The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 111
Chu Ying was preparing how to deal with the drought, bought three large tanks and placed them at home, and was about to fill them all up when it rained unexpectedly.

"Haha, look at your urgency, you must have bought the wrong one, how do you use these three big tanks?" Ye Qiu poured buckets of water into them, luckily Uncle Qi built a shed near the well last time Ye Qiu took advantage of the rain to fill up the three big tanks.

"It can be used for retting. The hemp materials are almost sun-dried. Afterwards, crush them and put them in to retting." The weather is really unpredictable, and it is the first time for Chu Ying to spend the summer here. I don't know much about the microclimate here, so I'm a little nervous.

"Enen, let's do it while the weather is cool. Then you can sleep in. Just sleep with a wet face towel every day. It's no wonder you don't get acne when you see it."

Chu Ying quarreled with Ye Qiu, pouting her lips and snorting softly, then broke the hemp material in the big shed beside Chunzi. Fortunately, with this big shed, she could work in the sun and in the rain, even though it took almost half a couple of dollars. Silver, but this will definitely be worth the silver in the future.

Fortunately, some of the firewood was placed in the house, otherwise there would be no firewood to cook paper materials. "There will be no drought this day, and there has never been a drought here, but a few years ago, locusts came and ate a lot of rice. That year, the price of rice rose steadily, and you were eating expensive food at that time. , It costs a lot of silver a day."

Chu Ying sighed, why did she travel over at the original owner's unlucky time? If she was in a sickly body like before, it wouldn't be a bad thing to be pampered like that.

"However, now that you are here, you are becoming more and more energetic. It is very different from that at the mansion. I don't know whether it is because of the plague god, Miss Li, or because you have done more work to make your bones stretch."

Chu Ying remembered that Xue Zhiyao asked herself for the previous prescription, and thought that Ye Qiu might know a thing or two. "What kind of medicine did I drink at home before?"

"I don't know about this. I have consulted the doctor several times, and many prescriptions have been prescribed, but none of them are very effective, sometimes good and sometimes bad. What's the matter? Ask about this?"

"It's nothing, just asking casually, how does the eldest lady treat others? I don't go out of the boudoir very often, but I rarely see her."

Ye Qiu put all the hemp material that had been chopped into a large water tank, "Miss, you can see a lot, but you are so sleepy, the eldest lady comes to see you every day by the order of the eldest lady, so just sit casually Sit down, chat with the servants, and sometimes you will say a few words when you wake up."

In line with the central principle of Zhaidou's not being profitable but not early, Chu Ying doesn't think that this eldest lady is sincerely treating her well, "What about the eldest lady? How about the eldest lady? Didn't you say that the eldest lady took good care of me last time?" ?"

"The eldest lady is not very kind to the eldest lady, but the eldest lady is not warm to anyone. The eldest lady recites the Buddha with the old woman in the nunnery all the year round. If she is not reciting the Buddha, she is resting and taking medicine. Maybe you two share the same illness and feel sorry for each other. Da Furen treats you very well."

Her own mother was not close to her, but she cared so much about other people's children, Chu Ying felt that the young lady must be upset. "Isn't the eldest lady angry?"

"How can you not be angry? I heard from the nuns that the eldest lady was naughty when she was young. She pushed you into the lake once. It's a cold winter. You have been ill for a long time. Those who were able to get up and move around got better after being ill for half a year, and the eldest lady was even dragged by the eldest lady to climb the kneeling temple ladder."

"At that time, you were recuperating in your room, and the eldest lady stared at the heavy snow as she buckled her head step by step on the long stone ladder leading to the temple. In the end, blood came out from knocking on her forehead, and the top section was stained. blood, and finally passed out at the gate of the temple and was sent back by the Da Furen."

Chu Ying's heart trembled when she heard these things. If she was that eldest lady, she would definitely hate the original Chu Ying.How could he be solicitous about his health and visit him every day, and it seemed that there was something in Chu Ying's heart that Chu Ying didn't know about.

Chu Ying stretched out her hand to catch the raindrops falling from the thatched roof of the shed. Chu Ying didn’t want to know more about the previous owner. Now that there are so many huts, it’s tiring but happy to be free every day. At least there is no need to fight. , but thinking that the original owner was always sick, she might not have noticed that other people could have any bad intentions for her.

It rained for the next two days and the day became much cooler, but without the rain, it slowly warmed up. The weather was hot, and the retting was faster, so Chu Ying and Ye Qiu hurriedly put the hemp After finishing everything and going to bed early, Chu Ying doesn't want to be roasted by the fire every day like a little black pig.

Waiting for the hemp material and the previous wheat material to be finished, some wheat material is left as a kindling, and the others are made into paper. The paper made from this hemp material is whiter and softer than the wheat material. Because Chu Ying brushed back and forth with a brush, it was like paper with horizontal fine lines, and because of brushing back and forth several times, there were more fibers inside, these writing brushes were too absorbent, this paper Chu Ying It cannot be used to practice calligraphy.

"Miss Chu, is this the last cart?" Chu Ying moved all the wrapped paper onto Grandpa Li's bullock cart, "Yes, it's the last cart, and you won't have to come back later, not even tomorrow Get up early to take advantage of the coolness and go into the city, here is 3 qian silver, you take it, go and come back quickly, it’s a hot day, it’s really hard work for you.” Chu Ying drove the cool white into Grandpa Li’s clay pot many.

"Isn't it hard to make money? Then I'll go first." Chu Ying helped Ye Qiu clean the yard and several rooms, and piled up the sundries to the stove in the kitchen so they could be burned at that time.

"It's finally finished, but I didn't see you go to get the money. This is at least a dozen cars worth of paper. How much money can I get? No matter how bad it is, I have to earn back the money I paid to Grandpa Li. Bar."

"Of course I can. Don't worry, Lu Ming won't be greedy for my money. He doesn't lack the money. Anyway, there is food at home. Let's go to the city when it's short. It's so hot recently that I won't go to the city. Well, and so many were sent to Lu Ming at once, he didn’t sell them out so quickly, so let’s go in a few days.” After everything was settled, Chu Ying poured a few buckets of water into the big wooden bucket in the bathroom, Remove the cork and take a good shower.

After washing, he opened the door of the bathroom to let the heat out, and fetched a few buckets of water for Ye Qiu to use. "No, I'll do it myself. You see, you're sweating again just after washing. Go and lie down in the house. Then, build a plank in the woods and see if it'll be cooler."

Chu Ying who just lay down heard this good idea and immediately jumped up, "Yes, yes, I'll go right away." Chu Ying picked up the stone ax and a bundle of hemp rope and walked towards the grove.First, I picked up several pieces of broken wood, cut them into small pieces, sharpened one end slightly, and beat them with a stone axe, and inserted four rows at a distance of two meters.

Then put thinner wrist-thick long logs on it, and make a bed board on it, and when it is almost done, go home and remove a reed curtain that separates the bedroom and the outer hall, and spread it on the wooden bed.

Lying on this wooden bed about two meters long and wide, although I felt a little nervous, the microclimate in this grove was cooler than outside. After being busy for so long, Chu Ying fell asleep after a while.

After washing, Ye Qiu took two pillows filled with wheat husks, locked the door, and then went to the grove to look for Chu Ying. When he found Chu Ying, he saw the child spread out and sleep soundly. He gently lifted Chu Ying's head, put a wheat husk pillow on her, and took a nap beside him.

(End of this chapter)