Chapter 171 Father-in-law(1/2)
Plant a grain of millet in spring and harvest ten thousand seeds in autumn.
In the middle of spring, farmers in the fields began to renovate the fields. After a spring rain, the air was filled with the smell of soil.
In a small pavilion on the outskirts of the city, Chen Shou sat on a stone bench, and dozens of officials stood below.
They were all officials of the Ministry of Works. They used to not leave the yamen easily, but were gathered outside the city at this time.
"Diversion and irrigation are a major event, and you must not ignore it." Chen Shou raised his hand and pointed to the farmland in the distance, saying loudly: "In recent years, floods have occurred frequently, but fortunately, it has not yet reached an uncontrollable level. As long as you repair it frequently, divert water and divert the flow, clear the river channel, and strengthen the embankment, it will be an amazing achievement."
Today, under the governance of the predecessors, there has been no large-scale dam breaking.
This is excellent news, which made Chen Shou feel very excited. Especially after reading the remaining historical records, I realized how determined they made when they repaired the Yellow River.
In the field in the distance, a young man looked at the pavilion and wiped his sweat and asked, "Is that the Zhongyong Hou?"
"Who else has this majesty besides him? Let dozens of officials stand and listen to his preaching?" the old man smiled.
"Everyone said that Zhongyong Hou was a treacherous minister. I didn't expect to come to our fields and he didn't look like a bad person."
The old man glanced at him, buried his head and continued to weed, and said, "Loyal and treacherous ministers, what does it have to do with us? If you don't have the fertile land of Zhongyonghou, can you have your share? Working with peace of mind, the world outside is not like the chaos, but our Kaifeng Prefecture is still peaceful."
The young young man smiled and said, "Our Kaifeng Prefecture is a capital city, and it has dragon veins and dragon energy."
The old man sneered: "Do your work, I don't know anything."
He secretly glanced at the pavilion in the distance. Hou Zhongyong had already stood up and was escorted by the guards to leave.
The old man lowered his head and continued to work, thinking in his heart that if the Zhongyong Hou was a treacherous minister, let him be more treacherous, but don't let those honest and loyal officials come back.
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The night snow in Loulan, the private room.
After Chen Shou sat down, Bayitash said excitedly: "I have helped you contact the most famous Ma Shang in the Western Regions. Even the king cannot limit his business."
"There are such a powerful person?" Chen Shou asked in confusion: "Is your horse selling status so high?"
Bayitash smiled mysteriously and said, "He is not a simple businessman. Some things are not convenient for me to say. In short, you know that he has a lot of energy and can satisfy your appetite."
Chen Shou did not continue to ask questions. As long as he could buy a horse, find a horse farm, and build a horse farm, he could solve his urgent needs.
You should know that Kaifeng Prefecture and Daming Prefecture are not suitable for raising horses, and they are easily targeted by others.
But this thing is built elsewhere and I am always worried. I can only find a place in Xiliang for the time being.
If it is swallowed by his father-in-law, there is nothing we can do about it...
The servant beside Baitash poured him a glass of wine, and he pushed him to Chen Shou and asked, "I heard that you have raised the trade tax again, aren't you afraid that no one will drive the camel to do business?"
Chen Shou chuckled and said, "No, no one will give up mining gold mountains because there are too many stones on the road. The tax I collect is higher than before, but looking at the entire business road, this is definitely the lowest."
Chen Shou had just such a bag of money, and he must not give up squeezing Hu Shang. He was a buyer when he was dealing with Nan Tang on sea. Countless gold and silver were collected and delivered, and the money was made by the Nan Tang Chamber of Commerce.
Nowadays, there are only a few places that pay taxes in various places, and they are often intercepted halfway.
The Great Qi court had almost nothing left except a great name, and could not control the officials in the border areas.
A few days ago, Huaiyin soldiers suddenly attacked Gaoyou and surrounded Yangzhou City.
The Yangzhou prefect opened the door to surrender and was strangled to death. Everyone in the world knew that it was the Wei family's soldiers.
Wei Yunse reigned for twelve years, and his confidants were all over the Huai River. The Wei family almost covered the sky with one hand.
After the old thief died, his younger brother Wei Yunting was elected as the new head of the family, and he was in charge of the military and political power in the Lianghuai area.
They hated Chen Shou to the core. If they had the chance, they would definitely be the first to enter Kaifeng Prefecture.
However, Chen Shouxin got 100,000 troops from Daming Mansion, which made Wei Yunting and his men a little afraid and did not dare to do it easily.
When the heroes compete, who can keep calm can often laugh to the end.
It is difficult to fight forever when you come up. The importance of keeping your strengths and keeping a low profile is best reflected at this time.
Even Chen Shou did not dare to go directly into Hedong. He fought with Jiang Chucai, a mortal enemy, and even had to use a knife to kill people and drive Li Xin to fight.
As soon as he moves, he will run from Kaifeng Prefecture from all directions.
Now the troops of Daming Prefecture are in Shandong, which is a homeless land that has been harmed by the White Lotus Sect. There is no strong local force, because it is close to the capital, and the imperial court has a relatively strong control.
If someone takes the opportunity to fight, Zhang Zhengyuan can easily retract his troops and rush to Kaifeng to help.
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The night is getting darker, and the summer palace is filled with lights like beans.
Li Lingfeng just asked the wet nurse to take the child away and go to the room next door to sleep, but she breathed a sigh of relief and lay on the couch.
Beside her, Zhiqin's hand was holding an unfinished embroidered purse, with a pair of phoenixes flying around the word "利" and flying in two ways.
Although Li Lingfeng did not embroider himself, he looked at it from time to time, pinched the pumpkin seeds in his hand and said, "Embroider better. Add a small flower to this place, and then I will say that it was embroidered by me."
