take a wife to support the family

Chapter 326

Qingsong saw that Hanai's expression was wrong, he seemed to be frightened out of his wits, stood there trembling slightly, and hurriedly walked over and asked: "What's wrong?"

Hanai raised his finger and pointed at the root of a corn tree, tremblingly said: "Bug, bug!"

Qingsong looked in the direction of her finger and saw some aerial roots growing near the roots of the corn, which at first glance looked like insects, so she said to Hanai: "It's not insects, it's corn roots."

Hanai shook her head: "What a bug!"

Qingsong thought to himself that this child is really timid. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw something flickering. When he looked closely, there were a few old leaves growing above the air roots, and a gray-white soft worm protruding from the middle of the leaves. , poked around, then retracted.

Hanai begged Qingsong with tears in her voice: "Uncle Li, I want to go back..."

Qingsong is still hesitating, but Hanai has discovered in horror that there are one or two gray and white worms growing on the roots of almost every corn tree, which is very scary.

She was shaking like chaff, took a few steps back, and almost ran away immediately, but fortunately she still remembered that her brothers and sisters were all in the cornfield, so she endured her fear and called Yi'an in a low voice: "Cousin!"

Yi An was fighting with Yi Ning for a big corn, and they didn't hear Han Ai whispering to her.Hanai was so anxious that his forehead was sweating, and he called Hanfang and Hanzhi.

The two little ones heard it, they ran over and dragged Hanai to play in the corn field, but Hanai shook his head desperately and refused to go in.

Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, Hanzhi also saw those bugs, she ran over very curiously, grabbed a bug through the glove, put it on her hand, and stared at it with wide eyes.

Qingsong knew that this kind of worm only ate young leaves and didn't bite people, and it didn't care what Hanzhi was doing.

There was a bug in Hanzhi's hand, and he poked it with his finger from time to time, playing with relish.Poor Hanai almost fainted, looked at the little sister in despair, and whispered: "Sister Zhi, put it down!"

Han Zhi was having a good time, thinking that Han Ai was going to play too, she stretched out her hand to her cousin from a distance, and immediately frightened Han Ai until her legs limp and sat down on the ground.

On the ground, black ants ran back and forth, one of them crawled onto Hanai's leg, Hanai couldn't help screaming, Qingsong hurriedly picked her up, brushed off the ant, and said repeatedly: "Miss Ai is not afraid , I don't have bugs on me."

Han Ai lay dead on top of Qingsong, her small eyes were bright, and she could see crawling bugs, ants, and grasshoppers everywhere... I just felt that this place was the safest place on Uncle Li's shoulders, and he could hug him to death tight.

Qingsong couldn't let her go, he had no choice but to put her on his back, seeing that the corn field was almost harmed by them, he hurriedly called someone out.

A group of ten or so children lined up according to their height, Qingsong carried a moxa on their backs, and looked at the results in their baskets one by one: Yining, Hezhen, and Hetang naturally had the most, Yi'an was not bad, and the rest He Jun, He Mo, He Chang, Han Zhi, and Han Fang, each of them pretends to be one or two.

Qingsong was taken aback: "I just saw you picking so many corns?"

Yi'an said: "Uncle Li, you don't know, they break and throw away, and they choose the biggest and best looking ones to keep."

The small, unattractive ones were naturally thrown in the field, but fortunately, the children of a few farmers refused to waste them, so they picked them up in their own baskets.

Qingsong shook his head, and taught these little ones a lesson: "Don't litter any more in the future!"

He Chang said: "Uncle Li, I cut my hand."

Qingsong hurried over to look, it turned out that he thought the gloves were restrictive, he took off his gloves to break the corn, his palm was scratched by the sharp leaves in a short while, but he still smiled at the pain, as if those shallow cuts were his great meritorious deeds.

Qingsong didn't say a word at that time, and told them to look at the back baskets of the children of the farmers. Yining and Zhen were complacent. Looking back, the youngest child from the farmer picked more than they put together, and the back baskets were stuffed to the brim. .

The back basket was not the same as the exquisite ones carried by the rest of them. It was about the same height as them, and each of the farmer's children carried a back basket that big. They are brothers and sisters at the head, but they can't breathe.

He Zhen pursed his lips: "Uncle Li, we are not as good as them."

Seeing that they were all downcast, Qingsong remembered what her elder sister said that they should not make them too sad, so she smiled and said: "They do this every day, they are better than you, you can't compare with them."

Qingsong asked the children to carry their own baskets and planned to go back, then said to the children of the farmer: "The corn you picked will belong to you, so you can rest when you go back."

But Hezhen didn't leave immediately, went up to ask them their names, and said: "My name is Zhu Hezhen, and I live in the residence on the Zhuangshang. You have to come and play with us when you have time."

The children of small families are shy, and the children of farmers did not dare to get close to these little nobles, and they stayed far away when they were working. Zhen said his name, afraid that he might not remember it.

He Zhen said: "I can remember it."

The children of the farmer immediately stood in awe and said, "You are amazing!"

They only know that these few are young nobles, they are still young, they don't know what kind of nobles they are, and they don't realize when they heard Zhu Hezhen's name, this is the grandson of the court.

