Red House Farm Stay

Soon, the mule cart full of corn returned to the city. Wang Gou'er and Liu Shi happily took their family to the market to sell.

There are still not many people growing corn, but it is much better than the previous situation where it was hard to find a single corn. Farmers began to pick up baskets in the market, and some shops went to Liujia Village to collect them.

One hundred cents a stick is not cheap, but it gives more people a chance to try something new.

Although the production was reduced, the Wang family still earned more than [-] taels of silver in three days. The remaining corn was no longer suitable for fresh eating after three days, and they were dragged back to dry and ground into cornmeal for use.

After selling the corn king, Gou'er and his wife returned to Xiaodongshan almost immediately, because the next season's corn was about to be sown, and they didn't dare to be lazy at this time.

Coming and going in a hurry, Qing'er continued to embroider Kangping.This time, Jia Zhuo used ink and pastels, using four common flowers, the leaves are light ink, and the flowers are pink.Looking at it, it can match the relatively thick interior decoration in winter, and it can also jump out a touch of brightness.

The four pieces of embroidery are not big, but it takes a lot of work.It is estimated that she had to embroider all the way from summer to winter to get it. Jia Zhuo did not allow her to embroider too much, and collected all the things when it was dark, so as not to burn her eyes.

Ban'er came back today, followed by a small tail, Qing'er covered her mouth and said happily, "Yuan Ziwen, you are here again."

"Isn't it? My father and mother went out to visit relatives, and they felt desolate when they returned home. It's no problem to go to your house for a meal."

"This kid, come to grandma quickly." Even grandma Liu is used to Yuan Ziwen appearing from time to time, plus he is very sweet-mouthed, grandma Liu likes him very much.

"Grandma, I bought brown sugar cakes, you can try it." Yuan Ziwen held a box of brown sugar cakes that were still warm and handed them over.

"It's fine to come later, I don't want to bring things every time." Grandma said with a smile.

"I didn't buy it on purpose, I just want to eat it too." Yuan Ziwen took a peek at Jia Zhuo.

Qing'er coughed twice, stepped in front of him, reached out to take the brown sugar cake, shook her head and said, "Brother, did the master not leave homework? Hurry up and take him away."

Ban'er's hands were already itchy, and he grabbed Yuan Ziwen by the back of the neck and dragged him out.

Yuan Ziwen waved his arms wildly, and said to Jia Zhuo, "I will be back."

Qing'er took a piece of brown sugar cake and stuffed it into Jia Zhuo's mouth, "Suddenly I want to eat pine nut candy."

"Okay, you can play tricks on him." Jia Zhuo shook his head with a smile, Yuan Ziwen is a familiar person, since the first time he stalked Baner back to Wang's house, the second time and the third time he has followed him It's the same as my own home.

Every time he came, he secretly asked Qing'er what Jia Zhuo liked to eat and what he wanted to eat recently.At first Qing'er refused to talk about it, but after a long time, she also learned to tease him, saying whatever she wanted to eat was what Jia Zhuo wanted, and Yuan Ziwen would definitely buy it to please him.

Yuan Ziwen was carried into Ban'er's room, quickly took the seat in front of the window, opened the window, and nicknamed it: "It's so cool."

"Hmph." Ban'er shook his head helplessly, and had no choice but to let him go.

But Yuan Ziwen didn't calm down so easily, he squeezed his eyes again and said: "In a few days my elder brother will marry a wife, you can help us to welcome him."

"Didn't your elder brother study in Chaoping Prefecture? Would you still go there after you got married?" Baner said here, with a hint of envy. The Yuenan Academy in Chaoping Prefecture is one of the three best academies in Dai Viet.

"Of course, my mother told him to take his sister-in-law with him." Yuan Ziwen straightened his waist as he spoke, his eldest brother was the pride of the whole family. At the age of 14, he was already a child student, and he impressed the head of the mountain with a policy theory, and was able to enter Yuenan College to study.

"If you go, I'll find an opportunity for him to entertain my friends for a drink." Yuan Ziwen thought that his eldest brother would stay at home for a month, and said with great confidence.

