Fenghou

Chapter 383 Mutual Aid
With the promotion of mutual aid associations, the people in the city have been busy forming associations these two days.

Associations advocate self-selection, so most people are neighbors or relatives and friends.

A group of women were also sitting in the courtyard of Chen Qing's house, basking in the warm sun while discussing the matter of forming an association.

Chen Qing's family is the first club, led by his wife Lu Xiu, including four people in the courtyard of his master Li Qingzhao, his neighbor Zheng Ping's wife Yang Liuer, Yang Yuanqing's wife Wei Su, Wei Su's sister-in-law Ma Qianer, and Lu Wei's wife Li Mei.

A club requires ten to twenty people, and their club has exactly eleven people. Zheng Ping’s family has a wet nurse who wants to take care of the child, so it’s not counted. mutual aid society.

Lu Xiu clapped his hands and smiled: "We happen to be eleven people, and they don't count as males. I also asked clearly. In fact, we just sow and water. We have a total of ten acres of land. When everyone talks about how to sow, each person is responsible for one. Acres of land, or do we do it together?"

Li Mei worried: "I've never planted land before, and I don't know anything. Who can sow seeds, please tell me first!"

Yang Liuer raised her hand and said, "I know how to sow seeds. It's actually very simple. Just spread the wheat seeds evenly in the soil, bury them, and then water them. After that, I need to water them every two days to grow gourds in the yard." The same goes for winter melons.”

Li Qingzhao is the oldest among these people. She smiled slightly and said, "It's better to plant the land together, and if you don't know how to sow, you can watch how others plant and follow suit!"

Everyone agreed to plant the land together, Lu Xiu smiled and said: "Since everyone thinks it is good to plant the land together, then we will not be separated, and then we must gather before dawn tomorrow morning, bring water bottles, dry food, and clay pots, I suggest Each person brings a pair of chopsticks, inserts a hole in the ground, and sows two seeds, which saves the need to pick up the soil with hands."

Everyone made an appointment to meet up tomorrow morning, and then went back. Lu Xiu stepped forward to Zhao Qiaoyun, "Qiaoyun, is your body okay? Otherwise, you can grow gourds and winter melons at home."

Zhao Qiaoyun shook her head and said with a smile, "The work I used to do was ten or a hundred times harder than this one. This work is nothing."

"Okay, let's go together tomorrow!"

Zhao Qiaoyun went back, just when Lu Wei walked in, he looked back at Zhao Qiaoyun's figure, and asked in surprise, "Little sister, who is she?"

"Do you care who she is?"

Lu Xiu's face sank and said: "Take care of yourself!"

Lu Wei couldn't hold back, "What's the matter, you called me here just to give me a lesson?"

"Sit down first! I'll talk to you later."

Lu Wei sat down angrily, turning his face to the side.

Lu Xiu gave Yu Lian a wink, and Yu Lian hurried to pour tea.

Lu Xiu softened her tone and said: "My husband said you have emotions, let me persuade you, do you feel wronged by being a county captain?"

"I have emotions, anyone else has emotions!"

Lu Wei also confessed frankly: "I was also from the eighth rank Cong Yilang in the Lin'an Palace before, and I should be the deputy envoy of the eighth rank regiment when I was released. I followed your husband and served as Cangcao to participate in the military. As a civil servant, the Ministry of Officials designated me as a minister, which is the eighth rank, but now I have not made any mistakes, and I have been directly demoted to the county captain, which is the ninth rank!"

Speaking of this, Lu Wei sighed again: "For your husband's sake, I endured it, but why is that Zhang Miao in front of me? He is the county magistrate, but I am the county magistrate. How can I be worse than him?" gone?"

Yu Lian brought a cup of hot tea and put it on the small table. Lu Wei picked up the tea cup and looked it over carefully, his eyes widened. son!"

"Take it if you like!"

Lu Xiu smiled and said: "Your husband is right. You are emotional about these two things. Let me tell you about the second thing first. Do you know what kind of official Zhang Miao used to be? When our grandfather was a transit envoy in Hebei, He is the transfer envoy of Xiangzhou appointed by his grandfather himself, a dignified sixth-rank official.

