Chapter 285 286 Zhuangzi
Mr. Wen checked Xiaoyu's pulse and said with a smile: "Yes, it's a happy pulse. Ruyi is going to be a father again. His energy and blood are a little weak. Let's make some soup in the kitchen."
"Is this true, old man?" Xiaoyu sat up happily, startling Li Yu and Mr. Wen. Mr. Wen said happily: "This girl is already a mother, and she still bluffs like this." He deliberately bluffed again: "Why don't you believe in the old man's medical skills?"
Xiaoyu looked happy: "I believe it, I just don't believe that I can still get pregnant." Mr. Wen put away the pulse pillow and said with a smile: "Okay, if you take good care of her for a few days, it will be fine."
Li Yu was also happy for Xiaoyu, and smiled and warned: "Sir, as you said, you are weak in energy and blood, so you have to take good care of yourself for a while."
When Li Yu went out, he saw Zhou Jia coming back from outside. He smiled and asked him, "Why did you come back from there? Didn't you go to the Yamen to work?"
Zhou Jia stepped forward and hugged Li Yu, "I went to the academy to ask the mountain chief to introduce a gentleman. This man's surname is Lu and his name is Shi. He is a scholar. He has twelve taels of clothing a year and four seasons of clothes. When he goes back Let's pack it up and promise to come back tomorrow at noon. Yu'er, please have someone clear out the main room and study room as soon as you enter the courtyard, and use one as a classroom and the other for your husband to live in."
Li Yu responded softly: "Okay, I'll let Mrs. Yun and Mrs. Xu take care of it."
Walking to the verandah, Zhou Jia stopped and said, "Well! I still have some official business to deal with, so I'll go and deal with it first and then come back."
"Well!" Li Yu watched Zhou Jia walk through the corridor to the front office, called the two women to go to the warehouse to get bedding, and asked them to clean up the room.
Mrs. Liu came back after delivering the mushroom sauce, and also brought gifts in return from Mrs. Gao and Mrs. He. Mrs. Gao asked her maid to bring a pot of bright red camellias, Mrs. He gave some salted duck eggs she had pickled, and Li Yu put the camellias in the yard. Here, I thought; if the two of them are sincerely dating each other and have no calculations, it would be good for two female friends to get together occasionally. Li Yu then warned himself that he still had to be cautious in dealings in this officialdom.
After Zhou Jia left the office, he held a piece of paper with several names written on it. He handed it to Li Yu with a smile and said: "Yu'er, Mr. Yang'er is here. We haven't decided on a name for Yang'er yet. Look. Which one is better?"
Li Yu took it and took a look, Zhou Zhibang, Zhou Xi, Zhou Xu..., pointed at Zhou Xi and said to Zhou Jia: "Just Zhou Xi!"
"Okay, I also think Zhou Xi is good."
"Does Qijin have a famous name?" Zhou Jia nodded, "Qijin already has a famous name, his name is Zhou Min."
After noon the next day, the gentleman invited by Zhou Jia came as expected. Mr. Lu was in his forties, fair-skinned and of medium height. He was neither fat nor thin and looked amiable. Yangyang and Qijin fell in love with Mr. Lu at first sight. .
Zhou Jia took his two children to the apprenticeship ceremony. Mr. Lu gave the two children a copy of the Disciple Rules, said some words of encouragement and classroom rules, and then took the two children to the classroom.
Li Yu and Zhou Jia sat in a carriage and walked towards Zhuangzi at the foot of Luoji Mountain outside the West City. When they were leaving the city gate, Li Yu saw several ragged children of different ages running back and forth at the city gate chasing people passing by to beg. Yu said to Zhou Jia: "Why are there so many children begging? I didn't see them the first two times?"
"Some of them have parents who have died young and lost support. Some of them may have been controlled by the beggar leader. There is a mixture of dragons and snakes in the city. There are many families in Xicheng who have nothing to do. Some have no ability to make a living, some are lazy by nature, and some are rotten. When I ran out of money after gambling and drinking, I sold my son and daughter.”
Li Yu said angrily: "People who drink and gamble are the most disgusting."
The car walked to the abandoned house. Zhou Jia looked at the abandoned house and frowned and said, "It's not good for this house to be here. It's out of the way and there's no store in the back. Let's go back and check. If it's ownerless, send someone." Dismantle it, and if there is an owner, let the owner dismantle it.”
Li Yu took a look and thought it was the same. If a single woman passed by here, it would be hard to guard against someone with evil intentions hiding inside.
"Well! Our Xiao Xi is now really a good official who thinks about the people!" Zhou Jia smiled proudly and kissed Li Yu, "Your husband-in-law has always been an upright and kind-hearted person."
"Don't be ashamed." Li Yu glanced at him. Zhou Jia looked at Li Yuying's red lips and suddenly felt itchy. He lowered his head and bit Li Yu's lips lightly. Li Yu slapped him and whispered with a red face. Said: "This is outside, there are still people!"
Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu with a lazy look, "You and I are a legitimate and serious couple, so what if there are others."
Li Yu glared at him and twisted the soft flesh on his waist, "Ouch!" Zhou Jia yelled. Ma Gui thought that the car was too bumpy and Zhou Jia hit his head, so he asked worriedly: "Is that right? Stay here, master, I didn’t notice that there is a pit in front of me.”
"Watch it better next time." Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu and grinned. Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia and burst into laughter.
When the carriage arrived at the foot of the mountain, Zhaocai saw two people coming to greet him, "Master, madam, you are here!"
Zhou Jia patted it to attract wealth and said with a smile: "Yeah! Let me take a look at the leisure villa built by your wife."
Zhaocai pointed to the piece of wasteland that had been cleared and the farm that was about to be completed, "Then you will be disappointed. We are currently busy opening up wasteland and building a farm, and the construction of the villa has not started yet!"
"Okay, you are busy with your work, and we can take a look." Zhou Jia and Li Yu walked towards a path paved with stones. Next to the path was a dug ditch. The day laborers were sorting out the rice fields, and they could see a large area at a glance. The land is full of busy figures.
The couple walked along the path for a quarter of an hour and arrived in front of the farm that was being built. Jixiang was leading a few craftsmen to spread the soil. When he saw the two of them and were about to come over, Zhou Jia waved to him. Jixiang bent down and smiled at the two of them. After a while, he started working again.
There are two workers over there pulling a big stone to compact the Sanhe soil. The drying area is rectangular and is as big as three or four acres of land. In front of the drying area is the back door of the barn. When I walked in, I saw that the barn had no partitions and was completely made of pillars. There is a wooden floor above the support, which is used to pile grain for drying when it rains.
There is another drying area outside the barn. This drying area has been paved with Sanhe soil. The row of houses opposite the drying area is where the long-term workers live. They have all been divided into suites. The fire pits have been laid inside for two people to sit in. They walked through a corridor and walked past the reverse house, and entered the courtyard. When they saw the dusty yard and several workers cleaning the garbage, the two people retreated.
The two walked to the edge of the field, and Li Yu said to Zhou Jia: "In a few days, the rice seeds will be soaked and started to be sown. I plan to let them plant the fields first, leaving dozens of acres to continue breeding, and the remaining All we have to do is grow corn, and next year we can transport the corn seeds and sell them to distant mountain villages.”