The hostess of the Hou Mansion is busy, and the two maids will naturally not be easy, so Wei Junru will take care of the daily affairs of the Hou Mansion.

After all, Cao Shi has already accepted her into the room, spread out the bun of the unmarried woman, and replaced it with the weeping bun used by women, which represents the identity from a maid to the identity of a concubine, and it is good to accumulate some prestige by managing the maid.

lest she be bullied by the uneyed maidservant on her head, and it will fall into her husband's ears within a few days, which will make it difficult for Princess Yangxin to do.

Xia Yu is not so relaxed, she has not been received into the room by Cao Shi for half a year, her heart has already been consumed for most of it, these days she is responsible for dealing with the things that show up with Princess Yangxin, and she is busy all day long and cannot be idle in the house, which is much more miserable than Wei Junru.

After a busy morning, Wei Junru went back to have lunch with his younger brothers and sisters after resting.

The lunch of the three sisters and brothers is not bad, four dishes and one soup have fish and meat, vegetables and buns, the soup is lotus root egg flower soup, and the taste of lotus root stored in salt water for half a year is no different from freshness.

"My sister is working so hard, and she has lost a lot of weight these days." Wei Zifu said worriedly.

Wei Junru smiled and shook his head: "I'm not hard, it's just that many things have just started, and I still think a little more unsteadily in my heart, how is the new dance you have learned these days?" ”

"It's alright! After practicing for a long time, the steps have been memorized, but the person who still needs to accompany the dance, the prince said that it is inconvenient for him to accompany the dance, and now he is so distressed. Wei Zifu held his chin and frowned slightly, his palm-sized little face was full of sadness, she is twelve years old this year, half a head taller than last year, originally only to Wei Junru's neck, but now it is over the chin and almost under her ears.

Soaring height means that the girl's puberty has arrived, according to the customs of the Han family, thirteen to fifteen years old is the golden age for a woman to marry, fifteen years old is precisely the age when the height is basically fixed, the eldest Wei Zifu has begun to realize that life events are imminent, she should sew a wedding dress at this age to prepare for future marriage, but she really does not know who her future husband will be.

"Sister, do you think I'll be your backup dancer?" Wei Qing is ten years old this year, compared to a year ago, he was thin and short, only showing the size of his eyes, at this time he was tall and strong like a calf, he grew a lot taller, and his strength was more than double that of before, the original heaviest five-bucket bow could only be pulled one or two times, and now he can pull ten times in a row, although he can't open the bow like a full moon, but it is rare to have such strength at this age.

Wei Zifu glanced at his younger brother and shook his head: "A-Qing, you are not tall enough. ”

"That's it! Dance is taught by the prince, why is it inconvenient for the prince? Wei Qing pouted, not very happy.

Wei Zifu shook his head and smiled: "Silly Aqing, our prince is so busy every day, how can he have time to teach me dance?" I'll figure it out myself! ”

In the following month, the portrait of the ancestor of Wang Pifang's family was also made at the same time, and this painting made the Wang family feel very satisfied.

The first shot was opened, and before he had time to wait for the customer to come to the door, the prince called him into the palace and reprimanded, probably meaning that such a good painting should first meet the needs of the palace, so the prince arranged for him to make a portrait of the Empress Dowager Dou and the queen to hang in the palace to enjoy, this painting took a full five days, every day to take time to sit in the corner of the Changxin Palace, and observe the appearance of the two nobles in the palace from a distance in the place that is not affected as much as possible.

In the busyness, the time quietly came to the beginning of March, when the spring flowers bloomed and the Wei River rose, and the heaviest festival of the month was to take a bath on the side.

According to the festival etiquette, up to the Son of Heaven down to the common people have to come to the river to bathe on this day, the pre-Qin era is also called purification, in ancient times, men, women and children went to the river to bathe and get rid of the sickness on the body, although there is a witch presiding over but every year the Shangsi Festival still becomes the best festival to talk about love, young men and women at this time love at first sight as partners, until the Han Xing this custom has not changed much.

The folk atmosphere is open to the end, the nobles have to take care of some face, at most they are by the river, and the princess Yangxin goes to the Changle Palace and the ladies in the palace go to the water near the Weiyang Palace to celebrate the festival, it is said that the river channel will be blocked by the guards of the Southern Army every few days every year, and no one is allowed to trespass within a radius of five miles, even the Son of Heaven will not go there.

