Chapter 249: A pair of mud dolls

In the wine shop of the boat family, Liao Wenqing drank wine, looking at the dark and heavy river, full of depression. I always thought that as long as I did my mother's work, I could go all the way smoothly, but now my mother seems to have acquiesced, but he is confused. Ever since he talked about proposing marriage, Begonia seems to be far away from him, and he has never given him a clear answer...... Doesn't she like it?

"You fool, what do you want a woman to say? If you were a woman who threw herself into your arms, would you dare to marry? Yun Jichen knocked Liao Wenqing's head with a fan and scolded. It turned out that Liao Wen's mouth was faster than his heart after drinking, and he actually said it when he thought of it.

Liao Wenqing waved his hand and pushed away Yun Jichen's fan, staring at Yun Jichen with extraordinarily bright eyes because of the wine: "Really? Do you think she's unwilling? ”

Yun Jichen pursed his lips and said, "I said that you are a big man, and you are also very decisive and simple in business, why do you make a mistake when you say this?" At her point, how can you not look ahead and backward in everything, think about it and think about it, all you have to do is to cut through the mess quickly and marry someone back...... However, that woman has a strong temperament, and if you can't control yourself, I don't think you should marry. ”

"Who says I can't control myself?" Liao Wenqing stretched out his hand and snatched Yun Jichen's fan, put it aside, and said very arrogantly, "I told her that after marrying her, I will never take a concubine again, and I will guard her for the rest of my ......life."

Yun Jichen smiled at Liao Wenqing and said, "The Lin family has a family rule, do you know the way?" ”

Liao Wenqing was stunned, he really didn't know what to do. It is not an exaggeration for the Lin family to say that it is a nouveau riche, and it took more than a year for the United Communist Party to become rich and prosperous, and it was just an ordinary village family before, with a total of three or four people, where can we talk about any family rules.

"You don't know what to do, do you?" Yun Jichen ignored Liao Wenqing's eager gaze, took the wine with a smile, took two sips, and said unhurriedly, "The men of the Lin family, including the nephews of Lin Niangzi, do not have the rules of taking concubines and having sex, and they are not allowed to prostitutes or prostitutes. ”

Looking at Liao Wenqing, who was stunned, Yun Jichen threw up the wine in the cup and sighed: "Although that woman has a lot of knowledge, after all, she is from a Zhuang family, and she still adheres to the thoughts of the Zhuang family, and what she wants is to live together as a husband and wife, and she still knows too little about the rules of everyone's masters...... You have to think about it, if you really marry her, you will have to clean up the house first, and you can't go to the Flower Pavilion Qinglou to wander around in the future......"

"Well, the girl will be sent away, but when you talk about business and entertainment, you will inevitably have to go to the festival to make a show...... This seems to be the end of it, right? What are those kabukis, at best they are just playthings, and they won't be taken seriously......" Liao Wenqing shook his head with his tongue wide open, and after being stunned, he was a little disapproving.

Yun Jichen looked at Liao Wenqing for a long time and didn't speak again. This one still doesn't understand, and he has to suffer a little.

"Ming'er, I'm going south, Jiangnan hasn't been there for a long time...... You can't meet your parents together......" Yun Jichen pondered his words, thinking about how to remind him. "When your parents return, you will ...... too"

Liao Wenqing didn't let him finish his words, waved his hand and said: "Well, don't worry, when my parents return home, I will send someone to Liu Jiaao as soon as possible to propose marriage." Haluha, you come back as soon as possible, don't delay drinking my happy wine! ”

Yun Jichen's eyes shrank slightly, and he finally responded with a smile.

The day after the Double Ninth Festival, when the people of Anyang City were still immersed in the celebration and excitement of the festival and did not wake up, Yun Jichen, the second son of the Yun family, quietly took only a few entourages, and left Anyang City with the southbound fleet, and went south along the Luo River.

Liao Wenqing also took a boat along the river early in the morning to greet his parents and two sisters-in-law and nephews and nieces.

After Princess Fu'an personally came forward to hold a charity auction, she suddenly disappeared, as if she had quietly left. This made many people with other intentions very annoyed, and some people who were cold bystanders were also puzzled, this kind of behavior is not like the rumored style of Princess Fu'an.

