The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 220 221 Banquet

   Both of them spoke up, and Zhou Jia couldn't hold on any longer, or it would be a little embarrassing to live in a yamen in the future! Besides, the money to build the county school is indeed not enough. Let the merchants who come back donate some money, and the money can also help a few more children in the countryside who are eager to learn. Zhou Jia nodded and comforted the county: "Okay! Just listen to you two, let's go!"

  Yu County Wei saw that Zhou Jia agreed, so he went to talk to the manager of the Xu family. Zhou Jia sorted out the file and handed it to Mr. Qian, and returned to the back office.

   Zhou Jia returned to the Houya and saw that Li Yu was lying on the rocking chair covered with a wool blanket and fell asleep without disturbing her, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

  Li Yu found that after the third month of pregnancy, he felt that his stomach was getting more and more hungry and his appetite was getting bigger and bigger. Every time he saw Xiaoyu's belly growing like air, Li Yu felt a little scared in his heart.

   Yuniang brought a bowl of chicken noodle soup to the courtyard. Seeing that Li Yu fell asleep on the reclining chair again, she whispered, "Madam's noodles are ready."

Li Yu opened his eyes, the smell of chopped green onion in the chicken noodle soup wafted into his nostrils, he felt that his saliva was about to flow down, he picked up his chopsticks and ate the noodles, smiled and said to Yu Niang, "Why am I getting more and more greedy? ."

   "You are pregnant with the young master, and you are eating for two. Of course, you will be hungry soon."

Zhou Jia got dressed, walked into the yard, saw Li Yu holding a porcelain bowl bigger than her head and sweating profusely, walked over and squatted beside her, looked at her with a smile and said, "Fish Son, is it delicious?"

  Li Yu glanced at the big bowl in front of him and said with a dry smile, "It's not that I want to eat it, it's your son who wants to eat it! Would you like a bowl?"

   Zhou Jia nodded and smiled: "Okay! I'll accompany you to eat a bowl."

  Yu Niang was busy cooking noodles, Zhou Jia told Li Yu about going to the banquet to raise money, Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia, "Xiao Xi, has Shen Wu ran out of money left to build the county government office?"

"Those money can build the framework of the county school. Qingchuan still had a county school more than ten years ago. It turns out that the things equipped in the county school have long since vanished! When we start building the county school, we will buy books, desks and stools when the school starts. I have to go to Qingzhou to hire a talented person to teach in Qingchuan, so my husband should have a place to live! There is also a student's dormitory, and cooks, cooks, and chores. The money originally planned is simply not enough."

   Li Yu knew as soon as he heard it, that miscellaneous goods needed a lot of money, and the income of the county government was only from the shops along the street and those paid by the vendors, a pitiful little tax, and there was no other income.

   "Yeah! Listening to your calculations, you still need to prepare money. Since we want those wealthy households who come back to donate money, let's take the lead! How about we donate two hundred taels?"

   "I'm just a small county magistrate, donating two hundred taels is enough!"

   "Have you gone to those villages and made statistics? Are there many people returning home? How is the situation of the arable land?"

"So far, 80-90% of the people who have fled the famine have returned. When the autumn harvest this year, those villagers will get the news that Qingchuan will be exempted from taxes, and there should be more people returning to their hometowns. The farmland is still in good condition, at least not like what we just did. At that time, the wasteland will be there!"

  Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia and said softly, "Xiaoxi, I believe Qingchuan County will get better and better under your governance."

"Yu'er, you have a lot of credit here too!" Yu Niang came out of the kitchen with her face facing each other. Seeing the two smiling at each other with affection, she coughed dryly and put her face on the small table. He packed up the bowl of noodles that Li Yu had eaten and left.

   Zhou Jia went to the banquet with Yuxian Wei and Tu Dianshi who were waiting in the outer courtyard.

   Li Yu sent Zhou Jia away to the lower garden in the backyard. After walking around for a while, he saw Li Qing carrying a back basket and carrying a few clumps of orchids into the hanging flower gate.

   Li Qing raised the bluegrass in his hand as soon as he saw Li Yu, "Sister, look, these are all dug up in the mountains, do they look good?"

"It's beautiful!" Li Qing put down the back basket, Li Yu saw a few budding gardenias, two jasmines, a few honeysuckles, the orchid still in his hand, and a clump of lavender flowers. Flowers, exuding bursts of fragrance.

Li Qing picked up the flower **** leaning against the corner and started digging a hole to plant flowers. Li Yu crouched down to help him stabilize the flower tree and asked, "Why did you come back alone, sir? Didn't you come home with you?" "

   "Mr. is drying those herbs in the yard. The old man also dug up some herbs and prepared them to plant in this small garden."

"Oh." Before the two siblings finished planting flowers, Mr. Wen and Xu Dong carried a basket of herbs into the small garden. Mr. Wen smiled and said to Li Yu, "Xiaoyu, there are so many herbs on Qinglong Village. , and many uncommon herbs, it's a treasure mountain there."

  Li Yu nodded and said, "The location is hidden there, and the soil is soft and suitable for the growth of herbs."

  Mr. Wen said cheerfully: "I dug up two kinds, and the good-looking and easy-to-plant ones came back and planted in the garden." Li Yu saw that Mr. Wen had dug Hedyotis diffusa and Huang Jing back.

   "Sir, Ah Qing and Master Xu, are you hungry? I'll ask Granny Liu to cook for you."

   Mr. Wen smiled and said, "Why don't you say that, they started preparing as soon as we came back. Where is Xiaoxi?" Li Yu told Mr. Wen that Zhou Jia went to the banquet.

   Zhou Jia, Yu Xianwei, Tu Dianshi, and Mr. Qian arrived at Xu Jinlong's house. Xu Jinlong bowed to Zhou Jia and saluted: "Master Zhou, thank you for visiting the humble house!"

   "Boss Xu is too polite!" Zhou Jia replied with a smile. After Xu Jinlong and Yu Xianwei greeted them, they welcomed them into the yard. Zhou Jia saw that the old and ruined house had been renovated, and the yard was full of flowers and plants.

  Xu Jinlong ushered a few people into the main hall of the main room. In the main hall was a table of eight immortals of red sandalwood, a picture of lotus and carp hanging on the wall, two red sandalwood Taishi chairs on the left and one on the right, and a row of red sandalwood chairs below.

   There were already seven or eight rich businessmen in gorgeous clothes sitting in the hall. When they saw Zhou Jia coming, they all stood up and greeted each other politely. After a few greetings, they all sat down.

  The servant girl started serving the dishes, and all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas were brought to the table one after another.

After the three rounds of drinking, everyone spoke and acted a lot more casually. A wealthy businessman surnamed Wu said with a smile, "Brother Xu, I heard that you brought back two singers from Qingzhou, please come out and sing a song for everyone to help the fun! "

   Another joked: "Yeah! Brother Xu, you won't be a treasure in the golden house, you can't bear to give us a feast for your ears!"

   "Well, I'll call Caidie and Caifeng out to sing two songs for everyone to cheer up."

  Xu Jinlong asked people to call out two singers. The two had plump **** and fat hips, and they were extremely charming. The wealthy businessman surnamed Wu looked straight on the spot.

   (end of this chapter)