Early the next morning, Liu Chen called a few children up, since the last time Liu Ximing bought three pieces of cloth back, Liu Chen has been busy making a new dress for the whole family, and finally finished the clothes before the year.

Now that he has changed into new clothes, even if Liu Ximing doesn't care much about these as an adult, he is also happy when he touches the soft muslin fabric. Look at the third and fourth children, although they had already worn the new clothes before, and now the whole family looked very happy with the new clothes.

After the four of them were packed up, they went to the entrance of the village to stop like this, and the eyes of the villagers passing by were full of envy, Liu Chen was wearing a big red cross-collared long skirt, and the body was embroidered with patterns such as rich birds with white threads, Liu Ximing was wearing a blue blue-edged collared gown, and the two younger brothers were wearing the same cyan and blue-edged collared gown, which looked very energetic.

The family was in good spirits at happy events, and when they saw people, they congratulated them a few words, and went to Aunt Wu's house to pay New Year's greetings first.

Aunt Wu's family has also had a very happy year, Li Biao has earned six or seven dollars of silver in ten days with Liu Ximing, although it is not much, but looking at Liu Ximing's appearance, he plans to let Li Biao follow him all the time, and the second child of the Liu family has long been recognized by her as a person blessed by the gods, and her son's future has been settled all of a sudden, and this year will be smooth.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, she wanted to pull Li Biao to hurry to visit the New Year, after all, now the Liu family is also the main family, and the etiquette still has to be fulfilled, before she went out, she ran into Liu Chen's family coming over, and hurriedly welcomed them in and said: "New Year's Day, I also said to take Li Biao to your house to pay New Year's greetings, how do you know that you came to the door first, this is really rude, Biao'er is now following the tin to do things, then you can be regarded as the main family, how can there be a New Year's greeting for the main family to work!" ”

Liu Ximing laughed: "Good luck for the New Year, it's a New Year's greeting for your family!" Aunt Wu, you are too shabby to me, where am I the master's family, we can pay off the debts of this landlord's family, and it is still too early to be developed! Don't call it that! ”

Aunt Wu covered her mouth and smiled: "I said earlier that you are not an ordinary person, it is a matter of time!" ”

After greeting each other for the New Year, she pulled Li Biao again and said: "From today onwards, you are not allowed to call the second baby of Xi Ming anymore, you can also follow the third baby and call the second brother together!" ”

Li Biao buckled his head and muttered reluctantly: "He's younger than me!" ”

Aunt Wu hurriedly patted his head, and said with a look of hatred: "Call you that, you just listen to it, where is all this nonsense!" ”

Liu Ximing laughed at Li Biao's honest expression, politely said a few words but did not keep refusing, after so many days, he found that Li Biao was indeed a good subordinate, not to mention his strong figure, and he was very obedient and able to endure hardships, so he had already counted him as his own. Besides, he knows that he is going to do great things, and there will inevitably be many new people joining in the future, if he doesn't set up the rules now, it will inevitably affect his prestige!

However, he also sighed in his heart that Aunt Wu was really well versed in human affairs, thinking that after Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he came to climb the relationship with a fellow countryman, called him Zhu Chongba in front of the ministers, and told him the troubles he used to have in the township as a joke, but was cut down by Lao Zhu in a rage.

After bidding farewell to Aunt Wu's family, Liu Chen took his three children to visit other families in the village, including the family with a worried expression on Zhang Yucheng's face when he came to collect debts last time and several particularly poor families in the village, and gave some gifts and food respectively.

This is actually Liu Ximing's idea, especially after Zhang Yucheng's incident, he was shocked to realize that his family has a shallow foundation in the village, and there are not even many people who can help talk when something happens, but fortunately, it is not too late to pull the relationship now.

After visiting the village, the three of them hurried to their uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings, originally the Liu family should also pay New Year's greetings, but the Liu family is a small clan, and there have been no big names in the family before, so it is naturally difficult to gather a group of clansmen.

My uncle's family lives in Yuxi Township, next to Zhengyuan Township, which is only a few miles away.

Yuxi Township is in a hilly area, the houses in the township are scattered crookedly on a small hillside, Liu Chen pointed to a house and said that it was almost there, Liu Xi'an was tired of walking, and kept shouting: "Mother, you have said dozens of times that it is almost there!" It made everyone laugh.

When he arrived at the door of his uncle's house, Liu Ximing saw that this was also a brick house, and it seemed that his uncle's family was okay, at this time, a young man wearing a blue straight-collared robe and a net scarf walked out of it, and saw Liu Chen's party happily shouting into the house: "Father, mother, my aunt's family is here!" After speaking, he greeted him with a smile.

This shout alarmed the people in the house, and six or seven people came out at once, the first elderly woman should be Liu Ximing's grandmother Chen Zhushi, followed by the eldest uncle Chen Yiding, and the one standing next to him should be the eldest uncle Chen Zhou, and a middle-aged man came out of the side house, wearing a black collared shirt, a peasant dressed as the little uncle Chen Yining, and standing next to the little uncle Chen Li.

Liu Ximing slowly matched the memory and reality in his mind, and the young man he met at the beginning should be the son of the eldest uncle and his eldest cousin Chen Tianhua, and there was also a second son of the eldest uncle's family, Chen Tianqing, and the second uncle's son Chen Tianyong, standing behind several adults.

