The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

After the Little New Year, the New Year flavor in the village becomes stronger and stronger, and every household begins to prepare food for the New Year. Steamed and fried, the aroma spreads in the wind, making people salivate.

However, the heavy snow showed no sign of stopping. In just one night, the snow reached up to the knees. Several more houses collapsed in the village. Seeing their homes turned into ruins in an instant, the villagers were on the verge of tears. Fortunately, no one was injured.

Most of the people in the village are kind-hearted. Those who have empty houses have lent their houses to the affected villagers, and those who do not have extra cotton-padded clothes and quilts to keep them warm from the cold. With the help of the villagers, these people were not allowed to freeze or starve to death.

In addition to worrying about their houses being crushed by the snow and leaving them homeless, another thing that makes villagers anxious is the greenhouses in the fields. Although there were people guarding the greenhouse day and night, and constantly heating the greenhouse, some of the Dapeng was still crushed by the snow, and most of the vegetables in the field were frozen to death overnight. The losses were considerable.

Mo Yan had no choice about this. She couldn't risk exposing the space by directly watering the vegetables with pure spiritual spring water. Once this is done, those vegetables will grow wildly overnight, and they may mutate and produce cucumbers larger than winter melons. This is too scary.

However, the heavy snow will not stop in a short time, and the firewood stored in the greenhouse will not last long. The vegetables will still be frozen to death by then, let alone sell at a high price.

Therefore, when Yang Bao hurriedly came to Mo's house to ask Mo Yan about the rescue method, Mo Yan decisively asked him to inform the villagers to pick all the edible vegetables that had grown and try to sell them on the same day.

Although this will cost a lot less money, it is still better than having the greenhouse collapse and become worthless. In addition, after selling vegetables for more than two months, the villagers who participated in greenhouse cultivation earned more than they had saved in ten years. From next year, they already have enough money to buy a new house.

After Yang Bao returned, he told Mo Yan's idea. The villagers thought about it and found that this was the only way to recover the losses to the maximum extent. They reluctantly agreed, but their hearts were bleeding!

On the one hand, they feel sorry for the dozens of taels of silver they have lost, but on the other hand, they are not willing to let their carefully cultivated vegetables freeze to death. But now, there is no better way. I can only pray to God that the coming year will be a good year with good weather and not to trouble them again.

In the next few years, the children looked forward to the New Year, and the adults busily shuttled back and forth between the fields and the city. Because the snow on the road was too deep, the ox-carts and horse-drawn carriages were unable to use their strength, so the picked vegetables had to be picked manually into the city.

There are so many vegetables to be sold these days that even if dozens of families are carrying poles and baskets, they still have to go back and forth twice to pick out all the vegetables. No matter how strong you are, walking in knee-deep snow for a day will make you paralyzed. Fortunately, there are enough people and you can take turns every day.

There are already many people shopping for vegetables during the Chinese New Year, but it also coincides with heavy snowfall, so there are even fewer varieties for sale on the streets. Therefore, the business at the vegetable stall was very good. By the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, all the vegetables that could be sold in the greenhouse were sold out.

At this time, the firewood stored in the greenhouse was almost burned out, and most of the greenhouses were crushed by heavy snow one after another. Even if the snow stopped and the sky cleared, the half-frozen melon vines would no longer be able to bear fruit.

Tang Xin calculated the amount of money that each household should receive that night, and distributed it to the villagers early the next morning.

Although affected by the heavy snow, the villagers listened to Mo Yan's words and picked all the edible vegetables and sold them. Therefore, the total amount of vegetables sold in this half month was the same as last month. Coupled with the increase in the price of vegetables at the end of the year, the amount of money each family received was actually no less than last month. The family that received the most received nearly forty taels, and the least received more than thirty taels.

Carrying heavy bags of money, the villagers who had been worried about the heavy snow finally felt relieved. They thanked Mo Yan over and over again and brought a lot of home-cooked food.

Mo Yan woke up that day, opened the window a crack, and saw that it was still snowing heavily outside. She didn't want to get up immediately, and got into bed, only showing most of her face.

The furball tiger lying on the inside opened his eyes and saw his master lying down again. He stretched out his paws and hugged his master's waist and continued to sleep soundly. The fur on its belly is soft and warm, and leaning against it is like leaning against a big stove. Mo Yan felt a little drowsy after being hugged like this, but finally fell asleep.

When Mo Yan woke up again, she was woken up by someone banging on the door. Hairball was also woken up, and he was a little angry. When he saw Mo Yan getting up to open the door, he quickly stretched out his pointed paws and hooked the corner of her clothes to prevent her from leaving.

The thin and flimsy clothes couldn't withstand such a tug, so Mo Yan reluctantly retracted her paws after trying to persuade the hairball, and buried her head in the bed in depression, obviously having a little temper.

After touching the tiger's head, Mo Yan reluctantly went out to open the door. She was extremely surprised by the person standing outside the door: "Sister Lan, why are you here at this time? Come on, come in and warm yourself up."

