farmer's wife

Chapter 27 Qingming Worship
On the day of Qingming, there was a drizzle, and the sky and the earth were covered with a black shadow.

The cool and windy wind brings the endless smell of burnt paper money.

The Xiao family also got up early to get ready.

The rain was light, but the ground was muddy after one night.

Anping Village uses a small earthen slope in the northwest of the village as the burial place in the village, which is a little far away from Xiao's house.

Fu Yan held an oil-paper umbrella and carried the sacrifices for ancestor worship, while Xiao Lie held the umbrella in one hand and hugged Xiao Jian in the other.

The road is slippery in rainy days, and the muddy ground is not easy to walk on. Ah Jian doesn't want to dirty the new clothes made by her sister-in-law.

Walking slowly all the way, occasionally encountering villagers coming and going.Maybe on this day, everyone was touched to some extent, and they were not in a high mood, so they dispersed after a hasty meeting.

They first paid homage to Xiao's grandparents and great-grandparents. The graves had been cleaned up, leaving traces of burning.It seems that Uncle Xiao's family came here earlier.

After paying homage to Xiao Lie, he took them to their parents' graves.

The graves of his parents were clean and desolate... Xiao Lie paused, silently put Xiao Jian down, and then cleaned up the new weeds in front of the graves.The uncle doesn't have the slightest concern for the two brothers, so how can he expect him to miss his brother who has passed away...

Fu Yan arranged the sacrifices, took out a straw mat and placed it in front of the grave.

Xiao Lie lit the paper money with a torch, knelt on the straw mat, and kowtowed three times.

"Father, mother, I brought Ah Jian to see you. Don't worry, Ah Jian's body is almost recuperated, and I will send him to study in the future."

Xiao Jian stood quietly on the side, with tears in her eyes, stubbornly refusing to let them fall.

Xiao Lie lowered his head and stroked the green bamboo embroidered on the new clothes, and continued, "I'm married! These are new clothes made for me by your daughter-in-law. She is kind-hearted and well-managed. If... if you are still here, She will definitely be very satisfied with this daughter-in-law! Son... son is really doing well now..."

The voice is getting hoarse...

Xiao Lie simply got up and signaled Fu Yan to come forward, he wiped his face and squatted aside to continue burning paper money.

Fu Yan stepped forward and kowtowed: "Father, mother, I am Fu Yan, and I will take good care of both of them."

Let the place be given to today's little crying bag, and let him share with his parents what happened in these days.

Fu Yan accompanied Xiao Lie, without saying a word, and burned paper money together.

In the childish voice, a gust of wind swept over the burnt black ash, and it floated to the sky, as if it was a gentle response.

When the fire was all extinguished, Fu Yan took out a handkerchief, hugged Xiao Jian and wiped off the tears on his face: "Okay, Mom and Dad have heard what A Jian wants, let's go back."

After Xiao Jian was picked up by Xiao Lie again, he wrapped his arms around his brother's neck and buried his head in his arms.

Xiao Lie looked ahead: "Let's go."

A group of people went back the same way despite the wind and rain...

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Shortly after Qingming came to mid-April, and there was a big fair at the end of every month in the city.

From time to time, the Xiao family would bring some wild animals, and there was no shortage of meat, but there was not much food left, such as rice noodles, and needed to be replenished.

Good day, Fu Yan sorted out her results of half a month.

The finished ones include four purses embroidered with peonies, lilies, roses, and clivia, as well as four silk flowers and embroidered handkerchiefs with matching patterns.

The Zhao Mansion once invited an embroiderer to be the teacher of the ladies in the mansion.Master Du is strict and meticulous in his teaching. The ladies and maids are afraid of alienating her, and she left the house after only two years of teaching.

In the past two years, Fu Yan was the only student who was not afraid of her and could persevere through hardships.Master Du admired Fu Yan, and privately taught her another embroidery technique - double-sided embroidery.

Li Chao double-sided embroidery is not uncommon, but it is not something ordinary people can learn.Most of this technology is in the hands of wealthy families or embroidery families.

Master Du handed over Fu Yan's craft, and Fu Yan wanted to be a teacher and treat each other with courtesy.

But Master Du was very strange. She insisted not to allow Fu Yan to worship as a teacher, and declared that Fu Yan could only use this embroidery technique after she left and that the two had no relationship.

Fu Yan couldn't hold back Master Du, so she could only agree.And in order to keep a low profile, she never showed it in the Zhao residence.

This time, Fu Yan made two fans with double-sided embroidery to test the water.

The fan material chooses cute and anthropomorphic animal images.

Since ancient times, girls' public aesthetics have been roughly similar.Always irresistible to cute and cute animals.

Therefore, one fan is Fat Orange taking a nap, and the other is Fat Orange fluttering butterflies.

The colors are vibrant and lifelike.

Fu Yan made two first, and then sent them to the shop to see what price the proprietress was willing to pay, and then decided on the choice of materials for the follow-up.

While Fu Yan was arranging the embroidery, Xiao Lie came in with a big bamboo basket on his back, and his hands were full.

Seeing that he was sweating profusely, Fu Yan hurriedly poured him a cup of tea.

Xiao Lie unloaded everything, took the tea, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.

After wiping off his sweat, Xiao Lie regained his strength: "Master and I have all the leathers that Master and I have tanned recently, and we will take them to the city tomorrow."

Curious, Fu Yan lifted the big leaf on the bamboo basket and looked at it. There were neatly stacked rabbit meat and pheasant meat that had been marinated and dried recently after hunting.

There were six live rabbits in the cage on the other side.

Xiao Lie lifted the rabbit cage to the corner of the backyard and put some vegetable leaves in front of the cage.

"Did you play these recently?"

Hearing Fu Yan's doubts, Xiao Lie opened a cloth bag to show her: "This is a tanned fur. These things are the prey that Master and I have collected for the past month. He doesn't like to go out, and I usually take them with him." Go to the city and sell together."

"Then shall we find a place to set up a stall tomorrow?" There are a lot of things, and Fu Yan is worried that they will be sold out tomorrow.

Xiao Lie took out all the furs and sorted them out: "I don't set up a stall. I often go to the city to sell these. I have some regular customers, so just sell them directly. The live rabbits are ordered by the restaurant owner."

Seeing Xiao Lie's success, Fu Yan felt relieved.

"Wait a minute, I'll get the ledger to record the quantity of things, so that I can share the bill with Master when I come back." Fu Yan went into the room and brought a pen and ink.

There are so many things, it would be great to be able to remember clearly, so as not to be confused in the future.

Seeing that she was getting ready, Xiao Lie reported the ownership of the things to Fu Yan while tidying them up, and at the same time introduced to her the information of the shops he usually contacted for selling goods.

"The six rabbits are all mine. I've made an appointment with Shopkeeper He. They cost 22 cents a catty. Here's a total of [-] catties."

"Marinated rabbit meat and pheasant meat, 45 each, Master and I share half. Usually they are sold by the piece, [-] yuan for a pheasant, and [-] yuan for a rabbit. The cured meat is sold to Boss Li in the grocery store. , He travels all over the world, the transportation business is big, and the collection is also miscellaneous."

"Give him the furs, too, depending on his asking price according to the type and color. I have two fox skins, one mink skin, and ten rabbit skins. The rest are master's, three fox skins, and seven rabbit skins." Skin."

Fu Yan listened to Xiao Lie's instructions and recorded them one by one.

(End of this chapter)