Traveling through ancient times, the spy princess had everything going smoothly

Several people divided the work and prepared the ingredients. Chu Qinghe took the opportunity to smuggle a few fish from the space while picking fish from the fish tank. He picked two black fish and thick fish weighing eight or nine pounds each. He quickly processed several fish, classified them and marinated them, then chopped the boneless fish meat into a paste, added green onion, ginger, chicken essence, and eggs to stir it into a sticky paste, and then he flipped his hands to squeeze out white jade balls, put them into the pot of boiling water, waited for the balls to float up, and then took them out and put them in a basin for later use.

The guys who followed Chu Qinghe to cook were all amazed at her cooking skills.

During the whole morning, some were cooking, some were grilling, some were frying, some were steaming, some were boiling and some were stir-frying. Under the temptation of delicious food, everyone could hardly resist and started eating. Finally, when they could no longer bear it, twenty-eight dishes in five servings were served on the table.

Knowing that Baili Ye was coming today, Chu Qinghe opened a separate table for him to sit, and the head of the village, the head of the village, his parents, his fourth uncle, and his younger brother and sister-in-law were there to accompany him.

When everyone was about to sit down to eat, several carriages arrived at the door, stopped, and several people got out. Chu Qinghe knew Baili Ye. The person who got out of the second carriage was Cui Linglong. The people who got out of the third carriage were a boy, a girl and a child. Seeing the child, Chu Qinghe guessed that this was the child who was saved by the Heimlich maneuver in the town some time ago.

The last time I went to deliver the goods, I mentioned to Cui Linglong about building a new house. I didn’t expect that she would be able to come today. It seems that she regards me, her partner, as a friend.

Baili Ye stepped forward and bowed to the old couple Chu:

"Bai Ye greets Uncle Chu and Aunt Chu. Today I come to congratulate you on the grand opening of the new building." Chu Qinghe handed over the gift, took it and thanked with a smile.

At this time Qing Yue and Qing Li ran up and pulled Baili Ye to call him brother-in-law. Baili Ye's originally gentle face was filled with a bright smile. Who could understand the joy of being called brother-in-law?

He took out two jade pendants from his sleeve and gave one to Qingli and Qingyue respectively, which made them very happy.

After they finished talking, Cui Linglong came forward with the gift and greeted the Chu Laoer and his wife: "Junior Cui Linglong and Qinghe are good sisters. I am honored to meet you, uncle and aunt. Please accept this small gift."

Qin hurried forward and looked at Cui Linglong. She was gentle and generous, with an extraordinary temperament. She was a good girl. "It's great that you can come. I'm asking you to spend money. Come in quickly. The banquet will start soon."

As he said that, he pulled Cui Linglong into the yard. Cui Linglong and Qinghe nodded and followed Qin into the yard and sat down.

After they went in, only the third carriage was left. When Chu Qinghe was hesitating about how to go over to say hello, the child in the lady's arms struggled to come over to Chu Qinghe, calling "sister, sister". Chu Qinghe's heart melted when she saw the behavior of the human cub.

Chu Qinghe hurried forward and hugged the child. Perhaps it was the fate of saving her life that made the child remember Chu Qinghe deeply. The child did not feel strange at all. When he was in her arms, he hugged Chu Qinghe's neck tightly and rubbed his head on Chu Qinghe's shoulder.

Baili Ye felt very uncomfortable, as if his cabbage was being taken away, even though it was a "little suckling pig".

Fortunately, this feeling was quickly interrupted. The child's parents came forward and knelt down in front of Chu Qinghe. Chu Qinghe was dumbfounded while holding the child. She just saved the child, why did they kneel down again?

"I am Pang Ziqian, thank you for saving my son's life. Saving his life is like giving him a new life. Please accept my husband and I's greetings." As he said this, he kowtowed to Chu Qinghe.

Chu Qinghe quickly dodged, put the child down and went to help the two of them up.

The two stood up, and the woman took Chu Qinghe's hand and said apologetically: "I should have come to thank you earlier, but my husband was busy with official duties and the old man at home was not feeling well, so I had to wait until today to come. Please forgive me."

"Sister, don't say that. I just happened to see it and I know how to handle it. It's a small matter, don't worry about it."

"I hope you don't blame me. This is a gift for you. It's just a small token of my appreciation. Please accept it." He put the gift in Chu Qinghe's hand.

