On the second day of July, Xia Wan set off to return to Meixian.

"Sister, it was only the beginning of autumn yesterday, and it hasn't cooled down yet, why don't you stay for a few more days?" Outside the county seat of Huangxian County, Lan Yi took her two children to wait on the side of the road to see Xia Wan off, very reluctant.

Xia Wan's belly was seven months old at this time, and her spirit was much better during the time she came back, she took the baby and Yu'er's little hands, and said with a smile: "I have to rush back before the Midyear Festival, and if I miss these two days, there will be no suitable day for traveling." ”

The ancients traveled to see the yellow calendar, and everything was auspicious. The midyear festival on July 15 is a festival to worship ancestors, Xia Wan has married a woman and become the head mother of the family, and it is really unreasonable not to go back to preside over the sacrifice to the ancestors.

"Yes. Sister, these are the two little clothes I made for my little nephew, my sister is not good at needlework, you can't laugh at me. Lan Yi took out a package, which contained the gift she had prepared for Xia Wan's soon-to-be-born child, "I can't go over to drink my little nephew's full moon wine, and I don't know when the next time we meet." ”

Xia Wan took the burden and handed it to Chuncao, asking her to put it away, "Yes." Xia Shun and his six sons stayed here, and they could also send letters to our sisters back and forth, and my sister should not forget to write to me. In terms of business, I still have to worry about my sister, as long as you are in charge, Xia Shun has already explained it, let him listen to his sister. ”

"Sister, Shopkeeper Xia is serious and flexible, sister, I can't compare, hehe, we will discuss this business, and when we make money, we will add a few decent gifts to my little nephew." Lan Yi smiled, pulled the baby and Yu'er and said, "Sister, hurry up and get on the road, be careful along the way, don't rush to the road." Come, Yu'er, baby, say goodbye to your aunt. ”

Yu'er said obediently: "Goodbye, aunt, aunt has a good trip." ”

Baby: "Ahhh ”

Lan Yi jumped out of the carriage with the child, and Xia Wan set off. Xia Wan went back this time and there were two more carriages than when she came, and there were several family members escorted by the Xia family, and a large group of people walked away in a mighty way.

Life has been sad and parting since ancient times, and it is even more embarrassing, snubbing the Qingqiu Festival. Lan Yi looked at the carriage and gradually moved away, and for the first time had a strong sense of parting, and after separation, she could only get the news from afar through guò fish and geese, which made it difficult for Lan Yi, who was used to mobile phones and the Internet, to accept it, and it was really sad to part.

"Madam, the girl is far away, let's send you back." The sixth son asked with a smile that he and his father were also separated from their own girls here and wanted to go back to the summer mansion.

"I still have to take the child to buy some things, so I won't bother Shopkeeper Xia and the sixth son." Lan Yi retracted her thoughts.

Xia Shun nodded, saluted and said, "Madam, in a few days it will be time to plant peonies." During this period of time, Zhao Huajiang and I went to look for peonies and came back, and we planted peonies before winter. I don't know what Madame's instructions are? ”

Lan Yi thought about it, and said bluntly: "Shopkeeper Xia, the quality of this peony seedling is important, I bother you and Zhao Huajiang to find some good seedlings back, we would rather lack than abuse." ”

Under Xia Ying, Lan Yi took her two children around the county, bought cotton, white cloth, coarse cloth kang sheets, etc., and prepared to go home to make winter coverings and mats on the Westinghouse earthen kang. People in the village are compacting the straw and laying it on the bottom of the kang, and then laying the kang sheet, which is economical, but the problem is that it is easy to get fleas, Lan Yi naturally will not do this, she doesn't want to suffer herself and her children, and the basic living conditions still have to be guaranteed.

Naturally, it cost a lot of money. She is thinking about sending Yu'er to the school next year, books are big consumption, the child grows up very fast day by day, clothes have to be done a lot, nutrition has to keep up, she is also the age of growing body, food can not be saved, there are a lot of places to spend silver, so it is not possible to only go out and not enter, although the oil mill can make money next year, but this period can not wait, sit and eat empty.

When she went home, while the soybeans were not yet ripe, she made a quilt and cotton clothes, and the thick quilt was only sewn on two sides with a white cloth, and the quilt cover was covered.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing here?" Lan Yi was wearing a mask, wearing old clothes, a pair of high old boots under her feet, and standing on the edge of the pigsty in a daze with a dung fork in her hand, and happened to be seen by Wang Linxi and his wife who came in, curious why she was dressed like this.

"Second brother, brother and sister, you are here. Hehe, while the baby is asleep, I plan to get the fertilizer in the pen pit to dry, and pull it to the ground in a few days. Lan Yi was a little embarrassed, she was brewing on the edge of the pit for a while, staring at the two black pigs and just couldn't get down, it was really dirty!

Wang Linxi hurriedly stepped forward to take the dung fork: "Sister-in-law, I'll come." ”

Chen also nodded: "Sister-in-law, this kind of work can be done by our women, let Dafu's father get it, and it will be fine in a while." ”

"How can you trouble the second brother, you are already busy enough, I will take my time." Lan Yi just thought that it was really impossible to spend a few pennies to find someone to help, but she was still a little embarrassed to let the second brother jump down.

"Sister-in-law, I'll go back and change my clothes first." Wang Linxi is a sincere character, and after speaking, he turned around and went home to change clothes to help Lan Yi clear the pit.

