It's only the middle of October, and it's been ten days since the beginning of winter, and the light snow season has not yet arrived, and it has fallen so much! The snow fell very tightly, covering the boundary between heaven and earth, and everywhere was a white expanse. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yu'er and Wenxuan were jumping happily in the snow, "It's snowing, it's snowing~, Dad, Mother, it's snowing~"

Lan Yi felt the coldness in the wind, looked at the little faces of the two little ones who were red with excitement, and shouted, "It's cold, add another piece of clothing." ”

Yu'er ran over and grabbed her mother's hand, his little hand was even hotter than Lan Yi's. Yu'er said happily, "Mother, I'm not cold, you can add another piece of clothing." I'll go get a broom and clear the snow, and you will come out later, don't fall. ”

Male baby, the firepower is really strong, Lan Yi is helpless, she is already wearing a jacket, isn't she going to wear duck down clothes just in winter?

Zhou Weiji had already taken a cotton cloak and brought it over, draped it on her body, and fastened the belt, "Don't go out, wait in the house, and eat this morning's meal in the hall." ”

Lan Yi looked at the gravel road covered with a layer of snow, and said to Zhou Weiji, "You go to the west courtyard, cover our cabbage with a grass grid, and then cover the lid of the sweet potato cellar. ”

Zhou Wei responded, took the hat handed by Yu'er, and strode to the east courtyard.

Lan Yi looked at the heavy snow, listening to the cheerful cheers coming from afar, and didn't know whether to be happy or worried. The drought is over, but the heavy snow has pressed down, and the winter days are even more difficult.

"Fortunately, I didn't let my mother and brother come over, I was not happy on the road, if they came, and encountered such weather on the road, what happened." Lan Yi said to Jia Shi happily.

Jia Shi felt that even if Lan Yi had written to persuade her many times, her mother would definitely come, but it was just sooner or later, and she only hoped that he hadn't traveled yet, so he wouldn't be blocked on the road by the snow.

Shui Xiu, who was wearing a cloak and a hat, strode in from the outside, stood by the door and reported to Lan Yi, "The hemp yams on the hillside have been covered, the peonies in the east and north of the village have not been blown by the wind, and the situation of the inn is fine." ”

Lan Yi then remembered that the hemp yam dug out of the slope in the north of the village was still piled up on the ground, and said with a smile, "Fortunately, you remember, the two gentlemen are there, are they okay?"

Shui Xiu smiled, "Okay, Mr. Ji said that this snow will take a day and a night, so let's have a preparation, and sent his maid to Shenlong Peak to remove the bamboo tube, so as not to freeze the bamboo tube." Mr. also said that this kind of weather is the most suitable for eating barbecue, so let Mrs. prepare more dishes from the last time, and take them to the drinking fragrance courtyard at noon and roast them together. ”

Lan Yi thought about Mr. Jingxiao's excited appearance, and patted her forehead helplessly, "With such a big snow, where are you going to barbecue?" ”

Shui Xiu held back a smile, "Mr. is taking a few people to build a grass pavilion in the incense drinking courtyard, and when the maid comes back from the mountain, he will catch two de......er by the way."

It is not easy to be a maid for Mr. Jingxiao, Lan Yi responded, thinking about the ingredients used in the noon meeting, and then thinking of such a lively scene, she couldn't help laughing.

Min'er, who was helping Yu Yan cook in the kitchen, came to the hall with a basin of warm water, "Uncle, wash your face and eat." ”

Lan Yi hurriedly asked Shui Xiu to step forward to pick it up, took Min'er's little hand, and reprimanded gently, "Such a big basin of water, and snow on the ground, how can you get it if you bump it, you can't do such a thing in the future." ”

Min'er stuck out her tongue and proudly puffed up her little chest, "Uncle, this is nothing, Min'er has been helping her mother cook and fetch water since last year, don't say half a basin of water, even half a bucket of water, and you can carry it." Although Min'er is only one year older than Yu'er, she has been helping out in her own stall for two years with her father and mother, and she is not small, diligent and neat.

