The next day, officials and helpers responsible for delivering grass arrived early in the morning.
Two people from the village were also there. They were not in good condition. They probably drank too much after they had gone there yesterday.
"Old Eleven, Old Twelve, what's wrong with you two?"
The chief asked the two people of the same generation with concern. They were brothers, but they were actually twins.
There are too few people who successfully give birth to twins at this age. Basically, they are pregnant with two at a time, both adults and children.
"I don't live in the fourth vacant house at the entrance of the village." Old Eleven said with squinted eyes.
"No, the fourth house is empty." Lao Twelve yawned.
After hearing this, Zhu Wentian turned and left. Soon the little girl came and brought two bowls of herbal tea with a lot of rock sugar in it.
"Drink! Go to bed after drinking." The headman helped carry the bowls for two people.
The two drank it all and felt much better.
He was helped away by the villagers and went to sleep in a shady room with someone watching over him.
I drank too much, but I looked fine. I probably didn't throw up because I didn't eat anything.
Zhu Wentian taught you not to eat vegetables when drinking wine. The more you eat, the drunker you will become. Don't believe those words about eating something to fill your stomach. It's nonsense.
What they said reassured the chief, and he didn't forget to protect Hanhan even after drinking like this.
The fourth house in the village was indeed vacant, and that house was dilapidated and overgrown.
It's not that when a person dies, the original family in that person's place moves to another place.
The terrain there is low, so it gets soaked when it rains heavily. The village will discuss it and change it! Build a new house.
So the house was vacant, including the courtyard, and it looked like a haunted house.
In order to protect the villagers, the villagers said that the fourth house was empty when they wanted to find out who was behind it.
Say it to yourself dozens of times before going to bed at night, and say it while brushing your teeth in the morning.
As time went by, it became subconscious. Even if I died drunk, my last words before my death would be the fourth empty house at the entrance of the village.
Countless times more powerful than the one that said, 'I won't tell you even if you beat me to death'.
The entire village has been raising Hanhan, the village guard, for more than ten years. Once someone touches him, his subconscious mind comes into play.
Everyone said goodbye at the dock first, and the boat left with a pedal cotton machine and 1,100 kilograms of stone soda.
The silver has been delivered, one thousand taels, but still no copper coins.
The director took people to see the foot-operated cotton machine, which was a big box with a shaft and pulleys.
Half of the shed is supported in front to prevent cotton wool from flying around. People who step on it wear masks and cloth headbands.
As you step on it, the cotton pops out.
Its efficiency was dozens of times higher than that of ordinary bows and bullets, and the officials watching were speechless.
How on earth did you come up with this thing? Could it be that the master is from the Mo family?
Zhu Wentian stood next to the director, feeling very accomplished and having increased his productivity.
When thinking about productivity, it is natural to think about the economy, and then money.
He frowned slightly. There were still five years left on the treasure note, four and a half years to be precise. It started on the first day of March in the eighth year of Hongwu.
Is it to prevent the issuance of treasure banknotes, or to find ways to help stabilize the value of treasure banknotes? How many aspects do you need to start from?
Zhu Wentian was in a daze, wondering which one was better.
Regardless of whether it is the issuance of treasure banknotes or depreciation, there are a series of reasons and problems involved.
All the original money of the Ming Dynasty was taken away by the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, so Lao Zhu always wanted to fight and get it back.
Lao Zhu was unwilling to work hard to mine copper ore to make copper coins, so there was even less silver.
Japan had a lot of silver and copper, but Japanese pirates were always causing trouble in coastal areas, and the Ming people along the coast followed suit.
Coastal areas such as Zhejiang and Fujian were not Lao Zhu's territory at first, but they were conquered later.
Lao Zhu also immigrated from coastal areas to the interior to reduce the local population and avoid rebellion.
"Hanhan, let's go eat." When Zhu Wentian was thinking about things, the voice of the chief came.
Zhu Wentian raised his head and smiled naively: "Fan, hungry, hey hey hey!"
The officials looked at him and shook their heads secretly. This fool was in Xiaqiu Village and would have starved to death in another place.
The staple food for breakfast is pot stickers, rice porridge, smoked fish, pickles, and one tea egg per person.
The village has been eating fish for many days. There is nothing we can do, there are too many fish.
The boats had started going out in the middle of the night to lower their nets further afield.
Zhao Li helped find four people and replaced them every ten days.
All have good character, but at the same time, life at home is difficult, they have many children, and some family members are sick.
Zhu Wentian still ate quickly. When he was full, he went to class with his friends.
After he left, Li Zhixian said to the head of the village: "Yichang, your village is getting better and better. When people from outside come to the village for a long time, be sure to take a good look at Hanhan. He is stupid and easy to be deceived."
Li Chang: "..."
"Oh! Oh! Thank you magistrate. We always tell Hanhan not to talk to outsiders."
The director followed the words, his eyes full of sincerity.
Li Zhixian nodded: "Now that the village is rich, do you want to build a new house? I know a little bit about this. I will help you take a look after dinner."
"I'm thinking about it. I want to build a house made of bricks and tiles, but I won't be able to spare any money from the beginning of spring. When I finish planting things in autumn, the weather will get cold again."
The mayor was telling the truth this time. He wanted a new house, but he didn't have the time.
Not only do I want to build a house, but I also plan to build a two-story building with more rooms and less heat in the summer.
After dinner, the village chief took the officials around the village. The fourth house at the entrance of the village was the focus of the officials.
The yard was overgrown with weeds and no one had taken care of it. The fences were crooked and some were rotten. The windows of the house were empty, and patches of mud and grass were missing.
The grass on the roof grew vigorously, and spider webs were everywhere.
The officials looked at each other in confusion. Does the master live in this house? Then he is really too tall.
"Let's go after lunch! We're going to eat roast duck today, and we're all tired of eating fish all the time."
The commander guessed what the officials were thinking, master hermit?
"This..." Li Zhixian hesitated.
“The village buys a big fat duck from outside, boils it with medicinal herbs, brushes it with sugar water, and roasts it with wood from fruit trees. The skin is crispy and the meat is tender.
Cut into thin slices, take the fried lotus leaf pancake roll, and put shredded onions, cucumbers, and sweet noodle sauce inside.
The remaining duck rack is cooked into duck rack, radish and tofu soup. The skin of the radish is peeled off so that it is not bitter when eaten. The skin is soaked in vinegar. Oops, the taste..."
"This works!" Li Zhixian listened to the chief's introduction and felt hungry again not long after finishing his meal.
Other officials nodded in support, the village was so good at it.
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"Dad, the stone soda has been sent. I gave him an extra hundred pounds. He said that the stone soda is impure and cannot make the specified amount of soap."
Zhu Biao came to see his father for dinner at noon and introduced the situation.
After asking people to bring the things in, a foot-operated cotton elastic machine and a large bamboo basket were added.
Open the bamboo basket first, take out the roast duck and side dishes, and let others handle it first. If you want to try it, there are instructions for making it.
The tofu inside is soaked in water to prevent it from going rancid.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the food: "Send a few trustworthy people to the village and stay by while the village prepares food. It's always a waste of time to test the poison."
"Yes, my child has arranged it. This is for playing with cotton. I haven't tried it yet. I'll get some cotton to play with after dinner."
Zhu Biao also felt that waiting was painful, especially when it was time to eat.
"Actually, it would be better to use this duck recipe, but that way, something is missing when making contact."
Queen Ma wanted to finish the sausage recipe and no longer wanted the roast duck. If she knew how to make it, the village would not give it to her anymore.
