The Chronicle of the Rebirth of the First Daughter

Chapter 211 The Locust Plague

When I get up early on the first day of the new year, I naturally want to eat dumplings.

Although Yuechan was very reluctant to get up and Gao Zixuan wanted to be gentle with her, but the old etiquette handed down from ancient times must always be kept, it would be bad if he woke up too late.

Gao Zixuan took the time to put on his coat, turned around and saw that Yuechan had already put on her clothes and was sitting in front of the dressing table combing her hair.

Yuechan's hair was very good, black and smooth, she sat there with her black hair hanging straight down to her waist, shaking with her movements.

Gao Zixuan looked at it, went over quietly, held the satin-like hair in his hands, took another look at Yuechan, grabbed the ivory comb from her hand, and combed Yuechan's hair gently and carefully.

Maybe he hasn't combed his hair before, he has no experience after all, after combing for a long time, he couldn't comb his hair out of shape, and he kept muttering: "The hair is too slippery, why is it always disobedient."

Yuechan burst out laughing, snatched the comb with her hands, put her hair up in a couple of strokes, fixed it with a hairpin, clapped her hands and said, "Set the meal!"

After a while, the little girls came in one after another, and set meals on the round table outside.

Naturally, the staple food is dumplings, and there are some refreshing side dishes. After seeing it, Yuechan whetted her appetite, and sat down with Gao Zixuan to eat. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, at lunch time, do you want to invite all the younger sisters, set up a few tables in the main hall, and let everyone have a reunion dinner."

As soon as she finished speaking, Gao Zixuan slapped his chopsticks on the table: "What kind of reunion dinner? It's not a family. What are you doing for fun? At noon, it's just you and the king eating. It's like this every year. What's the matter?" mean."

Yuechan bowed her head: "Yes, I already know."

She was just asking a question out of her duty, who knew that Gao Zixuan was so angry, and Yuechan was also sensible, so she stopped bringing up this topic, smiled and said: "I didn't eat enough last night, the concubine who got up early was hungry." It’s tight, but you need to eat more.”

Gao Zixuan was in a better mood when he saw her jokes, he picked up a few dumplings and put them on the plate in front of Yuechan with a smile: "This is stuffed bun with leeks from the hot spring village. It's rare in winter. You can try it." taste."

Yuechan took a bite, not to mention, the cooking skills of the Wangfu are pretty good, the dumpling wrapper is thin and the stuffing is big, the skin is chewy and chewy, the stuffing is also delicious, the most rare thing is that there are fresh shrimps in it .

You must know that in this winter, when the river is frozen, it is easy to find fish and shrimps. I don’t know how much effort it took to get the shrimps in this dumpling.

Gao Zixuan saw Yuechan biting the dumplings, her eyes were round and big, and she looked puzzled, so she couldn't help laughing, touched Yuechan's long hair that fell down her cheeks, and helped her put it back behind her ears: "This The shrimps are not river shrimps, they are sea shrimps. I had someone transport them back from the sea in autumn and freeze them in the ice kiln. You can eat them in winter. I know you love seafood, but what a pity. Chang'an City is too far away from the sea, so we can't bring in fresh ones, that's all we can do."

While talking, Gao Zixuan sighed: "If you really love to eat, someday I'll be free, and I'll take you to the beach to live for a while, so that you can eat all you want at once."

Yuechan swallowed a mouthful of dumplings, took a sip of water, and lowered her head to suppress the sourness in her eyes: "It's so hard work, it's just something to eat, and I'm just trying to make something new, and it must not be like this in the future .”

Gao Zixuan smiled: "You can eat what you like."

As he spoke, he picked a few more for Yuechan and put them on the plate.

Yuechan glanced at him, saw that he was only concerned about herself, and didn't eat any of them at the moment, so she did likewise, put the shrimp dumpling on the plate in front of Gao Zixuan, thinking that Gao Zixuan was a meatless man. Huan, I put two or three of each of the mutton and chicken stuffing and put it over, and smiled: "My lord, eat some too!"

Yuechan cared about him, so Gao Zixuan was naturally happy, and buried himself in eating all the dumplings that Yuechan had picked up. In the end, he still felt a little unfulfilled. He didn't eat enough, so he didn't go to pick up the dumplings to eat. He only took the pair of peach blossoms. Looking at Yuechan eagerly, her appearance is really pitiful.

Yuechan was funny, but also a little helpless, so she had to grab a few more, looked at Gao Zixuan eating dumplings with bright eyes, shook her head, and picked up some vegetables for him: "Don't just eat, eat some vegetables too!"

The actions of the two of them, the waiters in the room looked at them, endured the pain with a smile, and sneaked out one by one, looking for a place to carry their backs and laughed their fill.

After Gao Zixuan ate some food, he felt [-]% full, so he put down his chopsticks and looked at Yuechan. Yuechan filled a bowl of soup and handed it to him.

Gao Zixuan thought for a while, then waved his hands to the remaining girls in the room: "Go ahead."

After the girls left, Gao Zixuan moved the chair to Yuechan's side, smiled and asked, "What's the matter with the locust plague you mentioned last night? Is there a way to prevent it?"

Yuechan put down the soup bowl and thought for a while. She remembered that in the previous life, that is, in the summer of this year, there was a great drought and locust plague in the Jokhang Kingdom. In other places, selling children and selling daughters is already a trivial matter, and things like changing children and eating have also happened.

