Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 146 Kneeling

   Zhao Hu saw Zhao Hanzhang and couldn't help sitting up, "Isn't Xiping County busy, why are you back?"

   Zhao Hanzhang asked Zhao Erlang to kneel, "Bring Erlang back to meet the seventh uncle."

   Zhao Erlang had already knelt several people before, and he was very skilled. After kneeling down, he kowtowed.

   Zhao Hu silently accepted, he touched his body, took out a jade pendant and handed it to Zhao Erlang, "Go and play."

   He looked at Zhao Hanzhang and said with interest: "I still have a jade pendant, and my grandniece also knocks one?"

   Zhao Hanzhang, who was about to sit down, stopped immediately when she heard it. She thought about it seriously, and simply lifted up her robe and knelt down.

   Zhao Hu didn't expect her to be so straightforward, so frightened she got up from the mat and took two steps back in a panic, "You, you..."

   Zhao Hanzhang raised his head to look at him, and smiled softly: "Seventh Uncle, I am not a gentleman, it is useless to ask for jade, you can give me something else."

   Zhao Hu regretted his hilarity for a while and asked, "You, what do you want?"

   "I'm a layman, I just like fields, earth, etc."

   Zhao Hu didn't expect her to be so ambitious. She wanted to take his property when she knelt down.

   "The Seventh Uncle hasn't heard me where he wants it, so why didn't he give it?" Zhao Hanzhang said: "It's not a good place, and the value is far worse than a piece of good jade."

   Zhao Hu asked, "Which piece of land do you want?"

Zhao Hanzhang knelt on the ground and said: "On the part of the west suburb of the city that is backed by the mountains, look, our Wubao is in the south suburb of the city, and most of the land is in this area and the east suburb of the city. It’s also a waste, why don’t you give it to Sanniang.”

   Zhao Hu tried hard to think about it. After thinking for a long time, he didn't remember it. He turned his head and asked the housekeeper, "Is there any land for our family in the western suburbs of the city?"

The housekeeper thought about it and then said: "Yes, there was a disaster in Runan a few years ago, and many people ran away. The county government couldn't levy taxes, and they couldn't live on. The county magistrate called everyone to buy land. , I caught a glimpse of the small river passing by, so I bought hundreds of acres of land there, just..."

   The housekeeper smiled flatteringly and said, "It's just that there is a shortage of manpower at home, and the place is far away, so we can't plant there. We can only hire a few tenants at a cheaper rate.

Hearing that it was not a good land, Zhao Hu breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that Zhao Hanzhang was still kneeling, he sat down with restraint, tidied up his robes, and said, "It's only a hundred acres of land, I'll give it to you, but Give me the bottom line, what are you doing with that land?"

   Zhao Hu said: "Don't fool me, I don't believe in farming. With so much land in your hands, how can you still have no land to plant?"

   Zhao Hanzhang said: "I'll use it for grazing."

   She said: "You also know that I have so many works now. What kind of horses, cows, sheep, consume a lot of money, it is cheaper to raise them yourself."

  Zhao Hu consciously thought that she was grazing for meat, so she curled her lips in disgust and said, "You are too stingy, aren't you just kneeling down for the few pieces of meat on the dinner table?"

   Zhao Hanzhang smiled at him, then kowtowed, "Thanks to Uncle Qi for the reward."

   Zhao Hu was so frightened that she shrank back, then stood up again and waved: "Get up, get up."

   Then ask the housekeeper to find out the title deed of that piece of land. Isn’t it just over 100 acres of land that isn’t much cultivated?

   He has it!

   Zhao Hu told herself that she was not distressed, but she turned her back with a bitter expression on her face.

   Zhao Hanzhang took the land deed into his arms, and said to Zhao Hu with a smile: "Seventh Uncle, when my ranch is ready next year, I will invite you to eat mutton."

   Seeing Zhao Hanzhang leaving, the housekeeper couldn't help but say, "Master, if you are afraid of her, why are you humiliating her again?"

   Zhao Hu stalked her neck and said, "Who said I'm afraid of her, I'm her elder, what's wrong with her kowtow to me, can't I bear it?"

   The housekeeper whispered, "That's not what you should say. It's not good for Sanniang's reputation if it spreads out..."

  Ting He was also a little angry, and trotted to keep up with Zhao Hanzhang, "Girl, Master Seven is too bullying."

   Zhao Hanzhang glanced at her, "Where did you bully people?"

   "He made you kneel."

   Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand indifferently and said, "He's an elder, I'm a junior, what's the point of kneeling? Don't we have to kneel when we want to reward money during the festival?"

   "That's the same, what he said just now is clearly humiliating the girl," Ting He said: "The girl is now the ruler of Xiping County. If such a thing spreads out, what should people do if they misunderstand that the girl is weak and begging for pity?"

  Zhao Hanzhang stopped, clicked her nose and smiled: "Some people really think so, I'm still happier, let's go, today's goal has been achieved, let's go to see the newly acquired land."

   It's not that she has no money to buy it, it's just that the land of a small family is easy to buy, and the land of a large family, especially such a piece of land, as long as it is not short of money, who will sell the land?

   "Let Erlang play in the dock and tell him to go back to the city before it gets dark. Let's go first."

   When Zhao Ming knew that Zhao Hanzhang had come to Wubao, she had already disappeared.

  The young man Zhao Le said: "Uncle Ming, Seventh Uncle made Sanniang kneel and kowtow in front of the servants. Do you think she will hold grudges in her heart?"

   Zhao Ming flipped through the scroll in his hand without raising his head, "What's there to remember, you usually kowtow less?"

  Youth: "But at that time, the seventh uncle also said that Sanniang knelt down and kowtowed for a few pieces of meat, so humiliating..."

  Zhao Ming lifted his eyelids to look at him, and said plainly: "The elders have something to offer, no matter the noble or the junior, they have to suffer, why, if you give you a few pieces of meat, you will not accept the cheap meat?"

  Youth: "...don't dare."

Zhao Ming snorted coldly and scolded: "It's fine if you don't dare, let alone a few pieces of meat, just give you a glass of cold water, as long as it is given by the elders, you have to hold on to it with both hands. You have read so many sage books in vain. Even your third sister is not as good as you, so hurry up and step back."

   The youth bowed and stepped back.

Zhao Song, however, had a different understanding from his son. After knowing this, he angrily scolded Zhao Hu, "Isn't it only a hundred acres of land, what are you crazy about? Baby, you are not ashamed of you."

   Zhao Hu sat silently by the side.

   Zhao Hao: "Aren't you angry about Liuli, Zi Nian also has a share in this matter, why don't you humiliate him? Eat soft things and fear hard things."

   Zhao Hu: "... Fifth brother, that's your son."

   Zhao Hao waved his hand, "I don't mind, you can go."

   Zhao Hu was speechless.

   Zhao Hao asked after scolding, "What does Sanniang want with that land? Does she lack land?"

  Zhao Hu pouted and said, "Big brother left her so many fields, how could she be short of it, and the old eight exchanged so much for her, saying that it was used for grazing, and most of them were reluctant to use their own good land."

   Zhao Song frowned, "How can I use good land for grazing? I'm not a barbarian. It's enough to let the tenants and long-term workers support them. Why can't we build a special pasture?"

   Zhao Hanzhang: Seventh Uncle, do you think my kneeling is not up to standard?

   (end of this chapter)