Chapter 389: Can’t Just Sit and Wait
"Qingyun, A'lu, Yuzhen, Furu, the village school is in your charge these days. Please take good care of the children!" Su Ying led the horses and went to the county town.
Next year they will go to Chang'an with the students. The girls will quit their jobs at Mrs. Hu's and come back to learn new mathematics and help tutor the younger children with their studies.
"Yes, sir!" said Xie Qingyun.
Xie Qingyun was fascinated by Arabic numerals and their calculation methods and uses, and was also the most opinionated among the girls.
"Sister!" Atang hadn't gone out to play for a long time. Seeing Su Ying was about to go out, he chased after her.
"Atang!" Su Ying was helpless. The little girl pulled the reins lightly and turned over to sit on the saddle.
"Sister!" Xiaotao also ran out.
"Hey! Come up!" Su Ying stretched out her hand and pulled Xiaotao up.
The three sisters rode their horses to the county town.
"Sister, I want a sheep. It will be slaughtered tomorrow and delivered to Huanggou Village at noon!" After passing Heifeng Township, Su Ying first went to the market to find Yu Jiaoniang.
"Oh, is there a big happy event in Lord Su's family?" Yu Jiao Niang took the one-coin deposit thrown by Su Ying.
"Well, there's a new baby coming into the family, so let's have a celebration for the third day!" Su Ying said with a smile.
"Congratulations, congratulations!" Yu Jiaoniang casually put the money into the basket.
"Sister, you are becoming more rosy and plump, are you pregnant?"
Su Ying saw that Yu Jiaoniang was rounder than before, with fair and tender skin, and had a bit of the plump beauty of Yang Guifei.
"Oh, Lord Su has seen it? Haha! More than five months! She will be born at the end of April next year!" A happy smile appeared on Yu Jiaoniang's face.
"Congratulations, sister, may you be blessed with good fortune, luck, and a large family!" Su Ying congratulated. No wonder it was Mr. Dong who took over the butchering job.
"Thank you, Lord Su, for your kind words!" Yu Jiaoniang beamed with joy, looking even more prosperous. "The doctor said it was a girl!"
"That's great. May you be as blessed and lucky as my sister, and bloom before bearing fruit!" Su Ying said auspicious words.
"I like both boys and girls!" Yu Jiaoniang said, stroking her belly unconsciously.
"A boy!" Atang blurted out these two words.
"Oh! Atang's little mouth is so sweet!" Yu Jiaoniang was so happy that she reached out and pinched Atang's chubby little face.
"A boy!" Atang repeated with a blush on her face.
"Yes, yes! Our Atang said it with all his heart, a boy, a boy!" Yu Jiaoniang smiled and didn't care.
Su Ying turned her horse around and headed towards the county town. The road along the way was a two-lane cement road with shoulders, drainage ditches, and bamboo water pipes.
Many caravans stopped by the roadside to rest. Several merchants looked disheveled and advised other caravans to turn around quickly.
A caravan of more than 30 people was exploited until only a few people were left, and they walked all the way from Rong County to Wu County.
When Su Ying saw this, she suddenly realized that Wu County had missed a task, which was to stop the merchants at the border between the two counties.
Knowing that Rong County is a hotbed of trouble, they still watched merchants jump into it. This is so unfair.
The evil deeds done by Rong County will affect the entire Wuzhou, and it is definitely not just Rong County that will be harmed.
"Gee!" Su Ying waved the whip and ran faster towards the county government office.
Once you enter the city, there is a lot of traffic, shops, inns, restaurants and hotels are crowded, and the streets are crowded with people.
The vendors' stalls were placed at designated locations, not crowding the streets or blocking the way to the shops. The entire street was bustling with people, and the yamen runners were patrolling back and forth in different areas, making it very lively.
The sugar factories were located in the south and north of the city to avoid being crowded in one place.
Niu Er's wife and their fried dough stick stall have been split up and are now sold separately at several intersections.
