Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 577: More Money, Less Work, Close to Home

But, no matter what, Qian came from the Minister's Mansion and was a daughter of a noble family. How could she not be compared with my eldest sister-in-law?

Alas, my fate is so bad! I knew from childhood that I was just the son of a concubine and it was impossible for me to compare with Rong Jin, the eldest son and grandson of the legitimate wife. Therefore, Rong Yu was a bit desperate.

I thought that after I got married and married a girl from a rich and powerful family, my life would be better. But now, Qian really disappointed me.

Not to mention the most basic abilities like social interactions that a girl from aristocratic family should have, she doesn't even have any brains at all. Suddenly, Rong Yu felt a little discouraged about her future life.

There is no way, some people will be reborn, will get married, even if it is just a casual verbal engagement, they can find a good wife, which means they are luckier than me. I can never catch up with them in this life.

However, he still had a chance to win over his elder brother. He could have a son first and become a father first. Rong Yu, who was originally very discouraged, immediately became energetic again.

Qian Shi, who was already panic-stricken and confused, thought Rong Yu had abandoned her and was secretly wiping away tears. Rong Yu's move brought her back to life.

So, they responded to each other enthusiastically, and the couple spent a sleepless night.

Another couple in another house really had a sleepless night. Rong Jin was puzzled and Hua Lei was worried.

The next day, Hua Lei got up early and listened carefully to the noises coming from the house next door. Fortunately, she didn't hear anything like Mrs. Qian hanging herself from the beam or banging her head against the pillar.

If I didn't hang myself from the beam or hit my head against the pillar last night, then what happens next will have nothing to do with me, Hua Lei thought. So, she felt relieved and went to the county government office to work.

Recently, due to weather conditions, the Ministry of Revenue has shifted its focus to land reclamation. Instead of sowing, the Ministry of Revenue has started to weed, fertilize, water, dredge ditches, and do other maintenance work for the wheat that has already sprouted.

Therefore, Minister Zhang dispatched a group of people to start measuring the land. First, they measured the wheat fields that had been cleared and ready to sprout, so that they could report to Emperor Shengwu.

How many acres of wasteland have been reclaimed this year, and how many acres of wheat fields have been planted? Previously, in order to catch up with the solar terms for sowing, the fields were not measured at all, and they were reclaimed directly.

After the wheat fields with sprouts have been measured, all the fields need to be measured again, and the 40% of the fields stipulated by Emperor Shengwu need to be listed separately first, and then the land can be reclaimed after it thaws next year.

Finally, the land was allocated to the noble families who signed up to buy the land. Therefore, the Ministry of Revenue was still very busy in the following days.

Measuring the land is not an easy task, it is a big project. Moreover, Minister Zhang is a land-loving and capable person.

He would not say, this land looks like 500 acres, so let's count it as 500 acres. That is absolutely impossible. After all, the Ministry of Revenue also wants to know the actual area.

But you can't just look with your eyes and talk about it. Emperor Shengwu is still waiting for this exact data, and Minister Zhang dare not be careless at all.

Therefore, the people who actually measured the land had to run themselves to death. After all, there was no high technology like in the past. The land was measured step by step using a walking bow and a measuring cart.

The distance between the two sections of the bow is generally five feet. Although the size is accurate, it seems a bit short for measuring land.

The measuring walker is similar to the leather tape measure in the previous life. It is much easier to use than the walking bow, but its performance is much worse than the leather tape measure in the previous life.

Therefore, the workload for the operator is still very heavy. Of course, there must also be people who are good at reading and arithmetic to take notes on the spot.

However, Minister Zhang saw that Hualei was a female and somewhat frail, so he took special care of her and did not require Hualei to go out with him every day to measure the land.

Instead, he sat in the county government office and waited for the recorders who had measured the land to collect the lists in their hands and send them to Hualei. Hualei would then do a statistical check and then mark them on the map.

When the land is divided among the noble families in the future, Hualei only needs to wait for the noble families to confirm the land and then come to handle the relevant procedures.

So, in recent times, Hualei can be said to have lived a leisurely life. Isn't this the statistician who sat in the office drinking tea and chatting in the previous life?

Although there are no calculators or convenient office software here, Hualei has to do all the calculations mentally and with pen. However, the speed of measuring land here is slow.

Even if ten teams were sent out to measure the land, Hualei would complete all the work for the day in less than half an hour the next day.

The salary she has received recently is really cost-effective, and Hualei is very satisfied. Although it cannot be said that "the position is high and the responsibilities are light", it is really "high salary, few things and close to home".

At noon, she could go back to the house hand in hand with Rong Jin and eat all kinds of delicious food prepared by Sister Hehua. Sometimes she could even take a nap on the heated kang at home. These days were so beautiful.

Hualei felt that if the work was always like this, she would be willing to do it until the end of time. Of course, Hualei, who had gotten the advantage, was not going to act cute.

Moreover, in order to take care of the feelings of colleagues who had worked hard outside, Hua Lei did all the things that should and should not be done in the office.

He spread out all the recorders' lists on his desk, and spread a half-filled piece of paper in front of him for drafting, pretending to be very busy.

Moreover, when a boss or colleague passed by her desk, no matter whether they were from the account department or not, Hua Lei would pretend to frown and look very worried.

This was to prevent the possibility that a colleague from the Ministry of Works who passed by might be a close friend of one of his colleagues from the Ministry of Revenue and might expose his secrets.

He was holding a brush in his hand, writing and drawing, and calculating and pondering over and over again, as if to say, "Don't interrupt my train of thought. My train of thought cannot be interrupted. Don't disturb me if there is nothing wrong. Don't disturb me even more if there is something wrong."

Colleagues who originally envied Hua Lei for not having to go out to enjoy the cold wind couldn't help but feel sympathy for Hua Lei. She was working too hard and was so busy that there was no room for a teacup on the table.

This pile of data is so tedious and exhausting. I might as well go out for a run. Although it's cold, at least I won't feel tired.

They don't know that all of this is Hualei's fake. The frown is just Hualei doing facial yoga. When she says "Don't interrupt my thoughts", she is just practicing concentration meditation training.

And under Hualei's table, Rong Jin specially prepared a mini charcoal stove for Hualei, on which a cup of honey flower tea was warming up, ready to drink at any time. The heat from the charcoal stove also warmed Hualei up.

Because the affairs of the government office were not very busy, Hualei began to slack off quietly again. She would write a few letters back to the capital first.