"Husband, since Jin'er has already known his mistake, why does he still live here for fifteen days?" For a few days in a row, seeing that the child was obviously unaccustomed to eating, but still trying to pick up rice in his mouth, Cai Yan, as a mother, was a little unbearable after all.

"As a man, you should keep your word, and the road you choose must be completed no matter what." Chen Mo was chopping wood, looking at his son who was feeding the chickens in the distance, and said with a smile: "What we teach children is only to learn martial arts?" ”

Cai Yan frowned lightly when he heard this: "What does the husband think he should teach?" ”

"Teach him to be a man, to be responsible for his words and deeds, filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, righteousness, and shame, these things are in the book, but he doesn't understand, there are some things, he will never really understand if he has not experienced them, learning is important, but why do you learn by ear? What's the use of learning? How to behave? That's what we really need to teach. Chen Mo looked at his son, took out a piece of pastry from his arms and handed it to Cai Yan and said, "Madame has also been tired these days, so eat some secretly, don't let him see it." ”

Cai Yan: "......"

is touched and angry, and his husband really doesn't feel sorry for his son at all.

Cai Yan nodded, tasted it, it was his favorite pastry, his heart was a little sweet, carefully rewrapped the pastry, saw Chen Mo's eyes, and said in a low voice: "Eat at night." ”

"Whatever you want." Chen Mo nodded and continued to chop wood.

There is not much work in winter, but if you are really born in a farmhouse, it is impossible to really have nothing at all, and it is impossible to eat as much as they do, three meals a day, ordinary people, even if the people have some surplus food under Chen Mo's rule, but most of the time it is two meals a day.

As for the pattern of eating, it naturally cannot be compared with the Chen Mansion, even if Chen Mo does not have too many strict requirements in terms of appetite, but the kitchen workers in the mansion are cooking for the royal family in the imperial court in the past, no matter the complexity of cooking skills or materials, the general rich and wealthy gentry are not comparable, Chen Jin grew up in this environment since he was a child, and suddenly began to eat coarse tea and light rice, and the kitchen workers have also changed from a specialized top chef to Chen Mo, who can barely cook the food, which feels very different.

Chen Jin didn't eat much at lunch, and after the meal, Chen Mo ran to the room to take a nap, and Cai Yan pulled Chen Jin aside.

"What's the matter with my mother? The child also has to tidy up the chicken coop. Xiao Chen Jin looked at his mother suspiciously.

"It's never too late to eat something and go." Cai Yan took out the package of pastries from his arms, took out a piece of pastry and handed it to Chen Jindao.

"Mother, this is ......" Chen Jin took it and swallowed his saliva.

"What my mother has on her, I'll eat it quickly." Cai Yan smiled.

"This is my mother's favorite date cake." Chen Jin hesitated, but handed it back to Cai Yan: "Let's eat it for my mother." ”

"Mother has eaten it." Cai Yan shook his head and chuckled.

"Father won't blame?" Chen Jin secretly glanced in the direction of the bedroom, and said with some concern.

"Eat quickly, and your father won't know." Cai Yan pushed the pastry and said.

"Hmm~" Chen Jin nodded, lowered his head and stuffed the pastry into his mouth, although it was less than half a month since he left home, and he never thought there was anything new about this pastry before, but when he ate it again at this moment, the taste was like the most delicious delicacy in the world, Chen Jin ate and ate, and tears fell down.

"Eat slowly." Cai Yan was a little distressed and helped Chen Jin wipe away his tears, this child has probably never suffered so much since he was born, right?

"Thank you, mother." After eating the pastry, Chen Jin licked his lips with some unfinished thinking and saluted his mother.

"Let's go rest for a while, and the chicken coop will be cleaned in the afternoon." Cai Yan wiped his son's mouth and said.

"Hmm."

After sending his son away, Cai Yan returned to the bedroom with a little weakness, the firewood in the fireplace was burning very strongly, Chen Mo seemed to have fallen asleep, Cai Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and also lay down on the couch to rest.

"Finished eating?" Chen Mo asked coldly, which startled Cai Yan.

"Husband...... Did you see that? Cai Yan patted his heart and said.

"You don't have to look to guess." Chen Mo took out another piece of jujube cake from his arms and handed it to her: "When I was young, my family was poor, and there were some delicious foods at home, and my mother and relatives left them to me. ”

"Husband already knows?" Cai Yan looked at Chen Mo and said dissatisfied.

"It's human nature, it's not hard to guess." Chen Mo patted the bed and said with a smile.

"Did the husband deliberately give the concubine to Jin'er?" Cai Yan glared.

"You gave it yourself, and it has nothing to do with me." Chen Mo shook his head: "I won't give it to him, Mrs. will give him food without permission, and he will be punished." ”

"How is the husband going to punish the concubine?" Cai Yan glanced at Chen Mo with disgust, he didn't know Chen Mo's thoughts, and he felt sorry for his son, but he wouldn't say it directly, let alone give it directly, but through his own food for his son, it was not a big deal, but there were a lot of calculations, this man...... Hehe~

"Madame will know in the evening." Chen Mo whispered in her ear.

