Before the winter came, Lu picked all the hawthorns in the back mountain forest again, made sugar gourds and made a net profit of two times, but this income was spent in less than two days. She found the best carpenter in the village to build a desk for two people, added ten dozen dozen fine hemp paper, and cleaned up a special place for Lu Zhi to write and read at the sunny window of the room.

Even the relics of the jade also enjoy the treatment of practicing with pen, ink and paper, the best paper used for writing in Shuzhong is hemp paper, although the county town also sells rattan paper with a more delicate texture of southern specialties, but the price is also a lot more expensive, even the second-class hemp paper more than ten dozen more than 100 pieces also cost more than 300 dollars.

After the white eagle clear sky was healed from the injury, he was put back into the mountains and forests by the jade jade, and when he parted, the flat-haired beast was so good that he flew around the top of the jade head twice before rushing into the mountains.

In order to prepare for the winter, Lu prepared the winter clothes of the three children in advance, and when Yi Yu tried on her larger undergarment, she found another problem that she ignored, although Lu skillfully changed the old clothes and new cloth together, that is, they fit and neatly, but they are only thicker fabrics, and there is no trace of cotton at all.

Yi Yu almost couldn't help but ask Lu about cotton, but after thinking about it carefully, she knew that this was probably a place similar to the Tang Dynasty she knew, cotton planting had not yet been introduced, and people only relied on folding clothes to keep out the cold in winter, but fortunately, Yu Yu's current physique was not very afraid of cold, so she was not very afraid of the coming winter.

As for the fact that cotton is indeed a good thing, it seems that it was imported from a foreign country, and China is a vast country, and it must have grown in some unknown corner, but it is not known.

***

Since today, the temperature has been dry, and there has not been a single rain for most of the month, and the small river that was originally irrigated by the villagers has dried up half and cannot flow smoothly into the fields. The grain in the farmland has just sprouted, and the wheat field is facing a critical period of wintering, and once the seedlings are too weak, there is a chance that they will face famine in the next year.

On this day, the Lu family made lunch for the three brothers and sisters, and the village chief sent someone to inform the assembly to discuss the solution to this matter, and the Lu family, who had been worried about this matter for several days, did not care to fill his stomach and went to the village chief's house with someone, and he did not return until the evening.

As a result of the villagers' discussions, they were divided into two routes, some of whom were responsible for carrying water for irrigation of the fields, and some of whom were responsible for dredging the blocked earthen canals, and they would gather in front of the village early tomorrow morning.

After listening to Lu's relay, Lu Jun volunteered to help carry water, and Lu Zhi also expressed his desire to contribute, but Lu finally only agreed to take Lu Jun there, and said that he would ask someone to help when the time came.

So the next morning, the two of them went out with their tools, and there was a pair of brothers and sisters left at home, and no one came back until noon, when the two had lunch.

***

The person in the sun in the middle of the afternoon was lazy, and Yi Yu carried a small bamboo stool to Lu Zhi and sat down, staring straight at him who was reading a book, trying to attract his attention, but unfortunately the other party felt her approach but didn't even raise his head.

Recently, Yi Yu feels that her status in the family has declined, and the eldest brother who was originally considerate and cautious to her seems to be her delusion, and now even the occasional treatment of his gentle words has become a handful, only better than the second brother Lu Zhi, who is always oppressed.

But at this time, she did have something to ask Lu Zhi, and she wouldn't make that child's temperament honestly say: "Big brother, don't read books, let-"

"I'm hungry, there's flatbread in the pot in the stove."

"Xiaoyu is not hungry, let-" It was only less than half an hour after lunch, how could she be hungry.

"When you are thirsty, pour water and drink."

"I'm not thirsty, I said let-"

"If it's okay, I'll go and embroider your flowers."

Okay, she's sure she's disturbing the other party's interest in reading, but can't he wait for him to finish! Yi Yu angrily pulled out the book in Lu Zhi's hand, and when he was finally willing to look at her, he said loudly: "Let's go to the field to see my mother and them!" ”

Lu Zhi took the book back from her hand expressionlessly, gently smoothed the crumpled pages that she had scratched, and asked her, "What are you going to do with them?" ”

"Of course I'm going to help."

Yi Yu replied honestly that when she was sleeping in Lu's arms these few nights, she could feel that the other party had not rested well at all, and she was going to do physical work today, so she was really worried about Lu.

"Can you pick a load of water?"

Yu Yu shook his head.

"The hoe you have?"

Yu Yu shook his head again.

"If you have nothing to do, you might as well go embroidery." After saying a word, Lu Zhi opened the book again and found the page he hadn't finished reading just now to continue studying.

Yi Yu was left cold like this, she really couldn't describe her mood, she knew in her heart that Lu Zhi ignored her request on the one hand because he didn't want her to cause trouble, and on the other hand, he was afraid that she would be called to work in the past.

