"Hu Ye Hu Ye, Niu Lidian asked you to go over quickly, Chen Jiang's mother is here, and Shui Girl, Xing'er, and Yu Ji are here!" In the heavy snow, a teenage baby ran over panting and shouted.

All the people who were doing their work stopped, and then they all threw down their belongings and rushed to the west end of the town.

Sure enough, in the vast rolling snow, surrounded by a group of villagers in Xiaohe Village, Chen Jiangshi, who was wearing a beautiful skirt and a fur cloak, was holding a package in his arms, leading Xing'er and Yu Ji, and the beautiful water in a black dress was slowly coming.

Niu Dashi took the villagers in the town and Hu Kuan and others to meet them together, except for Niu Dashi, Liu Po, Hu Kuan and a few other people, huhula instantly knelt on the ground, cheering to welcome Niangniang.

"Get up quickly, get up, it's snowing, it's cold on the ground!" Chen Jiang had experienced this situation several times, but he was still a little hurried and hurriedly bent down to pull up a few people in front of him, and his face was also very embarrassed.

After crossing over from Chen Xu, the life of the family is getting better and better day by day, not to mention the degree of food and clothing, but also full of food and clothing, so more than a year has passed, because of poverty and fatigue, the traces left by poverty and fatigue are becoming less and less on Chen Jiang's body, his complexion is full and ruddy, and even the crow's feet at the corners of his eyebrows have disappeared a lot, and he has gradually recovered to the demeanor that a woman in her thirties should have. With a kind of rich and noble atmosphere.

Xing'er is nine years old this year, she is well fed and raised, and she can no longer see the poor look that can be blown away by a gust of wind with yellow muscles and thin muscles, although she is still lively and active, her words and deeds are no different from ordinary country girls, but she is wearing a delicate mink short hanger and skirt, and her hair is neatly combed with a hairpin inlaid with agate, and she is naturally a rich lady, falling in the eyes of the children in the town, that is, a princess-like figure who is high above, she can only watch and worship from a distance, and dare not come forward to talk.

This is class, this is the insurmountable hierarchical difference between nobles and commoners.

"Auntie, what are you doing here with such a heavy snowfall?" Niu Dashi greeted him and saluted.

"Dashi, I heard that you are going to arrange a convoy to go to Xianyang, and you have to bring a few children from the village to help Xiao Xu, I knitted a pair of woolen pants for Xiao Xu, and the water girl knitted a sweater for him, as well as hats, gloves, scarves, and some snacks, please help bring them to him!" Chen Jiang handed the package in his hand to Niu Dashi, and the villagers of several Xiaohe villages next to him also took a few packages off their backs.

Niu Dashi turned around and handed the package to Hu Kuan, "Brother Hu, please take it with you, tell him that we are all very good, aunt and little sister, water girl, and Yu Ji are all very good, let him be a good master, and I will help him take care of Qinghe Town!" ”

After half a year, Niu Dashi has a little more grace, which is no longer the same as the previous appearance of a rural baby.

"Lidian, please rest assured, Niangniang, Hu Kuan will definitely bring clothes and words!" Hu Kuan took the next few packages and nodded hurriedly.

"Hu Kuan, are these carriages pulling goods to Xianyang?" Chen Jiang asked, looking at the long carriages lined up in the town.

"Yes, Hou Ye wrote a letter half a month ago to inform me that I should prepare materials to open a Qinghe hotel in Xianyang, and these goods are going to be pulled to Xianyang! At the same time, I also have to bring some people to help. ”

"With so many goods and children, and it is snowing heavily, you must be careful and pay attention to safety on the road, don't worry!" After Chen Jiangshi finished speaking, his eyes were a little red, and he wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve and was stunned for a while, and said softly: "I don't know if Xiao Xu is doing well in Xianyang alone, whether anyone cooks for him, whether he is warm or not, I heard that Xianyang is colder than our Nanyang......"

"Auntie, don't worry, my senior brother has always been with him, and Chen Lang has been made a marquis, and the emperor must have rewarded him with a lot of clothes, money and food, and there must be slaves for cooking, don't miss it too much, after the beginning of spring, I will take you and Xing'er Yu Ji to Xianyang to visit him!" Shui gently held Chen Jiang's arm beside him and said softly.

"I just can't rest assured, this cold and snowy, I don't know whether he eats Xianyang's food or not?" Although Chen Jiang knew that what Shui Qingrou said was right, and he didn't know how many times he had said these words, he began to be in a daze every day as long as he ate, as if he had lost his soul, and sometimes when he saw what Chen Xu left at home, he couldn't help but cry secretly.

"Niangniang rest assured, I heard from the person who sent the letter from Xianyang that His Majesty rewarded Hou Ye with a big prime minister's mansion, and rewarded hundreds of domestic servants, and there are dozens of little ladies who serve their lives, and Hou Ye also cooks all kinds of delicious food at home every day, and even makes a strange food called fried stinky tofu, and also uses stinky tofu to cure the anorexia of Fusu Gongzi's mother, and I also heard that Hou Ye is recruited into the palace every day to play mahjong with His Majesty the Emperor, Concubine Zheng, and Fusu Gongzi......" Hu Kuan hurriedly told all the true and false news he had heard.