There is also Zhou Kuan, whom you saw in Zitong County. They used to be judges of Xiangzhou, and the Jin soldiers invaded. They all abandoned their officials and fled to Wang Yan's tent to serve as staff. They followed Wang Yan to fight in the east and west. He was afraid that Zhang Miao and Zhou Kuan would be bullied by Fu Xuan, so he recommended them to his husband, one to serve as a military officer and the other to serve as a household officer. He has no objection to being a county magistrate, but you are full of complaints.

And Jiang Yanxian, ten years ago from a senior official of the fourth rank, served as magistrate of Dengzhou. "

When Lu Wei heard that Zhang Miao was still under his grandfather's command, he immediately lost his temper and said for a while, "I can't figure out why they would accept the post of county magistrate."

"You! What an elm head, why don't you get the hang of it?"

Lu Xiu hated and said angrily: "You think Ganquan County is just a small county, but the household registrations of all the generals and family members are in Ganquan County. You are the first officials of Ganquan County and your husband's real confidantes. Two days ago, Hanzhong Feiying passed on a letter saying that your husband has been appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Xihe. You don’t know, do you really think that Ganquan County is just a small county like Chengji County? If I tell you, Ganquan County’s government office is Xihe Jiedushi Guanya, don’t you understand?”

Lu Wei was stunned, and he blinked and asked, "Your husband said all these?"

"Of course, you think I understand this?" Lu Xiu said angrily.

Filled with shame, Lu Wei got up and walked out, forgetting the teacup he wanted to take away.

Lu Xiu took a few steps quickly and shouted: "Hurry up and do what you have delayed. If you delay tomorrow's spring plowing, you will be dismissed. It will be too late for you to cry!"

"I see!" Lu Wei's voice came from afar.

After dinner, Chen Qing listened to his wife's report in the study, and said with a smile: "It seems that he has listened to it. In the afternoon, he actively went to the farmland to plant signs and allocate land. He is probably still planting signs in the fields now!"

"That's what he asked for. Why did you go a few days ago?"

Lu Xiu sighed and said, "Grandfather has long said that the second elder brother has a Yumu head, and his reaction is always slower than others!"

"It doesn't matter if you react slowly, but the key is to be serious and do things well, that's what matters."

"He has no problem with this. He has always been serious about everything. You can tell when he is married. He memorized more than a hundred opening poems and makeup poems, but in the end he only used one."

Chen Qing couldn't help laughing, this is indeed Lu Wei's character, overly cautious.

Lu Xiu sighed and said again: "The same is true for my grandfather. On the day of my brother's wedding, so many guests came to the door, but he went fishing. He was so obsessed with it that the whole court called him a fish madman."

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "It seems that grandfather still wants to get back together! He just retired like this unwillingly."

"Husband, you said it the wrong way!"

Chen Qing shook his head, "You don't understand his thoughts. He doesn't like fishing at all. He fishes for others to see. The more he is obsessed with fishing, the more it proves that he is eager to be the prime minister."

Lu Xiu was a little stunned, and asked for a while, "Who did he show it to?"

Chen Qing took a sip of tea and said lightly: "Do it for the emperor, let the emperor believe that he does not miss the position of Xiangguo, do it for Qin Hui, let Qin Hui let go of his guard against him, do it for the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty Everyone thinks he has forgotten the court."

"and then?"

"He's waiting for his chance!"

"What opportunity is grandfather waiting for?" Lu Xiu asked puzzled.

"He is waiting for the Son of Heaven to change from the Harmony faction to the War faction, and Qin Hui should be dismissed. Then the Son of Heaven will definitely use him to stabilize the situation!"

"Will the officials become the main combat faction?"

Chen Qing said with a smile: "The official family is a peace faction at heart, but if there is an advantage to take advantage of, it is possible to change the direction of the wind on the surface. Although he is afraid of the Jurchen, he is not afraid of the fake Qi. Battle faction!"

(End of this chapter)