"This...Brother Yu Nian, please forgive me and accept the change."

The deceased was the most important, and Wu Liang could only comfort him after something like this happened to the Wang family.

In fact, he and the Wang family have never had any conflicts from the beginning to the present. On the contrary, the Wang family has been trying to win over him, and even wants to see him become the son-in-law of the Wang family.

As for the reason... it should be because of his magical power of "slaying evil dragons with sword" and his snowflake salt craftsmanship.

It was only later that he learned that the salt shop in Chenliu County was actually run by the Wang family behind the scenes, so the snowflake salt was particularly important to the Wang family.

As for Wang Qing’s sister Wang Ping.

Wu Liang had naturally heard about the fact that she was rejected by her husband's family because she could not have children, but Wu Liang never took it to heart from beginning to end.

Anyway, it was impossible for him to fall in love with Wang Ping, and he had no plans to marry into the Wang family.

In addition, in this era, the distinction between the nobles and the common people is very clear. Even if the Wang family has a little thought on this matter, it is actually still a show of goodwill and wooing. As the saying goes, you can’t hit someone with a smiling face. This is true.

There is no need to be too serious.

"Thank you for your talented brother."

Wang Qing cupped his hands and said with a touch of apology on his tired face, "Originally, when a talented brother comes back, I should entertain him well and clean him up, but this happened at home, really.

I have no skills at all, so please bear with me, my talented brother. I will host a banquet to make up for this time."

"Brother Yu Nian, you're welcome. You go ahead and catch up with me after I've settled in."

Wu Liang returned the gift and said with a smile.

"Then as a brother, I won't send you a virtuous brother."

"It's okay, see you later."

After a brief greeting, Wu Liang took the people to his house.

…

After a few months.

Although Wu Liang's big house seemed to have accumulated some dust, and there were signs that some people had climbed over the wall to enter, there was no obvious damage because there were no valuables stored in the house.

I just lost some daily necessities and may need to spend money to buy them myself.

But this was all a trivial matter. Boss Cao generously gave 20% of the stolen gold to Wu Liang.

After careful calculation, there are almost two thousand kilograms, which is almost a ton of gold. If the unit price of 300 yuan/gram is relatively stable in later generations, he is now a veritable billionaire with so much gold...

Wu's conscience naturally felt a little bloated.

However, he also knew that regardless of whether he expressed his stance or not, Boss Cao would only store this batch of gold with him temporarily. If one day Cao's army was at the end of its rope and he was unable to steal military pay for Boss Cao, Cao would

The boss will definitely come to him to "borrow" it.

Therefore, although Wu Liang would not be reluctant to part with flowers, he would not spend too much to live such a luxurious life.

Say it again.

In today's era? Due to the limitations of materials and technology, how extravagant can we go?

To tell the truth? Wu Liang comes from the 21st century? He has seen life nearly two thousand years later, and has also seen the lives of some wealthy gentry families. In comparison, the lives of these wealthy gentry families are similar to those of ordinary people in the 21st century.

Compared to? It's still not even a little bit worse.

Unless? He decides not to be a human being anymore.

Change into the kind of beast that doesn't treat people as human beings, trample on others every day, make a set of white jade cups, fragrant saliva pots, etc., and play with them in wine ponds and meat forests.

But obviously? He can never be such a beast...

Return to the old place.

Taking advantage of the time when the soldiers and beauties were cleaning up the house, Wu Liang came to Bai Jingjing alone and said with a smile: "Miss Jingjing, you have already performed the hairpin ceremony. I think you already know the process of hairpin ceremony, right?"

"

"I know a little bit, why are you asking?"

Bai Jingjing is cleaning up a small woodshed in the backyard. This small woodshed will become Wu Liang's future pigeonhouse, used to raise flying slaves.

"Some of those girls have reached their age. They have never done the haircut ceremony, so I want to take advantage of the coming of the Three Dynasties to give them a haircut ceremony and teach them to live a more complete life."

Wu Liang pointed at the beauties busy in the house and said with a smile.

Although some "beauties" are still some time away from turning fifteen, in fact, the age for haircut ceremony in this era is not so strict. You can do it around fifteen years old.

And Wu Liang is also a lazy guy. He just wants to finish this matter at once to avoid having to worry about it later.

"You, a scoundrel, still have such thoughts. Why do I always feel that you don't have any good intentions?"

Bai Jingjing turned around, with a look of admiration on her face, but she didn't say anything good.

"You are clearly judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart!"

