Wang Xiaofu went to look for lilies with a bag of seeds, but Brother Danian was not at home, so it was inconvenient for him to enter the house directly, so he stood at the door and shouted: "Sister-in-law, are you at home?"

After not seeing him for a while, he felt that the scenery near Brother Danian's house had changed greatly, a small vegetable field had been opened up in the yard, planted with some green onions, ginger and garlic, etc., and two vegetable fields had also opened up on the ownerless open space on the side of the house, neatly dividing several areas.

As soon as Lily and Lamei finished hoeing the vegetable patch and washed their hands in the house, they heard Wang Xiaofu shouting, and hurriedly came out to let him in: "Come in and talk, my sister is also there." ”

After entering the house, Wang Xiaofu didn't dare to look at it, took out a paper bag and opened it, and there were six or seven tightly wrapped oil paper bags with words written on them. Wang Xiaofu pointed out to the lily one by one: "This is cabbage seeds, this is radish seeds, cowpeas, lentils, courgette Note 1, pumpkin, each package was bought for five cents, and the extra bag was given by someone, saying what kind of corn it is, there are people planting it in the north, and no one has planted it here."

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Other seeds are fine, Lily listens to corn, his eyes are bright, "Corn? This is really good!" "Corn is similar to sweet potatoes, easy to grow, and has a large grain yield, but it was introduced relatively late, and Lily did not dare to expect to be able to eat it now." Wang Xiaofu's bag of seeds gave Lily a glimmer of hope, not only can she improve her living conditions, but maybe in the near future, she can also eat chili peppers.

Tomatoes and other vegetables.

Lily thanked her for her kindness, and asked Lamei to pour water for Wang Xiaofu to drink, Wang Xiaofu stared at Lamei, thinking that this girl was very similar to her before. After drinking water, he will go home to sort out the goods, and tomorrow he will continue to walk the streets and alleys of various villages.

Lamei looked down at the packets of seeds, "There are so many, don't get confused." ”

There were words written on the paper packets, and it was impossible for Lily to be confused, so she smiled and said, "You've worked hard to open the vegetable field in the past two days, but you can't rest yet, you have to plant all this." ”

Lamei nodded, she was more comfortable when she was doing work, and as soon as she rested, she felt that she had nowhere to put her hands and feet. The eldest sister asked her to work, and she felt that the eldest sister did not see her, but she felt down-to-earth in her heart.

In the past two days, the two sisters opened a vegetable field next to the house, and Lily had inquired with Uncle Sheng, Aunt Sheng and others in Liufu in advance that the land next to their house was ownerless.

Nowadays, the imperial court has an order that as long as the newly opened fields are planted for more than three years, they can go to the official office to register the title deed and pass it on to their descendants forever.

Song Haonian was separated from his family and casually picked a vacant land to build a house in the west of the town, which was naturally ownerless. Lily opens the land if he wants, and everyone in the town has their own fields, and they don't look down on this vacant land that is not fertile.

The next day, Lily only sold half of the raspberries, and spent the other half of the day digging mud from the river and piling it up in the vegetable patch with Lamei.

It is not easy to open up wasteland, and if the fertility is insufficient, the crops will not grow, and only weeds will grow. The mud is delicate and fertile, and the sand mixed in it loosens the soil and prevents it from compacting.

Both of them were thin and small women, and the river mud was full of water, which was too heavy to carry and very difficult to transport. Fortunately, the Baishui River was reluctant to leave, but it was only one or two hundred paces away, and two people used their joint efforts to carry a dustpan, a small number of times, and slowly applied the whole land with river mud. It's not enough to have this river mud, but in order for the vegetables to grow well, you will need more fertilizer. Most of the countrymen's fertilization is the manure produced by their own pigs and cattle, and the chickens in Lily's house are just enough to provide fertilizer for the small vegetable field in the yard, and it is enough to provide fertilizer for such a large vegetable field

No more.

After surviving one day, the sister was so tired that her back hurt, so she boiled hot water and took a good bath to temporarily eliminate her exhaustion.

As soon as she woke up the next day, Lily felt that something was wrong, her body was so sore, as if she hadn't rested all night, and it was as if someone was grabbing the organs inside her waist and twisting it hard.

She suspected that she was going to be sick, so she barely supported herself to get up and cook, and Lamei helped her.

Before a pot of water was boiled, Lamei suddenly lost her voice and shouted: "Sister, you are bleeding!"

In an instant, Lily figured out what was wrong with herself, since she came to this world, she had not been to Guishui.

This body is eighteen years old, and it stands to reason that she should have come to Deshui a long time ago, but Li Daniu has lacked nutrition since she was a child, and she is so thin that she is not much different from a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, and she has never been to Deshui.

Only the Zhu family knows about this, and the other two girls in the family don't know that women will have such changes when they grow up. Zhu sold the lily to Song Haonian, and it was the idea of a hammer deal, she thought that the big girl was the kind of woman who couldn't give birth to children.

So she did everything possible to hollow out Song Haonian's family property, just because she was afraid that Song Haonian would know the truth one day, and the two families would never interact again, and she would no longer be able to take advantage of this eldest son-in-law.

