After Laba, the days passed quickly. The snow outside seemed to be getting smaller, but it was still very cold outside, with a thick layer of snow on the ground.

The firewood in the house was warm, and the pile of firewood in the shed was being consumed at a visible rate. Firewood was needed for cooking and heating at home. Only half of this winter had passed, and the fireplace in their house would not stop burning until the spring snow melted.

They rarely went out in this weather, and spent more time indoors.

After staying indoors for a long time, they had to find some work to do. Fang Ziye remembered to make a few sets of small clothes for the baby who was about to be born in his belly, so he started to make them, with Wanfeng and Aning by his side to guide him. Except that he was a little unfamiliar with the craft at the beginning, he became more and more proficient as time went on.

He learned these tasks from his mother when he was a child, and he also traveled around for many years when he was a teenager. He could also do needlework such as sewing clothes by himself. However, in the following years, there were people around him who did these things, and he no longer had to do them himself, so his hands gradually became unfamiliar. Now, for the sake of the child in his belly, he picked it up again.

Mother has been gone for so many years, but he has not forgotten the things she left for him. His parents have been gone for so long, so long that he can't even remember what they look like in his dreams, but there are some things that his father and mother left for him that he will never forget in his life.

When he came, he didn't prepare any children's things, for fear that leaving traces would arouse the suspicion of the person, and if he was discovered, he would have no way to leave. Except for the few people who followed him, he didn't even tell Manager Fang that he was pregnant. He brought everyone to Caojia Village.

Fortunately, the baby was about to be born. He just needed to take good care of the fetus and give birth to the baby safely.

"It's done." After finishing the last step of sewing and cutting the thread ends, Fang Ziye picked up the small clothes he had made and showed them to Wanfeng. "Come on, Wanfeng, can you help me see how this small clothes look?" he asked.

He had already made two sets of small clothes before. He didn't know whether the baby in his belly was a boy or a boy. The clothes he made were all plain colors, so that both boys and boys could wear them. He hoped that this was a little boy. If it was a boy, even if the child was found by that person, he would be more likely to keep it, but for some reason, he always felt that there was an active boy in his belly.

Regardless of whether it was a boy or a boy, they were all his children, and he would like them, there was no doubt about that.

"Well, it's good." Qi Wanfeng took it and looked around, and replied with a smile, "Sun Ning, take a look, right?"

He and An Ning were making clothes for the children. There were many children in his family, and there was also his husband, so there were a lot of clothes to make. Although his husband said that these clothes could be made by others when the time came, he still wanted to make a few clothes for the children and his husband when he had time.

Before, when he was pregnant, his husband didn't do anything for him and he said it was okay. Now that he has given birth and his body is gradually recovering, he no longer finds things for himself to do. He feels that he will get sick from being idle.

It's just right to make clothes now, so he can wear them after the spring of next year.

"That's good. You can make bigger clothes for the rest of the clothes. The baby's body grows fast, and these small clothes will soon be too hard to wear." Aning gave his suggestion. "

Okay." Fang Ziye also knew that the baby in his belly was a few months old, and Wanfeng also said that he could wear Xiao Le'er's clothes after the baby in his belly was born. Aning was right. The baby's body grew fast, and if he made such small clothes, the baby would not fit in a short time.

However, the mother still wanted to make more clothes for the child. After all, they were her own children, and she wanted to give them the best things. Ershun was a very skillful child. He was even better at sewing than his master. He was also sewing small shoes and hats for the little master. Even Zisu could help. He had to make clothes and shoes for Doctor Huang in the past. His skills were not very good, but he could still do it.

So in the end, everyone in the room was sewing, and Cao Xiangnan was speechless when he saw it.

At night, an oil lamp was lit in the room. The man who had been doing needlework all day during the day was still sewing small clothes under the lamp. "Wait a while, I will go to bed after finishing this." The slave next to him urged him several times, but Fang Ziye was still reluctant to put down his work.

The older the child is in the belly, the shorter the time until the child is born, and the sooner it will be time to separate from the child. The thought of being separated from the child after birth made him feel reluctant. This separation from the child made him very restless.

He wanted to rush to do something more for the child in this little time, such as making more clothes and sewing more pairs of shoes. Even after he left, the child would know that these things were left to him by his mother-in-law.

He usually lies down to sleep at this time, but recently when it gets dark, he is still willing to lie down to sleep, and he also wants to make another piece of clothing for the child.

"Master, you should sleep. Even if you don't sleep, the young master will also sleep." After waiting for a while, seeing that the master had no intention of stopping, Ershun had to move the young master out.

