"Brother Tuesday, have you ever sent winter clothes to your parents' graves today?"

On the first day of October, marking the arrival of the cold winter, the folk customs of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not only to open the stove at home to keep warm, send winter clothes to distant relatives, but also worry about the lack of clothes and less clothing for the ancestors in the underworld, so on this day to sacrifice to the ancestors, in addition to food, incense, candles, paper money and other general offerings, the most important thing is the underworld clothes, which is called sending winter clothes. The Winter Clothes Festival is also known as the four "ghost festivals" of the year, together with the Qingming Festival and Shangsi Festival in spring, and the Zhongyuan Festival in autumn.

Early this morning, Lan Yi had already gone to the ancestral grave with Wang's second uncle and his family to fill in the soil, and sent winter clothes to Wang Linshan and his parents. The family's concern and care for the deceased relatives are generally subtle, this year the family is richer, and the second uncle Wang asked the second aunt Wang to prepare for the ancestors, in addition to the usual clothes, but also added a pound of cotton wool.

When the cotton wool was lit, Second Uncle Wang knelt in front of the grave and chattered, "Daddy, eldest brother, thanks to the blessings of the old family, the life of the family is better this year, you use these cotton wool to add clothes, if it is not enough, you will tell the people to be good." The eldest brother and sister-in-law, the younger brother is in charge of giving the old family's promise to the second child of the Zhou family, and she will be the daughter of our family in the future, and the two children are still Lin Shan's sons, and they are your grandsons. Don't worry, the incense can't be broken......"

Listening to Second Uncle Wang talking with his deceased relatives with a solemn and sad face, Lan Yi felt sour in her heart, the pain of life and death parting, and her words were difficult to describe. Uncle Wang has always been thrifty, and his family is rich and reluctant to weigh meat on weekdays, although this year is a bumper harvest year, but the new cotton wool in Huangxian County is nearly 100 yuan per catty, and he does not feel distressed at all when he burns it to his relatives.

After Wang Linshan's ashes were retrieved from Meixian. He was not buried with great fanfare, but several members of the Wang family dug up his tomb and put it in, and asked monks to recite scriptures in front of the tomb for two days. So now Wang Linshan's grave is his real ashes, and Lan Yi has also counted a matter of his heart.

Next year, it's time for the Winter Clothes Festival to prepare sacrifices for Zhou Weiji's parents, right? Lan Yi was a little shy, and hurriedly took out the food in the basket and laid it out.

looked up and found Zhou Wei looking at her in a daze.

This stupid bear, could it be that he didn't hear his own words?

"Brother Tuesday, have you ever sent winter clothes to your parents' graves today?"

Lan Yi is wearing a sapphire blue dress today. Dressed in a dark red rabbit fur cloak outside, her skin is more and more white and delicate, and her lips are red and tender. Zhou Weiji withdrew his eyes. Looking at the two pairs of dishes and chopsticks that Lan Yi had placed on the kang table, he smiled, "I went with the second uncle to burn them in the morning." ”

Of course she didn't know that the word "parents" was in Zhou Weiji's ears. How catchy it sounds.

Dinner was rice noodles. A thick bone broth with various mushrooms, served with fresh green spinach in the greenhouse, sprinkled with chives and sesame oil, is warm and nutritious.

Lan Yi took out the big bowl she bought today, lifted the basket and wanted to take out the two jars of rice noodles, but Zhou Weiji took out the jars and put them on the table one step ahead of her, neatly holding a bowl of rice noodles and placing them in front of her. Lan Yi's bowl was much smaller than Zhou Weiji's.

"This big bowl is new to the shop, and I bought a few of them when I saw that it was good."

Zhou Weiji nodded. "Is it the Qingshan grocery store by the Qingshui River?"

Lan Yi smiled and nodded, "Well, that's also a few of our shops." ”

She sat on the kang, slowly felt the temperature of the kang, untied her cloak and took it off, "Brother Tuesday, you also burned the kang, it's so warm." ”

Because the little girl is coming, I'm afraid that she will freeze and burn this morning, but there is nothing to say about this. Two jars of rice noodles, Lan Yi only ate one bowl, and the rest went into Zhou Weiji's stomach, he ate very satisfied and warm, and unbuttoned the button around his neck.

