Master, do you want a date?

The winter is getting colder and colder, because this year's harvest is not good, everyone's life is tight.At the end of the year, the flavor of the year is not strong.

There are some students in the school, such as Fang He, who plan to apply for the scholar examination after the spring of next year, and they never relax in their studies.Not to mention whether he can pass the exam, the other party's spirit of daring to take risks is enough to praise.In order to encourage them, Zhao Yiran opened the school all day long, provided unlimited supply of floor heating candles, and remodeled the dormitory for rest to be very comfortable.

It was New Year's Eve again, this time Zhao Yiran ate the New Year's Eve dinner alone, feeling a little lonely.This kind of experience is nothing more than returning to the same situation as in the previous life, and he should get used to it.But he couldn't help but think of the bustle and bustle when Zhao Ziyang was there last year.It's a pity that he treats others as brothers and friends, but that person is not... This is very embarrassing.

Zhao Yiran put his hands on his chin, this year is a bit boring.

Everyone is poor this year, and Zhao Yiran didn't set off fireworks to make people jealous, so it's over by setting off firecrackers with Uncle Zhao.

Zheng Wu's chess skills were poor, and Zhao Yiran was not interested at all, so he simply started to fiddle with his own yard and space.

He takes a sip of the well water in the space every day, and occasionally uses it to irrigate the medicine fields in the field.Most of the several acres of land are used to grow medicinal materials, and a small part is used to grow flowers, fruits and vegetables.

The radish-like ginseng in the medicinal field is his most satisfying masterpiece, and of course there are many other medicinal materials.

The soap from Anxiang Pavilion is more fragrant and fragrant than the one made by the wife of the Hou Mansion. The main reason for this is that Zhao Yiran added a little flower essential oil produced in the space to his own soap.

The flowering period in the space is very long, and the fragrance is very fragrant.Zhao Yiran extracted the essential oils from these flowers and added them to soap, one drop can make several.Recently, I have even handed over the excess essential oils to Bernie to resell abroad. If the sales are good, it will be another source of income in the future.

There were so many fruits and vegetables in the space that he didn't have time to harvest them. After harvesting the vegetables this time, he planted potatoes and other large quantities of grain by himself.The weather is extremely cold, and Uncle Zhao said that next year's harvest may not be good.

Zhao Yiran had enough food, and the warehouse under the kitchen was full.Sometimes he would go to Ming City to buy some precious rice and store it in the space by himself for second-hand preparation.

The deal with Bernie made a lot of money quickly, but the deal took too long.In his spare time, he started to do other ways of making money.In the middle of last year, I bought the hill behind Zhaojia Village and planted a lot of fruit trees. I plan to mature and bear fruit in a few years and sell them all over the country.Wait until that day to earn a lot of money, buy a title with the imperial court, become a person of status, and see who dares to bully him!

In order to fill the treasury of Daqi State, there are provisions in the laws that merchants can buy titles without real power from the court.The titles bought are not hereditary and replaceable, there is no reward for fertile land, no salary and no fiefdom.To put it simply, although you have a national official position, the country does not support you, you support yourself.If you want to enjoy the title of knighthood, you can spend your own money to operate it, just give you a good-sounding title.

Even so, there are still many businessmen who want to have a title, which is a kind of status. Even if it is an empty title, it will prevent those who appear to be lower than them in official positions from bullying them at will.

Zhao Yiran likes it very much. He can have status and status without entering the officialdom, so why not do it.As far as the price is a bit high, the status of an earl is 5000 million taels of silver, and the status of a marquis is even more.

At the beginning of spring, Uncle Zhao's worries came true.The spring rains have not come for a long time, and the grain in the fields can only be watered bit by bit by hand.Even so, only part of the food can be saved.In the end, Li Zheng gritted his teeth and decided to suggest that everyone plant potatoes.

Just don't mention it, some of the smarter ones have planted potatoes. Last year's potato harvest was so fast, and a few can fill their stomachs.As Lizheng mentioned, they are not only planting in the vegetable garden, but they are trying to plant in fertile fields with boldness.

The results of the scholar examination in April came out, and Fang He was the only one who applied for the examination in the school.Since then, Fang He's parents can pay a lot less tax this year.The moment Fang He got the news, he suppressed and cried silently.The Fang family even sent all the good things at home to the school.

There was no time to celebrate this joy. In May, the school stopped classes early. The situation outside was critical, and there was no way to go to class normally.

After docking, Zhao Yiran stayed at home, and asked Zheng Wu to inquire about the movement outside.Every time I received it, I frowned.All they can do now is protect themselves as much as possible.

Drought broke out in the north, and since the beginning of summer, there has not been a single drop of rain.Farmers in the north who already had enough to eat last year have fallen into a desperate situation this year.

The disaster relief money released by the court was useless at all, and the porridge was filled with water and a few grains of rice.The situation is not optimistic, Zhao Yiran has suspended cooperation with Bernie, the north is too chaotic and it is not suitable to trade there.The south is not too panicky, and if it doesn't rain, it will happen sooner or later.

Zhao Yiran bought some more servants and secretly strengthened the defense of Zhao Mansion.The price of grain in Ming City is one day, which is ridiculously expensive.He no longer needs to buy food, there is a lot of food in the warehouse.The food in the space is also full, enough for him to eat for several years.

