There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 175

In the second year of Longqing Mu Zong, many people requested that Pang Shangpeng be the censor of Youqin Capital, manage the salt administration, farmland, and supervise the nine border village affairs. He and the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi Wang Chonggu made a detailed plan to carry out the development of farmland in the border areas. However, the system has been corrupted for a long time, and it is difficult to achieve actual results.

People in the Ming Dynasty were not afraid of innovation, but they were afraid of innovation failure!

This is an example.

Wu Youwei pursed his lips: "Thank you Lord Long En."

"What's the matter?" Wantong saw that he was holding a salt guide | very unhappy.

How is this going?

Who won such a large reward, and can't be happy?

"It's nothing. There are too many of these things, right?" Wu Youwei was speechless as he looked at the materials that could be used to make clothes for him for three years, pulling cart after cart into the warehouse.

Clothing materials for all seasons are available.

He just emptied the warehouse during the Dragon Boat Festival, and it was filled up.

"Not much, the emperor rewarded you with 500 taels of gold!" Wantong pointed to the box carried by two strong men: "Where do you put it?"

where?

Of course it is... in the bank.

It should have been safest to put it in his own space, but Wu Youwei was afraid that it would be inappropriate for the 500 taels of gold to disappear in public, so he put it in the bank first, and then received it in his space after Vantone and the others left.

When someone asked about it in the future, he said that he gave it away!

to whom?

Master chant!

These fabricated masters are like a brick, you can move it wherever you need it!

Wantong also prepared a gift for Wu Youwei: "It's just not here yet, probably in August or September, it should be here.

"You still owe the gift?" Wu Youwei couldn't laugh or cry: "Forget it, go back, drink some rice wine, and celebrate!"

His rice wine is chilled in the spring, and it tastes refreshing in the early heat of summer.

There are also cantaloupe and early-ripening watermelon, which are the most suitable for quenching thirst and cooling off.

Wantong stayed here for one night before leaving, and he had to go back. In the past, he had to be replaced when he changed shifts.

When Wu Youwei waited for him to leave, he wrote the Sun Salt Method, which was one of the few things he remembered about people's livelihood.

I remember that there was a way to dry salt in the Song Dynasty, but at that time it was limited to Fujian and Putian, but in later generations, almost all salt fields were built along the coast. In fact, the method is constantly improving.

He didn't know if this method would work, but he just remembered it when he saw Yan Yin today, and wrote it down, no matter whether it was useful or not, at least he would feel at ease when handing it over, otherwise the salt would be a little hard for him to swallow.

It was really not easy for the ancient people!

I still remember that someone wrote a poem about the Yanhu people, that is a pity!

He didn't remember much about what it was, but he only remembered that the general content should be that the salt households were bullied miserably...

After finishing writing, he put it away and waited for Wantong to come back next time. He handed it to him. As for who he gave it to, that was his business.

And at the end of June, the Mu family's daughter-in-law was born!

After giving birth to a fat boy, the Mu family father and son were so happy that they could hardly find Bei.

Wu Youwei was also happy, this was the first born child among them.

Unlike knowing that Concubine Wan gave birth to a princess, the birth of this child gave Wu Youwei the feeling of being "born". At least he saw the little doll, such a small, ugly little monkey-like little doll , but the mothers-in-law said that the child must be a cute baby when he becomes white in a few days.

Wu Youwei only thought they were saying good things when he heard it, and he was happy to give the little doll of the Mu family a silver longevity lock, as well as silver collars, bracelets, and anklets.

A few days later, another good news came that several couples in the family and the woman were pregnant.

Wu Youwei was overjoyed: "Let people reward you with things, take good care of them, do less work, and talk when you want to eat or sleep.

"Then it can't be messed up?" The housekeeper said: "This is a matter of the backyard, so don't worry about it, master.

Wu Youwei thought so too. He is a big man, and his wife is pregnant, so someone will take care of him: "Okay, then I will leave it to you. Don't be stingy with food and drink. They are all pregnant women. My lord is in good health. Only children can be good.

