Chapter 223: Fruit Forest
It was already dark, and the rice paddies were filled with the chirping of insects and frogs. A group of ten people and maids, plus Zhao Tian and Zhao Yang, who were far behind them, rushed back in the dark. Before entering the house, Xia Zhi secretly took a group of people to Houcun River to wash their feet and put on their shoes.
They were already embarrassed enough, and if they knew that they had the audacity to take off their shoes and run out, it would not be enough to count them down. Although it was quite embarrassing, the mood of everyone was never better.
After this trip, Ning Qing's relationship with them was better, less restrained, and more harmonious. At this time, the sisters held hands, and they didn't mind the muddy water on their bodies, they were close together, talking and laughing, discussing that they would come out to play again next time.
Xia Zhi was happy to see everyone, and she didn't say anything to spoil her fun, although she knew that after she went back, it would be very difficult to come out again. But no matter what, after such rain in their lifetime, it will be difficult for them to forget it for the rest of their lives.
When I got home, I vaguely saw someone standing by the door looking out, but because it was dark, I couldn't see clearly. But before Xia Solstice could guess who was waiting for them on the porch, he heard such a voice.
"Is Miss back?" After speaking, the figure leaned out of the door and looked out, as if it was dark and could not see clearly, and it was not very certain.
It's plum blossoms! As soon as Xia Zhi heard the voice, he knew that it was her, and wanted to report to the Li family when they came out, and the Li family must have been worried about why they hadn't come back when it was late, so he asked the plum blossom to guard the door.
Except for Ning Qing, the other sisters who wanted to come to the Tian family knew that it was the plum blossom who shouted. Knowing that it worries Lee. Tian Xiaoman shrunk his neck. Playfully stuck out her tongue, and Ning Qing couldn't wait to go up and rub her face when she saw it.
But when he heard it, "snort", it turned out that Zhao Yang laughed at Tian Xiaoman. After Xia Zhi and the others washed their feet and put on their shoes, Zhao Tian and Zhao Yang followed them not far away, and hurried a few steps. and the summer solstice converged with them.
In the face of Zhao Yang's ridicule, Tian Xiaoman was obviously very dissatisfied, glared at Zhao Yang a few times, then turned his head angrily, pouted and talked to Ning Qing, and never turned his head to look at him again. Zhao Yang wiped his nose a little sneeringly, feeling that the girl's family was too stingy, he didn't have anything to do here, Tian Xiaoman looked like he was going to cry or not, it was really ugly.
The two of you come and go. At the same time, Xia Hua shouted at the plum blossom, "Is it Sister Meihua?" I'm Xia Hua. Miss, they're back! ”
"It's summer flowers! Miss Soon's back, someone is coming to open the door! ”
The plum blossom over there listened to Xia Hua's words, and quickly called someone to open the door, and he walked a few steps in a hurry, regardless of the muddy road, and went up to meet everyone, and when he got closer, he saw that the clothes of a group of people were already half-wet, and there were mud spots everywhere, and the embroidered shoes on his feet were not in shape, and he immediately exclaimed,
"My God, how did you get like this, how did you take care of Miss Xiahua?" The master Meihua can't say it, Xia Hua is a maid, she can still say it.
Xia Hua retreated behind Xia Zhi, and she didn't dare to bite a word, in the face of the plum blossoms that have become more and more severe over the years, she is very afraid. She didn't dare to say it, she also had a lot of fun, and she forgot to persuade her master at all.
Xia Hua, as the maid of the county lord, in addition to chrysanthemums and plum blossoms, is faintly a leader in the maid. She didn't dare to make a sound, let alone the other maids, who all hid behind their masters with their heads down, and they didn't dare to squeak in the atmosphere.
Xia Solstice saw that because of the appearance of plum blossoms, the lively scene just now suddenly cooled down, so he smiled and stepped forward to take the hand of plum blossoms.
"Mei Niangzi, don't blame them, we are all playful, they can't persuade us!"
As the county lord, although Xia Zhi is also the granddaughter of the Li family, it is different in the end. In fact, it is Xiangbi Tian Lichun and them, and the summer solstice has a bigger face in the Tian family. Fortunately, Tian Lichun and Xia Zhi grew up together and understood each other. Otherwise, whoever is put on it like this will be envious and jealous.
"Don't get used to them, the county lord sent them to follow the master, isn't it just to let them take good care of the master, they are good, they take care of the master like this!" Plum blossoms are a little angry, today is covered in mud, tomorrow I don't know what to do!
"Mei Niangzi is serious! We are the masters, and they can only listen to what we say and do! ”
"It's a swing, the county lord said so, this time I will spare you, why don't you hurry up and take the county lord and ladies in to change their clothes, the old lady is still waiting! If the bad lady is sick, see if I don't skin you! ”
The plum blossom represents the Li family, and it should be put on hold, even if Tian Lichun and the others make mistakes, she also said it, not to mention a few maids. It's just that Xia Zhi opened his mouth to intercede today, plus there are Ning Qing and Ning Qing's maids present, if they really rectify Xia Hua and them, it is a little bit that Ning Qing can't get off the stage, so he simply brings it over.
Xia Hua and the others got the plum blossom and didn't pursue it, just took a breath, and heard her cruel words in the next sentence, and hurriedly led a few young ladies into the door, and after going back to each room to change the clothes on their bodies, they went to Li's where.
