Chapter 5 Archway
Li Luan'er followed Li Feng'er to buy seasonings in a sauce and vinegar garden called Longshenghe, and went to the grain market to buy rice and noodles and other things, because there were too many things to take, Li Feng'er simply bought a wicker basket on her back.
Li Luan'er was afraid that Li Feng'er would be tired, so she took the back basket and carried it herself, packed all the things into it, and followed Li Feng'er to the city gate without changing her face.
The two sisters talked as they walked, according to Li Feng'er, the shop she bought just now was the property of the Yan family, and the Cui family also had such a shop, but Li Feng'er would never buy the Cui family's things.
Li Luan'er is not ashamed of the Cui family in her heart, and she agrees with Li Feng'er's approach.
After a long walk, the sisters were hungry, and smelling the smell of food sold in the market, Li Luan'er's stomach rumbled.
Li Feng'er is a budget-conscious person, and she didn't buy food on the street, so she took out two cakes from her baggage and handed one to Li Luan'er: "Sister, eat one first to suppress hunger, and let's cook a good meal when we go back." ”
Li Luan'er took a bite of the dry cake, and felt that this cake was extremely throat-pulling, and it should be made of coarse grains.
However, Li Luan'er had eaten everything in the last days, and she was hungry and had peeled off the bark, and she was just a coarse grain, which was not bad for her.
While eating, Li Luan'er thought bitterly, saying that ancient times were good, how many little girls in modern times want to cross over, and some even want to wear to the countryside to be village girls to farm, these little girls really want to die.
If they are really allowed to wear it, it is estimated that they will not be able to live a day, and they will want to go back to modern times.
In other words, this ancient time is really difficult to mix, especially in the countryside.
Think of the country roads in Lijiazhuang that are full of dirt, the potholed paths, and the stoves that need to be constantly pulled when cooking, the dark and low houses, the coarse cloth clothes, and the rough food.
Not to mention coarse grains, it is fine grains, which are also ground out by stone mills, and modern rice noodles are not comparable at all, most of the steamed steamed buns are black and hard, and the rice is also very rough, how can those pampered little girls stand it.
Let them feed the chickens and ducks every day, fight against chicken feces and pig manure, and carry water to wash and cook, from morning to night, there is no free at all, and at night they have to do needlework with oil lamps.
Even if you fall asleep, you have to guard against rats, scorpions, insects, insects, ants and ants, and there are snakes drilling around in the corners of the house from time to time in summer.
Hehe, when she thinks of the appearance of those modern delicate women in the face of such a life, Li Luan'er wants to laugh.
In comparison, she, the last woman, is more able to adapt to ancient life, anyway, for her, ancient times are still heaven compared to the last days.
Walking and stopping, a piece of cake swallowed in her stomach, Li Feng'er didn't know where to ask for a bowl of water and handed it to Li Luan'er, Li Luan'er drank half a bowl and handed it back, Li Feng'er was not polite, drank the remaining half of the bowl, returned the bowl, and the two of them accelerated their pace and walked forward.
Walking for a short time, Li Luan'er saw a four-story building so high wooden archway, the archway is tall and majestic standing upright in the market, all the people who pass by the archway have to go around, no one dares to pass under the archway.
"Sister, what are you looking at?"
Seeing that Li Luan'er didn't stop, Li Feng'er turned around and saw her staring blankly at the wooden archway, her eyes were full of shock, and she felt a little uncomfortable.
Li Feng'er probably thought that Li Luan'er felt uncomfortable when she saw this archway and thought of the Cui family, so she walked over and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the Yan family's archway is earlier than the Cui family's construction, and it is a cut higher. ”
Li Luan'er took another look at the antique archway, smiled, didn't ask anything, called Li Feng'er and left.
Along the way, she listened carefully to passers-by, but she understood a little.
It turned out that there were two big families in this Phoenix County, one was the Cui family, and the other was the Yan family.
Cui Yan's two families followed Emperor Taizu to fight the country when Dayong founded the country, only the Yan family is a military general, and the Cui family is a civil servant, although they are both from the same place, and they are officials in the same dynasty, but the two families don't like each other.
After the country was settled, Emperor Taizu sat firmly on the dragon chair, in the battle between the civil and military factions, the ancestor of the Cui family killed the ancestor of the Yan family, and since then, the two families have formed a feud, until now, the two families do not intermarry with each other, and they have never interacted.
When Emperor Sejong arrived, he had probably mediated for the two families, but the grudge was deep, and the two families were eager to strangle each other, so naturally there was no mediation, and then the Mongols invaded in the north, General Yan led the army to go out and returned with a great victory, Emperor Sejong ordered people to build a wooden archway for the Yan family in the west of Phoenix, and wrote four big characters of the house of loyalty.
The Cui family saw that the Yan family got the archway, and was unwilling, and later did a big thing, before the death of Emperor Sejong, he gave the Cui family a stone archway in the east of the city, and the four big characters of the pillars of the country were written.
Today, Cui Yan's two descendants mostly live in the capital, and most of the people in Phoenix City are sideways to manage some ancestral properties.
The Cui family lives in the east of the city, and operates more farms in Fenghuang County, although there are a few shops, but there are not as many shops as the Yan family.
However, the Yan family does not have much land, but the shops are almost all over Fenghuang County, that is, these two families have almost cut off the agricultural and commercial affairs of the entire county.
Fenghuang County also passed down two sentences: "If you marry the Cui family, you will not be poor in the third life, and you will marry the daughter of the Yan family, and the cage will be full of gold and silver." This shows the wealth of these two families.
By the time Li Luan'er found Brother Wang's ox cart at the city gate, she had already received a lot of information and had a better understanding of this Phoenix City.
In the afternoon, before the sky darkened, the ox cart of the little brother of the Wang family finally entered the village.
Because the Li family was at the entrance of the village, the Li sisters got out of the car early and said goodbye to Brother Wang.
Li Luan'er jumped off the ox cart with the basket on her back, and saw Li Chun sitting in front of the door in a daze, looking into the distance.
Seeing Li Luan'er, Li Chun jumped up happily and grabbed Li Luan'er's hand: "Big sister, back, back." ”
Li Feng'er smiled, took out a handkerchief and wiped the dust on Li Chun's face: "Brother, where have you been playing?" ”
The dust on Li Chun's face was wiped clean, revealing his white and tender cheeks, Li Luan'er effortlessly saw the red slap mark on Li Chun's right face, her eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light emanated.
"Big brother, who did you play with today?"
Li Luan'er asked with a smile, turned her eyes to look at Li Feng'er, and saw that Li Feng'er's face had already changed.