Married a scholar

▍We are a family.

Meng Yining entered the house with a chopping knife and said to Xia Wenze, "I'm going to chop a piece of bamboo for Xiaojizai to enclose a piece of land in the yard."

"Wait for me to go together." Xia Wenze put down the book in his hand and followed.

"After the pigsty is built, I want to raise some chicks." At that time, I felt that the house was too deserted, so I only bought two chicks, but now I feel that the two chicks are actually a little too little.

"Okay." Xia Wenze took the hatchet in his hand and went up to chop bamboo. Meng Yining walked around the bamboo forest, saw the orange tree, and found a peach tree in the upper right corner of the bamboo forest.

As the name suggests, this kind of peach has a lot of hairs on its body, and the fruit is still small. It doesn't taste very sweet, but more sour.But this kind of peach is very suitable for pickling and eating.

The bamboo forest is more than 100 square meters. Maotao is leaning against a five-meter-high mountain wall. There is a kind of vine growing on the mountain wall. The back of this vine is a layer of brown dense fluff, and this fluff But it is a good hemostatic medicine.

As long as it is scraped off and applied to the wound, the bleeding can be stopped quickly, and the wound is not easy to be infected.

The reason why he knew this kind of vine was that he and his brother went back together after the end of the world, and when they passed by a village, an old man in that village told them.

The old man told them that they call this kind of vine the hemostatic vine.

He didn't expect there to be a bamboo forest here, and it was still such a large area.

Meng Yining looked up, and the fine sunlight fell on his face through the bamboo leaves above his head.

When Xia Wenze cut the bamboo and looked for it, he saw this scene. His already somewhat sensual face was illuminated by the sun with a hazy beauty. Swaying slightly behind.

At this moment, Xia Wenze was extremely grateful that Geer Ning insisted on staying at his house that day.

How lucky is it to have such a person to accompany me for the rest of my life? !

"The bamboo has been cut?" Meng Yining looked at Xia Wenze who was looking at him with a slight smile, and pointed to the green curtain behind him, "Brother Aze, do you know this vine?"

Xia Wenzhe stepped forward to take a closer look, "I don't know him."

"Brother Ning, do you know him?"

"Probably." Meng Yining told him about the medicinal effect of the hemostatic vine, "I can pick some leaves later and scrape off the brown medicinal powder at home for later use."

"I didn't expect this kind of vines to exist." Xia Wenze said, "You will pick the leaves later, and I will chop the bamboo out at home."

"Row."

After dragging the bamboo home, Xia Wenze started chopping the bamboo in the yard, while Meng Yining picked the leaves of the hemostatic vine with a basket.

After picking half a basket of hemostatic vine leaves, Meng Yining sat at the door of the main room and carefully began to scrape off the brown powder on the back of the leaves.

Meng Yining took a moment to look at Xia Wenze who was chopping bamboo, and his eyes stayed on his hands for a moment, then he took out a pair of work gloves from the space, "Put these on your hands, be careful not to hurt your hands."

I don't feel it when I split bamboo, but every time I watch someone split bamboo, I always feel that the bamboo will cut the hand of that person.

Xia Wenzze smiled at him, and said softly, "Thank you Brother Ning."

"You don't need to be so polite." Meng Yining went back to the door of the main room and sat down to re-shave the hemostatic powder, lowered his head and said, "We are a family."

Xia Wenze looked at his drooping head, the smile on his face deepened, "Yeah."

The corners of Meng Yining's mouth curved slightly.

The chicks are still small, and they don't need too much space.

After Xia Wenze inquired about Meng Yining, he wove a not-so-good-looking rectangular bamboo curtain out of sliced ​​bamboo, and then selected a place for the bamboo curtain to form a circle.

"It looks a bit empty." Putting the chicks in, Meng Yining felt that two chicks were really too few.

"Ask in the village who has hatched chicks." Aunt Zhao's family is in short supply of chicks hatched every year, and I'm afraid there are no more chicks now.

Both the stewed meat in the pot and the stewed big bone soup gave off a fragrance, especially the stewed meat, the fragrance is really overbearing. If it wasn't for their family, someone would have come to ask about it.

Even in the study, Xia Wenze could smell that indescribable fragrance.

Meng Yining poked the small pig's trotters and felt that it was okay, so he turned off the fire and let it simmer for a while, then take it out and eat it hot or cold. "Taste how it tastes."

Meng Yining came to the study with a pig's trotter, handed the chopsticks to Xia Wenze, and looked at him expectantly.

Xia Wenze tasted it, his eyes were slightly bright, and he praised without hesitation: "The taste is very good."

Meng Yining laughed and said, "There's still some in the pot, we'll buy some to marinate some other day."

Xia Wenze ate the pig's trotters in the bowl, wiped his mouth, "I bought some after I went to see Mr.

"Ah."

It was agreed to have hand-rolled noodles in the evening, Meng Yining was kneading the noodles, and Xia Wenze was washing the picked rapeseed and shallots.

From the yard came the childish cries of the chicks. Although it was very quiet, Meng Yining felt very at ease.

"Shall I turn on the fire?" Xia Wenze sat down in front of the stove after washing the dishes.

"Row."

Dinner was early, and when the two of them finished eating, it was only just getting dark.

The two sat at the door of the main room to digest food, and a pot of hot tea was placed on the stool.

The little chickens were chirping and pecking everywhere in the main room, and from time to time the two would chase each other and fight.

