【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Besides, Magistrate Wang has already planted high-yield rice once, so he shouldn't wait until the harvest to give rewards. There won't be enough time to plant watermelons by then. Does this mean that this year's watermelons can only be eaten secretly?

Only with tangible rewards can she grow watermelons with peace of mind. Otherwise, if the watermelons are taken away by others, it would be a waste.

As the time for planting watermelons drew closer, Yun Xi became more and more anxious, and just when she was reaching her peak of anxiety.

On a sunny afternoon in mid-April, a large group of people drove in from the outside of Lijia Village. Some were in carriages and some were on horses. They went straight to Yun Xi's house and announced the decree according to the rules.

Yun Xi knelt down in a daze as she received the imperial edict, which gist was how outstanding and selfless she was, and how she had discovered high-yield grain and high-yield cotton seeds. She was commended for her contributions and was specially granted the title of a fourth-rank lady, enjoying a fourth-rank salary.

Fourth rank? This title is not bad. Although there is no real power, there is a salary and respect from others. With this title, no one in the prefecture dares to bully the Li family. At least the surface work must be done well, otherwise it will be a slap in the face of the emperor. The emperor is satisfied with her, so what do you want to do if you are not satisfied?

The prefect is only a fourth-rank official, so the emperor is not stingy.

After announcing the decree, those people conveyed the emperor's oral instructions to the head of the Li clan: The Li family is a family that accumulates good deeds and will surely have good fortune.

This sentence was an affirmation of the Li family. The head of the Li family felt a lump in his throat and knelt on the ground, shouting: Your Majesty is wise!

The people who announced the decree left ten boxes of rewards and quickly left. Yun Xi didn't even have the chance to give them some hard work money. She couldn't help but be a little stunned. Isn't that how it's played out on TV? You have to give people money.

System: "I'm in a hurry to go to Magistrate Wang's place for a feast, and I don't like your porridge and side dishes."

"Huh? That's quite good. I've prepared dozens of taels of reward silver, but I'm so sorry." Yun Xi giggled, a little delighted. "Madam Wang and Madam Bai, please help me move these ten boxes back home. And fellow villagers, this is a great occasion. Let's kill chickens and geese to celebrate tomorrow. Everyone remember to come and eat."

Li Meizi followed Yun Xi and nodded vigorously, yes, yes, this is a great thing.

The tribesmen cheered, while Clan Leader Li stared at the imperial edict in Yun Xi's hand.

Yun Xi understood what was going on. She unfolded the imperial edict, examined it carefully for a moment, and then handed it to Chief Li. "Chief, this imperial edict is the honor of our entire clan. Please enshrine it in the ancestral hall."

"Good! Well done to Sanniu's wife!"

Chief Li bared his teeth, solemnly took the imperial edict, and walked carefully towards the ancestral hall. The clan members looked at the boxes being moved into the house with envy, and followed the chief to the ancestral hall. They wanted to worship their ancestors and tell them the good news.

At this moment, Yun Xi's name was also spreading in the capital, but most people were envious and jealous. A peasant woman became a fourth-rank concubine by luck. Do you know that this simple fourth rank is a height that many officials' wives cannot reach.

"That's a fourth-rank lady. I'm so envious. I heard that His Majesty bestowed a lot of gold and silver treasures on her."

"Why haven't we come across this high-yield grain variety?"

"Yes, it would be great if it were us. Yun Xi is so lucky. She is a fourth-rank lady and receives the salary of a fourth-rank official every year."

"Wow, that's 24 dan of rice a month, 288 dan of rice a year!"

"And banknotes."

"Baochao is worthless now, how can it be as valuable as Lumi?"

……

In a slum area in the capital, Yun Wenjun, who was preparing for this year's scholar examination, was reading in the courtyard he rented. The courtyard was not big and not soundproof. Yun Chao didn't pay much attention to it until he heard the word "Yun Xi". His heart skipped a beat and he put his ears against the wall to listen to the conversation inside.

"That man's surname is Yun. Isn't the poor boy living in the east room also surnamed Yun?"

"Coincidence, right?"

"That's right. Lady Yun is from Rongcheng. It's definitely okay for that Yun kid to say he came from the west."

……

After hearing this, Yun Wenjun could no longer sit still. He waited anxiously until the evening and immediately wrote a letter to his sister, explaining his situation.

When his father fell ill, he spent all his savings but was unable to save his father. The money was gone and his father was gone. Yun Wenjun was desperate at that time.

Later, he found out that the imperial court was providing disaster relief and settling down for refugees, so he quickly settled down in Kyoto, copying and reading books. In the first year of Jianxing, he sold a treasured book to pay the registration fee to take the imperial examination. Unfortunately, he did not pass the examination to become a scholar. For this reason, he secretly went to famous academies during the day to eavesdrop and copied books at night. He had poor food and accommodation and was overworked, and was on the verge of despair.

Hearing the news from his sister at this time was his only lifeline.

Yun Xi, who was thousands of miles away, was unpacking boxes at this time. There were ten big boxes. The emperor was so generous. One box contained the court dress of the concubine and a set of matching jewelry, which were full of jewels and dazzling.

"That's the benefit of power."

Yun Xi smiled secretly and opened the other nine boxes one by one. There were ten boxes of five taels of gold, ten boxes of twenty taels of silver, a pair of jade ruyi, two sets of head ornaments, ten pieces of silk and satin, and the last box contained a ginseng of very good quality.

"Eighty-year-old ginseng can save lives at critical moments. This old emperor is really good." The system detected it immediately.

"Yeah, that's pretty generous. All the stuff adds up to at least two thousand taels." Yun Xi smiled foolishly as she touched the gold ingots. "And then there's the annual stipend of rice. One stone is one hundred catties. Now it's two dollars and a half per catty, so that's almost seventy-two thousand a year."

It's not like Jinzi hasn't seen it before. The system was speechless, "Stop laughing, go plant some watermelons quickly, or you'll miss the season."

"Yes, but unfortunately we can't find suitable sandy land. Let's plant it in the yard of the two houses next door."

There are not many watermelon seedlings, about 500 in total. Four people can finish planting them in one afternoon. If each plant produces one watermelon, that means 500 watermelons. How much can one watermelon be sold for?

The next day, Yun Xi kept her promise and killed the four geese and the last rooster in the family. She took out two baskets of eggs, used the ten grass carps saved at home, picked vegetables from the fields, and took the last dried bamboo shoots and mushrooms to the kitchen and gave them to Bai Niangzi.

Bai Niangzi and Wang Niangzi were the chefs, and the women of the tribe helped out. The men of the tribe brought tables and chairs and placed them in an orderly manner in front of Yun Xi's house. Fifteen tables were enough for seating.

After Yun Xi went outside to take a look, she asked Mei Zi to remember the gift list, while she gave fifty kilograms of bacon and a dozen bacon ribs to Madam Wang and asked her to add two more dishes.

No need to say anything, Bai Niangzi understood immediately, and the six dishes in her mind quickly became ten.

In the afternoon, the hungry tribesmen finally got their meals. The men sat at eight tables, and the women sat at seven tables, holding many children.

The clan is thriving.

The Li clan member proudly said, "Let's eat!"

"Wow! Dinner is ready!"