Lan Yi saw that he was not wearing a down jacket, so he asked, "In such a cold weather, why didn't Brother Tuesday wear a down winter coat." ”

Zhou Weiji saw that she cared about herself everywhere, showed her snow-white teeth and smiled happily, and stretched her arms involuntarily to touch her head: "It's not cold yet, wait until you count nine before you wear it." ”

How could it not be cold, she had already put it on. Lan Yi frowned and said, "Brother Tuesday, don't save it, I made you another pair of thin cotton pants, you can wear them when it's cold, and you should also wear the knee pads of down." There are still a lot of cotton and duck feathers at home, and you carefully freeze and get sick. Do you have the incense and medicine you brought over? ”

This little girl, she has to wrap herself up like them to feel at ease, "It's all useful, rest assured, the weather is not cold." When I was at the border, it was much colder than ours, and I could survive the winter with only a leather jacket, and it couldn't be cold. ”

Lan Yi didn't say more, took out the newly made cotton pants, shirt and cotton socks and put them on the side of the kang, and took out a can of walnut powder and vegetable dumplings from the basket: "Second brother, you can still use boiling water to drink walnut powder." These are the newly made millet noodles and meat dumplings made by Aunt Yao and me, you put them outside the house and freeze them, and then heat them up when you are hungry to eat. ”

Zhou Weiji took the vegetable dumplings and put them in the West House, and after coming over, he took Lan Yi's little hand, her hand was warm, not cold, but when the rice noodles were hot, it would still be cold.

"One by one, there are many sick people these days, don't just take care of me, you have to take care of your own body. Come and sit next to me, get warmer. ”

He was very well-behaved today, and Lan Yi obediently let him hold hands and do it together, "Brother Tuesday, you came to me today and said that you have something to discuss?" ”

"Yes. I wanted to tell you about building a house. ”

Hearing that he was willing to discuss with him, Lan Yi was very happy, "Second brother, what are you going to do?" ”

"I thought about building four main rooms and two east and west wings. cooking and putting sundries in the west wing; The two rooms in the east wing are more spacious, and when we get married, I want to take my eldest brother back to live. After Zhou Weiji finished speaking, he carefully observed Lan Yi's face. This is the main reason why he consulted with her, when he was in Meixian, Li Jingang once told him that such a thing should be talked about with his daughter-in-law, and he must not make up his mind alone.

The "big brother" in Zhou Weiji's mouth refers to his brother-in-law Su Yongshen. Su Yongshen was originally a talent and taught at the border where Zhou Weiji joined the army. When the enemy attacked the city, he helped defend the city, it was a fiasco, the soldiers and civilians of the Great Zhou Dynasty were finally broken through the city wall by the enemy for three days, most of the dead and wounded, when Guo Nanyuan's commander arrived, the city of Zhou was already full of devastation, after the enemy army burned and looted, Su Yongshen's family was burned to death. When Zhou Weiji buried the body, they found that Su Yongshen still had a breath, so they rescued him.

After Su Yongshen recovered from his injury, he abandoned his pen and followed Rong. followed Zhou Weiji and them to train the army together, and asked to go into battle to kill the enemy several times, vowing to kill the foreigners and drive them out of the Great Zhou. But he was a scholar, although he had the will to die on the battlefield and die with the enemy, but his body was meager and he was only left to work under the general officer of the rear army.

In the third year of Puhe, the enemy army moved the tiger away from the mountain to attack the Zhou camp. In order to protect the important account books, Su Yongshen designed to lead away the enemy, and his right leg was trampled by a horse several times. After the injury was healed, he was lame, and the knife wound on his body became unbearable pain. The following year, Guo Nanyuan defeated the enemy army, and he also avenged the annihilation. There is no love in life. Zhou Weiji and Gao Feng saw him like this, and when they returned to their hometowns, they dragged him back to Huang County to be placed in the city to take care of him.

After Gao Feng got married, he and his wife Zhao moved into the city, so they could take care of Su Yongshen nearby. But the Zhao family was pampered at home, and she couldn't cook, so in the end, she hired her mother-in-law to take care of her food. Gao Feng made trouble a few times, and Zhao only cried back to his parents' house without improvement.

Zhou Wei was very willing to take Su Yongshen back to take care of him, but he often left home. I really don't have the ability to take care of people, so I've been making do. The food that Lan Yi sent over a few days ago. Zhou Weiji brought most of it to Su Yongshen, and now that the family wants to build a house, he is naturally a little tempted, and he wants to take Su Yongshen back to take care of it, which is much better than living in the city.

