Reborn Wangjia's little koi, reclaiming wasteland and farming to become the richest man

Chapter 73
Sheng Jiaojiao gave the old lady Qi a sweet smile, respectfully, lowered her eyebrows and looked down, as if she was serving the old Buddha, she supported the old lady's arm and went back to the house.

Standing with Xiu Niang, Qi Er Niang, who had always been taciturn, breathed a sigh of relief.

She turned to look at Xiu Niang, and ordered with a straight face:

"The old lady agreed, but the condition I told you before I came here is that you need to make a winter coat for each of our family members, and you also need to do some small embroidery work for us. We are going to sell it at the fair, you have to give [-]% of your embroidery skills, don’t be lazy and slippery, you people in the south of Daze love to be slippery.”

The pregnant embroiderer, with a delicate and dry face, immediately showed a weeping expression, shaking her head desperately,
"I won't, Er Niangzi, I really won't. Believe me, my family is still waiting to use money, so I dare not be careless."

The second lady Qi looked at Xiu Niang expressionlessly, pointed to a chair in the main room, and said:

"Sit here and embroider from now on. It's bright here. Our Jiao Niang has good taste. If you don't understand anything, just ask her. You have to follow what she said."

After explaining, Miss Qi Er turned around and left.

She went to the widower's house in Huangguo Village early this morning and invited the embroiderer over, but the apples hadn't even been sold yet.

Now Sheng Jiaojiao not only asks her to sell apples in various villages, but also asks her to deliver apples to several hawkers in Jishang every day, so she is also very busy every day.

Yesterday, Mrs. Qi Er took some embroidered handkerchiefs from the embroiderer, and planned to finish what she was supposed to do today, and took the embroidered handkerchiefs to the market to sell them.

Not long after she left, Miss Qi entered the main room with a big basket. She glanced at the embroidered mother's stomach, handed the basket full of needlework to the embroidered mother, and asked:

"How many months has your stomach been?"

"Six months."

Xiu Niang got up, took the basket with both hands, put the basket on a small table next to her, touched her belly, her face was full of bitterness.

Seeing this, Miss Qi pulled Xiuniang to sit down, glanced at the direction Sheng Jiaojiao and Mrs. Qi left, and asked in a low voice:
"Are you from the south? Then, have you ever seen a man named Sheng who is very good-looking and handsome?"

She gestured anxiously,

"So tall, lean and lean, with excellent kungfu, looks a bit game in the world, but in fact has read a lot of poetry and books, and speaks quite deep."

Xiu Niang looked blankly at Miss Qi and shook her head.

She had no idea who Miss Qi was talking about.

Miss Qi looked at Xiniang anxiously, and gestured again, "This way, this way"

Then, she put down her gesticulating hands in a slumped manner, her expression became sleepy,

"It's really a huge crowd, forget it, maybe he really died."

"Who is the eldest girl talking about?"

Xiu Niang tilted her head slightly, looking at Miss Qi puzzled.

Miss Qi came back to her senses, sighed slightly in her heart, didn't say anything, and gave Xiu Niang about Qi Zhang's body size, and asked Xiu Niang to make a pair of wristbands for Qi Zhang first, then turned around and entered Qi Zhang's body. The old lady's room.

Sheng Jiaojiao was still in the old lady's room, beating her grandmother's shoulders.

Miss Qi came in, sat down on the kang of the old lady, and said:

"I heard that this embroiderer was dispatched to our place. Alas, they are all hard-working people."

The old lady, who was enjoying Sheng Jiaojiao's shoulder beating, opened her eyes slightly, snorted, and said:
"They are all hard-working people, who is better off than the other? We are poor here, is it a person, will be exiled to us, the emperor also knows that our life is not good, so how come so many generations have passed away , didn’t you think of a way?”

Junbei in Zhishou County is the hardest-hit area for exiles. All exiles will be exiled to the north of the county to herd sheep.

Those are all slaves, who can be captured and traded at will.

According to the law of Daze, if a slave wants to become a good citizen, he can only leave his original slave nationality by marrying a good citizen, joining the army in the camp, or paying a change fee to Ji Ya.

Jian Tuo is like this, and the embroidering lady invited by the Qi family is also like this.

For these slaves, being arrested is actually a good way of life. At least they have to use slaves before they arrest slave exiles to serve them.

But the people in Zhishou County can't support themselves, how can they support their slaves?

Therefore, the slave population is full of people running in the north of the county, unable to do business, unable to buy and sell houses and fertile land, and never even thinking about studying and becoming an official. Apart from the above three ways except marriage, joining the army, and accepting money, basically they can only starve to death.