Qingsong walked back with the children, they carried the baskets on their backs, walking very strenuously, they didn't want the guards to help, they gritted their teeth and carried them.

Han Ai saw that everyone had corn, even Han Zhi cheerfully hugged a corn nest in her nanny's arms, but she was the only one with empty hands, her mouth flattened and she wanted to cry.

Suddenly one hand pulled her trouser leg, Han Ai lowered his head, and saw He Chang handed her a piece of corn in his hand.

"I'm afraid there are bugs..." Hanai wanted to take it, but was afraid.

He Chang looked carefully at the corn in his hand: "There are no bugs!" He tiptoed into Han Ai's arms, ran to He Mo himself, and the two little brothers walked forward hand in hand.

Han Ai lowered her head and hugged the corn cob, she is the eldest daughter of a concubine, she has never been close to the battle field in the mansion, she never thought that her younger brother would take care of her like this.

He didn't think so much about the fight, Han Ai is his own sister, he just gave her some corn, it's nothing.

Princess Zhaoren didn't play with the children these few days, and she didn't know what to do in her room, and even Princess Zhou could only see her when she was there in the morning and evening.

It was so easy to come out to get some air that day, and I saw a group of little radish heads coming over from a distance, bowing their heads and walking forward.

Zhaoren looked at it amusedly, walked over to have a look, and exclaimed in surprise: "Hey, there are so many corns!"

Hezhen cheered up again: "Little aunt, we picked the corn ourselves and cooked it for you!"

"Success," Zhaoren laughed, and went to pick up Hezhen's back basket, "This tender corn can not only be boiled, but also delicious when roasted."

Don't want to hide with Zhen: "I want to carry it by myself!"

Zhaoren looked at Hanai again: "What's wrong with Miss Ai?"

Hanai blushed and bowed her head and said nothing, Qingsong was afraid of hurting her face, and said: "It's nothing, I think Miss Ai is weaker, I'm afraid I'm tired these two days, so I'll carry her for a while."

Hanai lay on Qingsong's back and let out a sigh of relief.

Princess Zhaoren is so smart, he can guess the general situation with only one corn in Hanai's hand, so he just laughed it off.

Qingsong took the children back to the princess's room, and was busy unloading their baskets, removing their hats, changing their clothes, washing their hands and bandaging their scratched hands. medicine.

The princess looked distressed and asked them: "Did you have a good time today?"

A group of children from older to younger nodded quickly, and even Hanai also nodded: Although she is afraid of bugs, she doesn't want to be left behind by everyone.

The concubine ordered someone to cook the corn they carried back. Seeing that they were all tired, she asked the nanny to take them back to rest.

By the time the children recovered, the corn had already been cooked.

The corn at this time is tender and delicious in any way, and it tastes sweet when boiled in water; the raw corn is ground and baked with some flour to make soft pancakes, which have a more delicate fragrance than pancakes baked with corn flour.

Qingsong remembers to roast corn, and really set up the stove to roast a few, he dare not give it to the baby with tender teeth, and it is not good to feed it to the princess, so he and Musan and Zhaoren chewed it according to the case.

Mu San ate deliciously: "I, Mu San San, are lucky to be able to eat food prepared by the emperor's grandchildren."

Zhaoren said: "You can shut up!"

Mu San is Princess Changping's brother-in-law, as long as he is a child of Changping, who would dare not be filial to him?

Mu San grinned: "I'll find an opportunity to beat the grandson later, when the grandson ascends the throne, I can brag to my son: Your father and I beat the emperor back then!"

Zhaoren was so angry that he wanted to go up and give Mu San a few blows. Fortunately, Qingsong still remembered that Mu San was wounded, so he persuaded Zhaoren to leave.

But Zhaoren went back to look at He Zhen for a long while, then suddenly called his nephew over, and stretched out his hand to pinch his face.

He Zhen didn't understand, so he asked, "What's the matter, aunt?"

Zhaoren: "It's nothing." After you ascend the throne, aunt can say that I pinched the emperor's face—after all, the emperor's uncle and brother dare not pinch.

Everyone's corn has been boiled, but Hanai still holds her corn and refuses to let go, telling the nanny to put it away.

The nanny was very embarrassed: "This thing can't be kept, it will breed worms."

Hanai was startled: "How can there be insects!"

The nanny is still in a dilemma: "Otherwise, I'll let my sister dry it in the sun, and then let someone paint a layer of varnish, it will not be damaged for several years."

Hanai then nodded, thought for a while, and wrote a few words on the corn leaves: "Brother Chang gave me a gift."

Not to mention how Hanai would put this in the house like dried corn as a treasure in the future, here Lily hugged Ruzhen and put it on the queen's couch, suddenly felt something was wrong.

She looked around and couldn't help but stare: "You guys, why are you all so black?"

The royal children were born handsome and fair, and there is no one who is not good-looking. These days, everyone goes in and out together, and they all have similar skin colors, and Lily has never argued.

Unexpectedly, putting Ruzhen into them at this moment is like putting a glutinous rice ball into a pile of black rice balls, the white ones become whiter, and the black ones become blacker, Lily was surprised and couldn't help crying out.

When the princess turned her head, she was startled when she saw such a big difference in the color of her grandchildren.

(End of this chapter)