The dinner was quite sumptuous, but also quite simple.
Rich in variety, a table is set with delicacies from mountains and rivers.
The simplicity lies in the portion size, which is calculated per person, and there is no extravagance. In the end, almost everyone finished it.
After the meal, Yamazaki did not look for his elder brother.
Now that I have a mission, it's not easy to run away for the time being.
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Yamazaki walked out of the castle gate, feeling relieved. It was better to be alone!
Calculate the time and go to the market to find Shandai. She should be listening to books in the teahouse at the moment.
Sure enough, I was occupying a table there, drinking tea and eating fruits, listening to books, and talking about ghost stories.
Shandai saw Yamazaki coming over, took out the tea cup and poured him a cup of tea.
Yamazaki sat down, looked at the green tea, picked up the tea and smelled it deeply, the fragrance was fragrant, and then drank it in one gulp, with endless aftertaste.
"Pfft," Shan Dai spat out the melon seed shell, "Brother, I still have a bag of this good tea over there, how about I give you half of it? Anyway, I am a cow chewing peonies."
Yamazaki shook his head, "No need, because I'm pretty much the same, I'm just pretending to be arty."
"Okay, then what are you doing here?"
"Grandma asked us to go to the capital and deliver a message to Second Grandma."
"Old lady? Why is it our turn for such trouble?"
"Because others have to prepare for the wedding banquet, and we have enough time."
"Okay, just go. Our ancestors have spoken, what else can we do?" Shan Dai took a bite of the apple, "When?"
"Get ready tomorrow and leave the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, then I'll say hello to everyone tomorrow. I won't play any games recently, no, in the future." Shan Dai smiled mischievously, "Using our ancestors as a shield, no one dares to deny face."
"Then you have fun, I have to find a helper to look after my house." Yamazaki poured another cup of tea and left with a lingering fragrance in his mouth.
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The problem with Guanhong Pavilion is the chickens and ducks they raise, as well as the vegetables and medicine they grow.
Yamazaki asked the fort manager for someone, but he shook his head and refused.
It's not that he was being bullied, but it was because he was busy with a wedding in the near future and there was not enough manpower, so he asked Yamazaki to find a way on his own.
Yamazaki had no choice but to go to the market and write a vertical banner stating that he wanted to raise chickens and grow vegetables, and the reward would be eggs and the income from an acre of vegetable land.
There isn't much, and no one cares about it.
Finally, a commoner woman came, about seventeen or eighteen years old, and asked if she had a place to live.
"Girl, there is a place to live, but you need to explain your identity clearly, and it is best to have a guarantor, otherwise I dare not let you stay."
"My surname is Ding, and my last name is Lei. I come to join my brother. My sister-in-law doesn't like me eating and drinking for free, and I don't like her either. You understand."
"If Miss Ding doesn't mind, let's go to Brother Ling's house and have a look."
"please."
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Walking on the road, Yamazaki noticed Ding Lei's breathing.
"From the girl's conversation and her long breathing, have you ever attended a formal martial arts school?"
"I don't have that kind of money. I just went to a private school for a few days. The teacher in the private school was from a martial arts school. I only learned a little bit. I'm not good at it. I just want to keep fit."
Seeing that she didn't want to talk, Yamazaki stopped asking.
"Oh, if you have attended a private school, then you are literate?"
"Get to know some."
"Good at literacy. I still have some medicinal materials to serve. I'm worried that I can't explain them clearly."
"Oh, does that add some money?"
"I'll let you take care of me for a few more days at most."
"This is a very accurate calculation, quite stingy."
"Poor, Haihan Haihan."
Yamazaki's valuable brocade clothes made Ding Lei curl her lips, such a mean and pretentious person.
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Yamazaki followed Ding Lei and gradually discovered that her brother's family lived on the farm.
There are farmers there. After Baozhong became rich in recent years, they recruited farmers from the victims and refugees outside.
