When Bai Shu returned home, he began to make preparations for the next few days.

He went to the river first, took advantage of the warm weather, caught a large number of small fish, asked Wang Mumu to fill the fish pond, and put some in Chen Dongqing's fish pond.

In a few days, the weather will become cooler and the river will become colder. There will be fewer fish in the river and it will be difficult to go down.

Baizhu took advantage of the last residual temperature to catch more fish, which was also used as a reserve for the fish ponds in autumn and winter.

When this matter was done, he went to the construction site again.

The house on the construction site has been capped, workers are doing detailed repairs, and bricklayers are laying tiles on the roof.

The craftsmen were used to being away from home, so they didn't go back to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, so they only spent it at Xie's house.

Bai Shu called several craftsmen and discussed the progress of the project in the next few days. Seeing that everything had been arranged properly, he went to explain a few words to the two foremen before leaving in peace.

After that, he went to the back kitchen again, and found Brother Wang and the two wives.

All three of them did a good job, and every time they met Bai Shu, they were respectful.Bai Shu took a look at the back kitchen, saw that after they cooked the meal, the countertops on the ground were also tidy, so she praised them a few words before leaving.

Finally, Baizhu went to the back mountain.I saw Chen Dongqing feeding deer in the back mountain.

After the sika deer is free-range, the pregnant doe will not live with the male deer.

But when it was feeding time, Chen Dongqing sprinkled the grass, and the deer herd would gather in one place again.

Now that Chen Dongqing has fed a lot, those deer have become familiar with him.Some are bold enough to dare to eat directly from his hand.

At this moment he was touching the antlers of a grown fawn.This young male deer was not weaned when it was brought back, but now it is more than one meter tall, with a crop of small antlers growing on its head.

"Brother Dongqing!" Bai Shu shouted and walked towards him.

As soon as the sika deer saw him, they ran away one after another. Even if there was food on the ground, they just watched from a distance and dared not go forward.

Chen Dongqing: "..."

"Hahaha, they are afraid of me." Bai Shu laughed loudly and said, "You must still remember my hatred of catching them and cutting off the antlers!"

Bai Zhu had only caught them a few months ago and cut a crop of velvet antlers. He grabbed one of them in a few steps, pressed the ground with his hand and raised the knife.That Shuangsha's skill left a deep shadow on these sika deer.

"Brother Dongqing, I came to you to talk to you. The Mid-Autumn Festival will be in a few days, and I decided to celebrate the festival for everyone." Bai Shu said and took out a silver coin, which weighed about two or two.He said to Chen Dongqing: "Please help me to go to the county to cut more good meat that day, buy some fine wine, and ask the back kitchen to help make some moon cakes and fruits. Give them to all the villagers who are working."

"Of course there's no problem." Chen Dongqing readily accepted the money and said, "I'm afraid the villagers will be so happy that they won't be able to sleep when they find out. You'll get paid for your work, you'll have meat to eat, and you'll be given out for festivals. Where are you?" Is there such a good place? Now you have a high reputation in our Baitang Village, and even many people from other villages have come to inquire about it and want to help you with work."

"It's just that night..." Chen Dongqing remembered that Bai Shu had no father or mother, and was already a widow. He was afraid that he would be hurt if he was alone at home.Then he said to him: "Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for family reunion. Li'er and I are lonely at home. Why don't you come to my house and I'll cook some delicious dishes, drink and watch the moon together?"

"That's not necessary." Bai Shu smiled and rejected Chen Dongqing's kindness: "This is what I want to tell you. I will go out for a few days during the Mid-Autumn Festival and I will not be at home. You are in the village, take care of some , if there is any urgent need for money, you can help me out on your own."

Hearing that Bai Shu had already made up his mind, Chen Dongqing didn't continue to persuade him, but only promised that he would keep his promise, help Bai Shu take care of the family affairs, and let him go out with peace of mind.

In this way, Bai Shu can be regarded as explaining everything around him properly.

