Yellow leaves and red maple maple, the mountains and rivers are filled with purple green. The lake light is connected by mountains and rivers, and the setting sun is lonely vulture. The wind blows away the remaining heat, and the ripples and frost is clear in the bath.

In mid-October, each household began to pay rent, and a load of newly harvested grain was sent to the Xu family barn. The Xu family has always been generous to tenants. The year is good, and every household has a lot of surplus, which is enough to live a good year.

Soon the government sent people to collect some of the autumn taxes, which were divided into grain and cloth. Every family in the village had to plant mulberry trees for weaving cloth, and then distributed the labor service this year. The village chief organized the men in the village to dig ten days of ditches to build water conservancy.

There was something shocking to Xu Hao. The elderly in the village who were over 70 years old had rice, flour and other food sent by the government every month. Everyone in the village respected the elderly very much. If they had unfilial children, they would be punished at the least if they were reported by neighbors, and would be punished at the worst.

The farmers of the Ming Dynasty were not idle all year round. Just after completing this year's labor service, they had to start preparing to store various grains, sell old grains to merchants or use them for wine. Because the pigs raised in the pen were fat, some slaughtered and some continued to raise them, and large flocks of sheep were either sold or kept.

As for the dozens or hundreds of goose ducks, they don’t have to feed them at home. They all go out in the early morning. In the evening, they went to the lake and shouted. The goose ducks were all grown and used to hearing human voices. They followed them home and counted them, and they didn’t bring any of them.

Every family's yard was drying bacon, marinated chicken, salted fish, peeled rabbits and other wild game. The jar under the base of the wall was filled with salted duck eggs, and the eggs were all exchanged for money.

Every household is covered with crabs and shrimps on the stone platform. The trees and mountains of each household are full of walnuts, dates, persimmons, chestnuts, peaches, etc., and they are beaten and dried. They are left to stand for enjoying slowly.

In addition, vegetables such as gourds, winter melons, eggplants, beans, toon sprouts, yellow flowers are dried and placed for the winter. The villagers are busy cutting down the unsophisticated trees, burning them into charcoal and stacking them in the woodshed to store. They seem to be busy, but in fact they are much more leisurely than when they are busy farming.

Every day when the sun is red, Xu Hao gets up to wash, practices unregulated fists and feet, eats a glass of warm wine, and brings mung beans and millet porridge made from sweet water in the stream. He gets a scent of fragrance in front of him. The snow-white tofu is accompanied by chopped green onion, and eats it full, puts on a thick cotton jacket and goes out.

Sometimes as the village chief grows his experience and experience in dealing with trivial matters in the village, sometimes he visits all over the village and asks the elders for some farming issues, and remembers them all in his heart. Sometimes when a storyteller comes to the village, Xu Hao squats in the village square with his children and young children, listening to "Miss Yingying meets his lover at night", "The Tang King travels to hell", and "Zhao Zilong rides alone to save the master".

Life in the countryside is monotonous and fulfilling, and Xu Hao's parents are optimistic about it. For several months, Xu Hao has never asked for a penny from his family, nor has he caused any trouble. Even if he has no future in the future, he is definitely not a prodigal son.

My elder sister often sends letters, which tells about trivial things happening at home, such as Princess Pucheng chose her elder brother Xu Wen, who had already been married last month. After she got married next year, she would send her second sister north to the Qin Prince's Mansion and be a concubine for the Qin Prince.

Affected by this incident, the second brother Xu Ji began to work hard and moved to the Imperial College in Beijing. He was determined to study hard for three or five years and participate in the imperial examination. Xu Hao guessed that the second brother planned to marry an official daughter who was no less than Zhu Qiaoqiao's status, which was also good, at least he had goals and ideals.

The Zhang family of Heshouhou asked a matchmaker to come to the house. It is said that Zhang De was determined to marry Lu Zhu. Heshouhou Zhang Yi and his wife did not agree at first, and could not resist their son making a big fuss at home all day long.

The old lady readily agreed to this and would get engaged next month. The fourth brother Xu Song happened to have caused a lot of trouble outside recently, so she sent him to Peking to deliver a letter to his third uncle and informed his daughter of the happy event.

In addition, other sisters also began to look for suitable families, but the eldest sister's letter did not mention their future at all, and there was a faint resentment between the lines. Xu Hao sighed softly, who dared to marry his eldest sister because of Zhu Gaochi? This matter made him embarrassed. Zhu Gaochi respected his eldest sister and respected him. He never let go of the Xu family's hints. I'm afraid that the whole family is looking forward to him now.

