It's not early, I won't take the school exam for you today, and I won't leave you for dinner, so go home early to see your mother. Zhong Yu turned his head to look out the window.

"Oh." Du Mei saw that his face was so gloomy that it almost dripped water, so he didn't dare to stay longer, and left honestly.

"What's wrong with Uncle Zhong Yu? He's never done this to me, isn't there anything else he can't say? Don't dare to talk nonsense in the future. Out of Yujitang, Du Mei stuck out his tongue and walked all the way to the grain shop, thinking to himself in his heart.

Du Mei was in love for the first time, and when she saw that she had just said something nonsense, Zhong Yu turned her face, and it was inevitable that she would deviate.

Autumn is not the same as summer, the sun is not in the west mountain, when Du Mei returns to Dujiagou, the sky has been hazy, and each family has lit a dim lamp.

The carriage clucked along the gravel path, and before Du Mei could get out of the car, the courtyard door of the second room opened from the inside.

"Eldest sister, are you really back?" Du Gui popped out with a look of surprise.

"Guizi, where is my mother?" Du Mei took her little sister's hand and walked into the courtyard.

There is a horse lantern hanging in the courtyard, Xu's is harvesting chili peppers, the red chili peppers are glowing with warm light in the dark, Du Shu is chopping a branch vigorously, and Du Ying Du Tao on the side is helping to pick up.

"Mother!" Crossing the threshold, Du Mei screamed, and his throat suddenly choked.

"Plums." Xu Shi dropped the chili pepper in his hand, walked quickly to Du Mei, and looked up and down.

"Sister!" Du Ying and Du Tao also rushed over and surrounded her.

"Look at your skinny, don't you eat on time every time you go out?" Xu touched his daughter's face, full of distress.

"Outside, how can there be a delicious meal made by my mother." Du Mei hugged Xu's arm and coquettishly, it felt so good to go home.

"Then let's eat, Du Shu, don't be busy, let's eat together." Xu turned around and beckoned Du Shu and took Du Mei to the kitchen.

"Whoa." Du Shu was helping the stone to unload, and the two sacks of cotton were tightly stuffed, so large and heavy that two people had to carry them.

The sweet potato porridge is filled with the sweet silky fragrance, the newly steamed white flour steamed buns are soft and strong, and Xu's temporarily boiled a plate of scrambled eggs with chili peppers, which are red and yellow, fragrant and spicy, and very good for rice.

"It's so sweet." Du Mei took a sip of warm porridge and said contentedly.

In the dim light, there is a mother and younger siblings around him, and the family is happy, this day is sweeter than eating honey.

"Ahh Juniper sat in Xu's arms, being fed porridge with a mouthful, and when he saw the eldest sister talking, he couldn't help babbling.

"Don't you think it's sweet, huh?" Du Mei picked a small piece of soft glutinous sweet potato and fed it to his mouth.

"Hug!" Juniper opened his arms towards Du Mei, and suddenly a word popped out clearly.

"Komatsu, you can speak!" Du Mei put down the bowl and hugged the juniper in surprise.

"He's not even a year old, and he's talking now, and he's not an adult yet?" Xu Shi glanced at Du Mei with disgust.

"But he said it." Du Mei bows his head and plays a game of insect fly with Juniper.

"Eat quickly, I have something to tell you." Xu Shi had time to eat his own dinner and took Juniper to hug him.

"What's wrong at home?" Du Mei chewed on the steamed bun.

"It's not a big deal, two days ago, Qian Maoda from Chenqian Village came to his home, you promised to sell his eggs, but you are not at home, I didn't dare to respond." Juniper was a little troubled, and Xu held him crookedly to coax him.

"I promised him that if he came again, I would sell him five hundred, and he would give him whatever price he wanted." Du Mei saw that this was the case, so he said without thinking.

"Whatever the price is?" Du Tao said with some disbelief.

"At the beginning, our duck seedlings were given to me on credit by him, although I later paid back the money with a lot of money, and asked him to exterminate the locusts together, and I didn't owe him anything, but he opened his mouth, and I couldn't refuse." Du Mei elaborated on the reason.

Although Qian Maoda later sold duck eggs to Shopkeeper Chen at a low price, which was a disguised pry into Du Mei's business, she didn't take these to heart, after all, Shopkeeper Chen is not trustworthy.

"The grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by the spring, and my mother thinks that you are doing the right thing, but the day of sending fresh duck eggs is coming, and you must pay attention to the rules in doing business." Xu Shi looked puzzled.

"I was about to tell you about this, and I won't send fresh duck eggs out in the future." After Du Mei finished speaking, he calmly took a sip of porridge.

"Why? Are our duck eggs bad? Du Ying was in a hurry, she worked hard to put ducks every day, and she couldn't tolerate people saying that duck eggs were not good.

"Our duck eggs are naturally excellent, but now that the weather is getting cooler, there are fewer people eating duck eggs. But if no one buys it, neither restaurants nor shops will stock this kind of fresh goods. Du Mei put down his chopsticks and said.

"It's no problem to lay eggs now, and we'll all marinate the duck eggs in the future?" Xu Shi said with a sigh of relief.

"It's September now, and there is at least half a year to sell fresh eggs next year, and the best taste of salted duck eggs is to marinate them for a month to eat. Du Mei came back all the way and thought about these things very thoroughly.

"What can I do?" Du Tao asked with a bitter face.

When everyone heard her say this, their faces tightened, and they looked at Du Mei intently.