But she really has a reason to go this time, as early as after seeing the special ability she has, she plans to use it reasonably as much as possible without being discovered, and helping her family's farmland increase production is the most direct thing she can think of, but unfortunately there has been no legitimate reason to implement the plan she planned.

Until yesterday, when Lu told them about the village chief's arrangement, she knew that this was a good opportunity, so after Lu left this morning, she quietly carried Lu Zhi in the stove room, put more than a dozen drops of blood and mixed it with water, and put it in a small bamboo tube, just wait for the opportunity to add it to the watering water source when she got to the field.

She calculated all the steps, but she ignored the most crucial point - Lu Zhi didn't let her go out at all!

"Big brother, although Xiaoyu can't help, but I want to go to see my mother, Xiaoyu is very worried, my mother didn't sleep well last night, and she has been covering the quilt for Xiaoyu."

Yi Yu had no choice but to use a bitter strategy, a small hand behind his back pressed the finger of the bleeding in the morning, the little nose twitched and choked and cried, the golden bean fell even more, and the other hand that did not commit the crime pitifully rubbed his eyes and wiped his tears, but the little head was raised or not, and it was not, that is, he was afraid that the sharp-eyed Lu Zhi would see that his expression was wrong and that he would not be able to see his tears, and he would not achieve the target effect.

Fortunately, as soon as Lu Zhi heard her crying, he closed the book, and after a small sigh, he stretched out one hand to support her little shoulder and the other hand to grab her little hand to wipe her tears, and coaxed her softly: "Okay, Xiaoyu don't cry, see that your eyes are red, don't rub them, and the eldest brother didn't say not to take you there." ”

"Woooooo Xiao Yu can't carry water..."

"As long as Lu Jun can handle it."

"Woooooo Xiaoyu can't lift a hoe..."

"Lu Jun can lift it up."

......

So two moments later, the brother and sister appeared in the ridges in front of the mountain village, and at a glance, they saw that many people were busy working in the grain fields.

After Yi Yu glanced around, he saw Lu Shi who was bending over to water in the field more than ten zhang away with a soapy turban, and just wanted to run over when he was dragged by Lu Zhi behind him, Yi Yu looked back at him suspiciously, and only got a word.

"Don't run, walk over."

When Yi Yu was worried that he would fall, he honestly walked to Lu Shi, but stopped when he was still seven or eight steps away from her, not that she didn't want to step forward, but seeing Lu Shi's expression was really not very good, she was afraid that she didn't welcome herself and Lu Zhi's arrival at all.

"Mother." Yi Yu shouted weakly, and Yu Guang looked at Lu Zhi who walked beside her, and rubbed behind him without a margin before she felt that the sharp gaze staring at her was a little weaker.

"What are you doing here, are you causing trouble? Look at how busy they are here, and add to the chaos! Lu Zhi! How do I give you an account? Lu Shi was really angry, the situation in the field was indeed not very good, the older farmers in the village all asserted that next year's harvest would not be good, and Lu Shi, who was not in a good mood, saw that the two children who ran out of her voice did not listen to her and naturally did not give them a good look.

"Mother said let's not run around."

"Then why don't you listen to your mother! I also brought my little sister to the field, do you think you don't have to listen to your mother when you have grown your skills? ”

"Mother, we are very obedient and didn't run around, we came over."

"......" Lu's originally stern expression suddenly distorted.

Yi Yu couldn't help but glance at her eldest brother with admiration, and said in her heart that she was afraid that he was the only one in the family who dared to pick on her mother's language, she secretly looked at Lu's tangled expression, and couldn't help but feel a wave of sympathy in her heart, secretly saying that she was not the only one who was choked by Lu Zhi recently, could it be that the rebellious period of teenagers has arrived?

She was thinking nonsense on the side, and she didn't pay attention to what the two said later, when she came back to her senses, Lu Zhi had already helped Lu Jun carry water, and Lu Shi saw her in a daze inexplicably and didn't talk about her anymore, turned around and continued to water.

Seeing that Lu Shi really didn't plan to let her help, she went to find the water source of the earthen canal after obtaining the other party's approval, due to the drought the river became dry, Lu Shi was not afraid that something would happen to her by the river, and there were many adults at the water source at this time, so that she would not be in danger as a child.

Yi Yu trotted to the small river not far from the large farmland, and sure enough, she saw a lot of people gathered there, some were digging earth ditches, some were carrying water back and forth, and she didn't see Lu Zhi and Lu Jun after looking around, she didn't deliberately look for them again, and walked quietly to the river by herself.

The adults were too busy, and the jade who thought it would take a lot of effort to waste it was actually easy to pour a tube of water that had diluted her blood hanging on her waist into the shallow mouth of the ditch.

Yi Yu knew very well the peculiar role of her blood, and knew that after such dilution, although she could not make the fields of the big guy mature instantly like the hawthorn trees in the back mountain, she would not be green and yellow next year.

Although she could have put more blood into it to make the fields in the backing village harvest, the harvest in this climate is too eye-catching, and it is not good to attract the suspicion of outsiders.