Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 405 Unpaid Overtime

This is feasible. Rong Jin is very clear about the entire process of reclaiming the barren mountain, and he is the one who dispatched all the reclamation workers.

However, it's not good to ask others to work overtime for nothing during the New Year. Hua Lei hesitated. But Lord Pei waved his hand and left.

Hua Lei was filled with resentment, but she didn't know that after she led everyone down the barren mountain, the next day, Emperor Shengwu took his shadow guards and took advantage of his rest time to wander around Hua Lei's Flower and Fruit Mountain.

I went from Beishan to Dongshan, and from Dongshan to Nanshan, nodding my head all the way. When I finally went from Nanshan to Xishan, I saw the terraced tea gardens of Hualei, and I stopped in amazement.

I have never seen these terraces in Shangjing City. Why are they all planted with tea trees? Some are planted directly on the slopes, while others are planted on terraces? Is there any trick to this?

The arrangement of bamboo tubes and the special shape of tiles made Emperor Shengwu squint his eyes. Although the bamboo tubes were indeed much smaller than ordinary ditches.

But a steady stream of water can really play the role of irrigation. This girl's ingenuity is really good. With this idea, it is possible to make the barren mountain no longer barren.

However, why do we have to stuff a few corn cobs between the arranged bamboo tubes from time to time and cover them with straw? What does this mean?

Prevent the bamboo tube from moving and deforming? No way? The bamboo tube is hard, and before it deforms, the corn cob will rot first. Isn't this superfluous? Alas, this girl also has inconsiderate thoughts.

That's not right. These corn cobs must have been placed there on purpose. Otherwise, why are there so many corn cobs in every corner of the barren mountain? They must have been placed there for a purpose. However, Emperor Shengwu could never figure out what their purpose was.

As for the rapeseed seedlings planted in the basin, Emperor Shengwu did not think there was anything special about them, so he just glanced over them.

Emperor Shengwu thought that he would understand it just by looking at it, but he didn't understand it. When he saw that there were fish in several ponds, he was even more surprised. How could fish be raised in ponds without running water?

I squatted down and took a closer look, and found that there were pieces of charcoal and bags of things wrapped in cloth bags floating on the water. I didn't quite understand what these were.

I asked the shadow guards to pick up a few bags and opened them. They were sawdust left over from sawing wood. What were they for? I asked the shadow guards around me, and they all shook their heads. Yes, except for their better skills, they really didn't know how to open up wasteland.

After a tour of the barren mountains, Emperor Shengwu found that there were too many things he didn't understand, because the crops grown on each mountain were different, and each slope was also very different.

Even the corn cobs that appeared from time to time were beyond Emperor Shengwu's comprehension. So, he went to find Old Marquis Pei.

If you don't understand something, I'll ask you to write an explanation and I'll take a look. Then I'll understand it, right? So, Hualei suffered. During the Chinese New Year, I received a notice of unpaid overtime.

But what can I do? When you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. Just do your job obediently, you can't just quit? I just figured it out last night, I have made a lot of dirty money with my position as Nong Zheng.

However, today is New Year's Eve, so I definitely won't do it. Tomorrow is New Year's Day, so I won't do it either. Let's wait a few days and see.

I can't let myself work from the first day of the new year to the last day of the new year, right? I'd feel better if I removed these two days. So, Hualei continued to bask in the sun and leisurely flipped through the storybook.

After having a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner and distributing New Year's red envelopes to everyone in the house, Hualei climbed onto the bed in a daze and fell into a deep sleep after staying up with Xiaoyuan. On the first day of the New Year, she spent another day eating and drinking at home.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Hua Lei took Xiao Yuan to the Zhenbei Marquis's Mansion to wish New Year's greetings to the old Marquis Pei and the old Madam Pei. Because this day was the day when married daughters returned to their parents' home.

Hua Lei didn't want to trouble Mrs. Gu to arrange a reception for her, so she chose the second day of the Lunar New Year to go to the Marquis' Mansion to pay New Year's greetings. By the way, she could also meet Zhenzhu and Manou, whom she hadn't seen for a long time.

Hualei hasn't seen Zhenzhu for a long time. Ever since Zhenzhu got married, the two of them can no longer meet as conveniently as they did in the Marquis' Mansion.

In addition, Zhenzhu is a new bride, so it is not convenient for her to go out often. In addition, Zhenzhu is already five or six months pregnant, so she has even fewer opportunities to go out.

Except for the two times when Hualei went to Zhenzhu's in-laws' house to visit Zhenzhu when she first became pregnant, she hasn't seen Zhenzhu for several months and doesn't know how she is doing.

Pearl's pregnancy was not in a very good condition. She had severe morning sickness and could not stand any strange smell, especially fishy smell.

I also had a very poor appetite and couldn't eat anything, so I lost a lot of weight. I don't know if it has improved after the early stages of pregnancy.

When Hualei brought Xiaoyuan to the Marquis's residence, it was about the middle of the morning. Pearl and her husband had not arrived yet, but Agate and her husband had already arrived with their two children, and Feicui and her husband had also arrived.

A group of people were all sitting and chatting in Songhe Hall. Hualei and Xiaoyuan came forward to greet each one, and then sat next to Manju.

Manju's son is six years old and her daughter is three years old. They are wearing festive clothes and are really cute. But none of them are willing to sit quietly.

In Songhe Hall, he touched here and there, and scared Mrs. Pei so much that she put away all the fragile porcelain objects in the room.

As they were talking, the maid came in and said that Zhenzhu and Jiang Yunqi had arrived. So Hualei, Manjue and Feicui went out to greet them.

Pearl's carriage stopped at the second gate. Hualei stepped forward, opened the curtain, and helped Pearl down. Compared to her skinny appearance when she was pregnant, Pearl was now much plumper and her waistline was already very obvious. But her face looked a little pale and she looked a little listless.

After greeting each other, they continued to drink tea and chat. Old Madam Pei deliberately let Zhenzhu, who looked a little pale, lean on the small couch. As they chatted, they talked about the incident in the twelfth month before the New Year when the granddaughter-in-law of the Minister of War died of a difficult childbirth and two people died.

Hualei had heard of this before, and it had a big impact when it first happened. I heard that because the baby's feet came out first, it couldn't adjust, so it got stuck in the mother's body, unable to move forward or backward, causing heavy bleeding in the mother.

After a long struggle, they finally invited a retired doctor from the Imperial Hospital, but he still failed to save the mother and the baby, and in the end both were dead. I heard that the mother was the same age as Zhenzhu, and was also 18 years old last year.

Pearl, lying on the small couch, shuddered involuntarily.