Not far from the gate in front, Zhu Lihua stood still, faced Zhou Bei and said: "So, in the face of the first wave of accountability in the Tang Palace, it is a test for you, you want me to help you, and you must also show the value that I value." ”

Zhou Bei also stopped, looked at Zhu Lihua's charming but cold face by the light in the distance, and smiled. "At the end of the day, it's a deal, a trade-off."

Zhu Lihua smiled. "Look, you actually understand it very well, you know it better than anyone else, so don't keep talking about Ai Youwei.

You're not like Youwei's kind of person who is as simple as a blank sheet of paper, or even like a young man who is full of vitality, if you are dedicated to researching technology, I will not hesitate to marry Youwei.

But you don't want to just study technology, you have been thinking about the future since you were sixteen years old. At the age of seventeen, when Youwei was fourteen years old, you thought about using her to enter a new class. If you want to use me, if you want to use Youwei, you must also show that it is worth using, and this is a fair trade. ”

Zhou Bei was speechless for a while, because before he made a move, all words seemed weak.

He was silent for a long time, and said in a low voice: "It's not too early, Niangniang, please come back, I will deal with it carefully." ”

Zhu Lihua raised her head to look at the sky, looked at the bright moon in the sky and was silent for a long time, and then sighed, looked at Zhou Bei and said: "Don't blame me, anyone, any family, even the emperor, has its own troubles." For the sake of the continuation of the family, at any time, it should not be taken lightly. ”

"I understand."

The two of them were nearly 100 meters away from the gate, one to the south and the other to the north, and not far away, dozens of county lord's palace guards came over to train, bathing by the river, and there was a lot of noise.

Zhou Bei also greeted a few familiar people, and said goodbye to the guards guarding the door.

Not long after Zhou Bei left, two figures wrote down the time separately and wrote the information in the notebook.

Under the moonlight, Zhou Bei pushed his bicycle and walked on the winding path, looking at the lights in the distance, and his heart was silent.

He was indeed not angry about Zhu Lihua's choice, the continuation of the family was more important than anything else in Daming, even if Zhou Bei was in Zhu Lihua's position, he would do so.

It's just that he was showdown by Zhu Lihua so early, and he was a little caught off guard and caught off guard.

He originally thought that such a confrontation would happen in two years, but now that the showdown is over, he still has too few chips in his hand.

Dozens of patents, hundreds of thousands of silver coins, for ordinary people to live happily for a lifetime.

But in this turmoil, it can play a small role.

It is only trivial to deal with Zhu Liqing, who is only sixteen years old, but he can't deal with a prince's mansion.

A prince's mansion is far from the Zhou family of the Wupin family, and it is far from something that he can deal with before he is an adult.

If you knew this, you should have taken the college entrance examination early. But if he took the college entrance examination earlier and left home, how could he take Yu Youwei into his arms!

I'm still too weak!

Returning to the small bridge of his house with a tangled heart, he showed a smile to hide the gloom in his heart, and rode his bicycle briskly.

The car bell jingled, and Liu Shanzi, who heard the movement, carried a gun, limped over, and moved away from the rejection horse at the head of the bridge. "Little four, I have coaxed the little daughter-in-law again, not only the little daughter-in-law has to coax, but the mother-in-law also has to be happy."

Zhou Bei smiled: "Seventh uncle, you haven't married a daughter-in-law, is your experience reliable?" ”

Liu Shanzi smiled, raised his hand and pretended to hit Zhou Bei, but Zhou Bei hurriedly dodged and left quickly on a bicycle.

Compared with the five square kilometers of the county lord's mansion, the Zhou family only occupies a small hill and a river valley, with a total area of only about one square kilometer.

Less than 20 years after the purchase of this property, Zhou Duo bought this farm outside the house in the city after the status of the Fifth Tractor Factory was stabilized.

The land price in Dongzhou is low, and this nearly 2,000 acres of land only cost 6,000 silver coins at the beginning.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhou Duo first moved to Dongzhou, he could allocate a household of servants of Indian descent, and now Zhou Duo has been promoted to chief engineer, which is equivalent to the treatment of a five-grade official, and four households of servants can be allocated.

However, in recent years, the population of the Ming Dynasty in Dongzhou has increased rapidly, but the number of Indian servants has not increased much, and more Indians have merged with the Ming people.

The descendants of the Ming and Indians became free people according to the law of the Ming Dynasty. After the freedmen got married, they could work on the farms, or they could directly distribute the land, subsidize farm tools, and become homesteaders.

The number of servants decreased, and the Zhou family only allocated two households of servants of Indian descendants, a difference of two households.

However, now one household has grown for three generations, and the population is more than the ordinary three households.

This is not bad, most of the Ming people who came to Dongzhou later did not even have a single household of helpers, and if they wanted to hire helpers, they could only hire them at a high price.

The Zhou family had two families of servants, the man worked on the farm, and the woman worked at home, but there was still not enough manpower, and two cousins from Zhoubei's maternal grandfather's family were invited to come and help.

These days are busy farming, although there is mechanized farming, but Sanhe City is located in the north, recently in the peanut harvest, planting late rice, a lot of farm work.

Everyone in the Zhou family lives in the farm, and they can take a hand after work.

