First Lady of the Crown Prince

Chapter 116: Drunk (one more)

Chapter 116 Drunk (one more)

Xiao Liulang hired the fastest carriage and arrived in Qingquan Town at the end of August.

When passing by Tianxiang Academy, Feng Lin first moved his luggage back to his dormitory, and ran into Dean Li after he came out.

Dean Li was surprised to see him: "Huh? Why so fast? Didn't you go to the village examination? You didn't catch up or what happened? What about Liulang?"

"Catch up! We'll be back after the exam! That... I'll tell you later, Liu Lang is waiting for me outside, goodbye dean!" Feng Lingan said with a smile, and ran away in a hurry!

Who doesn’t know that Xiao Liulang is Dean Li’s baby bump, don’t slip away a little faster, Dean Li can pull him to ask the sky dimly.

Feng Lin swishes into the carriage.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Liulang asked.

"President Li!" Feng Lin said, "Don't be caught by him, you won't be able to get home after asking for a while!"

Xiao Liulang was very satisfied, and urged the coachman to rush the carriage back to the village.

The money for the car was settled as early as in the provincial capital, but the coachman followed them all the way to be a coachman and a small servant. It was hard work and hard work. Xiao Liulang gave him another one or two.

The coachman was flattered and hurriedly bowed his hands.

"Be careful on the road." Xiao Liulang said.

"Hey! Thank you, Young Master Xiao!" The driver happily got into the carriage.

What they get in their business is hard money. Don’t look at the money that has really fallen into your own hands for more than a month. With these two, the life at home will be much better next month!

Xiao Liulang and Feng Lin walked to the village.

When they left the village at the end of June, the late rice in the village had just been planted, just sparsely small rice seedlings, and now the whole length is a green patch.

"Wow! The wheat in your village is growing really well!"

The weather is abnormal this year, the rain is scarce, and the farmland is dry, causing many crops to die in the land. They walked all the way from the provincial capital, witnessing it with their own eyes, and were shocked in their hearts.

However, the crops in Qingquan Village do not seem to have been affected by the drought, and they grow strong.

"It's rice." Xiao Liulang corrected him, but the same doubts flashed in his heart, why did the crops in his village grow so well?

"Oh." Feng Lin replied, and suddenly pointed to the front, "Look! Drains! Not bad, you have dug drains in your village! It's different after changing the inside!"

After Mr. Gu stepped down, the village chose a new Lizheng. The second uncle Luo is a family member. It is said that he is about to be out of the fifth service, but because he lives close, the two families move a lot, so the relationship is still close.

Luo Li is ignorant of the fact that his father is educated, but he is a practical man. He will help out any folks in the village who have difficulties.

It can be said that digging channels...

It is not Xiao Liulang who underestimated Luo Lizheng, but the neighbors and villagers. After getting along for so long, Luo Lizheng still sees what Xiao Liulang will do.

He is a relatively conservative Lizheng, who is not easy to build a project, and there is no money to build a project in the village.

"Hey! Liu Lang!" Feng Lin croaked on the side, "Look! The waterwheel! Oh my god! I have no dizziness? Your village actually has a waterwheel!"

Feng Lin is so old that he has seen waterwheels a handful of times.

The waterwheel is a good thing. It can divert water from a low place to a high place. It is best used to irrigate farmland.

It’s just that waterwheels are rarely seen in such small county towns. Generally, the more prosperous villages can arrange waterwheels. They have seen waterwheels several times on their way back from the provincial capital, but they are all due to drought and the water in their own villages. There is no water in the pond, so waterwheels have become decorations.

Feng Lin puzzled and said, "By the way, where does the water in your village come from?"

Xiao Liulang's gaze followed the canal all the way to the back mountain of Luo Ershu's house. He frowned and murmured, "Did you lead the waterfall on the mountain?"

That is not an ordinary canal. It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to dig it out after crossing half a mountain. Not only that, but also need to be very familiar with the topography of the mountain.

"Oh! Rokuro is back!"

is Aunt Zhang.

Aunt Zhang just came out of Luo Ershu's house with a basket of wild fruits in her hand. She felt that her family was 80% lucky, and she was the first one to see her after returning from the Liulang exam!

"Aunt Zhang." Xiao Liulang said hello.

"Aunt Zhang!" Feng Lin also greeted with a smile.

Feng Lin always came to the village. Aunt Zhang already recognized him. Aunt Zhang smiled and said, "It's a return, this time is longer than last time! The provincial capital is far away!"

The country folks didn’t understand the days of examinations and the release of the rankings. I don’t know that Xiao Liulang was actually the first to go home among the out-of-town candidates of the rural examination. I just think that he has left for a month longer than last time.

Xiao Liulang didn't explain anything, and said, "Yes, the provincial capital is farther than the prefectural city. It took more than half a month to arrive."

