Are you stupid?

Every household in the Shu area is filled with mulberry trees. After summer, the ground is full of shade. Men and women sit in front of the water basin and spin cocoons, and then give the silk to their partners to weave it into cloth.

In the past, when they were doing these jobs, they were smiling, watching fat silkworms eating mulberry leaves were more tender than looking at their own children, but now, their eyes are very complicated, as if they are looking forward to silkworms spinning silk sooner, It also seems to hope that the silkworms will not spit out so much silk in the past, and that the low production of silk this year will raise the price, so that they can live more securely.

"Oh, the price of rice in the grain store has gone up again." The woman took back her red-hot hands from the basin, wiped them on her clothes, and complained to the man beside her in a low voice, "In summer, wild vegetables are everywhere. I have been looking forward to the price of rice coming down. Why is it that a stone of grain is [-] copper coins more expensive than it was in the beginning of spring? If it keeps going up like this, even if the cloth can be sold at a good price this year, we will not be able to save much by the end of the year. How can I build a house when I have enough money. The children are already grown up, so I just wait for a new house number to tell him about marriage."

The man paused in his hands, looked at the shuttle in front of him and sighed, turned his gaze out of the window, and landed on the lush mulberry forest.

He gritted his teeth, pondered for a while, and finally said, "Since the price of food is already so high, our family will keep half of the mulberry trees, and cut down the rest to grow food."

The woman turned pale with shock, and hurriedly grabbed the man's arm, "Master, what are you doing! Our family is all counting on the mulberry forest to raise silkworms and spin silk for money."

The man said bitterly, "Do you still think that now is the past? After the prince returned to Beijing, the price given by the merchants who came to collect fabrics this year was [-]% lower. Counting the money for buying food and paying taxes, we are busy all year round. It’s gone. How about cultivating some fields by yourself, at least you can save some food.”

The woman looked at the stretches of mulberry forest distressedly, and murmured, "Isn't there a big open space in the backyard, and it is enough to grow vegetables on weekdays. You don't have to pull out all the trees! Trees want to grow. It’s been a long time since I remembered it, it’s a pity to pull it out if I say it…”

The man interrupted the woman anxiously, and lowered his voice, "You have been listening to the gossips of those parents all day long, but you never paid attention to the fact that the grain store shouted that there was no food and raised the price, but in fact, did you never go out to buy food?"

"Ah? There is such a thing!" The woman immediately covered her chest and took a breath, "They are all from the village, why are they cheating us so much?"

If there is a real shortage of food, the boss in the grain shop is anxious to run around looking for food or simply hide for refuge, lest the blind date believe that there is really no food in their home and break through the door to snatch it; if the real people are all at home, they just lock the door If you don't entertain guests, it's purely an excuse to raise prices.The price of grain is inherently unstable, and it is common for the ups and downs to fluctuate with the seasons and the year. If it is not too high, the villagers have never treated it as a big deal.

"He's a small grain store, so he doesn't have to look at the big merchants to buy the goods." The man said, kicking the wall with resentment, "It's all the fault of the new county magistrate, who doesn't know how to build a good relationship with the merchants. How stable was the price of food when the prince was here, but now it has grown to such an insanely high price."

"Isn't that right? I heard from an old scholar in the village that the new county magistrate blamed the prince for saying that the tax collection was wrong and the accounts couldn't be checked. In the future, the grain will be changed. What if it is true!"

The man turned pale, and murmured, "Doesn't the imperial court want to give us a way out?"

The couple looked at each other and fell silent involuntarily.

They knew that what they said was just a complaint.

In the past, selling silk products in Sichuan made a lot of money, and the price of grain was cheap. The king of Jiayu County collected more money than the tax on rice grain, and the people didn't take it seriously; but now that the price of rice has risen, the new county magistrate checked the government The silver in stock is not enough to convert the grain tax into silver, so of course they don't want to collect any more silver.

——If grain is collected as tax, then no matter whether the price of grain is high or low, if the amount of grain is correct, the tax on grain will be correct.

They have to collect money even though they can collect grain. In fact, it is a way to toss the people. They complained to the new county magistrate, just because they used to covet the high profits brought by silk fabrics, and changed all the fields for growing grain into The mulberry forest has led to no food to be handed over now.

"Alas!" The husband and wife sighed at the same time, they looked at each other, and reached an agreement on pulling up trees and planting fields.

They have a lot of strength, and the food they can grow from the ground with their own strength is more cost-effective than spending money to buy it. They should honestly farm the land by themselves.Before you can think of another way to make money, you can save as much as you can. These little people will always have to live.

Mu Huaiyuan sat in the county government office, very leisurely, and told the servants arranged for him by his wife, Princess Anping, "Go get a few buckets of mountain spring water. I heard that the mountain spring here is very clear, and it is the best spring water for making tea."

The county magistrate, the county lieutenant, etc. were stunned.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon does not overwhelm a local snake, they are all local nobles who visited when the king of Jiayu County was in Shu.The king of Jiayu County came here with his power at the beginning, and he wanted to visit him, so he asked local people with surnames to come to assist him. Therefore, even if the new county magistrate was the champion of the new department handpicked by the new king, he would serve as the local lieutenant of the county lieutenant and the county magistrate. People don't think that the other party has the opportunity to argue with them.

The county magistrate and the county lieutenant thought it over, if the new champion can be as good as the sun, then they will take care of him politely, give the new champion a three-year and five-year political achievement, and send him back to Beijing to meet a good fate.If the new champions don't know how to respect the local elders, then they can only ask the new champions to understand the truth of "do as the Romans do".

