Chapter 595: It's easy to share hardships and hardships, but it's difficult to get rich and prosperous together?

Since the opening of the festival on the first day of March, Tongzhou Wharf has become busier. Because it is now a spring in full bloom, the merchants in the south are also carrying a shipload of goods to the north, and after arriving in Tongzhou, they will change the land route to transport them into Beijing, plus the various carts of various Xungui Grange to the city to send the first crop of vegetables, vegetables and fruits in April, which is more and more blocked this important road leading to Beijing, so the official road from Tongzhou to Beijing is very lively.

Although the nobles' public fields are fixed, and Zhu Di has always been extremely strict in asking for gifts, but after moving the capital to Beijing, the nobles still compete to buy property in Beizhili, among which the Tongzhou neighborhood has naturally become the first choice for property because of the fertile soil and convenient irrigation of canals. Xiji Town, southeast of Tongzhou, has more than a dozen granges of the Baoding Marquis' Mansion, the British Mansion, and the Anyuan Marquis Mansion, in which the tenants and servants are added together, and there are seven or eight hundred people, to say the least.

Chaobai Village, Xiji Town, named after Chaobai River, originally had thirty or fifty households, many of which had their own acres of land. Because of the donation of land to Zhao Wangfu, you can be free of rent and free of servitude, many people are moved, and I don't know who started it, and many fields are gradually attached to the name of the Baoding Houfu Grange near here. Not far from Chaobai Village are the three Zhuangzi of the Baoding Hou Mansion, with a total of 200 hectares of fields, of which the southernmost Zhuangzi is called Baishazhuang, and it is Meng Min's family who lives.

It has always been three years and twenty-five months, so the men and women of the Meng family are removed from their clothes in early March, but they are still wearing plain clothes. During the mourning period, the family almost never stepped out of the house, even during the New Year's holidays, they sent people to the Baoding Marquis Mansion to say hello. Although there are not many fields in Baishazhuang, the family does not need much human contact now, and they can save a lot of money all year round, and finally have some savings after the family property is lost.

Early in the morning, Meng Min got up early as usual, and after assigning the housework, he went to the kitchen to inspect. When breakfast was ready, the two daughters-in-law brought it with food boxes, and she came out of the steaming room. Because this village is just an ordinary four-entry courtyard, not as complicated as the Meng Mansion in Beijing, she heard the familiar shouting before she arrived at the courtyard gate. Walking into the door quickly, she saw Meng Tao and Meng Fan in the middle of the courtyard, you come and I are competing with each other, the clothes on the upper body have been soaked with sweat, and she can't help but show a relieved smile.

The two younger brothers are now grown up, and although they have no hereditary future, they know that they are better than anything else.

Standing in place and looking at it in a daze for a while, she felt that someone had covered a piece of clothing on her shoulder, and hurriedly turned her head, and when she saw that it was Cuimo, she smiled and said: "You are too careful, where am I so expensive, I have been busy in the kitchen in the morning and sweating profusely!" ”

"Even if you sweat, you have to beware of catching a cold, if Miss has a headache and brain fever, isn't this house a mess?" Cui Mo stepped forward to tie the blue silk white cloak for Meng Min again, and then said, "Miss, don't forget, Sister Red Sleeves will come this morning, this is the first time she has come to the door since she got married, if she knows that I am not attentive, she will definitely complain about me." Just take care of me! ”

Seeing that Cuimo was smiling a little more now, and the knots between her eyebrows and eyes were not as depressed as before, Meng Min also felt comforted in her heart. Thinking that she was going to come over to see her red sleeves today, she was even more happy. At the beginning, she was so resolute in marrying her, how could she be willing in her heart, but now that she thinks about it, fortunately she is ruthless, otherwise if the family suffers such a big change, the life of Red Sleeves will be delayed. What's more, Red Sleeves is such a stubborn temper, if you see the scene of the raid at home, I don't know what drastic actions will be.

"Fourth sister!"

When she heard this call, she hurriedly turned around, only to see Meng Tao and Meng Fan packing up their weapons and walking over, both of them were full of shiny sweat. Looking at their strong muscles now, they were a head taller than before, and they were already tall and big young men, she couldn't help but smile slightly, and then ordered Cui Mo to hand over the two big towels.

When they wiped their sweat, she drove them back to the house for breakfast, and went to see her two younger siblings. In addition to being taken to Mrs. Lu's side, Meng You, the sixth sister who is now seventeen years old but has not yet been married, there has been no more chaos in the family in the past two years, a few aunts who have no children have left with silver, and the two who have children have never made trouble again, after all, there is still the Baoding Marquis Mansion behind the family.

Since he couldn't eat meat before keeping filial piety, now after taking it, Meng Min asked the two cooks to change their ways to make more meat soup, so as not to suddenly spoil the stomach with big fish and meat, and breakfast is just porridge with vegetables and meat steamed buns. Just after midnight, she was checking last month's accounts when Cui Mo came in and said that Red Sleeves had arrived. She put down her pen and waited for a while, and the emerald blue curtain in front of the room was lifted, and it was a woman wearing a blue cloth jacket and a small jacket with her right hand still straddling the boss's burden.

I haven't seen him for a few years, and at this time, when I saw the red sleeves at first glance, Meng Min almost didn't dare to recognize it. The cloud-like hair was still bright, but it was shiny, as if it had been oiled. The sideburns and earlobes that used to love to turn over patterns are smooth, and there is no accessory in sight. The eyebrows and eyes had changed a lot from before, and the corners of the mouth only smiled when they saw her.

