After making dinner, the family finished eating around the old dining table, and heard Chen Ping complain to A-Niang, "A-Niang, the college will ask to make a painting every day off, so I can't use rice paper to paint in class."

"Hey~son, our family has to wait for the autumn harvest to sell the grain so that we can buy you a few more blank papers, in the past three years, it is not easy to pay off the silver owed by your second sister for marriage, and first use rice paper instead of painting" Miao Rencui comforted her baby son softly.

"But mother, you don't want to see your son being ridiculed by his classmates, the people in our village are laughing at it, and the people in my school know that our family can't afford to buy blank paper, and I can't afford to use it for only 5 yuan a piece, Mr. looks at me wrongly, how can you teach me with your heart" Chen Ping was coquettish.

Chen Qing can plow the field at the age of 13, and Chen Ping is still a doll who can only beg for things with his mother.

"Cheng, let your father and uncle borrow some first, my son will be a talented master in the future, who dares to look down on my son, and when the autumn harvest is sold, the grain will be returned to them" Miao Rencui was coaxed by her younger son, and she was even more reluctant to let her son be disliked by Mr.

Boss Chen didn't move the place for a long time, and was finally kicked up by his mother-in-law, so he had to be cheeky and go around to collect money.

"Ah Qing, you are also 15 years old, after the autumn harvest, you will pick up a short-term job, lest your brother even have to raise money with a piece of drawing paper, and when Ping'er wins the show, won't your cousin also follow the light" Miao Rencui rarely commanded Chen Qing in a soft tone.

"Got it, uncle, wait for the landlord Liang's family to collect the rent, I will ask the steward for a short-term job" Chen Qingmei agreed without raising his eyebrows, and quickly stacked the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, and walked out of the hall with his arms.

Miao Rencui saw that Chen Qing was well-behaved and obedient, and she was rarely relieved, "With your cousin, don't worry."

"How much money can you earn just by working part-time jobs? Let Chen Qing go to the rich family in the town to do long-term work, and it will be faster to make money," Chen Ping gave A-Niang an idea.

"No, your father's body is not as good as in the first few years, with Ah Qing at home to help, he can still nourish his body, if Chen Qing is sent to the town to do long-term work, your father is tired and tired, not to mention, the new tenant's field will not be planted" Miao Rencui vetoed his son's mention after a little thought.

"Cut~ It's useless, I can't even earn my white paper money, and I eat our family's food for many years" Chen Ping fanned the flames, he just looked at Chen Qing unpleasantly.

"Mother won't let him waste food in vain, how much rice and noodles he eats from me, how many marks will he have to spit out for me at that time" Miao Rencui patted his son on the shoulder and went straight into the back room, in recent years, the round waist has become more and more tiger-backed, and he has to twist out a willow leaf waist-like arc when he walks, and his posture has become more and more weird and ugly.

After cleaning up, Chen Qing took his sister back to his house, and taught his sister to write little by little by spreading the papyrus by the light of the kitchen fire.

Chen Qing only learned a few calligraphy lessons in elementary school interest classes, and he can still remember the writing of basic strokes, but he can only see the font Juanxiu. Taking out the book from Chen Ping's house, Chen Qing wrote down a heavenly character according to the font on it.

He taught his sister how to hold the pen, and focused on explaining the order of the pen, and Chen Qing let Chen Bi practice by himself. Chen Bi was reluctant to waste straw paper, the writing was very small, basically the same size as the small block on the book, Chen Qing didn't see her write a big one after saying a few sentences, so she went with her.

After practicing for a while, Chen Qing thought about it again, took out a piece of straw paper, and wrote the strokes separately on it, as long as he learned how to write the strokes, all the words were just a combination of these strokes, and the impression could be deepened by learning gradually after the easy and then the difficult.

Chen Bi practiced very seriously, just like embroidery, she had to think carefully before each stroke and strive for perfection. Seeing that his sister could write in a while, Chen Qing once again sighed that his two strokes were not as good as his sister's writing.

Afraid that Chen Bi would hurt his eyes, Chen Qing only let Chen Bi practice for half an hour before putting away everything and hiding it in the pyre, there is a cellar under the pyre, which is not deep, and he can put down a wooden box.

The cellar was covered with a wooden plank, and the things could be hidden by pulling it up, and the eldest aunt found that there was also a pile of dry firewood and two jars of pickled vegetables on it.

Chen Bi used a branch to scratch the strokes and characters she had just learned on the ground, waited for the water to boil, poured it into the clay pot, and let it cool before drinking. The brother and sister wiped their bodies with the remaining hot water, then extinguished the firewood in the stove and went back to sleep.

There is no entertainment in farm life, go to bed early, get up early. Chen Qing woke up as soon as dawn, he didn't have time to snooze like others, he had to go into the mountains to look for mountain goods, cut pigweed, collect firewood, go to the field to weed, and take time to help his sister grab some housework.

So Chen Qing is very busy and has no time to sleep, and the 15-year-old man is already an adult in this era, which means that he can get married and have children.

After Chen Qing washed up, it was already dawn, and Chen Bi also woke up closely, she wanted to take advantage of the uncle's family not waking up to catch up with the embroidery meeting, Chen Qing told her to pay attention to the hour and carried the bamboo basket into the mountain.

