Chapter 232: Teaching Brother and Sister
As soon as the pearl came back, the old man had a backbone, and said, "Why don't you go and get it?" This unfilial son, this doesn't want me to live a good life! The money to build the house was borrowed from me by the second child, and when the big girl got the money from selling embroidery, she paid me back every time! How much money have you taken from me over the years? Have you bought me a decent outfit for me? ”
Liu Hai's legs were fast, and he quickly brought the bamboo strips, and the old man took the bamboo strips and went to smoke Liu Da, Liu Da blocked them with his hands and said, "I am your son, and it is natural to spend your money." ”
Liu Tonghammer's family will not help persuade them, but Liu Tongsuo and his wife wanted to help, but they were slapped in the face by the old man at once, and they didn't dare to step forward at this time. Now the old man has the essence nourishing pill given by the pearl, eats tonic medicine from time to time, and drinks Bagongde water, that body, more than Liu Da, no one stopped him, in the end Liu Da and the Jin family were beaten away. Kim also suffered a lot.
Finally beat the people away, Liu Tonghammer also returned, everything returned to normal, and Pearl brought all the materials, one indigo, one dark blue, one purple, and one lake green. The whole family can make clothes, this cloth is still muslin, it looks like there is a pair of silk luster, everyone likes it very much, Pearl said, three or five days can make the clothes, and then take out the silver, give Old Man Liu one hundred and fifty taels, and the remaining one hundred taels to his parents, Fang is not stingy, and gave Pearl five taels of silver, let her buy embroidery thread or something, jade and coral also gave twenty wen each, Liu Hai and Liu Gui are also twenty wen. Where have the two brothers seen so much money! But they don't dare to compare with the eldest sister, although they don't know the inside story, but they also know that this family is getting better now, and it's all the money earned by the eldest sister.
The flowers in the yard are the treasures of the family, with buttercups, peonies, roses and camellias. The varieties planted with pearls are, of course, the most beautiful and rarest varieties, and they are necessarily blue enchantresses. Black roses. There are many varieties of black peony, green peony, and camellia, and now they can be divided. The whole backyard is full of these flowers.
The four children of the Liu family. Except for the youngest Liu He, who is doing enlightenment education. The other kids had a hard time. I didn't even have time to hang out with the children in the village, and when they had time to play, they found out. I am no longer the same, and I can't fit in with this group of wild children.
Originally, Liu Tonghammer said that he wanted his son to go to the school in the town, at first, Pearl also thought so, but then he thought about it, he had a lot of experience in teaching children, and she didn't believe that the show in the town was better than herself. Pearl not only taught his younger siblings the Four Books and Five Classics, but also learned the Confucian doctrines of each school and school, and then let everyone discuss them together. After that, I have to learn all the children, anyway, he has books here, for how to write poems and lyrics, pearls are related books, are modern summaries, of course, some miscellaneous studies are also to learn, such as farming at home, raising flowers, things involved will be taught, and can also tell the source, the girls' courses are closer, embroidery, morning and evening practice martial arts, although they have no way to fight with others to exercise, but pearls have rich experience in actual combat! Pearl educates younger brothers and sisters, if you want to have a future career, you must work hard, or how to say that the children of the poor are in charge early, the younger brothers and sisters are very obedient, disobedient, in addition to the old man can move, pearls can also move.
They are not close to the village, all when they practice musical instruments, no one hears, Pearl is very strict with his younger siblings, not only to learn, if the family is busy with farm work, they also need to do, this life, Pearl is not so attached to the skin of the sisters, at least let everyone finish the work, soak it in rice washing water, and then wash it with soap, and apply hand cream.
In the rainy season, it was really pouring rain, and some people in the village did not believe in evil, and there were no protective measures at all, but there was a lot of water stored in the reservoir of Mr. Liu, and it was about to reach the highest water level. At this time, everyone knows what the old man is doing when he takes out his coffin, and Old Man Liu's reputation in the village is now rising! Now even Lizheng has come to visit his home and asked how to prevent flooding.
Old man Liu also did what the pearl said, this year, almost all the production in the village was reduced, only the grain harvest in Mr. Liu's house was harvested, because they planted corn from Fanbang, and the sticky corn was divided into three picking periods and sold to the largest restaurant in Zhuozhou City. This year, their family has made a lot of money.
Knowing that the people in the village had a bad harvest, and some people wanted to plant corn, they couldn't say it themselves, so they invited Li Zheng to come over, and Mr. Liu generously agreed to sell the seeds, and the price was not high, which made Li Zheng and the people in the village very grateful. During the Chinese New Year this year, Liu Da did not come, Liu Tonghammer sent ten taels of silver, if it was in the past, they must have been very happy, but now it is obvious that their family's income from the field alone is more than 200 taels, what is this ten taels? Liu Da and Jin talked a lot, Liu Tongsuo and Zhou wanted to say something, but Liu Tongzhu has never been willing to see them, and now that their status is also very different, they won't say anything.
This year, Liu Tonghammer and their New Year are full of joy! More than 100 acres of land, potatoes and corn are produced a lot, and although the remaining wheat and sorghum have been reduced, they can be regarded as a bumper harvest! Corn is sold as seeds, but they earn 30 taels more than they plant more than 100 acres of wheat!
When the weather is cold, burning a large boiler designed with pearls in the kitchen can keep the whole family warm, and burning a handful of firewood on the kang can also warm up. Pearl with two sisters to make artificial flowers, pearl's hand has always been clever, I saw so many artificial flowers in the space, I will do it, it is also very good-looking, roses, peony flowers, camellia and daffodils, pearl also bought beautiful flower pots, specially put these flowers, and then let Liu Tonghammer take it to the city to sell, of course, there are silk flowers on the head, it is even more amazing, it is simply a big impact on the ancient silk flower style, no way, their technology and level are not comparable with pearls. When the Chinese New Year was approaching, Pearl asked Liu Tongzhu to buy gold paper and red paper, and then used gold powder to write gold paper with red paint. Liu Tonghammer and his wife sold out these new-style couplets not long after they arrived in the city, and bought two large bundles of gold paper and red paper, pearls to write, and sold them again after a few days.
The whole family was very happy, they only knew that these couplets were beautiful and novel, but they didn't know that the reason why these couplets were sold so well in Zhuozhou was not only because of these reasons, but also because the calligraphy of pearls was very valuable. Written couplets, not only have auspicious meanings, but also for the rich family, the door valve family, the scholarly family, have written couplets, with calligraphy, in addition to the regular script, there are official scripts, small seals, large seals and line books and so on. Of course, in order not to dislocate their wrists, Pearl writes with both hands, and several younger siblings have grown up mouths, of course, after this, their children are practicing writing with both hands.
Because they haven't seen it, several children of the Liu family think it's normal to do this, so they follow suit. The New Year's meal was pearl again, and Jade followed suit, and the Fang family was responsible for coaxing the younger son. When it was done, everyone was very surprised. There are ten dishes on the dinner table, the amount of dishes is not much, you can eat it all today, you can make new dishes tomorrow, this year their family bought half a pig's pork! Pigs' heads and trotters were also bought, and pigs were put into the water.
When handling the pig in the water, the smell was terrible, but Pearl told herself that since she wanted to be an ordinary woman and not pursue wealth, these were the things she had to do. These pigs are washed with coarse salt and coarse noodles by the river, and they are very clean, and some people in the village see it and say that the people of the Liu family will live!
After the first day of the new year, they began to entertain guests, first relatives, then friends, and then people with heads and faces in the village, or people who helped their families. There are also many people who come to pay New Year's greetings this year, and Pearl is expected to have a lot of guests, all the potatoes, cabbage and pork are well prepared, and these pigs are also good dishes to stir-fry with carrots, of course, they need to be well cooked beforehand.
The smell from the kitchen at home is a little uncomfortable, and it's not that no one makes pigs into the water, but there are not many people who love to eat. But if the family uses pork to entertain guests, I'm afraid that two pigs are not enough.
When it was time for the first time, Liu He may have been frightened by the people at home, kept crying, and refused to leave his mother, so Fang could only hand over the things in the kitchen to the two sisters. Pearl has lived for the third life, and cooking is naturally fast. When Liu Da's family sat down, their fourth grandfather also came with his family. The meal began, one table in the dining room was for the children, and two tables were placed in the old man's room in the back room, with men sitting on the kang and women sitting on the ground. The fourth grandfather's family, there are four grandmothers Wang, son Liu Tiezi, wife Ma, and a five-year-old daughter, named Liu Ping, who is sitting in the hall with the children at this time. Next is the women, everyone was surprised to see it, thinking that it is really hard to do things in a big family, and they have practiced this kung fu, which shows how much hardship they have suffered. When the last soup came up, everyone had already started to do it, look at the children's side, only their younger brothers and sisters seemed to have rules, and the others were all eating with the noise of dishes and plates. Jade was also busier at this time, finishing the kitchen work, and seeing the mess of cups and plates on the table, she still didn't expect it. (To be continued......)