As soon as the county magistrate and the county lieutenant saw the champion of the new discipline with a long list of identities, they were immediately overwhelmed by the opponent's appearance like a banished immortal.

But before they judged by their looks that "the top scholar in the new department is outstanding", the other party fully showed his good background, and pressed them directly to check the words left by the previous county magistrate like a wild crane, and asked them enthusiastically Local customs.

It’s too much to talk about customs and customs. The other party asked so many questions, but in the end all of them can be boiled down to one question—“Where is the best place to eat, drink and have fun?”

The county magistrate and county lieutenant felt suffocated by this question. They didn't expect that the number one scholar who could accompany Xinjun through his "foolish" childhood and finish high school with the first name would be so... elegant.

Well, it doesn't make sense when you think about it.

If the champion of the new branch is a person with a strong court pursuit, I am afraid that he would not be willing to accompany a prince who was stupid at the time, and would have invested in other princes long ago.

But with such a temperament that only thinks about romance, I'm afraid it's not easy to get along with these rural people.

The county magistrate and the county lieutenant thought about the prosperity of the capital, and this place was just a remote place, so they couldn't help but feel a little guilty. They were afraid that their basic necessities, food, housing and transportation would be different from those of the new champion, and they were even more afraid that the other party would show contempt for them because of this.

——They boasted that the local rich family, but in the final analysis, if they really had the ability to leave Shu, they would have gone to the capital to scream at Fengyun Jihui, so why would they stay in their hometown and be some kind of "famous family"?Therefore, what foreigners are most afraid of is being called a country bumpkin, but they are said so, and they have no way to refute it, so they can only swallow the insult in their hearts.

"Please sit down, both of you. You don't need to see outside." The exiled immortal Xinke Zhuangyuan showed a fairy-like smile, swaying his wide sleeves lightly, his slender white and slender palms protruding from his sleeves and pressing them on the black oily table, motioning for the maid to bring the tea set over , Eyelashes drooping slightly, washing everything in the freshly heated mountain spring water.His eyebrows and eyes are exquisite, his expression is calm and soft, and the statue enshrined in the niche is still like a fairy.

The county magistrate was the first to speak nervously, "Magistrate Mu, the documents left by the previous magistrate, do you see...?"

Before the county magistrate finished speaking, Mu Huaiyuan frowned.

As if the words of the county magistrate had dirty his ears, Mu Huaiyuan directly asked Mu Huaiyuan to raise his hand to stop the other party from continuing to speak, then raised his arms to cover his ears, and responded in a cold tone, "Such mundane affairs will be discussed later. Today Just came here, you two, please have a taste of the tea soup I cooked."

Since he is a fairy, he must be impatient.

Mu Huaiyuan made full use of the advantages brought by his appearance to mislead them.

Seeing the expressions of the county magistrate and the county lieutenant who hesitated to speak, Mu Huaiyuan frowned, put down the teaspoon, and said impatiently: "The previous county magistrate had outstanding achievements. He has been promoted. Wei Shangshu is in charge of the official department. It is the most notarized, and there is no mistake. Don’t say this kind of inspection or no inspection. If it spreads, you think that the children from the capital like to stare at the local officials. It’s really humiliating. Sven!"

"The two of you don't seem to be in the same league anymore. Since you like to discuss the secular economy, please invite me." Mu Huaiyuan lowered his face and saw off the guests coldly.

The county magistrate was flushed with anxiety, but he did find out whether the customs of the capital could not discuss business affairs in person, and it was really hard to refute, for fear of being ridiculed by the other party after refusing Mu Huaiyuan, he could only cover his face with his sleeve and leave in a hurry .

Mu Huaiyuan's gaze fell on the county lieutenant's head, and he looked at him coldly, as if asking him why he didn't leave together since they came together.

The county magistrate moistened his parched lips, and hurriedly followed the words of the magistrate Mu, "Your officer is thirsty, waiting for the magistrate to bring you a new pot of tea."

Mu Huaiyuan, who had just turned cold because of official business, looked warmer, picked up the tea set again, ground the tea powder and spices with his own hands, cooked a Weng tea soup, and served it to the county captain to drink together, "Shu is humid and miasma. I have prepared spices and medicinal materials for reducing dampness and benefiting qi. I added them to the tea soup, you have a taste, this drinking method is also very popular in Beijing and China."

The county lieutenant didn't dare to say a superfluous word when he heard "it's popular in Beijing recently", and immediately drank it with a tea bowl in his hand.

In an instant, a series of strange tastes, such as spicy and bitter, rushed from the mouth into the county lieutenant's nasal cavity, instantly making him burst into tears.

The tea bowl that Mu Huaiyuan had just wet his lips was put back to its original place, and he worried anxiously: "Is the county lieutenant not used to drinking it? Tell me what the locals drink every day. I'll change it. Sigh..."

The county captain stubbornly wiped away his snot and tears, and insisted, "It's okay!"

Drinking in the capital must be good stuff, how can he say that he is a country bumpkin who is not used to drinking!

"That's good." Mu Huaiyuan smiled.

He couldn't help thinking, it seems that Shenlong's way of showing weakness and pretending to be stupid in his previous life was indeed very useful.

The author has something to say:

The number of words owed will be made up tomorrow.

Today qg fought with e star, I was too excited to watch it, I couldn't calm down and code orz

I really am a bad cat.

Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated the nutrient solution~

Thanks to the little angels who voted [Line mines]: Zhai Shan, Kuaijian Chasing Soul 2; Jiuxi 1;

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated [nutrient solution]:

10 bottles of Yuxingmiao, Granny, Far away; 3 bottles of Foreign Language Baliu and Qingxi;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!