Chapter 95: Received a Big Order
Murong Yu: "Lingnan has been well governed this year. I will send someone to commend them."
"Didn't the Emperor recently appoint the Third Prince as the King of Yue? If the King of Yue goes to inspect his fiefdom, wouldn't that allow him to—"
Before Concubine Shu finished speaking, she suddenly covered her mouth, hurriedly stood up and knelt down.
"Your Majesty, I have spoken carelessly and should not have mentioned political affairs."
Murong Yu looked at Concubine Shu's startled expression and laughed:
"Rong'er has been in the palace for so many years, but her personality hasn't changed. Get up, and let's just talk about family matters, not political affairs."
Concubine Shu stood up and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Murong Yu glared at her: "Why did you mention the third brother? Do you still remember that jealous feeling?"
Murong Yu remembered that Concubine Shu and Pei Shu did not get along when they first entered the palace.
Pei Shu is gentle and generous, while Qin Rong is coquettish and cute. They used to compete with each other for her favor and had some insignificant little thoughts.
Murong Yu found it interesting.
Concubine Shu complained in grievance: "How could Your Majesty think so of me? I was only trying to help Your Majesty. I am ignorant and don't understand all the twists and turns. I gave you bad advice, Your Majesty, please don't forget it."
Ning An came after changing his clothes: "Father, Mother, your son is here."
Murong Yu invited his daughter to have dinner.
The few of them had dinner together and did not mention Lingnan again.
But Murong Yu began to think about who to send to Lingnan. Going to Lingnan was indeed not a good job, and Murong Di was indeed a suitable candidate.
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Probably happy days in this world will pass quickly.
Xue Che and Su Zhizhi lived happily both in the village and in the academy, and their days passed like pages of a book blown away by the wind.
In December, when the academy was on vacation, everyone in the academy learned the warm-up exercises taught by Su Zhizhi.
If you practice once in winter, your body will feel warm. If you don’t practice for a day, you will feel uncomfortable all over!
Even Xue Che was forced to learn it.
Kong Wu drove a horse-drawn carriage to the gate of the academy. As soon as he saw Su Zhizhi and Xue Che coming out, he took a few steps forward and picked them up.
"Ah, ah." Kong Wu was as happy as an older brother at home coming to pick up his younger siblings who were on vacation.
Xue Che and Su Zhizhi were carried up by Kong Wu and flew up, giggling:
"It's vacation...hahahaha...it's vacation!"
Xue Che remembered that they had ridden in ox carts and donkey carts before, but this time they actually changed to a horse carriage.
Xue Che: "Brother Kong Wu, when did the village buy a horse?"
He became more and more aware of the prices among the people. BMWs worth thousands of gold were very common in the capital, but for ordinary people from other places, they were extremely luxurious.
Su Zhizhi stood on tiptoe, pulling the saddle, and excitedly wanted to climb up and try it out.
Although she was young, she had experienced many mounts, including riding a cow, a horse, a donkey, an eagle, a deer, and a tiger cub...
Kong Wu picked up Su Zhizhi, put her on the saddle, and gestured to Xue Che: "Ah, ah, ah."
Xue Che can now understand some of Kong Wu's meaning:
"You mean, the village got a big order and made a lot of money?"
Kong Wu nodded.
Su Zhizhi and Xue Che were both curious and wanted to go back and ask.
Every time they returned to the mountain, they found that the village had changed.
This time I found that inns and restaurants were being built on both sides of the path at the foot of the mountain, as well as a few small houses and even a grocery store!
Su Zhizhi suddenly felt that buying the sugar man at the foot of the mountain was just around the corner.
There were also many ox carts and donkey carts carrying goods at the foot of the mountain, loaded with many sacks, each of which was bulging.
The villagers who were busy coming and going greeted the two children:
"Zhizhi and Ache are back!"
"Has he grown a little taller?"
"Go to the kitchen and have a bowl of chicken soup."
Su Zhizhi and Xue Che returned to the courtyard, put the package away, and walked around the village, calling out "Aunt, Uncle, Grandpa, and Grandma" everywhere to tell everyone that they were back.
Su Zhizhi and Xue Che went to the kitchen to drink chicken soup.
"Knowing that you would be coming back today, I have been stewing the chicken soup early in the morning." Qiu Jinyu scooped out two bowls of chicken soup.
Qiu Jinyu hasn't disguised herself to go to the academy recently, after all, she has Ni Tianji's plaster on her.
Fortunately, Mingde Academy hired a chef from the Black Mountain Restaurant. His cooking skills were similar to Qiu Jinyu's, and the food he made satisfied everyone in the academy.
Ni Tianji looked at the chicken soup in Su Zhizhi's hand with envy:
"Aqiu, you're guarding this chicken soup so tightly that you won't even let me drink a single sip..."
Qiu Jinyu rolled her eyes and stuffed a bowl of soup at Ni Tianji:
"A man in his forties, greedily coveting a bowl of soup from a child, aren't you ashamed?"
Ni Tianji took the soup handed to him by Qiu Jinyu and smiled brightly:
"I know Qiu feels sorry for me."
After he finished his soup and placed the bowl on the table, he picked up the two bundles on the ground, tapped his feet, and disappeared using his lightness skills.
