Lan Yi didn't want to directly intervene in the affairs of the oil mill, Xia Chongxiao's ability to deal with this matter was more than enough. What she needs to consider is how to learn from this incident and establish a better personnel supervision mechanism to prevent one person from holding too much power and causing losses to Tsingshan Shangji's business. Most of the stewards and shopkeepers used in the shops of Da Zhou are servants of the master's family, and the power of life and death of the servants is in the hands of the master, so she does not regard the prevention of moral hazard of these people as a big problem. It now seems that this matter must be included in the priority consideration and reform context.

Of course, this is an important issue that has a bearing on the whole situation, and needs to be considered holistically, not overnight.

Back at home, according to Jia's guidance, Lan Yi cut out two pieces of fabric according to the size, and finally stitched them together to become a down jacket, trying not to damage the fabric.

It takes two or three days to cut the cloth to make the gall, then put the down into it and flatten it, and then sew the fabric and down together with a complex stitch method according to Jia's teaching, so as to ensure that there is no lint or hair. When Zhou Yue'e took the matchmaker to the second uncle's house to propose marriage, Lan Yi had not yet made the liner of the down jacket.

Zhou Yue'e is a girl who married out of the village, her mother's family and her second uncle's family are not far away, they know each other, both parties are very satisfied with the marriage, and the matchmaker praises her wittily in the middle, and the whole process is full of laughter. Zhou Yue'e has already started a grass post, and wrote Zhou Weiji's birthday eight characters, and Second Uncle Wang also took out Lan Yi's birth eight characters and exchanged grass posts with her.

On Tuesday, my sister went to the temple, and asked for divination with a straw post, and got an auspicious hexagram, men and women did not restrain each other, and the monks in the temple said that this woman had the image of a prosperous husband. Yue'e was overjoyed, added a lot of sesame oil money, returned to Beigou Village with the results of the questioning, first went to the second uncle's house to give Ming Zhou's old man, and after getting the old man's approval, she went to the second uncle's house.

Although Second Uncle Wang's family knew that Wang Chengde and the Zheng family had calculated the birthdays of Lan Yi and Zhou Weiji, Second Aunt Wang still rode a donkey to the temple, and the result was naturally very happy.

Lan Yi was very curious about the standard of whether the eight characters of men and women were compatible in the Great Zhou, and she only knew roughly that it was calculated according to the year pillar and day pillar of the eight characters of the birth date of both parties, as well as the relationship between the great luck and the passing year, and in most cases it was compatible. If they are not compatible, if the two parties want to get married, they need to donate more incense money to ask the monks in the temple to resolve it, but if there is disharmony between the husband and wife, such as quarrels, childlessness, early funeral, etc., they will also turn out the eight-character calculation at that time.

The two families have calculated the results, and after negotiation, they have decided on their posts. The man set the post to describe the names of the ancestors of Zhou Weiji's family for three generations, and the relatives were the first few men of the Zhou family, the birth date, the person who was married (because Zhou Weiji's parents were not in the hall, the main marriage was Zhou Weiji's grandfather), and listed the family's land and property, house, etc., on the post, and sent it to the second uncle's house to post.

The second uncle took out the fixed post that Wang Chengde had already written and replied. The content of Lan Yi's post is similar to Zhou Weiji's. It is written in detail about her situation: relatives, birthday, house, wedding jewelry, gold and silver, pearls, curtains and other things, land, houses, mountain gardens, etc.

After the post, the parents of both parties had no objections, and the marriage of the two was decided, and there was no need for both men and women to appear in person. In fact, according to the marriage customs of the Great Zhou, if the man and woman do not know each other before making the post, there will be a blind date.

When going on a blind date, the man's family chooses a day to prepare a wine ceremony to the woman's house, or borrows the garden, or in the lake, and the two parents' families meet. The men's family has four glasses of wine, and the women's family has two glasses, which means that the man is strong and the woman is weak. If the newcomers on both sides like it, they will insert the golden hairpin in the crown bun, and the name is the hairpin; If it is not satisfactory, then send two colored satin, which is called a shock, and the marriage will be done. Of course, the appearance of the daughter to be married in the female family is a more obscure way, Lan Yi often hears the gossip of the eight mothers-in-law and the second sister-in-law, gossip about the blind date of whose family, all kinds of oolongs.

