The little girl of the landlord's house

Chapter 10

In the early morning of the second day, the spring rain was still falling non-stop. Xie Yujiao had eaten her breakfast and went to Master Xie's study in the front yard, waiting for the two housekeepers to report on the work progress of the two days.Mr. Xie is a scholar, he ordered a complete set of regulations before his death, and there are special personnel responsible for all kinds of general affairs, which is very orderly.In the past few days, Xie Yujiao had already cleared up her contacts in fields, business, and miscellaneous affairs outside, so that the two housekeepers didn't talk about anyone, she only had a dazed look.

The chief housekeeper, Tao Laixi, is in his fifties. When he was Mrs. Xie, he ran around with him. It was returned to their family so that his sons could go to the examination for merit. After his eldest son was admitted as a scholar, he failed to pass the examination. Sir, he is also loved by the villagers.

The youngest son is still young, only about sixteen or seventeen years old. I heard that he is very learned. He was selected as a scholar at a young age. Housekeeper Tao tightened his belt and sent him to Qixia Academy to study, saying yes Next fall, I will take the provincial examination.The Tao family also has two daughters who are also married.

"Back to Miss, it has been raining heavily for the past two days, and the tomb has been closed for fear of being flooded. The master's coffin will be put in, and it will break down after a short time. The old slave counted the days, and the master still has twenty The world is buried, if the sky clears up in a few days, there will be time to rush to work." Tao Laixi really dare not underestimate this young lady who looks delicate and deceitful!If she hadn't made the arrangements for the big and small things in Xie's family recently, I don't know how long those people in the family will make trouble.

Boss Tao would also do the math for Xie's family when he was free. Even the land rent in spring and autumn in his hands is already a huge figure. Xie's family is small, except for these poor relatives who often come to fight the autumn wind. , the cost is really limited.No wonder those people heard that Mr. Xie had passed away, their necks were stretched out longer than giraffes. If it wasn't for the young lady's strength, the wife might not be their opponent.

Xie Yujiao nodded, and said, "You can arrange these things. The mages, Taoists, monks and others who will be invited on the day of Dad's burial have also posted a post to invite them, as well as those paper makers. The shady house, the weather is bad these days, don't get wet, I don't understand these things, and there is only one request, be sure to let daddy go there in a decent way, as for the rumor that the common people want to erect a merit monument for daddy , I thought I’d better ask the new county magistrate, and leave this matter to the second housekeeper, so you don’t need to contact him here, as he happens to have something there, so you need to communicate with him.”

Boss Tao nodded as he listened. Hearing the boldness of her speech and the ability to arrange things, if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, who would have known that she was originally a person hiding in the embroidery building. Miss!
"The servant will do whatever the eldest lady says. There is one more thing, the servant also wants to ask the eldest lady what she means."

Xie Yujiao just said, "Go ahead."

Boss Tao frowned depressingly, and continued: "A while ago, the county resettled twenty or thirty families of refugees, and said that each of our landlord families would bring back a few families. I have never been stingy with these few taels of money for settling down, and they were all directly placed in the Zhuangzi. Now there are fifty or sixty tenants in the Zhuangzi, but recently I found that some of these tenants' homes are unavoidable. Some tenants have mentioned to me about doing some things that are easy to steal sheep, and the people here are honest and dare not make troubles, and these people are also taken in by the county, so they dare not offend."

"There is nothing you dare to offend. They are refugees. If you come to us and give them a bite to eat, you have to abide by our rules. If something like this happens in the future, you don't have to return to me, as long as it is true after investigation. , go directly to the county government office, and hand it over to the county magistrate. As for the twenty or thirty new families, since they were arranged by the county, they should first find a place to settle them down. But my father is a kind person, and I am not , You found several other landlord families, calculated the settlement expenses, shared the money equally among several families, if they refused to give the money, let them take the people back, it's the same."

Boss Tao listened, he really has a lot of hearts!Ever since the war broke out in the north, the refugees who fled have been coming here. At first, they were in groups of three or five, and then they were in families of three or five. The county apportionment down.In the past, Mr. Xie was kind-hearted, and when he saw anyone coming, he took them in. The household registration in the county was fixed, so he took them in as his own tenant farmers.

But among these people, it is inevitable that there are three or five bad people mixed in. Who can tell, and it is impossible to say that they have traveled thousands of miles to their hometown to check the details of that person. If they get mixed up, the villagers here will not want it.

Originally, the people below wanted to build another small village for those people to live in, but Mr. Xie felt that this would inevitably make those people isolated, which is not conducive to future development. They must be allowed to intermarry with the local people in order to truly live. take root.

