The house is ancient, and was taken home by a rough man and spoiled

Chapter 620 Letter from Beijing

This autumn harvest, sweet potatoes and corn were planted throughout the county. Although each village has a quota, these sweet potatoes are crucial.

People from the Agriculture Department were sent to garrison in each village to ensure that all harvested sweet potatoes and corns were sold to the government as soon as possible.

This year the government's purchase price is not as high as last year, but the sweet potato yield is large, so one acre can be sold for a lot of money.

Everyone knows that this is an important link in the promotion of new crops, and the whole county seems to be immersed in joy.

Xu Huaiyuan sent all the private soldiers he had brought back from the mine to various places to help with the autumn harvest, especially to Daliushu Village, where he sent more people.

This year he did not come to Daliushu Village, but inspected other villages. This is enough to prove that the county magistrate attaches great importance to this autumn harvest.

In Daliushu Village, Su Wanwan's workshop stopped working for a few days and asked everyone to go home for the autumn harvest.

There is still stock in the warehouse. There are several companies making yuba in the county now, and they are not the only ones. It won’t matter if they stop working for a few days.

Seeing this harvest scene again, Su Wanwan did not stay at home all the time this time. After all, all the old people and children in the village went out.

She also needs to move around now. The doctor has said so, and Shen Yuan can't do anything about her, so he just lets her do what she wants.

It was really fun to harvest corn, peel corn, and weave corn strings with the villagers while chatting and laughing.

Golden corn cobs are hung on the walls of every household.

The whole village is filled with the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes.

Some people couldn't wait and took their sweet potatoes to their uncle's sweet potato vermicelli shop to make vermicelli.

After the corn was dried for a few days, every household drank corn porridge.

This is truly a bumper year.

Shen Yuan's family has a lot of land, so it will end later.

After others had finished harvesting, they helped his family to harvest. Ten days or half a month passed, and there were still many people working on the hand-cranked threshers every day.

The subordinates sent by the court to the commander Shen Yuan arrived at this time.

Although the mine had been shut down for so long, Shen Yuan was not in a hurry to send them up the mountain and arranged for them to thresh the grain.

Among these people, there are two people named Tian Liang and Fang Ziyao, who are specially selected by my uncle and His Majesty as trustworthy people.

They came with letters from the capital.

One of the letters was actually from my grandfather.

Shen Yuan looked at the letter and could already imagine what his grandfather looked like when he was writing it.

Grandpa must have aged a lot. Although what happened to the Huo family was anticipated and he had prepared himself mentally many times, when this day finally came, how could he not be sad?

After all, they are all descendants of the Huo family.

However, the crime of treason is a serious crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of the clan, but Your Majesty has only exterminated three generations of the clan, which is already extremely merciful and lenient.

No other emperor would have done this.

"Grandpa is very open-minded and doesn't hate anyone."

That night, Su Wanwan also read the letter and felt emotional.

Although only three tribes were killed, how many innocent people were there in the three tribes?

However, this was ancient times, and no one could challenge the imperial power, and she certainly wouldn't.

"Having enjoyed the prosperity brought by the Huo family for several lifetimes, I can only say that they are... from the same clan, all in the same boat. If one person commits a crime, the whole clan will be punished. This has always been the case since ancient times."

"In fact, the old man had already made arrangements. Several very young children have been sent away. Wanwan, do you think it is particularly cruel?"

Shen Yuan seemed to know what his wife was thinking. He heard that there was no such thing as collective punishment in modern times. Everyone would be held responsible for their own crime.

"It is cruel, but with the development of history, things will eventually change. You are right. They have enjoyed the glory brought by the family, so naturally they have to accompany them in adversity."

Su Wanwan is unable to change, nor does she know how to change, she can only sigh.

Is this truly sharing the good and the bad?

The concept of family was really important in ancient times, unlike in later generations, where family affection was indifferent, uncles, brothers, and cousins ​​went their separate ways, and they didn’t even keep in touch with each other on a daily basis.

The old man's letter didn't say much, just told them not to worry, that he could still bear it, and that he ate well, lived well, and slept well.

However, at the end, he wrote a list of people who could be trusted in the Huo family’s army in the north.

The soldiers who followed the rebellion in Pingliao County where Huo Xiangxi was stationed were exiled to the north. Those soldiers would certainly not live in peace, and it was not impossible for them to do something in the north.

Shen Yuan needs this list, so he can contact them secretly and use the opponent's trick against him.

Only after remembering these names did Shen Yuan put down his grandfather's letter.

There was another letter, written by Uncle Ye, about some findings about the harem.

King Cheng's mother was a beauty of very low rank. She was promoted two ranks because she gave birth to King Cheng. She never competed for favor in the harem, especially after her son's leg was injured. She behaved very timidly, but she had no foundation and eventually died in the conspiracy of the harem.

King Cheng's uncle was also a minor official in the capital. King Cheng was a loser, and the women he sent to the palace did not compete for his favor, so his mother's family had never received any favors and is still just a minor official.

The mother of King Xian...

At that time, the emperor took people hunting and was injured and fell off a cliff. He was rescued by a peasant girl. The peasant girl was beautiful and was brought back to the palace by His Majesty and was loved very much.

But His Majesty's favor was only temporary. Fortunately, the peasant girl gave birth to a son and was promoted to a higher position. In addition, she was smart, so she lived a pretty good life in the palace. It was a pity that the child fell ill at a very young age and became an idiot.

This talented peasant woman took care of her foolish son and lived cautiously and low-key in the palace. Once, Yun Xian was pushed into the lake by someone, and she drowned herself in order to save her son.

"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with these two."

Su Wanwan also took a look and found nothing wrong with the mother of her two uncles. In addition, the DNA test results showed that the two uncles had nothing to do with Huo Xiangxi.

"Should we rule out the two uncles?"

Su Wanwan felt that Pang Qingping was more likely the possibility.

My two uncles, one is stupid and the other is lame, and they were both like this when they were very young. Even if they rebel, they can't become emperors.

Unless it's fake.

But Shen Yuan also found the doctor who had treated them. Uncle Cheng Wang's leg was really lame, and Uncle Eighth Wang was stupid. Although the doctor couldn't tell whether he was really stupid or just pretending to be stupid, who could pretend to be stupid for more than ten years and act so convincingly without even a clue being found?

She has also been observing Uncle Eighth Prince recently, but she really can't see anything.

If he was really pretending to be stupid, he was pretending too well.

"We have also got Pang Qingping's hair. We will continue to test it there tomorrow."

Shen Yuan's eyes darkened. There was no doubt that the man behind the scenes was Huo Xiangxi's descendant. He would not be wrong. Huo Xiangxi's attitude proved everything.

Now he didn't believe that he couldn't find out who that person was.