Zhiqin lowered her head and focused on making a girl-red girl. Zhiqi pounded her calves on the side, and couldn't help but smile and said, "He is not stupid, you can tell at a glance that it was not embroidered by the eldest lady."
Li Lingfeng spit out the melon seed skin flexibly at the tip of her tongue, and her eyes turned, and said, "What you said makes sense. Stop embroidering the little flowers. The embroidery is a little bit crooked, and it looks like it is made by a novice."
"What a novice?" Chen Shou lifted the curtain and came in. Zhiqin hurriedly hid her purses. Zhiqi stroked her chest and said with a blushing face: "You are the one who opens the door and walks without any sound."
"If you don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, what are you afraid of? Besides, I've come a long time ago, and I happened to meet the wet nurse carrying Xiaohua out, so I followed her to look at it next door."
Li Lingfeng was inconvenient and did not get out of bed. He pointed to the soft-cold beside him and said, "You are sitting here."
Chen Shou smiled and did not sit down on the soft-collapse, but kicked Zhiqi's butt, drove her away, and kneaded Li Lingfeng's calves for her.
Li Lingfeng was wearing thin gauze pants, wearing a pair of slender legs wrapped around her, with straight knees and shins, which looked indescribable. After taking off the embroidered shoes of silk socks, two white little feet were exposed from her wide trouser legs, which was very cute.
Seeing Chen Shou's gaze, Li Lingfeng shook her calves proudly and asked in a blink of an eye: "Is it good-looking?"
Zhiqi stood behind him, waved his fist at the air before pouring tea, took the stove, picked off the cloak, squatted on the ground, picked up the boots for Chen Shou, and changed into a velvet-clothed slug.
"How is it, are you feeling better?"
Li Lingfeng's body was very good, and she was blushing just now. Now she covered her chest and said coquettishly: "I can't tell you what's uncomfortable."
All three maids covered their mouths, fearing that they would laugh.
Chen Shou quickly asked about his well-being, and took the opportunity to scold the three maids for not taking good care of themselves. They were so angry that their cheeks were bulging.
Li Lingfeng asked with a smile: "Why are you free to come again?"
"Look at what you said, I won't come any day?"
"The day before yesterday, the day before yesterday, the fifth day of the lunar month, the second day of the lunar month..." Zhiqi said with his fingers beside him.
"Just remember clearly, why, are you feeling like you have been together?"
Zhiqi made a face and stopped talking. Chen Shou laughed and said, "Your father heard that you gave birth to a girl and wanted to send someone to take you two back..."
Li Lingfeng was stunned and looked panicked, "How did my father know!"
Chen Shou's expression was a little strange. Li Lingfeng suddenly realized and said gritting her teeth: "Li Lingyue!"
"No, it's me chatting with the Xiliang caravan and accidentally let it go." Chen Shou quickly covered up for his wife.
"You just protect her, it must be what she said."
Li Lingfeng didn't believe Chen Shou's nonsense at all. Her eyes were red. She gave birth to a child while she was a widow, and her own father found out that it was not good.
Not to mention that the Li family has a bad reputation when they are exposed, they will be a little embarrassed to meet people just because of their father.
Chen Shou beat him up and said with a smile: "Well, my father-in-law doesn't know it's my child, otherwise he will definitely be relieved. Think about it, you are the princess of the rebellious prince Zhao Zhe. If you give birth to a child, your father-in-law is afraid that someone will use it to attack you. He wants to protect you by his side."
Li Lingfeng covered her face and kicked her feet: "You couple join together and want to drive me to Xiliang, and my little flower. Why are we so miserable? Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo
Chen Shou was one big head and two big ones, and turned around, not knowing what to say.
Li Lingfeng waited for a while, but before Chen Shou came to coax her, she turned around and saw that Chen Shou was staying there, so she was angry and didn't even get angry.
"You're not talking yet. Do you think I'm right?"
"I didn't say it." Chen Shou quickly denied it.
"I didn't say it, that's what you think." Li Lingfeng originally wanted him to coax himself, but as he spoke, he got into the show. The more he thought about it, the more aggrieved he felt, the more he felt, the more he was crying, the pearls that seemed to fall down.
"Why did I think so? Of course I hope you can stay by my side. You know that." Chen Shou said helplessly.
Li Lingfeng sobbed, "Then why did you say you didn't say you didn't say you didn't think about it."
Chen Shou:...
Fortunately, at this time, the curtain was lifted and Hong'er walked in. She was wearing underwear and underwear. When she saw Chen Shou, she was happy and quickly took it back.
She thought she was just a concubine and didn't dare to show her attachment to the master in front of outsiders, especially Li Lingfeng. However, she couldn't stop the smile at the corners of her eyebrows and eyes. She had seen the master more often in the summer palace these days.
Chen Shou had no such concern. When he saw the great savior coming, he also said that a wife was not as good as a concubine, and a wife was not as good as a steal. He didn't see this kind-behaved concubine for a few days. He thought of her in his heart, so he quickly got up and smiled, "Hong'er is here."
Hong'er bent her knees gently and said Fuli: "Master."
"Look at Feng'er, I saw her tossing and turning, crying. This should be bad for her health, right?"
Seeing his master's appearance, Hong'er smiled in her heart and rescued him: "What the master said is that if he is often angry, he might leave a root of the disease."
Li Lingfeng was guarding Hong'er, and indeed stopped crying. She secretly wiped away her tears, covered her exposed legs quietly, pursed her hair and said, "Didn't I say that, I don't have to see you at night. I've been exhausted these days and have been by my side during the day."
With Hong'er here, Chen Shou's life would be much better. Li Lingfeng couldn't help but acted coquettishly in front of Hong'er and was stubborn.
To be continued...