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Chapter 129

During the Spring Festival, except for the good friends in the village who went around, and Chen Boyu and Chen Boyan who needed to go around, the rest of the people stayed at home most of the time, picking up things that they were interested in doing.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day of the Lantern Festival. Aunt Wu, who was in charge of the kitchen in the morning, made a bowl of long life for Tang Yaoling. She is good at cooking, and Zhou Jing knows all the dishes. After teaching her all the dishes, the taste of her cooking will be even better. Lou, everyone loves her craft.

After breakfast, Chen Huiyin went to the kitchen, and with the help of Aunt Wu, made the birthday cake.

At noon, when it was time to give gifts, Tang Yaoling was not really looking forward to the gifts from his elders and other friends. What he was looking forward to was gifts from sister Qiao.

Last year, Sister Qiao gave him the dagger that cut iron like mud. Later, she gave Mu Yang and Wei Chen the same dagger. The birthday presents are the same, so he secretly hinted to Sister Qiao, so he is looking forward to it.

Chen Huiyin's gift to Tang Yaoling was a fan painted by herself. The fan painted a clump of bamboo. She explained: "Bamboo is tall and slender, green all the year round, proud of snow and frost, I think it matches you well, wait for the weather When it’s hot, buy another fan bone, paste it on top, and it’ll be ready to use.”

Wei Chen looked at the gift and said dissatisfiedly, "Sister Qiao, compared to the birthday gift you gave Da Lang last year, this gift of yours is too perfunctory. I don't want such a perfunctory gift on my birthday."

When Chen Huiyin heard this, she frowned: "I designed the pattern with great care and drew it. Why is it just perfunctory? You don't like it, so I'm not willing to give it away!"

Tang Yaoling answered quickly at this time: "Sister Qiao, I like your gift very much. The bamboo on this fan is lifelike, and the painting skills are really good."

Wei Chen glanced at the fan again, and muttered in a low voice: "Symother, it's still lifelike, what's so difficult about bamboo, change it..."

Mu Yang didn't give him a chance to continue talking, tugged at his sleeve, and said in a low voice: "Shut up, it's fine if you don't know how to appreciate it, and if you talk too much, you won't be afraid to laugh people's teeth off."

Although he doesn't know how to draw, he still has the ability to appreciate. Being lifelike is really not a flattery for Da Lang.

Wei Chen was a little unconvinced, but seeing his husband also looked over, he obviously had no mood swings, so he still lowered his head cowardly.

The gift-giving session ended smoothly, and after a lively lunch, Wu Shengzhe and Chen Boyan drove the carriage and took the children into the city to watch the Lantern Festival at night.

After the Lantern Festival, the family began to prepare for Chen Boyan to take the Jinshi examination in Shangdu. Chen Boyu wanted to send him there, but Chen Boyan refused because he wanted to practice.

Wu Shengzhe wrote a letter and handed it to Chen Boyan. With this letter, he didn't have to worry about where he lived when he arrived in Shangdu.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the whole family went to see off Chen Boyan at the wharf in Huaiyuan County. They watched his remaining boat gradually go away, and finally turned into a small dot and disappeared, so everyone turned around and went home.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Gu Xinfang took the goods transported by the caravan from the Daqing Township Market and went south again. In order to prevent her false identity from being revealed, Chen Huiyin and others did not go to see her off.

On the 21st of the first lunar month, Chen Huiyin started a small class of four.

Time flew into February, and from the end of the first month, Chen Huiyin began to earn a lot of gratitude points every day. By mid-February, General Yu Jun's confidant in charge came to Chen's house with the current reward.

Chen Boyu invited people to sit down in the main room, and waited for the mother-in-law at home to serve tea before he said: "These things that Manager Yu brought are not today's rewards again!"

Steward Yu took a sip of hot tea and nodded with a smile: "Doctor Chen guessed right. After the autumn harvest last year, you gave my general the blueprints of the new plow tools. My generals immediately typed out a set according to the blueprints, and then Putting the cattle on to open up wasteland, this new plow is not easy to build, and it takes a lot of work, but it is really easy to use.

It has the function of digging the soil once with the iron fork and crushing the soil for the second time, and the soil is deeper than the iron fork, and the area for turning the soil is larger in one trip, and it is pulled by oxen, which is really time-saving, labor-saving and efficient. It is dozens of times that of the iron fork for turning the soil.

The general then asked the blacksmith to make a few more sets, and then sent them to Shangdu together with the drawings and the finished plow tools. The words were true, so the Ministry of Households was asked to draw up funds to make a batch of such plow tools and distribute them to various places. Yamen in prefectures and counties were equipped with cattle, and they were given to the people for free trial.

In some areas in the south, the first month has not yet come out, and the weather has turned warm. Farmers have begun to prepare for spring plowing. Each family in each village has tried it out in turn. The people have seen the new plow tools, and they are very grateful for today. I am also very happy to receive the news now, so I officially appointed my general as the assassin of Lingwu County, and there are these generous rewards.

The general has an extra job, and he has obtained the greatest benefits. Doctor Chen should get these rewards, so let me send them here as soon as possible. "

Knowing the cause and effect, Chen Boyu accepted these rewards calmly.

Butler Yu sat for a while, then got up to say goodbye. Chen Boyu personally sent the man into the carriage, and turned back to the yard after watching the carriage go far away. It happened that his daughter was over from get out of class, so he waved to her.

Chen Huiyin followed her father into the main room, looking at the exquisite cloth piled on the table and the boxes on the ground, there was nothing she didn't understand.

She doesn't have much money in her hands now. After building the medicine store and buying the medicinal seeds, there is probably nothing left. She is thinking about making money recently, and the money will come to her door automatically.

Chen Boyu raised his hand and touched his daughter's little head, and said with a smile, "You spent a lot of time, calculated and deliberated to design the new plow tools. These are all your private houses."

Chen Huiyin was startled, looked up at her father and said, "This is not acceptable, it will break the rules. It's still [-]% of the job, and I will take [-]%."

Chen Boyu looked at his daughter's clear and lively eyes with earnest eyes, sighed, then pulled her to sit down, and then said: "There is no breaking the rules. In the past, [-]% of the money you made from copying books was in the public office. That's Because the paper, pen and ink are all purchased with money from the public, you should also pay the money to the public.

But for this new plow, because of the large amount of calculations, the design of the plow cannot be modified on paper. You spent your own money to get a big blackboard and fiddled with something called chalk. With these two things, you have nothing to do No matter how you spend the paper, pen and ink at home, even if you don't use a penny from the company, you naturally don't have to pay the company. "

But Chen Huiyin was still not convinced, she said: "Father, our family can get these rewards, and it is you who operate in it, and finally the blueprints can be in today's hands, our family has these rewards, you can't ignore your own Give it."

(End of this chapter)