happy event

Chapter 170 Hope for a Good Harvest

Murong Huaide saw his beautiful wife laughing softly on his body, he was so angry that he wanted to suppress her and punish him, but he was afraid of hurting his growing son, so he had to take the tea on the table and pour it down in one gulp. Quench the anger in my heart.

Dong Rong didn't dare to seriously annoy her husband, she wrapped her arms around his neck, coaxed her for a long while, and finally said pitifully, "Husband, please bear with it for a few more days. It's October, and we'll pack our bags then. Cousin Liu won't be brazen enough to come back home with us, right? Besides, if you ignore her, the mother and concubine should think that I've provoked you. I'm pregnant with a baby. I can't stand her old man's torment."

"Okay." Murong Huaide couldn't resist his beloved wife acting like a baby, his face that was still cold just now has long since turned into a warm spring sun, "The left and right only eat together every three or five days, and occasionally they are pulled to say It's just a few words, as long as you don't worry too much, I will bear it."

"Don't worry, I don't care too much." Dong Rong raised her fair and round chin, and smiled proudly, "My two sons are also helping their mother to look after their father. If you don't believe me, try it." She said, She took her husband's hand and stuck it to her stomach, and finally cried out mournfully, "Son, what should we do, your father doesn't want us three anymore."

As soon as she finished speaking, the two children in her belly seemed to understand it, and Peng Peng kicked her father's palm twice.

Murong Huaide was stunned for a long while, and finally burst out laughing, "Okay, my son is really smart! He can understand words before he is born!"

Dong Rong showed off more and more proudly, "You don't even look at whose sons they are. I pester you playing the piano and reading all day long. Do you think you have nothing to do? This is called prenatal education. It starts from the mother's womb. My son Can you be smart?"

"Okay, okay, thank you for my wife." Murong Huaide was so happy that he put everything behind him, and only his dearest and beloved wife and children were left in his eyes, "Are you bored at home these few days?" Well, tomorrow I happen to be going to the two shops my father left behind, why don't I take you out together."

"Really?" Dong Rong felt bored in the small courtyard all day, and immediately became happy when she heard the words, "There is a teahouse in the two shops, let Zizhu bake a few snacks and sell them, maybe the business will be better. "

"Okay, just give your orders, but don't do it yourself."

"Understood, I originally planned to open a dim sum shop in Qingxian County, but I didn't expect to stay in Kyoto for so long, but I wanted to sell something fresh in a teahouse first."

"The two places are far away from each other. If I can stay home and open a dim sum shop, I won't compete with each other for business."

"Let's talk about it when the time comes. It's all a trivial matter. I don't know how Brother Ping is doing in the exam. I'm not at home, so he doesn't know if he can take care of himself?"

Speaking of going home, the joy on the faces of the young couple faded a bit.Seeing that the autumn harvest is about to come, the family must be busier at this time, but they are stranded in the capital and cannot go back, which is really frustrating.

Not to mention how the young couple missed their family, but it was just smoke rising from the kitchen at this time in Yimianpo Village. After a busy day, every household was waiting for a full meal, and they took turns patrolling the fields at night.I'm about to go home to harvest the corn, and I can't let the wild beasts coming down from the mountain ruin a year's hard work.

In the courtyard of the Cao family, the old man Cao was sitting on a chair under the window, smoking a pipe happily while looking at the half-set sunset in the sky in a daze, not knowing where his mind had wandered.

Mrs. Cao brought out a large bowl of bacon and stewed kidney beans from the stove, and when she saw her old man's appearance, she shouted angrily, "I know how to show off with a cigarette pouch all day long, so I just put a jade cigarette stick in it, and I don't know how to help me." Do some work!"

The old man Cao came back to his senses, carefully put down the cigarette stick in his hand and replied, "You old lady knows how to talk about me, and you don't even look at the gold bracelet on your wrist. Don't be afraid of being blackened by oily smoke."

Granny Cao hurriedly put the vegetable bowl in her hand on the table, and finally rolled up her sleeves to check her wrist. She was relieved when she saw that the bracelet was still shining golden, and shouted, "Damn old man, you are going to be scared to death!" Me. This is my lifeblood, if I spoil it even a little bit, I will die."

"It's really worthless." Old man Cao picked up the pipe and took a sip, slowly exhaled the blue-white smoke, and replied, "It's just a pair of bracelets, so be careful."

"Yes, you are the only one who is generous in the whole family, so why don't you let Brother Zhao next door touch your cigarette pole?" Mrs. Cao kept her mouth shut and unceremoniously exposed the old man's secrets.

The old man Cao coughed twice, and quickly changed the subject and asked, "It's getting dark, why hasn't Second Sister come back?"

Mrs. Cao accepted it when she saw something good, and replied, "Didn't Manager Zhang say to take her to take inventory of the warehouse? Sister Rong is not here, and there is no master in the yard. The second sister usually goes in and out of the warehouse with Sister Rong, please ask her to do it." A testimony is justified."

Although old man Cao still felt that there was something wrong, but the man was already careless, so he turned his head and forgot about it.As a result, as soon as the old couple picked up the chopsticks, the second sister Cao came back with two pieces of material.

