Chapter 7 Green Mountains and Rain

The plan of the year lies in the spring, and the arrangements are made early to welcome the spring ploughing.

No matter what era the farmers are hardworking, Lan Yi saw a lot of figures in the farmland at the edge of the village, either weeding, or plowing, or planting, everyone shouted and laughed with each other, and they were all happy with the spring rain yesterday.

The cultivator supports the forest hills, and a gull falls from time to time outside the flowers. How much rain does it come to spring? The wild pond is flooded and can be returned to the boat. This Zhou Bangyan's masterpiece "Spring Rain" is very suitable for the scene at this time.

This spring rain not only moistened the land, but also eliminated the traces of Lan Yi and Yirou falling from the mountain yesterday, making it impossible for the person who was tracking to find out, and making Lan Yi feel that the safety of herself and her baby was more guaranteed.

"That's God's help." Lan Yi sighed, "Baby, my mother's arm still hurts, you said that if you have a hitchhiker, will you also get in with it?" ”

It was a coincidence that as soon as Lan Yi's words fell, she heard the sound of a creaking car, and she looked back to see an old farmer with a hat coming over with an ox cart, and there were three women sitting in the cart, and there were baskets behind the cart, as if they were going to the market.

"Little lady, let's go to town, you two cents for a ride." When the old farmer saw Lan Yi waiting for him on the side of the road, he knew that he was going to take a ride.

Lan Yi awkwardly took out her purse from her sleeve pocket, took out two pennies and handed them to the old farmer, and said, "It's to go to the town, thank you, uncle." ”

After getting into the car, let the baby sit on her lap, Lan Yi put the lotus back into her sleeve pocket, and her heart was beautiful, and when she looked up, she found that the peasant woman sitting opposite looked at her sleeves with envious and suspicious eyes that she didn't have time to retract.

Lan Yi's heart sank, and secretly said that she was negligent, although she changed into the clothes of her sister-in-law, but this purse was still Chun Tao's. This pomegranate-shaped apricot purse is embroidered with delicate green peach leaves, which at first glance is not something that ordinary peasant women can have, and it is inevitable that people will feel confused and incongruous.

Lan Yi was not panicked, she naturally leaned forward sideways, observed the situation on both sides of the road, and gently taught the baby to speak and understand things. The three women saw that she didn't mean to talk, so they continued to have a short chat in the parents, what kind of girl whose family reached the age of blind date but no one came to the door to say goodbye, where the fortune teller was very good, Lan Yi felt very fresh when she heard it.

The ox cart slowly went all the way east, until the baby fell asleep and Lan Yi began to shake, and then he heard a noisy voice. Lan Yi cheered up and observed the town in front of him, the town looked quite prosperous, with a cyan stone on the blue brick city wall, with three big characters written on it: Qingshan Town. Underneath the bluestone is a log-colored two-door door. At this time, the door was wide open, and when she saw someone coming in and out, she didn't see anyone checking it, and Lan Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Outside the city wall, there are two liquor shops and tea shops, with white cloth signboards hanging on wooden poles, swaying in the wind, and many pedestrians are eating in cars below. Lan Yi also felt that she was hungry, the baby seemed to be motion sick, and she slept very peacefully, Lan Yi remembered that her little nephew also slept as soon as he got in the car, is this a common phenomenon?

Following the peasant women to get off the bus at the gate of the town, Lan Yi walked to the teahouse to find a secluded seat, and ordered a clear soup wonton from the stall owner, thinking that the baby should also eat something. She patted the baby's back while observing the town, which looked quite square, and could see that most of the buildings in the town were mainly wooden, and most of the eaves were painted red, and the blue brick city wall was very beautiful. The street facing the gate is very wide, all paved with bluestone ground, on both sides are various shops, most of the bungalows, there are several two- or three-story buildings, it looks like a restaurant inn. Maybe today is the market day in Qingshan Town, and the streets are full of people coming and going, and it is very lively.

