Defeat natural disasters with farming

The next day was a fine day, with the bright sun hanging high in the sky and generously casting sunlight, while the vegetation on the ground greedily enjoyed the rare warmth.

The big red rooster at home flew to the woodpile and crowed loudly, announcing the arrival of another morning.

The Ye family members woke up one after another, and Ye Yu was no exception.

"hiss."

He wanted to be lazy and wash with cold water, but when his hand touched it, he was so cold that he shrank back quickly.

Now he didn't dare to be lazy anymore, so he had to honestly go to the kitchen to get hot water to wash. After washing, the water was splashed on the corner of the wall, and a thin layer of ice formed after a while.

When returning to the house with the pot in hand, Ye Yu took a look at the expanded yard.

The place where Ye's house is located is very close to the foot of the mountain, and there is no family behind their house, so when it was expanded, they circled back a lot to form a very spacious backyard.

The middle piece of land in the backyard was reclaimed as a vegetable field. Mrs. Ye and her daughter-in-law planted some cold-resistant vegetables in it, including cabbage and late radish, in addition to some green onions, garlic and coriander. A vegetable field is firmly surrounded by fine fences to prevent the livestock raised in the family from stealing food.

There are many shacks around. The two on the east side raise chickens and ducks, each with more than ten chickens. The chicken coops are designed according to the method learned by Ye Yu in the book "Scale-scale Chicken Raising Technique", which is very common. The flat house is to lay a layer of straw on the ground, and then put the chickens into it for breeding.

The duck house is similar, that is, there is an extra layer of wooden boards with small gaps on the ground.

Raising chickens and ducks is not easy. Chickens are fine, but ducks are not. They have to be driven into the water every day, and when they come back, they have to be drained from their feathers in straw piles before they can be allowed to enter the duck house. .

To the west is the shed for raising sheep. There are only two sheep, one male and one female, and it seems a bit empty, but these two are fat and strong now, and they will be able to live with two after a while.

Ordinarily, with so many livestock, the smell in the yard will not be pleasant. However, the Ye family is different. They are hardworking people. All the shacks are cleaned every day. After cleaning, the livestock manure will be put together for fermentation. After the urine is decomposed It is a very suitable fertilizer. It is a good choice whether it is composting the field in the coming spring or fertilizing the vegetable field.

In addition, there are some plants with strong aroma planted in the corners, so although the taste is mixed, it is not unacceptable.

There is a blue brick wall between the backyard and the living room, and an arc-shaped hole is opened as the entrance and exit.

The place where the people lived did not make any big moves, but a few more houses were built on both sides to give the children a place to live.

Compared with the backyard, the area of ​​the front yard is smaller, and there are only functional rooms such as kitchen, latrine, and woodshed.

At the same time, there are several fruit trees planted beside the fence. These trees were planted by the old man Ye. I don’t know if he bought the wrong species. These two or three apple trees and orange trees have almost never produced fruit.

In addition to expanding on the ground, they also dug an extra cellar to store more grain.

All in all, their family alone occupies nearly an acre of land.

Ye Yu himself also got a new room, about twelve square meters, on the west side of his parents' room, separated by a wall, because he was afraid that he would not be able to sleep by himself, a door was opened on this wall , both sides are interconnected.

Only half a month has passed from the start of the expansion to the end of the expansion, and the speed is really not slow.

After breakfast, the adults started to get busy. In order not to disturb them, the children got together to pass the time.

Because Ye Yu had nothing to do, he sat on the wooden bench and began to think about what he could do to improve his life. At this moment, Ye He suddenly ran over. Because he ate well these days, he became visibly fatter. Quite a few, and his complexion became ruddy.

"Brother Bao, let's also go to see the excitement. The dowry of Brother Cheng's wife has been delivered to the entrance of the village."

The Jokhang Kingdom attaches great importance to the so-called "thick marriage", which means that when a woman gets married, the dowry of her natal family should be generous, which leads to a small pre-marital custom - putting on makeup.

Before welcoming the bride, the woman will first deliver the dowry to the man’s family. The richer the dowry, the higher the woman’s face in the husband’s family, and the less dare the husband’s family dare to bully her. The dowry is the woman’s private property, and the husband’s family is not allowed to use it privately. If the woman leaves, the dowry will also be taken away by the woman. If the woman dies, only the woman's own children can use the dowry.

This is also one of the reasons for the low status of child brides/husbands. After all, they have no dowry, and there is a high possibility that they themselves were bought by the husband/wife's family.

It can be described as sending, it seems that Brother Cheng's wife's dowry is very rich.

Ye Yu was also a little curious, and agreed without thinking too much. The two of them talked to the adults, and then rushed to the entrance of the village with their friends, just in time to meet a matchmaker in a festive red dress who ordered Li Gong to lift them up. Put the belongings at Ye Cheng's house.

The quantity is indeed quite large, and it took a few laborers to carry it for a while.

Ye Minghui clicked his tongue and said in amazement: "Could this be the ten miles of red makeup mentioned in the play?"

Although there is talk about putting on makeup when getting married in the village, how can they be so particular about it? Most of them are a few pieces of cotton cloth, plus the furniture made by themselves, and those who are more favored at home, or those whose family conditions are better, will dowry one or two. pieces of jewellery, and nothing more.

