Since the second day of junior high school, the palace has begun to usher in the mutual New Year's greeting activities, Xiao Yao has been in the courtyard under the pretext of being unwell, and has been in the courtyard without leaving the gate.
The prince and his wife were too busy to take care of her.
Xiao Yao regretted letting everyone go, what a good opportunity to see his grange.
Even if you go out for two days, the prince will not find out.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Cao Zhong and Qiu Ju came back ahead of schedule, and brought Xiao Yao and Xiaocui some of their own food, Xiao Yao was overjoyed, and immediately decided to go to the Grange early in the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.
She asked Cao Zhong to quietly go out to find the owner of the carriage who had been delivering goods to them, and promised a lot of money to let him pick up her and Xiaocui early tomorrow morning.
He also begged Qiu Ju to promise to cover for himself and not let the prince and his wife know that they were going out.
She repeatedly promised that she would just go out to the temple to get some incense.
Will be back soon.
Qiu Ju reluctantly agreed.
Xiao Cui and Xiao Yao prepared warm clothes overnight, and brought food and money.
Before dawn the next day, I quietly went out from the corner gate and got in the car and set off.
The carriage traveled all the way, the car owner according to the address on the title deed that Xiao Yao told him, walked all the way and asked, did not stop to eat at noon, and gave half of the dry food snacks to the car boss, the three of them ate while hurrying, due to some detours, they found the manor at half past two in the afternoon, knocked on the door, Liu Steward saw the two of them and opened his mouth in shock, never expected that the main family of the Chinese New Year would come to Zhuangzi, he was not prepared at all.
Xiao Yao hurriedly explained, saying that she was idle and had nothing to do, so she came to see it casually.
Steward Liu asked his family to clean up the house, and at the same time asked his daughter-in-law to light the fire and cook.
Xiao Yao didn't have time to stay here longer, so he asked the driver and Xiaocui to rest in Steward Liu's house, and asked Steward Liu to take the Zhuangzi inside and out, the area of this Zhuangzi is really not small, about ten acres of land.
There are three courtyards inside and outside, the first courtyard is mainly for the people to live, there are gatehouses, warehouses for agricultural tools, granaries for collecting grain, a wing room and three main rooms.
Steward Liu's family lives in two main rooms.
There was a stable, opposite the wing, and two horses were kept in the stables.
A horse-drawn carriage was parked on one side of the courtyard wall.
There was a big tree in the middle of the courtyard that had almost lost its leaves, and Xiao Yao only knew that it was a walnut tree when she asked.
The yard was cleaned, and at a glance, I knew that Steward Liu's family was from Lisuo.
The second into the courtyard, is the main family to live, there are six rooms on the upper room alone, both sides are side rooms, very similar to the courtyard of old Beijing, the eaves are very wide, and the guardrail is more than one meter high, very much like the verandah in the park, the ground is neatly and evenly paved with green bricks.
This is in stark contrast to the land in the front yard.
In the center of the courtyard, a very large flower garden was built, and it was winter, and the flowers were all defeated, and it was a depression.
The third into the courtyard, only a two-story wooden building was built, behind it is a very large garden, rockeries, small bridges, ponds everything, the whole miniature park, Xiao Yao is happy in his heart, this is probably the back garden often said in ancient novels, right?
Although it seems that it has not been taken care of for a long time, it is a little deserted.
The house is also very old and a lot of paint has come off.
Xiao Yao is still excited in her heart, is this her home?
It's much bigger than you thought it would be!
When she came to this era, the garden she saw was top-notch, the grandeur and luxury of the Qin Palace, and it was one of the few in the capital, Xiao Yao was faint when she saw it, because she felt that it had nothing to do with her, it was someone else's home, although there was no comparison between it and the palace, it was small and old, but this place belonged to herself, it was her own home, and she could settle down here.
Naturally, the feeling in my heart is different.
After looking at the yard, she asked Steward Liu to open the room where the boxes were brought back to take a look, Steward Liu opened the lock of a room on the upper room of the second courtyard, Xiao Yao went in and took a look, she was very satisfied, Steward Liu really obediently cleaned the room very clean, and the three large boxes were all placed on the stool intact and did not touch the ground.
The house is very tight, and there are no traces of rat infestation.
Xiao Yao specially told him that there are two boxes of good seeds, and they must be protected well, so that the rats can't be ruined.
Steward Liu promised to obey the order.
Xiao Yao was relieved.
Back in the front yard, I drank some hot tea in Steward Liu's house, and rested for a while, Xiao Yao still asked Xiaocui to accompany the car boss, and she was very interested in asking Steward Liu to lead the way to see the 150 acres of land.
