The bedding in winter needs to be made of large balls of cotton wool, and it is thick and thick to be warm.

But cotton is ridiculously expensive, and the nearest cloth mill wants to buy such a full cotton quilt, and the minimum is two taels of silver, or a cheesecloth surface without any pattern embroidery.

Even the pillow and mattress two sets of covers were put together, and this alone cost five taels of silver, Ruizhu was very unwilling, so he had to let the cloth shop Xiaoer put on two small pieces of material before he gave up.

The two sets of bedding were piled together, and even an adult man couldn't take them away at once, not to mention that Ruizhu, a little woman, had to take a few more copper coins and hire a guy from the store to send them home.

Tan Wanqing is sweeping the warm kang in the house, the two rooms of this house have a warm kang, different from the fire nest built by ordinary people's mud, it is neat and square with small green bricks, clean and quite delicate, the mat on it was not taken away by the master's house, it was still kept, and it was saved to buy the silver for the mat.

With this ondol with a mat, a hole and a chimney, it is not sad in winter, but the firewood costs a little more, and it is impossible for her and Ruizhu to go out of the city to collect firewood, and they have to buy every load, and the money can be imagined.

Hurriedly swept the east house and dusted it, opened the window to ventilate, and after a while, Ruizhu and the two cloth mill men who resisted the cover entered the yard, and did not let them enter the house.

"The cloth shop is too small, and the satin sold is only a few colors, which is very old-fashioned, and the quilt is not bright at all, and it is not as pleasing to the eye as this plain cotton cloth." After Ruizhu took the cover back, she said while laying out the bed with the young lady, and looked at the young lady's face as she spoke.

How luxurious and enjoyable before, how unbearable and simple the days are now, this kind of coarse material is used by the next person when it is in Tanfu, and the material on the footbed in the lady's house is a hundred times more delicate than this, and even when she buys it, she hesitates for a long time, thinking that the young lady will not be used to it.

It is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, and it is difficult to enter simplicity from luxury, not to mention that it is still such an earth-shaking situation, she has to "touch things" from time to time, and Miss doesn't know how sad she is, she must be much more sad than herself.

Ke Ruizhu still underestimated her own miss, Tan Wanqing's face did not have a sad expression, nor was she depressed, some were just the fatigue accumulated in the past two days, she touched the futon under her hand, it was thick and fluffy, although the material was a rough cloth spun from cotton, slightly yellowed with its true color, but fortunately, it was strong and clean, not used by others, and there were no stains.

She cheered up and said: "It feels loose and soft, it should be the newly harvested cotton this year, and the cloth mill at this price is not a trick, and I can sleep comfortably at night." "The cotton yield here is low, the people who plant are few and they are at the border, the people are not happy, this thing is more expensive than the capital is normal, I think, if the money is not in the coming year, the weather is warm again, but it can be used as a quilt for some money urgently.

Ruizhu saw that there was no sad look on Miss's face, so she relaxed a little.

There are too many things, I can't buy them all for a while, I can only pick the important ones to buy first, firewood and rice grains at home are indispensable items for daily life, Ruizhu wants to rush to do these things before dark, fortunately, the city is quite close, saving a lot of foot effort.

The market is surprisingly lively, with stalls set up one by one, not even a spare space, bustling with people buying things, and some children playing through the crowd without fear of being abducted by traffickers.

Ruizhu found this Zhang Yapo said that the market, is also a surprise, close not to say, the daily groceries on weekdays can be found in this small market, go on a trip, large and small objects can be bought, the bottom of the wall also lined up a slip of chopping firewood to sell firewood farmers, large bundles of small stacks, half long, and short are bundled neatly for people to choose, Ruizhu's eyes lit up, immediately walked over to buy firewood, the old farmers really, bought their firewood, and also sent home.

Ruizhu took advantage of this convenience, so he bought small pieces such as needlework, oil, and salt, and asked the old farmer to carry them together, and also went to the rice shop to weigh three catties of corn, wrapped a few pieces of good-looking red dates, meat and yellow rice cakes, and brought them back together.

When I went back, Miss was tidying up the kitchen, and saw that the old farmer picked up the firewood into it, so he asked him to put it in the corner of the house, Ruizhu's vision was excellent, and he picked the best firewood among several firewood farmers, and saw that the firewood of the firewood farmer was quite heavy, and all the old wood was neat and short and resistant to burning, Tan Wanqing called the old farmer, and he could not go to the market every day to buy firewood in the future, and he used more firewood for heating in winter, so he needed to prepare more now.

When the firewood farmer heard this, he rubbed his hands happily, and someone ordered firewood, so he didn't have to pick it to sell it in the market every day, and it also saved a lot of time, so he naturally agreed.

Busy now, the sky is a little dark, one of the two is Miss Gaomen who has not burned a fire for many years, and the other is a maid who has never done kitchen work since she followed Miss, and she is busy in the kitchen.

There is a well at the entrance of the courtyard, it is convenient to pour water, and there is still an old pot that is missing in the main kitchen.

Busy for a long time, wash and wash, three or two handfuls of chestnut rice, so to say, finally boiled out the porridge, with the bought pottery bowl to serve, and then the bought jujube meat yellow rice cake is steamed across the water, dinner is the hot chestnut rice porridge, with the red and yellow sweet and soft glutinous jujube rice cake, it is also eaten fragrantly.

There is still firewood left in the kitchen, fill it with a few scoops of water, and when it is hot, scoop it into a basin, and it is enough to simply wipe your body and wash your hair.

