After careful cultivation by Shu Yan and Xiao Mo, all these grape seedlings survived and grew long vines. These vines cannot be left to spread on the ground, they must be provided with a vehicle to climb upwards. After a few days, Yan and Mo prepared some branches and hemp rope and drove them to the vineyard to build a trellis for the grapes. They first inserted thicker branches into the soil as pillars, then tied thinner branches to the tops of the thick branches that were paired horizontally, and then tied some longitudinally to fix them. In this way, it can not only provide sufficient space for the grape seedlings to climb, but also form a pulling effect between the branches of the tree, preventing them from being blown down by strong winds, and making them more stable. Once the trellis is erected, the long vines are gently picked up from the ground and allowed to cling to the branches and let them grow upward.

Although Shu Yan was born in a peasant family, he is a complete layman for this kind of work. Under Xiao Mo's guidance - in fact, Xiao Mo is also the first time, and her skills are all from the oral tradition of Dawan merchants, without any practical experience. But fortunately, both of them are clever people, and after this work, the bright green vines have grown upright.

Shu Yan looked at Xiao Mo with a smile and said, "How about it, are we already halfway there?" ”

Although Xiao Mo is equally happy and optimistic, this time it is unusual: "If our goal is grapes, we can probably be regarded as half the success." But our goal is wine, and even if we succeed in producing grapes, we are only half the battle, because even if we have grapes, we can't guarantee that we will succeed in making wine. And now, it can only be regarded as a success. ”

"Although we have only succeeded in two or three percent, we have enough confidence. These green seedlings are hope. When I saw them, I remembered that when I was in Ruyin, although my family and the Han family were lonely and poor, we were always full of strength in the face of the tender green wheat seedlings, grain seedlings and mulberry leaves that we had grown with our own hands. ”

"It's poor, but it's full of joy."

Shu Yan nodded.

"Both of you are heirlooms, so in the fields, when you are happy, you will also chant a few lines of poetry, right?"

"Absolutely."

"Oh?" Xiao Mo squinted at Shu Yan and asked with a smile, "You and Sister Zhixin have been in love since childhood, and they are very affectionate, what are you chanting about?" ”

Shu Yan was a little embarrassed: "What is there between us, we were still young at that time, but just some poems that fit the situation." ”

"A poem for the occasion?" Xiao Mo thought about the scene in front of him, and said casually, "'Between ten acres, the mulberry is idle, and the line and the son are still ......' is this the scene?" ”

"Don't say it." Shu Yan laughed in surprise, "Zhixin really chanted this sentence to me. ”

"Really? And then you will 'return the line with the child' tenderly and sweetly? ”

"Where do you want to go. We were only so old then, but we knew what we knew in our years! Shu Yan said as he packed up his farm tools.

The more we grew up together, the more sincere the feelings became.

Several calf carts came on the road, stopped for a while in front of Shi Chong's Golden Valley Garden, and then entered.

Xiao Mo carried the bucket into the car, and suddenly said, "Brother Shu, do you remember?" When we first arrived in Luoyang, I wanted to come and see this famous Golden Valley Garden, but unfortunately I never had the opportunity. Now that it's in front of you, you can't miss it anymore. ”

"Well, if you're interested, I'll accompany you around the garden today."

This Golden Valley Garden occupies a very large area, and Shi Chong spent a huge amount of manpower and financial resources to build it. This place is a good place with mountains and rivers before the garden is built, after Shi Chong bought it, cleverly according to the topography, according to the mountains and rivers to build different scenery, the garden is full of lush forests and bamboos, pavilions and pavilions everywhere.

The two of them walked around the garden, only looking at the scenery outside, but the inside was still very vast and deep, which was even more attractive, and Xiao Mo's curiosity rose again: "What's the point of just looking outside, if you want to see it, you have to go inside to see it." ”

"Going inside?" Shu Yan exclaimed, "We are not familiar with the Shi family, and the people at the garden gate don't know us, how can they let us in?" ”

"Why do you need to enter through the garden gate, this garden is so big, and the mountains and rivers are staggered, there must be a gap that can be entered."

"Here you go again. Isn't it enough that we were counted down by the two servant girls of the Shi family? Last time, I had to turn over people's peony gardens, and today I want to turn over people's Jingu Gardens, and then I want to be discovered by others, where will I put my face? What's more, our identities are different now, we were all ordinary people last year, and now we are also court officials. ”

Xiao Mo thought about it, but she was unwilling to give up like this. At this moment, a calf cart drove not far away, stopped as it passed by them, and a familiar voice came from the open curtain: "Why, are you also here to see the treasure?" ”

"Treasure? What treasure to see? Xiao Mo and Shu Yan glanced at each other, completely unaware of why.

"Wang Kai, the general of the rear army, is going to fight with Shi Shizhong today, so you don't know?"