Steward Liu took Xiao Yao with him, and while walking, he introduced that Xiao Yao saw that winter wheat was planted in the field, and there was no vacant field, and he thought that he would have to destroy some wheat fields in order to grow the vegetables he brought.
His own high-quality and high-yield wheat seeds can no longer be planted, so they can only wait for the harvest in autumn to plant.
Steward Liu didn't pay attention to the change in Xiao Yao's expression, and pointed to the plot on the side and said, where is our land boundary, which piece of land is rented to whom, Xiao Yao listened carefully, and asked in detail how to water these lands, Steward Liu took her to a five-meter-wide river, pointed to a large area on the bank of the river and said: "These fifty acres of land are ours, watering is very convenient, other lands are a little far away from here, you can also pick the water here to water the land, and then far away, you can only rely on well water, fortunately, there are not many lands that rely on well water, only fifty acres." ” As soon as Xiao Yao saw the river, her heart beat wildly, God help me!
Isn't it the best way to grow vegetables when your land is so close to the water?
My peppers, tomatoes, beans, greens······ Xiao Yao was so excited that she wanted to shout out!
It took about an hour to walk around one hundred and fifty acres of land, and when the two were about to walk back, they saw a teenage boy beckoning to them from a distance, and Steward Liu said with a smile: "Young master, this is my son, probably her mother asked us to eat."
"Approached, and sure enough, yes.
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Steward Liu asked him to salute Xiao Yao, and the child saw that Xiao Yao was dressed in a rich and noble dress, and was a little afraid of life, so he hurriedly saluted and ran away.
Steward Liu scolded directly, Xiao Yao smiled and said: "It's normal for children to be afraid of life, what's the matter?"
Why didn't you see him just now?
” Steward Liu said: "Who knows where to go in the wilderness?
In the past two days, I ran away after eating every day, and I didn't know how to come back if I wasn't hungry. ” The two talked all the way, and before they knew it, they returned to Zhuangzi, and Steward Liu introduced that most of the tenants living around Zhuangzi were tenants who rented land, and there were twenty or thirty households, called Wancun.
It's a small village.
Not far from here, there is a large village of 100 households, called Wei Village, and most of the villagers rent the land of the great prince Wu Wang.
Xiao Yao kept them in mind one by one.
Steward Liu's daughter-in-law is in her thirties, she looks clean, and she has prepared a table of meals in the hall.
During the meal, only Xiao Yao and Xiao Cui sat at the table, and Steward Liu's family and the boss who drove the car did not go to the table, saying that it was not etiquette.
Helplessly, Xiao Yao could only divide more than half of each dish and keep it, and she and Xiaocui hurriedly ate enough for them to eat.
I thought to myself that I must change this rule when I move in the future.
After eating, it was already dark, and seeing that she couldn't go back, Xiao Yao decided to stay here for one night.
There are just a few things to arrange in advance.
Let Steward Liu settle the car boss's residence, and Sister-in-law Liu was busy making charcoal pots for the room where Xiao Yao and Xiaocui lived.
Xiao Yao asked Xiao Cui to light the candles, asked Steward Liu to find paper and pens, lay on the table by himself, wrote a lot of notes, dried the ink after writing, took some for himself and Xiao Cui, and asked Steward Liu to take them to the house where the wooden boxes were placed, and opened the two boxes, which were filled with all kinds of bulging bags of all sizes, Xiao Cui and Steward Liu were surprised when they looked at the bags, none of them were what they had ever seen.
Xiao Yao didn't explain, untied the ropes that tied the straps one by one, took out small notes with words written on them from inside, looked at them, and then took out one from the big note just written and put it in, and then tied the bag again.
It took more than half an hour to put all the notes I had just written into a bag and tie them up.
Steward Liu and Xiaocui could only watch with a lamp on the side, and they couldn't help at all.
After everything was done, Xiao Yao asked Steward Liu: "Do you know how to read?"
Who made the ledger you took last time?
” Steward Liu said embarrassedly: "I can recognize a few words, I am doing the accounts in Zhuangzi." ” Xiao Yao was very happy to hear this, pointed to the box and said, "That's great, the note I just put in has the name of each bag of seeds, many of these seeds are not available here, you don't know them, and you won't plant them."
I put the name in it just to make it easier for you to identify, as for how to plant?
I will write the method on paper, you have to do it strictly according to the method I require, during the spring ploughing, you go to the Boss Sun of the Food Immortal Pavilion to get the planting method, if you don't understand it, you can write a note and hand it to Boss Sun, I will ask someone to get it.
Remember, these seeds are so precious that if they are wasted, they will be gone.
I've given you my life, and you must supervise the tenants.
If you plant it, you will be rewarded!
If the plant is broken, maybe we will have to sell another one.
Speaking of this, Xiao Yao's face was very serious.
Steward Liu suddenly felt that he had a heavy responsibility.