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Chapter 329 When the Grapes Are Ripe

In June, the grapes mature one after another until August and September.

It is cool under the grape arbor. When the children are not allowed to go out, they read or play under the grape arbor. From time to time, they look up at the round grapes on the shelf and ask, "When can I eat it?"

As the emperor's grandson, they will never lack food and clothing, and they are greedy like country children.There is one thing, eating alone is not delicious, but if a group of people fight to eat together, it seems to be especially delicious.

The emperor and grandchildren were playing together, and the grapes were especially delicious and fun.

Zhaoren was telling them about the origin of the grapes: "After Bowanghou Zhangqian emptied the Western Regions, grapes were first introduced to the Central Plains..." Hearing this suddenly, he said casually, "You can eat it now."

He Jun and He Mo immediately stared at Princess Zhaoren with bright eyes, happy but not convinced.

Looking at their round eyes, Zhaoren knew that these two boys were short-sighted, so he smiled and said: "The grapes ripen early and late, look carefully at the biggest ones facing the sun, are they darker in color? "

The full frame of grapes is gradually hidden in the old green leaves, the color can be dark or light, the dark ones have already turned black, and the light purple is still very obvious.

Zhaoren stood on tiptoe, reached for a dark black grape, peeled off the skin in his hands, and asked them with a smile, "Who wants to eat it?"

She also teased these children on weekdays, so that they couldn't believe this little aunt. They looked at her suspiciously and frowned, suspecting that she was going to trick them into eating sour grapes again.

Only Hanzhi was careless, ran over and mouthed: "Ah..."

Zhaoren fed the grapes to Hanzhi, picked her up and asked, "Is it sweet?"

Hanzhi nodded vigorously: "Sweet!" Her big eyes narrowed into crescent moons, she couldn't be happier.

"Little aunt, little aunt!" The rest of the children became excited and begged Zhaoren to pick grapes.

Zhaoren slowly picked up Hanzhi and raised it high: "Sister Zhi, you pick it."

Hanzhi was very happy, she was the youngest in this villa except Ruzhen, she always had to look up when looking at people, now seeing that her brothers and sisters were not as tall as herself, she immediately danced in mid-air.

It doesn't matter if she twisted it, Zhaoren was sweating, and said to her quickly: "Pick it up quickly, if you don't pick it up again, you can let go."

How does Hanzhi know what kind of grapes are sweet and what kind of grapes are sour?He stretched out his small hand and grabbed two handfuls at random, Zhaoren put her down, only to see that Han Zhi's two chubby hands were holding only three or four grapes in total, and she was looking dumbfounded at her hand - there are too many brothers and sisters, this Not enough points.

Fortunately, the royal child was more sensible, and he stood up with Zhentou and said: "You eat first, and I will pick it later."

Yining and Hetang nodded, "That's right, we'll pick them ourselves, and you can eat them."

Yi'an and the other girls also gave in, either letting the younger brother eat first, or let the older sister move first, Hanzhi raised her hands sorely, but she didn't see them take the grapes, and when they let go, the grapes fell to the ground.

The children immediately sighed and sighed, regretting the grapes that could not be obtained.Zhaoren laughed loudly: "Sister Zhi's picks are all sour, none of them are edible!"

He Jun didn't believe it, seeing that there was another one in Hanzhi's hand, he took it and stuffed it into his mouth and licked it, and immediately covered his cheeks and wrinkled his face: "It's so sour!"

It took him a while to recover, and he said in deep pain, "It's more sour than vinegar!"

It was only then that the children believed Zhaoren's words, and pestered her to ask what kind of grapes were the sweetest. Zhaoren's tone of voice made them stomp their feet anxiously, and then smiled and said, "The darker the grapes are sweeter, the lighter the color, the more sour."

The grape trellis was not very high, but the royal family members were all tall. Zhaoren stood on tiptoe, picked a dozen or so round and big grapes in a short while, and asked them to taste one each.

This time it was really sweet, and He Zhen couldn't help saying: "Little aunt likes to coax us to play, but this time I didn't coax us."

Zhaoren disagreed: "When did I coax you to play? I was teaching you to be good."

Seeing it in the room, Princess Zhou laughed so hard that she almost dropped the teacup on the ground, so she called Zhaoren through the window, "Ask someone to set up a ladder and go pick grapes with you."

The grandson of Queen Feng, it is a joke to eat grapes so poorly.

Zhaoren reminded his mother and concubine that if he really asked someone to set up the ladder, he didn't need others to pick it up, and he quickly climbed up to do it.

The leaves of the grapes are so dense that they cover people's eyes, and Zhaoren couldn't see clearly when he was close. Hezhen and the others circled around the ladder underneath, directing Zhaoren to pick grapes.

At this time, most of the grapes were unripe and could not be picked in clusters. Zhaoren only picked the black and huge ones, carefully picked them and put them in the bamboo basket that he carried with him.

Lily said: "There is also a grape tree in the yard in our country. It should bear fruit this year, but I don't know if it will bear fruit well or not."

Princess Zhou glanced at her: "You want to pick grapes too?" Before Lily could speak, she laughed, "That's right, you are not a few years older than Zhaoren, and you are still a child in my eyes, that's all, you go, I look real."

It's not that Lily agrees, and it's not that she doesn't agree. She stood there for a long time before saying shyly: "Then please trouble my concubine to watch this torturer for me. I'll go play with my sister and the others for a while."