Even when Gao Zixuan asked, Yuechan didn't intend to hide it, she did her best no matter Gao Zixuan believed it or not, if Gao Zixuan believed it, she would be more prepared, that would be a blessing to the common people.

"My concubine told the prince yesterday that there must be locust plagues in every drought. If the prince doesn't believe it, you can read the records in the history books. Are there droughts in those places before every locust plague?"

After Yuechan finished speaking quietly, she looked at Gao Zixuan and remained silent.

Gao Zixuan thought for a while, he also read history books thoroughly, after thinking for a while, it makes sense.

Nodded: "What you said is that it was indeed a bit dry last year."

Yuechan said solemnly: "If the drought continues this spring, locust plagues will probably occur in summer and autumn. It will harm another place, if that is the case, the disaster will be serious."

Gao Zixuan was startled. Thinking about it, it was indeed the case. Locusts could fly, flying in swarms to harm the crops. Even places without drought might suffer disaster.

Only now did he realize the seriousness of the matter, and he couldn't help but tighten his heart, and grabbed Yuechan's hand: "Do you have any good solutions?"

Yuechan lowered her head and frowned: "My lord, I am a woman in a boudoir, so there is no good way, but, thinking about it, locusts lay eggs. Let's take advantage of the farming season or the slack season to let the farmers People dig the ground deep, bury the eggs deep, or set fire to the withered grass and other things in the ground, first to burn the eggs to death, and second, the burned plant ash can also be used as fertilizer."

Gao Zixuan had traveled a lot when he was young, so he was naturally not the kind of person who would not eat the fireworks of the world. He also had some experience, and felt that Yuechan's idea was feasible, so he nodded with a smile: "This is a good idea."

Seeing that Gao Zixuan was able to listen, Yuechan expressed all the thoughts in her heart: "My concubine thinks that chickens, ducks and other things eat insects. When the time comes, if there is a plague of locusts, I will drive the chickens and eat them." It is also a way to get ducks into the field."

Chicken and duck?

Gao Zixuan couldn't help thinking of the chickens and ducks chasing locusts all over the ground, and heard Yuechan say: "Locusts are the most nourishing. Chickens and ducks eat locusts to fatten their bodies, and the meat will become more delicious. I'm afraid they will lay more eggs." of……"

Hearing Yuechan's words bit by bit, Gao Zixuan nodded repeatedly, staring at Yuechan's bright eyes, he deeply felt that his daughter-in-law was really kind, not only thought of everything for him, but also had such a big heart and wisdom, which made people unable to help Admire.

After Yuechan finished speaking, she looked at Gao Zixuan nervously.

She was a little scared, afraid that Gao Zixuan would be jealous of her, she knew that all men would not want their wives to be too powerful, it seemed that a man would lose face if his wife was capable, and she was also afraid that Gao Zixuan would be such a person.

However, Gao Zixuan didn't feel unhappy at all, instead he started discussing with her with great interest.

At the end, Gao Zixuan hugged Yuechan with a smile on his face: "My lord's concubine is indeed a good one. In the future, if I have anything to do, I can discuss it with you. It will save my lord a lot of trouble."

Yuechan breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved, she never thought that Gao Zixuan would be so broad-minded and tolerate her so far.

After the discussion between the two of them, Gao Zixuan took Yuechan for a walk for a while to eat. Since it was the first day of the new year, there was nothing to do, so the two of them stayed in the room to read and write. Later, Gao Zixuan got annoyed and pulled Yuechan plays chess.

Yuechan and Yuechan are human beings, so their chess skills are naturally not weak. Gao Zixuan looks reckless, but he is actually careful and thoughtful.

After the two had played a few games of chess with each winning or losing, it was time for lunch. Gao Zixuan stood up and stretched: "How about we visit the third brother's house in the afternoon? You haven't been to the third brother's house since you got married." Woolen cloth."

Yuechan nodded, while asking people to prepare meals, she was thinking, Gao Zixuan was probably going to discuss something with the Third Prince, so if she called her, could it be that she wanted to speak in front of the Third Prince?

She couldn't figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it. After dinner, Gao Zixuan asked someone to prepare a carriage, and took Yuechan straight to the Three Princes' Mansion.

Mengjia
After Meng Haoyu and Ji Wanrong got up early in the morning to pay New Year's greetings, they returned to their room, and Ji Wanrong laughed as soon as they returned to the room.

Meng Haoyu shook his head: "You, just be naughty."

Ji Wanrong blinked her eyes: "I feel uncomfortable when I see my wife. You haven't seen her before, relying on Yue'e to marry the prince as a side concubine, you don't know how powerful the world is, and she trips us up and down. She still wants to seize power, but fortunately the master and the old lady are not confused, so they didn't let her succeed."

Meng Haoyu smiled: "What are you fussing about with her? According to Yuechan's words, she is blinded by the glory and wealth, and her heart is blind. If you argue with her, doesn't it mean that we are also blind?"

Ji Wanrong couldn't hold back what she said, she fell on the bed with a smile, pointed at Meng Haoyu and said, "It's said that you are serious, but in fact you can hurt others. What you said is very true. You are not at home often. I didn't see the face of the wife, but she kept talking about Yue'e, why did Yue'e get a reward today, what will the crown prince give to Yue'e tomorrow, bah, she is just a side concubine, it's not good to say, it's okay It's nothing more than the prince's concubine, she's really showing off, our sister is the upright Ninth Princess, and she has always told us to be careful, so don't get jealous."

Speaking of this matter, Meng Haoyu was also furious and could not help complaining.

(End of this chapter)