With the lively celebrations of the Chung Yeung Festival, more and more people who went out to avoid disasters returned to their homes. The subsequent lifting of the lockdown in Qinghe County also shifted people's attention. Qinghe people who were stranded abroad for various reasons have returned home to look for their relatives, and some people who have been trapped in Qinghe County due to the epidemic have also left Qinghe and returned to their respective hometowns as soon as the lockdown is lifted.

All this has almost no impact on Liu Jiaao, who is far away from Anyang City and Qinghe County. The Lin family is still peaceful and tranquil, and the fried medicine workshop in the workshop has basically completed another year's work, and the fried medicinal materials have been sent to Qingshui Town in batches, and the personnel have been gradually diverted to several other workshops.

The autumn harvest and autumn ploughing on Zhuangzi's side have been completed, and Man Ho came over to discuss the matter of collecting rent. This year, only summer grain was planted on the Zhuangzi, and the autumn grain was basically planted with vegetables and winter vegetables in accordance with the call of the Lin family. If you harvest all the wheat, it will be very difficult.

In the past few days, the vegetables in the back garden have been basically harvested, and the old man Yang Liancheng has led people to plant fruit trees for a few days, and he is just idle, so Qiu Chen simply entrusted this matter to the old man Yang. The Yang family also has some land in the Yang family's shop, and the father and son of the Yang family were all out in a car, and the family's land could not be planted, and some of it would be rented out to the neighbors.

can be entrusted with a heavy task, although the old man Yang Liancheng didn't say anything, but he could see that he was very happy from his expression, got up early in the morning, urged him to eat breakfast, and went to Zhuangzi with Man Hoard. The old man is very practical, and he is willing to express his opinion only after seeing the situation in Zhuangzi himself.

When everything was almost over, there was also news about Qiu Chen's entrustment of Pan Jiaqing to find Mr. Pan Jiaqing came over and told Qiu Chen that the two scholars he knew in Anping County and Anyang City, one was a Xiucai ten years ago, and the other was a Juren nine years ago, both of whom were delayed and tired of scientific research for various reasons, so they simply recruited students and taught for a living.

This is a big deal, Qiu Chen immediately asked Yang Shumeng and Zhao Jiufen to go to An Ping'an Yang to inquire about the situation of the two of them, and their reputation for conduct. The two recommended by Pan Jiaqing are also famous, but in two days, Yang Shumeng and Zhao Jiu returned, and the news brought back was very satisfying, both of them are good at learning, the key is that the reputation is excellent, the surname Ding still has some family business, the surname Yuan Xiucai is very poor, there is no permanent property at home, in addition to him teaching to earn some bundles, it means that relying on the Xiucai lady to embroider some patterns sent to the embroidery workshop to sell subsidies for livelihood, with two daughters and two boys, the eldest son is now twelve years old, has passed the county examination, the second son is only five years old, and he is also enlightened. The eldest daughter is fourteen years old and helps her mother with housework at home, and the second daughter is eight years old and cute and cute, and the two daughters also know how to read.

After hearing the news that Yang Shumeng and Zhao Jiu inquired about, Qiu Chen was also very satisfied, and immediately prepared a gift, brought Pan Jiaqing to invite him, and it was negotiated smoothly, and on the first day of October, the two came to coach together.

Ding Juren has a family business, so he will only bring a small servant over, but Yuan Xiucai means to bring his family over.

It just so happened that the Lin family built two rows of houses behind the school, and the people of the Daxing family only occupied one row, and the other row was still idle, all of which were two main rooms with two wings outside the east and west, Qiu Chen separated the row of houses from the servant's room in the backyard, and then opened a corner door with the school, and placed Mr. Yuan's family in two small courtyards.

Mr. Ding wants to teach a first-class course, so he will not mix it in the school, but place it in the west wing of the Lin family, Mr. Ding lives in the north house, and the south house tidies up, knocks down the fire kang and the fire wall, and the ground fire dragon, arranges it into a study style, and puts a few sets of tables and chairs, which is a small class classroom. In terms of which children can enter the higher level of small class education, it depends on Mr. Ding's assessment at that time.

