Chapter 34 Yao Chong Came to See It in Person

"It's like this, it's like this." Yao Chong rubbed soap suds in his hands and became more and more addicted.

Especially when I scratch the back of my hand with my nails, the exposed area looks much whiter.

After washing it with water and wiping it clean with a hand towel, he wanted to do it again.

"Your Majesty, it's a good thing. This soap locust is many times better than what I usually use. I don't know who it is... Your Majesty, it can't be Li Yi, right?"

The prime minister is the prime minister, smart.

Prime Minister Yao Chong was smart when he said that his Majesty and the Queen did not come back yesterday and went to Li Yizhuangzi.

Today I have such a good soap locust, which is much stronger than the soap powder I used before.

"Of course!" Li Longji spit out one word.

I feel so good in my heart, this brother Yi is my own, no one is allowed to snatch it away.

"Your Majesty, do you have any more? I have already used this piece, and I would like to take a few more pieces home." Yao Chong asked directly.

"How much does Yuan Zhi think this piece of soap should cost?" Li Longji asked a question.

Yao Chong realized, Your Majesty is acting like a child, how old is he?

I can't mention the boiled round eggs anymore. A lot of money went into the palace. That Li Yi... a sycophant.

No, he is not an official yet, he is just a sycophant.

Yao Chong cursed for a moment, then he felt better and said: "Jingzhong soap powder has different fragrances. The more expensive ones are one hundred coins for one coin, and one or two thousand coins for the more expensive ones."

"This thing... I think there are three taels of this piece, and it's worth five thousand."

Yao Chong talked about the most expensive soap powder in Beijing, which has many kinds of scents.

The most expensive one-tenth or two weights can be sold for a hundred dollars.

But that soap didn't lather as much as the soap I use today.

"Yuan Zhi wants to know the capital?" Li Longji asked again.

"I don't want to, I'm angry." Yao Chong told the truth. He understood that the cost was not high.

"Yao Qing." Li Longji changed his name: "How can summer cucumbers be compared with winter cucumbers?"

"I already know." Yao Chong bowed.

"Gao Lishi, take another five yuan and give it to Yao Xiang." Li Longji ordered.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Yao Chong thanked him.

"Yao Qing still blames me and the queen for going to Li Yizhuangzi? I didn't dare to say that I was the emperor over there, for fear of alienating our friendship."

"Just say that we are brothers, six of us go together to three, and we call Li Yi our brother."

"Whenever something good happens, Brother Yi will definitely think of me as his brother. That Zhuangzi... alas... in heaven and on earth."

Li Longji said a few more words, meaning that the queen and I used to look for good things that would benefit the country and the people, not just for fun.

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On May 18th, the sky was filled with glow in the east in the morning, and it looked so beautiful.

Yao Chong held a court meeting and found an excuse to change his clothes and take two Xiaosi out of the city in a carriage.

Go east through Tonghua Gate to the Ba River and cross the river.

Then he saw a group of people running, some dressed as scholars.

"Quickly, go to Zhangjiacun and help harvest wheat. It's going to rain." Someone shouted.

Yao Chong looked at the sky and felt depressed. Is it going to rain today?

He grabbed someone and asked, "Where is Dongzhu Li?"

"We're going to Zhangjia Village. Let go, I'll go too." The other party said something, broke free and ran away.

"Go to Zhangjiacun." Yao Chong ordered as he got into the car.

When we arrived at the place, a large group of people were cutting wheat artifacts, and Li Yizhuangzi's children stopped going to class.

Come and help straighten out the straw.

Everyone harvested the wheat crazily and looked at the sky from time to time.

Breathing now feels more laborious than usual, and I am afraid of heavy rain, when the wheat will sprout and all the harvest will be lost.

Li Yi was also working. He was wondering whether to make wine. Obviously, wheat germination cannot be eaten, but it can make wine.

The technology of brewing wine is not the problem, the problem is whether the court will allow it.

"Put on the tarpaulin, put on the already piled up tarpaulin first, tarpaulin, take the tarpaulin over. Don't pick up the small one yet, put it there, and use a rake to rake it later."