But she didn't expect that Song Haonian had never touched a lily until now, and she didn't know that she had never had a period.

In the past few months, Lily has eaten well, and will work as an exercise every day, not only has grown flesh on her body, but also has grown a section taller, and her trousers are a little short, and she also uses cloth to splice them at the hem of her trouser tubes, so as not to expose her ankles.

The body has enough nutrients, and the decay water that should have appeared long ago is long overdue, and it is manifested in her body for the first time.

The sisters have never been here, and the Zhu family has not taught what to pay attention to in this regard, Lamei thought that the eldest sister had a serious illness, so she turned pale with fright, and shouted with a crying voice: "Sister, what happened to you?"

Lily couldn't cry or laugh: "I'm fine, don't cry." She thought for a while, and said to her sister with a slightly red face, "I've grown up." ”

"Grow up?" Lamei couldn't figure out how her sister would grow up. Lily didn't have the energy to explain to her more, she only felt that her stomach hurt more and more, and the slimy feeling after being stained with blood was also obvious, she didn't dare to delay any longer, but there was nothing suitable at hand, so she had to take the handkerchief that was washed yesterday and put it on the pad, and change the blood-stained pants to soak in the water

Village.

Lamei saw that Lily was moving quite freely, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but she was a little embarrassed, feeling that she was making too much fuss.

Lily asked Lamei to boil hot water for her to drink, felt a terrible stomachache, and after thinking about it, she knew that she could only work today, so she had to sigh and explain to Lamei what was going on.

She can't leave a psychological shadow on this little girl, otherwise it will be terrible for Lamei to be scared when she comes to the eldest aunt herself.

In my previous life in the countryside, I heard many women call it "bad luck," but where is this bad luck? This is clearly a sign that a woman has grown up and is a gift from life.

Lily can't do work, Lamei doesn't dare to run out alone, and she is even more afraid that something will happen to Lily when she is away, so she guards the eldest sister in the house with good eyes.

Lamei felt that the bloodshed was quite serious, otherwise her eldest sister would be worried like this

She didn't know that Lily's frown was because she was worried about her aunt's towel. Everything in this era is pure and natural, there is no environmental pollution, and nature does not have the convenience brought by industrialization.

Everything she used to be able to endure was tolerated, but Lily found that she didn't have a clean aunt towel to use after coming to Tianqi, not even the kind of clean and soft toilet paper she had seen when she was a child, and she couldn't help but miss the convenience of her previous life.

No matter how much I miss it, I can't go back, Lily sighed for a while, drank half a bowl of brown sugar water, felt warmer on my body, and decided to be self-reliant and make myself a few ancient versions of my aunt's towel.

When she was studying as a teacher, she also thought about how ancient women used aunt towels, and she also checked the information and found that many people used strips of cloth to sew into a small bag with one end open, stuffed with cotton or plant ash.

The pouch can have long ties at both ends, can be tied around the waist, and can be replaced with cotton or plant ash at intervals, and can be reused for a long time. There was still some white cloth left over from the last time I made insoles for Song Haonian, which happened to come in handy at this time. Lily asked Lamei to bring a needlework basket, cut out a suitable shape with memory and imagination, and sewed three flat and long small bags, afraid that the stitches would wear out the skin, so she deliberately put the side with stitches

Flip inside.

She was very fast at needlework, making three bags in half a day, and decorating them with strips of muslin to tie around her waist.

Lamei was envious and ashamed, envious of the eldest sister's quick work, and ashamed of what she was doing. But Lily still asked her to boil hot water, scald three small bags with hot water repeatedly, washed them cleanly, and hung them under the sun to dry.

When the sun went west that day, Lily used a homemade ancient version of her aunt's towel. Although the plant ash is inconvenient, this thing has been burned by fire, and it is the cleanest, and when there is no Hushu Bao and the seven-degree space, it can only rely on the plant ash to ensure its cleanliness.

The blood-stained handkerchief naturally can't be used anymore, so it can be changed and made into an aunt's towel, so that it can be easily replaced in the future. Someone else's aunt towel is good for a few days, and the lily can't stand it, so she always has to change it once or twice a day, and wash it immediately after changing it.

Lamei boiled hot water in the kitchen all day long, because Lily can't touch cold water now, and she has to wash her clothes and aunt's towels with warm water, and she has to scald them with hot water many times.

Lunch and dinner were made by Lamei, she felt sorry for the lily bleeding, boiled a brown sugar poached egg, fragrant and sweet, the lily gave her half of it, and the two sisters ate the sweet poached egg.

It only hurt for one day, and by the next day the lily didn't hurt anymore, but there was still a feeling of swelling in the waist. She didn't dare to do too heavy work, but Lamei couldn't be idle, so she had to take Lamei to do some easier work, picking out the melon and vegetable seeds that were not too full, and she didn't dare to tire herself out. Fortunately, this is the first time she has come to Tianqi, the amount is small, and the days are short, and there will be no more bleeding after three or four days. Lamei was really relieved, she originally thought that the eldest sister would be bleeding from now on, how scary it was!