Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 294 What Are You Doing With Eggs?
At the same time, in the Wenjingyuan of Weiyuan Hou Mansion, Miss Lu was staring at the basket of eggs sent by Wenshu in a daze.

Her two maids, Yin Hong, Liu Lu, and Nanny Chen, were also sitting around the table at this time, the doors and windows outside were closed, and two second-class maids were guarding the door.

After a long time, Yin Hong whispered: "Could it be for the girl to hatch?"

An hour ago, the boy who went to Wen's house to send invitations came back and sent Lu Xingwan a basket of eggs along the way.

Because of the large size of the swan eggs, they are not ordinary eggs and duck eggs at first glance, and thinking of the magic bird beside Wen Shu, a group of people can't help but panic after brainstorming.

This is the egg laid by the divine bird!
They came to the conclusion that they panicked even more. What is Miss Wen doing to send their girls a basket of divine bird eggs?
The bewildered people grabbed the boy and questioned him, but the boy didn't know.When he took the basket back then, it was covered with a cloth towel, so he thought it was just an ordinary egg, after all, Wen Shu was holding the chicken in his hand at that time.

He was still thinking at the time, it was the first time he saw someone delivering eggs to the mansion, after all, the Hou mansion could lack such things.

Now being caught and interrogated by everyone, I just feel very wronged.

"Ms. Wen only said to leave it to the eldest girl, and nothing else." The little servant said with a bitter face.

After dismissing the boy, the group sat at the table and began to think hard.Because of the special nature of the bird's egg, people were carefully guarded outside the door, so as not to leak any "secrets"

"If you want to hatch, Miss Wen won't hatch by herself." Nanny Chen shook her head, indicating that this possibility is unlikely.

There is also a big bird in her place, it is not easier to hatch.

"Could it be for the girl to eat?" Lu Liu said weakly.

As soon as the words came out, everyone's attention was immediately attracted.The eyes are all saying: This is the egg of the god bird, sober up!
What if not?
Such questioning words, under the stares of everyone, Lu Liu did not dare to speak out after all.

"Why don't you ask Young Master?" After a while, Mother Chen suggested, "Young Master is well-informed, so you might know."

After hearing this, Lu Xingwan was noncommittal. He felt that there was no need to bother his brother with this kind of matter. It was just a basket of eggs. The great thing was to write a letter and ask Miss Wen directly.

Elder brother is already busy enough. I heard that the lights in the study room have been on all night in recent days. She can't help him solve the troubles in the court, but she can always do it so as not to add extra burden to him.

Although she didn't know why Dali Siqing was so busy.

Isn't this a pretty easy job?
But since my elder brother was promoted to this position, he seems to be busier than before, and he doesn't know what he is busy with.With so many grown-ups raised in the court, how could the officials be at his mercy?

Just as she was complaining, she heard the servant girl say outside the door: "Girl, Manager Lu Xi sent someone over with a basket of kumquats. Look, why don't you bring them in now?"

Lu Xi?Wasn't he sent by his brother to work outside?

Lu Xingwan stood up and said, "Bring it up and let me have a look."

Since the beginning of summer, her appetite has been bad. Not only does she not like to eat, she also doesn't like to move. The only two fruits she loves are kumquat and lychee.Kumquat is her favorite because of its moderate sweet and sour taste and its appetizing effect.

As the door opened, two half-sized boys in the shape of servants came in carrying a basket of yellow kumquats. Under the warm yellow light, all of them were as round as pearls, and just looking at them made people feel articulate.

Lu Xingwan was very satisfied, and happily said to Yinhong: "Give them some money." Then he asked the servant: "When did Guanshi Lu come back?"

"I just entered the mansion, and we were short of sending kumquats to the girl right away."

Lu Xingwan smiled and praised: "I have a heart."

In fact, I knew in my heart that it must be my elder brother who had warned me a long time ago.

