Meng Meihe raised her head slightly to look at the brilliance that covered the sky after blooming, and the corners of her lips curved a shallow arc, her life was like the heroine of the crossing in it, stunning the whole country.

She doesn't want to be a palace concubine, a princess, or a first-class woman, but also a rich and rival country with a handsome, wise and close husband to a demon.

Some of the village women who always pay attention to her tsk, this girl is afraid that she will be stimulated and stupid, and she can still laugh at this time, maybe she is going to make some bad ideas.

The excitement dissipated, and Ran Jia and An Xuning sat in the festive wedding room again, their eyes lingering and intertwined, full of happiness.

The candle burns the air hot, swaying in a charming arc, until the sky is exposed to the white of the fish's belly, and the morning light is faint.

Ran Jia rubbed her sore waist, glared at the man who was struggling with her in shame, and kicked him, "Don't hurry up, children don't have to be hungry." ”

An Xuning took her into his arms rarely, and after a while, he got up refreshed and consciously brought her a bucket of warm water before annoying her completely.

wiped the sweat all over her body, Ran Jia changed into a pink skirt with red edges embroidered with silver branches, her hair was tied up high and pulled into a simple bun, only a silver hairpin, with round and full nails of large pearl studs, her eyes always have a shallow and faint mist, and her delicate and beautiful facial features are particularly dusty under her fair complexion, and her whole person is like a red plum blooming with dew.

At home, she didn't need to wear a scarf, so she walked out of the yard so refreshingly, covered with a layer of morning glow, and looked up at the group of little radishes who followed An Xuning's health boxing, and still froze the big and small ones who had seen her appearance for a long time in place.

She chuckled and shook her head, rolled up her sleeves and slipped into the kitchen. They now live in An Xuning's courtyard, although the courtyard wall is made of yellow clay, but the house is red bricks and blue tiles, which is particularly neat and beautiful in the sun.

Although there were the children of the Meng family to accompany him before, he was not a person who belonged to this family all the time, Ran Jia was particularly lonely in the early morning and night, and his mind couldn't control his thoughts. Later, she went to the south, and she had the old acquaintance of the original owner, and everyone lived together, but it was not home in the end, and her heart did not have any sense of belonging.

Now looking at the few people in the courtyard who are sassy, their hearts are unprecedentedly satisfied and stable, which is what the original owner has always hoped for, right?

She was in a good mood, so she was ready to make egg scones, and the fresh vegetables picked by the Meng family yesterday in the evening were still fresh and tender after a night. She fried shredded potatoes, shredded cabbage, eggplant strips, bacon strips and chopped green onions and garlic on a plate, fried a plate of egg pancakes, and boiled thick millet porridge.

After pouring a small plate of bean paste and a small plate of chili sauce, she beckoned a few people to wash their hands and eat.

They directly hold the egg cake with their hands, put fried vegetables and bacon into it, and then put lettuce leaves, cucumber strips, smear a layer of light soybean sauce and chili sauce, and roll it up sincerely.

Everyone was very popular, that is, the two youngest guys ate a half and drank a small bowl of rice porridge.

After eating, the children rushed to clean up the dishes and chopsticks and wipe the table. An Xuning even took over the task of washing, Ran Jia smiled and did not refuse, home requires everyone's efforts, blindly asking and accepting, can make the original innocent emotional balance shift, and finally completely lose balance.

After eating, An Xuning led the horse and prepared to go to Fucheng for a run, first, to find a suitable house, second, to find out which academy is better, and third, to inquire about the relocation of household registration by the way.

Ran Jia has a lot of silver in her hand, which should be enough to buy a small courtyard, she took out the fabrics she bought for the children at home, and prepared to sew a few sets of autumn clothes for them, and she had to hurry up to make cotton clothes and quilts.

Meng Qigu came to the door with a baby, there were too many things yesterday, and the two of them didn't talk very well, so they sent the children to play in the yard, and they each sat by the window with needlework and talked.

Ran Jia briefly talked about Nan'an, and also said that the couple planned to move to Fucheng to live.

Meng Qigu felt a sense of loss in her heart when she heard this, this place is not far from Fucheng, if you ride a horse quickly, it will only take an hour, and you can't do an ox cart for two hours, and they are afraid that they will not be able to see each other for two or three months in the future.

Ran Jia chuckled and said: "Mother, we can't rest assured that the children are studying in Fucheng, my husband and I don't have much land, and we are both masters who can't serve, so it's better for you to continue planting." In addition, I see that the children of the Meng family's elder brother are all smart, why don't you follow us to Fucheng to study together? ”

Meng Qigu shook her head again and again when she heard this, she had some silver in her hand, but the city was not as good as the town, and the expenses were like flowing water. They are just farmers who dig in the fields, at most they can provide for the children to go to school in the town, and not all the children.

