Chapter 82, after the Spring Festival, they are busy
"Giggles, Zheng'er wants to ride a horse, and Daddy buys a horse for Zheng'er."
Zhou Zheng giggled. In the past, my mother didn't buy it, and I didn't let it play, but when my father came, I said to my mother, "A boy should go up the mountain and down the river to Piteng, how can he be like a girl", so my mother didn't care about him anymore. Brother Zheng said that it was good to have a father.
Zhou Wen held his son's waist while holding Liu Shuang's hand and came to a stall selling Kong Ming lanterns.
"Which one to choose?"
Liu Shuang swept around, pointed to the lamp with Fulu Suxi painted and said, "That's it, all you want in life is peace and joy." ”
Zhou Wen smiled: "Okay." ”
Looking at the rising Fulu Suxi, Zhou Wen turned his head to Liu Shuang and said, "Come home with me tomorrow." ”
Liu Shuang was unusually sharp, and suddenly said very nervously: "I haven't settled all the people in the village yet." ”
Zhou Wen held her hand, "Everything has me, what are you afraid of?" ”
Liu Shuang bowed her head, "There are still many brothers in the stockade......"
Zhou Wen continued: "I counted the entire village, a total of 30 men, women and children, there is no need to resettle them, I will take them all." Zhuohua Villa is very large, and it is short of manpower. ”
Liu Shuang raised her head, "But many of them are from Qingzhou." ”
"It's okay, after a while, Peach Blossom will come to Qingzhou to open a branch, and give them priority to being placed in Qingzhou."
"But,......" Liu Shuang's fingers clenched the placket.
"Shuang'er, you and I have been married for so many years, Brother Zheng'er is almost six years old, and you haven't met your father and mother with me. They would love to see you. ”
"Will they like my unfilial daughter-in-law?"
She hasn't seen her in-laws since she got married, let alone her filial piety. She also left her husband aside for six years, and she didn't leak any news to her husband's family when she had a child, and she was clearly a woman with no respect for her elders and no dignity. This kind of daughter-in-law will be abandoned in anyone's house.
Zhou Wen chuckled: "It's a little unfilial." ”
Liu Shuang raised her head, and her face turned a little white.
"That's my favorite, you just push it on me, can my father and mother still kick me out of the house? It's a big deal to get beaten up again, and it complements the whip marks you smoked. ”
As soon as Liu Shuang heard it, she knew that this guy was joking at all, and said angrily: "How can this kind of thing be used as a joke, see that I am afraid that you will be happy." ”
Zhou Wen hurriedly said to her, seeing that she was not so nervous, before saying: "My father and mother are very gentle people, they all know your situation, and they don't blame you, don't be afraid." What's more, you also gave birth to such a strong grandson for them, and with such a great credit, any fault can be offset by any mistakes. ”
Liu Shuangbai glanced at him: "According to what you say, I still have my son's light, so if I want to work hard to conceive another one, wouldn't I be more confident?" ”
"Mother, what are you pregnant?" The fat boy riding on Zhou Wen's neck asked Liu Shuang with big round eyes.
Liu Shuang blushed and slapped his little buttocks, "Don't intervene when adults talk and children." ”
Zhou Zheng was dissatisfied, and pouted: "Dad obviously said that I am a man in the family, and I am stronger than my mother." Mother, you are too bad, afraid that I will surpass you, and you will not let me speak. ”
"Hahaha, exactly, our political brother is also a man who can talk at home." Zhou Wen laughed.
The nervousness in Liu Shuang's heart was completely dissolved by the two of them, and he chuckled: "You are still laughing, you see what you taught him, and you have been led to lawlessness in a few days." ”
Zhou Wen said with a smile: "Boy, you should let him be bold and responsible, and you don't need to care too much about the details." ”
After watching the lanterns and returning to the cottage, Liu Shuang announced to everyone the order to pack up and go to Qiongya County.
