Reborn on the day of marriage! After the marriage exchange, the elder sister went crazy

Now the status of women in Xishui Village and surrounding villages has improved a lot.

Female workers are paid by piece, with a minimum of twenty cents per day.

You can have four days off every month, and these four days are also charged.

Some female workers could take home two guan (two thousand wen/twenty taels) of silver a month.

Why is the status not high?

Li Jinglan's workshop and shop really don't make money.

After deducting various expenses and workers' wages every year, Li Jinglan only earned more than two hundred taels from the three workshops and two shops.

It’s really not as profitable as building houses.

Although Li Jinglan earned little, the economy of the entire Xishui Village was revitalized.

The radiation also spread to the surrounding villages.

People in the surrounding villages feed chickens, ducks and geese, save the eggs and send them to the workshop, earning a few cents a day.

As long as we don't buy meat, the whole family can eat.

Life in Xishui Village has improved, and more people are buying meat.

In order to make more money, people in the surrounding villages began to raise sheep and pigs.

Niu Dayi walked to the vicinity of Mr. Gu's yard.

Mr. Gu's yard has expanded again.

Now several large tiled houses have been built, and children from Xishui Village can go in and read books and learn to read for free.

Niu Dayi was standing by the window when he heard a strange voice.

"...Yesterday we learned the words 果珍李奈 and 菜重芥姜 from the Thousand Character Classic. Does anyone know what these eight words mean?"

Niu Dayi was illiterate before.

Only after becoming Lu Zhongyu's housekeeper did he begin to learn to read.

Now I can recognize one or two hundred words.

See the children talking in unison.

Niu Dayi's face was full of smiles.

After a while, the class in the school was over.

The children asked the teacher to come out before leaving the classroom.

The gentleman who came out was handsome, but he had a long scar on his face.

"Sir, are you the adopted son of Mr. Gu?" Niu Dayi stepped forward and bowed.

Yuan Er crossed his hands and returned the greeting: "I am too embarrassed to call you sir."

Seeing this crossed-arm salute, Niu Dayi's eyes shrank.

He is no longer the hanger-on Niu Dayi of the past.

He was also Niu Dayi, who had met the emperor, the Prince of Jin, the cabinet ministers, and court officials.

Ordinary people and officials can really be distinguished at a glance.

Ordinary people bow by clasping their hands together casually.

Officials are different.

There are differences in etiquette when meeting peers, etiquette when meeting superiors and subordinates, etiquette when meeting teachers...

Why did the imperial court have the Ministry of Rites, and why was it the head of the Six Ministries?

Just because we are a country of etiquette!

Etiquette and rituals are the most important things in life and are things that need to be regulated.

Just based on the cross-arm salute that Yuan Er gave, it was clear that Yuan Er was not an ordinary person.

Niu Dayi asked again: "Where did Mr. Yuan come from?"

Yuan Er smiled and replied, "From Henan."

"Oh." Niu Dayi nodded and asked a few more questions casually.

Then he nodded politely to Yuan Er and said goodbye.

Looking at Niu Dayi's back, Yuan Er couldn't help but touch the scars on his face.

He knew that Niu Dayi was considered a legendary figure in Xishui Village.

He used to be a hanger-on of the Lu family, but now he has become Lu Zhongyu's housekeeper.

I don’t know if Niu Dayi will notice anything.

It would be great if Niu Dayi could convey his message to King Pei.

Yuan Er still didn't know that Lu Bozhou was heading south.

Niu Dayi packed up and returned to the capital.

After arriving in the capital, he went to see Li Jinglan.

"Is there something wrong with Yuan Er?" Li Jinglan's expression immediately became serious.

"I can't say what's wrong with him, but the etiquette he performed is too standard." Niu Dayi scratched his head, "Anyway, it feels wrong."

Li Jinglan thought for a while and said, "Go to Xishui Village again and invite Mr. Gu."

"Mr. Gu is old, so he asked Yuan Er to serve him."

The next day, Li Jinglan met Mr. Gu and Yuan Er.

This is Mr. Gu’s first visit to Prince Pei’s Mansion.

After seeing the door plaque of Prince Pei's Mansion, Mr. Gu first looked up for a while, and then sobbed softly.

