On the second day, Han Jinwen woke up in a burst of rooster crows, and she had been living in a broken temple outside the city for so long that she almost forgot the taste of bed.

"Oh ~ Oh ~ Oh" is another burst of chicken crows, Jin Wen grunted and quickly got up, thinking that he should help make breakfast, but when he went out, he found that Wang Yuanshan and Huzi had gone out, and there was a little batter porridge and a nest head in the stove room, which should have been left for her, she sat in the stove and gnawed on the nest head, and only felt warm in her heart, she had seen the warmth of people, and the originally amiable relatives and friends changed their faces overnight, and the two who were strangers saved her and took her in.

In the market, she knew how difficult the people's livelihood was, especially in poor peasant families, and many children would open their mouths to eat, so she thought that she gnawed half of the nest head, and put the remaining half away, combed her hair into braids so as not to get in the way, and picked up a broom and cleaned it.

Wang Yuanshan and Wang Rui, although they are both people who are willing to work, but boys and men are not good at housework, things are piled up casually, Han Jinwen has never done farm work or housework, but cleaning up housework is a woman's natural ability. She first found a few pieces of cloth and wiped all the tables, chairs and benches at home, the old table of eight immortals in the hall was almost wiped out, and there were two smooth big stones in the yard, and she also wiped them, and the dust swept out of the ground was two dustpans.

After cleaning the house, she took out Wang Yuanshan and Wang Rui's clothes and soaked them in a wooden basin. Last night, she told Wang Yuanshan that she could do laundry and cooking, but in fact, she was exaggerating, she could cook, but when she was cooking at home, she had a mother-in-law to light the fire, and she didn't have to do the laundry. But Han Jinwen has seen how others do it, the basic steps of natural laundry are good, soak the clothes in the water, and suddenly saw that Wang Hu changed the clothes yesterday, and actually pulled a big gap, she said that she knew how to embroider is half a point did not lie, her mother invited the embroidery girl to teach her when she was six years old, and this sewing is not difficult for her.

Last night, when she was holding a few of Wang's clothes, she wanted to change them to a smaller size, and she had already brought a needle and thread. Simply sat in the yard, took out the jackets and skirts to compare the colors, picked out one, cut the skirts according to their own length, and was not in a hurry to change the skirt for themselves, first took a piece of cloth and compared the size, lined it on the inside of Wang Hu's ragged clothes and began to sew it up, carefully sewn it up, picked it up and looked at it, at first glance it was not seen that it was sewn here, this is considered complete, and found two clothes with holes from the wooden basin, sewed them up one by one, and finally finished sewing, Huzi had already rushed in, "Awen, come and eat this." ”

"Brother Huzi, you're back so early, uncle? I haven't cooked yet. ”

"Hehe, my dad said you definitely can't cook, so let me come back early and light the fire." Huzi smirked and touched his head, "The meal is not in a hurry, Awen, you eat this first, I picked it in the mountains in the morning." ”

"What is this?" Jin Wen only saw clusters of strange ones, a bit like swastika patterns, like twisting them out with a rope, probably the length of a finger.

"This is longevity, it's sweet." Huzi grabbed a cluster and stuffed it into his mouth and demonstrated it. Jin Wen also picked one up and put it in his mouth, and sure enough, there was a sweet taste.

"Delicious, right?"

"Well, it's delicious." Jin Wen stuffed another one into his mouth, "It's not early, let's cook first, Brother Huzi, you teach me how to light a fire." ”

"It's easy to make a fire, you can teach it." Huzi went to the pile of wheat straw stacked in the corner of the courtyard, pulled a few handfuls of dry wheat straw, sat down in front of the stove, took a little flint, stuffed it into the stove and boiled water first.

Han Jinwen washed the rice first and put it in the pot, there were a few vegetables on the table, she fried a green vegetable and beans, and cut off a piece of the meat that Wang Yuanshan put yesterday, put ginger and shallots and soy sauce, and stewed it directly, it didn't take long for the rice to be ready, and the meat was slightly rotten.

Huzi took the tongs and took out the largest pieces of coals in the stove, put them into the stone urn next to the stove, poured a spoonful of water on the coals, and when the lid was closed, only the sound of Zi was heard, and a few wisps of smoke came out from the edge of the lid.

"What is this for?" Jin Wen stared at Huzi's every move and asked curiously. "This is charcoal, when it's cold, you have to rely on this to keep warm."

