Forced to farm for the princess

Wei Ruojin and Lin Heng went to the last shop together, and there are three shops connected here, all of which belong to them, but Wei Ruojin hasn't figured out what to do yet, so it's empty and hasn't been opened yet, only a smaller one is used for groceries shop.

"Boss, you are here."

As soon as Wei Ruojin and Lin Heng entered the door, the shopkeeper stood up and greeted them with a bit embarrassed face.

After glancing at it, Wei Ruojin said, "What's the matter? What about the things in the shop?"

"Boss, the villain is about to report back. There are always ignorant people coming to make trouble for these two. I will send all the goods in the shop back to avoid being robbed." The shopkeeper's tone was indifferent.

"Do you know who it is?" Wei Ruojin asked.

The shopkeeper said: "I don't know my identity, I look like a street gangster, but I'm not. What's more, the items sold in our shop are not in conflict with other shops, even if we are in the same industry."

Wei Ruojin was the first to rule out the Chen family. Although he didn't know what was going on with the Chen family, but seeing Chen Yao's appearance just now, he probably didn't have time to find trouble.

"Some people are jealous, but they didn't come by themselves when they bid for the auction." Wei Ruojin said.

Lin Heng hooked his lips, and said: "This street used to belong to the Wang family. I don't know when I sold a few shops, and then it came into my hands."

"The Wang family?" Wei Ruojin really couldn't figure out why the Wang family came to trouble him. To be honest, his business was nothing at all.

"These days, Cai Nei's family has been regarded as honored guests by the Wang family." Lin Heng has never relaxed his control over Xinglin City, and he can almost be regarded as well aware of Cai Nei's actions.

"They..." Wei Ruojin's eyes were confused for a moment, and then he immediately became sober again. That's right, any of the things sold in his shop are not available in other places. I'm afraid it's the only one in Dachang. Want to take credit.

"The shop is open, go and bring this month's goods first, I won't blame you if something happens." Others are afraid of his Wang family, but he is not.

How about some porcelain?

The shopkeeper got the approval letter, and he felt relieved, and went out with the odd man in the shop.Without Lin Heng's instructions, Fan Wei had already quietly gone down to arrange things.

"Speaking of which, what have you done to the Chen family?" Wei Ruojin didn't say that he was stopped by Chen Yao, mainly because he didn't want to cause trouble.

"I let Chen Wei go to Yongmen County, took the Chen family's old house, and gave him a chance, let's see what he does." Lin Heng looked at Wei Ruojin and smiled slightly, "I just sealed the Chen family's house. , Their fields are still there, as long as they behave well, nothing will happen."

"You took the old house of the Chen family, and you also took the contents there?" Wei Ruojin asked abruptly, raising her head.

Lin Heng looked at Wei Ruojin's appearance, and felt that he was very interesting. How could he be willing to touch those unclean things with him like this.

"None of these aristocratic families is clean. The reason why they have stayed until now is to find some evidence that can be suppressed so that they cannot turn over." Lin Heng's mouth swayed unconsciously, "In your eyes, Am I the kind of bully who bullies people?"

"I didn't say you were, it's getting late, go home earlier." Wei Ruojin felt that he might have been teased by this man, but someone came to clean up here, so he went home anyway.

As soon as I left the shop, a gust of cold wind blew by, and the sky became overcast. After a while, it began to snow.

Wei Ruojin stretched out her hand, and the white snowflakes fell on her palm, and soon disappeared; suddenly she felt greedy, and wanted to eat glutinous rice candy, but the candy was so hard that it still stuck to the teeth.

For a while, he was happy again, and said with a smile: "Go quickly, let's go back and make candy."

There is no glutinous rice, but he has corn and sweet potatoes, which can also be used to make sugar; unfortunately, they are the only ones growing these grains this year, and even the sugar they make is only enough to satisfy their greed in the palace.

"Weigh five catties of sweet potatoes first, and wash them clean." Wei Ruojin quickly made arrangements as soon as he returned home, and asked someone to carry another ten catties of sun-dried corn.

The stone mill that he made impromptuly before has been improved, and now the things that are ground are more fine, let the generals grind them roughly first, and then soak them in water.

