Nongmen Jia Niang: The little blessed wife of the general's family

Chapter 122 Zhuangzi
Li Gu was still a little dazed, and asked Yin Tao: "Why does she want to go back? Even if it's not for herself, she should leave such a home for her daughter!"

Yin Tao sighed deeply: "It's hard to say clearly about housework, everyone has their own ideas, maybe she thinks this is the best choice."

"But, I think she is very pitiful, and Xiaoya is even more pitiful!"

"Li Gu, there are tens of thousands of poor people in the world, and some of them are not worthy of sympathy."

"I didn't expect you to be so hard-hearted!"

Yin Tao was stung by these words, turned her head to look at Li Gu, and said seriously: "Li Gu, who doesn't suffer? Ye Xiuwen's family is ruined, and he has to go thousands of miles to earn a way; Feng Wansu would rather Marrying into the palace to be a concubine, she deeply knows how difficult it is to live in the back of the palace. Everyone is just trying to save their lives!"

Li Gudao: "I grew up in the border area, where there was a lack of food, and there were frequent wars. Both men and women are very brave, and no one can guarantee how long they can live. No woman has ever said that she can't live without a man, and there are not so many twists and turns." A twisted mind."

"But this is Beijing, not the border. The women here pay attention to rules and etiquette. They are not brave in their bones, but the fights between these people are not less than those at the border, and even more ruthless and vicious!"

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The next day, the two went to Zhuangzi.

This Zhuangzi is located in a remote place, half of which is a hill covered with stones and gravel, and it is basically impossible to grow food.

The other half is fertile land and dry land.

At the foot of the mountain, there is a small house with two entrances, where Zhuangtou's family lives and manages Zhuangzi.

Zhuangtou's surname is Gao, but he is a simple farmer in his 40s. The couple have two sons and a daughter.

Old Man Gao told Yin Tao that crops could not be grown on the mountain, but weeds would grow wildly. He planted many peach trees, and he could still earn some income every year.

"Even these peaches are not easy to sell. If they can't be sold for a short time, they will rot!"

Yin Tao turned around the mountain, and there was a river at the foot of the mountain, which happened to turn two turns on the opposite side, and the sunlight shone on the river, sparkling.

There is a circle of rose thorn vines at the foot of the back mountain.

"Is this also planted by the uncle?" Yin Tao pointed to the row of roses and asked.

Old man Gao nodded: "There is no way, there is a big mountain behind, and wild boars and other big wild animals come out from time to time."

"The wooden stakes we made before didn't work at all, but this thorny vine is very useful. If you surround it like this, no wild animals dare to come in."

"That's nice. It must be pretty when it's in bloom!"

Yin Tao remembered the wall of roses in her previous life, how many people went to take pictures and check in.

The uncle smiled and said, "How beautiful is it? Those with more thorns and few flowers are not suitable for eating or drinking, and the flowers don't last long."

Yin Tao thinks about it too. The roses and rose wall in the previous life are all improved varieties. Naturally, the flowers are big and the flowering period is long!

What's more, today's fields are not fertile enough, and it is impossible to fertilize these flowers and plants.

She looked at it for a while, and when she had some ideas, she discussed with the uncle: "Enclose the whole peach orchard, dig a shallow pond by the river at the foot of the mountain, plant some aquatic plants, and use it to raise ducks and geese. It can be used in the fields. In the spring, we will raise chickens on this mountain!"

Old man Gao hesitated: "It's good to raise poultry, but I'm afraid of getting sick, and if I get sick, I will die."

Yin Tao said: "So you must pay attention to cleanliness and clean it at any time. In addition, you should ask the veterinarian to visit regularly and prepare some heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs for these poultry. If one is sick, it should be separated from other poultry and livestock in time."

"You must know more about these things. Ask a veterinarian or doctor to ask! Let's do our best to take precautions. If there is a plague, there is nothing we can do. Anyway, it's better to try more than to leave this mountain in vain and wait." That harvest of peaches."