It was biting cold in the autumn night outside, Ruizhu covered the fire, after cleaning up, he hurriedly returned to the east room, opened the door, and the warmth came to his face, Tan Wanqing, who had already been washed, was sitting in the fluffy and soft new cotton quilt, the washed hair was half-dry, black and bright behind him, and his face was less of those gray and dirty fragrant ashes, revealing a greasy complexion that was as white as porcelain than ordinary people.

Probably because there was more firewood, the room was a little hot, Tan Wanqing's face was a little hot and red, and she only had a gray single coat loose on her body, and she didn't have any spirit to sit there.

Rui Zhu knew that Miss must be tired, so she hurriedly moved the candle flame farther away, then got on the warm kang, pulled the quilt for Miss, and helped her lie down: "It's not early, Miss, let's rest." ”

Tan Wanqing couldn't open her sleepy eyes in the morning, nodded and lay down, this body inherited her mother's unique natural white skin, and also inherited the delicate porcelain white skin, Tan Fu was fine, but since the exile all the way to rub, it is really miserable, and the body is far more unbearable than the spirit.

If it weren't for the proper maintenance of her Tanfu on weekdays, and her willingness to relax as much as possible during her exile, with a belief, I am afraid that she would have fallen seriously ill in the middle of the way, and a wisp of smoke would have died in the world, how could she persist until now.

Now that I have relaxed, I feel the indescribable tiredness of my whole body, my body is hot, my cheeks are also red, and I quickly lose consciousness when I lie down.

Ruizhu was arranging the quilt for the young lady, and when she saw the young lady's exposed hands outside the quilt, there were actually two wounds in the palms of the hands, which were already slightly red and swollen, and there were also a few red scratches on the back of the arms.

It is very likely that it was stabbed when taking firewood, and the young lady's skin is born delicater than others, and it is easy to scratch the skin inadvertently, if such a trace is on her arm, it is inconspicuous, and it will disappear the next day, but on the young lady's body, and then it is printed by the white skin, it will be much more shocking than the strict zhòng of others.

Others don't know, how can she not know that Miss has suffered like this since she was a child? On the way to exile, what she was most afraid of was that the young lady would not be able to hold on, afraid that she would be sick halfway, afraid that she would not be able to think about it, afraid of her......

So she followed Miss everywhere, desperately protecting, but how much she could protect a maid, those escorts were very unreasonable, Miss back, she didn't dare to look at it until now, because there were whip scars, so deep, no medicine to coat, and it couldn't be cleaned, now it's good, I'm afraid it has also left scars, Ruizhu felt extremely uncomfortable, she sniffed, tucked the quilt under Miss's feet, and saw that the white and tender soles of the feet in the past were all new and old blisters, shocking.

A few places on the toes are obviously just ground out today, the blisters are almost transparent, as if they are about to burst, I don't know how much it hurts, Ruizhu hurriedly took the needle bought in the market, put it on the candle flame and picked it down, and then the hands and feet were fast, so that people didn't feel the pain to pick up the blisters, there was no medicine to use, so I had to pick up a cotton cloth with Xiao Er, wipe the wound, and bandage it slightly.

As for the redness on Tan Wanqing's face, Rui Zhu thought that the kang was too hot, and Tan Wanqing herself only thought that she was tired, so she could just sleep.

But who knew that this sleep was actually sick, although not to say that it was not a fatal emergency, but it also frightened Ruizhu, asked people everywhere to invite a doctor, and drank three or four days of medicinal soup, finally got better, and then he didn't dare to work the lady anymore, and didn't let her do anything all day.

But this time is different from the past, Tan Wanqing can't afford to be delicate, she is already short of money, and she has to be careful in everything, but the house leak happened to rain overnight, and she used up a dozen taels of her illness, so if she and Ruizhu go on like this, she and Ruizhu don't know if they can survive this winter.

How can she sit still?

Now she doesn't let Ruizhu buy those high-priced polished rice, but buy some relatively cheap brown rice, which can save some is some, although the brown rice is rough to eat, but the nutrition is not worse than the polished rice, and even more than the polished rice, the outer layer of bran wax and seed coat is preserved, relatively speaking, it is more nutritious, since there is such a cheap and nutritious food, there is no need to spend twice as much money to buy expensive ones.

Half a jar of rice is saved, and then the vegetables have become a problem, in addition to buying this vegetable, it is their own planting, but the dishes at this time are not cheap at all, and they are even more expensive in winter.

So Tan Wanqing hit the idea on a small deserted flower garden in the yard, and asked Ruizhu to buy the vegetable seeds that could be planted in this season.

Although it is late autumn now, there are some autumn vegetable seeds that can be planted, even if they do not grow much after the planting period, you can still pick some verdant vegetable seedlings to eat.

When several black cavalry generals entered from the valley city gate and were about to return to the north city gate, they passed by several mansions, and the black cavalry led by them suddenly stopped, as if they saw something, and turned back to the mansion they had just passed.

Sitting on a horse, through the low courtyard wall, you can clearly see that in this small courtyard, a woman dressed in a dark coarse cloth dress is leisurely in an open space, slowly using an old farm tool to slant the ditch, and after finishing it, she is planting vegetables with a little clumsiness, and from time to time bending down to pull out a weed and a half.

Maybe the weeds are tough and thorny, the woman's fingers are delicate, plucked, and after coming out, there are beads of blood, there is no imaginary scream, and there is no pale face, fainting, the woman just looked at it, then put the wound to her mouth and sucked it, and continued to pick up the farm tool and turn the soil without care.

The person on the horse sat there quietly, staring at her with cold eyes, and the more he looked, the more he frowned.