"Madam, madam, girl, she..."
The maid Liuhua went to deliver the handkerchief to Feng Zhiheng, returned to the house as if she had seen a ghost, and whispered in Zhou's ear in panic.
After hearing this, Mrs. Zhou frowned slightly, stood up and said, "I'll go take a look."
Zhou came to the yard and asked Lihua: "Where is A Heng?"
Lihua Hua pointed tremblingly at the plane tree in the yard.
So, next, Zhou saw a famous scene that shocked her.
Feng Zhiheng, the daughter of the Marquis of Zhongjing, was hugging the tree trunk and climbing up like a monkey in the sky.
No wonder Mrs. Zhou didn't recognize her own daughter at first, and even Mrs. Zhen, Xie Chuntao and others didn't recognize her.
Feng Zhiheng was wearing the coarse cloth clothes of Erlang. He had removed his hairpin and his black hair was tied into a thick braid hanging on his shoulders. Looking from behind, he didn't look like a daughter of the Hou family. He looked like a country boy.
Xiao Fuyuan, Bai Zhaomei and other children stood under the tree to encourage Feng Zhiheng.
"Madam, look at the girl." Lihua said anxiously.
"Don't talk, don't scare A Heng." Zhou said.
Liuhua closed her mouth.
"Sister Ah Heng, come on." Xiao Fuyuan stood under the tree and raised her face to cheer for Feng Zhiheng.
Feng Zhiheng was sweating from the climb, and finally climbed to the top, where he sat on a tree branch and panted, with a comfortable smile on his face.
Zhou's heart rose to her throat.
"Xiao Yuanbao, am I very good? I learned how to climb a tree from my fifth brother last year, and I can still remember it this year." Feng Zhiheng laughed and asked Xiao Fuyuan, who was under the tree.
Zhou looked at her daughter sitting on the tree branch with mixed emotions.
Her daughter has been wild since she was young, but she never knew that her daughter could climb trees, and she could climb so smoothly.
"Xiao Yuanbao, are you climbing up too?" Feng Zhiheng asked.
Little Fuyuan stands under the tree, she can climb the tree. When she brought Feng Zhiheng into her room to change clothes, she also put on the shorts and pants that Qiuniang had sewn for her. When she heard Feng Zhiheng calling her, she hugged the tree and climbed up.
Bai Zhaomei and Dalang stood under the tree and stared up at her, always guarding her safety.
Soon, Xiao Fuyuan climbed up, climbed on the branch, and sat on the branch next to Feng Zhiheng.
"Sister, climbing a tree in the countryside is nothing." Zhen said, and her name for Zhou also changed.
Zhou nodded and looked at Feng Zhiheng on the tree with mixed emotions.
Her daughter has been wild-tempered since she was a child, and she has never restrained her. At first, she was reluctant to let her daughter come to Huaicheng's parents' house to learn the rules, but she couldn't bear the orders of the old Marquis and the Queen Mother.
When I came to my parents' house this time, I saw that my daughter was indeed walking, sitting and lying like a daughter of a prince, but she was no longer as lively as she was at home.
Feng Zhiheng's eyes turned red when he saw her, and his whole person became depressed and lifeless.
She felt distressed and helpless.
After arriving at Shenshu Village, the girl immediately became lively and chattered non-stop while sitting in the sedan chair.
"Sister, look at the birds in the sky." Feng Zhiheng looked up at the sky.
"It's a swallow." Xiao Fuyuan couldn't help humming, "Little swallows, dressed in floral clothes, come here every spring..."
Feng Zhiheng asked: "What song is this?"
Xiao Fuyuan said: "Little swallows wear colorful clothes."
"you teach me."
"good."
Zhou looked at Feng Zhiheng who was sitting on a branch of a tree watching the birds singing. She had never been so happy or indulgent.
Thinking of Feng Zhiheng going to the Jiji Palace in the future and losing his freedom.
Zhou felt guilty.
"Ah Heng is really happy at your house. No wonder he talks about coming to play with Little Yuanbao all day long." Mrs. Zhou concealed her emotions and said to Mrs. Zhen with a smile.
