Chapter 58
Chapter 58
There were five pieces of fresh corn, no more, no less, and they were sent to the emperor's table together with the letter written by Liu Yaoqing.
The estimated yield per mu, the environment that the corn adapts to, the taste, etc., are all estimated. Compared with potatoes, almost all of them are estimated by Liu Yaoqing based on the corn in his own greenhouse, and the actual yield per mu is only more.
And different from the high yield of potatoes, corn is more sweet and delicious, especially tender corn, boiled and eaten without any seasoning, the taste is enough to conquer the emperor who eats all kinds of delicacies.
So another reward came down, and even a small group of soldiers came to Shanggu Village in a busy manner.
Now the tender corn is gone, Liu Yaoqing picks and chooses, and eats the tender corn for three days, and eats the rest of the tender corn by himself on the fourth day, and ends up eating too much, and his stomach accumulates. I couldn't come down to the kang in the morning, and Brother Zhezi only found out when he ran over.
"Brother Zhezi, I feel so uncomfortable." Liu Yaoqing lay flat on the kang, her back was warm, but her stomach was uncomfortable, and her whole face was wrinkled.
It was rare to see Brother Qing like this, Brother Zhezi climbed to the top of the kang and sat down, stretched his hand under the quilt to touch Liu Yaoqing's belly through the cloth.
"I'll rub it for you." Brother Zhezi put his big warm hand on Liu Yaoqing's lower abdomen and rubbed it gently.
Liu Yaoqing pursed her lips, feeling a little uncomfortable, so she had nothing to say, "Brother Zhezi, I want to drink peach brew."
"Drink when you feel comfortable." It was rare to refuse Liu Yaoqing, Brother Zhezi felt a little embarrassed, so he hurriedly added, "Brother Qing will get sick if this continues."
The lower abdomen was bulging, and as Zhezi rubbed it, it seemed to be getting warmer inside. Liu Yaoqing was a little embarrassed because he had a reaction.
The wrist accidentally touched a place that had a reaction, Brother Zhezi's palm paused, and then continued to rub it as before, but his eyes were a little dark, and he secretly looked at Liu Yaoqing from time to time.
"I'm going to the toilet!" Suddenly, Liu Yaoqing yelled.
Throwing off the bedding on the kang, and running down before putting on the padded jacket, Liu Yaoqing ran all the way to the latrine, everything was smooth and convenient.
Brother Zhezi chased after him with a padded jacket.
"Brother Zhezi, you can't come in." Seeing Brother Zhezi's outstretched feet, Liu Yaoqing hurriedly shouted.
The latrines of the houses on the mountain are different from those in the village. A deep ditch was dug and built with stones. The cracks between the stones were filled with yellow mud. Level stones are placed in the corners for hay.From now on, Liu Yaoqing plans to bring running water over, and flush it after going to the toilet.
"It's cold inside." Brother Zhezi stood at the door of the latrine, retracting his protruding foot and said.
"I'm fast." Liu Yaoqing felt a little embarrassed, her buttocks were still exposed, if she was seen, she always felt that she was a brother...
He hurriedly pulled up his trousers, ran outside and saw brother Zhezi hugging his padded jacket, Liu Yaoqing was really cold, but unexpectedly, brother Zhezi wrapped him in the padded jacket and hugged him horizontally.
"Go back to the house to keep warm." Brother Zhezi's face was a little red, but his steps were steady.
All the way back to the house, he stuffed Liu Yaoqing on the warm kang, Zhezi brother sat on the top of the kang, looking sideways at him.
"Brother Qing, there are a lot of people coming outside." Brother Xing opened the windshield curtain at the door and ran in, seeing Liu Yaoqing still under the covers, he was stunned for a moment, "Brother Qing, what's wrong with you?"
"I'm fine, who is outside?" Liu Yaoqing stuffed the gaps in the bed tightly, ready to warm up before getting up.
I won’t eat so much corn anymore, but it’s really delicious. Now I only have a small amount of refined grains at home, which are coarse grains. Although I often eat meat, corn has a special flavor.
"It's the same as Han Da and the others, and they also said to ask Brother Qing to go out to get rewards." Although Brother Xing knew that Han Da and the others had unusual identities, he never knew their real identities.
"I see, you go and ask mother and father to change into better clothes and come out." Liu Yaoqing was wriggling in the bed, and was about to get the clothes from the kang, but Brother Zhezi had already brought them over.
After getting dressed, Liu Yaoqing and Brother Zhezi went out together, and sure enough, they saw Han Da with all the soldiers who looked similar to them, and they seemed to know each other, there was an adult who was dressed differently standing alone, and the others looked at him attitudes are different.
The lord saw Liu Yaoqing coming out, but there was a smile on his face, and when Li Shi, Liu Quanjin, Brother Xing, Liu Yaoqing and Brother Zhezi knelt down, the lord gave him a reward.
A total of 150 taels of silver, did not specify whether it was for Liu Yaoqing or Brother Zhezi, but it was indeed for two people.
Give the money to brother Zhezi, and Liu Yaoqing brings a can of peach wine to the front, and gives it to the adults alone.
He took Tao'erniang without any refusal, the lord smiled at Liu Yaoqing very cordially, turned around and left without saying anything.
Adults who can deliver orders to the emperor, even if they only come to the small village of Shanggu, are people close to the emperor.This time and again, regardless of what people say when they go back, for people from the lower places like Shanggu Village, Shangping Town, and Shangnan County, Liu Yaoqing has already become a brother who has a sense of presence in the emperor's heart. .