Chu Qinghe took the gift and knew the contents were of great value as soon as she looked at the box.

"Thank you, big sister. Don't call me benefactor anymore. Just call me Qinghe." Chu Qinghe felt quite embarrassed to be called benefactor.

"Okay, okay, Qinghe, my name is Huang Yuting. I'm a few years older than you, so you can call me Sister Yuting!"

"Okay, Sister Yuting, brother-in-law, let's go into the house!" Chu Qinghe pulled Huang Yuting and greeted Pang Ziqian.

Baili Ye didn't need any invitation and pushed Chu Lao Er into the yard. He didn't feel strange at all, as if he was very familiar with the place.

Everyone went into the house and took their seats, and everyone turned their eyes to the food on the table again. They usually ate coarse bran and wild vegetables. The people who built the house recently worked for Chu Laoer's family and were able to eat meat every day. They never ate it at other times, and only during the Chinese New Year could they eat some meat. They didn't expect to eat such a sumptuous meal today. Everyone sighed in their hearts that even the emperor might not be able to eat so well. It was so tempting that they were drooling just by smelling it.

Seeing everyone sitting down, Chu Lao Er coughed twice and said to everyone, "Thank you all for coming to the beam raising banquet today. All of you here are the villagers who have taken good care of me, Chu Chuanfu, and the brothers and sisters who helped my family build the house. I also want to thank the head of the village and the head of the village for helping with the internal and external affairs recently. We have a distinguished guest at home today, and I hope you will bear with me if I fail to entertain him well."

As he spoke, Chu Lao Er picked up his wine glass and stood up, "I'll drink this glass, everyone enjoy your meal."

"Okay, okay, don't worry, second brother, we won't be polite with such a good meal!"

"Yes, I have never eaten such delicious food."

"Don't worry, we'll give you plenty of food."

Everyone was talking at once, and suddenly a voice rang out again: "Brother, stop standing, sit down and eat. We will feel embarrassed if you don't sit down!"

After the words fell, everyone looked at Chu Lao Er strangely.

Why is my second brother talking while standing?

How can the second brother talk while standing?

Everyone had the same idea: Chu Lao Er was standing while speaking. Was his leg healed?

The head of the village and the village chief also reacted.

"Second brother, you can stand now. Is your leg okay?"

The village head asked first.

Chu Lao Er said to the head of the village happily: "Uncle head of the village, my legs can stand now. Qinghe said that I will be able to walk normally after a while. Now I can stand and take a few steps with the help of something."

The village head's eyes turned red: "Okay, okay, you'll be able to stand soon. Sit down quickly and take your time."

"Hey."

The head of the village said to everyone, "Today, Lao Er's family has a double celebration. Let's sit down and eat!"

After the head of the village finished speaking, everyone started to work.

After a hearty meal, there was not even any soup left on the table. Everyone burped and touched their bulging stomachs. No one laughed at anyone else because everyone knew that they had never eaten so much meat, let alone such delicious dishes.

Even people like Pang Ziqian, Huang Yuting and Baili Ye, who have seen the world and tasted all kinds of delicacies, couldn't help but eat too much.

Chu Qinghe was happy to see that all the food was gone. It seemed that delicious food was worth enjoying no matter where it was.

After dinner, everyone tidied up and came to the new house, because they had chosen the time in advance to put up the beams in the afternoon, so that the family would have pillars and be rich and healthy.

All matters related to raising the beam have been prepared, and we just need to wait for Chu Lao Er to hang the prepared red cloth on the beam before we can start raising the beam.

As Chu Laoer finished hanging red on the beam, the house-building masters proceeded in an orderly manner according to the custom. After saying a bunch of auspicious words and blessings, the beam-raising ceremony was coming to an end. Finally, the village head, who was highly respected, threw the beam, and everyone received the wealth. The beam-raising master said auspicious words, and the beam-raising ceremony ended.

The house will be completed in two days after the beam is put up. All that remains is to paint and plaster the walls and deal with the internal facilities of the house. In about ten days, Chu Qinghe will be able to move into his new house.

In the afternoon, everyone was busy with their own things. The second and third Chu brothers, the fourth Chu brother, the head of the village, the village chief, Baili Ye, Cui Linglong, Pang Ziqian and his wife, and Chu Qinghe returned to the old house together.

