The wife of a woman collecting herbs cannot be bullied

Chapter 235

After everyone said this, the Holy Majesty also calmed down. The monarchs and ministers agreed to order the local officials who have banditry to prepare relevant information. Anyone who finds out the facts or wrong information after the event will be severely punished. Report and so on.

The good news is that the three princes were blocked by heavy snow. Today they received news that the road has been opened and they are rushing to the capital. They may arrive within three days.In this way, it is estimated that the errands of going out of Beijing to meet them will also be saved.

However, these are all matters of the imperial court, and the people's lives will continue as usual.

Shi Chuying just blinked her eyes when she heard the good news.Apparently, she hasn't changed her mind.Chu Xu was so angry that he clenched his fist and waved it twice, but he had to gather his energy to persuade patiently again, and made several promises before Shi Chuying promised not to act rashly.

Those who were blocked by the heavy snow were also people from various villages who came to Beijing to deliver New Year's goods.

Of course, including Chu Xu and his family members.

"The maidservant left the house in the middle of last month. I originally thought that the first delivery of New Year's goods would be delivered earlier. It took ten days to come here. It would be too early to go back after buying some New Year's goods. Who would have thought that it would be delayed until now."

Mo Zhuangtou drank a few sips tremblingly with the hot water bowl in both hands, then took out a wrinkled handkerchief and wiped the water stains on his beard, and said: "...it started to fall after a few days on the road. It was snowing heavily, we walked slowly looking at things, but it turned out to be getting bigger and bigger, and we had to find a village to settle down and wait.

After stopping and stopping like this, we were finally blocked on the way to Beijing... If we didn't meet a prince who came to Beijing this time and sent people to fight all the way, we don't know when it will be. "

Shi Chuying and Chu Xu sat at the top and listened. This village was a Zhuangzi they had set up earlier, and it was an acquaintance of Chu Xu's guard camp. To the south of the village, the Zhuangzi bought near here are too far away, so it is necessary to sell some of them.

It is impossible to travel thousands of miles to deliver these products, and it is not enough to spend on the road.

The Zhuangzi in Anyang has [-] hectares, and the place is a little bit out of the way. It is about ten days away from the capital, but the advantage is that the Zhuangzi is big enough. In addition to fertile land, there are mountains, forests, and ponds, which feed a lot of chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep. , deer, and calves, etc.; there are also many fish and shrimps raised in the pond.

Shi Chuying also made a trip back then to see Zhuangzi, Zhuangtou and the others in person, and found that the Qiyun was not bad, so they sold it and agreed that these properties would be returned to their house at the end of the year.

Speaking of this, Mo Zhuangtou stood up tremblingly, handed over the list with both hands, knelt down on the ground again, kowtowed and apologized: "Now there are only half of the things in the car... We have been delayed on the road for too long, and we have eaten all the things we brought. , In the end, the servants took the initiative to use the New Year's goods on the car.

Later, every time a prince opened the way, every household blocked in the road would draw their hands or goods. We came to a total of twelve cars, a total of 25 people. It was too late to see the car, so we had to hand in some things to fill the bill. It's all written on it.

The servant did not do a good job, please punish the master..."

Chu Xu didn't speak, but only winked at Shi Feng, who quickly disappeared.

Seeing Shi Chuying, she said: "You have worked hard all the way. First go and hand over and unload the goods with Manager Li. After the assignment is over, take a rest first, and talk about other things later."

With that said, he assigned Li San to take Mo Zhuangtou down and take care of him.

Seeing Mo Zhuangtou leave, Chu Xu turned his head and said to Shi Chuying, "I'll ask Shifeng to check it out. However, this should be true. I heard that avalanches occurred on several post roads, and the roads were buried. , there are tens of miles of inaccessibility, and it is in the wild, people who come and go are blocked in the middle, and the message cannot be sent out, and the local government will not know until the people who come over find it and return to report the letter."

"So, isn't there more snow outside Beijing?" Shi Chuying frowned slightly. She didn't know how much snow had been in the capital in the past, but the last few episodes were really not small.Therefore, Mo Zhuangtou and the others didn't come on time, and Shi Chuying also guessed that it had something to do with the weather.Never thought it would be this big.

I don't know what's going on at Wangyun Mountain... I have to write to the master to ask.

It only took a long time for Shifeng to reply, what Mo Zhuangtou said was true, and it was the King of Anxi County who confiscated the things in their car.

After Chu Xu got the words, he told Li San that the people in the Zhuangzi who came to deliver the goods this time had suffered a lot from fear and fear along the way, and each of them gave three slings of money to buy some rare New Year's goods in Beijing and go home.Considering the cause of natural disasters, this loss is not counted as expropriation, and half of the other costs will be deducted from the production in the coming year.And asked to start early next year at the end of October or early November to avoid heavy snow.

Originally, Chu Xu and Shi Chuying didn't plan to pursue it, but several guests thought that it would be difficult to discipline them after being too loose the first time, so it's better to combine leniency and strictness.The two thought about it too, the first example of how to deal with it is very important, we still need to be warned, otherwise people in Zhuangzi might think they are too soft and easy to bully.

Excluding losses, there are still 6 and a half carts of the twelve carts of New Year's goods sent this time, four of which are grains, new rice, sticky yellow rice, small yellow rice, wheat kernels, soybeans, fine white flour, mung beans, Red beans, groundnuts, black beans, peas, chestnuts, persimmons, etc., as well as various pickles, pickled eggs, bacon, bacon, chicken and duck, and various whole slices of frozen pork and mutton.

The people in Zhuangzi ate all pickles, and most of the requisitioned food was food, chicken, pigs and other meat; fortunately, because they were not familiar with the road, they did not bring any live animals to Beijing this time, otherwise there would be no one left.

The people on Anyang Zhuangzi rested in the capital for three days, and then the mansion arranged for servants to take some cloth, silk flowers, simple jewelry and other items bought in the capital and set off back.

Shi Chuying specifically asked Aunt Yue: "It's not easy to go out during the Chinese New Year. Prepare a jar of wine for each of them, weigh some sweets and cakes, and then pull a piece of cloth to take back. It is the owner's wish. It is better to be practical. The specific aunt Let's look at the arrangements."

Those things used by servants in the mansion are also a few streets away from those in the countryside, and they will naturally look good when they are brought back, and they don't actually cost a lot of money.Shi Chuying had experience in dealing with such matters when she was on Wangyun.

During the Chinese New Year, the tenants and employees hoped that the owner would miss something. Firstly, it would look good to relatives and neighbors, and secondly, they were reluctant to buy these things themselves.

Aunt Yue was taken aback when she heard this, she was a wife and everything was extraordinary.

(End of this chapter)