Jin Wen listened and wrote down these things one by one. The two chatted, Wang Yuanshan finally went home, and hurriedly brought out the dishes to eat, this eating tiger was immediately full of praise, even Wang Yuanshan praised her for the deliciousness of the dishes, you must know that the Wang family father and son have been playing with it in the past two years, as long as the vegetables are cooked and can be eaten, let them do these two dishes, that is, the difference between green vegetable and bean stew and meat stewed beans and green vegetables, which is like Jinwen, but also pay attention to the appearance of frying, wild boar was originally old and difficult to chew, and now the pot has been boiled these times, and it has been simmered for a long time, and it is actually crispy, The entrance only felt soft and delicious, with three dishes, the Wang family father and son went down to the ground in the morning to turn over the sweet potatoes and go up the mountain to check the traps for a long time, and they had a great appetite, and they ate it cleanly.

After eating, Wang Yuanshan went to the barn to see if the wheat could be harvested, and by the way, he also went out to ask anyone who knew someone who was going to Yunzhou, and also asked Jinwen's brother Han Jinshu and uncle Li Yue. For the farmer, the next few days will naturally become more and more idle day by day, the vegetables and fruits in the field will be taken care of, the men will prepare firewood for the winter, and the rest will wait for the winter.

His family's wheat was only dried out this morning, and the sun was just right today, and it was not yet time to take back home, Huzi didn't need to go with him to help, just chatted with Jinwen at home, and by the way, he helped wring clothes or something, and it didn't take long for two bamboo poles to be held up in the yard, and the clothes were hung up.

"Arwen, why don't I take you to the mountains to play?"

"I haven't mended my shoes yet, how can I go out." Jin Wen wore a pair of shoes left by the Wang family back then, and the shoes were too big to fit.

"What can I do, your original shoes are too torn, and the shoes at home are too big for you."

"It's okay, when I finish changing my clothes, I'll make two pairs of shoes out, Brother Huzi, my mother used to say that the shoes I made were good, and I'll make you and my uncle a pair when I go back."

"Hehe, my feet grow fast, and it costs shoes to walk, my mother used to make shoes for me when she was empty, and then she got sick and did it again when she was in good spirits, you see this pair on my feet, it was made by my mother, and there are two pairs hidden in the box, you don't have to make it for me first."

Since Wang was sick in bed, he couldn't work in the field, and whenever he had energy, he was busy making shoes for Wang Yuanshan and Wang Ruina's soles.

The two of them lost their mothers, especially Han Jinwen, who was even more red-eyed, and hurriedly picked up the dress cut in the morning, and sewed it up with flying needles. Wang Rui took out his small bow and arrow at the back of the house, and sat on the whetstone by the well and sharpened it.

"Brother Huzi, you can also shoot arrows? My brother will too. ”

"I knew how to shoot archery when I was seven years old, and I had shot a lot of hares and pheasants, and my father said that when I grew up, I would be a better hunter than him."

"Then I'll go with you next time, and you will teach me?"

"What a girl learns to shoot archery and hunt is a man's job. Women can't do elementary school, they only do laundry and cooking. ”

"Who said that women can only do laundry and cook, my father said that women also have to learn a lot of things, and I can also write and draw."

"You can also write?"

"yes, I know a lot of words."

"Awen, you are so amazing, the patriarch in our village knows how to read, and my father also knows some words, but I can't write anything but my own name."

"Shall I teach you, then?"

"Well, if it weren't for the money, my dad wanted me to be literate before, and he said he wanted me to be better than him."

"Brother Huzi, yesterday's money, if I find my brother, I will definitely pay you back...... Why don't you help me inquire and see who is going to find someone to do? I ......"

"You can't do these things in the village, you see you can't lift a bucket of water, it's okay, my family's debt is about to be paid off, don't worry. I heard that Mr. Teaching is very expensive, you teach me to read, can I pay back? ”

"Hmm." Han Jinwen nodded vigorously, and vowed in his heart that he must teach Wang Rui all the words he knew, but unfortunately Wang Rui is strong and smart, but he didn't have the tendon to read, so that for a long time later, he wanted to beat himself, why couldn't he think about it, and asked Ah Wen to teach literacy to pay for money? Even if you change clothes and cook rice, of course, that is the idea for the future, at present, Wang Rui is still immersed in the ambition of reading and hyphenating.

In the evening, Wang Yuanshan returned home and brought good news, the youngest son of the third aunt's cousin in the village, there was a guy in the neighboring village who worked in the town's cloth shop, and it happened that the shopkeeper was going to Yunzhou Mansion to buy goods, and brought a few guys, and the third aunt promised to give him a message and let him help go to Yunzhou to inquire and pay attention.