It was said that Ziqing rushed into her parents' room and shouted, "Dad, mother, let's kill sheep and eat." It's cold to eat mutton to warm up. I didn't realize that I had made my father and mother blush.

"Lamb? The mutton is still delicious in a pot, and it has to be seasoned with some good ingredients, so I'll go to the city tomorrow to look for it, if only I could buy a copper pot and come back. Today, it's okay to find someone to kill the sheep first, boil some bone broth and cook some sheep in the water to eat, I haven't eaten it for many years. Zeng Ruixiang said.

Ziqing thought that there was still a hot pot, and she was worried about how to launch the mutton shabu, and her father even knew the haggis soup.

Ziqing went out to prepare things with a smile, there are more than 30 sheep raised at home that can be killed, and a batch of lambs, not long after, Ziqing wants to squeeze some goat's milk to drink, but unfortunately it won't, ask Shen, she won't.

Zeng Ruixiang went to find Zeng Ruifa, the eldest son of his third uncle's family, who was a butcher and occasionally helped the villagers kill pigs or something. Zeng Ruixiang saw that the weather was cloudy, as if it was going to snow, so he killed two sheep in one go, and the net weight of one sheep was only thirty or forty catties.

The two of them packed up the sheep in the rape field on the outer courtyard wall and brought it over, Zeng Ruixiang took out five portions of good mutton of about three catties, and asked Zeng Ruifa to take it back and distribute it to his brothers five, and divided two portions for Zifu to send to the old house. Then take a knife and take out the big bones and throw them into the pot to cook slowly, and then boil hot water here to prepare to clean the sheep and water. Shen wanted to help, but Zeng Ruixiang sent her into the house, saying that he was afraid that she would look dirty and didn't want to eat.

Ziqing always said that the ancients didn't know how to deal with internal organs, and many heroines made a small fortune by selling internal organs. This is obviously not the case here, there were children who gave birth to pork belly before, and now I see Zeng Ruixiang first scrubbing with a little ice alkali a few times, and then rinsing twice with vinegar, Ziqing is a student of chemical engineering, I didn't expect the ancients to know the truth of acid-base neutralization, I was very surprised, I almost thought that my father was also wearing it, and hurriedly asked: "Daddy, who taught you to wash your internal organs like this?" ”

"I've seen your old aunt wash like this before. Learn from him. He used to follow his master, and his family was poor. The prey that was hit, the internal organs were reluctant to throw away, and the master and apprentice tried many methods, and finally found that there was no peculiar smell after he washed it like this, and now everyone will. Zeng Ruixiang said.

It turned out that it wasn't. Ziqing put aside the disappointment in her heart, and saw that her father had washed all the internal organs very skillfully, put them in a large pot and boiled them for a while, then took them out and cut some more and threw them into the bone broth and continued to cook. Shen came out to prepare dinner. Something suddenly came to mind.

"What about the sheep's fur? You're not going to throw it away, are you? Shen asked.

"How can it? I threw it out, bloody and smuggling, afraid that you would be scared when I saw it. I'll buy something from the city tomorrow. I've learned how to make a leather from my aunt, and when I'm done, I'll make you a rug or a mattress. ”

"Dad, we need carpets and mattresses, we have a lot of sheep. But you have to get it right, don't smell it. Ziqing has some distrust of her father, it is not easy for a scholar to farm, and he can hunt and go out far. Seeing extraordinary, my mother really picked up a treasure.

"It's just you. It's good to have some uses. Shen poked Qing's head for a moment.

The dinner was very rich, not only the haggis soup, but Shen also fried a large plate of shredded mutton with dried chili peppers and chives, which was not fat at all, Ziqing was also worried that some people would not eat it, but it turned out that everyone ate more fragrant than her.

After the meal, the family sat in the hall, Zifu Zilu and they were busy writing couplets on the table of the Eight Immortals, Shen made cotton robes by the brazier, Ziqing made smocks, Zeng Ruixiang pointed to Zifu and them for a while, and suddenly asked: "Where do you say I opened my private school?" ”

"Where do you want to drive? Not at home anyway. Shen said first.

"How many more rooms do you have to build? Isn't it a bit inappropriate to have money in it if you can't earn money? Besides, where to cover? Guadina, the new hospital? Zeng Ruixiang asked.

"That's not good, who knows who is coming? After looking at our family's large melon fields and fruit trees, it is difficult to guarantee that there is no red-eyed, and those who have red-eyed eyes have crooked thoughts, which is not cost-effective. "What Shen said is exactly what everyone is worried about.

"And as soon as the private school opens, the children of my aunt's family will definitely come to study, and I don't like them." Ziqing said.

"Dad, then let's buy another piece of wasteland, I think the one at the head of the village is good, we wanted to buy it too small that year, it's still some distance from here, just right." Zifu proposed.

"Then it costs twenty or thirty taels of silver to buy land and build a house, in case I can't recruit students and can't do it for two years, wouldn't it be a waste?" Zeng Ruixiang was still a little hesitant.

"So what's the waste? If the land is occupied, it is still close to the town, and there are two or three acres of land, which can be used by the children in the future. Shen said.

Shen's words dispelled Zeng Ruixiang's last doubts, and Zeng Ruixiang was going to go to Li Zheng the next day to handle the matter, so that he could rest assured as soon as possible.

The matter of buying land is going very smoothly, Li Zheng heard that it is for the sake of running a private school, for the children in the village, and he is even more active, nearly three acres of wasteland is counted as two and a half acres, and when he got the title deed, Zeng Ruixiang still went to find Master Luo, and the house and courtyard wall of the family were built by him.

Master Luo heard that it was to build three simple blue brick houses, and it would take seven or eight days to do it. Fortunately, there is no freezing in the winter in the south, and the foundation is still very easy to dig. Zeng Ruixiang pondered for two days, but decided to build a courtyard wall, otherwise the children would study inside, and there would be onlookers outside who would affect the children's attention. As soon as Ziqing heard about the courtyard wall, she strongly requested to plant more than a dozen peach trees inside, and as soon as the peach blossoms bloomed, the children sat in the window and looked at Luoying outside, which was very poetic.

"What do you know, you only know a few words, and it's poetic? Just say you're naughty. Shen laughed and joked about his daughter.

Who knew that Zeng Ruixiang listened to the reverie with his eyes closed, as if he saw that he was reading in the peach blossom bush, the literati are always a little romantic, and suddenly yearning, and said: "What do you know? Or Qing'er is right, according to me, just plant a few trees, and plant all the open space in the yard. When the peach blossoms are in full bloom, you can see how beautiful they are when you go to enjoy them. ”

"I also think it's good, chanting in the pink bushes is the yearning of many students, and maybe a few more children can be recruited." Zifu said.

It just so happened that Ziqing cultivated a batch of new peach trees last year, and planned to transplant them to the new yard after the New Year's warm, and now it just came in handy.

Xiao years ago, the house and yard were finally built, and the door frames of the tables and chairs could only be done by Master Xu's apprentices after the year, and it would not take a few days. Zeng Ruixiang felt that he could finally celebrate the New Year with peace of mind, accompanied Shen to Anzhou, bought all the New Year's goods, and came back to take Zifu to the old house to give New Year's gifts.

When Zeng Ruixiang passed, Qiu Yu happened to come over to give New Year's gifts, and Zeng Ruiqing's family was there. Zeng Ruixiang handed the clothes to Tian, Tian didn't smile at all, it didn't seem to be like a common thing always smiling, Zeng Ruixiang was very strange. (To be continued)