Meizi, I beg you something, you let your third uncle come to Yixue to teach, I see that he is not in good spirits. The scrap manuscript wrinkled his eyebrows.

"Uncle Scrap Manuscript, since the Yi School Hall is handed over to you, you are in charge, as for who to invite to teach, you can decide. Just a little, is the third uncle willing? The child in Yixue is inevitably naughty, and he is only afraid of poking his wounds. Du Mei knew that they had a great relationship, and she could see the situation of Sanjin clearly, looking depressed and thoughtless.

Du Mei couldn't understand how he could be decadent like this, but he was her uncle, her father's younger brother, and the only talent in the village, if he was willing to go to the Yixue Hall to help, it would be good, and she would not stop him.

"Since you don't have an opinion, I'll go and persuade him." The scrapped manuscript said with a sigh of relief.

The scrapped manuscript sat down for a while, talked about the account expenses in the Yixue, and left.

Xu locked the courtyard door, walked in and sat down next to Du Mei, touched her hair and said, "In the future, we will be completely separated from that side!" ”

"At the beginning of the year, they broke off with us, and now that Grandpa is gone, there will be no more to do with it in the future." Du Mei snuggled in her mother's arms, and although she said that it was a matter of family separation, she did not feel a little sad, but a sense of relief.

"The second batch of duck seedlings at home is also bigger, these two litters of thousands of ducks, they always have to eat a few stones of grain a day, and they like to eat the cottonseed dregs they brought back last time, and now they have eaten them all." Hui didn't want to mention these pickles, so he talked to Du Mei about the duck's amazing appetite.

"They are still small now, and if they are older, they will still be fed by rice, and they will eat a pound a day, and then it will be terrible." Du Mei turned her eyes and laughed with Xu's family, she now has a grain shop and a huge Baiyun Lake, she doesn't have to worry about duck food at all.

"I heard from your Aunt Fang that many people in the village bought your Uncle Maoda's duck seedlings, and each family bought more than ten or twenty of them, and some bought fifty or sixty of them, and for this reason, the duck seedlings have risen to five wen each." Xu doesn't like to go out, but the Fang family next door often comes to gossip with her, so that the news will not be blocked.

"Everyone is nothing more than to see us sell duck eggs to make money before they rush to follow suit, but we will all move to the villa next year, and there is no serious conflict with them, but Uncle Maoda, taking advantage of the credit of exterminating locusts, made a lot of money on selling duck seedlings, and earned no less than me selling duck eggs." Du Mei smiled, remembering what others had told her before, and at this time Fang knew that there was a reason.

"Well, they don't know how good the duck tastes, and they're afraid they'll regret it." Xu helps take care of the ducks every day, looks at the rice in the granary, eats up a few sacks a day, and her family has a grain shop on top, and others will not be able to supply it just by producing in the field.

"The people in the village raise so many ducks, they must want to learn from me to raise them on the water, and the water source of our Dujiagou is afraid that it will suffer." The first time Du Mei heard that the people in the village raised so many ducks, she roughly calculated that there were more than she had now, and when each family occupied a water surface, there would be chaos.

"What's the way to do this, even the patriarch can't let the villagers not raise ducks, and besides, he allowed you to raise them at the mouth of the fish, so he didn't pay attention to others." Xu frowned and said with some concern.

"I'll have to talk to the patriarch, this matter has to be planned earlier, such as setting aside a piece of water for everyone to use, so that the water source of our village will not be destroyed." Du Mei thought for a moment and said.

"I'm afraid that there are also contradictions, such as how to distinguish ducks, whose duck eggs and duck dung are counted, belch, the patriarch is not good, he has a headache again." Xu Shiguang was embarrassed just thinking about it, and couldn't help but sigh.

"There's always something to figure out." Du Mei patted Xu's hand comfortingly.

"Meizi, in a few days it will be your father's death day, but your grandfather is just gone, let's just go to the grave and burn the paper." Xu Shi remembered another thing, lowered his eyes and said.

"It's okay, let's go as a family and ask my dad to take a look at Juniper." Du Mei knew that her mother missed her father every day, and now that her life was going well, she always thought about comforting him, Du Mei planned to tie some paper horses, paper sedan chairs, paper houses, etc., and hold a good sacrifice, but because Du Shicheng died, she was inconvenient to do it.

"Well, I have to tell your dad that you have a chance." Xu stroked Du Mei's shoulder, this thin shoulder carried the family's livelihood, it was really not easy.

"Mother, do you have anything to eat, the food of the third uncle's house is not delicious, and I am not full." Du Gui led the toddler Juniper in and pouted.

"You girl, you think about eating all day long, I'll make dinner right away." Xu stood up and turned to go to the kitchen.

Du Mei and Du Gui stayed in the hall and taught Juniper to walk, and the two separated themselves by a step and let go of Juniper's hand, wanting him to walk on his own. The first time Juniper stood alone, he seemed a little scared, swaying his little body from side to side, and Du Mei stretched out his hands behind him to prevent him from falling.

"Come on." Du Gui shook the rattle in his hand, making a crisp plopping sound.

Juniper stood in place, tiptoeing, stretched out his little fat hand, but he couldn't reach it, he was so anxious that he shouted: "Sister, give it to me, give it to me!" ”

"You come and get it, come and get it!" Du Gui shook even more vigorously.