Granny Cao rushed forward to meet her, and asked with a smile, "Where did you get this good material? Oh, this color is really festive. It's perfect for a little jacket to wear during the Chinese New Year."

The second sister Cao hugged the fabric tightly when she heard the words, and shouted, "Mother, this is bought by Manager Zhang. My sister-in-law is about to give birth every year, and he also wants to give some congratulatory gifts, so he asked me to make two sets of embroidered quilts." .”

Granny Cao withdrew her hand awkwardly, and said awkwardly, "I'm just talking casually, this material is not enough for two sets of quilts."

"Don't worry, he will send a few more horses tomorrow. After dinner, mother will also help me choose the flowers."

"Okay, this is my eldest grandson's quilt, and I, as a grandmother, also contribute." Thinking of her eldest grandson who had never made a sound, Granny Cao became happy again.

After dinner, the old man Cao picked up the bowls and chopsticks himself for the first time, and then sent the surprised old woman and daughter to do needlework.Granny Cao, son, mother and daughter entered the room and looked at each other, covering their mouths and laughing.

In the Four Seasons Garden not far from the village, Zhao Qingshan was watching the handymen with their hands behind their backs picking up tools.The handymen were wearing new clothes, and after putting away their tools, they quickly took off the cloth towels from their belts and patted the dust on their bodies. Their distressed appearance provoked Sister-in-law Liu who came out with a vegetable bowl and scolded with a smile, "You people, as long as you take care of yourself For work, the boss will distribute new fabrics for everyone to make clothes all year round. Don’t be so stingy, let outsiders see it and look down on our orchard.”

Everyone laughed and stopped, and finally the handyman who was very close to him asked loudly, "Sister-in-law Liu, do you think our boss is really pregnant with two young masters? This is really a happy event. When the time comes Will the master offer a few tables of banquets, so that everyone can join in the fun?"

Sister-in-law Liu didn't respond well to this, and it happened that Guanshi Zhang came out of the restaurant, so she looked at him with a smile.Steward Zhang went to the front, picked up a spoon and turned over the vegetable bowl, seeing that there were not too many slices of meat in it, and then said, "Before I came back, our lord heard that the wife was pregnant with twins, so he directly rewarded everyone in the whole family with five taels." Silver. After the year, the wife successfully gave birth to the young master, and the prince is still not sure how happy he is. The feast is definitely indispensable, and there may be more generous rewards."

"Really?" Everyone cheered and shouted, "Guan Zhang must keep his word!"

Zhang Guanshi heard it amused, and replied, "Of course it counts. Even if the prince forgets to give a reward for a moment of pleasure, I will pay for the money myself to treat everyone to a meat feast, and the corn and wine will be enough!"

"Haha, there is wine to drink now."

"Okay, it's getting dark, everyone hurry up and share the meat dishes and go home, the mother-in-law is waiting for dinner." Sister Liu hurriedly saw Meihua coming out of the yard with a large bowl of steamed buns with double noodles. Greet everyone to come forward to pick up the meal.

Since more and more news came from Beijing, the business of the orchard is also getting better and better, and the customers are almost full every day.Some people do it to enjoy the scenery, some people secretly cling to it, and some people just want to watch the excitement. Although the reasons are different, they are always friendly when they enter the orchard, and they are even more generous in giving rewards.The few families who sent their children to the orchard at the beginning heard that they were planning to build new tile-roofed houses in just two months, which made everyone in the village jealous.

Fortunately, the orchard recruited more than a dozen more handymen. This time, the fertile water did not flow to outsiders' fields, and one counted as one, all of them were selected from Yimianpo Village.Now that I am paid every month, I can still bring back a portion of meat dishes every night. If there are elderly people in the family every now and then, they can share a few braised chicken feet and the like with wine, not to mention how happy they are.

After all the handymen had dispersed, Guanshi Zhang also took a few boys up the mountain. Sister-in-law Liu asked a few daughters-in-law to look around the restaurant, and was ready to go back to the village when she saw that there was nothing missing. .

Chu Silian smiled as she untied her apron, "Sister-in-law, don't worry about it, go back quickly, I live in the orchard, can a thief steal something?"

Everyone laughed, and Mrs. Liu responded with a smile, "Don't talk about you, there are seven or eight people on duty at night in our orchard, and no thief dares to come to the door. I just want my boss to treat us kindly, Let’s do our best to repay our kindness.”

"Oh, don't worry, sister-in-law." A little daughter-in-law heard this, smiled and touched the silver hairpin stuck in the back of her head, and said, "We have to send the hairpin back from the capital all the way to the master. The orchard is protected like a family."

"No, how many people outside envy us working in the orchard."

"That's right, when I went back to my mother's house, my sister-in-law guarded me like a thief. Now she can't wait to confess me as a Buddha. She just wants me to send my nephew to be a servant."

When everyone talked about it, they all had a look of joy and complacency.Sister-in-law Liu listened with a smile, and occasionally glanced at the bun on the back of Chu Silian's head, then paused, and finally greeted a group of young daughters-in-law to go ahead, but she stayed a few steps behind.

"Sister-in-law, do you have anything else to ask?" Chu Silian asked curiously.

Sister-in-law Liu took her hand, hesitated for a while, and then said, "Silian, tell sister-in-law the truth, is your natal brother making trouble again?"

(End of this chapter)