Chapter 1660 Hard Work
Those who came to the palace to work as maids and eunuchs were basically from poor families.
The same goes for Xu Yu. It is said that she was bought into the palace when she was only seven or eight years old, but her family never broke off contact with her after she entered the palace. This is a rare thing in the palace.
Because although most of the palace maids have days when their relatives visit them, they basically treat it as a day off, and their relatives don’t really come to visit them.
Only the palace maids whose homes were near the capital, or those who had relatives near the capital, would occasionally come to visit.
Therefore, people in the palace were quite envious of Xu Yu on this point.
Manbao listened to Ma Fuming's report while eating, and then said, "So, although Xu Yu's family is poor, he should be living a good life."
Manbao's family had been poor before, and she always felt that being poor was nothing, as long as her heart was happy, her life would not be too difficult.
Ma Fuming said, "I also think Xu Yu has a good life. Many people in the palace envy her."
Compared to the eunuchs, the palace maids lived much better than them. Of course, this was not in terms of food and clothing, but because the palace maids still had families to look after. However, the eunuchs sent into the palace basically had no such thing as families.
Even if there is, it is just their own delusion. They know in their hearts that their families may not have much affection for them.
Not to mention that they have to endure physical pain all the time.
It was Ma Fuming, who didn’t know Xu Yu very well before, but after asking around, he couldn’t help but envy her.
Manbao and Baishan looked at each other and decided to ask someone to investigate Xu Yu's aunt and family after leaving the palace.
Yin Huo thanked Ma Fuming and let him go before saying to Bai Shan, "I went to look for Manbao yesterday and ran into Xu Yu in her yard. I didn't feel anything different about her. Maybe you were mistaken."
Manbao thought: She might be wrong, but Keke would never be wrong. Xu Yu had secretly peeped at her several times, and there was a hint of hostility from him once or twice.
Bai Shan thought to himself: He might be wrong, but Uncle Zhou can't be wrong, right?
He didn't believe that any bad guy could hide from Uncle Zhou, but Uncle Zhou seemed to be able to only stay close to Manbao and couldn't keep an eye on the bad guys all the time.
The last time I asked Uncle Zhou to keep an eye on the prince, I offered him some livestock. Perhaps...
Bai Shan turned around and said to Man Bao, "After the holiday, Brother Zhou Si and I told each other to leave a cow for me. I wonder if he has entered all the numbers."
Manbao understood and said in frustration, "I forgot about that."
Then he said to Koko in his heart: "I forgot, how could you forget too?"
Koko: "...Host, I didn't scan the cow your fourth brother brought back."
If it is not scanned, it is equivalent to not existing here, and naturally it will not remind the host to include it.
Zhou Silang did not drive the one hundred cows he bought into the city. He was not a tiger, so where would he put so many cows if he drove them into the city?
And the feed they eat is also a problem.
So they left the cattle outside the city, rented a few farmyards in a village, and had their men guard them.
His original intention was to go into the city to find Manbao and Bai Shan to discuss whether the cattle could be temporarily placed in the Bai family's farm. He knew that the Bai family had a farm in the suburbs of Beijing, near Yongzhou.
As a result, he didn't expect that his parents came to Beijing and happened to meet Bai Dalang getting married. He couldn't help but drink a few more cups. In addition, he was tired and exhausted, so he slept until dawn the next day.
However, he didn't have to worry about where to put the cows, because Manbao took over the official land and cultivated it himself, so he had plenty of place to live.
The next day, except for Zhou Liulang who ran a restaurant and a few children who were going to the school and pharmacy to study, everyone else followed him out of the city and headed for Putian Village.
Of course, before going to Putian Village, Zhou Liulang took them to see the cows and people kept outside the capital.
Then the group sent another hundred cows to Pu Village.
They set out in the morning, but because the oxen moved slower than the carriage, they didn't arrive until after noon.
When the village head and tenants of Putian Village saw the mighty herd of cattle, they were so shocked that they opened their mouths wide and were unable to utter a word.
The village head was the first to come to his senses. He immediately went up to Old Zhou and bowed repeatedly, praising him: "Mr. Zhou is so righteous! He is worthy of being an imperial physician. He has a kind heart and he actually got us so many cows."
Old Zhou: ...
Zhou Silang was afraid that his father would agree in a fit of impulsiveness, so he immediately squeezed forward to speak. His father quickly said, "Mr. Village Chief, you misunderstood. This cow is for sale."
The village head froze, his head stiff, and he looked at the cows, asking with trembling lips, "Sell, sell?"
Old Zhou nodded and said with a smile, "If anyone in the village wants to buy it, I'll ask my fourth son to give you a lower price."
The head of the village straightened up and thought to himself: Forget it, everyone is barely able to eat enough, let alone buy a cow, we can't even afford a piglet.
Disappointment was also visible on the faces of the villagers.
Old Zhou didn't take it seriously. What was he thinking? Their family had worked for so many years to be able to afford a cow, and now they were given it for free?
He would rather drive the cows back to Qili Village than give them away!
However, although he would not give it away, he could let them use it to cultivate temporarily. There was no other way, the winter wheat was about to be planted, and these tenants were so lazy that they had not started to weed and loosen the land yet.
Moreover, these cows also need to be trained. It takes some time for the cows to be numbered and naturalized, so we can lend them during this period.
The villagers were overjoyed, then sad, and then a little happy again. Anyway, they were all very happy. They just stared at the cows with their eyes wide open and didn't move.
Zhou Silang smiled and said, "I heard from my niece that you have a hundred households. It just so happens that I have a hundred cows here. Each family can take one home and use it temporarily. However, you are responsible for the grass and fodder for the cows."
Everyone naturally agreed without any problem.
Old Zhou added, "You better be careful and don't let them get tired. These cows were bought from the grasslands. They walked all the way here from the grasslands. They must have worked hard."
When it comes to taking care of cows, no one in the entire Putian Village combined is as attentive as Old Zhou. He has always been the one personally watching over and taking care of their cows.
After the New Year, Mr. Bai sent a bull and a cow to their family. It was said that Manbao had bought them a long time ago, and the cow had already successfully become pregnant before he came out...
When Old Zhou thought of this, he couldn't help but miss home again.
Just as he was thinking about it, Zhou Silang and his friends had already started to divide the cows busily. With this division, not only did they have a place to live for the cows, they also didn't have to worry about the fodder for them. It was very simple.
Zhou Silang whispered to Zhou Dalang, "Manbao is amazing. He knew I needed a place to stay, so he prepared a place like this long ago."
Zhou Dalang stared at the people working not far away and asked, "What are they doing?"
Zhou Silang took a look and said, "Let's build a house. Didn't Manbao say he wanted to build a small farm here so that it would be convenient for you and Dad to live here, and also for us to settle down?"
Zhou Dalang was surprised, "Why haven't I heard her say that?"
Zhou Silang pointed to Zhou Lijun who was not far away and said, "Lijun said that Bai Shan and the second young master of the Bai family also paid for it."
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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