Xiao Qingxue ate the candied fruit and negotiated a condition with her mother: "I will drink this bowl, but you are not allowed to stay up any longer tomorrow night."
"Okay, okay." Xiao Luolan agreed: "I have asked someone to put the hot water on. You can take a bath later and have a good sleep."
Xiao Qingxue left her mother reluctantly.
Xiao Luolan yawned and continued to embroider. When Xiao Qingxue came out, she unexpectedly found that Aniang was still in her room.
"Auntie, aren't you going to daddy's side?" Xiao Qingxue blinked.
"I'll wait until you fall asleep." Xiao Luolan put down what she was doing, got up, went to bed, and wiped her daughter's hair. When the two of them were alone, she began to chatter more unconsciously: "From now on, if it's too late at night, Don’t wash your hair until daytime. There’s no hair dryer here, so it’s hard to dry your hair.”
"Oh." Xiao Qingxue sat cross-legged on the bed with her head lowered and agreed obediently. She suddenly heard the vocabulary of modern electrical appliances and felt a little nostalgic.
Xiao Luolan wiped it five or six times and combed it carefully: "Okay, go to bed quickly."
Xiao Qingxue got into bed, feeling that her mother-in-law had not accompanied her like this for a long time. In the past, the room in the community was just big enough for them to live in, and they could reach her mother-in-law's room in two steps. Now her mother-in-law and her father lived together, and she would not stay with her at night. Good to stay too late.
Xiao Qingxue held grandma's hand and smiled with satisfaction: "Grandma, I love you so much."
Xiao Luolan leaned back on the bed and laughed when she heard this: "I love you too."
"I want to be with you forever." Xiao Qingxue couldn't help but said coquettishly.
"It lasts a lifetime. You are only a teenager. Will you still be with my mother-in-law when you meet a boy you like?" Xiao Luolan touched her daughter's hair and lightly fanned her.
Xiao Qingxue shook her head like a rattle and said firmly: "I don't like the people here, and I won't get married. Anyway, I want to be with you."
"If you don't want to marry, don't marry." Xiao Luoran said. In fact, she didn't want her daughter to get married and serve her parents-in-law and take care of the housework. She couldn't bear it. In ancient times, medical conditions were not good, and it was not easy to have children.
Xiao Luolan thought of the desolate places and the hardships of the people she had seen along the way, and hid her pain: "As long as you are good, I will have nothing else to ask for."
"Although it's fun over there in Jiangnan, it's not Youzhou after all. Bring guards with you wherever you go, don't find them annoying." Xiao Luolan only talked more around her daughter and warned her carefully.
"I know, grandma." Xiao Qingxue held her mother's hand tightly.
Xiao Luolan looked at her obedient daughter and sighed softly, feeling sour and unspeakable. After seeing too many sufferings, she found that there were too many things that she was powerless to do.
"Auntie." Xiao Qingxue frowned: "Did you and dad have a quarrel?"
"No, I just heard something your father said tonight, and I feel that there is no peace in the south of the Yangtze River." Xiao Luolan told the story about Buddhism in the south of the Yangtze River. There was nothing hidden between her and her daughter. No, ever since my daughter grew up, she has become her closest friend.
"When you see people in distress, you should be compassionate and help them." Xiao Luolan trimmed her daughter's hair and finally murmured: "If the world could be more peaceful and full of food, I think most people would not believe in Buddhism or not. It doesn’t matter.”
But life is too painful. Buddhism's theory of karma and reincarnation will spread rapidly. During the late emperor's time, the Turks invaded the south and suffered from years of war. Xiao Luolan could not have imagined the tragic situation of starving people all over the country at that time, and this tragic situation was just past decades.
Even Sect Leader Zhou made it clear in his early years that he could only exchange grain for horses, and for a while he even only accepted grain.
The people living on this land have the same hair color and eye color as her, similar language habits, similar geography and humanities. They are so similar that Xiao Luolan seems to have returned to the ancient past of their country, making her feel the same way. Suffering from pain and blaming myself for my incompetence, the skills I knew could not help anything in ancient times.
Xiao Qingxue saw Aniang's red eyes and panicked: "Aniang, what's wrong with you?"
Xiao Luolan quickly calmed down her emotions, not wanting her daughter to worry: "It's okay, I just feel like I can't help much here."
Xiao Qingxue looked at grandma and sat up. Grandma felt uncomfortable, and she felt uncomfortable in her heart.
Xiao Qingxue sniffed and said, "Mom, don't say that. When I was harvesting in my village last year, I was also thinking that it would be great if we had more food, just like our sweet potatoes and corn before, but in this world I’m not sure if there is South America, and we can’t build big ships to sail now.”
Xiao Qingxue said angrily: "I'm so stupid."
It would be great if she could understand astronomy and geography, and be able to succeed in whatever she wants to do.
Xiao Luolan's heart was hit by her sensible daughter: "You are much better than my mother-in-law. Don't say you are stupid."
