As the sun set, Huaiyu came to the west side of the house. It turned out to be a garden and even a greenhouse. After Huaiyu moved here, he planted some vegetables here.
He planted a piece of rapeseed outside, and also planted spinach, carrots, white radish, mustard greens, shallots, coriander, leeks, garlic, ginger, broad beans, peas, fungus, lettuce, onions, etc. Among these vegetables, spinach was also grown in the Sui Dynasty.
A new dish introduced with eggplant.
Carrots, lettuce, and onions are all seeds brought by Huaiyu.
He also planted peppers, tomatoes, green beans, beans, cucumbers, potatoes, zucchini, pumpkins, etc. in the greenhouse where Li Yuan used to grow flowers.
Next to the greenhouse, Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, yellow cabbage, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, celery and other varieties of vegetables that were not available in the Tang Dynasty were planted.
We even planted some potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes in the greenhouse.
Several batches of vegetables he planted at his house in Huaiyuanfang, as well as potatoes, corns, sweet potatoes, etc. that were transplanted back from Longyou are about to be harvested.
Now whenever he has free time, Huaiyu likes to take care of these fruits, vegetables and grains, especially the varieties he brought that were not available in the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuan's greenhouse is very good. Although the Tang Dynasty people did not have glass greenhouses or plastic film-buckled greenhouses, they built houses directly, leaving some glazed transparent tiles on the top, opening multiple windows on all sides, and papering the windows, so that the greenhouse had
A certain amount of lighting allows flowers, plants and vegetables to photosynthesize.
Then dig a ditch indoors, place the flower pots on a shelf made of rope and bamboo, pour hot water into the ditch, and apply hot fertilizers such as oxen and sulfur to increase the indoor temperature. Through these methods
to encourage the flowers in the greenhouse to bloom.
This greenhouse flower cultivation technology is said to be still used in later generations.
Huaiyu felt that this technology was a little behind the times. Before winter came, he hired craftsmen to renovate the greenhouse and add a fire wall inside.
It is said that the fire wall structure has been used since the Han Dynasty. Huaiyu just modified the fire wall technology slightly, and connected the fire wall and the earth dragon to each other, and the flue was opened, so that in the cold time, by burning firewood, the fire wall can be used.
The temperature in the greenhouse rises to maintain a desired temperature.
Apart from consuming more firewood, there are no other disadvantages.
With this thing, Huaiyu can also eat peppers, fresh corn, cucumbers, beans, red tomatoes, etc. in winter.
Watering, fertilizing, and catching insects manually.
Just like a busy little bee, Huaiyu heard a faint quarrel coming from the old Wei family next door.
Listening to the faint voice, which seemed to be mixed with crying, Huaiyu couldn't help but be curious. He quietly approached the wall of the two houses and listened.
The two families are separated by a rammed earth wall, which is about seven feet high. There is a vegetable garden on the Wu family's side, and there is also a vegetable garden on the Wei family's side.
Compared with Huaiyu, this was originally the courtyard of Lujiang King Li Yuan. The Wei Zheng family's house was built before, but it was much simpler. It occupied a large area, but the houses and courtyards were very simple and not elegant.
After Wei Zheng moved in, he was confused about the garden for several years, but he never took care of it seriously.
Paint peeling off, beams and columns cracked,
Wei Zheng took his family to cultivate the garden into wheat fields, rice fields and vegetable fields, and even planted a mulberry tree to raise silkworms.
He originally built several thatched houses in this garden to brew Wei Gong wine. However, the last time Ma Zhou impeached him, Li Shimin took away all the pots, basins, barrels, etc. used for brewing wine.
At this moment, in the vegetable field next door, the spinach that Wei Zheng had grown was all dead for unknown reasons. Wei Zheng liked to eat this vegetable introduced from the Niboluo Kingdom the most. After eating it at the palace banquet, he specially found the seeds and planted it himself.
, but the result was that it failed to grow.
