Chapter 104: The Beginning of Spring
When the carriage stopped at the door, the second aunt's family heard the sound, and came out of the door, and when they saw Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan coming, she seemed very happy, and hurriedly led Ye Yuan and Liu Man'er to the main room.
There were many people sitting in the hall, Liu Man'er didn't know any of them, the second aunt pointed to her parents-in-law and mother-in-law to introduce Liu Man'er to a few people, Liu Man'er said hello to them, and then gave the gift.
The second aunt's father-in-law looks quite upright and energetic, but her mother-in-law is not as kind as the eldest aunt's mother-in-law, although her face is full of smiles, but no matter how you look at it, she feels a little fake, but she is really happy when she receives the gift.
There are too many people in this house, and after Liu Man'er called a circle of people, she went to the east wing where the second aunt lived, and the two rooms in the east wing were the houses of the second aunt's house, and they were cleaned up quite cleanly, and the general layout was similar to the small courtyard of the Ye family in the past.
The second aunt married to the family surnamed Li, she married the youngest son of the Li family, Li Liannian, and there are three elder brothers, there are many people, the family is full of people, and they are noisy all day long.
It's the New Year, and it's even more noisy, Liu Man'er has nothing to say to Ye Yuan's second aunt, so she casually said a few words of hello in her room, and then left with her aunt's two children.
As for the second aunt's talented Xianggong Li Liannian, Liu Man'er didn't see it, I heard that she went to the county seat to eat and drink, and every year these Xiucai would gather in the county, and the second aunt complained to Liu Man'er that it would cost a lot of money for her husband to study.
Liu Man'er didn't want to speak, since he didn't have any money, why did he let him go out to drink, and the second aunt was already in her thirties, so her husband had to be at least in his thirties, and he was still a talent in his thirties, was there any need to continue studying later?
Besides, this old Li family has a good face, this yard is dilapidated like this, but it also makes the façade so good, no wonder this second aunt wants to obey her own chicken, although her family is not poor, but the money has to be used to support the second aunt to study, and there are many people, and there is no separation, eating a big pot of rice together, thinking about it is a little headache, even if you cook a chicken to eat, it must be distributed to twenty or thirty people, not even a chicken feather can fall.
Liu Man'er was originally very angry that she had ignored the Ye family in the past and beat the autumn wind, but seeing the current situation of her family, her heart softened, and when she left, she also gave the second aunt's child a purse, although the money was not much, but it was also her own heart.
In this second aunt's house, she came back without even drinking tea, no wonder these children in the family refused to come, and after Liu Man'er came this time, she didn't want to come again.
After returning to the eldest aunt's house and sending the two children safely to the eldest aunt's house, Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan embarked on the return journey back to their home.
When she got home, Fang asked Liu Man'er how she felt about going to the two aunts' house, Liu Man'er only said that it was okay, and she didn't want to say anything else, she was not interested in meddling in other people's affairs, so it was better to be busy with her own affairs.
Although this farmhouse is the Spring Festival, but it is impossible to be idle at home all day, this year's beginning of spring happens to be in the sixth day of the first month, this day the long led everyone to sacrifice to the god of spring, whip the spring cow, and then everyone began to be busy again, the beginning of spring, it is time to turn over the ground.
Liu Man'er has been thinking about what to plant in these acres of land in her family? I feel that it is too wasteful to grow some peanuts and soybeans, although I work hard, but I can't actually make any money.
But Liu Man'er didn't think of being able to plant better things now, and fortunately, it was not time to sow seeds yet, so she just went to plough the ground first, and Liu Man'er concentrated on picking up these acres of land in the yard.
After all, the predecessor of this yard was a wasteland, and there were many grass roots and grass seeds sprinkled in this yard.
Liu Man'er left the grass in the place where the sheep were grazing, and of course she had to remove all the other grasses, and some of the fruit trees picked and planted last year did not survive after all, so Liu Man'er went to the town to buy some more and pick them again.
I bought some vines and planted them on the fence of the yard, there were no black beauties and giant peak grapes in the previous life, only some mountain grapes, which were very sour, but it was better than planting some thorns in other people's homes, anyway, this grape was planted by the wall, and it was not in the way.
What's more, mountain grapes, which are not very delicious in the eyes of others, have become sweet and sour wine in the eyes of Liu Man'er.
Her cellar was ready, and all that was needed was some wine, but the vines had just been planted.
After planting the vines, Liu Man'er asked Ye Yuan to transplant some of the honeysuckle in the old house, and she divided the yard into a lot of areas, each of which was separated by honeysuckle, and now it was just around the fence, and when the honeysuckle climbed up the fence, it was a large piece of green.
In addition, there are azaleas, there are a lot of azaleas here, they are useless wildflowers in the eyes of the villagers, and willow vines have seen a lot, but this azalea is really beautiful when it blooms, and willow vines still transplant it into their own yards.
