After the imperial edict was announced, the villagers stood up one by one, and then they watched the officials deliver the same rewards one after another to the Xiao family's yard.
There are white flowers, yellow ones, purple ones, and colorful ones.
There are some things that they don’t even know what they are, but they look very expensive at first glance.
"Second sister-in-law of the Xiao family, you are so lucky! After marrying such a daughter-in-law, you are now Ruren's mother-in-law."
Xu Zhengxiang was still in shock and had not recovered. When others spoke, she just nodded.
When she came to her senses, she said in shock: "My daughter-in-law is a Ruren. She is paid by an official and has a high rank! I am the Ruren's mother-in-law! A person with official status is born in our family!"
"That's not true. When we meet each other on the road in the future, we will all bow to Hui Ruren!"
"Then do I need to salute her every day at home?" Xu Zhengxiang asked uneasily. She had to ask clearly, but she couldn't break the rules.
"Then what's the use? You are a family and you don't need to pay so much attention at home."
"Oh, then I'm relieved." Xu Zhengxiang nodded.
While she was talking to someone, Xiao Jing ran back panting: "Mom...I heard that my sister-in-law has been awarded a reward by the court?"
"Isn't it?" Xu Zhengxiang said happily: "Look at the things in this yard, all the things in this yard were given to your sister-in-law by the imperial court!"
"Wow!" Xiao Jing exclaimed, "Sister-in-law is so prosperous now!"
He leaned over to look at this, then flipped through that: "Mom, can we put so many things in my second brother's room?"
"You don't have to worry about this!"
After Xu Zhengxiang finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something and said, "I just remembered, why are you here? Aren't you studying in school? You brat, you dare to skip class!"
She said and wanted to hit Xiao Jing on the head again.
"Mom, such a big thing happened at home, can I not come back to take a look? My husband has allowed me to come back! He also said that he would congratulate our family!" Xiao Jing shouted while hiding.
"It doesn't matter if you give me permission, sir, just go back to study!"
Xu Zhengxiang picked up a stick, and Xiao Jing disappeared in a flash.
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Things were moved one after another, and they piled up into a small mountain in the Xiao family yard.
The county magistrate looked at these things and asked happily: "How are you, are you satisfied with these rewards?"
"Satisfied! Satisfied! How dare you be dissatisfied!" Xu Zhengxiang said quickly.
Ye Luoxin also said: "Thank you, sir. It is because of your intervention that we have won so many rewards for my family."
"It's not my fault, it's all your own ingenuity that came up with something as useful as a threshing machine!" Liu Mian said quickly.
After a pause, he said solemnly:
"I heard Mr. Shen say that we have little field here, so I don't think it's a big deal, but in the Jianghuai area, this thresher is of great use.
It would have taken two months of procrastinating work, but with this thing, all the food could be put into the warehouse in less than half a month. "
He looked at Ye Luoxin and said with a smile: "Just think about it, how much labor this thing saves!"
"It turns out that this thing is so useful!" Xiao Song and Xiao Changhe both looked shocked.
"Otherwise, why would the superiors give such a big reward?" Liu Mian said with a smile.
Ye Luoxin also smiled: "As long as it's useful!"
After saying that, she turned back to the room, took a handful of broken silver from the room, and stuffed a small piece for each of the yamen servants.
The money is not much, about two cents.
But for the government officials, it is also a considerable amount of income.
In front of the county magistrate, they didn't dare to accept it.
But Ye Luoxin begged for mercy: "Thank you for your hard work today, these are just to bring happiness to everyone."
The county magistrate then spoke up and asked everyone to collect all the money.
In the end, there were two pieces left. Ye Luoxin gave one piece to the master and wanted to give the other piece to the county magistrate. Liu Mian waved his hand: "No, no, I have already received this joy!"
"When did you get it, sir?" Ye Luoxin was surprised.
Speaking of this, Liu Mian couldn't close his mouth.
"Prefect Leng said that I have performed well in the performance evaluation this year. When my term expires next year, I will be recommended to be the chief executive of the Sixth Department of Central Beijing!"
"Congratulations, sir!" Ye Luoxin said hurriedly, "I wish you a speedy promotion!"
"Haha, we are happy together! We are happy together!"
While everyone was talking happily, a guard came over and asked in a low voice: "Sir, what should we do with the five people tied up outside the door?"
Hearing this, Ye Luoxin and Liu Mian remembered the Ye family kneeling outside.
"Who are they?" The county magistrate had time to ask.
"The family of three outside is my uncle's family, who took care of me for a while after my parents died.
But after destroying all the property my parents left behind, they sold me to others. Now I have nothing to do with them. "
Ye Luoxin said concisely and concisely.
As for why they came, Ye Luoxin didn't need to explain, Liu Mian probably guessed it. It was just that Ye Luoxin was doing well now and wanted to get a share of the pie.
"How do you plan to deal with it?" Liu Mian asked again.
"As long as they don't come to make trouble, I don't care about them." Ye Luoxin replied.
Liu Mian ordered his men: "Go and untie the five of them. I want to see what they want to do."
The yamen officer got the order and loosened the bonds of several people according to the instructions of Magistrate Liu.
As soon as Ye Qingqing took out the cloth from his mouth, he immediately knelt down and retched.
"Why are you five making so much noise here?"
Once the interrogation began, Liu Mian showed a condescending and selfless expression.
"My lord! My lord! Did you just say that Ye Luoxin was made a child?" Zou did not answer the county magistrate's words, her attention was still focused on the imperial edict that had just been read out.
"The imperial edict is clearly written, how can it be false?" Liu Mian's voice was cold.
"Sir, this child is supposed to be our Ye Qingqing's, how could it be Ye Luoxin's? It's chaos, everything is chaos!" Zou took a few steps forward on his knees.
"Bold!" Magistrate Liu darkened his face.
"Sir, it was Ye Qingqing who was supposed to marry into the Xiao family. If it was Ye Qingqing who was married, this child should be Qingqing!" Ye Dacheng also said quickly.
"Did you hear this clearly? The emperor rewarded Ye Luoxin, not the daughter-in-law of the Xiao family. What does this have to do with what you are talking about?"
"But Ye Luoxin didn't know anything before she got married, how could she make a threshing machine?" Zou said again.
"What do you mean, is that the emperor doesn't recognize people well and rewards the wrong people?"
“It’s indeed the wrong reward!”
Zou was kowtowing to the county magistrate as she spoke. Ye Dacheng suddenly realized something was wrong and immediately covered her mouth.
