Although Liu Chenxing's family only occupies one of the west wings, the room is quite spacious, about seventeen or eighteen square meters in later generations. Liu Qianli went to the carpenter shop as an apprentice at a very young age, and returned home to work as a farmer after getting married, but the carpenter craft was not unfamiliar, and he has been taking over carpenter work in his own village and neighboring villages. A few years ago, when I saw that the children were older, I went to the back mountain to cut down trees, made wooden planks, and divided the room into two rooms. The outside one is for their son to live, and the inside one is for the couple to take Liu Chenxing to live.

In the past, before going to bed, a family of four would gossip outside for a while.

By this time, it was completely dark. There was a black oil lamp on the low table in the middle of the room, barely illuminating the three feet of the ground.

Liu, who had taught her husband a lesson, pushed open the window as usual, and the moonlight leaked into the house, and the moonlight was a little brighter than an oil lamp. Liu glanced at the bright moon outside, thinking that he should be able to weave more cloth for half an hour tonight, and sat down in front of the loom, and began to weave cloth "chirp and chirp".

Liu Qianli took a pair of children and sat down at the low table.

At this time, the furniture was in the transition period from short feet to high feet, and now it is still the early stage of this dynasty, and most people's homes are still dominated by short foot furniture. The entire Liu family only has a living room in the hall, with a set of tall tables and stools, which is still for the convenience of a large family to eat, so Liu Qianli made it custom. Most of the time, people still sit on low tables and spread out mats.

Peasant children rarely standardize their sitting posture, not to mention that this is still in the private of the family, Liu Chenxing does not say that he is sitting seriously, that is, kneeling and sitting in later generations, she doesn't even sit cross-legged, so she puts her legs on the straw mat made by her own Aya with a big grin, supports her chin with her left hand, and leans on the low table with her small body, watching A-Niang weaving.

When it comes to this dynasty, the villagers and neighbors, especially the old people around them, all give a thumbs up and say that this is a prosperous era.

The prosperity gives people the feeling that they live and work in peace and contentment, and the people have enough food and clothing, and live a rich life. However, when I was in the middle of it, I realized that I had taken it for granted before. At this time, the main income of the peasants was the grain in the field. In addition to this, there are other operating incomes, the most important of which is textile income.

In order to increase her income, her mother has to weave cloth as long as she has leisure, and often has to weave at night because of the redundancy of housework during the day. And this family is not only her mother, but also half of the family Mrs. Liu, in the early years, she was also weaving day and night, and her eyes were really bad in the past two years, so she stopped weaving at night, but she still had to weave during the day.

However, at the end of such a busy year, life is still as poor as ever, and I can't see a little meat for ten days and half a month.

Bitter, really bitter.

Poor, really poor.

So, how do you make a fortune?

I recalled in my mind how the protagonists of the various time-traveling novels I had read in my previous life made money, but I came up with one to deny the other. Inventing glass to make money? But she didn't know how to make glass. Or become a great gourmet? Carry forward Sichuan cuisine. But according to her inquiries openly and secretly in the past five years, not only is there no wok, but there are not even chili peppers and tomatoes, which has made her, a native of Sichuan, almost collapse.

It's so hard to make a fortune, and she can't find the direction to get rich after thinking about it for five years. It would be nice if there was a women's imperial examination, at least she still has a direction to work towards!

"Hey......" carelessly, he sighed sadly.

Liu frowned and said, "Xiao'er, why sigh." "Chirp and chirp, the sound of weaving has not stopped.

was told by his mother, Liu Chenxing retracted his wild thoughts, and said, "Auntie, when I came back from the thatched house in the backyard just now, I saw the uncle coming out of Grandma Aweng's room. The moonlight was shining tonight, and I could see clearly that Uncle came out with a thing wrapped in cloth in his hand. I remember that the money that the uncle handed over in the first month was wrapped like that. There is also an uncle who looked around for a long time and saw that no one had returned to the room. ”

is worthy of being born to her as a mother, and when the eldest brother heard it, he pouted and said: "No wonder tonight's wild vegetable porridge, there are only wild vegetables, no rice." ”

Liu Chenxing immediately said: "And if the uncle leaves early in the morning and doesn't come back for a few days, then what he gets tonight must be money!" ”

The brother and sister finished saying one sentence at a time, and then looked at each other across the low table, each other's meaning could not be clearer, and the brother and sister also had a tacit understanding, which showed that the relationship was usually very good.

The three-room couple frowned, and was silent for a while, Liu Qianli said to the Liu family: "The eldest brother has been taking money too often recently, and the wages for inviting people for spring ploughing, Aye A-Niang is probably a little nervous." ”

Liu's family has a lot of land, with 60 acres. But at the moment, a prime-age laborer can cultivate twenty acres of land. The Liu family has three sons in their prime, and it stands to reason that the labor force is sufficient. But the uncle is a scholar, Liu Chenxing has been born in this world for five years, and he has never seen the uncle go down once. The third uncle is a wine doctor in the county seat, and if he has a serious errand, it is impossible to go to the ground. Therefore, the sixty acres of land could only be cultivated by her father and Ah Weng. And Ah Weng is old, no matter how good he is, he can only barely cultivate ten acres of land, and he can work with his father to cultivate forty acres, and the remaining twenty acres have to be cultivated.

Liu knew the situation of the family and knew that Liu Qianli's worries were not untargeted, her brows furrowed even tighter, but because the economic situation of the Liu family was getting worse and worse, she forced the words that had been in her heart to the point where she had to say it.

Liu stopped weaving and asked Liu Qingshan, "Do you like to read?" ”

Suddenly listening to Liu's question, he was stunned for a moment, saw his mother's serious expression, and said with a straight face: "I like to read!" If you want to go through the imperial examination, you can be admitted to the Jinshi! Ascend to the court! As he spoke, his eyes shone brightly, and a dark face bloomed with a strange look.

This is the difference between reading and not reading.

Mother Liu's father and grandparents are all scholars, but Liu's father is in very poor health, although he is quite knowledgeable, but every time he does not finish a test, he is already physically exhausted, resulting in early death, or a white body. But at that time, Liu was already thirteen years old, and he had been enlightened by his father for seven or eight years. Later, Liu's father died early, and Liu never lost his schoolwork, often reviewing the past and learning the new, so as to enlighten his younger brother who was twelve years younger. Therefore, Liu didn't just recognize a few words. It's just that Liu has no intention of arguing, nor does he intend to show off, plus the world's prejudice against women.

Brother Liu Qingshan has been enlightened with the Liu family since he was five years old, and to this day, he has his own ideals and ambitions.

Liu Chenxing looked at his brother who was eager to study and become a scholar, and felt that it was even more imminent to make a fortune, after all, the Liu family was reluctant to provide for his uncle's study, so how could he be willing to provide for his brother again?

Liu Chenxing was a little worried, Liu Shi heard his son's ambition, but he smiled with relief and relief, and there was more firmness in her eyes, and she said to Liu Qianli: "Husband, Qingshan will be ten years old in the second half of the year, and I have already taught him, and there is nothing to teach." His uncle himself also had a heavy workload, and he only spent ten days and a half saving a day from the school, and he couldn't teach Qingshan anything. So this year at the latest, if Qingshan can't officially enter the school again, it will really delay him! ”