The sky is full of stars, indicating that tomorrow will be another sunny day.

It wasn't until the air cooled down that the two packed up and entered the house.

"I made peanut porridge and cut some marinated pig ears." Xia Wenze looked at the sleepy Meng Yining, and said softly, "There is hot water in the small pot. After washing up, we can have breakfast."

"Okay." Meng Yining covered his mouth and yawned. Last night he had a dream. The dream was full of zombies, and he couldn't kill them no matter how hard he tried.As a result, I woke up late today.

Drinking the lightly fragrant peanut porridge, Meng Yining sighed, perhaps the days are so peaceful now, it always makes him feel unreal like dreaming.

Seeing that he was not very energetic, Xia Wenze asked concerned: "If you haven't had a good rest, go to sleep for a while?"

"No need." Meng Yining smiled at him, "We have to cut out the sprouted potatoes in the morning, and I'll just take a nap at noon."

"If you're really sleepy, you can plant the potatoes later." In his opinion, Brother Ning needs to take good care of his body.

"Don't worry, if I'm really sleepy, I won't hold back." Meng Yining burped when he had finished eating and put down the bowl.

Xia Wenze smiled, "I cook a lot of peanut porridge, and I can still eat it at noon."

Meng Yining scratched his face in embarrassment, and accidentally drank three bowls of porridge.

The potatoes need to be cut out a little bit more along the sprouted place, and then the cut side should be stained with a little dust to prevent it from being damaged.

The two of them cut up the potatoes and dusted them with ashes before they carried them to the field.

Everyone in the field here has finished their work, and now there is only one piece of land left by his family that has not been planted.

Meng Yining breathed a sigh of relief, he really didn't like to explain this to others.

Xia Wenze dug a hole, and Meng Yining put the sliced ​​potatoes in it. The two cooperated tacitly and planted all the potatoes in just over an hour.

After returning home and washing up briefly, Meng Yining took out the cloth bought yesterday, and greeted Xia Wenze in the study, "I'll go to Brother Amin's house."

As Chun Geng saw the end, more people in the drying dam were basking in the sun and chatting here.

Seeing Meng Yining approaching, he couldn't help but greet him with a smile.

"Where is Brother Ning going?"

"Grandma Hua, I'll go to Brother Amin's house." Meng Yining stopped, "Grandma Hua, you look much better." Grandma Kai Chunhua caught a cold and hasn't recovered, she hasn't been out for a long time .

"That's great." Grandma Hua smiled kindly, "How are you and Boy Ze?" Grandma Hua looked him up and down, and said with a smile, "There is flesh on his face." Grandma Hua's face was full of relief.

"We are fine." Meng Yining simply came to sit down beside Grandma Hua, and then greeted the old man who came over, "Grandma Fu."

"Hey." Grandma Fu came to sit on the other side of Grandma Hua, "Did Brother Ning's land be planted?"

"The planting is over." Meng Yining saw a few people from Zhao's side sitting not far away, but those people looked a little strange, so he couldn't help turning his head and gossiping to Grandma Fu beside him, "Grandma Fu, Zhao's What happened over there?"

Hearing Meng Yining's question, not only Grandma Fu's face darkened, but even Grandma Hua's expression turned a little ugly.

Meng Yining felt strange, he hadn't contacted the people in the village for two days, so why did something big seem to happen?

Grandma Fu saw his curious face, and after a while she lowered her voice and said, "I know Uncle Niu."

"I know." Meng Yining nodded, this is one of several small surnames in Shangyao Village, and his ancestors came to settle in Shangyao Village, not outsiders.

"Hey." Before she could say anything, Grandma Fu sighed, "Your Uncle Niu's youngest daughter has been divorced."

"Huh?" Meng Yining was surprised when he heard the words. The Niu family in the memory of the original owner was actually quite poor, because there were not many families with the surname Niu in Shangyao Village, and there were only four families after several generations.

Uncle Niu married in his late thirties because his family was poor. Aunt Niu was quite able to have children. She gave birth to four boys in five years, and gave birth to a youngest daughter in her early [-]s, who was also the only daughter in the family.

Niu Cuihua looks delicate and delicate, completely different from her tall and burly brothers.

Niu Cuihua got married at the age of 15, and she has been married for five years, in the village across the river.

"What's the reason?" Although Niu Cuihua was only two years older than the original owner, the original owner was not very familiar with her.

"Cuihua has never given birth to a child there, and her mother-in-law is patriarchal. No, Cuihua fell while working in the field last month and had a miscarriage. The doctor said that she might never have another child." Pregnant, her mother-in-law asked her son to divorce Cuihua back." Grandma Fu's expression was not very good.

"Then what does this have to do with the Zhao family?" Although Meng Yining doesn't like this kind of feudal thinking that only loves sons and not daughters, he also knows that this kind of thinking still exists in modern times, not to mention ancient times. Niu Cuihua couldn't conceive yet, which was probably unbearable for those who valued incense in ancient times.

I just don't understand what Niu Cuihua's dismissal has to do with the question he just asked.

The author says:

That kind of vine is real, but it's not called hemostatic vine, and I don't know what it's called. My fourth aunt and second aunt have a lot of it on the big rocks on the mountain. They use this kind of thing for their wounds. It can stop the bleeding. I bring some to my grandma every year. It is very useful. I have never figured out what the name of the vine is, so I named it myself.