In the early morning of the first day of May, after taking a bath in Run'er Lan Tang, Chen Caozhi, Zong Zhi, and Chen Caozhi put on brand-new Xige summer clothes, wore jade pendants to ward off evil spirits, and hung small spice bags. After breakfast, Laifu and Laide drove two cars
The bullock cart was waiting downstairs, preparing to take Chen Cao's uncle and nephew, as well as Xiaochan and Qingzhi, to the Ding family villa. Ran Sheng couldn't help but follow him.
The bullock cart borrowed from the fourth uncle Chen Xian was larger. Chen Caozhi, Xiaochan and Runer sat in this cart together, and the driver was Laifu.
At Maochen, the power of the scorching sun had not yet appeared, and the summer wind blew, bringing with it the fragrance of the wheat. Laifu was in a good mood. He looked into the sky and swung his bamboo whip. The bamboo tips made a "huohuo" sound and said: "This year's wheat is so good."
The growth is gratifying, it should be a good year. The harvest in our Chenjiawu fields is getting better and better year by year. What is even more gratifying is that Mr. Cao Zhi has become a sixth-rank official. When he becomes a county official next year, he can receive more
When I arrive at Shiqingtian, my Laifu family is justly the shady household of the Chen family in Qiantang, and no one can drive me away."
Xiaochan smiled and said: "In more than two months, Uncle Laifu will have another baby. It's really a series of happy events."
Laifu laughed and was extremely happy. His second son got married before the earthquake, and his daughter-in-law Huang is now pregnant.
Chen Caozhi smiled. What ordinary people want is very simple. They just want a place for their family and children to live in peace and safety, without being hungry or cold. So for now, the gentry manor is a place that the refugees yearn for. As long as the owner of the gentry manor does not
Although the exploitation is too harsh, it is still more stable than the yeoman farmers. Although not as free as the yeoman farmers, it is much better than becoming a slave.
Xiaochan stared at Chen Caozhi with her brimming eyes and asked, "What is Mr. Cao Zhi thinking about?"
Chen Cao said: "I'm thinking that it's been a year since Sister Xiaochan and Sister Qingzhi returned to Chenjiawu. Time flies so fast."
Xiaochan said with a smile: "Yes, when we came to Chenjiawu, Qingzhi and I both felt that life passed quickly just because we were in a good mood."
Run'er pursed her lips and said, "But mother can't come back. She only goes there for a few days at a time. She is very happy when she goes, but so sad when she leaves. Mother's eyes are red. She must really want to cry. She is holding back her tears.
Well, my mother must have waited until we were far away before she cried."
This seven-year-old girl is so sensitive. Chen Caozhi took Run'er's little hand and said, "Your mother will return to Chenjiawu soon. Maybe by the end of the year, maybe early next year, I will see her later."
, you ask mother quietly, remember, you have to ask quietly."
Run'er was happy. She was convinced of what Uncle Chou said. She climbed up the car window and shouted "Brother——"
Zongzhi poked his head out of the ox cart in front and asked, "What's the matter?"
Run'er said: "Brother, come on, get in the car over here. Run'er has something extremely important to say."
Lai De stopped the oxcart, and Qingzhi and Zongzhi crowded into the oxcart at the back. Run'er secretly told her brother what Uncle Chou had just said. The two children were smiling happily, and the carriage was full of laughter and excitement.
Chen Caozhi sat cross-legged, either touching Xiaochan's legs or squeezing Qingzhi's chest, and said: "Then I'll sit in Laide's car -"
Run'er took Chen Caozhi's hand and said coquettishly: "Uncle Chou, don't leave. Just sit together. Run'er likes the excitement. With Uncle Chou by his side, Run'er feels so at ease."
Chen Caozhi knew that this was a sign of a child's lack of security. He felt inexplicably happy when he was crowded in a crowd, so he laughed and said, "It will be fun when it gets hot and works up a sweat."
