In a blink of an eye, after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Qian Hua took the people of Jinxiu to the county seat, and the family continued to ask people to dig ponds.

The lake in the large courtyard has been completely cleared, and the lotus seeds taken back from the cave pond have been sprinkled into it. Qian Sangui and Qian Yixiu have already discussed that this lotus seed will be scattered in the lake and breeded, and it will be planted in a large area next year. The other ponds still go outside to buy lotus root for planting.

Because of the large number of people invited, at the end of February, the pond had been dug up. These ponds are slightly shallower than the lake in the large courtyard, about 90 centimeters to one meter deep. Except for the wasteland in front of the yard, which must be empty, and the wasteland on the east side of the yard is left for later construction, among the remaining wasteland, the pond occupies about 100 acres, and more than a dozen acres of soil are piled up into a small hill. Between the ponds and the ponds, between the ponds and the mountains, there are about ten acres of empty land, and houses, pavilions, or gardens will be built in the future.

The Qian family's big house, second house, and ten thousand families, because the land was dug into a pond, and the soil was piled up on the hill of the third house. The hill is undulating, towering in the middle of the large lotus pond in front of Xishi Mountain. On the mountain, in addition to being reserved for walking to build pavilions and planting flowers, there are about 30 acres of land where fruit trees can be planted.

This hill is named Huaguo Mountain, this pond is named Lotus Pond Moonlight, and its own lake is called West Lake, and the name is of course embroidered by Qian Yi.

There are reasons for these names, Huaguo Mountain can bloom and bear fruit when fruit trees are planted, the lotus under the moonlight must be the most beautiful, and the lake at home is called Xizi Lake in the west.

Even Mr. Yu listened to Qian Yixiu's explanation and said that it was good, both vivid and good.

The third room invited five long-term workers to serve the lotus pond, and three long-term workers to serve the fruit trees, and the three families also hired a long-term worker each. Qian Ergui was still a little reluctant, and wanted to get it himself, but was sued by Qian Manhe to Old Man Qian. Old man Qian scolded Qian Ergui again, and then hired a long-term worker.

Several subordinates in the third room have re-divided the work, Huang Tie is in charge of the lotus pond moonlight, Su Ming is in charge of Huaguo Mountain, and Su Sanwu and Su Siwu mainly serve the lake at home and help the family do some things. Because the eighty acres of land were tenant out, there was not much to do, so it was taken care of by Old Man Cai. The other two acres of land in the family were also tenanted out.

After that, I bought a seed of lotus root and planted it in the lotus root pond, and also threw a small number of fish fry into it. Eight hundred peach saplings and one hundred pear saplings were bought and planted on the mountain.

During this time, Qian Yixiu was also busy running the scene. It is her idea to build the lotus pond moonlight and Huaguo Mountain into a comprehensive large-scale Shengtai Garden integrating agriculture, aquaculture, scenery and vacation.

At first, Qian Sangui didn't agree, thinking that it was not cost-effective to build a house, pavilion, and garden in the remaining places. Later, Qian Yijin inadvertently said this to Mr. Yu, who was very interested, and also went to the scene, listened to Qian Yixiu's explanation, and strongly supported it. Qian Sangui saw that the most learned gentlemen thought it was good, so he agreed.

In ancient times, labor was really worthless, and the wasteland here was not worth much, and the money for buying land, wages, food, plus lotus root seeds and fruit trees, did not even cost five hundred taels of silver.

Thinking about the fact that those beads were sold for 2,900 taels of silver, Qian Yixiu now feels how good it is. It only took one-sixth of a few beads to get such a large ecological park.

By the time these things are done, it will be the second day of the fourth month, and the little brother and sister's eighth birthday will be a few days away. On that day, there was another meaning to Qian Yixiu, that is, she crossed over to the second anniversary.

In just two years, the family has changed dramatically. This is directly related to the fact that she has been a ghost for seven years, and it is also related to the smart and mighty little monkey brother, and it is also related to the fact that Qian Sangui, the head of the family, is willing to listen to his granddaughter.

Seeing this qiē, Qian Yixiu felt a very, very sense of accomplishment.

She had just returned from inspecting the Lotus Pond Moonlight and Huaguo Mountain, and she also gave some advice on where to build houses, where to build pavilions, and what roads to build. After that, she can leave her hands alone.

She walked briskly through the side door between the big yard and the small yard, and wanted to go back to the hut to clean up and go to the little lady to brush up in front of the little lady, but she saw the little lady standing at the door of the east wing workshop and looking at her in a daze.

In the past few months, Cheng Yue's embroidery career happened to be the most critical period, she took her assistant Qian Xiaoyu to be busy in the workshop every day, and she had little time to care about Qian Yixiu.

