Mother Chen, like a general returning from victory, returned to the room refreshed and high-spirited, rushed to make a schoolbag for Zhu Ping'an, and deliberately said a word to the eldest aunt and the fourth aunt when she entered the house. Zhu Ping'an tied the old ox to the cowshed, and quickly followed Chen into the room.

Outside the east wing, the fourth aunt and the eldest aunt still didn't believe it and said some cool things. If there is anything that does not study and cultivate, it must be that Bi'er wants to learn to lie, and whether the master is playing with Bi'er or something. Obviously, they can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour, and they hope that others can't get what they can't get, so they are psychologically balanced.

After Chen returned to the room, he was a little worried, and he couldn't make his schoolbag himself. In this era, scholars' schoolbags were small portable boxes made of wood or bamboo, and in order to highlight the grade, they paid attention to the materials and workmanship. It's all carpentry, and Chen agreed in the yard probably carried away with joy.

"That, Biao'er, the schoolbag is waiting for your father to come and make it for you, your father has done a good job of carpentry." Chen said sarcastically.

Zhu Ping'an rolled his eyes when he heard this, he has been carrying a schoolbag for more than ten years in modern times, and he has long been accustomed to wrapping it in cloth, who still uses wooden, so heavy.

So, Zhu Ping'an stretched out his hand and gestured, and said in his mouth, "The wooden one is too heavy, I want to make it of cloth, any cloth." Just use a piece of cloth that is flat, sew it up, and it can hold things, and then sew the straps on both sides for me to hang around my neck. ”

Chen is also a person who is used to needlework, and he understands it under Zhu Ping'an's comparison.

"You stinky boy will instruct the old lady." Chen scolded in his mouth, but with a smile on his face, he turned out a piece of linen from the cabinet, and the scissors moved around, and the flying needles were threaded.

Soon, a schoolbag took shape in Chen's hands, the shape of this schoolbag is almost the same as the modern schoolbag of the tenth century, but there are some differences, there is no extra pattern pattern, and the style is more concise and generous. The schoolbag is not big, Zhu Ping'an tried to hang it diagonally on his shoulders just right, the length and width of the schoolbag are just right, it doesn't seem big, but the space is just right, enough for Zhu Ping'an to put books and pen, ink, paper and inkstone in it in the future.

"Thank you, mother." Zhu Ping'an carried his schoolbag and looked at Chen's thumb that he had just accidentally pricked because he was in a hurry, and said very movingly.

Chen said angrily, "I'm just not angry with you." ”

After a while, the Zhu family came back one after another. First of all, my grandfather walked through the door with his hand behind his back, and he was still holding his dry tobacco stick in his hand, and when he heard his grandmother tell him that Zhu Ping'an was favored by his master and received free income from Mengxue, his grandfather's whole person seemed to be drunk, and his excited old face was flushed, and he said three good words in a row, good, good.

Followed by the little fourth uncle, the little fourth uncle was full of alcohol, staggered over, the first thing he said when he entered the door was, I was drinking with friends outside, and there was no need to call me for dinner, after saying that, the little fourth uncle staggered into the room, and hit the door. At first glance, you can tell that you have drunk too much. Coming outside again, although the little fourth aunt was angry, she still hurriedly followed and helped, and took the opportunity to pinch the little fourth uncle a few times to let him out.

Seeing this, his grandfather was so angry that he couldn't wait to go up and kick him twice, and scolded him in his mouth, "This is unproductive goods." ”

Grandmother didn't follow, dragged her grandfather to prevent him from kicking the old man, and spoke for the fourth uncle, "Man, which one is not out to socialize, which also shows that our fourth child has a lot of good friends." ”

"What kind of friends you have, they are all a group of fox friends who are not doing well, you know that you are used to him!" The grandfather was angry enough, and the grandmother was counted.

Father Zhu Shouyi and eldest brother Zhu Pingchuan were the last, both of them carried baskets on their backs, and today they went into the mountains again.

"Ah, the second brother has come into the mountain."

The little fourth aunt, who was supposed to be serving the fourth uncle in the house, rushed out with a snort as if she had smelled a bloody wolf, which made Chen's face, who had just stepped out of the east wing, darken.

There are quite a lot of things in Zhu's father's back basket, two live rabbits, a pheasant, and a lot of bamboo shoots and mountain mushrooms, a lot. In Zhu Pingchuan's back basket, there are also a lot of things, but they are all wild flowers, which makes the little fourth aunt a little unhappy, why is Dachuan also infected by Yu'er, what are you doing with so many wild flowers.

"I want it." Zhu Ping'an came out with his little short legs and solved the doubts of the little fourth aunt.

Grandmother and Aunt Xiao Si were not interested in wild flowers, so they put everything else together like last time, and threw the basket of wild flowers to Zhu Ping'an on the side.

Zhu Ping'an surrounded the basket full of wild flowers, smiling like a fool.

The eldest aunt slandered on the side, and a little wildflower was happy to be so stupid, that is, she was learned, how could she compare with our handsome children.

When Zhu's father and eldest brother heard that Zhu Ping'an was selected by Sun Lao Xiucai to study for free, they were overjoyed, and Zhu's father was even more happy to grab Zhu Ping'an with both hands and fly in the air a few times, almost not throwing Zhu Ping'an out.

"Mother, the master said it was free, so we can't just go. I thought, tomorrow I will send this pheasant and some wild mushrooms picked from the mountains to Sun Laoxiu to try it. After Zhu Shouyi let go of Zhu Ping'an, he discussed with his grandmother.

The grandmother looked reluctant, and before she could say anything about refusal, the grandfather spoke.

"That's the reason, the second child is right, these mountain mushrooms and game are worth a few dollars, and they will be brought to others." Grandfather nodded repeatedly.

"Why do you use so much?" Grandmother was not pleased.

"What do you know about a woman!" Grandfather interrupted with a dark face, "Listen to me, go tomorrow, take it with you." ”

The dinner in the evening was naturally harmonious, and my grandfather drank two more glasses for the first time, and he felt a little drunk.

"How good this cloth would be if it could make new clothes for Biao'er, it's all because you can't spend money anywhere."

After dinner, in the east wing, Chen looked at the white-bottomed pink cotton cloth at the head of the bed and began to complain about Zhu's father.

Father Zhu naturally said yes again and again, with a black face full of smiles.

Outside the window, the eldest brother Dachuan is helping Zhu Ping'an to fetch water and take a bath, and tomorrow he will learn from his teacher, so he has to wash up well. In ancient times, when performing sacrifices or major events, it was necessary to bathe, change clothes, live alone, and abstain from lust to show sincere respect, and these activities were called fasting. It doesn't need to be so complicated to learn from a teacher, but bathing and bathing cannot be omitted, and it is not to follow the local customs.

"Oh, by the way, I also got married with a blue cotton sheet, you quickly turn it out for me, and I'll give Yu'er new clothes." Chen, who was complaining about Zhu's father, suddenly thought of it, and immediately urged Zhu's father to rummage through the boxes and cabinets to find the sheets.

"That's your dowry," Zhu's father resigned.

"You know what, I'm willing." Chen kicked Zhu's father hard, and urged repeatedly, "You hurry up." ”;