The Way of Favors

???? Yangliuqing in March, the people are busy in spring.

???? Fu Rong helped Bier to sit in front of the car window, watched the busy figures of tenants on the side of the dirt road with him, and pointed to the fields near and far, and said, "Brother Bier sees it, this is our home? It was given to your father by your emperor's grandfather."

It’s the first time for Brother Wei to come to the countryside, and everything is fresh. A three or four-year-old girl is sitting on the ground and guarding the peanut seeds. He stares at her curiously, and the carriage walks so far away. He sticks out his head to look at others. I think the girl in coarse cloth with a red rope on her head is too different from the sister she usually sees.

Fu Rong touched his son's little head, and pointed to the cattle in the field to show him. The big ox looked up and mooed, and his eyes lit up, and he pointed to the ox and said, "Cow!"

Fu Rong smiled and kissed him: "Brother Ju is a cow. I finally saw a cow today. Can you?"

Brother Ju nodded repeatedly.

Xu Jia rode a horse to the side, and suddenly pointed to the front and said: "Princess, we are going to cross the river."

Inside the carriage, Lan Xiang knew that the princess would definitely want to see, and excitedly picked up the curtain.

Just as there is a moat outside the capital, there is also a river outside the imperial village in Xujin, which divides the villa and the outside closed land into two parts. There are mountains and waters inside, pavilions and pavilions all over it, just like another small palace.

Fu Rong came here for the first time, and he was as curious as Brother Wei.

"Fish?" The carriage got on the solid wooden bridge, and Ge Er looked at the river under the bridge and turned to ask his mother.

Fu Rong smiled: "Well, there are fish in it. When Dad arrives, let him hug brother over to fish."

Although Xu Jin said that he only needs to sit in the cabinet for the auxiliary, he is still very busy in managing things. He used to be in the staff department, and occasionally he could take time off and slack off for two days. Now that Emperor Jiahe is not in the capital, Xu Jin can only rest on the day of Xiemu. So seeing that March was about to end, Xu Jin asked Fu Rong and his wife to come over the day before he took a break, and he came back in the evening, so that the family could stay in Zhuangzi for one night and return to Beijing leisurely the next afternoon. In order not to waste most of the time on the way back and forth that day.

The carriage steadily stopped in front of the villa.

The maids here and there are already kneeling at the door waiting.

Fu Rong put on his drapery hat and got out of the car with Lan Xiang's support. After he stood firm, he took his good boy into his arms, exchanged a few simple greetings with everyone, and went straight to the inner courtyard.

Mother Tian, ​​who was in charge of the inner courtyard, followed Fu Rong eagerly, with a smile on her face: "Wang Hao, this is Chunhui Hall. After the prince's order in the middle of the month, the old slave ordered people to clean the inside and outside of Chunhui Hall. See if you agree? If there is something wrong, the princess sends a few girls around him to pass it through, and the old slave immediately rearranges it."

Outside Chunhuitang, there are begonia cherries planted all over the place. Looking around, the flowers are like clouds and blooming, and the spring is full. Fu Rong looked at it and said casually: "Since it is called Chunhuitang, can there be yards for the other three seasons?"

Mother Tian said immediately: "Yes, there are also Fenghe Garden, Luoxia Peak, and Meixue Pavilion. No matter when the princess comes, there are beautiful scenery to enjoy."

Fu Rong nodded, teasing his son in the car, and asked: "It's all the prince's name? The prince used to come here?"

Mother Tian narrowed her smile: "No, the prince is busy with errands. The prince has only been here once after Zhuangzi has built it. The yards inside are full of names originally proposed by the Ministry of Engineering. The prince felt it was good, so he stayed." People like them have no chance to perform, and now they are finally looking forward to the prince and princess, of course they have to perform well.

Fu Rong didn't need her to behave. After asking a few questions about the situation here, he let her go down. She concentrated on coaxing her son, and the little maids brought by Meixianglanxiang quickly took over Chunhuitang.

It was still early for lunch. Brother Ju probably was thinking about the excitement he had seen along the way, and insisted on going outside to play. How Fu Rong persuaded him not to listen. The little guy is also very stubborn. Fu Rong was just idle and fine, and couldn't bear to refuse his son, so he personally guided him to the outside of Chunhui Hall by pushing the cart.

Brother Wei is still unwilling, pointing to the outside and muttering, "Cow! Ground!"

Lan Xiang smiled and said, "Wang Hao, the son wants to see people farming."

Brother Wei nodded excitedly.

This one……

Fu Rong thought for a while, and told Xu Jia: "Go and ask Mother Tian to see if there is any free space in the village. If so, pick a farmer to cultivate and find another cow."

Xu Jia went to make arrangements immediately.

Fu Rong nodded his little nose: "Okay, my mother has asked me to lead the bull, and I will wait obediently and don't make trouble anymore."

Brother Zhu understood, stopped making trouble, and then wanted to walk by himself.

The weather is warm, the little guy wears less, and his movements are much more flexible. Fu Rong took his son out and practiced with him.

The mother and son played for about two quarters of an hour, and Xu Jia returned.

It just so happened that there was a vegetable garden in Zhuangzi that needed to be planted. The women were busy, so Fu Rong led Brother Bi to look there.

Fu Rong was afraid of the sun, and still wore a drapery hat on his head. Brother Bi walked crookedly while pushing a walker, yelling "cow" happily.

