Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11271

"arrive."

Yang Ruoqing pointed to the vermilion courtyard gate of the third house on the left side of the road ahead and said.

Everyone raised their heads and looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a relatively grand double courtyard door closed. The red paint on the door was a few years old and no one had maintained it, so it had peeled off a lot.

There was no word "house" or "mansion" written on the lintel. There was a horizontal couplet posted on the lintel, and vertical couplets posted on both sides, both of which contained words wishing happy New Year.

Five or six steps of bluestone slabs connect the main road and the courtyard gate, with two half-human-high blue-gray stone lions squatting on both sides of the steps.

The stone lion has also lost its former domineering aura, and is left with a lot of dirt that is so thick that it is difficult to tell the difference. The area around the lion's eyes has probably been severely worn out by wind, sun and rain.

As soon as Tuantuan saw the two stone lions, he pointed and said, "These are two blind lions."

Yuanyuan shook her head: "No, the other eye is fine!"

Tuan Tuan walked over to check it out and said with a smile, "It's a one-eyed lion!"

The children's conversation was centered around the stone lion. Children's words are innocent and there is no possibility of any other meaning. They were just discussing the facts.

However, Old Yang coughed loudly twice and secretly winked at Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Ruoqing was a little confused at first, not understanding why the old man even gave her a look in this regard.

  Are they afraid that the children's childish words will offend the spirit of the stone lion? After all, the stone lion is the guardian beast in front of the house!

But on second thought, that doesn’t make sense.

Old Yang blinked hard at Yang Ruoqing again.

I rely on!

Yang Ruoqing finally reacted.

  One-eyed dragon!

Who is the one-eyed dragon here? It must be Tan!

Yang Ruoqing quickly glanced at Tan, and sure enough, Tan's face was longer than a coffin. The emotional value and dopamine secreted by the shopping behavior that she had just walked along the way were all ruined by Tuan Tuan Yuanyuan's word "one-eyed dragon".

But Yang Ruoqing couldn't just tell Tan about this matter: Grandma, don't be angry, the kids didn't mean it, they didn't say you are a one-eyed dragon, they said this stone lion is a one-eyed dragon, grandma, don't take this to yourself...

Just think about it, if Yang Ruoqing really said this right away, Tan would probably jump three feet high and turn into a flying old bat.

Therefore, the best way to deal with this matter is to ignore it, avoid talking about it, and let the two children divert their attention as soon as possible.

"We're at my aunt's house now. Who of you will go knock on the door?"

"Mom, I'll go, I'll go!" Tuantuan immediately raised his little hand.

Yuanyuan was not to be outdone and trotted up the stairs.

Tuan Tuan immediately chased after him, "Wait for me to knock together!"

Then, four little hands slapped on the gate, and two of them shouted together: "Auntie, open the door! I'm Tuan Tuan!"

"I am Yuanyuan!"

The yard gate opened quickly, but the person who opened it was neither Yang Huamei nor Xu Yuanming.

The woman looked different from a village peasant woman in that she was dressed more respectably than a peasant woman, but also different from the grandmothers in the town because the style and fabric of her clothes were very ordinary, just following the style of the town.

Her eyebrows, eyes, and facial features are vaguely similar to Xu Yuanming's, and there is a large black mole next to her mouth, giving her the aura of a matchmaker who is looking for marriage partners.

  When the woman saw Tuantuan and Yuanyuan standing outside the door, her eyes lit up and she thought to herself, whose child is so pretty?

It is so delicate and exquisite, just like the fairy boy holding a peach in the New Year pictures!

The woman then saw several adults standing behind the children. Although the woman had never seen Old Yang's family, she saw the shadow of Yang Huamei from Old Yang's facial features.

"Oh, father-in-law, aunt, brother, sister, are you the honored guests of the Yang family?"

Yang Ruoqing smiled and nodded, "I'm Yang Ruoqing. My second brother and I are here with my grandparents to visit my aunt."

He named the identities of four people and their relationship with Yang Huamei in one breath.

Upon hearing this, the woman turned around and shouted towards a room in the yard behind her, then stepped out of the door and personally welcomed Old Yang and Mrs. Tan into the house.

The woman called herself Sister Hua, and said she was Xu Yuanming's cousin from his aunt's family. Her home was in a farm on the edge of the town. When Mei'er was pregnant, Xu Yuanming invited her to take care of her during the confinement period.

Sister Hua kept calling her "Old Madam" and "Old Ancestor", which made Tan secretly happy. However, on the surface, Tan still had a stern face and did not smile.

Old Yang and Yang Yongjin were all very kind, as was Yang Ruoqing, except for Mrs. Tan.

Except for Sister Hua and the two ignorant children, everyone else knew that the old lady was trying to establish her authority.

Everyone else would give face to Xu Yuanming. Even though Sister Hua was invited to take care of Yang Huamei during her confinement, everyone would respect others.

But Tan didn't think so.

In her eyes, she doesn't care whose cousin you, Sister Hua, are. Since you have received the wages, you are a servant, and my Mei'er is the mistress.

I am the young mistress's mother, how can I treat you like a servant? It's out of order!

  Yang Ruoqing secretly turned her head away, thinking that Tan was really good at getting into roles. If she were to travel through time and space and become the old lady of the Jia family in Dream of the Red Chamber, it was likely that none of the young ladies from the Rongguo Mansion and the Ningguo Mansion would dare to eat in her room!

One son and one daughter-in-law were scolded and ran away.

The group entered the yard under Sister Hua's warm greeting.

There is a screen wall at the entrance to the courtyard, on which are carved numerous images of mountains and rivers. Yang Ruoqing estimated that the original owner of this house must have been quite wealthy, probably one of the most famous people in the town, as can be seen from the screen wall.

Yang Ruoqing really likes this ancient courtyard design style.

After passing the screen wall, we entered the main courtyard, where the houses were arranged in a classic tic-tac-toe pattern.

There is a small garden in the middle, and an octagonal pavilion in the middle of the garden. There are tables and chairs in the pavilion for people to sit down and rest.

There is also a stone table in the pavilion. You can play a game of chess here when you have nothing to do. It is quite poetic.

On the left and right sides are a row of five east and west wing rooms respectively.

On the front are several main rooms similar to the main hall of a house, with small archways on both sides leading to the backyard.

"This place is really nice. Mei'er lives here. Great!"

Even Yang Ruoqing, who lived in the Luo family courtyard which was like a royal palace every day, felt that this courtyard was very nice when she came here.

  What about the Tan family?

Tan was used to living in that kind of house in the village and had seen many low farmhouses in the village. When she came here and saw Mei'er living in such a big yard with a garden, Tan's horizons were suddenly expanded. She kept praising her, "good, good, good." The unhappiness caused by the three words "one-eyed dragon" also disappeared again, and her emotional value was maximized again.