At this time, Wei Zheng's wife, Mrs. Pei, complained about Wei Zheng. At first, she scolded Wei Zheng for planting such spinach, saying that he had never grown it before.
Slowly, it became clear that Wei Zheng should not always have trouble with the Wu family next door.
"Well, originally you were promoted to the county prince, and you were promoted to the rank of San, and there were rewards. But you insisted on impeaching others on that happy day. What are you trying to do? The result was not good. Not only did they have nothing to do, but they were promoted to marquis.
, but the county you obtained is gone, your rank is no longer promoted, and even the rewards are gone."
"It's so bad that now we are not allowed to make our own home brew. I was originally counting on rewards and money from private brewing to marry into Wang Xueshi's family."
Wang Xueshi is good at wine, and is known as Doujiu Xueshi. He is from the Longmen branch of the Wang family in Qixian County, Taiyuan. Wei Zheng used to make his own wine and often sent wine to Wang Xueshi. Wang Xueshi's family reluctantly considered marrying the Wei family, but Wang Xueshi
The bachelor's wife asked the Wei family to contribute 1 million to support the family before she agreed.
This is not a small sum of money, although for famous families or emerging aristocrats, it is only a thousand guan.
But for Wei Zheng, they never got the money together.
The ancestors of Wei Zheng's family were also officials, but his father died in a foreign land when he was young, which forced Wei Zheng to become a Taoist priest when he was young.
Since the investment of Yuan Baobao, although I have been working as an official for more than ten years, I really don't have much savings, and the official salary alone is actually not much.
In the past, Wei Zheng's home brewing was well-known and could subsidize a lot of family expenses. Even Wang Xueshi was willing to marry the Wei family because of Wei Gong's wine.
That was the Wang family in Taiyuan. Wang Ji's elder brother Wang Tong was called Wen Zhongzi by his disciples. It was extraordinary to be called a son. He opened a school in Longmen to teach, and his disciples had more than a thousand disciples.
Among the more famous ones are Wen Yanbo, Du Yan, Xue Shou, etc., all of whom are now Zijin ministers in the imperial court. Even Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Li Jing and Wei Zheng all went to Longmen Academy to attend.
Wang Ji's family is the descendant of the Wang family in Qixian County of Taiyuan. The family has settled in Longmen, Hedong for many years. Wang Gui, who originally built the East Palace, also comes from their family.
Even though Wei Zheng usually pulls in as much as 2,500,000 to 80,000 yuan, he still cannot escape from the vulgarity, and he also wants to find a woman with the fifth surname as a wife for his son.
But with Wei Zheng's family background, his official status, and the five surnames and seven families in Guandong, who would like him? Wei Zheng and his wife tried their best to find Wang Ji who was good at wine and whose family was in decline.
Wang Ji offered him some wine, so Wang Ji reluctantly agreed.
But Mrs. Wang was very unhappy. In the end, with her husband's consent, she had no choice but to ask for 1 million to compensate the family wealth. Marrying with your Wei Zheng family would damage the status of the family, so she must be compensated. This money is in addition to the betrothal gift, etc.
outside.
It’s only a thousand guan.
But Wei Zheng was troubled.
Now Wei Zheng can no longer make wine, and has cut off the supply to Scholar Wang, and cannot even raise the money to accompany him.
This matter may become scandalous at any time, after all, Wang Ji's wife has never quite agreed.
Mrs. Pei has been complaining about Wei Zheng, saying that he should not be quarreling with heaven and earth every day, otherwise Wei Zheng would not get a large reward this time when he was promoted to an official position, and he would be able to make up for it by paying the family money.
Already.
But now that the marriage that had been settled with great difficulty was about to end, Mrs. Pei was very anxious.
"When others serve as officials in the imperial court, they make friends everywhere, but you make enemies everywhere. After so long, you can't even borrow a thousand guan."
Wei Zheng was very good at trolling people in the court, but he was speechless when he quarreled with his wife.
"How about we sell this house and buy a smaller one? This house is worth two to three thousand dollars,"
"Isn't it embarrassing for someone who is an official to sell houses and land? The Wang family will look down upon him even more."
