jdhmnovel Chapter 389 View Zhuangzi
Chapter 389 View Zhuangzi
"pleasant?"
Li Lanzhen didn't understand what this meant, but she understood that it was a title.
She was also rewarded with 100 taels of gold, as well as jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, but she was not interested.
What interested her was that the emperor actually gave her a farm of more than 300 acres of land.
This is great too!
She just loves the land!
Li Lanzhen smiled and bowed her head to express her gratitude. "Li Lanzhen thanks the Lord for his grace. Long live the Emperor!"
He stood up, took the imperial edict with both hands, and stood up.
"Thank you for your hard work, father-in-law. Please sit inside."
"No, we're going back to the palace." Eunuch Li looked at Li Lanzhen and the children with a smile.
Li Lanzhen took a bulging purse from Nanny Hua and stuffed it into Eunuch Li's hand.
Li Lanzhen brought a group of people to see off the eunuch from the palace.
A group of people surrounded Li Lanzhen and returned to the main room.
Place the imperial edict respectfully on the shelf of the altar.
Li Lanzhen sat down and breathed a sigh of relief.
Han Mingxiang pulled Han Shulan to sit on the chair next to them.
He looked at his mother Li Lanzhen with a smile.
He felt very proud from the bottom of his heart. Whether in terms of mind, knowledge or insights, his mother was different from other women of this dynasty. She was extremely outstanding!
"Mother, this Yiren is one level higher than the magistrate of a small county town."
Li Lanzhen's eyes widened when she heard this. "Great! I've become a seventh-rank official!"
Seeing her expression, everyone burst into laughter.
The nerves that were tense when I received the imperial edict just now also relaxed.
Han Yinan looked up with great pride, as if he were a seventh-rank official.
“Grandma, you are the best grandma!
When I go to the academy tomorrow, I will tell everyone that I have a grandmother who is a seventh-rank official."
Li Lanzhen's originally happy face faded and she looked at Han Yinan seriously.
“Children, the emperor saw the good things I did, so he gave me a reward.
This is the emperor and the court honoring me.
But we must not be proud and complacent!
Grandma does these things because she thinks she should do so, not because she wants to get anything in return.
If I think about what I will get before doing good things, it is better not to do it.
Did you all hear that? You have to be down-to-earth when you study, and you have to be down-to-earth when you are a person! "
Han Yinan then realized that he had said the wrong thing. He was so annoyed that he quickly stood up and apologized to Li Lanzhen.
"Grandma, I was wrong. I will be a down-to-earth person and study hard.
Don't worry, I won't go around saying that I have a grandmother who is a seventh-rank official."
It was originally a very serious topic, but after hearing his last sentence, everyone couldn't hold back and burst into laughter.
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Because the grain shop had already received grain, Erniu and Han Youliang also went to the grain shop to stay overnight.
The shopkeeper assigned them the task of being on night duty at night.
During the next five days, Li Lanzhen was very busy.
Xuan Shen knew that she was going out to check on the situation in the farm, so he accompanied her every day.
They first went to the farm that Han Minghai had bought.
200 miles southwest of the capital, you will arrive at this village.
This farm has more than 100 acres of land. It is not big, but there are mountains and a stream inside.
The original owner of Zhuangzi took good care of this place.
The whole area of Zhuangzi is surrounded by earth walls.
They first went to a courtyard of the owner's house.
The yard is not big, with front and back yards, three main rooms with two side rooms, two east wing rooms, two west wing rooms, and a firewood shed.
There is also a well in the yard and a vegetable patch in the front yard.
When they went there, the local village head named Lei came with his wife to meet Li Lanzhen.
Li Lanzhen looked at Lei Zhuangtou. He was not very tall and looked quite simple.
She heard from Han Minghai that Manager Hua had investigated this Lei Zhuangtou.
He is a very nice person and does things efficiently and effectively.
When the couple saw Li Lanzhen, they knelt down and greeted her.
"I have met the boss."
Li Lanzhen saw that Lei Zhuangtou's wife was also a straightforward person. She was clean and tidy all over, and her eyes were clear. She didn't look around randomly.
In her heart, she was very satisfied with these two people.
"You two should get up. My eldest son has spoken highly of you two. You are both kind and capable people.
Therefore, from now on, this farm will be handed over to you for management.
How did your former employer distribute the harvest from this farm in previous years?"
"Returning to the landlord, during the three years of famine, the original landlord took 70% of the farm's entire harvest.
Only 10% of the profits were left to us.”
Li Lanzhen was shocked, what a cruel person! They were already hungry during the famine, and yet they only left 10% of the food for them.
"Then how did you survive this famine? You must have not had enough to eat."
Lei Zhuangtou shook his head with a painful expression, and clenched and unclenched his hands.
"Back to the boss, we really didn't have enough to eat. We ate everything edible in the fields and on the hills behind us. Even the bark of the trees on the hills was peeled off.
Moreover, many people died..."
Li Lanzhen didn't want to ask any further questions.
"Lei Zhuangtou, from now on, the 32 households and more than 100 people under your command must farm well.
I have a kind of high-yield grain here. When spring comes, the manager will bring the seeds and teach you how to plant it.
As long as you work hard and don't cause trouble, I will only collect 60% of the food and leave 40% for you to live on.
When Lei Zhuangtou heard this, he was stunned. Then he blinked hard and quickly knelt on the ground.
He clasped his fists together, raised them above his head, then prostrated himself on the ground and kowtowed three times, speaking as he kowtowed.
"Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master! On behalf of all the farmers in the village, I want to thank you, Master!
Don't worry, boss. We will work hard. As long as we can have enough food to eat, who would want to cause trouble? "
After learning all this, Li Lanzhen asked Lei Zhuangtou and his wife to prepare lunch.
She and Xuan Shen left the yard and walked around the entire farm.
The river is quite wide but not deep, which is more than enough for irrigation and daily life.
The small hills behind are connected to the big mountains in the distance.
Li Lanzhen did not go up the mountain, but just passed by the foot of the mountain and saw fruit trees and medicinal herbs planted on it.
She thought that it would be a good opportunity for Wu to bring Han Yuemei to grow herbs on this mountain.
The two of them walked and talked, "Xuan Shen, how is Xue Bao? Has anyone bullied him since he came here?"
"Don't worry, auntie. Everyone knows that Xue Bao is the emperor's man. No one would be so blind as to deliberately offend him."
Li Lanzhen nodded, "That's good, I was just worried that he would be bullied after he came here.
I don’t know how Han Mingjiang and his team are doing at the southwestern border.
I'm a little worried about that place. The military village is not a good place to stay.
If we cannot become independent and grow food specifically for the defenders, it would be better for us to withdraw.
Just leave Han Mingjiang to fight on his own in the border army!"