Let's go. Murong Xi took a deep look at Du Mei and strode away.

"This guy will come as he says, and he will leave when he says so!" Du Mei shook his head in confusion.

"What about Murong Xi?" Chu Lin settled the three small ones and returned to Du Mei's side, but saw that she was the only one there, and asked in some surprise.

"He's gone." Du Mei glanced at the direction Murong Xi had just left.

"Oh." Chu Lin replied with a clear sigh in his heart.

In the past few days, there has been no trace of the tabloids in the capital, thinking that Murong Xi has encountered a lot of trouble, he saw him here just now, and thought that he had taken care of the matter, but unexpectedly he came in a hurry, but he left in a hurry, this is specially for Du Mei?

"Sit down and eat fish." Du Mei took the fish meat that had been removed from the bowl and put it into Chu Lin's bowl.

"Okay." Chu Lin pulled out a stool and sat down, and at this moment, he ate the delicious food.

The two of them ate some more, and when they saw that the woman who helped the cook and Chef Lu also began to eat, they knew that today's flowing water banquet was over. Du Mei helped clean up the leftover soup and water, and the pig keepers had already brought buckets of swill, so it was not wasted.

"Meizi, don't be busy, go to the show, we'll finish eating in a while, and we'll clean it up together." The fat aunt who helped the cook stuffed food in her mouth and said in her throat.

"That's a hard worker." Du Mei washed his hands.

"It's not hard, it's not hard." Everyone said in one voice.

Three days of big fish and meat, what kind of hard work is it to do this work!

Chu Lin moved the bench and sat side by side with Du Mei at the back of the crowd, he stretched out his hand to hold Du Mei's hand, and his palms were clasped in the shadows, there was a kind of stable happiness.

But after a cup of tea, Du Ying came to look for her: "Sister, Guizi is asleep, we can't hold it." ”

"I'll carry her back." Chu Lin let go of Du Mei's hand when Du Ying came to him. He knew that Du Mei was shy, and he would never let his sisters see it.

Chu Lin bent down, Du Mei hugged Du Gui on his back, and led the two younger sisters home with him with the horse lantern.

The lantern was lit in the courtyard, the door of the big house was ajar, and Du Mei knew that the Xu family was waiting for them.

"Mother, we're back." Du Ying called the door.

"Why did you come back so late!" Xu walked quickly to open the door, and when he saw Du Gui sleeping soundly on Chu Lin's back, he couldn't help but twist his eyebrows and blame.

"Mother, it's our delay in watching the show." Du Mei said with a smile. In the dark night, babbling and tactful female voices came from afar.

"This girl has been crazy all day, and now she's honest." Xu took Du Gui from Chu Lin's back and hugged him.

"Auntie, it's not too early, Chu Lin will leave today." Chu Lin saw that the Xu family had no intention of inviting him in to sit, and that he was going to participate in the royal Chongyang Festival tomorrow, so he should go back.

"Be careful on the way back." Seeing his respectful appearance, Xu's heart softened a little.

"Mother, I'll send him." Du Mei saw Xu carrying Du Gui back to the house, and hurriedly spoke.

“…… Go ahead...... Come back early. Xu walked to the door of the big house, finally agreed, turned around and said.

"Got it." Du Mei suppressed his joy and said. She thought that Xu Shi was angry when she didn't speak, but she didn't expect to agree in the end.

Chu Lin and Du Mei slowly walked back along the road they had come, their horses still tethered to the big willow tree in the threshing floor. The two of them didn't know where to start for a while, so they walked silently all the way.

"Mother is just worried." After a while, Du Mei spoke.

"I know." Chu Lin touched Du Mei's hand in the dark.

The two walked one after the other to the big willow tree, and only some young people were left in the threshing floor watching the play with great interest, and the old people and children could not stay up and went home to sleep.

"The autumn is cool and the dew is heavy, why didn't you wear a big coat?" Du Mei said a little worried.

"It's okay, I've drunk wine and blown some wind, but it's refreshing." Chu Lin looked at her with a smile.

"Let's go, it's getting late." Du Mei urged.

"Okay." Chu Lin took a step closer to Du Mei, the figures of the two were hidden in the hanging branches of the big willow tree, he lowered his head and imprinted a gentle kiss on her lips, and a rich aroma of wine rushed to Du Mei's nose.

"Let's go, I'll take you home." Chu Lin saw Du Mei stunned, and said in a low voice with a smile.

"I ...... I'm in my own village, and I can go home with my eyes closed, you...... There's still a long way to go, so let's go. Dume was startled by his bold kiss, and was a little incoherent in a trance.

"I saw you enter the house from afar, so I left." Chu Lin made a gesture to pull her.

Du Mei had to bow his head and take the lead.

"What are you doing walking so fast?" Chu Lin saw that Du Mei was silent, bowed his head and walked away, and whispered softly.

"I'll get home early, and you can go back early to rest." Du Mei didn't stop and said sullenly.

"Silly girl, Moyun is a maxima, I'll go back soon." Chu Lin's heart warmed, and he took a few steps to stand side by side with her.

"Look, the courtyard gate has arrived, you can go back." Hearing this, Du Mei's heart was sour, and it seemed to be stuffed with a full amount of cotton, and it hurt to rise.

"Okay, you enter the door, I'll go." Chu Lin stood still with a smile.

Du Mei trotted open the door and went in, without looking back, and closed the courtyard door with a "clang".

Chu Lin saw her go back, so he turned around and left.

The courtyard door behind him opened quietly, and Du Mei stood in the dark, looking at Chu Lin's tall figure, turning the wall and disappearing.

