The news of the exchange of Geng between the Dou and Wei families came, and it was really raining heavily.

The raindrops were like beans, pouring down, instantly making Zhending County a land of water.

Dou Zhao stood under the porch, and the heavy rain falling on the bluestone bricks splashed on the hem of her skirt quickly.

Su Xin, who was dressed in a hat and clogs, walked in through the heavy rain curtain.

"Miss, you better go back to the house and rest!" While persuading Dou Zhao, she carefully took off the hat and handed it to the maid next to her, for fear that the rain on the hat would accidentally wet Dou Zhao's clothes, "It's raining too much outside, I cleaned up the conservatory according to your instructions, and sent two old grandmothers to be there for the night, you can rest assured!" ”

How can Dou Zhao rest assured.

Spring rain is as precious as fine.

But if this spring rain keeps falling like this, I am afraid that the crops will be killed just after planting.

She looked up at the crow's sky and entered the house with a frown.

Chen Qushui came in the rain.

"Miss, I don't think the weather is right, should you send someone over there to take a look?" His face was heavy.

"Sir and I want to go together." Dou Zhao said, as soon as the sky lit up, a lightning bolt passed, and there was a rumbling thunder, "I think this rain will not stop for a while and a half, the east cross courtyard and the main house have been renovated in the past two years, and the west cross courtyard and Heshou Hall are only afraid that they will send someone to see if there is any rain leakage." ”

Chen Qushui saw that Dou Zhao understood in his heart and put his mind at ease.

Honggu held up a tung oil paper umbrella and helped Aunt Cui and Grandma Cui over.

"Mr. Chen is here too!" She greeted Chen Qushui, her eyes full of deep worry, "Aunt Shou." The rain is so heavy that I'm afraid the crops in the field won't be able to stand it, so I'll have to go back and take a look. ”

"How can that work!" Dou Zhao and Chen Qushui said in unison, "If you want to go, we will go." How can you go! ”

It made everyone laugh, and the atmosphere suddenly became warm.

"What's the use of you going?" The grandmother said, "You don't know how to farm. It's just a matter of sightseeing, so let's go! Then he instructed Aunt Shou, "You prepare a carriage for me, if the crops in the field really suffer, when the rain stops, you have to find a way to let everyone grab something, otherwise there will be no harvest today." Even if we have exempted them from rent, I am afraid that this day will be very difficult, and we must prepare some food to lend them for the winter, otherwise we will starve to death. ”

Dou Zhao is a person who has not gone through a famine year, and Chen Qushui also had a good time in the famine year. None of my grandmothers experienced it profoundly, so naturally she was not as eager as my grandmother, so she persuaded her: "What if you suffer from the wind and cold in such a heavy rain?" I'll send a steward to take a look. "Aunt Cui doesn't have to worry, it's really going to be good in the past few years, if you really encounter waterlogging, the county and the state will find a way, and it won't be good." The imperial court will also send people for disaster relief, so you don't have to worry too much. ”

Aunt Cui shook her head and insisted on going back to the Grange to have a look.

Dou Zhao had no choice but to say, "Then I'll go there myself!" ”

Aunt Cui naturally disagreed: "You are a little girl's house, what can you do?" ”

How Dou Zhao has treated Aunt Cui and Grandma in recent years, Chen Qushui sees it in his heart. He smiled and said, "If you don't worry, I'll accompany Miss Fourth on a trip, right?" Maybe the rain will stop soon! You are tired, but I am afraid that Miss Fourth will not be safe at home. ”

That's fine!

Dou Zhao thought in his heart, and Chen Qushui said one sentence to the other, so that the ancestor was powerless, so he had to agree to let Chen Qushui accompany Dou Zhao to the Grange to have a look.

Su Xin was busy with Chen Xiaofeng and Duan Gongyi and others to escort them, while Su Lan urged the groom to set up the carriage, and Ganlu and Su Juan prepared tea and food on the road, and rain gear.

When the two servants serving Chen Qushui rushed over, they walked into the rain with umbrellas.

In front of the Hanging Flower Gate, I met Dou Zhao, who went to ask the second wife to come back.

The two mothers-in-law who escorted Dou Zhao back hurriedly bent their knees to give Dou Zhao a salute, flatteringly shouted "Fourth Miss", and asked diligently: "Where are you going with such a heavy rain?" Do you want to be escorted by the old slaves? ”

Dou Zhao recognized them as the people who served beside the second wife.

I didn't expect Dou Zhao to please the second wife.

She glanced at Dou Ming with satisfaction, and asked Su Xin to reward the two mothers-in-law with one seal for each of them.

The two mothers-in-law thanked and thanked.

Dou Ming's face was flushed by Dou Zhao's glance.

She thought that she braved such a heavy rain to ask the second lady to say goodbye, and the second lady was just slightly better for herself than usual, unlike Dou Zhao, who said that the rain was too heavy, and sent a mother-in-law to send some lotus seed powder, poria paste or something to the second wife, the second lady's face suddenly bloomed like a smile, and said to Mama Liu: "This child, although there is no mother, in the end is a blessed person, without the Wu family, without the He family, there is no Wei family, or fulfilled her mother's wish to become Mrs. Shizi." ”

"That's it, that's it." Mama Liu's old thing was still flattering and said, "In the future, it will be Mrs. Hou, it's a good product, it's the first one among the girls in our family!" ”

Dou Zhao couldn't hear it again, could he be guilty of such flattery?