Although in his opinion, it was natural to take care of Su Yongshen, Zhao's attitude and Li Jingang's words made him worry about whether Lan Yi would be unwilling.

"One by one, eldest brother, he can take care of himself, but he can't cook because of his body pain when the weather changes, so he needs you to work harder and cook more meals for him. Tao'er, I know it's embarrassing for you, but the eldest brother is in the city, and the four siblings are noisy every day, and I feel very uncomfortable looking at the eldest brother. ”

It's nothing to eat for one more person, but a strange man lives in the house, and she doesn't see anyone looking up, which makes her feel a little awkward. However, seeing Zhou Wei looking at himself cautiously, Lan Yi didn't want to refuse, so he nodded.

"Okay."

Zhou Weiji saw that she had been thinking about it for a long time, and he was worried in his heart, but he didn't expect her to respond with a smile. Although he knew that Lan Yi was kind-hearted and would not refuse, he still felt that he couldn't help her, and reached out to hold her in his arms, "Yiyi, I have wronged you." ”

Lan Yi felt a lot more comfortable when she saw him like this.

Zhou Weiji explained softly: "Soon after I entered the camp, I lived in the same tent as my eldest brother. At that time, I was young and short-tempered, and I only knew how to fight with others, but it was my eldest brother who taught me the principles of reading and life, helping me to mend my clothes and keep food, and my eldest brother took care of me day and night when I was injured. One by one, the eldest brother is helpless now, and his body is also broken and unable to survive, I can't leave him alone. The eldest brother is also a talented teacher, and his knowledge is excellent, and even the military advisor is very appreciative, so you must be able to talk about it. ”

Lei Tianze's house, isn't it because he has read a few more books that he can talk to his little girl, and he still recognizes the little girl as a righteous sister with a shy face, the eldest brother is knowledgeable, and the little girl will not have the same attitude as the fourth brother and sister when she sees the eldest brother.

Zhou Weiji was originally silent, but now that he has said so much, Lan Yi still doesn't understand his thoughts. She raised her head and said seriously: "Brother Tuesday, I am very happy that you are willing to discuss and consider my feelings with me in case of trouble." You did this right, and the grace of dripping water should also be reciprocated, not to mention that Brother Su treats you like this, let's take Brother Su back after we get married. ”

Every word she said touched Zhou Weiji's heart, making him feel comfortable, unconsciously tightened his arms, rubbed her hair bun and whispered: "Yiyi"

Lan Yi let him rub it, she really didn't know what to say about him every time she was happy and moved, she didn't object, but she always felt that this was more like a way of expressing affection for a beast in the mountains.

This fool, who didn't do anything himself, just a few words made him so happy.

"Brother Tuesday, you haven't mentioned this matter to Brother Su yet, have you?"

Zhou Weiji nodded.

"The next time you go to the city, you should discuss it with Brother Su, and this matter has to be agreed by him. We have beautiful mountains and rivers here, and the people are simple, so it is indeed a good place to settle down. Moreover, Aunt Yao will also be proficient in medical science and can also help him regulate his body. There are two Yu'er at home, as long as Brother Su is not afraid of noise, he will never be lonely and bored. ”

Zhou Weiji listened and smiled happily, "Okay, I'll talk to the eldest brother and fourth brother tomorrow." ”

"Brother Tuesday, where is Dao Wufeng now?" Zhou Wei didn't allow Lan Yi to call him Brother Dao again, and Dao Wufeng also changed his name to call Lan Yi's second sister-in-law, and she called him by his first name.

Zhou Weiji moved, "Wufeng is now living in the city and taking care of the eldest brother. Recently, the weather has been bad, and the eldest brother can't get up. Wu Feng and his eldest brother are neighbors who have known each other since childhood, and they have a good relationship. ”

After Dao Wufeng arrived in Huang County, he first went to visit Su Yongshen, and when he saw that his condition was not good, he stayed at home to take care of him. Seeing that the knife was bladeless and looked vicious, Zhao didn't dare to provoke him. Besides, the two-entry courtyard was originally bought by Zhou Weiji and Gao Feng for Su Yongshen to live in, and no matter how unhappy the Zhao family was, they couldn't drive people away.

"Brother Su, didn't you ask someone to take care of you?"

"The eldest brother doesn't like others to be close, so he only hired a mother-in-law to cook and sweep."

Lan Yi had an idea in her heart, and tentatively discussed it with Zhou Weiji: "Brother Tuesday, I have an idea and want to discuss it with you." (To be continued......) R1292