"Understood, master. By the way, master, there is one more thing." The housekeeper said: "Miss Wang is about to give birth, should I invite a stable woman back?"

That one is almost ten months old.

"Really?" Wu Youwei just remembered that there is still a pregnant woman in his family: "Then hire a stable woman, and also, arrange the delivery room. All the fabrics must be boiled in boiling water and dried in the sun. use."

At this time, Wu Youwei also thought of obstetrics and childbirth in later generations.division.....

But there is no obstetrics and gynecology department here, only Wenpo, this kind of amateur delivery...

The backyard quickly cleared up the east wing as a delivery room, because the master hadn't married a wife yet, this main room couldn't be used as a delivery room, so everyone in the east wing moved to the west wing.

After Mrs. Wen came, she lived in the corner room of the East Wing. There are a total of two rooms in the East Wing. One is used as a delivery room and confinement room, one is a living room, and the other is used as a residence for those who take care of the puerpera and children. .

Wu Youwei has just given orders here, and the housekeeper over there has also made preparations. Wang Qianqian entered the delivery room in the afternoon on the second day after Mrs. Wen came.

But no one informed the master, and Wu Youwei didn't know it yet, so after dinner, he and the young couple went outside to look at the grapes under the grape arbor inside the wall.

At this time, the grapes are blooming, but the smell of the grape flowers is not very good, and because there was a light rain a few days ago, and then the sun has been shining in the sky, the grapes are a bit like dead leaves.

Wu Youwei doesn't know how to see a doctor, but he has seen large-scale vineyards sprayed with Bordeaux solution a few times, so he told Xiao Xiao: "Go to the next door tomorrow and tell Eunuch Shang to come over and test the Bordeaux solution.

"Oh, good master!" After Xiao Xiao was stunned for a moment, she immediately fell in love.

The last time I got revenge on Wu Ying by sneaking out with someone, the master didn't know about it, Xiaoxiao had a kind of excitement that her parents didn't notice that she had done something bad.

Then the two went back, Wu Youwei rested and slept as usual, and after breakfast the next day, he found that there was an extra red-skinned egg!

"This is?" Wu Youwei looked at Xiaoxiao.

Normally, eggs would never be dyed and brought up. After the Mu family gave birth to a child a few days ago, they sent red-skinned eggs door-to-door. Only then did Wu Youwei know that red-skinned eggs were also given away after giving birth.

Why didn't the second room give it away when the child was born?

Butler Lin Su told him: That's because the mansion is observing filial piety, and it is impossible to send red eggs.

Now, the red-skinned eggs appeared on his dining table, and he had to ask, whose family gave birth?

"It's Miss Wang from the backyard, who was born at dawn this morning." Xiaoxiao said: "The housekeeper said don't disturb the master, you are tired from reading during the day, you should rest early.

In fact, I think it's best for the master not to care about this kind of thing.

That's not the master's own woman giving birth to a baby...

And I don't know what the housekeeper's purpose is, he is very indifferent to Miss Wang, so cold that the housekeeper's wife rarely hears him mention Miss Wang.

In fact, the butler is angry. You, a dead ghost, can have a posthumous child. What does our master have?

have what?

So housekeeper Lin Su felt very resentful towards the piece of meat in Miss Wang's stomach.

"Give birth?" Wu Youwei was taken aback: "Boy or girl?"

"It's a boy." Xiao Xiao said, "It weighs four catties and one tael.

Wu Youwei frowned: "So small?"

"It's not too small." Xiao Xiao said: "The one from the Mu family a few days ago only weighed four catties."

Wu Youwei suddenly understood that the ancient two catties were different from the modern ones. They seemed to be heavier. That is to say, children who weighed six or seven catties were of normal size. If the child weighed more than seven catties, they would be too big.

"Since it is born, take good care of it. Adults and children can have nothing to do." Wu Youwei thought for a while: "Prepare 20 taels of silver, a set of children's silver ornaments, and send a 50 taels of big gold locks to give to the children. .” Wu Youwei compares

The example of the second room giving birth to Li'er was given to the child born to Miss Wang.

Everyone knows that this is how the master treats their mother and daughter as individuals.

