Chapter 455 Golden Turtle
"Also, my little sister is not young anymore. After she goes to the capital, she can still rely on her brother's official position to find a good match for her."
Hu Zi is now a fifth-grade military general with a high position, and he serves in the Imperial Army. He can find a son from an official family for his sister no matter what.
Jiang Erlang glanced at his daughter: "She is only six years old."
Yan Ru glared at her husband: "She is six years old now, won't she grow up in a few years? Besides, a lady in the capital has to learn a lot. If we move here at this time, we can hire a husband to teach her slowly."
Jiang Erlang scratched his head: "It will cost a lot of money to invite you, sir. How can we just sit here and have nothing?" Although Huzi is a fifth-rank official, he also has a lot of expenses. There are favors between colleagues, and he also needs to eat and buy a house. He also supports several servants, wouldn't we cause trouble for him if we go?"
Yan Ru paused.
Yes, it does cost a lot of money to go to the capital. Without extra income, how can one live a life like that of a wealthy family with only Huzi's salary?
"How about we bring some golden fungus and snow fungus strains over there?" Yan Ru said: "Last time in the capital, I went to the drugstore and asked about the prices of snow fungus and golden fungus. A small box of dried snow fungus cost twenty taels of silver. Yeah. I estimate the weight is half a catty at most."
Jiang Erlang was silent for a moment and said, "That's okay. I'll discuss it with Ying Bao later."
Mushrooms are very delicate, and their appearance will plummet if you don't pay attention. I brought them all the way to the capital, and if they get damaged, it will be in vain.
The niece is very good at growing mushrooms. She has cultivated all the strains in the hands of the villagers, so he wants to discuss with Yingbao how to safely bring many strains to the capital.
When Yan Ru saw her husband's agreement, she felt happy: "Okay, let's discuss it with Ying Bao when we get back."
At this time, Yingbao and Wei Zhan were checking the farmland planting conditions in various townships in Qinchuan County.
At present, the entire county is planted with cotton, and the amount planted in each township varies, but most of it is mainly grain.
"County Magistrate Mao has great talent." Ying Bao praised.
This county magistrate just took over last year, and he and his younger brother Jiang Jie are both Jinshi in the same field.
Judging from the report, he has a plan for mulberry farming, stipulating how many acres of cotton, how many acres of wheat and rice, how many soybeans, etc. that each village household will plant each year.
Moreover, Magistrate Mao also encouraged the villagers to reclaim wasteland, let them cut grass, fertilize and cultivate the fields, and promised to exempt the wasteland from taxes for the first two years and reduce the tax by half in the third year.
In addition, he also asked each household to raise more chickens and pigs, and then piled the manure and leaves together for fermentation. After the fermentation was complete, fertilization was applied in winter.
Wei Zhan smiled and said: "Qinchuan County is under the control of Magistrate Mao, so we can spend all our energy on Zhouhe County."
Judging from the tax situation, the lives of the people in Qinchuan County are much better than those in Zhouhe County. No wonder some people would flee and settle here.
Yingbao closed the documents and handed them to Wei Zhan: "When the people from the county government come on duty, you can go and see the situation in the Yicang."
The righteous warehouse is the food reserve for the county's military and civilians, and it is also the lifeblood of the entire county. Once there is a natural or man-made disaster, the food in the voluntary warehouse can be used, so that place is a top priority and must be understood clearly.
Wei Zhan nodded: "Okay."
"Also, ask the county magistrate to summon laborers to smooth out the river in Chuanhe Town."
The water area in Chuanhe Town is flooded every few years. This has always been the case. As a result, the fertile fields on both sides of the river cannot grow food. The former site of Guangdong Chen Village covers hundreds of acres.
Now that a very capable magistrate has arrived in this county, why not ask him to clean up all the rivers?
"Yeah, but we have to wait until after the Lantern Festival." Wei Zhan said.
