After dressing as a widow

Last year's drought, and the city was occupied by refugees, the tragic situation of ten rooms and nine empty rooms. Gu Lin and Lin Zhen have both experienced it personally. Before the rural examination, Lin Zhen told Gu Lin that the current affairs strategy might take this test, and discussed it with him.

But that's not what the current affairs think about, salt.

Salt is expensive in ancient times and is closely related to people's livelihood, so it is reasonable to ask this question.

It's just that compared to last year's drought that swept across many places and displaced countless people, the topic of salt seems a bit abrupt, and it's a bit of a cover-up.

Standing behind the table, Gu Lin integrated the points and methods discussed between himself and Lin Zhen, and expressed them succinctly.

First of all, it is said that natural disasters are uncontrollable. Neither the court nor the local government knew that there would be a drought. Therefore, it is understandable that the drought in some places with relatively little rain is more severe, such as Yongzhou, which gave birth to the refugee army.

Yongzhou is above Luozhou, and the land cultivated by the people is mostly loess, with low fertility, and they can barely make ends meet in good times. Once the gods don't give face, they have to rely on the imperial court to allocate grain and reduce or exempt taxes.

However, droughts occur frequently in various places, and the imperial court has no food. Taxes have been reduced for three to five years and have to be restored again. It is impossible to reduce them forever.

Therefore, Gu Lin and Lin Zhen discussed two points of view. One is to increase people’s resistance to natural disasters and make changes in farming methods, such as vigorously promoting the use of compost. The selection of seeds should also be based on local conditions. In the past, sorghum, buckwheat, wheat and sweet potatoes were grown in dry areas, and rice could be grown as they wanted in humid areas.

The second is Gu Lin's proposal to build granaries in various places according to the population ratio. The grain in the granary is replaced every three years. At that time, the government had a certain ability to control the situation and reduce the pressure on the court.

But at the same time, supervision must be done to prevent the granary from becoming a tool for local officials to collect money, and the public granary from becoming a private treasury for officials.

Gu Lin's words were very succinct, and he was still talking about the food in the fields, which seemed too down-to-earth to the ears of some scholars who were born in the gentry, and it was difficult to be elegant.

But some of ordinary background, or some far-sighted, were attracted by what he had to say.

Whether it is compost that can increase production or the construction of granaries in various places, they are all strategies that can be implemented on the ground. Once it is confirmed that there is a possibility of implementation, it will benefit the people of several states.

The Lord of the House looked at Gu Lin before, because he noticed that Li Quan was interested in this student, and he did it in order to flatter Li Quan.

Although Xie Yuan is rare, the provincial examination is held every three years, and there are Xie Yuan every time. I don’t know where I will go in the future.

Don't you see that there are a lot of champions sitting on the bench in the capital, and they are still working as sixth-rank and seventh-rank officials in the Imperial Academy when they are old.

But at this moment, Fu Jun looked at Gu Lin differently. He quickly deduced in his mind the two methods Gu Lin just mentioned, and the more he deduced, the more feasible he felt.

Li Quan's sitting posture also changed. He looked at Gu Lin and said two good things: "After you go back, you will write down this policy in detail and send it to the post."

"Yes." Gu Lin bowed his hands in salute.

With a soft expression on Li Quan's face, he raised the wine glass in his hand: "Come, drink this glass with me."

The person serving Gu Lin immediately poured wine into Gu Lin's glass and handed it to Gu Lin. Gu Lin, who had already drank a few glasses just now, paused and took it in his hand.

Li Quan was in high spirits, his liking for Gu Lin was visible to the naked eye, and he asked Gu Lin to drink with him one cup after another.

It happened to be in the evening when the show ended, Li Quan and Fu Jun left first, and a hundred people sent them off before getting down from their seats and walking down Shenyan Peak.

Huang Yuwen and Chen Xing were waiting for Gu Lin below, and as soon as he approached, he could smell the strong smell of alcohol on Gu Lin's body.

Huang Yuwen knew that he had never drunk before, so he quickly called Chen Xing to help him: "How about it, it's okay, why don't you sit down for a while to let go of the alcohol before going down."

"It's okay." Although she smelled of alcohol, Gu Lin's face didn't look strange at all, and her walking steps were no different from when she came here.

Huang Yuwen and Chen Xing made sure that there was nothing wrong with him, so he let go of the hand that was supporting him: "I was startled, I thought I was going to carry you down."

Huang Yuwen said: "When you discussed the strategy before, the people below us all watched, and many people said that it is not wrong to lose to you."

Chen Xing's background is also the same as Gu Lin's, but if he asks himself, he can't do Gu Lin's plan.

Gu Lin, who was walking beside them, had the same expression on his face as before, without any change, and occasionally said a few key points in them when they raised the policy.

After going down the mountain, the three of them took the carriage back to the town as they did when they came. Chen Xing got off first, and Huang Yuwen sent Gu Lin to the entrance of the alley.

"Shall I take you in?" Huang Yuwen grabbed the curtain of the carriage and looked at Gu Lin who had gotten off the carriage and was standing at the entrance of the alley.

"No, be careful on the road." Gu Lin said, then turned and walked into the alley.

Huang Yuwen repeatedly confirmed that he was the same as when he went down the mountain, and then asked the servants at home to turn the carriage.

