Chapter 57: The Small Courtyard
The purpose is a farm estate.
But see its blue brick wall, inside are several very bright hall of large tile houses, the courtyard alone covers an area of 100 square meters, there are not only small vegetable gardens commonly used by farmers, but also the pigsty of the stone base, the chicken frame of bamboo strips, the middle of the yard is two large jujube trees, hanging on the swing that can only swing people, in addition to whether it is the aged bud hanging under the eaves or the string of red dried peppers hanging under the corridor have a sense of familiarity that makes people intoxicated.
Rong Xia was in the middle of it, but she felt confused, without it, because the qiē here was so familiar, almost exactly the same as the home of her and her brother in the previous life.
"How is it? Do you like it?" Pei Jinzhi stood in the courtyard and looked at Rong Xia with a confused expression and asked with a chuckle.
"Young, young master......" Rong Xia turned his head, with a crying expression on his face.
She remembered that once, Pei Jinzhi came to paint in his spare time, Rong Xia recalled the old scenes of the past home on a whim, Pei Jinzhi painted all the scenery with a few strokes, and Rong Xia was still surprised at that time, but he didn't expect the painting scene in the past to come true today. Seeing that Rong Xia's expression was uncontrollable excited, Pei Jinzhi walked over and took her slightly cool little hand: "Let's go, go in and have a look." ”
Rong Xia stumbled and was pulled inside by him.
This is an authentic farmhouse courtyard, whether it is the earthen stove or the fire kang dragon in the room, it is also very friendly to Xia, but it can also be clearly seen that it has been renovated again, the walls painted with white plaster, the mahogany furniture with a faint rosin fragrance, and the bedding are all brand new. In particular, there is a bright floor in the bedroom, and you can see the reflection of people clearly and clearly.
Rong Xia's whole person was immersed in excitement and joy, and the past events that he thought he had forgotten suddenly became vivid again. She returned to Xingye Village, as if she could see her brother's grinning face as long as she walked out of the house.
"You, what a tear bun!" Pei Jinzhi shook his head helplessly, and pulled someone to sit next to Kang Yan.
Rong Xia was happy and grateful in her heart, and said thank you to Pei Jinzhi with a smile and a cry.
Pei Jinzhi saw that she was touched in her heart, and she was excited for a while, so she pushed the boat and half-hugged the person in her arms, and suddenly a warm nephrite touch came easily from the contact on her body. He nodded in satisfaction, and his heart lit up for no reason. Rong Xia here was crying, and he didn't notice that he was being taken advantage of, and he cried for a while, only to find that he was almost soaked with tears on his shoulders.
Pei Jinzhi has always been a bit clean, and he definitely can't tolerate wearing dirty clothes, fortunately, the carriage he traveled in was always equipped with changed clothes, Rong Xia trotted all the way out to get it, and by the way, he washed his crying little face with the well water in the yard before he came back to serve Pei Jinzhi with his clothes.
Although Rong Xia was excited for a while, she also had doubts in her heart.
"Young Master, why did you bring Ah Xia here?"
Pei Jinzhi didn't answer and asked: "What does Ah Xia think about here?"
Rong Xia didn't think about it and immediately said, "It's very good." The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the scenery is pleasant, if you live here and look at the mountains and rivers every day, the mood will change a few points. ”
Pei Jinzhi is good, here is the nearest village road from Wan'an County, because the terrain is a trumpet-shaped, so it is also called Trumpet Village, this village lives in a total of 100 households, not only the scenery is beautiful and the folk customs are also quite simple.
"In addition to this house, there are also fifty acres of upper field, fifty acres of middle field, and thirty acres of lower field, all of which I have inherited to your name. Rong Xia was stunned when he heard this, and he was so surprised that he didn't know what to do: "Young, young master, ......"
"Although the house and the field are all given to you, it is by no means for you to leave me. Pei Jinzhi patted Rong Xia's stiff little head, and took out something from his arms: "This is your deed in the Hou Mansion." After that, in front of Rong Xia, he tore the thin piece of white paper into pieces with his own hands.
"Young Master, who are you?"
"I just hope that Axia's heart can be stable and not always trem......ble like before," Pei Jinzhi shook his head helplessly
The surprise and surprise came too quickly, and the strong emotional impact made Rong Xia almost didn't know what kind of emotion to use to react.
"There are a lot of things to do in the government, if you are impatient. Let's move here, there are mountains here, and your spiritual well can also come in handy......" The man's gentle whisper was in his ears, but Rong Xia looked at the torn and shredded deed list at his feet, from today on, she, she is no longer a slave
"Young master, young master!" Rong Xia suddenly interrupted him. Pei Jinzhi snorted.
"Why is the young master so good to me?" Rong Xia's eyes were red like a rabbit again.
"What do you say?" Pei Jinzhi pinched her grapefruit little nose.
