In 959 A.D., on the third day of the first month of the 22nd year of Guangzheng, the sky just dawned, the sky began to sprinkle with snowflakes scattered and scattered, a large group of pedestrians lined up in a long line, with dozens of carriages, walked on the road from Danling County to Gray Yuan Town, from the head of the team to the tail of the team, stretched for several hundred meters.

Only one brigade was left in the Danling camp of the Workshop Army to take care of it, and the others were going back to Gray Plains Town, and the New Year was going to be celebrated in less than a month.

The 2,000-strong workshop army, plus more than 2,400 bandits, more than 500 women and children, as well as a large number of pigs, cattle and sheep and other livestock, chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry, purchased a large amount of grain, and the whole team appeared to be unusually large.

The captives are honest, and the strength of the Workshop Army has long been in their bones. The people who were guilty of the people of Danling have been dealt with, and the remaining people are now being transferred to Gray Plains Town, at least proving that there is no problem for them to survive.

Zhao Yuan's carriage was fast, and even some of the gifts he bought were handed over to the follow-up team, so that Shao Mengguo hurried towards his home.

Xiahe Dam in Gray Plains Town, Zhao Yuan's home.

In the cold winter, the family gets up late.

"Auntie, auntie, uncle will come back today." After getting up, the little girl Luoluo finished practicing with Meng Yingchen and kept asking questions behind Meng Ying.

"Luoluo, you have to ask your aunt a hundred times every day when your uncle will come back, can you ask less twice today." Meng Ying said to Luoluo with a smile.

"Brother Yuan has been out for more than half a month this time, and I don't know how things are, why haven't I come back yet, I really miss him." Meng Ying pulled Luoluo and helped her wash her face, thinking to herself.

"When the uncle left, he said that he was going to go for about ten days, but ten days had already passed." Luoluo said with a small mouth after Meng Ying took the towel away.

"Your uncle must have been delayed, and I promise he will be back soon. Go and see if your little Uncle Bao is awake, wake up and call him to get up. Meng Ying said across the topic.

"Well, then I'll call Uncle Xiaobao to get up." Luoluo grabbed the hair on his face because of washing his face with his hand, and walked towards the room where Meng Xiaobao was sleeping.

"Ma'am, what do you want to do for breakfast?" The housekeeper Jia Yu's family also got up and came to the kitchen to ask.

"I don't have much appetite these days, so let's boil some porridge in the morning, put some lean meat and woad vegetables." Meng Ying said.

"Okay." Xue Yao and her mother-in-law Sun Ying were busy in the kitchen.

After the house was painted with cement mixed with lime, Zhao Yuan's house now looks very tidy, and there is a vegetable field between the livestock and poultry farm and the house, which does not affect the house at all.

There are people in the family who work, so naturally they don't need Meng Ying to do it, and now Meng Ying can be regarded as exercising. Coordinating this year's wild mushroom processing for more than two months in the summer has made her much more capable.

Thinking of the night before Zhao Yuan went to the county seat this time, Meng Ying couldn't help but be a little stupid, it turned out that this was the real husband and wife.

Walking out of the courtyard, Meng Ying looked at the slightly gloomy sky, not the small snowflakes that were falling, and her heart had already flown to Zhao Yuan's side.

In the vegetable garden, a pile of weeds is neatly arranged, and a large number of goose tobacco grows under the weeds, and garlic is dotted among these weeds, which are not impressed by the cold of winter.

"Madam, it's so cold, why did you come out again." Yao Yuan's daughter-in-law Lin Xia was pulling pigweed in the vegetable field and asked after seeing Meng Ying.

"Just take a look, I'll help too." Meng Ying said.

"No, madam, it's so cold, you better go and bake the fire, there are so many of us, it's okay to have us here." Lin Xia hurriedly stopped.