"In this case, I'll go and make up the number." Of course, Ban'er is very curious about Yuenan Academy, not to mention his advice, but listening to him talk about the academy's affairs is already very exciting.

"I'll send you an invitation tomorrow." Yuan Ziwen did what he said, and handed the invitation to Baner the next day.

Ban'er opened the invitation card, and when he saw his name on it and asked him to bring his two younger sisters, he immediately sneered, knowing that he had a demon moth, and it didn't happen.

"You will come, right?" Yuan Ziwen wished to hear the reply on the spot.

"I'll go back and ask them if they want to go." Ban'er shook his head, and told the two girls about the invitation that day.

As soon as Qing'er heard that she could go out to play, attending other people's weddings was a very fun thing for her.Immediately jumping up for joy, he shook Jia Zhuo's hand and said, "Great, we can wear the newly made skirt. Fortunately, I embroidered the lace yesterday."

"If you like it, go, anyway, I'm here." Ban'er saw his sister happy, and thought of the rare opportunity for the two girls to go out to play, his heart softened.

Wang Gou'er and Mrs. Liu came back soon, and the news they brought back was that more farmers had started planting corn, and the price would probably be even lower by the end of this summer.

"Especially the Zhuangzi of some big families, they specially pulled out the land to grow corn, and even took away the short-term labor we hired." Wang Gou'er said with emotion. Fortunately, he signed a long-term contract with Yoko. Because there were not enough short-term labor, he also Stay and find someone, or you should have come back long ago.

"Think of it as growing food, and you will reap more." Ban'er comforted his father.

"That's true." The Wang family no longer lives on a few acres of farmland. There are shops and houses in the city, and he can earn money among others. Farmland is more of a sustenance and a way out.

When the day came, Ban'er took his two younger sisters to Yuan's house.He wanted to help pick up the relatives, so he let them play at Yuan's house by themselves.The Yuan family is also an ordinary family in the market, but their foundation is much stronger than that of the Wang family.A large yard with grape trellises should be a quiet place on weekdays.At the moment, it is all covered with tables and chairs, and there are melon and fruit candies, melon seeds and peanuts on it for guests to take at will.

Adult male and female guests were placed in the east and west wing rooms, and the children ran and danced in the yard, huddled together from time to time, and chased each other from time to time, making the whole scene extremely lively.

The red and white tables invited in the kitchen are busy nervously.The age of Qing'er and Jia Zhuo is really embarrassing, it's okay to say they are children, but it is also reluctant to say they are adults.Qing'er saw a few girls throwing sandbags, and pulled Jia Zhuo to squeeze past. After a while, she became acquainted with them and started playing with them.

Jia Zhuo just sat under the grape arbor, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and watched them play.

"Which family are you from? I haven't seen you before." After a while, someone sat across from Jia Zhuo.

Jia Zhuo had been asked at least twenty times, so he had to answer again, "My brother is Yuan Ziwen's classmate, so he went to pick up his relatives."

"No wonder I haven't seen you. I live next door. My name is Li Xiaojia. What about you?" Li Xiaojia looked about the same age as Jia Zhuo.She is wearing a double bun with pink silk flowers, a water-blue skirt embroidered with a cluster of weed flowers, and a pink summer shirt on top, with twining lotus flowers embroidered on the collar and cuffs.

"My name is Jia Zhuo, and that's my younger sister Wang Qing." Jia Zhuo pointed in Qing'er's direction and smiled.

"She is your sister, why don't you have the same surname." Li Xiaojia said in surprise.

"Cousin." Although Jia Zhuo was still smiling, he felt that the girl's curiosity was too strong.

"Oh, is your cousin's knowledge very good? Brother Ziwen often goes to a classmate's home to make up lessons recently. Is it your home?" Li Xiaojia has already sat down. Although it is a question, it is obvious that he has already inquired before , said with great certainty.

Jia Zhuo understood a little bit, nodded and said, "It's our family."

Li Xiaojia looked at Jia Zhuo and then at Qing'er, his face suddenly changed.Biting his lip, he didn't speak for a long time.If she didn't say anything, Jia Zhuo continued to eat melon seeds leisurely.

