The Earl Zhou's Mansion became the Marquis Zhou's Mansion. The Zhou brothers stood in front of the door. The eldest brother raised his head and said, "Our family is now a marquis' mansion."
Chang Yi, "Brother, life now feels like a dream."
He dreamed all night last night. All he dreamed about were fragments of his life in Zhoujia Village. He was still an ordinary citizen. After waking up, he sat up and took a long time to relax.
Chang Zhi put his hands behind his back and said, "The emperor's handwriting is very majestic."
This is the handwriting of the emperor, Zhou Houfu, the emperor's handwriting, this is the favor to the Zhou family.
Chang Zhi bumped into his elder brother and stumbled. Well, his small body couldn't compare to his elder brother, so he steadied himself and said, "What does the future Lord Zhou think?"
Boss Zhou looked at the fourth brother with a puzzled look, "My feeling is that you are too weak. You should practice more."
Changzhi touched his nose. Winter is the season for laziness, so he didn't want to move.
Chang Yi smiled and said, "I won't talk to you anymore. The time has come. I should go to the Ministry of Rites."
Changzhi, "Oh, it's time for me to go to the Hanlin Academy too."
In the end, only Boss Zhou was left standing in front of the mansion gate. He looked up at the three words "Zhou Hou Mansion" for a while before slowly returning to the yard.
Zhou Shuren drank the fruit juice, feeling both enjoyable and luxurious. In ancient times, fruits were too expensive in winter.
Boss Zhou came in, and Zhou Shuren asked him to sit down. "I heard that you guys have been standing in front of the mansion gate for a long time?"
Boss Zhou, "Yes, my son wants to take a closer look."
Zhou Shuren, "... If I remember correctly, you watched for at least a quarter of an hour after I changed yesterday."
"Because my son still feels a little bit in the clouds, and he doesn't feel grounded."
Zhou Shuren laughed and scolded, "What a promising future! You are the future Zhou Hou."
The eldest son has a title to inherit, and among the sons, the eldest son Zhou definitely wins.
Boss Zhou's ears turned red. He was the future Marquis Zhou. "Dad, I've chosen an auspicious day in three days to host a banquet. I've already drawn up a list of names. Do you want to see it?"
Zhou Shuren waved his hand, "I don't need to look at it, I'll leave it to you."
Boss Zhou has been helping his mother manage the household for so many years, so he knows who to invite and is not in a hurry at all. "Then my son will get busy first."
"Go ahead. Wait, didn't you say that the vegetables in the greenhouse are growing well? We have built a lot of greenhouses. Send someone to pick some and bring some back to your relatives."
Boss Zhou made a note and said, "Son, I'll do it right away."
Dad has been ill these few days, and they have received many gifts. They should indeed give back some of them. If they give back expensive gifts, it would be too deliberate and seem distant. It would be best to give back vegetables from their own greenhouses during the winter.
I grow peppers, cucumbers, etc. in my own greenhouse. There are many varieties. It is very comfortable to eat the crispy cucumbers in winter. I picked more cucumbers and brought them back.
At the Jiang family, Xuemei was staring at the headgear her mother had given her in a daze. Dad, Dad had become a marquis. She had gone from being the eldest daughter of an earl to the eldest daughter of a marquis. This was a huge change in status.
This set of headwear was sent by her mother yesterday, saying it was a big happy event in the family, and everyone was very happy. She got a set of ruby headwear, which could become a family heirloom.
When Jiang Wang came in, she saw the headgear at first sight. The daughter-in-law went back to her parents' home to take care of her in-laws, and the in-laws sent a lot of things over. This headgear was really dazzling. "Is this what my mother-in-law gave me last time?"
Seeing that it was her mother-in-law, Xuemei smiled and said, "No, I went back to my parents' home yesterday. My father was made a marquis, and my mother said she gave it to me to share in the good fortune."
Jiang Wang's heart twitched. Her daughter-in-law's status was getting higher and higher. Even if she didn't know much about gems, she knew how precious the headwear in front of her was. "I came here to discuss with you what gift to give to my in-laws. It's a great event for my in-laws to be promoted to marquis. I don't have any ideas at the moment, so I need you to think about it."