He went back to the house and packed the two clothes.After thinking about it, he put on the forehead wipe that Xie Huaiyu had given him, and took a hundred taels of banknotes to carry around his body, and the rest only brought some loose silver.

Bai Shu locked the door and went out, just bumped into Bai Zou.

Because of Bai He's marriage, Bai Laosan's family has lost face again in recent days, and they have become proud in the village.

At this moment, she was holding a dustpan, bragging about her new daughter-in-law with a few village women.

"My newly mentioned daughter-in-law has three daughters in the family, and two older sisters all gave birth to big fat boys. I think she has a figure that is easy to give birth to, and she is better than the hen of the Li family who can't lay eggs before." There are too many." Bai Zou's saliva flew straight.

The village women next to her also nodded, saying that they were envious of her brother's good marriage. Marrying a rich man would bring happiness to the whole family.

When Bai Shu heard them mention Bai He, he thought of seeing Bai He in Fucheng that day.

He was too lazy to care about these things at first, but thinking of the way Bai He looked at him that day, he hesitated for a moment, then turned around and said to Bai Zou: "I saw Bai He in Fucheng that day, and he married that Huang. The master is not a good man. He is having a bad life now, do you want to bring him back. "

When Bai Zou heard this, her face immediately changed. She rolled her eyes, looked at the village women beside her, pointed at Bai Shu, and said, "Bai Shu, don't make up nonsense and say that Bai He is not good at marrying. My family Everyone saw Bai He when he got married, that master is a caring person, he not only wrote the paperwork to make him a good concubine, but also dressed him in gold and silver, which is not at all bad."

"I think you're just jealous that my family Bai He married a rich master. Unlike you, it's okay to make money. You look like a man, so you can't get married."

When Bai Zou said this, his eyes wandered, and his face was a little flustered, with a trace of obvious guilt.

Bai Shu just listened to her words, and he knew that Bai Zou must also know about this matter.

He glanced at Bai Zoushi, sneered, shook his head and left.

This matter is also a matter between Bai He and Bai Lao's family, so what does it have to do with him?

I'm afraid Bai He doesn't know yet, but he always prides himself on being a shrewd and calculating man, but he was sent to the dragon's pool and tiger's den by his family.

Because Bai Shu was delayed for some time, it was almost noon when he went out.

After he walked to the county and had lunch, the ferry to Fucheng had already left.

Fortunately, the ferry has opened, and there are boats carrying passengers.Bai Shu chartered a small boat and spent a tael of silver to bring him to Fucheng.

There is a passenger ship from Fucheng to the capital every morning.But at this time it was almost Shenshi, and the passenger ship had already left, so we could only sit on it tomorrow.

Bai Shu wanted to stay overnight in Fucheng, so she went straight to Laifulou and asked for a middle room.

The middle houses in this prefecture are also much more expensive than those in the county, costing five taels of silver a night, plus a dinner, it also cost more than 100 Wen.

Since then, Bai Shu has spent nearly seven taels of silver before seeing the edge of the capital.It is no wonder that although the villagers in Baitang Village are poor, no one wants to come to the city to make a living.

After all, in the village, people can still rely on farming for food, but when they come to the city, they can't even afford to eat.

After a night of delay in Fucheng, Bai Shu went to the pier early the next morning. Even so, he almost missed the boat to the capital.

He didn't expect that there would be so many people going to the capital!

From Fucheng to Beijing, it takes two days and one night to take a boat, and you can't get to the capital until Youshi the next day.

Therefore, the guests carried are to stay overnight on board.

The passenger ship departed at Si time, but before Chen time, the boat seats were almost sold out.

When Bai Shu went to ask, all the upper-class cabins with a bed of ten taels of silver had already been booked.The middle beds of eight taels of silver were also sold out, leaving only the lower beds of five taels of silver.

Without hesitation, Bai Shu paid for a lower-class bed, and the sailor took the money and gave him a wooden sign.Before sailing, you can board the ship with the wooden sign.

