newbobooks Chapter 865: Seeds of Grain 2
Chapter 865: Seeds of Grain 2
Young Master Yang returned the greeting with a bow and said with a smile, "Thanks to Young Master Zhou, I am fine. My mother asked me to say hello to you. I hope you can send her an invitation when you are free. She has wanted to come to your house for a long time."
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "Your Majesty is a man who makes everyone feel happy when they see you, but I am afraid that I might offend Madam because my temple is too small. I am waiting for Madam to send me an invitation."
He stretched his hand inside and said, "Come in, please."
The two of them exchanged pleasantries for a long time, and Zhou Guo was so tired that the corners of his mouth were almost stiff from smiling. It was better to deal with people who were straightforward.
After finishing the tea, she saw that he had no intention of getting to the point, so she simply spoke frankly, saying: "I think Brother Yang must have met Master Zheng on his way back. Master Zheng came today to ask me about the new grain seeds. Brother Yang..."
Young Master Yang didn't expect her to be so straightforward. He was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Excuse me, I am here for this matter as well. Of course, if you are embarrassed, you can just pretend that I have never been here today."
Zhou Guo found it funny and thought to himself: If I really pretended that you had never been here, you would probably hate me to death.
"To tell you the truth, the two families only got one sentence today and returned empty-handed."
Young Master Yang was stunned, "Oh? I wonder what you mean?"
Zhou Guo's mouth twitched, feeling really tired, and said directly: "If you don't want to plant this year, I promise to give them 100 acres of land to plant next year. Brother Yang, the Wu family is like this, the Zheng family is like this, even if General Xu comes, I will say the same thing, if there is nothing, I can't make it out of thin air for you, don't you think?"
Young Master Yang: “…”
She was really relieved after sending the young master of the Yang family away. She had never felt so tired talking to people. It seemed as if she had nothing else to do all day but talk in roundabout ways.
After looking at the way she came, she did not go back to the backyard. Instead, she took a book and went to sit in the flower hall. She did not want to rest today.
Sure enough, before I could even sit down, someone else came.
She spent the whole day in the flower hall, receiving guests and seeing them off. In the end, there were so many people to receive that she could blurt out this set of remarks without thinking.
In the end, he had talked until his mouth was dry and his patience was exhausted, so he served the tea after just a few words.
Those people did not dare to look at her coldly. After all, the Yang, Zheng and Wu families received the same treatment. How could they be qualified to challenge them?
It was not until it was getting dark and all the students had returned that she had some peace and quiet.
He dragged his tired body back to the backyard, lay down on the rocking chair, and said, "Finally no one is coming. I can have some peace and quiet for a while."
The whole family felt distressed when they saw that her face was so pale.
Li said, "Why are there so many people here today? Don't they know to come every day? Why are so many people waiting for a day to come? Don't they give us a break?"
Zhou Guo thought of what the head of the Wu family said when he left. Wasn’t she busy all day?
She counted today, there are at least 30 if not 40. "Fortunately, the status of the people who come later is getting lower and lower. Some of them I can even send away with just a few words. Otherwise, if they are all like the first few, it will be exhausting."
The old man asked, "What was the result? What did you tell them?"
Zhou Guo said truthfully: "What else can I say? I don't have that much right now. Let them wait a while. By this time next year, I can distribute it to them. I can't make it."
Zhou Gu was a little worried, "Will they have everything next year? Can they harvest that much?"
Zhou Guo said, "That's about right. I promised a hundred acres to several big households, and the remaining eighty, fifty, and thirty acres are available."
The old man asked, "But aren't the wealthy families from Yunzhou the ones who came today? Are you not responsible for the wealthy families from other prefectures?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Yunzhou is the base camp of the Northland, which is similar to the capital. No matter how big the wealthy families in other prefectures are, they are not as big as here. Besides, these families have a lot of land in these places. They themselves are the wealthy families in those prefectures. The others only have 40 to 50 acres."
In the villages that have planted new crops this year, every household has seeds. With the batch she has in her hands, the grain seeds for next year will be sufficient.
"Besides, how much seeds are needed for a hundred mu? Twenty or thirty shi is enough. It's just that these masters don't know how to farm. When they hear that a hundred mu is a lot of land, they don't know how much seeds are needed for one mu. Otherwise, they would not agree to twenty or thirty shi.
Li said, "That's not deceiving them. If they don't know, then how could others not know? They knew about that kind of land when others didn't know about it."
Zhou Mi smiled and said, "Second Aunt, even if they knew, what would happen? They promised to plant seeds for one hundred acres of land, and they agreed to it themselves. Guo Guo didn't force them to agree."
Zhou Mai shook his head. "It's good enough to give them this much. Why would they care about how much? I don't think they would say anything even if they knew."
Zhou Gu said: "That's good, but I'm afraid these people will come here to do something sneaky. Don't wealthy families like to come here? And there are still several families in Yunzhou who haven't come yet, like the Wang family and the Liu family."
He had a very deep impression of the Wang and Liu families.
The others were shocked. "Yeah, the Wang family has never gotten along with us. It's like we are incompatible."
Zhou Guo pondered and said, "Don't be afraid. Nothing should happen. They just need to wait for two years. Even if we don't give it to them, there are so many big families in the North who will still give them face. It's not worth taking the risk."
Everyone nodded, this is the truth.
Zhou Guo finished speaking and said, "I don't want to think about it anymore. I've been talking about this all day. It gives me a headache just talking about it now. Let's talk about something else. What are we having for dinner?"
I feel happy when talking about food.
The dinner was not particularly sumptuous, with just one dish of braised fish and one dish of braised spareribs, which were considered meat dishes.
Zhou Guo saw a bowl of fried snails in sauce in the middle and asked happily, "Where did this come from?"
Zhou Su smiled and said, "We found it in the river a few days ago and have been keeping it in the kitchen."
Zhou Guo was surprised and asked, "We can find so many snails now. Are there a lot of snails in the river this year?"
Li smiled and said, "There has been a lot of rain this year, so there are a lot of snails. Now every household in the village needs meat, so snails are not as rare as they were in previous years."
The old man said, "I think this snail is pretty good. It's almost as good as meat."
Zhou Guo nodded, "I think so too, Master. Let's go to the river to fish for some tomorrow."
Although snails are delicious, touching them is also a kind of fun. Since not many people in the village touch them, she went to do it.
The old man said, "Okay, let's get up early tomorrow. I think it will be a sunny day."
Zhou Su reminded him, "It's cold now, there aren't that many in the river. We walked for a long time to find this much."
Li Lai nodded, "There are many people helping us touch it together."
Zhou Guo said: "It doesn't matter. If you can't find any snails, you can just catch some small fish or shrimps. I'm not picky."