Lan Yi freshened up and changed her clothes, and took her two children to the kitchen to cook on the fire. In the past two days, the two little guys haven't seen their mothers much, and they are very sticky.

"Mother, did my grandmother invite someone to sing today?" Yu'er asked curiously, a few old people died in the village a few days ago, and a family invited the opera troupe to sing on stage, Yu'er ran to see the excitement and came back to talk for a few days.

"No, I invited a few monks in the temple to recite the scriptures." Lan Yi put the rice into the pot, "You help your mother watch the fire, don't burn it too close." Niang cut some cabbage, let's eat cabbage stewed tofu tonight. ”

Wen Xuan sat beside his brother and filled the stove with a piece of firewood, "Brother, the baby has seen it, chanting the scriptures is noisy, it is not good-looking, there are bad people." ”

Lan Yi knew that he was talking about the aunt of the Hua family, and couldn't help but think of Second Uncle Wang's saying that she was going to leave her child and remarry, how could she give up her own flesh and blood?

Lan Yi coughed a few times, feeling uncomfortable.

Yu'er asked worriedly, "Mother, are you uncomfortable?" ”

"No, my mother just cried a lot today, and her throat hurts a little, just drink a few more bowls of water." It's really hard to quarrel with people, she yelled a few words and got angry, it seems that she has to ask Jia Shi to prescribe a few pairs of anti-fire medicine to send to Uncle Wang and them.

Yu'er frowned and clenched her little fists: "Mother, they bullied you again, didn't they?" ”

Although Wen Xuan came back, although he didn't know it, he also told his brother that there were bad people in Huajia Village who bullied his mother, and Yu'er couldn't wait to beat him.

Lan Yi saw the worried little appearance of the two children, and her heart was warm, "Don't worry, they didn't bully my mother, your grandmother went to the funeral, and my mother cried when she was sad." It's almost the winter solstice, our sour cabbage hasn't been pickled yet, this year my mother plans to pickle a few more, Yu'er and Wenxuan both love to eat cabbage and pork dumplings, and when the pickled mother is ready, I will wrap it for you to eat, okay? ”

This winter, there are more Jia families at home, and Zhou Weiji can be regarded as having dinner with them, which is equivalent to two more people. Although there is a greenhouse at home and there are no worries about vegetables, but the sour cabbage tastes good and eats again, Lan Yi still plans to pickle a few more. Although there are already people selling pickled sauerkraut in the market this year, Lan Yi still likes to make it herself.

Yu'er nodded, Wen Xuan thought about it, and shouted, "Mother, the baby wants to eat sauerkraut fish." ”

"Okay, when the pickling is ready, my mother will make it for you."

The two little ones sucked and laughed happily.

"Mother, Yu'er wants to eat the big buns stuffed with wild vegetables and pork made by my mother, and my mother wraps them the best."

The warm firelight reflected the smiling faces of the two children, and Lan Yi felt soft in her heart.

"Okay, my mother will pack it tomorrow." Although it is important to pay attention to the fact that the old man did not move for 7749 days after his death, Lan Yi has never cared much about this, but he should not know.

"Mother, it's almost Ya years old, Niu Dan said that there is a lot of excitement in the city, Er Nizi and her mother said that she and her sister went to the city to buy new clothes, and Niu Dan's mother also said that she would take them to eat delicious food." After Yu'er finished speaking, she looked at Lan Yi with blank eyes.

"Okay, my mother will take you too, let's buy fun and eat delicious food."

"Yay!" Yu'er and Wenxuan looked at each other and smiled happily, and then said hopefully, "Mother, can my brother and I ride Xiaobai and Xiaohuo?" ”

Lan Yi shook her head with a disappointed face, "This is not good, I have to wait until you are older, when the time comes, my mother will ride a donkey, and the two of you will ride Xiaobai Xiaohuo, let's go to the city together." ”

Wen Xuan clapped his hands, "Also, the second uncle is riding a sunspot." ”

Zhou Weiji listened to the warm conversation between the mother and son at the kitchen door, and opened the door with a smile.