After getting the sign, Bai Zhu went to have breakfast nearby first.When it was almost time, I went to board the ship.

Whether it is the upper berth or the lower berth, board the ship from one channel.It's just that rich households and merchants with more money can still ask sailors to help carry luggage, which requires additional charges.

When Bai Shu boarded the boat, more than half of the people had already gone up first.

The upper-class beds are on the uppermost deck of the ship, and they are divided into two-person rooms. Each room has two beds, and there are carved tables, chairs and benches. There are only four rooms in total.

The medium beds are under the first deck of the ship, and there are also independent wing rooms.

There are four beds, and every two beds touch each other end to end, so there are no tables and chairs in the room.There are more than a dozen such wing rooms in total.

If it is placed in the most inferior bed, it is not a wing room.It doesn't even have windows and the air is stale.

It's just a big room, with more than a dozen beds densely packed inside, so crowded that there is barely a place to stay.

There are also six such large rooms.Bai Shu lived in one of them.

The wooden sign they took was only used when boarding the ship, and there was no provision for rooms and beds.Therefore, when everyone got to the bed, it was just a first-come, first-served basis.

When Bai Shu arrived at the rooms with lower beds, he looked through each room and found that many rooms were full.When I walked to the last room, I realized that there were not many people here, but it was quite empty.

He walked over, randomly chose a corner seat, and put his baggage on it.

After doing this, Bai Shu felt that the air in the cabin was stuffy, so he left first and went to the deck to breathe.

He sat on the deck for a while, looking at the scenery on both sides of the strait, he thought of Xie Huaiyu in his heart, and he didn't know if he was here now.

Xie Huaiyu was traveling in a carriage at a relatively fast speed. If he didn't stop, he should have reached the capital by now.

On the outskirts of the capital, the city gates were opened, and many carriages and people entered the city.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people return to Beijing from other places to visit relatives.There were many people waiting inside the city gate, wanting to greet their relatives as soon as possible.

There must be many common people who greet their husbands, children and others in person.Even if the big family of Gaomen didn't go out in person, they still sent servants and servants to wait here.

All of a sudden, voices of recognition from each family resounded within the city gate.There are joyful ones, and some teary-eyed ones.However, all of this has nothing to do with Xie Huaiyu.

The Xie family's carriage passed through the crowd and drove straight towards Xie's mansion, leaving all those people behind.

While looking out of the window, Xiao Shu complained: "It's fine if the master and madam don't send someone, why didn't Master Xie Ling send someone to come and see, fortunately he is still your younger brother."

"It's also difficult for him." Xie Huaiyu said lightly: "I'm not in the capital now, and he is alone in Xie's house, so the situation is even more difficult. I'm afraid he has to act on the face of that woman. It's not his fault."

After hearing what Xie Huaiyu said, Xiaoshu stopped talking, but he was still resentful.

Xie Ling was brought up by Mrs. Xie's side since she was a child, and she was close to her young master at first, but after being taught a few times by Mrs. Xie, they gradually became estranged.

No matter how kind the young master was to him later on, he would always be trembling and would not respond. Instead, he would chase after Mrs. Xie and his son to please him.

Now his biological brother went to the countryside to observe his filial piety, and he hasn't written a letter for several months.Even my brother didn't send anyone over when he returned to Beijing.

Xie Huaiyu was sitting in the car with a calm expression, and he didn't know what he was thinking.Carefully touching the ruby ​​ring between the ring finger of his left hand with one hand, his eyes drifted into the distance.

The carriage drove for a while and entered an alley.

A few guards suddenly appeared at the entrance of the alley, blocking the alley.

When the carriage stopped, Old Feng asked, "Who is blocking the way ahead?"

Behind those guards, two noble sons came out with smiles, one was wearing green clothes, with a refined and clear demeanor, while the other was wearing a maroon gown, with high spirits, it was Qi Qin who I had only seen once not long ago moon.

"Master, it's Mr. Qi and His Highness the Second Highness." Old Feng immediately reported back.