Oh, women can also go to the military dormitory to work as prostitutes.

So who is poor?People in Zhishou County are all pitiful, and there is no one who is not pitiful.

Sheng Jiaojiao didn't speak, she continued to beat Old Madam Qi's back, but she was thinking about another thing.

In the previous life, this kind of punishment of the nine clans sitting together, in fact, some people in the queen party wanted to abolish it.

If one person is convicted, the nine clans will be punished at every turn. Daze has established the country for hundreds of years, causing many innocent people to die in vain, and how many people obviously did nothing, but were uprooted by crimes that they did not know. fell into the dust.

How big a crime can be to implicate the white-haired parents and the baby who is waiting to be fed?

In order to abolish the punishment of Zhulian Jiuzu, the rear party worked hard and launched a tug-of-war with the royalist party.

The Queen's Party needs innovation, benevolent government, rest and recuperation, blessings to all people, and Yin Ze's amnesty for the world.

Because most of the people in the Queen's Party came up from Zhishou County, and they were the ones who supported Sheng Jiaojiao, pushed Sheng Jiaojiao, and lifted Sheng Jiaojiao to the position of queen all the way.

Among them, most of them, either their own generation or their ancestors' generation, were exiled to Zhishou County.

So they know how unfair and cruel it is for Jiuzu to sit in such a punishment.

But not only after the founding of the country, there was such a punishment of the nine clans sitting together, but before the founding of the country, there was also such a punishment.

The Queen's Party is nothing more than a car with the arms of a mantis, and it is not easy to shake the rules.

During that period of time, Sheng Jiaojiao was so shocked that she wrote two secret letters to Tan Jilian who was fighting in the frontier, asking him to send frontier troops to the imperial capital to secretly protect the humerus ministers in the rear party.

Otherwise, the rear party doesn't know how many people will die inexplicably.

Perhaps because she grew up in Zhishou County, Sheng Jiaojiao didn't feel as deeply about those sufferings as those exiles did.

Just like the old lady Qi now, she doesn't have much compassion for the pregnant woman with a big belly.

Because their living environment is like this since they were young, and they have never seen other counties, which have a better life.

So I don't think how hard it is to live such a day.

The reason why Tan Ji secretly sent frontier troops to protect them was because she was in the same party as them, and she was their representative and a summary of their interests.

Therefore, Sheng Jiaojiao must lead them to fight Yin Ze if the latter party wants to govern benevolently.

In her first rebirth, Sheng Jiaojiao was suddenly able to sympathize with those exiled family members who were implicated innocently.

She raised her eyes and glanced out of Mrs. Qi's window, at the Qi family's yard shaded by greenery.

Outside this courtyard, there is a boundless piece of loess.

The annual rainfall in Jishou County is impressively low.

Who can stay in this ghostly place?
Sheng Jiaojiao felt a little heavy in her heart, she said in a low voice:

"I thought, why don't we raise a few servants in our family? Give each room a servant girl."

"How much money does this cost? Can it be so bad?"

Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by Miss Qi.

Miss Qi who was sitting next to the small table had a heartbroken face, looking at Sheng Jiaojiao who was beating the old lady Qi's shoulders,
"You just hired an embroiderer for your family. What a huge expense, not to mention Niu Ju's wages, my girl, do you know how many lives can be bought by Niu Ju's wages? ? Now you still have to support someone, you can’t do it, I don’t need someone to take care of you, I don’t want it.”

One more servant will cost an extra ration. With so many people in the Qi family, they have suffered from hunger and poverty, and now life is a little bit easier. Sheng Jiaojiao spends a sum today, and spends a sum tomorrow, and all he spends is a lot of money , are dispensable luxury.

Miss Qi felt distressed.

Mrs. Qi also felt that it was unnecessary. They were all poor and used to it. It was acceptable to ask an embroiderer to do embroidery work, but it seemed superfluous to have a child.

What the servants can do, they can do it themselves, why do they have to raise a few servants to do it?

Then the servants have done all the work, what will the Qi family do?You can't eat and wait to die.

Seeing that Miss Qi and Mrs. Qi disagreed, Sheng Jiaojiao didn't see Chi again, and only waited on Mrs. Qi for a while before going out to see Niu Ju.

Niu Ju had almost planed a piece of red sandalwood, and went to the medicine field to collect herbs.

She is really like a cow, never idle for a moment.

