By the end of spring, we had settled down, and the backyard had been turned into a small vegetable garden, with cucumbers, green peppers, shallots, eggplants, and greens, but if it weren't for the conditions, I would have liked to grow a piece of wheat here. Although we buy all the rice, noodles and vegetables we eat, growing vegetables is one thing I have always longed for, and in the process of slowly watering them and catching insects, I already feel that it is infinitely interesting, even if there is no fruit, I am also happy in it. What's more, the results are not bad, the cucumbers have climbed to the shelves built on the reed poles, and the green peppers have also bloomed some green little white flowers. There is a grapevine moved by the original owner in the backyard, and a grape trellis is built with bamboo branches, and there is a stone table and two round drums and stone piers under the shelf. The grape leaves are already green and shiny, and when the wind blows, the leaves rustle all over the shelves.

We usually live in seclusion, but when the weather warmed up, I took Sister Qiao out a few times to observe the growth of wheat in the neighborhood, and told her that the snacks she ate were made from this wheat. The seeds were sown last year, and after a winter, the wheat seedlings were pulled out and flowered and filled, and finally grew into full wheat grains, harvested, threshed, husked, dried and milled, and then after a series of processing, they could be turned into delicious snacks. The same is true for rice, by the way, on-site teaching was carried out, and she was asked to listen to "hoeing at noon on the day, sweat drops into the soil". Looking at the farmers plowing under the scorching sun, Sister Qiao's voice reciting poems was not as crisp and high as usual. In the past, she couldn't understand the meaning of reading poetry, but now it's different.

Who knows that Chinese food is hard work.

As we drove past the farmland, there happened to be a flock of white geese in a small pond not far from the road, flapping their wings and spreading joy on the water. Sister Qiao didn't need me to speak, she recited the poem in response to the situation: "Goose goose goose, the song is to the sky." The white hair floats in the green water, and the red anthurium plucks the clear waves. ”

"Well, it's a good back. ”

Sister Qiao looked forward: "Mother, do we want to buy land?"

"Yes," I said, "if you buy rice and vegetables to eat, the money you bring will be used for less than a penny, and you can't sit back and eat nothing." Put a few acres of land here, rent it to people to plant, let's collect some rice grain at home in the autumn, vegetables, the backyard will be able to eat soon, although a little less, but the vegetables you grow yourself, you will definitely feel particularly delicious to eat. ”

"Mmmm," Sister Qiao nodded vigorously: "Yes, I must taste the cucumber first!"

I smiled, "Yesterday you said that if you have grapes, you must taste them first." ”

"Grapes are grapes, cucumbers are cucumbers. ”

We talked and laughed all the way, and Wenxiu drove the car in front. I also visited a few fields along the way, but I was never satisfied. Another reason is that I don't know if we can live in this Jinling City for a long time, in case something happens, it is possible to move to another place, the house can be put aside, if we buy land, it will be a little troublesome.

Fortunately, the belongings I brought with me are that we don't produce or buy or sell all our lives, and we can't eat and spend everything, and we can live a very well-off and comfortable life.

People always have to have a long-term plan, and we are also inquiring about the situation in the capital, and I don't know what the situation of the Jia family is now. Wenxiu will ask people from the dart bureau or other people who come and go from the south to the north to inquire about the news, these people are not familiar with the powerful and wealthy, they only know that the mansion is still there, and the people are still living, and they don't know anything else.

I can't say how I feel when I get this kind of news. Ping'er was the same, the look on her face couldn't tell whether she was happy or worried, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. If everything is business as usual, then the people inside should be the same as when we left. Although I know that it will not be able to escape that day if it fails sooner or later, after all, it was once home, a place where I have lived and lived for so long.

Sister Qiao asked why we bought our own house to live here, and I simply told her that there might be difficulties at home, and we came out to take refuge. Sister Qiao nodded ignorantly, and asked again, "What about Dad?"

I felt mixed things in my heart, touching her hair and not speaking.

I don't have any feelings for Jia Lian, so it is impossible for Sister Qiao's vague admiration to resonate in my heart.

To be honest, I don't care about Jia Lian's ending at all, I just don't know...... What happened to the girls in the Jia family, what about Baoyu? Did he pass the exam? Did Daiyu's body improve slightly? Or did she get weaker? Does Miss Xue still want to marry Baoyu?

