Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 141
Du Xiaoyu found out that some of the honeysuckle flowers had been stolen the next day, but Du Xian didn't tell her, so he guessed who he might have seen. The reason why he didn't say anything was because he was too kind.

She decided not to pursue it anymore, and started to collect it in a day. It's not worth it to expose her father for such a small amount of money, but in the future, when the honeysuckle harvest is abundant, he must not be allowed to guard it!
Fortunately, there was no rain in these two days. The best time is when the buds of honeysuckle turn golden yellow, and the best time to pick them is before Si time.

She picked three large baskets in the morning, which seemed to be a lot, but in fact, it only weighed more than a dozen catties when dried.

Du Xian helped build a flower stand for drying dried flowers. The fresh honeysuckle must be exposed to the sun, otherwise it will turn yellow and black after a long time, and rot directly.

"How much can these be sold for?" Du Xian looked at the golden flower buds, thinking of his little daughter's busy work all day long, he didn't know if paying so much was worth it.

"Seven hundred dollars." Du Xiaoyu said casually.

Du Xian was stunned for a moment, "That's all?" It's worthless than ordinary crops, but isn't she always willing to grow only valuable things?

"The harvest of honeysuckle will increase about ten times in the third year." Following the sound, the two entered the yard, Zhang Zhuoyu saluted Du Xian, and said with a smile, "Uncle Du, you must believe Xiaoyu's vision."

"Young Master Zhang," Du Xian was very surprised, he didn't expect him to come to the door suddenly, and hurriedly greeted, "Come, come, come and sit in the room, Xiaoyu, don't make tea yet."

He regarded all the people in Wan Mansion as great benefactors. Du Xiaoyu stood up, shook his clothes and walked into the kitchen. After a while, he brought tea and heard Du Xian say, "There's no need to deliver these meals yourself, but It's just a pen, we can't repay your Wan Fu's kindness."

"I don't know if the newly bought Biluochun is good or not." Du Xiaoyu interrupted at the right time, so that Zhang Zhuoyu wouldn't know how to reply to Du Xian's words.

Zhang Zhuoyu smiled at her, took a few sips, "Well, it's pretty good."

It's definitely not as good as their Wanfu. Du Xiaoyu sat down and looked at the food box on the table, and suddenly smiled, "Don't you want to eat Boxia offering again?" ?
Du Xian glared, "You child, Mr. Zhang said that you gave him a pen and reciprocated, but you said that you are as greedy as you."

Du Wenyuan laughed twice, "Since the younger brother is here, dad will kill a rabbit later."

"Of course, you treat Mr. Zhang well, and I won't disturb you." Du Xian stood up and went to talk to Mrs. Zhao in the bedroom.

"Xiaoyu, try this, the pastry just released by Wuweiji, girls like to eat it." Zhang Zhuoyu opened the food box, pointed to two plates of crystal cakes and introduced, "This one is made of peanut kernels, and this one is made of walnut kernels... ..."

It was really pretty. Du Xiaoyu tasted two of them, nodded and praised, "It's delicious, thank you."

Zhang Zhuoyu blushed slightly, "I should thank you, the pen is very beautiful, I will take it to the capital."

Although the township examinations held every three years are held in the northern and southern capitals, Jinan Prefecture is obviously closer to the capital, so they are all assigned to the capital for the examination.

Du Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Then I wish you high school first."

The two looked at each other and smiled, Du Xiaoyu wiped off the scum from his hands, "I'll go out and have a look, I'll come back later."

The sun is good today, and the honeysuckle is harvested on the same day of drying. It has been a while now, so I have to turn over to dry on the other side, and put it away in the evening. After a few days, I have to take it out to dry for half a day before I can sell it to the pharmacy.

Zhang Zhuoyu was about to go out with him, but Du Wenyuan stopped him and said, "Isn't it true that Baba sent these here to our house for the Paxia offering?"

"Of course it's for Xie Xiaoyu's pen."

"She owes you and your Wanfu favors, so what's the point of sending a pen?" Du Wenyuan stared at him, "Why did you come here specially?" After a pause, he continued, "My little sister is old Still young."

Hearing the last sentence, Zhang Zhuoyu blushed instantly, "This, this..."

The person who came to deliver the food didn't really think much about it, he just felt that he hadn't seen Du Xiaoyu for a long time, and it happened that she gave him a pen again, so he came. Reply.

Du Wenyuan smiled softly, "Why are you so nervous? I'm just joking, let's go, I'll show you her rabbit."

After a while Du Xian came out and slaughtered a rabbit. He ate the Boxia offering in the evening and made some herbal tea to warm it up after the meal, so he wouldn't get angry.

Time passed day by day, and soon it was August.

Zhao's day of giving birth is calculated to be at the end of this month. Du Xiaoyu saw that she was a little anxious, and looked at the door from time to time, knowing that she must be thinking about the people from her natal family.

It's strange to say that there has been no response to the letter in the past few months. Could it be that Mrs. Zhao was annoyed that she didn't notify Du Huanghua in advance of her marriage?But the sender should have mentioned that Mrs. Zhao is happy.

Just as I was thinking about it, there were crisp bells coming from outside, jingling.

The bell didn't stop until the gate of the courtyard.