"Is there any wheat in the mansion?" Wei Ruojin only cared about sweet potatoes and corn in his middle years, but forgot whether there were other grains grown in the village.

Xin Yi nodded quickly, "Master, yes." After speaking, he ran out quickly.

Wei Ruojin hadn't had time to say how much he wanted, so he had no choice but to find a rag that wasn't too big in the cabinet, and let Xin Yi wash it when she came.

His room was very warm, Wei Ruojin thought that the germination time of wheat should be much faster, spread the washed cloth in a clean clay pot, pour the washed wheat on it, and put it in the room.

On the other side, the washed sweet potatoes he wanted were also ready. They were peeled and cut into pieces, and then thrown into the stone mill to grind them into slag.Under the porch, Xin Yi has already set up a stove, which has also been modified. It can burn both briquettes and firewood, but the firewood has to be chopped smaller.

After the sweet potatoes are all ground, scoop up the slag and squeeze out the water inside; the slag is discarded, and the pottery pot is put on the fire and boiled slowly.

"Just boil it like this. Stir it from time to time so that it doesn't stick to the pot." Wei Ruojin watched the whole process, and only stretched when he didn't need his help for the rest. After such a toss, it was getting dark.

A light layer of snow had already been spread on the ground, and he said again: "I didn't think carefully just now, it's too cold, move this stove to the side room next to it."

It was already late at night, but Wei Ruojin didn't feel sleepy at all. She could already smell a sweet smell from the tip of her nose, and the liquid in the pot was getting thicker and thicker, bubbling. It should be almost there.

Lin Heng felt a little helpless looking at him, "Go to sleep if you're sleepy, I'll help you look after him."

Wei Ruojin shook her head, "I have to wait by myself."

"It's been two hours already. You're already asleep on weekdays. Isn't it the same when you wake up tomorrow morning?" Lin Heng didn't quite understand Wei Ruojin's persistence.

Xin Yi was tired a long time ago, Wei Ruojin asked her to rest, but she refused, she had to make candy by herself.Both master and servant refused to rest, so Lin Heng could only wait with him.

When the sugar juice in the earthenware pot becomes thicker and a long strand can be pulled up with a spoon, the pot of sugar is considered ready.

Wei Ruojin took a pair of chopsticks, gave one to Xin Yi, wrapped one around and tasted it, it was sweet, although it didn't taste like glutinous rice candy, but it had the feeling from memory.He wrapped it up a little more, fed it to Lin Heng, and asked with sparkling eyes, "How is it?"

"It's delicious." Lin Heng seldom eats sweets. When he was a child, other princes had a share, but he didn't; he joined the army at the age of 13, and when he returned to Kyoto again, he would pass the age of eating sweets, although he wanted to eat sweets at this time It's easy, but it can't arouse the interest of eating sugar.

It turns out that sugar is really sweet, sweet to people's hearts.

No wonder so many people like it.

Xin Yi didn't dare to be so presumptuous, and only dared to dip a little bit of the chopsticks after the two of them had tasted it; after tasting it, his eyes lit up, and the sleepiness disappeared without a trace.

Although she is a servant, she can occasionally eat sweets, but it's all honey brought by the generals in the mansion when they go up the mountain, and some of the rest will be given to the children in the mansion, so she can share some.

Lin Heng watched Wei Ruojin yawn big, couldn't help laughing and said, "I've tasted it, it's time to go to bed. You can eat as much as you want when you get up tomorrow."

Waking up early the next morning, Wei Ruojin was a little dumbfounded looking at the sugar in the earthenware pot. He was excited to think that he forgot to find a container to store the sugar, and now it had hardened into a big piece.

"This..." Not to mention that Wei Ruojin only wanted to eat a small piece, and now she couldn't even take a bite.

"I'm sorry, son, Xin Yi was lazy."

Wei Ruojin waved his hand, Xin Yi is really not to blame for this matter, the glutinous rice candy used to be placed on the gauze cloth, and it didn't seem to stick like this, he is not short of cloth, but the sugar can't be left like this.

Should I get some oil paper, if he makes some snacks in the future, he can't hold it with his hands; by the way, this sugar can also be wrapped in a layer of glutinous rice paper, that kind of paper is edible, and I will look through the system at night Is there any way to do this paper in the store.

