This time in the city, Lan Yi plans to buy a lot of things.

The two went to the cloth shop first and bought a white background blue cotton cloth to make a quilt cover, and there were still leftovers of the white and yellow linen cloth that Wang Linshan bought when he was in the soil, which was suitable for making quilts.

Although cotton wool was more expensive, Lan Yi still decided to buy six catties. In the era of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the fillers in the quilt were not all cotton wool, but also silk grass, reed flowers, hay fur, hemp and other flowers and grass furs, of course, the comfort and weight of different fillers were very different. Lan Yi is a person who admits death, and some living habits are difficult to change. She insisted that it was the quilt that was filled with cotton wool, and that the warmth and quality of the quilt were suitable for two children.

After that, she chose a half-worn white curtain, two coarse cloth kang sheets, and two straw-green curtains. It is not appropriate to say that it is a curtain, but a piece of cloth, and the window here is directly pasted with white paper or white yarn, which can have a certain blocking effect. Rich families would hang curtains on their beds, but few shopkeepers who hung curtains directly to block them had heard of it, so she had to choose fabrics and go home to cut and sew curtains by herself. I've watched too many TV series before, and there are too many scenes of people outside the window peeping into the house with saliva stained window paper, and not hanging curtains makes her feel insecure.

After paying the silver to the shopkeeper, Lan Yi had a toothache, and the quality of life was really linked to the weight of the silver!

Lan Yi was in front, and the guy who helped her deliver things carried the fabric and cotton wool on his back, and brought the things to Thursday and asked him to take care of them, so that he could free up his hands to buy other things.

After the guy left, Lan Yi took Yu'er to find a small shop to eat wontons.

"Yu'er, how about it, it's not enough for my mother to buy it." Lan Yi divided the wontons into two bowls, and one bowl of wontons was enough for two people to eat. After the meal, Lan Yi hugged Yu'er and sat in the small shop to rest.

"Yu'er, go to sleep, let's go shopping again when we wake up." Lan Yi patted Yu'er's back and shook it gently.

Yu'er's little hand grabbed Lan Yi's clothes, yawned and closed her eyes.

There were not many customers coming and going in the small shop, and Lan Yi patted Yu'er and thought about what to do next.

During the time he returned to Beigou Village, Lan Yi could already confirm that there were no enemy pursuers or ambushes here, and it was time to consider living there for a long time. Since you are planning to settle here, you need to think about how to create living conditions.

About half an hour later, Lan Yi woke up Yu'er.

Yu'er's little head rubbed on Lan Yi's arm and stretched: "Mother." ”

Lan Yi lowered her head and kissed his red little face: "En." We still have something to do, and we'll sleep well when we get home. ”

"Yes."

Lan Yi put Yu'er on the ground and asked the proprietress who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks in the store: "Sister-in-law, is there a peony garden in our county?" ”

"There are two of them, both in the south of the city, you can go over when you ask people, but now is not the flowering season. You might as well take your children to the east of the city to see where flowers and plants are sold, there are a lot of flowers and plants, and you don't have to pay for them to enter the garden. "The hostess was very helpful.

Lan Yi rubbed her sore arm, nodded and thanked the proprietress for her, and walked towards the south of the city with the child.

"Mother, shall we go to see the flowers?" Yu'er asked curiously, he had been with Lan Yi for the past two days, and he had talked a little more.

"Yes. Not only to see the flowers, but also to buy some flower seeds. ”

"Shall we plant flowers?"

"It's not all, my mother wants to make something delicious with flower seeds."

Yu'er nodded: "The noodles made by my mother are better than the wontons in the store." ”

The child's words were the most credible, and Lan Yi suddenly felt full of confidence: "Okay, let's eat noodles at night." ”

The varieties of peony flowers in the two gardens are similar to those in Xia Wan's garden, and there are many fewer flowers at this time, and the people who visit the garden are also sparse.

