"... Her husband's surname is Lu, and her maiden name is Qi. She is from Qizhou. Her husband's village is on the edge of Qingzhou, so when the news spread here, she was kicked out by her parents-in-law and she came directly here.
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Zhou Man asked: "Can she really farm?"
"She said she would, but she also said that she is good at raising chickens and cooking. Because her wife told her about it, Zhao Ming gave her preferential treatment and let her go to the kitchen. She can just do some gardening work.
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That's not true.
At this time, there were not many people left in the houses next to the official fields outside the city. Therefore, now there are many thatched houses available for four people to live in one room, unlike before, when eight people lived in one house.
Not enough to live in.
The mother and daughter arrived at the place and collected their clothes and daily necessities. The officials knew that Master Zhou had arranged for them to come here, so they generously allocated an empty house to them.
Mother and daughter are much more comfortable living alone in a room.
When she entered the room, Aunt Qi threw her baggage and things in her arms on the simple wooden bed and looked around.
However, the younger Mrs. Lu quickly adapted to the environment. After arranging things, she looked at her mother with a wooden bucket and said, "Mom, it's time for us to fetch water."
Aunt Qi glanced at her and wanted to scold her. There was no reason, so she felt panicked in her heart. However, she was afraid that people outside would hear and suspect that she was not a loving mother, so she could only suppress her temper, stand up with a gloomy face, and
He carried a wooden barrel.
But as soon as she opened the door, the gloom on her face disappeared. She smiled softly and reached out to hold her daughter's hand, pulling her out and saying, "Let's ask someone about where to get water."
The people in Zhuangzi have a good relationship, especially when they are well fed, in a good mood, and treat others kindly.
The woman living on the left and right saw that it was difficult for a widow to take care of her children, so she took the initiative to guide them and said, "There is a river at the other end. We carry water from that river for everything we do."
As she walked, she said: "The water comes from that end. Every day, people take turns to carry water. The county magistrate was merciful and ordered several stone jars to be made and placed in the big kitchen. Water must be carried twice a day, once in the morning.
After eating, once in the evening after eating."
She said: "That is food water. It needs to be kept in a tank for a while and boiled before you can drink it. This is what Mr. Zhou said. There are many bugs and evil spirits in the water. Just because we can't see it doesn't mean it's not there, so
The water at the entrance must be boiled. If you want to drink water in every house, you have to go to the big kitchen with a bamboo tube to fetch it. By the way, sister, you are in the kitchen, right?"
Aunt Qi hesitated for a moment and then nodded, "I'm from the kitchen, and I said I wanted to cook."
"That's it. It's your kitchen job to boil water. Just ask your manager how much you should boil."
Aunt Qi followed her closely with a wooden bucket, walking through field ridges one after another. When she saw that the fields on both sides had been cleared, but the soil didn't look very good, she hesitated and asked, "This is the official field we want to plant."
?It doesn’t look very good.”
"It's not an official field, it's an open field," the person leading the way introduced: "Did you see this area, from here to there, and there is a large piece of open field over there, which is all open land. Your Excellency asked us to cultivate the land and wait.
Plant some grass and beans next spring and it will last for a few years."
Aunt Qi is from Qizhou. Qizhou has a small land and many people. Every piece of land seems to be precious. There is very little land for grazing, so she was surprised, "Growing grass?"
"Yes, when the time comes we will raise chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, all of which require grass. Raising these livestock can also fertilize the land. How suitable is it?"
Although she couldn't quite understand what Magistrate Bai said, she was obedient and knew that this area was used to grow beans, pasture and raise livestock.
"This is wasteland. It was abandoned before, but now it has been opened up. Next year, melons and beans will be planted..." When they arrived at the river, the leader was waiting for them to fetch water, and pointed to the tunnel not far away.
: "Did you see it? It's official land. I heard it's the county magistrate's land. The land is very good. One-third of it is planted with wheat, and the new wheat seeds are used. I heard the yield is extremely high.
I don’t know how high it is.”
Aunt Qi stood on tiptoes and looked over there.
The guide urged her, "Hurry up, we're about to have lunch."
Aunt Qi then speeded up and helped her daughter carry half a bucket of water. However, the leader was here, and she couldn't let a little girl carry the water. She went back empty-handed, so she reached out to carry it and walked back with her.
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"Go to Zhu Sanlang in two days and ask him to make you a pole. It will be much more convenient and easier to carry water with a pole. The poles in the kitchen cannot be borrowed."
It was possible at first, but later I found that it was difficult to get back the borrowed poles, and there were huge opinions on whether I borrowed this or not, so the big kitchen simply refused to lend it to anyone.
They had no choice but to make their own poles, and the best among them was Zhu Sanlang.
Aunt Qi responded and asked, "Where is the vegetable patch?"
"It's right by the river," she said with a smile, "just upstream where we were carrying water, some way down, that area was planted with vegetables. We ate it ourselves and the long-term workers who were transferred were all ate.
It’s the vegetables we grow, and if we have any extra, we can sell them in the market.”
But the money belongs to the county government, so they can at most take the opportunity to enter the city.
Aunt Qi's heart moved and she asked: "Does the food from the weaving workshops in the city also come from our village?"
"Yes, not only the weaving workshop, Yushan Hall, but also the county government's vegetables are all obtained from the village, so it is not common to go to the city to buy vegetables."
Because although their vegetable fields are large, there are also many people eating there.
Aunt Qi quickly said: "Then next time I go to the city to deliver food, let me go with you, so we can get familiar with each other."
"No, this has nothing to do with you," the person leading the way said, "delivering food is Zhu Sanlang's business."
"It doesn't matter, I can help."
The guide frowned and looked at her, "How can you help? If you are free, you still have to plant vegetables. Let me tell you, everyone has to do a sufficient amount of work every day. If it is too slow and we can't finish it, we
I won’t help you.”
It's okay to help out occasionally, but it's not okay to do this all the time. Besides, she still wants to go to the city to deliver food. What is she thinking? This job is so good. At that time, Zhu Sanlang and the others had to fight off many people to get this good job.