Just now she finally conquered the most difficult flower picking needle, and when she came to the door, she found that her daughter had become a little crazy woman. The hair was messy and there were a few sticks of grass stuck to it. His face was covered with sweat stains, and there was black ash on the tip of his nose. And the clothes, skirts, and shoes were covered with dirt and grass. She doesn't walk like a girl, she either runs or jumps.

The daughter was still in the big yard, and the loud voice of shouting Zizhu spread to the small yard.

Cheng Yue was stunned for a moment when she saw her daughter like this, so she covered her face with a handkerchief and cried. While blaming himself for not disciplining his daughter well, he said that he was sorry for his mother and Brother Jiang. also asked Qian Xiaoyu to hit Zizhu ten times in the palm of her hand and deduct her monthly money for two months.

The cry of the beauty is pitiful.

The whimpering sound made Qian Yixiu extremely unbearable, and hurriedly went over to pull her to admit her mistake, and promised that she would never make it, but she never coaxed the little lady. The little lady ran back to the left wing room and sat on the bed and continued to cry, not listening to any explanation from her daughter at all.

Seeing her crying like this, the rest of the family was also frightened. Wu and Qian Manxia went into the hut to persuade them, and Qian Sangui stood outside the window to persuade them, but they couldn't be persuaded well.

Cheng Yue drilled the tip of the horns, and felt that she was derelict in her duty and didn't take care of her daughter, and the more she cried, the more sad she became, and she almost fainted. was so frightened that Qian Yixiu hugged her and cried together.

The movement was a little big, and Mr. Yu and Qian Yijin in the big courtyard were also attracted over.

Qian Yijin also ran into the hut to persuade Cheng Yue.

After listening to the persuasion of these people, Mr. Yu probably understood why Cheng Yue was so sad, she blamed herself for raising her daughter roughly.

Raising a daughter exquisitely, this is the practice of rich and noble families.

Mr. Yu had always felt that Cheng Yue was not like a peasant girl, but now he has strengthened his cognition. I just don't know which rich family lost such a beautiful girl, and kept the news tightly hidden. He analyzed that the most likely thing was that she was the daughter of a criminal minister, who broke her brain on the way to escape and was saved by the family.

Although the mother is stupid, she is smart enough to give birth to a daughter. This little girl is so much in line with his heart, smart, clever, and eccentric, even his own little apprentices often fall in love with her.

In particular, the large-scale comprehensive ecological park that integrates agriculture, aquaculture, scenery and vacation is very thoughtful. There are also the names of those places, although they are straightforward and intuitive, but if you think about it carefully, it has a unique charm, and it is not easy for a little girl who is less than eight years old to think of these.

He said through the window, "Little lady of the Qian family, this little girl Xiu'er is smart and has aura. The old man cherishes her as a piece of jade and wants to train her, how about it? Although there is no guarantee that she will become a generation of talented women in the future, it is much better than her being so free-range in the countryside. ”

Cheng Yue had seen Mr. Yu's words, and she also knew that Qian Yijin had made rapid progress under his teaching. After hearing his words, he stopped crying, put down the veil covering his face, and asked with tearful eyes, "Really?" ”

"Seriously." Mr. Yu nodded.

He was willing, but Qian Yixiu was unwilling, he would only learn those Lao Shizi from Old Man Yu after eating too much, and waste his good time in the study. Thinking that she has been studying for more than ten years in her previous life, she has not looked at those hundred pulpits, and it is not an exaggeration to call her a contemporary female jinshi.

If she is allowed to learn skills such as embroidery, she has no reason to object, after all, women in this world must be able to embroider. But follow Mr. to learn knowledge, or forget it.

He shook his head like a rattle, "I don't want to study economics." Besides, I'm just a country girl, and I don't want to be a talented girl. ”

Mr. Yu said, "You are a little girl, what do you teach economics to do?" I'm going to teach you how to write. Books, heart paintings, high character, natural and elegant books. And vice versa. Then he said angrily, "It's not that the old man is arrogant, there are few people who want the old man to teach willingly." Now that I love talents, I don't want to be a little girl. ”

Learning to write, isn't that a calligraphy interest class? What's more, Mr. Yu's handwriting is indeed good.

Qian Yixiu said, "Optical writing, you don't need to learn four hours a day like my brother, right?" ”

"You want to learn for so long, and the old man still can't teach." Mr. Yu said, "One class a day, half an hour. But you still have to practice calligraphy for one or two hours a day. ”

was only detained in the study for half a day, and Qian Yixiu could still accept it. She nodded and agreed, and Cheng Yue didn't make any more trouble.

Qian Sangui's mouth was closed for a long time, and he was crazy with joy, which was really an unexpected result. Mr. Yu, who didn't even want to teach a boy like Qian Yishan, offered to teach his granddaughter.

He smiled and invited Mr. Yu to come into the hall and sit down, and when his granddaughter was cleaned up, he would come to kowtow to him.

