Yan Yan only learned that Lu Han had injured her body due to excessive blood loss the next morning, and it would be difficult to get pregnant in the future, and it was the Zhu family who sent someone around her to send a message to Yan Yan, and by the way, she told Yan Yan that she would accompany her to Wu's house again the next day, this time as a milk gift.

Sending people away, Yan Yan called two Qingyu and Qingglaze, and then went to the pastry shop to pick up Qingyu, and a few people went to the barren mountain outside the city, and there were already people working here, planting fences, reclaiming wasteland, and dealing with barren mountains.

After arranging all this, Yan Yan asked Qingyu to take a few hills near Qinglian Nunnery for a turn, spring came, she wanted to see if she could find some useful herbs or wild fruits or something, such as yams, kudzu, peppercorns, wild pears, chestnuts or something.

Qingyu has been wandering around this mountain since she was a child, and the terrain is familiar, but unfortunately she doesn't know any yams and peppercorns, but she took Yan Yan to know toon, elm money and hawthorn trees, in addition to the bracken that Yan Yan himself knows.

It's just that except for bracken, those are not what Yan Yan wants, when a few people were walking around the mountains, Yan Yan ran into the mother and daughter again, that is, the mother and daughter who had been funded in the nunnery last summer, and then Yan Yan went to Zhuangzi, and happened to meet the mother who was sick again, and it was Yan Yan who rescued her, therefore, the little girl named Mai Qing recognized Yan Yan at a glance, and hurriedly pulled her mother to kneel and thank Yan Yan for saving her life.

Seeing that the woman named Shanhua was cured, Yan Yan asked about their source of livelihood, who knew that it was a coincidence that the mother and daughter basket was filled with bracken.

Knowing that most of the people here would come out to pinch the young leaves of this bracken in the spring and eat it back, it gave Yan Yan a good reason, so with the help of their tools, Yan Yan ordered Qingyu to dig out a few bunches of fern roots, and she planned to try to see if she could refine the fern root powder after she went back.

In addition, by talking with Shanhua, Yan Yan asked that this generation does have a thing called yam, which is a bit similar to the yam she described, with white flowers in summer, the rhizome is very thick, the outer skin is brown, the inside is white, a little sticky, when they are hungry, there are many people in their village who come out to dig this kind of rhizome to eat, but there are many people who will itch and even grow small red spots after touching this kind of thing, so some people say that this kind of thing is poisonous, and everyone will not eat it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Knowing that the mother and daughter had no other source of livelihood, Yan Yan asked for their opinions and brought them back, Mai Qing changed her name to Qingmai, and first followed Qinghe to learn some rules, Shanhua is said to be able to do good needlework, Yan Yan asked her to be in charge of the clothes of the people in the house.

Of course, that's for later.

At present, Yan Yan's focus is on extracting the starch in the fern root, but she doesn't understand this kind of thing, but this is not difficult for her, since wheat can be ground into flour in this era, then it should also be able to grind the fern root into flour, and Yan Yan is naturally not needed for specific methods, she handed this thing to Qinghe, and ordered her to find a person in the stove room, there are ready-made mills in the house, how to do it She didn't ask, what she wanted was the powder that precipitated and separated after grinding this thing.

However, through this incident, Yan Yan thought of two other things, one is lotus root powder, and the other is mung bean powder, she feels that she should still push out the lotus root powder first and then promote what fern root powder, after all, lotus root is a household name, and it is definitely much easier to explain and convincing to spend some time thinking about a new ingredient than fern root powder.

Coincidentally, this spring she planned to plant lotus flowers in the pond in the back garden, and by the way, she also raised some fish and shrimp, and then there was a ready-made reason, saying that there were too many lotus roots, and she couldn't eat them, and she didn't want to waste them, so she figured out something new.

For this reason, Yan Yan plans to postpone the cultivation of bracken by a year and plant yam first, which is easier to promote, after all, there is a precedent for eating yam in the local area, and there are still a lot of people.

Make up your mind, the rest is to implement, not only the Zhuangzi outside the city, but also the back garden began to clean up, for this reason, Yan Yan was really busy, so the next day he followed the Zhu family to the Wu family to send a milk gift, and then hurriedly came back to meet a few Zhuangtou and stewards, and even the Yun family and the Yan family were not available.

On this day, Yan Yan easily finalized the four stewards and four compradors, these eight people were all selected by her from the clan, and they were also recommended by the patriarch and Lu Duan, after Yan Yan assigned the work in his hand to these eight people, he thought that this trip to the Yun family should be put on the agenda.

So, she personally took Qinghe Qingmiao to the warehouse and picked out a few things, including girls' clothing and jewelry, as well as precious medicinal materials used by the elders, in addition, there are two calligraphy and paintings.

Who knew that Yan Yan had just prepared his things, and when he was about to go out, Ma came to the door.

Ma's came alone.

There is no need to ask Yan Yan to guess what she wants to say, because Yan Yu's family affair is scheduled for March 26, and it will be more than a month, but Yan Yan has not let go of his mouth here, and he has not even moved the normal return gift, so it is impossible for Ma not to worry.

However, Ma Shi saw that Yan Yan had changed into a new dress to go out, so he asked casually.

"I'm sorry, second aunt, I'm too busy these days, and I caught up with Lu Han to give birth to a child, and it was a birth ceremony and a milk ceremony, so I didn't have time to go back to visit my aunt, and the cousin of the Yun family didn't go, and my cousin also brought two cousins to see me that day, but I went to Zhuangzi that day, which made the family empty, no, it's been five or six days, I just made some time, and I plan to go and see them." Yan Yan told the truth.

"Busy like this?" Ma obviously didn't believe Yan Yan's words, thinking it was an excuse.

So, Yan Yan roughly explained the work arrangements for these days, the point is that she personally went to Zhuangzi and Barren Mountain several times, so Ma believed it, because there was no day out of the city and she couldn't come back.

It's just that in this way, Ma Shi couldn't figure it out, how could a good lady suddenly become interested in farming, and actually put down his body to meet those rough people, is this commonsense?

Yan Yan saw that the other party's eyes were a little questioning and exploratory, smiled, and said: "Auntie doesn't know, I also came into contact with a little farming when I was practicing in Qinglian Nunnery, so I know that a porridge and a meal are not easy to come by, and when will the Great Zhou and Liao have to fight, the war is together, grain and grass are fundamental, for this reason, I have read a lot of agricultural books, thinking about taking a piece of barren mountains and wasteland to try to grow a few new things, but the things I want to plant are different from ordinary people, so I have to communicate more with those stewards in the early stage. Just wait for things to get back on track. ”

When Ma heard this, he opened his mouth and closed it again when he wanted to say something.