There was a lot of noise on the threshing floor until midnight, and then it rested. Chef Lu set up a temporary bunk next to the kitchen, and Du Mingtang gave him a futon, so he could sleep all night.

The next day, Du Jiagou woke up in the melodious bell of the ancestral hall, and Du Huaibing, wearing a new indigo cotton robe, rang the bell hanging under the corridor of the ancestral hall.

The bell of the ancestral hall is not a major event, and the bell of today is to tell the villagers that the ancestral hall should be opened to worship the ancestors at an auspicious time.

The people surnamed Du in Dujiagou had breakfast, changed into clean and tidy clothes, and dragged their families to the ancestral hall. Du Mingtang was directing the two young men of his own clan to place the sacrifices neatly one by one.

Du Shicheng was talking with the scrap manuscript bowing his head, although he couldn't hear what was said, he nodded again and again when he saw the scrap manuscript.

Du Mei's family also came, she wore a begonia-colored satin embroidered iris skirt made for her by Xu's new, her skin was snow-white, her eyebrows were picturesque, and the flowers and shadows were full of flowers and swaying when she walked.

Xu Shi was wearing plain clothes, the three small ones were also wearing new clothes that they had just made some time ago, and even Juniper was wearing a sky blue skit. This family stands in the crowd, with an outstanding demeanor, which is really admirable.

"Meizi, you come up here." Du Shicheng beckoned to Du Mei.

Du Mei glanced at Xu's and walked to the front with her skirt lifted.

Seeing that the clansmen were almost here, Du Shicheng solemnly rang the bell three times, and after waiting for a quarter of an hour, he straightened his clothes and raised his feet into the ancestral hall. Dume followed him, and the rest of the village joined in.

"Dumei, you get down on your knees." Du Shicheng said softly.

Du Mei knelt on the futon in front of the incense case.

Du Shicheng lit three incense sticks, saluted the ancestral tablet with a solemn expression, inserted it in the incense burner, and then knelt down and kowtowed to the robe. Du Mei hurriedly knelt on the futon, and the people behind him fell to their knees and kowtowed together.

Du Shicheng got up, the villagers behind him also stood up, he turned around and stood in front of the ancestral tablet, and said loudly to everyone: "The ancestors are on top, the twelve generations of patriarch Du Shicheng set up a sacrifice here, and there are sixteen generations of the Du family, Du Meiyin, who used ducks to exterminate locusts, rescue the villagers, and share worries for the country. This kind of honor has not been seen in my Du family for a hundred years, and this is really the shadow of our ancestors. I hope that we will continue to bless us in the future, and the wind and rain will be smooth every year, and the generations will be prosperous! ”

Du Shicheng finished reading the sacrifice with a solemn face, and leaned down to bow three times. Du Mei and the people behind him also kowtowed.

The solemn sacrificial activity was over, Du Mei stood up, and said to hundreds of people in the clan: "Du Mei is lucky to have the emperor's mercy, dare not be greedy for merit, in front of the ancestors and ancestors, I am willing to take out part of the harvest of the villa, run a righteous school in the village, and ask Uncle Scrap to teach the children." ”

Du Mei's words were like a few drops of cold water sprinkled in a pot of hot oil, and quickly exploded in the crowd. People were afraid that this was an ancestral hall, and although they didn't dare to make a loud noise, they whispered around.

"This is a good thing, how many years we have suffered from being illiterate."

"These children are all studying, who will do the work at home?"

"Don't read my girl's doll, but watch your children read and read."

Although Du Mei couldn't hear all of them, she finally knew that the villagers were patriarchal and believed in the nonsense that a woman was virtuous if she was not talented, so she could guess everything.

"Those who come to the school of righteousness, both men and women, take care of a lunch." Du Mei threw another piece of dry wood under the boiling oil pot, and she didn't believe that she couldn't impress the villagers.

"My family's registration!"

"When will it open? My family also reports! ”

The crowd burst into an uproar, and they couldn't wait to send the child to school immediately.

"Classes will only start after the autumn harvest, and everyone has to be busy farming, and I also have to pick up and pick up at home." The scrapped manuscript had already received news from Du Huaibing, so he was naturally very happy and agreed. Seeing that someone was asking at this time, he hurriedly stood up and spoke.

The crowd was emotional, and when they saw that the scrapped manuscript said so, they temporarily held back their temperament and kept the matter in mind.

While he was talking, he saw Shen Zhanghua, the county commander of Qinghe County, looking for him with his officials. Du Shicheng hurriedly greeted him, Shen Zhanghua's eyes searched the crowd, and when he saw Du Mei coming out, he turned his head to talk to Du Shicheng.

"Meizi, today Shen County Ling specially came to hang the plaque given by the emperor, you go home first to prepare." Du Shicheng shouted Du Mei.

"You don't have to move the people, let's go all the way." Shen Zhanghua said kindly.

"Find the Du family lock!" Du Shicheng turned around and instructed his son.

Du Mingtang answered and walked quickly.

The villagers gathered around Shen Zhanghua and went to Du Mei's house, the stone had already opened the courtyard door, and the Du family lock had already carried the ladder and nailed an iron wedge with a hook on the door of the hall.

Du Shicheng personally selected two young descendants to give the plaque of the imperial gift, carefully lifted it out, and Du Jiasuo hung it up with his hands and feet.

There is a piece of red silk on the plaque, hanging down at both ends, Shen Zhanghua and Du Mei each hold one end, and pull hard, the red silk floats to the ground, revealing four vigorous and majestic characters sprinkled with gold on a black background - ploughing and reading people.

At the same time, two kicks and hanging whips instantly exploded outside the courtyard of the second room, and the sound of crackling was endless.