Xu Shi listened to Du Mei's words, and suddenly looked up at Zhong Yu, her eyes full of doubts and inquiry.

"Your uncle is just a little healer, and he has never been to such a big grange! Your village is full of weeds, and I don't know the path, so I just take shortcuts and step on them. Zhong Yu saw everyone's eyes looking at him in unison, and pretended to be calm and said.

"Really? When I came here yesterday, I didn't know what to do. Du Mei saw that his expression was natural, and he believed it in his heart.

"I see so many sacks, you can't transport them back in the afternoon." Zhong Yu turned his eyes to look at the cotton field.

"Well, I'll have to make two more trips to the stone." Du Mei frowned and looked at the sack, which can be regarded as the sweet trouble of harvest.

"I'm okay today, but I can help me run." Zhong Yu rubbed his hands, the cotton was dazzlingly white, he squinted and said.

"How's that going to work!" Du Mei waved his hand repeatedly. Zhong Yu saves the dead and helps the wounded, his hands are expensive, how can he do rough work.

"What's not going to work, if your horse is tired today, don't think about going out tomorrow!" Zhong Yu knew that she was busy these days, and she couldn't do it without a carriage.

"Stones?" Dumay asked the stone probingly.

Shi was eating, and when he heard this, he glanced at Du Mei and nodded slightly.

"Doctor Zhong, if you don't worry, let me drive." Du Zhong was honest, he opened his mouth to relieve the siege.

"What's not to worry about here, my horse is docile and doesn't pick people, Brother Du Zhong is a good style, and he must be better than me." Zhong Yu smiled, warm as a spring breeze.

"Mother, you can take Guizi and Komatsu in a carriage for a while, go back first." Du Mei touched the mosquito-bitten red envelope on Juniper's face, and said a little distressed.

"Hmm." Xu Shi replied inaudibly.

As soon as she heard about Baiyun Grange yesterday, she desperately wanted to come back and have a look. At this time, I have had a wish for many years, and naturally I began to feel sorry for my young son again. Seeing Juniper waving his little hands and tickling from time to time, I really couldn't bear it.

"I'll go to Sheshan Town in a while, get some ointment in the medical hall, and just wipe it." Zhong Yu checked it, and it didn't really matter.

Everyone had lunch, the women washed the dishes and chopsticks by the stream, and the men carried the sacks full of cotton onto the two carriages.

The women rested for a while, and then went down to work in the fields. In the evening, ten acres of cotton fields were finally picked clean. Shi and Du Zhong made two more trips before they brought back all the sacks.

When the cotton is picked back, it still needs to be dried, and there is not so much drying in the second-room yard, but fortunately, the threshing floor in the village is empty at this time, just enough to dry the cotton for Du Mei's family. The work of drying cotton naturally does not need Du Mei to worry about, and the three small ones will do it very well.

Du Mei went to find Du Jiasuo and Qian Maolu on the second day, and they had built the house for her family before. At present, there are hundreds of wastes waiting to be rebuilt, and there are thousands of problems, and the important thing at the top is to have a house that can live in it.

Du Qian and the two are craftsmen, and they are all doing work everywhere, not to mention Du Mei's business, so they agreed without saying a word. Du Mei intended to hand over the Grange to Du Zhong to take care of in the future, so he naturally took him everywhere, and on this day, the four of them went to the Grange again.

The four of them stood on the high slope and pointed, Du Jiasuo was a carpenter, and Qian Maolu was a bricklayer, and the two quickly chose the homestead according to Du Mei's requirements.

Previously, Du Mei's family built five rooms, and many of the building materials were homemade. This time, he planned to build more than 20 houses in three rows, and Du Mei decided to buy all the ready-made ones, so that Du Zhong would not work too hard.

"Stones, I'd better go up the mountain to pick them, we have ready-made mountains and forests, and then buy the outside ones, I'm afraid I'll be laughed at." Du Zhong said with a frown.

"But the stone is tiring and bitter." Dumay disagreed.

"You probably have a lot of lime left over from the last time." Qian Maolu remembered and said.

"Yes, there are some, but probably not enough. Don't worry about this, Brother Hei knows the people in Baishan Town, and it should be easy to buy. Du Mei brushed her windswept hair and nodded.

"I know people in the lumber shop, and I'll take you to buy them then." Du Jialock said.

"Okay, with the help of three uncles, Du Mei can go out with confidence." Du Mei said with a smile.

"Where are you going?" Du Zhong asked a little uneasily.

"Look, although this Zhuangzi is said to be a hundred acres, there are not only 100 acres of fields, 100 acres of water, but also 100 acres of mountains and forests. I will go to Jiangling City tomorrow to invite the Lin brothers, they are all good at farming, and when the time comes, all the affairs of the Zhuangzi will be handed over to you. The corners of Du Mei's mouth rose and looked at Du Zhong.

"No, no, how can I do this!" When Du Zhong heard this, his face turned red, and he waved his hand again and again.

"Uncle Zhong, you just agree, don't talk about it, if you talk about farming, how can anyone beat you." Du Mei frowned slightly and pouted.

"I'm just a long-term worker, can I still be a supervisor? No way, no way! Du Zhong didn't dare to say anything.

"I said, brother, this is Meizi trusting you, handing over such a big Zhuangzi to you, this burden is not light." Du Jiasuo gently patted Du Zhong's shoulder.

"Yes, yes, Brother Du, what is planted in this field every season and how much it produces, these are all up to you to make up your mind in the field. If you don't do it, what should you do if you want Meizi to be a female doll? Let her and a bunch of old men be trapped in the Grange to do things together? Qian Maolu raised his eyebrows and glanced at Du Zhong, looking down on his inferiority.

