Yi Zheng was not polite and took Qian Tingfu back to Yihetang. He gave him a recipe for brewing wine and asked Yi Hao to pack the necessary herbs. He also gave him a few kilograms of tiger bones and told him to go with him. The longer it is soaked in wine, the more obvious the effect will be.
Qian Tingfu left happily with his things, and secretly decided to use fifty-year-old wine to make medicinal wine, which might have better effects.
The snow outside the door is falling more and more, and the snow is falling from the sky in clusters. In an instant, mountains, rivers, fields, and villages were all covered in white snow.
The heavy snowfall for several consecutive days has covered the ground with a thick white coat, and even the foot-deep snow cannot stop people from going out.
The snow on the street was crushed into pieces by pedestrians. On the road, half-grown children rushed far away with a chirp. Amid laughter, they sat down on the ground, then quickly got up and continued running forward. Sliding.
Yi Zheng walked on the street, raised his hand to catch the snowballs flying towards him, and threw them on the roadside. Several half-year-old children didn't know how to restrain themselves at all. They threw snowballs at each other without worrying about hitting others.
Not far away, Zhao Fang stood next to a cart of charcoal, his worn animal skin jacket tightly wrapped around his body, his lean face full of energy. On the side, Zhao Yijie kept thinking: "This cart of more than 300 kilograms of charcoal can be exchanged for more than thirty taels of silver, and a few feet of cloth can be used to buy new clothes for the younger sister at home." Thinking of this moment. He laughed dumbly. He had never thought that if he didn't sell the charcoal today, he would have to push it home with his father. Tomorrow, he would have to go out early and continue pushing it to the street, enduring the cold and waiting. Someone bought his charcoal.
This probably won't happen anymore.
Yi Zheng greeted Zhao Fang, bought his charcoal for thirty-five taels of silver, and told him to deliver half to his home and the other half to the old housekeeper to take him to Mingyuan.
Zhao Fang agreed with a smile on his face. Zhao Yijie on the side was very happy and held the handle of the charcoal cart. Zhao Fang's lame leg became lighter now, and his dark face was full of smiles. He helped push the charcoal cart beside it, and the two of them bowed. The waist slowly disappeared into the flying snow.
When Yi Zheng arrived at Yi Hetang, the snow in front of the door had been cleared away.
Yi Hao was sitting in front of the medicine cabinet, playing with the weight idly. When he saw Yi Zheng come in, he quickly got up and went to the backyard to get a pot of hot water and put a cup of hot tea on it. The faint fragrance of tea began to spread everywhere.
Then Yi Hao said slowly: "Uncle, I have seen a house in the north of the town these days. The courtyard upon entering has three main rooms, two wing rooms, and two utility rooms. It is estimated to be three hundred Two silver coins, I think it’s quite appropriate.”
Yi Zheng pondered for a while. The houses in the town were almost the same price. The house Hao'er mentioned was bigger, and three hundred taels of silver was quite real. He nodded and said, "Okay, then you can buy it as soon as possible. Let's buy it before the first day of the year." Clean it up, add some new furniture, and pick a good day after Yuan Day to marry the girl home. In addition, your salary next year will give you thirty taels of silver per year, and you will have a fat boy as soon as possible after you get married."
For ordinary people, twenty taels of silver a year is enough to survive for a year. Most people in remote villages have ten taels of silver, which is enough for a year. In towns, thirty taels of silver is enough for them to live. I don't spend much money at the medical clinic. The money I earned every year was basically used to subsidize the family. Now I have thirty taels of silver. I will marry a wife next year. In addition to subsidizing part of the family, the life of the younger brother and younger sister at home is also living. If you can be better, save a little more to live your life... Thinking of this, Yi Hao's face was covered with a smile.
It will be Yuan Day in a few days. Even though it is snowing all over the sky, there are still many pedestrians outside and the shops everywhere are bustling. There are not many people coming to see the doctor all day, so it is very quiet. Yi Zheng told Yi Hao to prepare some New Year's goods in the past two days, go home early to celebrate the first day of the new year, and just come over on the sixth day of the lunar new year.
Then, Yi Zheng accompanied Yi Hao to visit the house. The courtyard looked relatively new, but the owner was in urgent need of money, so he recognized Yi Zheng and offered him another 20 taels of silver. So he signed the house deed on the spot, went to the Yamen to register, and the house belonged to Yi Hao. After coming back, Yi Hao looked around happily. From now on, it would be his own. After all the hardships, the joy came, and he was full of yearning for a better life in the future.
Yi Zheng left quietly. His second brother Yi Nan did not go home this year and sent back a thousand taels of silver notes and a cart of new year's goods.
Over the next two days, the snow finally stopped. Li Anping, the son of the old housekeeper Li Lianfu, and his family of three came back. The young couple cleaned the entire Yi family courtyard from the inside out.
Li Zhiyuan had known Yi Yuan and Yi Wei since childhood. The three children were making noises and playing in the yard, and there was no peace for a moment. The old housekeeper moved to the backyard.
The goods before Yuan Day were well prepared, including food ingredients, firecrackers, fireworks, etc., and even several lantern riddles.
The Yi family ancestral hall is located in the northwest corner of the courtyard, next to the old man's room. An arch in the middle separates the ancestral hall into an independent courtyard.
Except for worshiping ancestors on the first day of the year, no one except the old man can enter at other times.
On the morning of Yuan Day, the sun was shining brightly and the sky was clear.
The couplets at the gate were posted early. Mr. Yi took his family to the ancestral hall and took out a jade plaque carved from white jade. The word "Mu Qing" was engraved in the middle and surrounded by clouds. The patterns and carvings are lifelike.
Mr. Yi silently injected a burst of innate true energy, and shot a white light from the jade plaque onto the door of the ancestral hall. The door of the ancestral hall opened automatically, and the family entered the ancestral hall one by one.
There is a painting hanging on the front wall of the ancestral hall. In the picture, a woman in green clothes is standing in the void with her feet on the clouds. She is graceful and graceful. Her face is half-covered and her face is blurry. An osmanthus tree next to her is lifelike.
Yi Yuan always felt like the osmanthus tree in the backyard and kept staring at the portrait.
In the far north, there are many mountains, and the top of a big mountain is covered with snow. The woman in green clothes in the portrait is sitting cross-legged in the void, and the airflow around her body is intertwined, forming a closed space...