Seeing that Jia Zhuo was silent, Li Xiaojia couldn't sit still, bit her lip and said, "What did brother Ziwen do when he was at your house?"

Jia Zhuo looked at her in surprise, "How would I know, they stay in the room and study, I can't possibly stand by and watch."

"Just stay in the room and study, didn't you do anything else?" Li Xiaojia frowned with suspicion.

Jia Zhuo chuckled twice, "Then what do you think you can do?"

Li Xiaojia curled her lips, of course she was afraid that Yuan Ziwen would not be tempted, but no matter how stupid she was, she knew that she couldn't say that.He could only reluctantly say: "I'm just asking casually, so you don't have to worry too much."

"It's strange, he is not someone of mine, why do I have so many thoughts. But you, if you are so curious, why don't you ask Yuan Ziwen face to face." Jia Zhuo got tired of eating melon seeds and poured himself a glass Tea, drink it slowly.

"I'm just asking, why did you get so angry." Li Xiaojia felt wronged, her eyes immediately turned red, and her nose twitched, as if she was about to cry.

Jia Zhuo was amused, what is this for, do you want to touch porcelain?He took out the handkerchief from his sleeve, pressed it to his eyes, and began to cry.

"Sister, what happened, who bullied you." Hearing the cry, Qing'er threw the sandbag over, glared at Li Xiaojia, and said aggressively, "Why are you bullying my sister?"

"Who knows whose family's young lady suddenly ran over and dragged me to ask Yuan Ziwen what he was doing at my house. Yuan Ziwen asked Brother Ban'er to review his homework in their room, so how do I know what else they did? .Whose girl is going into a man's house, but after a few pushes, she is still not happy, she must think that I have concealed something. What can I hide, I will let Yuan Ziwen confront it later."

"Li Xiaojia, come back to me."

Hearing that something was wrong outside, several women came out together, only to hear this sentence.One of the women was Li Xiaojia's own mother.Hearing this, I almost vomited a mouthful of old blood.

My obedient thump, the two families have a tacit understanding, and they want to wait until the two children are older, Yuan Ziwen will be more promising, at least he has a reputation, and it will be more attractive to propose marriage.But how can the tacit understanding in private be brought to the table?

"Mother, I didn't mean that." Li Xiaojia leaned against her mother aggrieved.

"Today is a great day for your elder brother Zishang. You are not waiting to see your new sister-in-law. What's the matter with going to someone else's house and crying, be careful to be scolded by Aunt Yuan."

As he said that, he glanced at Jia Zhuo, and said with a smirk: "Our girl is ignorant, so guests should not be as fussy as she is. She is a little girl who never goes outside the door all day, how can she know so many things?" Words. I'm afraid the guest has lost his mind, Haihan Haihan."

Come on, a few words from the lady of the Li family turned the situation around.Jia Zhuo was taken aback. Sure enough, no one should be underestimated, especially this kind of middle-aged woman.

Rich experience in struggle, with a few words, he pulled his daughter Li Xiaojia to the side of the ignorant little girl, and Jia Zhuo to the side of the dirty mind and doing things. The most important thing is that he was not sensible. Crying and crying.

Jia Zhuo put away the handkerchief, and said slowly: "Sister Xiaojia, since I misunderstood, let my brother make it clear to him in the future, don't come to our house again. To save one misunderstanding today and one tomorrow, I will This person is stupid, he might offend someone someday."

"Really?" Li Xiaojia was in a good mood when she heard that, as long as Yuan Ziwen doesn't go to Wang's house anymore, no matter how charming you are, can you still go to the street to hook up with people?

When the lady of the Li family heard this, she slapped her daughter on the back and growled, "Let's go."

Regardless of the etiquette, he took his daughter and hid in the wing room.Looking at her daughter, she hated iron for being weak.She twisted her words back, but her daughter's words were tantamount to self-reporting.They didn't misunderstand at all, Li Xiaojia was just struggling with Yuan Ziwen's going to Wang's house.

