In this era, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were luxuries, and the price was very expensive, Wang Laoshi and Tian were just for literacy, not to gain fame, so Chu Yan used a branch instead of a pen and wrote a character on the ground.

In fact, Chu Yan practiced pen writing in her previous life, but she had never contacted the brush characters, and her own brush writing was also crooked, but it was much better to use branches.

"Daddy, let's start with the simplest."

Wang Laoshi and Tian have the same example, but every stroke is crooked.

"Ouch, this doesn't look difficult, why is it so difficult to write?" Tian wrote down a word, and a layer of sweat appeared on his back.

She sighed while practicing: "Don't say it, no wonder people are rare to read, and writing is really not an easy task." ”

Chu Yan smiled: "Daddy, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, you have just started, don't worry, no one can learn to write right away!" ”

Two elderly men, sitting on a small stool like schoolchildren, bent down and wrote crookedly with the strokes of the branches.

While writing the two of them, they looked at each other's handwriting, and secretly compared who wrote better.

It's just that when I first started writing, the two of them were stiff and strenched, and it didn't take long for their arms to ache.

"Mother, you take it easy, write on the ground, and don't use pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, it doesn't cost money, and it's okay if you're wrong."

Tian listened to Chu Yan's words, and his body was not so stiff.

After a while, Tian straightened his waist and pounded his sore waist: "Oh, I'm really tired, why do I feel more tired than selling noodles?" Tian wiped the thin sweat from his forehead.

Chu Yan thought for a while: "I'm too tired on the ground, tomorrow I'll make a sand table and put it on the table, so that I can sit up straight and practice, I'll learn one first today, and then learn more a day when I'm proficient." ”

Teaching the two of them literacy was also decided on an ad hoc basis today, so the tools and other preparations were not complete.

She suddenly thought that she had read it in the novel, and the heroine couldn't afford to use pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, so she made a sand table with sand, and practiced words in it.

Tian was very happy to hear this: "You have a lot of ideas, when the children of the village chief's family were studying, they spent a lot of money on paper and pen, why did you think of this method?" If you think about it, even if you don't have to test your fame, it's good to let Da Zhuang practice literacy on the ground. ”

Peasant families, reading and literacy not only have to teach the restraints, paper and pen are also a large expense, even if the money needed for the former is saved by thrift, the paper and pen in the back cannot be supplied.

Chu Yan couldn't help but sigh, this era is not the previous life, nine-year compulsory education does not require tuition at all, on the contrary, the income of a large family of farmers may not be enough for one person to study.

Tian chattered for a while, his eyes turned to Chu Yan's stomach, and his eyes were full of love: "Now that the days are good, in the future, our grandson, we have to let him study and read well, do you say that he is an old man?" ”

Saying that, he looked at Wang Laoshi, and Wang Laoshi nodded happily.

In addition to the sorrow in my heart when I think of Wang Dazhuang, the days are running in a better direction, and life is energetic.

Chu Yan's face is full of black lines, where is this? It's only been three months since the ball in her stomach was full, so why did Tian decide that it was her son?

"Mother, what if it's a granddaughter? Don't you like your granddaughter? ”

"That can't be!" Tian shook his head without thinking, "I like my granddaughter, if it's my granddaughter, I'll buy her more flowers to wear." ”

So the more they get along, the more Chu Yan likes the old couple.

In the era of male superiority and female inferiority, it is not easy for Tian to do this, although it is more or less biased towards boys.

After all, in the 21st century, patriarchal thinking still exists and exists in many families.

The topic shifted from literacy to children, and then to the shop: "Dad, mother, I bought a shop, I went back to renovate the shop, and I needed people to sell noodles, we have some money in our hands, so don't work so hard, or let's hire someone!" ”

"Hire?" Tian waved his hand again and again, "I can do it with your father, but it costs money to hire someone?" ”

Subconsciously, they have just escaped from the poverty of not having enough food and clothing, and let them hire people? Tian couldn't accept it in his heart.

"What do you say, old man? It's not like the two of us can't do it! ”

"Mother, I don't mean anything else, you look at our renovation shop, someone has to keep an eye on it, right? Decoration shop, our noodle stall is still open? If you open it, you won't have enough manpower, and you won't be able to make money if you don't open it these days, and it won't cost much to hire people, but it won't delay selling noodles, so it's still cost-effective to hire people, right? ”

The reason is simple and easy to understand, "but ......"

Tian was still a little hesitant.

Wang Laoshi was the first to understand: "This is the same as the reason why we asked people to dig yams before, let's take them and sell them, how many people should we hire?" ”

"Two of them!" Chu Yan said.

hired two people to sell noodles, she and Tian worked on the side, as for the decoration of the shop, she drew the drawings when she turned around, and Wang Laoshi was responsible for staring.

Speaking of decoration, but when it comes to Chu Yan's professional field, although she did not do interior design in her previous life, she is a related major, and she has seen a lot, and when she saw the shop yesterday, she already had the prototype of the renderings in her mind.

"Dad, mother, let's go find someone tomorrow, find someone to help make noodles, and we have to find a carpenter or something, decorate the shop as soon as possible, and we can open it."

was ready to recruit people, Wang Laoshi did not delay, and went out early the next morning.

Tian was not idle, Wang Laoshi knew the bricklayer carpenter, and she also had a few familiar women in the village.

In fact, hiring people to sell noodles, Chu Yan has a suitable candidate in her heart, but she ......

What she likes the most in her heart is Shen Yulan, Shen Yulan has quick hands and feet, strong learning ability, and good personality, but her mother-in-law Yang is not easy to deal with.

"Alas!" said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, didn't just think of Shen Yulan, Shen Yulan arrived.

"What are you sighing for? As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard you sigh here, what did you do to be unhappy? ”

Chu Yan looked up and saw Shen Yulan coming in with a basket on her shoulder, followed by this little tail.

"I'm not thinking about it, after I got pregnant, the noodle stall was not manpowered, and I wanted to hire someone, just thinking of you, you came." Chu Yan said as she pulled Pippi to her side and stuffed a handful of snacks.

"If I hire you, twenty yuan a day, will your mother-in-law agree?"

"Me?" Shen Yulan was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was a good opportunity.

Recently, she has stopped digging yams, and she is not so busy, just tidy up the house and outside the house every day, but there is no way to make money, and her heart is empty.

Her family conditions are not good, Wang Facai's brothers don't have any skills, even if they make money, they also make coolie money, if she finds a job and has a stable income, the Yang family shouldn't object, right? ?

Wang Facai's house, the main house......