Datang Happy Landlord

Chapter 251;
Chapter 250;

Li Yu had long wanted to support Rongniang's father. Although he could promote whoever he wanted, it would be even better if all the managers nodded in agreement. Li Yu didn't hesitate and directly added the finishing touch;
"Since all the managers agree, it's settled. Although Mrs. Zou is a girl, she does her best.

A while ago, when farmers exchanged land, I heard that several pairs of shoes were broken.

It's hard work, so I'll take care of rice cultivation first, and in the coming year, after I find a senior manager with outstanding ability, I will ask her to assist..."

Lin Wulang and Mrs. Zou were quite surprised to be called to the mansion today.
It is a rule in the mansion that on the penultimate day of each year, all the major managers have to gather once.

Report the affairs of the year and obey the arrangement of the head of the family for the coming year.

This kind of occasion has always been that only the major managers are eligible to participate.

This year, the two of them were appointed as stewards outside the mansion, and they were paid two hundred per month, which was already unexpected.

Unexpectedly, today, he was also called over.

I can't help but fantasize in my heart, maybe I can really soar into the sky, and get a beautiful job that will be passed down from generation to generation.

But the few who were standing in the yard talking, called in one after another, but they were the only ones left, messed up in the wind.

The two were not in the mood to talk, and looked at each other, feeling more and more chilled, and both felt that what they thought was a little too much.

Mrs. Zou felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, anyway, she also waited for the whole night...

Lin Wu sighed and said nothing.

Suddenly, I heard Li Zhong, the chief steward, mentioning that the two were still waiting outside the main hall.

Lin Wu and Zou Shuyi immediately pricked up their ears, for fear of missing a sentence.

"The two chief stewards, the Patriarch asked you to go in and talk, two?..."

The two people who were in a trance were awakened by the servant who came out to communicate, so they hurriedly arranged their clothes and walked into the main hall quickly.

"Lin Wu met Mr. Lang, Mr. Lang is well,

All the big stewards, brothers are polite here. "

"My family has seen Mr. Lang, everything is fine with Mr. Lang, and I have seen all the stewards."

"Easy to say, easy to say."

"Lin Wu, Uncle Liu recommended you today, saying that you are reliable and upright. I also believe that if you want to entrust the errands in the mansion, are you prepared?"

"Back to my lord, what a villain can do."

Rong Niang looked at her Aye, she couldn't even speak well in a scene, so she could only act anxiously,
I also listened to it at the door for a long time. What do these big managers say, you can just learn a few words.
Really, I have to find time to go back and have a good talk with A Niang,
After all, A Niang is also a concubine daughter from a wealthy family, so she gave Aye some advice, and it would not be a problem...

Li Yu looked at the real man below and smiled;
"You're really honest, you never said a few polite words, anyway, you're not good at socializing, so I won't make things difficult for you, just sit on the chair next to you."

"Yes, thank you sir for your seat."

Lin Wu sat down on the outermost chair on the west side of the main hall, sitting upright, with some style.

Mrs. Zou kept talking in her heart.

"It's my turn, it's my turn..."

"Ms. Zou's family, do you know that with so much land and property, and many chores in the future, it will be a hard job to run away in the wind and rain, tired?"

"If you go back to your lord, the slave family is not afraid of hardships and burdens, and being able to do some good things for the mansion is better than staying at home all day with sore legs."

"Hehe, you are smart, who taught you to speak like this?"

"Going back to my lord, no one taught me. If my servant hadn't been rescued by Alang back then, I would have starved to death on the street. Doing something for the mansion, running errands, and doing errands is also a repayment, and it should be taken for granted."

Madam Zou has never experienced such a big scene. Although she speaks vigorously, she lowers her head and is a little apprehensive.

"That's right, that's right, you know how to repay your kindness, and you have a kind heart. After a few years of hard work, you may not be able to be alone.
From today onwards, you will take the place of the chief manager of the farm, and go to Uncle Liu to sit down. "

"Yes."

Zou Shuyi suppressed her beating heart, moved step by step, and sat down on the chair beside Liu Wanquan.

She really didn't expect that the new farm was nothing more than farming the fields, and it had such a powerful status.

Still on top of several major managers, sitting directly next to Liu Wanquan, the highest ranking...

"Okay, everyone is here, this year has passed, and the next year's affairs should be explained clearly, nothing more than three things;

First, the construction of Zhuangzi continued, and new winemaking workshops and larger granaries were also built.

The second thing is to unify the farming. In the spring of the coming year, the land will be quickly consolidated, and then some good rice growers will be invited to come back and teach the farmers.

The timber warehouse and the demolition of the old Zhuangzi must be carried out at the same time, so there is no delay.

When the workshop is completed and ready for use, Brother Xiao will be burdened. He will go all out to brew Wuliangye Baijiu. Supreme and those generals are looking forward to it. "

All the managers nodded their heads and understood what they should do in the coming year.

"Okay, I've finished talking about next year's affairs, and those who were negligent in their work will be punished.
The rest is the reward, but you don't need to discuss this matter, I can decide it alone.

