Xiao Ding rode back to Yongzhou alone, and when he arrived in Yongzhou City, he slowed down because of the large number of people in the city.

As a result, in front of the door of the Qinglou that I passed by when I returned last time, I happened to meet Bian Hongtai and Fei Wen again.

Listening to the conversation between the two, it seems that the relationship between the two is one step closer than before.

Xiao Ding felt a chill in his heart, felt a burst of nausea, and hurriedly urged the horse forward, not wanting to see the two people in front of him again.

Enter through the east gate and exit through the west gate. Xiao Ding traverses the entire Yongzhou City.

Then he didn't stop, and rode his horse in the direction of Luoxia Village.

Luoxia Village is only more than 200 miles away from Yongzhou City. If you run on horseback, it will take you about a little more than a day to get there.

The ancients said that traveling 800 miles a day is something that ordinary people can't do. The so-called 800 miles a day usually refers to the continuous change of horses through the post station, and when there is important information that needs to be transmitted, it will be 800 miles expedited, which is already the fastest speed of the ancients.

If an ordinary person rides a horse at a gallop, he can usually walk about 180 miles a day, and if he is fast, he needs to change horses halfway, otherwise the horse will be tired to death if he runs fast for a long time.

After a day of riding a horse and spending most of the night, Xiao Ding finally rushed back to Luoxia Village, which had been lost for a long time.

It's been almost half a year since I left.

When I arrived at the village, it was already the middle of the night, and it was the middle of the month, the cold moon hung high in the sky, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on the ground, adding a bit of peace and security to the village.

The villagers had already fallen asleep, and even if they didn't, most of the villagers were reluctant to light oil lamps at night.

After Xiao Ding entered the village, he slowed down. He dropped the reins and let the horses slowly move towards the west of the village.

Before arriving in the west of the village, Xiao Ding saw a huge mansion located in the original location of his house by the moonlight.

This huge mansion is even bigger than the courtyard of the landlord's house in the east of the village. The courtyard wall made of stone is tall and wide. There is also a row of inverted seats on the inside of the courtyard gate. Similar to the role of a concierge.

It seems that the house has been completed. Xiao Ding said secretly.

He rode to the door, and was about to dismount to call the door, when he heard a sound from inside the gate that resembled the barking of a dog and the barking of a wolf.

Xiao Ding's horse immediately shuddered. Don't look at it fighting everywhere and accompanying Xiao Ding to fight in the east and west, but for fierce beasts such as wolves, insects, tigers and leopards, for horses, it is their natural enemy, so when it heard the wolf roar, it immediately became afraid.

It's the nature of animals, and it's no wonder it's no wonder.

Xiao Ding hurriedly jumped off the horse, tightened the reins, came to the door, and knocked on the knocker.

It didn't take long for someone in the gatehouse inside to ask, "Who, who is still calling the door in the middle of the night?" ”

Xiao Ding replied, "It's me, I'm back." ”

When the man inside heard Xiao Ding's voice, he immediately exclaimed in surprise: "Is the general back?" ”

Xiao Ding had already heard at this time that the person who was talking inside was Liu San. Then the door was opened from the inside, and before Liu San could come out, a huge gray wolf sprang out of the crack in the door.

This gray wolf is the wolf cub that Xiao Ding rescued from Luoxia Mountain-Little Wolf Gray Gray, it heard Xiao Ding's voice before, and at this time it has also sniffed the smell of Xiao Ding's body. came to Xiao Ding's side, jumped and jumped on the ground, and hummed in his mouth with excitement.

Xiao Ding saw that the little wolf Gray Ash had now completely grown into a big bad wolf, and his size was no smaller than the size of his parents who killed him at the beginning. It's even slightly bigger than the two gray wolves.

Such a big guy, like a calf, is jumping up and down in front of Xiao Ding. Xiao Ding couldn't cry or laugh, he took out a free hand and touched the little wolf's gray head, but it was very useful, and stretched out his head to rub Xiao Ding's body.

At this time, Liu San had already come out of the door, and when he saw Xiao Ding, he hurriedly shouted: "Ah, sure enough, the general is back!" ”

As soon as Liu San shouted like this, Zhao Hu, Zhang Long, Wang Chao, Ma Han and others who lived in the front yard also got up and put on their clothes and left the house.

When everyone saw Xiao Ding, it was another noisy greeting.

At this time, from the courtyard, Bai Junfei walked out with a sword. When he saw Xiao Ding, he was also surprised, and then said happily: "Why did Brother Tian come back in the night?" ”

It turned out that because he was a martial arts practitioner, his ears and eyes were smart, and although he was asleep at night, he still heard the movement in the front yard, so he came over with a sword.

When Xiao Ding was leaving, he had entrusted him to protect the safety of the Tian family, so when he heard a movement, he immediately came out with his sword.

Xiao Ding greeted everyone one after another. Let everyone go back to the house first, don't catch a cold on a cold day.

However, when everyone saw Xiao Ding's return at first glance, where would they listen to Xiao Ding's words! is still around Xiao Ding, chattering and asking.

The noise in the front yard also woke up the people in the backyard.

