Do you know: I’m Xu Jiazi

The eldest girl is happy to be married to the Hou Mansion.

The maids, maids, and servants from top to bottom of the Sheng family all received a lot of rewards.

In the past two days, the kitchen has been cooking, and there have been several more hard dishes with meat, which is a feast for the female servants.

This evening

Linxige

The maid stood aside to serve,

Mo Lan was copying copybooks. Although the room was warm due to the earth-burning stove, Lin Sushuang still held a hand stove wrapped in silk.

"It's been more than two months and you still haven't found any land worth buying?"

"Mom, I can't find it! When something happened to the Ruyang Hou Mansion, there was good land, but it's a pity that we couldn't grab it!"

After hearing this, Lin Sushuang also sighed melancholy.

The fall of the Ruyang Marquis Mansion was like a piece of fat appearing in the den of tigers and wolves in Bianjing. Those with power and claws would naturally tear it apart and carve it up.

It would have been easier if Lin Sushuang was a decent lady, but she was not. The person handling it seemed to be a concubine, and there was no chance for her to pay more.

"A paddy field in the western suburbs is not good either?"

"Mom, it didn't work! I don't know where the family got the connection, and they borrowed a sum of working capital, but they didn't sell it!"

Mo Lan on the side stopped the brush in his hand,

"Aniang, when I went to the farm with my grandmother a few days ago, my daughter saw a field not far from my grandmother's farm."

Lin Sushuang was stunned. She was thinking about the location of Mrs. Sheng's farm in her mind and said:

"Good girl, tell me."

As soon as Mo Lan said a few simple words, Lin Sushuang's eyes lit up, she looked at Zhou Xueniang and said:

"With what Mo'er said, you must inquire clearly!"

"The Lord is here."

Hearing the message from the female envoy, Lin Sushuang hurried to the door to greet her.

While the female envoys were preparing the food, Sheng Hong looked at Mo Lan's handwriting, then showed his dimples and nodded towards Mo Lan with a smile.

"My Mo'er has very good handwriting."

"Thank you father for the compliment."

"Go ahead and eat first."

"yes."

When Mo Lan left the house,

Lin Sushuang served Sheng Hong at the side and put Sheng Hong's favorite dishes into a bowl:

"Honglang, the store you bought for me this year is booming and making a lot of profits. I'm thinking of buying some more properties for Feng'er and Mo'er."

Sheng Hong ate the food and nodded, "Just make up your own mind."

"Hong Lang, we, Mo'er, are also stupid girls."

Sheng Hong frowned and said, "How could anyone say that about his daughter?"

Lin Sushuang poured wine for Sheng Hong and said with a smile:

"Mo'er knows from my concubine that you, Mr. Hong, have always been grateful for the old lady's kindness!"

After losing her smile, she continued:

"Alas! In those years, the old lady sold more than ten hectares of land in Xiaoyu Village in order to support my master's official career. Those were all top-quality farmland!"

That was the dowry purchased for the only daughter decades ago when the Yongyi Hou Mansion was at its most prosperous!

Sheng Hong also nodded with emotion.

"Mo'er knows that you, Honglang, want to redeem the fields you sold! When she and the old lady went to the farm, they went out early in the morning to inquire about the surrounding fields."

Hearing this, Sheng Hong's eyes were filled with a gentle smile that was touched by his daughter's filial piety:

"What a wonderful girl!"

Lin Sushuang said again:

"The emperor paid off and actually let Mo'er find out!"

Sheng Hong looked at Lin Sushuang in disbelief and said:

"Hiss! Seriously?"

Lin Sushuang nodded with tears in her eyes, and then repeated Mo Lan's words while serving Sheng Hong for dinner.

After listening to Lin Sushuang's words, Sheng Hong took a deep breath and said, "Shuang'er, the general location you mentioned is not the old lady's dowry."

Lin Sushuang was stunned for a moment and then continued: "Honglang, you also feel sorry for Mo'er's filial piety. Can you go and find out something?"

Sheng Hong glanced at Lin Sushuang thoughtfully, then pulled her to sit on the embroidered pier beside him.

Holding Lin Sushuang's hand, Sheng Hong nodded.

After Lin Sushuang nodded, she gently leaned her head on Sheng Hong's shoulder and called out "Hong Lang~" softly.

After Sheng Hong heard the word "Hong Lang", he hugged Lin Sushuang's shoulders quite proudly.

He placed his chin on Lin Sushuang's head and narrowed his eyes with a look of enjoyment.

It’s late October after the light snow solar term.

In the biting north wind,

The willow trees in Bianjing City have lost their leaves, and most of the fallen branches are dead branches.

There is no need for the street department to clean up the dead branches, because they will soon be picked up by residents and used as firewood.

There was no such thing as type protection in the Zhou Dynasty.

So nowadays, the salesmen walking down the street will more or less have a few imitation ear protection hanging on their shoulders.

