Chapter 55

After the school and ancestral hall were built, the men in the village were idle again, and seeing that the men of the 100th in the village were in full swing, everyone was a little red-eyed, and this was money every day.

"Ye Lan, we're all empty, do you think we're going to open up wasteland, dig mountains, or make cornfields?" Li Da, a man from the Li family, asked Ye Lan on behalf of the men in the village.

"You can help me plant it." Ye Lan looked at the more than a dozen men who came out of the vacancy, and asked them to go to the field with tools, the wasteland pioneers had already dug up nearly eighty acres of land, but they only dug the soil to the bottom, and they couldn't plant it yet, they had to plank the land first.

"Pay attention when plowing the ground, from left to right, every six feet, leave me a walking aisle, not too wide, as long as you can put down your two feet, and then the fourth, eighth, twelfth, sixteenth aisle, and so on, every four aisles, give me a wide distance in the middle, about three feet, do you understand what I mean?"

"Understood." Although I didn't know what Ye Lan meant by doing this, everyone was still very happy.

"Uncle Li, this is up to you, you can divide the aisle first, and then start plowing the ground." Ye Lan nodded, very satisfied that everyone didn't ask much and nodded directly to agree to their request, the reason why it is from left to right is because this land is expanding from left to right, and the right side is still excavating, of course, you can't calculate the distance from right to left.

"Okay, no problem." Li Da was a cool man, and stood up and roughly compared the distance of the first aisle, "Ye Lan, do you want to dig an aisle here?" ”

"Yes." Ye Lan nodded, even if there was a slight gap, it could be ignored.

"Okay, Yang Da, you come to dig the first aisle, remember that your feet are almost so wide." Li Da casually called a brother who is usually better.

"Okay." Yang Da picked up his tools and began to work.

More than a dozen people, each responsible for an aisle, Li Da finished the division of labor, Ye Lan watched from the side, if she didn't meet her own requirements, she would put it forward, everyone knew what she wanted, these people had planted the land for most of their lives, mastered the essentials, dug up the aisle, very, Ye Lan nodded secretly and said,

"That's what it looks like, after digging the aisle, you can start plowing the ground, and when you plow the ground, everyone will plane the second piece after you have planed it one by one, don't be in charge of one aisle like now, okay?"

"Okay." Everyone answered unanimously.

"Then you guys are busy, I'll go back first." Ye Lan didn't supervise everyone's work habits, and the people here are more sincere, she doesn't supervise everyone, everyone feels that she trusts, but will work harder.

Back in the village, Ye Lan heard the sound of reading from afar, and was stunned for a moment before remembering that today was the first day of school, and all the children in the village had gone to school.

Jinhua and Lan saw that they went to school together, I don't know how they learned, thinking so, Ye Lan walked to the school, wanting to see their class status, but was startled, there were several people standing in the window outside the school, all of them were the older generation in the village, originally Ye Lan thought that they just wanted to see what their children looked like in class, and when they got closer, everyone was quietly watching outside, and a few people even followed the children in the classroom to read the beginning of the human being, and their nature was good, and they didn't even notice that Ye Lan was close.

These people have never entered the school in their lives, and when they are old, there is a school in the village, and they are also extremely curious, and they put their hopes on their offspring, but in fact, they are extremely sorry that they did not have such good conditions when they were children.

Ye Lan stayed for a while and still no one noticed her, everyone paid attention to Zhang Xiucai, seeing that everyone was so serious, Ye Lan left quietly as when she came, but when she got home, a thought suddenly flashed in her mind, maybe she should invite two more gentlemen to come and form a school, like in modern times, divided into grades, divided into elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools, and then, run an adult class, so that those adults can also enrich their spare time in their free time.

This plan is feasible, but now is not the time to implement, subconsciously touch her pocket, Ye Lan bit her lip, before planting a lot of food and vegetables, she should first find a way to make some money, she now has more than 100 people to help her work every day, and the low wages of the labor force here will not cost a lot of money, but she has contracted so much land and opened up so much wasteland, if she wants to make profits, she must give herself at least half a year, half a year, and her own money, I am afraid it will not be enough.

After Qiao Zi agreed with her daughter, she completely let it go, let her toss, she just stayed at home every day to embroider, but she kept her money very secret, and the idea was that she would never give her daughter a defeat, she had to keep the money just in case.

Just in case, Qiao Zi also agreed with her daughter that she could toss as much as she liked, but the premise was that she couldn't owe money to others or borrow money from others, so as not to ask her to clean up the aftermath when she got it.

Ye Lan naturally agreed to this, she didn't plan to let Qiao Zi take out the money on her body, although she was confident that she could solve all the problems, but it was always right to leave a way back for everything.

Once growing up experience told Ye Lan that everything she did had to leave a way back, so as not to push herself to the extreme.

