Chapter 13: The Goat Doll
On the morning of the second day, Lan Yi was woken up by birds in the courtyard.
Stretching her body gently, she lowered her head and kissed the baby's tender little face in her arms. The baby is a well-behaved child, only humming in the middle of the night to get up and pee once and then fall asleep quickly, compared to his little nephew's habit of being held when he was a child and willing to sleep, Lan Yi feels that he is much happier now.
The baby covered the quilt tightly, walked to the window and pushed open the window, Lan Yi looked at the beautiful scenery of the small garden. Taking a deep breath of fresh air, Lan Yi felt that the impurities in her body were washed away by the air, looking at the eaves outside the courtyard wall and seeing the rolling mountains on the horizon, she was very homesick.
"When will the crescent return? Mom and Dad, are you alright? Looking far and thinking about it, Lan Yi thought of her unfilial piety, and now she can only believe that the eldest sister and younger brother can take care of their parents.
"If you come here, you will be safe." Lan Yi closed the window, put away the dried clothes after washing, stacked the cut diapers and put them in the small baggage, sorted out the other miscellaneous items and put them away in the big baggage, and put them in the back basket, and then picked up the small clay pot he bought. This small clay pot is what she used to hold Wang Linshan's "ashes".
She is now sympathetic to Wang Linshan, who died in a foreign land at a young age. Lan Yi has believed that there are souls in the world since he crossed over, but the existing scientific methods cannot measure them, otherwise how can he explain that he ran into someone else's body?
"Yongxi was born in the eleventh year, Puhe was a talent in three years, and Puhe died of illness in the spring of the sixth year, so I think he shouldn't be very old. Yongxi and Puhe should be the emperor's year names, and only these numbers can't deduce how old Wang Linshan is. "The chronological method used in ancient China is the Ganzhi era and the emperor's chronology, each reigning emperor has his own chronological name, such as the Tang Taizong's chronological name is "Zhenguan", the Ming Taizu's "Yongle", etc., some emperors have an era name when they are in power, and it is common for some emperors to change their chronological names. Whenever they encounter major events and important events such as "auspicious rain from the sky" or internal strife and external worries, they must change the name of the year in order to seek good fortune. There are more than a dozen era names used by an emperor, for example, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi has 14 era names, and Wu Zetian has 17 era names.
"Wang Linshan, I can't collect the bones for you, but after the bones are cremated, they are a pile of ashes, and the ashes in this jar should be your bones. If you have a spirit in heaven, you can return to your hometown with us. "Thinking that Wang Linshan can't even bring back his bones for burial, I don't know if he is wandering outside with a soul? Lan Yi thought like this, and felt a little kind and sympathy for Wang Linshan.
"Mother's ......" The baby's creamy voice sounded, Lan Yi pulled back her thoughts and found that the baby had woken up and was sitting in the futon laughing.
"Baby, awake? Did you sleep well? Lan Yi hurriedly picked him up and put on his freshly washed clothes after urinating at the toilet, "Let's go to eat, and then the baby will work hard again, go out with my mother to buy some things, and we have to prepare the money for the journey." ”
Walking down the street, looking at the shops lined with pù and the shops greeting customers, Lan Yi felt that the scene was very similar to the lively streets near the modern train station. Lan Yi took a closer look and found that the middle-aged man who was tracking him yesterday was no longer waiting here, and his heart was a little more stable, thinking that he had passed the test temporarily, and he should find a way to leave.
"It's best not to let people know where I went with my children, and try not to show out the household registration certificate." Lan Yi thought about it, walked into a lively grocery store, and carefully observed the spices and other things inside.
In addition to common seasonings such as salt, green onions, ginger, garlic, peppercorns, fennel, etc., there are plum vinegar, soy sauce, maltose, sucrose, etc., and vegetable oils such as sesame oil, rapeseed oil, and sesame oil are also placed on the counter in small jars. Lan Yi also found that some medicines were also added to the list of condiments, and there was almost no chili pepper, so she spent 20 yuan to buy half a catty of sucrose, which was really not cheap.
Lan Yi walked into the cloth shop with the baby and bought half a catty of old cotton for thirty-eight yuan. In this way, a four-pound quilt costs at least four or five hundred yuan, and ordinary people can't afford it, "No wonder Sister-in-law's house is covered with a straw quilt." ”
Lan Yi thought of making zuò cakes, this flour is indispensable, she took the baby and walked towards the grain store, but she didn't want to meet an acquaintance, the maid holding the cat next to Xia Wan yesterday was in the grain store at this time.
The little maid changed her clothes at this time, dressed as an ordinary peasant girl, she bought a bag of flour to pay the bill, Lan Yi saw that there was a bit of determination on her face, and felt that it was inappropriate.
