Aria followed Zhu Yu into the courtyard in an anxious mood.
Originally Amina wanted to follow, but Aria refused.
Before returning, Aria studied Chinese culture in detail and inquired about some customs here through the team members.
She had thought about it. If she took Amina to Zhu Yu's home, Zhu Yu's family would probably think that she was playing tricks on the princess.
Aria feels very happy now. She just wants Zhu Yu's family to think that she is Zhu Yu's wife, not someone with other identities.
After entering the courtyard and seeing Zhu Yu's family, Aria was a little nervous, but she still took the initiative to walk over, let go of Zhu Yu's hand, bowed deeply, and then said:
"Hello grandpa, hello mom and dad, hello brother! My name is Aria, and I am Brother Yu's wife! Nice to meet you!"
Hearing Aria greet him in substandard Mandarin, Zhu Shoushan smiled and said:
"Why are you so polite? Come into the house."
After entering the house, Aria gave the gifts she brought from the kingdom to Zhu Yu's family one by one.
What was given to Zhu Shoushan were two bottles of old wine collected by the royal family more than n years ago. The number n is approximately older than Zhu Shoushan's age.
These two bottles are wine from China. It is said that they were bought from a certain World Exposition.
What was given to Zhu Dahe was a piece of fur made from the down of a special animal - this special animal is seriously protected in the country.
What was given to Hu Xiumei was a set of cosmetics specially customized by the royal family.
What was given to Zhu Fei was a scimitar inlaid with gems.
Aria discussed these gifts with Zhu Yu and got them from the royal family's treasury.
"As long as you come, they will be happy, no matter what you bring." Zhu Yu's words gave Aria a lot of confidence.
Sure enough, the families who received the gifts were really happy.
Hu Xiumei took a big red envelope and put it in Aria's hand.
"This is our custom here, a greeting gift. We know you are not short of money, so we just want to express what we mean."
Zhu Yu glanced at it with his heavenly eye, and there was a whole pile plus one.
It should mean one in a million.
Aria's identity is indeed worthy of this meaning.
Aria's Chinese greeting was learned temporarily. Although I am also taking advantage of this period of time, to be honest, there is really not much I can say or listen to.
According to Zhu Yu's intention, come and meet his family, and then go back to the hotel to stay.
After all, the eating habits are different, so there is no need for both parties to accommodate each other, so as not to make both parties uncomfortable.
But Aria still insisted on staying here.
She quietly told Zhu Yu:
“This is my first time meeting my family, and if I leave now, I think they will be unhappy.
I am your wife now. I am very happy to have this identity, so I will work hard to adapt and make the best of this identity. "
Zhu Yu didn't insist. After all, that's a good thing, right?
Aria wanted to go to the kitchen to help, so Hu Xiumei pulled her and pointed at the cooking utensils and said:
"I'm afraid that you won't be used to the food here, and you are religious over there. So you see, these are all newly bought and have never been used.
Including the oil, rice, and noodles, they are all new things. "
Aria is really happy to have a husband who cares about her feelings so much.
She felt more and more that her choice was the right one.
After finishing the meal, Aria went to the vegetable garden with great interest to see where Zhu Yu grew.
"I grew up in the palace. Although the palace has many facilities that are not available outside, I also felt very happy when I was a child.
But as I grow older, I feel like I'm living in a cage. I envy those ordinary people who can play freely in the desert, swim in the lake, climb trees, pick fruits, laugh and play..."
Zhu Yuxin said, is it your country that can do such things without restraint? You probably saw it on TV or in a movie, right?
Of course these words cannot be spoken.
So Zhu Yu took Aria to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden, catch fish in the reservoir, pick up stones on the river beach, and pick mushrooms in the mountains...
Going back home feels like traveling.
Aria not only asked Zhu Yu to lead him to do this and that, but also asked Zhu Yu to talk about what he did when he was young.
It was like reliving Zhu Yu's growth process.
For this purpose, I even went to the elementary school and middle school where Zhu Yu went to school.
It's a pity that due to the merger of classes and schools, the elementary school Zhu Yu attended at that time has now become a breeding farm.
They can only take a look outside.
The middle school at that time was now a boarding elementary school. Zhu Yu made it clear to the security guard at the school gate and went in to look around. He also pointed out to Aria the location of the classroom where he had attended classes for three years in junior high school, and what he had done at that time. which places.
If it weren't for the current classroom and classmates still attending school, Aria would have crawled in and sat where Zhu Yu had sat.
The two of them stayed together happily for more than ten days, and Zhu Yu didn't even think it would pass so quickly.
That day, Aria was drying spicy food with Hu Xiumei in the yard, when a middle-aged woman from the village walked in.
"Auntie, my family is going to pick grapes. I can lend you your ladder for use."
"Okay, go get it." Hu Xiumei pointed to the ladder standing in the corner and said.
The woman did not leave, but looked at Aria, who was happily busy there wearing plastic gloves, and suddenly asked:
"Auntie, is this your Xiaoyu's girlfriend? I heard she's a princess? Princesses do this too? Why do I feel like I'm not as cool as my second-in-law's daughter-in-law?"
