Lan Yi is boiling milk powder. There is a lot of baa milk in the family, and the three of them can't drink it every day, Lan Yi pondered about boiling the undrinkable in the pot over low heat, and slowly boiled it into milk powder, she didn't know if it would lose nutrients, but it was better than wasting. The milk powder tastes good.

"Mother, mother, the chick has grown a red crown and a long tail." Yu'er ran into the kitchen and said beside Lan Yi, her tone was a little depressed, her mother said that this is a rooster and will not lay eggs.

"Really? We also have ten hens with short tails, which will lay eggs. "The chickens and geese at home have grown very quickly under Lan Yi's careful feeding, and they can already distinguish ten hens and five roosters among the fifteen chicks. Although the goose grows faster than the chicken, Lan Yi can't distinguish the male and female of the goose, and Lan Yi is still quite satisfied with the proportion of hens in the chickens, and feels that her character and vision are good.

"Mother, mother." The baby also shouted, and the words were clearer.

Lan Yi smiled and kissed his little face: "Baby, what do you want to say to your mother?" ”

The baby twisted his little body and pointed at the chicken: "Ah, ah." He now instinctively repeats what Yu'er has done, and he never gets tired of it.

"Mother knows, we have roosters and hens. Yu'er, baby, let's go, let's dig a few pumpkin seedlings and plant them in the ground, let's make dumplings and eat big pumpkins. Lan Yi put out the fire and took the two children into the vegetable garden.

When I arrived in the south of the village, I saw that the overturned car was still driving, and someone was stepping on the overturned car and watering the ground. The slopes irrigated with water look green and refreshing, the bottom layer of rice has occupied the water surface, and the growth is just right, Lan Yi's own mung beans and soybeans have also sprouted, and the palm-high new green makes her smile at all.

The sense of accomplishment in farming is here, and watching the seedlings grow taller day by day, the greater the hope of harvesting. The field is the most sincere, there is no deception, there is no need for intrigue, every hard work is harvested, and there is hard work.

After planting seedlings, Lan Yi took her two children around the edge of the woods to recognize the plants and trees. The edges of the woods are dominated by low trees and shrubs, with weeds underneath. What she can distinguish is dandelion, guanzhong, wild chrysanthemum, sheep's hoof, ghost sorrow, schisandra, clematis and other common herbs, as well as wolfberry, forsythia, jujube and other shrubs are also in the forest, interspersed in the more than one meter high Boluohui, and then go inside, it is a taller tree, looking at the Hu Yuanzi, Luan tree, locust tree, persimmon tree, etc., Lan Yi found that there are some wild fruits, such as mountain peach, mountain apricot and hawthorn tree, etc., and actually found mulberry trees. The mulberries on the top were blackened, and clumps hung on the trees. Looking up the mountain, it looks like a pine or cypress tree, and the top of the mountain is hidden in the white clouds, which is very imposing.

Lan Yi looked at the mulberry and suddenly felt sour water in her mouth.

"Yu'er, you are watching your brother here, and my mother is going to pick fruit for us." Lan Yi put the baby on the edge of the field and told Yu'er to take care of her younger brother.

"Mother, what is fruit?" Yu'er had never heard of this title.

"It's the fruit of the tree, and you see, the one in the distance is the mulberry that my mother wants to pick." Lan Yi pointed to a tree more than 20 meters away and said, "You two are sitting here obediently, my mother is afraid that there are snakes in the woods." ”

Although the baby can't speak, he still has a reflection on the words "sit obediently", he responded with "ahh

Lan Yi was suddenly trembling by the same action of these two little babies, wiped his saliva and pulled the weeds with the branches to drive away the snakes, and slowly approached the mulberry tree, the mulberry on the lower branches of the mulberry tree had been plucked, Lan Yi held the trunk of the tree, shook it vigorously, scared away a few birds looking for food, and shook off a ripe black and purple mulberry.

She quickly picked up a lot of fungus and put it in the basket, and plucked some half-dried fungus from a dead branch next to her, and hurried out of the woods, while the two children waited outside.

