Fragrance Returned

The days of lying flat are happy but difficult to endure. Spring turns to winter and comes to February of the next year, which is the 20th anniversary of the celebration.

Spring has returned to the earth, new buds are sprouting from the branches, early jasmine flowers are blooming on the branches, and the Beifu Mountain behind the village is covered with a light green.

Ding Xiang is one and a half years old. She can walk and run staggeringly, talks more smoothly than a four or five-year-old child, and is cuter than Xueyu.

Only Ding Xiang, who has experienced "lying flat" soberly, knows how precious it is to be able to move freely and speak.

In the eyes of the second roommate of the Ding family, there is no such beautiful and smart girl in the entire province, and they agreed with Ding Chi's words of "once in a hundred years."

They were afraid that the cloves would be stolen. When she goes out, at least one adult must take her with her, and Heizi must accompany her.

The two little brothers want to take her out alone to show off? No way!

Although the Ding family is the second richest family in Beiquan Village, there is a huge gap between the family and the first rich Xia Yuan's family, and they live frugally. On the premise of ensuring that they are full, the whole family can eat meat every two or three days.

However, Ding Zhuang and Ding Xiang have a small stove every night. Sometimes they make some meatballs, and sometimes they make a bowl of pork liver soup. The two of them eat the meat, and it's good if the others can drink the soup.

If Ding Liren swallowed louder and looked at the meat in the bowl more, Ding Zhao would glare at him.

The clothes worn by the family members are worn for several years, and they are more or less patched. The two brothers made their clothes bigger and put them one after another. Only Lilac's clothes had no patches, and they were all made of brightly colored fine cloth or silk.

It can be said that Lilac's welfare is much better than that of all members of this family.

Even so, the two little brothers were not unhappy with their sister.

Ding Liren wants to compete with Ding Lichun for food, but he will never compete with his sister.

Not to mention Ding Lichun. Seeing his sister eating well, he was as happy as if the food was in his own stomach. He often beat his brother, but he couldn't bear to lay a finger on Lilac.

As for Ding Chi, he actually used sixty taels of silver to turn it into one hundred and twenty taels in one year, and another one hundred taels of silver to turn it into two hundred and fifty taels.

However, no one can tell what kind of business Ding Chi is doing. Ding Zhuang and Ding Zhao were happy for him, but felt uneasy.

Ding Chi did not live a single life, but he did not grow up in this family, and his family did not spend much money on marrying a wife. The money he earned was not paid to the public. Ding Zhuang felt that he was sorry for his son, so he couldn't take more care of him, and he wouldn't listen to others if he wanted to take care of him.

Ding Lilai's child became the young master of a landlord's family. He became fatter and his eyes were squeezed into a slit.

During the Chinese New Year, Ding Chi paid Ding Zhuang two taels of silver for the first time and generously bought Ding Xiang a big gold hairpin.

Ding Xiang guessed what Ding Chi was thinking. Ding Chi wanted to have a good relationship with herself, who had a very prosperous appearance. She feels that buying something that she can use now is a free purchase, but she doesn’t know. And the golden hairpin should be kept until she grows up. Then she will remember the love of her fifth uncle and will not forget them when she becomes rich.

I heard that Ding Chi also paid 10 taels of silver to Ding Shuniang.

Ding Zhuang was not angry. For his second son, he did pay less than his sister. He also guessed that being filial to these two taels of silver would bring him glory.

Lilac also had some preliminary understanding of the world.

Although the countryside is poor, as long as you are diligent and willing to work, you can still eat, and people rarely starve to death. There are already corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and cucumbers from the extravaganza. I heard that there are also foreigners from the Western Regions and Koreans doing business in the capital and provincial capitals...

From these aspects, the country's overall national strength is not bad, and its relations with neighboring countries are also good.

She would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times. Lilac is still quite satisfied after traveling to this world. It also shows that the emperor's grandfather, who is thousands of miles away, is a wise king who thinks about the common people.

Today is the tenth day of the second lunar month. The private school is taking a break. After breakfast, Ding Lichun followed Ding Zhuang to the blacksmith shop. He had already started to learn blacksmithing.

Ding Zhuang and his son felt that he was not good at studying and would have no choice but to work as a blacksmith with them in the future.

Ding Lichun was unwilling. His ideal was to be a general, so he practiced wrestling by squatting on horseback every morning.

Ever since Ding Xiang could speak, she often told Ding Lichun to take the martial arts examination and become a general. The little boy liked to listen, but the adults didn't pay attention to it.

In their view, Ding Lichun's desire to become a general was a pipe dream. I am a weakling with no connections, and it is impossible to get promoted if I serve in the military camp. As for the martial arts examination, I can't afford it at all, so I don't even think about it.

Ding Zhao led Ding Liren to the town, bringing a jar of wine and buying two catties of meat and two catties of sugar. Little Shota is five and a half years old and is going to a private school. Today she is going to see her husband.

Ding Zhuang and his son had always thought that Ding Liren was smart. If he studied well, they would let him take the imperial examination to fulfill Xue's last wish. Twenty years have passed since the so-called unfilial incident, and Ding Zhao knows etiquette and kindness, so it should not affect him.

They had completely given up on Ding Lichun.

But Ding Xiang doesn't think so. Although Ding Lichun is not as clever as Ding Liren and his studies are not as good, he is tenacious and persistent, strong and strong, and is not afraid of death in fights. He is the child king of Beiquan Village and is fully capable of being a general.

After the house became quiet, Mrs. Zhang went to the backyard to clean up the vegetable patch.

She hugged Ding Xiang inside the kang and told her, "Sit here and play with the handkerchief. Don't get close to the edge of the kang."

The obedient baby Ding Xiang said "Oh", lowered his head and played with the handkerchief in his hand.

I was secretly happy that there was finally no one around me so I could do that.

Hearing the footsteps gradually going to the backyard, Ding Xiang climbed up to the edge of the kang on all fours and then slid off the kang. She dragged a small square stool to the door of the east wing and stood on it to lock the door.

He returned to the bedroom and took out a few pieces of paper, a strip of ink, an inkstone, and a writing brush from the large cabinet.

The first few are used by Ding Zhao, and the brushes are bought for Ding Liren, a child. They are very thin.

Ding Xiang knelt in front of the Kang table, poured some water into the inkstone, and rubbed the ink stick hard. Grind the ink, dip the pen in it, and start writing on the paper.

My hands are too small and not flexible enough to hold the pen with my whole hand.

To prevent others from seeing it, Lilac is written in pinyin.

"Princess Dongyang, Prince Consort Xun, Brother Bo."

These three people are her closest blood relatives in this life, but they don’t even know their names.

"Mrs. Xun, Third Master Xun, Third Grandma Xun, Sister Feng, Mother Li, Aunt He, He Shun, Sister Feng's wet nurse."

The first three people are the decision-makers for subcontracting, and Sister Feng is the person being subcontracted. The last four people were participants in the subcontracting. I don’t know if they are still alive.

"Mama Xia."

She was another wet nurse and the first witness.

"Nanny Yan."

She is also a witness who can prove that only Nanny Li served Xun Xiang that night and had contact with Nanny He from Xun Mansion.

"Yinfeng Street, August 20th, the 18th year of Qingguan, around noon, the horse was frightened."

This is the place and time to get the wrong box because the frightened horse creates chaos.

Thank you Song Amei for the reward, and thank you dear friends for your monthly votes and support. Someone said there are a lot of characters, and a list of Ding family characters will be uploaded later.