The peasant girl who escaped the desert: she cried when she found the cruel prince

Chapter 523
The woman's eyes widened: "What? Princess?"

Tantai Yutuo said quickly: "Don't blame me, my wife. My wife, Meng, has never met your mother. I don't mean to offend you, so please forgive me!"

"So it's your wife. I didn't expect your wife to be so capable that she would be sleeping with you on this dike." Jing Li couldn't help but joke.

Seeing that she had misunderstood, Meng almost asked the princess to do some work. She was a little embarrassed for a moment: "Aunt Ninth is making a joke. I can't do it either, so I help him cook on the dam and do odd jobs and so on!"

Tantai Yutuo scolded: "I have said it hundreds of times, the royal family is different from the country, and you should be called the princess!"

Jing Li waved her hand and said, "We are all one family. What do we call Princess? It's great to call us Aunt Nine!"

"It's just that I'm a few years younger than you. If you don't feel embarrassed, it's okay to call me Aunt Ninth!"

Meng immediately smiled and said, "I knew that Aunt Ninth was not that particular. No wonder she could beat that old bastard Chen Liuwang to a pulp."

Tantai Yutuo couldn't help but shake his head. His wife was a familiar person, and she couldn't stop talking if she said a few words to others.

"Why didn't the empress come with the prince?" Tantai Yutuo interrupted his wife and asked.

Jingli said nonchalantly: "I was walking to check on the autumn harvest, so I was a few days behind the prince."

Meng nodded and said: "This year's harvest is not very good, but before this winter, the channel will be fully repaired and the ground will be matured. Next year's harvest will definitely be good."

Jing Li was surprised: "You actually know about things in the crop field?"

Mrs. Meng smiled with her eyebrows crooked and said, "I am originally from a farmer. The year before last, Aunt Ninth and Uncle Ninth came back from the south. The villagers they gathered at that time were all from my village."

Jing Li nodded. No wonder so many villagers gathered to protest as soon as King Anyang greeted him. She thought that King Anyang was very popular among the local people, but she never thought that this was actually the case.

Jingli said to Tantai Yutuo, "Your wife is wonderful!"

Tantai Yutuo's face turned red: "It's fine if you don't mind her being noisy!"

"You from the Seventeenth Family, after you return to Chang'an, come to my house and talk when you have time!" Jing Li said to Meng.

Tantai Yutuo's ranking was already No. 17. As an elder, Jing Li directly called her Meng, but she felt a little inappropriate, so she had to call her "Meng".

Meng hurriedly said: "Aunt Ninth doesn't mind, I have to come over from time to time to bother you!"

Jingli chatted with Tantai Yutuo for a while about the construction of the dam, and gave some technical suggestions based on his own experience in later generations. After some discussion, he went to the government office.

Meng looked at the two masters and servants and said with emotion: "This Ninth Aunt is really not an ordinary person. She knows business, war, crops and farm work, and she can actually do water conservancy. Is there anything else she doesn't know!"

Tantai Yutuo was also very emotional. The conversation just now directly solved several of his current problems. It seems that he will have to ask the princess for more advice from now on.

The master and servant of Jingli on the road were also discussing the couple, "A descendant of Tantai Yutuo's clan actually married a village girl. No matter how you look at it, it makes people feel fantasy?"

Jing Li muttered about this matter, she was also very humble in terms of background, but Tantai Yutuo was a serious member of the royal family. He was either a crazy person like Tantai Lin who didn't care, or he was a slut. It is impossible for her to marry the Meng family if she has no concept of respect and inferiority.

Caiyue explained to her: "Although King Anyang's branch is also a royal family, it has been out of the fifth server for a long time and is already a side branch."

"When the family was reduced to the point where they couldn't even afford to eat, even Tantai Yutuo didn't work in the fields when he was a child. Later, Emperor Ren accidentally heard someone talk about it and felt that he was a member of the royal family after all, so he was a little too buried. , gave the area to King Anyang, and gave some rewards, and then things gradually got better."

"The old Mr. Meng was an official of the former dynasty. Later he retired and returned to his hometown. The family declined. He became neighbors with Prince Anyang's family, and he also helped the Prince Anyang's family. That's when he arranged the marriage of his children." So that's what happened. Come to think of it, Prince Anyang's family has pretty good character. They did not lose their aspirations when they were in decline, and they never forgot their roots when they were prosperous.

Perhaps it was because of his childhood experiences that Tantai Yutuo developed such a pragmatic temperament.

As soon as Jingli arrived at the government office, Lord Yin Yue of Jicheng Prefecture was already waiting with everyone in the government office.

"Princess, your Majesty, everything has been prepared in the palace. I wonder if your Majesty would like to have a meal first, or check on official duties first?"

Yue Fengxiao was in his 30s and was originally the county magistrate of Wannian County in Chang'an. He was often ostracized because of his lack of tact.

Later, when a locust plague occurred, this man ignored the county magistrate and squatted in the fields to force the people to harvest. He was almost beaten to death by the locals, but Geng Qi rescued him.

After the land was opened up in the north, Jingli released him and served as governor of Jicheng.

Yue Fengxiao was grateful for Jingli's kindness. After arriving in Beidi, he worked hard and managed the people well.

"Let's eat first. I just came back from the dam and I'm a little hungry!" Jing Li said bluntly.

The Yue family did not have a separate courtyard. The family lived in the backyard of the government office.
As Jingli walked there, he saw that the backyard was not planted with exotic flowers and plants or rockery pavilions like those of city officials. The yard of Yue's family was just like Jing Dafu's back office, full of vegetables.

Jingli passed by a pond and found that there were freshly harvested rice stubble in it. She was a little curious for a moment: "Master Yue, are you still farming in the mansion?"

Yue Fengxiao said with some embarrassment: "My family is supported by my salary, and I and my wife are restless. It's a pity to see such a large pond empty, so I just planted rice."

"It just so happens that I started to promote new planting methods last year. I have experienced it myself, so that I can be convincing enough when I teach it to others."

"How was the harvest?" Jingli asked curiously.

Yue Fengxiao immediately said with a happy face: "I strictly followed the planting requirements of the empress, and the harvest from these two acres of land was more than a thousand catties, which is a full two hundred catties more than what farmers outside grew."

In order to be comparable, he specially selected a villager family who came with him. The owner of that family was an old farmer for decades.

From this comparison, we can see why the empress wants to promote it vigorously. It has indeed increased production a lot.

Jingli went to the backyard and found that there were mulberry trees planted, and asked curiously: "Is this place suitable for sericulture?"

Yue Fengxiao replied: "I dug these mulberry trees from Anxi. I don't know whether they are suitable or not, but they are alive and growing well. I will let my wife raise some silkworms in the spring after the new year." Let’s see if it’s suitable for growing sericulture.”

Mrs. Yue and her mother-in-law came out with the food in their hands. There was not a single servant in the huge government office. This made Jing Li lament that although this person was unreasonable, he was indeed an incorruptible official.

"My dear, I'm sorry, the food in this house is a bit plain, I'm being negligent!" Mrs. Yue leaned over in embarrassment.

They all told the stubborn donkey to go out and buy some meat and vegetables, but he refused to listen and said that he would treat him immediately with the things in the house.

Jingli comforted her, "Madam, you're welcome. I also come from a farmer's family, and these dishes look great to me."

After dinner, Yue Fengxiao wanted to take Jingli over to discuss official business.

Jing Li then asked casually: "Where is the prince?

(End of this chapter)