"Don't be afraid to prick your hands. I'll apply medicine to you later."

"Lift it out of the pit and water it first when it rains."

"You guys use shovels to dig a trench. There is a horizontal line on the top, and vertical ditches are connected on both sides. Inside the more wheat piles, the rainy water will first flow along the ditch."

"Come here, ladies, and go back with Zhuangzi's men to get soup. Don't forget to get the bowls."

"The scholars who are not working should go aside. They are in the way."

"You older girls, I will give you the best job to take care of your younger brothers and sisters. If you take care of them, you will have sweets to eat."

"As for the craftsmen, stay together and don't move. Someone's harvesting tool is broken. Repair it immediately."

Li Yi, who was cutting the wheat, stopped cutting. Seeing that the scene was too chaotic, he ran around giving orders.

The people in Zhuangzi naturally listened, and the people in Zhangjia Village also listened. They were convinced by Li Yi.

With Li Yi running around giving orders, the messy field suddenly became orderly.

Yao Chong clasped his hands in front of him, keeping his eyes on Li Yi.

Watching the figure who had just run to direct things straightened out, he stood there and drank soup slowly.

Then a smile appeared on Yao Chong's lips, and he admitted that the young proprietor was indeed capable.

The young man standing there was the backbone of everyone.

Many people only know how to be anxious, like headless flies.

After the young man finished shouting, everyone found what they wanted to do.

Yao Chong watched and strolled to a group of scholars who had been driven aside to watch the fun.

He put his hands behind his back and asked, "Why don't you go help?"

The scholar closest to him looked at him and found that this old man was different from ordinary old men. He had a certain demeanor.

Then he whispered: "How can a scholar do such a mean thing?"

"Why do other people do it?" Yao Chong was unhappy. Everyone is busy and you are watching.

"They...they expect Li Yi to give them a free house and free food. My husband may not know that those people still need to clean up the feces every day."

The scholar looked down upon him, showing his sense of superiority.

Yao Chong nodded slowly and walked towards the scholar who was taking a break to drink soup.

"Are you tired of waiting?" Yao Chong asked.

"When I go back to my husband, I'm not very tired. I also work a lot on weekdays. Brother Li Yixian once said that doing a little work can strengthen your body."

"I'll follow what I did, and as Brother Li Xian said, I haven't gotten sick in recent days."

"Kuai, after working hard, eating tastes better and I can calm down while studying."

The scholar raised his sleeves to wipe his sweat and answered with a smile.

Yao Chong then smiled and said, "Don't you feel embarrassed to hear that you are a lowly worker who handles livestock excrement?"

"If you let your feces and urine accumulate and become unclear, it will become dirty. If you feel that the feces is not good, clean it up. If you feel that your moral conduct is deficient, you will correct it. If you don't sweep away the sun and clouds, how can the light shine?"

The scholar looked at the sky as he spoke. Clouds were gathering in the sky and the wind was rising.

He hurriedly ran to continue cutting the wheat.

Perhaps the air pressure before the rain was low and too stuffy. Yao Chong took a deep breath and said, "What a young proprietor. If you raise one person, you will raise another."

By midday, it was dark, accompanied by lightning and thunder.

One-third of the wheat in the fields was still confiscated. Everyone was so anxious that they stopped eating, so they just drank a bowl of soup and continued to work hard.

Drainage ditches were dug, and the harvested wheat was placed in a relatively safe place and covered with tarpaulin.

The children were led by the older children to play in Li Yizhuangzi, where there were many houses and sheds.

Li Yi encouraged everyone: "Don't be afraid of getting caught in the rain. I will treat your illness. Don't be afraid if the remaining wheat gets wet. I have a way to prevent the wheat from getting moldy and sprouting."

When everyone heard this, they showed relaxed expressions as expected.

It seemed that they believed whatever Li Yi said. He was right when he said that wheat that had been exposed to the rain would not get moldy or sprout.

"Do you know how to do it?" Yao Chong asked Xiao Si at home.

When he encountered farm work, he suddenly remembered what it was like when he was threshing wheat, and he felt blocked.

