Farm with space

Chapter 7 Green Bamboo Mat
After hearing this, Dr. Yun's eyes drifted away for a moment. In the writing, there seemed to be a woman with willow eyebrows like Dai, with dimples on her lips when she smiled, elegant and refined.He shook his head to dismiss his thoughts.He doesn't want to fall in love with other women anymore.Thinking of his deceased wife, the heart-pounding pain of that day is still vivid in his memory, and he doesn't want to go through it again——
Dr. Yun put down the paper and said to Yuxi: "You are now a citizen who has committed a crime and is in exile. You don't even have freedom. You can't leave Nanzhang to go to Guanzhong. What can you do?"

Yuxi took a sip of rice water and said, "If I can receive a letter from Eleventh Sister this month, I will definitely come up with a solution."

"What method?" Dr. Yun was at a loss. He really couldn't think of any method Yuxi could do, let alone how this method was related to the letter from Eleven Niang Yuling.

Yuxi shrugged and said: "I haven't thought of it yet." After finishing speaking, he ignored Dr. Yun and began to chop at a green bamboo.

After a few knives, the green bamboo shook, tilted towards the hammock, and then smashed towards Dr. Yun.

Dr. Yun kicked the green bamboo at random, and the green bamboo fell to the ground with a bang.

"Seventeen Niang is really getting more and more naughty." Doctor Yun broke off a bamboo branch and threw it towards Yuxi.

Yuxi chopped off the bamboo branch with a machete, and said angrily, "You are so good at kung fu, but you won't save Eleventh Sister from fire and water. Hmph!"

Doctor Yun sighed, "It's easy for me to save Eleventh Sister, but it will implicate Bian's Village."

Yuxi clenched her fists, gritted her teeth and said in a hateful voice: "Get rid of that Zhoujin Temple, and then you take Eleventh Sister away. Anyway, you can even stay in Nanzhang, just find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to avoid it for a few years before resuming your medical career. Everything will be fine."

Yuxi's little head drooped, and she continued in frustration: "However, this method can only be implemented if we find another supply route for grain seeds."

It will take time to find a new supply route for grain seeds, and most of the grain seeds are controlled by the official grain. Even if Zhoujin Temple is removed, the next warehouse official may not be easy to deal with.

Most folks don't know how to make grain seeds.Zhou Jinsi, the warehouse official, is very smart. He knows that once peanuts and soybeans are planted, it is easy to make their own seeds, and they simply don't grow them.

The peanuts and soybeans planted by Yuxi were exchanged from Guan Wai Hu, which was pitifully small, not enough for her own food ration.Even daily necessities such as livestock and clothing were exchanged with households outside the customs.

Yuxi glanced at the corn seedlings at the foot of the West Mountain and sighed secretly. These corns may not be able to be planted. Even if they can be grown, they need to be plowed and cultivated like peanuts and soybeans. It will be two or three years before they become the staple food.

When Yuxi thinks that Yuling, who treats her like her own sister, will take at least two or three years before she can be free, she feels powerless and sad for a while.

Dr. Yun stroked his goatee and thought about it: "This idea seems good. But why should I take Eleven Niang away? Even if I am willing, she may not be willing."

Hearing that Dr. Yun was right about this idea, excited Yuxi said: "She will definitely, she has promised you for a long time!" After speaking, she realized that she was speechless and told Yuling's secret, Yuxi hurriedly covered her mouth Shut up.

The bamboo forest fell into silence, only the rustling of the wind was heard.After a while, Doctor Yun said in a low voice: "Don't talk nonsense. Don't think about this idea again, and don't even mention it to others."

Yuxi shrugged and said, "Understood. Isn't there no one else here?"

After getting Yuxi's guarantee, Dr. Yun turned over on the hammock, turned his back to Yuxi, put a paper book on his face and began to take a nap.

