Qing Shu commanded, "Yuanbao has a good relationship with the villagers, you go back and let Yuanbao inquire, what is the origin of Sun Renen in Qian Saihua's mouth, you must inquire carefully." ”

Steward Zhang responded.

Qingshu looked back at the scattered adobe houses in Sunjia Village, "There are many rights and wrongs in Sunjia Village, and it is definitely not a place to live for a long time. You have a number in your heart, and you are guarding against some Sun Lizheng. When the monthly rent is up, you quit the yard and move to the wasteland. On the other side of the wasteland, we will arrange for people to build houses, and before the houses are built, you will temporarily live in thatched houses. ”

Steward Zhang was very guilty, "Miss, it's a small thing that is not good, so I rented this yard without asking clearly." ”

Qing Shu had no intention of holding him accountable. Moreover, after all, they are outsiders, and they don't know about the situation in Sunjia Village, even if they ask people, but the villagers are hindered by Lizheng, and they definitely don't dare to say some things, especially the character of Lizheng's third daughter-in-law. So she didn't blame Steward Zhang for this, but she couldn't directly say that she didn't blame Steward Zhang, so she said, "Okay, eat a trench and grow wise, just don't make the same mistake in the future." ”

Steward Zhang took a deep look, "Miss Xie's grace of not punishing." ”

"Stop beating yourself. In the past two days, you should let everyone rest and recuperate, and by the way, choose a suitable place to dig a pond to store water, and store the mountain spring water, which is just right for planting trees. Fruit tree seedlings will arrive in three or two days, when planting, ask the master who comes with it, we don't ask for 100% survival rate, but it takes so much effort, and you have to survive at least 80%! Well, nothing else, go back! "As for taking care of Mr. Lu and Mr. Song's father and son, she explained it yesterday, so she didn't mention it again. After the matter was settled, Qingshu boarded the carriage and a team of people rushed back to the town.

When the housekeeper saw the carriage in the house, he hurriedly ran in to deliver the letter, "Butler, butler, the young lady is back, the young master is back." ”

The people who heard the news hurriedly put down their work and followed the housekeeper to the front to greet them. When Su's mother heard the letter, she also hurriedly ran to the front.

The carriage entered the house, and Qingshu and Qingyang got out of the car.

Mother Su immediately looked distressed, "Miss, why have you lost weight like this?" ”

Qing Shu was a little overwhelmed, "Mother Su, you are wrong, where did I lose weight?" Not skinny at all. ”

Su's mother wanted to refute, and she saw Qingyang at once. She immediately changed her target, first touching Qingyang's slimmed down little face, and then when she shook his hand, she found that there was an extra hard callus in his palm, and she was distressed, "Young master, how did you get this?" Although there are calluses when practicing spears, this is not the case. ”

Qingyang hurriedly pulled Luo Xiaorong beside him, and spread Luo Xiaorong's palm to Su's mother, "Look, Xiaorong's younger brother also has calluses on his hands, we are all mans." ”

When Su's mother saw it, she immediately asked Qing Shu, "Miss, Miss, what did you let the young masters do?" Why are all the young masters thin and dark? ”

Qing Shu was speechless for a while.

Qingyang pulled Su's mother's sleeve, "Su's mother, we are amazing, we have followed my sister to dig tree pits, and we will plant trees in a few days." ”

Hearing this, Mother Su wanted to say something, but in the end, she held Qingyang's hand with one hand and Luo Xiaorong's hand with the other, and hurriedly walked inside, not forgetting the other two, "Young Master Hao, Young Master Chen, please come with the old slave, and the old slave will stew tonic soup for the young masters." ”

As soon as he heard that there was tonic soup to drink, Chen Qiaojiang's eyes lit up, and he pulled Hao to follow, "Mother Su, stew a chicken for me, I want to eat meat." ”

Su's mother agreed.

Luo Xiaorong hurriedly said that he wanted to eat meatballs, Hao whispered that he wanted to eat pork ribs with sauce, and Qingyang said that he wanted to eat bean paste buns.

Su's mother agreed, and happily took the four of them away.

Qing Shu was puzzled, "What's wrong with Mother Su?" The last moment with a sad face, the next moment happy like this! ”

Lily of the valley held her master's bag in her hand and replied softly, "The young masters are not here, Mother Su said that the house is very deserted, and she looks forward to the young masters coming back all day long, and she has to go to the gate of the mansion at least four or five times a day to look outside." Now that the young masters are back, Mother Su is naturally happy. ”

Qing Shu smiled, it has only been a few days since she left, and Mother Su thought that they wanted to be like this, really. She didn't want to get in the way of her subordinates moving things, so she went to the front hall to sit and talk to the butler by the way.

