Soon, Bai Mo, who was helping to look after ducks at a villager's house, heard that the master and his wife were coming, and immediately ran home. When she saw Wang Gang, Bai Mo's eyes turned red.
"Uncle Wang."
Wang Gang nodded.
When Wang Kuan and the others came back later and met Su Laoer and his wife, the Su family started to have dinner. Su Yu even cooked two dishes with her own hands when she was happy. She hadn't cooked for more than a month.
At the table, while Su Yu was eating, he told the couple one by one what happened in Kyoto. As for the pig-head stamp in the city, Su Yu simply forgot about it, and the emperor gave him one hundred thousand taels. He had secretly told the two of them just now, and they were shocked. Because the matter had to be kept secret, Su Yu was not sure whether the letter sent home would be seen by others, so he did not mention it in the letter. It was only then that the couple realized that their daughter was actually He is so capable that even the emperor rewarded him with a silver reward just a short time after he came to Kyoto City.
The family of three continued chatting after dinner. As for Su Sheng, who was studying in the Imperial College, the three of them were so happy that they forgot to find someone to bring him a letter. Su Sheng was completely forgotten, and it was Bai Mo the next day. When I was sending the braised pork to the Imperial Academy, I remembered to tell Su Sheng that Su Sheng had taken leave and took a carriage back to Jinjiacun with Bai Mo.
Su Laoer saw that his son was taller and stronger than before, so he stepped forward and patted his son on the shoulder.
"Brother Sheng, you have grown stronger."
"Dad, why didn't you say anything to your mother?"
"We didn't tell you because we were afraid that you would be distracted by studying. You can go back after dinner later. The Imperial College is not something you can just get into. You have to study hard."
"I know."
Mrs. Lian took out a set of clothes she had made at home and handed them to her son.
"My mother made this for you, try it and see if it suits you."
Su Sheng was a little moved when he held the clothes, but the emotion soon disappeared. After knowing that his mother made three sets for his sister, but only one set for him, he was just a casual one.
It was not without reason that Su Laoer was anxious to let Su Sheng go back. In addition to the heavy study tasks, there was also the fact that there was really no place to live in the house, and now it was full of people living together with the master and his servants.
Su Yu also thought that there was not enough room at home, but it was unrealistic to build a house in the winter now. People in the village who planned to build a house dug the foundation last month. Now the ground is frozen, and you can't dig even if you want. move. It's not impossible to dig, but it's extremely laborious. It requires at least three times more manpower than before the freeze. It's not cost-effective at all. If you think about squeezing, just squeeze a little, and it will be fine in a few months.
Speaking of the houses built by people in the village, Su Yu's handiwork is still there. When the villagers were building the houses, Su Yu suggested that if the current houses were demolished and built on the original location of the old house, there would be no place to live in during the winter. Although it only snows in Kyoto during the twelfth lunar month, the weather slowly starts to get colder after October, which is not much different from the snowy days in the north. So later Su Yu suggested that instead of building on the fields next to the village, it would be okay to demolish all the old houses there to make fields or vegetable gardens.
Su Yu's proposal was immediately approved by everyone in the village, so Su Yu made some plans and left a six-meter-wide main road in the middle of the village, leading directly to the pig farm behind the village, leaving branch roads. Four meters, two houses are built on one branch, and ten rows are built on the left and right sides of the main road. The village that Su Yu will build in the future is planned to be built on the left side of the village.
In fact, Su Yu made this suggestion for his own benefit. Most of the houses in Jinjia Village were left by the older generation. There was no plan for building houses in the past. The road into the village was full of twists and turns, and more than half of it was unopened. Most of the courtyards where people live are homes that have been moved away before, and there are many dilapidated houses like that. To be honest, the houses are very old and no one dares to go in for fear of being accidentally hit by a falling beam. A yard like that can basically be demolished and it will save space.
It's okay now. With such a plan, Jinjia Village will definitely be the brightest village in the surrounding area in the future. Su Yu also plans to wait until the villagers' yards are almost built. She will pay to repair the main road in the village and lay a layer on it. Stones are easy to walk on. The branch roads were built by the villagers themselves, and she was not so kind as to build the road right in front of the villagers' homes.
When Su Yu drew the floor plan of Jinjia Village, the village chief immediately became excited. He didn't expect that Jinjia Village would still have such a day. The villagers thought it was good at first sight, but those who had other objections could only hold it in.
In the eyes of the villagers of Jinjia Village, Su Yu is simply the lucky star of their village. Ever since she came to Jinjia Village, the life of Jinjia Village has been getting better day by day. They believe that as long as Su Yu is around, the future of Jinjia Village will only be better. will be better.
Su Sheng had lunch at home, and without even saying a few words, he was persuaded by his wife to go back to Kyoto City. However, Su Laoer couldn't wait and took his daughter to see the fields.
From the letter written by his daughter, he learned that she had bought hundreds of acres of land in Jinjia Village. Su Laoer was so excited that he rubbed his hands together. He never expected that his daughter had bought so much land in just a few days after arriving in Beijing. Now, How could they still sit still when they arrived? Mrs. Lian didn't care about the father and son, and Mrs. Wu accompanied her to visit the newly opened workshop at home.
The father and daughter came to the field. Su Laoer was dumbfounded when he saw that the field was full of weeds. In fact, he had seen it when he entered the village, but he did not expect that the field belonged to his family.
"Daughter, why don't you plant anything in this field? It's such a pity that the whole family in Jinjia Village doesn't plant anything."
"Dad, you didn't see the fields in Jinjia Village back then. They are far different from what they are now. More than half of the fields are filled with stones, and the yield is not even half as high as our fields in Yujia Village. Later, the government officials cleared away all the stones. I left, but the soil was all dug up from the ground, and some of it was backfilled with the soil dug out of the mountain behind. Look at this field, there is no fertility at all, and everything you plant is useless."
After hearing what his daughter said, Su Laoer grabbed a handful of soil from the ground and saw that the quality of the soil was indeed very poor.
"So I want to cultivate the fields first and stop planting this winter. When next spring comes, I will burn the weeds on them. The ash will be enough to fertilize the fields. It won't be too late to plant again at that time."
"That's okay."
Although he knew that the fertility of the field was not enough, Su Laoer still felt a little distressed. Thousands of acres of land were left uncultivated.
"Then why don't the people in Jinjia Village do any farming?"
"When I bought the land from them, every family got more than a hundred taels of silver. Later, the government took stones and gave each family ten taels of silver per mu of land. Now the least family has a hundred and ten taels of silver. There is no shortage of money at all. I If you don’t plant it, they will just do it.”
Su Laoer didn't know what to say. The people in Jinjia Village believed in their daughter too much.