The youngest of the children in the family also went to school for more than a year, and a few of them learned relatively quickly, and after learning 300,000 thousands, they began to learn the "Ruler" and "Analects". Those who learn slowly, and also finished learning the "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names", private school education is more flexible than modern teaching methods, and does not require students to learn at a higher pace, which makes Qiu Chen still very satisfied.

Come to think of it, when Mr. Ding arrived, when he selected the students of the advanced class, the most basic requirement was also to choose from the children who had completed the three hundred thousand thousand students. These children, including Amandu, have finished their studies and have begun to study the "Analects" in the four books, and speaking of which, they are all eligible to run for election. It's just that relatively, Junshu Junwen Junzhang and Ah Fu have slightly better academic performance, Aman and Junyan are slightly worse, and compared to Aman, Junyan's academic performance is worse, and he is at the bottom among the children.

But Qiu Chen is not in a hurry to worry, Junyan is impatient and active, can't sit still, can't write and read, but his performance in practice is good, dare to rush and dare to fight, Qin Li Qin Yong told Qiu Chen more than once that this kid has been working hard for a few years, and he is a good material for being a soldier and fighting, and he is a brave general. Qiu Chen didn't have much of a cold about what brave generals were not brave generals, no matter what, when she went to the battlefield, she thought that swords and dangers were in danger, and she didn't want her children to take that kind of danger at all. In her opinion, it is better to farm at home than to go to the battlefield......

In his busyness, Qiu Chen took the time to remove the sutures for Qin Zheng's wound, Qin Zheng's wound healed very well, there was no infection, and the rest only needed to recuperate for a while. dismantled the thread for Qin Zheng, and Qiu Chen didn't mention the words of picking people up.

After the west wing was cleaned up, a fire was to be made to dry the house, and the fire walls and earth fire dragons in other places also started to burn.

In the middle of September, the weather turned cold, the weather was fine and warm at noon, and it was already very cold in the morning and evening.

In the same way, the servant's house also has carbon, and every morning and evening a fire can be made to dry the house. The school also cleaned up and started to make a fire to keep warm, but the weather was not too cold, just a little before going to school to dry the house, Pan Jiaqing did not let the fire be lit during class, and the appropriate light cold could allow the children to concentrate on learning.

The old man Yang Liancheng went to Zhuangzi to see it for two days and came back, and discussed with Qiu Chen, the situation in Zhuangzi is not bad, although the autumn grain is less, but the income from planting vegetables and autumn and winter vegetables is better than that of autumn grain, and there is the support of the Lin family's farm tools and livestock, and the autumn ploughing is also completed well, and the tenants in the Zhuangzi live a fairly comfortable life. After Mr. Yang saw the situation of the tenants, and after he talked to several more prestigious old tenants, those tenants were willing to use autumn vegetables to pay for rent.

Qiu Chen almost didn't think about it, and agreed. Anyway, most of the autumn vegetables grown by the farmers are sold to the workshop if they don't pay the rent, and the rent is equivalent to collecting money, in fact, it's the same. It's just that the quality of autumn vegetables should be divided into several grades, so as not to cause any uneven disputes at that time.

While the housework was busy, Qiu Chen did not relax the children's attention. Old man Mu originally came to teach the children, especially Aman Kung Fu, but since he came to the Lin family, he was not in tune at first, and later he was obsessed with the suturing of trauma, and he either practiced suturing with pork and pigskin every day, or he didn't know where to find the wounded and sick number to practice...... After two times in a row, Qiu Chen instructed the kitchen not to prepare any more food for Old Man Mu, leave without saying a word, come back to catch up with the meal and eat, and no one should pay attention to it if he can't catch up with the meal...... After that, Old Man Mu actually changed his mistake when he knew it, and he would leave a note for Qiu Chen every time he went out.

Even if the doors and windows of Qiu Chen's room are closed tightly, and when he wakes up, there may be a note on the table, it is Old Man Mu who told him that he left, and he will roughly explain the time of return, as for where he went and what he went to do, he didn't explain it at all. However, Qiu Chen will be content to be like this, and she will not be too persistent in more details.

