Lan Yi has been at home for the past two days, and she always feels unsettled. Zhou Weiji did not return home after leaving that night, and I don't know what happened when they went into the mountains to catch bandits.

Under such circumstances, the day of the year is approaching, and the festive atmosphere in the village is getting stronger and stronger. Although the lack of snow this winter makes people feel uneasy, the Asian New Year is an important festival, and the people in the village still change their clothes, prepare food, and worship their ancestors, just like the New Year's Festival.

On this day, Lan Yi and Jia Shi got up early, freshened up and cooked, and fed the living creatures in the family.

Jia Shi peeled off the cabbage leaves and chopped them, mixed them with rice bran and water to feed the chickens, ducks and geese, and saw Lan Yi holding a handful of green grass pulled from the greenhouse to feed the little goats in the sheepfold, and the little donkey and the little white Xiaohuo stretched their necks to watch.

"Peach, now that it's cold, why don't you take the five little goats to the market and sell them?" The family's five baby goats have been in the house for more than three months and can be slaughtered. Now that the New Year is the New Year, the meat is more expensive than usual, and these lambs can be sold for a good price.

Lan Yi came back to her senses, "You don't have to go to the market to sell, the eighth mother-in-law and the second sister-in-law and the sister-in-law Niu have already decided, and I will let them take them back in the next two days." ”

Counting the living animals in the family one by one, there are more than 20 chickens, 40 ducks, 4 geese, 2 fruit horses, a donkey, a pig, plus this size of eight goats is indeed too much, although the family has enough forage and does not worry about them not eating, but it is really useless to raise so many living creatures, Lan Yi does not point to these living creatures for money now.

Looking at the four elegant and beautiful white geese, she remembered that the original purpose of buying them was to take care of the house, these white geese screamed a few times when they saw others, but they didn't dare to say anything when they saw Zhou Weiji, and it was useless to keep them.

Why didn't they scream when they saw Zhou Weiji, could it be that he scared or bribed them?

After Jia's feeding the chickens, ducks and geese, seeing Lan Yi squatting next to a few white geese in a daze, she sighed and stretched out her hand to point to the hat on her head, "Tao'er, it's okay for you to call Erquan's daughter-in-law 'eight mothers-in-law and two sisters-in-law' behind your back, but in front of others, you have to call Erquan's sister-in-law." "The husband of the eighth mother-in-law and the second sister-in-law is named Zhou Quan, so Jia said so.

Lan Yi stood up and patted the grass leaves on her hands, on such a cold day, the tender grass in the greenhouse would become icy after a while, "Aunt Yao, everyone in the village calls the eighth wife and the second sister-in-law to be the second sister-in-law or the second sister-in-law, not the second sister-in-law." ”

Jia Shi nodded her head again, "Silly girl, after you and Wei Ji get married, what should others call you?" ”

Zhou Weiji is ranked second, and if she and Zhou Weiji get married, they will also be called ...... "Tuesday sister-in-law" or "Wei Ji's daughter-in-law", so doesn't she have a common title with the eighth mother-in-law and the second sister-in-law? Lan Yi shook her shoulders and laughed.

"Aunt Yao, it's almost a year old, let's go around the city in the past two days and buy some things for the festival and come back."

Jia Shi shook his head, "Tao'er go, I'll take Yu'er and Wenxuan at home." ”

"Let's go together, the main thing is that these two little ones want to go into the city and buy some delicious and fun. I'm afraid that there are too many people in the city, and I will run away with the two of them alone. "I said that I wanted Jia Shi to go out for a walk.

Sure enough, hearing that Lan Yi asked her to help take care of the child, Jia nodded and agreed.

"Mother, mother, come on, we have a little monkey in the greenhouse!" Yu'er ran out of the door of the greenhouse, pulled Lan Yi and walked towards the greenhouse.

"Monkeys?" Lan Yi was a little inexplicable, she just went in to pull the grass but didn't see a monkey. It is said that there are many groups of green mountain monkeys, but they all live deep in the mountains, and only the fruit trees at the edge of the village come to feed when they are ripe. Lan Yi has lived here for more than a year, and has never encountered dozens of large monkeys, and has only seen a few dozen small monkeys.

"Well, my brother saw it first, on the bamboo shelf of our greenhouse, holding cucumbers and gnawing on them." Yu'er went to the greenhouse, lowered her voice, and pulled Lan Yi to Wenxuan's side.

Wen Xuan squatted on the edge of the small kang and looked up at the top of the greenhouse.

The grass fence covering the greenhouse has been half rolled up by Lan Yi, and the lighting in the greenhouse is very good, Lan Yi followed Wenxuan's gaze and saw that there was really a monkey squatting on the bamboo frame of the greenhouse!

It is a small monkey with gray and yellow back hair, with a thin face, a slightly protruding forehead, high eyebrow bones, deep eye sockets, and a protruding mouth in the cheek pouch, it curls up and squats on a bamboo pole, holding half a tender cucumber with two front paws, and a pair of small eyes on its flesh-red face stared at Lan Yi widely, and there was a two-inch-long scratched blood mark on its face, which was particularly obvious.

