The fierce peasant woman is busy farming

By the time the ducks reached the downstream of the newly opened canal, the candle wick would often have burned out.

At this time, the children became even more excited and picked up big stones to throw at the cornstalk ducks.

Only after it was smashed did everyone go home in the dark, feeling satisfied.

After eating some dumplings at home, I called my friends and went to the village to watch the fireworks and lanterns.

Today is the last day for setting off fireworks. After today, many workers will leave their hometowns.

Although the farmers will not leave their homes, the fields have not thawed yet.

But they would clean up and repair farm tools, clean up the feces from the pig pens and toilets, and drag all the manure to the vegetable fields, find an empty space, bury it with soil, and cover it up.

Spring is coming soon, and the air is rising. After a while, the manure will ferment, and it is just right to be transported to the fields in spring and used as base fertilizer first.

When spring comes and it's time to plant the seeds, the fertilizer in the soil has already taken effect and is working hard to nourish the crops.

Speaking of the rotating lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is not something that ordinary villages can afford.

This year, the people of Fenghuangtai Village, under the leadership of Zhou Yue, Qing Mo and others, made some money.

Some of them worked hard, catching fish, digging for medicinal herbs, weaving baskets, embroidering, making clothes, etc. Some of them gave their money to Qingmo to do business and received dividends.

Now that I have money, the New Year will be more interesting.

This year, the fireworks in Fenghuangtai Village were more numerous, bigger and more beautiful than those in neighboring villages.

The turning light is to find a large open space.

Corn stalks, branches and other materials were used to weave grass walls to create a nine-turn maze.

On each grass wall of the maze, a thick piece of wood is placed at regular intervals to prevent the grass walls from collapsing.

Secondly, a lamp with rapeseed oil in it was placed on top of each thick piece of wood.

On the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth nights, light the lamp oil.

From a distance, it looks like a castle with bright lights.

In the very center of the castle, there was a thick wooden structure several feet high, with a big red lantern hanging high on it.

The villagers, as well as people from other villages who came here because of its reputation, entered through the entrance and walked around in an orderly manner.

This is the turning light.

There are some rules for turning the red light. You cannot go back the way you came, otherwise you will be laughed at for going in the wrong direction.

You can't run around, otherwise you might easily knock over the lanterns. Not only will you risk getting oil spilled all over yourself, you might also set the entire lantern festival on fire, which would be really embarrassing.

Of course, no playing and fighting is allowed.

This is a lantern festival for praying for blessings. It is said that if you turn the lanterns carefully and touch the thick wood in the middle when you pass by it, you will be free from back and leg pain for a year, and you will be healthy and free from illness and disaster.

And there are also rules for the number of turns of the light, odd numbers are recommended and even numbers are not recommended.

You can turn it one, three, five, seven, nine times, any number of times. The more times you turn it, the more blessings you will receive.

But you cannot turn to an even number, otherwise it will not work.

Even the oldest people in the village don't know where this rule and saying came from.

That's what everyone says anyway. The older generation passes it on to the younger generation, and the younger generation passes it on to the next generation, and so on.

After the fifteenth day, the New Year is almost over.

For Zhou Yue and the others, the new year had actually ended when Yuan Mo left.

Because Yuan Mo brought a new order from Song Yuan’s army, they had to start preparing instant noodles and meat sauce after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Who are the busiest people in the world?

None more so than farmers and businessmen.

People in the Ning family have the dual identities of farmers and businessmen.

Including Xuan Mo and Jun Mo used for reading, all of them need to participate in labor.

It’s the end of January after a busy day, and February 2nd is coming soon.

Finally, there was new news from Beijing.

Master Cui was appointed as the prefect of Yizhou.

The original rumor that Master Cui was going to become the magistrate of Yizhou did not come true.

Yes, he is a former prime minister after all. Even if he is demoted out of the capital, he will become the governor of a prefecture and a fifth-rank official.

Appointments from the imperial court are far away from ordinary people.

After Zhou Yue finished completing the instant noodles order, he rushed to the county without stopping. The store had to be opened before February 2nd.

But there aren't many goods in the store.

Zhou Yue brought all the wine from the mountains and waited for everything to be arranged here.

She also has to find time to go to the mountains to make wine and incense.

The materials for making incense at home had already been prepared, and the incense was made by Grandpa Ning and Yang Mo.

The only thing missing is one ingredient, and that is glutinous rice, which is called sticky rice in the south.

Glutinous rice flour is needed as a binder to make incense, and the quantity is not small. This is not produced in the north, so you need to come to the county to buy it.

Zhou Yue was sorting out the goods and looking at the stock of goods in the store, feeling a little worried.

Restocking has become the most important thing at the moment, even though it’s just after the Chinese New Year and not many people are buying things.

But if someone comes to buy and you don’t have it, that won’t work.

After a few visits, they won’t come again next time.

When doing business, honesty is important. This honesty not only requires that the goods are genuine and priced fairly, but also requires that the goods are complete.

Zhou Yue plans to go to Yizhou to see if he can import some goods.

She was planning to take Qingmo with her tomorrow when Zhao Shouzhong came again.

He brought an invitation, hoping that Zhou Yue could visit Beijing.

Zhou Yue thought that the goods in Yizhou were definitely not as good as those in Beijing, so he might as well make a trip and do the purchasing and discussing business with Princess Ning at the same time.

By the way, I also saw the world.

That's Kyoto, the most prosperous and wealthy place in the country. Although it can't be said that there is gold everywhere to be picked up, it's almost the same.

Let's do it right away. Now that everything is almost ready, we might as well change our destination tomorrow - to Beijing.

Zhao Shouzhong was so nervous because he had just arrived in Yi County.

He hadn't even spoken a few words to Yang Mo yet, and he was still thinking about how to convince Aunt Zhou with his eloquent words.

How come the other party agreed immediately after I just said a few words?

He originally thought that Aunt Zhou, as a peasant woman, would be timid about travelling far away, and would certainly feel a little intimidated when meeting a strange nobleman.

He planned to spend a few days to persuade Aunt Zhou.

In the end, it was just that easy?

He acted like a spoiled child and at least let him rest for a day, and Zhou Yue agreed to set off on the third day.

It just so happened that they needed to prepare some gifts. They didn't have many acquaintances in Yizhou, so even if they went to meet clients and suppliers, they only needed to prepare some samples and souvenirs.

When we go to the capital, we'll be visiting Master Cui, Princess Ning, and Song Yuan's mansion. We're all familiar with them, so we'll definitely have to prepare some gifts.

Even though they have everything, it would be impolite to go to their house empty-handed.

No matter how difficult it is to give it to someone, you have to take it.

Zhou Yue prepared several large jars of wine and several small bottles of high-proof liquor that she purified. She didn't know whether the people here were used to drinking this kind of liquor.

She thought that it didn't matter if she couldn't get used to the drink, and since she couldn't sell it as wine, she would just sell the wine to the clinic.

Although alcohol surgical disinfection is not as good as medical alcohol, it is much better than wiping with boiled water here.

By the way, there is also the army. They are the place with the most injuries, so we can sell it to them.

This time, Zhou Yue asked Yuan Mo to bring a few bottles of wine to give to Song Yuan and the general.

And told him that besides drinking it, it can also be used externally for disinfection.

As for how they want to use it, that is their business and Zhou Yue has no control over it.