Wu Liang felt guilty for a moment and immediately reprimanded, "My lord, I don't care about you at all. Just tell me whether you can help or not. If you don't want to help, I will find someone else."

"No, it's not. Why are you excited?"

Bai Jingjing curled her lips and said, "I didn't say I wouldn't help, but according to tradition, the hairpin ceremony is held on the Shangsi Festival in early March. Counting it, there are still three months left. Why are you in such a hurry? Besides, the hairpin ceremony is just ordinary.

The ceremony will be held by the mother as the host. If the mother is not alive, a female elder will also need to be found to do it, which has nothing to do with you as the head of the family."

It’s Shangsi Festival...

Only then did Wu Liang remember this. Shangsi Festival is also called "Daughter's Day" and "Peach Blossom Festival".

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the date was officially set as March 3, but before that, it was the first day of March in early March.

It seems that in the Han Dynasty, women would choose this day to perform hairpin ceremonies, but this festival suddenly disappeared after the Song Dynasty. The specific reason is not known, so that the festival disappeared for no reason since then.

Moreover, the main meaning of this festival is actually to "dispel evil spirits". At that time, people will gather with guests and friends by the riverside and lakeside to have banquets and outings, or hold sacrifices to ward off the evil spirits from their bodies.

It was also because of this that Wu Liang had not thought of this before.

March is March.

Wu Liang is a person who respects tradition and hopes that many good traditions can be passed down, so he nodded and said: "Then I will leave this matter to you to prepare. If you need anything or help, just come to me."

"I know, those sisters and I also have the same affection as sisters, and I will take their affairs into consideration."

Bai Jingjing nodded and turned around to continue cleaning up the pigeon loft.

…

After talking to Bai Jingjing about this matter, Wu Liang prepared some small gifts and left the house, taking Dian Wei to visit Cheng Yu's house.

Cheng Yu arrived earlier than him and should have a relatively clear understanding of Chen Liu's current situation.

Now that Wu Liang wants to settle down in Chenliu, especially in Yongqiu, which is next to Chenliu, for the Hu army, he needs to understand some actual conditions and then make plans based on local conditions.

He knew very well that Boss Cao would not start a war in the near future, and he had just obtained a batch of gold stolen from the tomb of Marquis Haihun. At least he no longer had to worry about food and wages for a few months, and he could also temporarily postpone it.

A slow down.

We can use this period of time to establish a "base" between ourselves and the Hu army first.

To put it bluntly, we are ready to start farming.

He knew very well that as Boss Cao's sphere of influence expanded and gradually stabilized, Boss Cao would eventually adopt the suggestions of his subordinates and start implementing the "farming system" to supplement the shortage of military pay and food.

This is undoubtedly the wisest approach.

After all, gold is always just a precious metal currency. No matter how much gold you have, it cannot be directly used for food and clothing. It still has to be exchanged for food and materials. And if no one grows food, no matter how much gold you have, there will be nowhere to buy it.

In the end, even a "billionaire" like him now can only starve to death.

However, there is a prerequisite for implementing the "farming system".

That is, it must have a sufficiently large and stable sphere of influence.

Nowadays, powerful forces from all walks of life have been fighting for years, and the territory they conquered today may be taken away by others tomorrow.

Grain requires a relatively slow growth process. If it is really defeated, it is impossible to run away with the newly planted nursery. If the "farming system" is implemented under such circumstances, it is very likely that it will be for others.

When it comes to making wedding dresses, no one wants to be a laborer who doesn’t get paid but has to pay for the work.

However, historically, after Zhang Miao's rebellion, the territory of Chenliu County was firmly in the hands of Boss Cao, and it never changed hands again, let alone war.

In other words, the conditions for the implementation of the "farming system" have been basically met here.

This is why Wu Liang chose to return to Chenliu.

He planned to build his Yongqiu County into a pilot project for the "farming system", and first lead the soldiers of the Yongqiu Army to live a good life with the people of Yongqiu County.

Later, when Boss Cao owns a larger and more stable site, he will notice the grand scene here and will naturally implement it on a large scale.

This credit naturally belongs to Wu Liang.

This is a very foreseeable and very necessary transformation in advance.

Wu Liang knows better than anyone else that once Boss Cao becomes a leader and the "farming system" is officially implemented, the dependence on him and the Hu army will gradually decrease. And as Boss Cao becomes more and more successful, this kind of

Dependence will only become lower and lower.

So how do you maintain your position in Boss Cao's heart?
To be continued...