"Miss!"

After being stunned for the first time, Red Sleeves hurriedly stepped forward, kneeling down and about to kowtow, but before he could bend down, he was forced to hold his arm. She raised her head and was about to say something more, but when she saw that Meng Min just shook her head, her eyes were full of tears, and she suddenly felt a sour heart, so she stood up along her. After a few words of greeting, she sat down unnaturally, peeked at the old master for a while, and then turned her gaze on Cui Mo's body again.

Seeing that this girl who had taken up her job was just wearing grass velvet flowers and cloth skirts, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly in her heart. After this distraction, she didn't hear Meng Min ask herself, and she didn't come back to her senses until Cui Mo reminded her. When the Meng family was raided, she was already married and escaped a catastrophe, and the grievances and dissatisfaction when she got married have long disappeared with time, and the rest are the memories of the past.

"Red Sleeves, I heard that you had a boy a few years ago, are you okay?"

"There's nothing good or bad, it's much better than the ordinary women of the village, but he's still the housekeeper in the store, and he doesn't have to worry about food and clothing." Red Sleeves is still as straightforward as before, seeing that Meng Min seems to be a little unconvinced, she smiled again, "Don't look at me dressed like this, it's all because my family's temper is weird, and it is often said that swaggering outside makes people worry, even if they have a family background, they can't show it." The person that Miss personally chose for me at the beginning, don't you know his details? My family is the steward of the silk village, a few years older, and he is honest after all. You can put 10,000 hearts into it, and I'm doing well. ”

There was still a sentence in her heart that she didn't say - compared to Meng Min, wouldn't she be too greedy if she still said that she was unsatisfactory?

It's just that she is not as reckless as she was in her early years, and as she spoke, she handed over the burden, and said, "I know that even if I bring some valuable gifts, the young lady will definitely refuse to accept them, and here are a few sets of clothes made by my own hands." A few years ago, he got a few new pieces of Matsue muslin, saying that it was made into a mid-single, and it was more intimate than silk when worn, so I got started. Now that I am not wearing clothes, I think it is appropriate for young masters and young ladies to wear this. ”

Now the Meng family lives in the countryside, and there is everything in rice, grain, vegetables and vegetables, but because of the previous filial piety, the clothes at four o'clock are all in the past, at most, the clothes of adults are changed to small for children to wear, and there have been no new clothes for more than three years. Meng Min had just discussed this matter with Cui Mo a few days ago, but he didn't want Red Sleeves to think of this first. After smiling and thanking her, she opened the big blue cloth bag in front of people, and there were indeed several sets of clothes neatly folded.

"I haven't been here for several years, so when the third young master and the fifth young master went to the Hou Mansion in Baoding, I asked my family to inquire about the size of everyone, maybe there are still some discrepancies, Miss bear with me."

"I think the third brother and the fifth brother always loved to wear the clothes you made, and I will be happy to know it this time."

The master and servant hadn't seen each other for a long time, so naturally they had a lot to say, and Cuimo had already retreated quietly. When they got outside, because Meng Tao and Meng Fan rushed over when they heard the news, she persuaded them to go in slowly, so that the two of them could chat for a while. Because she is like half a sister now, the brothers listen to her, and the younger Meng Fan looks at Cuimo with a smile.

"In the past two years, thanks to Sister Cuimo's help with the fourth sister's housework, the third brother has nagged many times, and Ming'er is waiting for me to have a future with him, and I will thank you after I get the entry!"

"As long as the two young masters are motivated and competitive, it is better than thanking me!" Although Cui Mo is half a year younger than Meng Tao, with Meng Min, she sees the two of them as younger brothers, and this tone brings out her usual style, "If the third young master and the fifth young master really have a heart, then you should thank you Miss!" ”

"What the fourth sister has done for the family, my fifth brother and I will naturally not forget." Meng Tao nodded heavily, and then said with a smile, "Cuimo, you helped our family in the most difficult days, and we will not forget it either." We don't have a father and mother, and you are the same, in the future, everyone will be a family, regardless of each other! People say that it is easy to share hardships and hardships, and it is difficult to share wealth and prosperity, but I don't believe in this principle, is there anything more sad than the previous ditch? ”

Hearing the three words of this family, Cuimo's nose was sour, and he almost shed tears, but it was easy to resist the impulse, and said with a straight face: "Good and dignified came to provoke me again, is it nice to cry in front of you?" Since this is in addition to serving, there must be a family member in the family, and the third young master and the fifth young master should be promoted to the master in the future, and I am just a slave and maid......"

"Sister Cuimo, the third brother didn't treat you as a slave!" Meng Fan was quick to speak for a while, and as soon as he said it, he saw his brother glaring at him fiercely, so he changed his words, "Okay, okay, don't talk about this, the fourth sister and the red sleeves should be chattering about the same, let's go in and take a look......"

was interrupted by him like this, Cui Mo didn't pay attention to the previous sentence, and just as she was about to speak, she saw someone hurrying over outside, so she left the brothers and walked forward. After talking to the daughter-in-law in a low voice, she suddenly raised her eyebrows, and her heart was extremely curious.

Today, the red sleeves came first, and Xiao Wu also came here at this time, how could it be so coincidental?