When she turned around, she saw the basket on the table. After turning her gaze slightly, she said with a smile: "Wait." She winked at Yinhong, "Let them take this basket of eggs to elder brother, and say it's Xiao Wen." The lady gave it."

Yinhong and Luxie looked at each other, wondering what the girl was up to.

Facing their puzzled eyes, Lu Xingwan was not interested in explaining. Instead, he ordered Lu Liu at the side to wash her a plate of kumquats immediately. At the same time, he asked Yinhong to grind ink, and planned to write a letter to Wen Shu. sent to.

The cool evening wind followed the servants away, passed through the long corridor and the moon gate, entered Wenchang Courtyard, swirled among the leaves of the emerald green banana trees, and then drifted along the open window into the room with candles .

The pages of the book on the table were slightly turned up by the wind, but the weak candlelight beside it was protected by a clear glass cover, so it was not intruded in the slightest.The breeze continued to blow forward, blowing towards the teapot on the round table and the skirts of the people beside the table.

The hem of the straight blue clothes was blown slightly by the wind. Lu Yuancheng stood in front of the table, looking at Lu Xi who had returned from his trip with burning eyes, "So, the three prefectures and eight counties have all made countermeasures."

Lu Xi wiped the sweat off his neck and said with a smile, "Yes, the five counties on the South Road sent people to build dams, and the three counties on the West Road even harvested the crops in advance and hid some of the crops in the highlands."

Lu Yuancheng was overjoyed after hearing this, and nodded repeatedly, "Well done, the matter of flood discharge."

"I have also made preparations." Lu Xi continued: "Thanks to the words that the young master explained, and after some lobbying by the younger ones, the county magistrates of the four counties carefully chose relatively barren and low-lying villages. Flood release place."

"That's good, that's good." Lu Yuancheng muttered to himself, looking at the bright moon outside the window and heaved a sigh of relief.

As early as a month ago, he recalled the heavy rain that would last for half a month in his previous life.

The city of Bianjing is not bad, the emperor's feet are tightly guarded, and there are many vertical rivers, although the water level has risen, it is not a big obstacle.

However, the south of the Yangtze River is different. There is already abundant rainwater there, and many dams and dams have been in disrepair for a long time, so that the army will collapse after a heavy rain, and it will leak for thousands of miles.

How many farmlands and villages turned into vast oceans in an instant, and those crops that were too late to harvest, as well as the livestock that farmers frugally fed, were all washed away by the flood.

Tens of thousands of people died in the torrential floods.

Later, the loss of property and casualties reported in the state and county newspapers shocked the government and the public, although the officials immediately issued an order after hearing about it, ordering the government offices in various places to open warehouses to release food to relieve the people.

However, disasters have already happened, and those lost things and people can never come back.

The youngest son of the full moon, the newly married bride, the pillar of the family.
How many families were torn apart in that disaster, and their families were destroyed!
After this battle, the imperial court not only exempted the affected areas from taxes for three years, but also spent a lot of money to help the victims. Some unscrupulous officials took the opportunity to be greedy for money and food, so that the people below had no rice to eat, and they rose up under the riots.

All over again, he wants to do something.

He knew that with the negligence of the current officials, I am afraid that he would not be taken seriously even if he directly submitted a letter.Now, he didn't dare to passively put all his hopes on the officials.

After some careful consideration, he decided to privately send Lu Xi and others to Jiangnan Road to lobby the officials of various states and counties.Of course, it will not be so easy to do this, and there will be many obstacles.

After all, how can those officials believe what didn't happen.

You must know that relocating people and harvesting crops in advance is not a trivial matter. Firstly, the people will not cooperate, and secondly, they will cooperate. If there are rumors, it will affect their political achievements and shake the hearts of the people. Few officials dare to take the risk. It's a thankless task.

Fortunately, with the support of the memory of his previous life, he really knew that there were so few officials who dared to do such a thankless thing.Although it is only a small county magistrate.

However, a single spark can start a prairie fire. As long as it is well handled, it may not fail to affect the state and county.

(End of this chapter)