"This game of chess only gets more lively when there are more people. No one knows who the winner is until the end. Young people must stay calm."
Xie Yun hung the "Picture of Rivers and Mountains" on the wall and took a magnifying glass to look at it carefully.
Zhou Zhan cupped his hands and said, "The students have been taught."
As the sun sets in the west, half of the mountains in the distance are bright yellow and half are dark green.
Shen Moran was wandering in the garden and saw an old servant wearing a bamboo hat cleaning the vegetable field. When he got closer, he realized that the one who was bending down to pull weeds was actually Xie Yun.
"Sir, did you grow all these vegetables?"
Shen Mo Ranfu came to greet her. Xie Yun straightened up and looked up to see her. He picked two red fruits with his hands stained with grass juice and soil and handed them to her.
"The fruit from Nanyang is called persimmon. It tastes sour and sour. It is delicious when cooked in dishes or soups. When eaten raw, it produces fluid and quenches thirst, and strengthens the stomach and digestion. It is very good. Try it."
Bitao wiped the fruit with a handkerchief and handed it to Shen Moran. Shen Moran didn't dislike it, took a sip and praised: "It's really good. The little girl suddenly understood the reason why the husband didn't want to go out. Picking chrysanthemums in Dongli Next, I leisurely see Nanshan. I have been living in leisurely clouds and wild cranes for too long, and I don’t want to be restrained by the court."
Xie Yun picked a cucumber, washed it by the stream, broke it in half and handed it to Shen Moran.
"Food is the most important thing for people. Only when you start farming do you realize how difficult it is to feed a family. Look at my manor. It was deserted when I bought it. It took me three years to cultivate it. I can’t even feed myself with the food I grow.”
"The harvest of wasteland is low. The food grown in ten acres of wasteland is not as good as the harvest of one acre of good land. However, 90% of the world's good land is in the hands of the powerful. The common people have to work hard in the fields for a year. How can they get away with it? Just enough food and clothing is God's mercy..."
Shen Moran looked at the fruit in her hand. Si Yiluo had told her this before, but she had grown up in the capital and didn't feel it deeply. The article she wrote to win over Feng Quanshi was just for the country and the people. The name, but in reality, is just a way for her to win over people.
Going with what others like is the most useful method she learned from Zhou Yu in her previous life.
"Miss Shen, do you want to give it a try?" Xie Yun pointed to a small piece of grass not far away, "Sunflowers love the sun, and I want to plant some more melon seeds there. The melon seeds planted in spring have matured. If you plant them now, you will get Harvest can only be harvested in autumn.”
There was a hoe on the ground. Shen Moran asked Bi Tao to tie up her sleeves for her and walked over to pick it up.
When the hoe came down, the grass was still growing on the ground. Her strength only made a small hole in the ground. She was not discouraged and smashed it down with all her strength.
After Zhou Zhan changed his appearance again, he came behind Xie Yun and listened to his praise: "I am able to bend and stretch, but you are a difficult wife to deal with."
Shen Moran loosened the soil, and Bi Tao stepped forward to help pick up the weeds and throw them out. They finished cleaning up the weeds in small pieces. It was already dark. Shen Moran was covered in water. His arms were sore and he couldn't lift them up. His hands were all scratched out. of blood blisters.
"Miss..." Bi Tao said distressedly, "Have you ever done such rough work at home..."
Shen Moran said nothing, went back to the room to wash up, put on clean clothes, and tidied up her appearance.
Xie Yun asked the maid to bring medicine for the wound.
"My husband invites you to have dinner in the small pavilion in the backyard after bandaging your wounds."
Bi Tao carefully opened the blood blister and helped her apply medicine and bandage.
Shen Moran stood up.
"It's time to work."
Xie Yun is a well-known Confucian who resigned from office and went into seclusion more than ten years ago. He has refused to be appointed by the imperial court several times. If he can get his help, his chances of winning will be better.
She wants to get ahead of Zhou Yu!
Shen Moran followed the maid, who carried the food box and placed the dishes on the stone table, while Xie Yun and the young master were making tea.
"Girl of the Shen family, come and try the tea I brewed."
Shen Moran's hands were covered with bandages and her fingers were not very flexible. Xie Yun smiled but said nothing.
This little work was done in less than half an hour by the people who were used to farm work.
She said generously: "The little girl is not diligent, which makes the husband laugh."
"You are a girl who is willing to endure hardships and sacrifice your face, which is very good. Are you here for your father today?"