Because of the potatoes in the surrounding villages, many people did not go hungry.Zhao Yiran and Li Zheng made a suggestion to form a team of able-bodied people from each village to patrol and protect the village from time to time.Li Zheng didn't take it seriously at first, until someone robbed the grain store in Mingcheng, then he anxiously organized the staff to arrange it.

At this time, Mingcheng was already crowded with countless refugees, and several incidents of looting grain shops broke out.The prefect of Ming City ordered the expulsion of the refugees, so many refugees could only cry outside the city gate, or wandered around to beg in nearby villages and towns.Qingtan Town suffered disaster, and many shops were closed.Zhao Xi'er's family had a hard time in Qingtan Town. Uncle Zhao was afraid that they would be in danger in the chaos, so he took them to Zhaojia Village to avoid disaster.

Wang Liang's younger sister, Wang Xiuzhen, got married last year, and the other party was a personable and handsome young man named Juren, and they got married at the beginning of the year.Not knowing what happened, the two of them went to Uncle Zhao's house together with the Wang family.

One day, Aunt Fang came to Zhao Yiran anxiously.

"My lord, my family came to look for me today." Aunt Fang came to the study and stood respectfully.

"Oh? Are you trying to redeem yourself now? That's okay..." Zhao Yiran was sitting on a chair reading a book, and was very surprised to hear the news.Usually Aunt Fang is dedicated to her duties, if the other party insists on leaving to reunite with her family, he will let him go.

"No! Young Master, did I do something wrong, you want to drive me away?" Aunt Fang's face changed slightly.The people outside are all refugees, how can they live once they go out?

"Ms. Fang, I didn't chase you away. It's just that your family members came to look for you, wondering if you want to redeem yourself and reunite with your family members. Of course, if you don't want to, you can stay here." Zhao Yiran put down the book in his hand , looked at Aunt Fang seriously.

Aunt Fang blushed. "My lord, the world is in chaos now, I came here to ask you whether you can let them in for refuge."

Zhao's house is now surrounded like an iron barrel, and the nursing yard below is guarded to death according to Zhao Yiran's instructions.Aunt Fang wanted to secretly arrange people into her room, but found it impossible.

Zhao Yiran was a little unhappy, in such a special period, he really didn't want to let people in casually.

Aunt Fang saw Zhao Yiran's reluctance, she knelt down abruptly, kowtowed and begged. "Young master, for the sake of my dedication to work, only let my few family members come in for refuge! I beg you!"

Zhao Yiran rubbed his forehead, he really didn't like people making noise and crying in his ears. "Several people?"

"Just three! One son, two daughters!" Aunt Fang looked up in surprise.

"They can only walk around in the front yard, and leave after the incident. As for the food... it will be deducted from your monthly money." Zhao Yiran put down his hands and stopped looking at Aunt Fang who was ecstatic.

After sending Aunt Fang away, Zheng Wu came to report the latest situation.The outside is still not getting better. I heard that the imperial court has not distributed relief porridge for a long time.

"My lord, the water level of the well in the yard has dropped a lot recently. But we need to save more." Zheng Wu mentioned worriedly.

"Down so fast? From now on, the water in the well can only be used for eating and drinking. People in the yard will take a bath every five days, and just wipe their bodies with water." Zhao Yiran asked people to keep an eye on the well water. It has been half a year. There was no more rain, and the riverbed had dropped a lot.If this continues, people outside will go crazy sooner or later.

Zheng Wu responded and ran to inform everyone.

Here, Mrs. Fang took the people to Zhao's house, outside the courtyard, the servants lived out, and hastily cleaned two empty rooms for them to live in.Prepare hot water for them to wash, and then go to the kitchen to serve meals.

The three of them fled here from afar, and they were hungry all the way. When they saw the delicious food, they ate it regardless.Aunt Fang watched from the side, her heart throbbing in pain.

The honorable young lady of her family has fallen into such a situation!

"Nurse, don't cry. We are lucky to have escaped." Sun Yazi hadn't eaten for a long time, and just lost her composure.But up to now, no one cared that she, a dignified former minister of household affairs, had an indecent meal.

Sun Yazi's father is the former daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. At the beginning of the year, there was a severe drought in the north. Originally, the Holy Majesty ordered the opening of the national treasury to release food to appease the refugees.It's a pity that the treasury was empty due to the war in the Northwest last year. In order to pay for business, her father threatened and charged some well-known merchants to donate some silver.In the end, the political opponents framed him to fill his own pockets, and even the evidence was searched from the house. In the face of the iron-clad evidence, his father proved his innocence by death, so the emperor spared their family's life and sentenced them to exile.

She hates it!She is unwilling!Especially when she saw that her second uncle took her father's place because of his meritorious deeds, she hated her even more!Together with his elder brother and his maid, he escaped on the way to exile, and found the nanny, Aunt Fang, all the way.

After Aunt Fang knew what happened, she couldn't accept it for a while, and she felt more pity and distress for them.

"Nurse, it's all my fault that I didn't protect you back then. I found out you were here the year before last, and wanted to redeem your body and send you to the Zhuangzi. But in the end... I didn't expect the family to become like this." Sun Yazi grabbed Aunt Fang Weeping like rain in his hands, weeping in grief.

"Miss does not blame you, you were so young at that time, how could you compete with the old lady?" Aunt Fang comforted her, "Actually, this is fine, the young master of the Zhao family who bought me treated people very well, and I didn't suffer much. Now I can do my part to protect you."

The author has something to say:

Zhao Ziyang (with a sneer): When can I see my master?

Author: Er... tomorrow?

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