Chapter 51: The Male Gets Married
The second uncle spent 500 wen to bring back two goats and send them to Lan Yi's house. The two goats are a male and a female, the mother has just given birth, the milk is sufficient, the lamb was taken away by the wolf in the mountain, and the baby who herded the sheep was also frightened by the wolf, so the owner of the goat sold the sheep. Lan Yi's baa no longer produces milk, Lan Yi is giving the child goat milk powder to drink these days, although it is not fragrant enough, but the taste of milk tea is still good.
The three sheep were locked together in the sheepfold, which was a little crowded but also turned away. Yu'er took the baby to lie on the edge of the sheepfold for a long time, and renamed the three sheep according to their size.
"The biggest one with this horn is called Daba, our family's baa is called Erbaa, and this little black-eared one is called Sanbaa, brother, remember? Big baa, two baa, three baa, come again. Looking at Yu'er's appearance as a little adult, he named the three sheep in a serious way, Lan Yi Ninja didn't laugh out loud, Yu'er's level of naming is really not high, the two little pigs in the family are called big black and second black by him, fortunately, there is only one donkey at home, and there are no more strange names such as big donkey, second donkey and three donkey.
"Big, big!" The baby pointed to the goat and shouted happily, looking up at his brother waiting for praise.
Yu'er really didn't disappoint him, and Xue Lanyi kissed his little face hard: "Well, the baby is awesome, it's Daba, Erbaa and Sanbaa." Mother, let's lead the three sheep to graze on the hillside, okay? We don't have wolves on the hillside. β
Lan Yi nodded, their hillside was far from the village, and there were few wild beasts in the mountains, and they also drove wooden stakes to circle them, so there was no problem with safety. For the sake of convenience, Lan Yi simply enclosed the five acres next to his hillside to feed the donkey, and the green grass on the hillside was enough for the donkey and the three sheep to eat.
After the sheep were bought, Lan Yi led the hillside and the family back and forth for a few days, and the people in the village knew that the diligent Lan ** of the Wang family bought two more sheep, and the eight mothers-in-law and two sisters-in-law in the village also came over to see them a few times. Therefore, when Lan Yi's family bought a few carts of mung bean seedlings from outside one after another to feed, the people in the village didn't feel strange except for laughing at her that she couldn't calculate her life.
Xia Shun and Lin Yuan took back a total of 6,700 catties of peony seeds this time and put them in the cellar of Lan Yi's house. Liu and Chen came to see it a few times, but they couldn't stop smiling, and the three of them calculated how much silver they could earn, imagining a good day next year.
Although Liu is small-minded and greedy for cheapness, it is not too bad. She now regards Lan Yi as her own person, and suddenly feels that Lan Yi is pleasing to the eye in everything she does, and she is even more obedient to her words, and Lin Yuan sees her like this, so she can rest assured that she will have a relationship with her sister-in-law. Lan Yi has studied these management courses such as human resources and personnel evaluation, and knows that people with a character like Liu are not difficult to manage, as long as the responsibilities and interests are clear, they are still very easy to manage.
The pickled sour bamboo shoots have been tasted and eaten, and Lan Yi took out some shredded bamboo shoots and fried meat, which was sour and delicious, just suitable for cooling off. Lan Yi and Yu'er naturally love to eat, but they didn't expect that even babies who don't like to eat fresh bamboo shoots like the taste of this sour bamboo shoot very much, and ate a few more bites of steamed buns, and Lan Yi was even more happy to eat one more steamed bun.
Liu only knew the deliciousness of sour bamboo shoots after eating them, and regretted that he didn't pickle them with them. After her shouting, the women in the village all went to Chen's to learn how to make sour bamboo shoots, but after all, she just did what her sister-in-law said, and she couldn't understand many places. So, the women began to go to Lan Yi's house again and learn to make zuΓ² sour bamboo shoots, after all, this thing can be stored, and they need to add more dishes to the winter.