The woman who heard these words was either a neighbor of the Yuan family or a relative. Naturally, she was very familiar with the Li family. Even if she felt that Li Xiaojia was too unreserved, no one would help an outsider to say something.The wife of the Li family brought Li Xiaojia in, and everyone changed the topic tactfully, saying that the matter was a quarrel between the little girl's family, and it was brought up in one stroke.

"Sister, or let's go." Qing'er was angry, it was obviously Yuan Ziwen's shameless face towards their family, why it seems to be their fault at this moment.

"Let's go, what about Baner?" He and Yuan Ziwen are always classmates, and today is a good day for the elder brother, no matter how unhappy he is, he has to finish his meal before he can leave.

Qing'er had no choice but to give up, but she didn't even have the mood to play, she just stayed by Jia Zhuo's side, and was careful to watch out for everyone who approached.

The gate quickly became noisy, and the procession to pick up the bride came back, and everyone who could come out except for a few elderly people who maintained their status and respected.The market is far less particular than that of the aristocratic family, especially at this time, when people are crowded together, no matter how many people there are, they all want to get closer to watch the bride get off the sedan chair.

Jia Zhuo took Qing'er by the hand and squeezed to the door. The groom jumped off the horse with a good-looking appearance.According to ancient etiquette, first lightly kick the sedan chair door three times, and the bride, not to be outdone, kicks back inside three times, even louder.

All the spectators burst out laughing, and someone shouted, "Men don't fear guilt, women don't show weakness."

The bride got off the sedan chair, stepped over the brazier, and entered the main hall to salute.The matchmaker's tongue was full of lotus flowers, and she didn't stop talking all the way to the main hall.

Ban'er and Yuan Ziwen saw the two sisters from a distance, pulled away from the crowd and came over. Ban'er stood behind the two sisters to prevent them from being squeezed by others.

Yuan Ziwen stood next to Jia Zhuo, and kept talking about what happened when they went to pick up their relatives in the morning, "The people in the sister-in-law's family are really powerful. They chased us around with a broom. When we arrived at the door of the boudoir, my brother breathed My sister-in-law was willing to come out after writing seven makeup reminder poems."

Qing'er and Jia Zhuo looked at each other, and then turned their attention to the newcomer who was paying homage ahead.Yuan Ziwen patted his head, what's the matter, it wasn't like this before.

"Brother Ziwen." Li Xiaojia also squeezed over, and stopped next to Yuan Ziwen, with a smile on his face.

"Xiao Jia." Seeing her, Yuan Ziwen greeted her perfunctorily, then lowered his head and asked Jia Zhuo, "Where are you sitting for a while?"

"You don't have to toast with your brother anymore, I thought you would help him hold back the wine." Ban'er said coldly from behind.

Yuan Ziwen looked melancholy, how could she have forgotten, and said unwillingly: "You are also my guests, and I should treat you well."

"I'm also your guest, why didn't you say treat me well." The more Li Xiaojia heard it, the more unhappy she became.Originally, she just had doubts in her heart, but now she is almost sure that Yuan Ziwen's running to the Wang's house every three days is definitely because of drunkenness.

"Can you do the same? You haven't been to any part of my house, and you still need someone to entertain you. If you don't talk about entertaining our guests, you will know how to make trouble." Yuan Ziwen grew up with her, and she is used to speaking casually.

Li Xiaojia bowed her head and smiled shyly when she heard this, thinking that what Yuan Ziwen said meant that the relationship between them was different.He glared at Jia Zhuo very proudly, but found that Jia Zhuo didn't look at her at all, instead, he didn't know who he saw from a distance, and there was a trace of panic in his eyes.

Following Jia Zhuo's gaze, she saw a guest in a dark green gown talking to someone from the Yuan family.This person, Li Xiaojia remembered, was a guest of Prince Zhongshun's residence.Yuanzi Shangyuan once met this person when he was studying at Yuenan Academy.Knowing that Yuan Zishang went home to get married, the guests who came to Jinling with Prince Zhongshun specially came to congratulate him.

Before she could see it clearly, Jia Zhuo had already shifted her gaze, and Li Xiaojia was not sure if she had misread the strangeness.

