Chapter 22: A New Name
After making an appointment with the Ji brothers for a meeting, Deng Xibin took the eight taels of silver he had exchanged for selling wild things to purchase.
Today happens to be the day when the second lady of their family, that is, Bai Zehui, who was given the new name Ren Hanyue by Yao Yuzhi, is 100 days, and before Deng Xibin came to the town, Deng Qin's family had already told him that he wanted to buy things for Ren Hanyue for 100 days.
Bai Zehui likes her new name very much, she has long been fed up with being called "Little Niuniu" and "Little Niuniu" by Yao Yuzhi and others.
From today onwards, Yao Yuzhi will all change their names to call her "Sister Yue".
Because everyone in the family is still in the filial piety period, it is really inconvenient to give Ren Hanyue a hundred days, so Yao Yuzhi decided to just eat a good meal quietly for his own family.
At noon, Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qinshi cooked six dishes together: West Lake vinegar fish, boiled shrimp, steamed crab, stewed chicken with mushrooms, braised rabbit meat, and vinegared cabbage, and then the two cooked a large pot of longevity noodles and fifty red-skinned eggs.
After the longevity noodles and red-skinned eggs were boiled, Deng Qin's family immediately sent them to the Wang family and the Ji family next door.
ββThe ladies of these two families have given Ren Hanyue small clothes made by them by lighting lamps and boiling oil, and now that the children are over 100 days old, Yao Yuzhi of course wants to share his joy with them.
Longevity noodles and red-skinned eggs mean excellent but not valuable, such things are just suitable for giving to the Ji family and the Wang family.
By the time Deng Qin's things came back after delivering the things, Yao Yuzhi had already put all the food on the table in the dining room.
In addition to the ones mentioned above, Yao Yuzhi also warmed a bowl of goat's milk sent by the Wang family in the morning.
This goat's milk is for Ren Hanyue to drink, and since the six of them returned to Liangzhi Village, the Wang family has been sending goat milk twice a day.
The Wang family uses small wooden barrels to deliver goat milk, and Ren Hanyue can't drink two full barrels of goat milk a day, Yao Yuzhi once told Wang Wen's about this problem, but Wang Wen's insisted on refusing to send less, only saying that the goat milk also has the share of the other two children.
Yao Yuzhi said several times to let Wang Wen's family keep more for his family to drink, Wang Wen's family is still the same, Yao Yuzhi had to accept her kindness with gratitude, but at the same time she also decided to wait for a little more money to buy a dairy sheep by herself.
In order to achieve this goal, Yao Yuzhi, Deng Qin, and Deng Xibin were all busy.
Ren Hanjun sensibly took care of his younger brothers and sisters, Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qin's were either weaving or embroidering, and Deng Xibin still got up early and went out to hunt and sell in the town.
After being busy for nearly two months, Yao Yuzhi finally had a few dozen taels of silver left in his hand.
Because it was already the end of the year, Deng Xibin and Deng Qin's took a day to buy New Year's goods in Qushan Town.
On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the husband and wife followed the Ji family to Qushan Town.
In addition to the gifts and sacrifices during the Chinese New Year, as well as the food and clothing of the family in the next three months, Deng Xibin and Deng Qin's family also bought a dairy sheep and came back.
The dairy sheep was raised by Deng Xibin between the martial arts training ground and the vegetable field in the backyard, the father of the Ji family brought his sons over to help fence the fence, and the Wang family sent enough forage for the dairy sheep to eat for a winter.
In order to thank everyone for their full help, Yao Yuzhi asked Deng Xibin to go to the best restaurant in the town and ordered two tables of the best tables to be sent to the Ji family and the Wang family respectively.
After doing all this, Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qinshi began to prepare the dishes for the New Year.
Deng Xibin, who couldn't stay idle, was busy cleaning the yard, and Ren Hanyue, who had gained a little weight, accompanied Ren Hanjun and Ren Hantang to play.
Of course, from the perspective of Ren Hanjun and Ren Hantang, this sentence should be said the other way around.
On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the sound of firecrackers in the village was loud, and the carefree children were laughing and running around the village, but the Ren family's reunion dinner was always shrouded in a sad atmosphere.
Yao Yuzhi placed a pair of dishes and chopsticks beside her, although she didn't say anything, everyone knew that it was the place she left for Ren Zixian.
Ren Hanjun sensibly took care of the ignorant Ren Hantang, while Ren Hanyue obediently nested in Deng Qin's arms, trying not to cause chaos to the adults.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Deng Xibin began to turn over the vegetable gardens in the front and back yards, while Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qinshi continued to weave and embroider cloth and take care of the three children in the family.
Now Yao Yuzhi still has more than 20 taels of silver left over from the previous year, although it is not much, but it is enough for them to cope with daily expenses, so Deng Xibin did not go up the mountain to hunt in the first month.
Time came to the second day of the second month of the first year of Yongguang in a blink of an eye, and this day was Yao Yuzhi's birthday.
Because he was still in the filial piety period, Yao Yuzhi still didn't plan to celebrate.
That night, Deng Qin's master added a few dishes, and then cooked a pot of longevity noodles and poached eggs.
When everyone used tea instead of wine to wish her a happy birthday, Yao Yuzhi kept a faint smile on her face, but Ren Hanyue, who was held in Deng Qin's arms, felt that Yao Yuzhi's smile was full of endless sentimentality and melancholy.
Sure enough, in the middle of the night, Yao Yuzhi's suppressed cry sounded in the east room.
Deng Qin, who had been busy all day, had been driven back to the east wing by Yao Yuzhi before falling asleep, and now there were only Yao Yuzhi and three ignorant dolls in this room.
Listening to her low crying, Ren Hanyue couldn't help but think that maybe at the moment when dinner started, Yao Yuzhi couldn't help but want to cry.
Although people always say that time is the best healing medicine, it is obvious that more than half a year is not enough time for Yao Yuzhi to forget the pain of losing his beloved.
The night passed quickly, and early in the morning of the third day of the second lunar month, Deng Xibin went to the mountain again with a long knife and a bow and arrow, while Deng Qin's two panda eyes came to the outside of the main house early to wait.
Obviously, she also guessed the reason why Yao Yuzhi broke her apart last night.
Yao Yuzhi woke up very early, or it should be said that she never fell asleep.
Deng Qin had only waited for less than a quarter of an hour, and Yao Yuzhi had already walked out of the main room in full dress.
As Deng Qin expected, her eyes had swollen into a narrow slit.
Deng Qin's heart was very distressed, but in the face of Yao Yuzhi, who just wanted to hide alone and lick her wounds, she didn't dare to say a word of comfort.
After the two people with their own concerns greeted each other, Deng Qin went to the kitchen to prepare hot water for Yao Yuzhi to wash, while Yao Yuzhi stood alone in the courtyard for a while, and then took a deep breath and tried to cheer himself up.
Time passed in a similar busyness as the previous year, and in late February, Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qin began to grow seedlings and vegetables with the help of Wang Wen and Ji Wu.
Their yard is very large, and there are vegetable patches in the front yard and back yard, and if these fields are served well, they don't have to worry about not being able to eat vegetables for the next year.