Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

   Qiongzhou at the end of July is like an oven, the sun is hot, but standing on the beach with the sea breeze blowing, and wearing a hat, it doesn’t seem to be particularly hot in an instant.

  Li Baolu was wearing a hood and walked forward on the waterline with bare feet. The waves swelled up and receded, and soon the corners of her skirt were wet.

  Gu Jingyun stood beside her, held her hand and walked forward slowly, carefully avoiding the waves, but sometimes when the wind was strong, his shoes and trousers got wet in one fell swoop.

  Gu Jingyun was silent for a moment, then squatted down and took off his shoes and pulled up his trousers.

  Li Baolu laughed when she saw it, "I told you to take off your shoes, but you didn't listen. It would be more comfortable to step on the beach with bare feet."

  Gu Jingyun frowned and said, "The sand is hot."

   "Just stand in the wet place."

   Gu Jingyun glanced at the shoes with disgust, then looked at the sand under his feet, cocked his toes, and finally threw the shoes away and walked forward with Baolu.

  Li Baolu looked back at the shoes he threw aside and asked, "Don't you want any shoes?"

   Gu Jingyun said calmly, "Let's wait for it to dry."

  Li Baolu stepped on the water and played for a long time, and finally found a fairly flat reef and sat down, immersing her feet in the sea water, feeling the coolness from the water.

   She looked at the endless sea and pointed in one direction: "It is said that my parents went fishing in that direction at the beginning."

  Gu Jingyun sat beside her, looked in the direction she pointed, and was silent. Although the Qin family has never fished in the sea, he has lived among fishermen since he was a child and is no stranger to fishing.

   Li Baolu is the same.

"That year, Qiongzhou had a new county magistrate, and no one knew what his character was like, but for the sake of more capital, my grandfather went with my parents when they were going to go fishing. It was really a harvest season at that time. In the past month, the people who went to sea have harvested a lot, and the weather was calm. Before leaving, they even worshipped the sea god. Grandmother said that they had brought three days of food rations, and they were expected to travel farther..."

   "It turned out to be a long way, and before I could come back, I was hit by a big storm. If it was on land, I could still gather their bones for them, but in the sea..."

   This vast ocean, and even if she knew where they were buried, it would be difficult to salvage their bones.

   And besides her, apart from people of their generation, who will remember the three people who came here to fear the death?

   Seeing Baolu's blank eyes, full of grief, Gu Jingyun couldn't help hugging her and said, "When we have children, let them come here to visit their great-grandfather and grandparents, okay?"

  Li Baolu suppressed her tears and nodded slightly.

  The two walked home slowly, changed their clothes and walked around the courtyard. After looking at the room she used to live in and the things she used, the sun began to set, and it was finally not so hot.

  The servants of the Li family started cooking and cooking.

  Li Baolu rolled up her sleeves and cooked a chicken herself. She was going to pay her respects to her grandparents and parents.

   The tomb of the four was not far from the village. It was only in the forest on the edge. It took a quarter of an hour to walk there. Gu Jingyun and Li Jun both followed.

   Four tombs, but only one was occupied.

Li Baolu knelt in front and burned paper money with the four of them, and finally knelt before her grandmother's grave and whispered, "Grandmother, I have fulfilled all your wishes for you, just wait, my granddaughter will come with cousin Jun in a few days. Take you home."

  The setting sun gradually disappeared, the sky began to darken, and the sea breeze blew with a hint of coolness.

  Gu Jingyun stepped forward to help Baolu and said, "It's getting late, let's go back."

  Li Jun silently picked up the basket and followed behind the two of them.

   "Second sister, do you want to invite the Fu family to watch the ceremony?"

  Li Baolu stopped and said in surprise, "Fu's family?"

Li Jun nodded, "I'm afraid you don't remember it when you are young. Your mother's surname is Fu, and she is from the Three Villages of Sin Village. Before I came, my mother specially told me that when it comes to the grave, it is best to invite people from the Fu family to come. After all They are the aunt's maiden family."

  Li Baolu was a little dazed. Of course she remembered her mother's surname Fu, and she also knew her mother's nickname, Xiuniang. Occasionally, when she was awake, she heard her father call her "Xiu Niang, Xiu Niang", and her mother always blushed from time to time.

   As for the grandfather's family, she really doesn't remember it. There is no memory of the grandfather's family in her limited memory, and her father and mother rarely mention it, at least in her memory.

   After all, she was asleep most of the time before the age of three, and was rarely awake. Maybe she was unlucky. She was not awake when they mentioned it?

  Because she had no memory, she rarely remembered that she should have a grandfather's family, and she had never seen their family appear for many years, she subconsciously thought that the Fu family no longer existed.

  Li Baolu hesitated: "Who else is there in the Fu family now?"

"There's only one Fu Dalang, and that's your cousin." Li Jun paused, but said truthfully, "I asked people after I came back. In fact, by your cousin's generation, you can move out of Sin Village and live in Xiangshan Village. He is still in the third village of Sin Village, if you want to invite him, I will ask someone to inform him tomorrow."

  Li Baolu pondered for a moment: "No need, I will handle this myself."

   She still doesn't know how her mother's relationship with her family is, and she hasn't communicated for so many years, so she always has to ask first.

