Chapter 216: Making Charcoal
Thinking of this, Lu Caiqing turned around and poured another cup of tea from the table, and pulled Song Zifei and said, "Zifei!" What are you still doing in a daze? Let's make tea for Master together! ”
Yang Yibao listened, sat down and smiled at her: "Girl! Even if you have foresight, the silly boy will learn a little from him, and she will be your senior sister in the future. ”
"Yes! Master! However, it is a bit rusty to call Senior Sister, but it is still closer to Sister Caiqing. Song Zifei said mischievously.
"No matter what you call it, but as my disciple, you must abide by my rules, and you can't rely on my reputation to do anything outside and expel you from the sect as soon as it is verified." Yang Yibao said solemnly.
Lu Caiqing and Song Zifei knelt down and directly offered the tea: "You must follow the master's teachings and repent." ”
Yang Yibao nodded slightly, showing a smile on his face, and suddenly he took out the paper and beckoned: "Zi Fei here!" Tell Master about your 9,000 ......! ”
Lu Caiqing covered his mouth and left quietly, if he let the master know that these questions have a formula to calculate, the results will be calculated in a while, and the bearded old man who is still angry is still angry, it is better to avoid it first.
In the end, Yang Yibao still counted Lu Caiqing for a long time, and stayed at Song's house that day, Song Ziwu and Zifei took Heizi to the mountains to hunt game, and Lu Caiqing and his wife took Yang Yibao and Wang Bo to the lotus pond together, visited the fish fry and lotus, although the lotus flowers bloomed did not see, but the lotus leaves of a pond were covered with the river, and the scenery was also very charming.
Song Ziyu went down to dig a few lotus roots again, and went back to add vegetables for the evening. I visited the canal in Lu Caiqing's house again, plus the wells at home, and I liked this apprentice very much.
In the evening, Lu Caiqing personally cooked, since Aunt Xia came, she had very few opportunities to do it herself, everyone was happy today, the road to study was bumpy but the clouds finally opened to see the moon, and there was also an unexpected harvest, happy and happy, and should make a sumptuous apprenticeship banquet.
First of all, cut the pork tenderloin, dip it in some starch, fry it in the pan and fry it with sugar to color, and make a simple pot wrapped meat.
Scrambled eggs with leeks, scrambled beans, cold mixed gluten and cold skin, and made sweet and sour pork ribs, steamed crucian carp.
At the end, I stewed a hare and made a pot of pheasant stewed mushrooms! A table full of dishes makes you have an appetite when you look at it.
A large pot of steamed white rice is boiled with a large pot of sweet potatoes as the main food.
Lu Caiqing also found the rice wine given by Lin Huaijin in the cellar. A sumptuous apprenticeship banquet was completed, and everyone enjoyed themselves, and this intermittent study road came to a perfect end.
After everyone got acquainted, they found out that Yang Yibao was a kind and close old man, not like the black-faced Bao Gong, but in fact, he was still very kind, but he was just a little temperamental.
The three of them lived here for three days, and every day when they had time, they told Lu Caiqing about the human geography of the Great Wei Dynasty, the development and changes, and the economic needs, which benefited her a lot, and also pointed out to her the shortcomings of the canals, and also gave examples to show that if the drought continues to last like this year, you should not think about your own selfishness, but about everyone's interests.
If you want Chenjiacun to make a fortune together, you have to use your brains to find a way, and you can't get rich yourself and let your family continue to suffer.
Lu Caiqing listened to it and respected such a teacher even more, she began to think that Yang Yibao was trying to take revenge on herself for fooling him, so she temporarily wanted to take herself as an apprentice and use her identity to suppress her ruffianism, but she found that it was not what she thought at all.
He knew that it was inconvenient for him to go out at home, so he tried his best to teach himself to know Da Wei in the only time, so that she should not be short-sighted, but take a long-term view, and just teach what he had learned, Lu Caiqing was grateful to him.
Yang Yibao and the three stayed in the Song family for five days, and when they went back, they took Song Zifei away, and Song Ziyu saw his younger brother who had lived with him for ten years leaving, and his heart was empty.
Lu Caiqing patted him on the shoulder and said: "Zifei is just going to study, and Taojia Village and our Chenjia Village are not far away, so if you think about it, you can go to see him, not to mention that you can go to see him when you borrow food every week, and it's not that you can't see him." ”
Although anyone can say it, but I just feel that the words of the little daughter-in-law have come true, just after fifteen, everyone spent a reunion Mid-Autumn Festival together, and then Zifei began to leave the house first, he hugged Lu Caiqing and buried his head deep in her chest, Lu Caiqing knew that this big man was sad.
I have never seen him cry since I saw him, and now I feel that my collar is wet, he must be secretly crying, and she doesn't know how to persuade him, so she can only subconsciously pat his back to show comfort.
Everything returned to normal, but there was suddenly one less person in the family, and I felt that something was missing for a while, but when Zifei went home, everyone saw that he was doing the same thing, and only then did they know that he was doing well there, so he slowly felt at ease, Lu Caiqing told Zifei about Song Ziyu secretly crying, and Zifei laughed at his brother for a long time.
