Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 766

Just as Du Jinning was about to speak, he heard someone shouting from a distance: "Master Du..."

Du Jinning turned his head and saw a few people standing on the road in the distance, among them was a strong man in his forties, whom she knew, it was Lizheng in this area who had done the contract for her and the tenant farmers Guaranteed.

As for the others, they don't know each other.

"It turned out to be Zhou Lizheng. Why are you free to come here today?" Du Jinning smiled and planned to go there.

"Hey, don't come here, don't come here." Zhou Lizheng said hastily, "Let's go, Mr. Du just wait here."

Seeing this, Du Jinning had no choice but to stand there and wait for the group of people to come over.

Song Zhuangtou approached Du Jinning and whispered: "Master, that old man in blue is the owner of the field next door. His surname is Hu. Everyone calls him Hu Yuanwai. His family has more than 200 mu of land. The Zhuangzi on the west side of the eight-mile road belongs to his family."

Paused, afraid that Du Jinning would not understand the purpose of Hu Yuanwai's visit, he said again: "The villain guesses that he came here for your farming skills, my boss."

The ancients always cherished themselves with their brooms, hiding any good techniques or prescriptions, for fear that others would learn them and delay their own fortune.That's why Song Zhuangtou said this, and his tone and attitude were full of contempt.

Du Jinning asked: "How is he a man? How is he good to tenant farmers?"

Seeing that pedestrian was about to come over, Song Zhuangtou restrained his desire to talk, and said concisely: "Being stingy, you are almost drinking human blood. If there is no other way, everyone doesn't want to rent his family's land."

At the beginning, everyone was willing to sign a contract with Du Jinning, instead of going to Hu Yuanwai's house to share his land and plant it, which also had a certain relationship with Hu Yuanwai's character.

Du Jinning nodded.

At this time, Zhou Lizheng and Hu Yuanwai's group had already come close.

"Lord Du, let me introduce you. This is Yuanwai Hu, who is also related to you. His field is just to the west of your home, with a total area of ​​more than 200 mu." Zhou Lizheng said.

Member Hu raised his hand, hugged Du Jinning, and said with a smile, "I've heard my brother-in-law in the capital mention Mr. Du's talent, but I didn't expect Mr. Du's fields to be so well planted. Hu admires, admires."

Zhou Lizheng interjected at the right time: "Member Hu's brother-in-law works in the Ministry of Industry."

"Oh?" Du Jinning glanced at Mr. Hu, smiled, and asked, "Oh, your relative works in the Ministry of Industry? My teacher was originally a doctor of the Ministry of Industry. I often go to the Ministry of Industry, but I know many people in the Ministry of Industry." .Which one is the noble relative of Member Hu's family?"

"Oh, my brother-in-law's surname is Wang, and he works in the Ministry of Industry's Yuheng Qing Officials Department." Hu Yuanwai said proudly, and after he finished speaking, he squinted at Du Jinning.

The head of the Department of Officials, Yu Heng of the Ministry of Industry, is a sixth-rank official, half a rank higher than Du Jinning; most importantly, local officials are also three points lower than Beijing officials. According to this theory, Du Jinning is better than his brother-in-law But it's not just about the lower half level.

Du Jinning bought this field, and he has been waiting for Du Jinning to come to visit him.But I waited and waited, but nothing came.Now he wants to come to the door on his own initiative, he is not angry, so he naturally wants to use his banner to scare Du Jinning.

"Oh, so it's the master Wang's business." Du Jinning said lightly.

"..."

Hu Yuanwai stared at Du Jinning for a long time before finally confirming that Du Jinning didn't seem to care about his banner, or that he hadn't surprised Du Jinning enough to flatter him, which made him very depressed.

In fact, his brother-in-law is a little far away, a distant relative of his wife, so far away that he doesn't usually move around much.But it doesn't prevent the Hu members from pulling the tiger's skin outside to make a big banner.Because of this big banner, Zhou Lizheng didn't know how polite he was usually. Even if the tenant farmers made all kinds of noise because of his exploitation, Zhou Lizheng helped him suppress it; the surrounding landowners and gentry treated him very politely.

But now, Du Jinning's calm and clear wind gave him the feeling of punching cotton, which made him very depressed.

If it's just like this, it's all right, if Du Jinning doesn't give him face, he can just walk away, making Du Jinning feel uneasy.But he came here because he wanted something from others.

He wanted Du Jinning's method of growing double-cropping rice and rice seeds, as well as the method of raising fish in rice fields.

This is someone else's secret recipe, why would someone give it to you for no reason?If you don't want to pay the price of money, you can only bully others with your power.

In his opinion, after raising his banner, Du Jinning must be frightened and flattered him in all kinds of ways.At this time, if he asked for those methods and rice seeds again, it would be difficult for Du Jinning to refuse.In this way, without spending a penny, he was taught by Du Jinning with all his heart and soul.Next year, his fields will also have a bumper harvest, earning more than double the usual income.As for ignoring Du Jinning at that time, that's another matter.

But I didn't expect Du Jinning to ignore him at all, which made his singing impossible all of a sudden.

He suppressed the smile on his face, and his expression was also indifferent. He looked at the small courtyard of Zhuangzi not far away, and said in a neutral tone: "Master Du, won't you invite us to sit in the house?"

Du Jinning had already disliked Song Zhuangtou about Hu Yuanwai's behavior; now seeing him put on airs in front of her, Du Jinning hated him from the bottom of his heart.

She was too lazy to waste time on this kind of person, and said directly: "I will go to the field for a walk in a while. If Hu Yuanwai and Zhou Lizheng have something to do here, let's talk about it here."

Member Hu was stunned.

Ever since he played the "brother-in-law" flag, no one has dared to talk to him like that.

"People say that Mr. Du Tongzhi is very airy, but I don't think so. Looking at it now, that's really the case." He said with a strange tone.

Zhou Li was very embarrassed at the side, deeply regretting taking such a thing.One is Zhou Tongzhi, his immediate boss; the other has a relative who is a high-ranking official in Beijing, but neither of them can afford to offend him in this small town.

He just hoped that these two would treat him as an invisible person and not set the fire on him.

Unexpectedly, Du Jinning seemed to have heard his heartfelt voice. Aside from the Hu staff, he cupped his hands towards Zhou Lizheng: "Zhou Lizheng, I'll go to work first if I have nothing to do. Let me go." Saying that, he turned around and left.

"You, you, you..." Hu Yuanwai was so angry that he pointed at Du Jinning and trembled all over.

"Lord Du." A voice sounded behind Hu Yuanwai and the others.

When Hu Yuanwai and Zhou Lizheng turned around, they saw seven or eight people standing behind them.

The leader was in his sixties, with a beard; the other seemed to be in his thirties, with a white face and no beard, wearing a royal blue satin gown, squinting and looking at them.The others are dressed as servants.

"Eunuch Jin, Lord Wu." Du Jinning smiled and cupped his hands.

Hu Yuanwai and Zhou Lizheng trembled.

Father-in-law?Except for those castrated eunuchs in the palace, no one dared to call people by this title.And eunuchs can't even leave the palace without the emperor's approval.

In other words, this is the eunuch in the palace sent by the emperor?

Before the two of them could figure it out, the sixty-year-old man stared at Yuanwai Hu, and said with a half-smile: "Wang Hailin is your brother-in-law? I don't know that his brother-in-law is so arrogant. Master Du put down his business to chat with you."

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, old man Wu Zheng, Minister of the Ministry of Industry." He said again.

(End of this chapter)