Only Wang Qianqian, looking at the things in front of her, smiled wryly, hugged her son, watched the little milk doll smacking her lips hard, and made a decision in her heart.

She is a decisive person, otherwise she would not have survived adversity....

After Wantong went back, he was busy for a long time and didn't come over, but Wu Youwei also kept studying at home. The original owner's foundation is good, at least solid foundation, and limited vision, but this is changed to Wu Youwei.

Wu Youwei, as a person who was educated for exams in the past, and later taught others for exams, there is no doubt about his ability to learn!

July Jiyou, in view of the poor life last year, the emperor issued a call to exempt three out of ten of the world's military guards from garrisoning food.

Praise in the army.

Jiazi, vibrate Liangji, Zhejiang, and Henan.

It was only July, and there was a famine, and there was no harvest in August, and there were definitely no harvests in some places.

This caused food prices to rise a little in an instant.

Moling Mountain Villa has last year's food stock, and each household is not short of food, so it is not in a hurry, but the helpers are in a hurry.

Butler Lin Su came over to discuss with Wu Youwei: "How about substituting food for wages?"

"Then give it to them according to the original price!" Wu Youwei said: "Our family is not short of that little money, but we can only limit themselves, and we can't give others unlimited wages!"

"Of course!" Butler Lin Su said, "Let's say it's just this month. In August, the autumn harvest is about to begin. There will be no shortage of food at that time."

Wu Youwei thought: That's not necessarily the case!

There are also two important festivals in July, Qiqiao Festival and July Half.

Everyone knows Qiqiao Festival, Qixi Qiqiao, this festival originated in the Han Dynasty, Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty's "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes" has a record that "Han Cainu often wears seven-hole needles in Kaijinlou on July [-]th, and everyone learns it" , this is the earliest record of Qiqiao seen in ancient literature.

In later Tang and Song poems, women's Qiqiao was also repeatedly mentioned. Wang Jianyou of the Tang Dynasty said in a poem that "the stars are shining with pearls, and the maids of the Qixi Festival are busy begging for cleverness."According to the "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy": Tang Taizong and his concubine held a night banquet in the Qing Palace every Tanabata, and the court ladies begged for cleverness. This custom has been enduring among the people and continued from generation to generation.

The most famous is the line "July [-]th in the Hall of Eternal Life, when no one is whispering in the middle of the night; I wish to be a lovebird in the sky, and a Lianli branch in the ground."

So before the Qiqiao Festival came, Wantong came on the third day of July.

"Going to the capital... for the festival?" Wu Youwei was puzzled: "Isn't that the little girls' festival?

"Let's have a good time!" Wan Tongdao: "My eldest niece is too young, not old enough..."

His "big" niece was only born and not a month old, okay?

Wu Youwei was dragged into a carriage by Wantong when he was in the fourth day of junior high school. When he got there, he found out that Wanxi was at home celebrating the Qiqiao Festival, and the reason why he kicked his younger brother out was to let him find a younger sister-in-law to come back...

Wantong's eldest brother, Wanxi, is an honest man. Even if he is rich now, he has not abandoned his poor wife, and the children in the family are all born to this elder sister-in-law.

The Qiqiao Festival is naturally celebrated with the mother-in-law.

Wanda works in the guard in her hometown, and she hasn't married yet.

Wantong was kicked out by Wanxi and had nowhere to go, so he came to Wu Youwei.

"Let's go!" Wantong took Wu Youwei to change clothes in his Qianhu Mansion first, had a meal, and had enough rest at night.

When the two went to the street on the fifth day of the lunar new year, they could find that many shops were prepared, and there were also a lot of women's products such as various rouge and gouache, which were sold at roadside stalls.

There is also an exquisite "Magpie Bridge" being built....

By the sixth day of the lunar new year, Wu Youwei had received a lot of posts, all of which were sent to Mo Ling Villa, but Lin Su had someone forward them to him, asking him to attend the "Magpie Bridge Meeting" on Qixi Festival .....

However, when Wantong saw the invitation from the "Magpie Bridge Club", his face turned dark...