Liu Tinglan was afraid of the cold, and her whole body was wrapped tightly, with only a pair of eyes exposed. She was very cold now, and it was difficult to speak. She just nodded to Mo Yan, stepped over the threshold and went straight into the warm bedroom.

"Huh~ I'm freezing to death! I can't feel my hands and face. I don't know when this damn weather will end." Liu Tinglan quickly took off the windproof hat on her head and took off the fur scarf wrapped around her face. Complaining to Mo Yan showed that he was really freezing.

"This heavy snow will not stop for a while, I'm afraid it will have to wait until next year." Mo Yan replied with a smile. Seeing that the buckle on her friend's leather jacket was entangled in her long hair and couldn't be taken off, she stepped forward to help untie it. .

After finally taking off all her baggage, Liu Tinglan breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on Mo Yan's bed. She quickly kicked off her shoes and prepared to get under the covers.

At this time, a big furry paw stretched out from the quilt, gently hooked Liu Tinglan's waist and took her into the quilt.

"Ah~ what?" Liu Tinglan screamed in fright, and jumped up from the bed. Her big eyes looked at the turning quilt in horror. After a while, she saw a big furry head emerging from the quilt.

Could it be that the guy with the big head mistakenly thought that Liu Tinglan was the owner's hairball?

The fur ball shook its head and got rid of its owner's hand. It looked at Liu Tinglan with squinted tiger eyes, its eyes were quite gentle, and it was obvious that it was no longer angry.

Liu Tinglan looked horrified, stared at the hair ball and asked Mo Yan: "You, you, you, will you sleep with it in the same bed at night?"

Mo Yan thought that her friend disliked the dirty hairball, so she explained: "It takes a bath every day and is not dirty. It doesn't feel cold at all when sleeping with it."

"That's not what I'm talking about." Liu Tinglan rolled her eyes: "Aren't you afraid that this guy will dream about food at night and bite you?"

"Pfft, haha, you are so imaginative." Mo Yan snorted and couldn't help laughing loudly: "Hairball is not like someone who is willing to use his hands as ribs."

Upon hearing this, Liu Tinglan's face turned red, and she rushed over to scratch Mo Yan: "How long ago it happened, it's still worth mentioning, and you said, all my good intentions have been treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, huh!"

"Don't, stop scratching. If you keep scratching, the hairball will scratch you." Mo Yan quickly begged for mercy. Seeing that the hairball was eager to try, Mo Yan quickly stopped her friend.

Hairball is smart, but when he is happy, he can't control his strength. If his claws are so sharp, who can bear it if he scratches him?

Seeing this, Liu Tinglan quickly let go of Mo Yan, opened the quilt and got into the still warm quilt, trying to stuff the hair ball back in.

Seeing the "I refuse" look on Mao Tuan's face, Mo Yan couldn't help but laugh again, and said to her friend: "Look at you, how are you any different from the gangsters who force little girls on the street? Don't It took my hairball askew."

Being ridiculed by her friends and extremely uncooperative, Liu Tinglan finally gave up, lying on the bed carelessly, sighing comfortably, glaring at Mo Yan and complaining: "You heartless person, you haven't come to see me for so many days. Look at me, it’s killing me these days.”

Mo Yan quickly apologized: "Isn't there too much trouble at home and you can't leave? It's you, how did you get here with such heavy snow?"

"Pull him down, you're just too lazy to make excuses." Liu Tinglan mercilessly exposed her friend's lie and hummed, "It's snowy on the road and the carriage can't move, so I came here on horseback."

Liu Tinglan didn't know how to ride a horse, so she just sat on the horse and let the family's driver hold the reins in front.

Mo Yan understood and felt a little ashamed. If she went to the city to play with her friends, it would be easier than finding them. The speed of these hairballs was incredible. Even in knee-deep snow, they could run faster than a horse.

Thinking that the day after tomorrow was New Year's Eve, but my friend came here despite the heavy snow, it should be more than just coming to see her, so I took the initiative to ask: "In this weather, my uncle and aunt are willing to let you out. Are you afraid that you have other things to do?"

Liu Tinglan nodded hesitantly, and said with some embarrassment: "Brother Shen is not in high school this year, and he plans to finish it the year after next. I see that he spends all his time studying every day, and it is really hard. I just want to ask if you know any great scholars. , can give Brother Shen a few pointers."

"Tsk, tsk, I'm already worried before we even get through this." Mo Yan tskted out, looking at her crimson-cheeked friend and pretending to be depressed, "I wonder if Brother Shen did something to save the common people in his previous life, so he met As for a daughter-in-law like you who cares about him wholeheartedly, oh, she was fed a handful of dog food so early in the morning, so sorry."

After saying that, Mo Yan still clutched her chest and looked shocked.

"You, what are you talking about? Brother Shen and I haven't gotten married yet, what kind of wife is not a wife?" Liu Tinglan picked up a big pillow in shame and threw it towards Mo Yan. She has long been used to it when her friends say weird words from time to time. Although she can't completely understand it, she is close to it.