She and Zhou Weiji are neighbors, so this link is naturally exempt. After Lan Yi received Zhou Weiji's post, he learned that his grandfather's name was Zhou Dayun, his father sent it to his third son, and his mother Zhang. Zhou Dayun has four sons and a daughter, and the sons are called Zhou Changfa, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, which means very auspicious.

Zhou Weiji is the only son of Wednesday, no one has been an official for three generations, all of them are farmers, only Zhou Weiji is a captain from Jiupin. Lan Yi looked at the three words "from the ninth grade" and was stunned, from the ninth grade is still the smallest. Li Jingang was sentenced from the fifth rank of Dongping, Lan Junzhi was the chief secretary of the ninth grade Mei County, and Zhou Weiji was one level lower than him. However, she can be regarded as an official anyway, Lan Yi smiled, she didn't care about this.

It was also written on the post that Zhou Weiji had three acres of paddy fields and four acres of sloping land. There are not many fields in Beigou Village, and there are less than 100 farmers in the village, except for the rich households such as Zhou landlords, there are more than 10 acres of paddy fields and slopes in general.

On her own post, the field property only wrote fifteen acres of sloping land and dowry, dowry jewelry, gold and silver, pearls and emeralds, tents and other things, all of which were set by Wang Chengde and Zheng before, and explained that it was just a straw sticker, and some more makeup had to be added before getting married. The paddy fields, slopes, and properties of the original Wang Linshan in Beigou Village are all under the names of Yuer and Baobao, who are counted as Wang Linshan's adopted sons.

On the 16th of the leap month, Zhou Yue'e, together with his wife Wang on Tuesday and Zhang's wife on Thursday, took the matchmaker to Uncle Wang's house to officially make the ceremony. Dingli is considered to be the top in the village: a pair of live geese, live sheep, and live ducks, a pair of Luosheng wine vases carrying pairs of eight large flowers, eight pieces of Luo silk silver, four horses of silk and four boxes of tea cakes. The matchmaker also presented four pieces of gold paper, which were a gift book and a gift list.

Second Uncle Wang's family happily accepted the ceremony. The more ceremonies a man makes, the more attention he attaches to the woman's family and the more satisfied he is with the marriage. What's more, this time, it was Zhou Weiji's two aunts and eldest sister who made the decision personally, giving Lan Yi a great face.

Second Uncle Wang prepared incense, candles, wine and fruit in the mansion and told the alliance of the Three Realms. Then the return gift was placed, and the return gift was relatively simple: two bottles of fresh water, five live fish, and a pair of tendons were sent in the Yuan wine bottle, which was called the return fish tendon. Compared with the rich gift of the Zhou family, the return gift of the Wang family seems to be a lot simpler, this is considering Lan Yi's widowhood, and remarriage should not be too public, otherwise it will cause gossip.

The two families invited matchmakers to communicate with each other without going behind the villagers' backs, and everyone soon knew that Zhou Weiji was engaged to the blue widow of the Wang family, and it was another discussion. The eighth mother-in-law, sister-in-law Niu, Wu and others who have a good relationship with Lan Yi naturally congratulate her, but there are also widows Zheng and Zhou Yang's daughter-in-law who are not happy to see the two combined, and frequently speak ill of her.

On the 26th, Zhou Yue'e went to the Wang family with sheep wine, four-hour crown flowers, silver head noodles and colored satin, and these things even added the next ceremony, which dazzled the eyes of the villagers. Ordinary villagers marry daughters-in-law, where have they seen such a big pomp, it also shows that the Zhou family is satisfied with and attaches importance to Widow Lan, and the contempt and gossip of the women in the village who are envious and jealous of Lan Yi have disappeared a lot.

In fact, most of the things hired were brought to his sister by Zhou Weiji when he came back from the border pass, and Sister Tuesday saw that they were all good things, so she kept them for her younger brother to use for her daughter-in-law. Coupled with the rent collected from Zhou Weiji's fields over the years and the silver taels given to her by Zhou Weiji, Zhou Yue'e scraped together a total of fifty taels for her younger brother to build a house. Zhou Wei knew that it was not easy for the eldest sister's family to live, so he only accepted ten taels.