In their conversation, there is him.

Lan Yi was stunned at first when she saw him come in, "Brother Tuesday, you're here." ”

Hearing the knock at the door, she thought it was Jia Shi who came back, so she didn't go out to look, "Second brother, you came in from the gate?" ”

Zhou Wei was stunned and nodded.

Lan Yi suddenly reacted to a strange thing, "Brother Tuesday, it's really strange that the geese in the courtyard don't cry when you come." ”

Zhou Weiji didn't answer the question that Lan Yi should have found out a long time ago, because the two little guys were looking at him with starry eyes, "Second uncle, my mother said to take us to the city to play and buy things, and the second uncle will go together, right?" ”

"Second Uncle has been busy these days, and I'll go with you next year." The two children were a little disappointed, but Lan Yi understood what he meant and glanced up at him.

Zhou Weiji asked softly, "Why are your eyes swollen?" ”

Lan Yi shook her head, "It's a funeral cry, I'm fine." ”

Let the two children sit by the stove and light the fire, and a storm brewed in his eyes, "They're hard for you again?" ”

"With the second uncle, the second brother, and the third brother here, I didn't suffer." Lan Yiqiang pressed down the discomfort in his throat, afraid that he would worry, "The second uncle is in charge, and the Wang family and the Hua family have broken off." ”

Looking at Lan Yi's expression of wanting to speak and stopping, Zhou Weiji couldn't help but reach out and touch her head, "It's okay if it's broken." ”

It's not in vain that he didn't close his eyes for two nights to inquire about the news. If they continue to kiss, their marriage day will be postponed for at least half a year, looking at the expression of the silly girl, she hasn't reacted yet.

"Second brother, let's go back after eating." After Lan Yi finished speaking, he turned around and planned to heat up four more steamed buns.

Zhou Weiji grabbed her, "No, I have to rush back to the yamen." ”

Lan Yi is often dark, the sun has set, and on such a cold day, he still has to go to the Yamen.

"Wait a minute, I'll give you a few steamed buns, just half a pillar of incense, the second brother can go to lead the horse first, and I'll send it to the door for you later." Lan Yi Lisuo's basket drawer put the steamed buns steamed by Jia's family this morning into the pot, "Second brother, are you here for something?" ”

Zhou Weiji looked at her busy for herself, her expression softened, "If you don't remember the goods in Shang Ji these days, take it slowly, if you are in a hurry, especially food and warm clothes, you should avoid the waterway and use the carriage to take the official road, and do not enter the mountain." ”

Lan Yi sliced his smoky hand, "Something happened again?" ”

"Hmm." Zhou Wei cleaned his hands, took the kitchen knife in her hand and continued to cut the smoked sausage, "Two more merchant ships have been robbed, and the method is the same as that of the merchant ships of the Hua family, and three shipwrights died." ”

Lan Yi was worried, "Second brother is going to investigate this case?" ”

"It's a big deal, I'm going to take people into the mountains, it will take a few days to come back, you take care of yourself and your children, avoid the Hua family when you go to Huajia Village to burn paper, don't suffer any more." I wanted to follow her secretly, but it seems that it won't work.

How can the trivial matter of burning paper by himself be compared with him going into the mountains to catch these vicious people! Lan Yi wiped her hand on her apron, "Don't worry, I won't suffer." Wait, I'll go into the house and get something. ”

Lan Yi came out with a small bag after entering the house for a while, "Second brother, here are my new gloves and socks for keeping warm, knee pads, waist pads, etc., you bring them, they don't take up space, you must be riding a horse when you enter the mountain, right?" ”

Lan Yi took out four hot steamed buns from the pot, added the cut smoked sausages to them, wrapped them in a clean white cloth, and took a lot of smoked sausages and five-spice bacon buns, and packed a lot of fried nut flour in a cloth bag made of oilcloth, and after thinking about it, she took out more than a dozen pickled duck eggs and frozen vegetable dumplings, and she looked left and right and took out fungus mushrooms and dried rice noodles and wrapped some on them.