Li Zhong, why are you still standing? You are also the chief steward of the front yard, so you have the authority to sit down today, and you don't need to be on duty to sit down and talk. "

"Yes, thank you Patriarch for your generosity."

Only then did Li Zhong go to Ma Ju and sit down. The top and bottom affairs of the mansion have always been the top priority, only behind the granary.

"The major managers, one person has two responsibilities, and the lower managers are consistent,
The rest who have errands, and those who serve in the house, will receive an extra month's monthly allowance, plus an extra horse..."

Zou Shuyi didn't listen to anything, but heard that the chief steward gave two pieces of money alone,
Zou Shuyi was dumbfounded, no wonder they all scrambled to be in charge, she also received two monthly stipends, two hundred dollars each time,

I've already made the whole family laugh from ear to ear, so if I come in and sit down for a while, I'll give them two punches?
"Master Zou?"

"What do you think?"

"what!"

Zou Shuyi came to her senses, only to realize that all the major managers were leaving, and the little man whom she secretly missed day and night was nowhere to be seen.

"Boss Lin, it's all over now, I'm going back now, I'm leaving now."

Rong Niang looked curiously at the new agricultural chief steward whom she had a close relationship with Aye;

"go back?
Where are you going?

Every year today, you have to eat in the mansion. Just now, Mr. Lang said, how many tables of noodles will be rewarded, but you have been sitting for a long time without hearing it? "

"Ah? I heard it, I heard it, I'm just a woman, it's not appropriate to go with the managers, isn't it, Mrs. Lin?"

"What's wrong, you've been sitting next to Uncle Liu for a long time, and you still don't know your current identity?

If you think it's inappropriate, you can also join me. It's not that there are no female stewards in the mansion, but I still advise you not to make do with it? "

"Why?
Since the lady said that there is a seat for the steward, and I am also a woman, why can't I sit. "

Rong Niang saw that everyone was gone, only her two followers, Xichun and Tanchun, were not outsiders, so she whispered;
"That time when you waited on the gentleman for one night, the two ladies in the back were not happy in their hearts.
It's all right for the two ladies, and they won't be at the same table with us, but the four personal servants of the two ladies, like me, are all first-class maids,
Equal to being in charge, Ningcui, Tao Hong, who is beside Mrs. Situ, is better at talking,
Sister Qiu Ju, who is next to Mrs. Wang, was scolded for no reason because of your incident.
If someone can find you, if you sit at the same table with the five of us, wouldn't it be lively? "

"Boss Lin, I know you have good intentions, I appreciate it, and I didn't come here for you, don't mind,

The more they are like that, the less I am afraid of my surname Zou, isn't it just waiting for the gentleman for a night?

What a big deal, can they still eat me up, Manager Lin, please tell me where to eat, I'll go there right away, why are there so many of them? "

"My God, you are so bold, I shouldn't have said these things to you...you will make a lot of fools if you go here..."

Rong Niang was having a headache, how could she send this rascal to the front, but she saw Lang Jun passing by the corridor of the wing room.

It was too late to pull Zou Shuyi away.

"Um?

Rong Niang, what are you two talking about? It just so happens that I still have a lot of things to discuss with Mrs. Zou, and I called you Aye, or you can come too, instead of going to the backyard. "

"Mr. Lang and the two stewards have some important matters to discuss, and the servants will not go. The servants can go back to the backyard and have a table with Xia Zhu and the others."

Rong Niang doesn't want to stay with someone like Zou Shuyi, she's a complete mess, she's not afraid of anything...

Fortunately, Mr. Lang told her to come over, otherwise, something would happen in the backyard tonight.

After eating and drinking enough, Zou Shuyi raised two silver coins and returned to her home happily.

When Zou Shuyi's mother-in-law's family fled the war together and arrived in Luoyang, a dozen or so people were already dying in the mountain temple, waiting to die.

Hearing the sound of soldiers passing by, a group of people were also disheartened, and people who were dying would no longer have to be afraid to hide.

As a result, the old county man took 50 people into the mountain temple to take shelter from the wind. When he saw a group of beggars who looked like beggars, the old county man couldn't bear it anymore, and the general gave some food to them.

Later, they were asked to follow them all the way back to Chang'an, and the old county man handed in an errand, armor, and then brought a group of half-dead men, women and children back to Li's village to settle down.

In the beginning, a dozen or so people were divided into a small courtyard. How could Zou Shuyi's relatives dislike it? Having a place to stay and not starving to death is already God's eye opening.

Later, I got the household registration and divided the fields, which made my life easier.

However, the man is unlucky. He only had enough food for more than two years before he suffered a fever and went home.

Since then, Zou Shuyi has been a widow, and with three cubs, she should go to the ground and work.

This kind of poor farmer can still be assigned to the county man's mansion every year, do sewing and mending work for a few months, and get twenty big money a month, and just survive like this.