Peonies can be roughly divided into two types: one is ornamental and the other is medicinal. Peony is known as the king of flowers, the ornamental value is needless to say, medicinal peony is mostly to the root of the soil, after the flower blooms, it seems that the petals can also be used in medicine. Not all peony seeds are suitable for oil extraction, Lan Yi remembers that the introduction of the program said that the modern oil extraction is two varieties, purple spot and Fengdan, these two kinds of peonies have a wide range of cultivation and are easy to take care of, and the advertisement seems to say, "After planting, you can harvest seeds for fifty years" and so on.

Lan Yi turned around, and went to the owner of the garden to order the seeds of two kinds of peonies, purple spot and fengdan, and after picking them, she collected them at the price of one and a half catties, and paid a deposit of one hundred wen each, and signed an agreement. The owner of the garden asked Lan Yi what she was doing with peony flower seeds, and she only needed these two kinds, and Lan Yi said that she planned to plant peony rootstocks.

Now that the peony flowering period has passed, the owner of the garden said that many peony flowers will cut off the branches and not let it bear seeds after they bloom, and the owner promised to find these two kinds of flower seeds for Lan Yi, but it is only more than a few hundred catties. The price of peony seeds for one pound and a half is really cheap and scary, Lan Yi felt that hundreds of pounds of peony seeds were completely within her affordability, so she asked the master to find more.

Lan Yi first bought fifty catties of aged phoenix pills and purple peony seeds from the owner of the garden and brought them home to see if she could squeeze out the oil. These fifty catties of peony seeds are all the stocks of the two families, because the owner of the garden introduced that the sowing of peonies should be sown immediately after picking peony seeds, and the aged peony seeds are not very useful, so there is not much.

Moreover, the general garden is mostly bought rootstock grafted peony, and the root bark of peony is also taken for planting medicinal peony, so when the root bark is dug every year, it is also given to the peony branch by the way, so many peony branches will be cut off after flowering, so that the peony does not bear seeds, reducing the pressure of peony plants.

Lan Yi felt very struggling with fifty catties of peony seeds on her back, and pondered that it would be better to buy a donkey for the convenience of access.

When she passed by the cattle and horse market, Lan Yi had this plan. Since you plan to farm, it is more suitable to raise this livestock at home. The donkey is small and has a gentle temper, so it can not only help him transport things, but it is also convenient to ride a donkey to the county seat with his child in the future.

"It's better to ride a donkey than a bull, and we have no conditions for riding a horse." In these years, the private sale of horses has been restricted to a certain extent, and the horses are too tall for her, although the cattle are strong but slow, Lan Yi only has two acres of land, and it is a waste to buy a cow. She didn't know much about livestock, so she decided to go back and discuss with her second uncle and ask him to help choose a donkey.

"Red sorghum, Zhang Guolao, Lu You." Thinking of riding a donkey, the image of these three people flashed in Lan Yi's mind, or Lu You made people feel more comfortable, "There are dust and wine marks on the clothes, and the soul is lost everywhere when traveling far away." Is this fit a poet? Drizzle rides a donkey into the sword gate. Lu You, I don't know if I can see him in person. The times have changed, and people shouldn't all have changed, right? ”

Lan Yi thought about it, bought some things with Yu'er and gathered at the gate of the county seat, and took an ox cart to swing back to Beigou Village. Along the way, she really picked up a lot of donkey riders, both men and women, which strengthened her idea of buying a donkey.

Back in the village, Lan Yi went to the second uncle's house to pick up the baby, left the soufflé bought in the city for the Chen family, and told the second uncle about the plan to buy a donkey.

"The eldest daughter-in-law, there is a lot of forage for raising donkeys, and donkeys can't do much work." Second Uncle Wang didn't know why Lan Yi wanted to buy a donkey, but he still reminded him that he had always wanted to buy a cow, but he didn't have enough money in his hand.

"Second uncle, it doesn't take much effort to make some forage preparations. I have little strength, and I still have a lot of work to do in the future, so I can't always trouble you and my second brother and third brother. Lan Yi said firmly.