After staying at home for a day and taking a nap, Lin Zhen, who is now very energetic, dug out the sweet potatoes in the fire pit and blew the ashes on them.

The baked sweet potato is sweet and soft, like honey melted inside, and it is terribly comfortable to eat.

There were two more in the fire pit, which he threw in to roast them on purpose. He didn't know when Gu Lin would come back, whether his stomach could eat it, if Gu Lin didn't eat it, he would eat it himself.

Suddenly, Lin Zhen heard someone knocking on the door, he subconsciously stood up from the stool and walked out, and opened the courtyard door quickly.

Before he could see the familiar figure outside the courtyard gate, Gu Lin, who smelled of alcohol, had already hugged him into his arms, so hard that he wished to strangle him into his body: "Really, I drank .”

Lin Zhen knew instantly that he was drunk, and his voice was wrong, a little raised and loose.

With difficulty, he opened a little gap from his arms, "How much did you drink?"

Gu Lin hugged him, and shook his head leaning on his shoulder: "27 cups."

The drinking cup is small and the strength is not high, but Gu Lin is drinking for the first time, and he drank a lot, so naturally he couldn't stand it.

"Will I not grow taller? To be honest, drinking will make me shorter and shorter." Gu Lin muttered in Lin Zhen's ear, listening carefully and still a little confused.

Hearing Lin Zhen's breath choked in his throat.

I am about 1.7 meters tall, and he is now ten centimeters taller than me, definitely 1.8 meters tall.

It's okay even if it's not long.

Lin Zhen pushed him away a little and said: "It's not like you won't grow taller, you are already tall now, go into the room, and I'll make you a bowl of hangover soup."

"Yeah." Gu Lin nodded obediently, but she didn't let go of Lin Zhen's hand.

Lin Zhen: "I can't drag you into the house with you like this."

Gu Lin groaned, and suddenly picked him up in this posture, so steady that Lin Zhen wondered if he was drunk, and walked towards Lin Zhen's room.

Lin Zhen's room is the wing room on the right, except that there is no extra room behind that can be used as a study, which is exactly the same as Gu Lin's.

Milky white bed nets, the bed is covered with light gray bedding, and furniture such as cabinets and tables are placed.

Gu Lin, who smelled of alcohol, came in with Lin Zhen in his arms and walked towards the bed, but he didn't put Lin Zhen down in front of the bed, but raised his eyes to look at Lin Zhen who was a head taller than him because of being hugged.

Lin Zhen felt that the atmosphere suddenly became viscous and gradually out of his control. He supported Gu Lin's shoulder and asked him to let him go.

Gu Lin looked at him: "Really, can you be the same as that day?"

"What?" Lin Zhenxin skipped a beat.

Gu Lin said, "That's right, eat my lips."

Lin Zhen: "!!!"

Lin Zhen's head was whimpering and smoking, he never thought that Gu Lin who was drunk could say anything.

No, no, he can say "I miss you" after waking up from a serious injury even if he hasn't been drinking.

Lin Zhen blushed, and hurriedly said, "No way!"

Gu Lin blinked, and asked eagerly: "But I really want to eat my lips, I have been thinking about it from yesterday to today."

I don't know if it's because of looking down from the top or what, but his eyes are beautiful, and he's a bit pitiful because he doesn't get satisfied. It's the first time Lin Zhen sees something cute in him.

The temperature on Lin Zhen's face rose rapidly, but he still didn't agree to his damned request, and asked Gu Lin to put himself down, and he was going to make him hangover soup, and take him back to his room to sleep by the way.

Suddenly, just as Gu Rin put Lin Zhen down, just as Lin Zhen's feet hit the ground, Huang Yuwen's voice sounded from outside the yard: "Uncle Lin, Uncle Lin, is Gu Lin back?"

Lin Zhen asked Gu Lin to sit down first, and went to open the courtyard door.

There was a thin layer of sweat on Huang Yuwen's forehead outside the courtyard, and when he saw him open the door, he asked anxiously: "Uncle Lin, has Gu Lin returned home?"

After parting with Gu Lin just now, Huang Yuwen always felt a little weird in his heart, and quickly realized that Gu Lin was definitely drunk, and he would never say anything like "be careful on the road" when he parted with them on weekdays, so he immediately called the servant He galloped over, afraid that something might happen to Gu Lin in the alley.

Lin Zhen nodded: "I've come back... I'm asleep now."

"Then I'm relieved." Huang Yuwen also drank a little wine, his round face turned red.

He said to Lin Zhen: "Since Gu Lin is back, I'll leave first, and Uncle Lin, you should go to bed earlier."

"Yuwen, you can sleep with Gu Lin here, so you don't have to go all the way."

"It's okay, the servants around me didn't drink, I'll be there in a while." Knowing that Gu Lin had returned home, Huang Yuwen was relieved.

Lin Zhen looked at the servant beside him, he was the most stable and capable person among the ones he often used, so he didn't stay any longer, only told the servant to take good care of him, and the carriage should slow down a bit.

After Huang Yuwen left, Lin Zhen went to the kitchen to cook the sober soup first, and then went back to his room to look after Gu Lin.

He thought that Gu Lin should have been lying down on his bed, but when he went in, he saw that he was still standing when he went out with him, his face finally flushed with alcohol.

He said casually, "Why don't you lie down and rest?"

Gu Lin said in a mellow tone, "I haven't married Zhenzhen yet, so it can't be like this."