"But...but..." Xiui struggled, "I don't match his status. He is a general now, and I am just a little maid. How can I marry him? He wants to be matched with those ladies and gentlen. yes!"
"You are not allowed to say that you are just a little maid. I have never thought that you are just a maid. I don't think Brother Xiaoyong and my godfather and godmother would think so either." Wei Ruodao.
After Xiui thought seriously for a while, she seed to have finally figured it out. She raised her head and said to Wei Ruo solemnly: "Miss, I won't get married until you are officially married, so no matter how young you are, I dont even consider whether its Brother Yong or Xiaobei.
"ii, your life is yours, and you can't be tied to for no reason." Wei Ruo said seriously.
"No, from the day I served the lady, my life has been closely connected with the lady. When the lady lives, I live; when the lady is happy, I am happy too. I am what I am now because of you, lady. Therefore, I have to follow you when it cos to getting married. I have never heard of anyone who married a maid first before the young lady got married."
"But your lady and I have already gotten married. I got married in a serious manner with three instructions and six etiquettes, eight carriages of a sedan chair."
"That doesn't count. The prince is your brother, not your husband."
ii!
"Miss, you said it yourself. I have made the decision on my marriage. Now I have made the decision." Xiui said.
Why are you so sharp-tongued now?
I learned it all from you, miss.
"Hey." Wei Ruo sighed helplessly and thought to himself, if Brother Xiao Yong knew that ii might not consider her marriage because she was thinking about her, I wonder if he would bla her.
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In the afternoon, Wei Ruo still sent the selected portraits to Xu Zhengyong as planned. Xu Zhengyong pretended to look at them, then said that he didn't like them, and asked Wei Ruo to choose again. He preferred the more heroic ones. A woman, lively yet dignified.
When the servant passed the ssage to Wei Ruo, Wei Ruo humd in his heart: You might as well just say that you want ii!
But Wei Ruo still asked the matchmaker to ask for more portraits of won.
When it was ti for dinner, Xiui cooked a table of delicious dishes. Wei Ruo asked people to move the table to the yard, then went to the next door to call Wei Jinyi and Xiaobei over. In addition, during this period, he had been helping Wei Ruo in Prince Rui's Mansion. Uncle Xu and Mother Xu were busy, a total of seven people.
There was no concern about superiority or inferiority, and there was no defense between n and won. We all sat together and had a lively al. The food cooked by Xiui was unanimously praised by everyone. It was the most delicious thing in the world.
After dinner, Xu Zhengyong set off again.
He only has one day's rest, and he will appear in the military camp early tomorrow morning.
Wei Ruo said goodbye to Xu Zhengyong at the door and warned: "Be careful on the road."
Xiui followed Wei Ruo's instructions and handed so packed things to Xu Zhengyong.
Xu Zhengyong took the baggage and said, "Thank you ii. I will definitely cherish what you gave ."
"This is what the lady gave and it has nothing to do with !" Xiui quickly clarified the relationship.
"it's the sa."
"It's different! Miss cares about you, but I don't care about you!" Xiui said angrily.
"It's useless if you don't admit it. I know you care about ." Xu Zhengyong said firmly.
You are shaless. Xiui looked disgusted.
Hehe. Xu Zhengyong smiled.
Wei Ruo watched from the side and thought, no matter what, the two people's habit of bickering has not changed.
"Let's go quickly. It's getting late, and the journey is long. If we don't set off, we won't be able to reach the military camp at dawn." Xiui urged. "Okay." Xu Zhengyong shouldered the burden and got on his horse.
After Xu Zhengyong left, Xiui said with so distress: "I have spent most of the day on the road. It's such a hard work. Miss, please tell him not to co back next ti.
"I can't be the master of this matter. It's not necessarily my sister that he wants to see when he's running back and forth like this." Wei Ruodao.
"Miss, don't tease about that again." Xiui stamped her foot.
Okay, okay.
The two returned to Songzhuyuan talking and laughing.
At this mont, Wei Ruo did not realize that this farewell eting with Xu Zhengyong was actually like that.
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In the following days, Wei Ruo was still busy planting potatoes. Prince Rui's Mansion had a lot of land in Jiliao, and planting it all would require a lot of labor.
In addition to the people Wei Ruo brought himself, Wei Ruo also needed to hire many people.
For this reason, Wei Ruo cooperated with the local governnt to hire and resettle the refugees near Jiliao City.
Wei Ruo has resources and planting technology, and Wei Jin also has power, status and manpower.
When all conditions were t, things went very smoothly.
In his spare ti, Wei Ruo also drew a city planning map.
Today's Jiliao City is incomparable not only to the capital city, but also to Xingshan County.
Except for Prince Rui's Mansion and the Magistrate's Office, there are only two decent buildings in the city, and there are only a few scattered houses of three or five families that are pretty good.
There are very few shops on the street. There are only three shops: a tailor shop, a blacksmith shop, and a tofu shop.
The so-called city does not have decent city walls. When you go out from Prince Rui's Mansion, you can cross two streets and reach the fields and mountains.
What Wei Ruo wanted was not just to build a city, but to repeat his old tricks and use work as a relief.
She provided grain as paynt and hired surplus labor to build the city, providing them with a source of inco.
The ownership of the completed houses belongs to her. When Jiliao City develops in the future, she can rent out these buildings to obtain inco.
Of course, this is a long-term plan.
It is unrealistic to develop a lively city in the short term. People need to have enough food and clothing first, and the population will grow. Then it is possible to develop trade and create a city.
The basis of all comrcial activities is sufficient productivity. When everyone does not have enough to eat and what is produced is not enough for their own use, there will naturally be no trade.
But she is not in a hurry to get imdiate returns, she is willing to make such a long-term investnt.
In this plan, Wei Ruo put road construction first. Wei Ruo drew several north-south and east-west avenues on the drawings, and among these avenues, the highest priority was the horizontal and vertical ones in front of Prince Rui's Mansion. The two main roads, after repair, will facilitate the subsequent transportation of materials for Wei Ruo himself and other people.
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Ti has co to April in the lunar calendar, and the weather has beco noticeably warr.
On the fifth day of April, Wei Ruo went out as usual, but saw Xiui running over in a hurry.
"Miss, miss..." Xiui's face turned pale and she looked very panicked.
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