take a wife to support the family

Chapter 44 Ancient Confinement Supplies

Wang Xiaofu went to look for lily with a bag of seeds in his arms. Brother Da Nian was not at home, so it was inconvenient for him to enter the house directly, so he stood at the door and shouted: "Sister-in-law, are you at home?"

After not seeing him for a while, he felt that the scenery near Brother Da Nian's house had changed a lot. A small vegetable field was opened up in the yard, where some onions, ginger, garlic, etc. were planted, and two vegetable fields were also opened on the unowned land on the side of the house. , neatly divided into several areas.

Lily and Lamei had just finished hoeing the vegetable field and washing their hands in the house, when they heard Wang Xiaofu call, they hurried out to let him in: "Come in and talk, my sister is here too."

After entering the room, Wang Xiaofu didn't dare to look any further. He took out a paper bag and opened it. There were six or seven tightly wrapped oiled paper bags with words written on them.

Wang Xiaofu pointed to Lily one by one: "This is cabbage seeds, this is radish seeds, cowpeas, lentils, courgettes (Note 1), pumpkins, each pack costs five cents, and the extra pack is a gift. Yes, what is 'corn', there are people in the north who grow it, but we haven't grown it here yet."

Other seeds are fine, Lily's eyes lit up when she heard corn, "Corn? This is really good!"

Corn is similar to sweet potatoes. It is easy to grow and produces a lot of grain. Even if it was introduced relatively late, Lily dare not expect to be able to eat it now.Wang Xiaofu's bag of seeds gave Lily a glimpse of hope. Not only can she improve her living conditions, but maybe in the near future, she can also eat vegetables such as peppers and tomatoes.

Lily thanked Lamei for her gratitude, and asked Lamei to pour water for Wang Xiaofu to drink. Wang Xiaofu stared at Lamei, thinking that the sister-in-law Da Nian was very similar to her in the past.After drinking the water, he will go home to pack his goods, and tomorrow he will continue to walk the streets of various villages.

Lamei looked down at the packets of seeds, "There are so many, don't get confused."

There were words written on the paper package, and Lily couldn't be confused. She smiled and said, "You've worked hard on the vegetable fields for the past two days, but you can't rest yet. You have to plant them all."

Lamei nodded, she was more comfortable when she was doing work, and when she rested, she felt that she had nowhere to put her hands and feet.The eldest sister asked her to work, and she felt that it was the eldest sister who didn't make friends with her, so she felt at ease in her heart.

In the past two days, the two sisters opened a vegetable field next to the house. Lily had inquired with Uncle Sheng and Aunt Sheng of the Liu Mansion beforehand that the land next to her house was unowned.

Today's imperial court has an order that as long as a newly opened field has been planted for more than three years, it can go to the government office to register the land deed, and pass it on to the descendants forever.

Song Haonian was separated from his family at the beginning, and randomly picked a vacant lot in the west of the town to build a house. Naturally, this vacant lot is unowned.Lily opened the land if she wanted to. Everyone in the town has their own fields, and they don't like this not-so-fertile open land.

On the second day, Lily only sold raspberries for half a day, and spent the other half of the day digging mud from the river with Lamei to pile it in the vegetable field.

Opening up wasteland is not an easy task. If there is not enough fertility, crops will not grow, and only weeds will grow.The river mud is fine and fertile, and the sand mixed in it can loosen the soil and prevent it from compacting.

Both of them were thin and small women, and the river mud was full of water, which made it extremely heavy, and it was very difficult to transport.Fortunately, Baishuihe was reluctant to leave, but the distance was only one or two hundred steps. Two people lifted a dustpan together with their strength, and slowly covered the whole land with river mud.

It is not enough just to have these river muds. In the future, vegetables will grow well, and more fertilizers will be needed.Most of the country people fertilize with the manure produced by their own pigs and cattle. The few chickens in Lily's house are just enough to provide fertilizer for the small vegetable patch in the yard, but it is not enough to provide fertilizer for such a large vegetable patch.

After surviving one day, the sisters were so tired that their backs ached. They boiled hot water and took a good bath to temporarily relieve their fatigue.

Upon waking up the next day, Lily felt that something was wrong, her body was so sore, as if she hadn't rested all night, her waist and abdomen seemed to be grabbed by the internal organs and twisted vigorously.

Suspecting that she was going to get sick, she barely managed to get up and cook, and Lamei helped her.

Before the pot of water boiled, Lamei suddenly called out: "Sister, you are bleeding!" Lily was taken aback, Lamei pointed at her pants tremblingly and said, "A lot of blood..."

In an instant, Lily figured out what was wrong with her—she had never been to Guishui since she came to this world.

This body is already, logically, should have come to Guishui a long time ago, but Li Da Niu has been lacking in nutrition since she was a child, and she is so thin that she is not much different from a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl. She has never been to Guishui.

Only Mrs. Zhu knew about this matter. The other two girls in the family were younger than the eldest girl, and they didn't know that women would undergo such changes when they grew up.Zhu's idea of ​​selling Lily to Song Haonian was a one-shot deal - she thought that the big girl was the kind of woman who couldn't bear children.

