Chapter 277 In one word, absolutely!
Three years is impossible.
In the past, the art could not be rewarded and had to be kept hidden, because people could not know that it was Sang Luo who contributed the paper-making technique. Now that Sang Luo had shown her talent in farming, how could the emperor allow her to stay in Shezhou?
The reason why we waited until October to join the tribute team into Kyoto was because we had considered that the twins from the Shen family were too young at the moment.
There is no other way. You have to be extremely careful with a child who is too young. It is good that he wants to hire someone, but he won't completely ignore the situation of the Shen family. He can wait for eight or nine months.
In other words, the more the emperor values people and things, the more patient and considerate he is.
Zeng Ziqian also reacted quickly and realized what was going on. He was happy for the Shen family, although he would not be able to announce the good news every few months in the future.
Tsk, this taste is so good. It would be a shame to lose it after having tasted it.
But when you think about the benefits that Sang Luo's coming to Beijing may bring to Da Qi, this little disappointment is not worth mentioning!
The court meeting was still going on, and there was a discussion about how to implement Yunyang County Lord's proposal to build public toilets in all counties and prefectures of Da Qi, and Yunyang County Lord's proposal to add agricultural officials specializing in the study of planting.
Sang Luo, Princess of Yunyang, had already made a name for herself in the court without her knowing it. The two suggestions she casually made became the focus of discussion among the civil and military officials at the court meeting.
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In Daxing Village, Sang Luo still knew nothing about what was happening in the capital. The school started on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and it has only been the 20th day. The four little girls, Chen Ning, Xu Wenyin, Chen Xiaoya and Shi Qiaoer, have set up a brush workshop.
In fact, the business of Sang Luo's Daxingzhuang specialty store has expanded to the neighboring states. The sales of pork jerky and pork floss have become better. Even cold-eaten rabbit has started to be ordered in places where the goods can be delivered within one or two days. There are also many more pig and rabbit hair than before.
But Chen Ning and the others were quite busy. Not only were they teachers, but Chen Ning and Chen Xiaoya also had their own accounts to take care of, so they had less and less time to make brushes. So, with Sang Luo's vermicelli workshop in front of them, the four girls got together and thought about setting up a brush workshop. They could also ask Shen Jin's apprentices in the caravan to help them find distributors in other counties.
Of course, Chen Ning is now quite experienced in handling these matters. Her sister-in-law has paid for the wages and travel expenses, so it is not appropriate to use her sister-in-law's people for free. She also specially discussed with their brush workshop to share part of the travel expenses, and then give another commission on the brushes sold.
As for the workshop, it is still the room that the Xu family originally used to make brushes, and a few more workstations have been added.
The bamboo pen holders were outsourced to several farmers with bamboo craftsmanship in the surrounding area. They were given samples and then charged a price. The pen tips were directly dug out of the new school. A few teenage girls who looked decent were found among the students who attended the classes outside. They were also paid piecework.
Business models are learned in sets.
I have to give a thumbs up to Sang Luo.
This was obviously a very positive thing for the school. A young lady in her teens, who had been doing housework at home such as collecting grass for pigs, feeding chickens and cooking, had just studied for twenty days when she got a job out of the blue.
As the news spread, the concept of studying hard was further consolidated among the villagers around Daxingzhuang, and there were more and more auditors outside the evening school.
This was a positive reaction, but what Sang Luo didn't expect was that there was also a negative one.
In fact, the victim never came to her and said anything. Sang Luo knew about this from Feng Liuniang who came to visit with her child.
The Lu family’s eldest son’s house is going to be divided into two households.
The reason was that Lu Dalang wanted to remarry, and without his family knowing, he asked a matchmaker to go to Zheng the butcher's house to propose marriage. Many days after being rejected, Zheng Danniu came to class at night, and when she was going home, Lu Dalang found an opportunity to follow her.
