Xiaoshan Niang is a very active person, which is not only reflected in housework, but also in doing errands, and the next morning she came to Li's house with the four treasures of the study.

This is exactly what Li Qingyou asked her to help buy.

Li Qingyou was boiling soy milk, and opened her mouth before Xiaoshan Niang spoke, and shouted to Brother who was feeding the pigs in front of the pigsty: "Brother, you go and buy two catties of meat, let's stew meat at night." ”

He also left Xiaoshan Niang to eat here at night, "Call Xiaoshan too." ”

Xiaoshan Niang couldn't say anything, "I have to go back later, there are still a lot of things at home, two days ago, Xiaoshan and his aunt sent a letter saying that they were coming over this afternoon, another day, another day to go to my aunt's house, and my aunt will make you food." ”

When she said this, she smiled and her face was full of joy.

Li Qingyou is not reluctant, just let my brother buy a pound of meat, I can't put away the meat in the summer, and it should be bad if I can't finish it.

Ah Di answered, took the money and ran out.

"Auntie, is this a happy event?" Li Qingyou looked at Xiao Shanniang with a smile while ordering brine into it, and saw her beaming as soon as she came in just now.

Xiaoshan Niang smiled: "I can't hide anything from you, isn't this Xiaoshan also fourteen, and when the New Year is over, I should say goodbye, I will give him a ...... as soon as possible."

Zhao Xiaoshan's aunt lives in Duanjiazhuang, more than ten miles away, and the people introduced by her relatives know the roots, and when she thinks that her son will get married next year and will be able to hug her big fat grandson the year after tomorrow, Xiaoshan Niang can't keep her mouth shut.

"That's a happy event, and the aunt who needs help will let me know." Li Qingyou is as good as a stream, although she feels that it is too early to become a parent in the 14th Five-Year Plan, and her body has not yet matured, but at this time, people are like this.

Li Qingyou covered the mold, and then waited for the tofu to be finalized and could be sold, and entered the Dongli room with Xiaoshan Niang.

"Originally, Xiaoshan was coming, but just in time to go out, I ran into the Zhang family to find someone, so I just ran away." Xiaoshan Niang put the four treasures of the study wrapped in paper on the kang, and looked at Li Qingyou playfully, "I didn't know that you were still literate, this is to take the female champion?" ”

Nine out of ten people in this era are illiterate, and they are very envious of those who can read, and Xiao Shanniang's eyes have changed when she looks at Li Qingyou.

Li Qingyou smiled, didn't explain much, took the thing and looked at it, there was a lake pen, an inkstone and ink, and a knife of paper.

"This lake pen is one hundred and eighty dollars, I don't remember what this ink is called, and these ...... A total of 785 dollars were spent. Xiao Shanniang took out the remaining silver money, and sighed at the end, "If you don't say that ordinary people can't afford to study, it will cost more than half of the silver for just such a little thing." ”

That's enough for the two of them to live for more than a month.

It's still the cheapest one to buy, and if it's good, it's not this money.

This is just a set of four treasures of the study, if you want to study, you have to buy books, and you have to pay for it when you go to a private school. Every three festivals and two birthdays, I also have to give gifts to the master and my wife, and it will cost nearly ten taels of silver a year.

And reading is not something that can be done overnight, otherwise there would not be ten years of hard work to read this sentence.

Ordinary people only earn more than ten taels of silver a year, and it is not easy to maintain a family's food and clothing, let alone provide for a scholar.

Xiaoshan Niang is envious and envious, but when she thinks of the silver money she spent, she feels sorry for Li Qingyou, "Qingyou, what do you say you are buying these things for......" and you can't test your fame, isn't this a waste of money?

It's better to buy some embroidery thread or something, do some needlework and sell it if you have nothing to do, and you can also help the family.

Li Qingyou couldn't explain this to her, so she just smiled and changed the subject, "Is Xiaoshan okay lately?" ”

Xiaoshan Niang is also an interesting person, knowing that Li Qingyou didn't want to say this, she followed her words and talked about her son.

Thinking of Li Qingyou's girl's house, her father and mother were not there early, and some things must not be understood, such as the menstrual belt, Xiaoshan Niang told her carefully how to do it and how to use it.

Li Qingyou couldn't help but have a fever on his face no matter how thick-skinned he was, such a private matter, even if the other party was a woman, it was difficult to say it.

"Have you done the menstrual belt?" As she spoke, Xiao Shanniang automatically and spontaneously went to find a needlework basket, "Auntie told you, you can prepare two more for this thing, and you will be blind if you don't use it when you don't have to use it." ”

Li Qing hurriedly stopped her, and the rest was easy to say, let others help make this kind of thing......

She really couldn't wipe this face.

"Yo, you're still shy, what's so embarrassing with your aunt?" Xiao Shanniang looked at Li Qingyou's red ears, and sneered, "Okay, I won't tease you, but I still have to say it, put more ash on the grass and trees, and save ...... dirty clothes."

Most women in this era used plant ash instead of cotton, which was to save money, and the water absorption effect was also good, and of course, more importantly, to save money.

Li Qingyou shuddered, and she shuddered when she thought about the picture, she would rather spend more money to buy cotton.

"Speaking of clothes, I remembered something again......" Xiaoshan Niang said: "I saw that your skirt was washed in the yard, wash it with cold water, that can't be done, remember to boil hot water next time, I'm afraid of Fei Chai He, nothing matters from my own body......"

Li Qingyou paused, and a trace of suspicion flashed in her eyes when she looked at Xiao Shanniang, didn't she wash it?

"If this is the side, your squeaky aunt will wash it with your hands, but this can't be done, it's mainly not good for you." Xiao Shanniang lowered her voice as she spoke, and her face was chattering, "This thing can only be washed by itself, or it won't be able to cross the bridge when it comes to the underworld......

Li Qingyou listened attentively, humming from time to time, but thinking about his brother in his heart, thinking that he had washed the clothes, he was a little embarrassed while being relieved.

Xiaoshan Niang also has a lot of work at home, so she sent things and stayed for a while before leaving, Li Qingyou took out the paper, cut a few sheets according to the size of the "Conduct Record", and put away the rest.

Then I poured some water into the inkstone, took the ink block and grinded the ink on it, but because I was not skilled in business, my hands were full of ink, and the familiar smell of ink filled my nose, as if I had returned to the feeling of sitting in class with a book in my hand when I was in school.

After a lot of effort, Li Qingyou finally got everything right, Li Qingyou took the lake pen and dipped it in ink, compared the proportions on the "Records of Conduct", and drew on the cut rice paper.

The results once again proved that the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny.

Originally, Li Qingyou still disliked the poor painting on the "Record", but she was not as good as others, looking at the uneven thickness and crooked "painting" on it, she had a headache.

How so?

She remembered that she loved painting so much at that time that although she didn't go to cram school anymore, she often painted and painted, if it wasn't for her family's obstruction, maybe she would have studied art......