Cao Shi and the princes came directly to the Wei River to take a boat to drink and feast, and when the boat reached the boundary of the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion, they were greeted by several huge wooden buildings slowly turning.

"Wow, look at it from my brother, it's such a big wheel!"

Xiahou Po was hit on the head, and immediately went to the corner to draw circles, Chen He pulled his sleeves and leaned against the railing to look: "Okay, you are longevity, this is a new good thing in your family?" Tell me what this thing is for. ”

"Chen Zishi, don't pretend to be a kid! I heard that your servants come here every once in a while, don't you know the behemoth that rises from the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion? Zhou Zuoche squinted and said.

Chen He smiled: "What can I do, the people of the Pingyang Hou Mansion are very tight-mouthed, and my servants have worked hard to find out that this thing is called a waterwheel, and as for the details, I don't know at all, I don't believe that your kid didn't send someone to go around." ”

"Just you talk a lot." Zhou Zuoche snorted and glanced left and right, everyone hung their heads and looked embarrassed, even the honest Xuanyu family also sent servants to inquire about the situation outside the Hou Mansion, it is conceivable that Chang'an City has also caused a huge sensation, I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at the Pingyang Hou Mansion ten miles outside the city.

"Look, there's a lot of people coming from the west."

Sure enough, there are a lot of Chang'an people in the two-wheeled carriage slowly and leisurely, these Chang'an residents choose to stop under the river embankment to take out food and picnic, while talking and laughing while looking at the big waterwheel rotating by the river, since last winter began to burn bricks, cut wood and take bamboo, to the spring when the flowers bloom and the land thaws began to dig the foundation and build the tower, and now several waterwheels are finally erected on the edge of the Wei River.

It is no wonder that the residents of Chang'an are curious, but the waterwheel is too big, and the giant waterwheel equivalent to the height of a ten-story house impresses everyone who sees the waterwheel.

Liang Zou Hou Shizi Wu Yingqi frowned and said, "What is the use of such a big thing? It looks like a big monster, and the civilian boat that walks by in the middle of the night may scare people to death when they encounter this big thing. ”

"That's not it, Pingyang Hou won't make useless things, as long as he is useful, he has the value of saving." Pingjian Hou Xue Ze and Wu Yingqi have a good relationship, the two are similar in age, they are sworn friends from childhood to adulthood, they belong to the oldest and oldest people in this gang of liehous, and those who are older than them don't mess around with young people, and they each have their own business to talk about business and family business.

Wu Yingqi and Xue Ze also belong to the people who are about to leave this circle, after all, people who are almost forty still have to mix with a group of young people who are only fifteen or sixteen years old, and the oldest is only twenty-three or fourteen years old.

And among them, Wu Ying Qi is the oldest and the oldest, and he has never liked to talk to these young people, another reason is that Wu Ying Qi is stout like a reckless cow, and his temper is also a stubborn cow, and no one dares to provoke him.

The reason for the bad mood is his good brother Xue Ze, this good old man is now the adjutant of the Imperial Doctor Yu Shi Cheng, I think Xue Ze was the little brother who was protected behind Wu Yingqi, and now he is a high-ranking official of Qianshi, and Wu Yingqi himself has not yet mixed up with an official and a half-position, he always wants to go to the Northern Army to mix with a cavalry lieutenant.

But his old father, Liang Zou Hou Wu Zhi, an old man who is almost eighty, not only lives very well, but also does not let his son become an official in the court for some reason, so Wu Yingqi has been an old son for more than 30 years and has achieved nothing so far, Xue Ze wants to take the opportunity to help his brother build a relationship with Cao Shi.

Fan Itguang said with a smile: "This is an irrigation farm tool, my prince named it a waterwheel, and used it to water the river water to the farmland day and night, but it can fill the water of thousands of hectares of fertile land in two days, and there is a fine stream of water in the ridges, which can not only irrigate the fields but also enough for the daily water of the farmers." ”

The magic of the waterwheel is almost as absurd and bizarre as an ancient myth, the princes listen to the heart swaying and dizzy, the young princes are surprised and admired, the older princes show disapproving expressions, the princes are also people who have seen the world, although they do not understand the way and knowledge of farming, but every year to check the account book grain production and water use are necessary to mention the number jù, the young princes may not understand the inside story, but the older ones will not applaud casually.

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