Zhou Duo was born in Songjiang Mansion in Zhongzhou and was the second son in the family.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, anyone who is not the eldest son will set up his own family business when he becomes an adult, distribute Dongzhou, and fill the gap of Dongzhou's sparse population.

Zhou Duo graduated from Yingtianfu Royal University of Technology, which is the best university in the world, and after graduation, he was assigned to Daming Dongzhou No. 5 Tractor Factory as an engineer.

Daming Dongzhou No. 5 Tractor Factory is located in Sanhe City (Pittsburgh), Xuezhou (New York), where the Zhou family took root.

With abundant coal and iron resources, proximity to the Great Lakes Industrial Belt, and navigable rivers, Trois-Rivières is one of the priority industrial bases in the Dongzhou mainland.

Zhou Duo married a wife and had children here, and was promoted all the way, and now he is also an upper-class person in the Three Rivers Mansion.

However, this is only in Three Rivers City, not to mention the entire Ming Dynasty, even in Dongzhou, there are countless big shots.

There is a governor's mansion, two governor's mansions, four patrol mansions, eighty-two county mansions, royal mansions, more than 400 prefects and officials of the same level, and a five-grade technical official, which is nothing.

In addition to becoming a chief engineer and enjoying the treatment of a five-grade official in his life, Zhou Duo was even more proud of giving birth to six sons, named after the east, south, west, north, mountain, and river.

Zhou Bei is the fourth of his brothers and the youngest of his mother's children.

As for Zhou Shan and Zhou He, their two brothers were the sons of Zhou Duo's concubines, and they were still young.

The relationship between the Zhou family's father, son, filial piety, wife and concubine, and brothers gets along very well.

The boss Zhou Dong is now working in the factory and is a small supervisor.

The second child, Zhou Nan, also works as a technician in the factory, is married, and lives alone.

The third Zhou Xi is now studying at Xuezhou University, and the next is Zhou Bei, who has not finished high school.

The path to the farm is slightly wider than that of a car, and the right side to the river is the cultivated land, and the left side to the foot of the mountain is the pasture with grass.

There was an electric light in the drying field in front of him, not afraid of not being able to see the road, Zhou Bei rode slowly, still planning how to deal with the upcoming Tang Wangfu people.

When he came to the drying ground, Liu Qiang and the two families of servants finished their work and sat on the ground drinking not far from the lamp.

Zhoushan, Zhouhe, and Heshan their children, a group of children were playing in the bright place, and there was a lot of noise.

In the distance, a large group of women sat in the light, chatting and picking peanuts, and beside them, there were piles of peanuts like hills.

Liu Qiang put a wooden box between them, on which were placed a few plates of vegetables, only leftovers remained, and the two bottles of liquor had been drunk, and several people were a little drunk.

Liu Qiang is Zhou Bei's cousin, but he is separated by a layer.

Zhoubei's great-grandfather was the first to move to Dongzhou, and when the relocated Weisu army first came to Dongzhou, they were all changed to engineers to build roads in Dongzhou.

After the age of forty-five, the Liu family settled in the plains on the south bank of the Five Great Lakes, and later the Liu family migrated many people from Zhongzhou.

Today, the Liu family has formed a natural village on the southern shore of the Great Lakes region, and the clan has expanded over the generations to more than 300 people.

There are few people in Dongzhou, and the government has vigorously developed mechanized farming from the beginning, and these people have now cultivated more than 12,000 acres of fertile land in Sangzhi City.

However, although the population is large, there are always some who are unwilling to farm, or who are disabled due to injuries.

The Zhou family accepted the seventh uncle, who couldn't do farm work, as well as Liu Yun, Liu Qiang and his mother, who wanted to find a way out in Sanhe City.

Liu Yun and Liu Qiang are a little older than Zhou Bei, Liu Yun acted neatly and was arranged by Zhou Duo to work in the tractor factory, but Liu Qiang was unwilling to be restrained and helped manage the farm.

"Xiao Si is back, tonight the county lord's mother will treat you with good wine and meat."

Zhou Bei was reluctant to tell them about his troubles, so he replied with a smile: "Of course, I brought a hare and a basket of crayfish over, and I always have to eat it back." Is my dad back? ”

"I called back at dinner and said that I had a party tonight and would not come back."

Zhou Bei looked at the sky, the sky was full of stars, cloudless, and he was not afraid of rain at night. "You drink slowly, I'll go back first."

Zhou Shan ran over and shouted: "Fourth brother, leave the bicycle for us to learn to ride, I don't know how to ride a bicycle, and my classmates laughed at me." ”

Zhou Shan is nine years old and Zhou He is seven years old. Although they are concubines, because their mother can be a person, they do not fight or rob, and they have always been respectful to Zhou's mother Liu Xianglan.

There is a big age gap between them and Xiaobei in Zhoubei, and they think they can control them, which can be regarded as pampering them.

Zhou Bei responded and said with a smile: "Be careful when learning to drive, don't fall." ”

"Okay......" he turned around and shouted, "Meiji, come and help me with the car." ”

Meiji is the eldest grandson of Heshan, he is sixteen years old this year, he is a mixed-race child, although his skin is a little dark, but he is not much different from an ordinary Daming boy.

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