On September 20, three days after Qin Zheng's wound was removed, Qiu Chen didn't have much to do on this day, and after breakfast, he came to the front yard with a medicine box to change Qin Zheng's dressing.

After Qin Yi and Qin Xiao came, Qin Li and Qin Yong no longer taught the children to exercise full-time, but took turns with Qin Yi and Qin Xiao to serve in Qin Zheng's room, and the two who were not on duty were responsible for the children's training in the morning and evening.

The west wing of the front yard was converted into a study and classroom, and the large kitchen was moved to the backyard, and three houses were built on the east courtyard wall next to the three-entry corridor, and the large kitchen was moved there, and the two upside-down seats were used as warehouses. In this way, to the backyard and the large kitchen, there is a passage between the east cross courtyard and the main courtyard, and the entry and exit of the carriage personnel will not affect the main courtyard, and the people in the large kitchen are busy working, and they will not be afraid of disturbing the owners and guests of the main courtyard and be more restrained, which is cheap in both compartments.

Walking along the eaves of the corridor to the door of the main house, Shen Hu and Zeng Daniu, who were on duty, did not wait for Qiu Chen to arrive, so they smiled and greeted while raising the cotton door curtain.

"I just had breakfast. Madame, please come in! "Compared with Qin Li and Qin Yong, Shen Hu and Zeng Da Niu are much more bold and straightforward.

Qiu Chen said with a smile: "The thick cotton clothes of the brothers have been made, as well as the Pikan shoulders and leather knee pads, let them send them over later, and remember to wear them on duty in the morning and evening in the future." ”

Shen Hu and Zeng Da Niu agreed again and again, hehe smiled and thanked him repeatedly, Qiu Chen nodded, said no more, and raised his feet into the main house.

There is no wall of fire in the house, and it is as warm as spring. Qiu Chen's eyes swept over the two pastel porcelain lotus fish tanks with koi fish placed in the corner of the house, the water was clear and the fish were happy, nodded secretly, and walked towards the west room.

Qin Yong was waiting outside the Xiji room, and when he saw Qiu Chen, he immediately greeted with a smile: "Madame is here, this morning, my lord ate deliciously, I ate a chicken bean curd, two small shortbreads, two cabbage rolls, and tofu steamed buns...... Qin Yong reported a series of detailed menus, which made Qiu Chen almost laugh.

After hearing what he said, Qiu Chen smiled and nodded: "With the sweetness, the body recovers quickly!" ”

As he spoke, he bowed his head slightly and entered the Xili Room from under the curtain raised by Qin Yong.

The room was also warm, but it was not hot, Qin Zheng leaned on the big pillow on the kang head, did not read or play chess, he was actually fiddling with a bunch of yellow and gray mud-like things, and his sleeves were pulled high......

"You're here, just come over and talk to me about it, I'm going to make a few grinds and drinks for the children to play with, what do you think I'm going to do......" Qin Zheng glanced up, and then lowered his eyes and rubbed the mud ball on the table, and asked Qiu Chen's opinion while rubbing himself.

The brave and warlike Jingbei general and the meritorious Jingbei Marquis suddenly played with mud, and they had to grind and drink...... The huge contrast made Qiu Chen stunned for a while and didn't come back to his senses.

Qin Zheng rubbed his mud for a while, but did not get a response, looked up, and smiled: "Very surprised? I loved fiddling with this when I was a kid...... I also burned porcelain by myself, and for this, I went to a porcelain factory in the suburbs of Beijing to learn from the master for several months......"

Hearing him say this, Qiu Chen restrained his surprise, walked over slowly, put the medicine box in his hand on the kang, and sat opposite Qin Zheng.

Qin Li smiled and brought a cup of tea up, and withdrew from the door with his hand down.

Qiu Chen's eyes were all focused on the mud balls under Qin Zheng's men, looking at these somewhat special muds, he couldn't help but reach out and poke them: "This is the clay specially used to burn pottery?" ”

Qin Zheng raised his eyes to look at her, his face was soft and calm, and he said: "Well, I went to the pottery kiln in the neighboring village to find it, the texture is average, and it is estimated that it is not delicate enough to burn out." But it's enough to make grinding and drinking, and it's usually fired directly with red clay! ”

Mo Drink Music was originally one of the eight parts of Buddhism transliterated in Sanskrit, and then gradually evolved from the image of the snake's head to the image of a cute naughty child, some like the common mud in the south, but the form is varied, some are doll-like, some are similar to the tile-shaped carving, originally used to worship the Cowherd and Weaver Girl on the seventh day of the seventh month, and slowly became a children's toy.