Before arriving at the vegetable garden, Mother Tian was already waiting there, leading a few women in coarse cloth skirts to salute Fu Rong. Fu Rong came to see them planting the land. He smiled and waived the ceremony. He went to sit down at the coffee table that had been prepared under the willow tree on the ground, and watched comfortably as Lan Xiang was playing with Brother Bier on the ground.

After looking at his son for a while, Fu Rong's eyes slowly fell on a young woman.

The man appeared to be twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a blue cloth turban on his head, and a graceful figure from back. When he turned around, his face was a little red from the sun, but he could also be seen as beautiful and delicious. Fu Rong was not interested in her, but the two children in front of her and behind her. The little girl in the front looked only seven or eight years old, and after the woman finished pulling the rollers, there was a little boy who stepped on the soil in a manner that looked about the same age as Brother Zhang.

The vegetable garden is very large, divided into several plots, and the family of three looks pitiful.

When Brother Juer was young and was most curious about children, he stared at the scalpers on the farmland for a while, and quickly noticed the younger brother over there. He looked back at his mother and saw that there was no objection from her mother, so he pushed the walker to find the little brother.

The noble son came to his home, and Li quickly led a pair of sons and daughters to kneel down, "paying respect to the son."

Brother Wei walked slowly to the little boy and stared at him.

The five-year-old Ling Shou couldn't help but peep at him.

Brother Zhu wore a small moon white robe, with gold embroidered collar and cuffs, and a small round cap on his head. Ling Shou stared at the bead on the tip of his hat, only feeling that the bead was brighter than the moon on the fifteenth night. Looking at the white and pure face of Shizi, it was more tender than the rare tofu at home. Looking at the patched clothes on his body again, Ling Shou suddenly felt that this worldly son was the bright moon in the sky, and he, he was a patch of soil in the field.

He lowered his head and dared not look at it again, although he was young, he knew the rules a long time ago.

Brother Ju didn't look at him anymore. He looked at the small footprints behind Lingshou. He yelled twice, "Go!"

Li looked at Lan Xiang in confusion.

Lan Xiang smiled and said, "Just keep busy, don't worry about it here."

Li looked at his brother, picked up the clay pot with vegetable seeds, and motioned to her daughter Ling Mei to move forward.

Ling Shou also continued to work.

Brother Bi jumped happily, Lan Xiang understood, he held him in one hand and helped him put the walker on Tianlong, so brother Bi pushed the trolley behind Lingshou and giggled.

Fu Rong shook his head and called to Mother Tian, ​​"Who is that woman?"

She sat down, and Mother Tian said with a cat on her waist, “It was a tenant tenant nearby. The man in the family fell ill last year. The old slave looked at her pitiful child with her children and found an errand for her in the garden. While speaking, she quietly observed Fu Rong's face and saw that the princess was very interested. Mother Tian continued: "The little girl in front is called Ling Mei, who is eight years old, and her brother Ling Shou is behind her, who is five years old. "

"I went to work when I was five years old." Fu Rong said with emotion.

Mother Tian smiled and said, "Children from poor families are in their homes early, and they are all like this."

Fu Rong nodded.

The sun gradually rose, and Fu Rong wanted to leave. Brother Ju hadn't played enough yet, so he pulled Ling Shou and refused to let go.

It is rare for his son to meet a playmate he likes so much. Fu Rong looked closely at him and saw that although the boy was thin, but his facial features were very good, he said to Li, "The son likes him. Now, I will bring Ling Shou back to Chunhui Hall, and send someone back to your home in the afternoon, OK?"

Li was flattered, and quickly knelt down and said: "The princess is polite. The elder son likes A Shou. It is a blessing for the family of the ladies. The ladies are afraid that A Shou is ignorant and run into the son..."

Fu Rong smiled: "You don't have to worry, there will be a maid and nurse next to the son, and there won't be any accidents." He smiled and asked the five-year-old boy, "Would you like to play with the son?"

Ling Shou looked at his brother, and then at his mother who nodded at him again and again. He was a little hesitant to agree: "I think, but if I play with the son, no one will help my mother."

Mother Tian smiled and cursed: "The stinky boy is quite filial, don't worry, you don't have to work with your mother today, so you can go with your son in peace."

Ling Shou's little face suddenly collapsed, "My mother said, if you don't work, you won't have any money..."

Sure enough, he knew that he was earning money to support his family. Fu Rong liked the child more and more. He signaled Lan Xiang to pay for the silver, and then handed Ling Shou a fifty-two ingot: "This is the wages you paid for playing with your son. ?"

Ling Shou hadn't seen the silver before blinking his eyes and said, "I don't know, my mother said that after planting this land, there are ten copper coins..."

Fu Rong smiled and told him: "This is called silver, so one coin can be exchanged for 5,000 copper coins."

Ling Shou opened his mouth wide, and his ten fingers soaked in soil moved, and soon stopped moving again, with a dazed expression on his face.

Fu Rong shook his head and laughed, and asked him to pass the silver to his mother. She picked up Brother Ju, and coaxed as she walked to the ground: "Brother Ju, don’t worry, Ling Shou will catch up with us in a while. Shall we invite him to eat fish?"

Ju'er nodded obediently, leaned on his mother's shoulders and looked at the back. Seeing that the new playmate really chased him, he smiled happily.