The old man Gao also became excited, thought for a while and said: "But, it will cost a lot of money! Our village doesn't have much income, and even people from the mansion rarely come here. Every year, when the peaches are ripe, someone will come to fetch some. Good to go."

"Don't worry about this, I will go to the eldest lady to give money. During this period of time, you have crushed the roads up and down the mountain with stones to make it easier to walk. You can dig out the ponds and other places over there when they are thawed. At that time Throw in some fry."

Yin Tao walked down the hill slowly: "I'll talk about the details when I come next time!"

Aunt Gao made lunch, a large pot of dry-roasted chicken, Yin Tao and Li Gu were not delicate, so they ate very happily.

"This chicken is delicious." Yin Tao found that the chicken was not bad, but very delicious.

Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law smiled happily: "Then eat more. This is a local chicken. It is not big, but the meat is delicious."

The old man Gao also said: "This chicken is not easy to raise in other places. It is also picky eater, and it especially likes to eat a kind of wild grass. This kind of grass grows well here! This chicken is best eaten when it is raised for about three months. Any bigger meat will get old."

Yin Tao was rather happy: "Very good, very good, let's raise this chicken, and spread more grass seeds of this kind on the mountain in spring. We happen to have a restaurant in the capital, which can be made into a special dish."

After eating and leaving, Yin Tao said to Li Gu, "Fortunately, this place is not useless, and there are some clues."

The next day, Yin Tao went to Feng's house alone, this time she entered the house smoothly, and was taken to Feng Wansu's courtyard.

The place is busy everywhere, Yin Tao doesn't recognize many people in the courtyard.

Feng Wansu met Yin Tao in the study.

Yin Tao handed a stack of papers to Feng Wansu, and after she finished reading it, she said: "The business of these shops is mediocre. The best one is this rouge and gouache shop. There is a lip balm in it that has a good reputation and many repeat customers."

"There are two cloth shops, and the business is mediocre. There is also a small grocery store, and the business is not good. The most troublesome thing is this restaurant. It occupies a lot of land, on the second floor, and it is located in the food street. This The shopkeeper’s job is to provide for the elderly, and the waiter is also lazy. Opposite is a very prosperous restaurant. In our shop, there are basically no customers, and no one cleans the dust in the corners.”

After hearing this, Feng Wansu sighed: "Just this restaurant, it was my grandmother who saw that my dowry was not good-looking, so she subsidized it for me. This store used to have a good business, and the shopkeeper was a man who was accompanied by my grandmother. I have worked in the restaurant all my life, and I don't know how to arrange him!"

Yin Tao told about the Zhuangzi again, but Feng Wansu simply asked Qiu Ye to give Yin Tao one of her chapters and 200 taels of silver.

"I don't have time to take care of these things in the future, so you can take care of them. These old people, if you can give them some face, give it. If they are really shameless, naturally don't worry too much. After all, the boss has changed people."

"By the way, the concierge was very polite when I came to the door today, so it can be seen that the head of the Feng family has changed?" Yin Tao asked with a smile.

"Well, it's the eldest wife, and the third wife assists the housekeeper." Feng Wansu was indifferent, not interested in this matter.

Seeing this, Yin Tao also changed the subject.

"I'll tell you one thing. The palace has invited Mrs. Zhong back! Mrs. Zhong is very strict. She doesn't like people who are pretentious and posturing, and she doesn't like people who are not loyal to the palace and King Kang."

"Why did you invite Mrs. Zhong back suddenly?" Feng Wansu became alert.

Yin Tao picked up the dessert on the table and took a bite: "The sudden invitation to invite her back must be to sit in the back house. I don't know what's going on."

Feng Wansu also understood that it was impossible for Yin Tao to know so much, but what she said was already very important!
"Well, I know what to do. Now I have a complete falling out with my aunt, and there is no possibility of getting along well with my cousin. The road ahead is difficult. Naturally, I have to find a good backer, find the right backer!"

(End of this chapter)