Zheng Da Nv came here to attend night school with Gan Erlang's wife and the Feng family from the same village. However, the Gan family, the Feng family and the Zheng family were separated by some distance. After the other two families got home, only Zheng Da Nv took her nephew for the rest of the distance.
It was at this time that Lu Dalang appeared and asked Zheng Danniu why she did not agree to the marriage. He said that he had inquired and found that Zheng Danniu was a widow and he was a widower, so they were a perfect match and that she just looked down on him.
If it were someone else, they might just say a few words, but Zheng Da Nv had experienced some bad things in the past, and she was much less courageous than before. A man caught up with her in the dark sky, and Lu Da Lang's voice was hoarse, which really scared Zheng Da Nv.
Fortunately, he realized something was wrong before, and had been following his father quietly during the past twenty days of evening classes, so he came out in time when he found something was wrong, gave his name, apologized, and took his father away directly.
Zheng Danniu recognized that Lu Shuanzhu was her classmate in the cram school, and she felt relieved.
She didn't say anything else. Her brothers went straight to Daxingzhuang and gave Lu Dalang a good beating!
"I'm giving you face by not scolding you. You don't even consider your age or your reputation, but you find someone to come to my house to propose marriage. How dare you follow my sister in the dark of night after being rejected? You're scaring my sister! I told you not to scare my sister!"
That's a real beating to death!
The eldest branch of the Lu family lived in the most remote area. The Zheng brothers were also frequent visitors to Daxing Village. They would come to help Sang Luo kill a pig every once in a while, so no one paid much attention to them when they entered the village. When Lu Dalang was beaten, no one else knew about it except the Lu family.
"My mother is furious. Shuanzhu is 19 and Tiezhu is 17. Because of what happened back then, it's hard for Shuanzhu to get married. There's no sign of Shuanzhu and Tiezhu getting married yet he's already thinking about remarrying."
Feng Liuniang is a person with such a personality that her mouth twitches when she talks about this. She really sympathizes with her nephews.
The neighbors all came from the mountains back then. Those who are familiar with them and have not seen the eldest branch of the Lu family for several years can guess what is going on. How could a family like the Zheng family not hear any news?
Even if they were not so familiar with each other, they were the group of people who had fled to the mountains together to avoid disaster. Everyone knew who was in Daxing Village, but the eldest son of the Lu family was brought back from somewhere else several months late. Who wouldn't be cautious?
So since last year, Mrs. Lu has been thinking about finding a marriage for her eldest grandson so that she can support the eldest branch of the family. After several months of hard work, she still hasn't found a suitable one. Who is to blame for this?
Now Lu Da has the nerve to ask for a remarriage!
"He is thirty-six, and Zheng Danniu is at most twenty-three or twenty-four. He really dares to think so."
Sang Luo also laughed out of anger.
Zheng Danniu was actually quite good-looking. When I first met her, I just thought she was fat, with a rather festive round face, but her skin was fair. It was obvious that she was loved by her parents since she was a child, and her family conditions were also good, and she was well-raised.
Later, he was trapped in the county and something happened. He was then brought out. He had not gained weight in all these years, and his facial features became more visible.
Lu Dalang is just the opposite. He doesn't take care of himself very much and his hair is getting rougher and rougher. At first glance, if he says he is a father and daughter, people will believe him and he feels comfortable doing it.
Sang Luo wanted to pah.
As the weather warmed up, Ah Yao, who could not only turn over as soon as her clothes were removed, but also began to explore her skills of crawling all over the bed, asked Feng Liuniang: "What happened next? Did Grandma Lu propose to separate the households?"
"That's not the case. It was Shuanzhu who proposed it. He wanted to divide Tiezhu and the others into one household with him. I saw that Tiezhu's four brothers and sisters also followed their eldest brother."
Sang Luo raised her eyebrows, looking a little surprised.
Feng Liuniang smiled: "Didn't expect that?"
"I didn't expect that he might be doing something in the mountains again, right?"