Because Ni Tianji was good at Qinggong and could move quickly, he was assigned the task of delivering goods and meals up and down the mountain.
This is more useful than Kong Wu.
Some people never dreamed that one day they would be able to eat the food sent to them by the leader of the Kamikaze Pavilion.
Xue Che saw a lot of bacon and sausages drying outside the kitchen, more than a dozen bamboo poles were full of them.
"Aunt Qiu, are we going to make so much bacon this year?"
Xue Che remembered the scene of drying bacon during last year's Chinese New Year, and felt that the amount made this year was many times more than last year.
"This isn't enough." Qiu Jinyu pointed at the wild boar meat Aunt Cuihua was chopping. "This is the first batch, and there's a second batch. In addition to bacon and sausages, there's also cured fish, smoked fish, and fermented fish. We're so busy we haven't even finished it yet."
Su Zhizhi gulped down a bowl of chicken soup and said proudly:
"Me! I'm going to catch fish, lots and lots of fish."
Qiu Jinyu smiled and wiped the corner of Su Zhizhi's mouth with a clean towel:
"Yes, we are just waiting for our lucky star to catch the fish and let the fish fall into the trap."
In the evening, Su Zhizhi and Xue Che took food from the kitchen to Su Zhizhi's house to eat.
Wu Yingniang and Hao Ren have been very busy recently, so busy that they hardly see each other during the day, but the family has to have dinner together in the evening.
Although Xue Che still lived in Doctor Yu's courtyard, he had already been automatically classified as a member of Su Zhizhi's family in his heart.
Xue Che wiped the table and Su Zhizhi set the table. When they finished setting the table for dinner, Hao Ren and Wu Yingniang just came back.
As soon as Wu Yingniang entered the room, she picked up her daughter with one hand and kissed her on the cheek:
"Zhizhi, Mom and Dad miss you very much. Do you miss them?"
Su Zhizhi hugged Wu Yingniang's neck and opened her arms exaggeratedly:
"I miss my parents so much, so much."
Then she turned to look at Xue Che: "A Che misses you too."
Xue Che's face turned red, and a trace of helplessness flashed across his clear eyes.
Wu Yingniang put Zhizhi down and then picked up Xue Che: "A Che has become a little heavier. It seems that he has eaten well in the academy."
Xue Che's eyes lit up even more, and beneath his pretended serious expression was an irrepressible desire to share:
“I eat a full bowl at every meal.”
There was a hint of pride in his tone, as if he was saying that he had ranked first in the academy (although he really was first in the academy).
Wu Yingniang praised earnestly: "Ache is really amazing, he has made progress in eating."
Hao Ren took Su Zhizhi to the dinner table, his eyes full of tenderness:
"If there's anything interesting happening in the academy, tell Dad."
Su Zhizhi had so much to say, and she listed them one by one to Hao Ren.
For example, her classmates would practice martial arts with her every day to warm up. Mr. Qiu wanted to practice, but ended up straining his back. Little Fatty He Yuan sat down on a kitchen stool and broke it apart. Wu Zhan showed off her new flowery clothes she bought out of town, but her classmates laughed at her for looking like a colorful chicken.
Xue Che spoke little, but when he heard Su Zhizhi's descriptions were too outrageous and exaggerated, he would speak up to correct her.
After Su Zhizhi finished speaking, she asked Hao Ren:
"Dad, we saw the new horse. Kong Wu said our village got a big order. How big is it?"
Hao Ren didn't hide it from his daughter: "The court paid for us to make cloth and send it to Qianzhong Road."
"Isn't Qianzhong Road the place where the riot happened before?"
Hao Ren nodded. "Yes, the people back in Qianzhong Road have a hard time. They don't have enough cloth for the winter."
This news came a month ago.
Governor Gu rushed up the mountain and said that he had received an urgent document from the court, requiring all the cloth produced before the New Year to be sent to Qianzhong Road.
The price was given, but the goods were needed urgently, as the people in Qianzhong Road were still waiting for clothes.
In order to ensure a large supply, Heifeishan recruited a number of temporary workers to expand cotton cloth production.
Many villagers have temporarily given up the three-day work and one-day rest rotation system. Many of them are refugees from Qianzhong. Although they have settled down here, when they hear that people in their hometown are short of food and clothing, they still want to do more to help.
Village chief Hao did not stop them and would pay them more wages according to the number of days they worked.
When Gu Qingning's grandfather Gu Yan heard about this, he discussed it with Hao Ren and contracted the cotton ginning and seed removal process.
"So, as you can see today, our village is very busy now. We can take a break after the New Year."
After Wu Yingniang finished her meal, she and Hao Ren cleaned up the dishes.
After cleaning up, the couple still had to go out to work.
It was already dark outside, but from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, lights were on in every house and everyone was busy.
Xue Che: "Then what can Zhizhi and I do to help?"
Su Zhizhi: "Ache and I don't know how to weave yet, but we can help deliver meals."
Wu Yingniang squatted down and said, "Didn't you two promise to help the kitchen catch fish? Sleep well tonight, and go fishing tomorrow so that everyone can eat smoked fish during the New Year."
Su Zhizhi's eyes flashed with fighting spirit, and she clenched her fists:
"good!"
It's time to catch the big one!
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