"No, my mother-in-law is amazing." Xiao Qingxue rubbed her mother's neck. Her mother-in-law was the best in the world: "If we can't find sweet potatoes and corn, we can look for Zhancheng rice."
"Champa rice is also very good. It is harvested three times a year and is resistant to drought. It was originally from South Vietnam and was introduced by Minzhou."
"But the geography here is not the same as ours. Most of the states and counties on Lingnan Road are under the jurisdiction of Guangyi Prefecture. On the 16th, he said that the poor mountains and rivers there are all barbarians living there, and there are many barbarian bandits and thieves. , the mountains are so remote that the government can’t even create household registers. The local people are disobedient and have been independent in Guangyi Prefecture for many years, without being restrained by Dachu.”
Xiao Qingxue was also very distressed. Guangyi Prefecture was too far away from them. She only thought of South Vietnam when she was given an imported product from Lingnan on Saturday.
My father was bent on seizing Jiangnan, and the emperor had no good intentions. That Wei Guogong was not easy to deal with at first glance. With enemies all around, she couldn't tell her to ask her father to send people to Guangyi Prefecture to search for it. Besides, if there really was rice in the city, Why should the Yi people give it to me? It might have to be solved by force. Thinking about it, I might as well not cause trouble to my father for the time being.
Xiao Luolan was about to comfort him when he suddenly thought of someone: "Perhaps we can ask a trustworthy businessman to visit Guangyi Prefecture."
Xiao Qingxue looked up.
The mother and daughter had a clear understanding of each other and said at the same time: "Luo Jinhu."
"Luo Jinhu is a businessman. He travels north and south. He is knowledgeable and courageous. There must be people from Dachu officials on Lingnan Road. If the emperor wants to eat lychees, he will send lychee envoys to buy them from Lingnan." Xiao Luolan quickly thought of a way: "Please ask Luo Jinhu to take the official documents of the Zhou clan master to Lingnan to buy lychees, and then secretly explore all the crops in Guangyi Prefecture. It is best to bring back specimens."
"Auntie is so smart." Xiao Qingxue's eyes also lit up: "Let Luo Jinhu handle this matter."
"Let me just say that Aniang is amazing." Xiao Qingxue raised her chin high, extremely happy.
Even if this matter does not end well in the end, they still have a clear conscience.
Xiao Luolan smiled and said, "You came up with it." She gently pinched her daughter's red cheeks with excitement, as if she were treating a little hero: "If we can find it, you will be a great hero."
Xiao Qingxue got into bed again and felt her whole body relaxed. She looked at A Niang and found that her brows relaxed.
When she fell asleep, Xiao Qingxue still had a smile on her lips.
Xiao Luolan gently closed the door. She looked up at the sky outside, where the moon was bright and the stars were sparse.
Just after turning the corner, I saw a dark figure.
"Madam, it's me." Zhou Xudao, taking the lantern from the lady's hand.
Xiao Luolan breathed a sigh of relief: "Scared me."
"Is your daughter asleep?" Zhou Xu held his wife's hand.
"Yeah." Xiao Luolan smiled and said, "Didn't I ask you to sleep first?"
"It's so late, but I don't worry about picking up Madam." Zhou Xu noticed Madam's good mood, and he felt happy. He lifted Madam's chin and kissed her.
"What did you two, mother and daughter, say to make you so happy?"
Xiao Luolan pursed her lips and smiled: "Zhou Lang, I want you to send an official document to Luo Jinhu so that he can reach Lingnan safely."
"Why go to Lingnan? It's a smoky and wild land, a bit chaotic." After Zhou Xu finished speaking, he stopped and remembered that it was almost June. He leaned in front of his wife and asked with a smile.
"Let me guess, madam, you want to eat lychees?"
Chapter 201
In the bed curtain.
Xiao Luolan pulled off the white jade hairpin and put it and the small pottery whistle under the pillow. She combed her hair while she was still thinking about Zhancheng Dao. The crafts she had learned to make a living in the past were completely useless here, and her daughter was still better. , knowing so much, Xiao Luolan was so proud of her daughter in her heart.
Her daughter is beautiful, lively, kind and smart, and is simply the cutest child in the world.
Xiao Luolan thought about it carefully, but she didn't find out her daughter's shortcomings. Although she knew that this was probably a filter for being a mother, Xiao Luolan still felt a little proud.
Zhou Xu raised his head from his deep thoughts and looked at the lady with plain clothes and dark hair: "Lingnan has always been a barbaric land, full of miasma, and there are many undisciplined barbarians. I never expected that there would be such a treasure there."
"I'm not sure there is, but I want to try to look for it. If I can find rice seeds similar to Champa rice, I can introduce them. Then we will try to plant them on a small scale and see what the results are. "Xiao Luolan can't guarantee that this world will be the same as theirs, but what if it is?
"If it really succeeds, we can get more food." Xiao Luolan swallowed the last sentence because she would be less hungry. She always felt that there was a way to go, even if it was more difficult, it was better than no hope.
"This is all due to my daughter." At the end of the sentence, Xiao Luolan said with a slight blush.
