The Little Lucky Girl

Zong Lao signed his name on the memorial from Magistrate Tao, telling everyone where he was. As a result, people came to visit him within a few days. Zong Lao was overwhelmed by the annoyance and had to arrange his study tour early.

Zheng Huan and the other two wanted to shamelessly follow Ming Youyou, but the purpose of the elder's study tour was to take Ming Youyou away from everyone, even Dachang had to be sent away if necessary. How could he let these brats follow him?

After giving the three of them a lecture and assigning them a bunch of homework, the old man and the young man rode out of the city in a carriage.

He had planned everything out. He would first take Ming Youyou to academies and private schools in various places to meet his younger generations, and then visit famous mountains and rivers, especially those places where immortals and hermits were said to have been seen.

In this way, if Ming Youyou has any new ideas in the future, he can say that they were taught by his old man. If it is something he doesn't know, like medical skills, then it means that the child met a master who gave him guidance.

Before they set off, it happened to be Magistrate Tao's birthday. Ming Youyou often heard Mrs. Tao complain that Magistrate Tao's hair was getting thinner and he was getting uglier, so she found a prescription and made some hair growth potion for him.

But later he felt that this was only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. Magistrate Tao's hair loss was caused by excessive thinking and staying up late.

The reason is said to be that although the imperial court raised horses, the roads in various places were not as soft as the grasslands, and the horse hooves wore out too quickly, causing the horses to become sick and the scrap rate was too high.

Especially in the southeast area, there are Japanese pirates now. Those pirates are very cunning and they specifically attack the villages patrolled by officers and soldiers. However, the coastline there is too long. By the time the officers and soldiers received the news and rushed over, they had already returned to the sea.

Originally, they thought that with horses, they could increase their chasing speed and catch the bandits, but everyone was only happy for a while at the beginning. Later, because of the problem of horse hooves being worn out, the superiors instructed that they should not ride horses when small groups of bandits attacked, and they could only be used in major battles.

However, the bandits did not care about killing or arson. Even a small group of people caused huge damage. On several occasions, they even wiped out the entire village. Dayu's officers and soldiers were all holding a grudge.

Magistrate Tao was also under a lot of pressure because the horses came from Yuqing County and they could have contact with the grassland. The court naturally hoped that he could find a solution.

So these days, County Magistrate Tao has been asking for advice from people on the grassland. He has drunk a lot of wine and sent several carts of gifts, but there has been no progress.

Ming Youyou thought about it again and again, and finally reluctantly used her points to exchange for a horseshoe model from the mall.

Fortunately, the points required this time were not particularly high. The system said that because the horseshoe had already taken shape on the other side of their world, the technical fee deduction was not much.

But this is not what Ming Youyou can afford at the moment. After buying medicine for Kong Que and Zong Lao, her poor little treasury has been reduced to only ten digits.

Fortunately, the TV series based on Magistrate Tao was broadcast and received good reviews. I heard that she even won a high award from the alliance, so the director was very happy and gave her 10% of the points.

Ming Youyou felt that this money was earned by County Magistrate Tao, and now that he spent it on him, it could be said that the money was returned to its original owner.

As for the origin of the things, she was about to go out anyway, so she gave the things to the person and left. By the time Lord Tao understood what was going on, she had already gone far away and couldn't be found, hahaha.

After the palace masters captured several waves of spies from the Qi and Liang countries, Zong Lao decided not to delay any longer and set off immediately. Coincidentally, the county's escort agency also took the business, so their carriage blended in with the team and quietly left the city.

The client who hired the escort agency was also an acquaintance: Aunt Luo from the embroidery workshop and several embroiderers.

They planned to rush to their hometown in Suzhou, where the unjust case of the embroidery workshop owner could finally be retried.

This matter was actually not an easy one. Although Magistrate Tao had tried his best to deal with it, the incident happened twenty years ago after all, and many witnesses and evidence had long been lost in the passage of time. Moreover, the object of the lawsuit was a major embroidery workshop owner today, whose influence not only spread throughout the south of the Yangtze River, but also had frequent dealings with dignitaries in the capital.

Aunt Luo has lived in the palace for many years and naturally understands the difficulties involved.

She did not urge Magistrate Tao any further, but after proposing to overturn the verdict, she began to embroider brocade clothes for the nobles.

She asked someone to send each piece of beautiful double-sided embroidered dress to the palace and presented it to the Queen Mother, the Empress, and several relatively upright concubines, only hoping that the nobles would say a word of justice at the appropriate time.

The Empress Dowager and others felt sorry for her difficulties, so they mentioned it to the Emperor from time to time. The Emperor took it to heart and pushed for the trial to proceed as scheduled.

It was just that Aunt Luo's eyes were injured because of embroidering day and night, and her eyesight was not as good as before. She was not too sad, and planned to return to Yuqing County after the case was over and revenge was avenged for the master, so that she could concentrate on teaching apprentices.

