In the twenty-second year of Dading, on March 16, there were still more than four quarters of an hour before dawn, and in a farmhouse in the west of Lijiacun, the four brothers of Li Dalang were already boxing and practicing archery in the yard, and Situ Yan was no longer lazy in bed. After washing, he made a fist, squatted in front of the kitchen stove in the stove room and lit a fire to prepare for breakfast, heated the black flour elm money cake and bud grain flour locust flower cake that had been saved before, made a wild vegetable soup, cut two salted eggs, and then brought the rice into the hall. (A few days ago, Situ Yan made all the elm money and acacia flowers that he had saved in the ring last year, and made all the elm money cakes and bud grain flour locust cakes into black elm money cakes and bud grain flour locust cakes that Erlang picked last year, except for leaving some food at home, all of which were stored in the ring.) ）

Today, after the spring ploughing, San Lang and Shiro are going to the county school, and Mao Zheng is about to rush to the entrance of the village to sit on the ox cart of the village masa's family and walk with the little sheep. So the four brothers got up nearly an hour earlier than usual.

At two o'clock, the four of them, who were sweating all over their bodies, went to the clean room to wipe themselves and gathered in the hall for breakfast.

"I have longevity noodles to eat today, hehe, thank you Xiaowu." Li Erlang looked at the bowl in front of him, and his big eyes narrowed into a slit with joy.

"Second child, happy birthday!" "Second brother, happy birthday!" After the family congratulated Jiro, they began to eat.

"Second brother, eat quickly! You can't see the flowers. Situ Yan advised Erlang to move his chopsticks, don't always stare at the noodles.

"Xiao Wu, you said that I eat enough every day, eat fragrantly, and even eat a few days of bud grain noodles every month, but when I see this longevity noodles, my heart is a little hot."

"Second brother, you were moved, and I was the same when I ate noodles. In fact, this noodle tastes similar to the pimple soup, but I still think it is more fragrant than the pimple soup. I don't know why? After entering the county school, Shiro talked a little more than before, and now he looked at the longevity noodles in Li Erlang's bowl with some envy.

"Well, Xiao Si is right, I think too. Okay, second child, eat quickly, there is still a lot of work in this field! Li Dalang patted Erlang's shoulder and told him to eat quickly.

Situ Yan understands the feelings of several people, every time her grandmother made longevity noodles for her in her previous life, she also felt this way, not to mention that in her previous life, she could eat noodles for a long time, but only on her birthday, she ate a special fragrance.

After breakfast, San Lang and Shiro left with their school bags, Da Lang and Erlang carried farm tools to the field, Situ Yan washed the dishes and fed the livestock, and then took the snow wolf into the mountain. There is some chaos in the county these days, from time to time there are disaster victims or beggars who have no food to eat and grab things and food, and they are driven by the guys to run around the market, and it is a little difficult to even set up a stall to do business.

After the beginning of summer on March 29, it was April, Situ Yan began to prepare the wormwood for making mugwort and the reed leaves for making zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, and bought nearly 700 eggs to make salted eggs.

Catching up with the days of Saburo and Shiro Muxiu, the three of them went to the river to tie the cut reeds into bundles and loaded a cart full of them, and then drove the car home.

When I did it last year, Situ Yan took the high-end route, which was sold exclusively to the rich, and the price was the same this year, 20 Wen a piece of food was sold from the fifth day of April, 1000 at a time. It's just that this time she didn't sell it in Xinchang County, but went south to Xiangping County, the seat of Liaodong County, although it was nearly twice as far as going to Xinchang County, but there were many people in Xiangping County, mainly rich people, so this thing could be sold well.

On the fifth day of the county school, there will be a day off, and San Lang and Shiro can just catch the car and pull Situ Yan into the city to sell goods, while Da Lang and Erlang stay at home to take care of the fields and livestock. After netting fish in spring this year, Situ Yan bought two piglets and 20 chickens, and the feed that the family saved last year, it is not difficult to raise these livestock, and the mountains are already full of grass and trees in spring, and the mountains are full of food. When these are sold in the autumn, the family can add income.

Sold three big market days in a row, after Xiaoman has been nearly May, I found six aunts to come to the house to make zongzi, and last year to wrap a zongzi to 2 Wengong money, this time Situ Yan asked for 1000 in one breath, and the labor money alone was given 2 taels of silver, so the zongzi were sold to 25 Wen. In fact, at this price, it is not expensive in Xiangping County, because last year there was a severe drought in the north and a flood in the south, and this year's grain prices were already higher than last year. So when Situ Yan set this price, she also took these into account. I also thought that if I really couldn't sell it, I would keep it for myself. Unexpectedly, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the business was very good, and it was sold out before noon. There were no 2,000 mugwort and salted eggs left.

As for the "incense pieces" that sold very well last year, they were not sold this year, because many embroidery shops in Xiangping County sold "incense pieces", since it was not a rare thing, it would not be priced, so Situ Yan also stopped thinking about looking for aunts to do this.

Fortunately, the aunts got the wages for making zongzi, and they also had more than 300 yuan, so they went to the city the next day to add a lot of food to the family. In the next few days, the cheerful laughter of children sounded in Lijia Village.

