bestfiction Chapter 213 I Like to Listen to Gossip
Chapter 213 I Like to Listen to Gossip
When Erhuzi saw Aunt Zhang looking at him, he nodded respectfully and then quickly turned and left.
In fact, the reason why Erhuzi was so respectful to Aunt Zhang was because the ten kilograms of rice that the Huang family wanted were paid by Aunt Zhang on behalf of Erhuzi's family. Otherwise, how could he have afforded the rice with his family fortune so low that his house was washed away?
It turned out that after Aunt Zhang drove Huang Zhaodi away with a broom, she was still worried that she would come back to make trouble again and affect the marriage of Da Niu and Er Yue.
So he went to find Erhuzi, and when he learned that the Huang family wanted ten kilograms of rice, he was willing to marry Huang Zhaodi.
However, despite this, Erhuzi's family could not provide rice, and coupled with Huang Zhaodi's previous verbal abuse of him, Erhuzi and his parents did not intend to let Huang Zhaodi into their home.
At this time, Aunt Zhang offered to pay for the rice, but the only condition was that Huang Zhaodi was not allowed to make trouble in Zhushan Village again.
When Erhuzi's family heard this, they thought they would get a daughter-in-law for free without having to spend anything. All they had to do was take good care of her and not let her go to Zhushan Village. Naturally, they would not refuse her.
When Aunt Zhang saw Erhuzi walking away quickly, her cloudy eyes flashed. She turned around and saw her silly son quietly holding Eryue's hand, and a smile immediately appeared in her eyes again.
In fact, life in Zhushan Village is much better than that in other villages. Now every family has built adobe houses. Although the rice that was exchanged for mushrooms for Han Yiyi has been eaten up, at least every family has some money saved when selling peppers. They can buy some black flour and add some wild vegetables to it so that they won't starve to death.
In addition, looking at the green all over the sweet potato field, I thought that it would not be long before I could eat the sweet potatoes, and I felt hopeful. So, it would not be so difficult to weigh them in the next one or two months.
Ever since Emperor Beichen learned that those merchants were maliciously raising grain prices, he sent officials to investigate the matter.
Merchants who maliciously raised grain prices were severely punished and ordered to hand over large amounts of silver and money to fill the national treasury and help disaster victims rebuild their homes.
Afterwards, Emperor Beichen issued another order, requiring local officials to strengthen market supervision and crack down on malicious price hikes. At the same time, he also ordered the opening of granaries and the sale of grain at a fair price to ease the pressure on the people. It was because of this that grain prices were finally eased.
However, the flood was severe after all, and granaries in many places were flooded. Therefore, although grain prices were strictly controlled, we were faced with a situation where prices were low but there was no grain.
Faced with such a situation, Emperor Beichen had no choice but to grant tax exemptions to the people, hoping that this situation would be alleviated after the late rice harvest.
Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, Han Yiyi had been in Kyoto for almost two months.
But for Han Yiyi, these two months were like a year.
In the past, when I was in Zhushan Village, I could go to the back mountain to dig wild vegetables and pick mushrooms when I had nothing to do. If there was gossip in someone's house, I could chat about it with Aunt Zhang. But now, apart from eating, I sleep, and then I just daydream. Well, sometimes I even have to watch the two men bickering openly and secretly.
The two little ones were busy with their own studies and had no time to see me. In the past two months, the time I spent with the two little ones could be counted on one hand.
Coming in from outside the yard, Zicheng and Zihui couldn't help but look at each other when they saw Han Yiyiyi sitting on the swing in a daze again. Their eyes couldn't help but dimmed.
In fact, the two little guys naturally want to accompany Han Yiyi every day. As the young master and young lady of the general's mansion, they have so much to learn.
"Mother came to Kyoto for us, and she stayed in Kyoto because she was worried that we would be in danger. But I feel that mother is not happy here at all."
"Well, we have grown up now and don't need mother's protection anymore. Why don't we let mother go back to Zhushan Village? She will be happier with Grandma Zhang in Mali to chat with her. My great-grandfather said that if I study hard and become the top scholar in the future, mother will be very happy too. So when we have learned everything the teacher asked us to learn, we will go back to Zhushan Village together to accompany mother..."
Han Yiyi had no idea that these two little adults were planning to send her back to Zhushan Village. When she looked up and saw the two people coming in from outside the yard, her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Zicheng, Zihui, you are here. Come quickly and let me see if you have gained some weight. What do you want to eat? I will make it for you!"
"Mom, please go back to Zhushan Village..."
"Yes, mom, we feel that you are not happy here at all, and we don't want you to be unhappy!"
When he saw the two children, Han Yiyi hurried forward, took them in his arms, and asked them about their well-being.
She also knew that as children of the general's mansion, they had heavy academic workload, so she would not take the initiative to look for them. Just as she was about to get up to cook for them, she heard what the two little guys said, and Han Yiyi couldn't help but be stunned.
Of course, she came to Kyoto mainly because of her two children, and she also promised them that she would always be with them in the future. However, she really didn't like life in Kyoto, so she was a little depressed at ordinary times.
However, in order to prevent the two children from noticing anything, she would hide her emotions every time the two children came. However, she did not expect that the two children would be so thoughtful and would even ask her to go back to Zhushan Village.
Han Yiyi was very touched when she heard what the two children said, but she deliberately pouted her lips and said this.
"What's the matter? You two little guys have grown up and don't want your mother to accompany you anymore?"
"Of course not. We really want our mother to be with us all the time, but we want her to be happy every day even more."
"Yeah, we really want mom to be with us all the time. Our great-grandfather said that we have to learn a lot of things so that we can become as powerful as mom and dad when we grow up. We also want to be as powerful as mom and dad. Mom can save people and dad can beat up bad guys. We have a lot of things to learn, so we don't have time to accompany mom!"
"Yes, when mom is in Zhushan Village, she can chat with Grandma Zhang. She is happiest when she chats with Grandma Zhang. We want mom to be happy every day. When I pass the imperial examination and become the top scorer, we will go to accompany mom. Then, we will never be separated!"
Yun Xiao, who was standing aside, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when hearing what the two little guys said. He thought, see, even these two little guys know that their mother likes to listen to gossip, and is happiest when listening to gossip.