Because the female dependents have Ning Qing here, the Tian family's meals in the past few days have been eaten separately, and the Li family has taken other daughters-in-law and granddaughters except the Zheng family, and Lao Luotou has four sons and grandsons to eat together.
After eating, the girls who went out to play crazy couldn't bear it, and the little heads were little by little, so Li ordered them to wash and rest early. Regarding the embarrassment of Xia Zhi and their return home, I think that Meihua has already told the Li family, and Xia Zhi thought that the Li family didn't say anything, so he didn't mention it. Unexpectedly, early the next morning, Tian Xiaoman ran to her to cry and complained, and Li didn't let her go out.
Not only is Tian Xiaoman not allowed to go out, but Xia Zhi also received a message from Xia Hua here, but after all, she lives in Ningqing here, and the words are more euphemistic, but the general meaning is that if the weather is not sunny and the road is not dry, it is best not to go out.
Xia Zhi looked at the gloomy sky outside, and didn't know when she would be able to come out of the sun, thinking that after the rain stopped yesterday, although the stagnant water went down, the dirt road must still be muddy, and she was not in a hurry to go out at this time. asked Xia Hua to return the plum blossoms, saying that she would definitely not take Ning Qing out to run around.
Of course, these can't be said in front of Ning Qing, so after Ning Qing gets up, she has to pester Xia Zhi to take her out to play, and Xia Zhi can only find thousands of excuses to persuade this ancestor.
But because the rain stopped, it was also convenient for people to come and go, after breakfast, Xia Zhi found other people to come over, everyone sat together and talked and laughed, but it was not lonely, Ning Qing didn't go out to play, even Tian Xiaoman, the girl, was not pouting.
As a result, Xia Zhi did not expect that this gloomy rainy day dragged on for two days to see the sun, and after a morning of exposure, the already hardened road surface was enough for pedestrians to walk on it.
"Sister, the road is dry, the sky is clear, how about we go to Shili Mountain to play?" In the past three years, Shili Mountain has long been no longer the barren mountains and mountains it was at the beginning, and the summer solstice in the depths of the mountains is not guaranteed, but the periphery is definitely well organized by the summer solstice, and the trees that have been cut down by the villagers for building houses and paving roads have already been arranged by the summer solstice to plant many fruit trees.
Now three years have passed, the fruit forest will be ten miles of mountain siege circle, every summer solstice in the spring and summer to hire a lot of people into the mountain to take care of the fruit trees, and even for this piece of fruit forest, the summer solstice bought several people, specifically to live in the ten mile mountain, every other distance, there are people living where to guard.
The mind is more, the harvest is more, the first two years are not enough, starting from this year, the income of the fruit forest has doubled, for this summer solstice in Niangniang Town and Nanjun also opened a fruit shop, Tian Lichun They have also followed the summer solstice, took out their own private money to open a fruit shop, the source of goods are provided by the summer solstice.
Someone can help her solve such a fruit, Xia Zhi is naturally happy, although she also opened a fruit shop, but there are more than ten miles of these ten miles of mountains, and now they have been planted with fruit trees on the summer solstice, you can imagine how many fruits can be produced each season, even the store opened by Tian Lichun, there is no way to consume it.
Fortunately, with Lin Yunlei's help in the end, the fruits were sold all over the world, and she thought of a way to make candied fruits, so that her fruits were exhausted, otherwise she would definitely have a backlog of some rotten fruits here.
Originally, Xia Zhi planned to sell it to them directly, and he didn't want their money, but Tian Lichun and they were unwilling, even Tian Liqiu and Tian Bailu were unwilling to ask for her fruit for nothing, and finally Li made a decision to let Xia Zhi accept everyone's money.
As for Lin Yunlei, he would not ask for the fruits of the summer solstice for nothing, and the price he gave was higher than the price sold in the Xia Solstice store, of course, Xia Zhi also knew that the fruits that were sold by Ding Yi should earn more than her, so Xia Zhi accepted it with a clear conscience.
To say that these fruit trees on the summer solstice, some of them are originally there, and they were bought from others on the summer solstice, but some of them are unknown to the people of the Dawu Dynasty, such as hawthorn trees, apricot trees, kiwi trees, jujube trees, pomegranate trees, etc.
As mentioned earlier, the Wu Dynasty was poor in materials, but in fact, it was not that the materials were poor, but that the people were ignorant and did not dare to try, and many fruits in the mountains did not dare to eat. There are only a few things that can be eaten, and only those people who don't talk about it can eat fruit.
The pomegranate tree in the yard of the Tian family is still soft and the summer solstice, and it took countless reasons to convince Tian Laosi that it was something that could be eaten, so she dug one and planted it in her yard, and now there is also a pomegranate tree at the foot of Shili Mountain.
Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the summer solstice in order to launch the pomegranate, but it took a lot of thought, and now everyone in the Dawu Dynasty knows that the pomegranate is a symbol of many sons and many blessings. The ancients paid the most attention to their heirs, even if they didn't eat it, they had to sell one back and put it at home, just to ask for children.
The Tian sisters also followed the summer solstice to the fruit forest, from the early spring to the autumn harvest, the fruit forest is the beautiful scenery before, this is the beginning of August, the time when the fruit trees hang fruit, at this time to the fruit forest can not only feast on the mouth, but also feast the eyes, why not. (To be continued......)
PS: Fangcao only found out slowly today.,It turns out that the chapter number has been written wrong in the past few days.,Fangcao almost wants to cry.,It's been a few days.,I haven't found this problem.,It's a pity that it can't be changed.,Let's just make do with it!