Situ Yan's family worked hard for more than a month, and in addition to the cost, they also earned more than 100 taels of silver. With this one hundred taels of silver, even if this year is a famine year, Situ Yan is not worried. And Li Dalang and Li Erlang are more concerned about the harvest in the field, while San Lang Shilang is dedicated to studying, but he doesn't care about how much money his family makes, which also saves Situ Yan the trouble of explaining.

Busy with the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, only one rain has fallen in the summer, the seedlings in the field are drooping their heads, several villages around Lijia Village, some of the seedlings in the field have died of drought, fortunately, every family in this Lijia Village has dug a water storage pit, which is supported to this time, but seeing that the water source on the mountain is about to dry up, if it doesn't rain again, I'm afraid that this Lijia Village will not be able to hold on.

After the spring ploughing, the village service entered the county seat again, leaving a village of women and children, the village women have to be busy at home, and to water the ground, a day tired feet do not touch the ground, this day a group of people gathered at the foot of the Great Wilderness Mountain to line up to carry water, standing is also boring, a few people found a place to sit and chat, "He blessed the aunt, at the beginning of spring, the village is also taking us to welcome the spring, sacrifice, whip the spring cow, pray for this year to be smooth wind and rain, but this God why he didn't open his eyes?" It didn't even rain a little, I thought, I have to let the village take us to make some offerings to the gods, and then worship the Dragon King Temple? ”

"Don't worry, big guys, it's just a few days, everyone is busy these days, don't you go."

"It's you who are busy, I'm a person who eats from the sky, and I can't even drink a thin mouth, so what's the busy. But I saw that a few days ago, you and the Niu family and the Li Si family, together with a few of the Li family, ran to the Li Dalang's house all day long, and didn't go home until it was dark every day, and they were happy to see their teeth and eyes all day long, but what benefits did they get? You can't forget about those of us who can't eat. You eat a lot of meat, and you let us drink the soup with you, don't you? This is talking about Li and his daughter-in-law, who are not pleasing to Situ Yan and Aunt Fu. This feud has been remembered from delivering Ryoko's daughter-in-law to the present. It can be seen that this person is narrow-minded, and when he gets the opportunity, he will use his words to squeeze Aunt Fu and make some villains behave.

"Li He's family, this meal can be eaten indiscriminately, you can't talk nonsense, which eye of your eyes is watching my family eat meat, we just watch a few boys and girls have a hard time to help with the work, not a good girl, afraid of tired you, so I didn't look for you in the past." Even on the day of Ryoko's daughter-in-law's birth, she didn't dare to tire you, and let you go back to rest early. "Aunt Fu has been in the village for so many years, and this mouth is not in vain, and she choked back with her aunt in a word.

Only then did the women in line hear the taste, it turned out that the Li He family failed to deliver the baby to the Liangzi family, so they hated Aunt Fu and Situ Yan. These two women are in one play, not to mention that half of the village women gather here, and when they talk about a word, they are more lively than the singing.

"Muramasa's family, what do you mean, don't think that you are the one who is in charge of the village, you will stumble on me to make my face face, I don't eat your set, and I don't point to your family to feed."

"Li Hejia, you have made your words clear, don't chew on it, who made you stumble. I'm going to let you judge today. Liangzi's daughter-in-law had a difficult birth that day, and you couldn't do it at all, so I and the little five of the Dalang family went to help, so the mother and son were safe, and then Liangzi sent me a few red eggs, and you were red-eyed. Do you think I don't know, you scolded and yelled for several days, it's been a year, you still want to settle accounts with me, but I don't have a master, I'm still afraid that you can't do it. ”

"You, if you are full of guns, I will not be done with you." Li and his daughter-in-law didn't take care of it, and they couldn't talk about Aunt Fu at this time, so they angrily pointed at Aunt Fu and scolded them.

"He's a blessed aunt, forget it, you can't be angry with this kind of person." Aunt Niu and Aunt Niuzi were lined up at the end of the line, and when they saw that the two in front of them were arguing, they hurriedly came over to persuade them to fight.

"It's not that I want to make noise, it's that she wants to make a fuss, on this hot day, who doesn't have a fire, she can't be idle. I still want to save some saliva and save water. "Aunt Fu doesn't really want to fight for four, five or six, but she is a little angry, she followed Situ Yan to earn some money, but it was also hard money, and she couldn't find it at ease because of what happened to this Li and his family.

Naturally, a few villagers also went to persuade Li He's family, and for a while, the village women were divided into two groups, one group was naturally the villagers who had been taken care of by Situ Yan, and the other group was a group of long-tongued women who couldn't eat grapes and said that grapes were sour.

Everyone gave the steps, and the two stopped scolding, and each found a place to sit and wait to carry water. Situ Yan stood at the distance of her own house and watched everything that happened here, and remembered a few people who helped Li He's family in her heart. Among them are Zhang Fa's daughter-in-law and Muramasa's younger siblings. Since these people can't recognize the facts, then she is not a good man and a woman, and she goes to help these people in vain. Where would these people think of taking sides for a while, but they lost their chance to live.