"What I said!" Aunt Zhang looked like I was really smart, "Well, I have been away from home for so many days, so I am thinking of Jiao Niang, go back quickly, she is there!"

Today, Tianxiang Academy is on holiday, and the private school is not on holiday. Gu Xiaoshun went to the town to take care of the two babies. Gu Jiao is working at home.

Xiao Liulang and Feng Lin entered the house. The first thing they saw was not Gu Jiao, but a man dressed as a farmer.

Both of them were taken aback.

Hearing the movement at the door, the man turned around, his eyes lit up: "Liu Lang? This is... Feng Xiucai, right?"

Feng Lin startled: "Uh...I am, you are..."

"Luo Lizheng." Xiao Liulang said hello.

Rory was scratching his head and smiling.

Feng Lin suddenly realized: "You are the new Lizheng? You are really good. You are digging ditches and making waterwheels. The crops of the whole village have been revitalized for you!"

Luo Li was stunned at first, and then he smiled honestly: "Feng Xiucai boasted that it was wrong. It is not me who digs the canal, nor is it me who makes the waterwheel!"

Feng Lin looked surprised: "Isn't who you are?"

There was a vague guess in Xiao Liulang's heart. He subconsciously looked towards the back door of the hall. At this time, Gu Jiao wiped his hands and entered the hall.

When she saw Xiao Liulang, her step was just a meal.

She knows the time when the rural exams are over, and she also knows when the list will be released. She estimated that Xiao Liulang should come back after the list was released. Unexpectedly, it was so soon.

She looked a little natural in shock.

Xiao Liulang felt his heart tremble uncontrollably.

He looked away calmly and greeted Rory Zheng.

Lori was at a loss. Didn’t he say hello just now?

Gu Jiao looked at Xiao Liulang and curled her lips unconsciously: "Why did you come back so soon? I won't play for a few more days in the provincial capital."

Xiao Liulang said lightly, "There is nothing fun in the provincial capital."

Gu Jiao: "Oh."

Luo Li was smiling and said: "Just now I was talking about you. Feng Xiucai asked me if I dug the canal and whether the waterwheel was made by me. Haha, where can I have such skills?"

He said, and said to Feng Lin, "It's Jiao Niang!"

"Ah..." Feng Lin was dumbfounded.

Gu Jiao opened the mountain to grow medicine fields and dug a fish pond. When the water from the waterfall was introduced into the fish pond, he also dug a canal directly into the village.

The weather is dry and the waterfall on the mountain is much smaller, but it is still enough to irrigate the farmland in the village.

Xiao Liulang glanced at Gu Jiao deeply.

"Isn't it? It's only been two months since you even dug out the fish pond?" Feng Lin knew about Gu Jiao's purchase of mountains, but he didn't expect Gu Jiao to be so resolute.

Luo Li was saying to Gu Jiao: "By the way, the wooden cart you told us about the threshing and Yangguzi last time, I went to the carpenter in the village to do it, but I didn't make it so quickly, they asked me to ask you, Which kind of wood is better?"

Gu Jiao thought for a while, and said: "Red pine, aspen, chrysanthemum, and basswood are all fine, with high hardness and not easy to deform."

"Okay! Then I'll go first!" Luo Li was talking, and then turned around to congratulate Xiao Liulang and Feng Lin in advance, and wish them well on the provincial examination list.

"What threshing and Yangguzi carts?" Feng Lin asked curiously.

Gu Jiao explained: "It is a car that can separate the grains from the ears of rice, and a car that filters out the insufficiently full rice grains, leaving only normal grains."

"There is such a thing?" Feng Lin expressed doubt.

Although he can't distinguish between wheat fields and rice fields, he still knows threshing grains.

It was all grabbing a bundle of rice and smashing it on the ground with brute force. It was too much trouble to smash it, and it might not be able to take it off. The rice ears that did not come off had to be picked carefully by hand.

He used to pick millet when he was a child, and half a copper plate a day.

As for the separation of rice grains and good grains, it is usually done by drying the grains first, and then choosing a windy day to raise the grains. Good valleys are heavier and will fall on the ground; shaggy valleys are lighter and will be blown aside by the wind.

After 舂米, the rice and chaff are separated by raising the valley.

Gu Jiao’s cart made by Gu Jiao is similar in principle to that of Yanggu. It can separate rice and chaff, as well as rice and chaff, but it is more efficient, more labor-saving, and cleaner.

Originally, Luo Lizheng didn't really believe in such useful things. It can be seen that after Gu Jiao dug a canal and built a waterwheel for the villagers, Luo Li was convinced of her ability and character.

The three Gu Yan brothers arrived home in the evening.

The eyelids of Xiaojingkong began to jump suddenly from noon. As soon as he entered the room and saw the bad brother-in-law, he finally understood why his eyelids were jumping all afternoon!

