Wei Minwen planned to reopen the rice grain shop in Yuxian County, and ordered three shops in one go.

After the flood receded, although the imperial court distributed disaster relief, it was a drop in the bucket, and the food distributed to the victims could not be managed for a few days. If people want to live, they have to eat, so the price of food is rising.

Peers have the rules of peers, Wei Minwen's grain is transported from Heyuan at a low price in the year, but other shops are not. The high cost of food is doomed to a high price. If Fujia Rice Shop wants to gain a foothold in its peers, it can't set the price too low.

After all these years of hard work, Wei Minwen's vision has become more and more keen, and while he is expanding the rice and grain shop, he also plans to start getting involved in others, and one of the three shops in Yuxian County is ready to open a cloth village.

He had been to Heyuan last year, where the wind and rain had been good and the grain had been harvesting in recent years, but because of the war, the price of non-self-produced daily necessities such as silk and porcelain was extremely high. In addition to the abundant grain, the processing of silk cloth and silk is also very popular, and many villages and towns in Suzhou, which is adjacent to Jin'an Yu County, almost raise silkworms and weave cloth. The price of silk cloth in this area is very different from that in the Heyuan area. He plans to go to the source of the river next time and pick up some of these things along the way.

The rising water level of the Huai River is gradually receding, and more and more people are returning to their hometowns. Although the Wei family renovated the house and rented out thirty or forty acres of land, they still had a lot to do. It's August, the autumn and winter hardy crops should be planted quickly, and the vegetable garden should also be rested quickly.

The work in the field does not need Zhang Xing's hands, there are Wei Yunhai and Zhang Jinbao with a few short-term workers. She only cares about the garden. Big blistered land. A layer of silt has accumulated. Although it is fertile. But it also needs to be cleaned up. Zhang Xingzu was busy for more than ten days before he put out the Wei family's vegetable garden. But it will have to wait for several months to be served.

On this day, Zhang Xing finished the vegetable garden, and went to the river with the basket, ready to find some water celery and then go home. She had only picked up two handfuls when she heard someone shouting on the riverbank. She saw the person coming clearly, and hurriedly beckoned: "Jinbao." Over here. ”

Zhang Jinbao ran closer and shouted, "Sister, there are guests in our house, and my mother will let you go home quickly." ”

Zhang Xing looked back at the basket, these two dishes would never be able to make a bowl of dishes, and it was not easy to find a nest of water celery, so it was better to pick more. Next time, I may not be able to see it again.

"Got it, you go back first, I'll be there right away. She replied.

Zhang Jinbao did not leave. Instead, he was ready to take off his shoes and come down to help.

At this time, although the water has receded, the river has not yet dried up. The silt has accumulated deep in the old.

Zhang Xing smiled and said, "What are you doing when you come down?" I'll go up in a while. ”

Zhang Jinbao didn't listen to her, took off his shoes, and came down carefully.

Zhang Xing laughed at him, "Be careful, don't fall into the river." ”

Zhang Jinbao also laughed and said, "Okay, I'm just about to take a shower, and it's just right to fall down." As he spoke, he looked at the basket behind Zhang Xing, and recognized that it was the wild vegetables that he had eaten in the past few days, and he followed him around.

"Who is coming to our house?" Zhang Xing asked while busy.

"Well, Aunt Yun is here. "Zhang Jinbao has been to Liu's Mansion in Yuxian County many times, and he is no stranger to Ye Yunlan.

Zhang Xing was shocked and stopped.

Since Gu Xichao was taken away, she just knew that her pure days were coming to an end. Several masters of Huaiyang Palace's mansion are afraid that they all know that there is such a person as her. What would they think of her? She didn't think it was a good impression to guess. She would invite Gu Xichao to do such a big thing, saying that she was a fox or something, it was light. What will she do with her? It probably depends on how much she has in Gu Xichao's heart.

She also knows this amount in her heart. Young people have their first taste of love, they are hot-headed, they are not afraid of anything, and they dare to do anything. This is just for a while, and when you get older, you have seen more of the world and precipitated impetuousness, so you will naturally not be so reckless.

However, if she thinks so, the people in Huaiyang Mansion may not think so, if they only look at the surface, then it will be difficult for her to be at peace again.

Ye Yunlan came to Weijiazhuang at this time, and the trouble of Huaiyang Wangfu was not far away.

"Sister, sister, what are you thinking?" Zhang Jinbao saw Zhang Xing in a daze, pushed her and asked, "Have you seen enough of this?"

Zhang Xing came back to her senses and looked back at the basket, "Enough, let's go up." ”

When the matter comes, it is useless to hide, and there is only a matter of seeing things.

The two siblings carried each other ashore, went to a dock and washed again, and then went home. Zhang Xing had something in her heart, and she walked slowly, but the road was so long, no matter how slow it was, it was only a few dozen steps more.

Before he got home, Zhang Xing saw two carriages parked at the gate of the Wei family's courtyard. She was stunned, her face changed, and she turned her head and asked Zhang Jinbao: "Apart from Aunt Yun, who else is coming to our house?"

Zhang Jinbao kicked the small stone and said casually: "There are five other people, four of them are like girls in her house, and one is a mother-in-law, I heard Aunt Yun call her Mother Xu." ”

In this way, it is not only Ye Yunlan who has come, but also Huaiyang Palace.

