Changsheng quickly figured out the current situation of life in the village and at home.

The population of the village is still relatively large, it takes a day to go back and forth from the town, although it is located at the bottom of the mountain, but the mountain is gentle and round, the ditch is not deep, the carriage can pass, but it is a pity that there is no small river in front of the village, which is a big regret of Changsheng.

The family used the silver she gave to buy some land, plus the ancestral heirloom, a total of more than 20 acres, mainly relying on a ploughing cow and Zhou Houchun Zhou Ansheng to work, as for Zhou Liangsheng, Zhou Houchun heard that the ancestral grave is well buried, and if he wants to be a scholar, he is only allowed to study and will be glorious in the future.

The family also runs a tofu workshop, when the farm is not working, Zhou Houchun and Zhou Ansheng get up every morning to make tofu, and when the sky is hazy, they pick up a burden to go to the village to sell, and come back in the middle of the morning, and then take a few sheep raised by the family to do farm work, of course, sometimes they will come back later, but basically they live like this.

If there is no funding for longevity, the family may rely on this to meet the daily expenses, but it will certainly not be so comfortable, where can the average Zhuang family live in such a spacious yard and blue brick house, adobe houses are not uncommon in the village, and the average Zhuang family does not have spare money for the adult son to study, it is not easy to marry a daughter-in-law and have an adobe house for the son to live.

Mother Zhou Wang led her two daughters-in-law to wash, cook, feed chickens, feed pigs, and take care of the children, and she was also busy from morning to night.

Changsheng counted carefully, except for her Zhou family, there are eleven people, it is really not easy to support such a family, no matter what, Zhou Houchun is a qualified parent, Zhou Ansheng is also a man who cares about the family, and the two of them get up early every day to do some heavy work.

Maybe they are reluctant to return to the palace by themselves, it is indeed for the sake of the family's livelihood. In this remote and cold place, a middle-aged man only earns about 300 wen a month, and she has an income of two taels of silver a month in the palace, and she also covers food and clothing, where to find such a good thing?

Thinking of this, Changsheng was also relieved, she didn't have a real family relationship with them, and she didn't expect them to be good to her, so she didn't really care, as long as she lived in peace. At present, she needs to be sheltered by this family, and she also needs to use this family to familiarize herself with and integrate into life outside the palace as soon as possible.

Although the Zhuang household does not pay attention to how many sets of enters, the courtyard of the Zhou family is quite wide and neat, with stone tables and stone benches and some fruit trees and flowers

Just enter the door is a tofu workshop and a bright room where stone mills and farm tools are placed, and there are three main houses facing the gate, and there are three xia houses on each side, all of which are tiled houses paved with blue bricks, which are somewhat like the courtyard houses in Beijing.

In the middle of the main house is the hall, where the family eats and entertains, and on the west side is the bedroom of Zhou Houchun and his wife, because the sister-in-law gave birth to a young son, her eldest son and daughter also slept with her grandparents.

The house on the east side is Zhou Liangsheng's study and guest room, and Changsheng's grandmother comes to live in this room, Zhou Qiaosheng goes back to his parents' house, or Zhou Houchun's sister goes back to her parents' house.

At the two ends of the three east wings are the bedrooms of the two sons of the Zhou family, and the empty room in the middle is placed with ancestral tablets and looms and spinning wheels. Each of the three west wings is a kitchen, a storage room, and a bedroom for the Immortal Sisters.

In the backyard, there are cowsheds, pigsties, chicken coops and latrines, and several straw sheds are stocked with clumsy farm tools, firewood and grass.

To Changsheng's surprise, there was a stone cellar in the corner of the yard, which collected all rainwater, which reminded her of the famous public welfare activity in her previous life - the mother's water cellar love project, and she didn't expect that she would eat cellar water one day. Yesterday she took a bath should have been brought up by others bucket by bucket, it seems that she loves to take a bath and has to learn to fetch water by herself, she can't always trouble others, Changsheng plans to adapt to the life of this family as soon as possible.

Thinking that there will be no shortage of tofu and soy milk in the future, and pure natural fresh goat milk can be drunk every day, Changsheng, who thought that she would suffer when she went home, was happy for a while, and she still had to rely on tofu and goat milk for beauty.

The wind in the Northland Plateau is not ordinarily strong, she has plans to live for a long time, but she doesn't want to ruin her carefully maintained skin like beautiful jade, and she also wants to make her gentle little sister Yusheng also become a white girl, after all, for women, a white cover a thousand ugliness.

In short, Changsheng is still very satisfied with this family for the time being, much better than she imagined.

In particular, although her and her sister Yusheng's house is not big, it is clean and comfortable. The double wooden door hangs a hand-woven blue plaid curtain, the fine lattice window lattice is newly pasted with white linen paper, pasted with red, red, green and green window flowers, the newly painted wall is snow-white and snow-white, the warm fire kang, the camphor wood box is placed on the kang head, the coarse cloth bedding of the blue flower is half new but clean and soft, there is a square table and two square stools in the original wood color in front of the window, and there are bright copper mirrors and needlework baskets on the table, on which the sisters make up and drink tea are very convenient.

Yusheng is a careful and lovely child, seeing that his sister likes flowers and plants, he deliberately found a long-aged coarse porcelain vase from home and put it on the square table, and cut chrysanthemums or some hardy wildflowers and weeds every day to add a bit of elegance to the daughter of the boudoir.

Although Changsheng is not good at needlework, but in line with the idea that Yiduo is not pressing, he learned a good embroidery job in the palace for eight years, especially a good sachet, but unfortunately the sachet is useless in the countryside, and she can't find good materials and spices.

The younger brother Liangsheng is older, but he clearly remembers the love of the second sister for him before entering the palace, and feels that the second sister has become an elegant person after returning home, and can actually afford to give him a good pen, ink and paper research and a few good books bought from Jinyang City.

Changsheng saw that his font was elegant and clear, and he couldn't help but love this person's younger brother a little more, but it was a pity that although he had a lot of things in his stomach, he couldn't take the words, so he simply took the time to practice calligraphy with him, and his sister and brother became the closest people in this family. Changsheng could see that this younger brother was a talent that could be created, and secretly decided that if he really had a chance, he would not care about sponsoring him to continue his education.

Her mother Zhou Wang is not only kind and careful but also very capable, although her sister-in-law Zheng Guihua is in the puerperium, she still does not lose the dignified and shrewd eldest daughter-in-law, and her sister-in-law Zhao Baozhu is handsome and docile, and she looks very easy to get along with.

The four nephews and nieces in the family, except for Shuanglu, who is less than a month old, the other three are very interested in Changsheng, but fortunately, Changsheng's nature is still childlike, but they don't think they make trouble.

Father Zhou Houchun is strong, thick eyebrows and big eyes, medium height, and relatively thick bones, mother Zhou Wang is delicate and slender, five children, the eldest son Zhou Ansheng is like a father and a daughter Zhou Qiaosheng is like a father, and Liangsheng and Yu grow completely like a mother.

Changsheng felt that he was an exception, and his father and mother were not like each other, so he thought a little narcissistically, maybe she had neutralized the advantages of the two people.

Maybe it's because the Zhou family really feels sorry for the second daughter who left home at a young age, maybe it's because the gift has worked, the family is extremely friendly and affectionate to Changsheng, just returned home for a few days, it is undoubtedly extremely comfortable, Changsheng suddenly felt that his luck began to improve, and being the second daughter of the Zhou family who was loved by someone was much better than being a palace maid who was frightening step by step.