At the beginning, there is smoke coming out of the ancestral grave, and the woman is busy in the imp

Xie Yuheng took the little thing and Tang Hengdao out of the space, and gently put the bird into the huanghuali wood flower and bird house.

After washing up, I lit a piece of goose pear incense in the incense burner, and the sweet aroma slowly filled the room.

Silent all night.

The next morning, the sun was rising.

The three sisters Xie Zhaodi took a leave of absence from the college and took the mule cart that came into the city every day to Jiangling.

The mule-drawn carriage moves in a leisurely manner, not as fast as a horse-drawn carriage, nor as slow as an ox-drawn cart.

Zhaodi and Laidi were in heavy moods, but the youngest Yingdi was in a pretty good mood. She had some scattered memories about her parents in her mind, which were all bad.

It was the grandmother who pointed at the three of them and scolded them as losers, the father's silence, the mother's crying every night, and the fact that they looked forward to giving birth to a son every day...to inherit the broken pots and pans at home.

The little girl lay beside the car window and looked at the scenery passing in front of her. Although it is autumn now and the flowers are withering, the seasons rotate and spring will always come.

At the Jianglingcheng County Government Office, Xie Zhaodi handed over her household registration and made it clear her intention.

Soon, a small official came to verify the clothing store mentioned by Xie Zhaodi. As long as it was proved that she had legitimate financial resources, she could establish a female household.

The county magistrate stroked his gray beard and said kindly: "Girls, wait a minute, we all have to follow the procedures."

Xie Zhaodi sat on a bench beside her and replied generously: "What the daughter of the people knows, I have to thank you for your help."

The county magistrate waved his hand, lowered his head and flipped through the household registrations of several people. After the kid in prison confessed, most of the family's household registration was lost.

It's a pity that the only girls I see are little girls. Fortunately, I can support my family, otherwise I can't make a living.

But the names of these three sisters are a bit shabby. There was a trace of hesitation in the eyes of the county magistrate, but he still said: "Here, do you want to change your name?"

The three sisters looked up in shock and said in unison: "Is it okay?"

When the county magistrate saw that the household registration of the sisters was the Xie family of Qinghe, he originally planned to sell them to the newly promoted Marquis of Jiangling, but the reaction of the three sisters made him blush slightly.

Ashamed, ashamed.

The county magistrate sighed, and while making tea, he said: "Of course it's possible, but you have to wait a little longer. I just need to wait for the Ministry of Household Affairs to change the household registration every three years, and I will submit the name change application."

"As you all know, I have only been on the throne for more than a year. The Ministry of Household Affairs is very busy with work. The change has not even started yet. Maybe I will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse."

Xie Zhaodi stood up and looked at the county magistrate with piercing eyes. Her hot eyes almost burned two holes in the magistrate's body. "It doesn't matter, you just have to wait as long as you want. Thank you for letting me know!"

Xie Laidi stepped forward and quietly stuffed a hundred taels of silver notes into the county magistrate's hand.

The county magistrate hesitated for a moment between Xie Hou's favor and the ready money, but chose the latter.

There was nothing he could do. He had an eighty-year-old mother and a great-grandson who was several years old and was waiting to be fed.

The whole family depends on his salary to survive, not because she gives too much!

When the clerk returned from the investigation, the county magistrate issued a voucher and told them kindly that they could come and get the female household registration after their next vacation.

On the way back to Qinghe Village, Xie Laidi lowered her head and fiddled with her purse, sighing from time to time.

Xie Yingdi rolled her eyes and said, "Second sister, why did you give him so much money? It's more than half of our family's property."

Xie Laidi nodded her forehead and said, "Look at how stupid you are. The old man was not sure, and he was planning to pass this favor on to the owner of the family. He can buy it for a hundred taels, which is a good deal!"

"If we have no money, we can make more money. Without Aunt Meng to teach us embroidery skills, we are afraid that we will not have this hundred taels of silver, so how can we cause trouble to others."

Xie Yingdi made a face and said, "Second sister, you should sit at the monk's seat in the temple. You can recite sutras better than them."

"Okay, you have learned some exquisite naughtiness and started teasing me." Xie Laidi directly started to scratch Xie Yingdi's itchy flesh, and the two sisters made a fuss in the carriage.

Xie Zhaodi couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips, lifted the curtains of the car and looked out.

It was different from the uneasiness I felt when I was a kid on the way back to the village with my father after selling vegetables. There is no longer a Lu family in the village who scolds them.

And she became the new head of the household, replacing her grandfather Xie Wu, who had been narrow-minded all his life.

As the mule cart returned along the road, a gust of wind blew the curtains open, and the sun shone on the three little girls, as warm as a spring breeze.