Seeing that it was soft, Juniper wanted it very much, and in a hurry, he rushed towards Du Gui like a calf, staggered under his feet, and plunged into the arms of the young lady.

He snatched the rattle and shook it, his face smiling like a flower, he looked back at the place where he had just stood, and suddenly realized that he could walk, that is, he could go wherever he wanted!

"Komatsu is coming to the eldest sister!" Dumay clapped his hands.

Juniper, who had tasted the pleasure of walking, heard the call, turned around and rushed towards Du Mei, and slammed into her hand and laughed, the child's voice was crisp and pleasant, as if he had discovered a very novel game, running between Du Mei and Du Gui, and having fun.

When Du Ying and Du Tao returned, they heard their laughter, and also walked into the hall, and saw that Juniper was learning to walk, and both of them happily participated, and the four sisters gathered around, and Juniper had more fun with them, and gradually he was able to walk to one of the sisters very steadily to ask for a reward. Seeing this, the four sisters very tacitly enlarged the circle a little, and Juniper was completely unaware of it, and only played happily.

"Komatsu can walk!" A surprised male voice came from the door, and his thin shadow was stretched long as the setting sun shone into the room.

Du Mei stood up and looked back, the man also looked at her with a smile, and Du Mei called out in surprise: "Ah, Song Jiu!" There you are! ”

"Brother, play for you!" Juniper obviously knew him, and rushed over with a rattle, and the kid was sure that others would catch him, and he rushed to Song Jiu's legs.

"Not only can you walk, but you can also talk?" Song Jiu hugged him and spun him around, making him giggle.

"Don't go crazy with him, I'm going to wet the bed again at night!" Xu poured tea to eat and looked at the children with disgust.

Du Ying took Juniper and went to the kitchen with her mother and sisters, and Du Mei and Song Jiu sat down to talk.

"I thought you'd be a few days later." Du Mei smiled and handed him the tea.

"There is little rain this year, and it will be a dry season later, and my grain boat has a deep draft, so I am afraid that the waterway will not be easy to walk, so I simply came earlier." Song Jiu has obviously gained weight this time, her face is fair and ruddy, and she wants to be well conditioned.

"How much will I send this time?" Du Mei asked a little impatiently.

"You have a good harvest of grain this autumn, this time I can only leave you a thousand stones, and the rest will be sent to the Quanfu grain shop in the south, where is the big gap." Song Jiu discussed with Du Mei.

"It's too peaceful in the south? You don't need to ask Wang Dart to escort you, you can send food by yourself? Dumeto asked, a little worried.

"Since the last time King Yan personally went to suppress the bandits, he has been holding the bandits' nest for several years, and now I heard that the south road is not left behind, and the house is not closed at night." Song Jiu nodded and said.

"I'm afraid this is an exaggeration, it's better to be careful, Brother Niu and Brother Hei are here, or you should take them with you when you go." Du Mei is still not at ease, after all, it is such a long way.

"Where do you still need to use your people, when I go out this time, Grandpa specially brought me all the strong boys who can do kung fu, don't worry, it will be fine." Song Jiu took a sip of tea and reassured.

"That's fine, I'll go to the dock with you tomorrow to hand over." Du Mei saw that he had arranged it properly, so he didn't say much.

"I saw Brother Niu when I came, and he said that you are going to open a restaurant in Qinghe County?" Song Jiu asked curiously, at that time, he tried to persuade her for so long without success, why did he suddenly change his mind now.

"Sister Fengxian is going to marry into the Zhongshu Ling Mansion in the next year, the Drunken Immortal Building is going to close, and the shopkeeper Dong has nowhere to go, I think about what you said at the beginning, so I plan to open one." Du Mei didn't hide it from him, and this nag didn't make a lot of noise in her ears at the beginning.

"So, you even have a ready-made cook?" Song Jiu said with some disappointment.

"You know, my store is so big, and the chef only has a lot to offer." Du Mei said a little apologetically, Song Jiu swore to partner with her in this business.

"This is not a big deal, you don't have to worry, my grandfather saw that I sold grain successfully last time, and finally had the confidence, willing to clean up the clansmen who have ghosts, and now the shops have changed loyal servants, although the Song family still wants to develop in the imperial city in the future, but it is not in a hurry, grandpa said to go step by step, let's do a good job in Jiangling City in the future." Haha" Song Jiu thought about it, his goal was not in this small county, and he would cooperate with Du Mei even more in the future.

"Jiangling City, that's at the feet of the Son of Heaven, don't say that all kinds of cuisines gather, only the drunken immortal building I have to bow and worship." Du Mei is a complete layman in the restaurant, she said with some admiration.

"Zuixianlou has been in business for several generations, it is a master, we can't compare, but we have characteristics, such as your fish, your duck, I think, even if it is the chef of Zuixianlou, I'm afraid I can't make your purest game, this is our strength, besides, you are now recruiting the chef of Zuixianlou, this is simply knowing yourself and knowing that you are invincible." Song Jiu is more confident than Du Mei, and when it comes to Xing, he is full of energy.

"I was moved by what you said!" Du Mei smiled lightly.

She bit her lower lip and secretly thought that if she arrived in Jiangling City, she might be able to see Chu Lin more, so as not to prevent him from running back and forth to see each other, thinking of this, her face suddenly turned red.

It was twilight outside, the two of them spoke eagerly, and they didn't light the lamp, Du Mei was hidden in the dark, but she was glad that Song Jiu couldn't see her face at this time.