Xiaoshu's eyes lit up, he lifted the curtain of the car to look, and immediately said happily to Xie Huaiyu: "Master, it is indeed Mr. Qi and His Highness the Second Highness who have come."

Xie Huaiyu also had a smile on his face when he heard that.Immediately got out of the car and went to meet them, and bowed to the two of them.

After seeing him, Qi Qinyue patted him on the shoulder, and looked into the carriage to make sure that there was no one in the carriage, then said jokingly: "Ruishi, this time I returned to Beijing, I didn't take little brother Bai Bring it back so that Zhong Li can see it?"

Zhao Liang listened at the side, and then stepped forward and said: "Brother Bai, I have heard Ziyun say it many times, it is said that he is very powerful, he can kill a bear by himself, it makes me very curious, just It's a pity that in my capacity, it's inconvenient for me to go to your place."

Xie Huaiyu smiled and said: "I will meet you later, let's talk in another place."

It was indeed not good for a few people to talk on the street, so they got into the carriage together and went to Laifulou.

Entering the Lai Fu Building, Xie Huaiyu and the others went directly to the private room in the inner courtyard and sat down, ordering some wine and food.He also ordered Xiaoshu to go to the Xie Mansion to pass the news, saying that he met Qi Qinyue on the way, so he had a small gathering with him first.

Xiaoshu led the way and closed the door.The three of them relaxed and talked about their experiences during this time.

After drinking for ten days, Xie Huaiyu learned about the recent situation of the two of them.

Although Qi Qinyue's father was a bit wordy, he valued his son very much.Although it was a bit rough in the army, I also gained some experience.

Zhao Liang regained the opportunity to go to court because of the disaster relief last time.

It was Zhao Yan, the eldest son of the emperor, who for some reason angered the emperor and was ordered to stay at home and not to go to court in March.

It's just that when he was at home, he would have a big banquet for guests in a few days, and he won the children of the courtiers by his side, but he didn't lose the limelight.

"It's also thanks to your help, Ruishi, that I got this opportunity." Zhao Liang said, raised his wine glass and toasted Xie Huaiyu.

"There is no need to say thanks between you and me." Xie Huaiyu said, took Zhao Liang's drink and drank it all, and then said: "The matter of Xie Qi is also thanks to the mediation of you and Ziyun, otherwise he must not Will be fooled so quickly."

"When Lin Shuyu gives birth to a child, Xie Qi will be completely defeated." Zhao Liang said, "It's just that there are still a few months before that, and Lou's will definitely use this matter to seriously injure you. What are you going to do?"

"Nothing to do." Xie Huaiyu smiled and said: "Before the child is about to be born, she will definitely let out rumors and publicize this matter. I just don't respond. The bigger the incident, the more people will know about it , after the child is born, the flipping becomes more and more ruthless."

"That's true." Zhao Liang nodded and said, "On that day, I will have Linglong Grass in my place, just give you some."

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Bai Shu was blown by the wind for a long time on the deck, and walked back to the cabin, wanting to take a rest.

When I arrived at my own cabin just now, I saw a burly man sitting on the bed where my luggage was placed, and several other men were sitting around talking with him.

And my own burden, I don't know when, it has been thrown to the ground long ago.

This cabin was also full of people at this time, there were women with children in their arms, ordinary villagers in shabby clothes, and the group of men talking together.

The rest of the beds in the cabin, only the place close to the bucket, was wetted by water for some reason.

Bai Shu frowned, then walked towards those men.

When those men saw him coming, they didn't move, they just gave him a cold look, and then continued to brag.

The aisle between the beds was very narrow, and those men gathered together blocked Bai Zhu's way.

Bai Shu patted one person on the shoulder and said, "Brother, please step aside."

That man is not small in stature, a full head taller than Bai Zhu.

He took a look at Bai Shu, only to see that the young man in front of him was thin, with big eyes, sharp jaw, and looked a bit delicate, so he sneered and said, "Young boy, what if I don't let you go?"

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