So she did everything possible to empty out Song Haonian's family property, because she was afraid that Song Haonian would know the truth one day, the two families would never communicate again, and she would no longer be able to take advantage of this eldest son-in-law.

But she didn't expect that Song Haonian had never touched Lily until now, and she didn't even know that she had never had her period.

In the past few months, Lily has eaten well, and she does daily work as exercise. Not only has she grown flesh, she has also grown a bit taller. The trousers are a bit short, and she even stitched them together at the hem of the trousers with cloth to prevent her ankles from being exposed. outside.

With enough nutrition in her body, the Guishui that should have appeared long ago also appeared on her body for the first time.

The sisters had never been here, and Mrs. Zhu had never taught them what to pay attention to. La Mei thought that the eldest sister had some serious illness, so her face turned pale with fright, and she cried, "Sister, what happened to you?"

Lily couldn't laugh or cry: "I'm fine, don't cry." She thought for a while, then said to the girl with a blushing face, "I've grown up."

"Grow up?" Lamei couldn't figure out how her sister would grow up.

Lily didn't have the energy to explain to her. She just felt that her stomach hurt more and more, and the sticky feeling after being stained with blood became obvious. She didn't dare to delay any longer, but she didn't have anything suitable at hand, so she had to take yesterday's medicine first. The washed handkerchief was used as a pad, and the blood-stained trousers were replaced and soaked in the water.

Seeing that Lily was moving freely, Lamei breathed a sigh of relief, and was a little embarrassed, feeling that she had made too much fuss.

Lily asked Lamei to boil hot water for her to drink, and felt a severe stomachache. After thinking about it, she knew that she could only work today, so she sighed and explained to Lamei in detail what was going on.

She can't leave a psychological shadow on the little girl, or she will feel scared when Lamei comes to her aunt herself.

Lily lived in the countryside in her previous life, and heard many women call Laitiangui "unlucky", but how could this be unlucky?This is clearly a sign of a woman growing up, and a gift from life.

Lily couldn't work, Lamei didn't dare to go out alone, and was even more afraid that something would happen to Lily when she wasn't around, so she just stayed in the room and watched over her eldest sister.

Lamei thinks that bleeding is a serious matter, otherwise why would her eldest sister be so worried...

She didn't know that Lily was frowning because she was worried about her aunt's scarf.Everything in this era is pure natural, there is no environmental pollution, and naturally there is no convenience brought by industrialization.

Everything in the past was tolerable, but Lily found that she had no clean aunt's towels to use after she came to Tiangui, not even the clean and soft toilet paper she had seen when she was a child, and she couldn't help but miss the convenience of her previous life.

No matter how much she missed her, she couldn't go back. Lily sighed for a while, and drank half a bowl of brown sugar water. Feeling warmer, she decided to rely on herself and make some ancient aunt's towels for herself.

When she was studying in a normal school, she also thought about how women in ancient times used aunt's towels. She also checked the information and found that many people used strips of cloth to sew a small bag with an open end, stuffed with cotton or plant ash.

The small bag can have long straps at both ends, which can be tied around the waist, and the cotton or plant ash inside can be replaced after a period of time, and can be reused for a long time.

Last time I made insoles for Song Haonian, there were still some white cloth left over, which happened to come in handy at this time.Lily asked Lamei to bring a basket of needlework. She cut out a suitable shape based on her memory and imagination, and sewed three flat, long small bags. Fearing that the stitches would scratch the skin, she deliberately turned the side with stitches inside.

She was very fast at needlework and finished three bags in half a day, and put strips of thin cloth on them so that they could be tied around her waist easily.

Lamei was envious and ashamed when she saw it, envied the elder sister's quick hands and feet, and felt ashamed when she thought about what she was doing.However, Lily asked her to boil hot water, scald the three small bags repeatedly with hot water, wash them clean, and hang them in the sun to dry.

When the sun turned west that day, Lily used the homemade ancient version of the aunt's towel.Although the plant ash is inconvenient, this thing has been burned by fire, so it is the cleanest. When there is no Hushubao and the Seven-Degree Space, the only way to ensure its cleanliness is to rely on the plant ash.

Of course, the blood-stained handkerchief can't be used any more. After changing it, it can also be made into an aunt's towel, so that it can be easily replaced in the future.Lily couldn't stand other people's aunt's towels being used for several days. She always had to change them once or twice a day, and washed them immediately.

Lamei boils hot water in the kitchen all day, because Lily can't touch cold water now, and she has to wash clothes and aunt's towels with warm water, and scald them many times with hot water.

Lunch and dinner were made of winter plums. She felt sorry for Lily's bleeding, so she cooked brown sugar poached eggs, which were delicious and sweet. Lily gave her half of it, and the two sisters ate sweet poached eggs.

It only hurt for one day, and Lily's pain was gone the next day, but there was still some swelling in her waist.She didn't dare to do too heavy work, but Lamei couldn't stay idle, so she had to take Lamei to do some lighter work, picking out the less plump melon and vegetable seeds, and she absolutely didn't dare to get tired and sick.

Fortunately, this is the first time for her to come to Tiangui, the amount is small, and the days are short, and the bleeding will stop after three or four days.Only then did Lamei feel relieved - she thought that the eldest sister would bleed from now on, how scary that was!
(End of this chapter)