I can't help but think about these things, but I don't dare to think about them all the time. If you think about it, you can't grasp it, and it's useless to think about it.

Our car turned a corner and we were on our way home. Of course, the horse pulling the cart was not raised by herself, it was rented by someone, and there was a door in the backyard, there were no steps in the way, the car rushed in, Wenxiu unloaded the car, and she was also a loss to dress up as a man all the time and do these heavy things. Sometimes I couldn't help it, and she smiled and said, "If I want to be stuffy in the house all day long like you, then I won't do it." ”

Ping'er and Xiaolan came out to pick us up, Ping'er was wearing a water-red semi-new gauze shirt, a duck egg gray skirt, covered with a beige yarn printed bamboo leaf pattern long armor, it looked really slim, Xiaolan was wearing a light floral cloth, with a lilac-colored belt tied around her waist, and two pigtails on her head, which looked a lot more round than when she first came.

"Madame is back, is Madame thirsty?"

"Not thirsty, drank in the car. Sister Qiao said, "We passed by the wheat field today, and Uncle Li stopped the car and pulled two ears of wheat for me." I'll be back for you to play. ”

Xiaolan pursed her lips and smiled: "Miss Qiao, my family used to have two acres of land, and I used to see the ears of wheat every day, and after the wheat was cut, my sister and I also went to the field to pick up the ears of wheat that were leaked by others a few times." ”

We walked around the vegetable garden in the backyard, and Ping'er said, "I thought you wouldn't be able to come back at noon, so I made two dishes, and this time I came back just in time, I asked the Ma family to stew the fish they bought this morning, and add a tofu, right?"

I nodded, and Ping'er said again: "Today, the Shen Mansion sent someone to deliver something." ”

I turned my head unexpectedly: "What did you give?"

"Things are ordinary, but the people who send them are ......"

"Huh?"

After we stayed, Shen Ye once sent someone to visit once, but he didn't come, Sun Langzhong followed, and also checked my pulse to confirm that I was recovering well. Later, Sister-in-law Feng also came to deliver food twice, one was a particularly fresh shrimp, and the other was some dried goods from the Northland. We only have such a little personal relationship with the Shen Mansion here.

"Sister-in-law Fu came to send it, saying that Mrs. Mei, who was in charge of their house, asked her to send it. ”

"Madame May?"

"I asked, it should be Shen Ye's mother's cousin, after Shen Ye's mother died early, this cousin became his nurse again, and she was almost raised, so there are no other elders in Shen's mansion, Shen Ye's original wife also died, she is the housewife. ”

It turns out that this Mrs. May is from this origin.

"Where's Sister-in-law Fu?"

"I said that grandma was not there, and she refused to keep the meal, so she had already gone back first, saying that Mrs. Mei would invite us to come over to the house tomorrow to talk. ”

I was a little hesitant on my feet.

Ping'er said, "Are you going?"

I settled down and walked up the steps: "Can you not go? There is no reason to refuse, and there will be a next time if you push it this time." I guess...... Most of the time Mrs. Mei was not at ease, she didn't know what kind of people had been carried on their ship, and she wanted to find out. Go and see her once, and her suspicions will be dispelled, and it will be fine. I entered the door, took off the shawl, and Ping'er took it: "It's nothing, but it's not wrong for people to think about it more when something happens." ”

I washed my face and changed my clothes, put on the meal, Wenxiu also came back, the four of us had lunch in the hall, I felt a little tired in the car in the morning, I took a nap for a while, and seemed to go back to the Grand View Garden of Rongning Mansion in a daze, those girls are like delicate flowers and weak willows, beautiful, laughter is crisp, and nepotism is the wind. I was feeling happy, suddenly there was a thunderclap on the ground, everything in front of me suddenly turned into a black void, those people didn't know where to go, I wanted to shout and look for it in a panic, suddenly one foot stepped into the abyss, and woke up from the bed with a scream.

Ping'er was doing needlework on the couch behind Duobaoge, and hurriedly came over when she heard the sound: "Grandma woke up with thunder?"

I sat up in a trance, and the window was half open. I don't know when it was already cloudy outside, and the lightning shone in the house for a moment, and then there was another thunderclap.

"Why is it raining?"

"Grandma is confused, you told me two days ago, the rainy season is coming, dry clothes and quilts. Isn't that the end of it?"

Yes, the rainy season has arrived.