Sure enough, when Fang Ziye heard that the child was going to sleep, he stopped his work.

"Master, you sleep, I will do the rest for you?" Ershun asked.

"No, you sleep too, I won't do it, I will do the rest tomorrow." Fang Ziye put down the needle and thread in his hand and asked Ershun to put it away. The child in his belly still moved from time to time, and he was not asleep yet. He reached out and touched his round belly, and he asked Ershun to help him.

The oil lamp in the house was blown out, and the people inside lay down to sleep.

This year's spring seemed to have come early. In previous years, the Leon month was still snowy and cold. In the middle of Leon this year, everyone found that the wind and snow outside were gradually getting smaller. This spring has come early.

Fengchao now has a unified calendar, but the people of Caojia Village far away in Fenshui still remember the year, month and day in the ancient way passed down by word of mouth. Most people here make a living by farming. They have to judge when to sow seeds based on the climate. The old farmers in the village know what season it is by looking at the sky, and these experiences are passed down from generation to generation.

Cao Xiangnan's mind is very vague about this, which shows that the original body does not understand these things very well. Every day he judged that the time was roughly the cock crowing, daybreak, sun rising, and then sunset. Thanks to his good knowledge of geography, he could also make a rough judgment based on some natural phenomena.

When he entered the village, Li Zheng told him that the cold winter was about to pass, and the spring of this year had come early. So the change in the weather was not only felt by him, but everyone felt it. The

coming of spring means that everything will revive, the new year is about to begin, and the crops in the fields will also start to be planted. What the people in the village will do must start planning from now on.

"Oh." Cao Xiangnan also understood the purpose of Li Zheng's mentioning this to him. He originally planned to discuss the arrangements for next year after the New Year. It seems that Li Zheng wanted to hear his opinion now, "I do have some ideas."

"Well, tell me." Li Zheng said.

Cao Gang happened to be here too, so Cao Xiangnan briefly mentioned his idea. The vegetables and chicken and duck farming were doing well last year, and this should be maintained.

There are many people raising chickens in the village, and hens can lay eggs, which can be sold for money. He plans to focus on roast duck in Yipinzhai next year, and more ducks will be needed by then. The ducklings were not available last year, so he specifically told the people who collected the ducklings that he would collect as many ducks as he had there this year, so he thought there should be enough by then. In addition, he

can make braised duck in soy sauce. The duck heads, duck feet, and duck necks can be pickled and made into halogen and spicy flavors, which are all very good.

After arriving in the town, he will go to Master Feng to discuss the matter of building the academy and assign some manpower to build a food processing workshop for him. In fact, he has a lot of things to do here. He must go to Nanyang. He also plans to open a new store here. It is true that he will be very busy at that time.

Another thing is to grow cotton and peppers. The land in the village is used to grow grain. It is not realistic to let the villagers free up a lot of land to grow cotton and peppers at once. This means that grain production will decrease, and it is not known whether the new things can be grown in time, and whether Cao Silang will harvest them if they are grown.

Cao Xiangnan got a lot of cotton seeds from Fang Ziye's farm last year. This year, he will send him a batch of seeds, so there will be a lot of seeds by then. He had harvested a lot of chili peppers last year, and next year he would be able to grow a lot of saplings.

They stayed at Li Zheng's place for a while and drank two cups of tea before leaving.

If the spring came early this year, it also meant that some families who were staying in the academy would go back early, so even if some people wanted to stay in the academy, it would be impossible. The crops in the fields had to be planted in time, and they couldn't wait. As for

those orphans without a father or mother, Cao Xiangnan wanted to keep them. He entrusted several children to Zheng Shubo to look after them. Later, he learned from Zheng Shubo that the children studied very hard, and he was relieved. However, they still had to take the exam, and it was mainly used to urge the children to study.

Everyone in the family agreed with his idea of ​​keeping the children.

Fang Ziye had been busy making clothes for the children for half a month, and he could hardly sleep well at night. He felt sleepy during the day, so he didn't do much needlework later. Knowing that Fang Ziye was in trouble, Qi Wanfeng and Aning understood very well and would take the initiative to take care of him. They both took over the needlework.

"You really don't have to work so hard. The garment factory will open next year. I'll ask them to make a batch of children's clothes and sell them, so you don't have to work so hard." Cao Xiangnan said to his wife in a somewhat amused way when he returned to the room at night.

"How can others' work be the same as yours? Anyway, I'm free, so I'll just kill time."

The snow outside stopped tonight, and the sky was filled with a few cold stars.

It was late at night, and the voices in the house stopped.