"My life has been worth it."

Just think about it, a few years ago he was just a poor boy living in a dilapidated temple, making a living by writing letters for people.

Now I can actually enter the palace.

Life is really wonderful.

Li Jinglan's attitude was the same as when she first met Mr. Gu a few years ago. She was very kind: "Mr. Gu looks very energetic."

"Thank you for your concern, Princess." Mr. Gu bowed hurriedly.

"We are one family, no need to be polite. Please give Mr. Gu a seat." Li Jinglan invited Mr. Gu to sit down.

Mr. Gu sat down excitedly, with half of his butt leaning forward.

Li Jinglan asked about agronomy again.

Mr. Gu replied: "The agricultural school is doing very well. We read agricultural books every day. According to the princess's instructions, the students summarized the farmers' tips on planting and fertilizing, and then compiled them into a book."

Mr. Gu took out a compiled manual.

Li Jinglan took it.

The manual is written entirely in vernacular and is easy to understand.

They are all written in the tone of farmers.

Moreover, according to Li Jinglan's request, Mr. Gu left the name of everyone who was willing to contribute his tips.

When the farmers heard that they could contribute their tips by leaving their names in the manual, they were very enthusiastic.

Li Jinglan was very satisfied: "This booklet is pretty good."

"Go find Gao Daxi later and ask him to help you contact the booksellers. The first batch..."

Li Jinglan thought for a moment and said, "Print 100 copies first."

The printing industry is quite developed now, and it costs about 20 to 30 cents to print a booklet like this.

Mr. Gu was overjoyed when he heard that the booklet he had compiled was going to be printed.

Can't wait to find Gao Daxixi.

Seeing Mr. Gu leave, Li Jinglan turned his gaze to Yuan Er.

"You, what's your name?" Li Jinglan looked at Yuan Er with a deep look in her eyes, "Your real name."

When Li Jinglan was talking to Mr. Gu just now, Yuan Er was looking at Li Jinglan carefully.

At this moment, Li Jinglan asked him.

Yuan Er fell to his knees with a thud: "I am Wei Yan, the Minister of the Imperial Household, and I ask the princess to save the lives of the people on both sides of the Huai River!"

After saying that, Wei Yan kowtowed heavily.

So it was really Wei Yan?

Li Jinglan didn't expect that Wei Yan, whom she had been looking for for nearly a month, was actually right under her nose. She raised her hand and asked Wei Yan to stand up: "Wei Sheren, you don't have to be so polite! You asked the eunuch to send a box to Zhou Bianxiu, so I have something to ask you."

Li Jinglan took out the account book that Wei Yan had sent her. "What does this account book of the flooding funds for the Huai River in the past ten years mean?"

Wei Yan did not get up, but remained lying on the ground. "Last year, when the Huai River was flooded, the Ministry of Works' Du Shui Si paid the Ministry of Revenue six million taels of silver."

"Due to the flood in the Huai River this year, the Water Conservancy Bureau paid more than 4 million taels of silver to the Ministry of Revenue."

"I am from Henan, and my clansmen all live in Henan. My clansmen wrote to me, saying that the flood in the Huai River this year was extremely severe, destroying countless houses and flooding thousands of miles. No one repaired it, no one cared... The government stopped the people at the intersection and did not allow them to flee to other places."

Wei Yan held up a letter and said, "This is a letter from my clansman. Every word is heart-wrenching and true."

Li Jinglan took the letter and opened it.

His eyebrows were raised very high.

This is a tearful letter for help from the people on both sides of the Huai River, with countless people leaving their bloody fingerprints on the letter.

Li Jinglan looked at the letter and was silent for a long time.

Wei Yan looked up at Li Jinglan and gritted his teeth and said, "I am a servant of the Zhanshi Mansion, in charge of the account books... When I was sorting out the account books of the Zhanshi Mansion, I found that there were millions of accounts that didn't match..."

"Among them, some of the money was directly transferred from the Du Shui Si to the Zhan Shi Fu."

Entering the Zhanshi Mansion from the Du Shui Si?

Li Jinglan frowned.

The prince embezzled funds for river works?

"I have evidence! As long as the princess sends someone to follow me to a place, I can get the evidence."