"The play says that the princess is married to ten miles of red makeup. The first one has arrived at the princess' mansion, and the last one hasn't come out of the palace yet."

With their poor imagination, they really can't imagine what kind of grand scene it is.

It was just after the autumn harvest, and most of the villagers were waiting for the mill to grind beans at the entrance of the village. Seeing this scene, those who were close started whispering.

To tell the truth, they are a little bit envious, but there is absolutely no jealousy. They are all from the same village, unless they are born with bad intentions and can't see others' good. They usually hope that the villagers can live well, let alone them. Because of the craft of making tofu in the village, every family lives well, so there is nothing to complain about.

Most people just say a few words when they see it.

"Ye En's family has a rich family."

"Very well, Brother Cheng is a good boy. Although he is not very good at talking, he is sincere in his heart. The young couple will definitely live well after they get married."

When the make-up was over, the whole group of friends dispersed, only Ye Minghui remained, and he was also busy.

The three stood in the corner, and Ye Minghui asked Ye Yu, "Are you still going to the county seat after you come back?"

Ye Yu shook her head, "No, my father and my second uncle will go, and my mother and I will stay at home."

The main reason is that the New Year is getting closer, there are a lot of busy things at home, and there is no shortage of people. In addition, Father Ye still has lingering fears about the abduction of Xie Xian's son, so he is not going to take Ye Yu to the county again. It is safer for him to stay in the village.

"And next spring I will go to a private school in the village to study."

This is the result of Ye Yu's personal discussion with Father Ye. Originally, Father Ye wanted to send him directly to the Heihe Academy in the county for enlightenment, but for some reason Ye Yu was not very interested in the imperial examination. He just wanted to recognize a few words first.

Father Ye thought for a while and agreed to let him be enlightened in the private school in the village first, and then see if he has the talent for the imperial examination.

Ye Minghui laughed immediately when he heard the first sentence, but before he could fully grin, he heard the second sentence, his face collapsed instantly, and he looked completely different.

"Hey, let me tell you, studying is hard. The words in the book and I don't know each other. My father asks me to recite the book every day. If I can't recite it, I have nothing to eat. Didn't you see that I have lost a lot of weight recently? That's all I'm hungry!"

When he talked about excitement, the fat on his face still twitched twice, making the corners of Ye Yu's mouth twitch.

Ye He also echoed: "That's right, my father said the same thing. Fortunately, there is a milk. Every time I can't recite it and my father wants to spank my ass, my milk will say that dragons make dragons and phoenixes, mice My son knows how to make holes and says that I will follow my father. As long as I say that, my father will stop hitting me. You can try it too, I think it works well."

The corners of Ye Yu's mouth twitched again when he heard it, especially seeing Ye He's way of advising Minghui, he felt that the corners of his mouth could hardly twitch anymore.

For the sake of Ye Minghui's butt and hands, he hastily interrupted this topic.

"Are you two going to have other business soon? If not, let's go and release the duck together."

Find something for them to do, it's best to make Ye Minghui forget about Ye He's idea.

However, it turns out that Ye Yu thought too much, Ye Minghui didn't forget at all, not only didn't forget, but he still remembered very clearly!He went home that night, and when his father randomly checked his recitation, but he was fined not to eat if he failed to recite it, he learned that common saying to his father verbatim.

Ye Tongsheng:?

"Okay, if you just follow me, I've taught you the three-character scripture three times, and you can't even memorize two sentences. How could I have such a stupid person like you? Whoever you want."

Ye Tongsheng's beard fluttered in anger, and his head was about to smoke.

Ye Tongsheng's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Zhao, was not happy when she heard the words. She put down the needle and thread in her hand, "Follow who? Anyway, it's not my fault, isn't it just the son's fault for not teaching his father? I can recite both sentences."

After saying this, Ye Tongsheng didn't dare to say anything, he could only mutter a few words in his mouth when his wife turned around, "It's hard to raise a villain and a girl."

And when his daughter-in-law turned around, she coughed twice to show that she didn't say anything, then patted her beard and walked away with her hands behind her back.

The couple forgot about Ye Minghui for a while without noticing, he was very surprised and thought to himself, he didn't expect Brother He's idea to be quite good.

The next day, he described the scene to Ye Yu and the others in detail.

Ye He immediately said proudly: "My method is quite good."

Ye Minghui nodded straight, "Okay, I ate dinner on time last night, by the way, your braised duck feet are really delicious, I ate five or six."

As he spoke, he licked the corner of his mouth.

Ye Yu was very speechless, he patted Ye Minghui on the shoulder, "Don't listen to him, you were lucky last night, think about what your father does, you follow your father, what should you be Sample."

"My father is a Tongsheng, so I...should also be a Tongsheng?" He realized something was wrong while talking, and immediately began to shake his head frantically, "No, no, I'd rather be a cook in the future than keep studying."

His father studied for more than ten years before being admitted to Tongsheng, and he shuddered at the thought of studying for so long.

Seeing this, Ye Yu changed the subject dumbfounded, "Okay, that's how many years later, how can you think so far."

He is the only son under Ye Tongsheng's knee. It is not up to him to decide whether he wants to study or not. Besides, he is still young, only seven years old. Children are the most fickle. They will have an idea for a while. Now they don't want to study. Wait until later. In a few days, you may fall in love with reading again, so you don't have to make a decision now.