"What hot weather. I wonder when I can get some cool wind to cool me down.”
Outside Lu Villa, Cheng Yaojin was wiping his sweat. Although the sun was already setting, the weather was still very hot.
When he woke up today, he realized that it was almost noon. The most terrifying thing was that he was surrounded by his colleagues. In other words, everyone who was drunk did not go to court this morning.
Immediately, he broke out in a cold sweat. When he learned that the Emperor had canceled the morning court session, he heaved a sigh of relief. After that, he arranged for dozens of servants to collect money from each house.
It took them almost four hours to pull a few carriages loaded with money from Chang 'an City. It was as if they had gone through a lot of hardships to reach Lu Manor.
The reason was that it was too congested, especially the road from Anping County to Lu Village. There were more than a dozen carriages pulling goods parked there. After asking around, he found out that it was the materials used to build Lu Manor.
Not only that, but the number of commoners coming and going to Lu Manor did not seem to decrease at all.
He curiously pulled a topless young man who was carrying a bag of food." Speaking of which, Brother, I thought Lu Zhuang could no longer exchange locusts for food.”
"Hehe, yes, it just stopped the day before yesterday. However, it was not a big deal because the family could not catch a few catties of locusts a day.”The young man replied with a smile.
"Then how did you get so much food?”Cheng Yaojin asked in surprise.
"Don't you know that the food is not exchanged for, but the wages for our hard work for a day.”The young man seemed to be in a good mood and spoke a little more.
Cheng Yaojin understood the situation from the other party.
As the construction of Lu Manor required a large number of people, Lu Xiu hired them to work for 50 catties of food a day.
In addition, there were two options for Lu Xiu's reward. One was high-quality wheat, and the other was potatoes.
If they chose a type of food called potatoes, they would even give an extra 50 catties. However, most people didn't know what potatoes were, even though Villa Head Lu said that potatoes could be planted in the early summer of May. By the end of autumn, the effects of the locust plague would be minimized, which meant that its production was very high and had many benefits. Even so, only a small number of people would choose potatoes.
"You're actually being paid 100 catties of food a day? He was really rich and overbearing. The reward was too high.”Cheng Yaojin was speechless.
"It's Manor Lord Lu who is kind-hearted." Even though several thousand people would take turns every few days, in just five days, it was enough for them to earn two to three hundred catties of food.
What surprised Cheng Yaojin even more was that the construction of Lu Villa actually used thousands of people at the same time. It was no wonder that the road was so congested. It was because they had to transport a large amount of wood and stone.
"I finally understand why Little Brother Lu suddenly wants to sell wine.”He didn't even know if the 100,000 yuan he earned from selling wine was enough to cover it. Was it because the Retired Emperor was here that the repairs were done according to the Imperial Palace's requirements?
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When Cheng Yaojin pulled the money and arrived at the original Lu Zhuang's territory, he did not find Lu Xiu.
Including Li Xiaogong's daughter, Retired Emperor, and the others were not there.
"Could it be that he temporarily moved to another place because of the demolition and reconstruction? Why didn't Chumo tell me in advance? Now that he was carrying a huge sum of money, he had to see him today no matter what.”Cheng Yaojin found a manager to ask," Where is your Manor Lord Lu? I have something to talk to him about."”
"Milord, because they found a big insect in the back mountain this morning, they went up the mountain to hunt. They haven't left the mountain yet.”A little old man who was settling the payment for the farmers replied worriedly.
"Big Insect?" Cheng Yaojin didn't mind. Retired Emperor had several guards protecting him, so it shouldn't be difficult to deal with a tiger.
"Look, they should be back.”
At this moment, the little old man happily pointed behind Cheng Yaojin.
Cheng Yaojin turned around to take a look, and the figure gradually became clearer.
The first thing he saw was a huge tiger that was more than three meters long! Its huge body, sharp teeth, and claws gave off an invisible sense of danger. It was the first time Cheng Yaojin had seen such a huge tiger.
"Roar!"
Seeing that there were many humans around, the tiger roared as if it wanted to show its dignity.
"What a big worm."
"Everyone, run quickly. The hungry tiger came down the mountain to look for food. Don't be eaten by it.”
"Look, someone is riding on it.”
Originally, the appearance of the tiger had frightened the surrounding commoners into panic. Many of their feet were trembling non-stop.
Then, someone noticed the tiger's condition and could not help but be shocked.
Cheng Yaojin narrowed his eyes and saw a young man riding on it.
"He's Manor Lord Lu. He's so powerful. He actually tamed a big insect?!”The scene of Lu Xiu riding a tiger back filled everyone's hearts with shock.
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