Originally, Yao Yuan and her were working in the cement workshop, but later Zhao Yuan's family raised more and more livestock and poultry, and the breeding farm expanded several times, and he couldn't bear to keep the little girl away from his relatives, so Zhao Yuan transferred them over to help Jia Yang and his son take care of the family's affairs.

Seeing that there were Yao Yuan and his wife and Jia Yang's father and son in the vegetable field, Meng Ying did not insist on helping, chatted casually, and continued to walk towards the field outside.

"If Brother Yuan comes back, he will come from the road on the edge of the wheat field."

The wheat fields are now gray, with a lot of weeds growing in the fields, and have become grazing grounds for the family's cattle, sheep, horses, and donkeys, and the chickens that were released early are also foraging in the fields, perhaps because the weather is too cold, and only occasionally cries in a low voice.

The pear trees and wild kiwi fruits on the edge of the ground are already bare, gently swaying in the cold wind.

Walking to the pile of rubbles on the ground, Meng Ying looked outside, and the black tiger that had grown into a big donkey might have seen Meng Ying and ran towards her.

"Black Tiger, Black Tiger." Meng Ying touched the fur of the black tiger, pulled a handful of grass from the side, and sent it to the black tiger's mouth, watching the donkey chew slowly.

"Black Tiger, you have grown so tall, when Brother Yuan and I bought you back, you were only that old......" Meng Ying said to herself, every bit of it was with Zhao Yuan.

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Zhao Yuan's carriage galloped all the way, and the carriage's excellent performance was still very early when it arrived at Gray Plains Town.

The small supermarket in the town has not yet opened, and Zhao Yuan did not bother Tao Pu's family, and directly asked Shao Meng and Guo Du to drive the carriage towards home.

"Hurry up the carriage, we can go home and catch breakfast." Zhao Yuan said.

"Yes, sir." Shao Meng responded, wielding a random whip to speed up the carriage.

"These vacant lands can also be used, and if there is cement, flood control levees can be built on both sides, and a lot of paddy fields can be opened." On the carriage, Zhao Yuan looked at the open space on both sides of the road and said.

"When the brothers of the workshop army come back, this bit of land will be completed in less than two days." Shao Meng laughed.

My lord is now in this position, and he still wants to add land to his family, but now it's all a trivial matter.

The carriage continued to move, and soon Huaguo Mountain and the family's wheat field could be seen in the distance.

"Sir, Madame is in the field." The carriage drove through the wheat field, and Guo Du said to Zhao Yuan in the carriage.

"How can the wind blow outside on such a cold day!" Zhao Yuan said, asked Shao Meng and the two to stop the carriage and opened the curtain on the carriage.

On the pile of rocks on the edge of the wheat field, a donkey was eating the grass that had turned yellow in winter, and a woman with a thin figure was not pulling a handful of grass and feeding the donkey, as if she was telling something, and suddenly, the woman seemed to feel something, and turned around suddenly, and her body almost slipped because it was turning too fast.

"Brother Yuan!"

"Xiaoying!"

Zhao Yuan saw that Meng Ying almost fell, and with his hand on Guo Du's shoulder, he jumped out of the carriage and ran towards Meng Ying.

The cattle and chickens in the wheat fields, frightened, screamed as if to welcome the man of the house home.

"It's such a cold day, why don't you stay in the house, look at your face is frozen red." Zhao Yuan ran to Meng Ying, hugged his wife, and said lovingly.

"I'm not cold, I just want to come and see if Brother Yuan are back." Feeling the powerful mobilization of his man's chest, Meng Ying whispered.

"It's all cold, why don't you wear more clothes." Listening to his wife's words and feeling the somewhat cold body of the woman in his arms, Zhao Yuan hugged him tightly.

As for Shao Meng and Guo Du, seeing the love of the lord and his wife, they consciously drove the carriage towards the stable.

After a while, Zhao Yuan saw the little girl Luoluo and Xiaobao running from the vegetable field, so he had to let go of his hands and led his wife towards the two little guys.