This voice seems familiar, the visitor is a guest, since he has arrived at her house, Du Mei naturally wants to come out to greet her.

I saw that the person who came was dressed in a maple red dark pattern Shu embroidered robe, with a black embroidered gold thread purse hanging from his waist, and the slender tassel on the other side of Hetian Meiyu was elegant and smart, and he walked with his hands on his shoulders, with an uninhibited smile on his face.

Behind him was a soft sedan carriage covered with blue and smoke, and the mother-in-law and maid were supporting a beautiful young woman, and her belly was slightly bulging in her wide dress.

"Meizi, congratulations." Song Shaohuai came to him and saluted solemnly.

"Thank you, Song Gongzi." Du Mei stood under the porch and returned the salute.

"Fengxian is clamoring to come early in the morning, she is behind, you can accompany her." Song Shaohuai whispered with a pampering face.

"Song Gongzi, please." Shen Zhanghua and Du Shicheng also came out, they had a few encounters with him, and they all bowed and invited him in.

"I saw your servants standing outside from a distance, and Shen Xianling is very beautiful now." Song Shaohuai was not polite to him, and the leader crossed the threshold directly.

His gaze quickly swept over the furnishings of the room, and when he saw a delicate wooden box on the seat where Du Mei had sit, he leaned down on the chair and stretched out his hand to open it.

Shen Zhanghua wanted to stop him, but he knew that he was a left-minded person, and if he categorically didn't show him, it would definitely arouse his interest in a different way, and then it would be another turmoil.

"Shen County's order is generous." Song Shaohuai looked at the deed, closed the box, and said with a smile.

"Where, where, I'm just doing it on my behalf~, and the money is all from Meizi." Shen Zhanghua said frankly and naturally at this time.

"I didn't say you paid for it!" Song Shaohuai crossed Erlang's legs and said very scoundrelly.

The corners of his mouth were smiling, but he thought in his heart what Chu Lin's reaction would be if he knew about it. His third brother, although he is a prince, his rivals are not ordinary!

Shen Zhanghua was so angry by his words that his face turned pale, but this person couldn't be offended, and the two of them had nothing to say for a while.

"Song Gongzi, coarse tea in the countryside, you will drink it." Du Huaibing stepped forward to relieve the siege and made him a new cup of tea.

"The things in the countryside pay attention to pure and natural, if you add others, you lose your authenticity." Song Shaohuai poured a sip of strong tea proudly, bitter is bitter, but it is a real taste.

"This is true, Lansheng Valley is not unpleasant." Shen Zhanghua sank and straightened his waist in the chair.

"Shen Xianling is extremely talented, and he has meritorious service in controlling locusts, but he is not proud of his achievements. I happened to hear my father and someone say yesterday that there is a vacancy in the prefect of Huizhou, and I am interested in recommending you. Song Shaohuai leaned on the chair, and Jiao Erlang picked up a piece of glutinous rice dumplings and ate them casually.

He sees Song Ping on weekdays like a mouse and a cat, as long as his father doesn't look for him, where will he rush forward to make up the truth! He said this just to see if Shen Zhanghua would flatter him in front of him.

"Song Gongzi's words are wrong, Ling Tanggui is the Zhongshu Order, and he will never discuss the government and politics at home and form a party for personal gain." Shen Zhanghua's face was full of waves, but what he said was very heavy.

"What do you do with these high-sounding words? Who is an official who doesn't want to soar and shine brightly! Song Shaohuai was not afraid at all and continued to seduce.

"This official is not talented, and he is still weak in governing a county, how can he have the ability to govern a state!" Shen Zhanghua saw that he was aggressive today, and he didn't know where to offend him for a while, so he had to flatly refuse.

"Shen County's order is too modest." Song Shaohuai saw that although he was a literati, he was a backbone, and he admired him a little.

The men were talking in the hall, and Du Mei took the phoenix to the back room.

Xu didn't like to show up to meet outsiders, so he only accompanied Juniper in the back room. Because of her pregnancy, Fengxian was overjoyed when she saw the snow-white ~ pink juniper, and hurriedly asked Mrs. Zhang to play with many gadgets she brought.

Du Mei was talking to Fengxian, when she heard the sound of a carriage outside the courtyard, she immediately went out to greet her, it turned out to be Zhong Yu coming, she had just spoken to him and let go to the hall, when she saw another carriage coming at the door.

It was the two brothers Ye Dan and Ye Qing and Aunt Shi who came, and they brought a lot of gifts. At this moment, Xu's house was already full of cloth, silk, fruits, cakes, books and tonics they had sent.

The hall became more and more lively,

Shen Zhanghua knew that Ye Dan and Ye Qing were Du Mei's business partners, and talked to them kindly. Ye Dan was flexible and had a good conversation with Shen Zhanghua, although Ye Qingji was young, he sat with him very well.

Song Shaohuai respected Zhong Yu very much, and he rarely sat down with Zhong Yu to discuss how to treat his grandmother's old cold legs. Zhong Yu didn't have a good impression of these powerful children, but for Du Mei's sake, he also taught him a few methods.

"Bang...... Bang bang, bang, on the threshing floor, the second kick and the hanging whip sounded happily, which was the signal to invite the meal.

All the people in Du Mei's house got up and walked out together, and half of the twenty tables on the threshing floor were already seated. Du Huaibing accompanied Shen Zhanghua and Song Shaohuai to sit at a table, Zhong Yu, Ye Dan, and Ye Qing also accompanied him, and Du Mei invited the elders of the village to accompany him.

"Have you seen Brother Niu and Brother Hei?" Du Mei called Ye Qing aside and asked in a low voice.

