The branches and leaves of several hundred-year-old trees in the courtyard overlapped each other, blocking the layers of heat. In the two large glass jars under the corridor, dozens of five-colored goldfish are swimming in lotus leaves; From time to time, one or two cicadas chirped weakly.

Sun Zhanyi lifted the corner of her skirt and gently stepped into her mother's door, waved her hand at the silk yarn and orange luo guarding the door, and whispered, "Is my mother awake?" ”

While raising the curtain, Cheng Luo and Jiang Sha pursed their lips and smiled: "Miss, Madame has already gotten up, you don't have to tiptoe." ”

As soon as the lake-colored soft silk curtain was lifted, a girl in a light crimson gauze shirt came out with a copper basin and smiled: "Miss, Madame has finished grooming and is entering the bird's nest porridge." Do you want the maid to give you a lamp too? ”

In the house, Li Haizhu was wearing a homely autumn pigment cloud gauze gown, and tied a jade-colored dark flower gauze skirt. Because I just got up from a nap, I only used a hosta to loosen a falling bun. Hearing that his daughter was coming, he put down the filigree silver bowl in his hand, picked up the silk and wiped the corners of his mouth, and raised his hand to call his daughter over: "It's still poisonous this day, what are you doing here now?" Don't follow a girl, what about the girls in Chunxian and Chunyuan? Then he turned his head and instructed the girl next to him: "Red Aya, you go and order a bowl of honeysuckle dew brought back by Han Quercus last time to give her a bowl of summer heat." Remember not to add ice, this child has a weak spleen and stomach and can't stand the cold. ”

Red Aya smiled and agreed. Dipping clothes took her mother's hand and said to Jiao'er: "Mother, I let Chun Xian and Chun Nong stay in the house to cut clothes for Han Quercus." The older Qiufeng and Qiushui in her house were brought out this time, and the remaining Qiuyi and Qiushui were still too small, so it would be good to be optimistic about the house, where else would they know about other things? The oaks grow fast, and the underwear that comes back to the season must be small again, so I asked them to hurry up and drive them out. Chun Jing followed me out and walked to the curved bridge, I saw that the lotus flowers were budding, so I asked her to find Zhao's sister-in-law who was supporting the boat to pick them and insert bottles for her mother. ”

Mrs. Sun happily hugged her clothes and rubbed her hair: "My clothes have grown up obediently, and I know that I am worried." Since I have set the Gu family's family affairs for you, I will be relieved. Your father-in-law is now in a good career, and our two families are good friends. Gu Cong and you are childhood sweethearts, and their character and talent are so outstanding. It is also inevitable that he will be promoted in the future. I'm relieved of you, just worried about your sister. Now that she is six or seven years old, your father still indulges her, does not let her bind her feet, and runs around every day after your cousin. The needle girl is not as good as the red, and she found an old monk to learn kung fu from somewhere. How do you find her in-laws when she grows up? ”

When she heard her mother talk about the Gu family, she buried her face in her mother's arms in shame, and smiled when she heard Han Quercus: "Mother, you also said that she would bind her feet, my sister couldn't speak until she was more than two years old, and they all said that the second miss of the Sun family was a dumb person." Didn't you say you were scared to see my feet binding? ”

Mrs. Sun sighed and said, "I started to hear Han Oak speak, I was about to die of joy, where do I care what she wants!" The stars in the sky can be plucked! If she wants to pretend to be a boy, it's not uncommon for a young lady from a big family to be a boy. It's okay to change back when you grow up. Besides, your sister speaks with her mouth open, and she speaks and acts, where is she an ordinary child? Even the oldest of the elves is better than her! Your father was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, and said that there was a prodigy in our family, and there was a successor to the Sun family. He also made people say to the outside world: The second miss of the Sun family is too sick to be good, and she has to be blessed by the Buddha, so she can be sent to the nunnery to raise her safely. He also said that he had raised a son outside, and now he brought it back to raise him. She lowered her head and took a sip of tea, and complained, "Now it seems that he is playing with your sister's temperament." It was obvious that I had made up my mind at that time, and I wanted to keep it like this! Not only your father, but also your uncle and cousin, I think they all beat this idea! One by one, they spoil the cold oak like a bully, and run around happily every day, which family's in-laws can tolerate such a wild temper in the future! What son-in-law can dare to marry her! Oh, no, as long as I think about it, my head hurts."

At this time, Sun Zhangyang's father and son, who were far away in Qingzhou, Shandong, were not so comfortable. Just because Han Oak remembered one day, he drew a map of the world, asked Hai Pan to come over, marked Magellan's route, and pointed out to him that America and Australia are still two blank spaces, Hai Pan suddenly understood the huge benefits of this, and after exchanging a knowing look with Han Oak, his mind turned quickly: "I have to take the boat to this thing myself,—— I don't worry about changing someone else." Don't worry, my sailors have all followed the Eight Treasure Eunuchs to the West, and they are the best talents in the world, if we can't find the New World you said, it is impossible for others to find it. ”

Han Oak wanted to follow him to be the Magellan of this life, but Hai Pan categorically disagreed, so he had to stay at home in frustration, and could only pester Sun Zhangyang from time to time, and follow Sun Zhangyang out for a walk.

This time he followed Sun Zhangyang to Guanwai, and on the way back, he made a detour through Qingzhou, why did he take a detour, it turned out that Sun Zhangyang was going to visit his father-in-law who was stained with clothes, Gu Guangyi, is now in office as the prefect of Qingzhou.

It was only after Jinan that the hearts of Sun's father and son began to heavily. This year, Jinan and Qingzhou encountered a major locust plague, followed by a major drought, and not a drop of water has fallen from the ground for three or four months. The leaves of the trees were eaten by the locusts, and the bark of the trees was stripped of by the hungry people, and there was no white and yellow shadow to be seen. The hungry who could move fled in all directions, and some of them were too old to walk and could only lie on the ground and wait for death.

Han Oak asked, "Daddy, shouldn't the imperial court send someone to help at this time?" Why are so many people starving to death? ”

Sun Zhangyang sighed, also puzzled, thinking that he would immediately enter the Qingzhou Mansion and ask Gu Guangyi why.

The Sun family's convoy was so strong that some of the victims who wanted to come forward to intercept them stopped thinking about robbery. The Sun family didn't dare to stay longer, and galloped all the way to Qingzhou.

After passing a place called Jujube Forest, it was already late afternoon, and everyone was tired, Sun Zhangyang and the housekeeper greeted him, and the group stopped and drank some water in a circle.

As soon as Han Oak was holding a piece of cake in his hand and wanted to put it in his mouth, he heard a slow mechanical sound of "Bah, Boom" behind the trunks of two trees on the side of the road that had been stripped of their bark and only white flowers. Curiously, he looked up and saw a young man sitting on the ground, holding a hoe, and digging a hole with a hoe.