Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 215 Manuscripts

  Xia Houren said with a dark face: "I'll have someone deliver it later."

   He paused, not willing to give the original to Zhao Hanzhang, so he said: "That was my hard work for many years, I want to leave some as a souvenir, how about you wait for me to make a copy and give it to you?"

   "How dare you bother your uncle? Ting Han is also good at drawing, so why don't you hand over the manuscript to us and let us copy it." Zhao Hanzhang said with a smile: "When the painting is finished, I will return the manuscript to my uncle in person."

  Xia Houren wanted to fight again, Zhao Ming narrowed his eyes and said, "Zitai won't be reluctant, so you want to go back on it, right?"

  Xia Houren has a black face. The reason why he mentioned this matter after answering was because he was afraid that they would think so. Sure enough, they still thought so.

  Xia Houren rolled his sleeves, called his long attendant, and said on the spot, "Go back and fetch all my manuscripts from Yuzhou."

  Xia Houren's manuscripts are all in the suitcases, so people like Xia Houren who like to travel, once danger occurs, their lifelong efforts may be lost in the long river of history.

   Zhao Hanzhang felt that she was saving her efforts for them. Thinking of this, she took over the manuscript that Changsui had brought in without any psychological burden.

   There are many manuscripts, although only the part of Yuzhou, it is also a thick pile. Most of them are written on paper, but some are written on silk cloth.

   Zhao Hanzhang took out a roll of silk cloth and opened it, and found that it was a topographic map of Shangcai. The handwriting was very old and should have been drawn for several years.

   Zhao Hanzhang raised his eyebrows slightly, rolled up the silk cloth, and said to Xiahou Ren, who had a painful face, "Don't worry, uncle, I will return the manuscript as soon as possible."

  Xia Houren tried his best not to look at the manuscripts on the table, because it was so heartbreaking.

   Zhao Ming took it as soon as he saw it, and invited Xia Houren, "I have a little wine at home, Zitai and I drink it together?"

  Xia Houren looked at Zhao Hanzhang.

   Zhao Ming said with a look of relief: "Sanniang is very filial, and she is keeping filial piety for the uncle, so she will not be with us."

   Xia Houren could only leave.

   Zhao Ming glared at Zhao Hanzhang secretly when he left, warning her to be honest recently, her reputation has been given to her, so don't ruin his sign.

   Zhao Cheng looked disapproving. As far as he knew, Zhao Hanzhang started drinking after passing the hot filial piety.

   Zhao Hanzhang successfully received Zhao Ming's signal, nodded slightly at him, and respectfully sent the five uncles out of the gate together with Fu Tinghan.

   Zhao Hanzhang stood in front of the gate and greeted them. As soon as they walked away, the smile on his face immediately disappeared. He pulled up Fu Tinghan and ran home, "Go and see the manuscript."

  Ji Yuan also came over after receiving the news, and the three read Xia Houren's manuscript together.

   Most of the above are drawings, only part of the manuscripts, and the manuscripts mostly record the customs of various places, as well as some mountains and rivers.

For example, Yingshui is a branch from the Huaihe River. Because of the narrow river channel, the river floods out every three or five years. The local people think that the river **** is asking for bribes, so they throw livestock into the river every three years. offerings.

  The nearby villages are sad because the sacrifices are getting more and more valuable, and more and more people flee from the villages, but Xia Houren believes that the flooding of the river is due to the accumulation of silt in the river, as long as the silt is removed.

   It also wrote his answer when he went to the local magistrate to talk about the matter.

   The county magistrate said that he knew about this, and he had also sent people to lecture the villagers and arranged for each village to provide labor to clean up the river.

  Because of the flood in the second year of dredging, the river was still flooded, even more serious than in previous years.

The county magistrate expressed bitterness and believed that there were two main reasons for the flooding of the river at that time. First, it happened that the precipitation was more than in previous years. Second, the workers were lazy and did not dredging according to his regulations. There is a section that has not been cleaned up, which makes the river channel even more narrow and abrupt, and the water flow in the upstream skyrockets.

   But since then, it has been difficult for him to direct the people in those villages to dredging.

   The magistrates simply lie down and let them make sacrifices every year.

  Xia Houren expressed his regret over the incident, then drew a map of the river and left.

Fu Tinghan carefully looked at the map of that section of the river and said, "To dredging, this section alone is not enough, we have to start clearing from here, it is best to dig a new channel for diversion, which can not only control the flood, but also increase the productivity of the fields. amount of water."

   Zhao Hanzhang: "This project is not small and requires a lot of manpower and material resources."

  Jiyuan: "...Girl, Yingshui is in Ruyin, far away from our Runan. Would you like to see Runan's picture first?"

   "Oh," Zhao Hanzhang put down the picture and manuscript honestly, and rummaged through Runan's picture.

   It is not a self-contained one, it is basically one for each county, or several. Xia Houren draws pictures as he pleases. Sometimes he draws a map for villages and towns, and sometimes he draws a map of rivers alone.

   It is also a huge amount of work to integrate them into one drawing, but this can be done later, and now I will copy them out, but with so many drawings and such detailed ones, it is also a big project.

   The three of them just sorted out and divided the counties of Yuzhou, and they were busy at night before they got to the counties.

   Mr. Wang came to see them twice. Seeing that they were busy, he sent them away after dinner without disturbing them.

   She was about to change and lay down when there was a knock on the door. She was startled, "It's late at night, who's coming?"

  Aunt Qing went out to inquire and came back soon, "It's Mr. Ming, who went straight to the study."

   Wang Shi was suddenly worried, "It's so late... Could it be that something happened?"

  Qinggu: "Could it be because of the fight in the afternoon?"

   Wang didn't know that her daughter was fighting until after Xia Houren left, but because Zhao Hanzhang won, she didn't take it to heart.

   At this moment, Fang felt afraid, that Xia Houren's status is not low, maybe he minds this fight?

  Aunt Qing saw that she was really worried, so she said, "Can I go to the study to have a look?"

"Come on," Wang said after turning around, "bring some snacks and let the kitchen cook some meat. When I went to read it in the evening, there were a lot of manuscripts on the table, and I was very hungry, and I was full of meat. quick."

  Qinggu should go.

  Fu An led Zhao Ming in, Zhao Hanzhang raised his head and nodded casually, "It's so late at night, why did my uncle come back?"

   Zhao Ming stepped forward to read the manuscripts in front of her, "What do you think?"

   Zhao Hanzhang smiled and presented the half-arranged sketches with both hands, "Look, this is a picture of mountains and rivers of Xiping and Shangcai."

   Zhao Ming opened it, and even saw the detailed markings of Zhao's Wubao on it, and even the several roads next to it were clearly marked.

   He couldn't help chilling down his spine, "When did you draw this? How could Xia Houren draw in such detail?"

   "There is a date under the picture."

   Zhao Ming glanced, then looked up at Zhao Hanzhang, "How did you know that Xia Houren had such a picture?"

   (end of this chapter)