Chu Qinghe brought a pot of water to the table and poured tea for everyone. Everyone drank without hesitation. Chu Qinghe watched everyone drink without being asked, and felt a little puzzled. Shouldn't tea be tasted slowly? Others, we are all villagers, used to drinking like a cow, what's wrong with Cui Linglong, Pang Ziqian and his wife, and Baili Ye?

What she didn't know was that after being conquered by the food on Chu Qinghe's table, the people who came today had already formed a conclusion: the flies and mosquitoes made by Chu Qinghe's family were probably delicious, so when the tea was served, everyone couldn't wait to drink it.

Indeed, they were not wrong. What Chu Qinghe gave them to drink was the tea from the system, because when she first arrived, she saw a kind of tea. After going through several processes and fermenting for forty-nine days, it was made into black tea containing the Queen of the Night. This kind of tea has a sweet aftertaste, soft and fragrant taste, and can remove greasiness. At the same time, it can penetrate into the cells of the body and help expel impurities from the body. The most important thing is that it can regulate the body without adding space spiritual spring water.

When Chu Qinghe saw it, he picked it and took it back to make black tea. It is still in the fermentation stage, so he brewed it in advance today.

The villagers don't drink tea. It is a luxury for them to have some sugar water, let alone tea.

But Baili Ye and his friends drink tea. Not to mention the ordinary tea that the royal family drinks, even the taste of the top-grade tea is not even one-tenth of the taste of Chu Qinghe's tea.

Pang Ziqian and the others were also shocked by Chu Qinghe's tea-making skills. The tea-making technology in Dasheng has only been around for more than a decade. Before, they thought the tea tasted fragrant and enjoyed it very much. But after drinking the Chu family's tea today, they realized how big the gap was.

Thinking about the price of tea, if the tea planting and tea making technology can be promoted in Tailai County, not only can people have tea to drink, but this technology can also be used to increase people's income and improve their lives. Pang Ziqian looked at Chu Qinghe with a fiery look in his eyes.

"Sister, your tea is so delicious, even better than the best tea in Dasheng. If you sell it, you can get hundreds of taels of silver for a pound of tea."

Chu Qinghe's eyes lit up. If it was so expensive, would that mean she could have another way to make a fortune? Haha, she smiled in her heart.

Just as he was about to speak, he heard the sound of gongs and drums outside, which seemed to be getting closer and closer. Sure enough, he saw several people who looked like officials coming to Chu Qinghe's house.

There was a group of people following behind him to watch the fun.

Several people came to the courtyard and bowed to Pang Ziqian, "Your subordinates greet the county magistrate."

Everyone just realized that there was an official among the people who came today. These people had never dealt with government officials before, and they would tremble at the mere mention of the word "yamen". Now that they knew the person in front of them was the county magistrate, they could not stand still and fell to their knees on the ground and kowtowed.

Pang Ziqian saw that the head of the village, the village chief, and the Chu family were also about to kneel down, so he quickly stopped them and said, "Don't be so polite. I came to Shangao Village today because Miss Chu saved my son's life and I came to thank her. Secondly, I am here on behalf of the government."

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, he continued, "Some time ago, the blacksmith in Qinghe Town registered an iron farm tool with the government. I think this farm tool will be very useful after it is made. It can help people work, reduce their burden, and open up more land for farming. So I urgently reported it to the court, and the emperor ordered the requisition of farm tools. This is the second purpose of my coming here today. The Tailai County government will reward Miss Chu with one thousand taels of silver as the requisition fee. The court will also have a formal official announcement later. This is the third good news today. Congratulations to Uncle Chu, Aunt Chu, and Miss Chu."

When everyone heard this, the villagers who had been reclaiming wasteland in the Chu family in the past few days came back and said that He Yatou had made a farm tool called a plow, which was put on an ox and could plow several acres of land a day. It was much faster than manual plowing, and the land plowed was deep and flat, and everyone praised it.

Everyone wanted to help He Yatou clear the wasteland, and then borrow it to plant a few acres of land. Unexpectedly, the plows and harrows were requisitioned so quickly, so the village could make more plows and harrows in the future.

Everyone knew that this was something that would be of great benefit to them, and they sincerely thanked He Yatou for making such good farm tools, and they also congratulated Chu Laoer and his family.