Mo Yan stretched out her hand, caught the pillow firmly, and threw it back: "If something hadn't happened to the Shen family suddenly, wouldn't you be Brother Shen's wife now?"

Liu Tinglan and Shen Ji's marriage was originally scheduled for the twelfth lunar month, but in the winter months, Shen Ji's aunt suddenly passed away. Although Shen Ji does not have to observe mourning for three years, if there is a funeral in the family or among relatives, happy events in the same year must be avoided to avoid conflict between the two parties. Therefore, the marriage of the two was delayed and the wedding date was changed to later in the year.

The specific auspicious date will be determined after the new year, and I think the wedding will be held in March at the latest.

Unexpectedly, Liu Tinglan sighed, with a hint of sadness on her face: "His aunt has a daughter, who is his biological cousin. She is two years younger than me. She is now living in his house."

As soon as Mo Yan's thoughts changed, she knew what her friend was worried about, and couldn't help but laugh: "Who doesn't have a cousin or two? Are you overthinking it?"

Liu Tinglan shook her head and said with a wry smile: "I wish I had thought too much, but in the letters he wrote to me these few times, he repeatedly mentioned his cousin and praised his cousin as a sensible and polite girl. If it were you Don’t you think too much about it?”

When Mo Yan heard this, he couldn't help but frown. There seems to be something wrong with Shen Ji's behavior. Who would praise another woman in a letter to his fiancée? This is a cousin, not a biological sister. No wonder Sister Lan thinks too much about it.

If this matter had happened to Xiao Ruiyuan, she would have gone to the General's Mansion to question him face to face.

Seeing the loneliness on his friend's face, Mo Yan advised: "The truth may not be what you see. If you have doubts in your heart, why not ask? If he really has other thoughts, you can kick him out. He will find a better one; if there is a misunderstanding and you take it seriously, wouldn't it be you who gets hurt in the end?"

All Liu Tinglan was thinking about, he hesitated for a moment and said: "If not, will he blame me for being narrow-minded and unable to tolerate his cousin? His cousin's family background is not very good, and his father is a love-minded man, and his family has been ruined long ago. It's all gone. If it hadn't been like this, his aunt wouldn't have been angry to death. It's for this reason that his parents took his cousin home and listened to his wishes and lived in the Shen family from now on. "

Looking at his friend who was worried about gains and losses, Mo Yan sighed and said seriously: "If you don't ask, wouldn't you be the one who feels uncomfortable? If he feels clear in his heart, and you ask him and you only think you care about him, how can you think too much about it? If you don't ask in your heart, Only if there is a ghost will he doubt you, so don’t let this kind of man go."

In fact, Mo Yan didn't think that Shen Ji would change his heart. Every time he looked at his friend, his eyes were full of deep affection. It was impossible for him to fall in love with his cousin just because he had a cousin. However, it's hard to tell for Shen's father and Shen's mother. If they pity their niece, it's not impossible for them to give her to their own son.

There is also the cousin, who is not young, and Shen Ji is a man with outstanding appearance and talent. There is no guarantee that she will have other thoughts. This needs to be guarded against.

With an idea in mind, Mo Yan suggested: "If you have any questions, it's better to ask earlier. Isn't he coming to your house to pay New Year's greetings on the fourth day of the first lunar month? You can ask him privately if he really has any thoughts about this marriage. It doesn’t matter if you don’t do it, it would be best if there is no nature, and you don’t have to be suspicious all day long.”

Liu Tinglan thought for a moment and decided to adopt her friend's suggestion. She said calmly: "Then I will ask him face to face. Although I like him very much, if this person is really unreliable, I will not force myself to marry him."

"That's right if you think so." Mo Yan looked at her friend and smiled happily. Suddenly I understood why the two of them hit it off and became good friends again, because their attitudes towards things were surprisingly similar.

After a heart-to-heart talk, most of Liu Tinglan's depression disappeared, and she lay lazily on the bed. She was in a good mood and smoothed over the reluctant hairball, and she didn't even mention anything about Da Ru.

Mo Yan originally wanted to ask, but after thinking about it, she realized that her friend was only allowed to go out because of this excuse. Maybe she did have the intention of looking for the great scholar, and had an excuse to ask Shen Ji to come to the capital as soon as possible, so that he wouldn't have to worry. He and his aunt's cousin saw each other day and night, and developed feelings that they shouldn't have.

Now that I have figured it out, I have given up this idea. Mo Yan didn't mention it again, but she remembered Shen Ji's cousin in her heart.

Liu Tinglan had lunch at Mo's house, leaving her New Year's gift behind and preparing to go home with the coachman who came with her.

Gifts are reciprocated, and the Mo family has to prepare gifts in return. Fortunately, the New Year's gift was prepared early in the morning, but Snow was too afraid that sending it would cause trouble to the Liu family, so he didn't send it.

Now that the Liu family had sent it first, Mo Yan didn't have to worry about it. She put the return gift on Xiao Hei's back and asked him to accompany Liu Tinglan to deliver the new year's gift to the Liu family.

However, no one expected that when Xiao Hei came back, he would have a child in his mouth that was almost freezing to death...