When they got home, they washed the mulberries with cool well water, and the three of them ate some head-to-head, and the two children also ate their small mouths dyed purple, Lan Yi didn't dare to give them more to eat, for fear of making a stomach. Lan Yi missed the taste of bananas, apples, and grapes because of the unique aroma of wild fruits in the mountains, and she missed the taste of bananas, apples, and grapes only the rattans planted in her yard.

"Riding the red dust concubine laughs, no one knows that it is a lychee" is a treatment that only rich and powerful people can enjoy, Lan Yi can only guard the fruit tree now and eat enough once the fruit is ripe, and next time she will eat until next year, when the fruit is ripe. Thinking like this, I understand Su Shi's pride and joy of "eating 300 lychees a day".

The three of them ate mulberries and lay on the newly bought sheets, although it was a little hot, Lan Yi and Yu'er still put the quilt full of sunshine on their bodies and smirked, feeling very happy. The baby still didn't feel any of this, but crawled around on the brother and mother himself, thinking that the two of them were playing peek-a-boo with him.

There was a sound of the door opening outside the courtyard, Lan Yi quickly got up and went to the courtyard, and saw Daifuku running in.

"Uncle, grandpa asked you to come over."

"Okay, let's go." Lan Yi thought that it was estimated that there was news about the donkey or the field, if there was anything going on these days, the second uncle invited Lan Yi over, Lan Yi was widowed, and it was inconvenient for them to come to the door.

Sure enough, the second uncle said that the donkeys in the market were better than four runs, and he took a fancy to a little donkey who had just turned old, and discussed with the donkey seller about three runs, and asked her if she could make it. Lan Yi immediately took out the silver and gave it to the second uncle and let him call the shots.

"Second uncle, are there any masons in our village who are idle to build houses? The niece and daughter-in-law wanted to ask someone to renovate the latrine. This is something she had planned for a long time, but she had been too busy to start it.

"Find someone, let your second brother go, and his work will be neat." Second Uncle Wang said.

"That's not possible, the family is busy building a house and an oil mill, I can't help much, how can I occupy the second brother to help me renovate the latrine." Lan Yi directly refused.

Second Uncle Wang thought that he couldn't be busy, so he nodded and helped her appoint an honest bricklayer in the village.

The bricklayer's surname is Zhao, and Lan Yi gestured to tell him, digging a pit two meters wide and three meters long and two meters deep on the north side of the thatched house, and the bottom and four sides were paved with stones, and the south side of the pit led to the bottom of the toilet pit, so that the feces could be rushed directly into the pit through the guò ramp. A small area on the north side of the pit is enclosed to form a pigsty, which can be connected to the pit by a few steps. After this transformation, the use of the latrine is much more convenient, in addition to raising pigs, the pit can also let the pigs step on the manure, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone, and some people in her hometown raise pigs to do this.

After renovating the latrine, Lan Yi asked Zhao Bricklayer to build a donkey shed next to the sheepfold. Lan Yi and Zhao Bricklayer discussed whether to eat, he contracted the labor and materials, and the wages were finally settled. Working in the village, you usually take care of one meal a day, but you can say otherwise. But Lan Yi is **, it is inconvenient to leave Zhao Bricklayer to eat, of course Zhao Bricklayer has no opinion on this, Lan Yi gives a high salary, his subordinates work, and it will be all done in three days.

Liu and Chen have often come and gone these days, one is to accompany Lan Yi, and the other is curious about what good ideas the sister-in-law has. Seeing the renovated pit and latrine, Liu directly pulled Lin Yuan over and asked him to make one in the courtyard of the new house, and Chen also nodded in agreement, so that Lin Xi had to empty the pigsty at home and use it for manure.

The pig is raised so that it can be fattened, and by the way, the leftovers at home are not wasted. She remembered that a master of Chinese culture once said that the word "home" is a pig under the house, and a pig is considered a home, although this is funny, but it seems that there is a little pig in the family humming and snoring in the pen is also a good thing. Beigou Village is almost a family raising pigs, in order to kill pigs for the New Year.