"I know this. You just need to inform Magistrate Mao first."
In a blink of an eye, the Lantern Festival has arrived.
Yingbao did not go to the night market, but stood under the lantern stand in front of her house and looked at the lanterns.
An Rou hugged Wu Ya and followed beside her.
Wu Yao was so excited that he stared at the lanterns with his dark eyes.
Erni was eating a handful of snacks in her hand, and she, her stepmother Yanru, and her third aunt Chunniang were sitting at the door looking around.
There was no other way, Ying Bao didn't allow them to go out, and had to set up a lantern stand at the gate, with twenty or thirty lanterns of various colors hung on it for people to watch.
But Wei Zhan and his father-in-law went out, reportedly to patrol the streets with the county magistrate and others.
Ying Bao was holding Little Sister Jiang and was teaching her how to guess riddles when she suddenly heard someone calling her name: "Ying Bao."
Following the sound, she saw a person wearing a green robe standing not far away looking towards her.
"Xiao Mo?" Ying Bao lowered her face and looked at this person warily: "Why are you here?"
Xiao Mo walked over and stood in front of her.
The guard wanted to stop him, but Ying Bao waved him away: "Take people back to the house."
Mu Dan agreed and asked An Rou and the children to go home first.
Before Chun Niang and Er Ni could figure out what was going on, they were sent back to the courtyard by the guards and maids.
"Yingbao, no wonder I always thought I had seen you somewhere before." Xiao Mo smiled: "It turns out you are the little demon I couldn't find anywhere."
The corners of Yingbao's mouth twitched and she said coldly: "You are the monster." Your whole family is a monster!
Xiao Mo didn't talk nonsense to her and asked directly: "Yingbao, is Xuanwu here with you?"
"What Xuanwu?" Yingbao pretended to be confused.
Xiao Mo lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then said, "It's just a little golden turtle."
Ying Bao said expressionlessly: "I haven't seen it before."
Xiao Mo looked at her indifferently, "But I can smell its scent on you."
"That's because I had stewed turtle meat for lunch." Yingbao replied while quietly contacting Xuanwu, but he didn't say a word.
Xiao Mo looked around and said, "Yingbao, stop pretending, you and I don't belong to this world. Why don't you go back with me."
Ying Bao was speechless, and her eyes became colder and colder.
Xiao Mo continued: "What happened back then was my negligence. You don't have to worry about it. I will give you justice in the future. But this place is not suitable for you at all. You should leave me as soon as possible."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ying Bao said coldly: "You are not from this world. Are you from the King of Hell?"
Xiao Mo: "Yingbao, don't deceive yourself. I'm also telling you that Wei Zhan is actually your cousin and you are related by blood."
"Fart!" Ying Bao was angry and was about to summon the divine sickle.
Xuanwu hugged the trembling divine sickle tightly and communicated to Yingbao in horror: "Don't be fooled by him! There is no good thing among human monks! He wants to provoke you to take action first, and then touch the taboo, and you will be separated from this world." world!"
Is that so?
Ying Bao gradually calmed down and smiled at Xiao Mo: "Xiao Mo, what do you want to do by telling me this? You don't want to drive a wedge between me and Wei Zhan, right?"
Xuanwu knew best whether Wei Zhan was related to him by blood.
And although the Tianyan Book cannot explain all things, it has carried him through many lives, and the people who are related to him, and their ancestors for eighteen generations, are clear about it.
Xiao Mo looked at Ying Bao with a serious expression for a while before saying, "Your grandfather and Wei Zhan's grandfather are cousins. There is no mistake about this."
"Where did you know that?" Ying Bao asked with narrowed eyes.
Even if Xiao Mo had advanced cultivation in another life, here, suppressed by the law of heaven, he was a mortal and could not use magic to detect his bloodline.
If not, he wouldn't have discovered that his bloodline was different from before.
To put it bluntly, my current body is the result of Xuanwu's cultivation.