The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 189 190 is the mother

Li Yu looked at her with a smile and said, "Yes, I'm the new magistrate's wife. I bought the wasteland outside the city. Today, I went up the mountain to find a water source. I saw your village in the middle of the mountain. Go help me open up wasteland and earn some wages, the wages are fifteen cents a day, not including food and drink, are you willing?"

   Everyone was stunned, and the woman asked happily, "Madam, is what you said true?"

   Li Yu said with a smile: "It's absolutely true. If you don't believe it, you can follow me to the county office and let the county magistrate prove it to you."

   "I believe you," the woman smiled excitedly, "My family is willing to open up wasteland, and my millet is finished."

   Everyone shouted, "Ma'am, when will we start working, we are also willing to go."

   "You can go to work tomorrow morning. Let me tell you first. I only need twenty people in my wasteland. I will show you the location later."

  The villagers said happily: "Thank you madam! You don't need to look at the land. There is only that wasteland outside the city at the foot of the east mountain. Everyone knows it!"

At this time, the woman led the three little girls to Li Yu, and knelt down with a "thump". Li Yu quickly helped the woman up and comforted her warmly, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, the days will get better. The better come."

  The woman bowed and said, "Thank you, madam! Without you, my daughter would have been sold to that pickling place."

Li Yu looked at the mother and daughter, and praised: "You can't be thankful. Some people say that women are weak and mothers are strong. I also see you trying to protect your daughter, so I'm willing to help you. If you endure it. , I won't be too busy!"

Li Yu glanced at the man standing not far away and said, "It's not wrong for you to be filial to your mother, but the fault is that you shouldn't sell your own children. If your mother knew the money for her treatment, you sold yours. Child, her granddaughter got it, can she use it with peace of mind?"

   The little girl standing beside the woman suddenly said, "Madam, my grandmother is not sick. She said that we are all money losers. Staying at home is also a waste of food. We might as well exchange money for my cousin to marry a daughter-in-law."

  Li Yu was taken aback, "Really?"

The little girl said crisply: "Really, my second sister heard and told me that my grandmother asked my aunt to call my father back, saying that she had a heart attack, and asked my father to sell me and my eldest sister to her to see a doctor. Working in the fields, I asked my little sister to call my mother back."

   The little girl who called the second sister nodded and said timidly, "The aunt and grandmother discussed in the room and sold us to brother hall to marry a wife."

Li Yu looked at the man and said sternly: "As the saying goes, kindness comes under filial piety, your mother pretended to be sick and wanted to sell your child in order to marry your elder brother's child. When an elder is unkind, you still need to be filial and filial, you Do you know that you are helping the Zhou Dynasty! You are a fool, you can't even protect your own children, I think you are not even better than animals!"

   "Yeah! Dashan, you are too confused to sell your children if you don't understand.

   "This person is too honest, and it's not good. He is always bullied by others. Sometimes, it is only when his own family is bullied that he will die!"

The man's face turned black and blue as if struck by lightning. "I don't know. My mother said she was ill and called me back from the field. Why did they lie to me? I'll go back to find them." The man turned and ran away. .

   "Madam, thank you very much!" After bowing to Li Yu, the woman took the child and hurriedly followed him back.

Li Yu and the villagers made an appointment to start work, and then walked into the city and in front of the wasteland. When he saw Zhou Jia driving a carriage waiting for him in front of the wasteland, Li Yu greeted him with a smile, "Why are you here? are not you busy?"

Seeing that there was no one around, Zhou Jia took Li Yu's hand and walked towards the carriage, "The meal is ready, but you haven't arrived yet. I'll take a look if I'm worried." walk in.

On the way into the city, Zhou Jia said in a happy mood: "Today, I spent two hundred taels of silver, mainly buying glutinous rice and slaked lime, and the rest are clay dug from the river and the mountains. The villagers in the county town still work. Things are pretty neat, I think it takes about half a month at most to repair the collapsed city wall."

   "That's good, once the city walls are repaired, we will start building the county government office. It's inconvenient to live in someone else's house!"

   "Good fish, when Shen Wu brings people to destroy the mountain bandits, we can manage Qingchuan with peace of mind."

The next day, Li Yu took Yang Wei to the wasteland and chose the location of the cistern in the shade, so he had someone cut some bamboo, use a long wooden stick to cut through the bamboo joints, carry the bamboo pipe to the cave, and The bamboo pipe was cut obliquely and then connected to the water outlet of the cliff, leading the water from the cave down the mountain, and a few craftsmen were hired in the village to build the farm.

After Shuijin went down the mountain, the day when the mountain bandits collected grain was approaching. After Zhou Jia and the village chief of Shijia Village explained the situation, everyone expressed their willingness to cooperate. After Ruyi and Steward Ouyang came back from Hutouzhai, they brought those new tricks with them. The yamen of the yamen, practice some simple tricks against the enemy to prepare for the mountain bandits.

  Li Yu also handed over the construction of Zhuangzi, land reclamation, composting and digging of fallen leaf fertilizer to Yang Wei, and went home to prepare to deal with the mountain bandits.

  Xu Chun and Xu Gui rushed to Qingzhou day and night, and arrived at Qingzhou in less than half the time they arrived.

   After the two entered the city, they hurried back to the Four Seas Bank, found the shopkeeper Chu Jiang, and handed Zhou Jia's letter to Chu Jiang.

  Xu Chun said to Chu Jiang: "Treasurer Chu, you don't know that Qingchuan City is full of tatters. The mountain bandits burned down the city walls and the county government office. Master Zhou's family rented it at Tu Dian's house."

   After reading the letter, Chu Jiang said to Xu Chun: "You two, go get something to eat, and then go for a break. I'll find General Shen Wu."

  Chu Jiang hurriedly went to Shen Wu's house, handed the letter to Shen Wu, and said to Shen Wu, "General Xiao Shen, Lord Zhou, please bring troops to help him."

After reading the letter, Shen Wu said: "I received an order from the general yesterday to lead me to Qingchuan to suppress the bandits. The general suspects that the officers and soldiers who went to suppress bandits in the past have colluded with the mountain bandits to harm the common people. Let's go, Brother Zhou brings a letter saying that there is a hundred thousand urgent, I will lead the troops to Qingchuan."

   "Okay, bring some money over there. Mr. Zhou said that he would borrow money to repair the city wall and rebuild the county office."

  Shen Wu patted Chu Jiang and said with a smile, "Are you afraid that he won't have any money after the bandit suppression? There is money in the bandit den."

   "That's true, Xu Chun said, there are very few shops in Qingchuan City, and it's getting cold, so I'll bring some fur, cloth and cotton for Lord Zhou!"

  Shen Wu laughed and said: "It's still as thoughtful as you think, I'm just a rough person."

Shen Wu took Shen Yu's letter and went to the camp to transfer troops. Chu Jiang asked people to buy good fur, cloth, and cotton, and asked Xu Chun to bring them. Meeting at the door, they hurried to Qingchuan day and night.

In Qinglong Village, Zuo Qing instructed Uncle Cai, a confidant who went down the mountain to collect grain, "Uncle Cai, you send half of the food you received, and the rest will be pulled back to the cottage. I wonder if General Huang is in Qingzhou. Ying, I can't speak anymore, and we're probably going to have a hard life next."

   (end of this chapter)