The materials and materials used are definitely not as good as those in shops such as Liang's, but they are cheaper and can be sold for a lot.

What sells better are the curved bamboo pieces made by bamboo craftsmen. They usually sell "bent bamboo pieces for ear protection" in the alleys of the city.

There will be women or female envoys who come out to buy a few sticks and take them home to process and make them themselves.

Although it cannot be said to be a necessity of life,

But ear protection has indeed reduced the number of people with frozen ears in Bianjing.

Yinshizhengji (four o'clock in the morning)

Xu Zaijing walked out of the house. It had started snowing since school yesterday.

It still didn't stop at this time, and it was still snowing.

Hua Xiang, who had followed him out, was just about to speak when he felt suffocated by the cold wind coming towards him.

Hua Xiang looked at her young master walking away, put on the hat of his cloak, put on a rabbit fur scarf, and followed him with a lantern.

With the barrier in front of the mouth and nose, breathing becomes warmer and smoother.

Xu Zaijing was walking in the Hou Mansion,

Although it was still early, the surroundings were not quiet. There were dogs barking from a distance.

This caused the Xu family's big dog kept near the stable to bark twice from time to time.

On the road in the yard, I could see that the woman on duty at night had swept it once, but unfortunately the snow continued to fall, covering the road.

At the door to the backyard, Xu Zaijing nodded to the woman who opened the door and said:

"Thank you for your hard work, mama."

The gatekeeper gave her a blessing.

Then I continued walking forward. Under the lantern light, the snow had reached the middle of my calves.

Several wind vents even accumulated snowdrifts above the knees.

When we arrived at the racecourse,

The cold wind howled, blowing snow particles everywhere, and the dim yellow lantern at the door of Master's house also swayed.

Seeing Xu Zaijing and Hua Xiang approaching, the two big dogs stood up and waggled their tails.

Outside the stable, Alan and Xun Shu were wearing raincoats, stepping on the wooden ladder built on the eaves, and using a wooden rake to clear the snow on the roof of the stable.

Hua Xiang went into the small room to warm herself up. When Xu Zaijing came to the master, she heard him sighing:

"Fortunately, the stables were repaired early, otherwise it would be a bit dangerous with such heavy snow."

Xu Zaijing nodded at the side and said: "Qingyun is not here! Did he go to various houses around him?"

"Well, it's snowing so much! I must go to each house and remind them to clean the roof, otherwise it will easily collapse the house."

Xu Zaijing looked at the deep footprints along the way and sighed.

Then he exhaled a white breath, turned back into the house, and took out several shields that were as tall as one person that Qingyun often used.

With powerful force, he tied three shields horizontally to the stainless steel spear with ropes in just a few clicks.

"call!"

"ha!"

After stretching his muscles, Xu Zaijing exhaled loudly, and then started trotting on the racecourse pushing three shields like a small bulldozer.

Soon, a road appeared on the wide racecourse.

The snow that Alan and the others pulled off from the stable roof was also pushed by Xu Zaijing to a place near the exit.

Two quarters of an hour later, a ‘snow hill’ appeared in the racecourse

After that, Xu Zaijing did not exercise, but swept the snow with a bamboo broom.

An ordinary person would certainly not be able to sweep such thick snow, but Xu Zaijing was too strong to do so.

Looking down from above the Hou Mansion, Xu Zaijing is like thin flowing boiling water, 'pouring' a dark road on a piece of white snow.

Mother's house

Mrs. Sun woke up from her sleep, listened to the sound of brushing outside, cleared her throat and said:

"What's the noise?"

"Madam, it's Wu Lang who is clearing the snow."

"Well, it's impossible for others in our house to clean up, so he has to join in the fun?"

"Well, madam, there is so much snow outside, it seems that only Wulang can sweep it."

Although the movements are leisurely,

But Xu Zaijing still sweated a little after cleaning. After wiping in the greenhouse, Xu Zaijing had breakfast and walked on the road to his "exercise results".

I feel a little comfortable in my heart.

When they arrived near the stables, Alan had already put on a blue-white silk quilted horse mask for Li Ju, as well as a leather neck guard and horse body armor. He looked very powerful.

Zai Zhang's mount is also dressed normally.

On the way out of the mansion, the servants of the family have cleared the snow.

On the street outside the gate, in addition to the old men of the Hou Mansion who had cleared away the snow in their own homes, they were busy together with the young men who were the porters of the Hou Mansion.

The tarpaulins of several stalls were collapsed by the snow, and they were in a mess.

Because of the heavy snowfall, Xu Zaijing did not take the female envoy with him today and asked Qingyun to follow him.

At this time, the sky was still dark,

It is easier to walk along the way where there are people sweeping snow, but it is more difficult to walk where no one is sweeping snow.

Road conditions are hit or miss.

When crossing the bridge, Xu Zaijing dismounted directly, led Li Ju over, and looked into the river from the bridge.

