Amid the eyes and smiles that everyone understood, Gu Yunniang's face was red, and she followed Huang Laifu and Yang Butler to leave the thousand-household house. Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu hurriedly led their horses out.

Gu Yunniang also had a little red horse. When she came to Wuzhai Fort with Gu Qianhu, she rode a horse like everyone else. During the Ming Dynasty, women were capable and used mostly vehicles such as chariots and bridges. In the cold weather, they usually used warm sedan chairs, even some women from military generals were no exception.

Gu Yunniang rode a horse with everyone, obviously among the women at this time, she looked quite unique. She looked like a good baby in front of the masters in the hall. After leaving the Qianhu House, she found her true form.

She looked at Huang Laifu with pretty eyes, with a smile on her face, and said to Huang Laifu in a delicate voice: "Hey, Huang Laifu, are you really going to go to the farm to check? You can't use this name to go where to play, right? I just remember you can play with guns and sticks, when did you do serious business? Tell me, wherever you want to play, I'm bored, so let's go together."

If it were normal for her to say this, Huang Laifu had already run to her dryly, and tried his best to please her and explain it, and would not care about the sarcasm in her tone. When the two were together in the past, Gu Yunniang always said that Huang Laifu was a rough man, vulgar and unknown, and was even more dissatisfied with Huang Laifu's frequent oppression of the military families in Wuzhai Fort. This is also the result of reading too much idle books.

But at this time, Huang Laifu just smiled slightly and said, "Of course I have to go to the military farm to check it out, otherwise do you think I have nothing to do, so you can go out of the fort to have a breath?"

He turned over the horse and said to Gu Yunniang: "In such weather, you should accompany my mother and sisters to talk in the house with fire and run around, what will happen?" As he said that, he was about to ride his horse and get up.

Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, so they quickly turned over. Both of them knew that the young lady of the Gu family was not a good person to meet. They annoyed her and they couldn't afford to take care of her, so they had to hold back their laughter and turn their eyes elsewhere. At the same time, they were surprised that the young master in front of the young lady of the Gu family was not like this. They felt uncomfortable when they looked trembling. Could it be that they had changed when they went out?

Butler Yang also rode on a horse. Looking at the two young children's appearance, he just smiled and said nothing. At the same time, he was a little surprised by Huang Laifu's changes in front of Gu Yunniang. After all, Huang Laifu grew up since he was a child. As the saying goes, the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change.

Gu Yunniang was stunned for a moment, but she didn't expect that Huang Laifu was exactly the same as before and ignored her. She couldn't help but snorted angrily, and then felt that she was very shameless in front of several servants. She called out: "Huang Laifu, you... you are so heartless. I'll come to see you from all over the place, you are like this. I'm going to tell my aunt that you bullied me." Her eyes suddenly turned red, and she looked like she was about to cry.

Huang Laifu laughed and said softly: "I'm not watching you come from all over the place and can't bear to be blowing outside. Since you are coming, let's follow along." He has seen this little daughter for a long time before, so he can control her.

Gu Yunniang blushed and whispered, "Who wants you to bear it?" Seeing that Huang Laifu agreed to her request, she turned anger into joy. She quickly turned her back on her horse, but unknowingly, her control of her emotions had been transferred to Huang Laifu's hands.

Huang Laifu took the lead and rode his horse out of the fortress. Several people followed behind. When people on the street saw Huang Laifu and others riding horses, they hurriedly dodged and called their children for a while. The streets were full of chaos.

Gu Yunniang rode her horse and walked with Huang Laifu. She said, "Huang Laifu, look at you, as soon as you come out, the people on the street are afraid of you. I heard that your reputation in Wuzhaibao can stop children from crying at night. Isn't it true?"

Huang Laifu said nothing, Gu Yunniang snorted boredly, and turned her mouth down, ignoring Huang Laifu. But she felt depressed. Huang Laifu used to be obedient to her, so how dare she ignore her like she is now? I don’t know what happened to this person. When I went out, it seemed like she had a changed personality. She suddenly didn’t know what to do.