This is her root, she wants to make it look like she likes, she can't afford to buy good chrysanthemums or orchids, she should be fine with digging up some wild flowers and picking them.
The rest of the land, Liu Man'er is all planted with sorghum and corn, and the other crops are very squeamish, only this sorghum and corn, no matter how barren the land, they can grow strongly.
What's more, when the sorghum grows, she can feed the chicks in the sorghum field.
Planting flowers, planting trees, planting vegetables, Liu Man'er is busy every day, she gradually likes this life, although tired, but always feel an inexplicable sense of achievement, the happiest thing every day, is to see if the vines she planted are alive, what about the fruit trees she planted, or the flowers and plants she planted to water.
After the festival, Liu Man'er was even busier, she was busy taking care of the pond in the backyard, after a few heavy rains, the pond was full, Liu Man'er bought fish fry and put it in it, and bought a lot of lotus roots and water chestnuts.
Put the lotus root indoors, cover it with straw, sprinkle it twice a day, close the door, keep the temperature in the room, and wait until the sprouts are about two inches old before planting it in the pond.
These methods Liu Man'er saw in the book, because she has no experience, so Liu Man'er doesn't know whether these lotus roots can survive, she has been riding a bull across the river, walking step by step, so every day, she will go to the pond to have a look, looking forward to when, the pond will emerge sharp corners.
But it seems that the more you look forward to it, the more it won't listen to you, this lotus root has never appeared, but the newly planted flowers and plants in the yard have begun to take root. Liu Man'er simply didn't look forward to it, anyway, it would naturally grow out when the time came, even if the lotus root was dead, and there was water chestnut, even if the water chestnut didn't grow, she still had fish, and she could also raise ducks, so it didn't matter.
Spring is a sowing season, in addition to looking at this lotus root, she has a lot of things to do, for example, the beasts in the mountains have also begun to come out, and they can go up the mountain with Ye Yuan to hunt.
She also likes to go up the mountain, as if she is going to spring, walking and stopping, occasionally pulling a bow and shooting arrows, which is quite interesting.
On this day, she took a turn in the yard again, and looked at everything as usual in the yard, the techniques of braised eggs and preserved eggs had been taught to the Fang family, and the work of selling rabbits was handed over to Ye Qing, and even her small workshop had already let Aunt Chunhua help take charge, so for the time being, she seemed to be idle.
It was spring, everything was recovering, flowers were blooming, Liu Man'er wanted to go to the mountains for a walk, she and Ye Yuan hadn't been hunting in the mountains for a long time.
Tell Ye Yuan about wanting to go hunting, Ye Yuan also nodded and agreed, and the next day, the two of them walked to the mountain with firewood knives and bows and arrows on their backs.
Last winter, Liu Man'er didn't know how she survived, every day was a gray day, some decaying seasons, and there was no snow last year, which is a bit abnormal here, the so-called Ruixue Mega Year, some old people have begun to worry about this year's harvest.
Liu Man'er also heard such a statement, but she didn't want to think about it now, could it be that if it doesn't snow for one year, it will affect the harvest of the next year? Liu Man'er didn't believe this.
Besides, she likes the appearance of spring at this time, everywhere is green, especially in the mountains, because it is early spring, and the trees have just grown new leaves, tender green and tender, and it is beautiful in a flash.
Liu Man'er feels that this year will be smooth again, and it will be a good year.
On the way up the mountain, Liu Man'er met many women, all of whom had come out to pick wild vegetables, and in addition to bitter herbs, there was a plant called fern, which was particularly pleasing to these women.
If you can't eat all of these bracken at the time, you can dry and store them, and when there is no food to eat, you can come in handy, and of course, more importantly, this bracken is not very bitter.
In fact, Liu Man'er had also eaten it in her previous life, at that time, she was already an eldest lady, such a bracken, everyone ate it, just to taste fresh, such a mountain dish in a five-star hotel cost three or four hundred yuan.
The women here are just to fill their stomachs, they have hoarded this bracken, some of them have climbed to the top of the mountain, and Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan usually hunt in that position.
Fortunately, this kind of bracken, when it comes to spring, is all over the mountains, but even if it is all over the mountains, it cannot withstand the picking of these industrious women, no, the picking at the bottom of the mountain is almost done, so they climb to the mountainside, and then to the top of the mountain.
However, this mountain is very large, and Liu Man'er and they are not often encountered, of course, with Liu Man'er's ears, they can often hear their chagrin, probably missing a pheasant or a hare.
Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan's luck today is really good, as soon as they arrived at the top of the mountain, they found the traces of a roe deer, with Ye Yuan's archery, as long as this robe is found, don't want to escape.
But Liu Man'er deliberately didn't let Ye Yuan hunt this roe deer, she beckoned to Ye Yuan, and the two of them had been secretly following behind this robe, she wanted to find the old house of this robe and take the roe deer in one nest.