Du Xiaoyu felt strange and hurried over to have a look, but when she reached the door, she saw five people getting off the bullock cart with a crash, she was stunned for a moment, then turned her head and shouted loudly, "Mother, uncle, auntie and the others are here! "

Mrs. Zhao came out with her big belly in her hands, her lips were shaking with excitement, and she was on the verge of crying.

Zhao Dongzhi was the first to rush up and support her, "Now you know you miss us? Why didn't you mention Huang Hua's marriage earlier, and thought you didn't treat us as family!"

"Dongzhi, why are you bringing this up after such a long time?" Of course, Mrs. Lu thought that there was some insider information, so she pushed the topic away and said with a smile, "Oh, this belly is so big, it's going to be born at the end of the month, right? ? We came at a good time, Dongzhi wants to wait until you give birth to the child before leaving."

Zhao Daqing and his eldest son came down with a lot of things.

Zhao Mei "twittered" and pulled Du Xiaoyu to talk, "Sister Xiaoyu, you have grown a lot taller. Look, this is our bullock cart, isn't it amazing? This cow might run away!"

Huang Xiaoying smiled and said, "I didn't see that my aunt's house also has cows, but you like to show off."

Looking in the direction of her finger, Zhao Mei yelled, "Wow, your cattle are so big, why don't you have a cart to pull them? Then you can come to our house often to play!"

Du Xiaoyu thought to herself, no matter how big a cow is, it still runs slowly, but she wants to buy a carriage!But I can't say this, I just laughed, "My mother is not easy to run around when she is pregnant, I will talk about this later." He greeted the two of them to enter the house.

Zhao Dongzhi was digging out bags of things outside. There were eggs, red dates, dried longan, chestnut fruit, clothes, shoes and socks for children, soft hats, etc., and everything was piled up on the table.

There is a custom before a pregnant woman gives birth. Her mother's family will send a gift to her son-in-law's house, which is called "birth gift".

This time Zhao Daqing brought his daughter-in-law, and his younger sister took the time to give this gift and prepare these things on behalf of the deceased mother. No wonder Mrs. Zhao was tearful and moved.

Du Xian heard the rumors from the neighbors that someone from Zhao's natal family had come and hurried back home, exchanged greetings with Zhao Daqing and others, and then sat down around to gossip.

Zhao Daqing saw that his younger sister was raised in vain and fat, knowing that he hadn't suffered the slightest grievance, so he was relieved.

In the past few days, Mrs. Zhao felt joyful and completely relaxed because of having siblings by her side.

However, the fields are busy recently, and the autumn harvest is about to come. Zhao Daqing and his wife can't stay for long.

Zhao Dongzhi's mother and daughter planned to stay and leave after she gave birth, but Zhao Mei refused to leave. Recently, she saw that Du Xiaoyu was raising rabbits and planting flowers. She saw the fun and said that she would go back with her sister-in-law. Shi told her not to cause trouble to others, and when she saw that she agreed, she agreed.

Seeing her parents leave, Zhao Mei giggled, "Hey, I finally have a few days to live in peace."

Huang Xiaoying glanced at her, "Aunt told you not to cause trouble, don't forget."

"Xiaoyu, look, there is a nagging one here, who likes to educate people all day long. You don't know how miserable it is to be her younger brother. I think the two cousins ​​are so happy now, because I can't see my cousin!"

Du Xiaoyu didn't see anything naughty about Zhao Mei, she was quite obedient at the uncle's house at that time, embroidering with Huang Xiaoying and so on, and she was not taught by her aunt.

Huang Xiaoying knew what she was thinking, "Don't be fooled by her appearance, just look at her, she must be going crazy these few days."

Zhao Mei made a face and cheered, "Xiaoyu, let's go out and play! I haven't visited your village carefully yet, what's so interesting about it?"

Before Du Xiaoyu could react, he was dragged out the door.

Now she finally knew Zhao Mei's horror. After two days, she was too tired to move anymore, no matter what Zhao Mei said or begged, she refused to go out with her again.

It's crazy!
I don't know if I'm tired, I walk from the east of the village to the west of the village, from the south of the village to the north of the village, and when I meet someone I know Du Xiaoyu, I have to go to someone's house to play, and I can't hold back.The same goes for going to the county the next day, Du Xiaoyu is exhausted just following her, and has to help carry all the things he bought...

"Ah, cousin, why is she so scary?" Du Xiaoyu said, holding her head.

Huang Xiaoying laughed straight, "You know now, right? She's like a cow, just ignore her, she can play alone."

"It's really good physical strength. If you are farming, you will be a good hand!" Du Xiaoyu envied her inexhaustible energy.

"Who said no? But she only wants to play."

Du Xiaoyu was speechless for a while again, leaned over to look at Huang Xiaoying's embroidery, and praised, "Your embroidery skills are good!"

"It's far worse than your eldest sister."

Speaking of Du Huanghua, Huang Xiaoying also had doubts in her heart, but she naturally wouldn't ask if people in their family didn't ask. In the past few days, people from the Bai family came once and left after a few words of greeting. The relationship between the family is not very good, she thought about it and said suddenly, "Xiaoyu, would it be okay if our family moved here?"

(End of this chapter)