Bring the water to a boil, scoop it out and let it cool for later use.

The coarse salt of pickled vegetables is melted with water, poured in fine loess and some home-brewed rice wine, evenly stirred into a paste of yellow mud, each duck egg is wrapped in a thick layer of yellow mud and then put into the ashes of plants and trees to roll around.

Qing Zhi followed the same way, and the yellow mud and plant ash that the two of them made in one hand accidentally got on their faces, making fun of each other, and Xie Shi shook his head when he saw it.

The duck eggs wrapped in grass and wood ash are neatly placed in the small clay pot in the corner of the stove room, and the bottom of the clay pot is covered with thick grains, and the duck eggs are placed on the top and then put a thick layer of grains, and finally the lid is put on the clay pot.

The spring in the south of the Yangtze River is rainy, and it has only been sunny for a few days, and the sky has changed its face again, and the light rain has been pouring from morning to night.

Liu Qingyan still gets up early every day and practices her dance yoga in the room, and it is not possible to change her physique quickly, and she needs perseverance to be effective.

On rainy days, Xie also took over the work of beating pigweed, and the two piglets were still young, so they didn't need too much green fodder for the time being.

It was a cloudy day, and in the morning, Liu Qingyan was practicing calligraphy in the study, Qingzhi was reluctant to do needlework, and she also held the book and shook her head and read it.

Helplessly, she didn't know much about reading, so she read a copy of the "Three Character Sutra" intermittently, read two sentences and asked Liu Qingyan, and then continued to read and ask again.

Liu Qingyan is a good teacher, she never tires of Qingzhi's advice, she doesn't write her own words, and teaches her to read wholeheartedly.

Qingzhi was originally impatient to study, but now with Liu Qingyan's company, she became serious, so the sound of reading aloud floated out of the window, filling the entire courtyard of the Liu family.

The old man and Liu Boyu went to the village to buy some sweet potato seedlings and went to the field, and it was easy to survive planting sweet potato seedlings in this season.

"Yo, look at the strength of the two of you, aren't we going to have two female talents?" Xie Shi came back from outside with a basket of grass and wild vegetables, and when he heard the sound of reading, he stuck his head in and joked.

The two who were studying stopped.

Liu Qingyan's smart eyes suddenly lit up, and she asked with great interest: "Mother, you said that our daughter's family can also go to the Xiucai exam?" ”

"Oh, my mother also hopes that you can earn a reputation and come back, so that your mother can put some gold on her face, but the current holy master probably won't agree!" Xie Shi took off the hat on his head and smiled narrowly.

When Liu Qingyan heard that Xie was teasing her, she puffed out her cheeks and said angrily: "Mother, how can you coax your daughter like this." ”

"Well, I don't know if you two are thinking about this, don't you just want to avoid learning needlework!" Xie smiled.

"This ......"

The little trick was debunked in person, Liu Qingyan and Qingzhi glanced at each other and smiled.

"Your child's temperament has become too fast, you used to do what your mother asked you to do, but now it's good, and you Qingzhi's sister is disobedient with you." Xie Shi glared at his daughter.

Liu Qingyan looked at Qingzhi with a black line on her face, looking at Qingzhi aggrievedly, thinking that this can also depend on my head, she is not very obedient in the first place, okay!

Qing Zhi hurriedly covered her face with a book.

"After lunch, learn how to needlework with me, and don't play tricks anymore." Xie Shi threw down this sentence, picked up the bamboo basket on the ground and left.

The two looked at each other and sighed, and hung their heads in resignation.

So the two people who were trapped in the house on a rainy day read and read in the morning, and were detained to learn needlework in the afternoon.

Liu Qingyan was deeply resentful when she was doing embroidery work, thinking that I was a "white bone spirit", either sitting in a spacious and bright office giving orders, or going in and out of major luxury hotel clubs to negotiate business with customers, but now I was reduced to being grabbed by my ears to embroider.

Cups, cups!

Liu Qingyan, who has changed the core, naturally has a much higher comprehension ability than before, and this hard work has made a lot of progress, so happy that Xie Shi's eyebrows are smiling, and she feels good at how her daughter looks.

On March 20, the school was closed, and Liu Bowen and his son returned from the town on the evening of the 19th.

When he went to bed that night, Xie told his father-in-law about the changes in his daughter.

Liu Bowen was first surprised, and then surprised.

On the second day, I paid attention to the observation, and found that the girl had really changed a lot, the original cowardly temperament became generous and cheerful, and the bearing on the body was also incomparable to the past, and the head was no longer lowered when talking to people, and the bright eyes flashed with brilliant brilliance.

In the past, Liu Qingyan expressed her feelings in a subtle and introverted way, and when she saw her father and brother come back, she pursed her lips and rarely spoke, but now she is laughing and laughing at home, and occasionally she will be coquettish, and her face often shows a cute and cute smile, which is easier to get close.

However, the time was very long, but the relationship was too short, Liu Bowen and his son stayed at home for a day, and then returned to the school in the town.

In order to let Liu Lanqing concentrate on studying, if there is no major matter at home, he will not go home, and only come back for two nights when the school is resting.

When the sun shines again in late March, the temperature rises a lot.

The weather was hot, and Mr. Liu pondered that he should buy some light and breathable summer clothes for his family, and it happened that March 25 was a big gathering in the town on the fifth day, so he discussed going to the town after dinner the first day.