"I don't know, but when we came, the grain shop was closed, and I thought they had already arrived." Ye Qing scratched his head.

"You go to the table." Du Mei saw that Ye Qing didn't know, so she patted him on the shoulder and let him go.

Niu Er and Black Jiaolong have always liked to be lively, but they haven't arrived yet, what is this doing? Du Mei couldn't figure it out.

"Uncle Zhong, why didn't the Lin family come?" Du Mei saw Du Zhong coming over, and hurriedly grabbed him and asked.

"Supposedly, it's long overdue." Du Zhong has been helping out in the threshing floor, which will be a little blank to say.

"Plum, plum." Speaking of Cao Cao Cao Dao, Miao waved his hand from afar and walked towards them.

"Why is my aunt delayed?" Du Mei left Du Zhong, separated the crowd, and greeted him.

"It's not the stubborn old man in my family, he wants to keep someone to watch Zhuangzi, but the big guys want to congratulate you, no one wants to stay, so he lost his donkey temper, we spent a lot of effort to talk about it, so we coaxed him here, but it was not delayed." Miao pulled Doumer aside and whispered.

"Uncle Lin Ping is also too careful, except for the unfinished houses in our village, what is worth stealing." Du Mei smiled and shook his head.

"It's not what's wrong, it's rags and cotton, just our belongings, no one wants to give them away!" Miao spread his hands and laughed at himself.

"Hurry up and sit down, what about the three uncles and aunts and Lin Ying?" Du Mei turned his head to look around, and there were people all around, and it was difficult to find it for a while.

"That's not it." Miao saw his daughter waving at him.

"Don't huddle together, you can't sit down." Du Mei saw that the Lin family brothers were all crowded on a table.

"We are your helpers, it is excellent to have a wedding banquet to eat, where can you dare to eat two tables." Lin Ping waved his hand again and again.

"Uncles and aunts eat at this table, and the younger ones will sit with my three sisters, just right

Get around the table. Du Mei waved at Du Ying.

Three little smiles came up and talked to them enthusiastically, it is the nature of children to be playful, and the children of the Lin family were moved when they saw that Du Ying and they were getting along well. In this way, except for Lin Ying, who insisted that she was a big girl, did not mess with them, and still stayed at the adult table, the other children all sat on the table next to them with Du Ying.

Today is the right day, although there is no wine for lunch, but the dishes are much more sumptuous than yesterday, and everyone is happy. Because Du Huaibing accompanied the guests, Du Mingtang was in charge of the following things, which could be regarded as a kind of experience for him, a quasi-patriarch.

The smell of Dujiagou's meat can be smelled in all ten miles and eight towns, and some relatives who are close to Dujiagou people are cheeky to visit the door, and by the way, they have a full meal of meat!

Du Mingtang saw it in his eyes, but who didn't have a few relatives, he didn't have a seizure, he only called a few women with sharp teeth and the most unforgiving women to serve the food, reminding them to pay attention to the point, eat and drink nothing, don't take the dishes and chopsticks away, when the banquet is over, the families can't get back the objects, and they will quarrel and be naughty.

The men ate a table, Du Huaibing invited them to sit in his house, Shen Zhanghua wanted to see the growth of rice in the field, and everyone followed.

The fields of Dujiagou are connected as a whole, and the rice fields scattered during the locust plague in summer are all covered with yellow rice. The wind passed through the field, turning up huge waves of golden rice, layer upon layer, pushing into the distance.

"What is the harvest going to be like this year?" Shen Zhanghua held an ear of rice, as if asking Du Huaibing, and as if asking himself.

"Most of the first stubble rice has been plagued by locusts, and these two stubbles don't know whether the rice is out or not, but it looks good." This year's locust plague has not been encountered in a century, and it is a blessing in misfortune to have two crops of rice to keep up.

"Out of the rice, how?" Song Shaohuai had only seen white rice, what the rice looked like, and where the rice came from, he hadn't thought about it at all.

"Beat the rice grains first, and then send them to the rice to make rice." Du Huaibing folded an ear of rice and peeled a grain of rice to show him.

"The ancients, who knew that Chinese food on the plate is hard work, this is true." Looking at the fluorescent rice in Du Huaibing's rough palm, Song Shaohuai sighed.

"Well, in a day or two, the rice should be harvested." Du Huaibing put the rice grains in his mouth and chewed them carefully, nodded and said.

"This year, all the grain from the state treasury has been taken out for disaster relief, and I am afraid that the collection of autumn grain will be increased." Shen Zhanghua brushed the rustling rice in his hand and groaned.

"So, the price of food is going to rise?" Seeing him say this, Ye Dan interjected and asked.

Du Mei opened a grain shop and was planning to harvest autumn grain to continue to maintain, but if they were all requisitioned by the imperial court, Ye Dan was worried that her business would not be able to continue.

"That's not a good thing to say. If the harvest is good and the grain is sufficient, the price will not rise for a while. Shen Zhanghua raised his eyes and looked into the distance, the continuous golden waves seemed to have no end.

"I think it's hanging, the rice in Qinghe County is reborn after the catastrophe, and other places are not so lucky." Zhong Yu sighed and said.

He was so skilled in medicine that patients from other places often came to him, and because Dumei ran a grain store, he was particularly concerned about the market for grain from outside.

This year, there was a drought first, and then there was a locust plague, and there was no Dujiagou blessed with a unique water source in the vicinity, and as early as when the locust plague came, the rice was half dry, and although there was replanting after the disaster, the solar terms did not wait for anyone, and the reduction of rice yield was inevitable.

Everyone was speechless for a while, only looking into the distance, hoping that the golden rice waves would keep rolling down and reach the sky!