As soon as the real spring comes, branches will germinate in the spring rain and bloom their own flowers.

……

Outside the house, the pond could be heard from time to time, with the splashing sound of koi playfully crossing the water. Under the west window, the shadows of the trees swayed on the desk, and the two were playing chess.

"The new method of making sugar is not as fast as the previous method, and it is also more troublesome. It is worse than being more productive." Xie Yuheng lost a son.

The new method of making white sugar is based on the records of "Xinghua Prefecture Chronicles" and "Nanchan Chronicles" combined with "Tsui Hall Chronicles" and later local methods for making white sugar. After more than a hundred experiments in space failed for more than a year, we came up with a feasible method. Law.

Chen Qiu had an open chess book spread out in his hand, "It doesn't hurt to go slower, it just doubles the price."

As he spoke, he lowered his head and flipped through the chess records.

Xie Yuheng smiled and followed him, drinking tea leisurely. The Suzaku high above chirped dissatisfiedly.

‘Just pamper him. ’

The aroma of tea overflows, and the entrance is slightly sour. I don't know who secretly knocked over the vinegar jar.

Rong Shi walked in through the curtain and reported: "Master, the young man from the Liu family wants to see you."

"allow."

After a while, Liu Qian entered the room and saluted the two of them.

Liu Qian's appraising eyes quietly fell on Chen Qiu, and he was a little undecided for a moment whether he should say it or not.

"If you have something to say, it doesn't matter. Mr. Chen is a good official." Xie Yuheng held his chin with one hand and looked at Liu Qian with a smile.

"The head of the family is like this, that... that gentleman from the Ministry of Rites, fell into the swamp in the woods at the south end of the village." Liu Qian moved uneasily, and the edges of his shoes were stained with black soil.

"How long has it been since it fell? How deep is the swamp?" Chen Qiu sneered and closed the chess book.

Liu Qian thought for a moment and said, "More than a moment, I heard my grandmother say it is more than six feet deep."

Just enough to leave Xue Kuan's head outside, Liu Qian lowered his eyes. Yesterday, the boy asked him in a roundabout way where the family owner had dug the soil.

How did he know this? He only returned to Qinghe Village with his mother this year. But it looks like that person is not a good person. If he doesn't cheat him, he will be so sorry that he can't sleep at night!

Chen Qiu stood up, stretched and yawned again. "Only a quarter of an hour."

After saying that, he sat back down, holding his chess record, thinking about how to wipe out Xie Yuheng's chess pieces.

Chen Qiu caressed the smooth chess pieces. A bastard is a bastard and cannot be put on the stage. It's a pity that Brother Xue died young, and His Majesty's compensation to the Xue family was cheap for this Muggle.

Liu Qian was slightly stunned. This gentleman seemed different?

Xie Yuheng chuckled lightly and ordered Rong Shi to take Liu Qian to find the Liu family. She remembered that she recently had a study tour project with Jiangxia County, so this flexible brain should go out more and practice more.

It wasn't until an hour later that villagers returning from Jiangling County hurriedly reported that there were urgent official missions passing through the city.

Chen Qiucai asked people to dig out Xue Kuan and threw him into the carriage without caring about his life or death.

He also took two of his subordinates to learn how to make dim sum, and almost burned down the kitchen. With the good things they had robbed from Xie Yuheng, the cavalry galloped all the way north.

Facing the setting sun, there is only a piece of flying dust left.

Xie Yuheng sighed softly. The 800 miles from Jiangling were in a hurry, and now there was only Wanxiang Kingdom in the south.

It can't be that Chu Heng's hometown, Jiaozhou, has rebelled. It's just that the Wanxiang Kingdom... as its name suggests, is a slightly troublesome enemy.

......

Yongping fifth year, August.

Since Wanxiang attacked Rinan County in Jiaozhou in the second year of Yongping, the two armies have been fighting with each other for more than three years.

The Wanxiang Kingdom is like an annoying mosquito. It will harass you from time to time, and will not fight you. It will immediately run away after sucking some blood, which makes the border soldiers disgusted.

The fragrance of osmanthus in Xiaoyue City, Linyuan, drifts to the outside of the city with the wind.

Outside the city, there are figures as tall and tall as pines and bamboos. These are young soldiers who are about to go to the border to support the war.

The elderly and widowed grandmother was carrying dumplings and feeding them to the young soldiers one by one. After feeding them a few, she told them: "You must come back safely."

But on the battlefield, the sword has no eyes, so how can everyone return safely?

The young girl with her pregnant belly adjusted the collar of the soldier in military uniform, "You must come back, or I will abandon your child and remarry."

The young soldier's eyes were red and he pretended to be relaxed, "Then you have to keep your word. If I don't reply..."