As soon as March came out, seven or eight carriages left the Shun'an Bo Mansion and headed out of the city.

There are four or five villages at the foot of Hongshan, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to drink, although the life is not rich, there are no starving people in the end, and there are clear water streams flowing through this place, it is a very good place.

The old lady's Zhuangzi is located next to Hongshan Village, and the fields are rented to the villagers on weekdays, and the output between other landlords and tenant farmers is generally four or six cents, or even three or seven cents. But the old lady is kind, the land rent is only fifty-fifty cents, and the Zhuangzi recruits some long-term servants from time to time, and can earn a few hundred dollars a month, Hongshan Village has become the richest in the surrounding villages.

The old lady and her entourage set off at eight o'clock in the morning, and the coachman did not dare to go fast for fear of bumps along the way, and it took half an hour longer than usual to arrive at Zhuangzi.

As soon as the seven or eight carriages entered Hongshan Village, they aroused onlookers, and the four little girls of Su Su secretly lifted the curtain along the way to look at the scene outside, from prosperity to silence to the surrounding mud houses, slowly curious.

Ning Cui entered the house at the age of seven, and had been living in the countryside before, her father was in charge of the big Zhuangzi a hundred miles away, thousands of acres of fertile land, and a mulberry garden fish pond, so she was not curious about the countryside for a long time.

Yang Liu Bisi, who has never been to the countryside, especially Yang Liu, kept asking: "What clothes are they wearing?" One in the east and one in the west. "Can people live in a house like that?"

Ning Cui smiled helplessly and said: "You have been in the house since you were a child, and you grew up like a young lady, how do you know that you make clothes once a year in the countryside, and you are reluctant to throw away the clothes if they are damaged, so you can sew and mend them." Speaking of houses, I am afraid that it will take fifty taels of silver to build a three-room main house with red bricks and tiles, and it is very good for a country man to save two or three taels of silver a year, where can I afford to build a brick house? Yang Liu, Bi Si and even Su Su all bowed their heads and said nothing.

They are in the Song Mansion, there are twelve sets of clothes all year round, as well as rouge gouache jewelry monthly money, and they have to pick and choose if the food is not sweet, but they don't know that life outside is like this.

Ning Cui was also afraid that she would scare the three little girls, so she hurriedly said: "We will not be like this in the future, you will know by looking at my mother." Yang Liu and Bi Si breathed a sigh of relief, and Su Su smiled: "The things that the old lady has rewarded in the past few months alone are enough to build several blue brick and red tile houses, with the old lady's heart for us, where can we be wronged!" A few people laughed and laughed, and the carriage finally stopped.

Get out of the car and see that there is a very large courtyard in front of you, go in is three inside and outside, the blue bricks and red tiles are cleaned up very clean, the head of the village on the Zhuangzi is facing with some servants, the maids and servants are surrounded by the old lady into the main gate, and then through the second door into the third entry, it is five large main rooms, there are three wings on each side, and the ear room kitchen is configured.

The old lady often accompanies the old lady here for recreation, so the house furnishings are also exquisite, although not as good as the house, but much better than everyone imagined. Ten years have passed, since the old lady went, the old lady has never come, and the young steward who used to be in his forties is now in his forties, and he is going to be a grandfather.

Pearl took everyone to clean up the house, asked the old lady to settle down, and assigned a house to everyone, Zhuang Tou took his daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law gave the old lady a salute, and Li Zheng also got a letter, and asked his own woman to enter the Zhuangzi to kowtow to the old lady and say goodbye.

In the past, the Song family was a merchant, but now it is a noble, and it has changed people in the past ten years, but the old lady is still like this. asked someone to move the embroidery pier, invited Lizheng's daughter-in-law to sit next to him, and the maid served tea and snacks and fruits.

Lizheng's daughter-in-law is now less than forty years old, working all the year round, a typical country woman, at the beginning of the restraint is not good, fortunately, the maid and wife who came with are quite polite, the old lady is kind, the woman let go, pulled the basket in her hand and said with a red face: "There is nothing good at home, this is the pheasant that the kid in the family just went up the mountain to call, add a dish to the old lady, please don't dislike it."

The old lady hurriedly let the maid take it over and said with a smile: "Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, it's hard for you to think of me." Lizheng's daughter-in-law accompanied the old lady to talk for a while, and said goodbye to go home to cook at noon, and the old lady said: "I won't keep you, come and talk to me when I have nothing to do on weekdays." Then he said to Amber: "Take some snacks for your aunt we brought, and wrap two bright spots." Amber was quickly packed up, and Lizheng's daughter-in-law accepted it with a red face and went home happily.

At this time, Xing Mo also had lunch, which was made by Xing Mo and the country dishes sent by the servant women in the Zhuangzi.

Now there are a lot of wild vegetables, the old lady eats very refreshingly, let the pearl reward the mother-in-law in the kitchen, there are a lot of dishes left, the old lady let the pearl go down, Su Su also got a bowl of pheasant soup because of the small person, even in the Song family, although the third-class maid's meal has fish and meat, the game is not common.

Su Su thanked the old lady, and then deliberately took the bowl around Yang Liu, Bi Si, and Ning Cui, Yang Liu was interested, pretending to exaggerate and smelling the fragrance, looking at the soup in Su Su's hand pitifully, making the old lady laugh, Pearl held the old lady's arm and smiled: "Just ask the old lady to have pity on this girl and reward her with a bowl of soup!" The old lady said repeatedly: "Hurry up and reward quickly, or it will be a mountain of saliva in a while." ”

Su Su and the four don't have to stay by the old lady's side all day, so let the seven or eight-year-old girls and boys on the Zhuangzi accompany them to walk around the east and west, and if there is anything interesting to come back and talk to the old lady, the old lady's smile is not much more than in the past, and even the amount of food is getting longer, and the pearl is not restrained by them, and they go to play with them, but someone must follow. He also gave four people a penny to buy candy for the children in the village. Within two days, Su Su and the four became the child kings of Hongshan Village.

The rule set by Su Su is not to give candy to the children in vain, but to exchange things for things, regardless of whether they are wild vegetables or wild fruits.

When the old lady found out, she touched Su Su's head and praised Su Su for doing the right thing: "There is nothing in this world that is not earned for nothing, and the younger the child, the more they should be made to understand." The villagers also know that there is such a day now that the old lady is benevolent, although not rich but also knows gratitude, the east family sent a basket of wild vegetables, the west family sent a pheasant and a hare, Zhuangzi has eaten a belly round, the old lady can not let people go back empty-handed, fortunately, Sister Pearl is thoughtful, the delicate purse silver bill brings a dozen boxes slowly, and it is finally the guest of honor.

There are a large number of fruit trees planted on the hill occupied by Zhuangzi, and now the flowers are blooming just right, attracting the nearby beekeepers to come and release the bees, and I heard that the old lady is here, and also sent two jars of soil honey, which is very sweet.