Reborn Concubine Queen

Chapter 163 Farm Life (1)

In autumn and July, there is a star that enters the Big Dipper, which is regarded as a bad omen.

In autumn and August, there was a severe drought in the Dayan Dynasty, and there was no harvest.

There is a town less than three kilometers away from Yumen Pass, called Feishui Town.Feishui Town, as the name suggests, has enough spring water for the rivers and springs here. Even if God refuses to rain for a whole summer to moisten the farmland, the spring water here is enough for the farmers to irrigate their fields.

The farmer households who originally lived in Feishui Town were very rich. Even if the rice seedlings in the neighboring county towns dried up, the harvest in Feishui Town was quite objective.It's just that there was a severe drought this year, and Feishui Town competed with the other two towns for water sources, causing panic everywhere, and there was no such thing as a good harvest like before.

When he first came here, Gao Qichang bought some fertile land for Shi Yiqing to manage. Shi Yiqing was too lazy to get these things, so he asked Uncle Zhong to contract them to a few families in the county town, and only paid some money and grain as annual rent.Because of the severe drought this year, and the long-term workers they hired fought with others and caused life lawsuits, those families were afraid to die, so they found Uncle Zhong, and begged Uncle Zhong to come to Shi Yiqing with a few words of kindness, trying to reduce the burden of this year's crime. annual rent.

Uncle Zhong's face was hard and soft, and he couldn't bear the pleas of these people, so he passed on their words to Jianliu Zhizhi, who is now in charge of the affairs of the foreign government, and hoped that Jianliu would be able to speak in front of Shi Yiqing.

That Jianliu was originally the daughter of a farmer in Lin County. Although she didn't know how serious the drought in the field was, she was moved with compassion, and she agreed to Uncle Zhong, and found an excuse to turn around with the account books from previous years. Tang went to find Shi Yiqing to report back.

When the scissors were popular in the backyard, the newly bought little girl from Zongjiao refused to pick up the curtain, but instead pulled her aside and whispered: "Sister Jianliu, the master is back and is talking to the madam. Don't go in, just stay outside."

Jian Liu was surprised for a moment, then turned his eyes and smiled thoughtfully, and said, "You're just a little ghost."

The master that the little girl was talking about was none other than Gao Qichang, the senior senior high school master who came to Feishui Town with Shi Yiqing four years ago.

Jianliu followed the little girl in the corner of Gang Zong to enjoy the cool in the shade, gossiping about someone's family one after another, waiting for Gao Qichang and Shi Yi to get bored enough, so that he could go in and report about the account books and crops.Unexpectedly, Jianliu didn't wait for Shi Yiqing's free time, but instead waited for Mother Xu.

"Hey, Mammy, why are you free to come here today?"

Nanny Xu walked to the shade of the veranda, holding a handkerchief to cover the corners of her eyes, and then realized that it was Jianliu who was speaking in front of her, and couldn't help laughing: "Hey, it's not your loyal uncle, I've seen you gone for a while They didn't come back, wondering if the lady was angry, and asked me to come and have a look."

Three years ago, Shi Yiqing saw that Uncle Zhong and Nanny Xu didn't seem to have a good impression of each other, and it was hard to ask Nanny Xu or Uncle Zhong to ask directly, so he could only spy on each other secretly.When Shi Yiqing found out that the other party was still worried about her, she made the decision to let Uncle Zhong marry Madam Xu, and recognized them as godfather and mother, so that they could depend on each other in old age.

Jianliu stepped forward with a smile, helped Mammy Xu who had trouble walking recently, and said: "Madam, you can rest assured, Madam is not so cruel, if you want to explain clearly to her what happened, she will understand. "

After thinking about it for a while, Mother Xu also felt that Shi Yiqing was not such a narrow-minded person, besides, the family didn't need the rent in the land to live, so it would be better to give those families a chance to breathe.

Thinking this way, he stayed in the veranda to chat and laugh with Jianliu, because Jianliu had only been married to He Hu, an honest family in the town, for a few days, so he intentionally teased her with words, because there was someone beside him who didn't understand anything Little girl, Mammy Xu gave up her thoughts, and just sat on the porch with them to enjoy the cool air, and said some common sayings about daily necessities.

When the sun was setting and it was time to eat, Mo Wu led the little girl to report, and Madam Xu agreed to enter the inner room after cutting off the flow. Seeing Gao Qichang happily holding the young master and feeding him soup, Shi Yiqing sat beside him Looking at it with a smile, the two looked at each other, stood by the door with their hands down and did not speak.

Mo Wu glanced at the two of them suspiciously, hesitated for a moment, then turned around and walked to Shi Yiqing's side to serve him, and said with a smile: "Madam, it seems that Madam and Sister Jianliu have something to say."

Hearing this, Shi Yiqing looked into Mo Wu's eyes, and saw that Madam Xu had just come forward to pay respects with a bow, and said with a smile: "It's a hot day, what on earth has alarmed Mama, made Mama Mommy is coming to look for me at this time?"