Aria couldn't understand what this woman with a dialect accent said, but she felt that she was from the same village. Since she greeted her mother-in-law, she should be familiar with her, so she raised her head and smiled, said nothing, and continued busy.
Hu Xiumei feels that her daughter-in-law is really good these days, and she couldn't be more satisfied.
Now when I heard my neighbor say this, I immediately became unhappy and said:
"What? Does the princess want to report to you? Your second daughter-in-law is the one who smeared her face like a ghost every day, and she said that my daughter-in-law is not as good as yours? Pigs can't eat fine chaff!
Besides, what do you think the princess is like? Are they dressed like ancient people on TV?
You are a person who has gone to school after all. Can you have some knowledge? Hurry up and get the ladder and go about your business! "
In the past two days, Aria was either running around with Zhu Yu or busy drying vegetables and making tomato sauce with Hu Xiumei.
Although she was a layman, Hu Xiumei really liked this straight-minded little girl - her hands were blistered when she cut beans and used her pout to cut beans, so what kind of hands were they for working!
But she refused to listen to her advice and wanted to do it with her mother-in-law.
Can you not like it?
Don't make any trouble, just do whatever you want, it hurts to watch.
That woman was Zhu Yu's equal. After being scolded by Hu Xiumei, she was a little unwilling and explained:
"I'm just talking! Where is your Xiaoyu?"
"Sister-in-law, what's the matter?" Zhu Yu came out of the vegetable garden, holding a bucket of tomatoes in his hand:
"I heard that your Xiaohai was imprisoned in the detention center two days ago? What happened? Did you steal someone else's crab?"
When Zhu Yu said this, the woman's expression immediately changed.
There is a large reservoir behind the village, which belongs to the Wetland Park. In recent years, a boss has come over to contract to raise crabs. In the words of the boss, the reservoir is public and he doesn't care if everyone catches fish or something.
Because we use large cages to raise crabs, some have escaped over the years. So there are crabs everywhere in the reservoir.
The boss said that if the nearby villagers want to eat crabs, they can catch some at night.
Just don't sell it.
After all, there is a cost for him to raise crabs.
But some people don’t want to eat it, so they just want to sell it.
The boss raises crabs and sells them for 60 per kilogram, and the wholesale price is 50. There are villagers nearby who dare to catch crabs at night, and they are sold at the morning market for 40 or even 30 yuan per kilogram.
Will the boss be willing?
It's just a matter of weighing three to two pounds. Some crazy people swim to the crab cage at night, cut open the cage and pour it into their pockets!
The boss will suffer huge losses!
This woman's son Xiaohai did this, but when he was selling crabs, his boss reported him and he was arrested.
Detention for ten days.
fine.
Originally, everyone was a fellow villager. When Zhu Yu heard this gossip, he was unwilling to expose anyone's wounds in person.
But just now he heard what the woman said about Aria.
What qualifications do you have to say whether my woman is a princess or not?
Since you're not polite, don't blame me for being petty!
When he said this, the woman's face suddenly turned red, and then she cursed:
"It's that thief boss. He just caught a few kilograms of crabs. As for calling the police?..."
As he said that, he cursed and walked out.
After walking out of the yard, the woman was still muttering in her heart:
"Hmph! What's there to be proud of? I just made some money! Who knows how you earned that money... Marrying a princess, a village girl, right? A girl in the African wilderness can also be called a princess..."
As soon as she walked out of the yard, she saw several cars driving from the end of the village and parked in front of Zhu Yu's house.
This woman naturally likes to gossip and watch the excitement, so she stood on the roadside with a ladder, intending to see what these people were doing.
It's best to arrest the second son of the Zhu family, then it will be fun!
Seeing that there are new A and B on the license plate, I know there is something to talk about.
About ten people got out of the car and entered Zhu Yu's yard.
Zhu Yu was still a little confused, but then he knew after listening to the other party's introduction.
It turned out to be from the Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee, the state Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee, and the county Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee.
Three levels of linkage.
Those people were talking about Princess Aria.
Zhu Yu invited these people to sit down in the courtyard. During the chat, he found out that it turned out that someone from the kingdom had revealed the situation to the Chinese ambassador there, and the ambassador told the news to the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee.
Abdullah just came here at the beginning of the year with the crown princes from the Middle East to inspect the ice and snow tourism resources here. Now that there is another princess, these people naturally hope to have a relationship.
Facing these people, Aria's temperament suddenly changed, from the obedient little daughter-in-law to the princess of the kingdom!
"Thank you for coming to see me, but let me say one thing here, I am here in a private capacity and this is my husband's home.
I hope you won't disturb my private life too much. I don't want your arrival to affect my relationship with my husband's family.
Regarding the investment and construction of the Kingdom, I am not involved. You might as well go to my husband to find me. My brother, the current Crown Prince Abdullah, is still very willing to follow my husband's advice. "
Aria was very low-key and pushed Zhu Yu out.
People from the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee knew a little bit about Zhu Yu - they only learned about it temporarily because of Aria.
But today, it was obvious that neither Zhu Yu nor Aria wanted to talk about any official matters.
These people originally came here just to meet each other, to understand the situation, to become familiar with each other, and when they saw that they were not welcome, they left with good intentions.