In her impression, the children of the Lu family's eldest branch were very filial.
It’s not that filial piety is bad, it’s just that they were too soft. No matter what Lu Da and Wang Chunniang did, their children could not stop them or discipline them, nor could they bear to punish them severely. So step by step, it developed to the point where the whole family was sent away.
Now, he has decided to separate himself from his younger siblings into a separate household. Isn't that surprising?
Feng Liuniang shook her head and said, "I don't know. I haven't heard anything about it since I came back, but the father and son are quite distant. It seems that they talked to their grandparents before the separation. The old lady was very angry and went over to help preside over it."
Oh, this is what Lu Da meant by what he did during those years in the mountains.
"It's good to separate the households. Both sons are old enough to get married, but the older one, who is nineteen, hasn't even found a date yet. As a father, he's already thinking about being the groom himself."
It's so unreliable. Think about it, Shuanzhu, Tiezhu and Da Niu, it's time for them to get married. In an era when marriages were decided by parents and matchmakers, it really depended on fate.
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Sang Luo ate the melon from the Lu family, and within two days, old lady Lu did something big.
What do you think it is?
She asked Lu Dalang to sign the household separation contract and then the land exchange contract.
Who to exchange land with?
He exchanged places with Tiezhu, who turned 18 a year later.
He specifically asked Lu Erlang to find Chu Qichang to plead for the matter, asking if it was possible to give Lu Tiezhu some land outside Daxingzhuang one year later, and then exchange the land between father and son.
In other words, Lu Dalang was kicked out of Daxingzhuang directly.
Who is Chu Qichang? He is the chief official in charge of household registration and land distribution. He has a very good relationship with Daxing Village. They are all smart people. They can guess the truth by asking a few questions. It is a bit troublesome to operate, but because it is a father and son who are dividing the household, and they have signed a contract and put their fingerprints on it, this matter can certainly be done.
Moreover, he helped and handled it beautifully, first he helped Lu Dalang to change his household registration and land, and moved him out directly. Now the land that originally belonged to Lu Dalang, on which things have been planted, is used by Shuanzhu and his brothers who pay a year's rent to the government office, and will be divided among them after one year.
Sang Luo was surprised: "With the location of Daxingzhuang and the land being ready, will he agree to it?"
"Of course not. Thanks to your family, people in our village live much better than those outside. To be honest, once I heard about Daxing Village, marriage proposals are much easier than outside."
"Then how did he respond?"
Feng Liuniang looked strange and said, "The old lady got angry. She consulted us and Sanlang and took out fifteen strings of cash and slapped it on the table, saying that if we agreed, the fifteen strings of cash would be used as compensation. If we disagreed, the fifteen strings of cash would be used to pay the neighbors to tear down a section of the wall of Daxing Village and rebuild it, and just drive him out of Daxing Village. Of course, Shuanzhu paid the final money from the money that his brothers and sisters had received, and didn't take any from the old lady."
Sang Luo was stunned when she heard this.
Daxingzhuang was originally the manor of the Wang family in Shezhou. In order to facilitate management, except for the area close to the mountain, the rest of the area was surrounded by rammed earth walls.
The eldest son of the Lu family came back late and was not sociable. He chose a piece of land and a house at the edge of the village.
Sang Luo thought about where the Lu family's land was. If she wanted to fence off just Lu's land, it would take quite a long distance. This wasn't building a house, they just came here to help out with some work.
This matter is a bit unconventional, and I'm afraid I'll have to pay for it.
Not to mention, even if there was rice and vegetables grown at home, it would probably cost at least fifteen strings of cash just to buy meat and pay the workers to round Lu Da out.
The key point is, if Mrs. Lu really did this, even if Lu Da became famous and continued to live here, he would never be able to hold his head up again in the area outside Shezhou City in his life.
Sang Luo commented with just one word: "Absolute!"
This job is beautifully done!
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