Lily walked to the bottom of the ladder, supported the ladder and asked Zhaoren to come down. Zhaoren had already picked half of the basket of grapes, and said happily, "Second sister-in-law, how can you do this? Let me do it."

Lily couldn't help laughing: "Did you forget that I grew up in the countryside?" When she climbed trees to pick elm coins, walnut blossoms, and hairy peaches to satisfy her hunger, Zhaoren couldn't walk.

Don't think she is weaker in front of Song Haonian, when it comes to farming things like climbing trees and picking fruits, there are not many women in the capital who can surpass her.

On the farm, for the convenience of activities, the big guys didn't wear gorgeous big clothes, but only farm clothes.Lily tidied herself up a bit, climbed up the ladder neatly, held the vine stem in one hand, looked at the children below and smiled, "Tell me which bunch you want."

Zhaoren only knows how to pick the hanging grapes, but he doesn't know that the upper layer of the grape trellis receives the most light and ripens the earliest.Lily poked half of her body out of the grape trellis, and she saw several bunches of grapes lying there among the leaves on the upper layer that were half ripe.

With quick hands and feet, she plucked half a string and changed it to another place. In just a short while, she actually plucked more than Zhaoren after tossing half a day.

Zhaoren couldn't help but look at Lily with admiration: "I thought I was capable enough, but I didn't expect my second sister-in-law to be even better, because I underestimated others."

Lily said: "I don't know how to do anything else. The only thing I can do is farm work. If you write with a pen, draw a bow and shoot arrows instead, it's really difficult for me."

The children seemed to understand what the two of them said, and they were very excited looking at the two baskets of grapes.Lily simply picked up the basket and called them to wash the grapes—this was originally the work of the servants, but the children were very motivated.

The cool well water came up, washed the grapes one by one, and placed them on the plate in a juicy manner.For the sake of looking good, Princess Zhou specially sent over two white agate-wrapped white agate plates with lotus leaves. The amethyst-like grapes placed on the white agate plates are really very beautiful.

There were still a few bunches left, Lily remembered that there was also ice stored in the village, but the weather was not hot enough to use it, so she washed it and asked someone to take it to the ice cellar: "It tastes better when it's frozen."

The newly picked grapes are sour and sweet, and taste very sweet. Sitting under the cool breeze and eating grapes is really a fairy day.

Ruzhen was so greedy that his saliva flowed down, Lily picked a few grapes and peeled off the skins, picked out the seeds, squeezed out the juice with a spoon and fed it to him.

By the next day, the frozen grapes in the ice cellar were already ready to eat. It was like putting a piece of ice in your mouth. It was sour and sweet, and it was really better than fresh grapes.

But it's too cold, so I dare not eat more, each of the brothers and sisters can only get two, Zhaoren thought he could get more, but Princess Zhou said: "Your girl's house, you should not use more cold things." She sent them all at once. For Qingsong and Musan, Zhaoren hated them so much that Zhaoren didn't speak well after seeing them for several days.

In a blink of an eye, on the seventh day of the seventh month, when Lily wrote to Song Haonian, she naturally wanted to mention the grape tree in Qingliu Town. Song Haonian wrote that he had arrived at Mount Tai, and if the sacrifice went well, he would be back before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This is the first Mid-autumn Festival after Ruzhen was born. He definitely wants to have a family reunion and doesn't want to miss it.

The speed of the Daming post station is extremely fast. Lily heard from Zhaoren that it would take only ten days to arrive in Yunnan with an urgent order from the capital.But the family letter is not an urgent document, so it will take longer to go back and forth. When Baihe received Song Haonian's letter, it was already the beginning of August, and the princess was going back to the capital.

The children were very reluctant to give up on the farm. These days, they not only had fun, but also forged friendship with the children of the farmer. Once Lily heard He Jun say to a farmer's child seriously: "You are good at studying. When you take the imperial examination in the future, you will be able to go to school." Be my palace official."

The child said: "We are friends. If I want to be your long history, I have to listen to you. It's not worth it."

He Jun said: "You are so stupid, we, as princes, have to listen to the long history."

When the child heard that the long history was so powerful that even the prince had to listen to him, he was really majestic, and his eyes lit up: "Then I will make a long history for you in the future. Remember, don't let others rob me." seat."

"Don't worry, I'm not yet a prince. When I become a prince, I will reserve a long history seat for you."

Although these children's thoughts are ridiculous, they are also cute. Afterwards, Lily whispered to Princess Zhou, and the two laughed for several days.

On the seventh day of August, Princess Xin returned to Beijing with a group of grandchildren. She no longer cared about having fun, and was busy preparing for the festival.

The customs in Beijing are different from those of other places, and there is a certain emphasis on human relationships. Lily doesn't understand these things, and becomes an idler, so she simply focuses on bringing up the truth.

After a few days, I followed up with the letter, saying that the prince is only a hundred miles away from the capital, and he will be able to return to the capital in a day or two.

Lily consciously and Song Haonian's old husband and wife have a son, and even if he hasn't been seen for several months, she doesn't think much about him.

Who knew that when she heard this letter, she stood up suddenly, her heart was beating wildly, and she couldn't be calm for a long time. Even Zhaoren laughed at her: "Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and the appearance of the second sister-in-law is more beautiful than the bride." .”

Lily blushed so ashamed, she had no choice but to pretend she didn't hear, poked Ruzhen's cheek and said, "Your father is coming back soon."

(End of this chapter)