It's so fast.

Zhang Xing took a breath, pushed open the courtyard door, and saw two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls at the door of her hall, both wearing purple shoulders and plain skirts. The door of the house was wide open, and there were three people sitting in the room, Ye Hexiang, Ye Yunlan, and a woman about forty or fifty years old.

Zhang Xing knew that this woman was probably the mother Xu that Zhang Jinbao said.

The people in the house also saw her. Ye Hexiang smiled and beckoned inside, "Xing'er, come, come in." ”

Zhang Xing glanced down at herself. In order to facilitate her work, she wore the old clothes of the previous year. She had been busy in the vegetable garden for most of the day, and now she was covered with mud. When she was picking vegetables by the river, she didn't take off her shoes, although she came up and swayed in the water with her shoelaces, but it was still not clean, and she walked wet for a while, and it was really miserable below her knees.

However, it is also better this way.

Her mind moved, and she walked in. The two girls at the door saw the footprints left on the ground, and one pouted.

Zhang Jinbao saw Zhang Xing enter, he stretched out his head to look inside, turned around and went to his room.

Ye Hexiang smiled on her face, pulled Zhang Xing, and said, "Mother Xu, this is my eldest daughter, Zhang Xing." He urged Zhang Xing again, "Quick, kowtow to Mother Xu." ”

She was a little dizzy, and she actually asked her daughter to kowtow to a mother-in-law. Compared with the surprise when she saw Zhang Xing, Ye Hexiang's words made Ye Yunlan even more dumbfounded. She knew that Ye Hexiang was unreliable, but she never thought that she would suddenly say this. But the words had already come out of her mouth, and she didn't have time to interrupt, so she could only scold in her heart. stared at Zhang Xing, who came over quietly, hoping that she would never be virtuous with her mother.

Zhang Xing just bent down and called, "Mother Xu is good." ”

Although Xu's mother was a little old, she was in good spirits, her hair was combed smoothly, she looked at Zhang Xing with a smile, and she didn't seem to see a footprint left behind her. took out a satin bag from her sleeve, dragged Zhang Xing's hand, and put it in her palm, "I came in a hurry, and I didn't have time to prepare the gift." This bracelet was given by the old princess, and now I have to take it as a gift. Don't dislike it, girl. ”

Although Zhang Xing has been in the countryside, she has occasionally heard about the mansion gate, and knows that there is such a thing as a gift. But this Xu's mother's meeting gift, she believes that it is definitely not as she said, it was taken out in a hurry, and this bracelet should have been prepared a long time ago.

Ye Hexiang's eyes stared at the satin bag, and hurriedly took Zhang Xing's hand, touched the satin bag, smiled even more happily, and said repeatedly: "Look at what you said, which thing in the palace is not good? Mother Xu, you are so polite. ”

Ye Yunlan's face changed. Fortunately, Mother Xu didn't seem to hear Ye Hexiang's words clearly, and the expression on her face didn't change at all, she only dragged Zhang Xing's hand, looked up and down, and said: "I only said that the little pepper in our house was born well, but I didn't expect her sister to be even better-looking." Mrs. Wei, your two daughters are like you, like flowers. ”

Ye Hexiang smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed, "Mother Xu, your eyes are really amazing." My two daughters are indeed like me, especially my eldest daughter Xing'er, who is almost carved out of the same mold as when I was young. There is no one in these ten miles and eight towns who can compare to her. ”

Ye Yunlan felt that she couldn't bear it anymore, if she let Ye Hexiang continue to talk about it, this good thing might turn into a bad thing. She hurriedly said to Zhang Xing: "Xing'er, where are you coming from?"

Zhang Xing lowered her head and said, "I'm going to the vegetable garden." ”

Ye Yunlan glanced at the basket she was holding again, "This is what you picked, this, what kind of dish is this?" and turned to Xu's mother and said, "This dish is rare." ”

Mother Xu looked at it and said, "This is water celery, which is specialized in the water's edge, and there is indeed no one in the palace." ”

Ye Hexiang snatched the basket from Zhang Xing's hand, "How can there be this vegetable palace? This is not from the long vegetable field, this is usually served without eating or drinking, it is small and unpalatable." The chicken, duck, fish and meat in the palace are all ordinary, how can you eat this dish?"

Mother Xu only smiled and deliberately glanced at Zhang Xing's feet. Ye Hexiang found that her daughter was wearing coarse old clothes, her body was covered with mud, and her hem was wet, and the shoes on her feet were even more like they were fished up from the water, wet, leaving two rows of clear footprints on the ground all the way in. It's really like a rice rusher. Her face became ugly, and she pointed at Zhang Xing and said, "You, how did you get like this......?" Go wash and change it!" she actually said just now that this girl looks like herself, which is really embarrassing.

Zhang Xing didn't say a word, lowered her head, and ran out like a rabbit.

Ye Hexiang gritted her teeth and watched Zhang Xing go out, and when she turned around, the smile on her face piled up again, "Mother Xu, my girl went to the ground today, so she got this look, and when she cleans it up, you can see it again, it will definitely not be bad." Although she can't speak, she is not stupid, and she is a good worker, she can handle it inside and outside our home. (To be continued......)