Someone came to learn how to make sauerkraut, Lan Yi let her taste it first, and if she was still interested after tasting it, she was handed over to how to do it, step by step was very detailed. The method is simple, everyone cooks cooked food, and the rest of the time is small talk. Lan Yi put the sun-dried mint and bitter dice together to make tea for everyone to drink, these two herbs together, the most relieving the heat, after drinking a refreshing feeling from the tip of the tongue all the way to the stomach, so everyone began to run to the woods to pick wild vegetables to dry.
Lan Yi thought that there were few vegetables in winter, and when teaching everyone to make sour bamboo shoots, she also taught the famous sour cabbage method in the Northeast, thinking that in a few days, everyone would have more cabbage, and you could pickle the sauerkraut, and it would be an income if you couldn't eat it and sell it. Moreover, after the great heat, it is the beginning of the autumn solar term, which is the time to plant cabbage and radish.
As the saying goes, three women in one play, so many women get together, and the topics they talk about are naturally varied, under the lecture of the eight mothers and two sisters-in-law, Lan Yi has listened to all the big and small events that have happened in the village in the past ten years, which can be said to be too much gossip addiction. Even Wang Linshan was dismissed, and the second sister-in-law of the woman married another person also told Lan Yi.
"The old Zheng family was greedy for silver, and married the girl to the shopkeeper of a shop in the county town to fill the house. A few days ago, I went to the county seat to buy fabrics and ran into it, and I saw that life was not bad, and everyone gained weight twice. The second sister-in-law finally brought out her new discovery with satisfaction, waiting for the big guy's comments.
After listening to this, Sister-in-law Niu, who lived next door to Lan Yi, leaned at the second sister-in-law and said, "Can you be fatter than the second sister-in-law?" β
"That can't be, how can she have this blessing!" The second sister-in-law is very satisfied with her fat body, and has always equated the amount of meat on her body with her living standard.
"If you want to say that you have grown a lot of meat recently, Yu'er, this kid is faster than anyone else. Brother and sister, what did you give him to eat? "Yu'er has been following Lan Yi for a while, her body is getting better and better, and her little pointed face is about to turn into a bun.
"It's not these things at home, Yu'er is not a picky eater, and if she can eat and sleep, she will naturally get fat." Lan Yi smiled, if it is said that after these people come to the house, there is no one who is happiest than Yu'er. Everyone had to praise a few words when they saw it, and there were more children who came to play at home, and Yu'er seemed to have the posture of becoming the head of a child, with a smile on her little face, and she talked more than before.
After Yu'er followed Wang Linxi to learn how to swim in the water, Lan Yi took him to the shallow part of the stream and let him swim to show him. Although it is just a simple dog planing, it is better than skill. Lan Yi chose a section of the water for him where the current was gentle, and the stream reached his waist, and the banks on both sides were stacked with obvious stones, and only let him swim in this section. It is strictly stipulated that the second uncle can only go into the water with him, and Yu'er and Da Fu Yang Lin Xi and Lin Yuan have been waiting for them to play in the water these days, and people have tanned a lot.
"Also, half of the eldest child eats Lao Tzu to death, the three bear children in my family are all three pigs, and my father and I are about to be gnawed into bone pieces." Sister-in-law Niu had a sad face on her face, but in fact, her heart was beautiful, and the second sister-in-law was a little unhappy to see her like this.
"Well deserved! I told you to send my second child to my house, but you were still in a hurry with me. The second sister-in-law muttered, "If it weren't for the sincerity of the second child, I wouldn't want it." β
Sister-in-law Niu was not happy to hear her words, and she lost the interest in staying. "Hmph, no matter how poor my father is, my father and I won't treat the baby as your son-in-law, okay, brother and sister, I still have to go to the field, and I will come back when I have time."
Sister-in-law Niu is a miracle in Lan Yi's opinion, this cool woman is only twenty-nine years old this year, but she has already given birth to five children, three boys and two girls, and a bunch of radish heads at home. The second sister-in-law only has two daughters and no sons, but this is her only sore spot, and now she is thinking about finding a son-in-law for her daughter all day long.