In the end, it was Xin Yi who took the pottery pot and put it on the stove until it melted slowly. Then Wei Ruojin divided it into several portions and sent them to Di Rong and Tom Mo's desks.

After thinking about it, I asked Lin Heng's people to send some to Chen Wei.

It snowed all night, but it was a pity that the generals of the Wangfu family cleaned it up early in the morning. Wei Ruojin went to Lin Heng's study in a shawl.

When Lin Heng is around, he doesn't like to stay in the room alone.As soon as he entered the study, Taishou Yin stood up and saluted, and Wei Ruojin got up first.

"It's cold outside." Lin Heng took off Wei Ruojin's cloak and put it aside.

"Open the window a little bit, and be careful of poisoning." Wei Ruojin said, "Fortunately, it's freezing cold, and the road is not easy to walk. Prefect Yin can come back when the weather is better."

If Taishou Yin hadn't happened to meet the general of the royal family who brought him candy on the road, he almost thought that Mr. Wei didn't want to see him.He could only smile and said, "Fortunately, except for places where no one lives, there are people who sweep the snow."

Wei Ruojin nodded, sat down at the desk next to Lin Heng, and stopped talking.When it snows, will there be refugees outside the city?Those refugees before winter have been arranged, so there shouldn't be too many people.

"Wujing Village harvested a lot of grain in the second half of the year. The county government who got the news this time wrote a letter, hoping to get some good seeds in the coming year. The ministers don't know if there is enough grain, so they can only ask." The expression of the prefect Yin Yes, it seems that his official career is developing smoothly.

"A Jin, what do you think?" Lin Heng asked his opinion without answering.

Wei Ruojin thought for a while, and said, "I brought all this food, right?"

Lin Heng nodded.

"I can give these seeds, but I have to borrow them." Wei Ruojin knocked on the desk, pondered for a moment and said, "I will weigh out these grains, and after raising seedlings, you can divide them and plant them directly, but I will use them up for seedlings." How much, when the harvest comes, you must return me the original grain, plus [-]% interest.”

"Prefect Yin, this is not too much. Anyone who has received grain seeds will be registered in the register. How many seeds are produced by the palace, and how much each county receives, and they will be returned when the autumn harvest comes." Lin Heng said.

"Your servant understands that [-]% of the interest is not much to each family. Yin Hai thank you son, thank you lord." Prefect Yin's goal this time has been achieved.

"I still have corn here. Although it's not as high as sweet potatoes, it's not bad. Most importantly, the entire Northwest can't just eat this all the time." Start pantothenic acid.

"Everything is decided by the prince and son."

Wei Ruojin had to say something to the old fox in his heart, sweet potatoes are common to all the people, but this corn is only grown in Pinghe Town, if there is a shortage of food, the common people will know how to choose with their eyes closed.

"Let's start planting from Wujing Village. The sandy land of sweet potatoes can also be planted, and it won't take up good land." Wei Ruojin thought for a while, he had saved his life there, and the prefect Yin came from there. Other places are more acceptable.

"Yes, don't worry, my lord, I will definitely be optimistic about it." Taishou Yin finished speaking, but he didn't leave in a hurry, it seemed that there was still something embarrassing.

Lin Heng said: "Prefect Yin can tell you what he thinks, your son is no different from me."

"Yes." Prefect Yin thought for a while, and said, "It's snowing now, and it's reported that there are refugees along the way to the northwest."

Wei Ruojin looked at Lin Heng sharply, the road was full of refugees, it has been several months now, why are there still refugees coming here?

"Go ahead." Lin Heng's face turned cold.

"It is said that His Majesty can't get up now." Prefect Yin didn't want to say it at first. Almost all the officials knew about this kind of rumor, and the Northwest King must also know about it, but he didn't take any action so far, so he had to remind him.

Lin Heng was still expressionless. He had heard the news a long time ago, but the news he got was that Lin Guang was pretending to be sick, so it was hard to say whether it was true or not.

"My lord, please make a plan early."

Intend?

What are you going to do?

Lin Heng never thought about it, now there are people around him who need to protect him, he has no covetous heart, those people can make trouble whatever they want, just don't put their hands into the northwest, otherwise...

"This king knows."