Even the Jinshi masters in the county had only knelt down and worshiped the emperor from a distance in the Jinluan Hall. In terms of the presence in the emperor's heart, except for the top [-] of the first and second grades, and people with quite a background in the same Jinshi, I'm afraid they are all similar to the dust on the side of the road, and no one can recognize them.
Those soldiers stayed again to help guard the shed.
The door of the shed is often opened, Liu Yaoqing and Brother Zhezi go in to talk to Brother Bao, but others cannot enter.
A lot of people from the village came up, but they were afraid of the big and three rough soldiers and didn't come forward to talk to them, so some people used their brains to start with other people.
"Brother Qing, someone asked me what delicious food I have recently." Brother Yu came to look for Liu Yaoqing bouncing around.
Since moving to live in the mountains, brother Yu has changed a lot. He dares to speak up and think about things by himself. He eats the prepared meals with Su Qi and the others every day. Recently, he seems to be a little slack, and he is a little taller. .
"Then what did you say?" Liu Yaoqing asked.
Brother Yu naturally also has corn to eat, but Liu Yaoqing specially instructed not to let others see it for the time being.
"Fang Ergou gave me a handful of candies, so I asked for it." Brother Yu raised his face, looking a little smug, "I ate his candies and told him that I did eat fresh food recently. It's black all over, but white inside, it tastes sweet and bitter, it's bigger than a cow, it can run and jump..."
"Did Fanger Gou believe it?" Liu Yaoqing asked with interest, never expecting the honest Brother Yu to lie and deceive others.
"I don't believe it, and then I ran away." Brother Yu climbed onto the kang to finish the job, puffing his cheeks and said, "I know Fang Ergou is not a good guy, he has a good relationship with uncle, I'm afraid he didn't come here for my uncle Asked."
What he said really made Liu Yaoqing look at Brother Yu with admiration.
"I get it, these days you don't go down the mountain, don't go back to the old house." Liu Yaoqing said as she got off the kang, ready to go out for a walk.
"Brother Qing, can you go down the mountain?" Brother Yu asked while sitting on the edge of the kang, dangling his two thin legs.
Pointing to brother Zhezi who was standing silently at the door, Liu Yaoqing smiled and said, "I can, because I'm not alone."
Going down the mountain with brother Zhezi, Liu Yaoqing is really planning to go back to the old house to have a look.
The last time the emperor sent a reward, Liu Yaoqing directly asked Li Shi and Liu Quanjin to kneel at the front, without letting Old Man Liu know about it, but the news spread so fast in the village, I am afraid that Old Man Liu would also know about it soon.
These few days Liu Yaoqing was busy with the corn, he nodded and said that the soldiers guarding outside could only break the corn when it was ripe.
Old man Liu did know that Liu Yaoqing and Zhezi had received the reward from the emperor again that day. At that time, Mrs. Li, Liu Quanjin and Brother Xing also bowed down. No one called old man Liu.
Sitting on the kang in silence for several days, Old Man Liu sighed and said, "The family is separated after all."
But the last time...wasn't it in Liu's courtyard.
"Boss said that Brother Qing is tossing good things on the mountain again, and everyone in the village is talking about it." Li Shi lowered her head and said with a gloomy expression, "It is because of this that I got the reward."
Old man Liu naturally also heard from Liu Quanfu, but after thinking about it for several days, he couldn't figure out where did Liu Yaoqing get those good things, and did Liu's belong to them?
Back then, the ancestors of the Liu family had a glorious past, but after a few generations, they fell like leaves in the autumn wind. By the generation of old man Liu, his family tree had already been merged into the Liu family in Shanggu Village and became a branch.
If we talk about the things left behind by the Liu family in its glory days, there are everything from rare ink treasures to jewels and jade, but they have been ruined from generation to generation, and finally the family tree is gone. A few words, and next to it, there is nothing.
But looking at Liu Yaoqing again, the days are getting more and more prosperous, and they are stuck together before they are married to Zhezi, and the family business is earned piece by piece. Not to mention the other things, the emperor's rewards one after another are enough. Impressive.
Now Liu Yaoqing on the mountain seems to have been completely separated from old man Liu. Even though the three-bedroom house is still in the old house, in the hearts of the villagers, they have become a real two families.
"Let's ask Quan Jin to have a meal later." Old man Liu said, puffing on his sweat.
Mrs. Li obviously meant the same thing, "Tell Brother Zheng to go."
"Success." Old man Liu also nodded.
Brother Zheng hadn't left the house yet, Liu Yaoqing and Brother Zhezi came in head-on.
"Brother Zheng, why are you going out?" Liu Yaoqing asked.
"Grandpa told me to find my third uncle." Brother Zheng didn't hide anything, he said it honestly.
Looking for Liu Quanjin?Liu Yaoqing smiled inwardly.
During this period of time, Liu Quanjin sat on the warm kang all day long, served delicious food and drinks, and was obviously much more comfortable. Now he can walk down the ground, but he has never gone down the mountain.
Old man Liu and Mrs. Li wanted to see Liu Quanjin, so Liu Yaoqing naturally couldn't stop him, but before that, he could go and meet the old couple first.
"Grandpa, grandma." Liu Yaoqing entered the door, found a bench and sat down.
The room is very warm, the kang is very hot, this is the money spent by Liu Yaoqing.
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