Chapter 253: Miscellaneous Matters
More than ten days have passed, and tomorrow will be the day of building a house.
In the past ten days, Li Ziyu has almost been busy, and several things that need to be done urgently have been completed in the past few days.
That day, Bujiu sent Zhang Cuihua's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law back, and they immediately returned home non-stop. When I got home, it was already mid-hour, and I was just in time for dinner.
Regardless of the fact that it was getting late after eating, Li Ziyu led everyone to plant the fifty dragon tree saplings brought back by the river.
Although the ground has not completely thawed, the ground is not so hard. Moreover, the soil by the creek did not freeze, and it was easy to dig a tree pit.
Fifty saplings sparsely surrounded the river, adding a touch of color to the river's landscape.
The reason why Li Ziyu planted the saplings by the river is because the water in the creek does not freeze in winter. After all, the dragon sapling arrived here from the south after transportation, and I was afraid that the sapling would be damaged after a toss. The soil along the creek is fertile, and the survival rate of the saplings is higher.
The next day, Li Ziyu took Bu Jiu, Aunt and Xiao Ou to refine a few more bags of potassium nitrate. Now that the grenade shell has been manufactured, the previous preparation of gunpowder with potassium nitrate is not enough.
Because an agreement has been reached with the Lei family, the grenade is produced, and both sides have half of it. Then the gunpowder has to be prepared intensively, and it is necessary to find time to fill the gunpowder. If it is made as soon as possible, it will be relieved as soon as possible.
With enough potassium nitrate, Li Ziyu is also a lot more steady.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, Xiaoshan and Xiaowen sent them to the Qian Family School and officially started the life of the school.
The class time of the Qian Family School: the beginning of the hour - the beginning of the unitary time, with a break of half an hour in between. Drop by for lunch. The school provides students with a lunch at noon, and the meal money is naturally paid by the students themselves.
Moreover, the Qian Family Academy has also waived the tuition and miscellaneous fees for the top three, and they only need to pay the cost of books. This saves a lot of money. The annual tuition and miscellaneous fees for each student are twenty taels, and two people are forty taels.
This move has envied many poor students. You must know that twenty taels of silver is not something that ordinary people can get, and the family has to tighten their belts to save money for a few years to save it, and this is still a family with good conditions.
Most people don't have enough to eat, where is there spare money for their children to study? There are also unwilling parents who also want their children to have a good time. Just look for another private school in town. The tuition fees of the masters in other private schools are not so high, and they only cost two taels of silver a year, and the family can still save them.
Xiaoshan and Xiaowen put on new clothes and shoes made of muslin made by their aunt. Even the hair on his head was freshly tied.
The style of the new schoolbag is Li Ziyu's reference to the style of the modern shoulder bag, which was still very novel in ancient times, and it looks very brilliant.
Xiao Shan and Xiao Wen each wore a belt embroidered with exquisite patterns, and a simple and generous purse was tied. There were a few taels of silver in the purse. It was lunch money for them.
Such a dozen linings. The two younger brothers have red lips and white teeth, and they are handsome from the beginning, but they are really two beautiful young men.
Li Ziyu arranged for Bu Jiu to pick up and drop off at the hour every day, so that the safety of the two younger brothers was guaranteed to a certain extent.
Li Ziyu of the carriage specially went to the mountain pimple village to find Mi Laohan to add a roof and a front canopy, and also made rainproof measures. It not only protects against cold and warmth, but also prevents sun and rain.
The front canopy is a cover added to the front of the carriage, and the position of the coachman and the back half of the horse are covered with a canopy, so that even if it rains heavily, he can hurry.
Li Ziyu's idea. Let the Mi family admire it from top to bottom. Mi Laohan's sons asked to buy the idea, but Li Ziyu didn't ask for their money. Just let them use whatever they want.
Mi Laohan's family is very grateful, plus Li Ziyu saved Mi Laohan last time. Therefore, I didn't ask for anything for the canopy money.
Li Ziyu also responded to them. Mi Laohan's family is very simple and kind. If you insist on giving money, you will seem to treat them as outsiders.
The guys from the Erliang stoneware shop sent the fifteen large, medium and small coarse porcelain jars that Li Ziyu bought last time in three ox carts.