The second son of Sister-in-law Niu's family is only nine years old this year, and I don't know why this second sister-in-law has taken a look at her, and she cheekily said that she was rejected by Sister-in-law Niu several times, and it is also one of the jokes that people in the village talk about.
After sending off batches of apprentices, Lan Yi sewed clothes for autumn and winter under the locust tree. The baby has walked very steadily, even if he falls, he rarely cries, and his skin is very solid, so Lan Yi covered the manhole cover and let him grope in the yard.
"Baby, tell sΓΉ mother, which is the pumpkin?" Although the baby is not good at talking, he already knows a lot of things, and Lan Yi teaches him new things when he has free time every day.
The baby listened to his mother's words, moved to the side of the melon vine in the vegetable garden with his little fat legs, and pointed to the pumpkin hanging on the shelf: "Melon." β
"Well, the baby is amazing, that's the pumpkin. Did my mother wrap pumpkin-filled dumplings for the baby to eat? "The pumpkin here is similar to the modern gourd, and it can still be eaten when cooking, soup, and filling, and Lan Yi thinks that this melon is easy to digest and often makes it for children to eat.
"Melon." The baby's chubby finger pointed to the kitchen, meaning that it had eaten there.
"Awesome baby, where are our chickens?" Lan Yi shifted the target.
The baby turned his little head to look around, then ran over and pointed to the half-sized chicken: "Ah." β
"The baby is awesome, when our chickens lay eggs, we don't have to buy them anymore. I don't know if they're about to lay eggs? Lan Yi looked at the chickens, wishing they were starting to lay eggs now.
"Eggs, eggs."
"Yes. Eggs, we will have goose eggs to eat in the future, which are much bigger than eggs. Lan Yi thought about the huge ostrich eggs, "My mother has seen eggs bigger than goose eggs, and it is estimated that the baby and my brother will not see them." β
Lan Yi sighed, hearing the familiar sound of horses' hooves in the distance, the baby happily pointed to the door: "Mom." Mother. β
The horse word is a three-tone word, the baby can't turn the tone, I have seen Zhou Weiji's big black horse a few times and called it mother, but Lan Yi was extremely depressed.
"Yes. Tuesday Bo is back. β
Although Lan Yi has met Zhou Weiji very rarely, he rides a horse in and out of the village every day, and he is very familiar with the sound of horses' hooves Lan Yi's family.
Zhou Weiji has gone home for the night more often than in the county ya's class room in the past month or so, because Zhou Weiji's family is the only one, and he used to make do in the class room or go to the county brother's house when he was late in the yamen, but during this time, he couldn't wait to ride back and forth every day. When the brothers of the county government saw him like this, they all joked that he was a golden house treasurer.
Zhou Weiji is twenty-four years old this year, and everyone in the village who is as old as him is already married to a wife, and the children are running in groups. After Zhou Weiji came back from the border pass, his sister Zhou Yue'e was in a hurry to marry him Zhang Luo's daughter-in-law, but his family had few fields, and Zhou Weiji was old and fierce.
In addition, Zheng ** in the village looked at Zhou Weiji and came over to say that he couldn't get married, and said around the village that Zhou Weiji had killed a lot of people at the border pass, and he was short-tempered, which made his reputation a lot worse. Although Zhou Weiji didn't care about it, Zhou Yue'e was half angry, but she couldn't help it, every time she saw him, she had to urge, saying that he didn't marry a wife and have children, and her heavenly parents were also worried, and she couldn't live with peace of mind.
If Zhou Weiji himself is concerned, he has no intention of not marrying, and he has no objection to his sister giving him a marriage, only saying that his sister can see what he wants, and he is just marrying to live. But after seeing Lan Yi a few times recently, and listening to the movements in the courtyard next door every day, he had some thoughts that he shouldn't have.
It seems that if he can marry such a little daughter-in-law, he can live such a dull and lonely life.
PS: Tomorrow should be Chinese New Year's Eve, do you eat dumplings? Anyway, this year's weather is warm, and it's very unseasonal.
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