Chapter 1546 Proof (Thanks to the reward from book friend "Huahua")
Zhou Liulang: "Of course I can't cook. Even though it's not as delicious as my sister-in-law's, I can still cook it."
Speaking of the distiller's grains made by his sister-in-law, Zhou Wulang couldn't help swallowing his saliva. "The last time I ate distiller's grains made by my sister-in-law was when my wife gave birth to a child."
Generally, people don't make lees fermi. It is only made when there is a pregnancy in the family or when a woman is in confinement after giving birth.
The Zhou family makes a lot of distiller's grains because they have many children.
He ate everything from the big head to his son's lees.
Zhou Liulang also missed his sister-in-law's cooking skills for a moment, then shook his head and came to his senses. He waved his hand and said, "Take two bags of rice to the restaurant today."
Zhou Wulang nodded and said, "By the way, this time, in addition to the rice, we also brought back two pieces of cloth. I've checked them out and we can use them."
The reward fabrics that Manbao brought back in the past were of little use to them, not even to Fang and the others.
It looks nice, but it's not easy to work in the fields.
So even if Manbao was given to them, they would give it to Zhou Silang to exchange for money or use it to trade. When they needed to make clothes, they would go to the cloth shop to buy cloth themselves.
But this time the cloth and silk were their salaries, and they were all very ordinary cloth and silk, which they could all use.
Zhou Wulang looked Zhou Liulang up and down and said, "Although you're engaged now and don't need to dress up too much, you should still dress up and at least wear nice clothes. Your future wife lives next door to the restaurant and she'll see her every day."
Zhou Liulang blushed slightly and asked in a low voice, "Is my outfit shabby?"
"It's not shabby, but it's not very nice either. Why are you patching it up?"
Zhou Liulang looked down at his robe and said, "I just patched it up after getting scratched last time. I can't wear a damaged robe without patching it up, can I? I can't throw it away either. It only got a scratch."
Zhou Wulang thought about it and agreed. It would be a waste not to wear it just because it had a hole in it.
He thought for a moment and said, "How about this: I'll make you two new sets of clothes. You can wear the new ones when you go out, and wear these old ones at home or in restaurants."
Zhou Liulang felt it was too troublesome and he was not willing to go through so much trouble.
Zhou Wulang then said with a look of disappointment: "This is all for your own good, you know? You haven't even got a wife yet."
Zhou Liulang remained silent as he watched his fifth brother, who had become more and more attentive to his appearance since his fifth sister-in-law came.
By the time the two brothers came out of the warehouse, they had reached a consensus. Zhou Wulang put his arm around Zhou Liulang's shoulder and said earnestly, "You're absolutely right to listen to me. When has Fifth Brother ever cheated you?"
Zhou Liulang thought about it carefully and realized that no such thing really happened. Usually, it was the two of them who were betrayed by the fourth brother, and they had always been brothers in distress.
So Zhou Liulang accepted it even more.
"By the way, I heard from Lijun that Manbao still has a field?"
Zhou Wulang said, "I've asked Mr. Zhuang and Madam Liu. They say that land isn't Manbao's. I heard it's managed by the Ministry of Works, but the rent collected every October belongs entirely to Manbao."
Zhou Wulang's eyes sparkled as he said, "Li Jun, have you seen the note? Man Bao and the other two officials own a thousand acres of land combined. That's a thousand acres of rent!"
Just thinking about it makes my heart excited.
Mr. Bai's family may not even have so much land in their county.
Zhou Liulang was stunned. He swallowed hard and asked, "Is being an official so good?"
Zhou Wulang nodded. Originally, he just thought that Manbao's becoming a fifth-rank official was a glory to the family, and that smoke was coming out of his uncle and aunt's graves. But now, it seemed that it was more than just smoke, it was smoke rising into the sky.
He finally understood why so many people wanted to be officials. If he had known this earlier and his family had more money when he was a child, he would have studied hard.
You also have to try to see if you can become an official.
Even Zhou Liwei felt a little regretful that he didn't study hard in school when he was young, even though he only went to school for one year.
So Zhou Lixue and Zhou Ligu, who now had the opportunity, and Zhou Liwei and Zhou Lijun, who had returned from collecting their salaries, said to them, "If you can become officials, you won't have to worry about food and drink. Think about the rice and land. I heard from Mr. Zhuang that he only has 9th rank but he still has 200 acres of land."
Zhou Lixue was shocked and asked, "Where did the imperial court get so much land?"
"How would we know that?" Zhou Lijun said, "Anyway, the entire world belongs to the Emperor."
Although there were still many questions in their little heads, Zhou Lixue and Zhou Ligu were indeed cheered up and paid more attention when they went to class the next day.
After all, it’s a thousand acres of land.
Even if they are not as capable as my aunt, if they are half as capable as her, they will still have 500 acres of land.
However, this persistence did not last long. They soon returned to their normal state, working as hard as their classmates, and occasionally couldn't help but want to be lazy.
Zhou Lixue and Zhou Ligu said privately, "I really want to work hard, but when I'm tired, I can't read anything. I sit for a long time and don't know what I'm doing. I'm just staring blankly."
Mainly, I was in a daze and didn't think about anything, I just sat there blankly.
He sighed and said, "I might as well go and copy books from the bookstore. At least I can earn some money and practice my calligraphy."
Zhou Ligu also thought so, and only at this moment did he feel that his aunt was really amazing.
"It seems like my aunt and uncle are always reading. Aren't they annoying?"
Zhou Lixue sighed, "Yeah, aren't they annoying?"
The two of them spent three days proving that they were not so suitable for studying hard, and the emperor spent three days proving that his body was not as good as he thought.
It was already the fourth day, and the emperor still had a fever intermittently. That would have been fine, but early this morning, the emperor's throat was so painful that he had difficulty swallowing saliva. Then, when he got up, he swayed a bit, and then his whole body leaned limply on the couch.
As soon as the emperor lost his strength, the empress was horrified, and Gu Zhong turned pale and almost fell down.
The two of them supported the emperor, one on each side, and let him lean on the bed. When the queen touched the emperor's forehead, she felt it was as hot as an iron.
She was terrified and immediately ordered Gu Zhong, "Go and get the imperial physician over."
She paused and said, "Please invite the Crown Prince, as well as the heads of the three provinces, Lord Wei and others..."
Ever since Ji Xiang retired, the emperor has not yet chosen a right prime minister. The left prime minister is also old and basically does not attend court. He is also planning to retire soon. Therefore, the people the emperor relies on most now are Wei Zhi, Lord Old Tang and Duke Zhao.
Gu Zhong immediately rushed out.
The palace servants immediately brought up ice-cold water to cool the emperor down.
The queen wrung out a towel and covered the emperor's head with it. The emperor fainted for a while, then slowly woke up while leaning on the bed.
Because of the high fever, his eyes were bloodshot and looked red.
He asked slowly in a hoarse voice, "Why did I suddenly become so serious?"
The queen didn’t understand why the situation suddenly became so serious.
See you tomorrow
Before going to bed, I would like to ask for a monthly ticket.
(End of this chapter)
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