Zhulan was indeed a little tired. She didn't sort out the clothes in her bag, but put them aside to be washed tomorrow. She didn't want to sort out the things she brought back from Pingzhou. She just wanted to rest for a while. She coughed and asked, "It's been a long time since I lay on the comfortable warm kang. I'll get some clean clothes out. Can you change and lie down to rest for a while?"
Zhou Shuren looked much better. He was really scared just now. At a distance of a few steps, he thought of many possibilities. If Zhulan was really in trouble, what should he do? They were one from the beginning, and no one could separate the other. Fortunately, Zhulan was fine. "Okay."
Zhulan took out clean clothes, and she and Zhou Shuren did not avoid changing, since they were both wearing underwear. However, Zhulan could not help but glance at Zhou Shuren. It turned out that she had unknowingly let down her guard against Zhou Shuren!
The two changed their clothes and lay down in the warm bed to rest. No one slept. Zhulan was thinking about Zhou Shuren's nervousness towards her, and Zhou Shuren was thinking about Zhulan.
After dinner was ready, an hour later, the third son and the eldest son came back from school. Knowing that their eldest sister-in-law had caused trouble and their father was angry, they did not dare to come to the main room.
After Zhulan and Zhou Shuren had a rest, they looked much better. As Zhulan did not make any arrangements for dinner, Li did not dare to ask about it even though she had offended her father-in-law. However, she was not stupid enough to not know how to please him. The staple food was corn tortillas, stewed fish with sauerkraut, and a bowl of white flour to make dumpling soup.
All night long, Zhou Shuren didn't like his two daughters-in-law. One cried at the slightest provocation, which was not a taboo before but is now a taboo. The other howled at the slightest provocation and scared Zhulan into having a heart attack. The medical level in ancient times was limited!
Zhou Shuren's face turned black. Not only Li and Zhao, but the entire Zhou family didn't dare to say a word. In the past, they could say a few words during the meal, but today they were extremely obedient. The chopsticks didn't even touch the bowls and plates, and they dared not make any sound. Anyway, Zhou Shuren exuded the feeling of "I'm unhappy, and no one can mess with me."
Zhulan was tired and especially wanted some quiet time. She suddenly felt that a proper cold expression was very important. She had been in good spirits too much recently, and everyone at home had become much bolder.
After dinner, Li and Zhao carefully cleaned the table.
Zhou Shuren looked at Zhulan without blinking. Zhulan didn't help and said a few words to Xuehan, then followed Zhou Shuren back to the bedroom.
In the evening, Zhou Shuren brought in hot water. Zhulan wiped her body and changed into new underwear before Zhou Shuren came in. Zhulan felt his meticulous care and wanted to chat with him for a few words, but the warm quilt was too comfortable. She fell asleep before Zhou Shuren finished washing up.
Zhou Shuren stood on the ground and watched for a while, then smiled with a tense face. Their quilts were all folded together. What a stubborn person!
The next morning, Zhulan got up comfortably, but when she saw a pile of clothes, her good mood disappeared. She had to wash two large basins of clothes today. Oh, this was the nth time she missed the fully automatic drying and washing machine!
For breakfast, Zhulan took out some food and had rice porridge in the morning. The third son and the eldest son were studying at the clan school, and they had a half-hour break at noon and could come back to eat. They didn't need to bring any bread or buns, so breakfast was much simpler.
After dinner, Li came to curry favor with her, "Mom, I see you have a pile of clothes to wash, I'll wash them for you."
Zhulan was at the top of the food chain when she came here. Before she came here, it was always Li and Zhao who did the laundry. But she was a little clean freak and didn't like others touching her clothes, not even her own quilt. "No need. Help me sort out the things I brought back first."
Li had already seen the two boxes, but she was afraid of her father-in-law, so she didn't say anything and could only watch, "Okay, mother."
The two boxes that Zhulan brought back were not bought by Zhulan. She bought Lingqiao. Both boxes were prepared by Zhao Bo. Zhao Bo made a lot of money by helping to find a shop to buy furniture. Zhao Bo already had a family background and wanted to be on good terms with Zhou Shuren. Zhou Shuren gave him money to buy furniture, and Zhao Bo sent the prepared return gift to the inn.