"Master, we don't know. Unless it's sunny tomorrow, let's put it outside to dry."

Xiaosi was in a dilemma, the wheat was soaked by the rain, and it seemed that he could only wait for good weather.

Yao Chong felt his stomach and felt hungry.

He leaned over and came to Li Yi: "Dr. Li, I... I'm hungry and I want to ask for a bowl of soup."

"My father-in-law invited me, it doesn't have to be like this. Taohong, bring three burritos." Li Yi said to the newly arrived maid.

The palace maid ran over to see Yao Chong and recognized him, but she didn't dare to say anything and ran to get the cake.

Yao Chong was slightly startled, there were palace maids, and if he looked carefully, there were also eunuchs.

In confusion, he was in a good mood and knew how to respect the elderly, so he asked: "I just heard what you said, are you not afraid of the wheat getting wet?"

"Afraid, why not afraid? We have to spend money to deal with it. But I'm afraid it won't rain?"

"Actually, it's best not to harvest the remaining wheat now. When it rains, the wheat is on the stalks and the water flows downward."

"But each villager's land is different and they are harvested together. Which household will be worried about the wheat left behind."

"Why don't you put the rest away and thresh it, and I'll spend some to calm the people's minds."

“Don’t worry about scarcity but worry about inequality; don’t worry about poverty but worry about insecurity.”

Li Yi gave the reason why it was collected even if it rained.

After harvesting, we still have to brave the rain to thresh the grains, just because the people are unanimous.

Yao Chong looked at Li Yi carefully again, feeling very surprised and puzzled.

This young proprietor is not a craftsman, he can always make useful tools.

Let’s just say he is not a farmer, but he knows a lot about farming.

Let's just say he's not a businessman. He makes so much money selling soy sauce and bullshit boiled round eggs.

You could say that he was not a literati, but the words he spoke had an air of elegance.

How can there be such people in the world?

"Proprietor, proprietor, I brought you a big umbrella."

The steward Song De and another person ran to Li Yi carrying a closed umbrella.

"Open it, I'll stand below." Li Yi said.

The big umbrella is indeed a big umbrella, twice the diameter of the big sun umbrella on the street next to Li Yi.

Bamboo and wood are used as the bones and oilcloth is used as the surface.

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The umbrella was inserted into the gap left by the box, and Li Yi stood up.

Yao Chong followed up consciously and shamelessly, with some dissatisfaction on his face: "Why do you have an umbrella?"

"Because I can't be sick anymore, I have to treat others. If I get sick first, what will happen to other patients?"

Li Yi looked at Yao Chong with caring eyes.

"Do you still know medicine?" Yao Chong didn't know this secret.

"Haha! I know a little bit." Li Yi was not modest at all.

"Uh!" Yao Chong heard two hehes and took a deep breath. He was not angry, not at all.

The burrito came, and as soon as Xiaosi stretched out his hand, the palace maid Taohong retracted her hand and gouged him hard with her eyes.

Then give one to Li Yi first, then give one to Yao Chong, and the remaining one is given to Zhang Xiao, the village leader of Zhangjiacun.

Two Xiaosi who came with Yao Chong: "..."

Three burritos, not one for us?

"Come on, dad, eat it. It contains meat sauce and green onions, and it's delicious with hot soup." Li Yi said and took a bite of the pancake.

Yao Chong also understood that he would only give one to himself and not to his followers.

"Brother Yi, Brother Yi, do you still have any soap? Third brother gave me twenty yuan, which is not enough."

Yao Chong had just taken a bite of the cake and was tasting it when a voice came.

Then he turned his head to look, stopped chewing on his mouth, and opened his eyes wide.

"Brother Yi, that soap... eh? You..." Li Chengqi, who was running over, saw Yao Chong and was stunned.

"Oh, brother, this old man is hungry. I gave him the burrito to eat, but he didn't even eat." Li Yi shook the cake in his hand.

Li Chengqi looked at Yao Chong and smiled, shaking his head: "No, I haven't eaten it. Dad, is this cake delicious?"