He walked into the room and looked at the bad brother-in-law with a serious face.

Well, no thinness.

Jiaojiao should not worry.

He took Xiao Liulang to the backyard again and asked Xiao Liulang to pick him the dates from the jujube tree.

Xiao Liulang looked up at the branch: "It's almost September, where are the dates?"

Xiao Jingkong's gaze fixed on Xiao Liulang's head, he had strictly recorded the height of the bad brother-in-law before, barely able to reach the first branch, and now the bad brother-in-law has exceeded the branch!

The bad brother-in-law has grown taller!

In fact, in the past two months, according to his close observation, not only the bad brother-in-law has grown taller, but also the older brothers Gu Yan and Xiaoshun, even Jiaojiao.

The only thing that hasn't changed in the whole family is him and his aunt.

Jiaojiao said that it was because he was still young.

But the dog is smaller than him, and the dog has grown taller!

Small clearance is frowning!

"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Liulang looked at him and asked.

"Oh, nothing, don't talk about me." Xiaojingkong sighed like an adult, looked up at Xiao Liulang solemnly, "Tell me about you! How did you do this test? Is it difficult? Is it difficult? Sure? If you can't get the job done, the family will have to provide you with another three years!"

Xiao Liulang never expected to escape Dean Li, but never escaped the little monk...

What's the little voice of everybody?

"You still know that the exam is taken every three years." Xiao Liulang moved his small inch angrily and funny, and handed a picked red date to his hand, "Here, take it for fun."

Xiao Jingkong looked at the dried jujube in her hand, and curled her mouth.

Who wants to play? naive!

Xiao Liulang brought gifts to the family, the old lady’s sesame sugar and soybean cakes.

Happy old lady!

Gu Jiao confiscated the matang, so she can only eat one piece of soybean cake a day.

The old lady is not happy!

He brought Gu Yan an inkstone made of a piece of jade, which was round, and he liked round things, especially jade.

Gu Yan: "Thank you brother-in-law."

Give the small clearance a set of nine chains.

Xiao Jingkong took it arrogantly, said "what's wrong, childishness is dead", turned around and hid in the house, and secretly untied the nine chains!

Gu Xiaoshun was given a few pieces of fine woodcarving materials. Now he doesn't lack tools in his hands, he lacks the good wood that would make him miserable.

"Brother-in-law, what kind of wood is this? I haven't seen it!" Gu Xiaoshun asked with a black block in his hand.

"Ebony." Xiao Liulang said.

The ebony is not owned by Zhaoguo. It was shipped from Qingguo. They were lucky and met a caravan halfway through.

Several people are very satisfied with their gifts.

Finally, it was Gu Jiao's turn.

Gu Jiaoxin said that this time she couldn't give her any more brushes. In the end, Xiao Liulang did not give her a pen, but instead sent a stack of paper.

Gu Jiao: "..."

This is not the rough paper sold on the market, but the very expensive water-grained paper. There will be curtain patterns, bamboo patterns or patterns displayed in the light, so it is also called patterned paper.

The pattern paper is complicated in craftsmanship and expensive to make. It can't even be sold in Fucheng, only if you go to the provincial capital.

In Zhaoguo, sending patterned paper is almost the same as sending flowers.

Red sleeves add fragrance to the moon before the flower.

However, Gu Jiao's smile gradually froze on her small face.

The old lady whose Matang was confiscated leaned forward and backward with a smile.

There is a kind of romance, called Rokuro thinks it is very romantic!鈥斺�

Feng Lin also brought things, a few large pieces of smoked donkey meat, a bottle of burning knife wine, burning knives were given by the store.

Gu Jiao had never drunk ancient wine, and it smelled not too strong. She tasted two bites, and she didn’t respond at dinner. When she was washing the dishes, she started to drink vigorously.

Xiao Liulang first sent Feng Lin to the entrance of the village, and then came back to give Xiao Jingkong a bath. When he went to the stove to find Gu Jiao, Gu Jiao had already thrown the half-washed bowl in the pot and sat in the main room. On the threshold of the back door.

She turned her back to Xiao Liulang and stared at the starry sky motionlessly.

Xiao Liulang walked over: "What are you looking at?"

Gu Jiao turned her head slowly, her expression dull, wooden, her small cheeks flushed, her big eyes were wet, glowing with crystal water.

Her appearance is different from the cold and cold in the usual days, but she seems to have become a child in an instant, especially innocent.

"Look at the stars."

she says.

The voice is soft and waxy, with a faint little milky voice.

Xiao Liulang took a deep breath, settled, and said: "Go back to the house, it's dark."

"No reply." She shook her head and muttered her little mouth.

Yes, small headroom is usually like this.

Have a drink, and drank myself until Gu is three years old.

Gu Jiao continued to look up at the stars.