Sheng Jiaojiao wandered around in the grove by herself, holding a clay pot in her hand, sprinkling water here and there.

After a while, she was tired.

So he lay down on a fallen rosewood tree, stretched his arms, and put his pillow behind his head, leisurely looking at the sky covered by the sparse shade.

The sky in Zhishou County is not pretty, it is gray, and when the wind blows, it seems to be covered with a layer of yellow smoke and sand.

However, compared with the blue sky cut into squares in the Imperial Palace in her previous life, Sheng Jiaojiao felt much more relaxed and happy.

She slowly closed the corners of her eyes, lying on the tree, waiting for Qi Rou to come back to work, while thinking about buying a mule.

I fell asleep without knowing it.

Tan Ji came over and saw this scene.

The smoky gray dress was blown to the ground, and there were a few thin grasses in the loess. Sheng Jiaojiao was lying on the tree trunk that had been leveled, with her hands behind her head, her breathing was shallow, and her beautiful face was filled with tranquility. Leisurely.

The wind, mixed with fine sand, blew into this small patch of sparse forest, stirring Sheng Jiaojiao's long hair that was hanging down on the ground.

She turned over and fell from the tree trunk where she was lying.

Tan Ji moved a bit, stretched out his hand, and took Sheng Jiaojiao's head slightly, preventing her from hitting the ground.

Then quickly withdrew his hand, took a few steps back, and put his hand behind his back.

Sheng Jiaojiao was still a little dazed, the tree was already down, so it didn't hurt to fall from the tree, but when she fell, she hadn't recovered from the dream.

She also felt her head being supported by a large dry hand, keeping her head from hitting the ground.

She woke up, got up from the ground, swept the soil on her body, looked up again, surprised,

"Tan Ji? Why are you here?"

"Shiro said you were chopping trees and building grape trellises."

Tan Ji looked at Sheng Jiaojiao, there was a small patch of dirt on her white and tender face, and an ax was thrown casually on the ground.

"Ah, yes, I'm going to build a grape trellis."

Sheng Jiaojiao was in a trance, before she could react, she saw Tan Ji bent down and picked up the ax on the ground.

He glanced left and right and asked:

"How do I build it? How big is it?"

"Take, how big is the ride?"

She asked a question back, and when she realized it, she gestured casually,
"It's so big."

Afterwards, Tan Ji walked around her, walked to the tree she was lying on just now, and began to cut the wood into sections according to the size she gestured.

The sound of "bang bang bang" sounded, and Sheng Jiaojiao thought "ah" before realizing that Tan Ji was helping her build a grape trellis.

She took two steps closer and asked:

"Tan Ji, why are you here? Where are my four brothers?"

"Stand back a little bit."

Tan Ji gave way, fearing that the ax would accidentally hurt her, so he changed direction, avoiding Sheng Jiaojiao, and chopped the small-leaf red sandalwood into several sections according to the specifications in two strokes.

And replied:

"I pointed him to a mule seller, and he went to buy a mule."

"Then why are you here?"

Sheng Jiaojiao squatted next to a few pieces of wood, propped her cheeks with her hands, and watched Tan Ji's three strokes, as if chopping tofu, the wood had already been chopped.

His strength is much stronger than Niu Ju's. Niu Ju's head is sweating from doing these things, and he looks as if he is as strong as sucking milk.

Far less relaxed than Tan Ji's posture.

Seeing that Tan Ji found a tree stump again, the ax turned a flower in his hand, splitting the wood section by section into strips, the movement was very fast.

Hearing Sheng Jiaojiao asked him, he raised his eyes and glanced at her.

Because he heard from Qi Silang that Sheng Jiaojiao wanted to build a grape trellis, he couldn't imagine how a delicate girl like her would wield an axe, so he came to help her build a grape trellis.

The words that came out of my mouth were,
"You sent too many things to my aunt, so I'm here to help you."

During this period of time, Sheng Jiaojiao always brought side dishes and apples to his family, and asked Qi Rong to deliver them every few days, which embarrassed Mrs. Tan and Uncle Tan.

As soon as Tan Ji went home from a rest, Mrs. Tan couldn't hold back, and kept urging Tan Ji to go to Qi's house to talk to Sheng Jiaojiao about his marriage.

Even though Tan Ji said repeatedly, he really didn't want to delay Sheng Jiaojiao.

However, when seeing the things that Sheng Jiaojiao asked Qi Rong to send to his home, Tan Ji ironed them contradictoryly.

He had inquired quietly, and she had never sent these things to other sons.

But he is special.

(End of this chapter)