Theoretically, after being screened, there should be no problem.
However, Yamazaki is still a little concerned about Ding Lei's martial arts, which is not like that of ordinary civilians.
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The Ding family lived in a brick house built with help from the fort, with front and rear entrances. There were usually twelve houses in total.
There are four bedrooms, two wing rooms, a study room, a main reception hall, a dining room, a kitchen, a woodshed, and a toilet.
The Ding family has a pergola in their front yard, with vegetables grown under it and a cage of chickens kept.
There are a lot of firewood and hay piled in the side room in the front yard, and there is a cow in the larger woodshed.
If the Ding family's sister-in-law is running the house, then it makes sense that she doesn't like her sister-in-law at home.
Ding Lei is not at home, and she may be able to raise two or three sheep in the wing room where she lives.
Wool, mutton, etc., it’s all money.
On the contrary, Ding Lei was just one who lost money, and still ate one meal after another from a bottomless pit.
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The door was unlocked, and it was considered safe to leave the fort untouched because there was nothing to steal.
Ding Lei pushed the door open and saw her eldest brother and sister-in-law pulling at each other.
Brother Ding is in his early twenties, with a scholarly figure, and his skin is not that dark. He does not look like a mud-legged man who has been working in the fields for many years, but more like a scholar who became a farmer halfway.
Sister-in-law Ding is about the same age as her husband. She is good-looking, but has thick hands and big feet, and looks very capable of doing things.
How do you say that? Yes, it has a pungent flavor.
"Look, isn't she back? I said, nothing will happen to her, the castle is very safe."
"After all, this is a girl's family." Brother Ding saw Yamazaki's brocade clothes outside the door and quickly handed over his hand, "This young master..."
Yamazaki stood upright to test whether the two of them were literate.
Ding Lei spoke first, and she didn't know whether it was because she was quick to speak or on purpose.
Fortunately, Mrs. Ding started to care about it and explained that she was literate, and while the wife was literate, usually the husband was also literate.
Yamazaki listened to her continuous bargaining and raising the price, so he said one thing, that is, if he didn't want to, he would take it down.
Sister-in-law Ding suddenly lost her temper and complained repeatedly that Yamazaki was stingy.
This confirmed Yamazaki, she is the kind of person who is open-mouthed and caressing.
I'm afraid it's not that she doesn't want her sister-in-law Ding Lei to live there, but she just likes to figure things out.
And Ding Lei is really her relative, so once she meets him, an outsider, she immediately tries her best to fight for her sister-in-law's interests.
Brother Ding, as for Brother Ding, kept smiling bitterly and said nothing. He just knew what happened, but he couldn't take charge of it.
It's normal to smile bitterly when you understand why your sister wants to go out to work but can't help.
This wry smile fully demonstrated his ability, and it also meant that he had also attended a martial arts school, or was a private school run by someone from a martial arts school.
His breathing was normal, and it was most likely that he had not mastered Kung Fu.
There is really no need to deliberately conceal it.
Shanjiabao's foundation is just like that. There is no need to use a bull's-eye to kill chickens. If you let a master come over to be a farmer, the master will not be willing to do it!
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Yamazaki was sure that both the Ding family and Ding Lei were fine, so he agreed to meet tomorrow and left.
The next day, I found Ding Lei at the gate of the market and took her to Guanhong Pavilion in the back mountain.
"Are you really the young master who was picked up by the Shan family?"
"You said I'm a loser?"
"Live in seclusion and make a living by yourself."
"That's nice to say. I don't have a guest room here. I'll clean up the study for you to live in. I'll take all my personal things back to the room, so you can leave it alone."
"OK."
"There is also Suiyuanju over there, which contains my impromptu paintings. I really can't see people, but I can't bear to throw them away. Unless it's windy or raining, it's best not to go there at any other time."
"Okay, can I take a look first?"
"Of course, just don't laugh."
"I tried to hold it in as much as I could."
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