"That's troublesome for the second brother. Brother and sister, let's sit in the house, why didn't you bring Niuniu? Lan Yi saw Wang Linxi turn around and leave, and hurriedly beckoned Chen into the house, there must be something wrong with the two of them coming over together.

"I'm also sleeping at home, let's not go into the house anymore, noisy with the children." Chen Shi looked at Lan Yi's outfit and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you are really, if we don't come, you really plan to do this work by yourself?" ”

“…… What else can I do? Gotta do it. The baby is not afraid of noise, let's go inside. Lan Yi smiled bitterly, "Actually, I don't hide it from my brother and sister, I can't jump after standing there for a long time." ”

Daddy, so many people in modern times want to travel to ancient farming, really cross over, this yard of flies and mosquitoes, dirty and smelly latrines, livestock and poultry manure that needs to be cleaned every day, dark kitchens without range hoods and natural gas...... I really don't know what it's like if I haven't experienced it myself, even she, a girl who grew up in the countryside, has to have an adaptation process, not to mention those children who grew up in a honey pot.

Lan Yi led Chen through the hall into the West House, where the kang had been laid, and Lan Yi put the kang table, and used the room as a place for family activities in the future.

Chen knows her difficulties, ** in charge, there is no man, and she naturally has to do her own work. "Sister-in-law, your house is really clean."

"If there are fewer things in the house, it will be clean. Brother and sister, you and your second brother are here, what's the matter? "Otherwise, the two husbands and wives would not have been able to come together.

Seeing Lan Yi take the initiative to ask, Chen said directly: "I'm not afraid of sister-in-law's jokes when I say it, building a house and buying a hillside has hollowed out the family's foundation, and I am about to buy peonies, but the family really can't take out the money." Sister-in-law, I know that your life is not easy, and it is said that you should not open this mouth, but I have borrowed all the places that can be borrowed, and I still have three taels of silver on my mother's side, so I really have no choice, so I came to ask my sister-in-law. If so, if the sister-in-law still has the money on hand......"

After Chen finished speaking, he cautiously observed Lan Yi's face. The two of them came over after discussing at home, the in-laws are elders and it is not easy to speak, although the relationship between Liu and Lan Yi has eased a little, but her mouth is also afraid that she will not listen to what she says, the relationship between Chen and Lan Yi is good, and the two have something to say, so let her be the most suitable.

Lan Yi nodded: "It's right for my brother and sister to come to me, we are a family, and if we can solve it ourselves, we will solve it ourselves." It's also that I'm wrong, I've already prepared this part of the money, you wait. ”

Lan Yi turned around and went to the east room, took out forty taels of silver from the corner of the kang cabinet and wrapped it up and gave it to Chen: "Brother and sister, this is forty taels, you take it and use it first." ”

After taking the heavy silver, Chen's eyes were red: "Sister-in-law...... "They thought it would be good to borrow ten taels, where would she dare to take so much silver."

"Brother and sister, listen to me, in addition to planting peonies, the second and third brothers are running around for the oil mill, and it doesn't matter if they don't have any silver in their hands. You take it back and use it first, and then pay me back when the oil mill dividends are paid, hehe, don't hide it from my brothers and sisters, that's all I can take out at hand. Don't say anything more about the side, it seems that we are divided. ”

Lan Yi said frankly, indeed, the one hundred and fifty taels of silver in her hand since she came back have gone to dozens of taels now, and taking out these forty taels is basically half of her savings.

"Sister-in-law...... I, I don't even know what to say. Chen snorted, moved to hold the silver and was speechless.

"Okay, you see the second brother comes in, let's go out." Lan Yi patted her hands, and after the second brother came in, he jumped directly into the pit and started working, and they couldn't sit in the house anymore.

After the good fertilizer is up, make a pile on the side of the pigsty, let the sun expose to the insects, and sprinkle it when the autumn sowing ploughs the ground, this smell is really bad, Yu'er and the baby are shouting smelly, even the cow sister-in-law ran over to see, and went back to let the cow dan dad dig a manure.

It wasn't until the Qixi Festival that the smell dissipated, and Lan Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Qixi Festival, also known as Daughter's Day. The girls who marry on the night of Qixi Festival will face the crescent moon, put seasonal melons and fruits, worship to the sky, and pray that the fairies in the sky will give them intelligent hearts and dexterous hands, so that their female red skills are skillful, and they can beg for a good match.

Lan Yi is **, naturally there is no such need, the grapevines in her house have not yet climbed to the top of the shelf, so there is nothing to hide under the grape trellis and eavesdrop on the whispers of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, she only put some melons and fruits under the grape trellis, take the children to watch the stars in the yard, point out to them where the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the Milky Way are, and tell them stories. The baby was not interested, and fell asleep after a while, Lan Yi hugged him to tell Yu'er and taught him Qin Shaoyou's masterpiece. Although she shouldn't use it before the original author is published, she really likes it, and she doesn't think about taking it out for money, Yu'er can't remember it when he's young, just cultivating his feelings about poetry. Because only when you feel the beauty, you will like it, and you will learn it.

Lan Yi doesn't want to instill in her children the idea of hard reading and hard reading, loving learning and enjoying learning is the right attitude, she doesn't point to the title of the children's gold list, as long as they can read and write, and have a correct three views.

PS: In other words, after checking it, I found that there were really a lot of festivals in that era, and the next chapter should write about the Zhongyuan Festival, which was an important festival in the Tang and Song dynasties.

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