Chapter 601: Human face and peach blossom complement each other
"There are 1,200 households in the country who have been granted the title of Duke Yi. Now the landowners in the countryside are so happy that they don't want to go home. They have forgotten all us women and children."
Wu Huaiyu stayed in the countryside for so long that even Fan Xuanfu couldn't help but lead his team to the countryside to find her husband.
Previously, when Wu Huaiyu went to Shuofang and Yan Yun took office, there was nothing he could do about being thousands of miles away. But now that he is only thirty miles away from Beijing, Wu Huaiyu can stay in the countryside and forget about his home. This is unbearable.
"But we hired another child in Fanchuan?" Mr. Fan joked.
Women such as Chen Runniang, Gao Hui'an, Qiu Derou, and Duan Wan immediately looked around as soon as they arrived at Zhuangzi, and even refused to stop until they found out the vixen.
"I've been busy in the countryside recently to observe the people's sentiments, so I don't have time." Huaiyu said with a smile. In this countryside, most people still don't have enough to eat. They either have yellow faces or are skinny.
Or dark and thin,
Fifteen or sixteen girls are supposed to be young girls, but most of them are stunted. Not to mention decent clothing, many girls don’t even have neat and well-fitting clothes.
It is difficult for people to think of words like flowers and jade for the conditions presented. Many of them are even infested with lice, fleas and other parasites, not to mention that many people have never been out of their homes for more than twenty miles and have no experience or knowledge.
So it is really difficult to fall in love with a village girl.
Why do people in the Tang Dynasty like plump women? Wu Huaiyu thinks that plumpness represents health and wealth in this era when most people don't have enough to eat. Even the people at the lowest level know that to marry a wife, you must marry someone with a big butt.
Because of health and fertility, being as thin as a firewood stick will never be regarded as a kind of beauty in this era, it will only be regarded as a disease.
The times created the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty.
As for women, even those in their twenties and thirties have been destroyed by life in the countryside. People in their thirties look like they are forty or fifty, and even those in their forties have gray hair and hunched backs.
"Humph, we don't believe it,"
Even when Pei Xingnu came to the countryside, she still held the pipa in her arms. She was born in a small official's family in Chang'an, and later married a merchant's daughter, and was snatched as a concubine by Li Yuan. She was even considered by Li Shimin to enter the palace, but
Being criticized by Prime Minister Wang Gui and Wei Zheng, he had no choice but to give the beautiful pipa to Huaiyu.
After looking around, I really didn’t see any beauties.
"I heard that there is a village called Nanzhuang in the upper reaches of Fanchuan, on the east bank of the Jianhe River, and to the south of Niujiawan?"
"Well, let's go to Wubao and go upstream to the south along the Yan River. After passing Guazhou Fort, we will go two villages past and we will reach Nanzhuang. What?"
"I heard that Nanzhuang was renamed Taoxi Castle, also called Wuxi Castle, because of a poem. How did you write that poem?" Duan Wan said with a smile,
Cao Sanniang answered, "Sister, I remember, last year today in this door, the human faces and peach blossoms reflected each other's red. The human faces did not know where to go, but the peach blossoms still smiled in the spring breeze. It was really well written, the peach blossoms remained the same, and the human faces
No, I just don’t know what kind of girl can make Wu Erlang miss her so much."
A group of women started making noises and asking questions, which seemed to suggest that there would be a three-chamber trial.
Wu Huaiyu looked at these jealous women and had no choice but to surrender.
"I made such a poem,"
"Wow, indeed there is such a thing, then let that girl come and see her quickly."
Huaiyu spread his hands helplessly, "I have written in my poems that the human face has disappeared without knowing where it is."
"Erlang's poem is now popular in Chang'an. Many people are talking about how many beautiful women there are in Fanchuan Nanzhuang that Erlang can never forget."
"That's it, so many of us sisters have now made Erlang disgusted and despised?"
Three women perform a play, and these dozen women can become a big stage.
"Let me explain it to you."
"Explanation is a cover-up, but we would like to hear how Erlang covers it up."
"Well, the truth is, a few years ago, in June of the ninth year of Wude, I came down from Taiyi Peak and happened to meet my brother who went into the mountain to look for Xue Wanche who was injured."
Each of the women listened very seriously.
Wu Huaiyu's poem suddenly spread to Chang'an, which really made them jealous, but they were also confused because Wu Huaiyu was in Youzhou last year.