After Governor Yin left, Wei Ruojin looked at Lin Heng and said, "What do you plan to do?"

"Oh, this matter is not that simple. It may be the bait thrown by His Majesty. Let's see who jumps out first. But the eldest prince is now a prince, so he should not be so impulsive." The corners of Lin Heng's lips twitched slightly. Invisible arc.

Wei Ruojin lowered his head, he hasn't been here long enough, he can only earn a good name, he didn't expect to be involved in the royal party dispute, so he really doesn't know much about the royal family.

"There is still too little time. If it takes a few more years, the Northwest will be considered a hard bone." Wei Ruojin sighed, and everyone knows the truth that if you fall behind, you will be beaten.

"You've been busy these days, haven't you seen the weapons coming out of the casting furnace?" Lin Heng didn't want to see Wei Ruojin's worried look.

"They have forged sharper weapons now, and it looks like it's still snowing outside. I'll take you to see it when the weather clears up in two days?"

"You can take care of it there, I still know the basic progress, but it will have to be moved sooner or later."

"Do you remember the valley you went to last time? It will be ready for use in the spring of next year, when the casting furnace will be moved there."

Wei Ruojin only said before that Lin Heng wanted to borrow it, but unexpectedly, he had already started to do it, "Have you started raising soldiers?"

"Well, there are quite a few people in the grandfather's army who are short-lived. It is very simple to allocate 2000 people to me and recruit new people." However, this kind of thing cannot be reported.

"It's time to take you to see."

"Let's talk when you have time. The bamboo slips on your desk are almost piled up into a mountain. Hurry up and go." Wei Ruojin doesn't care if he doesn't care about Lin Heng's private army. If he has time to look at the private soldiers, he might as well rest at home for a few days.

"Almost forgot." Wei Ruojin picked up the brochure, and suddenly came back to his senses, "Just now Governor Yin said that more and more refugees are coming here, and many people will freeze to death on the way. I'm afraid that those who can persist here It's freezing."

"Ajin, I don't plan to take in any more refugees." Lin Heng's voice suddenly dropped.

Wei Ruojin sat down and looked at Lin Heng, "Is there not enough food?"

Yes, if you take in refugees again, there will really be nothing to eat next spring after removing the seeds.Even if all the sweet potatoes in the Northwest are planted, it will take a year to accommodate so many refugees.

"They don't let the refugees go to the capital, but drive them to the northwest..." Wei Ruojin sighed, "If this continues, the local defenders in Dachang will probably turn their swords on the people."

This situation is almost predictable. It is a long way to the northwest. If it is summer and autumn, they still have a choice. Now that it is snowing outside, they will die if they come to the northwest again.

Dachang's imperial court refused to give them a way out, so naturally they wanted to find a way out.

"Don't worry, you just do what you want to do." Let him handle things like refugees.

"You should be relieved." Wei Ruojin said, "Go ahead, I'll go find Tom."

At this time, Tang Mo and Chen Hang are taking a few children in the palace to see a doctor outside the city. Tom Mo has no experience, and he only learned the pulse of everyone in the palace several times. , That's why I went out of the city to see a doctor for free.

Most of the poor people have physical problems. Tang Mo felt the pulse, while Chen Hang memorized it. At first, Chen Hang hated it very much, wishing to be ten miles away from these people, but finally endured it, and this time he only held the handkerchief , while writing it down on the bamboo slips.

Every time before taking the pulse, Tomer would make it clear that he was not curing a disease, he was still learning, but after taking the pulse, they could get a bowl of boiled medicinal soup, which could dispel the cold.

The medicine was prescribed by Wei Ruojin. It is very mild and can be taken by any body type. This also allowed Tang Mo to collect various pulse cases.

Wei Ruojin was still in a daze when he heard the generals say that Tang Mo had been going outside the city for the past few days. Such a diligent apprentice made him incompetent as a master; however, what Tang Mo did was exactly what he wanted. It seems that he doesn't need to worry about it here.

It's cold, I really want to eat hot pot.

Wei Ruojin took a long breath, since we have chili peppers, why don't we go to the pharmacy to see what else can be used as ingredients.The pharmacy is very quiet, and the children in charge here probably went to school.