Qiu Chen really couldn't think of what made Qin Zheng want to do grinding and drinking on a whim, but I have to say that this kind of thing with a strong traditional cultural atmosphere has a great attraction to Qiu Chen.

As he spoke, Qin Zheng twisted a piece of mud and handed it to Qiu Chen: "You also have a piece to try?" Your dexterity must be better than mine! ”

Qiu Chen subconsciously picked up the mud, and when he heard Qin Zheng's words, he couldn't help laughing: "Where did you see my skill?" I can't even pick up a needle and thread now! ”

"That's if you don't do it, you must do it better than the average person...... Just look at the stitches you stitch for me, it's much stronger than the half-hung man surnamed Tang! Qin Zheng spoke without raising his eyelids, seemingly very distracted, but seemed more sincere, so he didn't feel insincere at all.

Qiu Chen smiled and shook his head: "If you let Wen Yong know what to say, I guess I will ......be anxious with you again" As he spoke, he couldn't help but think of the suture technique practiced by Old Man Mu on pigskin, which is called a simple and uneven size...... couldn't help laughing, "It's really bad if you don't see that slit, if you do, you will know that Dao Wenyong is already perfect!" ”

Qin Zheng looked at Qiu Chen with raised eyebrows, and smiled at her: "...... No wonder, I haven't seen the old man in the past few days! ”

As soon as the topic changed, the two discussed the styling of grinding and drinking.

The first thing that came to Qiu Chen's mind was the chubby Aman and the smiling Afu, and he smiled: "I want to make a female baby and a male baby......

As she spoke, her subordinates sped up, divided the lump of mud in their hands into two pieces, kneaded them into two oval clay blanks, and then took half a bowl of water, dipped in the water, and slowly began to shape the clay blanks. She tried to make pottery in modern times, and if you want to make pottery smooth and tidy, polishing and shaping it with water is the easiest way to make it.

Qin Zheng looked at the tools such as scissors, combs, and knives that gradually appeared under her hands, and her eyebrows were raised little by little, and it took a long time to gradually fall back. In this way, where is the novice who has just come into contact with clay sculpture, it is clearly a clay sculpture veteran! Could it be that when she was a child, she also went to play in the pottery kiln and studied with the master?

Qiu Chen is calm and rational on weekdays, and she also has a childlike side in her temperament, and in modern times, her sister-in-law has always been alone, and her identity as unmarried and childless makes her simple childlike innocence pop up from time to time. At this moment, playing with mud in his hands, he became childlike and playful, and he seriously pinched and pondered, which was a little selfless.

Don't look at Qiu Chen's ability to do needlework, but doing this highlights the flexibility of her fingers. A comb, a pair of scissors, and a hairpin were nimble and clever in her hands, and soon, a chubby and joyful female doll was molded in her hands.

Qin Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly, lowered his eyes, and began to knead the mud in his hand unwillingly, and after a while, a male doll with an equally cute smile on his face was also pinched by him.

Qiu Chen held the female doll he pinched and held it up to Qin Zheng's male doll: "Hehe, it's still you, who is good-looking, simple and cute, but not flexible, and you can see that you have a foundation......" Saying that, Qiu Chen held up the two dolls and asked, "Put them on the windowsill to dry?" Or where to put it to dry? ”

If the clay sculpture wants to be fired and colored, it needs to be dried or dried at a low temperature to a certain extent. That's why Qiu Chen asked like this.

Qin Zheng smiled and said, "Just put the windowsill!" ”

Put the windowsill and he can see it at any time!

Qiu Chen carefully held the two dolls and placed them on the windowsill, and the gentle sunlight reflected on the two humble clay dolls through the window paper, which seemed to be enveloped in a layer of strange brilliance, making Qin Zheng's eyes squint slightly.