Ming Youyou was afraid of starvation during her exile, so she prepared a lot of food for this study tour. Together with the food given by others, the total amount filled up half of the carriage.

The remaining space was only enough for Ming Youyou and Zong Lao to sit, so Dachang was squeezed and had to find a place on the shaft outside the carriage.

After walking for nearly half a month, the food was almost consumed, leaving only two round and plump vegetable jars in the corner.

Dachang finally didn't have to stand outside in the wind. He had to keep watch at night, and now he could finally get into the carriage and get some sleep.

Ming Youyou opened one of the jars, and an unspeakable smell immediately filled the carriage.

She carefully picked up a piece of green stuff with chopsticks, and Zong Lao immediately handed her a steamed bun broken in half, yelling at her to spread more on him.

Ming Youyou spread the paste on two steamed buns. The old and the young each took one and smiled at each other.

As for Dachang, he had been awakened by the smoke long ago and ran outside to seek refuge.

I don't know what magic this stinky tofu has, they eat it with gusto even though it smells so bad. It's ok for the old man, but Miss Ming, a girl, also likes it so much, it's true that the disciple follows the person.

But this chili sauce is indeed delicious. Dachang opened another jar and took a big sip.

That jar of stinky tofu was sent by Jiaer's maternal grandparents.

Zheng Huan and his colleagues were in the habit of attaching some missing person notices at the end of their storybooks. Unexpectedly, they actually came in handy. Some readers wrote to them saying that they had eaten a strange kind of tofu in a certain place.

Jia Er followed the clue and unexpectedly found his grandparents' family. He took them to the new town of Xiaguan, and the family opened a tofu shop at the end of the village.

Every time Captain Jin's secret team came back from Qi, in addition to bringing back ducks, they would also rescue some civilians.

Some of the people were willing to submit to Dayu, so Magistrate Tao dispersed them and incorporated them into various parts of the county, just like he had taken in the people from Qi.

Some people were grateful to Captain Jin for saving their lives and were also concerned about their relatives in Qi, so they planned to go back after they had settled down.

After careful consideration, Magistrate Tao decided to settle these people in a farm under the jurisdiction of the county government and provided them with temporary household registration.

Temporary residents are only allowed to move around within Yuqing County. Anyway, Yuqing County is surrounded by mountains, and the nearest cities are only Fucheng and Pingyang. As long as those two cities conduct thorough inspections when entering the city, there will be no chaos in population management.

Since temporary household registration did not require high identity verification requirements and also provided the right to rent land and trade in Yuqing County, gradually, some wealthy families from Qi State began to come here, and even some officials secretly sent their families here.

When Ming Youyou returned to Yuqing County again after leaving for more than half a year, she was shocked.

Is this still the small county town where they live? Its prosperity is almost catching up with Pingyang City.

Zheng Huan and the other two had been waiting at the gate of the county town when they received the news. When they saw Ming Youyou, they immediately ran over and said with a smile, "Luckily we made it in time. We thought you wouldn't be back until after the New Year."

Feng Xu said anxiously, "Let's talk on the way. Several villages in the town are going to hold a long table banquet together today. It's just right for us to rush over now."

"There are a lot of people in the town now, how can the village chief and others be so generous?" Ming Youyou said in surprise.

Zheng Huan smiled and said, "Mayor Guo said that although everyone has worked hard this year, they have earned enough money to settle down at home, and he plans to let everyone have a happy and prosperous new year."

As soon as Ming Youyou entered the village, she was warmly welcomed by everyone, especially the women holding their children.

Lu Tai pouted, "Did you see that? A lot of babies were born in the past six months, and they are all waiting for us to name them."

"Guo Ren and the others are all studying now, why don't you ask them to help?"

"Don't forget that we were the ones who gave them their names. We probably saw that they were promising and thought that the names we gave them were auspicious, and we insisted that we get together before giving them the names."

Ming Youyou estimated the number of children and felt that they should not be short of eggs to eat recently.

Magistrate Tao was also invited to join the fun with the people, and as the highest official he naturally had to say a few words.

He had just finished listening to reports from several village heads. The development of the new town had exceeded expectations, and his heart was filled with excitement.

When Master He saw his master like this, he coughed quickly and said, "Please don't give me a long speech. Can't you see that everyone is staring at the table?"

Magistrate Tao understood and said with a smile: "I wish you all good luck in the new year, peace and happiness, and may you enjoy spring breeze every year."

Everyone raised their glasses to thank the master, and then toasted each other. Ming Youyou happily ran around with her own fruit juice to join in the fun.

Thinking of the scenes she had seen along the way, she felt a little heavy in her heart. However, she became happy again when she heard that Haichao's caravan had arrived in Yangzhou and brought back a lot of seeds, which would be delivered to Yuqing County in more than a month.

The days ahead will definitely be better.

(End of the article)