Zhou Xu looked at his wife with a smile. He was wearing single clothes. He put his arms around his wife and let her lean on his chest. This made him feel that she was relying on him wholeheartedly.
"She is a little hero, you are a big hero."
Xiao Luolan felt a little damp on her temples after a while. She raised her head, picked up the round fan and fanned herself. In winter, Sect Master Zhou was like a stove, but now that summer was about to come, it was like a stove. It was so tight and so hot.
"If you want to go to Lingnan, you can't do it without Jinhu." Zhou Xu took the round fan from his wife's hand and asked her to lie on top of him, while he fanned her.
The night was clear and there was a gentle breeze outside the window. After the rain, Luzhou felt cooler.
"At least we need to bring along a team of officials who are familiar with farming and mulberry farming, such as agricultural officers or agricultural experts. We must also have accompanying doctors, and we also need to find a few guides who have lived on Lingnan Road." Zhou Xu briefly said that he knew a little about the situation in Lingnan. There were many Yi people, and although the names of the officials sent by the imperial court were high, they were nothing but empty names, leaving only a nice name.
There were Jiedu envoys appointed by the imperial court in Lingnan, and there were also Lingnan economic envoys. The situation of the two was somewhat similar to that of Huaiyou.
Zhou Xu recalled that the Lingnan Economic Envoy seemed to have come from a remote place on the Lingnan Road, and he was considered a native of Lingnan.
Therefore, although the Lingnan Jinglue Envoy did not hold the Jie Du Envoy, he had the strength of the Jie Du Envoy to specialize in killing.
"Don't rush this matter, let me think about it for a few days." Zhou Xu finally said.
"I'm not in a hurry." Xiao Luolan knew that Sect Leader Zhou said this, and she had already made up her mind to go to Lingnan, so she felt more at ease: "You have to plan carefully when going to Lingnan. After all, it's quite far there and it's very dangerous. .”
The miasma in Lingnan is also a problem that needs to be solved urgently. After all, the climate there is hot and humid, and the environment is harsh. The Nanling Mountains have blocked communication with the Central Plains, causing the Central Plains gentry to always regard Lingnan as a foreign land.
When Xiao Luolan came back, he also deliberately found some ancient books about Lingnan to read. Probably because of the different customs from the Central Plains, the contempt and contempt in them clearly stood out on the page.
"Tomorrow I will ask Dr. Li if there is any way to prevent and cure the miasma." Xiao Luolan said: "For those of you who are studying agriculture, we can ask my grandfather to recommend it. We should also choose the place where we will stay. It is best to get a Lingnan Road With the pass certificate, it will be much easier for them to do things."
Xiao Luolan tried to think back, and remembered that Luo Jinhu had a pass talisman for Youzhou, which was quite high-level. With that talisman, his caravan could travel unimpeded in Youzhou and did not need to pay taxes.
Zhou Xu looked at his wife who wished she could get everything settled for her trip to Lingnan. She was still worrying about it so late, and kissed her lips with a hot breath.
Xiao Luolan was caught off guard and couldn't make a sound.
The house is filled with spring scenery.
The next day.
Zhou Xu paid homage to General Lu under the leadership of Lu Cong, and Xiao Luolan also paid homage once. Anyway, General Lu Cong now calls her his aunt.
After the worship, Xiao Luolan was invited by Han to visit Fuyun Mountain.
"Ahead is Dafu Temple. The weather is good today and there are many pilgrims coming to the temple to offer incense." Han's sedan stopped at the foot of the mountain, followed by many maidservants. One of the maidservants went to Dafu Temple to report that her family The lady is a distinguished guest of Dafuku Temple. Every time she offers incense, the abbot of Dafuku Temple must come to receive her in person.
The temple was built majestically in the mountains and forests. Because some noble people came, the abbot of Dafuji Temple came with the monks to greet them and secretly dispersed the rest.
Xiao Luolan entered the temple, where the golden Buddha statue overlooked all living beings.
"Aunt, this is Abbot Yuanhui of Dafu Temple." Han introduced the two of them with a smile: "Abbott, this is Princess Zhenbei."
The abbot, who was wearing a golden cassock, trembled his eyelids, lowered his head with his hands, and said a Buddha's name: "Amitabha, Yuan Hui has met the princess."
"Dafu Temple is the most efficacious temple in Luzhou. Anyone who enters the temple to ask for anything, as long as they are sincere, will most likely have a good result." Han said, "Why don't you pay me my respects to my aunt?"
Xiao Luolan thought about Lingnan's occupation of rice and hesitated for a moment. She looked up at the solemn Buddha statue. After thinking about it, she bowed her head and bowed, hoping that Lingnan and her party would have a good outcome.
Mr. Han himself knelt on the futon devoutly, closed his eyes and worshiped silently.
After the prayers were finished, Mrs. Han stood up with the help of her maid, her face glowing with glory: "Uncle, there is also a famous poetry platform in Dafu Temple. There are many poems and songs left by literati on the wall. Let's go and take a look. ?”