This is, macaque. Lan Yi has no research on monkeys, except for going to the zoo, she has only seen macaques brought by monkey charmers on the street, and they seem to look like this.

"Mother, little monkey." Wen Xuan turned around and said softly to Lan Yi.

Lan Yi nodded, and held Wen Xuan and Yu'er in her arms, no matter how small the monkey is, it is still a beast, once it provokes its wild nature to scratch the child, it will be troublesome.

"Peach, this can't be done, let's get out quickly, the door of the greenhouse is open, let it go." Jia Shi also followed, looking at the little monkey and whispering nervously.

Lan Yi nodded, "Yu'er, Wenxuan, go out with your mother first, the little monkey is scared." She didn't know how to show kindness to a monkey, and she saw that he was holding cucumbers, and he was hungry, but they hadn't eaten them yet, but he had tasted them.

"Little monkey, you eat slowly, don't waste things, eat enough before leaving."

Yu'er didn't want to, "Mother, let's leave it behind." ”

Lan Yi shook her head, "No, the little monkey also has a mother and family, and it has to go back to its mother." ”

Raising monkeys? Forget it, she doesn't think she has that ability.

Wen Xuan didn't move, and said affirmatively, "Mother, the little monkey has no mother, so he was bullied and hid in our house." Mother, let's keep it. ”

Jia Shi walked over lightly and picked Wen Xuan up, "Wen Xuan listens to his mother, let's go back to the house first." Grandma steamed egg custard for you, do you want to eat it? ”

Back in the house, the two little ones were eating breakfast absentmindedly, full of concern for the little monkey in the greenhouse.

Lan Yi and Jia Shi looked at each other helplessly, looking at the half-open door of the greenhouse through the window paper, thinking that the little monkey would come out and walk away by himself after he was full of food and drink.

At this moment, there was the sound of horses' hooves and knocking on the door. Lan Yi hurriedly jumped off the kang and quickly went to open the door, Xu is Zhou Weiji is back.

Outside the door, it was not Zhou Weiji, who was a dark horse and a soap-colored fast catcher, but Lei Tianze, who was dressed in white, wearing a Tang scarf, and leading a white horse, was looking at Lan Yi and smiling gently.

"Fourth sister, I'm back."

Lan Yi was surprised at first, and immediately showed a big smile, "Third brother! ”

"Hmm." Lei Tianze nodded, his long hair moved with the wind, and his voice was a little hoarse, but it was still beautiful, "I think the fourth sister should also return safely from Meixian." ”

"Yes, we've been back for two months. The third brother just came back, right? Come on in. Lan Yi opened the door, Lei Tianze led the white horse to chase the wind in, and saw the two extra small fruits in Lan Yi's donkey shed dismounting, and was stunned.

"These two fruits were brought back from Meixian, and now they are the hearts and minds of Yu'er and Wenxuan." Lan Yi explained.

Lan Yi's donkey snorted a few times when he saw Lei Tianze and Chasing the Wind, plowed the ground with his hooves, and looked at Lan Yi dissatisfied, but no one paid attention to it.

"This white horse is hard to find." Lei Tianze tied the horse to the donkey shed and patted the mane chasing the wind.

"This is Sister Xia Wan's husband who cut her love to Wen Xuan, and Brother Tuesday also said that it is very rare." Lan Yi asked Lei Tianze to walk into the house, "Third brother, didn't Qianmo come back with you?" ”

"Hmm."

At this time, the two children ran out, and Jia Shi followed them.

"Third uncle, third uncle!" The two little guys hugged Lei Tianze and shouted excitedly.

Lei Tianze bent down and patted their little shoulders, "En, Yu'er and Wenxuan have grown taller again." ”

"Third brother, this is my aunt. Aunt Yao, this is the righteous brother Lei Tianze I mentioned to you. Lan Yi introduced.

"Aunt Yao." Lei Tianze nodded in courtesy, his eyes were level, and his attitude was friendly.

Jia Shi didn't even dare to say it, although Lei Tianze was dressed simply, his actions and temperament were more noble and elegant than the four sons of Lan, Jia had lived in the mansion for a long time, and naturally his eyes were so vicious that he could see that he was not an ordinary scholar.

"Aunt Yao, you go and boil some hot water, the third brother needs to freshen up, and the white horse also needs to drink some warm water and add some good forage." Lan Yi smiled.

Lei Tianze smiled lightly and nodded, "There is Aunt Lao Yao." ”

Jia Shi hurriedly curtsied to prepare, Lan Yi was going to invite Lei Tianze into the house, but the two children dragged him to the greenhouse. "Third uncle, there's an injured little monkey in the greenhouse, come and see."

Lei Tianze obediently followed the two children to the greenhouse, and Lan Yi had no choice but to follow behind.

The little monkey was still squatting on the bamboo pole and nibbling cucumbers, and when he heard the movement, he looked up and saw Lei Tianze, baring his fangs and "squeaking" and throwing away the cucumbers, and quickly fled to the westernmost part of the greenhouse, scratching the white oilcloth and running out.

Lan Yi's family of three watched it move neatly and froze.

Is Lei Tianze so scary?

