Uncle Hong Lou Rong

Chapter 346 Rong'er, come in quickly

Jia Rong climbed upstairs to offer the first bowl of Yuanxiao, although there were only three or five, the chubby Yuanxiao took up the entire bowl.When they arrived at the door, Grandma Rong took the bowl in her hand, and it was passed down all the way to the old lady Jia Mu.

Eating Lantern Festival on Lantern Festival night is about tradition and good meaning.

On this night, except for those who can't open the pot at home, there is not much difference in the Lantern Festival eaten by other families, no matter how rich or noble they are.Most of them are stuffed with black sesame and red bean paste.

Duan Lang, who is far away in the southern province, ate small glutinous rice balls the size of a little finger tonight.There is no filling in this kind of small glutinous rice balls, and it is delicious with a spoonful of glutinous wine.

It's just that in the bowl in Duan Lang's hand at the moment, there are many small glutinous rice balls floating in the clear water, with neither flavor-enhancing ingredients nor glutinous wine in it.Every time Duan Lang took a sip, he had to take a big mouthful of clear soup to serve.Otherwise, the bland and tasteless glutinous rice balls are really hard to swallow.

"The first month is a good time, but it's hard for adults to suffer in this remote place, little..."

Duan Lang waved his hand to stop, and said: "In another forty or fifty days, the early rice in the south of the Yangtze River will have to grow seedlings, and the time waits for no one. The fields of other wealthy land gentry have already repaired canals, and these bitter cold and remote mountainous areas have to speed up the progress of water supply. If one more field is irrigated, one less village will go hungry in the coming year.”

Another person replied: "It has always been the rich who occupy the rich land, and the poor cultivate the poor land; the rich should get richer, and the poor should get poorer. The one in Shenjing City wants to change the poor land into rich land, I'm afraid We have only provided water to the poor land at the front foot, and the land at the back foot has been seized by the country gentry. On the contrary, we have done bad things with good intentions, and how can we pay back the cement money we owe in the future.”

Duan Lang frowned and put down the bowl, and said, "Whoever takes the land will pay back the money. My uncle has already calculated this matter. As long as they don't sell the land, the cement will be bought at a low price. As long as the price is paid With enough new land and irrigation, there will be more food."

The man said again: "That old man is trying to do something. He doesn't make any money for nothing. Tianwu cement is half-given and half-sold to old farmers in the desolate land to repair canals. If you change it to a big family, I don't know. How much do you want to earn? It also makes us suffer as well."

Duan Lang glanced at him, and said politely: "If you don't want to stay here, you can go back to the county, and the official didn't force you to stay."

"The little one is just complaining for the adults. Whoever is the magistrate of the county doesn't have money in his pocket. How long does the adult come here, and the clothes on his body are rotten and have big holes, and he doesn't have money for new clothes."

"How can you understand the ambition of my uncle? If you can understand it, you will not be a small official in Xuyi County. According to the words of the uncle, this is called charity assistance. The cement is sent over there, and the old farmers in the local area work hard. As long as the canals are built, the poor land with no access to water will become a good land for cultivating rice.”

"Your Excellency came from that family, so you can buy cement so cheaply."

Hearing this, Duan Lang didn't take it seriously.What's the point of buying cheap cement? As long as the acreage, grain, and tax revenue in Xuyi County increase sharply in the coming year, the uncle will also send cement recipes and cement kiln construction methods.

With these two things, serving as a local official is like getting a heavenly sword.

Duan Lang's Heavenly Sword still needs to work hard, but the sharp sword hanging above Mrs. Bai's head is about to fall down at any time.

"Is he not worried at all?" Mrs. Bai looked at the bright full moon hanging high in the night sky in a second courtyard in the city of Ping'an.

"That man has always been very courageous." Li Xianmei replied.

"With a small plan, the 20 years of hard work of our Holy Church in Ping'an Prefecture will be in vain." Madam Bai has been famous for 20 years, but she looks as straight as thirty people, with cherry lips and star eyes, and picturesque eyebrows. Flat, but in the fluttering of the clothes, one can still see the soft waist and limbs, and the figure is moving.

She laughed at herself and said, "I really want to see him."

Li Xianmei seemed to recall some frightening experience, her body trembled suddenly, and she replied: "It's better not to see such a person."

Mrs. Bai turned her body lightly, and turned her head to look at Xianmei.Stretch out her slender hand, caress Xianmei's face.Such firm skin, such a young and beautiful person.

"What are you afraid of?" Mrs. Bai stared at her closely, and sighed softly as if thinking of something.Asked: "What is that girl doing now?"

"My sister made a few sky lanterns herself, and I'm putting them up in the back. I hope these sky lanterns can bring her thoughts back to the capital."

Madam Bai was stunned.The girl was really fascinated by that man.

It was not just this one who was fascinated by that person.

Brother Rong just presented the Lantern Festival, but the eyes in the room couldn't help looking outside.The old lady ate the Lantern Festival, and finally the wife, grandma, and girl also ate to keep warm.After a little bit of excitement in the room, it was the third watch of the night shift.

Jia Mu said, "It's strange that I'm getting cold."

A long time ago, many maidservants brought over the changed clothes.Mrs. Wang got up and said with a smile: "The old lady might as well move to the Kang in the warm pavilion, that's all. These two relatives are not outsiders, we just stay with them."

Jia Mu said with a smile: "Since you say that, why don't you all move in, wouldn't it be warm?"

Mrs. Wang said: "I'm afraid I won't be able to sit inside."

Jia Mu said: "Nowadays we don't use these tables anymore, we only use two or three of them together, and we sit together and squeeze together, it's intimate and warm."

Everyone set up the banquet, and the daughters-in-law hurriedly removed the remaining seats, went into the warm pavilion and straightly merged three large tables, and added fruit and other delicacies to set them up.Jia's mother asked Xue Li to sit on the front, and she sat on the west side. She asked Baoqin, Daiyu, and Xiangyun to sit next to each other, and said to Baoyu, "You are next to your wife."

So Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang sandwich Baoyu.Baochai and other sisters are on the west side. Going down one by one, it is Lou's family with Jia Zhu, You's Li Wan with Jia Lan, and Jia Rong's daughter-in-law, Keqing.

Jia's mother ordered Jia Lian to send back all the men and relatives in the family, but Jia Rong was left alone, saying: "Although these people are having fun, they must have a pair of great-grandsons at the table. Rong'er is all right. Yes. Rong'er, sitting with your daughter-in-law, we are reunited."

The warm pavilion is not big, and the room is crowded and full of people at this time.The mother-in-law and maidservants only left a few urgent waiters, and the others were all waiting outside.Uncle Rong had just entered, so he didn't know whether he should go and sit down.

Just look at the horizontal seat where Keqing is sitting, although it is empty, but Baochai is next to him on the other side.

Too crowded.

Aunt Li and Aunt Xue were sitting on the front. He could see that Aunt Xue was chatting and laughing with the old lady, but her eyes couldn't stop sweeping at him.

Aunt Xue thought too much, no matter how stupid she was, she couldn't do anything to Baochai on such an occasion.The old lady, Mrs. Xing Wang, and so many little aunts were present.

However, Li Wan who was sitting next to Ke Qing seemed to have a strange expression on his face.

"Rong'er come in quickly, what are you doing in a daze." The old lady called out.

Brother Rong squeezed his way into the seat, only to realize that the seating arrangement in the warm pavilion tonight is quite intriguing.

(End of this chapter)