After the excitement, no one dared to stay in Chu Laoer's house for too long. After all, the county magistrate was staying here, so everyone left one after another, and for a while only a few people were left at the main table.

Pang Ziqian looked at the head of the village and the village chief and said, "Shangao Village is the first village in Dasheng to use the plow. The head of the village and the village chief should set a good example and lead the villagers to reclaim more land and cultivate more land. When more land is reclaimed in the future, I will apply to the court to reduce the taxes for the first three years." After saying that, he glanced at Baili Ye, who had been silent at the table.

This guy, the dignified God of War Prince, was reported missing some time ago and his whereabouts were unknown. Some people even said that he had died on the way back to Beijing. I sent people to track him down and found out that he disappeared in Tailai County. My people were looking for him intensively, but he was hiding in Qinghe Town and even made the decision to get engaged without authorization. It seems that this prospective son-in-law is doing a good job and is very adaptable.

He finally felt relieved. That's what he said. How could a dignified war god give up so easily?

Since the God of War Prince is here, reducing taxes is just a matter of his words and it’s a done deal.

When the head of the village and the villagers heard that they could reduce taxes, they were very excited and quickly stood up to express their opinions, "Please rest assured, magistrate, we will definitely lead the villagers to open up more wasteland and grow more food."

In recent years, people have had a hard time. Reclaiming wasteland is very tiring, and they can’t even pay the taxes in the past few years, so no one dares to do it. Now that the county magistrate has spoken, what else do they have to worry about? They will do it to death, as long as they don’t die.

The head of the village and the village chief were so excited that they couldn't wait to gather the villagers to publicize this matter. They couldn't wait to sit still.

Before I could say goodbye, Pang Ziqian's words came over, "You two can go back first if you have nothing else to do. I still have something to discuss with Miss Chu."

The two men felt as if they had been granted amnesty. They quickly stood up, said goodbye, and left in a hurry.

After the two of them left, Pang Ziqian looked at Chu Qinghe and said, "Miss Chu, I have something to discuss with you. Is that okay?"

"Just say it." Chu Qinghe knew from the time they were drinking tea just now that this county magistrate did things in an orderly and methodical manner and was also very smart.

The best way to talk to an intelligent person is to get straight to the point.

"Miss Chu, I just drank the tea you made. It was smooth, sweet, and mellow. I am ashamed to say that since I became the county magistrate, I have always wanted to improve the lives of the people in this county, but my ability is limited and I have not been able to improve them. Today, I dare to ask you to open a tea workshop using the tea-making technology. I can guarantee the sales of the tea you make, and the government will split the profits with you 70% and 30%. Do you think it is feasible?"

After saying this, Pang Ziqian felt a little ashamed. Her fiancé was the prince. If Miss Chu didn't cooperate with him, the tea she made would not have to worry about sales. His promise was worthless, but who asked the emperor to send him here? If he didn't do something, wouldn't it be a waste of time? Besides, this was also done for his Baili family, so he didn't feel guilty.

Chu Qinghe was so happy. He had just been planning to start making tea in the future. Now, someone was handing him a pillow when he felt sleepy!

"Okay, since the county magistrate has said so, of course I am willing. It will be easier for me if the government takes care of it. But when I become bigger, can I apply to become an imperial merchant or something? This will make it easier for me to do business in the future."

As soon as Chu Qinghe said this, Baili Ye's eyes lit up and he looked at Chu Qinghe with a smile. His little girl was indeed smart and knew how to make use of the power of the royal family.

Pang Ziqian couldn't bear to watch. No wonder even the God of War fell for her. This girl is indeed extraordinary.

"Qinghe, you don't have to be polite to me. We will deal with each other in the future, both in public and in private. You can still call me brother-in-law like before!"

After saying this, he was overjoyed. He became his brother-in-law, and the God of War Prince was his brother-in-law, hahahaha.

Baili Ye guessed what he was thinking and gave him a cold look, thinking this was a childish thing.

Pang Ziqian completely ignored it and pretended not to see it.

After things were settled, Pang Ziqian was about to get up and say goodbye. Before leaving, he said to Baili Ye, "Mr. Bai, we feel like we've known each other for a long time. Can I have a conversation with you alone?"

Baili Ye didn't hesitate and agreed: "Okay."

The two men walked out.