I have accumulated a lot of experience after doing this for a long time. In addition to fried dough sticks, there are also meat patties, scallion pancakes, and sugar cakes. Many people on the road are holding various fried foods in their hands.
Su Ying even saw circles of seeds, and children were eating them piece by piece.
The old man who sells rice cakes not only has rice cakes, but also brown sugar steamed cakes and winter melon sugar steamed cakes, and his business is booming.
There was a man of fifteen or sixteen and a girl of similar age helping to greet the guests. I guess they were a family.
There are also villagers selling freshly squeezed sugarcane juice and roasted sugarcane on the street.
Roasted sugarcane is sweeter, and the air is filled with the sweet aroma of sugarcane, which is stronger than sugarcane juice and lighter than brown sugar.
The price is higher than that sold to the candy factory, and the customers who taste it are all from outside.
Only at this time of year is there an abundance of sugarcane in Wu County.
The merchants would definitely get a bundle of sugarcane on the first two days after their arrival and indulge themselves in it until their tongues were blistered and their cheeks were sore, and they would exclaim how satisfying it was!
Atang and Xiaotao drooled as they watched the roasted sugarcane, and tugged at Su Ying's sleeves, refusing to leave.
"Buy it, buy it!" Su Ying took out money to buy it for the two greedy girls, and went to the corner to nibble on it together.
"Bang bang bang!" Su Ying knocked on the door when she arrived at Fulu Lane.
"Oh, Lord Su! You're here! Please come in!" When Lai Ada saw that it was Su Ying, he immediately stepped forward and greeted her flatteringly.
"Is Lord Hu here?" Su Ying went in with her two sisters.
"Yes, I'm discussing matters with the two Lords Fu in the reception room." Lai Ada led the horse to the stable.
"Master Hu!" Su Ying came to the reception room, and her two sisters went to play with Mrs. Hu.
"Ah Ying, you are so honored to be here! It's so rare!" Magistrate Hu joked, "What great news brought you here today?"
"Sir Hu, there really is something!" Su Ying sat down.
The bailiff brought hot tea and Su Ying took a sip.
"What's the matter?" County Magistrate Hu observed the expressions of the people and noticed something was wrong.
“At the checkpoint between Wu County and Rong County, we forgot to stop the merchants going to Rong County!
Many merchants, unaware of the situation, wanted to go to Rong County to buy brown sugar, but ended up suffering heavy losses! "Su Ying recounted what she saw on the road.
"Oh! Let the bailiffs post the notice!" sighed Magistrate Hu.
After serving as an official for more than ten years, he finally saw Wu County on the rise, but he happened to encounter a mad dog county magistrate next door.
They exploited the people's wealth and plundered without any concealment. I'm afraid that Wuzhou, which had just started to make progress, will soon be deserted again.
This year, I was badly cheated by Rong County when I came to Wuzhou. A large number of merchants will not come next year.
They changed their route to other prefectures in Lingnan to buy sugar paste. The new sugarcane planting method was promoted throughout Lingnan, and the sugarcane production in other prefectures increased significantly.
Some people, like Rong County, try to make their own sugar. The quality is not as good as Jinfengzhai, but the price is cheap and people still buy it.
"Inform County Magistrate Lin that Tong County has finally seen some improvement thanks to soybean oil and soy products, and it can't withstand this kind of turmoil," Su Ying reminded.
"That's a relief!" Magistrate Hu called the clerk.
The clerk received the order and quickly wrote the official document and sent it for review. County Magistrate Hu signed his name and stamped it with the seal. The clerk then handed it to the yamen runners to post at all the gates and checkpoints in the county.
I also sent a copy to Tong County, and they took it back to County Magistrate Lin.
"No, we can't just sit there and wait for death!" Su Ying felt aggrieved. A small rat shit spoils the whole pot of soup.
Wang Duanfang acted recklessly. He went crazy and did whatever he wanted in Rong County, but the unlucky ones were the neighboring Wu County, Tong County and the entire Wuzhou.
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