In early July, the peony fruit horns hardened, and many of the peony seeds that had been cracked to reveal the black and shiny inside were harvested.

Wang Linxi, Wang Linyuan two brothers and the main force of the oil mill all went to various places to take back the peony seeds, Zhao Shangjing, Wang Ershu and Aunt Wang and Lan Yi were left on the hillside, it is not yet the busy farming season, the village Niu sister-in-law and other people who plan to plant peonies also went to the hillside to help, Liu and Chen's mother's family also came to follow the busy work, and the peonies on the hillside were harvested and dried at home for two or three days.

Although the peony is a three-year-old peony planted last year, but with the guidance of Zhao Huajiang, several families are careful to manage and the fertility can keep up, Lan Yi and Second Uncle Wang both harvested nearly 1,000 catties of peony seeds, and Xia Wan's fifteen acres even collected more than 2,200 catties.

After Lan Yi dried the peony seeds he received, Second Uncle Wang directly loaded them in an ox cart and transported them to Qingshan Oil Mill for oil extraction. Uncle Wang's peony seeds were left 150 catties and planted, and the peony seedlings were sold again next year.

At the same time, the peony seeds ordered by Qingshan Oil Mill from all over the country have arrived in Huang County one after another, and they are stored in batches in the warehouse of Zài Oil Mill and in the three newly purchased stores in the county. The three stores have been uniformly renovated, the color is the same as that of Castle Peak Oil Mill, with white walls and black tiles, and big signboards: Castle Peak Oil Shop, Castle Peak Shan Goods Shop, Lan Yi and their series of businesses are officially named "Castle Peak", which is considered their trademark, and they also officially set their names as Castle Peak Merchants.

At this time, none of them thought that Tsingshan Shangji would become the largest merchant in Da Zhou in the future.

After buying the shop, because the business was viable, Lan Yi and the others discussed opening a grocery store to buy mountain goods and all kinds of fruits, pine nuts and hazelnuts that can be processed into edible oil, various fruits that can be processed into "Qingshan fresh fruits", etc., and other mountain goods that can be eaten and used are also among the purchases.

It was Xiao Qi's idea to name the sugar fruit Qingshan Fresh Fruit, and he scratched his head and thought of a lot of very elegant names, and finally rejected them one by one, and finally decided. Under the operation of the shopkeeper Xia, the Qingshan Fresh Fruit Workshop has begun to process fresh fruits, and each process is strictly sterilized at high temperature to ensure the quality of Qingshan fresh fruits.

As for the matter of collecting mountain goods, Lan Yiti yì issued notices in each village, and selected a proper family in each village to be responsible for receiving the mountain goods in the village, and then sent them to the Qingshan mountain goods store together, and the person in charge of each village is responsible for the quality of the goods he sends, and the person in charge will be replaced if there is a problem. This not only saves labor, but also ensures the quality of goods.

At this time, Wang Linxi had officially taken over the accounts of Tsingshan Shangji, responsible for the entry and exit of all the goods and silver in and out of the shop. Lan Yi studied business administration in college, and she learned basic accounting, financial accounting, accounting statement analysis and other compulsory courses, and she selectively handed over some bookkeeping and analysis techniques to Lin Xi. Lin Xi has a quick brain, and he is practical and willing to learn, and he soon mastered the essence and managed the accounts in an orderly manner.

When everyone was busy, Lan Yi still stayed in the village with her children, trying to reduce her sense of savings. Go to the slope to harvest the blackened mung beans, pick the grown vegetables and fruits, or go to the hillside to weed the peony, feed the ducks, lead the family to nibble on the grass, or drink tea with Lei Tianze, and take the two children to the top of the slope to paint brush paintings, which can be said to be very fulfilling and happy.

At the time of the Qixi Festival, Lan Yi received a letter from Xia Wan, inviting her and her children to play in Meixian County.

With the expansion of Qingshan Shangji's business, Lan Yi knew that she might not be able to hide it anymore, and she also planned to go to Meixian County after the money from the oil mill was collected to deal with the baby's family affairs, and Chun Tao's life story should be clarified again.

After the Qixi Daughter's Day, it is the Midyear Festival, the day of ancestor worship. According to last year's preparations, Lan Yi sacrificed the ancestors of the Wang family, and took Yu'er to Lijia Village to worship her parents when the weather was good.

Over there in Huajia Village, she sent eight male ducks, the ducks on the hillside have grown up, Lan Yi caught a few before and after to make roast ducks, this is because Lei Tianze loves the taste of roast duck very much, and always wants to eat one every few days. The roast duck has a strong fragrance, and it drifts to the neighbors, which spoils a few cow egg brothers, and also arouses Zhou Weiji's gluttony. However, a few cow eggs can still come over to stutter, but Zhou Weiji can only look at the wall and sigh.

The roast duck is delicious, and there are many ducks on the slopes of Lanyi Mountain, and she is not stingy, taking advantage of the festival to give it to several families such as Niu's sister-in-law's family, eight mothers-in-law's and two sisters-in-law's family, and when the peony seeds were harvested this year, the village made a fortune on Tuesday and helped a lot. On Tuesday, the family rented Lan Yi's field, which increased a lot of income every year, and has always been grateful to Lan Yi, and the daughter-in-law Yang who made a fortune on Tuesday has often walked around Lan Yi's house this year, and also followed the sister-in-law Niu They bought sloping land to plant peonies.

Yang's temperament is similar to Niu's sister-in-law, and she is also a cool one, she is in her early twenties this year, and has a son and a daughter at home, her son's nickname is three babies who are one year older than the baby, and her daughter is just one year old and still holds.