In the dim morning light,

Several boats were moored on the river bank, flags fluttering on the bows, and dim candlelight reflected in the boat windows.

There was green smoke floating out from the chimney on the top of the boat. It seemed that the boatman living on the boat was keeping warm.

When we arrived at Sheng's house, it was a little later than usual.

Leaving Qingyun to serve Li Ju in the Sheng family stable,

Xu Zaijing carried his book box and entered the warm and dim lecture hall with his brother. When he went to his desk,

He found that a lot of tea had been poured into the tea cup in front of Chang Bai.

After staying in the lecture hall for three quarters of an hour, when the sky started to get brighter, Gu Tingye and Qi Heng entered the room with a sound of air conditioning.

When Xuexue Zhuang came, he looked at the lecture hall full of students, nodded with satisfaction and then came to the window.

Opening the window, Xu Zaijing looked over and found that the snowflakes were bigger than when he came, and the bamboo branches outside the window were bent even more.

Zhuang Xuexue did not have the elegance to appreciate the snow, so he just read one sentence in front of the window:

"There are tens of millions of mansions in Guangzhou. Alas!"

Lunch is a warm and spicy fish soup from the small kitchen of Shouantang.

Also at this time,

Xiaoyu Village outside the city,

The huge warehouse that used to store cotton suddenly became larger because most of the cotton had been sold.

But today it didn't look empty, because the warehouse door was opened, and the women and girls from Xiaoyu Village poured in one after another.

After receiving cotton and fabrics for their families, these women and girls who were good at sewing were assigned to several houses in Xiaoyu Village that had large fire pits.

Then the men were busy sweeping the roofs and roads,

The women chatted on the heated floor and started sewing.

Because they knew that the cotton-padded clothes would eventually be distributed to Zhuangzili, everyone worked extremely carefully.

After lunch, Xuexue Zhuang looked at the snowflakes falling bigger and bigger.

Directly let the students in the lecture hall leave school early,

He also said, "Take a rest for three days and do what you can." ’

Everyone in the school thanked the scholar for his teachings and then went back to their homes.

Before leaving the Sheng family, Wang Ruofu also sent Liu’s mother to give Zai Zhang a muff made of fine mink fur.

When Zai Zhang kept thanking her, he realized that it was given to Hua Lan by his mother-in-law.

With the cold wind and snowflakes,

When Xu Zaijing returned to Quyuan Street,

Before he, Zai Zhang and everyone else dismounted, they were covered with snowflakes and almost turned into snowmen.

The horse was led to the stable with a charcoal fire, and Alan and the others wiped the horse's body with dry towels.

However, Xu Zaijing and others did not return to the courtyard. Instead, they warmed themselves up by the fire in the master's small room for nearly two quarters of an hour.

Because it was a snowy day, it got dark very quickly.

After Xu Zaijing finished dinner, he walked in the wind and snow, feeling the snowflakes coming from the pavement, and sighed like a scholar.

If the snow doesn't stop, it's really hard to say.

God does not fulfill people's wishes,

The snow has been falling intermittently, and has been falling continuously for seven days, with no sign of stopping.

In Xu Zaijing's yard, the snow was two feet deep.

Bianjing was almost surrounded by heavy snow, and food prices in Bianjing began to rise for a while.

Fortunately, there were vegetables sent by relatives of the Zhu family, plus the Xu family bought their own fruits and vegetables, and at the same time, there was also some produce in the greenhouse where Uncle Deng worked.

There are piles of horse feed next to the stables.

No one in the entire Yongyi Hou Mansion was hungry.

Gujiu of the Hou Mansion near Quyuan Street was greeted to get his things and enter the wing where the soldiers of the Hou Mansion used to live.

Shu Bo, who was pregnant, was given special care when resuming his marriage.

However, the faces of the three eldest ladies of the Xu family still looked a little worried, because they still didn't know what the situation of their relatives was.

That morning, Xu Zaijing looked at his mother and said, "Mom, I want to go to our relatives' homes to see if anyone needs help."

Mrs. Sun looked at her youngest son and said worriedly: "The snow is so heavy that the horses can't move. How can you get there?"

Xu Zaijing smiled and said: "Don't worry, mother, the child can find a solution. Yesterday, the master made a few pairs of snow shoes. The child can wear them when going out!"

Hearing this, Mrs. Sun nodded.

After saying that, Xu Zaijing left the room.

Zai Zhang on the side looked at Hua Lan who looked worried, smiled and followed him out.

Xu Zaijing gave a few instructions at the door, and Qingyun took a step away at a trot.

When the two brothers changed their clothes and came to the gate, several pairs of wide wooden shoes and several pairs of polo clubs were already placed at the door.

Master Xu Zaijing also made a ‘ling bed’ with several bags of rice, noodles, fruits and vegetables piled on it.

Looking back at his worried mother and sisters-in-law, Xu Zaijing said, "Let's go."

After saying that, everyone who had changed their 'equipment' dragged Ling Bed and followed.