Li Ziyu paid the money and was very happy in her heart. Because she was going to take advantage of the fact that she hadn't started building the house in the past few days and made the soybean paste. Because she found that the sauce ball face had already grown hair, the long hair meant that the sauce ball face she made was successful.
When Li Ziyu gave way to send Xiaoshan and Xiaowen to them, he bought 200 catties of soybeans from the town, and this year Li Ziyu is going to make more sauce. If you really do a good job, you can also go to the town to sell it and earn some pocket money.
Making soybean sauce is actually very simple, that is, the noodles of the sauce balls made last time are crushed, broken and then ground into broken noodles, and set aside for later use.
Fry the soybeans in a large pot, and then add water, peppercorns, ingredients, and ginger to another pot, and after cooling, pour them into the vat you bought, and match them according to the ratio of soybeans and sauce balls to five to one, fill with warm water and stir evenly, and it is best to add more water, so that the fermented sauce is more delicious.
When Li Ziyu made sauce, she mobilized almost the whole family. Bu Jiu and Li Ziyu were responsible for handling the sauce ball noodles because they had the strength in their hands, and they made the dumplings into powder.
My aunt and Xiao Ou were in charge of fried soybeans and boiled soybeans, and Xiao Wu, Xiaohu and Xiaolan were also busy because they thought they were fresh.
Because the two elder brothers have gone to school, there are three small ones left in the family, although they are also studying every day, but the effect is definitely different.
Li Ziyu didn't force them to study, and he would enter the school hall when Xiao Wu was seven years old next year. As long as he didn't forget everything he usually learned, Li Ziyu went with them.
Soybean sauce Li Ziyu made five large jars, and three medium jars, a total of eight jars of sauce. Ferment for two or three days, then add salt to it little by little.
Li Ziyu also boiled a lot of radishes, added them to a few mouthfuls of sauce jars, and in a few days you can eat rotten melon seeds.
After the sauce was ready, Li Ziyu found Wang Ruiqing, Wang Chunqiu and his son, and set up two seedbeds on the northwest side of the yard, which were about one meter wide and about two meters long, ready to cultivate sweet potato seedlings.
The bottom of the two seedbeds was covered with a layer of manure, watered, and covered with a layer of soil, and the sweet potato seeds were arranged three centimeters apart and covered with soil. The thickness of the soil is about 2 to 3 cm, and should not exceed 5 cm, so as not to affect the emergence of seedlings.
Around the seedbed, there is a wall of fire running through the seedbed, which has to be burned day and night to keep the temperature of the seedbed to 25 to 30 degrees.
On top of the seedbed, a small roof is added to maintain the temperature of the seedbed. It is also covered with a layer of tarpaulin close to the soil to facilitate the cultivation of seeds.
When the weather is good, you can lift the oilcloth and the two ends of the small roof to ventilate to prevent the seedlings from burning at high temperatures.
The sweet potatoes bought from Yang Dahu are very precious sweet potato seeds. No one has grown sweet potatoes in the Daye Dynasty, and I don't know how high the yield of sweet potatoes is.
Therefore, Li Ziyu is determined to grow sweet potatoes, not only to improve the grain planting structure here, but also to make the people here have enough to eat.
The yield of sweet potatoes is very high in modern times, and the minimum yield per mu can reach 1,600 kilograms, that is, the production capacity per mu can reach more than 3,000 catties.
This yield is unthinkable here.
Because the house was about to be built, Li Ziyu gave way to take advantage of the Xiaoshan to send them and bought a few large pots and matching steaming drawers for cooking or steaming steamed buns.
He also let him take the time to go to Wang Tiehammer's house, and asked him to take the time to make two iron sheets for the gate of the new courtyard. Because the last time Li Ziyu went, he patronized and watched the grenade, so he forgot about the iron sheet.
There is also Zhao Zhongli, there will be a lot of people who will help with the construction of the house at home, it is very inconvenient for him to be at home again, and his health has improved a lot. Therefore, Li Ziyu asked Bu Jiu to find Wu Fan to find the idea of placing Zhao Zhongli. Later, I heard that Zhao Zhongli voluntarily entered the training base to receive devilish training.
Since he woke up, Zhao Zhongli didn't ask his mother, probably because he knew that he was already more than lucky.
Regarding Zhao Zhongli's choice, Li Ziyu did not comment. Everyone is responsible for their own choices, and hopefully he won't regret it this time.
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