This northerner is straightforward and has a good body. There are really many local girls who are willing to follow them, but there are black sheep everywhere. Several things happened recently, which made the local people a little angry. At this juncture, Another person is coming, I'm afraid Boss Tao will not be able to explain to them.Now if you really use this method, you can get rid of so many families, which can be regarded as an explanation to the common people.

"Miss, this is a good idea. I'll go get in touch with you right away. If there are fewer families coming, maybe the folks will be more understanding."

Xie Yujiao nodded, and at this moment the maid outside replied that the second housekeeper had also come, and Boss Tao took his leave in a sensible manner.

Liu Fugen came back from the outside, with rain on his body and mud on his feet, he looked down at his wet feet, and replied outside the door: "Miss, my shoes are dirty, so I won't go in. If Missy has anything to say, just ask inside, and the slave will stand at the door and listen." Liu Fugen, a man in his forties, doesn't know why, seeing such a delicate young lady, he feels uncomfortable all over his body, and always feels that the words are awkward. It's not easy, it's better to stay outside.

Ziyan is his daughter, seeing her father like this, she couldn't help but stare at him, the girl has such a good appearance and character, why did her father get scared when she saw her!In fact, Liu Fugen was in awe of Mrs. Xu and Xie Yujiao because of the strict control of Mrs. Zhang and his wife.I thought to myself that this person who is such a powerful woman is holding up offerings, so how can I be so close to this mud-bodied layman!

Seeing that it was raining heavily and the wind was cold outside, Xie Yujiao said, "Second butler, come in and answer. The floor is dirty, and the servants will clean it up. Ziyan, make a cup of hot tea for your father."

Seeing Xie Yujiao treating her father so courteously, Ziyan also felt radiant on her face, so she stepped forward and closed the curtain, and said to Liu Fugen: "Father, go in quickly, can the girl invite you?"

Liu Fugen groaned, went down the steps and rubbed the mud on the soles of his feet, then bent down and got in through the curtain, not daring to sit down, just standing in front of Xie Yujiao.

Xie Yujiao pointed to the armchair by the window and asked him to sit down. Ziyan brought hot tea in, and he barely touched his buttocks on it, and replied with a smile: "The words that the eldest lady asked to bring to the county magistrate yesterday are already The county magistrate said that he also knew that the Xie family had a lot of things to do now, and he didn't mean to urge them, but the matter of the five thousand cotton jackets had already been reported to the court when the former county magistrate resigned. I was afraid that if the master went away, there would be some changes in the family's affairs, so I specially invited someone to ask."

After hearing this, Xie Yujiao felt that it made sense, and asked again: "Then have you asked, when will the delivery be delivered?"

"The county magistrate said that it must be handed over by the end of July at the latest, and it will take a long time to transport it to the north!"

Xie Yujiao raised her eyebrows. Sure enough, she didn't count the transportation in. There was no courier in ancient times, so it seems that the only way to do it is by slow delivery.

"How many clothes are there now?"

"It's about half. Previously, the master distributed the cotton and fabrics to the villagers in Xie's house and several nearby villages. There are a total of two to three hundred families, and no one makes ten pieces of clothing. This has been taken back one after another. It’s getting better, it’s just…” Liu Fugen’s brows were about to wrinkle when he said this, these unscrupulous tenants usually scrambled one by one when they were receiving alms, but now they are asked to do something, just Do something like this out.

"Go on," Xie Yujiao said seriously.

"It's just that those villagers, each family received the materials and went back. Although they made ten pieces of clothes, they were either too small to die for, or the cotton inside was cut corners. They must have buckled the materials and went to make cotton-padded jackets for their own families. I yesterday I took a few back and looked at them twice, and I was about to cry." Liu Fugen looked at Xie Yujiao, and his eyes turned red, if he had known that this matter was so difficult, it would have been easier to just donate a few silver.

After hearing this, Xie Yujiao also felt that there were two big ones at one end. How could the common people in this village have such a high level of consciousness?Those soldiers who fought, not to mention tall and burly, were at least well-built. If they were wearing padded jackets wrapped around their bodies, if they affected their impromptu performance, where they were being pulled, they would have wasted a life on the contrary.

Thinking of this, Xie Yujiao's pretty eyebrows frowned even tighter. She closed her eyes and thought for a while before she said, "Go and count first, how many padded jackets are still enough for the remaining cotton and fabric in the warehouse?" , from today onwards, I will not send out. I remember that there are a few vacant warehouses in the warehouse in the village. It has not been harvested in the past two months. You went to the housekeeper to get the key and ask someone Clean it up, and from tomorrow onwards, tell these villagers that they are only allowed to go there to make clothes, let the skilled embroiderers cut them, let them sew there, and we will take care of a meal at noon."

(End of this chapter)