Zhang Huai smiled: "Your tone is not small! What's the comparison? Compared to knowledge, character, or fighting cleverness? Let me tell you, do you want to swim with Sanshun's son, fight with Zhao Feng, the youngest son of Uncle Zhao, and compare stability and patience with gourd, let's chestnut? I'm afraid that clever person can't compare to your virtuous children. ”

Chrysanthemum listened to it, and said in her heart, if you are a father, blow it, the chestnut is naughty, but not clever.

Li Changyu laughed and said: "It's really hard to compare like this." ”

After some busyness, a group of people walked towards the village.

When they arrived at the river in front of Zhang's house, the two groups of people wanted to separate ways, Wan'er took Chrysanthemum's hand and said, "Chrysanthemum, come to my house when you have time and talk to me." ”

Chrysanthemum smiled: "I want to go out to play, but look at these two babies, can they leave people?" Besides, I have to plant seedlings, and I have a lot of housework, so I don't have so much free time. ”

Wan'er nodded and said, "That's what I said, I also have to help my mother-in-law with housework, and the second master and father-in-law are very busy when planting seedlings." ”

Li Changyu said to her: "When you go back to pick peaches, come out to play again." ”

Wan'er blushed excitedly, pulled the chrysanthemum and muttered for a while before letting go.

Huaizi looked up at the peaches on the tree and said to the chrysanthemum: "The peaches will wait a few days, the cherries are ripe, and we will pick the cherries tomorrow early." Chrysanthemum, after shopping for so long, are you tired? ”

Chrysanthemum smiled: "Not tired." I didn't hug it for long, aren't you always hugging when you walk! Brother Huaizi, we also have to save money to buy more land. Now it's different from usual, we usually live comfortably, and it doesn't matter if we have more money or less money; Now Yang Zi is definitely going to be an official, and he has no net worth. It's not easy for this official to be, is it possible to expect him to be corrupt and take bribes? If his own foundation is thick, he also has the confidence to be an official outside, and this person has contacts and social colleagues. They all ask for silver. ”

Huaizi nodded and said, "I was thinking about this just now. In recent years, the family has not spent much, and the income will be collected at the end of the year. Just buy the land again. After saving for a few years, when he becomes an official, his family can also help him. Yang Zi said in the letter that he didn't have to worry about the cost of studying. I think it's all arranged.

Chrysanthemum saw that he had thought of this. and he spoke no more.

They are all brothers, breaking bones and connecting tendons, since they have enjoyed the convenience brought by Zhang Yang's career, they must make some contributions to this family. Of course, it's good to live your own life with peace of mind, but if something happens to Zhang Yang, can Zhang Huai escape?

In view of this, Chrysanthemum has decided to change her lazy style and earn some money with her spirits. Besides, the conditions are no longer than in previous years, so it is naturally easier to perform.

Afternoon. Huaizi still took the Liu family father and son to fish for fry, and Chrysanthemum first slept with his son and daughter. When he got up, he went to the backyard, and when he saw that the cherries on the tree were indeed ruddy and crystal clear, he asked the grapes to bring a small basket and pick some to eat in the evening.

In order to prevent the birds from pecking, she sewed several gauze bags with the grapes, and covered the cherries in the lower places, so that they could be used.

Wash and dry the cherries, then pick some large ones, gently mash them with a small wooden pestle, remove the peach pits, stir them into a paste with a spoon, put them in a small bowl, feed them to the chestnuts and shallots who have just woken up, and let the grapes get some and give them to Xiaojing'er.

The red cherry juice dyed the lips of the two babies even redder, and occasionally a trace of red hung on the corners of the mouth, and the little baby stretched out her pink little tongue and kept licking. Chrysanthemum looked at the itch in her heart, and couldn't help but lean in and bite it alone. The chestnut was not at all dissatisfied with the theft of incense, but giggled happily; Shallot also pursed her lips and looked at her mother with a happy expression.

Huaizi saw this scene when she entered the courtyard, and couldn't help laughing, but she wanted to bite the baby even more in her heart - the chrysanthemum that coaxed the baby smiled with disgust, which was different from her usual leisure and ease, and it was particularly moving.

He leaned the fishing net against the courtyard wall to dry, went to the well to wash his hands and face, then sat down beside Chrysanthemum, took the bowl in her hand, and said, "I'll feed it." ”

While smiling and glancing at the chrysanthemum, she saw that she had just eaten a spoonful of cherry juice, her lips were like rouge, and she really wanted to go up and suck it, but the grapes were feeding the well on the side, and Grandma Liu was also collecting clothes in the yard, so she had to press the heat and turn her head to tease her daughter and son.

However, his eyes were deep, and his tenderness was overflowing, and Chrysanthemum blushed slightly when she saw it, hesitated for a moment, and wanted to call it "Brother Huaizi", and suddenly thought that she was already the mother of two babies, and it didn't seem appropriate to call her like that, so she changed her words: "His father......

Zhang Huai trembled when he heard this, turned his head and looked at her strangely, for a long time, Chrysanthemum couldn't bear to beat him, and said angrily: "What kind of expression are you?" Laugh if you want! Isn't it uncomfortable to hold it like this? ”

Huaizi laughed a few times, and after Chrysanthemum beat him a few more times, he freed up a hand, held her hand and didn't let her fight again, while saying, "Chrysanthemum, it's better for you to call me 'Brother Huaizi'." My mother called my dad and called him 'his dad', and it was not good to turn around and get confused. ”

Saying that, he laughed a few more times, approached her and whispered: "I've heard you call 'Brother Huaizi' for many years, and I'm used to it. Anyway, you just don't call it, and I'm also the baby's father, so I can't be wrong. ”

Chrysanthemum couldn't help but laugh.

