After breakfast, Qian Yixiu, accompanied by Zi Zhu, went to the front courtyard, where Huang Tie, Pan Shoufu, Jack, and Sean were already waiting for her, and together they stepped out of the courtyard gate.
The early winter months in the North were quite cold, made even colder by the wind sweeping through the open countryside, much stronger than the wind in the city.
A hundred meters in front of Meizhuang were vast stretches of farmland, and low-roofed houses could be glimpsed in the distance. Pan Shoufu pointed to the area and said, "All these fields belong to the Commandery Princess. That village up ahead is called Dongshi Village, and many of the villagers are our tenant farmers."
It was the slack season for farming, with almost no one in the fields, which made the vastness even more apparent.
Forests flanked the east and west sides of Meizhuang. Although their leaves had fallen, they still obscured the view to some extent.