"Hmm." Du Mei deliberately made a bitter face and looked at Du Zhong miserably.

Du Zhong was out of idea by Du Jiasuo and Qian Maolu, and when he saw Du Mei's pitiful appearance, he felt a kind of father's love and pity in his heart, so he nodded heavily and agreed.

Seeing that Du Zhong agreed, Du Mei was very happy. When they returned to Sheshan, Du Mei went to order bricks and timber for the shop to deliver directly to the Grange when the time came. The brick factory and the timber company took such a large deal at once, and happily went to prepare it immediately, saying that it would be delivered in five days.

When Hei Jiaolong heard that Du Mei wanted lime to build a house, he immediately patted his chest and agreed to it, and when he went home in the evening, he told his friends that he would send it with him.

Du Mei returned to Du Jiagou and took some money for Du Zhong to prepare, she had to go out for a few days, and she still needed to buy some bits and pieces to build a house, and she had some money in her hand, so that he could make his own purchases.

In the evening, the mothers and stones sat in the courtyard to eat.

"Mother, I handed over Zhuangzi to Uncle Zhong." Du Mei took a bite of the white-flour steamed bun.

"This is very good, in previous years, your grandfather always said that your Uncle Zhong is a good farmer, just give him the grange to take care of, how can our mother understand that." Xu was not surprised by Du Mei's decision, but was very much in favor of it.

"Uncle Zhong can't do that much work alone, I also have to Jiangling City to invite some people, their hometown is from the south, they are all farming, because of the locust plague, they fled to us." Du Mei put down the steamed bun, took a sip of japonica rice porridge, and continued.

"Outsiders don't know how to be reliable, right? Your Uncle Zhong is also good at farming, and he is really stupid, I'm afraid he can't control people. Xu Shi was a little worried.

"Don't worry about this, I know them, besides, they are a family, dragging the family with their mouths, it is good to be stable, and they will never steal and play tricks.

Besides, Uncle Zhong, it's good for him to be like this, if he can just play tricks, he wouldn't have deceived us earlier! Du Mei smiled and patted Xu's arm to reassure.

"In that case, I'll listen to you, are you going tomorrow?" Xu's temperament is gentle, and most of the things in the family are Du Mei's ideas, if she thinks there is nothing wrong with her, she generally doesn't care.

"Well, I'm going to go for a few days, Shopkeeper Ye is sick, Luo Meixuan's business, he asked me to ask, and there are other clothes to cut." Du Mei sandwiched some side dishes and continued to nibble on steamed buns.

"You be careful on your own way, Shopkeeper Ye believes in you, you have to do it well." Xu Shi looked at Du Mei, and the evening breeze blew the broken hair on her sideburns, flying freely.

"I know." Du Mei took the last bite of the steamed bun, and her cheeks bulged.

Early the next morning, Du Mei and Shi went out to Gangneung City.

They walked briskly all the way, and when they passed the city, they could already see the outline of Jinling City in the distance.

Tea shops and noodle stalls are supported on both sides of the road, and at this time, there are people who are hurrying in twos and threes to stop and rest, and those who have no money drink a bowl of coarse tea and eat their own dry food, and those who have money eat a bowl of white noodles and ask for some dry cut beef.

No matter what you eat, it doesn't prevent you from chatting with each other and gossiping. There is also hay and water behind the tea shop stall, which can be fed to horses, cows, mules, and if you are willing to add money, you can also feed a handful of fried soybeans.

"Stone, let's eat a bowl of noodles here and then go." After driving for a long time, people were hungry and tired. Du Mei, who smelled the fragrance of his face, lifted the curtain and said.

"Okay." The stone glanced at the seated men and agreed.

The man saw that the car had stopped, and when he saw the stone stopped, he immediately took the reins with a smile on his face and led him to feed.

"Boss, I want two bowls of noodles and half a catty of beef." The kitchen where the noodles were made was separated by a curtain, and Du Mei said inward.

"Okay." There was a crisp response from inside, and when I heard it, I was a woman who did things quickly.

"It's too much." The stone is rarely opened, and the eyebrows are slightly twisted.

"It's been too hard for you to run around these days, and this is a small reward." Du Mei pulled out his chopsticks and handed them to him.

"That's what it's supposed to do." Stone muttered with chopsticks in his hand.

"Stone, if you ride a horse, can you go back and forth to Gangneung City on the same day?" Du Mei didn't dwell on this issue either, and diverged to other words.

"Huh? Yes, if the horses have good foot strength, they can go back and forth for most of the day. The stone was not used to Du Mei's change of topic for a while, but he still answered in a decent manner.

"Really? Then you can teach me to ride a horse in the future. Du Mei said with great interest.

"Horseback riding? You're a girl. Stone said in some surprise.

"Girl's ......" noodles and beef were delivered, and Du Mei had to swallow the words.

"You eat." Du Mei toasts the thinly sliced beef to the stones.

"I'll do it myself!" The stone hurriedly took it and buried his head in eating it.

"You just said that the girl's family can't ride a horse?" Du Mei ate some noodles and was very unconvinced, so she asked.

"No, no!" The stone denied it again and again, and his sweat came down, and he didn't know whether he was anxious or afraid.

"Then do you teach or not?" Du Mei asked.

"I've finished eating, let's hurry to Gangneung City." The stone swallowed the noodles in two bites, blushed and said.

"I don't know what you're afraid of?" Du Mei muttered and buried himself in eating noodles.

After paying, the man at the noodle stall pulled the wagon, and the stone sat directly on the wheel, and raised his whip to drive away mosquitoes and flies.

Du Mei lifted the curtain and got into the car, and suddenly a red light flashed in the dark, and her mouth and nose were instantly covered!