Huaizi smiled and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Chrysanthemum frowned and thought for a while, then glared at him and said, "I forgot what I wanted to say when you told you to make such a mess." ”

Huaizi stirred the cherry paste with a spoon and said with a smile: "Then tell me when you think about it." ”

As the two were talking, the chestnut screamed "uh-huh", Chrysanthemum hurriedly pushed him and said "Feed", Huaizi hurriedly turned around and scooped up a small spoonful of cherry juice to feed his son.

When the father can't feed it, his son's mouth is covered with red water, and a lot of dripping on his chest.

Chrysanthemum complained: "This juice can't be washed off on the clothes." You scoop less, put the spoon deeper into your mouth when you feed, and when you pull it out, scrape the juice from that mouth into his mouth, belch, that's it. ”

Huaizi laughed while listening, now Chrysanthemum is very skilled in doing this, and teaching him so old-fashioned, it seems that he has raised several babies.

He clumsily put a small spoonful of cherry paste into the shallot's mouth, and said with a smile: "I don't feed them often, so naturally I am not as skilled as you." Look at our girl, just Sven, not like chestnuts, which are full of mouths. He added: "This cherry is red and gorgeous, look strange and like, you can pick up a few for me to taste." ”

So Chrysanthemum picked up the unseeded ones from the basket and fed him a few, and the two laughed and teased the twins while eating.

Grape on the side stood up, put the last spoonful of cherry paste into his mouth, and said to Chrysanthemum: "Young grandma, the well has finished eating." Have you finished eating chestnuts and shallots? I'm going to wash the dishes. ”

Chrysanthemum hurriedly said: "It's over." Then he said to Huaizi: "You can eat the rest - this little baby can't eat too much." It doesn't matter if you feed them some corn paste in the evening. ”

Grape grinned and said, "That's what I thought, so I ate the rest." ”

When Huaizi heard this, he hurriedly scooped the rest of the bowl into his mouth, and scooped two spoonfuls in a row. Chestnut stared up at his father with a good eye, pursed his little mouth twice, and swallowed it again, as if wondering: Why did he eat it and not feed him?

The son's small appearance saw the chrysanthemum and immediately smiled.

Huaizi was also funny, and said apologetically to the chestnut: "Son, this thing is not good, Dad will help you eat it, so you won't have a stomach." ”

Grape listened to the young master's words, pursed his lips and snickered, while taking the bowl in his hand and taking it to the well to wash.

He Shi came out of the kitchen, laughed when he heard the words, picked up the chestnut and said: "You know how to bully my eldest grandson, and you don't know anything when you are a person?" Chestnut, look at Grandma's help you get angry—"Turn to Huaizi—" and don't hurry up to work, and grind that bucket of glutinous rice. ”

Chrysanthemum also jumped up and said with a smile: "Mother is going to cook dinner for chestnuts to eat." ”

At night, after coaxing the two babies to sleep, Chrysanthemum grinded some ink under the lamp, spread out a book, found her own special quill pen, and dipped it in ink to record the recent income and expenditure.

She also took precautions and divided her private property from the family's income and expenditure very clearly. Of course, her in-laws don't account for these, and even she concludes that Zhang Yang doesn't account for these either, but when Zhang Yang's daughter-in-law enters the door, so that the juniors will grow up in the future, if this account is not settled, it will be difficult to say.

Brothers, settle accounts! This is also the foundation of family harmony.

At present, there is still little furniture, and when there is more accumulation, I am afraid that few people can not care. However, no matter how much furniture you have, isn't it also saved up little by little? At present, these properties are the foundation, so it is not possible to clear the accounts, and when you open the account books in the future, you will be able to know how the assets are added.

When Huaizi returned to the room after taking a bath, she saw Chrysanthemum sitting seriously at the round table, holding a tube of goose feathers, waving a pen and writing, and her expression was very focused.

While wiping his wet hair with a cotton cloth, he sat down and asked softly, "Accounting again?" Chrysanthemum, how can you write so smoothly with goose feathers? And it's so beautifully written. I've tried it several times, but I don't feel like it's going to work. ”

Chrysanthemum smiled, raised her hand to dip it in the inkstone, and continued to write, while saying, "I use a brush to write, it's not bad at writing?" Everyone is used to it. At that time, in order to save money, I never used a brush to write, I always used a branch to write on the sand table, isn't it just like this quill pen? So I got used to writing. It's not like you, I've been writing with a brush in the school, and I'm not used to using this hard pen. ”

When she began to write with a quill pen, she deliberately wrote the font very immaturely, and then she became impatient and pretended, so she showed her original strokes. It is said that the word is like its person, and the word of chrysanthemum is neither beautiful nor powerful, but the kind that is free and elegant, so Huaizi was surprised to see it.

Huaizi looked at it for a while, and then said, "Chrysanthemum, do you need to remember it so carefully?" Also, the settlement of the wages of the hired workers cannot only be paid by you. Dad was still talking to me about this, saying that he didn't care about this, and Yang Zi didn't think about it. ”

Chrysanthemum said without raising her head: "Brother Huaizi, didn't I tell you, you are an elder brother, some things should be considered, and the bookkeeping is also to make the family's income and expenditure clear and understandable, so that it can not be confused in the future, and it is not that it is deliberately aimed at anyone." ”

Huaizi nodded, he actually agreed with Chrysanthemum's approach......