When Zhang Shou saw the unparalleled girl beckoning to a guard beside the carriage, he actually asked something in a low voice. Then he gestured to the coachman to drive on, but before he lowered the curtains, he suddenly seemed to remember something.
Yes, he actually smiled at himself and waved goodbye with his hand. He couldn't help but smile and waved to her.
When he met a pretty and reasonable woman, his mood which had been suddenly ruined by someone suddenly improved again without him realizing it.
Of course he didn't know that Zhu Ying, who put down the curtains and sat back down, pressed her chest, was very happy.
This trip to the countryside was worth it! Just seeing Zhu Gongquan, who was colluding with her second brother, was defeated, already made her feel proud, not to mention meeting a young man with a matching appearance and conversation! Well, you might as well inquire about his origins in the future.
How is your knowledge? When dad comes back, maybe you can recommend it to him. At least it is much better than a shameless person like Zhu Gongquan! By the way, she can also meet him more often...
Zhang Shou didn't take this encounter seriously. After the group of uninvited guests left, he put on his bamboo hat and heard the tenants happily saying that they would continue planting rice next year, and then he walked back with satisfaction.
Traveling through time travel is very exciting when reading a book, but when Zhang Shou came over, he found that once it was his turn, it was really terrible.
But fortunately, although this is the countryside, he was not born in an ordinary farmhouse where he had to work hard in the fields all day long to make ends meet. His family had a two-door courtyard, and there were three servants to take care of the inside and outside. Among them, Ah Liu never
After saying a word, Old Liu Tou looked at a door that was always deserted. His slanderous daughter-in-law, Aunt Liu, often said that all the neighboring fields belonged to his family.
And this neighboring area... is said to be as high as thousands of acres! Although the fields he owns do not seem to be commensurate with the current life, and are even a bit suspicious, it does not prevent Zhang Shou, a rice advocate, from converting part of the land to rice.
First, rice-fish symbiosis was used to improve the soil environment, and in the past two years, artificial selection was used. Unfortunately, immigrants such as crayfish have not been introduced these years. If you want to open shrimp farming ditches next to the rice fields, raising crayfish is a pipe dream.
When he occasionally wanted to eat high-protein food, he could only satisfy his craving with high-protein food such as loach and eel.
The north is not suitable for raising mulberry silkworms, and it cannot compete with the Jiangnan silk weaving industry in terms of scale. Tussah silkworms are a specialty of the north, and they are not picky in taste. They eat all the leaves of oak trees, camphor trees, cypress trees, maple poplars, etc. My mother Wu originally raised some.
With the encouragement of the villagers, the scale of breeding was expanded in the village.
In addition to rice, after diverting water to irrigate the fields, he also opened an additional cotton field and planted cotton. The yield is not yet high. As for fruits and vegetables, all the varieties that should be available these days are available. As for grafting
, there are no good varieties for the time being, and with his little theoretical knowledge, he is still at the stage of asking old farmers to explore...
It is a farm tool suitable for rice fields. Because there are not enough cattle for plowing, the blacksmith in the village made some things like a hoe and a claw based on his instructions, which are relatively easy to use.
Anyway, in this era where food and clothing are fundamental, agriculture is the foundation and agriculture is the king, so let’s just focus on farming first...
Although life in the countryside is relatively prosperous, Zhang Shou is not without his worries. It has been three years since he traveled through time, and he, who claims to be sixteen years old, only knows his surname is Zhang Shou and his mother is Wu, but he does not know who his father is!
Most of the farmers in the countryside were tenant farmers. Except for the owner's surname, he didn't know anything about them. As for the servants at home, he tried his best to tell the truth. Not to mention his mother Wu, who was very tight-lipped.
It’s like it’s locked!
He initially tried to sneak out, but he was often "sent" back by villagers on the way.
There are a lot of books at home, but with his extraordinary memory, he can recite the books by heart and understand the history just by reading them once.
There were many Qin, Han, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and now it is the Ming Dynasty, but the emperor is not named Zhu! When he first discovered that history had taken a big turn at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, his whole person collapsed. Now it is the 20th year of the Ming Dynasty.
Six years, what the hell is this!
Of course, he has to be grateful that it was not the old Zhu family that won the world. There was no strict system that stipulated that father and son must succeed each other and inherit the same household registration. It was strictly forbidden for women to bind their feet. From the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, large ships began to travel all over the world, and maritime trade spread throughout Southeast Asia and
In Japan and Korea, the culture is not closed off, and women can also show their faces. Otherwise, how could he have met the generous young lady just now?
In the past three years, he couldn't think about history. He could only think about his own life experience, and he could only draw two inferences.
Either his mother and son are the illegitimate children of a wealthy family; or something happened to the family and they were sent to the countryside to avoid trouble.
At this time, Zhang Shou walked leisurely along the ridges of fields connected by streets, and finally saw a house.
Compared with the crude houses in the village, this house located at the entrance of the village, with neat walls, blue bricks and black tiles, and two entrances from the inside and outside, can be regarded as the leading luxury house in the neighborhood.
It was already noon, smoke was curling up, and the sound of clinking pots and pans came from the kitchen in the front yard. Zhang Shou unknowingly realized that he was a little hungry. But as soon as he arrived at the gate, he saw a few horses tied to the gate.
On the first few wooden pillars, there was a cleaning truck beside it. Although it looked quite ordinary, he recognized it at a glance not long after they parted ways.
