Chapter 9 Pride and Ambition
The next morning, Yoo uncharacteristically did not get up to weave before the rooster crowed, and waited until the rooster in the backyard began to crow before he hurriedly got up and dressed.
Before it could be cleaned up, there was an unceremonious knock on the window.
"I can't afford to pay back three poles in the sun, and I can't cook when I can!?"
Grandma Liu looked at the second room with the doors and windows closed, a long black and thin face stretched long, all of them were lazy women, the good situation was not weaving, and she wanted to be lazy!
"Auntie, you're already up!" Liu Qianli hurriedly agreed, rushed to the outside and pushed the window to see that it was still gray outside, and couldn't help but say: "It's just dawn, it's time to cook!" ”
As soon as she heard her son's words, Grandma Liu's face became darker and darker, thinking that she had really married her daughter-in-law and forgot her mother, and she couldn't say a word about her daughter-in-law, so she glared at her second son fiercely, and urged loudly into the window: "The second family, your uncle has to rush to the county after eating the morning food, don't miss his big event." After that, he didn't look at the Liu family who rushed out in a hurry, turned around and went back to the main room.
Looking at Grandma Liu, who had walked away with her back, Liu sighed lightly, stood in front of the window and said to Liu Qianli: "I have to hurry up to make a morning meal, and you will dress Ah Xing today." ”
Liu Qianli held Liu's hand and said with emotion: "Hui Niang, thank you for your hard work." After speaking, he took a step back and bowed to the Liu family.
Liu Shi avoided and said softly: "You have mercy on Lang, and the concubine is not hard." After confessing and responding, knowing that there was no longer any delay, and without saying much, he hurried out of the room.
Liu Chenxing, who was wearing underwear and had just come out of the room, happened to see this scene impartially, and couldn't help but sigh at the moment, the feelings of the people at the time were really rich and outward, and they were not stingy to express themselves at all.
But now is not the time to sigh, although she is only five years old on the outside, but she is a woman in her twenties on the inside, how can there be a reason to let her father get dressed, so she hurriedly ran back to the inner room to dress herself before Aya reacted.
Even if Liu's cooking skills are good, in the early days of March, the breakfast made is no different from yesterday's dinner, which is still wild vegetable soup with wild vegetable steamed cakes.
Probably there were a few bird eggs in the stomach last night, for the same breakfast, Liu Chenxing still ate with relish, no way, if you don't eat, you won't have to eat, it's still important to fill your stomach.
Uncle should have got a sum of money last night, and he will go to the county seat in a while, so he can completely hide from everyone to improve the food, eat the eggs for breakfast, and drink a mouthful or two of wild vegetable soup, as for the three wild vegetable steamed cakes, they didn't eat a bite, and directly distributed them to Wang's mother, so he went to the county with the third uncle proudly.
Spring ploughing will take a few days, but the farm tools have to be prepared, after all, if the worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools, and there is no more important household item than farm tools for the farmers.
After the uncle and the third uncle left, Uncle Liu took her Aya to check the farm tools in advance, repairing what should be repaired, and supplementing what should be made up for spring ploughing.
Weaving cloth was the main labor of peasant women, and Grandma Liu took her three daughters-in-law to weave cloth and do some needlework.
Liu Bao'er thinks very highly of herself, and the Wang family instills that she wants to marry into the county to enjoy happiness, because she has always been impatient to weave cloth, and often hides in the house on the grounds of accompanying her brother Liu Qingyun to study. However, yesterday Mr. Liu spoke, Xiao An's was afraid that Liu Baoer would continue to take advantage of his son's opportunity to study, so he insisted on not letting Liu Baoer accompany his brother to study, so Liu Baoer had to swallow his anger and learn to weave.
The lobby brother Liu Qingyun taught himself in the uncle's study, Liu Chenxing was not very interested in textiles, and he didn't want to play with the three little cousins in the third room who were still running noses.
At this time, a cow costs about 3,200 wen and can be cultivated for ten years. According to the price of Daqi, 1 Wen can buy three eggs, 30 Wen can buy a chicken, and 500 Wen can get a pig, which shows that a cow is a lot of wealth for the farmers of Daqi, especially the cattle can also cultivate the land, and its role is not small.
The cattle of the Liu family was bought from the county four years ago by the father and son of the Liu family, and as soon as they returned home, Liu Qingshan, who was only five years old, was responsible for grazing the cattle and grazing every day. Liu Chenxing touched the light of his own brother, and he also had a good relationship with the cattle, as soon as he got out of the gate of Liu's house, he rode the scalper very easily, and there was a brother behind him to protect him, and he rode steadily on the back of the cow.
The cattle grazing place is on the hillside on the other side of the Muraguchi River. The Liu family lived in the third house at the entrance of the village, and the scalper carried the brother and sister to the small river without walking a few steps.
After a long winter, finally the sunny spring came, the villagers who had been winter for several months went out of the house, the children frolicked by the sparkling river, and the women rushed to finish their housework before the spring ploughing, and were hammering their clothes by the river. It is rare that there is a flat boat in the river, and there is a neighbor Uncle with a few children fishing for fish and shrimp.
Look, what a harmonious and beautiful rural scene.
Looking around, there are mountains and mountains, and water and water are the best portrayal of the saying "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft the water" that has been handed down since ancient times, why is it so poor and backward?
Liu Chenxing sighed and rode on the back of the ox, crossed the wooden bridge, and came to the hillside on the other side of the river.
Looking up at the sky, seeing that the sun had risen halfway up the mountain, the brother and sister hurriedly got off the back of the ox and herded the cow to graze.
It is the morning of the day, and childhood is the best time to learn, how can the brother and sister live up to this great time?
"Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate. The sun and the moon are shining, and Chen Su is listed as Zhang ...... "Liu Chenxing sat in his old seat, halfway up the hill, overlooking the village below the slope, and recited the children's enlightenment textbook "Thousand Character Text" that she must recite every day.
Although they are different time and space, they magically have almost the same historical trajectory and the same enlightenment teaching materials. As for the most well-known "Three Character Classic" in later generations, it has not yet come out anyway, and in the history of the Celestial Empire, it was not until the Song Dynasty.
"My uncle said that calligraphy, recitation, and strategy are indispensable for the imperial examination, among which recitation and calligraphy need to be consolidated repeatedly every day. It's okay for you to memorize, when you can learn the words. Seeing that the little sister finished reciting the "Thousand Character Text" fluently, she began to be in a daze again, and Liu Qingshan, who was practicing calligraphy on the side, put forward her own opinions.
Hearing this, Liu Chenxing no longer felt the strange similarity of the two time and space, turned his head to look at the self-made brush with Ajana rabbit hair as the pen tip and bamboo as the pen barrel on a flat stone, and the brother who practiced calligraphy with water, and praised the brother in his heart for not learning easily, but he still worked so hard, stood up at the moment, and said with righteousness: "Brother, although Sister can't take the imperial examination, she can't be blind!" I'm going to make a lot of money this year, so I'll buy pen, ink, paper, and inkstone for my brother, and then we'll practice calligraphy together! You are a big official, Ah Mei, I am a talented girl! ”
Liu Qingshan was speechless, I don't know why his little sister suddenly said such a divergent remark, but after being a brother and sister for five years, he is used to Liu Chenxing coming up from time to time with a sentence that does not make sense, and the elder brother of the big official, the talented female sister, is indeed a beautiful vision, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but subconsciously echoed: "Okay, I'm going to study this year, just wait for my sister to buy me a pen, ink, paper and inkstone." ”