"Oh..." After hearing what the third child said, Zhu Xi patted his head and said, "Oh, why did I forget about this?"
"You just want to avoid working in the fields!" Zhu Di was not that easy to fool, and pointed out Zhu's little trick on the spot.
"No, you have to go to the fields together. When the farming is slack, let's go investigate together!"
Oh, we will do the hard work, and you, the third child, will do the publicity work? Our fourth child is not such a stupid person.
"What should we do if we don't finish the farm work?" Zhu said with a look of displeasure, "Won't my father's errands be delayed?"
"What's the errand? What's the investigation?" Seeing that the third and fourth brothers were about to quarrel again, the sixth brother quickly asked.
"Nothing, this is your secret!" Zhu Yi waved his hand.
"Don't look at people through the cracks in the door. The sixth brother is smarter than you." Zhu Di immediately put his arms around Zhu Zhen's neck and said with a smile: "If he doesn't tell you, the fourth brother will tell you."
"Did I say I won't tell the sixth brother?" Zhu changed his face very quickly. He immediately sat on the other side of Zhu Zhen and said with a smile: "As long as the sixth brother wants to know, it is an adult's secret, and the third brother will tell you all."<
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"Anyone of you can say it." Zhu Zhen nodded, he already knew how to deal with them.
The third and fourth children told the sixth child about the father's will with a word from you and a word from me.
"That is to say, my father asked you to investigate whether the number of acres registered on the household sticker is significantly different from the actual number of acres per household?" Zhu Zhen concluded after listening.
"Yes, yes."
"Then we need to pay close attention to the local area to see if there are any illegal things that cannot be heard by Datian." Zhu Zhen continued: "The focus should be on Xungui's family."
"No, you didn't say the focus was on them, right?" The second child scratched his cheek.
"The case of Liao Yongzhong has just ended. People in Beijing said that this was the father who killed the chicken to scare the monkeys. What kind of monkeys were they?" The third child said solemnly: "Of course he is the founding prince!"
"Yes." Zhu Zhen nodded and said: "Most of the founding princes were from Fengyang. My father also built mansions for marquis and above in Zhongdu City. If there is really something illegal in Fengyang that cannot be reached, 90% of it will be done.
Jiu has nothing to do with their family."
"Good guy, Sixth!" Zhu couldn't help but look at Zhu Zhen with admiration. "I didn't expect that you are one year older and so much smarter!"
"Let me tell you?" Zhu Di patted his belly proudly and said, "Lao Liu has a lot of things in his belly."
Zhu Zhen smiled coquettishly. It seemed that it would be difficult for him to act cute in front of his fourth brother in the future.
Speaking of which, Zhu’s little plan came to nothing.
In the end, the brothers unanimously decided to do farm work together first and then go out to investigate during the slack time.
Zhu Gang was about to announce the end of the meeting, and Lao Wu, who had been quiet all this time, suddenly said: "I just made some calculations. If we eat the way we eat this meal, we will be without food for three months at most."
Obviously, he listened to Tang Jiazhang's advice.
"Then how do you think we can last until the autumn harvest?"
"Three meals a day are reduced to two meals a day. I have porridge in the morning and dry food in the afternoon." Zhu Ju is indeed a living material, and he has entered the state so quickly. "I can barely do it if I grow some vegetables by myself."<
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"Is it so miserable..." The brothers were all dumbfounded.
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In this way, the five royal highnesses began a rural life that they will never forget...
Every morning, the hard-working Lao Wu gets up early, sweeps the courtyard, and then boils water and cooks for his brothers.
Breakfast is usually wild vegetable porridge with shepherd's purse or water celery, served with pickles made from various wild vegetables.
Speaking of which, the resettlement work in Linhuai County is really meticulous. Zhu Zhu actually found a bag of salt among the materials distributed! This made the brothers sigh that the magistrate of Linhuai County really carried out his father's will.
It’s implemented well, I will definitely recommend it in the future!
As for wild vegetables, Lao Wu is familiar with "Compendium of Materia Medica" and knows all kinds of plants. If you go to the wild fields, you can easily find several edible wild vegetables.
Zhu Zhen couldn't sleep in because after a night of ruminating, the buffalo was so hungry that it mooed in the yard when it heard any movement.
All he has to do now is to take good care of this cow, and all the next spring plowing will depend on its efforts.
Rubbing his sleepy eyes, he got up, put on increasingly dirty clothes, and put on his cotton shoes whose original color could no longer be seen. Zhu Zhen went to the courtyard and fed some hay to the big buffalo.