"Second brother, these four steamed buns are eaten on the road. You take this small copper basin with you, it is convenient to get firewood and water in the mountains, and when you are hungry, you can put a copper basin and add water to boil, first put a few strips of bacon and cook for a while, and then add fungus, mushrooms, duck eggs and rice noodles, fungus and mushrooms are washed and dried, no need to wash again, so that cooking a pot is enough for the second brother to warm and eat, and it is not troublesome at all. I really didn't have time, so I boiled some hot water to make walnut powder and eat duck eggs. ”

Every time he goes out, he is a person, a knife, a horse, and he doesn't even bring a small burden, although the two burdens he packs are not big, he must still be inconvenient to carry.

"Second brother, these are hung around the neck of the sunspot, and they don't take up space at all."

That's all she can do, and no matter how worried she is, she can't stop him from going.

If it weren't for the two children, Zhou Weiji really wanted to hug her and let her understand how warm her heart was, "In the mountains, I will hunt and eat barbecue, and I won't be hungry." ”

"You can't always eat barbecue, you should take these with you."

"Okay."

Jia sent Wu home, but was kept for dinner by Zhao Lizheng's wife, Hua Shiqiang, and sent back by Zhao Liangxiu.

Lan Yi had already boiled hot water, and when Jia Shi came back, she first took a hot bath in the greenhouse to wash away the fatigue of the past few days. The cucumber strips in the greenhouse have grown half the size and will be ready to be picked in a few days. The planted big red fruit, that is, the tomato plant, is already a foot and a half high, just heard Yu'er say that there is a cluster of small yellow flowers blooming at the bottom, Lan Yi scrubbed her hair again, and looked carefully by the firelight but did not find it.

It's still too dark, the color of the vegetables is not bright green enough, and the growth is not too good. But since the beginning of winter, the sky has not snowed, the mountains are less humid, a little more dry and cold, and the imperial court has also issued a document asking all villages to protect the mountains and forests and beware of mountain fires. It's rare to have such a patch of green in such weather. This year, the people in the village who deducted the greenhouse heard that they were all sold at a good price, and the shallots, leeks, spinach, lettuce and celery in her greenhouse had also been sold twice by the second uncle in an ox cart, earning nearly ten yuan.

Shiguan, now it is not much for Lan Yi, but it is a lot for the people in the village. It is enough to buy one acre of fertile land, build three thatched huts where the villagers live, and buy a decent dowry for the daughter to be married. Lan Yi read such a story in "The Great Zhou Qi Festival" given to her by Zhou Weiji:

In Caozhou, not far from Dengzhou, there was a businessman Yu Lingyi, who was generous and wealthy in his later years. One night, a thief entered Yu's house and was caught, it turned out to be a neighbor's son, who confessed that he was forced to steal because of poverty. Yu Lingyi asked him what he wanted? He replied, "Ten thousand, enough for food and clothing." Yu Jinyi then gave him 10 yuan. The thief is ashamed, and he is a good citizen."

The square hole money is worn on the rope, and every thousand is consistent, which is equivalent to one tael of silver. The currency in the countryside of the Great Zhou Dynasty is the most circulated copper coins with square holes, not silver, so everyone is still accustomed to using a few pieces of silver, rather than a few taels of silver, and only businessmen who do big business like to use two to be cost-effective.

From this story, it can be seen that "ten thousand" is ten times, which is enough for a poor family to solve the problem of hunger and cold.