Cai Yan snorted lightly, ignored him, and after eating the jujube cake, he lay with his back to Chen Mo and his clothes, Chen Mo didn't care, and thought about how to create difficulties for his son next, there is nothing to do this winter, it is not enough to experience the suffering of the people, maybe when the spring ploughing, he can make another radical method, so that his son can truly understand the difficulties of the people.

In Chen Mo's opinion, no matter what you do in the future, you must at least know how to plow the fields, how to recognize weather changes, and predict celestial phenomena.

In this way, even if Chen Mo fails one day and his family is in the middle of the road, he will not even know how to live.

"Husband." Cai Yan turned around again, looked at Chen Mo and said, "Husband let Jin'er suffer, don't you want to sharpen Jin'er with this?" ”

"As I said before, this hardship is what he has to suffer, and another one, suffering is suffering, and it has nothing to do with grinding people, how many people are suffering in this world, and which one has been sharpened?" Chen Mo said with a smile: "The world always thinks that people should endure hardships in order to grow, but what makes people grow is not hardship itself, hardship is hardship, what really makes people grow is to be able to consider how to make themselves not suffer hardships in this hardship, and hardship can indeed sharpen people's hearts and hone patience, but that's all." ”

"What the husband thinks is always different from others." Cai Yan nodded, feeling that Chen Mo's thoughts were often different from ordinary people, but thinking about it carefully, it made sense.

"So, don't hear people say that it's a good thing to endure hardship, and if you endure hardship for a year or two, you can indeed sharpen your mind, but if you endure hardship for a lifetime, it is incompetent." Chen Mo said indifferently.

"Just like my husband?" Cai Yan said with a smile.

"The husband is fortunate to meet the teacher, and the background is not too bad, it is to be able to have today, and the opportunities encountered in the life of the husband are afraid that ordinary people are afraid that it is difficult to meet, but even if it is not like me, a farmer, as long as he is willing to do it, make good neighbors, and find a way to cultivate more fields, at least become a rich family in this life, good luck, be a good man, three elders, and provide a better life for future generations. In this way, there will always be one generation in three or five generations who will get ahead. Chen Mo said with a smile, in his life, his luck is really good, he has been blessed by the fairy gods since he was a child, and since he was a child, he has been able to contact many things that his peers can't reach, and then he met Zang Hong to introduce himself into the official career, so that he has a further ladder.

But even if he didn't meet a teacher, Chen Mo felt that his life would not be too bad, maybe he would be able to achieve something meritorious by assisting Liu Bei or Cao Cao in Xuzhou at this moment.

Half a month, no less than a day, every day Xiao Chen Jin will be sent by Chen Mo to do something within his ability, in short, he will not be idle, when the half month expires, Chen Mo's family of three returns to Chang'an again, for Xiao Chen Jin, it is like a world away.

is the same as practicing martial arts every day, but compared to before, this time Xiao Chen Jin is much harder than before, if he doesn't understand something, he came to ask Chen Mo or Cai Yong, and the whole person looked much more stable than before leaving.

The year has passed, according to the new year number, it is already the second year of Jian'an, Guanzhong began to be busy preparing for spring ploughing, the new Chang'an plough has been in accordance with the previous words, as a reward to go down, but the people have not tried the convenience of the new plow, not keen on it, after all, the volume of the new plough is far less than the previous plough, and even some people have received a new plow, and the old plow is still used when ploughing.

It takes time to ferment this thing to promote, and when people really appreciate the changes in the new plow, they will naturally be sought after, and when the time comes, the Chang'an plough made here by the craftsman camp will be more, and it will be enough to supply demand.

Zang Hong has been in Xiliang for half a year, and his governance is quite good, and he even persuaded several Qiang tribes to reach trade relations with the Han people for Chen Mo, and established a fang market specially used to trade with the Qiang people, increasing exchanges between the Qiang and Han.

In Zang Hong's view, if you want to integrate the Qiang people, you don't have to forcibly integrate them, but you should increase exchanges between the two ethnic groups, so that the Qiang people can experience the strength and wealth of the Han people, so as to attract the Qiang people to take the initiative to integrate into the Han Dynasty.

In fact, the Han Dynasty has done this to the Xiongnu over the years, but unfortunately although it has also integrated a lot, it has not seen the Xiongnu weaken or disappear directly because of this.

The reason for this is that whether it is the Xiongnu or the Qiang people, they have their own patriarchs and heads, even if some of them are attracted by the Han and integrated into the Han people, but they also provide them with more resources so that they can encourage fertility, so that they may not really weaken them.

"But Mr. Ziyuan seems to have come up with a plan recently, which is quite interesting." When Li Ru talked to Chen Mo about Xiliang, he suddenly smiled.

"Oh?" Chen Mo was curious: "What did the teacher do?" ”

"If a Qiang woman can marry the Han family, whether it is a wife or a concubine, the government office will send a sheep or foal as a dowry on behalf of the Han family, and at the same time, the Han family will pay a tax of three percent a year as a dowry on the Qiang side. Li Ru said with a smile.

"This ...... It's a little ruthless! Hearing this, Chen Mo rubbed his temples and said, "Inform General Huaxiong to send all the sheep he stole last year to his mentor." ”

"Whoa!"