As soon as Liu Pan'er received the imperial edict, Eunuch Liang took a box from the hand of the chamberlain at the back, which contained Liu Pan'er's five-level imperial edict, woven on silk.

Five-grade auspicious grass, pleasant flowers for all seasons, all use angle axes.

Liu Paner took it again, her eyes showing gratitude for the reward given to her by the court.

Eunuch Liang looked at Liu Pan'er. He deserved such a commendation for his good deeds that relieved His Majesty of the great siege and benefited the people all over the world.

"Ms. Liu, you are a smart woman who is good at farming. Your Majesty has always attached great importance to farming. If there are good farming methods or high-yielding seeds in the future, you can directly give the above certificate to the local county magistrate and send it to the capital." Liang Bao felt that Liu

Pan'er is an extraordinary woman, and she may be able to achieve more feats in the future.

Therefore, Liang Bao conveyed His Majesty's message, hoping that Liu would use his intelligence to develop better farming methods and more high-yielding crops.

Liu Pan'er respectfully replied: "Thank you for your grace. In the future, I will definitely use my brains to come up with more ways to improve farm tools and increase food production."

Liang Bao nodded, "Very good!"

Next, we started to harvest sweet potatoes from other families in the village. The eight families living in the valley, regardless of the rice in the fields, came to dig sweet potatoes.

The sweet potatoes from Liu Paner's house were dried and put into baskets before being transported to the county town. They weighed 7,200 jins, of which 200 jins were very small and not suitable for making seeds, so the government only collected 7,000 jins and 5,000 jins.

One catty of Wenqian, a total of thirty-five taels of silver.

Every household in the canyon left an acre of sweet potatoes, which were quickly dug out. Statistics show that the average yield per mu is six thousand five hundred kilograms.

County Magistrate Liu paid the price on the spot. Excluding the average yield of 500 jins of small sweet potatoes and seed-saved sweet potatoes per acre, the average yield per acre was 6,000 jins and cost 5 cents per jin. This was thirty taels of silver per acre.

When everyone in Lijia Village got the money, they all knelt on the ground to express their gratitude to the Emperor of Zhou for his kindness.

At this time, the imperial envoy Gu Shao walked up to Liu Pan'er, cupped his hands, and bowed slightly, "Gu has met Mrs. De Rui."

Liu Pan'er was stunned for a moment, with a look of astonishment on her face. Then she remembered that her rank was actually the same as Gu Shao's, fifth rank. She quickly returned the gift. She also didn't know other complicated etiquette and continued to perform the Wanfu gift.

, "Thank you, Mr. Gu, for your help. I will never forget Mr. Gu's kindness."

In front of Gu Shao, Liu Pan'er no longer needed to call herself a civilian woman.

Gu Shao smiled, but he didn't expect Liu Pan'er to be very determined, "You deserve this."

Seeing the imperial envoy Gu Shao here, the county magistrate Mr. Liu came over and bowed to Liu Pan'er, and he bent down relatively low, because Liu Pan'er's rank was four levels higher than him, and he would have the opportunity to go directly to Tianting in the future.

, he did not dare to be careless.

"Mrs. De Rui, tomorrow I will send someone together with the officials from the Ministry of Rites brought by Eunuch Liang to build a house for you." The county magistrate Mr. Liu respectfully replied that although the money was provided by the court, the county government would advance it in advance.

The pleasant three-entry courtyard of the fifth grade is also customized. What bricks and tiles are used? What kind of door is used? How high is the threshold? How to build the house? How many rooms are built? It is not like a farmhouse building a house casually.

Liu Pan'er was stunned for a moment and asked, "The imperial court is building me a house? Isn't it just giving me a house?"

Upon seeing this, Imperial Envoy Gu Shao lowered his head and smiled, "Yes, the house will be built for you according to your grade. You can choose where to build the house, but the house has regulations and cannot be changed easily."

Liu Pan'er ordered a lot of bricks before, but they probably won't be used now, but this is a small matter and can be resold to others.

"I just want to build a house here. The cave is shady and can be used as a natural storage room." Liu Pan'er thought about it for a moment before speaking out her request, "Build a house, try to build it on my homestead, don't

Occupy the neighbor's homestead, leaving a road in front to facilitate the entry and exit of the folks inside. I have no other requirements."

The county magistrate Mr. Liu nodded in agreement, "I have already remembered Mrs. De Rui's request, and people will continue to send materials tomorrow."

"Thank you, Mr. Liu." Liu Pan'er's attitude was as respectful as before. She did not become arrogant or arrogant just because she received the imperial edict.

Her imperial edict was only about rank, not power.

As the saying goes, the county magistrate is not as good as the current one, so she cannot offend Magistrate Liu.

In the evening, the imperial envoy Gu Shao left with these adults.

It is said that after Eunuch Liang read out the imperial edict, he was sitting in the bamboo shed to rest. He saw a pair of children of similar age at the entrance of the cave. They were somewhat similar and should be twins.

He thought the two children were cute. Although they were not as fat as the children from wealthy families, they were energetic and had exquisite facial features.

He walked over and squatted in front of Li Nan and Li Xiaobao, "Aren't you going to play?"

Li Nan saw a man with a kind smile talking to them, and replied with a smile: "My mother is very busy, and we are small, so we can't go out to play and cause trouble to my mother."

Li Xiaobao, on the other hand, was writing and drawing on the sand table with branches and practicing writing, "I don't have time, I have to study."

Eunuch Liang was surprised, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Li Xiaobao, "Why do you want to study?"

Li Xiaobao raised his head and replied: "Of course I want to study well, get a good name, and serve the country. Then I want to be a high official and earn my mother's life."

Eunuch Liang was quite surprised when he heard that the child spoke clearly and eloquently, "Your mother is already Mrs. Gaoming."

Li Xiaobao's expression was solemn and he answered Liang Bao seriously, "I listened to my great-grandmother telling stories, and I know that the first-grade imperial edict is higher than the fifth-grade imperial edict. I want to earn the first-grade imperial edict for my mother."

Eunuch Liang had previously investigated Liu Pan'er's situation and found out that none of the four children were Liu Pan'er's biological children. They were adopted by her husband or before they got married to her, and they were considered step-sons and step-daughters.

"I heard that she is not your biological mother. Are you trying so hard to be filial to her?" Eunuch Liang said in a probing tone. He had seen many stepmothers who were bitter but sweet and sweet in speech. He did not believe that there was a stepmother who truly loved her stepson and stepdaughter.

Li Xiaobao and Li Nan turned their heads and looked at Liang Bao. Although he was a big shot, they felt that Eunuch Liang was wrong.

Li Nan made a babyish sound and retorted in a low voice, "My mother loves us, so of course we must honor her. If you are not your own mother, it is better than your own mother."

Li Xiaobao also nodded, "Yes, if it weren't for my mother, we would have starved to death in our hometown; we would have been robbed, eaten, and died on the way to escape from the famine; and when we settled here, my mother worked hard and diligently.

, they usually teach us how to read and cook delicious food for us. If this is not good, then what is good?"

When Eunuch Liang heard this, he was slightly startled. He thought that when he was a child, his mother died and his father married his stepmother. The family could not survive, so he was the first to be sold.

He hated hunger, hated his stepmother, and even more hated his father.

Even after he became His Majesty's chamberlain, he never contacted his family again.

They had sold him back then, and the grace of his life had been returned to them, and they did not owe each other anything.

If he had such a stepmother, maybe he would not become a eunuch, a man who is not a man, and a woman who is not a woman.
Chapter completed!