Run'er and Zongzhi both said: "Don't be afraid."
Qingzhi and Chen Caozhi sat side by side, looked up and said: "Cao Zhi, Mr. Cao Zhi is really tall. Every few months we don't see each other, he grows taller and becomes more and more handsome, hehe."
, I just heard from Ran Sheng that Mr. Cao Zhi almost couldn’t leave Wu County this time——”
Xiaochan asked quickly: "What happened?"
Qingzhi giggled and said: "The young man Cao is returning to his hometown this time. The women and girls from Wu County surrounded him in the post office, giving him fruits and sachets. They wish they could take him there."
Take it home, there are dozens of sachets that Mr. Fangzhi received from the unmarried girls——"
Run'er hurriedly asked: "Uncle Chou, where is the sachet? Run'er wants to see the sachet."
Qingzhi said: "Young Master Cao is so ruthless that he threw all the sachets into the Qilin River south of Wujun City."
Xiaochan used to love joking with Chen Caozhi, but now she has become shy in front of Chen Caozhi. When Qingzhi said this, she just kept smiling and never took her eyes off Chen Caozhi.
Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "The herbs and spices stuffed in those sachets are all different. If the various fragrances are mixed together, it is no longer fragrant. The smell is pungent and makes me sneeze, so I have to throw away the sachet.
You can only wear one."
Xiao Chan asked: "Then, did Mr. Cao Zhi leave a sachet that suits your taste and wear it on your body?"
Chen Caozhi immediately thought of Lu Weirui and felt a little regretful that Lu Weirui did not send him a sachet. The Lu girl was as pure as a fairy and did not know how to use external things to express her inner feelings——
Seeing Chen Caozhi's hesitation, Xiao Chan smiled and said, "It seems that our young master Cao Zhi already has someone he likes. I wonder whose wife it is in Wu County?"
Run'er smiled and said: "I know——"
Xiaochan and Qingzhi asked in unison: "Whose wife is this?"
Run'er said: "It's Lu Weirui, the number one socialite in Wu County."
Chen Caozhi was taken aback, and then became very angry. Lai De couldn't tell, and it must be Ran Sheng. Ran Sheng was even more foolish and loyal in front of Run'er than Lai De. He told him not to tell, but he still told him, which was really annoying.
, I will never take this boy out again, and let him learn to farm.
Although Chen Caozhi was upset, his handsome and graceful face remained calm as he said, "No, there is someone else who is the first lady in Wu County——"
"Ah!" Run'er's eyes widened and she said in surprise: "Have they just changed people? Who is it now?"
Chen Cao said: "This is Chen Run'er, a seven-year-old socialite from Qian Tang."
There was a lot of laughter in the carriage, and Run'er twisted around and said coquettishly: "Uncle Chou makes fun of Run'er, Uncle Chou makes fun of Run'er - Run'er just thinks that unless she is the first lady in Wu County, she won't be worthy of my ugly uncle."
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Chen Caozhi said in his heart: "It turns out that Run'er made a random guess, so I was wrong about Ran Sheng." He smiled and said: "How can Uncle Chou be so good? Don't talk nonsense and let others laugh at us."
Xiaochan and Qingzhi didn't take it seriously. After all, the status of the Lu family in Wu County and the Chen family in Qiantang were too different. It was difficult for Ding Youwei to marry Chen Qingzhi. Xiaochan and Qingzhi, who were Ding Youwei's personal maids, both knew it, so they didn't know it at all.
I didn't dare to think about Lu Weirui's side, and only the innocent Run'er could reveal the truth with one word.
Qingzhi said: "Old Mistress is always thinking about Mr. Cao's marriage. If a marriage can be settled, Old Mistress will be relieved."
Chen Caozhi smiled and said nothing. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a man was considered a man at the age of sixteen. Many people got married that year or the following year. Even if they did not get married, they were still engaged. So when he is sixteen this year, his mother is already here.