Hey, isn't this the carriage we met before? Could it be that the incomparably beautiful young lady is a guest of his family?
As soon as Zhang Shouguang had this idea, Old Liu Tou from the door ran out in a hurry.
"Oh, the young master is finally back. I am planning to find someone! We have a visitor, from Beijing. I have been waiting for you for a long time!"
When he saw the carriage, Zhang Shou was mentally prepared. After taking off his bamboo hat, he quickly entered the door, passed through the front yard, and arrived in front of the main hall door.
As soon as he crossed the threshold, he saw his mother Wu sitting on pins and needles in the center seat. The girl in red and the middle-aged scribe whom he had seen before were sitting first and second on the left, respectively.
Stand behind.
When he found him, the middle-aged scribe whom the eldest lady called Mr. Zhu seemed to have seen a ghost, while the girl in red opened her eyes wide with disbelief on her face. Although she was a little curious, he still stepped forward first.
I met my mother Wu and called her mother.
Mrs. Wu stood up quickly and pulled him around to face everyone: "Miss, Mr. Zhu, this is my A Shou."
"It's you!" Seeing Zhang Shou greeting with a smile, Zhu Ying couldn't help but stare at that face a few more times. But after the surprise, she thought of the other person's identity, and her mood became subtle again, and she looked him up and down.
non-stop.
Although it was not the first time that I had been stared at with burning eyes, how could those dull women in the countryside and the green young girls compare with such a dazzling young lady?
After giving her a slight smile, Zhang Shou looked away and raised his eyebrows at Mr. Zhu, whose face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. "This uncle, we meet you everywhere in life."
At this time, Zhu Gongquan was so angry that he was so angry. For example, he thought that a boy with mud-legged legs was illiterate. He was actually recited a poem by the other party. This was unlucky enough, but what was even more unlucky was that this boy with mud-legged legs was actually himself.
This time I brought the eldest lady to see the real owner!
At this time, he knew clearly that Zhang Shou's statement about never meeting each other in life was sarcastic, but he still had to hold back his anger, stood up and cupped his hands: "Mr. Shou, it was my words that offended you before."
"Haha." Zhang Shoucai would not say anything about ignorance, but he changed the topic lightly and said, "My mother and I have lived here for so many years, with no relatives or friends, except for seeing each other twice a year.
Apart from the salesman, I have never seen any outsiders, let alone guests from the capital. Who are you two? Do you have anything to do with us?"
Zhu Gongquan's expression was cold, and his tone was even more stern: "If nothing happens, naturally I don't dare to disturb Mr. Shou and Aunt Wu."
This is the information he spent a lot of money to find out from the people around the dowager. The eldest lady hates the concubines and concubines in some powerful families. He knows that Zhang Shou is a concubine, and he may be the concubine of a woman from another house. His life experience is unknown.
Are you not such a nymphomaniac anymore? However, what disappointed him was that Zhu Ying was still staring intently, as if she didn't notice the three words he deliberately emphasized.
When Zhang Shou heard the words "Aunt Wu", from the corner of his eye, he saw Wu's eyes struggling, and finally lowered his eyelids and fell silent. Countless dramas of infighting among wealthy families flashed through his mind, but he put aside these messy thoughts for a moment.
He originally hated someone who made rude remarks when they first met, so he was naturally even more displeased at this time: "If you have anything to say, please just say it!"
"That's right, I think Aunt Wu never told Mr. Shou." When Zhu Gongquan saw Wu's timidity, he laughed and said, "My master is the Duke of Zhao, and I am just a staff member in the government, of no importance. As for my eldest daughter,
...Mr. Shou, have you never heard that you and the eldest daughter of the Duke of Zhao have been married since childhood?"
Although Zhang Shou knew that what was being talked about these days was the fate of his parents and the words of a matchmaker, when he heard that the beautiful woman in front of him was actually his fiancée, he was still shocked even though he had lived two lives!
Zhu Ying was finally freed from her greed for beauty. She naturally knew that Zhu Gongquan was deliberately provoking her dissatisfaction. However, knowing that her fiancé turned out to be a beautiful young man she had just decided to often go out of the city to the countryside to feast on beautiful women.
Her heart was a little biased without realizing it.
Especially when she discovered that Zhang Shou had a very surprised expression after hearing Zhu Gongquan mention the engagement, she couldn't help but have an idea and came up with a very bold idea.
After the initial daze, Zhang Shou laughed dumbly and said: "There is a saying that when getting married, you should be of the same family. She is a young lady from a famous family, and I am a country boy. How could Duke Zhao decide on such a mismatched marriage back then?"
This was what Zhu Gongquan was waiting for. But he was afraid that Zhang Shou would retreat in order to advance, so he unhesitatingly revealed another layer of the mystery.
"Mr. Shou probably doesn't know that the fields nearby, the house where you and Aunt Wu live, and the food and clothing provided over the years all came from the master. Even the servants in this house were carefully selected by the master.
If it weren't for this marriage, how could I be so interested in your mother and son?"
Zhang Shou instinctively turned his head to look at Wu who was standing aside. Seeing that the silk handkerchief in her hand was almost torn, he felt that his outlook had been refreshed once again.
He just wondered why his family's life did not match the property he owned. The land belonged to his future father-in-law's family!
Moreover, he was actually raised by his future father-in-law. What is this, a child adoptive husband... no, a child adoptive husband?