Rong Xia looked at him with tears in her eyes, trying to control the urge to fall into his arms and cry again.
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This Mid-Autumn Festival, the two spent quietly in this small courtyard.
When the bright moon was in the sky, Rong Xia put a small table under the big jujube tree, and took out wine, meat, food, vegetables and fruits from the space, lit firewood and made a fire to cook, of course, moon cakes have never been missing, whether it is traditional jujube paste bean paste, five-kernel black sesame seeds. Or lucumber fruit puree has everything, Pei Jinzhi's taste is more peculiar, he actually likes a salted duck egg flavor moon cake very much, and ate two pieces in a row.
"Young Master Axiajing. "Rong Xia is so happy today, before the wine is eaten, the whole person already feels dizzy.
Pei Jinzhi snorted, and drank it all in a face-saving way.
"Young master, you try this crystal button meat, I also put some winter melon strips into it, it's not greasy at all! There is also this first-class tofu, don't you like tofu the most, this is newly developed by Rong Xia, you can try it." Oh, and this shredded yam, young master, don't frown, yam and sweet potato are different, not so sweet, dip some water before eating like this......" Rong Xia was like a busy bird chirping around Pei Jinzhi, full of courtesy, all of which could be found on that red and soft little face.
Being treated with such "enthusiasm", Pei Jinzhi's mood is also quite good.
In this way, the two took advantage of the moonlight, accompanied by food and wine, and spent this year's Mid-Autumn Festival night very warmly.
On the second day, Rong Xia returned to the mansion to pack some of his commonly used things, and returned to the farmhouse courtyard with gold and silver flowers and Wishing you prosperity. And Scarlet and Baizhi all stayed, and at the beginning, Scarlet was very happy, thinking that the second master was annoyed by Rong Xia and drove her away. Who would have thought that in the next few days, Pei Jin got off the yamen and rode away, but he couldn't even see each other. Scarlet is not without trouble, but Jiuxiang, who stays here, is not as easy to talk as Rong Xia, and she eats a lot of chops for Scarlet.
When he moved to the small courtyard of the farmhouse, the first thing Rong Xia did was to go and see his family's land.
Peasants value the land, and the land is their foundation. Rong Xia's family has a total of more than 130 acres of land, including three tenant farmers, it is autumn, Rong Xia's land also planted some things, these tenant farmers are busy working in the field. Rong Xia knew that this was the time when the tenant farmers ate heavily, so they made lunch with the honeysuckle, and every day they were one meat and one vegetarian, and they took out herbal tea that they drank casually without money, and the tenant farmers immediately had a good impression of Rong Xia, the new owner, and felt that Rong Xia was a benevolent master.
This season has passed, and whatever Rong Xia wants to plant, it will have to wait until next year. You can catch some chickens and piglets and raise them. As soon as the wind was released from Rong Xia's side, a tenant peasant woman in the field came over with a hairy egg that could hatch chickens. Rong Xia was very happy, and immediately wanted to pay the woman, but the other party was sincerely afraid that he did not accept it, Rong Xia saw that she wanted this, so he asked Yinhua to fill a box of pastries for her, and the woman took the snacks and left very happily.
"Young master, look at it, it's cute!" Rong Xia clasped his hands together, and in the palm of his hand, a small thing with an eggshell on its head and no eyes even opened, was lying on it with a shrunken face.
Pei Jinzhi put down the official document in his hand and glanced back and forth, his eyes lit up slightly.
Rong Xia smiled in her heart when she saw it, she had actually discovered that Pei Jinzhi was actually a person who liked small animals very much, especially the fluffy and very cute kind. Wishing you prosperity when he was young, Pei Jinzhi would often tease them jokingly.
"Young master, hug it!" Rong Xia smiled and sent the little chick forward.
Pei Jinzhi hesitated, but he still couldn't resist the cute feeling of the little chick, and took it from Rong Xia's hand, his expression was a little nervous, and his whole body was a little stiff, as if he was holding not a chicken but some fragile glass.
"It feels amazing!" Rong Xia propped his chin and said to Pei Jinzhi with a smile.
Pei Jinzhi pursed his lips and hummed, and stretched out his hand to gently press the chicken's small brain.
"I used to have such a chick when I was younger. Pei Jinzhi said softly: "I bought it at the market, and the fluffy little yellow chickens were packed in a bamboo cage, one by one, shivering. ”
"And then?" asked Rong Xia curiously.
"Then, I had to ask my mother to buy me a chicken like this, my mother said, such a chicken can't be raised, I don't believe it, squatting on the ground and refusing to go, my mother can't help me, and in the end I can only respond to me. ”
Rong Xia couldn't imagine what the picture of Pei Jinzhi squatting on the ground and asking his mother to buy something for him was like.
It must be interesting.
Rong Xia thought funny.