Winter went to spring, and the Great Zhou Dynasty ushered in the fourth year of Yongtai.
The earth thawed, everything recovered, and everywhere was full of life.
This winter was unusually warm in Liaodong, and at the end of February, there was no cold, and many strong young people couldn't wait to take off their thick cotton jackets and change into jackets.
Because there has been no large-scale war for many years, Dongningwei has become more prosperous than when Doudou came the year before.
After entering March, the weather is warmer, and people who have been at home for a winter have stepped out of their homes to enjoy the spring and breathe.
Especially for those who have a grange, parents can't bear the begging of their children, so they take them to play in the grange, and arrange this year's spring ploughing by the way.
Now the life of the Dou family is getting better and better, several shops have been added to the grange, the house has been expanded, and there are several more servants in the family than before.
The two brothers, Dou Huasheng and Dou Huayun, have long been clamoring to go to the Grange.
Yuan Hui was busy with things in the shop, and she also felt that the boy couldn't get used to it, so she couldn't make the trip.
By mid-March, Dou Dayong was resting, and the two brothers couldn't stay any longer, and they pestered their parents all day before they got a satisfactory answer.
Early in the morning of the second day, Yuan Hui, Zhao's mother and Xiao Ai rode in a carriage, Dou Dayong took his two sons and four retinues on horseback, and the family went north out of Dongningwei.
Dou Huasheng is tall, and soon he will be eleven years old, and he has grown into a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his appearance is very upright.
Today, he was dressed in a navy blue riding outfit and looked very energetic sitting on a tall horse.
When he was seven or eight years old, he was able to ride a horse alone, and now he is even more proficient in riding, and the couple do not worry about him at all.
But for Dou Huaxiao, who is not yet six years old, the smallest and shortest horse is also too tall to touch the stirrups with his feet on it.
Dou Dayong was in a good mood, and patiently picked up his little son and put it in front of him, Dou Huaxiao was so happy that his eyes were round and he screamed excitedly.
Xiao Ai was only a teenager at a few years old, and along the way, he lifted the curtain to look at the beautiful spring light, chattering and laughing.
Mother Zhao only lowered her head to do needlework, and the slightly bumpy carriage could not affect her in the slightest.
Yuan Hui reached out and patted Zhao's mother on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's hard to come out to relax, so don't be busy." ” At the same time, she picked up the needlework in her hand and looked at it, and it turned out to be a small pink belly pocket, which was embroidered with a picture of a fish playing lotus leaves.
Yuan Hui's heart moved: "What a delicate job, this is embroidery" She wanted to talk about Doudou, but she held back.
I haven't seen each other for two years, and I feel very uncomfortable when I think of the little girl.
Mother Zhao smiled: "It's embroidered for the girl, and the slave also knows that now that she has grown up and has a higher vision, she definitely doesn't like the tricks of the past."
There are no new tricks around the slave maid, this is still what I asked Mrs.
Liu that day, she is also a lady in Beijing, and the girl who looks like her there can't say that she will like it. ” Yuan Hui put her little belly pocket into Zhao's mother's sewing basket, and her heart was sour.
Her little girl was about to turn fourteen, and she didn't know what kind of marriage her aunt and second cousin would give her.
"Mother" she was thinking, Dou Dayong came to the window of the car, and the fat basket pinched a budding peach blossom and stuffed it in.
His fleshy little face was full of flattering smiles: "Mother, do you see if this flower looks good, it was picked for you by Xiaoxiao." ” Dou Dayong's face was all black, obviously he picked it to please his daughter-in-law, but he was robbed of the credit by this stinky boy.
Yuan Hui took the peach blossom and glanced at Dou Dayong, then reached out and pinched his son's fat face, and said with a smile: "Mother's Xiaoxiao is the most well-behaved." ” Dou Huayun chuckled.
Dou Dayong slapped his son: "Where is the stinky boy who has a girl who is intimate, when will your mother add a sister to you, just like" Dou Huasheng came over at some point, and said with a smile: "Daddy, my son's ears are calloused, and I want my mother to add a sister to us, just like Sister Doudou, who is lively and cute, beautiful and sensible, mother, you will agree." ” Yuan Hui blushed and smacked Dou Dayong: "It's just that I don't like to talk, and I have brought my sons badly, have you ever seen whose children dare to joke with their mothers like this" Dou Huaxiao, who was smiling very happily, heard "Sister Doudou", and his little fat face collapsed. said to Dou Dayong: "Daddy, when will the king come home, she clearly said that she would come to see the raft soon, but she hasn't come for a long time, and she doesn't say anything." ” Dou Dayong pulled his fat son forward and said with a hint of melancholy: "Dad also wants to know when she will come home." ” It was a pleasant trip, but the joy was compromised by the absence of a family member.
Mother Zhao ran out of work in her hands, and saw that the mood of the masters was not as high as Fang Cai, so she hurriedly diverted the topic and said to Yuan Hui: "Madam, the Zhuangzi in the south is warmer than the one in the north, and the scenery is better, why do you go to the north instead." ” Yuan Hui said: "I originally wanted to go to the south, but a few days ago, the head of the Zhuangzi in the north brought a message, saying that the owner of the Zhuangzi next to us had talked to him several times, and wanted to buy our Zhuangzi at a high price, and merge the two Zhuangzi into one big manor, and I wanted to talk to him in person." ” Zhao's mother said: "Didn't you fall in love with our hundreds of acres of pear orchards?"
In addition to the fields, the Zhuangzi in the north of the Dou family counts the hundreds of acres of pear orchards that are the most attractive, and you can enjoy the flowers when the flowers bloom, and the varieties of pears are also good.
The meat is delicate and the taste is sweet.
Every year, pears alone have a lot of income.
Yuan Hui said with a smile: "If you want to talk about pear trees, there are only a few hundred acres in our Zhuangzi, and they have at least thousands of acres over there, and I don't know where they attract people, and the price he paid is enough to buy two such Zhuangzi." ” "Two-seater" Zhao's mother snorted lightly: "Then the wife quickly sold it to him, and after taking the money, we will find a good one." ” Yuan Hui said: "It is said that this is the reason, but I am always a little unsure in my heart, where is there such a cheap thing in the world, don't fall into other people's tricks but don't know, or go and see it yourself." ” Mother Zhao nodded thoughtfully, when it comes to being shrewd and capable, she can't match her wife if she has ten.
At noon, the family arrived in Zhuangzi to the north.
The head of the village was already waiting at the door, and his daughter-in-law and two other mothers-in-law had already prepared the farmer's meal.
The Dou family and his party were already hungry after a morning of travel, and happily had a full meal.
After the meal, the two boys couldn't stay idle and clamored to see the pear blossoms.
Yuan Hui summoned the head of the village and asked him to inform the owner of the neighboring village and the head of the village, and said that he had arrived, and they would set a time to discuss the sale of the manor.
Zhuang Tou answered and went down.
The husband and wife then took the children and walked towards the pear orchard. t1706231537: