Chapter 41: Growing Up

"Husband, have you gone back to the academy to learn kung fu from your master?" The pearl did not look up, and continued to embroider,

"Yes! I also eat a lot now. Ming Qian didn't put down the book in his hand.

Pearl smiled, thinking that her husband might not have enough to eat tonight. Thinking of this, lining his efforts to carry water outside, he hurriedly went to the kitchen to get a basin, scooped three bowls of noodles in his own room, and then went to the kitchen to make noodles.

"Brother and sister, it's time to eat, why are you still making friends?"

"My husband said that he had a long amount of food, and I thought about making some more staple food." Making bread is a bit faster than making rice.

Shen went to stop the pearl and said, "There is no soup to eat cakes, it's not the right way, not to mention that there are good dishes today, in this way, I will let the third brother go buy some wine, the men will drink for a long time, and the staple food will be slow, let's make some more rice!" ”

"That's good, that noodle will make gnocchi soup tomorrow morning, put it aside, and I'll go scoop some rice and come back." It's rare for the husband to come back once, let's eat some fine grain! By the way, don't you still have wine at home? Pearl asked, last time Pearl took out the jar of wine there were five catties, all of them were high-grade wine, and there was still half of it left!

Shen said, "Brother and sister, forget it, the half jar of wine was hidden by grandpa, and he was not allowed to move." Daddy didn't even want to come out. ”

Pearl frowned and said, "I still have it in my house, do I still have an altar in my house?" "She can't take out five pounds of wine again and again, and then she can't take it out in the future, how big the dowry box is, everyone sees it!

"There's a little jar." Shen said, and found a jar from the corner, this is the jar that I brought when I used to buy wine, because it was small, it didn't have much use, and it had been placed in the corner of the kitchen.

Pearl took the small jar back to the room, just right, Ming Qian had already gone to the hall, Pearl took the opportunity to go to the space, and then opened an ordinary bottle of wine of twenty or thirty yuan, poured out a bottle, and then hugged the wine jar into the hall, the atmosphere seemed to be a little wrong, but seeing the pearl holding the jar came, the old man Ming said happily,

"What kind of good wine is this, is it the same as the last time?"

"This one is stronger than the last wine! I'm just a little jar. Pearl said with a smile, and Old Man Ming smiled happily, "Okay, okay, pour it quickly." ”

Ming Qian took the jar and helped his grandfather pour wine, and Shen also began to serve food on the table. There is chicken stewed potatoes, two large porcelain pots, and tofu, and miso. The women began to eat, the men began to drink, and even the third child, Mingde, was given a small half bowl of wine, but it was enough to make him drunk.

It was the first time that the Ming family had eaten potatoes, and the old man Ming said, "Potatoes are good, they can replace food, and they can be eaten as vegetables." Pearl said that this thing was still on her shoulders, and that it could be kept in the cellar for the winter. The yield is still very high, and if it is not for the limited seeds, I would like to have a variety of them. Old man Ming said that the family's ten acres of land will also grow this grain in the coming year, and they are not very familiar with corn.

Because the men drank wine, when it was time to eat, it happened that the newly made rice was also ready, and the whole family ate cleanly, especially Yu'er, whose small mouth was full of oil, Mingqian really ate six full bowls of rice, and the pearl was a bowl of rice that could not be eaten. It seems that it is really work, otherwise it would not be so edible.

Since Mingqian left, the work of bringing bath water to Pearl at night was handed over to Mingde, and Pearl also specially gave Mingde a set of four treasures in the study room for him to practice calligraphy. Only then did Mingqian come back, and the work of carrying the bathwater was handed over to him. After Pearl took a bath, she sat at the desk and made coarse cloth clothes for her husband, and it seemed that when he still had work in the future, if he really learned kung fu from the master, the clothes would be very expensive. Coarse pearls haven't been used yet! At this time, it is time to sew a few more bodies for her husband.

The dowry brought four coarse cloths, one dark gray, one navy blue, one turquoise blue, and one green onion. I chose dark gray and navy blue for my husband to make a short dozen, and I also used white muslin for my underwear. I believe that people who practice martial arts will spend a lot of clothes.

When Ming Qian entered the house, he saw Pearl sewing a navy blue dress, so he knew that it was for him, and said,

"Don't do it, it's so tired that your eyes are tired, I see that you have embroidered a large piece of embroidery, so if you work hard, your eyes will be bad at a young age."

Pearl smiled and said, "I'm fast, and I'm not tired." "Actually, they all embroider in the space at night, where the time is not moving.

Ming Qian sat down and said, "The lady is really a blessed person! ”

Pearl turned her head and smiled, her eyes like waves, and said, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"The books you brought with me were really useful, and when I went back, my husband said that I had made rapid progress, and even the fonts had become more and more beautiful. Besides, I just copied some more books. They are all very useful books for the imperial examination, and I brought them all back this time. I believe that our family's life will be better. "Ming Qian also heard that Pearl proposed to build a house, embroidery work is good, farming is also serious, get along with the family, neither be pinched, but also rude, such a wife, it is really rare, you will be pregnant when you enter the door, where to find such a blessed person?

"It's good to be useful to you, the second brother took two more copies. Let's see later! ”

Ming Qian was really distracted and ran to the bookshelf. Before going to bed, a set of clothes is ready, and tomorrow morning I will start making underwear, using a sewing machine in the space, very quickly.

Ming Qian is actually the favorite son of the Wang family, and he is also the most outstanding son, and it is precisely because of this that she feels that Pearl, an older woman, is not worthy of her son. This time Mingqian came back, and Wang was not stingy, and gave Pearl 40 yuan to buy meat in the morning, saying that he still wanted to eat potatoes, but Pearl also told her that there was only one meal left of potatoes, Wang felt that it was a pity, but he didn't say anything else, let Pearl do it well, and let the second child taste it.

Today's pearl at noon is braised pork stewed with dried beans, and there are ten boiled eggs in it, the eggs have been boiled in the broth for a long time, and they are also contaminated with the aroma of meat, and the taste is very good. As for the potatoes, Pearl made a choked shredded potato, added sesame oil, it tasted very good, and it took a long time to cut the shredded potatoes, which was enough for the family to eat. The staple food is made of two rice, and if all rice is used, it is estimated that the rice in the pearl room will not last for a few days.

The workers hired by Pearl were busy working on his twenty acres of land, and when it was time to plant potatoes, Pearl took a look. There are a lot of workers employed, and not every family in the village has so much land. After planting the twenty acres, the Ming family's land will also be planted. He also hired the cattle of the Zhu family. Hiring people is all pearl money.

Ming Qian ran on both sides, at the beginning, it was the old man of the Ming family who took the people in the village to clean up the twenty acres of pearl land, and when Ming Qian came back, he handed it over.