After the second uncle Wang received the dowry, the two sides set the date on June 24 next year, and the Zhou family sent the fixed gift and dowry, Lan Yi only left a piece of silk, a horse of colored satin and headdress, and the rest were left to the second uncle's family.

This time, the Wang family's return gift was the clothes, shoes and socks that Lan Yi made for Zhou Weiji, all of which were rushed out these days, with satin and cotton cloth, and a purple and red dress, which was made for Zhou Yue'e at first glance. Zhou Yue'e took the return gift and sent it to her younger brother excitedly.

"Wei Ji, look at your brother and sister's skill." Zhou Yue'e took the clothes Lan Yi made for Zhou Weiji and gestured on him, "Quickly put them on and show my sister that it is appropriate?" ”

Zhou Wei was extremely good, took off his coat and put on Lan Yi's new robe, the navy blue robe fit very well, Zhou Yue'e covered her mouth and smiled: "My brother and sister's eyes are really good, this size is not bad at all." ”

Zhou Weiji had a smile in his eyes, but he also felt sorry for the little girl who rushed out of these clothes in such a short time.

"Hey, what is this?" Zhou Yue'e took out a light dark cyan cotton cardigan winter coat under the baggage, which was very soft to the touch.

Zhou Weiji remembered that night, and his eyes softened, "This is made by her with duck feathers, and she said that it is light and windproof to wear on her body." ”

"Duck feathers at home? That thing can still be made into clothes? "You must know that the duck feathers and chicken feathers of the farmer, many hoops play a closed role in the bellows fan in the push-pull bellows for cooking, and then there is the feather duster, where have you ever thought that you can also make clothes," the hands of the younger siblings are skillful, fast, put them on and show them to my sister. ”

Zhou Wei took off the robe on his body and folded it carefully, and put on the winter coat again, Lan Yi took into account Zhou Weiji's high activity and was not afraid of the cold, there was not much duck down in the inner tank, and the shoulders and arms were slightly fat, leaving room for activity. Zhou Weiji put on the length just to cover his lower abdomen, it was really light and warm, and even his heart was on fire.

"I'm a good girl, my sister has lived for so many years, I've seen winter clothes filled with cotton wool, licorice and fine linen, and I've seen fur clothes made of fox skin by rich families, where can duck feathers make such a good thing." Zhou Yue'e circled around Zhou Weiji a few times, raised her eyes to look at her younger brother, and said playfully, "You really picked up a treasure this time, no wonder you have to ride a horse to Meixian on this cold day, you should have set the wedding date." ”

Thinking of his father-in-law and mother-in-law's stunned expression when they saw him coming to the door, Zhou Wei coughed lightly embarrassedly, "It was Zhou Zhixian who sent me to Meixian to deliver some important official documents, and by the way, set a date." ”

The father-in-law and mother-in-law were reluctant to marry their daughter so early, and Wang Chunrong was even more anxious, but in the end he agreed.

"If you want to say that the hands of my younger brothers and sisters are skillful, I don't know how to grow my little brain, I know that red fruits can be made into sugar gourds, peonies can be planted, greenhouses can be deducted, and everything can make money." Zhou Yue'e glanced at him and said with emotion.

Zhou Wei nodded in agreement, remembering what Lan Yi had said that day. She said that she is not Chun Tao, nor is she a person in this world, so who is she? Zhou Weiji put away the smile on the corner of his mouth, calm and firm, no matter who she is or where she comes from, they have already set up a marriage, she is his, and she can't run away.

Zhou Yue'e didn't pay attention to the changes in her younger brother, she hurriedly stood up, "Sister Duck has also raised more than a dozen, and duck feathers are much cheaper than cotton wool, so I'll go and ask my younger brother and sister what to do." ”

After speaking, without waiting for his younger brother to react, he hurriedly went out and turned around to Lan Yi's house. Zhou Weiji and Lan Yi's family affairs have been booked, and they can be regarded as normal relatives. R1152