This courtyard was built according to the drawings drawn by Xiao Ding at the beginning. Two-entry courtyard with a small hill at its back. There are cross-courtyards on the east and west sides. Among them, the rooms in the front yard, the back yard and the cross courtyard are built according to the model of the quadrangle.

The backyard, that is, the main courtyard, is naturally inhabited by the Tian family, and the main house in the backyard has been built into a two-story small building. Tian Dabao and his wife live on the first floor, and Xiaofu's room is on the second floor, but he has gone to study at Zixia Academy in Luoxia County and usually does not live at home.

The left and right wings are Xiao'e Xiaozhu's room, and now Erniu also lives in one of the wings.

Zhao Laixi and his wife lived in the main house in the east cross courtyard. Bai Junfei and Zheng Dieer were already married at this time, and they were married with the help of the Tian family. The two of them lived in a wing room in the East Courtyard.

Ou Mulin, the Ou brothers and sisters, usually play well with Xiao Zhu'er, and now the two of them still live together, both in the wing room in the main courtyard.

Ou Muyun lived in a wing room in the east cross courtyard.

The main house in the front yard is the first eight brick houses built by the Tian family. Now Zhao Hu and his eight long-term workers live in these eight houses.

Liu San and Jiang are also married now, and they were married on the same day as Bai Junfei. They were all presided over by Tian Dabao and his wife not long after the Tian family's house was built.

Liu San and the Jiang family, as well as the Jiang family's son Tie Dan, the three of them now live in a wing room in the front yard. However, Liu San would sometimes be on duty at night, so he would live alone in the gatehouse.

In the more than half a year that Xiao Ding was not at home, because the house was built, and the family was not short of money now, Zhao Laixi went to Luoxia County and bought back several maids and servants, and the maids and mothers-in-law all lived in the inverted house in the main courtyard. They usually help the family with various household chores.

Otherwise, there are so many people living in Tian's family, and there is a lot of housework in the usual housework, and Liu San and the Jiang family alone can't be busy at all. With such a large courtyard, it takes a lot of time just to clean it every day.

The bought servants all lived in the inverted house in the front yard, and they usually mainly helped Liu Sanlai with some chores.

Zhao Hu and the others mainly help the Tian family take care of the two greenhouses every day. They have been taking care of the greenhouses since they planted them with medicinal herbs.

Although they don't know much about how to grow medicinal herbs, the greenhouses are all relatively common medicinal herbs, not precious medicinal herbs, so as long as they do the usual crops to water, pull weeds, and fertilize on time, sometimes they will go to the village Wu Langzhong for advice.

Therefore, in autumn, the medicinal herbs in the greenhouse are really not less. Although Zhao Laixi was born with mud legs, the children of the poor have long been in charge, and he has been in charge of his own household since he was a child, and he has already learned a set of skills to read and speak to people by himself to face all kinds of people alone.

So, all these medicinal materials in the greenhouse were Zhao Laixi went to Luoxia County, contacted several large pharmacies and medical centers, negotiated the price, and then sold them to make a lot of money.

After late autumn, the Tian family's greenhouse continued to grow out-of-season vegetables, and they had already tasted the sweetness last year, and of course they will continue this year.

Moreover, after the Tian family finished building the house this year, they built an additional greenhouse, a total of three greenhouses, each covering an area of two acres, in fact, the area is also very large, all concentrated in the west cross courtyard. In this courtyard, only a small house was built on the edge of the greenhouse for guarding the greenhouse in winter.

After the winter, Zhao Hu and the eight of them will leave one person to live in the greenhouse every day to guard, in order to fill the fire wall of the greenhouse with coal and add fire at night to prevent the fire in the fire wall from extinguishing and freezing vegetables.

Of course, Xiao Ding still doesn't know anything about these things, and he is just exchanging pleasantries with everyone in the courtyard now.

At this time, the people of the Tian family in the main courtyard heard the wolf roar and the noise in the front yard, and they all got up and came out.

Especially the second girl, it has now attracted qi into the body, and has successfully entered the first layer of qi training, and its ears and eyes are much smarter than ordinary people. She was asleep in the house when she heard someone in the front yard shouting, "The general is back." She immediately jumped out of bed, quickly dressed out of the room, and into the front yard.

Sure enough, the first time the second girl came over, she saw Xiao Ding standing in the courtyard with the reins of the horse in her hand. She immediately shouted: "Xianggong, you are finally back!" ”

Then, regardless of the people present, he threw himself into Xiao Ding's arms directly with a crying sound and cried "duh".

Xiao Ding didn't pay attention to it, and almost didn't fall down by the second girl. He secretly said in his heart, when will these two girls grow their strength again!

However, he looked down at Erniu and found that Erniu had changed a lot from last time. After more than half a year, the second girl has grown a lot taller, and her face has a little more baby fat, and her appearance looks more beautiful. The skin is whiter than before. Her two little hands, which had been rough from labor, were now white and tender. Her hair is also darker and shinier than before. Throwing herself into Xiao Ding's arms, Xiao Ding obviously felt that the two soft balls on her chest were also much plumper than before.