On the sixteenth day of the first month, Zhou Ming decided to go south tomorrow, accompanied by Shen Jiangran and Ju Weichuan.
There are a lot of things that need to be prepared for going out, and Lin Taohua began to pack him on the morning of sixteen. She can use this and that too, and she needs that too, and the more things are installed, the more things are loaded.
Zhou Ming looked at the boxes of things in the yard, and said with a wry smile: "I'm going to catch the exam, and it's not moving, isn't it a burden for you to bring so many things to me?" ”
Lin Taohua said with a smile: "In the past, I had no money to buy everything and could only make do with everything, but now that there are conditions, it is natural how to be comfortable." ”
Zhou Ming was speechless: "That can't be like this, if you swagger through the market, you are not afraid of attracting robbers for me." ”
When Lin Taohua heard this, she streamlined a lot of things, doubled the amount of silver, and for the sake of safety, she called Tsing Yi again and asked him to set off with him. It was all done until it was dark.
Xianggong was about to travel far away, Lin Taohua was reluctant to give up, sticking to him like a shadow, and never closed his eyes for a night.
On the seventeenth day of the first month, it is advisable to travel far away.
Lin Taohua stood at the entrance of the village and watched the two carriages drift away, and her tears blurred her vision instantly. Zhou Ming waved at her from the car window and asked her to go back earlier.
"Brother Ming, you have to come back early. I miss you. She waved her hands and shouted loudly, regardless of shame.
When the car was out of sight, Zhou Wang's said pityingly: "Peach Blossom, Brother Ming will be back soon." It's cold outside, so let's go back early. ”
Lin Taohua hugged Zhou Wang's and cried: "Mother, I miss him now." ”
Zhou Wangshi patted her back distressedly and comforted her softly, and after a long time, she followed everyone back to the villa in a depressed mood.
Originally, after the Shangyuan Festival, Zhou Wu was going to take Zhou Hui to live in another courtyard, because Lin Taohua was really in a bad mood, and Zhou Hui begged Zhou Wang's family to accompany her in the villa.
On the afternoon of Zhou Ming's departure, Lin Taohua found that the third year of junior high school had not come to work. She thought that the third junior high school was also in a bad mood because of Shen Jiangran's departure, so she went to the wing room to chat with her.
There was no one in the room, and a note was placed on the table. Lin Taohua picked it up and looked at it, this girl actually made up her mind to follow Shen Jiangran, disguised herself as a man and secretly got into the carriage heading south.
Lin Taohua was half dead in anger, secretly hating herself for being too indulgent in the third year of junior high school, and even making her bold enough to do such an outrageous thing. She acted like this, even if she really married into the Shen family as she wished in the future, she would also leave a stain, and she would inevitably be looked down upon in the future.
This girl usually looks very smart, why is she so confused about men and women. Lin Taohua felt hatred and pity in her heart.
When Lin Taohua knew the traces of the third junior high, the junior high had been hiding in the trunk of the carriage for a long time.
In the evening, Zhou Ming and they went to Jiangjiazhuang in Yuzhou, and they borrowed the empty house of the villager.
At night, Shen Jiangran read for a while before turning off the lights and resting, and in the middle of the night, someone suddenly came in the quilt, and he rolled off the bed directly in shock. The sound of falling to the ground alarmed Tsing Yi, and the matter of the third year of junior high school was revealed.
Zhou Ming was about to sell the third junior high school immediately after learning about this, and the third junior confided in Zhou Ming in tears that she had no choice, saying that she sincerely admired Shen Jiangran, and that the owner and his wife did not agree to her marriage with Shen Jiangran, so she was confused for a while to do such a wrong thing.
Zhou Ming sneered, where did she do this in the third year of junior high school, she was obviously afraid that Shen Jiangran would go to Kyoto to go to high school in one fell swoop, and she would never have a chance to marry him, so she almost climbed out of bed in the middle of the night. This kind of servant girl who disgraces the master's family should be beaten to death with a stick, and she dares to quibble here.