Zhulan didn't know what was inside, so she opened the box and saw two cloaks. The cloaks were made of rabbit fur, and judging from the color, they were for Zhulan and Xuehan. Rabbit fur was not expensive, and two cloaks could cost three taels of silver. There was also some cloth inside.
The second box contained meat, including marinated meat and some raw meat. Zhulan took a closer look and asked, "Beef?"
Li had never eaten beef, but she had seen many kinds of meat. "Mom, it doesn't look like beef. It looks like roe deer meat, which my father has hunted before."
Zhulan thought to herself that it was a pity, as she thought it was beef. However, she knew that roe deer meat was also delicious. In ancient times, there were many wild animals and no animal protection laws, so the wild delicacies they ate were particularly wide, unlike modern times when anything edible is eaten as a protected animal. "They gave quite a lot, and I'll make roe deer meat dumplings for dinner."
Li had been craving for meat for a long time. Her mother left two pounds of meat for her when she passed away. Also, because she had been living a frugal life with Zhao, she had not eaten meat in large bites for a long time. She once again decided that the food was better when her mother was around.
Zhulan took out the wrapped braised pork, which had been frozen solid outside for a day and a night. Zhao Bo packed eight packages of braised pork as a gift, each weighing one pound. Together with the more than ten pounds of braised pork, the gift was not light if you added the two boxes that contained the gifts.
The two boxes that Zhao Bo gave as return gifts were not the cheap ones that Zhou Shuren bought. They were made of good wood. Although the two boxes were not big, they were exquisitely crafted and had carvings.
Li also took a fancy to the box and kept touching it with her chubby hands.
Zhulan: "... wiping the dust?"
Li was too thick-skinned to notice the irony, "Mom, these two boxes are really beautiful."
Zhulan rolled her eyes in her heart and distributed the boxes directly, "Don't worry about it. I won't give the two boxes to anyone."
Li took her hand back. If her mother wanted to give it to someone else, she could still try to persuade her. But if no one wanted to give it to her, she dared not say a word. "Mother, I will go cut the roe deer meat into small pieces."
Zhulan instructed, "One piece is about one pound."
"OK."
Zhulan waited for Li to divide the roe deer meat, then called Zhou Shuren out. Zhou Shuren went to see the clan leader with a bag of braised meat and a pound of roe deer meat.
Zhulan asked the eldest son to go with her to the clan leader's house to borrow a cow, and then come back to send two bags of braised meat and four pounds of roe deer meat to the Yang family, and then send a bag of braised meat and one pound of roe deer meat to the eldest daughter's house.
As for the hairpin, Zhulan was not in a hurry to give it to her, planning to wait until her daughter moved in.
Then he gave the cloak to Xue Han. Xue Han was a little girl after all, and she was reluctant to wear it. After putting it on, she was reluctant to take it off. She even walked in the yard for a while, and then quickly took it off and put it away.
Zhulan’s cloak is gray, and the rabbit fur is also gray. She prefers Xuehan’s light green cloak with white rabbit fur. She can’t bear to look at it, or she will be jealous!
Zhulan didn't care about Xuehan's dirty clothes. She always taught Xuehan to do her own things. Even though she was an older daughter, she didn't ask Li and Zhao for help.
Zhulan was washing clothes all day. Washing clothes was a painful thing in ancient times. She was the eldest child in her mother-in-law's family, so there was always hot water, and her hands did not suffer much. But other farmers basically had their daughters-in-law wash clothes, and they had to boil a pot of hot water at most, so their hands would be more or less frostbitten in the middle of winter.
By the way, there is soap in the fictional history, which surprised Zhulan. At least it doesn’t use wood ash.
The tooth powder from fictional history is also good. Although it is not as good as modern toothpaste, it is not bad. The Zhou family has always used tooth powder. After Zhulan came here, she knew that they only had to brush their teeth in the morning, so she set a new rule to brush their teeth once in the morning and once in the evening.
While making dumplings at night, Zhulan heard the noise from Wang Laosi's house during the day, and then she remembered to ask Li, "What happened at Wang Laosi's house again?"