"Since it's a town, I'm afraid there are wicked people who have come to hunt down the three of Yirou, right?"

Lan Yi raised her eyes and looked around, and sure enough, she saw four people who looked like family members sitting and drinking tea in the tea shop at the city gate, holding an open paper roll in their hands, carefully observing the pedestrians entering and leaving the city gate.

"Such a blatant arrest of Yirou's mother and son, what is the name of this Wang Tiangui? Since you're holding a paper roll, I guess I don't know what Yirou looks like. "Come to think of it, women from large families live in the boudoir, and it is difficult to get out of the backyard after getting married, and it is normal for the families in the outer courtyard to not know each other.

Lan Yi put her mind at ease, her current appearance is far from Yirou, her height, appearance, clothing and temperament are different, and the baby is also wrapped in a coat, which is difficult to identify, so she ignores these four people and pats the baby in her arms with peace of mind.

The stall owner quickly brought over a large bowl of wontons, a large porcelain bowl, the wontons looked similar to the modern ones, with a few drops of sesame oil and chopped green onions, and they smelled very good. Lan Yi begged for an empty bowl like a stall owner, divided the wonton soup into a small half bowl with a spoon with one hand, and took out a thin wonton skin and shrimp skin, ready to be eaten by the baby. After a while, the baby woke up, and Lan Yi took him to feed him some soup and water dough, and saw that he ate very sweetly.

Lan Yi only gave him three wontons and drank a little soup, then took out the handkerchief to wipe the corners of the baby's mouth, looked at the oil stain on the handkerchief, and missed the napkin very much, and lost it after use, no need to wash it. Three or two bites ate the rest of the wontons, and the stall owner collected eight copper coins. According to the ancient calculation standards, one tael of silver should be a thousand copper coins, it seems that a penny is about equivalent to more than a modern dollar, and if you convert yourself to a huge sum of 100,000 yuan, for a poor student, it is tantamount to winning the jackpot.

But Lan Yi knew that it was impossible for him to take out the silver ticket casually, it would only cause trouble, who knows if there was a mark on the silver ticket, even if there was not, so much silver would attract the attention of thieves, and he had no ability to protect himself with a child. Chun Tao's purse only had two dimes of broken silver left - he couldn't tell how many taels it was, and there were more than a dozen copper coins, it seems that there should be no iron coins in this era.

Lan Yi hugged the child, worried in her heart, but walked into the city gate calmly and calmly, pretending not to see the eyes of those people. Facing the city gate street, there are many shops on both sides, there are rice shops, cloth shops, garment shops, dim sum shops, grocery stores and snack bars, etc., Lan Yi chose a garment store with a high flow of traffic and walked in, and found that there were all kinds of clothes on the counter, and there were many shirts and long skirts hanging on the wall behind the counter, with simple styles and diverse colors. A shopkeeper about forty years old dressed in a cyan cotton robe was beckoning a few customers to choose, Lan Yi pretended to choose clothes, stood next to observe a middle-aged woman buying clothes, saw that she chose two beige blue long skirts and two sets of white underwear, after bargaining, the shopkeeper gritted his teeth and said: "Always money, no money." ”

Lan Yi felt familiar when she heard "consistently", and saw the woman take out a dime of silver from her purse and hand it to him: "There are not many copper coins, this is one or two silver." ”

After the shopkeeper accepted it, he bit it with his teeth before packing the clothes and handing them to the woman, and the two of them cleared the money and goods.

It seems that copper coins have always been one or two silver coins, and a piece of clothing costs one or two hundred copper coins, which is not cheap?

"Although Sister-in-law Niu's clothes are a little old, and the material is not as good as this, it must be more than ten copper coins." Lan Yi analyzed, knowing that it was Sister-in-law Niu who took care of herself. She weighed the two dimes of broken silver in her purse, about the size of the woman's silver, and should be able to buy a few changes of clothes for herself and the baby.

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