"How are you doing in the house recently?"

The ancient housekeeper replied that he was fine, and carefully reported the major and minor events that happened in the mansion when Qing Shu was away, and finally talked about the things outside the mansion, "Miss, the half of the silk you ordered to add makeup to Miss Li was not delivered." ”

Qing Shu raised his eyebrows slightly, "What's the matter?" ”

"The night before the wedding, Miss Li ran away from the marriage." Every time Steward Gu thought of this, he couldn't help but want to shake his head. What if there is a father and a mother over there, it's not that the discipline of the children is not effective, and from time to time there are embarrassing things that make people laugh, which is not worry-free at all.

Qing Shu was both surprised and not surprised. She was surprised because for women, the reputation of running away from marriage is not very glorious, and it is difficult for a woman who runs away from marriage to marry a good family. Therefore, in many cases, because of fame, because of the orders of their parents, the words of matchmakers, and other reasons, women will not run away from marriage even if they are unwilling, and can only marry by appointment. She was not surprised because she knew that Gu Li was a person with eyes above the top, Gu Li wanted to marry the son and young master of a high-ranking family like Zhou Boyan, and the son of a small grocery store could not let Gu Li accept his fate.

"Miss Li is quite able to hide, everyone hasn't found her all night. At dawn, when the town gate was wide open, she was about to escape from the town, but she was arrested by Master Fu who was blocking the town gate. ”

"So, what happened to the marriage as usual?" Qing Shu wanted to sigh, thinking that he must have made a big fuss over there again.

The first family was very dissatisfied, saying that they did not dare to marry such a woman, and asked Master Fu to return the dowry. Master Fu disagreed and insisted on letting Miss Li get on the sedan chair. So the two families quarreled, and there was no charter to solve the quarrel for a long time. In the end, the first family threatened Master Fu and said that he would sue the official, and Master Fu had to return the dowry of the first family. ”

"You didn't come to the house to make trouble, did you?" Qingshu doesn't have to be named, everyone knows who he is talking about.

"I've been here twice. On the night that Miss Li escaped from the marriage, Master Fu came over, not to say that someone was hiding in the house and wanted to come in and search. Later, when the two families quarreled over the return of the dowry, they also came back again. The old slave didn't let the doorkeeper open the door, and he didn't let Master Fu enter the house twice. Master Fu scolded outside for a while, and then asked Young Master Jia to take him back. ”

Qing Shu was silent for a while, and suddenly asked, "What are the names of Sun Renhuai's brothers?" ”

Steward Gu was stunned.

"You heard it right, the Sun Renhuai I am talking about is the Sun Renhuai of the capital." is Sun Jingdong's father, who was divorced by her.

The ancient housekeeper muttered in his heart, because the young lady would not inquire about the Sun family for no reason, so he replied, "The old slave only knows that Sun Renhuai's third brother is named Sun Rende, and as for the name of his second brother, he has never paid attention to it. ”

"There is a rich family in Sunjia Village, and the head of the family is named Sun Renen. Listening to the villagers, Sun Renen's eldest brother and third brother are doing well in the capital. ”

"Sun Renhuai, Sunjia Village in Kangxi Town, Sun Renen......" The ancient housekeeper said in his mouth, connecting these things and thinking about it, he immediately thought of something, "Miss, is this Sun Renen from Sunjia Village coming back from the capital?" Did you bring your mother back to your hometown? ”

"Seems to be." Qian Saihua seemed to say so when she yelled, and she became suspicious because of Qian Saihua's words.

"Miss, I'm afraid this Sun Renen is none other than Sun Renhuai's second brother."

"I think so too." She paused for a moment, and then said, "Tomorrow, you send someone to ask Master Liu, we are going to build a mansion covering an area of twenty acres and dozens of blue brick houses on the wasteland, and ask him if he is interested in taking this job." If he doesn't answer, you can inquire about the others. As long as the craftsmanship is good and the people are real, it doesn't matter if the master is in other places. ”

"Miss, what are you ......" Butler Gu was startled.