Gu Yunniang and Huang Laifu got married since childhood and met each other since childhood. They often had relationships with each other, so they were childhood sweethearts. However, Gu Yunniang loved to read legendary novels or dramas of talented men and beautiful women since she was a child, such as "Yu Jiaoli" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". This was the popular fashion of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Not to mention her, even the current Wanli Emperor is a fan of legends and dramas.

Girls' minds and nature, if you read too many such books, you will inevitably have fantasy. But fantasy is fantasy, reality always disappoints. Huang Laifu looked rude when he used to look like a rude scholar. Not only was he not like the talented scholars in the book, nor was he like the people who resisted foreign aggression, loyal, filial, and righteous in the drama. On the contrary, it was also like the rebellious angles like the playboys and evil young men in the book, which made her very disgusted.

It was just the order of her parents and the words of the matchmaker. In the Ming Dynasty at that time, there was no other ending. She was destined to be with Huang Laifu in this life. The gap between reality and fantasy, coupled with her deep spoiled by both families, was also a person with a temper, so she would never give him a good face in front of Huang Laifu.

However, she is a very scheming girl. She always looks like a good baby in front of the adults of the two families. When she is with Huang Laifu in front of others, she is shy, graceful, and well-behaved, and is very popular with the adults. Only in front of Huang Laifu will the true form be revealed. As for Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu who know her style, they dare not say anything to others.

I don’t know if Huang Laifu was ashamed of himself or something before. No matter how Gu Yunniang treats him, he is always tolerant and willing to accept it. This makes Gu Yunniang make Huang Laifu become more arrogant.

She was used to Huang Laifu's obedience to her in the past, but today she ignored her. This contrast made Gu Yunniang very uncomfortable, so she had to be angry and not speak. After all, she was just a 15-year-old girl and was not Huang Laifu's opponent in terms of emotional control.

Huang Laifu glanced at Gu Yunniang. He was not angry about this kind of young daughter's behavior and spent more time to pay attention to it. He was busy planning a big career, so how could he waste his energy on such entanglement?

In addition, he has always liked the kind of gentle and cute girl who is dependent on others. Although Gu Yunniang looks like a good baby in front of adults, he knows her stubborn temperament. No matter how unbearable Huang Laifu was before, Gu Yunniang was dissatisfied, he doesn't want to spend more time on the emotions of this little child.

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Soon, the group left Wuzhai Fort City and headed northwest to the Qinglian River.

The terrain on both sides of the Qinglian River ranges from low to high, and along the banks of the river, there are uneven military farms distributed.

According to the military garrison system, except for the fields of officers, each household in ordinary Wuzhai Fort can be divided into 50 acres of land. In addition to keeping grains themselves, a portion of the grain harvested each year will be handed over.

However, this was all in the early Ming Dynasty. Most of the Wuzhai Forts near the water source are occupied by Huang Sihao, Qianhuo and some officers from Wuzhai Fort. In addition, the drought and cold disasters have continued in recent years, the grain production of these Wuzhai Forts has been getting worse every year.

Huang Laifu got off his horse, led by Jiang Dazhong and others, and headed towards the fields by the river. Gu Yunniang still followed her with her lips pouting, but when she saw that Huang Laifu was indeed doing serious business, she couldn't help but be surprised. Thinking that he had changed his sexual desire?

After walking through some fields, I saw that the ditches were dried up. The fields with wheat ears were filled with cracks. The surface of the fields was covered with scary hard skin. Some small snowflakes fell on them, and they disappeared in a blink of an eye, and even more desolate.

When he walked to the river and looked at the Qinglian River in front of him, Huang Laifu sighed. Wuzhaibao was later called Fushui County and was known as the county sitting on the reservoir. However, it was obvious that this title was greatly reduced at this time. In Huang Laifu's childhood memory, the Qinglian River was 100 meters wide and more than ten meters deep, and the river water was basically level with the river bank. However, the water volume of the Qinglian River in front of him was obviously much worse than before, revealing a large area on the river bank.

There are some water diversion tools such as keel water trucks and chain bucket water trucks that rely on human or animal power by the river. These are irrigation tools that appeared in the Han and Tang Dynasties and were also the main force for irrigation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

However, the river water withered a lot at this time, and the water surface was several people high above the shore. With the ability of these water trucks, they could only lead the water source to some lower fields by the river. A little farther away and slightly higher fields were helpless. They could only rely on some human or animal power to carry their hands far away. How effective is this? This is still a field near the river with water sources, and those villages that are not close to the water source are even more helpless.

