Forced to farm for the princess

Wei Ruojin suddenly opened the distance again and started to walk back. Lin Heng let out a light breath and followed his footsteps.

"My lord, don't you have a plan in mind for what you read yesterday?" Wei Ruojin turned around suddenly, which startled Lin Heng.

"I have told Fan Wei to do it, don't worry," Lin Heng said steadily.

"Then what should we do with this town? It can't be kept deserted like this."

"Even if it is repaired, no one will be willing to come here." What Lin Heng said was the truth, all those who were willing to stay were already here.

Although there is some distance from Ranjue here, there is no natural danger that can stop Ranjue's iron cavalry. They can drive straight in and fight in all the way.

Wei Ruojin found that he had been sighing recently, and felt that he couldn't do anything; things didn't go in the direction he thought, and even so far, all he could save was to treat the village, and the child he saved was still taken in by the palace.

He can't seem to do anything.

"Am I useless?" Wei Ruojin took the handkerchief Xin Yi handed over, wiped her hands, her eyes were a little confused.

"Why do you have such a question? Is Mr. Shuangyu blaming me for not arranging things for you?" Lin Heng suddenly chuckled, and the unhappiness in his heart because of Ranjue living with Dachang disappeared, and he focused on Wei Ruojin .

"Look at what the lord said, didn't I do anything?" Wei Ruojin put away his slumber for a moment, "I'm going back."

Back in the town, Wei Ruojin was not in a hurry to return to the camp. He still thought that if one day Ranjue and Dachang could really get along peacefully like the people who lived here, there would be nothing wrong with it.

This town has been abandoned for a few years, and the wood outside has begun to rot. If it is to be repaired, it may have to be completely demolished and rebuilt. People can ask General Di to borrow it, but where does the food come from?

Wei Ruojin sighed heavily again.

The next day, the land that Wei Ruokai wanted was finally trimmed. He asked the kitchen for plant ash, sprinkled it on the ground, and planted a seed every one foot.

Finally, the old man who plowed the field before couldn't stand it anymore, "Noble man, if you plant like this, you may be short of seedlings when they sprout."

Wei Ruojin paused for a moment with the hand that put the seed, "It's okay, let's plant it like this first, this seedling will be as tall as a man when it grows up." He straightened up, looked at the old man, "What's your name, what crime did you commit and when? Was arrested?"

The old man squeezed the hoe tightly in his hand, "They all call me Old Man Liu, and I don't know what I did, but it's better to stay in prison than to have no food at home."

"I don't know what, but I heard that some nobles were coming to drive us out of the city, so we had conflicts with those people, and that's why we were locked up." The young man muttered dissatisfiedly.

The old man hastily pulled the young man who was talking to kneel down, kowtowed and said, "No, it's the fault of the little people who offended the nobleman; I hope that the nobleman will be large... the nobleman will be large..."

Wei Ruojin felt very uncomfortable, and it was probably related to their coming to the northwest, "Get up, this land will be handed over to you in the future, take care of them."

All the corn has been planted, and the ditches in this field are one and a half feet deep. No matter how heavy the rain is, the land should not be flooded.

As soon as I finished thinking this way, a gust of wind blew, and the sky became gloomy, as if it was going to rain.Wei Ruojin looked at the sky, and then at the land where the task was about to be completed, feeling a little tangled in her heart.

It's not yet summer, so it's hard to get sick in the rain at this time, but the field is almost finished, so he is not willing to give up like this.

"What's wrong with you?" Looking at Wei Ruojin's appearance, Lin Heng couldn't help asking.

"I...I have to plow all the fifteen acres of land today, but it's going to rain."

"Then it's over." Lin Heng turned around and continued: "I'll ask the people who dig the pond to help, and then let people build a few sheds."

Wei Ruojin nodded, and urged Lin Heng to go back with him.

As soon as he returned to the camp, Wei Ruojin got into the kitchen and searched for a long time before finding the ginger. With too many people, the ginger was indeed a bit small, and it would be enough to add something else.

Quickly mixed a large bowl of flour, the people in the kitchen didn't dare to say anything this time, because Lin Heng had been following behind him, and sometimes he was instructed to work.

The earthenware pot was quickly on fire, and Wei Ruojin added a large pot of water, salt and sliced ​​ginger.The person who was burning the fire below looked twitching, it was fine salt, these fine salts were specially prepared for the prince and princess; they could only use salt cloth to rinse in the pot, and they had to be very careful. .

The flour is poured in after it is almost boiled. The flour is very clear, pour it in and stir it quickly, and it will soon become a pot of mushy soup.

Wei Ruojin tasted the salt, and when he was about to add more salt, the cook next to him yelled, which startled him, and the salt sprinkled on the ground with a shake of his hand.

The cook and the person who lit the fire quickly knelt down, his voice was trembling, and the cook slapped himself several times, crying: "Princess, please forgive me, please forgive me, the little one didn't do it on purpose, the little one really didn't do it on purpose. "

"Go out and receive the punishment yourself!" Lin Heng's tone was light, but Wei Ruojin still heard the displeasure from inside.

"Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord..." The cook went out with the fireman.

Only Lin Heng and Wei Ruojin were left in the room; Wei Ruojin looked at him and stirred the soup in the pot, "No one is lighting a fire for me now, you come." After a while, he couldn't help asking: "Why are you So angry?"

"He scared you and sprinkled salt."

Wei Ruojin smiled, "If you let it go, let it go, you won't be angry, and you'll punish him."

"Ordinary people can't afford that salt at all, and even we use it. How much salt can be made into cloth for the army!" Lin Heng obediently sat under the stove and lit a fire for Wei Ruojin.

Wei Ruojin was not so happy, and he was punished because the man caused him to sprinkle the salt!He felt that he had misunderstood Lin Heng, an old man, because it was because of the salt.

He took a deep breath, and his tone was still gentle, "Didn't Lu Feng have a salt field, and you still can't afford salt?"

Lin Heng glanced at Wei Ruojin, always feeling that he seemed to be angry, but he didn't seem to be angry, and said directly: "It's difficult to make salt, and it's all coarse salt."

Wei Ruojin felt as if he had misunderstood the world, because he was in a different class, so he took it for granted that others were the same as him.

"Okay, don't be angry, I'll help you create the salt." Wei Ruojin squatted down, put the salt mixed with sand into a bowl, added water, stirred it, and let it stand.

Lin Heng looked at his every move with suspicion in his eyes.

"What kind of eyes do you have? Almost all the salt workers in the saltworks know about this method!" Wei Ruojin said angrily. "Xin Yi asked the two cooks to come in, and the pot of soup was handed over to him, and it will be sent to the land reclamation people later with the meal."

"It will take a while to do this, let's go back to the tent, the cook is afraid to work here." Wei Ruojin took the bowl of salt water and an empty bowl by herself, and motioned for Lin Heng to take the small stove and water.

When he arrived at the tent, Wei Ruojin poured the top layer of salt water into the empty bowl, then continued to add water and let it stand until there was only sand left in the bowl, then he put the empty bowl on the small stove and let Lin Heng keep burning it. .

"Does this really work?"

"Of course, it just takes a little longer to let the water dry up."

Seeing that Lin Heng was still guarding there, Wei Ruojin leaned over the table again, took out the bamboo slips, and wrote down the making of salt; after trying to recall for a while, he finally figured out from his mind how to make salt finer and improve the quality of the salt. Yield.

When Xin Yi came in to light the lamp, he suddenly woke up. He didn't expect to fall asleep lying on the desk while writing. He turned to look at Lin Heng, and stared at the bowl seriously.

"What's the matter?" Wei Ruojin rubbed her eyes, walked up to Lin Heng, and glanced at the bowl by the way.

The water was almost dry, and there were tiny white particles hanging from the side of the bowl.Lin Heng looked at Wei Ruojin with surprise, "It's really fine salt."

"Of course it's fine salt. When did I lie to you?" Wei Ruojin thought of Lu Feng's salt farm and asked, "Is Lu Feng's salt farm in the northwest now?"

"Huh?" Lin Heng didn't understand why.

"To be honest, I really don't have much interest in party struggles, but I don't want my things to be snatched away by others." Wei Ruojin stepped aside again, "Let me tell you this, I want that saltworks, all of which belong to Northwest, no one can intervene except us."

Lin Heng stood up abruptly, "Do you have a better way to make salt?"

Wei Ruojin smiled without saying a word.

"At this time, the pleading paper should have arrived before the emperor. Let's see who His Majesty will send to be the governor of Changyi Prefecture. If it can..." Lin Heng didn't go on talking. He already had a list of new governors in mind. All are family members.

"What if it's someone who doesn't deal with us? Even if it's someone from the Wei family, I'm afraid it's someone who came to kill me."

Lin Heng looked at Wei Ruojin, "You're right, salt can only be held in our hands." After finishing speaking, he lowered his head, a fire burning in his heart, could he think a little more.

At daybreak, Lin Heng had packed up, and when Wei Ruojin got into the carriage, he went straight back to the palace.Before he had time to sit down and drink some hot water, the two brothers from the Chen family hurried over.

"I have seen the princess."

Wei Ruojin looked at the two of them, Chen Wei concealed it well, but Chen Hang looked angry, it seemed that they had just come to the palace, and he and Lin Heng went out, and they failed to reuse them as they imagined.

"Why are you two young masters in such a hurry, but the palace is not entertaining enough?" Wei Ruojin asked knowingly.

Then Chen Hang was about to blurt out, but was pulled by Chen Wei, and said: "The princess is tired, so my grandfather left us two brothers in the palace to share the worries of the prince and concubine, but the princess and the prince left in a hurry and didn't have time Command our brothers."

"It's my fault with the lord, but it's true that we left in a hurry; how about this, Chen Wei and I will go to see the lord. If Chen Hang, there is a private school in my wang's mansion, Mr. Zhengque, I will trouble Chen Hang , Xinyi."

"The servant girl is here." Xin Yi bowed in response.

"Take Mr. Chen Hang to Mr. Qin, and just say I said it."