"Brother Xiahou, how is it possible?" A more familiar voice in the car smiled, "They are not from this way, how can they know about Shi Shizhong's fight with the queen's army?" ”

Sitting in the car were Shi Biyu, Xun Bao and Xiahoumen. It was Hitama who spoke.

"Doubao...... Of course we do. Xiao Mo's eyes rolled and he had an idea, so he said, "The queen army and Shi Shizhong are a pair of opponents who show off their wealth, and everyone in Luoyang knows it." He is going to fight with Shi Shizhong again today, saying that it is a rare treasure...... "Xiao Mo doesn't know anything about fighting treasures, she is just talking nonsense, but she doesn't want her to touch melons like this, she really touches the right thing."

"That's right." Xun Bao said, "In the past, the queen army fought with Shi Shizhong to get rich, and most of them always lost, so the queen army was very angry. He is the uncle of His Majesty today, and after the emperor learned about it, he often helped him secretly. This time, the emperor gave him a very rare treasure, so he had the confidence to find a stone servant to show off. ”

"Stop being verbose." Biyu suddenly pointed to the front and said, "The queen's army has already come, since everyone is here to see the treasure, then let's go in together." If you go late, you won't have the opportunity to see that peerless treasure. ”

The Jin Dynasty was an outlier in many ways, especially in its attitude towards wealth. In the past dynasties, those who had money were most afraid of revealing their wealth, and the so-called "rafters that came out of the sky rotted first." "Afraid that they will be used as the rafters that come out, so the rich tend to hide their money and treasures. As for the rich people of the Jin Dynasty, it is the complete opposite, not only do they hide their money, but they are afraid that the world will not know that they are rich. The plutocrats are loyal to the fight for wealth and extravagance to each other, leading the entire upper class of society to rush to them.

Shu Yan was very scoffing at this, and he didn't want to touch this kind of occasion at all.

"We're not interested......" he was going to say, "we're not interested in seeing anything, we're thinking about going back." But as soon as he was halfway through speaking, he was covered by Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo winked at Shu Yan, and then said to the three sons with a smile: "We are either here to enjoy the mountains and rivers, or we are here to see the baby." Without further ado, let's get inside. ”

The group entered the Golden Valley Garden. Xiao Mo originally wanted to find an opportunity to enter the park so that he could take the opportunity to visit the scenery in the park. But as soon as she heard that there was a baby to see today, the matter of visiting the garden was put second, and she wanted to see the baby. She knew that Shu Yan was reluctant to come in, but she had another idea: Shi Chong made friends with the powerful people in the court and the celebrities in Luoyang City, and it was obviously a very face-saving thing to participate in more such occasions and contact these people. can improve himself, especially the social status of Brother Shu, who was born in a poor family and struggled to mix in the officialdom of the scholar clan.

The people who came were indeed people of status. The five young men followed everyone into a tall, spacious, and luxuriously furnished hall, and greeted their master, Shi Chong. Biyu was originally reluctant to come because of his relationship with the Shi family, but he couldn't stand the pry of Xun Bao and Xiahoumen, so he reluctantly came. When he saw Shi Chong, he felt awkward at first, but Shi Chong was an uninhibited person, and he didn't care about Zhixin's family affairs at all like his wife, so he didn't care about it at all, so Biyu was a lot more comfortable. Shi Chong has a wide range of friends, and he doesn't feel very strange about Shu Yan and Xiao Mo's uninvited arrival.

Wang Kai and Shi Chong sat opposite each other, and Biyu, Xiao Mo and others gathered behind them and waited to view the treasure. At this time, Wang Kai's two subordinates carefully lifted the treasure up and put it on the table, Wang Kai sneered and glanced at Shi Chong, and then carefully lifted the brocade cloth covering the treasure, and a dazzling treasure came into people's eyes. Suddenly, the voices of praise and envy were everywhere.

"Wow, that's a baby." Biyu sighed secretly in her heart. This treasure is two feet high, it is different from the real gold and jade, and it is not a genus of strange flowers and flowers, but it has the sparse branches that can not be carved by real gold and jade, and the dazzling brilliance that strange flowers and flowers do not have. Although Biyu's family has money and countless treasures, it is the first time I have seen this kind of treasure. Not only him, but even many people, including Xiahoumen and Xun Bao, have never seen it.

"Brother Xiahou, Brother Xun, what kind of treasure is this?" Biyu asked quietly.

When Xiahoumen and Xun Bao heard this, they both shook their heads:

"I don't know."

"I've never seen this before."

Biyu thought that he didn't know what kind of treasure it was, and he would be laughed at by the two of them, but now he was relieved, it turned out that everyone didn't know.

Just when the three of them were suspicious of this treasure, they suddenly heard Shu Yan muttering in a low voice: "Like a coral tree." ”33

The three sons listened to Shu Yan's words and expressed their disdain.

Some people died, but not completely......