Seeing the situation in front of him, Huang Laifu finally understood. He was surprised yesterday that the Wuzhai Fort later generations claimed that the county's arable land area was 600,000 mu, and the annual grain output could reach 200 million jin. In addition, the Wuzhai Fort had not yet been established at this time. In theory, the area of ​​the military fort belongs to Wuzhai Fort, and there is a lot of wasteland that can be reclaimed, and there will be no trouble and controversy about the military and civilian fields of the mainland garrison. No matter what, with hundreds of thousands of acres of land, how could it not even be able to support a few thousand people?

At this time, he understood that during this small ice age under severe drought and cold, there were thousands of miles of barren land everywhere, even Wuzhai Fort, a place with abundant water sources, no amount of land in this case is meaningless. There is no water source or water irrigation, and a large amount of fertile land has to be abandoned, let alone reclaimed wasteland.

Water needs water! The water in the river needs to be drawn up, and the fields not close to the water source need water to irrigate, Huang Laifu pondered.

Butler Yang walked beside Huang Laifu. Seeing the situation in front of him, he sighed and said, "The current situation is difficult. God doesn't know what's going on. It's either drought or cold, and the water in the river cannot be brought up. The fort's trough has been inadequate for years. How could it be so great if this continues."

Gu Yunniang looked at Huang Laifu with pretty eyes and said in a sweet voice: "Huang Laifu, you can take us to see the farmland. Is there any way?"

Seeing Jiang Dazhong next to him, Huang Laifu smiled hard, he patted him on the shoulder, making him grin and said, "Yun Niang, if I hadn't been able to do anything, why did you bring you here to do? Brother Laifu has his own plan, but it's not the time to say it out now."

When Gu Yunniang heard him say "Brother Laifu", her pretty face turned slightly red and she spat lightly.

Butler Yang smiled and watched the two quarrel. To him, Huang Laifu and Gu Yunniang were both grown up when he watched him. Although he was a slave to the Huang family, in his mind, Huang Laifu and Gu Yunniang looked at their children.

He said, "Young Master, do you want to go to our farm to take a look?"

Huang Laifu nodded.

On this side of the river, not far to the west, there is a farm. It is the largest farm in the Huang family on the south bank of the Qinglian River, managing nearly 1,000 acres of land around it. Over the past century, the Huang family has occupied a total of 10,000 acres of land in Wuzhaibao. However, the scenery in recent years has not been good. Except for these fields near the river, thousands of acres of land that are far away and not close to the water source have been abandoned.

The farm is a garden located in a field, with fields in front and behind the farm. There is a large pond in front of the farm, but at this time it seems that the water in the pond is almost dry, and some elm trees by the pond have a bit of a life-like smell.

When I walked into the farm, there was no one in the village except for a few tenants who guarded the farm. There were also some arable land and some vegetable gardens in the village. In addition, most of them were warehouses, grain warehouses, livestock, grain yards, etc. There were also several houses for people to live in. The outside of the village was surrounded by a wall of earth and stone, and there were some defensive fortifications, which had a bit of the smell of a military fortress.

When the leader saw Huang Laifu coming, he hurriedly came forward to serve. Huang Laifu looked kind and asked about the situation of the farm, then let him go down.

According to this person, there are 1,165 acres of land around the farm, and about 50 tenant people work here. Most of these tenant people are the families of Wuzhai Fort, and some are simply the Zhenge Banner Army of Qianhuyuan. For many years, these people have worked in the Huang family and have long been used to this kind of life.

In previous years, when the weather was good, the farmland had more than 1,000 acres of wheat produced in more than 1,000 stones a year. However, in recent years, at most, it only produced a few hundred stones a year, which was the best field in Wuzhaibao.

Huang Laifu held his hands behind his back and looked carefully inside and outside the village, thinking about something. Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu were naturally following Huang Laifu and spoke softly, not daring to disturb Huang Laifu's thoughts. Although they didn't understand when the young master understood the matter of the farmland? Butler Yang also followed respectfully. When he met Huang Laifu and asked, he explained softly.