Discussions came and went, and the result was that the whole family went.

The paddy fields have all been ploughed and leveled, the fertilizer has been applied and waiting for the seedlings to be planted, the sweet potatoes in the dry land have also taken root, and the soybeans have not yet been sown.

Hearing that she was going to the town, Yoo Qingyan was very excited, she could finally get out of the village and see what it was like outside, she wanted to know what the world was like.

After returning to the room, take out the jar where you store your private money, which is the New Year's money given to the original owner by the elders for the New Year.

He poured out the copper coins and counted them, and there were more than a hundred and a few coins, and they were all put into his purse at the moment.

There is very little cognitive memory of this world, the original owner is a 'seven things to open the door', the lord who ignores everything, and she hasn't been to the town a few times, she doesn't know what a hundred dollars can do now, according to the conversion of eggs for a penny, it is almost more than a hundred yuan in the previous life.

Think about more than 100 yuan in her elementary school and junior high school days, it can be called a huge amount of money, at that time she had a ten yuan or eight yuan is very good, who has one or two hundred pocket money, is definitely a "local tyrant" student, and the purchasing power of money in ancient society is far beyond modern society.

The next day, Xie got up early and went into the stove room to be busy.

The two elders of the Liu family came out of the room, and they all carefully cleaned up and changed into clothes that they didn't usually wear.

Master Liu also read books when he was young, and after changing into a stone blue robe, his back was straight, a little more majestic than usual, and he looked quite a squire.

Mrs. Liu was dressed in a navy blue dress, eighty percent new, her hair was combed with hair oil, and two silver hairpins were inserted, which made her look a few years younger.

The old man glanced at his wife and praised: "The old woman looks very energetic today. ”

But all women, no matter how old they are, are always happy when they hear praise, Mrs. Liu is sweet in her heart, but her mouth says: "The old man is talking nonsense." ”

Liu Qingyan was caught off guard and was stuffed with a mouthful of dog food, trying her best to hold back her laughter.

She also dressed up carefully today, with an autumn-colored collared jacket on her upper body, and an apricot-colored silk skirt on the bottom, her clothes and skirt were embroidered with folded plums, and a small beaded flower was on the hairpin.

After breakfast, Xie cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and fed the pigs, then went back to the room to change his clothes and wrap up the embroidery work.

Mrs. Liu fed the chickens, took out all the eggs she picked up these days and packed them in a big bamboo basket, and took them to the town to sell them, and she could also buy some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and subsidize the family.

There are more than 20 chickens at home, because Mrs. Liu feeds them well, she can pick up more than a dozen eggs a day, and she can't eat them all at home.

Liu Boyu had already set up the ox cart, and the little girl couldn't wait to sit on the ox cart, and the delicious things in the town were beckoning to her!

After everything was cleaned up, the courtyard door was locked, everyone got on the ox cart and sat down, Liu Boyu waved his whip, and the big buffalo flicked his tail and ran towards the entrance of the village.

There are also some families in the village who are going to the market, calling their children and daughters at the door, busy setting up cars, and they greet Liu Qingyan's family enthusiastically when they see it.

A sturdy double-perforated stone arch bridge spans the river, and the bridge is the only way to get in and out of the village.

The bridge was built by Liu Qingyan's great-grandfather, who donated money after returning to his hometown, and it was a wooden bridge before, so it was very inconvenient to enter and exit. After having this bridge, the village organized people to build the road, and the village has its current situation, so the status of Liu Qingyan's family in the village is needless to say.

Out of the village, cross the stone arch bridge and then walk out of two or three miles is the official road. The official road goes to the east, which is to the town, and to the west, which is the road to the county seat.

This ancient road was bumpy, the ox cart was very bumpy when it walked, Liu Qingyan's little fart had no meat, and it was able to withstand it at the beginning, but it hurt so much that she couldn't stand it when she walked out of Erli, so she had to take turns to sit on the side of the two sides, and her body kept twisting around.

Xie was afraid that his daughter would fall off the ox cart, so he stretched out his arm to hold it

Qingzhi was very excited along the way, and kept saying to Mrs. Liu, 'Grandmother, I want to eat this, grandmother, I want to eat that'.

Mrs. Liu looked kind, touched Qingzhi's hair and smiled in response.

Liu Qingyan looked at Qingzhi's round face, and said in her heart: You are a snacker, you didn't eat so many things in vain.

After the ox cart got on the official road, the bumpy situation improved. The ox cart creaked forward, and the pedestrians on the road gradually increased.

Today is a big gathering, people from ten miles and eight villages have come to rush, some are driving ox carts and donkey carts, and some are carrying burdens to walk, and they have brought their local products to sell in exchange for some money to supplement their families, and the life of peasant families has been like this for generations.

Some people they met and knew each other said hello to each other, talked loudly as they walked, and exchanged newly acquired gossip with each other, some heard and some happened around them.

This said that my aunt's third uncle's cousin had an old man in the village who picked up his daughter-in-law's ashes; The one who said that my second son-in-law's uncle's eldest cousin had a woman in the village who gave birth to a freak with scales all over her body; Some people also say that there is a girl in our village who is unmarried and pregnant, and eloped with a man.

The people next to him were itchy when they heard it, so they hurriedly stepped forward to find out the root cause and join the discussion, so that they could talk to others when they got home, and increase some conversation after tea and dinner.

It was in this primitive way that ancient gossip was spread.