"Then I'm relieved!" Chen Jiangshi took a breath of relief, then took Shui's gentle hand and said with a little embarrassment and apology, "The emperor has rewarded him with so many little ladies, I'm afraid he won't be able to help ......"

"Auntie...... Shui Qing's cheeks were crimson, and she lowered her head and whispered, talking about this issue in front of so many people, a young girl is naturally shy.

"Mother, do you mean that my brother wants to change me to a sister-in-law? Sister Shui, don't worry, when I go to Xianyang, I will definitely help you drive away those bad little ladies! Apricot yelled with a little dissatisfaction.

"Yes, drive them all away, Brother Xu can only marry Aunt Shui!" Yu Ji clenched her little fist to help Xing'er.

The water was soft, and her cheeks were even redder, and she didn't dare to raise her head at all.

"It's all scattered, it's all scattered, hurry up and go to work!" You Zhu Liu Po yelled a few times casually, driving away a group of villagers who were all pricked up and ready to listen to a few more gossip about the Qinghe Hou.

"Water girl, do you have anything to say to Qinghehou, I'll take it with you!" Hu Kuan was slightly embarrassed and gently bowed his hand to the water.

Shui nodded softly, took out a letter with a blushing face and handed it to Hu Kuan and whispered: "Trouble Brother Hu to tell him that we are all very good and miss him very much, let him take care of his body more!" ”

"Water girl, please rest assured, Hu Kuan will deliver the letter as soon as possible!" Hu Kuan put away the letter and nodded solemnly.

"Well, thank you!" The water gently blessed Hu Kuan, and then said to Chen Jiang, "Auntie, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, let's go back!" ”

"Hu Kuan, be careful on the road, Xing'er, say goodbye to Brother Dashi!" Chen Jiang nodded and then commanded Xing'er.

"Goodbye, Brother Dashi!" Xing'er still saluted Niu Dashi very politely.

"Hey, hey!" Niu Dashi instantly returned to his somewhat silly demeanor, touching the back of his head and smirking a few times.

Chen Jiang's family came and went quickly, and soon disappeared into the vast wind and snow accompanied by several villagers in Xiaohe Village.

"Hou Ye's family is all kind and benevolent, there should be a good reward, Hu Kuan can know Hou Ye in this life, it is worth it!" Hu Kuanmu couldn't help but sigh after sending Chen Jiang away.

"Auntie is right, Brother Hu, the wind and snow are heavy, the road is slippery and difficult, you should be careful all the way, and this time I also brought more than ten children in Xiaohe Village and the town, you must take care of them on the road, don't have an accident!" Niu Dashi regained his expression.

"Lidian rest assured, we will be careful, not to mention that I have already greeted the county lieutenant in Wancheng, and when the time comes, they will arrange for the lieutenant of the county lieutenant's mansion to personally escort the car, and there will be no accident!" Hu Kuan said.

"That's good, let's go, let people speed up the bundling of goods, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it today!"

Half an hour later, more than 20 carts of tightly bundled goods, and seven closed van carriages also sat more than a dozen boys and girls aged ten to thirteen or fourteen, all wearing thick winter coats and hats huddled together, with extremely excited expressions on their faces, they were all going to Xianyang, to help in the Qinghe Marquis Mansion or to help in the newly opened Qinghe shops, theaters, and inns to help manage the accounts, and they had learned literacy arithmetic and abacus for more than a year, enough to cope with daily simple calculations, and they were all from Qinghe Town, In terms of finance, Chen Xu is also at ease to use.

"Planting the Flag~"

With Hu Kuan's roar, dozens of helpers planted the flags that had been prepared on the carriage, and turned them in the wind and snow, and the four big characters of the Qinghe Houfu were particularly conspicuous.

"Out~" Hu Kuan yelled again.

"Driving~driving~" The horsemen who drove the car all raised their whips and shouted, more than 30 carts moved slowly, the thick wooden wheels crushed the ice and snow along the rutted wheels and went to the direction of Wancheng, and the accompanying helpers also turned over and got on their horses, and dozens of horses followed with each other.

"Baby~ I want to kowtow when I see Hou Ye!"

"Don't make trouble for Master Hou!"

"Don't make trouble when you get to Xianyang, or Lao Tzu will beat you to death!"

"Daddy, take care~"

"Take care, brother~"

The whole Qinghe Town almost poured into the nest, thousands of men, women and children followed the convoy and kept shouting and shouting, the sound of calling fathers and children on and off the car resounded all the way, there were admonitions, there were scolding, and more were crying with joy, until they were sent to the Black Tiger Bend ten miles away, until the convoy was no longer visible, and the villagers still looked at it for a long time before helping the old and the young to return.

This separation of flesh and blood may not be able to meet for three or five years.

But for this group of children, leaving Qinghe Town, what is revealed in front of them is a vast world, and from then on, the sea and the sky are free to fly high.

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