"Shopkeeper, what kind of face is this, why does it look a little purple, isn't it broken?" Lan Yi saw the maid walking away, so she walked into the store and pointed to the flour she had just bought and asked.
"Little lady, don't talk nonsense! This is barley noodles, which is the color of this. The shopkeeper was naturally reluctant to hear Lan Yi say this.
"Barley noodles, made from barley rice?"
"That's nature, it's hard for the little lady to think that this color is made of sorghum rice!" The shopkeeper pouted and ignored her, turning to greet the other guests.
Barley is a good thing, but pregnant women should not eat more, otherwise they will have the worry of slipping the fetus. That little girl buys barley noodles, and she looks like that, is it possible?
Lan Yi's face was a little solemn, although she didn't say a few words to Xia Wan, she didn't want such an accident to happen. However, thinking of the middle-aged servant woman who looked very shrewd next to Xia Wan, there would be no surprise.
"I'll go back and see later." Lan Yi sighed, as if she smelled the intrigue of the big family's house, "Shopkeeper, come two catties of high-quality white noodles!" ”
"Okay, the little lady understands it at a glance, you can take a look at our flour, balabala ......" When the shopkeeper heard that Lan Yi was going to buy something, his attitude immediately took a 180-degree turn, and he began to introduce Lan Yi with his eyebrows narrowed.
In the stall market where vegetables were sold, looking at the green vegetables and wild vegetables in front of the vendors, Lan Yi found that most of them still knew each other, and she felt more relieved.
"Ahh Ah..."The baby waved his little hand to grab the things in front of him, and Lan Yi saw an old man on the side of the road selling clay fired dolls, bright colors and cute appearances, no wonder the baby was attracted. She took one in her hand and felt very like, thinking of the green cicada that Xia Wan gave to the baby yesterday, Lan Yi spent more than a dozen yuan to buy two clay dolls, and planned to take them back to her, which can be regarded as a heart. Although the doll is not expensive, for Xia Wan, who is pregnant, there is no doubt that this is a beautiful expectation and thought.
Lan Yi put the flour and the doll in the basket and began to look for her cows.
When he walked to the livestock market, the baby began to be excited again, Lan Yi pointed to horses, cows, sheep and other animals to tell what the baby's name was, and then saw the new chickens and ducklings out of the nest, thinking that if he could get to Dengzhou safely, he would definitely buy a few eggs for the baby.
Walking around, no cows were found, and Lan Yi only found a goat that was producing milk.
Lan Yi's family used to raise sheep and was quite familiar with animals like sheep. She carefully observed the physical characteristics of the sheep, and saw that the sheep was not small, and the head was long and the forehead was wide, the nose was straight and the mouth was straight, the eyes were big and the ears were long, the chest was wide and the back was flat, the Ru room was huge and the shape was round, and the milk production should not be small, and the granular sheep manure on the ground could also see that there was nothing wrong with it, so she moved to buy it.
Lan Yi thought about it for a while, although it seems strange to take a sheep on the road, but goat's milk is a good thing, the baby is too young, and if he doesn't drink some milk, he is afraid that his physical development will not be good.
Lan Yi went up and asked the old farmer about the price of the goat, and said that it was 320 yuan, according to the old farmer, the family was sick, otherwise he would not be willing to give up the goat. Lan Yi repaid the price, and after buying it, she led the goat back with her, and bought three taels of dried jasmine on the side of the road, so that she could cook milk to remove the smell.
When he arrived at the door of the store, Xiao Er, who welcomed the customer, looked at Lan Yi's mother and son with a sheep about to walk into the store with an idiotic look, and quickly stretched out his hand to stop them, and took them to the stable in embarrassment.
Lan Yi saw that there were three horses in the stable, and the red and black horses looked down at the goats she had brought with their big eyes, Lan Yi felt discriminated against, so she asked the shopkeeper to tie the sheep to the farthest corner of the horse and ask for hot water to bathe the sheep.
The shopkeeper was very helpless to bring a basin of warm water with a wooden basin, seeing that Lan Yi's attitude was quite pleasing to the eye, and the baby was quite cute, and I heard that this goat was for the baby to drink, so he helped Lan Yi clean the goat's fur, and the goat shook its body to dry the water, so he squinted and lay down in the sun and ignored Lan Yi and a few people, and his attitude was very peaceful.
Lan Yi asked the little second brother to put fresh grass on the goat, and asked for a big wooden bowl, and took the baby back to the room. Put down the basket and put the baby on your back, take a rag and scald it with hot water, and take the baby to milk the goat. Xu is milk was uncomfortably swollen, and the milking process was very smooth, Lan Yi walked into the back kitchen of the inn with a bowl full of warm fresh milk.
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