"That time I went down the mountain and met my brother. Later I left Zhongnan Mountain and met Brother Chu Mo in Taiyi Palace."
"When I was returning to Chang'an, I was going back to Chang'an via Fanchuan. When I passed by Nanzhuang, I thought of an old friend."
The story goes further and further,
A lie always needs another lie to cover it up.
The origin of this poem was the day the emperor came to Guazhou Fort to eat noodles. The emperor was happy and satisfied with the prince. He was so happy that he not only rewarded the prince with the eight hundred miles of field opposite Guazhou Fort, but also rewarded Wu Huaiyu, saying
The prince stayed in the countryside for a few days. Although he was tanned, he grew a lot.
The emperor also rewarded Huaiyu with a village called Nanzhuang. This village was located a little upstream of the Fanchuan River, covering an area of 500 acres and a 100-acre peach orchard.
Huaiyu thanked him and accompanied the emperor and the prince to go there with Qin Qiong and others. Although there were no peach blossoms at this time, only peaches, Hou Junji picked a peach and insisted that Wu Huaiyu write a peach blossom poem.
Wu Huaiyu then recited this song: The human face and the peach blossoms complement each other in red.
The emperor liked it very much, praised Wu Huaiyu as being as talented as ever, and gave Nanzhuang a new name, Taoxi Castle.
After the emperor returned to Beijing, this poem spread in Chang'an.
Only then did Fan Xuanfu and the others form a group to kill Fan Chuan in search of her husband.
Wu Huaiyu had already explained to Li Shimin and Qin Qiong who the girl who was missing was.
"In the past, I practiced Taoism with my master Xiaoyaozi at Taiyi Peak in Zhongnan Mountain. Every year we would go down the mountain to collect medicines and provide free medical clinics for the villagers. Once when my master and I went down the mountain, we passed by Taoxi Fort. It was the time when the peach blossoms were brilliant in March.
One day, I was thirsty and knocked on the firewood door under a peach blossom tree. A beautiful girl opened the door and brought water.
The next year, I passed by again, and the peach blossoms were still there. I knocked on the door again, but no one answered for a long time. Later, a neighbor in the village told me that the girl died of illness in the winter."
"Ah, dead?"
"Um,"
For a time, Fan and other women found it difficult to accept the ending of the story.
What a beautiful story it sounds like. She should have a better ending. For example, the girl just went out.
Or maybe Wu Huaiyu left the poem on the door of the girl's house with a pen, and then when the girl came back, she found out that she went into the mountains to look for Wu Huaiyu, and finally the lovers got married, etc.
But who would have thought that the girl was actually dead.
"She has a beautiful length, isn't she?"
"To say that, that was all ten years ago. I was as young as His Highness the Crown Prince at that time,"
"I have kept Erlang in my heart for ten years. This girl is extraordinary. It's a pity that beauty is so miserable."
The women felt sorry for this girl.
"What's her name?" Pei Xingnu asked.
"Jiang Niang,"
"I must compose a pipa song for her and record the story between Erlang and her."
The women were no longer murderous, but instead sighed sadly.
"Let's go to Taoxi Castle tomorrow and pay homage to the poor girl."
There is indeed a Jiang Niang in Taoxi Castle,
In fact, Wu Huaiyu had heard others talk about this girl, because it was said that this girl was indeed very beautiful and loved peach blossoms, but she died of illness ten years ago. Some people said she was lovesick.
"Let's plant peach trees on all the land in Peach Blossom Castle," said Pei Xingnu, who was obviously an artistic young woman, as musicians always do.
Wu Huaiyu nodded, "Well, I think it's not bad. Plant the other 500 acres of land with peach blossoms and 600 acres of peach grove. It will be very beautiful when the peach blossoms are in full bloom in the spring."
"If you plant so many peach trees, will you eat them all?" Gao Hui'an asked a more realistic question.
Wu Huaiyu said, "Actually, you don't have to worry about this. If you can't finish all the fresh peaches, we can also make peach cakes, which use peaches as the main ingredient, sandwiched with glutinous rice flour and sugar. The texture is crispy, sweet and delicious, so there is no need to worry about no one liking it.
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You can also make peach jam and dried peaches. This place is only more than thirty miles away from Chang'an. Even if there are 600 acres of peach groves, there is no need to worry.
Medicinal materials, flowers, and even crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and peanuts can also be planted under the peach orchard.