"Xiao Yuanbao also likes sister A Heng." Mrs. Zhen said, looking at the two girls on the tree, "We women are married. We respect our parents-in-law and serve the whole family. Only by being girls in our parents' family can we be free. So I let Xiao Yuanbao do whatever she does at home."
Mrs. Zhou nodded, thinking that Ms. Zhen was not as knowledgeable as an ordinary peasant woman.
"Lao Wu, you guys take good care of A Heng and my sister." Zhen ordered.
"Don't worry, mother." Bai Zhaomei stared at the tree.
"I don't know who A Heng followed. He has been naughty since he was a child."
Mrs. Zhou saw that the Bai family's yard was very clean, with gravel roads paved, flowers planted on both sides of the road, a cluster of grapevines in the northeast corner covered with green unripe grapes, and green crops and vegetables planted in the open fields in the southeast corner. .
A pleasant pastoral scenery.
So Zhen asked her to take her for a walk in the yard.
Arriving in front of a patch of cucumber vines, Mr. Zhou smiled and said something that Feng Zhiheng didn't know who to follow.
Zhen smiled and said nothing.
She remembers when she was a child, it was also the time of late spring and early summer.
The aunt's handkerchief was handed over to the fourth girl of the Feng family, and the two of them dressed in servant clothes and climbed trees in the Zhen Mansion's garden.
At that time, Feng Zhiheng's grandfather was still a young boy and stood by to teach them how to crawl.
Ms. Zhen was still very young and stood under the tree as a clapping team.
In a flash, nearly thirty years have passed.
"The land in the countryside is the most precious. If you can use it to grow vegetables and food, you can't waste any of it." Zhen said, pointing to the bean rack.
Long beans hang down on the ground, creating a lively scene.
Zhou said: "On the way here, I saw many crops withered, but your yard is full of green."
Ms. Zhen said: "There is a drought this year. My family is lucky to have a well with a spring in it. We water it all day long. It never rains, and the villagers are the ones who suffer."
Mrs. Zhen sighed.
In the past, when Mrs. Zhen was still the noble daughter of the Zhen Mansion, she could never think of the sufferings of the people, but now she has experienced them all.
"Yes, the victims of natural disasters are the villagers. When I entered Yangfeng territory, I also saw that some fields were still green." Mrs. Zhou told Mrs. Zhen about the crops she saw on the road.
"That's Yan Shu." Zhen said.
"The magistrate of Huaicheng is my father's student. He said that the drought-tolerant millet in Yangfeng County was a seed donated by a villager."
Mrs. Zhen smiled and said, "Yes, my boss planted it."
Mrs. Zhou looked surprised. She didn't expect that Lao Bai's family was actually Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
A young daughter with pink and jade carvings is said to be blessed with good fortune; a girl is ranked first among scholars in a government examination; a farming land can actually cultivate drought-resistant swallow and millet seeds.
Mr. Zhou looked at the Bai family with admiration.
Seeing that it was getting late, Mrs. Zhen figured out that Mrs. Zhou had not proposed to stay at an inn in the town and had no intention of leaving.
So I started to take the initiative to retain customers.
"Sister, it's getting late, and Ah Heng and Xiao Yuanbao are playing so well, why not stay at my house. There are two empty rooms at home, and they have been packed out."
Zhou had this intention.
As early as the first day he came to Shenshu Village, Feng Zhiheng had been urging Zhou to stay at Lao Bai's house for a few days.
Seeing how hard she worked to learn the rules, Mrs. Zhou agreed.
I was originally worried that the houses in the countryside would be narrow and inconvenient, but I didn't expect that Lao Bai's house was spacious and the yard was clean, which was better than the conditions in her village.
It just so happened that her husband was coming to the mountain to prepare a weapons field in the next two days.
But don’t mention this matter to the Bai family yet.
Mrs. Zhen accompanied Mrs. Zhou after walking around the yard and came to the fence. Mrs. Zhou saw a beautiful big house opposite and was puzzled. The roads along the way were mostly low-rise mud houses, even like Lao Bai's house. There are very few walls made of stone and bricks, and such a large house is too abrupt.
(End of chapter)
