Ming Xu and others who went to school did not become diligent scholars, and every day before and after school, they would do their best to help the family with housework and farm work.

In addition, Yu Jiayan will also use the time after dinner to teach Mingyue what she learned in the school, so that she, a girl who has no chance to study, can also follow the long insight.

Mingyue studied very seriously.

It is stipulated by the state that women cannot be admitted to the imperial examination, but the state does not restrict women from reading and writing and increasing their knowledge.

Mingyue, who was also a literate person in her previous life, didn't want to live a life by herself, so she became a pure village girl who didn't know a lot of words.

Of course, she did not forget her plan to make money in addition to studying.

The day after they were allowed to go to the school, Mrs. Ming was instigated by her to catch four little piglets, fifty little chickens, and twenty little goose cubs back.

In order to have a place for those unplanned little goose cubs to shelter, Mingdi, Mingcheng and Mingtang urgently set up a tent and built a shed on the newly purchased land as a goose pen.

Mingyue disliked that there were too few breeding rabbits left last year, and in the next few days, she successively caught more than a dozen live breeding rabbits from the mountains and came back to raise. Coupled with the four breeding rabbits left by her family last year, the scale of her family's rabbit breeding suddenly became huge.

With eggs, goose eggs, rabbits, and the income from Mingyue's digging of herbs, the Ming family will finally not be stretched thin because of spending a lot of money in the spring season.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with Dow's health improving, and the old doctor asked her to stop the decoction in early May to concentrate on preparing for pregnancy.

Without this big mouth of pouring money out, the Ming family's deposits, which were already about to bottom out, suddenly became richer and richer.

***

In the busy day after day of the Ming family, time quickly passed to the autumn harvest season a few months later, and like last year, on the fourth day after the autumn harvest began, Mingju and Minghe went back to their parents' house together to help.

When the donkey cart they rode into the village, it happened that Tao fainted in the field, Mingcheng hurriedly carried the person back to Ming's house, and Mingxu rushed all the way back to Dr. Li.

Doctor Li gasped and was dragged to the Ming family, and his face changed his hand solemnly and touched the pulse several times, until the Ming family became as calm as him, and the old man touched his white beard, and threw two words to Mingcheng as if giving alms, "Happy pulse." ”

Ming Cheng was dumbfounded, and the juniors of the Ming family quickly cheered.

Mrs. Ming wiped her tears, "It's okay, God has eyes!" ”

Mingju and Minghe, who entered the door with their front and back feet, looked at each other, until they saw Mingyue jumping and shouting "I have a younger brother", and the two of them sped up their steps with a happy face.

"Mother, are the second siblings pregnant?" Ming Ju's eyebrows danced, and his steps were big, and he left Ming He behind him in a few steps.

Hearing this, Mrs. Ming hurriedly beckoned to her daughter, "Quick, come in and sit." ”

Zheng Dachang's father and son, who came to help the Ming family with Ming Ju, were not easy to get involved in this matter, so the father and son unloaded the car and went to the main house to say hello to the old man.

After a period of chaos, the Ming family sent Dr. Li away with great gratitude, and Mrs. Ming took care of entertaining her son-in-law and nephew.

She asked Xie and Zhou to cook, "make a stack of white flour cakes, and then stew an old hen, stir-fry some wild eggs, and burn two catties of pork belly." ”

Xie and Zhou took the order and left, Tao also struggled to help, but Mrs. Ming raised her hand and pressed her back to lie down on the kang, "You forget it, you and the second child have been thinking about having another one all these years, and now it's finally here, don't be careless, toss blindly." ”

Mingyue nodded like pounding garlic, "That's it, mother, you still listen to my grandmother and Dr. Li, nothing is more important than my brother at the moment." ”

Tao was happy and apprehensive, "You have a younger brother, if this is a girl..."

"It doesn't matter if it's a girl, the girl is also the blood of you and my father." Mingyue saw that Tao's face was not good, and knew that she was thinking about her heart, so she explained her again, "As long as you can give birth, I will have a younger brother sooner or later, you, just relax your heart and take care of it." ”

Dow thought that this was indeed the case, so he put his heart back in his stomach.

For more than a month later, Mrs. Ming directly detained Tao at home to raise the baby, and never let her go to the ground again.

Although Zhou's heart was a little disapproving, after all, who hasn't conceived a child yet, they used to work in the field the same way, but thinking about the second room, Zhou didn't show his disapproval.

Xie is not like Zhou, she doesn't think so much in her heart, Zhou doesn't speak, she naturally won't find fault with Tao or anything, so the Ming family is still as warm and harmonious as ever.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that Tao consciously cooks and washes dishes, cleans, takes care of vegetable patches, feeds chickens and pigs at home, and Mingyue and Yu Jiayan all follow the adults in the family to harvest autumn.

***

When all the grain in the field went into the warehouse, the Ming family got up early and started the idea of mountain goods like last year.

Because of the lack of six and a half children as laborers, it took Mingyue and others a lot of genius this year to finally get the wild fruits, nuts, and yams from the periphery of Xishan home.

Before going to school, Erlang and Yu Jiayan would accompany Mingyue to Xishan to check the traps, and after school, several children would consciously go to Nanshan to cut grass, dig wild vegetables, pick up mushrooms, go to the river to net fish, or simply help Mrs. Ming and others at home to handle nuts, dry herbs, and make dried vegetables.

As they were busy until winter, the Ming family began to grow out-of-season greens in the house as they did last year.

It is worth mentioning that the old man Ming actually bought another ten acres of Zhongtian before the winter.

Zhongtian is not as expensive as Shangtian, these ten acres of Zhongtian, the old man Ming even exchanged the red deed and thanked the tooth people, and only spent a total of one hundred and twelve taels.

This one hundred and twelve taels is almost all the income obtained by the Ming family in the past half a year, raising chickens and geese, raising rabbits, digging herbs, and netting river fish.

As for the boys of the Ming family next year's shackling and exam fees, the old man Ming has already planned to use the silver sold by the family to sell whole pigs, rabbits, pheasants, yams, out-of-season greens and thorny old sprouts - several children of the Ming family work very hard in the school, and Mr. Xuetang has already proposed to Ming Cheng to let Da Lang, Erlang, San Lang and Yu Jiayan go to the county exam next fall.

"Mother, I met Aunt Li last morning, and she told Erlang about a family matter..."In the wax moon, the women got together to make dumplings, and Xie told Mrs. Ming about someone telling Erlang about her relatives while working.

Mrs. Ming groaned slightly after hearing this, "What did you say?" ”

"I said I'd come back and ask you and my father." The Xie family has always been like this, and she has to ask Mr. Ming and Mrs. Ming about everything before making a decision.

It's not that she doesn't have her own opinions, but she believes that the old couple of Old Man Ming and Mrs. Ming are more knowledgeable and far-sighted than her, and can make the right decisions better.