Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11569

Yang Ruoqing and Old Madam Zuo have basically reached a tacit understanding.

Both parties agreed not to interfere in the affairs of the two young people, but at the appropriate time, they would give a subtle push to help make it happen.

Because of this tacit understanding, they knew that each other was interested in the other's children, and they were secretly proud of each other, feeling that the cabbages they grew and the pigs they raised were pretty good. Look, the other party has their eyes on them!

Leaving Old Madam Zuo to take a nap, Yang Ruoqing also returned to her own guest room to take a nap and recuperate.

The Zuo family arranged three guest rooms side by side for Yang Ruoqing, with a small living room in the middle. The small living room was furnished with a walnut round table and several very comfortable small round stools.

There is a moon gate on the west side with a broken jade curtain hanging on it, and inside is a bedroom.

There is a huge carved bed in the bedroom, as well as a soft couch, tables, chairs and all the other necessary furniture.

The layout was very reasonable, bright, ventilated and stylish. Yang Ruoqing glanced around and couldn't help but nodded secretly.

After years of renovation and planning, the living experience of the Zuo family's house has become even more intense.

The bedroom on the east side has the same layout, but with an additional screen. Behind the screen is a treasure cabinet with a large, very textured desk. The desk is equipped with pens, ink, paper and inkstone. There is a ceramic vase on the desk with a few flowers in it, adding a lot of lively and bright colors to this quaint little study.

Yang Ruoqing finished touring the entire guest room and nodded secretly.

In the east, she and Linglan live with Tuantuan and Yuanyuan.

In the west, Luo Baobao lives alone.

Luo Fengtang was a male guest and did not live in the backyard. In order to make it easier for him to reminisce with Zuo Junmo, he slept in the study next to Zuo Junmo's bedroom.

Old Madam Zuo and Zuo Jinling both have their own separate courtyards.

Tsk tsk, I used to think that our Luo family’s large courtyard was comparable to a royal palace, but I didn’t expect that the construction and decoration style of this house would change every year. The further back you go, the more exquisite it becomes!

After seeing the big courtyard of the Zuo family, Yang Ruoqing felt that hers was no longer the first, but the second.

Well, such a nice courtyard has everything it needs except a young lady to take charge of the household.

Haha, my girl married into the Zuo family, she doesn't feel wronged at all.

Her father and I missed her, so we could ride fast horses to Huguang County for lunch that day. Great, great!

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On the second day after Yang Ruoqing, Luo Fengtang and others arrived in Huguang County, Madam Zuo’s birthday banquet began.

Since it was not the 60th birthday, it was a small birthday celebration and not celebrated on a large scale.

Zuo Junmo also took into consideration the presence of the Luo family, so he only invited two old ladies in the village with whom Madam Zuo had a good relationship to come over for dinner.

In addition, Madam Zuo’s niece from her mother’s side and her niece’s daughter, that is, her great-niece, were also invited.

Yang Ruoqing met this niece and great-niece when she brought her two children to Huguang County for fun.

My niece married in Hangzhou a few years ago and gave birth to a daughter. Later, her husband died, and the mother and daughter were disliked by her husband's family, and her natal family also thought they were shameful. No matter what, Zuo Junmo went to Hangzhou in person as a cousin, and with a lot of effort and connections, he brought the mother and daughter, along with their property and dowry, back to Huguang County.

After living in the Zuo family for two years, with Zuo Junmo as a guarantor, his cousin remarried in Huguang County, and her second husband opened a cloth shop in the county. The niece was grateful for the kindness of Mrs. Zuo and Zuo Junmo, and she had cut off contact with her parents over the years, and regarded her aunt's place in Zuojiazhuang as her own home.

She would come back to visit during every festival, and she would prepare clothes, shoes and socks for Mrs. Zuo's family of three all year round.

This time, Zuo Junmo prepared a small-scale birthday banquet, and he must have informed his cousin.

"Cousin Qing'er, I haven't seen you for many years. You are still the same, but I have grown old."

In Madam Zuo's bedroom, a middle-aged woman with a plump appearance sat below the old lady. Her eyes and brows resembled Madam Zuo's.

"Sister Junlan, you are joking. No matter what, I am three years older than you. The age is there. I am not old, and you are still in your prime!"

Zuo Junmo’s cousin is called Junlan, but Yang Ruoqing didn’t ask her last name.

Yang Ruoqing is thirty-four years old this year. Jun Lan is right. If someone hasn't seen her for a long time, or if a stranger who passes by her on the street guesses her age, based on the care of her face and hands, and the state of her figure, everyone would guess that she is around twenty-five or twenty-six.

In fact, she is already 34 years old, ten years older than those people guessed!

It's not only because of favorable material conditions, but also because of a good mentality. A happy woman is nourished and everything goes smoothly for her.

But the Junlan in front of him was different.

She lost her husband when she was young, and those few years must have been very difficult for her, so her mental state and appearance experienced a cliff-like aging.

Although she remarried later, Zuo Junmo said that their relationship was pretty good and they treated each other with respect. She even gave birth to two sons and a daughter for her new husband. She also established herself firmly in her new husband's family and became the proprietress of a cloth shop.

She certainly had no worries about food and drink, after all, she had the Zuo family as her support. However, raising and educating three children also took a lot of her attention. She had good conditions, good food and drink, but neglected to manage her figure.

So the 34-year-old Jun Lan looks like a plump but slightly greasy middle-aged woman wearing gold and silver jewelry.

Sitting on the left and right of Old Madam Zuo were Yang Ruoqing and Yang Ruoqing. To be honest, even if Yang Ruoqing was not wearing any gold or silver, her temperament and appearance, not to mention crushing Jun Lan, at least from the perspective of outsiders, they would guess that they were an older sister and a younger sister.

One is greasy and rich, the other is fresh and beautiful.

At this moment, you praise me and I praise you, and we praise each other, but we are secretly comparing each other in our hearts.

After comparing, Yang Ruoqing didn't feel a big deal, as she could accept the natural aging and greasiness, but Jun Lan felt very uncomfortable.

"Sister Qing'er, if I remember correctly, this time is the third time we have met?" Jun Lan asked again.

Yang Ruoqing thought hard...

"Well, I'm ashamed. I'm old and my memory has seriously deteriorated. I can't even remember what happened last month. It's really..."

Old Madam Zuo at the side nodded slowly, "Jun Lan remembered correctly, this is indeed the third time you two have sat together."

She looked at Yang Ruoqing, "The first time, you and Feng Tang were already married, and Jun Lan was still waiting to be married. It seemed to be the Dragon Boat Festival that year, and you were both guests at my place."

Jun Lan nodded, a trace of reminiscence and nostalgia flashed across her eyes, as well as a little bit of melancholy and loss.

"The old lady has a really good memory. I admire her!"