The man in her family is dead, and there is still a mother-in-law who needs to be filial. Zou Shuyi is unambiguous at all, and treats her like a mother-in-law. This is why Zou Shuyi is liked wherever she goes.

After working as a steward tonight, she got another two coins. Mrs. Zou ate a few more glasses of white wine. She was so excited that she saw that all the children were asleep, so she went to the back room.

"Mother, my son is back."

The old woman on the bed, wearing pudding clothes, was indeed spotless,
"My son, today is the gathering of the big managers. Why are you messing around, so you don't have to make jokes from the farmers?"

"Aniang, today my lord promoted my son to temporarily act as the head of farming, so my son has been able to drink in the mansion until now.

Aniang, look, every year today, every chief executive can get two consecutive rewards? "

"Oh my god, this gentleman is such a prodigal, he dares to post this all at once,

How long can the old county man's family business last? Alas, young man, I don't know the hardships of life, it's really... really... oh..."

The old woman couldn't speak ill of Li Yu and could only shake her head and sigh.

"Aniang, you don't know, the little man is capable, he went to Chang'an to sell the newly brewed liquor, and in four or five days, he earned ten to twenty thousand silver coins and brought them back.

I heard that starting next year, I can earn 10,000+ every year. How could Mr. Wang see such a small amount of money?

Aniang, you are getting old, the world is different now, the tens of acres of land by the river in our house has been confiscated by the mansion,
Next year we will cultivate together, and one mu of land will give us two stones of millet, and I can still get a monthly allowance of two hundred dollars. In the days to come, we will be able to live a good life. "

"Don't worry about getting complacent, one mu of land is divided into two stones of millet, how can there be such a beautiful thing, the old woman has been planting the land all her life, can she not know the depth?
You have to meet the grace of God, the weather is good, and you can serve two stones.
The mansion will give us two stones per acre, how can it be so easy, and the mansion will not use the granary as a subsidy when we can't grow it.

Still, your two hundred dollars a month is reliable. If you have an errand, do it well. Don’t let others take advantage of it and run it on you. Then how will our family live. "

"What A Niang said is true, and I also think that the monthly routine is reliable, and I will handle the errands carefully in the future."

"That's good,

By the way, speaking of you going to the mansion tonight,

How did you come back so early?

Why doesn't Mr. Xiao Lang leave you to serve tonight?
Could it be that he played it once and got tired of it? "

Mrs. Zou was a little embarrassed when she saw her mother-in-law mentioning this;
"Aniang, Mr. Lang didn't ask me to come over at night like last time, and he never mentioned the matter of serving, so why do you say so much?"

The old lady looked at the airtight Zou Shuyi, and was a little anxious for him;

"My son, how can you know as much as an old man, there are so many people in the mansion,

How can you tell Mr. Lang to speak up, young man, playing is very addictive, you are afraid that it will not be satisfactory if you use some tricks?
They are all from here, so there is no need to hide it. The place has been used by people for several times, and it will not be worn out. You are a widow, and you have no backer. When will our family have a bright future?
Besides, my three good grandsons will become men in a few years. When the time comes, what will you tell them three brothers are women?

Listen to the old man, you take good care of the young man, the three good grandsons of the old man will have a way to survive, so our family can have something to look forward to. Which family doesn't expect the future generations to rise?

You carefully imagine the gains and losses before and after, but don't be ignorant of the severity. Besides, you don't have to be ugly and embarrassing when you close the door and go to bed.

Do you expect that the little man will call and serve, and it will be your turn to benefit?
My son, if you don't think about it, there are many fifteen or sixteen-year-old juicy girls in the county mansion.
You are already thirty, and you are a half-wife. If you don't take the initiative, you may not be able to drink gruel. "

Lady Zou bit her lip, her face turned hot;
"Aniang, don't make jokes, anyway, I am also the first-class face among the five Zhuangzi, and I can't beat those girl movies?"

"You are good-looking, but you don't live in the mansion. You get the moon first if you are near the water. Look at Lin Wulang's house.
His daughter, Rong Niang, spends her days on Langjun's couch, and now Lin Wulang's family has completely taken off. It's uncertain how beautiful it will be in the future.

How about you?It's not easy for you to meet Shang Langjun, how dare you not cherish it? "

"Don't worry, Auntie. Now that I'm the chief steward, my status is only under Commander Liu. If anyone dares to stop me when I want to report on the farming, it will be much more convenient to see my husband."

"That's why the old man reminded you, seize the opportunity, tell me, the last time I asked you to serve, does Mr. Lang like you?"

"Mother, why do you ask these words?"

"Oh, the old woman is over 60, and you have three children, and you are not a teenage girl, so don't be shy.
Our folk customs in the Tang Dynasty are open, and it is in this Zhuangzi that the old man has bumped into it countless times, men and women stealing food, anyway, it is such a shitty thing that half a stick of incense can't be done, who doesn't know? "

Zou Shuyi lowered her head and said in a mosquito-like voice;

"From my point of view, that young gentleman likes a familiar woman,
Been nibbling and biting all night...

(End of this chapter)