Yuling likes Doctor Yun, and Yuxi cannot force Doctor Yun to like Yuling.Feelings cannot be forced, she understood this truth in modern times, so she shouldn't get angry with Dr. Yun because of this.

Thinking of this, Yuxi said apologetically: "Will I disturb you if I want to cut bamboo?" She didn't get a response, and she said to herself: "If you don't answer, then you will acquiesce." Thinking that this is her territory , It is Dr. Yun's dove occupying the magpie's nest.She began to chop green bamboos with peace of mind.

Last year, the second wife was full of praise for Yuxi's bamboo mat made of green bamboo. She bluntly said that Nanzhang's summer is not hot, and she is not afraid of prickly heat. She wants Yuxi to make another bed for Bian Erye to sleep in.If Yuxi doesn't want to, it will make Erye Bian and his concubine happy.Later, she got another bed for Erlang Yuhong, but Aunt Zhang found out and asked her for it.

Yuxi Tan said in hand: She exchanged a basket of spring bamboo shoots with a household outside the Guan, and she wanted to exchange it by herself.

Aunt Zhang ran to look for a house outside the pass, but she couldn't find a house with this bamboo mat after searching for a long time.Not reconciled, she heard that Bian Jinbo, who lived next to the big house of the Bian family, was good at woodwork, so she went straight to the door and asked to make a bamboo mat.

There are four branches under the Bian family, namely: the first branch, the second branch, the long branch, and the second branch.The middle character of the descendants of the side long branch is "珍".Bian Jinbo was the head of the father's family who lived next to him.

The people of the tribe followed the word "Jin" of his descendants and crowned it with the word "Bo", calling him "Bian Jinbo" or "Jinbo".The younger brother of Bian Jinbo is called "Bian Jin Er Bo" or "Jin Er Bo".

Bian Jinbo could make wooden beds, weave straw mats and various wooden furniture, but the bamboo mats were so-so.One is that he has no patience to cut the bamboos into thin and long ones, and he has to polish them for thorns; the other is that he thinks it is unnecessary, so he wants to take off his clothes and sleep on the wooden planks directly to save trouble.

Aunt Zhang told him how a bamboo mat in Yuxi was breathable and cool.

After hearing this, Bian Jinbo couldn't help being curious and went to Yuxi's house to find out what happened. After talking with Yuxi, he found that Yuxi not only had many novel ideas about woodwork, but also had ingenuity; Yuxi found that Bian Jinbo was not only kind but also very accomplished , no worse than the modern wooden masters.

Since then, the two who are only family relatives but not close are closer than their uncles and nephews.

In the end, Aunt Zhang still didn't get the bamboo mat.Bian Jinbo did not promote the bamboo mats made by Yuxi, and still felt that the production of such bamboo mats was cumbersome and unnecessary.

Summer is approaching and the weather is getting hotter.Yuxi plans to weave a bamboo mat for Master Bian.Now Second Master Bian is starting to talk to Second Madam, she, as a daughter, should pay tribute to her, and hope that Second Master Bian can treat Second Madam better.It's just cheaper for Aunt Zhang and Aunt Lin.

She felt angry just thinking about it.I really hate the system of polygamy.

Now there are many girls and boys in Nanzhang, it is acceptable to marry the Yi family to be monogamous.But it has to be someone she likes.It's just that Yuxi has never liked someone before, so she really doesn't know what it's like to like someone.

Yuxi shook her head, got rid of these miscellaneous thoughts, and began to concentrate on peeling bamboo.

Half an hour later, Dr. Yun woke up leisurely, and said to the busy Yuxi: "It's strange to say, your hands are not rough, you don't even have calluses, and you don't see mosquitoes approaching you. But you didn't wear the clothes I gave you. What is your insect repellent sachet?"

Hearing what Dr. Yun said, Yuxi only noticed this problem that she had been ignoring all the time. Not only did she not feel that farming was hard, but she enjoyed it, especially after sweating and washing her body, she felt as light as a swallow.

(End of this chapter)