Chapter 34: Paving the Way
"I want you to take care of it, did the master teach you to contradict the elders in the school? Haven't you heard the word respect for the old and love for the young? I'm your second brother. ”
He would learn and use it now, and with Liu Man'er's words to teach him, he modified it and used it on Ye Feng's body.
Ye Feng immediately had some red eyes, "If I know that you are wrong, but I don't tell you, is this respecting you?" I'm not going to contradict you, I just hope you can study seriously in the academy. ”
"I haven't been able to teach you yet, haven't you just studied a few years before me, what's the big deal?"
The two brothers were about to quarrel, Fang happened to walk in with a pot of rice, and when she heard the two brothers arguing, she put the rice on the table, and then turned her head and said, "What are you two brothers arguing about, it's time to eat." ”
"Humph!" Ye Qing snorted coldly and sat down on the stool.
Liu Man'er patted Ye Feng's head and said, "You are a good boy, anyway, my sister-in-law supports you, but in the future, in class, you can't be distracted, if you don't get distracted, how do you know that your second brother is distracted?" ”
"It's my fault, I remembered, and I'll be more serious in the future." Ye Feng replied.
"That's a good boy." Liu Man'er patted him on the head and motioned for him to eat.
The next day, when the weather was a little cloudy, Liu Man'er found two large bowls.
And she led the two children to dig in the fields, which she had promised before, to help the two children make two sand pots.
Although there is a river here, it is the rainy season at this time, and Liu Man'er can't find the fine sand she wants, so Liu Man'er plans to replace it with mud.
The mud had always been soft and soft, and Liu Man'er thought that after putting it in the basin, as long as it was kept moist, she could write on it.
Before, she saw Ye He and Liu Fusheng writing on the ground, and then rubbed it off vigorously with her shoes after writing, so she thought that when she was a child, her family was also poor, and at that time, her father helped her make a sand table.
She wrote on the sand table with a branch, and when she had finished, the branch was swept away, and the sand basin was as good as ever.
Now she draws the scoop from the gourd and makes this clay bowl, so that they can write on the clay with tiny branches in the future, and when they are finished, they will be as good as ever.
However, the mud used is particular, and the mud in the field must be used, as for the ordinary loess is too sticky, there is no doubt about it.
So as soon as the weather is good, she will ask Ye Yuan to go out and find a few flat stones to use for stepping on his feet, which is really not good, and it is okay to use pebbles, it is better than stepping on a foot of mud every day.
Ye Yuan got Liu Man'er's order, so he went to the mountain to find stones, in this countryside, there is a shortage of everything, but there is still no shortage of stones.
When Liu Man'er took her two children to learn calligraphy, he was carrying a load of pebbles to the yard.
"Coming back?" Liu Man'er hurriedly greeted him, she took a handkerchief and carefully wiped his sweat, and went to the kitchen to scoop a bowl of water and handed it to him.
Ye Yuan took the water handed to him by Liu Man'er very really, and after drinking it all in one gulp, he handed the bowl to Liu Man'er and asked, "Say, is there anything else you want me to help do?" ”
Belch......
Liu Man'er couldn't help but choke a little, and after glancing at him, she said: "Actually, there is nothing to do, I just want you to strike while the iron is hot and pave this road quickly." ”
"I'll do this well, you don't have to be so diligent." Ye Yuan replied seriously.
"How is this courtesy? I watched you work hard, wiped your sweat and scooped a bowl of water, which is a normal thing. Liu Man'er said with a smile, "Shouldn't this husband and wife respect each other like guests?" ”
Respect each other!
When Ye Yuan thought of this word, he thought of what happened last night.
Originally, because Liu Fusheng was making a fuss about going home, so in those days, Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan took Liu Fusheng to sleep together, and in the past few days, Liu Fusheng and Ye Feng slept together, and there was no obstacle between Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan.
After half a month of cultivation, Liu Man'er's water color has improved a lot, her face has a lot of flesh, and her hair color looks darker, at least she is not as thin as before.
Last night, I just wanted to kiss her, but she kicked out of bed! Liu Man'er said, between husband and wife, you should respect each other like guests, haven't you ever seen a hug between guests, right?
Let him coax her in every possible way, she seemed to be stupid at the time, and she admitted this death.
Woohoo lament, who is it, who said it, husband and wife should respect each other as guests!
Presumably today, she felt a little guilty in her heart, so she wanted to make up for herself, but she was also a clever little guy.
"I'm going to pave the floor, you go and get busy with yours." After all, she couldn't talk about her crooked reasoning, so Ye Yuan buried himself in work.
Brought a hammer from the house, spread the pebbles on the ground, and then hammered them into the mud one by one with the hammer, until it was like three points of mud, and Ye Yuan stopped.