"The wasteland is now built, and I'm going to move the mansion there. It's all our own place, and we don't care how we toss, and it's good to be able to stay away from some right and wrong. Her idea is very simple, that is, she wants to build a peach blossom paradise in her mind according to her own heart. She wants to build two houses next to each other, one for herself and one for Qingyang. The antique but very distinctive ancient house is in the middle, the back of the house is an orchard, and the front of the house is a large area of vegetable fields or crops.

Steward Gu immediately equated the "stay away from certain rights and wrongs" in Qingshu's words with Gu Yunfu, and then said that he didn't have to wait for tomorrow, so he sent someone over to pass the word to Master Liu.

Qing Shu didn't rush back to rest, and walked around the house after leaving the front hall, thinking that in six or seven days, spring wheat would be planted, and then crops such as buds and sorghum should also be planted in about half a month. At that point, it's time for her red fruit seeds and pepper seeds to be planted. Last year, all the vegetable furrows in Fuzhong were used to grow red fruits and peppers, and I don't know how many acres of vegetable fields can be transplanted from the seedlings cultivated.

With these thoughts in her heart, she walked to the embroidery room unconsciously. She went in and took a look, Xu Wuniang was taking Cheng Niangzi and them to make juanhua. They were all so engrossed in their work, but none of them noticed her coming. She didn't say anything, looked around and quietly withdrew, and then went to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Xu Sanniang and Guan Pozi were busy preparing the lunch of the masters. Su's mother is also there, she occupies a corner of the kitchen, and is busy stewing and tonifying soup. Xiaoya came over with chopping wood from the firewood room, and when she saw Qing Shuli at the door of the kitchen, she called Miss with a surprised face.

Xu Sanniang and the others noticed Qing Shu at this time, and hurriedly put down the work in their hands to salute and greet them.

Qing Shu waved his hand to prevent them from saluting, "Okay, hurry up and hurry up with you." I came over to take a look, and by the way took my little maid back. ”

Xu Sanniang was very happy, "Little girl, hurry up and put Chai He down and go back to serve Miss." ”

Xiaoya happily agreed, ran into the kitchen and put down the chopping wood in her arms, and untied the trumpet apron on her body and handed it to Xu Sanniang, and then ran to Qingshu's side and stood there.

Qing Shu joked, "Take your young man's army away, do you have enough manpower?" ”

"Enough, enough, there is no shortage of people. Miss, there is a heavy smell of oil smoke here, go back quickly, don't stain your clothes. Xu Sanniang said.

"Lily of the valley will come over immediately, there is no shortage of people here. You hurry back and rest, you must not have rested well recently, so you will lose weight like this. Su's mother chattered.

Qingshu was afraid that Su's mother's nagging skills would be at full power, so she didn't dare to stay any longer, and took Xiaoya and quickly smeared oil on the soles of her feet. When he returned to his residence, he saw that the house was clean, and Qing Shukua Xiaoyu and Xiaojuan cleaned up the house quickly. But she didn't want to, Xiaojuan said that the house was very clean when they came in, and they just wiped some corners and corners.

Qing Shu didn't think much about it, and said casually, "Mother Su must have sent someone over to clean it in advance." ”

Xiao Yu said, "Miss, the slave has asked. There is no need for Su's mother to order, Xiaoya will come over to clean the young lady's house every day, diligently! ”

Qing Shu listened, smiled and bent her eyebrows, "The little girl is really diligent." The kitchen is making sauce pork ribs, and I will reward Xiaoya with half a plate of sauce pork ribs for lunch. ”

The little girl shyly said that Miss Xie rewarded her.

Xiao Juan immediately stared at Qing Shu with bright eyes, "Miss, do slaves have meat to eat?" ”

Qing Shu asked angrily, "There is no meat, only a board, do you want it?" ”

In this way, Qingshu took Qingyang and they spent three days in the house peacefully, and the four carts of fruit saplings transported by Zhou Boyan finally arrived. Chen Qiaojiang was very excited when they got the letter, and pestered Qingshu to ask when they would let them plant the fruit trees with their own hands.

Since it was something that he had promised, Qingshu naturally would not regret it. She deliberately chose a day with good weather to take them to the wasteland.

The tree pit is the tree pit dug by Qingyang when they came last time, and the fruit tree saplings are the fruit tree saplings selected by Qingyang themselves. Seeing the younger brothers striding with a fruit sapling on their shoulders with an excited face, Qing Shu followed behind and couldn't laugh or cry.

Chen Qiaojiang and Luo Xiaorong are in a group, and Hao and Qingyang are in a group. One of them put the sapling in the middle of the pit and straightened it, and the other filled the pit with a shovel. When the soil was full, they tread it with their feet until the soil that had been filled in the pit was solid.