Every time Zifei went home, she also brought Lu Caiqing some books that Yang Yibao gave her, time passed quickly, and it was almost December in a blink of an eye, the weather was slowly getting colder, and Lu Caiqing also put on the first clean cotton jacket of winter.
She thought that it had been almost a year since she came to this world, and when she first arrived here, she was just wearing thin naked and patched clothes, and now she was sitting in a warm room, the small kang was hot, and there was a fire burning in the room.
The charcoal fire here is still her own research, the purchase of charcoal is only bought by large families, ordinary people burn firewood in moderation, not to mention that the kang is hot, a little temperature is good, not to mention the charcoal pot in the house.
If it is a charcoal fire, that is the knowledge that Lu Caiqing has learned before, that is, to burn the wood and make it into carbon, there is not much open flame, which is suitable for heating in the house, and Aunt Xia, Aunt Liu and Yun Ge are in the house all day long, which also has a great effect on them, so that they will not freeze their hands and feet in the house.
Immediately, she instructed Song Ziyu and Ziwu to start taking action, and deliberately dug a door-shaped exit in a place outside the courtyard where there was still dirt, but the inside gradually increased, forming a closed kiln mouth.
At the same time, all kinds of timber with the thickness of a baby's hand, and even the thickness of a child's thigh, were cut into length to accommodate the standard of the cave entrance. A large amount of wood is piled up inside the charcoal kiln. Ignition of wood. Constantly fan the air into the kiln to convey air.
Since the beginning of wood burning, Song Ziyu has been squatting outside the kiln mouth to watch, but burning charcoal looks easy, but it is not so easy to really do, at the beginning. After the air in the depths of the kiln is completely burned, the wood is extinguished, and after it is actually ignited, when the charcoal in the depths of the kiln is burned. The wood on the outside had been burned to ashes, and finally it was continuously improved to make the charcoal it is today.
On this day, I saw Brother Li come to Song's house in a hurry and said, "Have you heard? Our Chenjia Village is going to conscript again? ”
Song Ziyu didn't care when he heard this, and said: "It seems that there is a conscription every year, what is the fuss." ”
"Brother Ziyu! You don't remember what you said when you bought the lotus pond! I've heard people say that when you bought the lotus pond, you promised that you would be a part of Chenjia Village in the future, and if you had taxes or military service, you would be obliged. This year, I heard that there is a country called Shi Java in the south that invades our Great Wei Dynasty, and a large number of troops are to be conscripted to encircle and suppress it, it seems that I heard that there is a quota for your family, do you believe that you go to the village chief's house to ask? After Brother Li finished speaking in one breath, he grabbed the teapot and poured it into his mouth.
Song Ziyu was taken aback, stood up and asked, "Who are you listening to?" ”
"I ...... Your sister-in-law Li chatted with others, I heard that it was Chen Xiaoyan who revealed the rumors, and said in the village that there are many men in your family, so you have to contribute to our Chenjia Village, not that I said, that little slut is really ruthless, it must be that he plucked the village chief, so he gave your family a quota, you see, can you think of a way, if the quota is announced, it will be late, every year our village goes to the army, and I haven't seen a few beautiful back. I'll go and let the ducks go first! After speaking, Brother Li left first.
Song Ziyu looked at Lu Caiqing, and Aunt Xia couldn't hold her breath and said, "Ziyu! What can I do? Although there are many men in our family, but the discerning person sees that Chen Xiaoyan is sowing discord, she must be taking revenge on our Song family, what can I do? ”
Song Ziyu thought for a while before saying, "Mother! Aunt Liu! Little daughter-in-law! Cloud Song! Only a few of us know about this matter, I will tell Brother Li later, don't let Ziwu know, that bastard boy is easy to make mistakes, I don't want him to have an accident, I really can't go. ”
Lu Caiqing listened to it and knew what he meant, and only then did he recall that when he bought the lotus pond, he agreed to the conditions of the village chief's uncle in order to settle down for Aunt Xia's mother and son, and remembered that he asked Song Ziyu at that time what should he do if he really wanted to be conscripted? It turned out that he had already thought about it at that time and went by himself. In order to satisfy his own selfish desires and earn money, he actually caused this trouble for the Song family.
"Mother! Don't worry! Lu Caiqing doesn't know what to say now? saw that the old lady was really worried about Song Ziyu.
Aunt Liu persuaded there, Lu Caiqing didn't know what to say to Song Ziyu, if in this modern era, it is incumbent on conscription to protect the family and defend the country, but in ancient times it was different, they belonged to the township soldiers, the bottom of the big head soldiers, the meat shield that charged into battle, and the backward weapons met each other, thinking about that scene, Lu Caiqing's hands and feet were cold.
Listening to what he said, that is, if there is a place in the family, then he will be the first candidate as the eldest brother, if he doesn't go, then he can only be Ziwu, but he has just turned sixteen, and he can't bear it, so he is also flustered when he is embarrassed.
"Ziyu! Either way, we can't go! Everyone knows that this is a matter of life and death, what can you do if you go! Yun Ge is still young, if he reaches this age, his mother really wants him to take this place! Aunt Xia was sincerely worried about Song Ziyu, so she said such a thing.