Wei Zheng sighed.
Mrs. Pei couldn't help crying, "Mrs. Wang told me today that the family's wealth only requires one million, but our family has not given it for so long. That is not sincere. She also said that at most she would wait until
At the end of this month, otherwise we won't mention it again. She is expecting that we won't be able to come up with the money.
I have pity on my son, he finally had the opportunity to marry a girl with the fifth surname, and met such a father..."
"Stop howling!" Wei Zheng was furious at his wife.
"What do you want to shout at me if you have the ability? If you have the ability, you can continue to impeach this and that, scold Wu Huaiyu, isn't it right next door? Ma Zhoujin admonished the emperor and offered his advice, and he was given two million yuan for a house, directly
Even though you were given Zijin, you were still using your pen every day. As a result, you made people feel disgusted and you didn’t even have the money to get your son engaged..."
Poor and humble couples suffer from everything.
Wei Zheng is now a fourth-rank official of Shangshu Zuocheng, but he is stuck when it comes to things that require him to pay. His wife Pei has suffered a lot, and now she can't bear it anymore because of her son's marriage.
"Mrs. Wang said that if I hadn't come from the Pei clan with me, this matter would have been a thing of the past. Now I give you the last chance. If you can't use this million to compensate for the family wealth before the end of the month, don't mention it in the future.
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"Hurry up and think of a way. Don't squat in this vegetable field and look at your spinach plants. They will be dead a long time ago."
Wei Zheng really didn't have many good ideas, "Why don't we borrow Beijing debt and scrape together this million money first."
"One million is just for family wealth, and one million is indispensable for gifts."
"Then borrow more."
"With your name as Wei Zheng, you can't borrow two million yuan in Beijing debt."
"You can mortgage this house or sell it. My son's business is more important." Wei Zheng said with a dark face.
Wu Huaiyu listened. He was joking at first, but later he couldn't help but feel emotional. It's not easy. Although he felt that this was probably the fault of the Wei family. Who made them greedy and insisted on clinging to the Wang family in Taiyuan?
Marry five sons with surnames.
Wouldn't it be better for you to marry your son to a daughter of an ordinary official and a small noble family?
If you don't have the strength, don't force yourself.
But then I thought about it, pity the parents in the world, who doesn’t want to pave the way for their children?
Huaiyu didn't have the intention to laugh at others. He stood up to leave and accidentally knocked over the bucket. It made a noise and the voices of the two people opposite him immediately stopped.
They were talking in a hurry just now, and they didn't expect that the more private words they said would be heard, especially next door to Wu Huaiyu's family.
"I didn't expect that Marquis Shouyang also has a hobby of listening to the wall."
Huaiyu originally thought of leaving quietly without saying a word, but who knew that just a few steps later, there was a sound from behind, and Wei Zheng was lying on the wall.
The wall is also seven feet high, and Wei Zheng is very skilled.
"Mr. Wei, I'm watering the vegetables here. I don't mean to eavesdrop. Next time you talk about something, Mr. Wei, remember to do it in the house. Our two families are separated by a wall. You water the vegetables, and I'll water the vegetables too."
, but it’s not intentional.”
As he spoke, Huaiyu raised a handful of spinach in his hand and said, "Look, I just pulled out a handful of spinach and am going to fry it. This spinach is really green."
"Wei Gong, I heard that you also like to eat spinach. Let me pick a handful for you. It's still tender."
Wei Zheng looked at Wu Huaiyu, who was holding spinach in his hand, and felt mixed emotions in his heart.
At this time, his wife, Mrs. Pei, pulled his trouser legs and whispered from below, "Wu Erlang has recently opened a new home repair shop called Changshengtang. I heard that the capital is very high. How about you talk to him and use the house to follow?"
He pledges a sum of money first, and quickly gives the money and gifts to the Wang family first, and then we can finalize the marriage."
When Huaiyu heard this, his heart moved, and the fish took the bait.
