"Hey! Brother, I really let you guess! It really is that girl Xiaocao who is back!!" Old Yu didn't even care about playing chess, so he took a big step, swinging his arms to meet her.
The sixty-year-old man who was playing chess with Old Yutou said hesitantly, "Lichun, Yu Xiaocao is already the head of the county, should we kneel down to greet him?"
Yu Lichun chuckled and said, "Don't worry, that girl Xiaocao is the most benevolent, so she won't make such a show! No matter how she is the county head, she also came from our Dongshan Village, and she is also a descendant of our Yu family..."
Before he finished speaking, the carriage had already stopped under the old elm tree at the entrance of the village. Wearing a pink flag dress and a silver mink cloak, the cute little girl jumped out of the car. The eyes of the old people chatting at the entrance of the village were wide open.
This is Yu Xiaocao, the granddaughter of Lao Yutou's family? That little girl who was as skinny as a cat and was repeatedly suspected of being unable to support her? It's only been half a year since I went to the capital, and I almost didn't recognize him. The fine satin material all over her body shone in the sun so hard that one's eyes could not be opened. There is also this pretty little appearance, and the whole body style, even in Tanggu Town, it is difficult to find something comparable to it.
If you don't say she is a girl from Lao Yu's family, then she is the daughter of a high-ranking official and noble family! Those two in the back are her girls, right? Their maids are dressed much more delicately than the daughters of the wealthy masters in the town!
"Grandpa, grandpa, grandpa Li... where are you basking in the sun?" Yu Xiaocao greeted everyone present affectionately, without any arrogance after changing her identity.
Old Litou—that is, the 60-year-old man just mentioned, with a slightly cautious smile on his black and red face, rubbed his hands, and said: "Isn't it! The sun is good today... Xiaocao, you came back from Beijing gone?"
Yu Xiaocao nodded, and was about to answer his question, but Aunt Yang Fan stopped the conversation: "Xiaocao, are you here to pick up your grandfather and parents back to Beijing for the New Year? Sure enough, if you survive a catastrophe, there will be future blessings. Since After recovering from a head injury five years ago, Xiaocao's luck is getting better and better. First, he saved someone's life and gave away precious recipes. Then he showed his extraordinary ability in farming. No, it became our all. The first female adult in the world. Tsk tsk... She was also named county head and given a big house! Xiaocao is a lucky girl!!"
"Auntie Yangfan, I still want to thank you for thinking about it! If you hadn't discovered the injured me in time, I don't know if my little life could have been saved! Auntie, I brought the famous Daohua Village snacks in Beijing, you Take it and taste it!"
Before Yu Xiaocao finished speaking, Wutong behind him took a box of exquisitely packaged snacks from the car—a wooden box, dotted with exquisite patterns, which looked very classy.
Where has Aunt Yang Fan seen such a beautiful box? The dim sum inside must be quite expensive, she hurriedly waved her hand and said: "My countrymen, no matter who encounters such a thing, they will help out. Take the dim sum back quickly, Auntie can't take it!"
"Auntie, just take it! Not to mention that you saved my life, just say that you and my mother are like sisters, eating a box of snacks from your niece, why can't you be good?" Yu Xiaocao turned around and took it. After passing the snack box, I just stuffed it into Aunt Yang Fan's hands.
Old Yu looked at it with a smile, and followed suit: "Daughter-in-law Yangfan, Xiaocao gave it to you, so you can take it, it's just a box of snacks, it's not worth much."
The folks present all looked at the box of snacks with a little greed, feeling a little emotional in their hearts. Leaving aside, let’s just say three years ago, Lao Yu’s head was tightly controlled by Mrs. Zhang, and even a copper coin in her hand was not worthy of her family. Now, after being picked up by the second son, he has no shortage of food and clothing, and he also donates a lot of money every month for his pocket money. In the past, he didn't have the right to give away a white steamed bun, but now this box of dim sum, which seems to be worth a lot of money, is not worth much in his mouth. This person, luck has arrived, and nothing can stop him!
"Grandpa, are you in good health? I prepared a New Year's gift for you, and it's not easy for you to take it, so I'll send it to you in a while!" Yu Xiaocao said affectionately to Yu Lichun who was standing beside him and looked at her with a kind smile.
Yu Lichun smiled and said: "There is nothing missing at home, so why spend the money... Third child, Xiaocao has worked hard all the way, I guess I haven't had time to eat lunch yet, take her home quickly... After your new house is repaired, Xiaocao The grass hasn't come back yet! Let her see your new house!"
Saying so, Yu Lichun was very happy in his heart. Xiaocao is a girl who knows how to be grateful. His family only spent some spare money to see a doctor when she was sick, and she remembered it deeply in her heart.
After the separation, her family's life became better and better, and they never stopped sending things to their house during the holidays. When the business started, he did not forget to make money with his family, Yu Jiang Yu Xi. Now, their family is not only in charge of the Zhou family's buying and selling of seafood in nearby villages, but also grows watermelons on their land, which are exported to several nearby state capitals!
Today, their family has become the second wealthiest family in the village. This is all due to the care of Xiaocao's family!
