It's still early, and I'm not in a hurry to go back, Shen Qingqing saw that Xiaodouding was so smart, and a thought suddenly sprouted in his heart.

She pulled Xiaodouding to sit on the steps: "Haohao, is it okay for my mother to give you the multiplication formula?" ”

"What is a multiplication formula?" Xiao Douding asked innocently.

This ...... "This is something that only exists in modern times, Shen Qingqing didn't know how to explain it for a while, and finally could only say." This is a method of arithmetic, does Xiao Douding want to learn? ”

"Good!" Xiao Douding agreed again and again.

"One by one, one by one." Shen Qingqing said, still holding his fingers and gesturing.

Xiao Douding learned from her and said, "One by one, one by one." ”

"One-two-two, two-two-four." Shen Qingqing continued to teach.

She said a word, and Xiao Douding followed suit.

When Shen Qingqing just wanted to repeat, he saw Xiao Douding waving his hand anxiously: "Oh, mother, I can do all these things, can you teach me some other things?" ”

"You're all about it?" Shen Qingqing couldn't believe it.

I saw Xiao Douding put his hands behind his back, shook his head and said: "One by one gets one, one two gets two, two two gets four......"

Shen Qingqing looked at Xiao Douding's appearance and was surprised, this child is very smart, he only learned it after teaching it twice.

Seeing that Xiao Douding is a lot older, there is no way out for a bunch of bare-bottomed children to play at home every day, and reading is the right way.

Thinking of this, Shen Qingqing cleaned up the vendors selling glutinous rice dumplings, took Xiao Douding's hand and went to the Four Treasures Shop in the Study.

The owner of the shop, who is also a scholar, saw Shen Qingqing leading Xiao Douding in, not only did he disdain, but said very kindly: "Little friend, what do you want to buy?" ”

Xiao Douding recognized his life and hurriedly hid behind Shen Qingqing, causing the boss to laugh.

Shen Qingqing also smiled and rubbed Xiao Douding's head: "Boss, my child is not young anymore, I am thinking about reading, are there any enlightenment books to read?" ”

"Naturally, there is." The boss walked over to the bookshelf and took out a book and handed it to her.

"This is the Analects?" Shen Qingqing opened the book and looked at it, there were still annotations on the Analects, which were very easy to understand.

The boss also didn't expect a village woman to be able to read and write, so he couldn't help but be surprised: "This is the Analects, suitable for children who have just started to learn." ”

Shen Qingqing looked good, and bought some pen, ink and paper, as well as another basic writing book, which alone cost a hundred texts.

The investment in education is not too much, but Shen Qingqing thinks that it is nothing, but when Xiaodouding sat on the ox cart back to the village, he kept saying: "Mother, these things are too expensive, right?" What use can we do to buy something that expensive? ”

The child is still young and does not understand that it is normal for these to be understood, and it is also filial piety to save money for the mother.

Shen Qingqing looked at the gradually changing sunset in the distance, there were occasionally one or two birds passing by in the sky, the mountains and the horizon in the distance bordered each other, stretching endlessly, her body was bumping up and down with the ox cart: "There is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book." ”

Xiao Douding doesn't understand this sentence now, but she will always understand in the future, she is not in a hurry.

I bought a fish from the market today, two people can't eat it all, Shen Qingqing divided the fish into two, put the fish head and tail with rice wine to remove the fish, and put ginger and garlic into the pot to cook fish soup and drink.

The body of the fish is first fried in large oil, and then braised fish is made in a thick red sauce.

After a while, the fragrance filled the whole room, and Shen Qingqing tasted the fish soup: "Not bad, delicious." ”

Putting the spoon down, Shen Qingqing wondered, if Xiao Douding usually smelled like a kitten, why was there no trace now?

Shen Qingqing looked into the courtyard and saw Xiao Douding drawing something on the ground with a stick, and when he got closer, he realized that he was actually writing on the ground with a stick.

"Haohao, didn't my mother buy you paper? How do you write on the ground? Shen Qingqing asked puzzled.

Xiao Douding's face was round: "That paper is too expensive, I want to write on the ground and then write on the paper." ”

This kid is so sensible, Shen Qingqing didn't feel warm in his heart, and rubbed his head: "Hao Hao, my mother cooked something delicious for you, hurry up and eat it." ”

"Okay!" Little Douding put down the stick and jumped into the house.

There have been a lot of things in the past two days, although they have been sending glutinous rice dumplings with spiritual spring water to Master Liu's mansion, but the quantity has been very small, and Shen Qingqing took the time to do more before sending them to Master Liu's mansion.

When he saw Master Liu, Shen Qingqing felt that the person in front of him seemed to have a different look, before Master Liu was a lot fatter than Shen Qingqing, but now he has lost a lot of weight.

