Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 784 16th birthday

The second day of the Lantern Festival, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, is Du Jinning's birthday.

When she got up early this morning, Mrs. Chen came over with only two maids by her side.

These two maids, one named Xiao Miao and the other named Xiao Sui, were cousins ​​bought by Du Jinning when he went out to inspect the farmland half a year ago, when he met a family who couldn't make ends meet and sold their children. Time was lifted by Chen Shi to the position of a first-class maid, and she followed her at any time.

According to Du Jinning's habit, when they reached the gate of Du Jinning's courtyard, Xiao Miao and Xiaosui stopped, and Mrs. Chen entered the courtyard alone.

"Brother Ning, how do you plan to spend your birthday today?" Chen asked.

Du Jinning got up early in the morning to practice boxing, and just came out of the bathroom after taking a shower.

When she heard this, she glanced at Mrs. Chen in surprise, and thought about her thoughts: "I plan to go to Zhuangzi to have a look."

Guan Jiatian and Tao Huahui are in charge of the farmland water conservancy elsewhere, but she still needs to take care of the water conservancy in Zhuangzi.She had ordered some water trucks and organized tenant farmers to dig ditches.Once the reservoirs and canals dug by Guan Jiatian and Tao Huahui are successful, and the spring rains are full of water, she can divert water to irrigate the dozens of acres of dry land with higher terrain.

She took advantage of the natural terrain to repair the original river course, and blocked the dam to form a drop in the water flow. She used the momentum of the water flow to make the waterwheel run, and the waterwheel continuously transported the water to the high ground. Ditches dug in the high ground would carry water to each field.

With the nourishment and irrigation of water, the dry land that could only grow corn and sorghum can become a rice field. After the fertilizer is improved, it can become a fertile land. The economic benefits of the rice planted are doubled compared with the original.

For all these methods and principles, she upholds a scientific attitude, writes down the data before and after improvement, and forms a rigorous report, which will be handed over to Zhao Hao together with the hybrid rice, and added to "Chang Tian Ji" In the new plot of ", let the farming people in the world know.

These are all things she has to be busy with recently.

"Let's not go to Zhuangzi today. You've been busy all year, and it's hard to celebrate your birthday. You always have to take a break." Chen said, "Mother will make you a bowl of longevity noodles, and then ask the kitchen to make some for you." delicious."

Du Jinning was even more surprised.

Because her birthday was the anniversary of the death of her father Du Yuncheng, and it was also the day when their family fell into the abyss from happiness, so her birthday was never the same.Even if life has been going well for the past two years, Mrs. Chen will only order the kitchen to make some delicious food for her, and she will not personally announce her birthday.

Du Jinning is not an ordinary child, and he has no desire for birthday, so he never has any emotions, and he can live this day as he wants.

She didn't expect Mrs. Chen to come over early this morning to help her arrange her birthday.

"Mother, there's no need." She said, "I'm used to being busy, and I don't know what to do when I take a break. I went to Zhuangzi, and I won't come back at noon. I will come back to eat with you at night."

"You are 16 years old. In the past 16 years, mother has not been able to celebrate your birthday once." Chen's eyes were a little sour.

She knew that Du Jinning was going to send her away this year.She wondered if she could celebrate her youngest daughter's 17th birthday.If I don't hold a birthday party for Du Jinning today, she is afraid that she will regret it for the rest of her life.

Seeing this, Du Jinning could guess Chen's thoughts.

Then she smiled and said, "Okay then, I'll go to Zhuangzi, I'll be back at noon, and I'll stay at home in the afternoon and not go anywhere, waiting to eat the longevity noodles my mother made for me."

"Okay, okay." Mrs. Chen stood up, and when she was about to leave, she asked tentatively, "Will Xiaoyuan come today?"

"I don't know." Du Jinning shook his head, "When a person is in the officialdom, he can't help himself. It's not something he can come if he wants to. Maybe he won't be able to come."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Chen felt a little regretful: "That's fine. I'll wait for you for lunch at noon."

After Mrs. Chen walked a few steps, Du Jinning suddenly called out: "Mother."

Mrs. Chen stopped and turned to look at Du Jinning.

"That..." Du Jinning seemed a little embarrassed, stepped forward a few steps, walked up to Mrs. Chen, and asked her in a low voice, "Are there any sets of dresses made for me by your eldest sister?"

Du Fangfei followed the Xie family to do embroidery work, and she has long been better than blue.As the eldest of the family, she has a strong sense of responsibility and has this ability, so she is particularly keen on making clothes for the family. The clothes Du Jinning wears inside and out are all made by Du Fangfei herself.

Du Fangfei also specially made some women's clothes for Du Jinning, but the excuse was that they were made for Du Fanghui. After they were done, they were not sent to Du Fanghui, but to the Chen family.

As soon as the clothes were delivered, Mrs. Chen knew they belonged to Du Jinning.Of the four daughters, Du Jinning is the tallest, and Du Fanghui is half a head shorter than her.But she didn't say anything explicitly, she just opened it in front of Du Jinning and looked at it, then put it under her own box.

As soon as Mrs. Chen heard this and looked at Du Jinning's expression, she knew what she wanted to do.If Qi Mu came from afar, Du Jinning probably wanted to show him some women's clothing.

Thinking of Du Jinning being a woman who hasn't worn women's clothes since she was born, Chen felt a deep sense of guilt.She owed this daughter too much.

"Ning'er."

I don't know when, the Chen family no longer called Du Jinning "Ning Ge'er", but changed it to "Ning'er".

"Which suit do you want? What color?" she asked. "I'll bring it to you tonight."

Among the clothes made by Du Fangfei, there are bright red, light yellow, purple, and mint green. No matter how gorgeous the colors are, how they are made, it seems to make up for the regret that the younger sister cannot wear women's clothing.

Du Jinning called Chen to stop on impulse.When asked by Chen Shi at this time, thinking about those brightly colored dresses and various complicated ways to wear them, she immediately retreated.Moreover, she has always been cautious. When she calms down and thinks about it, she knows that what she did is wrong. It would be bad if someone saw her.

She shook her head quickly: "No, no, I just want to tell you, when you go back to Guangxi Province someday, leave those clothes for me, I will be useful."

After thinking about it, she said again: "Mother, you can make some elegantly colored dresses. Try to be low-key, and don't be conspicuous."

"Okay." Chen also knew that Du Jinning needed to prepare women's clothing.If something goes wrong, she will pretend to be a woman and run away.

Not only clothes, but also jewelry, women's shoes and other things have to be prepared early.

Thinking about it this way, she felt that there was still a lot to do, and said: "Today is your birthday, and it is also a day of misery for mother. After you come back, go to your mother's room and comb her hair to show your filial piety. "

Du Jinning knew that Mrs. Chen was going to teach her how to comb women's hair.She was going to flee in the future, and she didn't know how to comb a woman's hair bun, and it was inconvenient to bring a maid by her side, it would be very troublesome.It is much easier to master certain life skills.

"Okay, mother, I understand." She showed a sweet smile to Mrs. Chen.

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