Yu Xiaocao always treated her grandpa like her own grandfather, holding his hand and saying a few homely words, until her stomach growled, and Yu Lichun urged her to go home. She said: "Grandpa, after I have eaten in a while, I will come to your house to kowtow to you for the early years..."
Yu Xiaocao stopped taking the carriage, and walked on the familiar path in the village on foot. Behind her was the carriage she was riding in, and five carriages filled with slow-moving capital specialties. Looking at these carriages, the villagers quietly discussed.
"Old Yu's family, this is really well-developed! Just these five carts, without a few hundred taels of silver, can't be bought! Xiaocao, girl, has a loose hand! It is estimated that half a year's salary will be spent on these things. Already!"
"What are you talking about! Is Xiaocao a person who lives only by his salary? I heard that there is still a stewed vegetable shop in the Yu family in Beijing, which is opened in partnership with a nobleman. Just dividends, how many cars can't be bought?"
"The one riding next to the carriage must be the King of Yangjun! Xiaocao has such a face that she was personally escorted by the King of Yangjun! I heard that the emperor values her farming skills very much. What she said is true!"
"Sister-in-law Shuanzhu! You don't know yet, do you? Xiaocao is back! She brought back a lot of good things. That girl was so generous that she gave Yang Fan's daughter-in-law a box of snacks from the capital as soon as they met. That box of snacks alone is worth it." It’s worth a few taels of silver, not to mention the snacks inside! Your family has such a strong relationship with the sea, and your daughter is close to Xiaocao, so you must be able to get a lot of good things in Beijing!"
"I really envy you guys who have a good relationship with the Yu family, you are so far-sighted! We can't buy the goods in Beijing with money here! I don't know if there is any chance in this life to go to the capital and feel Take a look at the atmosphere of the imperial city... "
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Xiaocao didn't know at all that her return made the folks in Dongshan Village a lot of topics after dinner. Her feeling at this moment is that Dongshan Village is both familiar and strange. In the past six months, Dongshan Village has changed a lot. Some of the houses destroyed by Japanese pirates were rebuilt on the original site, and some house sites were re-selected to build houses.
When the Japanese pirates attacked, Dongshan Village did not suffer much loss in property because Xiaocao warned in advance. Coupled with the subsidy from Youyang County King, after discussion among the villagers, even if the family was a little bit more difficult, they gritted their teeth and built a house with green bricks and tiles.
A row of brand-new green brick and tile houses, a large courtyard made of stone, and brand-new wooden doors... the whole village looks familiar and strange. Old Yutou introduced from the side: "Our Dongshan Village has become the most enviable and wealthy village in the vicinity of ten miles and eight villages! Besides, where can I find a second village, just like our Dongshan Village? Green brick and big tile house?"
Not only that, because the business of the Yu family's stewed vegetable shop in Fucheng is getting more and more prosperous, they even opened three branches. The number of chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs needed daily is considerable, and the Yu family's pig farm alone cannot supply them.
Now, every family in Dongshan Village raises a few pigs and a flock of chickens and ducks, and some even raise hundreds of chickens and ducks at the foot of the mountain like Liu Shuanzhu's family. Anyway, no matter how many you raise, you won’t worry about selling them! Not only the Yu family, but the Zhou family's roast duck and chicken sales are also quite impressive. Both of them are taking care of Dongshan Village's business first! Compared with relying on the sky for food or fishing in the sea in previous years, the income is more than ten times higher!
As long as there are hardworking people in the village, every family has spare money! The boys in the village don't have to worry about marrying a wife at all, and the girls from other villages are waiting in line. The daughters of Dongshan Village, because of the generous dowry, the threshold of every family is almost broken! ! In short, Dongshan Village, regardless of whether it is a young child or a daughter, has no worries about marrying or marrying.
The new atmosphere of Dongshan Village is naturally inseparable from the credit of the Yu family! When Yu Xiaocao came to her yard, she couldn't help being dumbfounded. This... This is their yard? There are golden copper nails on the vermilion gate, two mighty stone lions as tall as a man in front of the gate, red and yellow glazed tile roof on the gate, and high cornices on both sides! The courtyard wall is tall, made of blue bricks, and the top of the wall is also repaired with glazed tiles. From the outside, it looks just like the houses of those wealthy families in Beijing!
Inside is a typical large courtyard with three entrances and three exits. If Yu Hai hadn't stopped it, the people sent by the King of Yang County would have built a five-entry courtyard for him! Most of the houses in the country have a large yard as soon as they enter the door, three or five main rooms directly opposite the door, and the east and west side rooms. How can there be such a complicated yard, a big yard is surrounded by a small yard, and the small yard is connected to other yards.
When the Yu family's house was first built, the women in the village said exaggeratedly: "It's such a big yard, I almost got lost when I entered it!"
However, the only thing that can distinguish it from the big houses in the city is that every yard in Beijing is planted with elegant flowers and plants in the open space. But the Yu family's yard was all planted with vegetables! It was mid-winter, and most of the vegetable plots in the yard were deserted. Only the back garden was set up, and a simple greenhouse was built to grow vegetables for home use.
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