In addition, it is recorded in the law of the Great Zhou Dynasty, "Whoever breaks off the prison and goes to prison, every 20 or more times is a major matter, more than 10 times is a medium matter, and less than 10 times is a small matter." Major events are limited to 12 days, medium events are 9 days, and small matters are limited to 4 days. That is to say, in the case of the Great Zhou, the amount involved is more than 10 yuan, which is a medium matter, and the judicial department of the imperial court must deal with it within 9 days.

It can be seen that in the Great Week, Shiguan is not a small number anywhere. The people in the village have earned a few incomes from the greenhouses, and even if it is more difficult to survive this winter, they can get by. Although Lan Yi herself is not as wealthy as Cheng Dù, she should definitely be considered a rich family.

He is already so rich, can he persuade Zhou Weiji not to do fishing fast anymore and farm with him at home?

Lan Yi shook her head, no. All she can do is silently support him and let him do what he wants.

She changed her clothes and wrapped her head sternly and walked quickly towards the hall, on such a cold winter night, Zhou Weiji had already entered the mountain?

It's been four months since Lei Tianze left Beigou Village and rushed to Biansai with Qianmo, hasn't his business been done yet, isn't it colder there?

Lan Yi raised her eyes to look at the cold stars in the sky, and suddenly smiled. It turns out that she already has so much forbearance to worry about here.

Yu'er and Wenxuan had already fallen asleep, and Jia covered his legs with a small quilt and read a book by the kang table.

"Why did Peaches wash it for so long?"

Lan Yi opened her mouth, revealing her small shell and white teeth, and smiled without speaking.

Seeing her like this, Jia Shi took out the grate and smiled helplessly: "Are you in a daze in it again?" Your mother told me to stare at you, and if I was in a daze for no reason, let me hit you on the head with a ruler! Come here, I'll grate your hair, and you drink this bowl of decoction to remove the fire. ”

Lan Yi obediently climbed onto the kang and asked Jia Shi to grate her hair, drank the unpalatable decoction with a bowl, and stuffed a few dried apricots into her mouth.

"Aunt Yao, you are at Uncle Yang's house, Aunt Yang didn't ask you about Huajia Village, right?"

Jia Shi shook his head and said slowly, "You only asked Aunt Yang if you came back, but her little daughter-in-law pulled me to ask questions, and was scolded by my mother-in-law, and then she cared about her little daughter-in-law for two years and didn't get pregnant, so I asked me to take her pulse." ”

These days, Jia Shi talks a lot more than when he first arrived in Beigou Village, and he will also chat with Lan Yi about the situation of the people in the village, gossip, and his attitude is becoming more and more peaceful and natural.

Lan Yi picked up the book she had just flipped, found that it was Chai Gongchang's "Da Zhou Dizhi" that she had copied herself, opened the record of finding Biansai, and replied, "Aunt Yao, sue you for a fun thing." You see that Aunt Wei Yang and Liangcai's sister-in-law are not ugly, right? But I went to Huajia Village to see Aunt Weiyang's father, brother and nephew, all three of them looked thin and small, with big cake faces, triangular eyes and drooping eyebrows, which made people want to laugh when they looked at it. ”

Jia Shi also laughed, "The three grandchildren are the same? ”

"Yes. When Liangxiu's sister-in-law adds a child to celebrate the full moon next year, Huapo father and son will go to Beigou Village, and then we will also go to the banquet, and I will show it to Aunt Yao. ”

"Good. Tao'er, tell me about Huajia Village. Jia Shi took the initiative to mention that Lan Yi's red and swollen eyes and hoarse voice when she came back today made Jia Shi worry that she had been wronged.

Lan Yi didn't hide it, and slowly told the whole story, Jia Shi listened carefully, and was silent for a long time before saying, "That's fine." Tao'er, we don't understand the rules here, listen to your second uncle when you encounter trouble, he and Lin Xilin are both honest people and can be trusted. ”

Today, Second Uncle Wang also sat on the ox cart and smiled and said that he believed her, and Lan Yi was glad that he came back with Wenxuan and met such a good family as Second Uncle Wang. R1152