Seeing that Shi Yiqing was in a good mood, Grandma Xu couldn't care less about urging Jianliu to come forward to answer, and hurriedly said with a smile: "It's not a big deal to return to Miss. You also know that in the past years, Feishui Town didn't say anything. Self-sufficiency, it’s not a big problem to feed the crops in the two neighboring counties, but this year’s drought is severe, and it’s been a dog day, but there’s not even a drop of water in the sky, not to mention the other places, even our fertile water The fields in the town are dying of drought.”

Shi Yiqing looked at her with a smile, and said: "Mother, don't talk about it with me in a roundabout way, but what you want to talk about is to let me reduce or not charge this year's rent, just say it out, and I will It's not Zhou Paopi, why bother to go around and still not get the idea!"

Mo Wu, who was waiting on the side, held a towel and smiled: "So you two came to Madam to talk about this, so why didn't you say it earlier. Yesterday, the master told Madam about the drought situation this year, and Madam told Madam this morning. I passed on the word that there will be no rent or food for the time being this year, so that people can breathe. But, don't blame me for being a girl, my mother, although our family is not short of this little food now, we I don’t want to collect their rent, but now the drought is severe, I’m afraid that the fields can harvest enough for them to eat, and when the time comes for the winter, if there is no food, is it possible to let the old lady support them?”

Hearing this, Jian Liu was displeased, and said, "What did my sister say? They came to the mansion and said that they wanted to reduce or exempt the rent, hoping to live on. The master and wife are kind-hearted, and the rent for this year is exempted. Such a kind heart, but you are so tired that the master and wife are raped by others, and our family's money is lost?"

Na Mo Wu has been serving Shi's family in the capital since he was born, and the clothes he wears on weekdays are much better than those of ordinary ladies, and he has been with the magnificent old lady Meng's family in the early years, so he is used to it. Wealth and wealth, how can we know the hard work in the fields.Now because of Jianliu, she married into the town, and in the past, she only served outside, so Mo Wu was the only one left to serve Shi Yiqing in the house, and because Shi Yiqing and Shi Yiqing were born and loved like sisters, no one in the house would take care of her. Treating her like a second young lady made her feel more and more honored, and said what she said was the same.

Mo Wu, who wanted to save face, couldn't help being black-faced when she was robbed of her whiteness by being cut off. Instead of arguing with her, she smiled with grace: "What is this sister talking about? Isn't my sister just saying it casually? It's really my sister's fault for making my sister worry too much."

But Gao Qichang was teasing the one-year-old baby in his arms, pretending not to notice the people around Shi Yiqing coming and going, and said to Shi Yiqing with a smile: "Qing'er, look, how delicious this soup is for us Linger .”

Shi Yiqing didn't bother to pay attention to the two sharp-mouthed girls in front of him, so he moved closer to Gao Qichang, frowned and said: "What Linger, this is not a girl, what are you doing with such a girly name! "

Seeing the child smashing his mouth, Gao Qichang seemed to be full of thoughts, smiled happily, and said, "What's wrong with Linger? I just like the name Linger! Who told you that you didn't give me a baby girl with this name."

Shi Yiqing laughed angrily when he heard it: "What you said, it seems that it is my fault to have a son. Forget it, you don't like the son, return the son to me, and you find a woman to have a daughter."

Seeing Shi Yiqing's face froze, Gao Qichang hurried forward to hug her shoulders with the child in his arms, and said sweetly: "Hey, what are you talking about, as long as it's your child and mine, I like both sons and daughters."

Mother Xu and the others who were waiting for Shi Yiqing's reply lowered their eyes and pretended not to see them when they heard this.

Seeing that Shi Yiqing didn't have time to pay attention to him at this time, Jianliu gave Mo Wu a look, and pulled Madam Xu out of the room quietly.Walking outside, Jianliu handed over the account books to be reported today to Mo Wu, and said, "Madam is not free now, and I don't want to wait here any longer. Please help me report these account books to Madam. If Madam has any questions , so someone came looking for me.”

Mo Wu took the account book, and after hearing what she said was detailed, he wrote it down one by one, and sent Aunt Xu and Jian out of the backyard.

After lunch, Shi Yiqing waited for the baby to eat milk, because she still had some milk, Shi Yiqing hugged the baby and started feeding it by herself. When she turned around and saw Gao Qichang watching with gusto, she couldn't help but blushed. He scolded loudly: "Hey, you're still a gentleman. Seeing that women are so interested in breastfeeding their children, you must be a pervert!"

Gao Qichang was not angry when he saw Shi Yiqing scolding him with a sullen face. Seeing that the child had been breastfed, Shi Yiqing handed it to the nanny to hold him. You are a sage gentleman who does not see or listen to evil, but you are my wife after all, my wife nurses my child, I am not watching, if someone else sees it, then what should I do."

Shi Yiqing saw that the more he talked, the more out of shape he became, so she couldn't help spitting at him blushing, and seeing that he was still hugging her like a rascal, she didn't bother to say anything, and let him hug her with her limp body, and the two of them nestled crookedly. He refused to get up on the soft couch.

With the sound of cicadas outside, Shi Yiqing couldn't stand the heat, so he pushed him and said, "It's so hot, get up quickly."

On the contrary, Gao Qichang tightened his arms, and hugged Shi Yiqing even tighter in his arms: "That's not possible, what if I let you run away?"

(End of this chapter)