Chapter 56: Completion
With the help of a plough cart, the wasteland soon became one after another, and the man followed behind and threw seeds into the pit, peeled off the edges with his feet, filled the pit with the soil next to it, and stepped on it gently, and it was finished.
Wu Qiuzhi had never been on the ground, but the simple task of throwing seeds was quickly started, and Wu Xia Zhi was to accurately fill in the soil and bury the seeds under his feet.
Most of the day, all three acres of land were planted.
The house was completed, the well was drilled in the corner of the front yard, and a low pergola was built with a wooden frame to block the terroir and prevent people from falling down, but the furniture was not in place. The furniture is not in a hurry, how can the house be dried and dried, plus the grandfather they have no news, and the furniture of each household is still more appropriate to wait for them to arrive.
As for the completion banquet, Wu Xingzhou entrusted it to the three aunts who cooked, which was regarded as a completely outsourced flowing water banquet, with four cold dishes, four hot dishes, one soup and a little snack per table, and the staple food was brown rice and mixed noodles. The cold dishes are mixed with radish, mixed with pea sprouts, mixed with pig's head meat, vinegar dipped in cold duck slices, and the hot dishes are stir-fried ground ears with green onions, stir-fried borgles, scrambled eggs with courgettes, and stewed fragrant meat. The soup is fish soup, and the dim sum is steamed bean cake.
This table of food is considered to be the best in the village, half meat and half vegetarian, which is much richer than the food of the village households who usually do not see meat at all.
The Song brothers helped the three brothers of the martial arts family to receive the neighbors together, and opened the door of the isolation living room of the practice hall of the main building, and the huge empty space could just set up ten tables. The old village chief, Cheng Zijing and several elders in the village were the main table, and Steward Cheng couldn't share the table with the master due to identity problems, so he was intimately invited to the side by Wu Xingzhou, and Wu Qiuzhi, Wu Nuandong and the Song brothers were accompanied.
The main family should have been the last to be served, but the children of the martial arts family were young and no one was strict with this rule, plus the martial family ate and drank generously, less than half of the people in the village survived the famine because they earned the money of the martial family, and no one would find fault with anything.
The rest of the meal was distributed to the three aunts and the Song brothers who hosted the wedding banquet according to the rules, and the Wu brothers and sisters did not leave a soup or a meal, which made people praise their generosity, etc., of course, like Widow Zheng's mouth, naturally she can't say good things, it's nothing more than that the Wu brothers and sisters don't know how to live, and they waste food at a young age learning from the big families in the town. provoked the three aunts who held the banquet to be furious, and the scolded Widow Zheng pulled a few babies and fled.
The martial arts brothers and sisters ignored these chores, although they spent money to hire someone to host the flowing water banquet, but there was no adult in the family who was still very tired and worried, and a few children rested for a whole day before they eased their spirits.
The private school introduced by Shopkeeper Luo is separated from the location of the two streets of Tongji Pharmacy, a slippery blue brick compound, and the sound of reading aloud comes from the depths of the street.
Wu Nuandong helped several brothers tidy up their shirts and stepped forward and knocked on the door.
With a 'squeak', a teenager dressed as a fourteen or fifteen-year-old scholar came out of the slightly open door.
"Who are you looking for?" The scholar poked his head out and didn't open the whole door.
"This little brother, we are looking for Mr. Private School, and I want to go to school!" Wu Xingzhou stepped forward and said politely.
The scholar didn't speak, looked at them suspiciously, and said disdainfully: "This is the biggest and best private school in Pingji Town, do you know how many bundles you have to pay here in a month?" Let's go, don't mess around! The scholar sneered at Wu Xingzhou's clothes, coarse old clothes, and saw that they were poor ghosts with no money.
Wu Nuandong didn't laugh angrily, grabbed Wu Xingzhou and Wu Xia Zhi who were angry and wanted to fight back, and asked Wu Qiuzhi, who was unhappy on the side, "Third brother, does this eldest brother also know a lot of knowledge when he is on an errand in the academy?" ”
Wu Qiuzhi was stunned for a moment, and then after seeing Nuan Nuan's obedient little expression, he replied with a smile, "It should be!" ”
The scholar looked slightly stunned, and then saw the little girl untie the strange-looking small cloth bag on her back with a smile, put the two straps on her shoulders, and smiled sweetly at the scholar, "Big brother, you are so smart, can you help me see how good it looks on its back?" ”
was praised by a beautiful little girl, the scholar was secretly happy, but his face pouted in disgust, "It's all mopped, it's too low." ”
Wu Nuandong suddenly realized, "Oh! I thought that the dog's eyes were just looking at people low, but they weren't looking at things high! ”
The three brothers laughed after a moment's thought, turned their childish faces blue, and pointed at Wu Nuandong as if they had been greatly insulted, "vulgar, barbaric, and ignorant...... ...... with sharp teeth at a young age"
Before the words fell, Wu Qiuzhi sneered, his plain and gentle eyes flashed with lust, and he and his two brothers tacitly approached the scholar together.
Wu Xingzhou folded his sleeves and threatened: "If you dare to speak foul language, the three of us brothers are not vegetarians." ”
"With a scholar like you, you are worthy of going to the best academy, even if there are silver taels, we don't bother to study in your academy!" Wu Qiuzhi pulled the two elder brothers over, and under the slightly frightened and contemptuous expression of the scholar, he turned his head and left.
Wu Nuandong followed the three brothers in disappointment, but he didn't expect that the shopkeeper Luo, who looked very reliable, would introduce such an unreliable place.
The four children didn't hear the door closing, but they didn't walk a few steps before they heard someone calling, "Stay!" The voice was soft and elegant, and then the door opened, and out walked a twenty-four or five-year-old gray-robed man, the male scholar was dressed as an ordinary person, and his gentle eyebrows were the biggest highlight on his face, and the whole person looked very comfortable and friendly, adding a lot of color to the plain facial features.
The man hurried out of the door, first apologized to the four children, and then reprimanded the scholar a few words, perhaps because he was too modest, the scholar lowered his head and complained disapprerovingly, "The young master always cares about money, and our family is about to run out of food." Let the young lady know that it's time to scold the little ones again. ”
The man's face froze, thinking of his little sister's cold face and nagging and the recent situation, he was also a little embarrassed, looking at the clothes of Wu Nuandong and the four of them, he was really embarrassed to open his mouth to talk about the problem of restraint.
Watching the man's gentle smile gradually fade away, and a white face slowly blushed, Wu Nuandong really thought it was interesting, although the scholar was a bit of a thing, but this master should be an honest scholar with a kind heart.
Wu Qiuzhi took a step forward, "The master is polite, the four of my brothers and sisters heard that Shangwen Private School has the best master in the town, so they came to study. ”
Wu Xingzhou took out four taels of silver and handed it to the man with both hands, the scholar behind his eyes lit up, took the first step to take it for the man, and said with a smile: "Enough is enough, our Shangwen private school will not add silver to students casually, and said that one or two a month is one or two a month." ”
The man's face turned even redder, even though he was very uncomfortable with the scholar's attitude of seeing money, thinking that the predicament at home was not a pedantic person, he coughed lightly, "Come in!" ”