Yu'er looked at the hole in the tarpaulin, "Third uncle, you injured this little monkey?" ”

Lan Yi and Wen Xuan also nodded and looked at him.

Lei Tianze stroked a strand of inky black hair hanging down from his sideburns with a little embarrassment, "It's not uncle." This is a small macaque less than a year old, it is said that it should not leave the mother monkey, I think the monkey group has changed, the mother monkey was killed and it was also expelled before running here. Or maybe it was because the snow had not fallen in Daqing Mountain for a long time, and it was difficult to endure in the mountains, so the female monkey took it out to find food and was killed. ”

Anyway, the little monkey was gone. Lan Yi took the door of the greenhouse and invited Lei Tianze to the house to freshen up and eat.

Lei Tianze sat at the table of the Eight Immortals in the hall, finished his breakfast elegantly and quickly, and Lan Yi made tea and brought it up.

"The third brother is going to Biansai, right?"

Lei Tianze nodded slightly, his slender fingers picked up the teacup, and gently sniffed the tea, "It's good." Thanks to the gloves made by the fourth sister, Qianmo and I didn't get frostbitten. The fourth sister got a new tea? ”

This is what home should feel like, so he passed by Beigou Village, and rode over without thinking about it to see if Lan Yi had come back.

Lan Yi smiled, asked him to wait, and took out a wooden box with exquisite vermilion lacquer from the kang cabinet in the east house. This is the Fujian group tea she bought when she was in Meixian, and according to the store, it is a first-class tea. She also heard from the tea shop that the tea in Da Zhou was a forbidden item, which was monopolized by the state, and the price was also set by the state, so the price was reasonable.

Lei Tianze, who was in the hall, put his hands on his cheeks and his eyebrows locked in sorrow, watching the heat of the tea rising, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Such a posture, but without a trace of femininity, but a little more elegant, no wonder the eighth wife and the second sister-in-law said that the little daughter-in-law and eldest daughter in the village secretly like Lei Fuzi, this look is really charming.

"Third brother, this is the group tea from Fujian that I brought back from Meixian, the tea taste is refreshing, and it is still worth tasting." Lan Yi put the tea leaves on the table and sat down across from him. He must have drunk better tea, but it was her heart. Lan Yi gives people things, and she must choose what she thinks is the most suitable and she can afford to give them.

Lei Tianze took the tea box and nodded in thanks.

"This is the letter that my third brother gave me when I went to Meixian, because the itinerary was smooth and I didn't use it, so the third brother should put it away." Lan Yi handed over the envelope.

Lei Tianze nodded, took it and put it in his arms, "The fourth sister's trip is really smooth." ”

"Thanks to Tuesday's help." Lan Yi said simply, "So that I can come back with Wen Xuan." ”

"The king of war left Beijing and went to Yidu? Does the fourth sister know how many people he brought? Lei Tianze's face locked slightly, and asked softly.

Lan Yi nodded, "There are more than a hundred red-clothed guards around the War King. ”

Lei Tianze nodded and stood up, "Fourth sister, I still have something to do, I can't stay for a long time, let's say goodbye to our brothers and sisters." If possible, I will return to the village next year to teach at Yixue. I don't know if Zhou Weiji can be at home? He urgently needs to find Zhou Weiji to confirm Guo Nanyuan's departure from Beijing.

Lan Yi was a little surprised when she saw that Lei Tianze was about to leave, "Brother Tuesday is not at home, he hasn't been back for two days." ”

"Oh? Does the fourth sister know where he went? "Since the two have made a marriage, even if Zhou Weiji's temperament is boring, he will explain it to Lan Yi.

Lan Yi's face was worried, "Our Huang County came out of the water bandits, specializing in looting the boats that transported clothes, furs and food in the past, and Brother Tuesday led people into the mountains to catch the bandits." The third brother is afraid that it is not easy to find him. ”

"Water bandits?" Lei Tianze sat down again, "Fourth sister, let's listen to it." ”

Although Lan Yi didn't know why he was curious about the water bandits, she didn't know much: "First of all, the four big boats in Huajia Village, which is not far away, were robbed, and I heard that there were twenty or thirty people on the other side, wearing black clothes and black cloth masks, who came out of the water in the middle of the night, and did not take the initiative to hurt people's lives, but only robbed things. Later, two more merchant ships had accidents, and I don't know the specifics. ”

On this cold day, the water is bitingly cold, and these people are really not afraid of the cold.

Lei Tianze's face was solemn, "What day was the boat that was robbed in Huajia Village?" ”

Lan Yi thought for a moment, "It should be the night of October 21 or 22, and six or seven days have passed. ”

Lei Tianze's eyes flashed with anxiety, and he stood up and said goodbye, "Fourth sister, this trip is really hasty, and I didn't find a good sentence, the third brother is ashamed, and I can't invite the fourth sister to be right." ”

Poetry is just a matter of interest, and it is normal to have no inspiration in a hurry, Lan Yi asked with a smile: "What do you want to bring with you the third brother to eat and use?" ”

Lei Tianze was stunned for a moment, shook his head and smiled: "If the fourth sister roasts the duck, the third brother wants to bring half of it." ”R1152