After entering the beginning of summer, the weather began to get hotter, but it was still humid and the temperature was lower in the morning and evening, because the days were getting longer, and the time for Yixue to end school was also delayed by half an hour. Yu'er goes to school seriously, writes several big characters every day when he comes back, and memorizes books diligently, and the masters in the school praise him for his smart and fast brain, and even Mr. Unknown has praised him several times. Su Yongshen also likes Yu'er very much, and says that it is the material for reading.

Yu'er's own ideal is to be the champion of both civil and military materials, so he gets up early every day to punch and kick, and reads and writes at night, Lan Yi is distressed when he sees it, so he has to force him to help take Wenxuan to play instead of locking up in the house to write when he comes back from school every day, and he can only write big characters after dinner, and after completing the tasks assigned by the masters, he can only write three more sheets to rest. Because of the arrival of Lei Tianze and Meng Dao, the righteous master in the village was finally enough, and began to implement the teaching of men and women in separate classes, and the progress of Yu'er and their male children has improved a lot.

His appearance, compared with those modern children who were forced to do their homework by their parents with sticks, made Lan Yi feel very relieved.

Yu'er recently became good friends with Zhou Xingzu, the youngest son of the Zhou landlord's family. Although Zhou Xingzu is a little pampered, he also shows off his wealth a little, and he forces Yu'er and Wenxuan to call him little uncle every day, and follows Yu'er behind him endlessly, and he often follows Yu'er when he goes home. Zhou Xingzu went to Lan Yi's house to eat double skin milk once, and he also liked it, and Zhou Xingzu's mother Xue also sent her mother-in-law to bring gifts to learn from Lan Yi, so that she could go back and make it for the little fat man. Although the Xue family has shown favor several times, Lan Yi's relationship with her is still not far away. The people from the rich Zhou's family came to learn how to cook, and Lan Yi treated them like other villagers. There is no difference.

Lan Yi planted all the vegetable seeds bought from Meixian, and left all the big red fruits in the greenhouse, and planted two in the yard. There are hundreds of them. The hemp yam mouth brought back also began to climb the frame, the grapevines and honeysuckle vines were all new green, and the small courtyard looked vibrant, Lei Tianze liked to go up to Lan Yi's grape trellis and sit and read a book, which made Zhou Weiji's face darken.

After all the vegetables came out, Lan Yi was also depressed! The goldenrod bought back from Meixian County is actually the common alfalfa in Huang County, and the two vegetables of fungus and rehmannia are very picky. It has to be planted in the south, where it doesn't grow well or well. Fortunately, the other vegetables are still normal, and they all look edible.

After the second batch of ducks in the family also hatched. A total of one hundred and five ducklings were kept at home for a few days, and then she moved to the pond on the hillside to raise them. This year, the pond has also changed, with knee-high green bamboo fences neatly circled, dozens of peonies and a few trees also enclosed inside, and the place has become larger. The remaining 30 or so ducks from last year were kept here. In addition, this group of small ones does not seem crowded. Because there is a pond, and Jia and Zhao Shangjing's wife Qi clean every day, the ducks look very clean, these ducks have become a scene in the Dan Garden, and the small bamboo house next to it, which was used to put grass and chaff, has also been used as a pantry to receive visitors.

In addition to the ducks, Lan Yi's goats, donkeys and ponies have also become a scene, and there are literati who mention poems on the stone wall. This donkey is related to literature in the Great Zhou, for example. Zhang Guolao, who is well known to everyone as the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, rode a donkey - Lan Yi had seen many paintings of him riding a donkey or leading a donkey in the bazaar. In addition, there are many poets who associate donkeys with downfall in their works. Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty once had a poem: "There are dust and wine marks on the clothes." Traveling far and wide is everywhere. Is this fit a poet? Drizzle rides a donkey into the sword gate. Su Shi also has a sentence: "Do you remember the rugged days, the road is long and the donkey is sleepy and neighing." However, these are all descendants, and the poems about donkeys that are well known to the literati here in the Great Zhou Dynasty are still Bai Juyi's: "The donkey avoids the road, and the fat horse neighs in the wind" and "Long Zhong corrects the donkey riding day, and the haggard Tongjiang Sima Shi".

So when the students saw the donkey in the garden, they couldn't help but itch their hands, learned Bai Juyi's poems, and made a few poems to write on the big stone next to them. Although Lan Yi's donkey is beautiful and healthy, there are many poems with the word "donkey", which is obviously pretending to be sad.

The poems in this garden are all named, Lan Yi listened to Lei Tianze's Jianyì, and ordered someone to copy all the poems and wait for the flowering period to be printed into a book, and put them in the garden for people to read. Lan Yi thought that the poetry collection should have a preface like the "Preface to the Lanting Collection", so she wanted to ask the master to write a preface without a name, and Mr. Nameless gladly agreed. His teaching days in Beigou Village were very leisurely and smooth, and he had no intention of leaving.

The peony garden was busy until mid-April, when the peony flowers withered. After closing the garden, Wang Linxi calculated the accounts and found that he had earned more than 500 taels of silver in addition to the capital, and everyone was very happy.

After the doors and windows of Zhou Weiji's house were installed, the yard was also filled in and paved with stone roads, and the new house was preliminarily completed.

On this day, he went home early, said hello to his eldest brother Su Yongshen, and went to Lan Yi's house, wanting to call her over to see the new house.

Zhou Weiji knocked on the door and entered the courtyard, and when he turned the shadow wall, he saw Lan Yi's petite figure, she stepped on the stool placed next to the bamboo bed to pick acacia flowers. Lan Yi waved her hand and greeted him: "Second brother, you are here." Come and help, I can't reach it from above. ”

Zhou Weiji saw her doing such a dangerous thing, and wanted to say a few words about her, but when he saw that she was happy, he stopped his mouth, walked over quickly, stretched out his hand to help her down, and asked, "Do you want to make cakes again?" ”

A few days ago, Lan Yi made a locust cake and asked Yu'er to send him some. This year's acacia cake tastes much better than last year's, and it is sweet to the heart.

Lan Yi put the locust branch in his hand into the basket, wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled: "No, second brother, I plan to make a new thing, something new that is not available here." With that, he stretched out his hand to push him and motioned for him to help him pick the blooming locust flowers.

Zhou Weiji saw her naughty appearance, shook his head and smiled: "You girl, where did you want so many new things." ”

The new things Lan Yi said were essential oils and perfumes, and she was idle this year, remembering the essential oils and perfumes in her previous life, as if they were made of fragrant flowers, fruits, leaves, etc. There was a person from Suzhou in the university dormitory, and she used to make essential oils with vegetable oil and flower petals. Lan Yi doesn't know much about these, but according to a few in the dormitory, the effect is very good, Lan Yi has also come up to smell it, it seems to be made of acacia flowers, she asked for a nail polish bottle of essential oil, sometimes take it out and sniff it, that fragrance can take her back to the days when acacia flowers are fragrant.

Later, she once thought of making every kind of flower she liked, such as cloves, yueji, etc., into essential oils, so that her winter would also be full of floral fragrance, but she only rose by chance, and she didn't have much action at that time, but now it is different. She has a lot of time to use, she doesn't have to worry about not being able to pass exams, she doesn't have to worry about not being able to get a good job, etc., and she has a partner and children of her choice, so she just needs to enjoy life as she pleases. (To be continued......)