The old man was anxious about his marriage. He always wanted to see a beautiful son and a beautiful woman bow to his knees as soon as possible. Last night, he told him about the Feng family girl and said that he must see Chen Caozhi marry a good wife.
, this is her biggest wish as a mother, otherwise she will die in peace.
Thinking of this, Chen Caozhi felt a little guilty. Marrying the Feng girl was a well-matched match and everyone should be happy. After the engagement, his mother would also feel relieved. However, Lu Weirui did not dare to mention it to his mother now!
Chen Caozhi was extremely filial to his mother, but after all, he was fused with another soul from a thousand years later. He had his own ideas and pursuits. He could not rush into an unwilling marriage just to make his mother feel relieved. He said in his heart: "
Mom, I will work hard. If I can marry the wife I like, that will be a lifelong event for my son. A happy marriage for my son is also what my mother hopes for most. This is the filial piety that nourishes one’s ambitions——"
Qingzhi and Xiaochan snickered and said, "Young Master Cao Zhi is stunned again. He must have fallen in love with someone. There must be one sachet left behind among all the sachets."
Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "There is one -" He held the small sachet on his belt in his hand and showed it to them. This was what his mother had put on him before. It contained realgar and spices and he had to wear it every Dragon Boat Festival.
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Qingzhi laughed so hard that Xiaochan blushed until she bled.
The taciturn Zongzhi said at this time: "Uncle Chou's sachet was made by Sister Xiaochan."
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After crossing the Qiantang River, it was already three quarters to noon when we arrived at Ding's villa. Ding Youwei had already been waiting under the loquat tree in front of the door. Mother and son met, and it goes without saying that they were happy. A pair of little brothers and sisters immediately hugged their mother's neck, and each occupied a room.
Whispering with only one ear, when the mother looked at Uncle Chou with a smile and nodded, the two children screamed for joy, but then they both closed their mouths and kept silent in a very secretive manner.
Chen Caozhi is no longer a boy who sneaks in and out of his sister-in-law Ding Youwei's courtyard. He is a scholar on the verge of becoming a high-ranking scholar. Because of Ding Yi's change in attitude towards him, the stewards and servants of Ding's villa are all treating Chen Caozhi
The three uncles and nephews looked at each other with new eyes and became much more enthusiastic. In the past, the only people who sincerely welcomed his uncle and nephew's arrival were the four personal maids of his sister-in-law Ding Youwei.
After Chen Caozhi met his sister-in-law, he went to visit Ding Yi and Ding Chunqiu. After the conversation, Ding Yi asked: "Isn't it true that Cao Zhi also stopped by the Du Mansion to congratulate her?"
Chen Cao said: "The news in Chenjiawu is blocked. Cao Cao doesn't know what's going on in the Du Mansion. Please let Ding Sheren know."
Ding Yidao said: "Du Zigong has a newly widowed daughter, and he has recruited Sun Jingyuan as his son-in-law. All the Heavenly Masters and Taoists have come to congratulate her, so why not go?"
Sun Jingyuan was Sun Tai. Chen Caozhi's understanding of Sun Tai was limited to the fact that Sun Tai was the disciple of Du Zigong, the leader of Tianshi Taoism in Qiantang. After Du Zigong's death, Sun Tai continued to preach Du Zigong's Taoism and was highly respected by the people of Wu County. Later,
Sun Tai thought that Jin Zuo was about to die, so he gathered his followers to rebel, and was tricked and executed by Sima Daozi. Sun Tai's nephew Sun En succeeded him as the leader of the Taoist movement. From then on, the ten years of chaos that destroyed the Eastern Jin Dynasty began. The husband of "Yong Xu Xie Daoyun", the man who believed in the heavenly master
The Taoist Wang Ningzhi died at the hands of Sun En——
Of course, Xie Daoyun probably hasn't married Wang Xizhi's second son Wang Ningzhi yet.
