Chu Yue came to the two of them.
"Mr. Xu, why don't you have lunch at the hospital? It just so happens that the food in the backyard is ready."
Lu Yufang, who had calculated the accounts for most of the day, did not speak, and was still recalling the accounts just now in her mind.
Xu Heng looked in the direction of Lu Yufang and saw that she didn't pay attention to what he meant. He stood up and said, "I won't eat here. I have to go back to accompany my mother, so I will go back first."
Chu Yue didn't force him to stay.
"Okay, after all, I don't have anything good to eat here. Since Mr. Xu is going to accompany Mrs. Xu, let's go back early." She said, pulling out Lu Yufang who was calculating accounts, "Yufang, Mr. Xu wants to You go home and see him off."
Xu Heng waved his hands hurriedly.
"No, you are busy with your own business."
Lu Yufang finally came to her senses. She raised her head and looked at Xu Heng, "Brother Xu is going back?"
Chu Yue pointed to the sky outside.
"Look how long it's been? Mr. Xu has been sitting here for an hour and you haven't even said a word to him. How can you treat guests like this?"
There was a trace of remorse on Lu Yufang's face.
"I was so involved in calculation that I didn't pay attention to the time." She looked at Xu Heng, "Brother Xu, I'm sorry."
Xu Heng smiled warmly.
"It's okay, it's just that it's noon now, and I should go home."
Lu Yufang sent Xu Heng outside the hospital. Seeing that Xu Heng was hesitant to speak, she hurriedly asked, "Brother Xu, is there anything else you want to tell me?"
"Um..." Xu Heng thought for a while and then expressed the doubts in his heart, "I want to know who Yufang's favorite person is? I'm worried that I will ruin your good deeds by disturbing her."
Lu Yufang was slightly stunned.
This idiot!
Did you dare to wait for her for a whole hour just for this question?
"Who else could it be but you?"
After she finished speaking, she turned around and ran back to the hospital with a blushing face.
When Xu Heng heard Lu Yufang's answer, he didn't react for a moment. When he thought about the meaning of that sentence, his expression suddenly brightened.
He smiled and looked in the direction of Xingyue Medical Center, and then went home happily.
Chu Yue looked at Lu Yufang, whose cheeks were flushed, and said, "Oh! Some people's peach blossoms are now unstoppable."
Lu Yufang rolled her eyes at Chu Yue and stepped forward to scratch her waist.
"Usually when you and my brother are tired of each other, I never tease you like this, but you tease me first."
Chu Yue hid aside.
"That's different. Your brother and I are husband and wife." She turned and looked at Lu Yufang, "By the way, did anything interesting happen at the Yan family today?"
Lu Yufang briefly told Chu Yue what happened in the Yan family.
"Then Yan Ziyi acted like that at first, but his true colors were revealed as soon as Brother Xu left. There is nothing else to say."
Chu Yue nodded, "Fortunately, I told Mr. Xu about your love. If you really get on the Yan family's pirate ship, life will be difficult in the future."
After Lu Yufang heard this, she quickly took Chu Yue's arm and rested her head on her shoulder.
"Good Yueyue, I know you are the best."
Chu Yue pushed Lu Yufang's head away from her shoulders with a look of disgust on her face.
"No, the best person in the future should be your brother Xu."
Lu Yufang blushed, stamped her feet and shouted, "Yueyue!"
Chu Yue pursed her lips and smiled, "It's done, I'm teasing you. The food in the backyard is ready. You can go and eat it too. I'll watch here first."
…
In the morning, the child suffering from intestinal infection ate something and drank decoction, and his condition was temporarily stable.
Chu Yue gave instructions to the couple, gave the child some medicine to cook, and then asked them to take the child away.
As soon as he arrived, Lu Dagui returned to the hospital with Tiedan.
"Galaxy Wife."
Chu Yue looked at Lu Dagui who came in from the door, with a hint of surprise on his face, "Brother Dagui, why are you back so early? All the fields at home have been contracted out?"
Lu Dagui asked Tiedan to play by himself, then pulled Chu Yue aside.
"I just released the news yesterday. Uncle Laifu and Uncle Laicai came to visit this morning. The two families want to take over all the fields at home and ask you to give them a more affordable rent. I think they are The eldest and second uncles of Xinghe are good farmers and hardworking, so I came to ask you first."
Thought flashed across Chu Yue's face.
"Usually, there are only a few who contract three or seven, and the majority are four or six. If it is the eldest uncle or the second uncle..." She looked at Lu Dagui, "Go and tell them, 50 to 50 is my limit."
Usually, when relatives lease fields, the majority are for 46 to 55%. The owner of the field can get 60% or 50% of the harvest from the field, and the rest belongs to the contractor, and the field tax is paid by the owner of the field.
But Chu Yue is not worried about land taxes.
When the prime minister is admitted as a scholar, the family's taxes will be exempted.
Lu Dagui nodded hurriedly, "Okay, then I'll take advantage of the fact that it's still early and make another trip to Banpo Village."
Chu Yue hummed, "Tiedan will stay at the hospital for the time being. The bumpy road will cause the child to suffer too."
"Okay, then I'll ask my wife Xinghe to help me keep an eye on it."
After he finished speaking, he left the hospital and drove the mule cart to Banpo Village.
In the evening, Lu Dagui returned to the hospital and handed the contract between the two parties to Chu Yue. He also brought a basket of vegetables, including bracken picked from the mountain, wild mushrooms, wild onions, and twelve eggs. .
"Aunt Tian and Aunt Zhao asked me to come here. They said they wanted to thank you for entrusting the fields to them. They also said they would take good care of the farmland, so you can rest assured."
It was given by my eldest aunt and second aunt!
This is a strange thing.
Looking at these wild vegetables that she had not eaten for a long time, Chu Yue was slightly stunned.
"I forgot that wild vegetables can be picked in the mountains now."
Lu Dagui nodded, "A few days ago, the government set up soup kitchen shacks in various places. Since the wild vegetables sprouted, the soup kitchen shacks in several nearby villages have been cancelled."
Chu Yue had a look of surprise on her face, "Didn't the soup kitchen shelter just be built for half a month?"
"It's half a month, maybe I think people can get food in the mountains." Lu Dagui said and sighed.
How could the imperial court really care about the lives of the people?
Chu Yue raised her eyebrows, which was exactly what her husband expected.
Lu Dagui pointed to the deed in Chu Yue's hand, "Uncle Laifu has contracted the paddy fields in Zhaojia Village, and Uncle Laicai has contracted the scattered fields in our village. This is the deed. It was signed at Li Zheng's house. Please pass by." Take a look."
Chu Yue briefly read the contents of the deed, nodded and said, "No problem, you will still be responsible for collecting the rent. If someone wants to sell the land, you can also collect it together. From now on, we will contract the land. You are in charge, you just need to submit the accounts to me.”
Hearing that Chu Yue had assigned him a job, Lu Dagui quickly cheered up and hurriedly patted his chest to assure himself.
"Don't worry, I won't miss a penny of the rent we should collect."