  Gu Jingyun patted her hand and said: "Tomorrow Zhang Yiyan will definitely come to see me, just ask him then."

   "Hey, did you ask someone to inform him?"

  The corner of Gu Jingyun's mouth raised lightly: "Fool, we have two horses and one mule in a carriage, can he still not know? If someone enters the sin village, he doesn't know who it is, and the position of the general manager should be replaced."

   Sin Village is now a lot more open than before, but it is still closed compared to the outside, because in the eyes of good people, the people in Sin Village are still criminals and bad people.

  In such a closed place, they came swaggeringly, and Zhang Yiyan, who is the actual controller of the current sin village, would not know?

   Zhang Yiyan naturally knew it, he received the news almost as soon as Gu Jingyun and the others got off the bus, and he wanted to meet people at that time.

But thinking about the fact that the other party must have a rest just after getting off the boat and getting off the car, not to mention Gu Jingyun is still sick, so he was very considerate and didn't bother him, but prepared the souvenirs, account books, various plans, research data, etc. to bring tomorrow. .

   Zhang Yiyan set off before dawn the next day. He is still a sinner, and he cannot buy a horse.

   The speed was very fast. He arrived at Sancun not long after the sun jumped out of the horizon. At that time, Gu Jingyun had just opened his eyes and was vigorously pressing Li Baolu like this...

   When the two of them washed up and appeared in the main room, Zhang Yiyan had been waiting for nearly an hour.

   The servants brought breakfast to the two of them respectfully, Gu Jingyun pressed his hands indifferently and said, "Sit down, I'll talk about it after I have breakfast."

  Li Baolu looked up and down at Zhang Yiyan, who was standing with his hands up and down, and said with a smile, "Brother Yiyan has grown so big."

   Zhang Yiyan couldn't help laughing, "I'm already older than you, the son and wife are so big, so naturally I will be bigger."

   Zhang Yiyan took the right step back then, and has been following Gu Jingyun since then, and now no one dares to look down on him, even if he is still a sinner.

   But he never dared to be rebellious, because he was a sinner, and his identity had a natural constraint on him. He could not go out to Qiongzhou, and in Qiongzhou he had to rely on Gu Jingyun.

   Those people respected and feared him, partly because of his ability, and partly because of Gu Jingyun standing behind him.

  Zhang Yiyan has always been very sober, so even if Gu Jingyun is not in Qiongzhou in the past two years, he rarely cares about Qiongzhou's affairs, and he does not dare to do more.

   Qiongzhou is Gu Jingyun's backing and his eternal retreat, and Gu Jingyun also wants to repay this "hometown", so the first question is, "How is the tea growing?"

   "The effect is good. We fried it and gave it to many people to try it. The taste is mild, but the fragrance is refreshing. If the price is right, many companies have expressed their willingness to buy it."

"Try to see if you can catch up with the foreigners in Guangzhou. They offer higher prices. They don't understand tea, so there is no need to lower the price. It's best to have the same price as tea from other places." Gu Jingyun paused and said, "Tea planting. It is not allowed to occupy fertile fields and mature land, although making money is important, but food is still the top priority.”

"The county magistrate also said the same thing. This spring, he specially asked me to say that all mulberry and hemp tea can be grown, but they must not occupy fertile fields and mature land. Now, only mulberry and hemp are widely planted, and only people from our village are testing tea. It has not been expanded yet, and I will launch it after the number of orders is roughly determined, and I will reiterate it again with the people from the county government."

He didn't know about the good people outside, but within the area of ​​Sin Village and Xiangshan Village, no one dared to disobey him and the county yamen's orders, because their life and death were in the hands of the yamen, and they relied on his care and dared not obey ?

  Gu Jingyun nodded slightly, "It's good for you to know."

   He flipped through the plan and data that Zhang Yiyan had brought, and nodded slightly: "Well done, stay here for me to see, there is one thing I have to ask you to do."

   Zhang Yiyan immediately got up and said, "You said."

   "I want you to help me check the Fu family in the third village of Sin Village."

   Zhang Yiyan looked at Li Baolu almost immediately, and asked, "Is it the wife's grandfather, the Fu family?"

  Gu Jingyun looked at him with a smile, "You know him?"

Zhang Yiyan's back froze, his hair stood on end, and he tried his best to say with an impermanent expression: "Young master once instructed to collect information about the sin village. Once when I was doing business in the third village of the sin village, I occasionally heard people talking about the Fu family, the aunt of the Fu family. She was married to the fifth village of Sin Village, and she and her husband were shipwrecked and died, leaving only one daughter. The daughter was sent to the first village by her grandmother to be a child bride, but she became a good citizen. Everyone said that the daughter was lucky. I think this The story was familiar, so I listened to it more, and later I found out that it was the wife. So I paid more attention to the Fu family, so I knew a little more."

Li Baolu is the only child bride in the first village of Sin Village, not to mention the child bride of a good citizen. There is only one person in the world, so as soon as they say Zhang Yiyan, they know that they are talking about Li Baolu. Whether it is a fellow villager, a friend or a subordinate, he will pay attention. But he never started talking about it.

  Who knows if there is any hatred between them that he doesn't know, what if they do something bad with good intentions?