Tsing Yi saw that Zhou Ming had made up his mind, and stepped forward to grasp the third year of junior high school. At this time, Shen Jiangran suddenly stood up and expressed his willingness to marry the third junior high school as his wife, and took out the family heirloom jade pendant as an engagement token. Zhou Ming was surprised and advised him not to be rash. The matter of marriage, the words of the matchmaker of the parents, why is it such a child's play?
Shen Jiangran told Zhou Ming that he was not impulsive. Since he joined Wuwei Zhai, he has often taken care of him in the third year of junior high school, and even went to his house to help with things in his spare time, and was considerate to his old mother and siblings. His mother kept saying that the third year of junior high school was a good girl and wanted him to marry her, but Shen Jiangran was embarrassed to mention the matter to Zhou Ming and Lin Taohua, so she kept it. Although he acted inappropriately in the third year of junior high school this time, it was because he had affection for him, and he couldn't help but express it.
Zhou Ming is actually not optimistic about the two of them, and he doesn't see from Shen Jiangran's words and deeds that he has a lot of friendship for the third junior high school, but since Shen Jiangran insisted, Zhou Ming is not willing to force the third junior high school to a dead end, after all, this girl is also the henchman of his wife.
In this way, the third junior high school girl disguised herself as a man and followed them all the way south to Kyoto as a scholar of Shen Jiangran.
On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, Zhou Ming had been away for many days, and he sent a letter of peace back. Lin Taohua was in a good mood when she saw the familiar handwriting, so she decided to pack up and take Hu Yi and Bai Yuan to Qingzhou. Zhang Biao felt that Bai Yuan alone was not very thoughtful, so he arranged for Hu Jianyi, Li Laosan and the four men from Tianjiazhuang to follow together.
On the same day, Zhou Wu and Zhou Hui took Fei'er to bid farewell to their parents and lived in a separate courtyard in the county seat, and Chengxiang accompanied him with the fourth year of junior high school.
The juniors were busy with each other, and only Zhou Yuan and Zhou Wang's old couple were left in the originally lively villa, which suddenly became deserted. Fortunately, he received a letter from Zhou Wen within two days, saying that he would take his wife and children home in a few days. The sudden appearance of the eldest grandson made Zhou Wang's mouth close happily, and he was busy making clothes for his grandson with his mother-in-law all day long, but he didn't feel lonely.
On this day, when I went to Tianjiazhuang in Shuixi County, I followed Lin Taohua and several men from Tianjiazhuang wanted to go to my home to have a look.
Hu Yi people saw that it was not early outside, and if they were in a hurry at this time, they would not be able to catch up with the next village before dark, so they suggested that Lin Taohua go to her and Yuan Jie's old house to rest for one night and go on the road tomorrow morning.
Lin Taohua naturally had no opinion, and told Hu Jianyi to take the men to clean up, while she and Hu Yiren went to the small river south of Zhuangzi, saying that they wanted to shave ice and catch fish.
Hu Yi couldn't resist her, so he could only find the tools such as the hammer and small fishing net used by Yuan Jie in the old firewood house and go to the river with her.
This small river is not wide, the river surface is frozen firm, Lin Taohua stood on the ice and chiseled the ice hard, but unfortunately the strength is too small, and the accuracy is poor, and there is no pit on the ice that can go deep into this pit that she hammered.
"Grandma, what are you doing?" Hu Jianyi cleaned up the house, and ran over to take a look when he vaguely heard a sound by the river.
After a while, Lin Taohua sweated, panting and said, "You came just in time, quickly dig a hole for us, we want to net fish." ”
Hu Jianyi glanced at the ice in front of her, took the hammer in her hand with a twitch at the corner of his mouth, and observed it on the ice, and then chose a slightly thinner place to chisel the ice.
Looking at the ice cave that was gradually forming, Lin Taohua sighed: "Men and women are different, I haven't done as much as you have achieved for a long time." ”