When peach trees are newly planted, other crops can be planted within five years. After five years, if the planting is relatively sparse, you can still plant a little, or you can raise chickens under the forest."
Women like Fan Xuanfu are not interested in that. They are all emotional now. They only think about the six hundred acres of peach groves and the splendid beauty of the peach blossoms in full bloom in March. They don't think about the rest.
Wu Huaiyu originally planned to use 500 acres of land to grow cotton in this new village. In the first year, he would give the tenants a guaranteed minimum of two tons of rice to allow them to grow cotton.
At that time, Shangwubao and Taoxibao will grow cotton and set up textile factories together, which will also give tenants and villagers some opportunities to make money.
The core of the Wu family's operation of Zhuangzi is not to squeeze and extract blindly, but to eat the meat yourself and others to follow suit. Only in this way can a virtuous cycle be achieved and sustainable development be achieved.
It is not feasible to kill chickens to obtain eggs; fattening chickens to lay more eggs is the way to go.
But since Fan Xuanfu and the others became more sensible and said that they would plant peach trees on the 500 acres of land outside the 100 acres of peach grove in Zhuangzi, he agreed without hesitation.
It's not that I'm afraid that the story will be exposed.
I just think there is no problem with diversified operations. It is close to Chang'an. When the peach blossoms bloom in the spring, it can attract Chang'an people who go on an outing to visit. Then they sell some peach cakes and other things made with peaches, which is also good.
Or maybe set up a small papermaking workshop there, mix fat with water, add some dried peach blossoms, make paper paper in Taoxi, name it Peach Blossom Paper, and package and hype the poem "Human Face Peach Blossom" and the story
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By then the peach blossom paper had become an instant hit, and it is estimated that the literati, scholars and ladies in Chang'an would all be competing to buy it.
It can't be built even if it is created.
It's a pity that the peach blossoms have no nectar. Otherwise, raising some bees in the six hundred acres of peach grove would be very profitable if they could produce peach nectar. But it's a pity that the peach blossoms have no nectar and the bees won't collect it.
Fan Xuanfu and the other women began to study about growing peach blossoms in Taoxi Castle, but no one paid any attention to him.
Hey, women.
However, the original plan to go to Sanyuan Longqiao Wubao to harvest summer wheat cannot be done this year. The harvest of summer wheat and rice has been completed.
In Longqiao, Lao Wu and his wife had been looking forward to Huaiyu taking his wife, concubines and children to the countryside for a vacation. Unfortunately, Wu Huaiyu was fascinated by him in Fanchuan.
Fanchuan Shangwu Fort, Taoxi Fort, Xiawu Fort in Shenhe Plain, Shaolingyuan and Bailuyuan each have two new 500-acre villages.
This Duke of Yi, the governor of Youzhou and the governor of Youzhou, has been back in Chang'an for a while, but he spends his days in the countryside, neither going to court nor participating in the affairs of the court, although he still has a right
The title of leading general and bachelor of Chongxian Palace.
But no one cared about him. Everyone knew that the emperor gave the prince to Wu Shaobao and took him to the countryside of Fanchuan for training and teaching. They all said that the teaching was very good. The emperor went to Fanchuan every two days and praised the prince and Wu Shaobao.
The rewards keep coming.
This kind of life continued until an autumn rain fell and the weather suddenly turned cooler.
The emperor's envoy arrived from Chang'an,
Wu Huaiyu and the prince will eventually leave Fanchuan,
One is going back to the East Palace,
One of them wants to go back to Youzhou.
One autumn rain and one cold, ten autumn rains will wear cotton. The Northern Expedition is about to begin. Wu Huaiyu, the deputy commander of the Northern Expedition and the general manager of the East Road, will also return to the front line.
"I really can't bear to leave here, teacher." Cheng Qian looked at Guazhou Fort with reluctance in his eyes.
"You can come and take a look when you have time," Huaiyu said.
"The time I spent with my teacher in the countryside was the most relaxing and happiest time I have had in recent years,"
"Teacher, if you capture Jieli during the Northern Expedition and destroy the Turks, come back quickly,"
"Okay." Huaiyu agreed with a smile, put on the stirrups and mounted his horse, but he knew in his heart that even if the Northern Expedition wiped out the Eastern Turks, he would still have to stay in Youzhou for ten or eight years. At least three to five years would be temporary.
