Chapter 3319 Homecoming IV

"Yes, but today Grandpa Jin's house invites dinner, so we can come out to play if we don't have to work in the second half."

Today the whole village is as festive and lively as the Chinese New Year, not only killing chickens and ducks, but also pigs and sheep.

At this time, the sun was in the sky, and all the people who worked in the fields came back. Knowing that the Zhou family was going to invite dinner at night, it was lively there, so many people washed their faces and came to help.

Zhou Man and the others came back with the rest of the fruit, and in the end there were only a few left in their hands.

"This is my house," Zhou Man took Mingda's hand, led them in, walked around to the north courtyard, and pointed to a doorway: "It was my room before, now..."

"It's yours now," Feng shi passed by and interjected, "You still have a lot of books and things inside, and we don't know if we can move them, so we just clean and don't move anything."

She glanced at the princess, couldn't help but smiled ingratiatingly, and leaned closer to Zhou Man and whispered, "There are so many people outside, take the princess to sit in your room, and you'll be serving the slaughtered pork dishes in a while, you guys are here. Eating in the yard?"

Zhou Man nodded in response, and said to the servants of the Bai family, "Go back and tell the old lady, we are also eating here at noon."

"Yes."

Zhou Man happily pulled them into his room.

The room has been unoccupied for a long time. Fortunately, the wind has passed through for a long time before, and it is estimated that it has been smoked, so there is only a touch of moisture.

Bai Shan asked the servants to go home and fetch an incense burner to burn incense, and the group sat down in the outer room.

There are some books on the bookshelf next to the screen, and more are some bamboo utensils. There is a shallow basket in the shape of a lotus flower, which is very beautiful, and contains some small things.

Yin He looked at it curiously, "I heard from you earlier that your second brother is good at bamboo weaving, so he did it for you?"

Zhou Man nodded, "Yes, all the bamboo weaving things in this house are made by my second brother."

Bai Shan took a ball from the top of the bookshelf and handed it to him, "Nuo, this is what Brother Tuesday did too."

"You guys still play Cuju?" Yin He took it and looked at it, raised his eyebrows, and looked at the three of them suspiciously, "I've only seen you watching, but I don't seem to have seen you kick."

Bai Erlang said: "We were the top players in the village when we were young, and we were the ones who played the best."

Bai Shan nodded, "I just can't compare with the real people."

When Mingda heard this, he couldn't help laughing, "No wonder you never play in the capital."

"Princess, concubine," the servants of the Bai family came over and replied from outside the door, "The magistrate of Luojiang County handed over a greeting card and wanted to greet the princess."

When the voice fell, Jiulan also replied: "Lord Lang, Madam, our house has also received a letter of worship."

Several people in the room looked at each other, and Bai Shan thought for a while and said, "Please come to the county magistrate tomorrow."

"Yes."

Bai Erlang: "He's well-informed. We only got home yesterday afternoon."

Bai Shan: "Luojiang County is not big, and there are so many of us, it's impossible for him not to know."

He paused and said, "Call Shangli Zheng and the village chief, and we'll see you together at that time."

It was suddenly lively outside, not only loud voices but also crackling firecrackers. Zhou Man stood up as soon as he heard it, "It must be my uncle and the others. You sit and play, and I'll go see them."

Bai Shan raised his son in his hand and asked, "Do you want to bring the child?"

"No need," Zhou Man said: "There are too many people making noise. It's better for the children to join in the fun. I'll come when I see you, and you can take them with you."

Uncle Qian and the others set off three firecrackers, and they were welcomed in happily.

Several in-laws of the Zhou family have invited the Qian family to come to the house today, and the rest will have to wait until tomorrow to let their son take his daughter-in-law back to their parents' house to see.

As soon as Aunt Qian arrived, she took Xiao Qian to see her. Seeing that she was more energetic than when she left a few years ago, and she didn't look old, she knew that she was doing well, and the smile on her face was even brighter, "What about your two nephews? "

Five years ago, two of the Qian family's children entered the caravan of Shizuo Lang and began to return home once a year.

Xiao Qian said, "They are in Qingzhou. The fourth one told them to look at the shops and businesses over there. I didn't bring them back this time."

Aunt Qian heard them talk a few times, but she still didn't know where Qingzhou was. She only knew that it was close to the sea. "How are they doing?"

"It's good, Liwei is there too, he's there to take care of him," Xiao Qian said, "and the fourth eldest now goes through Qingzhou back and forth."

"What about Lizhong and Lixue, how big are they now?"

Mrs. Qian said: "Li Xue is a county magistrate outside and can't come back, but this time Li Zhong and his daughter-in-law came back. The father-in-law said that he would open an ancestral hall, record his daughter-in-law, and the children. In recent years, we have They didn't come back, and the children they gave birth didn't have time to be on the spectrum."

"Lizhong is back, the fourth one didn't say, who is his daughter-in-law?" Aunt Qian turned her head excitedly to look out, and asked in a low voice, "His daughter-in-law is also an official like Man Bao?"

"Yeah, now the official rank is the same as Lizhong, and it can be promoted in the future. It must be more promising than Lizhong." Xiao Qian looked out and pointed to a young woman who came back with a basket of vegetables: "That's right. Her maiden name is Liu, and her name is Sanniang."

After speaking, she walked out of the kitchen door and said loudly, "Sanniang, come and see your grandmother."

Liu Sanniang immediately stepped forward to greet her, but was grabbed by Aunt Qian, "Okay, it looks like a real sign, our family is very lucky."

Liu Sanniang bowed her head and smiled embarrassedly.

Zhou Man walked over from the yard next door, and when he saw her, he shouted, "Auntie!"

Aunt Qian was also very surprised to see Zhou Man, and immediately let go of Liu Sanniang and went to Zhou Man's hand, "Man Bao has grown so big? Oh, it's so beautiful, but she lost a little bit of weight, didn't she eat well? Your cook's craftsmanship doesn't suit your taste?"

"I'm growing, not thin." Zhou Man firmly refused to admit that he was thin, looked around and asked, "What about my uncle and the others?"

"As soon as I entered the door, I wandered around and was pulled out, saying that there were too many people in the yard to sit down, which delayed the work in the kitchen," Aunt Qian looked out and said, "It's either in the open space at the door or to the entrance of your village. Under the banyan tree, your father is outside."

Old Zhoutou was indeed outside, and the people who surrounded him three times at the moment were all old men and old ladies of the same age as him.

Relying on their seniority and age, they occupied the best open space in the village - under the banyan tree.

The children who liked to run around the tree were chased away by them, and a group of old men and women sat under the tree to hide from the shade and talked, mainly because they asked, the old Zhoutou said.

"Then have you met the Emperor?"

"I see, I have seen it, I see you every year." Every year during the New Year's Eve, the emperor would climb the towers of the imperial city to have fun with the people. can be seen every year.