Farmer Fubo is open for business

When Lu Jingzhou came back from outside, he couldn't help but darken his face when he learned that his father and aunt were looking for his biological mother.

Especially the biological mother's cousin. I originally wanted to give him a sum of money before taking office, but I didn't use it now.

A few days later, Lu Jingzhou took his wife, mother-in-law and family to the northwest.

Accompanying them were Wu's mother and son.

Lian Xin also came on the last day, with only one baggage and nothing else.

Chang'an asked her to ride in a carriage with Li Xing'er, Chun Xiu, Xia Xiu and others, while he rode in one with his mother and brother.

A group of people and more than a dozen carriages left the city and headed northwest.

More than twenty days later, we finally arrived at Ansai Mansion.

Along the way to Chang'an, we saw that the land was all yellow and there was very little vegetation, as if it hadn't rained for a long time.

The Ansai government office was very depressed, and the clerks who came to greet Lu Jingzhou were also listless.

Chang'an, his mother, aunt, and others entered the official residence and saw that the entire courtyard was in a mess, with broken and charred tables and chairs and porcelain shards on the floor.

The house was clean and tidy, but except for the newly built kang, there was nothing else.

She waved to an old servant and asked, "Why is there no furniture in the house?"

The old servant knelt down and saluted: "Madam, there was a bandit trouble here a few days ago. They killed the magistrate, robbed things and burned down the houses. Now these houses are newly renovated."

Chang'an frowned: "Where did the bandits come from? How dare they rush into the government office to smash, smash, and rob?"

"Madam, you don't know. It hasn't rained here in the past year. People in the surrounding counties and villages have no food to eat, so they eat grass roots and leaves. It's autumn now, and I'm afraid there will be no grass roots and leaves in the future."

The old servant sighed: "Many villagers took desperate risks and ganged up to rob rich households' grain stores, and later even the county government's granary.

Alas, one county is like this, and the surrounding counties and villages are imitating it. They actually robbed Ansai a while ago. Fortunately, the garrison came to suppress it and dispersed the bandits. Otherwise, the people here would have no way to survive. "

The gangsters also forcibly recruited strong men to join their ranks. If they didn't comply, they would be beaten to death. It was simply inhumane.

Chang'an looked solemn when he heard this.

No wonder Lu Jingzhou found Ren Que who came to the northwest so quickly. It turned out that the prefect here had been cheated.

Wouldn't it be dangerous for my family to be here?

Chang'an gave Li Xing'er two hundred taels of silver and asked her and the old servant to buy furniture and equipment, and also buy some food and vegetables.

Myolie Li took the order, and Chang An, her mother, aunt, mother-in-law and others each found a house and moved the things on the carriage into it.

The inner residence of Ansai Mansion is quite large and has many rooms, but most of them are cave dwellings.

It is said that this kind of cave house is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is very good.

"Sister, I want to live here with Little Nian Gao!" Little Shitou took a fancy to a cave house and quickly asked his followers to move his things in.

Little Nian Gao is already three years old. She is following her little cousin, making milky sounds and echoing, "I want to live here with my brother."

Chang'an pinched his chubby face and said with a smile: "Okay, you will live with your brother from now on. Whoever dares to cry at night will be a puppy."

"Be good every year, that's why you don't cry." Xiao Nian Gao said unconvinced.

Changning also came over and said, "If anyone wets the bed at night, I will let him bask in the sun on a mat."

When the little rice cake heard this, he immediately shrank his neck and ran into the cave house quickly.

A few days later, Chang'an bought everything in his inner house and calmed down to write a letter to his father, asking him to bring a dozen reliable people to protect his family.

At that time, she will pay each of them one tael of silver per month.

My father's garrison is about a hundred miles away from here. If they ride horses to Ansai, it will probably take two days.

The reason why she hired a guard from the army was that she was not familiar with Ansai's life and place, and she was worried about putting her family's lives in the hands of strangers.

The soldiers at my father's place were different. I had known them for a few years, so I knew them well.

In the evening, Changan handed the letter to Lu Jingzhou and asked him to send someone to the station.

Lu Jingzhou took the letter and put it aside. He held his wife in his arms and sighed, "Chang'an, I've been tricked."

Chang'an: "Why do you say that?"

"The old fox, the Minister of Civil Affairs, told me that Ansai was a good place, so I believed it. I didn't expect that there wasn't even a decent tree here." Lu Jingzhou pinched his brows tiredly.

He went through all the affairs in the yamen these days, and found that there was not a grain of rice in the official warehouse.

Forget it, the key point is that the tax money in the yamen is gone.

Lu Jingzhou felt numb all over when he heard the report from his colleagues.

There is not a penny in the entire government office, and the warehouse is empty. If anything happens, he will be blinded.

Tongzhi also said that those things were stolen by gangsters, and whether they are true or false needs to be investigated carefully.

"There will be trees in the future." Chang'an said: "The most urgent task is to gather people to clean up the rivers and reservoirs."

Lu Jingzhou nodded.

There is a reservoir in Ansai, and there is a river near the county seat, but the water in the river is about to dry up. The water level in the reservoir has reached an extremely low level and cannot be discharged at all.

Chang'an added: "Once the rivers and reservoirs are cleared, we should have water here."

Lu Jingzhou looked at his wife and suddenly thought of the pond in Songjia Village and the sudden overflow of clear water from the Lingqiu County Reservoir.

It is precisely because of the continuous water that the drought in Lingqiu County has been solved.

He sighed slightly in his heart, lowered his head and kissed the top of his wife's hair, and said warmly: "Chang'an, thank you in advance for my husband."

Only by solving the drought here can we prevent the formation of rogue bandits.

In fact, most people tend to live a stable life, and only a handful of people are desperadoes.

Early the next morning, Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Wu went to the kitchen to cook, and Mrs. Yang also went to help.

Chang'an arranged for workers to dig soil in the vegetable fields outside the courtyard.

She wanted to plant a batch of leeks, cabbage and radishes while it was still warm, so that she would not have any vegetables to eat in the winter.

In fact, there are no more vegetable sellers in the market in Ansai, but there are still many selling chickens and geese.

When Chang'an took his younger sister Changning to the market, he would buy a few of them whenever he came across them and keep them in the yard.

She circled an open space in the corner of the yard, and the chickens and geese were penned in it to prevent them from pooping everywhere.

Chang'an also bought two ewes that had given birth and had them squeeze out a large bowl of goat's milk every day and boil it for their two younger brothers to drink.

Xiao Shitou and Xiao Nian Gao were reluctant to drink it at first, but after Chang An added almond powder and caramel to the goat milk, they finally accepted it.

Within two days, Song Erxiao rode to Ansai with dozens of soldiers.

As soon as they entered the yard, Xiao Shitou, who was playing with his little brother, stared at the man with a sandy face for a long time, and then he rushed over: "Daddy!"

Song Erxiao smiled and picked up the small stone and turned it around before putting it down: "What a boy! It's already so tall!"

Little Shitou chuckled and said, "I'm seven years old!" He is not only tall, but also strong and much stronger than children of the same age.

Little Nian Gao also rushed over and hugged Song Erxiao's legs, raised his neck and shouted: "Daddy, hug!"

Song Erxiao picked up his little nephew again and smiled: "I am uncle, and the little rice cake should be called uncle."

Little Nian Gao was puzzled, but still called out again: "Uncle."

Song Erxiao touched his head and said, "Your father will be here in a while. He said he will never leave you again."

I'm so sleepy that my eyes are fighting together. I'll update one chapter tonight. Let's go to bed early. The second chapter will be updated at 12 o'clock tomorrow.