20demayo Chapter 388 Amused
Chapter 388 Amused
Will the county magistrate cause trouble for him? Wu Shan was worried.
Then the civil servant who was in charge of recording looked up at Wu Shan. He had an impression of Wu Shan, so he nodded and replied respectfully without any confirmation, "Sir, yes."
After the civil servant looked up to determine the direction, he raised his hand and pointed to a place, "There should be a bald mountain in that direction. Someone from Niutoushan Village bought it a few days ago."
The county magistrate looked in the direction the civil servant's finger pointed, and saw nothing but green mountains.
"Yes," the county magistrate nodded to indicate that he understood.
Then he pointed to the white gray stone in the pit and asked, "Is this what caused you to buy the mountain?"
"My lord, it is related." Wu Shan stuttered, feeling extremely terrified.
The county magistrate was listening attentively, waiting for the next words, but there was no response for a long time. He turned his head to look at Wu Shan, and saw that the honest village man was sweating and uncomfortable because of his questions.
The county magistrate's mouth twitched.
Wu Shan was really nervous at this time. Wuyan said something similar to him the night before. What did he say at that time... It was over. His mind went blank and he moved his lips but couldn't say anything.
Wen Wuyan, who was standing nearby, saw this and quickly took over Wu Shan's words, "Your Excellency, if you want to use rotten leaves and manure as fertilizer, lime is indispensable. We found this kind of stone on a mountain not far away, so we mined some and brought it back for experiments. This spring, the villagers saw that the effect was not bad, so they told the villagers about the method of making fertilizer from manure."
Wen Wuyan raised his eyes to look at the county magistrate when he said this. Seeing that he was listening carefully, he continued, "Although the mountain is ownerless, it belongs to Shangyang County. We need a lot of this lime, and it is not good to mine it without reporting for our own selfish desires. After discussing it, the village decided to join forces to buy the mountain from the county. The county naturally has no shortage of financial resources. But these are also the small contributions made by the entire Niutou Mountain village to the county. Only in this way can everyone mine and make lime with confidence."
All of what Wen Wuyan said was what Gu Qingqing told him. Although he sounded righteous on the surface, there was naturally some part of him that was trying to curry favor with others.
In ancient times, if you wanted to mine rocks, as long as they were not copper, iron, gold or silver mines, there were no restrictions on other mines. Were they still ownerless?
The trees on the mountain are supposed to be ownerless, but they cut down quite a few of them last year.
He said this simply because he didn't want the county to be unhappy and take the mountain back.
After hearing this, the county magistrate nodded and did not ask any more questions about Tushan.
He turned to look at Wen Wuyan and said, "Your family is willing to make this method public and teach your fellow villagers to follow suit, which shows that you are broad-minded and loyal. This county magistrate will exempt your family from spring and autumn taxes for the next three years. In addition, since your village has already started to practice composting, this county magistrate will order your village to be an experimental field for autumn harvest. Any household that uses this method will be exempted from this year's autumn tax, and the county will send someone to register and keep records."
Wow!
The villagers didn't hear what the county magistrate said in the end, nor did they try to listen. The only thing they heard was that the county magistrate wanted to exempt them from the autumn tax.
I don't know who was leading the group, but his voice broke with excitement. "I, a commoner, thank you, sir."
"I thank you, Lord Qingtian."
"I thank you, Lord Qingtian."
Hula hula.
Gu Qingqing once again saw the heads of the villagers in groups.
Tsk!
Although I know they like to kneel, isn’t this a bit too diligent?
Even though she complained in her heart, she still did it anyway. It was because of the general environment.
Afterwards, when Wen Wuyan saw that he had almost understood the situation, he looked at Mr. Shen and invited the county magistrate into his house for a drink.
"I am here today on official business, so I won't bother you at home. While you have time, take me to other houses and I'll take a look."
Seeing that the county magistrate was going to the village to check, Gu Qingqing took the opportunity to hide back home, lying on the kang, pretending to be a boneless soft insect.
......
The county magistrate was followed by a large group of people. Everyone wanted the county magistrate to come to their home. No one knew whether it was intentional or unintentional, but in the end, they only went to Niu Zhanghe, Niu Dajun and Wu Shan's homes.
The county magistrate went back, leaving behind only the civil servant who was responsible for recording the information.
Shen Lin also left. She didn’t have the chance to visit the Wen family during her first visit to Niutoushan Village.
Not until the county magistrate walked away did Wu Shan wipe the sweat from his forehead and heaved a sigh of relief.
However, he then looked at the civil servant who stayed behind to record the incident, and smiled in a somewhat flattering manner, "Sir, it's sunny at noon, why don't you go home and have some tea first? If you need to know anything, I'll call someone to come over for you."
"Don't worry, Mr. Wen is here. I just happen to have some unclear points that I need to verify with you." Mu Wenrui smiled at Wu Shan, then looked for Wen Wuyan.
"I am here. If you want to know anything, just ask. I will tell you everything I know." After Wen Wuyan said this, he saw that everyone was standing on the main road at the entrance of the village, which was not a good thing. The key point was that this was not a place where one could pick up a pen to write.
He bowed to the county magistrate and said, "Why don't you follow me home first? That way you can have a place to grind."
Just when the adults were waiting for Wu Yan to be rejected, unexpectedly the other party actually agreed.
Mu Wenrui followed him towards the Wen family, and then looking at the crowd still following him, he called Wu Shan over and after saying a few words to him, everyone in the village went home.
Only Wu Shan, Li Yu, Niu Zhanghe and Wen Youcai followed him.
Wen Wuyan was very reluctant to let Wen Youcai enter his home, and he couldn't say anything in front of the county officials.
Gu Qingqing, who was lying in the house, heard Dahua say that Wen Youcai came to her house. She felt a mouthful of blood welling up in her throat, making her feel unhappy.
"Mom, my second uncle didn't come when we were building the house. What is he doing here now?" Dahua asked.
"You two have broken off the engagement, so how can he still have the nerve to come here? I'd say he has no good intentions." Gu Jia sat on the edge of the kang, took out a handkerchief from her bosom, and wiped the sweat off Dahua's forehead while speaking.
Gu Qingqing knew why he came even with her toes. Wasn't it just to show off her face at the county government?
He tried to get closer when the county magistrate was still there just now, but the county magistrate came here specifically to watch the manure fermentation, and apart from saying a few words to him when he first dismounted from his horse, he didn't give him any chance at all.
Now that he finally saw some people from the county staying, it would be strange if he didn't move forward.
"Well, it's disgusting." She said aimlessly while lying on the kang.
Dahua had no idea what her mother was thinking just now. She just thought that her mother was feeling sick again, so she said, "I'll get a basin for you," and ran out of the house.
Gu Qingqing was not given any chance to react at all.
Gu Qingqing looked at Gu Jia and asked in confusion, "Why did Dahua run away?"
Gu Jiashi also looked suspicious and muttered uncertainly, "You said you wanted to get a basin?"
"What's that basin for?"
"Who knows? This little girl has quick legs." Although Gu Jia said this, she still walked out from the edge of the kang, wanting to see what Dahua was going to do.
Before she could completely walk out of the house, Dahua had already brought in the bowl for feeding chickens.
Originally, this basin was not very clean, after all, it was used to hold some rice soup mixed with wheat bran or vegetable leaves.
Dahua felt sorry for her mother who was having nausea in the house, so she took some time to wash the broken basin and gave it to her mother to use.
When Gu Qingqing looked at the big flowers in the pots that were brought in for her to spit out, she let go and laughed happily for the first time since she knew she was pregnant.