Xuemei had a plan in mind. "I discussed this with my husband last night. He wanted to give his treasured paintings to my father because we don't have any valuable treasures at home."
Jiang Wangshi grinned, "Good idea."
I don’t need to spend any cash to prepare my son’s painting.
Xuemei also thought it was good. Her father liked her husband's paintings very much and said that his paintings were worth collecting. She also told her husband to collect any paintings he was reluctant to sell.
Jiang Wangshi was also a woman, and she couldn't help but take a look at the headdress, "This headdress should be left to Jiang Du."
Xuemei was stunned for a moment, then raised her hand and touched her headgear, "I have to keep this set of headgear."
She will think about who to give it to after a hundred years.
Jiang Wangshi mentioned Jiang Du and sighed, "They have been married for a year, and there is no news at all. It's not right for them to get married late!"
Xuemei is not in a hurry to have a grandchild, but her mother-in-law is. "My mother said that having a child is a matter of fate, and it will come when it is time. There is no point in us being anxious."
What else could Jiang Wangshi say? She couldn't say anything because her mother-in-law was the Marquis's wife.
Boss Zhou is efficient. In the afternoon, the vegetables from the greenhouse are picked and quickly distributed to each household so that everyone can taste the vegetables in the evening.
At the Wang family, Mrs. Tao personally handed the washed cucumbers to her parents-in-law and said to her mother-in-law, "Take a look at the vegetables grown in the greenhouse of Marquis Zhou's mansion. They are juicy and big. Try some."
The old lady of the Wang family picked it up and took a bite. "Hmm, it tastes good, full of fragrance."
Old Master Wang didn't need to mention it, he had already picked it up and ate it, "They all have greenhouses, the vegetables grown in Zhou Houfu are indeed good."
Mrs. Wang smiled and said, "Yes, the cucumbers in our greenhouse are crooked and cracked."
Tao thought to herself, it's because the hot spring in her manor is so small. The Zhou family's manor is in the best location and it was the emperor's manor back then.
Mr. Wang sighed, "The Zhou family is a marquis, who could have predicted that!"
Tao curled her lips. The better the Zhou family is, the better it will be for the eldest wife. She was the one who proposed this marriage in the first place.
Yu Lu didn't say anything, she was just teasing her son, but his eyes would more or less turn to her. She was also confused. Not only did her grandfather become a marquis, her father was also a marquis, and she became the legitimate daughter of the marquisate. It was really unexpected!
The second and third branches of the Wang family were extremely jealous, but jealousy was useless.
In Zhangzhou, Yushuang still didn't know that her grandfather had become a marquis. She was worried, "There are already thirty children in the manor, twenty-five girls and five boys."
Liu Feng looked at the registration list and asked, "Has it been investigated?"
Yu Shuang sighed, "I asked the housekeeper to send someone to investigate. The children we have adopted now all have miserable lives. These five boys either have stepfathers or stepmothers, or some have lost their parents and are living with their uncles and aunts. Now they are short of food, so they have been abandoned. Moreover, these children were not thrown into the manor, they found them themselves."
The last time I sent a few girls away, they got to know the news and they found Zhuangzi on their own.
Liu Feng, "Dad's manor can't save everyone."
"I know, and you know what I'm thinking, so what do you think?"
Liu Feng knew what his wife meant. She wanted him to take over. If he wanted to grow medicinal herbs on a large scale, he really needed to train people to prepare them. "It won't work this way. Let them all sign a contract. I'll find someone to teach them how to prepare medicinal herbs now. They'll use labor to pay off the current expenses in the future. When the money is paid off, we can cancel the contract and sign a new one."
"Listen to you."
Liu Feng planned to contact drug dealers and ask them to introduce a master who could prepare medicinal materials. Such a person might not be easy to hire as people believed in passing down skills to their children and there were very few foreign teachers. If that wasn't possible, he would need to ask his father-in-law to help find one.