At this time, the second girl has already appeared like a big girl, and it is no longer the thin and weak, black and short withered hemp pole that Xiao Ding saw when he first crossed over.

It's no wonder that in two months, the second girl will already reach the age of fifteen, and the fifteen-year-old girl is the same age as the flower. Erniu's practice of Xiaoding's exercises has been successful, and the transformation of her body is also very effective. In addition, now the family is no longer short of money, and if you eat well, your nutrition will keep up. There are a lot of servants and maids in the family, and the general housework does not need to be done by Erniu herself now, so she will naturally take care of her body.

Xiao Ding grabbed Erniu's back with one hand, and when he saw Erniu crying in his arms, he couldn't help but feel bitter when he thought that he was about to live up to Erniu's affection.

At this time, Tian Dabao and his wife, Xiao'e, Xiaozhuer and Ou Mulin also came to the front yard. Tian Dabao was still muttering, "I don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing arguing?" ”

The Jiang family, who was standing on the side, immediately replied to Tian Dabao and said, "Master, it's the general who has returned!" ”

The Tian family still doesn't know that Xiao Ding is now the Hou Ye, so they all call Xiao Ding a general.

When Tian Dabao and Li heard this, they immediately settled down and looked towards the crowd. Only then did they see that the person who entered the hospital turned out to be Xiaoding.

Xiao Zhu'er took the lead in running over again, she didn't care about the second girl who was still in Xiao Ding's arms, she hugged one of Xiao Ding's thighs when she came over, and shouted: "Brother Fool, Brother Fool, I miss you, come and hug me!" ”

Xiao Ding handed the reins of the horse in his other hand to Liu San on the side, and asked him to lead the horse to the back to drink water and feed him. Then he bent down and hugged Xiaozhu'er with one hand.

He immediately found that Xiao Zhu'er grew faster, and in just half a year, her height had grown up a full palm's width, and at the same time, Xiao Zhu'er was also much fatter than before, her skin was much whiter and tenderer, and her hair was not always unkempt and yellow like before.

Now she looks like a chubby and healthy child.

Xiao Zhu'er was held in Xiao Ding's arms, but she stretched out her two little hands, held Xiao Ding's face, and said, "Brother fool, turn around and let me see you, have you lost weight?" ”

Xiao Ding turned his face with a smile, looked at Xiao Zhu'er, and said, "Look at it, have you lost weight?" ”

Xiao Zhu'er looked at Xiao Ding's face for a while, and then said, "Brother fool, you seem to have lost weight!" ”

When Tian Dabao and his wife on the side heard Xiao Zhu'er say that Xiao Ding had lost weight, Li hurriedly came over and said anxiously: "Son? Why don't you take good care of yourself when you're alone outside, you see, you've lost weight like this, quick, don't stand outside, don't freeze sick on such a cold day. ”

Xiao Ding was speechless for a while, and said in his heart, where is this, when will I lose weight?

Although he looked a little dusty at this time, and his face was a little tired, in fact, he was not much thinner than before.

This is really the heart of parents in the world!

In the hearts of all parents in the world, their children will definitely not be as good as at home when they are outside, and they will definitely become thinner after a long time outside. Even if the truth is not really thin, in their hearts, not losing weight is also going to be thin.

Xiao Ding smiled bitterly and let go of the second girl who was in his arms, and then beckoned everyone to go back to the house to chat.

At this time, Xiao'e, who had been standing on the periphery of the crowd, stepped forward and said, "Big brother, are you back?" ”

Xiao Ding knew that Xiao'e was usually colder, less talkative, and didn't like to join in the fun, so he nodded and said, "Are you okay?" ”

Xiao'e also nodded and said, "We're all fine." Then he said no more.

Ou Mulin, who was beside Xiao'e, also simply said hello to Xiaoding, and then stopped talking.

Tian Dabao usually doesn't like to talk much, although the servants and maids in the family call him "master", but he has no consciousness of being a master at all, and he often slanders Zhao Laixi in his heart: "This kid must have learned badly from Xiaoding's fool, and after making money, he burned his brain." We poor people, where can we spend money on servants? These children, one by one, are lavish, and they don't know how to save some money. ”

It's a pity that before Xiao Ding left, he handed over all the financial power of the family to Zhao Laixi, and even the box of gold he brought back last time, Xiao Ding also told Erniu that if Zhao Laixi's money was not enough, he could also take it out for him.

Tian Dabao doesn't have financial power and can't make money, so although he can't get used to Zhao Laixi spending money lavishly, he has no choice.

Zhao Laixi actually had a similar temperament to Tian Dabao before, but later, he was influenced by Xiaoding, and then made a lot of money one after another, so he already had a nouveau riche mentality, so he also learned from those old men in the city and began to think about how to improve the quality of life.

Everyone came to the two-story building where Tian Dabao lived in the backyard. There is a living room on the first floor of the small building, and there is a bedroom on both sides, which is where Tian Dabao and his wife sleep at night, and there is a study on the other side, where the family usually follows Zheng Dieer to learn to read and write.

Everyone entered the living room, all found a place to sit down, and then Jiang made tea and brought it up.