"Dad, my sister-in-law is right, it will be more convenient to take two children in and out after having a donkey." Lin Yuan also said that Lan Yi carried the burden back and forth, and he saw it twice, and it was a little difficult to see it. After all, they are widowed sisters-in-law, and they can't help every time, so it's not good for the sister-in-law to cause gossip.

"This year's wheat straw and rice stalks are good for my sister-in-law, and it is enough to raise a donkey." Lin Xi also opened his mouth, he doesn't talk much on weekdays, but he can always get to the point.

"Done." Second Uncle Wang nodded, "I'll go to the livestock market these days. ”

"Second uncle, I'm causing you trouble again, I really don't understand this animal. You can help you choose a smaller, more docile one. Don't be in a hurry these days, just go to the market and buy it on the other day. ”

Second Uncle Wang waved his hand: "It's not bothersome, I'm also buying things back and forth in the past few days." "He's been looking for labor and materials to build a house lately, and that's a good idea.

Lan Yi heard Liu's muttering sound coming from the courtyard, and when she saw that it was not early, she left and went home.

After dinner, Lan Yi and her two children sat under the oil lamp, and the two children played together. Lan Yi had already hung up the curtains and curtains, covering more than half of the kang. They were very curious about the curtain, and Yu'er used the curtain to hide her little face, hide from the baby, make the baby laugh, and the brother screamed.

Lan Yi was holding "Yuefu Poetry Collection" on the side and reading "Peacock Flying Southeast", and her heart was full of emotion. The Great Zhou Dynasty encouraged early marriage and early childbearing and increased the population. If a woman over the age of fifteen does not marry, she has to pay taxes on her per capitation, so most people will marry off their daughters when they are fourteen or fifteen years old.

His body should be thirteen or fourteen years old, and he is old enough to get married. If there are parents who are there, they should also arrange for her to marry, maybe her status as a maid can't even be her parents, and the master family can arrange her life casually and make her a slave and a concubine. Lan Yi is glad that she is now in the name of ** and has escaped this problem.

She does not refuse to marry, if she really meets a man who can make her heartfelt, and he can devote himself to himself and his children, Lan Yi will marry him, a man ploughs and a woman weaves, a husband sings and a wife follows, and is an ordinary husband and wife.

But since ancient times, it is easy to ask for priceless treasures, it is rare to have a heart, and the dream of a couple in a lifetime is unrealistic, and this is still the case in modern times, not to mention this ancient society where men are inferior to women and wives and concubines.

Feudal society was particularly harsh on women. "Powder falls on the Hundred Flowers Continent, fragrant remnants of the swallow building", "The east wind complains about the birds, and the falling flowers are like falling people" and other poems have been sung in ancient times, and the virgin woman is a martyr, and her husband should be buried when he dies. Even if you survive, you have to "swear that you can't afford it, and the concubine has ancient well water." "Although the Great Zhou Dynasty has not been harsh, a woman can remarry after her husband dies, but it is difficult to find a good family.

As a time-traveling person, although Lan Yi disagrees with many phenomena in this society, she can only be alone. She never thought of changing the status quo and liberating the entire society by herself, which is not what she has to do as a farmer.

"I will find my only soul mate in the middle of nowhere. I'm lucky; No, my life. Lan Yi silently recited Xu Zhimo's famous sentence, and the gains and losses should have been so calm.

"Come, Yu'er, baby, my mother will tell you a good story, Kong Rong let the pear, okay?" Lan Yi put down the book, hugged the sleepy baby and Yu'er, and said happily.

"Okay." Yu'er raised her head and stared happily at her mother with big eyes, waiting to hear the story.

"Ahh The baby also responded with Yu'er's small mouth open.

"That's good!" Lan Yi kissed the two little faces contentedly and told the story.

The bright moon outside the window, the chirping of insects, the three snuggling figures, the warm curtains, the dim lights, the years are quiet.

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