Chapter 76, Entering the Space
The courtyard was allocated in this way. The others were fine because they knew that it was unlikely that they would get a separate courtyard. However, Yan Yishuang often went to Aunt Lin to cry because the difference between the past and the present was too great.
This matter is also the fault of Aunt Lin herself. She overestimated her own weight. Yes, she has a certain status in Yan Zhigao's eyes, and Yan Zhigao does favor her.
But she forgot that she was just a concubine, a concubine who made no contribution to the Yan family.
She wanted her children to enjoy the same treatment as the eldest son and daughter of the Yan family. Regardless of whether Madam Li would agree to this, even the second house would strongly oppose it.
The children of the second and third wives are at least the direct descendants of the Yan family. They should be more noble than the children of a concubine, right?
Yan Wenjie and his family don’t have their own yard yet, and it’s even more impossible for Yan Yi and his sister.
"Mother, my second sister is the eldest, so she should live in the main house. Why should she give it to Yan Yishuang?"
In the second courtyard, Yan Yile was packing her things while asking Sun with dissatisfaction.
The courtyard that Madam Li allocated to Yan Yihan, Yan Yishuang and Yan Yile was very large, with three main rooms and three side rooms on the left and right, just enough for each of the three people.
However, the three of them had a disagreement on who would live in the main house and who would live in the wing rooms.
In fact, only Yan Yile was dissatisfied. Yan Yihan, who never liked to fight, had no objection to where to live.
Sun nodded her little daughter's head and said, "Don't say that outside. Your uncle and aunt are now the head of the Yan family. We, the second and third branches, are dependent on the first branch for our livelihood. In some matters, we have to give in to the first branch."
Hearing this, Yan Yile felt somewhat depressed and sighed in a dignified manner, "How come my father isn't the governor?"
Sun also sighed: "Who says it's not true!" Over the years, she has envied her sister-in-law who is an official's wife. Unfortunately, her life is not as good as hers.
Yan Yile snorted: "We are competing for the main wife here, but Yishuang doesn't even look down on us!"
Sun laughed sarcastically, "Mrs. Lin is becoming more and more incompetent. Your brother doesn't even have his own courtyard, and yet she, a concubine, dares to open her mouth like that!"
Yan Yile: "Big brothers and big sisters are still the best. They don't have to do anything and they can be assigned a separate courtyard. Why didn't I give birth a few years earlier?"
Sun glanced at her daughter and sighed in her heart, "Even if you were born a few years earlier, you probably wouldn't have had the chance. It's because you don't have a father who is an official."
During this period, Yan Zhigao was busy familiarizing himself with the provincial government and taking over the affairs of Xingzhou; while Mrs. Li was taking care of the household chores, she also had to make friends with the wives of Xingzhou officials. The couple was so busy that no one cared about the division of the courtyard, no matter how much Lin Yi Niang and her daughter made a fuss.
In the end, Aunt Lin and her daughter compromised and moved out of the yard obediently.
Daohua didn't know what others were doing, nor did she want to know. After having her own yard, she focused her attention on the yard layout, especially the flower shed, corridor and flower beds on the east side of the yard.
"Man'er, go ask Third Brother if he found the climbing plant I asked him to find?"
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Seeing Wang Maner leave the yard, Daohua immediately turned around and went into the room, closed the door, and then disappeared in the room.
Where did she go?
She entered the space!
The space for rice flowers is not large. The three fields are distributed in a triangular shape, each one acre in size, namely yellow soil, red soil and black soil.
The space doesn't have any incredible functions, it's just that the soil is fertile and anything can be grown, and the things grown there have higher and richer nutritional value.
Among them, black soil is the most fertile, and yellow soil is the least fertile.
In the black soil, Rice Flower planted many commonly used medicinal herbs, all of which she planted with seeds bought from the pharmacy.
Among them, the best growing area is planted with ginseng. These ginsengs have been planted for five or six years. Judging from the quality of the soil in the space, she feels that even if this ginseng cannot be compared with the century-old ginseng, its medicinal effect can at least catch up with the ginseng that is several decades old.
When she received the jade pendant from Xiao Yeyang, she was thinking of finding an opportunity to give him a ginseng. Unfortunately, now she doesn’t know if she will have the chance to see him again?
In the red soil, Daohua planted every fruit tree he could find, including apple trees, pear trees, peach trees, persimmon trees, orange trees, apricot trees, cherry trees, plum trees, and jujube trees.
These fruit trees are common in rural areas and are not difficult to find.
She loves drinking tea and has planted more than ten jasmine tea trees.
On the loess land, she grows a variety of crops, including corn, red beans, mung beans, wheat, rice, sweet potatoes, and peppers.
Because there are so many types, the number is relatively small.
Since leaving her hometown, she has had fewer opportunities to enter the space. Now that she has her own yard, she has more opportunities.
The reason she came in this time was to see if the flower seeds planted in the red soil had sprouted. It would be a waste to leave the flower beds in the yard empty. If she planted more flowers, they would bloom in the future and she could both enjoy them and transplant them into pots to sell.
Seeing that the flower seeds had sprouted, Daohua ate an apple, then left the space and came to the flower bed. With a thought, sprouting flower seeds appeared out of thin air in her hands.
After Daohua had planted all the flower beds with seeds, Wang Maner came back with a basket of vines, followed by Yan Wentao who was also carrying a basket.
"What kind of vine is this?"
Daohua took the basket, picked up the vines inside and began to look at them.
Yan Wentao smiled and said, "This is a climbing rose. I asked my servant to inquire for a long time before I picked it out. It is said that climbing roses look very beautiful when they climb all over the wall. There are many varieties. I have selected a few for you. You can plant them as you like."
"But you have to be prepared in advance. The old man who sold me the climbing vines said that some varieties of roses are difficult to grow."
Rice Flower smiled and didn't care. She had the space, so what couldn't she grow?
Yan Wentao looked at the corridor of the flower shed and asked, "Your corridor is quite high. Do you want me to help you plant it?"
Daohua shook her head: "No need for now, I'll try planting some in the flower garden first. If I can grow them, I'll ask you to come over and help me."
Yan Wentao nodded: "That's fine, just call me when you want to plant."
That evening, the Yan family had dinner in the old lady's courtyard. After dinner, Madam Li said, "We have been in Xingzhou for more than a month. According to custom, we should hold a banquet to entertain local officials and gentry."
Yan Zhiyuan smiled and said, "That's what I should do, sister-in-law. If you need any help, just let me know."
Madam Li smiled and nodded. "I'll definitely have to trouble you, second brother, in the future." She glanced at the others and said, "Master and I have discussed it and are planning to hold it at the end of this month. Everyone should be aware that this is our first time hosting a banquet, so we must be courteous on the day of the banquet."
(End of this chapter)
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