Traveling through ancient times

Gu Dalian was a little confused, the person who came was actually an acquaintance!

"Uncle Ma, why are you here?"

Gu Dalian was a little surprised. After all, they had experienced the ups and downs together when they fled to Yingdang Mountain!

Ma Mingli held the bright yellow imperial edict in his hand, smiling as he looked at the noisy crowd at home:

"Miss Gu, there is something good going on in your family! But why is it so lively today? What is going on?"

"Uncle Ma, the potatoes have grown. I wanted to help the villagers make a living, but I had no place to store the potatoes. So I asked the village head and the villagers to help me dig a cellar. I will put the potatoes in the cellar first. They can be kept for several months!"

"Miss Gu is really an extraordinary person. She discovered sweet potatoes while fleeing famine and found a rich source of food for our Great Banyan Kingdom. Now she has found potatoes. You are the pride of our Great Banyan Kingdom!"

Ma Mingli admired from the bottom of his heart!

Ma Nanfeng and the others who followed behind couldn't help but give a thumbs up:

"Part of the sweet potatoes that were shipped out earlier were used to rescue the victims, and the rest were planted according to the method the girl wrote!"

"As a result, you later discovered potatoes, and Magistrate Wu ordered people to plant them in time, and they had a bumper harvest a few days ago!"

"Wu County Magistrate sent a pigeon to the capital to announce the good news. It happened to be the harvest of sweet potatoes. The emperor was overjoyed and issued an imperial decree to order the imperial envoy Ma Xun to come and announce the decree!"

Wu Shi had been here several times and was familiar with the place. He ordered the servants of the Xiao Gu family to quickly set up the incense table!

Ma Mingli straightened his expression, raised the imperial edict and said:

"Gu Dalian, a villager from Cuiyu Village, Shannan County, Hebei Province, received the order!"

Gu Dalian was dazed and was quietly reminded by Ma Nanfeng beside her. She knelt on the ground and lowered her head: "I, Gu Dalian, accept the order!"

Zhang Lizheng and all the villagers knelt down!

"By the providence of Heaven, the Emperor proclaims that Gu Dalian, a villager of Cuiyu Village, Shannan County, Hebei Prefecture, is as beautiful as an orchid, as talented as a fairy, and cares about the people. She discovered sweet potatoes and potatoes and presented them to the court to share the planting methods. I am very pleased. I commend her for her respectful virtue and grant her the title of Fourth Rank Country Lady. I will reward her with 100 pieces of silk and 1,000 taels of silver!"

Gu Dalian listened to a lot of eloquent words, but only heard the last part about a hundred pieces of silk and a hundred taels of silver. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart:

"Is the current emperor so poor? He sent someone so far to deliver his imperial decree, but he only gave such a small reward? Don't the county lords have so-called fiefs?"

But they shouted: "Long live the emperor!"

The villagers also kowtowed and shouted loudly: "Long live the emperor!"

Ma Mingli handed the imperial edict to Gu Dalian with both hands. Gu Dalian then stood up and welcomed Ma Mingli and others into Gu Wenzhi's yard!

Zhang Fa smiled and dismissed all the villagers, telling them to do what they were supposed to do and to help harvest potatoes in Xiao Gu's fields early tomorrow morning!

Here, Ma Mingli and his deputy envoy entered the living room and sat down. Little Gu Lun came back from school. Although he was small, he greeted everyone in a serious manner. The small boy sitting aside was so lovable!

"Gu boy, how are you doing with your studies now?"

Gu Lun had followed them on their escape from famine, so he was naturally familiar with Ma Mingli and the others. He smiled and said:

"The teacher praised me for my solid academic performance and said that he probably won't have anything to teach me in another year. Then my eldest sister will send me to Shannan Academy to study!"

Ma Mingli couldn't help but sigh: "Your little Gu family is really full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, each of them is extraordinary!"

Gu Dalian had already ordered people to serve Da Hong Pao to everyone. Pei and Tang were already preparing lunch, making sweet and sour fish, braised chicken, boiled pork slices, candied sweet potato, pine nut corn, braised four treasures, braised lion's head, spicy shrimp tails...

When the dishes were served, everyone couldn't help but exclaim: "These are the specialties of Kyoto Fuman Restaurant!"

The wine was a high-proof Fenjiu, and everyone was stunned: Is this small Gu family so arrogant?

After the banquet, Ma Mingli had something important to do, so he asked Gu Dalian for a moment before leaving:

"Miss Gu, this time the higher-ups only gave you silver. Although the rank of a county lord is not high, it's still good enough!"

"You need to continue to work hard and strive to become a county lord. This will also help your family maintain their reputation and prevent them from being bullied!"

"Don't worry, Uncle Ma. I am working hard to change the appearance of the village. Maybe the next time you come, our Cuiyu Village will be completely transformed and every family will live in a brick house!"

Ma Mingli praised her for her lofty ambitions, but did not take them to heart and said goodbye and left!

In fact, for Gu Dalian, the title of Lady of the Countryside was an unexpected surprise, and she had already put this matter behind her!

This time the reward fell on Gu Dalian, and it was decided by Wu Shi and Gu Wenzhi after discussion!

In Gu Wenzhi's opinion, he will take the imperial examinations step by step and become a support for his sisters in the future, provided that he can give them a decent identity and become their support in the future!

Gu Xiaolian is still young, and it won’t be too late to make plans for her in a few years, so the current honor will be borne by Gu Dalian!

Lady Gu has now been promoted to a certain rank. Zhang Fa feels honored that Cuiyu Village has produced a fourth-rank lady. He even went to the Zhang family ancestral hall, placed fruit offerings, burned incense, and talked to his ancestors!

Life was so busy these days that Gu Dalian placed the imperial edict in the living room and forgot about it!

Qi Xiao's internal injuries had long since recovered, and he was helping at home, gathering the potatoes in the fields and putting them in the cellar. Gu Dalian was not at home!

She was busy designing and building the Treasure House! Now, the thing she lacked the most was money, which meant she wanted to open the Treasure House as soon as possible!

After everything is done, after the New Year, the corn seeds in her space will be able to help everyone have another big harvest!

Through the cooperation with Fuman Restaurant, the company makes a lot of money from canned fruits alone, and with the share of the menu, a preliminary calculation shows that the company earns nearly 20,000 taels of income per month!

During this period, when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Gu Dalian would occasionally think of Luo Gouzi, and Luo Gouzi also wrote several letters expressing his safety, which were passed on by Wu Haosan!

Luo Feimo, who was far away in the frontier, had experienced dozens of battles, big and small, in the past month. Every time he returned to the camp after a battle, he would ask Hao Yi and Hao Er if they had any letters!

Disappointment after disappointment, resentment in my heart every time:

"You are such a heartless person. Is it so difficult to write a few words?"

Gu Dalian was very down-to-earth. The letters written by Luo Gouzi were like a running account. Occasionally, he would write about missing you, saying, "I miss you so much when the night is quiet!"

Look, silly boy, you wrote a letter to a girl, but you were thinking about many people, and you told her not to worry about you. If you don't want me to worry about you, then don't worry about you!

The wronged Luo Gouzi: I really dare not write too explicitly, for fear that your second brother will find out and come to the border to kill me! It is really immoral to lust after a virgin girl!

Gu Dalian hehe: Silly boy, although I am obsessed with looks, I am not stupid! After going through the ravages of wind and rain, I no longer believe in so-called love!

Luo Feimo: It seems that my road to love is long and arduous!

The days passed, and a month later, the Treasure House was finally completed with Master Liao leading a group of workers working overtime!