The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 200 New Year 201

In the blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve. Sausages, bacon, chicken, duck, fish, meat, and various dishes were all over the table. Li Yu called everyone in the family together, and everyone arrived happily. The first festival after Qingchuan.

  Uncle Liu, the concierge, opened the door early on the first day of the first lunar month, and saw that the gate was full of villagers, some carrying a basket of eggs, some carrying chickens and ducks!

  The villagers saw Uncle Liu open the door and put the things in their hands at the door. They cupped their hands and smiled: "Brother, please bring the eggs (chicken and duck) in, and tell Lord Zhou, let's pay New Year's greetings to you!"

Uncle Liu hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Brothers, sister-in-law, please wait, let me report to Madam and your lord, or I will be scolded!" Uncle Liu limped into the yard quickly and greeted Li Yu. The report said: "Madam, more than a dozen villagers came outside, carrying things to say hello to the New Year!"

   Li Yu and Zhou Jia hurriedly got up and walked outside. Li Qing was behind with the fried food from the previous year and ran out. When they got to the door, they only saw the bamboo baskets and chickens and ducks at the door, and no one was there.

  Uncle Liu said angrily to Zhou Jia: "Sir, I told them to wait."

   Zhou Jia smiled clearly: "They don't want to disturb us! Let's put everything in the house!"

  Li Qing looked at Zhou Jia and said with a smile: "This means that my brother-in-law is a good official! You see, there are people who send things to give you New Year's greetings!"

After putting the things at the door into the stove, Zhou Jia said to Li Yu and his brother: "It's impossible for other villagers to send things, I guess it may be the dozen or so households who took back the people whose fields were stolen by the bandits. !"

Li Qing said with some fear: "Brother-in-law, sister, I didn't know it was so difficult when you first arrived in Qingchuan. Fortunately, I knew General Shen. Otherwise, these bandits would have caused you a headache for a while. No wonder Mr. Lin said that the court Some of them are good officials!"

Zhou Jia looked at Li Qing and said earnestly: "There are people in the DPRK who are good officials, this is true! But Ah Qing, you have to know that Shen Wu will do his best to help us, there are some friendship factors in it, but the biggest reason is because We are His Majesty's people, and we are intrigued by intrigue in the officialdom, you have to remember that you can't just trust others."

  Li Qing respectfully saluted: "Brother-in-law, I remember!"

   Zhou Jia hugged Li Qing and smiled: "You don't have to worry, you are still young, and your brother-in-law and your sister will help you when you encounter difficulties!"

  Li Qing took Zhou Jia's hand, "Yeah! I know."

Li Yu came in from outside, looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "You two, don't stay at home, the street is very lively, Ruyi and the others went shopping! Let's go shopping too! It's been so long, not yet. Have a good time strolling the streets!"

   Zhou Jia and Li Qing both laughed after hearing this. Zhou Jia got up and walked in front of Li Yu and said with a smile, "Aqing! It's rare that your sister wants to go shopping, we'll go shopping with you!"

The three of them went out to the street. Li Yu looked at the people coming and going on the street and thought: Although Qingchuan County is not prosperous now, there are many pedestrians on the street, and people in the city are no longer closed every day. At home, some of them also started to set up stalls at the locations designated by Zhou Jia. There were yamen patrolling on the street, and the people who set up the stalls were not afraid of the harassment of the local hooligans. It can be said that compared with the previous Qingchuan County, the current Qingchuan County has begun to glow with vitality.

Li Qing looked all the way and saw that the streets were swept clean and the vendors were in designated positions. The people in the city stopped to salute when they saw Zhou Jia and Li Yu. Li Qing also felt a sense of pride in his heart. : "Brother-in-law, you are amazing. If I can become an official in the future, I want to learn from you."

Zhou Jia shook his head and said, "Your sister taught me a lot of things, like that public toilet, as well as those stalls and the farmers' market in Xicheng, and hiring disabled or widows to clean the streets is all your sister's advice, you Sister is worthy of a capable staff!"

Li Qing looked at Li Yu who had come to the front, and sighed, "Brother-in-law, you made a lot of money by marrying my sister. My sister is good-looking and has good skills. Now I will give you advice. My sister is too capable! "

   Zhou Jiade smiled and said: "That is! You don't even look at whose daughter-in-law!"

  Li Yu walked to a stall selling wontons, and said to the two people who were muttering: "It smells quite fragrant, let's eat a bowl of wontons!"

  The proprietress wiped the table diligently, and shouted with a smile on her face: "Master, the adults and my wife have come to eat my family's wontons, you can adjust the taste better!"

   The boss replied loudly: "Got it!"

  The three of them sat down for a while, the boss brought the wontons to the table, and bowed to Zhou Jia and his wife: "Sir, ma'am, the wontons in my family are thin and meaty, and they are guaranteed to be delicious!"

   Zhou Jia saw that there were people waiting for wontons at the table next to him, and said with a smile, "Okay, business looks pretty good!"

The boss replied happily: "Hey! The business is not bad, no one has come to make trouble, even if you make less money, you don't have to worry about it. My family has been selling wontons since my grandfather's generation, and I haven't set up a stall for more than ten years. Now The adults are here, and we have come out to set up a stall again, and I have to thank the adults."

   During the conversation, a few more guests came. Zhou Jia said to the boss: "Go on! You don't need to greet us." After the boss bowed and saluted, he went to work.

After a few people finished eating the wontons, they put down their copper plates, and continued to stroll. When they went to Beicheng, Li Yu found that there were also hawkers selling rouge gouache on the street, as well as nets and embroidery. , making the streets lively.

   Zhou Jia looked at the increasingly prosperous streets of Qingchuan and looked forward to Li Yu: "Yu'er, when the county town is profitable next year, we will prepare some lanterns and lion dances and dragon lanterns, and then invite a troupe to be lively!"

   Li Yu smiled and said, "Okay, it's up to you." The few people walked around the city, but in the end they didn't buy anything. They walked home empty-handed.

As soon as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed, the New Year was over. Li Qing and Li Yu discussed their plans to go back to Qingshui Town to bury their parents. Li Yu thought that the Zhou family’s fields had been occupied, and before he went to ask anyone to come back, he planned to talk to Li Yu. Qing went back to Qingshui Town together to go to the graves of his parents and take back the fields.

   Zhou Jia reluctantly said, "Yu'er, you will be back in mid-March after you go back and forth."

  Li Yu hugged Zhou Jia and said with a smile: "Now Qingchuan's affairs are just on the right track, and you can't go back with me, just in time for spring farming when I come back."

Zhou Jia touched Li Yu's hair, kissed Li Yu's face lightly, and said reluctantly: "I really hate you to go, you must be careful on the road, and when you arrive in Qingshui Town, you can take the shops in the town and the ones in Qingshan City by the way. The shop is sold, don't hurry along the way, come back as soon as possible!"

  Li Yu hugged Zhou Jia tightly and said with a chuckle, "You want me to stop in a hurry, and you want me to come back earlier, what should I listen to you?"

   Zhou Jia sighed: "Then come back as soon as possible while ensuring safety!"

   (end of this chapter)