When the new latrine was available, Lan Yi breathed a sigh of relief, she had been looking for a toilet in her dreams for the past few days, either she couldn't find it, or she found a dirty toilet with nowhere to stay, which was indescribably disgusting and awkward.

Another problem is that there is no paper paper, and most people in the village use bamboo, wood chips, small stones or leaves as paper paper. Lan Yi went to the woods and chose a kind of leaf, which was large, soft and tough, and after washing and drying, it was placed in a small bamboo basket in the thatched house as tissue paper. In addition, she put a bucket and a gourd scoop in the thatched house, prepared water for a long time, and flushed it into the pit with water after using the toilet, which completely solved the problem of going to the toilet.

"The days of squatting on the toilet and playing with your phone are gone." After Lan Yi taught Yu'er to use the toilet, looking at Yu'er's happy appearance, she couldn't help but sigh at the gap in this era.

During the market day in Zhoujia Village, the second uncle brought the donkey back and brought two little black pigs to Lan Yi by the way. The body hair of the donkey is black and gray, the structure of this donkey is well-proportioned, the body is short, the limbs are strong, the disclosure is high, the eyes are big, and it is likable at first glance.

"Old man, this donkey looks small, but it has the strength to lead people to work, as long as the forage can keep up, it won't be small for another year."

Lan Yi compared, the donkey's back was just as high as his shoulders, and it was estimated that it would not be much bigger in another year.

"Second uncle, it's better to be smaller, I can hold it." Lan Yi said with satisfaction, it's good to be small, it's easy to ride, and I don't point to it to do any heavy work, just pick and pick the pack.

"The donkeys eat grass, straw, wheat straw, and bean seedlings, and mix them twice a day in the morning and evening, and the rice bran is done, and the water cannot be cut off. This donkey has a docile temper and is easy to use, but it should not be twisted too much, and it is necessary to avoid the stomach and calves when disciplining. Second Uncle Wang advised, "As the saying goes, a stubborn donkey has a temper, and this beast's temper is also big, and you will know it after a few days." ”

"Yes. Second uncle, this forage for the donkeys, I want to ask the family to send the wheat straw and oranges from the three acres of land on Tuesday to the rent, you see? ”

Second Uncle Wang nodded: "Yes, the wheat straw of these three acres of land is enough to feed the donkeys and sheep." In a few days, the soybean seedlings in our field will come down and we will be able to eat them for a while. I'll go talk to Erfa, and he'll be happy. In the past two days, I went to turn around the hillside, and saw that the east side of the village is not far from Huaxi, although the terrain is steep and it is difficult to cultivate the fields, but the planting of peonies is almost the same. ”

Lan Yi thought about the place in the east of the village, her house is now in the northeast of the village, and the long and narrow place where the flower stream flows through in the east of the village is really good. Although the terrain is slightly steeper than that in the south of the village, the slopes are green with green grass and few rocks, so the soil quality should be good.

"Second uncle, that piece of land has to be forty or fifty acres, right?" Lan Yi thought about how many places under the circle were appropriate, and the acres used here were the same as those in modern times, one acre was sixty square abbots. The use of 60 decimal units is related to the basic chronological method of 60 for a jiazi adopted since ancient times.

"I haven't measured it yet, so I guess I have to have this number. Let's open up the wasteland, the price of the hillside is related to the situation of the mountain, the hillside is steeper, the price is more expensive, 500 wen per mu; There are also two hillsides in the north of the village that can be opened, which are cheaper than more than 100 yuan. Second Uncle Wang introduced that although he doesn't talk much on weekdays, he always says a few more words in front of Lan Yi, first, to let her understand the situation, and secondly, the more he looks at this nephew and daughter-in-law, the more he likes it, and he unconsciously talks more.

Lan Yi was silent, and the villain in her heart suddenly jumped out of her head and roared with a big banner above her head: "Five hundred wen an acre is still expensive?" You must know that this purchase is a freehold property! ”

"Second uncle, what are you going to do?"

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