Shen Qingqing hurriedly said, "Master Liu, I see that you have lost a lot of weight these days." ”

Master Liu was eating sauce elbows, and the smile on his face was almost closed when he saw Shen Qingqing coming over: "That's not it, I've weighed it in the past few days, and I've lost six pounds." ”

Master Liu praised one sentence after another: "Your glutinous rice dumplings are really a baby, not to mention that they are delicious, you can lose weight after eating this, and there are no side effects on your body, which is really good, really good." ”

This old man Liu is greedy, and he didn't listen to some weight loss before, but either he has to exercise, or he has side effects after eating it, but this glutinous rice dumpling is different, there is no pain in the body, and he loses weight if he eats and drinks the sea every day.

This is really a treasure!

Shen Qingqing saw that Master Liu was happy like this, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, there is no shortage of rich people in this world who spend a lot of money, and there is no shortage of rich people who want to lose weight.

The smile in Master Liu's mouth has not stopped: "Big sister, how many of these things you will send in the future, as long as there is, I will never be short of you." ”

"Okay."

Shen Qingqing agreed, took a few taels of silver from Master Liu and left.

The chestnuts on this mountain have been picked by the villagers, and if there are more people, they will not make money, and Shen Qingqing does not want to do this kind of thankless work, Xiao Douding has a high desire to write, and the weather is very hot, Shen Qingqing simply stole a few days of leisure and accompanied Xiao Douding at home.

One afternoon, the heat had just dissipated, and at a rare cool time, Shen Qingqing took out a needlework and set up a table to cool off in the yard, and Xiaodouding sat next to him and wrote very well-behaved.

Suddenly, Xiao Douding bit the pen: "Mother, what do these two words mean?" ”

"What?" Shen Qingqing went to look at it, and saw the words cause and effect written crookedly on the paper.

These two words are very simple, but when put together, they are difficult to explain.

"Haohao, do you think your current life is better, or is it better than your previous life?" Shen Qingqing asked.

Xiao Douding nodded: "Of course my life is good now, now I have meat and food to eat every day and new clothes to wear, but I didn't have anything before." ”

Shen Qingqing nodded: "So, we went to pick chestnuts, sell chestnuts, and make glutinous rice dumplings before, which was very hard, but the hard work will also pay off, and the reward is that we now have something to eat and clothes to wear." ”

"What we give is the cause, and what we get is the effect."

Xiaodouding was too small, and Shen Qingqing didn't want to give him any complicated truths, so he just said it in the most simple and understandable way.

Xiao Douding thought for a while, and just nodded: "Okay, mother, I understand." ”

"Hao Hao is so good." Shen Qingqing rubbed Xiao Douding's head, and just when he wanted to do the inside of his hand, he only heard a voice outside. "Is this Shen Qingqing's sister's house?"

Through the fence, I saw two people standing outside, the clothes on their bodies were exactly the same color and style, this was the guy in Master Liu's house.

"Yes, yes." Shen Qingqing hurriedly opened the door and invited people in.

After drinking a glass of water, the guy explained his intention: "Sister, you haven't sent sugar and fried chestnuts for several days, my lord thinks too much." ”

In order to facilitate contact, Shen Qingqing left his address, but he didn't expect the guy to come over because of this matter.

Speaking of this, Shen Qingqing was a little embarrassed: "Big brother, it's not that I don't give it to Master Liu, but these chestnuts have been picked by others, and I don't have raw materials if I want to make sugar-fried chestnuts." ”

"It's a difficult thing to do." The two men looked at each other, and it was not too much to bother, and after half an hour they went back.

Shen Qingqing originally thought that this matter was over, but he didn't expect the guy to come again the next day, and he was carrying a large basket of chestnuts.

The guy wiped his sweat: "Sister, you don't know, no one will make this sugar-fried chestnuts except you, the master really thinks about it, so let's give you these chestnuts, you come to make sugar-fried chestnuts, this silver two will not be given to you less." ”

This is naturally good, Shen Qingqing hurriedly agreed: "Don't worry, as long as you have these chestnuts, I will send them to you tomorrow." ”

As soon as the guy left, Shen Qingqing began to prepare, first took out the big iron pot, this time put about half a catty of sugar, and then put the chestnuts soaked in water, stir-fry on high heat for half an hour, and the hot and soft and glutinous chestnuts were ready.

This chestnut tastes the best when eaten hot, and Shen Qingqing didn't delay at all, so he sent it to Master Liu.

Master Liu smiled when he saw this sugar-fried chestnut, and only nodded and said, "Okay, I think I've been thinking about this for a long time." ”

This time, Shen Qingqing earned two taels of silver again, and the time in the family was getting better and better.