The first is to satisfy its hunger first, and the second is to prevent it from eating too much dew grass later, which may cause diarrhea and bloating.
These are all valuable experiences taught by Tang Jiazhang. Zhu Zhen knew it but didn't know why. Anyway, he would do what others said.
After washing up casually, he came to the kitchen, and his fifth brother served him a large bowl of wild vegetable porridge.
The bowls, chopsticks, and spoons they use are all wooden utensils made by Fourth Brother. Although they don’t look good, they are not easy to use.
But as soon as he thought that it was made by the future Emperor Yongle himself, Zhu Zhen felt that it would be great to use.
After eating the salted root of the porridge, Zhu Zhen was ready to herd the cows.
He first put a rope on the big buffalo and put on a bamboo cage mouth to prevent it from nibbling the neighbor's vegetables on the way.
After saying hello to his brothers, His Highness the King of Chu took the cow and headed out of the village.
He led the cows at first, but later he saw other cowherd boys riding on the backs of the cows, and it was very pleasant to see them swaying around. He was very envious, and wanted to ride the cows too.
But that big buffalo has eyes like copper bells, nostrils for breathing air, and a pair of thick and bright horns. It looks very fierce like the Bull Demon King. Youdao is that the son of a rich man cannot sit down in court, so His Highness the King of Chu decided to have sex with the old cow first.
If you have a good relationship, ride it again.
When they reached the sunny slope of the river two miles away, Zhu Zhen untied the cattle rope and cage mouth, allowing the big buffalo to move freely.
He found that cows generally do not run around. They always like to graze on sunny slopes and will not eat the shady grass no matter how luxuriant it is. Seven or eight cows gather together and circle around that area over and over again.
Large areas of grass are open for eating.
There is no need to worry about cattle fighting, because his big buffalo is the biggest among the cattle. It can only bully other cattle, and no other cattle can bully it.
But this does not mean that he can be lazy. Zhu Zhen has to take a small shovel and a bamboo basket, and dig wild vegetables and herbs everywhere.
Spring is a season when everything comes alive and full of vitality. Various wild vegetables sprout in the fields. As long as people are not lazy, they can feed the whole family.
The fifth brother asked him to pick the herbs, and then he dried them and concocted them. If the brothers had headaches, fever and diarrhea, the fifth brother could handle them.
You can also take unused herbs to Jishang and exchange them for daily necessities.
Zhu Zhen worked very hard, and within a few days he completed the transformation from a prince who only had food to eat to a cowherd boy in the countryside. On the one hand, he had not been a prince for a few months, so it was not that difficult to switch from luxury to frugality. Secondly, hunger is the best driving force. This is hunger in the literal sense. Now he can only eat two meals a day, and only one dry meal. And let alone meat and fish, there are no oily flowers.
To.
He felt very hungry every day, and everything he could eat was full of temptations for him. If it weren't for the fact that killing cattle would result in being sent to the government for punishment, he would have suggested to his brothers to kill the big buffalo and eat its meat. p>
This strong sense of hunger drives Zhu Zhen to keep looking for food...
Thirdly, his brothers worked really hard. Each one was better than the other at curling up, and he was too embarrassed to be lazy.
Not to mention the virtuous fifth brother, he cooks two meals a day, cleans the house and outside, and also goes to the neighbors to see doctors and make some household income. His reputation in Jinqiaokan has exploded.
The second, third and fourth brothers are also good.
The second brother is extremely strong, hard-working, and doing this kind of work is easy and enjoyable. In fact, as long as he is not allowed to use his brain, he will always be very relaxed; as long as he is not allowed to study, he will always be very happy.
And Zhu Xi seemed to have found his own value in the fields. He kept showing off his immense strength, enjoying the exclamations of the villagers such as "What a beast" and "The reincarnation of the black bear spirit", as well as the big girls and young girls.
The coveted gazes of the daughters-in-law.
The third brother and the fourth brother are always competing, trying to outdo each other. Today you plow an acre of land, and tomorrow I have to plow an acre and a half. It doesn’t matter whether you are tired or not, the key is to win!
Zhu Zhen looked at his three brothers sweating in the fields and felt that his father's decision made sense. In the future, the three brothers could go out to fight and advance thousands of miles in the windy Mobei. I was afraid that they would have to work hard today and be hungry.
It’s probably due to the body’s skin.
But I don’t have to go out to fight, so why do I have to suffer this fate? Woohoo...
