Chapter 4 The Value of Craftsmanship
A few days later, Li Ping finally accepted the reality that she was reincarnated as a ten-year-old child. Although www.biquge.info pen "Fun" Pavilion is still not used to the life of this farmer, but I can't help but be moved by the life of being cared for by my parents and having my brother. She felt that the life of the farmer was not so unbearable.
Of course, she still thinks that Mrs. Li is a little fierce, but for her, it is also a new experience. On the contrary, her favorite among these people in the family is Mrs. Li. When she was able to get out of bed, she was like a little tail, following behind Mrs. Li.
Li Ping was born in a small official family, and she really didn't know who her biological mother was. Anyway, it shouldn't be the one in the house who should be called 'mother'.
Li Ping's original family was quite wealthy, anyway, since she was a child, her father spared no effort to raise her, but she was brought up by a nurse, and every day she went to ask for peace to the 'mother' who was like a Buddha, and she could go back to the room, read, and learn words.
She can't remember exactly what happened when she was a child, but one thing she knew very well was that her 'mother' was not her real mother, and her brothers in the house were not close to her. In that family, she saw her father a lot, but she was 100% convinced that her father really didn't see her to love her.
When I arrived at the Li family in this countryside, everything was completely different. After she woke up, the parents of this family really looked like parents. She couldn't tell why she thought so, but even if the family was poor, she still liked her parents and the brother who was not very common, and as long as he came back, he would bring her something.
However, Li Ping, who has become a second girl, was originally ready to be her own with peace of mind. As a result, when she is completely well, Mrs. Li's formal education for her daughter will also begin. This makes Li Ping a capital embarrassment.
Before Erya, she was helping her parents at home, and when the students in the school went back, she went to clean up and clean up. Help parents feed the chickens, pick up eggs, etc. Before the family, in fact, when she was young, she did the work of a few years old children from the surrounding families!
Now that Mrs. Li feels that her daughter is married, thinking about Ouyang's face, she doesn't dare to let her daughter go to her own devices. It was decided to start educating her daughter to become a qualified housewife. Mainly, you can't be suppressed by the evil mother-in-law. Li Niangzi's first education was to let Li Ping learn to weave with her.
Li Ping looked at the legendary loom, she was only embarrassed, think about it, even if she was not from a rich family, she was not a famous daughter of gold and jade. But it was also pampered and raised. Mainly, she thinks it's better to do something than to sit and weave a day's cloth.
"Mother, how much can you weave cloth in a day, and how much silver do you make?" Li Ping stopped her mother's talk and hurriedly said.
"You can make a lot of money! Your mother's craftsmanship is good, and a piece of cloth is ten dollars more than others. Mrs. Li was triumphant.
Li Ping looked up at the sky, a little unable to think of what ten big money could do. I think that at the beginning, she would not only reward ten big bucks when she rewarded people casually. Well, that's the part that goes beyond the others.
"How much does that piece of cloth cost?" She didn't dare to use silver to write the price anymore, so let's use money.
"About three hundred dollars! I can weave two horses a month, which is six hundred dollars. No less! Mrs. Li was even more proud. You know, here, a family like them can live well with twenty taels of silver a year. She can earn almost six taels of silver a month alone, and five taels of silver a year. That's a quarter of the annual income for an average family like them. (6 coins of silver in January, 76 coins in 12 months, hexadecimal system in ancient times, so it is 4.5 taels of silver, and I press five taels of silver.) )
Li Ping was a little stunned at this time, only six hundred yuan a month, almost more than six yuan, less than seven yuan of silver. Why don't she invite her sisters to a little wine in the house.
Now Li Ping finally has a little understanding of the environment of the Li family, compared with what she has seen these days. I also have some calculations in my heart.
The main source of income for the Li family is Li Xiucai's sitting, which is a family study, and the clan will subsidize him every year. For the Chinese New Year, the parents of students will also send some bacon and gifts for the New Year.
The Li family still has a field, but it is the Ding Tian assigned to Li Xiucai and Dalang in the clan. Because Li Xiu is famous, his Ding Tian is more than ordinary clansmen.
Dalang Li Bin is a male and has been born with it. It's just that Ding Tian is very important to other people's families, but for Li Xiucai's family, there are not many of them, and there are not many without it. Li Xiucai is sitting in the hall, and Da Lang is an apprentice outside, and the field is a burden to them.
Mrs. Li told Li Xiucai that she would return the land to the clan, and the clan would hand it over to the family with a lot of labor to plant on her behalf. I collected the food, helped them pay the taxes, except for a year's rations, and gave the children some pocket money. This is also what Li Xiucai has always said that his wife is the rare husband of the middle school.
They can rent out Ding Tian, and the income is more than now. But if it's really rented, those tenants, something has to be annoying. Regardless of whether the harvest is good or not, I am afraid that I will cry and cry poor when the rent is collected. In her opinion, they are all soft-hearted Lords, and she can't do what she wants to do. Return to the clan, trouble is the clan's business.
And it is also because Li Niangzi handed Ding Tian back to the clan early to take care of it, which made the clansmen friendly and polite to Li Xiucai's family, and had a good relationship with the clansmen, Li Xiucai was able to keep his position all these years, and no one dared to challenge him.
Without the trouble of the field, Mrs. Li weaves some cloth at home when she has time, and pays some work every month, which is also some money. On weekdays, Mrs. Li also planted a vegetable patch in her backyard. During the day, I had nothing to do, so Li Xiucai went to water some water and catch insects. When the muscles and bones are moved, the harvest is not only sent to the hometown of the tribe, but their family is enough to eat. Feed some chickens at home, lay some eggs, and go to the city to exchange some oil and salt.
Therefore, the life of the Li family in the village is considered to be good, and it does not rely entirely on digging food from the soil. There are four people in a family, Li Xiucai and Li Niangzi can make money; Although Da Lang said that he didn't leave the school and couldn't get paid, he didn't eat at home either! People also said that the fact that the half-sized child, eating Lao Tzu to death, and the fact that the eldest man does not eat at home can actually save a lot of chewing for the family.
Erya is the most useless at home, but she is ten years old, and she usually gives her parents a hand, feeds a chicken, picks up an egg or something, and can actually help a little. This family has no idle mouth, how can they not save money.
However, in Li Ping's opinion, Li Niangzi is better than weaving cloth. Six hundred dollars, a month, and still tired and tired, and you still have to teach yourself, so that you can live such a stupid life with her?
"Do you still want to be lazy? If you go to your mother-in-law's house like this, you won't be kicked out? Your mother-in-law, who is poor in her own family, but has a pair of rich eyes, if you don't have some skills, how can you hold her? Mrs. Li didn't let her daughter get confused, she drank her, let her go to the shelf, and started teaching.
Li Ping thinks about it, no matter whether he can find a more effortless way to make money, it is always necessary to learn a craft. I think that back then, in her mother's house, her father also forced her to read, write, play the piano, and recite poetry. It's okay to draw two strokes, although she also knows that her father is not because of love, but she also knows that unmarried girls are originally to be valued at a price, and the higher your own skills, the higher the price.
In this poor family, the parents of this family at least did not plan to exchange her for silver, let her learn the craft and mix in her in-law's family, she couldn't refute her kindness. Accept your fate and listen to Mrs. Li's dispatch.