"Lan'er, have you encountered any difficulties?" Although she promised not to meddle in her daughter's affairs, seeing that her daughter sat on the chair in a daze after she came back, Qiao Zi couldn't help but stop the needlework in her hand, looked at Ye Lan and asked.

"Nope." Ye Lan looked at Qiao Zi calmly, "Why does my mother ask that?" ”

"I see you in a daze."

"I'm thinking."

"Oh...... Didn't you really get stuck? ”

"Does my mother want me to be in trouble?"

"Uh......" Finding that she couldn't talk about her daughter, Qiao Zi picked up the needle and thread with grief and anger, she still embroidered her own flowers, maybe she could take them out and sell them for money one day.

"Mother, I'm going to go into the city tomorrow."

"What are you doing in the city?"

"Naturally, something is wrong."

"You're not going to spend money again, are you?" Qiao Zi looked at Ye Lan with some vigilance, thinking about whether to snatch Ye Lan's money.

Qiao Zi's expression directly betrayed her thoughts, Ye Lan looked at her with a smile and a smile, "Mother, where do you want to go, I'm not going to spend money, okay, have you forgotten to make an agreement with me, before the corn harvest, you won't ask me casually." ”

"I just want to remind you, lest you get dizzy, and I don't know what kind of lime powder you pour into the cornfield, it's strange that you can really kill those bugs."

"If there are no accidents, it will be effective in three or four days, and after two days, you will know that it will not work." Ye Lan smiled, she went to see the lime powder corn field in the evening when she dried the lime powder first, and saw that some insects had died, which showed that the lime powder sterilization is effective, even if it is not as direct as pesticides, but as long as it is effective, she has confidence.

After the school ended, Jinhua and Lan Jian came back together, the mother and son were both excited, although they knew some words, but Zheng'er Bajing School had not entered, and today the first day of school felt extremely strange, and they had to pull Ye Lan's mother and daughter to tell their excitement.

"What did you learn today?" Qiao Zi asked.

"I learned the three-character scripture today, and the teacher said that we would check it tomorrow and asked us to memorize it in the evening." Lan Jian answered first.

"Oh, has Lan seen it?"

"Yes, I will memorize part of it, and today I will also memorize the part that I can't memorize, Aunt Qiao, can I recite it to you?"

"Okay."

"At the beginning of human beings, nature is good ......" Lan Jian really began to memorize.

Ye Lan sat next to her and listened, touching her chin and thinking, I learned a three-character scripture all day? This Zhang Xiucai is too rigid to teach, and the children in the village are big and small, although most of the children are illiterate, but people like Jinhua and Lan Jian are smart and know some words, and it doesn't seem fair to learn with everyone, there is only one gentleman in the village, and Zhang Xiuchang is not less spent, so he should be allowed to use it.

Ye Lan was already thinking about what advice to give Zhang Xiucai, those who didn't use classical Chinese to teach less, if you want to teach, you have to teach practical, don't teach children to be nerds, they are all farming, and they don't plan to take the top test, and the champion is not so easy to test, rather than this, it is better to find another way to survive.

Seeing that Jinhua and Lan Jian were very excited, Ye Lan offered to let them have dinner at home, and asked Qiao Zi to chat with them and go to the kitchen by herself.

When Sensible Lan saw it, she immediately followed, "Sister, I'll cook dinner with you." ”

"Okay, you make me a fire." Ye Lan nodded, looked at the things in the kitchen, and suddenly wanted to eat gnocchi soup, "How about Lan see that we drink gnocchi soup at night?" ”

"Okay." Noodles nourish the stomach and fill the stomach, in the northern land, barley is more productive than rice, so the staple food of the northern people is actually pasta, but Qiao Zi came from the capital, and the staple food of the people in the capital is rice, so when Ye Lan and Qiao Zi are together, they are still used to eating rice, of course, from the snack of 100 rice Ye Lan, there is no special habit, pasta and rice can be eaten non-stop.

When she was a child, her big wish was not to go hungry, it is already a kind of happiness not to be hungry, where is the right to choose?

What's more, she has been wandering around with her mother for so many years, staying in both the north and the south, and has been to the staple food of rice and flour, and her appetite has long been mixed.

Eating gnocchi, just when I see the flour, I suddenly want to eat it.

Take out some flour and put it in the basin, Ye Lan gestured skillfully and began to make noodles, and when she lifted the gnocchi, she couldn't help herself and remembered an old man, who died at a young age like her mother, and then also made a living by picking up garbage, her son was very competitive, and when he grew up, he was admitted to a key university and applied for a scholarship, and he didn't spend a penny after he was admitted to college, and after graduation, he relied on his own intelligence and wisdom to establish his own company, made money, and brought his mother to the city to support the elderly, but the old man was thrifty all his life, After picking up garbage for decades, she couldn't get rid of that habit, even if her son lived in a villa, she ran out to pick up garbage.

Have you ever seen who picks up garbage and has a driver and a car?

