The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 38
Chu Ying was still hungover, so she was dragged up from the bed. Chu Ying tried her best to open her eyes and looked at the gloomy Lu Ming in front of her, "Who are you? Where is this?"

Chu Ying looked at the bamboo slips all over the bookshelf, and the brocade cloth on the table. In this era, paper had not yet become popular and abundant. Rich people used brocade cloth or grosgrain and other white cloth pieces.

"Hurry up and get up and go." Lu Mingchao Chu Ying threw a money bag, and the heavy copper coins almost hit Chu Ying who was in a daze.

Chu Ying touched her forehead, which was still aching, and remembered the matter of going to Yuwen Mansion with Lu Ming yesterday. "After reading so many books, you still don't know how to drink alcohol. Are you reading all the books for nothing?" Seeing that she hadn't taken off her clothes, Chu Ying got up, put on her shoes and made the bed behind her.

"You look like you can drink, I just want to see how much you can drink, 2 taels of silver, you can take it." Lu Ming took the hot water from the servant and began to wash.

Chu Ying glanced at the fine salt on the counter. Lu Ming brushed his teeth with some salt on his hand. It looked better than her own, but it was expensive.

"Didn't you say one or two? And my previous clothes? I have to change and return your clothes." Chu Ying looked around but couldn't find her clothes.

"You don't need to look for it, it's already thrown away. What's stuffed in there? Can you wear it? Don't take it off. I don't want someone else to wear it. Just wear it."

Chu Ying originally wanted to refute the preciousness of her clothes, but Lu Ming said that the clothes on her body were given to herself, and Chu Ying was still very happy, and the cotton was indeed very warm.

"Then I'll take my leave." Chu Ying stuffed the heavy copper coins into her clothes as much as possible, and took another couple of copper coins in her hand. Chu Ying followed her servants out of the Lu residence and saw Wang Naiyuan waiting anxiously outside the door.

"Brother Wang, why are you here?" Seeing Chu Ying coming out, Wang Naiyuan hurried over to look up and down Chu Ying who was wearing the new men's clothes, which were of the highest quality.

"You followed Han Da and didn't come back. I thought something happened to you. I asked Han Da to find you. I waited for a night before I saw you come out. As long as you are fine, go home." Wang Naiyuan looked at Chu Ying's hand Knowing that she stayed behind and went to Yuwen Mansion with the young master of the Lu family to attend the banquet.

"What happened yesterday?" Wang Naiyuan took Chu Ying's copper coin and helped her hold it.

"I just went to have a meal with this young master, and let me stop the drinking when the drinking order is in effect. You see, I still have clothes. The young master in this city really likes to be clean. I don't want to pass through him, Brother Wang. I still have to go shopping." Chu Ying pointed to Wang Naiyuan's clothes.

"I'll accompany you. I'm afraid you won't be able to carry it. I'm fine. I'll go home with you by the way." Wang Naiyuan and Chu Ying went shopping together.

Chu Ying looked at the chicken stalls for a long time, but she didn't know how to choose. "Do you want to buy chickens? Male and female, big and small?"

Seeing Wang Naiyuan's question, Chu Ying told Wang Naiyuan about her idea of ​​finding a companion for the family hen.

"Then just go to my house and buy them. A few new litters of chickens have been born in the past few days. They are born better in the first month and are in good health." Chu Ying remembered that Aunt Wang raised chickens at home.

"That's good." Chu Ying went to the butcher shop to cut some meat. Meat was more expensive a year ago. Because there were not many pigs in the city, she could only buy it now. Now the price of meat has dropped a bit, but it still cost a lot. Half a tael of silver, after all, a whole pig costs 1 tael of silver.

Out of Chuying, I bought a few more baskets. The chestnut basket I had sold before was returned to Aunt Wang when it was empty. Now there is only one basket at home, and it is indeed not enough for anything.Chu Ying bought four panniers for 20 coins, and pushed away Wang Naiyuan's hand to pick them up. Chu Ying gave Wang Naiyuan one to carry the cut meat, and carried the remaining three panniers on her own.

"I heard that Young Master Lu is very weird. He didn't make things difficult for you, did he?" Chu Ying watched as she bought two steamed cakes and gave one to Wang Naiyuan.

"I don't know, he's just a child, but he's a bit willful, and he doesn't do anything out of the ordinary." Chu Ying looked at the tool store, which was made of wood and iron together to shovel like a shovel, and the head was made of iron. Yes, the back part is made of wood, probably to save iron and money. I have already experienced the price of the blacksmith shop.

"Shopkeeper, how much is this?"

"It's 2 kuai, the head is strong. If it's broken, you can come and fix it." Chu Ying compared several shops and bought a 2 kuai shovel.Although it is not that the head is not all iron, it is much more practical to have an iron head than a wooden one.

"What are you buying this for?" Chu Ying looked at Wang Naiyuan who was holding a shovel and carrying a basket behind her, and felt that he was really a good candidate for a boyfriend, hardworking, understanding, and able to share.

"It's useful. The land in front of the house is going to be dug up to make earthen bricks." I really can't afford the fired bricks, but last time I went to Lu Meng's house and saw them making earthen bricks, but it took manpower and time, but now I I am not in a hurry to live in an adobe-brick house, just start building the adobe-bricks slowly, and when the quantity is almost accumulated, I can start building a new house.

"That's time-consuming. It takes several people to do it. Do you want to build a house?"

"In the future, the supply is not in a hurry now, so I will make it slowly by myself." The adobe bricks are mixed with solid mud and straw, and then put into a wooden mold, and then the mold is removed, and the adobe bricks are dry. It can be used now. This kind of earth brick is more earthquake-resistant than modern bricks, warm in winter and cool in summer, and is made of local materials. The method is simple, and the built house can live for 5 to 10 years.

"That's fine. You can go to Lizheng to pay the tax when you have time, and he won't see you a few times." Wang Naiyuan almost forgot if he didn't mention Chu Ying.

"Okay." Chu Ying bought another 2 catties of salt and went home with Wang Naiyuan. Since she didn't know Lizheng's home, she asked Wang Naiyuan to go with her, and gave the money a lot of relief.On the way back, Wang Naiyuan squatted down to carry Chu Ying on his back.

"Come on, you are weak and can't walk much."

"No, it's because I'm weak that I need to walk more. I can't rely on you for the rest of my life, I have to rely on myself." Chu Ying endured the stabbing pain from her knee and continued walking. This knee has hurt before A few times, but not as much as this time.

Wang Naiyuan originally wanted to say that he could take care of her for the rest of her life, but now was not the time to say it, seeing Chu Ying's frown, he pulled Chu Ying forcefully and carried her on his back.

"You are young now, and I can still recite it. When you grow up, it will not be so easy to recite it." Chu Ying lay on Wang Naiyuan's back without saying a word.

"You don't have to take care of everything yourself. You are still so young. If you have grievances and difficulties, you don't need to be so strong." Hearing what Wang Naiyuan said, Chu Ying felt a lot warmer in her heart, but these grievances are painful Suffering is not to be endured by oneself, who else will come to help oneself.

"Okay." Chu Ying's parents divorced since she was a child. Looking at her mother who raised herself and her sister alone, she has always understood one thing, that is, no one will accompany her forever, and no one can help her complete her life. You have to do it yourself, and you have to be strong enough so that you won't be caught off guard when everyone betrays your relatives.

(End of this chapter)