Cheng Yue watched Qian Xiaoyu serve Qian Yixiu and wash her face and hands, put on a water-red embroidered folded peach blossom collar top, a vermilion long skirt, two red ribbons tied on the head of the small bag, and a pair of rose-red small embroidered shoes.

Seeing that her daughter was as beautiful as a peach blossom blooming in early March, Cheng Yue nodded with satisfaction.

Qian Yixiu saw that the little lady's face was bright, and stepped forward to hug her and said, "In the future, my mother will be unhappy with Xiu'er, just scold, don't cry like this, I feel distressed." ”

The little mother's tears welled up again, "Mother said it well, did Xiu'er listen?" ”

I don't think I listened.

Qian Yixiu sneered, "I will definitely listen to it in the future." ”

After appeasing the little mother, Qian Yixiu went into the hall to kowtow to the tea and worship the master.

After worshipping the teacher and leaving the hall, Qian Yixiu saw Zizhu standing outside crying on her face. Although Qian Xiaoyu just hit her little hand with her hand, she still cried sadly and felt that she had been wronged.

Qian Xiaoyu was teaching her a lesson, "The little master made a mistake, if you don't persuade him, it's your fault, what are you wronged?" My sister doesn't listen to persuasion, you can come and tell my aunt, it can be seen that this beating is not unjust at all. This is a sister-in-law's kindness, if you change to another master, you will be so angry that you won't beat your ass to pieces. ”

The little girl trembled with fright and cried, "Sister Xiaoyu, Zizhu knows that she is wrong. Next time my sister doesn't like to be clean, Zizhu will definitely persuade her. ”

Qian Yixiu looked at the little girl with a crying face apologetically, very embarrassed. I was quite big and got into trouble, but I let an eight-year-old Lori be punished.

After Qian Xiaoyu left, Qian Yixiu walked over and took out a little girl's favorite old brother lollipop and stuffed it into her mouth. The lollipop was so sweet that it made the little girl squint.

She took the lollipop out of her mouth again and said, "Sister must be obedient in the future, and the slave and maid will be beaten less." ”

These words made Aunt Xiu's old face red, and she had to say "um" in a sneering voice.

Mr. Yu was also glad that he had accepted another female disciple, and after Qian Sangui's repeated stay, he decided to stay here for dinner. I didn't go back to class anymore, and chatted with Qian Sangui.

After a few months of teaching by Mr. Yu, Qian Yijin is no longer as free as he used to be. He sat aside and listened to the conversation between Grandpa Sangui and Mr. Sangui, and from time to time found a common topic of two people from different fields, and several people in the room also talked happily.

Just as he was talking happily, Wan Erniu and Wan Dazhong father and son came. I also carried the braised meat and wine bought in the town, saying that I came here to drink a few cups with my father-in-law. I heard that Mr. Yu accepted Qian Yixiu as a disciple again, and he congratulated him again, saying that it was a coincidence today.

Qian Sangui was happy, and hurriedly asked the Wu family to lead the He family to clean up a few more good dishes with wine.

In the evening, Qian Sangui led the little brother and sister to accompany Mr. Yu and Wan Dazhong's father and son to eat in the hall, and several other women ate in Qian Manxia's hut.

On the table, there are Mr. Yu's steamed sea bass that he never gets tired of, Wan Erniu's favorite plum blossom button meat, Wan Dazhong's favorite stir-fried pig intestine, and Qian Sangui's favorite Zhang Fei braised beef. The wine is an iron pot head from the capital.

The men ate and drank happily, and drank a little too much.

Especially Wan Erniu, perhaps because he drank too much, his eyes were red, and he talked more than the sum of the Qian family in the past. He nodded at Qian Yijin and said with a smile, "Jinwa, and Xiu'er, you are all eight years old, and time flies so fast." ”

Qian Sangui said with a smile, "No, little baby, you are all worried about life." In the blink of an eye, it was time for them to marry their daughters-in-law. ”

Wan Erniu nodded, took another sip of wine and said, "When you are older, we will be old." Grandpa Wan wishes you in advance a prosperous life and a long life. ”

Qian Sangui hurriedly smiled, "They are juniors, and the Wanqin family is like this, they can't afford it." ”

Wan Erniu waved his big hand and smiled, "Deserve it, you can afford it." Jinwa will be a jinshi in the future, and he will be the Wenqu star in the sky. I say that, and that's right. ”

Qian Sangui listened to his praise, and his face turned even redder with excitement. Mr. Yu and Wan Dazhong also nodded frequently.

Wan Erniu said to Qian Yijin again, "Good boy, Mr. Yu has great talents, follow him well and work hard." Fight for your father and give him peace of mind over there. ”

Qian Yijin knew that the "over there" he was referring to was heaven, and nodded with red eyes, "I will study well with my husband and let my father feel at ease." When I grow up, I will go to the Songjiang River to pay tribute to him. ”

Wan Erniu opened his mouth and nodded. (To be continued.) )