Grandmother Chen Zhu saw the four of them, very happy, said auspicious words to pull them into the house, and when she saw Liu Chen still carrying a large bag of things in her hand, she said unhappily: "What else do you bring when you go back to your mother's house, your family is not rich now!" ”

The little aunt hurriedly went to get the things, and said with a slight sourness: "Mother, don't you see that the little sister's family is wearing new clothes, this is developed, and it is also appropriate to bring some things back to my mother's house." ”

Liu Chen knows the temperament of his second sister-in-law, maybe because she is a farmer's daughter, she is not very generous, if she is allowed to take the share of the eldest brother's family, he quickly shirked and said: "Things can be sunk, Tianhua, you come and take the things, and everyone will divide them when you go back!" ”

The little sister-in-law Chen Li smiled and stopped talking, Liu Ximing's grandmother listened to what she said, and then took a closer look, isn't it, the daughter's family is wearing new clothes made of muslin fabric, it seems that it is really like what the second daughter-in-law said, the daughter's family is getting better, and the smile on her face is even worse, even saying a few good things, and pulling everyone to the hall to sit down and talk.

Liu Ximing sat down and remembered that the two uncles didn't seem to have separated, no wonder they still lived together, but his maternal grandfather didn't make much money back then, and if he wanted to build such a house for his second son, he was afraid that he would not be able to do it, and the two families could only make do with it first.

My little uncle is also a careless person, he didn't have to work hard to study, and he didn't find any other livelihood, so he could only farm as a farmer to earn a living. The eldest uncle is still a child, so he married the daughter of a scholar, and the younger uncle couldn't get up and down, so he could only find a peasant daughter in the village.

The family sat in the house and exchanged a few words, Liu Chen took out two taels of silver from his arms and handed it to the eldest brother Chen Yiding: "Last year, the family was really sad, thanks to the help of the eldest brother and sister-in-law, lent my family two taels of silver, and then survived. ”

Liu Ximing and Li Biao sold vegetables in the city for more than ten days, and they could get two or three thousand Wen in their accounts every day, and when they repaid the Zhang family's money, and then removed other expenses, there were more than four taels of silver left, which were still taken out.

Chen Yiding saw that the little sister's family was dressed, but he didn't postpone it, but said to Liu Ximing hesitantly: "The last time I met you selling vegetables in Fucheng, can you make a living from this?" ”

Liu Ximing had discussed with Liu Chen before he came, and now that his family's foundation is unstable, it is better to let people know about the things that the gods help each other, so as not to cause trouble if people talk too much and leak their mouths, and then replied: "Selling vegetables is one of them, and there are other livelihoods, so I can barely support my family." ”

Afraid that Chen Yiding would ask deeply, he hurriedly pulled the topic away: "There is another thing to ask my uncle for advice today, my father died two years ago, the family was embarrassed, and my brothers broke off their studies. ”

Chen Yiding was distracted by these words, stroked his beard happily a few times and said with a smile: "Okay, good, good, you have the heart to learn, my sister-in-law has a successor, if you really succeed in learning, your mother will be able to enjoy happiness in the future." ”

He thought about it again and said: "Xixian Zion is still young, but there is no hurry, you are five out of ten this year, and you have studied at your father's place before, and now you should go to study for a career, this place of study really needs to be cautious!" ”

"It is said that I am also a teacher in the township, and you can study in my museum, but first, the place of work is quite far away, and it is inconvenient to go back and forth every day, and secondly, although I think that the meaning of the text and scriptures is not inferior to that of ordinary students, but I have not been able to pass the test, if I teach you, I am afraid that it is just a mistake for people! Fortunately, as far as I know, there is a famous teacher in Zhengyuan Township. Zhengyuan Township in the big family Zhang, in order to educate the children of the clan, has a clan school, and hired Zhou Liangcai and Zhou Xiucai, who are middle-aged in the county, if you worship him as a teacher, you must be able to achieve success! ”

It was not surprising that Liu Ximing heard that it was the Zhang clan's genealogy, the Zhang family in Zhengyuan Township was originally a big clan, but his Zhang family's ethnology was said to only recruit the children of the Zhang family, but how did the three brothers get in, so he told his uncle about this doubt.

Chen Yiding smiled slightly: "It's okay, the Zhang family has lived in the township for a long time, in order to be a good fellow villager, in addition to the children of the Zhang family, other school-age and intelligent children in the township can also study, but it needs Zhou Xiucai's consent, I met him in the county, some incense favors, I will repair a book later, you will present it to him when you apprentice, or can help you!" But it's not cheap to want to bind it, so you can do it yourself! ”

Liu Xi was overjoyed, this trip was really right, and he quickly asked for some etiquette and required items to visit the teacher.

As for the bundle, this is also expected, children like my uncle are generally taught to learn, and the annual income is no more than twenty or thirty taels, since Zhou Liangcai is a showman, he teaches scriptures, and his annual income is at least sixty taels, fortunately, the school is generally open after the first month, and now there is still a month, and he still has some time.

Grandmother Chen Zhushi happily sat on the side and chatted with her daughter about family life, and when she saw that Liu Xi ordered them to finish chatting about business, she brought her three grandsons to have a good meal.