Lan Yi nodded her forehead, "Okay, you're amazing!" But do what you can, don't be pushy, you know? ”

Min'er grinned, "Wash your face quickly, eat steamed buns this morning, grandma's eighteen-folded big buns are beautiful." ”

Jia's cooking skills shocked Min'er, as long as she was at home, she would follow her side and learn by her heart, thinking that one day she could have such good skills, and then help her father and mother open a tea shop, and the business would be much better than the small shop that the third uncle wanted to go to.

Because Zhou Wei has excellent meat, this morning's cabbage meat stuffed buns are divided into two kinds, the one with more meat and less cabbage is specially for Zhou Weiji to eat. Zhou Weiji was also really hungry, and he didn't stop after eating five buns in a row, and he saw Lan Yi and the others covering their mouths and laughing. Especially Yu Yan, who smiled the most, her own master came back, and compared with his meal, it didn't seem that her meal was large, and she was very comfortable to eat.

After the meal, Lan Yi asked Shui Xiu to hold an umbrella to send Yu'er to school, looked at the increasingly urgent snow line, and said to Zhou Weiji beside him, "This snow, the third brother is afraid that he will not be able to walk for a day or two." ”

Zhou Weiji smiled, "He set off last night, I think he has already left Dengzhou at this time."

Lan Yi was slightly surprised, "Is it so urgent?" ”

Zhou Wei nodded silently, "If you return one day early, you will be able to be more sure, and you can settle down early, so you can rest assured." ”

Lan Yi also smiled, Zhou Weiji was in such a hurry to run back, in addition to himself, there must be a lot of things to do, "The matter of recruitment, but what can I help?" ”

Zhou Weiji looked at her serious appearance and smiled, "There really is one." Sweet potatoes with a yield of several thousand catties per mu, can you pick soil and fertilizer? The imperial court wants me to be self-sufficient, not to allocate grain and grass, that thousand acres of land, I want to bother you to plan and see how to plant. ”

Lan Yi suddenly came to his senses, "A thousand acres of land, is it wasteland or cooked land?" Is there a village nearby? ”

When Zhou Weiji returned, he went there to see, "Half of it is wasteland, and there are three small mountain villages with less than 50 households, which are familiar land, not as good as fertile land, and only medium." ”

Lan Yi frowned, "Why is the imperial court so stingy, if it snows heavily today, it is too late to open up the wasteland and farm, and it will be spring next year recently, that is, it will be planted, and the harvest will also be planted before and after." When will you recruit soldiers, and what will you give to your soldiers in the first year of next year? ”

Zhou Weiji helped her walk back and forth in the hall a few times to eliminate food, and then let her sit on the kang, holding her little hand and saying, "The will of the imperial court will come down before the year, if you recruit soldiers, you will start again in the spring of next year, and start building barracks, school fields and land reclamation first, and if you want to have grain and grass, you should be able to transfer emergency from the state yamen for a few months." ”

Lan Yi was happy in her heart, that is to say, in the past two months, Zhou Wei has been able to accompany her at home, and there is nothing more happy for her. However, "this year's drought in the whole territory of Dengzhou, even in the granary of the state, there may not be any grain in stock, you can't hang yourself from a tree, you have to find other ways." After recruiting troops, first open up the wasteland, and what to plant, you have to go to Uncle Wang for details. Next spring, I'll go with you to see the terrain, and no matter what, I'll prepare fifty acres of sweet potato seedlings first. In farming, you can't just count on the officers and soldiers, you should first send people to inquire about how the fields on the other side of Shamen Island are planted, find out the way, and see if there is any good way. I think we should hire some people to help with the planting, and since we are backers, we should not waste them......"

Zhou Weiji listened carefully, and was very proud in his heart, his daughter-in-law can be said to be the leader in planning business and farming, which is beyond his reach. At that time, most of the confidence in the self-sufficiency of grain and grass for the 2,500 soldiers who dared to respond came from Lan Yi, and Zhou Wei believed that it was not difficult to have her.