"By the way, your elder brother Ziwen is here. You don't have something to ask, so hurry up and ask us. You won't come to us again to talk about something inexplicable." Qing'er saw clearly from the side, and Li Xiaojia kept staring at him. Looking at Jia Zhuo, he couldn't help but speak out.

"What do you mean?" This is Baner.

"Ask what?" This is Yuan Ziwen.

Ban'er frowned, and embraced the two girls, "Let's go, the bride has already entered the bridal chamber."

Yuan Ziwen looked at Li Xiaojia, saw that her expression was not right, and asked, "What did you tell them?"

"What did I say, what can I say, but after asking a few words, I was choked up, and I still want to ask you, who do you associate with." After finishing speaking, he stamped his feet and ran away.

She thought Yuan Ziwen would come after her, but she saw him turn directly to Jia Zhuo's side, bowing to her, and kept bowing and saying something.

"Xiaojia, let's go and see the bride." The lady of the Li family came over, took Li Xiaojia's hand, and led her forward.

As he walked, he spoke at a very fast speed: "I don't care what you think, just remove the eyes that are glued to him now. You are not allowed to come here alone until the Yuan family has not come to propose marriage. You don't even look at yourself No matter how old you are, you don't feel ashamed, and I will be ashamed for you."

"Mother." Li Xiaojia was crying, but she knew that her mother's words never counted.

"Don't cry. If you dare to cry, even if the Yuan family comes to propose marriage, I won't agree. If you don't believe me, just cry and see if I dare." The wife of the Li family was almost pissed off by her daughter. Baijiaqiu, his own silly daughter, fell headfirst on others.

If Lang Youqing concubine is interested, it's okay to say, but now it seems that Yuan Ziwen doesn't seem to have that intention.Before the Yuan family agreed to come to propose marriage, she had to keep her daughter away from the Yuan family and away from Yuan Ziwen. If things changed, she could still say that she was a child before and just played together.

If not, the matter with the Yuan family has not been negotiated, but everyone knows that the daughter of the Li family has come to court him, so what will happen? What kind of good family would dare to propose marriage.

"Yes, Xiaojia knows, Xiaojia... will be obedient." Li Xiaojia didn't dare to offend her mother, so she could only hold back the tears that had already burst out.But he hated Jia Zhuo more and more in his heart. If she hadn't appeared suddenly and occupied all of brother Ziwen's sights, how could brother Ziwen be so indifferent to her.

On the other hand, Jia Zhuo repeatedly evaded Yuan Ziwen's apology, "It's really not a big deal, it's just a quarrel between the girls, and it's worth apologizing as a big deal, you are the one who made us feel ashamed." Rong, hurry up and leave."

"No, no, but Li Xiaojia and I really have nothing to do, we are just neighbors." Yuan Ziwen looked aggrieved, and looked at Jia Zhuo with expectation.

The arc of Jia Zhuo's mouth deepened, "What does this have to do with me? Isn't it between you and the Li family?"

"Oh." Yuan Ziwen lowered his head in frustration when he didn't hear the ideal answer, and soon someone called him over.Today he was the host, and he couldn't refuse, so he had to look at Jia Zhuo reluctantly, and Baner pushed him before he was willing to leave.

"Grinding, sticky and sticky." Jia Zhuo shook his head and gave an eight-character comment.

"Aren't you going to see the bride?" A little girl who was playing with sandbags came over and called Qing'er.

"We're not going." Jia Zhuo smiled at her and shook his head. Almost all the people who entered the new house were relatives or close friends of the Yuan family, or they were invited by the bride, so what if they ran away.What's more, Li Xiaojia must be in it, so is it necessary to send it to someone's door to say harsh words?She's not that boring.

"Otherwise, let's go first." Ban'er frowned, complaining in his heart to Yuan Ziwen, what a mess.

Of course Jia Zhuo wanted to leave, but if he left, how would Baner and Yuan Ziwen get along in the future.How do other people look at the board, so that they can be awkward on other people's happy days.

Shaking her head quickly, "Qing'er told Yuan Ziwen on purpose, but in fact, I was so popular that I was about to smoke. I won't leave, so I won't make her happy. Leaving early, it seems like I have a guilty conscience. "