Only Gu Yunniang looked at Huang Laifu from time to time, and was confused. After half a day of contact, she felt that Huang Laifu now seemed to have changed her own person, with different temperaments and demeanor. He used to be reckless and ignorant, but now he is much more mature, with a calm and calm look. If he goes out, he will have such a big change? Gu Yunniang was a little curious and kept looking at Huang Laifu with his eyes squinted.

After seeing the fields on the south bank of Qinglian River, Huang Laifu and his men left their horses in the fields, and boarded the boat to some of the Huang family manors on the north bank to check it out. It was almost noon, and the few people turned back. Huang Laifu stood at the bow of the boat and saw that there was a little green along the river. He couldn't help but feel proud. Although the situation was not good at the moment, he was confident that he would change it.

When they got on the shore, Gu Yunniang pouted, as if she was angry at Huang Laifu's neglect of her for the past half-day. Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh when they saw this.

Huang Laifu looked at her and smiled.

Gu Yunniang snorted, about to say why are you laughing at?

"Oh..." Huang Laifu suddenly started singing.

Gu Yunniang said coquettishly: "What are you doing? I'm scared!"

Huang Laifu ignored her and continued to sing: "...Sister, go forward boldly, go forward, don't turn around, the road to heaven, nine thousand nine thousand nine hundred nine hundred..."

Gu Yunniang's face turned a little red and said, "What are you singing?"

Huang Laifu turned his head and looked at her, singing with emotion: "... From now on, you set up the red embroidery building, throwing red hydrangea balls, hitting my head, and having a pot with you..."

Gu Yunniang finally couldn't resist Huang Laifu's gaze, her pretty face flushed, her head almost drooped to her breasts, and her voice was as thin as a mosquito: "Where are you listening to slang music?"

The folk songs of the Ming Dynasty were very prosperous, and most of them were love songs, mostly straightforward and strong emotions. In fact, whether in Wuzhaibao or in Xiwei City, Gu Yunniang had heard the duets of military boys and girls. Although she was a child of a military general, she was in a rough Hanzhong. However, since she was influenced by the novels of legendary dramas, talented men and beautiful women, she also felt that these songs were too straightforward.

Unexpectedly, the songs sung by Huang Laifu at this time were even more rough and naked. The feelings between men and women in the song were too much, making Gu Yunniang feel as if she was flushed and her face was flushed. At the same time, she felt a strange feeling in her heart.

Which girl is not in love? What's more, Gu Yunniang is at the age of falling in love at the beginning, but she has betrothed to Huang Laifu since she was a child. Which young man in Kilanzhou dares to sing such songs to her? So although Gu Yunniang despises those young men and girls in her heart, she still envies them in her heart and can have fun with her lover.

In the past, Huang Laifu only knew how to dance with swords and guns. When did a typical rough man who was not wise enough to care about her girlish thoughts? So although Gu Yunniang was ashamed and angry outside, she was actually secretly happy inside.

Moreover, although Huang Laifu's song is rough and straightforward, the tune is a bit strange, but it is nice and has a unique charm, which is quite different from the songs heard in the Ming Dynasty at this time. In fact, Huang Laifu's song is not as good as the love songs of the Ming Dynasty at this time, but it is better than the new.

After Huang Laifu finished singing the song, Gu Yunniang blushed and spat lightly, "I don't know where the strange song I heard was a vulgar one."

Huang Laifu smiled and said, "Isn't it nice? If you want to listen, I will sing it to you in the future."

Gu Yunniang snorted shyly, but she didn't say that she didn't want to listen anymore.

Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu looked at each other in amazement. They thought when the young master could sing love songs. This song was strange, but it was really nice and interesting. Seeing Gu Yunniang's shy look, they couldn't help but admire Huang Laifu, thinking that the young master has indeed changed a lot and is becoming more and more powerful to women. In the past, he didn't even dare to speak out in front of Miss Gu.

Butler Yang kept standing aside with a smile. At this time, he walked up and said to Huang Laifu and Gu Yunniang: "Master, Miss Gu, it's not too early, let's go to the farm to pick up the horses."
Chapter completed!