She endured it until she entered the door, and saw Dou Zhao hugging Dou Zhao in front of her.

Unlike them, but with a few maids and mothers-in-law, but the guards open the way, the maids serve closely, and there is also a bookkeeper who runs before and after running next to him, as if the son of a family is on patrol, no, there is no such field when the son-in-law of ordinary people goes out on patrol.

Dou Ming couldn't help but sneered: "My sister is about to be Mrs. Hou's person, why don't you order the guards and stewards around you if there is anything, no matter how bad it is, you can also instruct the maids and mother-in-law, why do you have to go out in person, could it be that the marriage with the Wei family is yellow again?" But my sister won't be able to call the servant women at home? Have not the servants of our house always feared you? ”

This is a matter between the Dou sisters, and it is not up to outsiders to talk about the strengths and weaknesses.

Chen Xiaofeng and others were as silent as a mountain.

The two mothers-in-law in the second lady's house gasped, and said that they were unlucky, how could they have such an errand, could it be that the people in the East Mansion said that the fifth lady in the West Mansion could not touch it. If there is such a thing in the future, I would rather be scolded by Mama Liu than hide away.

The people serving beside Dou Ming were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything, and Mama Zhou was even more sweaty, and she couldn't care about humility. Pressed Dou Ming to apologize to Dou Zhao: "How can you talk to your sister like this!" ”

Dou Ming stiffened his neck and did not bow his head.

Dou Zhao chuckled: "I didn't expect our family to have a strong order, wouldn't it be a pity that I didn't fulfill you." As he spoke, he walked out of the Hanging Flower Gate.

Chen Xiaofeng and the others followed Dou Zhao without saying a word, and walked over from Dou Ming without squinting. It's like she's an irrelevant person.

Dou Ming's face was flushed with anger, and when Dou Zhao's people were gone, she asked Mama Zhou in a low voice: "Who is the 'Strong Order'?" What does she mean by that? ”

Mama Zhou didn't know either, and hesitated: "Why don't you ask Mr. Song?" ”

Dou Ming nodded.

In the carriage, Ganlu asked Dou Zhao curiously: "Miss, do you want to deduct the monthly case of the fifth miss?" ”

Dou Zhao wants the maids around him to follow the reading, and Su Xin knows this allusion. The strength makes Dong Xuan upright and honest, and his family is poor.

"The monthly rule is the rule of the house, which one of the rules and regulations will be deducted if she commits it?" Dou Zhao said lightly, "It's just that there are regulations in the house, and the girl and Lu haven't married yet." There are fifteen taels of incense powder money every month, and those who have not reached it are only two taels of silver for incense powder. She said to Su Xin, "You have to remember to tell Happy in the future, Miss Fifth is only eleven years old this year, where can you use incense money!" There is also Wan Niang, who taught the fifth lady the pipa, she was not invited by our house, and Gao Sheng did not specifically instruct her, Wan Niang's bundle repair, and the clothes of the four seasons should not be produced by us. "She's concerned about the rain right now. It is the harvest of the crops in the field, the livelihood of those farmers, where is there time to pay attention to Dou Ming's provocation, "I found that there are still a lot of such small things, Su Xin, you have to pay more attention to these things in the future." lest you break the rules of the house. ”

Miss Fifth didn't give Miss Four face in front of everyone like this. The fourth lady will not punish the fourth lady, with the fourth lady's temperament, I don't know what kind of big trouble she will cause in the future.

Miss Four seems to be very strict with Miss Five, but in fact she is still very protective of Miss Five.

Su Xin smiled and should be.

Dou Zhao put this matter behind him, lifted the curtain of the car and looked out.

The field that had just been ploughed was white, and only a few grasses were seen swaying in the wind, the branches were rattling in the wind, and the raindrops were "crackling" on the roof of the car like falling hail.

By the time we reached the junction to the Grange, the road was already muddy, and the carriage would be stuck in it.

Duan Gongyi said without hesitation: "After disarming the horse, a few of us will push the carriage into the village." He said to Chen Qushui: "Mr. Grievance is waiting here, and I will go into the village to borrow a mule to carry you into the village." ”

Chen Qushui shook his head: "No need, I'll just walk in." I still have luggage in the Grange, and I'll be able to change my shoes when the time comes. ”

In the wind and rain, Duan Gongyi was not polite to Chen Qushui, and broke a branch the thickness of a wine cup and handed it to Chen Qushui: "Mr. use it for abduction!" Then they and Chen Xiaofeng pulled the carriage into the village.

The laborers of all the families in the village stood under the eaves and looked at the heavier and heavier rain and were worried, and when they saw the carriage of the Dou family entering the village, they all cheered, grabbed something casually and put it on their heads and gathered around.

"Hey, it's Miss Four!"

"Why didn't Aunt Cui come back?"

"Fourth Miss, what can I do about this? The corn had just been lit. ”

"Yes, Fourth Miss, should we dig a hole and release water!"

Everybody's gossiping.

"That's why Fourth Miss came." Seeing this, Duan Gongyi yelled, "It's wind and rain, when the fourth miss settles down, I will call everyone to discuss this matter, don't worry, let the fourth miss enter the house to rest first." ”

The crowd immediately made a way.

Dou Zhao entered the main house surrounded by Su Xin and others.

After a while, Dou Zhao sat cleanly on the big kang by the window, drinking hot tea, and discussing with several elderly farmers in the village how to get through the difficulties.