The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1805

[1805.Chapter 1717 Riding a dragon and becoming a son-in-law]

At this time, the Zhou family is very lively!

“The Wu family has a daughter. She is a lady, and she is of the right age.”

“The Zheng family has a widow. Her husband died the year before last… and she still has two sons. If she gets married, it would be great…”

Zhou My mother was a little overwhelmed by what she heard, and her eyes were already dazzled.

I really answered that sentence. Today is different from the past. In the past, I worried about getting a wife for my son, but now I find that it is difficult to find a wife, and it is even harder to choose a wife.

But her face was glowing red.

These matchmakers were all sharp-tongued, and in order to make a match, they really praised the old lady to the sky: “You are a lucky person, look at Zhou Yi, this is really an amazing person, one person… It’s okay to be as good as three or four men. He can still read and write. Isn’t this a scholar who has read books

? He has such a short ruler, knows things, and has a wide range of knowledge. When he writes a book, he attracts businessmen and friends, and he is from the city…I heard someone say…he also has a book, and the book is full of things… What’s the value of joining the army? Yeah, yeah, yeah, these are all talented people, you can enjoy the blessings from now on. “

It’s not unreasonable for Zhou Yi to become a good person, he is a good farmer .

For a few of them, the woman who married into the family will never be hungry. If she can read and write, she can’t fool anyone, unlike other people who are confused all day long and do countless stupid things in their life. They have a lot of experience and a wide range of interpersonal relationships. I heard that they have been together through life and death together. With so many friends, where can there be no food to eat?

In the countryside, most people used to just eat porridge, but now they can barely eat some rice and buy some clothes for their wives and children at home. With such a person, for most people , can be called a powerful person with vast supernatural powers.

It’s rare that someone is not a young master. If this is a young master, the woman who married her was not from the right family. In all likelihood, she was a young man and would be bullied by others. But when she married Zhou Yi, she was a legitimate wife.

Such a husband is impossible to find even with a lantern.

Several cousins from the Zhou family, not many of whom could marry wives, squatted at the door of Zhou Yi’s house, chattering and talking to each other. When they heard the matchmaker talking about this girl, they nodded: ” Xiuhong is good, Xiuhong is good, I heard about it when I was going to the market. She is a good girl, but she is very smart, tsk tsk…”

After listening to another matchmaker, he said again: “Widow Zheng is also very good, listen. “When my husband died, he left behind three brick houses, which are valuable, and the two children he brought with him are quite big. It’s easy to worry about. In a few years, they can go to the ground.”

Their eyes were shining. , while discussing, I kept thinking in my mind, which one should I choose if I were Zhou Yi? I was spoiled for choice, and I felt a little sour in my heart. It was not jealousy, I just felt that when I first looked at Zhou Yi, because After his death, his father always felt pitiful, especially because he was so skinny in the past. People in the village said that he would definitely be useless in the future and would not be a good material for work. If there was a disaster, he would starve to death sooner or later.

But who would have thought that… the object of sympathy at the beginning would turn out to be a great and capable man from all over the country in the blink of an eye. No matter how he stood, sat, wrote, or worked on crops, everyone would be impressed by him. I feel like this guy has something to offer.

“If I had known it, I would have joined the army.”

“Yes, my joining the army will definitely be better than that of the third child.”

A group of cousins suddenly felt that the blood was welling up in their chests. If a person lives like the third child, he will die tomorrow. Better than what I am now.

Zhou Yi went in, but seemed to have no interest in getting married for the time being, and declined all the matchmakers’ good intentions. After that, the matchmakers had no choice but to prepare to leave angrily.

At this time, a brother from the Zhou family suddenly came out, stopped one of the matchmakers and said: “Then Widow Zheng… I think… I think… I think I might be quite suitable for her. I heard that she is in her late twenties. , I… I’m in my thirties, and I don’t have a wife…”

The matchmaker looked him up and down with a critical look, but his eyes were like wheat awns, especially sharp. They were originally because of being boring at Zhou Yi’s house. , his heart was on fire, so he sneered: “You take a pee and look at yourself, are you worthy? Get out of here, good dogs don’t block the way!”

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Uncles are reserved.

They were not like the juniors who ran to watch as soon as they heard the noise.

But what happened in the village fell under their eyes and ears.

They felt regretful that Zhou Yi had turned down so many good marriage offers, and on the other hand, they couldn’t help but feel filled with emotion.

But at this time, Zhou Yi came to the door and said: “There are a lot of bad lands in our village, and nothing can grow in these lands. We should grow some sweet potatoes. I have checked, and these lands are the most suitable for planting.” It’s a sweet potato, but there are many kinds of sweet potatoes. There are seven or eight kinds of sweet potatoes in Tuntianwei. I read the book carefully. Our soil quality… we need to go to Fucheng to buy a batch of sweet potato seedlings.”

