Chapter 1212 Food
"Yes, Master." Chu Yun took the thick stack of orders, blessed himself, and resigned.
Chu Jingqi was also busy giving New Year's gifts to more than a hundred households in his military camp. However, because his subordinates had different positions in the military, ranging from high to low, the New Year's gifts he gave to them were also different. The same, depending on the level of the position, there may be more or less.
Moreover, the list of New Year gifts he drew up were all things that small families could actually use. For example, the New Year gifts for a hundred households included ten kilograms each of sorghum, millet, rice, and white flour, and two jars of two kilograms of shochu. One bag of half a kilogram of tea leaves, one bag of two kilograms of dried fruit snacks, and five kilograms of pork and beef.
The annual gift for a thousand households will be doubled, and so on.
There aren't many things, but there are so many people. The Chu family has hundreds of thousands of troops, thousands of them for a hundred households, hundreds of thousands of households, and many young generals and lieutenants.
After making the list, Chu Jingqi roughly calculated that he would have to spend 20,000 taels of silver on this New Year's gift alone, as well as 200,000 troops in the army. On New Year's Eve, he would have to add meals and wine. This is another piece of money.
After Chu Jingqi finished making the list, she took it to Chu Xuanyu's study and gave the list to Chu Xuanyu.
Chu Xuanyu picked up the list and glanced at it, frowning, "Thirty thousand taels of silver, this is a big expense. The emperor will not subsidize this money to us, we have to pay for it ourselves."
Then, he looked carefully at the list Chu Jingqi made, "Aqi, are these annual gifts too generous?"
He pointed to the rice, white flour, sorghum, millet, and said, "I have never given these away before. Although the rice and white flour are not given out much, the four items add up to one person weighing dozens of kilograms. But it can't handle the large number of people. There are more than 2,000 people in just 100 households." , that’s nearly 100,000 kilograms of grain. Let’s not talk about the money. It’s just this much grain. At the end of the year, where are we going to get it?”
"Ayu's there." Chu Jingqi said expressionlessly.
"Ah..." Chu Xuazheng was stunned, then kicked him over and cursed angrily, "You stinky boy, I said why there are so many more rice on the list this year. You are here to sell rice to your wife."
Chu Jingqi dodged, avoiding her father's feet, and said quickly, "This matter has nothing to do with Ayu. It's just that my brothers followed me in Jiangnan last year. I want to give them more things this year. There are some gifts in this year's gift." When we have wine and meat, we just need rice, so we add a few kinds of rice. One hundred thousand catties of rice only costs one thousand taels of silver. Dad, we are not short of this little money.”
Chu Xuanyu put his feet away, touched his nose, and sat down again.
The Chu family is not short of one or two thousand taels of silver, but they are just a little depressed. The son actually used his daughter-in-law's food as a New Year gift. How can he, as an old father-in-law, have face?
To give money, my daughter-in-law earns so much money in a year, how can she have the nerve to accept this thousand taels of silver from him?
Chu Xuanyu's guess was good. After Xia Zihan learned that Chu Jingqi wanted food, without saying a word, he notified the head of the farm to send someone to transport 100,000 kilograms of rice, millet, sorghum, and white flour to the Chu family army camp.
When Chu Xuanyu gave her money, she didn't want anything.
"Dad, if I accept this money, I will definitely be too depressed to sleep tonight." Xia Zihan said awkwardly, "It's the New Year, and as Aqi's wife, I should also be loyal and follow The soldiers around Aqi would like to express their gratitude. Dad, please fulfill your daughter-in-law’s little thought.”
After saying this, Chu Xuanyu was too embarrassed to force the money on her, so he said, "Okay, but I will also tell the soldiers that this rice was a gift from their prince's wife."
He would not swallow Xia Zihan's thoughts.
What's more, the Chu family's army will be handed over to Aqi sooner or later. If Ayu, the wife of the general, can win the love of the soldiers before then, it will be beneficial to both the Chu family and Ayu. Xia Zihan smiled and said, "Dad, let's make an agreement. From now on, I will send a sum of grain to the soldiers as a New Year gift every year. However, I'd better not mention this to the soldiers. Just say it was from Aqi." Well, we are husband and wife, and what is mine is his.”
"Okay, okay, okay, what a perfect couple, Ayu, Aqi is lucky enough to marry you. It's really a blessing that that brat earned in his previous life." Chu Xuanyu couldn't help but praise his daughter-in-law.
I have known for a long time that my daughter-in-law is a smart person, with a beautiful heart, a kind heart, and a broad mind like a man.
Now that I see it, it’s true.
When asked to take out one hundred thousand catties of grain, he took it out without blinking an eye. He also promised to give out one hundred thousand catties of grain as an annual gift to the soldiers every year. This is not a small amount of money, let alone Women, even if a man can do this, still think about it again and again.
But Ayu, a woman, was willing to give out so much food without even thinking about it. This was not something that ordinary women could do.
Chu Xuanyu was very happy and deeply proud of his daughter-in-law.
By the time it was the New Year's Eve, all the New Year's gifts to relatives and friends had been sent to each household, and the Anjun Prince's Mansion also received many New Year's gifts one after another.
Every time a New Year's gift comes to her door, Ms. Zhuo will happily hold one of her grandsons by the hand, and go to look through the New Year's gift with Xia Zihan, just like children who have suddenly received a mysterious gift, excited and curious. Open the mysterious gift bag.
Chu Yixuan was not interested in this matter, but he could not refuse his grandmother, so he had to follow angrily. Chu Yijie, on the other hand, was very happy every time. He was also the first to climb onto the carriage, then waved his little fleshy hand, and the commander followed them all. Once moved down.
"Grandma, give me that piece of sable fur. I want it." Chu Yijie had sharp eyes. When he saw a piece of black mink fur with shiny black fur on the carriage, he immediately wanted to keep it for himself.
Mrs. Zhuo dotes on her grandson very much. As soon as Chu Yijie spoke, he smiled indulgently, "Take it, let your servant take it to your warehouse, and let Nuanyu make one for you and your brother tomorrow." Wearing a black mink hat.”
After hearing this, Chu Yijie grinned excitedly.
You know, he and his brother have only been able to wear one color of clothing and accessories since they were young, like the black that their father likes, and he and his brother can't even think about it.
Therefore, when he saw the black mink fur just now, he deliberately asked his grandmother for it. Why could his father wear black clothes but he and his brother couldn't?
No, he has to wear it too.
Moreover, even grandma has spoken. If he doesn't wear it, it would be unfilial.
Hey, after the sable hat is made, if Dad is angry, he can just blame it on Grandma. Dad can't be angry with Grandma just because of a hat, right?
Chu Yijie smiled like a little fox.
Then, the little meaty hand pointed to a few pieces of black leather, "I want this piece too, grandma, and that piece, can you give it to me too?"
(End of chapter)