Then the two groups each carried the empty barrel with a stick, and followed Steward Ding to the other side of the pond where the water was stored to fetch water.

Qingshu stood in place and waited. Because the pond was far away, she waited for more than a quarter of an hour before she saw them return from far and near.

The two groups of people carried their own buckets of water, and they stopped and stopped, and they exchanged hands with each other once after walking for a while. When they finally walked to Qing Shu's side, the four of them were already sweating on their foreheads.

Qing Shu smiled and asked, "Are you tired?" ”

The four of them said they weren't tired, then poured two buckets of water into the pits of the two planted trees and exhaled.

"Do you still want to fetch water?"

The four of them nodded, took the sticks that carried the water and the bucket that fetched the water, and left. This time, it took them a little longer to fetch water and come back than last time. Two buckets of water watered the tree, and they were going away again.

Qing Shu stopped them, "Don't go, sit down and rest for a while, and we'll go back to the house in a while." ”

Qingyang asked, "Sister, didn't you say that each tree should be watered with two buckets of water?" ”

Chen Qiaojiang agreed, "That's right, we only brought back four buckets of water, and we have to carry four buckets of water to make it." ”

Luo Xiaorong raised his face and said firmly, "We're not tired, we can still carry water." ”

Seeing this, Qing Shu swallowed back what he originally wanted to say, "Go ahead!" We had to go back after watering the tree, and it was getting late. ”

When they had carried eight buckets of water, they were all tired and red-faced, their foreheads were covered with sweat, and they sat down on the ground.

Qing Shu was afraid that they would get sick, so he pulled them up one by one, urged them to quickly sit in the carriage waiting next to them, and took dry cloth towels to wipe their sweat one by one.

When Qingshu and their carriage passed through Sunjia Village, the carriage of Mr. Lu and Song Xian's father and son joined them and went back to the town together.

The next day, Mr. Lu resumed the school and continued to teach four students. Song Xian's father and son left. They have already surveyed the route of water diversion and canal repair, and this time they went back to recruit their own canal repair team and prepare the materials needed to repair the canal. As for the negotiation with the government, I heard that Zhou Boyan had greeted a certain adult in advance, and there would be no resistance.

The days have turned page after page, and in the blink of an eye, it is the middle of April, and the thousands of miles of wasteland in Qingshu have changed greatly.

Four carts of fruit tree seedlings sent by Zhou Boyan, plus the fruit tree seedlings that Mr. Lu helped to contact and buy, as well as those small jujube tree seedlings on the wasteland and some unknown small seedlings transplanted down, Qingshu's orchard is almost 50 acres. In her 50 acres of orchard, the survival rate of the seedlings planted is about 86 percent.

A row of twenty blue brick houses is being built.

Song Xian and the team he recruited were digging ditches and repairing ditches.

The 50 hectares of fertile land that I rented were all planted with bud grains. When the seeds were sown, ninety men were transferred from the wasteland, twelve from the Zhuangzi, and fifty plough sticks and thirty-one oxen. The ploughmans are all their own. Among the 31 oxen, 17 cattle were raised by their own Zhuangzi, and the others were leased from other places with copper plates.

In the fields of Zhuangzi, except for the part occupied by winter wheat, the rest of the land was planted with spring wheat.

There is also the wasteland of Baimaotian, which has been turned over twice, and a little farm fertilizer has been applied. Steward Wu decided to plant two crops on this land, soybeans and adzuki beans, this year. I don't expect a good harvest, I just hope that there will be some harvest in the first year of planting, and the seeds planted and the labor will not be in vain.

Everyone is busy, and Qingshu is not idle. She was busy cultivating and tending to the red fruit seedlings and pepper seedlings. A hundred acres of vegetable gardens have been planted on the other side of the wasteland. Everyone only needs to wait for her to give an order, and then they will devote themselves to the matter of transplanting red fruit seedlings and pepper seedlings.

Qing Shu wore a straw hat on his head, wore a cloth coat, grabbed a small hoe in his right hand, and was squatting on the edge of the red fruit and vegetable furrow to carefully hoe weeds.

Xiaojuan squatted on the edge of another vegetable furrow and was also hoeing weeds.

Suddenly, Lily of the Valley ran over, "Miss, Miss, there is a Taoist aunt in front of the mansion." This Dao Gu Fei said that she had a fate with Miss and wanted to see Miss Miss. ”