He searched around, and found that there were cinnamon and peppercorns here. Wei Ruojin immediately thought of spicy hot pot, and just thinking about it made him salivate.

The cinnamon and peppercorns must have been obtained by someone who saw the paintings he made, but the peppercorns didn’t seem to be too much, and he was not greedy, so he only grabbed a handful.

In fact, there are not many vegetables that can be eaten in winter, but there is a lot of meat. Wei Ruojin went to the kitchen to have the meat prepared, and was about to go back, when she suddenly asked: "Did you kill these sheep yourself? Don't throw them into the water, get some and eat them." hot pot."

When the people in the kitchen heard about the water, their faces turned green, "My lord, are you talking about... the water?"

Wei Ruojin nodded.

The cook was about to cry, "My lord, I can get you any small meat you want, but how do you eat the pickled meat?"

"It's okay, just get it here, I'll do it." Wei Ruojin was not angry, and left without saying a word, taking a set of kitchen utensils with her when she left.

The cooks in the kitchen let out a long sigh when you looked at me, and I looked at you. The young master said that he wanted to eat the water, what can they do, they still have to get it.

Wei Ruojin originally wanted to eat in the room, but when she thought about the taste after eating, she changed her mind, and there happened to be a pavilion outside the yard.

He and Lin Heng were sitting in the pavilion, with two braziers beside them, it wouldn't be cold.

As soon as Lin Heng returned to the backyard, he smelled a domineering fragrance. He had never smelled it or eaten it before, but he began to swallow for no reason.

Turning the corner, I saw Wei Ruojin alone in the pavilion, with a brazier next to it, and a small pottery pot on the table, and a big pottery pot on top of the small pottery pot, separated by something in between. I saw charcoal burning under the small clay pot.

He walked over quickly and asked, "What kind of novel way of eating is this?"

"Come to eat hot pot. The water has just boiled, so it's time to eat." Wei Ruojin quickly waved to him.

He only knew sliced ​​meat on the table, and brown ones that looked like blood clots.Wei Ruojin picked up the meat with chopsticks and rinsed it a few times, the color of the meat changed.

"Come and have a taste, this thing is delicious, it's not in vain that I've planted it for so long."

As soon as he took it in, Lin Heng felt an extremely strong taste, similar to the last time he ate shaking noodles, Wei Ruojin laughed straight at the sight, "It's so spicy, isn't it, come drink some water."

"Sweet."

It's not just sweet, it's made by Wei Ruojin with red dates and chrysanthemums mixed with honey, and specially warmed.

"My lord, my lord, the Wang family sent another post. This time I don't know whether I should make the decision, so I have to come here to report."

Wei Ruojin was enjoying himself when Steward Shang came over with a post.The smile on his face was put away, and he took a look, "Wang's family handed over many times?"

"This is the third time, I was stopped by the little one before." Shang Butler said.The Wang family was not qualified enough to meet the Northwest King, so he blocked it.

Wei Ruojin glanced at the post, laughed out loud, and said to Lin Heng, "Look at it."

Lin Heng's complexion was not very good, "This northwest is all side branches. How dare you be so arrogant in front of me. The last Chen family will all live in Zhuangzi now."

"My lord, son, Cai Neiguan has barged in and is in the front hall at this time." Another general hurried over.

Wei Ruojin frowned, "Disappointing, I really want to eat hot pot, why are they all running to the palace!"

Lin Heng lowered his eyes, "You are not small, you eat first, and I will be back in a while."

What is there to eat for a person's hot pot, Wei Ruojin asked people to remove these things, and followed Lin Heng to the front hall.

In the front hall, Cai Neiguan sat in the main seat, drinking tea slowly, and the Wang family sat next to him, Wei Ruojin had never seen him before.

Wei Ruojin sneered, it's really a waste to let this guy drink tea. "The internal officials are so imposing. When they saw the prince and this concubine, they couldn't even act politely, and they even took the seat of honor? Could it be that they want to plot rebellion!"

As soon as Cai Neiguan turned his head and was about to get angry, he saw that the saber on Lin Heng had been drawn halfway, and the generals standing in the corner seemed to be ready to rush forward.

"I am personally sent by His Majesty!" Cai Neiguan felt that he had lost face.