On this day, Lan Yi's family of three lay on the bamboo bed under the locust tree, looking at the stars and chatting, although the weather has begun autumn, but it is also stuffy, and the three of them like to lie on the bamboo bed.

Yu'er touched her little belly and asked her mother: "Mother, how many male ducks do you say we have on the hillside?"

For the male ducks raised on the hillside who only eat and do not lay eggs, and they are not as good-looking as male pheasants, Yu'er and Baobao have no good feelings, and they can't wait to sell them for silver or catch them and eat them.

Lan Yi doesn't know how to judge the male and female ducks, and it's hard to say how many female ducks there are, but there should be quite a few.

"Yu'er wants to eat roast duck, didn't we just eat it yesterday? The duck blood soup I just drank tonight. ”

The baby lies on the mother's arm and pats the full little belly: "Full, full, baby, full." ”

Lan Yi smiled and rubbed his belly, this little guy has been very greedy lately, and he is not slow to move around.

"Mother, the third uncle said that he wanted to eat roast duck, and he wanted to drink with roast duck." Yu'er lay on the bed and said that he liked Lei Tianze and remembered his words deeply, "Mother, I am the age of my third uncle, and I have to go around to study." ”

"Okay, go on a study tour. Isn't Yu'er going to be the champion of civil and martial arts? ”

Yu'er clenched her small fist and nodded vigorously: "En." followed the third uncle to study hard, and was the champion of the exam; Follow Tuesday Bo to fight hard, take the martial arts champion, catch the bad guys, catch the bad guys. ”

"Okay, baby, what are you going to do when you grow up?"

The baby stretched out his arm: "Baby, baby, pick up eggs, ride a big horse." ”

"Mother, what about you? What to do? Yu'er asked curiously.

Lan Yi lay on the bamboo bed, looked at the leaves of the locust tree and saw the shining moonlight and said: "Mother, live a good life, raise more ducks for you to pick up eggs, earn a lot of silver, make a lot of delicious food, and wait until Yu'er becomes a catcher, let's also buy a big horse, which is bigger than Tuesday's uncle's house, for the two of you to ride." ”

As soon as the two children heard about buying a horse, the light in their eyes suddenly covered the moonlight in the sky, and they began to chatter about what to buy.

Lan Yi looked at the moonlight and listened with a smile, except that she couldn't return to her parents, she was still very satisfied with this day.

"Mother, are you going to find us a daddy?" Yu'er suddenly asked.

Lan Yi was beautiful, choked by Yu'er's question, coughed a few times, and got up to take a sip of water. After Peony and Duck made some money, three matchmakers came to the family one after another to say goodbye to Lan Yi, and even Sister-in-law Niu came to propose marriage for her younger brother, and people in the village were also spreading the news that she was going to remarry.

Lan Yi asked those who came to propose marriage directly and politely, and she politely refused Sister-in-law Niu. Although it is the time to talk about marriage at her age now, Lan Yi always feels that fifteen or sixteen years old is still too young, and she still has too many unresolved things, and she has two children.

"Yu'er, baby, do you want a daddy?" Lan Yi is more curious about the thoughts of the two children, in fact, it is also good for them to have a father, so that the family is complete and beneficial to the child's character development.

"Yu'er wants Tuesday Uncle to be his father, so that they will be envious to death." Yu'er said her thoughts directly, Yu'er is sensitive and delicate, and knows who really likes them, although Zhou Weiji is silent, he treats him and the baby really well.

Lan Yi didn't expect him to mention Zhou Weiji directly, thinking of his tall body, full beard and sharp eyes like a leopard, Lan Yi looked at his small body again and shook his head.

Yu'er heard her brother talk about Uncle Tuesday, but she frowned and objected: "Second uncle, your beard is tied up, and the baby hurts." ”

Yu'er immediately said: "Only those with a big beard are afraid, and Yu'er will have a big beard in the future." ”

Lan Yi couldn't help but get goosebumps when she thought of Yu'er's bearded face: "Let's not keep it, the beard is not good-looking, and my mother doesn't like it." Yu'er, if someone asks you about finding your father, don't say anything, remember? ”

The two children nodded obediently, and the baby took the mother's arm and said, "Mother, listen, story, moon." ”

Lan Yi looked at the moonlight, nodded and said, "Okay, let's go back to the house, my mother will tell you the story of the monkey fishing for the moon, it's time to sleep." ”

After the two children fell asleep, Lan Yi cleaned up and looked at the moon in the sky, thinking about her thoughts, she always felt faintly uneasy in the past two days, as if someone was spying on her, but she didn't go out of the village, and there were no strange people in the village who came out to pull peony seedlings.

However, she trusted her instincts, thinking that she should not go out recently, stay at home, plan and then move, and find an opportunity for people to listen to the movements in Meixian, maybe something happened.

There was a familiar sound of horses' hooves in the distance, softly, as if it was afraid of disturbing the good dreams of the people in the village.

Zhou Weiji stepped on the moonlight and returned, a few dogs barked outside the village, there was no sound, and his courtyard was also pitch black.

He pushed the door open and entered, looking at the courtyard wall. The honeysuckle planted by Lan Yi on the side of the courtyard wall climbed to Zhou Weiji's house, and the yellow and white flowers under the moonlight exuded a faint fragrance.

Zhou Weiji sniffed the fragrance of flowers and smiled, the small flowers that climbed over the wall made him happy, and became the only bright color in the house, leading him to return home day and night. R1152