Walking with a stick to beat the dew on the blades of grass, by the way, scared away snakes, insects, rats and ants. Today, Chen Qing was lucky, he dug up a few good herbs for hemostasis, and dug up a few common herbs for treating wind and cold.

People walk around all year round, it is difficult to find wild beasts in the mountains and forests, most of them are small animals such as pheasants and hares, and occasionally a few small snakes are mostly non-venomous grass snakes.

Chen Qing is afraid of snakes, although he knows that this snake is not poisonous, he is often scared into a cold sweat, he is most afraid of this kind of footless, slippery thing, but whenever he sees his legs, he will run. In fact, in addition to being afraid of snakes, Chen Qing also has a secret that he doesn't dare to tell people, he is afraid of caterpillars, super afraid.

When I was a child, I was bullied by the children in the village, and I lost a caterpillar on my neck, and Chen Qing, who was frightened by the creepy numbness, cried on the spot, and then the caterpillar crawled into the clothes and scraped out a long red mark on the delicate skin, which was itchy and painful.

From then on, whenever he entered the forest, Chen Qing had to tie his neck and walk while beating with a stick.

Picked two green pears and picked up a handful of pecans, Chen Qing quickly picked up the firewood, tied it with a rope and carried it home, after the autumn harvest, he would start to hoard winter firewood, rather than keep going into the mountains at that time, it was better to start preparing from the early autumn.

After breakfast, Chen Qing was still thinking about his new wealth, and after finishing his work in the morning, he specially found a few naughty babies in the village and asked them to catch weasels and bring them to him.

Chen Qing has always been popular in the village, especially to attract children, when he is not busy, Chen Qing will take a few children into the mountains to catch pheasants, the bird's nest is even more fanned, pulling the net to catch sparrows has caused a lot of birds in the forest in recent years, which made Chen Qing realize that nothing can be done, and strictly ordered a few naughty boys to no longer dig out the bird's nest, and the finches have to be calculated, so as not to roast sparrows in the future.

A few boys got Chen Qing's instructions and made an appointment to go into the mountains to catch pheasants after the autumn harvest, and then they happily dispersed.

"Brother Qing, what do you want that weasel to do, the meat is not delicious" Chen Hu and Chen Qing, the grandsons of the fat second aunt, walked all the way home and asked curiously.

"Didn't the chickens of the three babies make the weasels chatter two days ago~ If you don't fight in the future, the more you breed, the more you breed, the chickens in the village will suffer, you are also the baby in the village, of course you have to do your part" Chen Qing's face was not red and he didn't pant for breath.

"It's still Brother Qing's thoughtfulness" Chen Hu nodded his round chin, learning from Chen Qing's appearance, and said in an old-fashioned manner.

"Yes, you should also hurry home, the sun is poisonous at noon, don't be outside in the wild" Chen Qing explained and pushed open the courtyard door.

"Hey~ Brother Qing went to the river to take a bath in the afternoon, Ah Niu, they said they wanted to touch the fish" Chen Hu grabbed the corner of Chen Qingyi, and in the spring and autumn, Chen Qing was too busy to lead them around to play.

"There is still work in the afternoon, and you are not allowed to go down to the river without an adult, do you hear?" Chen Qing immediately instructed with a tiger face. The eldest of the wild boys was only two years older than Chen Bi, and if he drowned, no one would go down to fish.

"Oh, then I'll go and sue Sù Ah Niu and say that you won't let me go" Chen Hu agreed with a blushing head, everyone else was too lazy to take the baby to play together, if Chen Qing didn't follow, they were really afraid that they would be beaten when they went home by the river.

"Looking for a big student to follow, his family has a lot of hands, and the work is almost busy" Chen Qing patted the disappointed Chen Hu.

"Cheng, then I'll go to Brother Yang University" Chen Hu immediately became happy and greeted Abi who went out to pick up his brother.

Chen Bi rarely plays with children of the same age on weekdays, but she is familiar with these stinky boys who always follow her brother's buttocks.

Chen Hu saw that Abi didn't care about him, so he had to say goodbye to Chen Qing and go home by himself.

"You don't like Huzi, every time I see him, I wrinkle a little face" Chen Qing pinched the girl's cheek, and looked at her with a look of disgust.

"Huzi is the most annoying, and when I was a child, I used dead rats to scare me" Abi took the green pears handed by his brother, threw them in a basin to wash them, and gnawed them without drying them.

"Then what kind of man does Abi want to find to live in the future?" Chen Qing grinned, squinting his eyes to find out what the girl liked.

"I'm only 10 years old, I don't like any kind of man! My brother hates it the most!" Chen Bi is also a little girl, and she doesn't help with drying herbs when she stomps her little feet, so she turns around and runs into the house.

Chen Qing laughed, touched his nose and secretly estimated how to apologize for a while to make the little girl forgive him.

Chen Bi hid in the house, munching on green pears sullenly, she didn't want to get married, she had to separate from her brother when she got married, the brother and sister had been dependent on each other for the past five years, and the memory of her father and mother had long been blurred, she only knew that her brother treated her very well, and she was taught to grow up by being a father and a mother, and she didn't want to leave her brother.