The woman at the door watched these leaders (who had already heard it) leave with smiling faces one by one, and knew that the current status of the second child of the Zhu family was probably beyond the description of a simple person who made a fortune abroad!
The woman rolled her eyes, hurried home, put down the ladder, ignored picking grapes, and ran directly to the village shop - the gossip center.
After those people left, Zhu Yu sighed. He knew that his quiet days were coming to an end.
Originally, he brought Aria back quietly, and even Ran Jie and the others took a vacation, just to live a life of two together, and at the same time, let the family try to accept Aria.
Now the family has really accepted Aria, and the arrival of these people indicates that the news of her secret return has spread.
Next, there will definitely be a large number of interested people coming over intentionally or unintentionally.
So, in order not to cause trouble to the family, it’s better to leave.
That night, Zhu Yu told his family his decision.
Zhu Shoushan knocked on the cigarette pot and said:
"Let's go, let's go. If you have something to do, the family won't stop you. I'm in good health. Your parents also have their own things to do. Your brother is not far away, so you don't need to worry about it."
"Go out, don't embarrass our old Zhu family." Zhu Dahe also said, "We have changed places, please call home in time."
Hu Xiumei forced a smile:
"Then... pay attention to safety."
"Brother Yu, please go, I'll stay here." Aria said suddenly, "I want to live here for a while. I think living here is better than living in the palace!"
Zhu Yu was speechless.
Staying in the palace, with so many people waiting on you, is not as comfortable as here?
"I will call Amina and find a female translator." Aria seemed to have planned it for a long time. "I will buy a house in the county and buy a car. I can come here during the day when I have nothing to do, or go around the surrounding area." , I want to learn Chinese here.
Also, if you leave and I stay here, it can make the family feel more at ease. "
Zhu Yu nodded. Since Aria thinks so, it is of course the best.
After spending these days, Zhu Yu could feel that Aria was really fulfilling her responsibilities as a daughter-in-law, and she was also learning to adapt to this identity.
And the family really accepted her and regarded her as a member of the family.
Then just stay.
Hu Xiumei was the happiest person for Aria to stay. She smiled and said:
"Then stay. If you stay, Xiaoyu will always think about going home."
Doing the math, Zhu Yu stayed at home for almost half a month this time, so he considered it a vacation.
When he left home and summoned Ran Jie and the others to Urumqi to prepare the next plan, Ran Jie and the others had actually finished their vacation and were ready to embark on another treasure hunt.
"Boss, where are we going this time?" Cao Dalong was a little excited. This time he did not go home, but went to meet his Japanese girlfriend.
But the other party still had something to do, and the dullness after the excitement made Cao Dalong a little uncomfortable. Zhu Yu's summons just "rescued" him.
"Go to Brazil." Zhu Yu had a piece of information in his hand, "This is what you got from the 'Chrysanthemum' organization. These little days have made a big difference quietly around the world.
This time, we brought their new nest! "
"I remembered." Qin Fei suddenly said, "The 'Ju' agency purchased almost a thousand square kilometers of land in Brazil, which is almost one hundred thousand hectares!
These lands are in plain areas and are used to grow crops such as soybeans and corn, mainly for export..."
"I also remembered it. But to be honest, this situation in Brazil is very confusing." Ran Jie also said, "There are just over 200 million people in the country, and the available arable land is more than our country.
But there are still many people in the country who are hungry..."
"What's so confusing? The land is privatized." Zhu Yu put away the information and said sarcastically: "Once the land is privatized, it's hard to say who will ultimately own the land.
Otherwise, how could the 'Ju' organization acquire so much land? Once farmers lose their land, they will not be able to provide so many jobs in the country, and they will have no choice but to have enough to eat..."
"Fortunately, there is no land privatization in our country." Cao Dalong said happily.
"There are a bunch of bad guys on the Internet now advocating the privatization of land." Qin Fei mentioned.
"Most of them are comprador thugs, and a few are fools who think that after privatization, they can become big landlords." Zhu Yu said disdainfully:
“In their view, after land privatization, they are equivalent to owning a lot of money.
However, after the real privatization of land, those capitals will do whatever they can to buy their land at extremely low prices..."
"Can't we not sell it?" Cao Dalong asked weakly.
"Not selling?" Zhu Yu glanced at him, "How did the fire in Hawaii start? Can you guarantee that you will be alert twenty-four hours a day and not fall into someone else's trap?"
Think about the tens of millions of demolished households. How many of them eventually returned to the common people or even became poor people at the bottom after being robbed of all their money by the lenders?
Do you think you can resist that temptation? "
Cao Dalong shook his head.
They know the power of capital.
Some of those who have mastered capital are inhumane, or in their eyes, others are just tools.
Qin Fei broke the silence:
"Boss, what are we going to do?"
"Collect their grain, complete the land procedures, and let's plant! Is there anything more valuable than grain these days?"
"That's true!" All three people smiled.
Then, they set off.
As the plane flew in the sky, the three people had already begun to divide their work and what they had to do.
Zhu Yu was thinking about this thousand square kilometers...
In fact, it’s not too small!
