When I walked to the empress dowager’s side, I washed my hands with water in the ditch on the side, and then helped the empress dowager to walk towards Qinghe, "I will take you to wash it, first wash the mud off the shoes, and then turn back. Put on a clean one when you get home."
The empress dowager was very excited about being able to clean the mud on her feet, but she couldn't pull it off, "Ai's family is not so delicate. You can finish your work first, and it will be the same when you go to wash it later."
"Do you think our female relatives are really going to come over for a long time? Just come to join in the fun and help out. We have to go home later," the old lady Liu gave the empress dowager amused and explained by the way. "Yuzheng and Muqiu at home are going to bring their children and cooking, they may not be too busy. Besides, their cooking skills are not as good as mine. The people in this group are not used to the food they cook."
"In that case, let's go." The empress dowager straightened her back and made a natural order.
Old lady Liu heard her teeth sore, aren't they walking now? You really have to put on airs anytime.
Standing on the ridge, the empress dowager is probably the only one who can regard this place as a temple for cultivating the heart.
I took the empress dowager to the stone steps where the woman was washing clothes in the village, chose a dry stone step for her to sit down, put her feet in the river, and helped her scrub off the thick layer of silt on the upper.
Not long after the beginning of spring, although the weather has begun to warm, the river is still cool.
When her feet were immersed in the river water, the empress dowager couldn't help but wince. It was cold, but I could clearly feel the river flowing slowly.
Through a pair of shoes, you can also feel the feeling of water washing the instep.
The empress dowager finds it strange to see the waves of filth taken away from the shoes by the river water. And after adapting to the temperature of the river water, the initial coldness has dissipated, and with it comes the comfort that can make people relax.
When Old Lady Liu asked her to get up, she unexpectedly felt that she had some nostalgia.
"Comfortable." The old lady Liu understood her micro-expression, "Now the water temperature is still a bit cold, and it will be comfortable when you come to wash your feet in the summer. And now you wear shoes on your feet, and wash your feet in the river. It's like scratching through your boots, you can't feel anything. It's fun to play in the water, barefoot."
"You're talking nonsense again. Only the husband can see a woman's feet. You play barefoot outside, in broad daylight, so you are in style."
"Look at what you said. Although we are from a rural family, we are still abiding by the rules. Who would show our feet in front of outsiders at will? Didn't you see that my feet are still wrapped in socks?" said Old Lady Liu, raising her feet. After dripping randomly in the river twice and washing off the surface sludge, white socks that had been dyed yellow by the mud water appeared on the feet.
Seeing the empress dowager's black face again, the old lady Liu deliberately moved her toes in her stockings to demonstrate.
The empress dowager cast her face naively.
"Mother, queen mother, let's go home directly after we wash it. We don't need our help with the fields. Dad told us to go home and cook." Later, Chen Xiulan and Du Juan came over with a few pairs of shoes in their hands. Old lady's.
"Do you know the summer and the autumn have finished picking the seedlings?" Old Lady Liu asked.
"I'm done, I'm already helping planting rice seedlings."
"That's all right," Old Lady Liu nodded, "Then let's go back."
The three female relatives knew that the master told them to go home to cook now, but they were distressed about their tiredness in the fields and asked them to go home early. In these years, the elders of the family have rarely let them intervene in matters in the fields.
After returning to the Liu family compound, the first thing I saw was the three beans playing on the straw mat in the middle of the yard.
Crawling and rolling hot.
There was an aggressive voice in the kitchen, and one knew it was Wei Hong who was chopping wood.
Fu Yuzheng and Liu Muqiu sat at the door of the kitchen, chatting while picking vegetables, and taking care of the three children by the way.
Seeing a few people come back, Liu Muqiu immediately put down his hands, and fetched clean water in the kitchen for the few people to wash their hands and feet. I clean my hands and feet, put on clean clothes, and I'll be ready to cook later.
While washing her hands, Old Lady Liu noticed the unbroken smiles on the faces of the two grandchildren, and said cheerfully, "What were you talking about just now? They laughed so happily."
"Let’s talk about the scary things before Zhiqiu." When talking about this topic, Fu Yuzheng could not bear to laugh. His face turned pale, and he never came to the door again. Seeing that he is now taking Mu Qiu's baby, he won't even let her go to Tianbian. Thinking of those things he said before, it feels funny."
Mu Qiusha blushed, "Just talk about me, elder brother doesn't care about you too."
"None of you guys should laugh at anyone. Who of the Liu family do not care about my wife? At my age, when I get up in the morning, the old man gets up and set a fire for me." The old lady showed it off. Go back to the room to change clothes.
The two granddaughters and daughters-in-law are at the kitchen door, look at me and I look at you, covering their mouths and laughing together.
Everyone has their own, quiet happiness hidden in their eyes.
There was hot water in the pan in the kitchen, and when the old mother brought water to the shower room to wait for the Queen Mother to take a shower, the Queen Mother said softly, "Mother, isn't it nice here?"
The old mother smiled and said, "It's very good."
Listening to those laughter, listening to the babbling milk of the little children, and even the chopping sound from the kitchen, can make people feel at ease and relax.
There is no imperial palace's treacherous waves, no palace's dull depression, everything can make people feel warm.
For people like them, this is a place that makes people feel nostalgic.
The queen mother stopped talking, and the old mother did not dare to say too much.
After the spring broadcast, they will return to the capital. There are not many days to be so relaxed.
She knew that the queen mother was reluctant to give up, otherwise she would not suddenly ask that sentence. It is a pity that such a good place does not belong to them, and it is even more unlikely that they will stay for a long time and always have to leave.
The Liu family compound worked hard for three days before planting more than a dozen acres of land.
In three days, the few elders at home were all tired and paralyzed. After resting, they couldn't even use their fingers.
Liu Zhixia, a useless scholar, was laughed at by Liu Zhiqiu again. Then Liu Zhiqiu was held by the energetic old lady and chased in the yard for several laps, successfully beating the people with mean mouths all over their heads.
And every time Liu Zhiqiu was taught a lesson, it was also the loudest and happiest time of laughter in the Liu family compound.
Even the three ignorant little dolls were amused and giggled at the funny appearance of him being chased all over the courtyard.
The spring sowing is over.