"There's nothing to worry about for the time being, Uncle Maoda wants to plant eggs, and we also want to hatch next year's duck seedlings, the villa not only has 100 acres of fertile land, but also 100 acres of water, and it is more than enough to raise a thousand ducks." Du Mei said his thoughts slowly.

"But we can pick up 3,000 eggs a month." Du Gui interjected anxiously.

"In the future, when it gets cold, the ducks will have to be kept at home, and the duck eggs will be reduced. Besides, I'm planning to make another kind of food from duck eggs, little gluttonous cat, will you dare to eat it then? Du Mei smiled and stroked Du Gui's soft hair.

"What's not to dare to do, my sister made it, it must be delicious!" Du Gui straightened his little chest and expressed his unconditional support for the eldest sister.

"Who taught you this?" Because the salted duck eggs were made by the fat servants, Xu thought that Du Mei had learned from someone.

"Hmm...... Sort of. Du Mei responded vaguely, learning from the mobile phone is also learning, this is not a lie.

"Then what do you need, I'll find it for you tomorrow." Du Shu was silent for a long time, and then he spoke.

"This method is a bit special, it requires quicklime, alkali, salt, yellow mud, rice husks, and plant ash." Du Mei kept in mind the ingredients he had found on his phone.

"Why is it so strange, everyone on the side is easy to say, where can I find this quicklime?" Xu Shi twisted his eyebrows.

"Mother, it's best to find this now, Brother Ming'er Hei will send quicklime to boil, and I'll leave a bag." Du Mei laughed.

"If you don't say it, I forgot that a house is being built on the villa." Xu Shi nodded.

Du Mei handed over all the affairs of the villa to Du Zhong, so Xu basically didn't worry about it, and gradually forgot about it.

"I'm just worried that the ashes are not easy to get, and I want fruit tree branches to burn, which is hard to find now." Du Mei shook his head.

"It's a coincidence that a few wild persimmon trees in our mountain forest were torn off by those greedy skin monkeys, and Du Shu just cut them in the yard." Hearing this, Xu Shi said with his eyebrows stretched.

"The branches are too heavy, I'll only pull some back today." Du Shu said a little apologetically.

"It's good that I didn't pull it back, Ming'er directly found a sheltered place in the fish's mouth to burn." Du Mei was a little overjoyed, she didn't expect this to be much smoother than she imagined.

"Then I'll get it early tomorrow morning." Du Shu scratched his head innocently.

"Well, Ming'er boils lime in the morning, and she can only do this in the afternoon at the earliest." Du Mei had an unhurried expression.

"Mother, don't dry those chili peppers outside, pickle all the chili peppers, I'll be useful in the future." Du Mei turned to his mother and said.

"The pickled pepper has already been pickled in a jar, if you still want it, you can pickle it tomorrow." Although Xu didn't know what Du Mei was for, since her daughter said so, she should do it.

A few people talked for a while, and after telling Ming'er about it, Du Shu went home, and Du Mei and the others washed up and went back to the room.

Du Mei sorted out the things that Gangneung City brought back, because she was in a hurry this time, she didn't buy any rare items for her younger siblings, but fortunately, they had a lot of novelties and didn't pester her.

In addition to her own clothes, there was also Chu Lin's unfinished dark smoke blue robe, Du Mei sat at the table, found the silk thread, lit the light, and began to embroider the cloud sea pattern on the sleeve.

At this time, the moonlight outside the window was bright, the shadows of the trees were swaying, she was sitting in her room, flying needles in her hands, thinking of Chu Lin in her heart, the smile on her face was like a white lotus blooming, tranquil and peaceful.

"Plums." Xu pushed the door in.

She felt sorry for her eldest daughter who had been running around for several days, and when she saw that she had lost weight, she specially cooked another jujube soup for her.

Du Mei was startled for a moment, the embroidery needle was pierced in his hand, and the robe was too late to hide.

"Mother!" Du Mei took the pricked finger in his mouth and called out shyly.

"Whose is this?" Xu put down the bowl and asked with a look of surprise. She only looked at the length of the clothes and guessed that it was Chu Lin's, but she didn't dare to believe it.

"It's the third brother's." Du Mei lowered his head and whispered.

"Meizi, you know his identity, but you still ......" Seeing her call Chu Lin so intimately, Xu Shi knew that Du Mei was emotional. She was a mother and couldn't watch her daughter jump into a fire pit.

"Mother, listen to me......" Seeing Xu's reproach, Du Mei hurriedly rushed to defend himself.

"I know he likes you, but a lot of things can't be sustained by liking alone." Xu sat down next to Du Mei and said with a faint sigh.

"Mother, do you know who bought the screen we embroidered at the beginning?" Du Mei tilted his head, leaned into Xu's arms, and said softly.

"Who? Chu Lin? Xu's heart skipped a beat.

"What's more, do you know that Ye Dan, Ye Qing and the stones were all sent by him?" Du Mei looked up at Xu, and Xu's eyes were full of shock!

"He ......," Xu couldn't continue.

Chu Lin's thoughts about Du Mei were clearly written on his face, the last time Du Mei was drunk, the Xu family rejected him like that, he didn't threaten him with kindness, if Chu Lin put aside that heavy identity, he would really be a good son-in-law.

"Mother, the third brother is really good." Du Mei hugged Xu's arm and coquettishly.

"You...... How do you know how much suffering you will have to endure in the future if you follow him! Xu lowered his voice in reproach. Du Mei grew up in the countryside, and she didn't know the sorrow in the courtyard of the deep house, didn't she know it!