Ordinary people want to have her son's status at that time, if there is a mother who loves to pick up garbage, I am afraid she will be ashamed, and will find a way to erase her past, but her son is different, her son is a filial son, and is a reasonable person, will not because of the change of status, he will be poor and love to get rich, my mother likes to pick up garbage, he asked her to pick it up, with a driver, and a bodyguard to follow, to protect the safety of my mother, and never hide that she was born outside, do not dislike her mother, occasionally the interest comes, and she also picks up garbage on the street with her mother.

At that time, Ye Lan entered adolescence and began to rebel, wanting to save face, feeling that it was a shame to have a mother who picked up garbage, and she was in conflict with her mother.

In this way, she inadvertently met the old man and learned about the old man and his son.

That son, according to her age, she should call her uncle, he taught Ye Lan a lesson, so that Ye Lan is still unforgettable, the son is not ugly to his mother, a person who cares about his birth because of other people's words, and who cares about his parents, will never have great achievements.

Gnocchi is the old man's stunt, when the family life is difficult, she and her son often eat gnocchi, obviously a very ordinary bowl of gnocchi soup, but she is asked to study a lot of precautions, a bowl of ordinary gnocchi soup, let her make an unusual taste.

Many years later, Ye Lan often thought that perhaps, the bowl of gnocchi soup made her feel particularly delicious because it contained strong maternal love.

Later, she and her mother learned how to make gnocchi soup from the old man, because she fell in love with the taste, and she personally felt that her mother's gnocchi soup was better than her cooking, because her mother made it, and it contained the taste called mother's love.

Because of their two mothers and sons, Ye Lan finally passed the heart barrier and got back together with her mother, and later her mother entered the uncle's company, although it was just a land, but it was much better than picking up garbage, and Ye Lan and her mother's life began to improve slowly because of them.

It's a pity that God has always treated their family unfairly, and in the end, my mother didn't enjoy her own blessings and left, and she came to this ancient time inexplicably.

The old man and her son, in the following years, had a great impact on the lives of Ye Lan's mother and daughter, and Ye Lan has always been grateful to them in her heart, so much so that she thinks of them every time she eats gnocchi soup.

Just like now, Ye Lan thought of them unconsciously, and she didn't know how they were doing, that uncle's business should be getting bigger and bigger.

While reminiscing, the dough was also reconciled, put aside to ferment, Ye Lan began to prepare gnocchi soup seasoning, gnocchi has no taste, if you want to be delicious, the main trick is in the soup, the seasoning here is very scarce, Ye Lan can take it out that is, salt, oil, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce only, her own seasoning is already rich, other people's family, generally only salt and vinegar.

There is a shortage of things in the north, and if you want to have a more complete set of seasonings, I'm afraid you have to go to the big restaurant to have a look, and Ye Lan has always pursued to make delicious things with simple seasonings, so this amount of it is a special need to grasp.

Seeing that the dough was almost fermented, Ye Lan reminded Lan Jian, "Lan Jian, burn the fire." ”

"Yes, sister." Lan saw that his movements were very neat, and he raised the fire very quickly.

Ye Lan washes the pot, boils the water, waits for the water to boil, takes the dough, kneades it into a ball and throws it into the pot, waits for it to cook, gets out of the pot, puts the seasoning, and it's done.

"Okay, Mom, Aunt Jinhua, come and serve gnocchi soup."

"Here we are." Chatting in the room, Qiao Zi and Jin Hua heard Ye Lan's voice and immediately opened their mouths to respond.

Early the next morning, Ye Lan got up and drove the carriage into the carriage alone, fortunately there was this carriage, otherwise with her short legs, I am afraid that everyone in the city would have had lunch.

Qiao Zi originally wanted to follow, but was rejected by Ye Lan, thinking that her daughter was showing maturity, Qiao Zi finally let her daughter go into the city alone.

As soon as she entered the city, Ye Lan found that the city was very lively, calculate the time, today is not the day to catch the market, why does everyone look like something big is happening?

I grabbed someone casually and asked to know, it turned out that yesterday someone from the capital put the list, the emperor sealed the current seven princes as the king of the north, the land of the north, became the fief of the king of the north, ten days early, half a month later, the king of the north army is about to arrive, the city lord's mansion of the north has been empty for many years, and now the land of the north has become the fief of the king of the north, then the lord of the north city will naturally belong to the king of the north, as soon as the people from the capital come, the official lord immediately summoned his men to rectify the city lord's mansion and prepare to meet the king of the north, and everyone is more concerned about the arrival of the king of the north, What kind of changes will it bring to the northern city, if it is easy to get along, then it is okay, if it is not easy to get along, I am afraid that it will be more and more sad if it is already sad.

After thanking the person who answered carefully, Ye Lan drove to Juxian Tower, thinking in her heart, these seven princes have offended the emperor, otherwise how could they give him this famous place of exile as a fief?

(End of chapter)