Let’s wait. Anyway, with this, my elder sister’s status in the family has risen sharply. Let’s talk about how she lives a pampered life for a few years.

The old man Xu Da has had a cold recently and his body is not good, which makes the whole family very nervous. The old lady is worried about this and has a minor illness.

The eldest sister once again urged him to return home as soon as possible, saying that his father had a cheap one and went to Hangzhou to buy goods. My mother, who was worried that her husband would have an affair, had a bad temper recently and the family was in a panic.

"Hangzhou." Xu Hao was a little moved.

Another thing made Xu Hao feel bad. Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to select girls for his grandchildren. No wonder the family was eager to find someone, what should Hongye do?

In the capital of Yan Wang Mansion, because the emperor ordered the princes from all over the country to send the princes to Beijing for education, Zhu Di took this to stay in Beijing for several months and now he has to return to his fiefdom.

Before leaving, Zhu Di accidentally remembered Xu Hao's arrival and ordered someone to call Zhu Gaochi to come and ask questions. Zhu Gaochi had been paying attention to the recent situation of Xu Hao's brothers and sisters, and answered them smoothly.

When Zhu Di heard that Xu Hao lived alone in the countryside, lived a life of almost seclusion and had no intention of going home for a short period of time.

"Interesting, this is showing my heart to me."

Zhu Gaochi asked in a regular manner: "The child doesn't understand."

Seeing the eldest son's body getting fatter and fatter, Zhu Di felt a little disliked, but recently his father has repeatedly praised his son and was difficult to scold him, so he said, "You have difficulty in your legs and feet, so you sit and talk."

When Zhu Gaochi sat down slowly, Zhu Di smiled and said, "This is something Xu Hao is interesting. He deliberately left the house to tell his father that he disdained to be a singular business. Do you think that the Xu family has recently sent someone to send Qinglian to the royal palace?"

"Yes." Zhu Gaochi said honestly: "The child dared not make decisions privately, and he didn't want to feel wronged Qinglian, so he refused."

Zhu Di asked, "What if Xu Hao spoke in person?"

"This." Zhu Gaochi immediately lowered his head.

Zhu Di cursed inwardly and frowned and said, "The girl Qinglian loves her younger brother the most. It can be said that the brother and brother are united. If Xu Hao spoke, it would represent Qinglian's own wishes. You just wait for this day, right? Unfortunately, Xu Hao was stubborn and actually ran to the countryside."

Zhu Gaochi sighed softly, but did not dare to speak. Zhu Di snorted coldly when he saw this: "Just a woman, what's there to look forward to?"

Zhu Gaochi really wanted to say loudly, Qinglian is not an ordinary woman, I like her.

Fortunately, Zhu Di did not continue to talk. After all, as an experienced person, he also knew that the word "information" is the most wonderful and cannot be controlled by human power. He is not exactly the same as his father Zhu Yuanzhang. Although he has the queen-Gong Jiali Sanqian, isn't he just loves his wife deeply?

Since the Crown Prince Zhu Biao died of illness, Zhu Di originally thought that it was possible to become the crown prince, but the emperor chose Zhu Yunwen, who was not his grandson, which made Zhu Di deeply disappointed and very dissatisfied.

Zhu Di dared not have any ambitions now and was worried about the future, because some civil officials had expressed concern about the power of the vassal palaces in various places, and were worried that the Eight Kings Rebellion of the Han Dynasty would turn out, but fortunately his father did not listen.

My father is already old, and it is time to cultivate his own power in the capital. He is ready for the future and is caught off guard by his stinky nephew.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di said, "How many people are rushing to curry favor with you, my father and son, but Xu Hao chose to do the opposite. This is just the usual trick of those who claim to be smart and seek fame. In the eyes of their father-in-law, I don't care about him as a child, and I am still a talented person. By the way, has he never even contacted the girl of the Mu family?"

"Yes." Zhu Gaochi concealed the shock in his heart. Did his father even know such a small matter?

Zhu Di pondered: "At a young age, he is so patient that even his lover can resist meeting him. Well! This son is definitely not an ordinary person. I have a feeling that he expected that he would fulfill his father's wish."

"Support him?" Zhu Gaochi was shocked and stuttered, "Did the father, the father want Xu Hao to become the princess and princess?"

Zhu Di said proudly: "What's wrong with a mere trivial matter?"

Zhu Gaochi felt that the older he was, the less he could see through his father. However, the dignified King Yan directly interfered in the marriage of the younger generation of the Xu family. Now he was planning to let Xu Hao climb to the princess of the Mu family. In this way, he would not be afraid of being suspicious from the emperor's grandfather through the Xu family.
Chapter completed!