From the courtyard door to the main hall, there are two paths in the middle to the east and west wings, and from the back door to the kitchen, as well as the thatched house, all of which are neatly paved, so that in the future, when it rains, there is no longer a foot of mud on your feet.
When it was finished, Liu Man'er stepped on it with great interest, and the two children followed her.
Liu Man'er was not particularly fond of children in her previous life, but in this life, it may be the reason why she treats them sincerely, but in just over half a month, these two children have gone from being afraid of her, hating her, to being very clingy to her.
Well-behaved children, Liu Man'er has always liked them very much, and she also loves her two children very much, and she has truly fulfilled her duty as an eldest sister-in-law.
In other words, she would never have imagined that one day she would live such a life, teaching children and cultivating fields.
However, on such days, there is no intrigue, and sometimes it is quite leisurely to think about.
If so, you will never have to worry about not having enough food to eat, and it is best that there will always be surplus food at home.
In the morning, she taught the children to practice calligraphy, played with them for a while, went to the river to wash clothes, and continued to make silk flowers in the afternoon.
As soon as the weather was good, Ye Yuan also started his old business, going up the mountain to hunt.
In the evening, Liu Man'er made these silk flowers overnight, and the next day, he took Ye He and Liu Fusheng to the town to sell silk flowers.
As the old saying goes, it's easier said than done, and that's really true.
finally walked to the town, Liu Man'er walked from the street to the end of the street, and did not even find a stall.
wanted to go to the front of other people's shops to set up, but those who opened shops filled the corridor with things early, and then looked at Xiao Er's fierce eyes, Liu Man'er decided not to be bored.
"What should I do?" Ye He tightly pulled the corner of Liu Man'er's clothes, looking a little worried.
She was also looking forward to selling silk flowers this time, but the reality hit her hard.
Although this is the street in this town, they are also divided into several sections, different locations are selling different things, and there is naturally a lively street in the middle, with many rouge shops, cloth shops, and ready-to-wear stores set up here.
And the next paragraph is to sell some snacks, after all, everyone wants to rest when they are tired.
The streets are full of vegetables, fruits, poultry, livestock, and so on.
Liu Man'er naturally wanted to set up a stall in the middle, otherwise, she would put this thing in the place where people sold poultry and livestock, and she didn't say anything else, the smell alone would scare people away.
Some little girls don't even come to this place.
And the place outside has long been filled by others.
"Don't be discouraged, it's the first time we sell something, it's inevitable that we are inexperienced, this time it's a lesson, what to do, we have to do it as soon as possible, even if we don't sell it this time, it's a big deal to come next time."
Liu Man'er comforted the two little ones.
But in fact, her heart was very anxious, she had no money in her hands, if she couldn't sell these things, then she wouldn't be able to eat.
What's more, she also made two promises to Ye He and Liu Fusheng today, if she sold it, she would buy Ye He a piece of fragrant pancreas and Liu Fusheng a brush.
Liu Fusheng is sleeping with Ye Feng now, and after he writes down the words, he sometimes uses Ye Feng's pen to practice on paper, but children, after all, they all want to have their own pens.
Ye Feng and Liu Fusheng are very thrifty people, Liu Man'er went to see it last time, when they practiced calligraphy, they were on a piece of paper, first write large characters, after writing large characters, and then write medium characters between the gaps, and then use a small brush to write small letters between the gaps.
It was a dense piece of paper written like this, and Ye Feng was reluctant to throw it away, planning to wait for a longer time and use it after the ink faded.
Liu Fusheng wanted to buy a small brush, and he thought that there were still gaps in the paper, and he could still write again.
After Liu Man'er saw it, she felt a little inexplicably sad, but she felt that such diligence and thrift were a good thing.
What's more, she wants to give them better material conditions, but after all, she still can't afford it.
If the silk flowers in her basket could be sold as she had envisioned, she would surely get a lot of money.
But now the problem is that she can't even find a stall.
In this country, there is only one market in six days, but only five times a month, and everyone cherishes the opportunity to go to the market, and some industrious women often turn over the cabinets at home to see if there is anything that can be sold in the market, so that it is better to exchange some money for salt and oil.
This era is not like the previous life, everything has to be bought with money, and many things here can be exchanged.
For example, you can exchange beans for tofu, and you can also exchange eggs for sugar, osmanthus cake, and so on.
But salt is expensive in this era, and the store only accepts money to buy it, and the price is frighteningly expensive.
Because this salt shop is run by the government, it does not accept barter.
Liu Man'er suddenly thought that her family was also going to buy salt, this time, in order to prove her determination to break the boat, she didn't bring a penny, if she didn't sell these, she couldn't buy anything.