Chapter 201

Bai Yun's affair is over, and no Iceman will dare to propose marriage to ah Yao in a short time.

The Iceman couldn't come to the door to ask for a marriage. The scholar's future was ruined in half. Just because a Yao didn't want to agree to marry, which family dared to come to the door to ask for a marriage. This girl is not easy to provoke. She has a strong personality. If she marries home, wouldn't it be disturbing for her family?

A Yao could not wait for them to spread their love. He didn't have to open the door and hear the Iceman say, "girl, I think you're close to a good thing."

The store was open as usual, but the number of customers began to plunge. It was only three or four days from customers to kittens, and then to sparrows. All this was just because the weather was getting hotter and hotter.

The shop that specializes in women's business diagonally opposite is left out in front of the door. Girls in ordinary families don't like to come to the street. The ice vendor bravely crosses the streets. How hot it is, his business is booming. Finally, he rushes into sun Niang's foot shop and orders a bowl of Osmanthus mume soup. He adds crushed ice to relieve the summer heat. It's still not enough to quench his thirst. Another bowl of Houttuynia pear soup, Well, it's much more comfortable now.

"The thief, God, it rained and began to be a demon again. The weather was not so abnormal in previous years. "

The ice vendor gululu drank two bowls of soup and felt that the whole person had finally come to life. "Your plum soup smelled sour and salivated. After drinking it, I felt it couldn't work. I needed something to quench my thirst. This Houttuynia Sydney is really good and sweet. After drinking it, I can eat two pears and another bowl."

"Another bowl is OK, but don't add ice this time. You drink two bowls of different drinks and add ice. Be careful to make your stomach. Your family is reliable to you." Song Fang cleaned up his bowl and said that the ice vendor was also an old customer of his store. After selling the ice, he came to rest, spent a few copper coins to buy a bowl or two of tea, mixed with a little broken ice water.

"I know." The vendor said, "I want a bowl of hot this time?"

Sun Niang interrupted: "don't be cold and hot. It's not the idea to help the doctor in business. Yao Zhu certainly doesn't agree. It's not easy for anyone in this hot day. You can spare the doctor."

The peddler said yes, and suddenly thought of something: "when I passed the moat, I saw that there was less water. It is said that the farmland outside the city was cracked, and I saw this year's harvest..." the peddler shook his head and spit out a word: "hanging."

Sun Niang frowned, "seriously?"

"What are you doing? If you don't believe it, go to the rice shop to find out if the grain price is more than ten dollars higher than before." The vendor said, "I thought that the rain slowed down the drought. I didn't expect that it was just a small surprise. After the charity, the drought followed, and the price of rice would rise. As they said... I'm afraid it's going to be hard this year."

The drought is a matter of people's livelihood and people's concern. How can it not be mentioned above the temple? What makes the officials of the Si Nong Temple more headache is that if the weather continues for a long time, there may be a locust disaster if the harvest is not said.

The grasshoppers spread all over the world, symbolizing the king's loss of virtue.

The officials of the heavenly warden of Lingtai are also worried. Various astronomical signs have shown that this year is likely to be a dry year. The friendly little partner of the next door Si Nong Temple sent them a letter saying that there are signs of locust disaster in many places. Anyway, they must make up for it and minimize the loss, otherwise they will be even worse when the holy sin has been ordered.

Although the officials of Si Nong temple and Si Tianjian are all technical officials, they may not be as good as the officials of the three provinces and six departments in terms of strategy and governance, and their official rank is also lower than them. They conform to the time of heaven, compile the lunar calendar and study the data left by the previous dynasties and former Si Nong officials. There are always a few people who find one thing by looking at the past dynasties——

History has taught us that severe and minor droughts have been plagued by locusts one after another, resulting in a decline in population and the decline of government. In serious cases, they have led to uprising or invasion by foreign enemies and the change of dynasties. The crux lies in the loss of crops.

Food is enough, the world is rich, the people are safe and the country is peaceful, and unrest starts from famine. If you can't meet even the most basic desire for satiety, it's just a matter of shouting. The land is vast, and there are so many people who covet it. As long as they can make the people eat enough, how can they care who sits on the Dragon chair. From another angle, there is no food to fill the stomachs of the soldiers. What do they take to fight and what do they take to defend the city.

At present, the water level of many rivers is falling. It is necessary to choose places to drill deep wells and use the water source of underground rivers. The government ensures the people's daily drinking water. The people also need to abandon wheat and rice and plant beans. Compared with rice and wheat, beans need less water. It is said that locusts don't like to harm beans.

They put forward opinions such as digging deep wells, but the Ministry of household has opinions. They stretch out two fingers, one meaning, no money.

The reason is very simple. Last year's harvest was good. It can't be considered a dry year because there was no rain after the Dragon Boat Festival this year. There was no rain in the capital not long ago. Bless our Dynasty and wait a while.

After a while, locusts will be ripe in the field. You will soon see locusts flying all over the sky. For the sake of people's livelihood, we must take precautions. Si Nong Temple officials couldn't help but get rid of the household department.

Si Tianjian and Si Nong Temple held the same position. The three parties were locked in a tight fight at the court meeting, and then... Postpone the discussion.

The superintendent of heaven was ordered to continue to measure the weather to see when it would rain.

It didn't rain. Several court meetings in the temple were still a quarrel between the Si Nong temple and the Ministry of household. There was no final conclusion, while a rumor quietly arose in the suburbs and other places.

In the twinkling of an eye, in late August, a Yao received a list.

When she arrived, she knew that she was not the only one invited by the family.

The maid led her to the kitchen. The cooks and their assistants glanced at her, looked at her from head to tail, flashed insight in their eyes, hummed and laughed at the corners of their mouths, and bowed their heads to work.

"There are two banquets in the house today. They want to have those two banquets." The maid said, carefully avoiding them and leading ah Yao to the unoccupied stove in the deepest part of the kitchen, "this is where you work, girl. Please forgive me for the limited number of stoves." She drew a palm sized place, only a pot and a steamer.

When she received the order, the host didn't ask for anything. When she came here, she saw the stove and found that there seemed to be no materials? Asked the maid, "what are the ingredients and the dishes the host likes? Are there any taboos?"

The maid said, "the ingredients are here, and there is no need for the girl to prepare too complex food. Six girls like light food. You can just make some soup and porridge."

"Ah? Not a banquet? "

A Yao looked along the maid's fingers and was immediately silent. Then she listened to her tone. It seemed that she was specially preparing dishes for six girls and was not responsible for several dishes in the two banquets like other cooks.

"It's a small banquet. The six girls are going to ask her handkerchief to admire flowers and recite poetry." The maid said, "this small door is the lotus pond. If the girl needs any food, please move to the lotus pond. I have something important to do first. "

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The ingredients are a pile of lotus, chrysanthemum and jasmine. Do you make soup, porridge and handkerchief? Dinner?

No, why does she feel so unreliable?