“Grow sweet potatoes? “Zhou Kang looked at Zhou Yi, but frowned and said: “Sweet potatoes are also very good, but… they are not easy to store. Now everyone has rice to eat.”

Since Zhou Yi came here to talk about this, he had already thought about it carefully. Yes, he said: “Both potato leaves and sweet potatoes can be fed to pigs. You can eat them yourself or feed them to pigs. You can also buy some piglets. During the holidays, you can have a good year by killing them during festivals, and you can also refine oil. It can be made into cured meat.”

Zhou Kang’s eyes became brighter. He looked at Zhou Yi seriously and said without hesitation: “I don’t believe what others say, but I believe what you say. Let’s do it together. Collect the money, go and buy it, and don’t take down anyone in our village who is willing to raise it.”

Zhou Yi is always the busiest person in the village.

Even when it was threshing time, everyone liked to get closer to him and listen to him talk about military affairs.

After all, Zhou Yi had a wide range of knowledge. Even if he was not in the army, he was in the camp because there were people from all over the world. The customs and customs were different in each place. If he communicated with each other, he would know a lot.

There is a big lake in Jiangxi, called Poyang Lake. The lake is really like the sea, stretching as far as the eye can see. Crabs are born in it. After autumn, the belly of the crabs is full of fat.

There is Wannian County in Xi’an, which is full of loess, and the Yellow River flows from there.

For all these insights, for ordinary people who are only a few dozen miles away, this information is enough for them to listen with gusto.

In addition, they also know that there is indeed meat in the army, and there is a lot of it.

I also know… It turns out that beef tastes better than pork, more tender and refreshing.

Mutton is more mutton-y, but… if you use Sichuan peppercorns, garlic, and thirteen spices to cover up its mutton smell, it will be a delicacy in the world.

Everyone was drooling while listening, and suddenly felt that the white rice they were so proud of had become tasteless.

There are also drills, such as getting up early in the morning and marching for ten miles, or crossing a river, tying each other with ropes and swimming with planks.

There are also night classes in the military, and the teachers invited are all from Xishan Academy.

There is also Xishan Academy. Here, there are real hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Anyone who comes out may be smarter than the learned people in the city.

These countless messages crept into the minds of these strong men like crazy.

So much so that when people from neighboring villages finished their farm work, a large group of young men came running to look for Zhou Yi without caring about anything else. It seemed that by following Zhou Yi, they could become superior to others in all corners of the country.

Countless messages were passed down through word of mouth, and even the women in the boudoir knew about it.

This Zhou Yi is nothing more than a bomb dropped into this remote village.

Zhou Yi occasionally went to Fucheng and brought back many books, some from people who raised pigs and some who grew crops.

He is a knowledgeable person. If a person has knowledge, even if he is farming, he will not be limited to what his cousins are like. He will rely on the experience of his ancestors and live in confusion. Even if he is farming, it will be different from what others are farming. .

It won’t take long for people in the village to talk about what Zhou Yi said, how Zhou Yi said it, and whether Zhou Yi thinks it can be done.

Even if there is an occasional business trip to the countryside, the businessman is willing to go to Zhou Yi’s house.

After all… the official has seen the world, and he doesn’t want to waste time talking to a group of ignorant people when negotiating with villagers. Zhou Yi is different. He can understand what he says immediately, which saves a lot of effort.

Zhou Yi quickly understood many things about the government. Whenever people in the village wanted to go to the government to do something, he would often come forward, or if there was any information that would benefit farmers, he could also screen it. , Determine who among the people in the village can benefit.

For the isolated ordinary people, this is no longer just a matter of ability, but a real benefit.

The more this happened, the more people came to be a matchmaker, but…the widow and the ordinary yellow-haired girl disappeared. The family began to become more and more high-end, and even the daughter of the county clerk… was actually interested.

Secretary Liu of the county valued Zhou Yi very much. After meeting Zhou Yi several times, he nodded more and more in his heart and found someone to talk to Zhou Yi secretly.

Of course, the official is a person who wants to show his face, so he is not like ordinary people. He directly talks about marriage. At first, he just makes some insinuations. When he gradually develops an idea, he lets the matchmaker come to the door, and the matter is settled.

…

“What…Liu Sili!”

Zhou Yi’s uncle Zhou Kang’s gray beard began to tremble violently again, his lips trembled, and he looked surprised.

Secretary Liu was in charge of the households, and the entire county’s royal grain was in his hands. This was a man in the county who would stomp his feet and make the earth tremble.

Even though he is an official, for a commoner like Zhou Kang, this is his status, which is like the sky and the earth.

Several sons stood aside and started to gossip again.

(End of chapter)