Ran Jia smiled and continued: "Several girls have some talent in female popularity, there is an embroidery girl workshop in Fucheng, if you want to go in, you need to go through a certain assessment, as long as you pass the assessment, you will become an embroidery girl inside, and you have to stay until you are twenty years old." However, the embroidery girl workshop will teach embroidery women a lot of things, female red is the most basic, but also literacy, write beautiful words, can draw.

In addition, the embroidery women's workshop will be responsible for the embroidery women's food, accommodation and clothing, and will also pay a lot of monthly silver according to their rank. ”

Meng Qigu didn't feel surprised, this is the same as a man learning carpentry, mason, etc., first apprenticeship and then run errands for the master for a few years, learn a little fur and when he is old, he will be counted as a master to take jobs everywhere. "It's too late for a girl to marry at the age of eighteen or nineteen, if it drags on to twenty, which young man is willing to wait? Even if the young man is willing to wait, the in-laws will not be willing. ”

"Mother," Ran Jia knew that Meng Qigu had misunderstood, and said with a patient smile: "This Fucheng Embroidery Girls' Workshop is famous in our country, supported by several unique skills, and the girls who can come out of here are not worried about marrying, and they are all married well."

Many students who went to the imperial examination studied without distraction, but they were all delayed until they were in their twenties, and what they liked was red sleeves and fragrance, and it was most suitable to look for embroidered girls. And there are some rich families who also like to go to the embroidery room to ask for women. ”

"The embroidery girl in the embroidery girl workshop is so popular?" Meng Qigu asked in surprise.

"Of course, they were taught according to the standards of Miss Qianjin, and if they wanted to become skilled embroiderers, they had to know a lot of things, not just some great embroidery. If you can't draw without beautiful words, then the embroidered things will be less beautiful; If they don't read much, can't order simple music theory, don't read some poetry, and can't cook, then they will have little experience when they are still young, and they can't embroider works with stories at all.

That is, a lack of spirituality! ”

"Why do you have to learn so many things to embroider?" Meng Qigu smacked her tongue and said, "Jianizi, you embroider well, you can get the job of embroidering a dowry for the richest girl among so many people, you must be better than those embroidery girls, haven't you also learned a lot of things?" ”

"I used to be a personal girl next to my wife, and I learned more," she smiled and nodded, "Mother, you just let a few girls try it, people's lives are very long, if you don't learn something while you're young, you'll really be trapped in this palm-sized place, looking up is the sky, and looking down is the ground." ”

"Then, then I'll go back and ask the girls' opinions, and also ask their mothers' opinions," Meng Qigu thought for a while and agreed, what's wrong with the girl, can't the girl study harder for a better life? It's a big deal, they first set up a baby kiss for the girls, and they are optimistic about the prospective grandsons-in-law, well, if they have the opportunity, they have to let the prospective grandsons-in-law read some books.

If you learn things well, you will be your own, and when your granddaughters have learned, they will open for ten years a year like Jiani! With the silver, nothing is a problem.

Ran Jia added another fire and said: "When I came back, I deliberately went to the embroidery girl workshop to take a turn, and asked in detail, the girls studied with me for a year, and they will definitely be able to enter the embroidery girl workshop, and they can also get the level of a bronze girl, and the moon silver is two taels." They have one day a month Mu Xiu, I will guide them again, I believe that they can easily upgrade to silver women in three years, the monthly silver is five taels, and within eight years they will be upgraded to golden women, twenty taels of monthly silver! ”

"Oh my goodness," Meng Qigu gasped, although she had taken twenty taels of silver at one time, but it was an accident, and she couldn't count it, maybe it would be like this once in a lifetime. The family also had to live on the fields and the sons doing odd jobs. I can't save a few dollars all year round, two taels of silver per month, which is equivalent to a year's production of one acre of land!

"Jia Nier, is the bundle of Fucheng expensive?" Meng Qigu gritted her teeth and asked in a trembling voice.

"Five taels a year," Ran Jia also asked, the price of Fucheng is quite high, a bundle is five taels, and the cost of books, pens, ink, paper, and inkstones is not less than this.

After calculating in her heart, Meng Qigu sighed lightly, "If the girls go to the embroidery women's workshop, their hard-earned silver will be used for their brothers to study, which is too unfair to them." ”

"Mother, you don't plan to let your brother and sister-in-law do some small business?"

"They are all shaving in the field, at most they can recognize a few more big characters than others, but that can't change their brains, where can they become a person like your second brother-in-law who can speak well?"

"Brother and sister-in-law can do other things, such as selling food, mother, what do you think of my craftsmanship?" Ran Jia asked with a smile.

"That's the best meal my mother has ever eaten," Meng Qigu nodded, this was unquestionable.

"Of course, I'm a master of the imperial chef, and I can give my brother and sister-in-law something casually, and they can make them a delicacy that can't be disappointed in Fucheng."

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