Xie Yun invited her and Zhou Zhan to the table. The dinner dishes were very simple, including eggplant, potatoes and green peppers, stir-fried meat with lettuce, cucumbers and eggs, tomatoes mixed with sugar, and a loofah soup.
"They are all vegetables grown by me. Let's have a try." Xie Yun waved his hand and the servants said to Bitao, "Girl, please go to the front yard to have a meal."
Bi Tao looked at Shen Moran, and after receiving the approval, Fu Shen said: "Thank you."
Only Xie Yun, Shen Moran, and the pale young master were left in the pavilion.
"My father probably doesn't like my husband coming back to the court." Shen Moran said honestly, "So, I came here for myself today."
Shen Moran worked too hard in the afternoon and couldn't hold her chopsticks firmly. She was afraid of losing her etiquette, so she stopped her chopsticks and sat aside to accompany her.
Xie Yun took a chopstick of vegetarian food and put it in her bowl.
"Why should Nvwazi's family be so strong? If you are embarrassed to use me as an old man, just call Jinyi. There are only three of us here, and your sick fiancé will not know. In other words, even if he knows, isn't it? It’s no big deal to help pick up the food!”
Xie Yun held the cup. In the cup was the peach blossom wine he brewed himself. The wine was fragrant and very intoxicating.
"Jinyi, I'm a bit of a high-spirited person. You can help us greet the Shen family girls for dinner. I'll go back and lie down for a while."
Xie Yun shook his folding fan and read loudly to the full moon in the sky, "The slanting light shines on the village, and the cattle and sheep return in the back alleys. The pheasants and wheat seedlings are beautiful, and the silkworms are sleeping in the few mulberry leaves. The field husbands are hoeing, and they talk to each other when they meet. This is the envy. Leisure and relaxation, but the lamentation fades away."
"Raise a glass to the bright moon, and look at each other as three people... No, there are guests coming today. Who do you want to show your love to?"
Shen Moran was hungry, plucking the food in the bowl and thinking about Xie Yun's attitude.
What does it mean to throw her to a stranger?
Who is this young man named Jin Yi?
"Dare I ask the young master's name?"
She took the initiative, and Zhou Zhan pursed his lips and said with a smile: "You nameless person, Miss Shen can just call me Jin Yi, as sir, Jin Yi is my cousin."
"The cousin's name is like a girl's maiden name. Only people who are close to her can call her by her first name. It seems inappropriate to call her by her cousin's name when we meet for the first time today." Shen Moran looked at him seriously and pointed out, "I'm afraid the young master's face can't even be bitten by the most poisonous mosquitoes in the mountains..."
A pun.
Zhou Zhan had already seen her arrogant side, so it was not surprising that she saw through his disguise.
"Miss Shen seems to be hostile to me."
Shen Moran refused to admit it.
"It's obviously the young master who acted rudely. As the young master said, a young woman has a marriage contract, so she should keep a distance from other men."
Zhou Zhan found it interesting and wanted to tease her.
"Isn't it etiquette for a girl to go out alone and stay outside?"
"My little girl is visiting famous scholars on behalf of my future husband. If word spreads, the world will only praise me as a virtuous and virtuous person. If I can invite you to come out, I will be doing a great service even to the emperor!"
Because he can't show his true face to others, use the name of King Zhan to suppress him?
Shen Moran snorted coldly in his heart, not even daring to show his true face, which shows that this person is not a gentleman!
Zhou Zhan paused for breath and started to serve her a bowl of soup.
"Miss Shen, calm down your anger."
Perhaps because of today's labor, Shen Moran felt that the food was very tasty. The peeled loofah looked very tender. Before she picked up the spoon, a smelly beetle fell into the soup.
Before Zhou Zhan could snicker, he heard Shen Moran scream and throw the soup bowl in his direction. He hurriedly dodged, but the soup bowl hit him on the hem.
The beetle was lying on the ground with a few pieces of loofah wrapped around it, and Shen Moran was shocked. She looked around, ran out, picked up a piece, turned around and slapped it on the beetle.
There was silence in the air for a moment. At this moment, even the summer insects that had been chirping sensed the danger and stopped chirping.
Shen Moran has been afraid of bugs since she was a child. She used to have servants deal with them, but later she experienced changes. Her first reaction when something happened was to do it herself. A set of movements was as smooth as clouds and flowing water.
She covered her chest and took several steps back, as if she had been bullied.
"You deliberately?"
Zhou Zhan raised his eyebrows and opened the folding fan with a swipe.