"My brother is right." Following his words, he said: "With all this gold and silver, my father and mother don't have to work so hard; A large family does not worry about the lack of money for those who read. ”

Cheng Mingli nodded again and again, his smile was relaxed and warm, as if he had put down a big stone.

A large family for a scholar to say that the family style is very good, and the family is harmonious; But in the body of being supplied, it is inevitable that the pressure is great, and I have to work hard to read to death.

"Sister, my bound father will find a way, but there is really no way to let my grandfather and grandmother help."

As soon as Cheng Mingli said this, Mingyi remembered.

Cheng Yuanxi, who is a father's open-mindedness, thinks differently from others; He received the supply of the family, and also repaid the family, copying and writing letters on weekdays, and even taking jobs in the academy gave most of the silver earned to Luo Cuihua, and the remaining three-tenths was reserved for his own small family.

Although he did not continue to take the Xiucai examination, the money he obtained was enough to repay the supply he had enjoyed over the years.

At the same time, the big family is taken care of, and the small family is also taken care of; When the rest of the money came to my brother's study, it was basically my father who found a way to make money.

Cheng Yuanxi is taking care of the big family with the greatest ability, and he has to take care of the small family, and his pressure is not small; If he is famous, he can open a private school to teach students, but he can't open a private school because of his fame, and the money he makes is very limited.

"Daddy, doesn't he want my brother to be too stressed?" Mingyi asked.

Cheng Mingli nodded, "Dad is a child provided by a large family, so he has been a child provided by his family all his life." ”

Never change.

It's equivalent to binding.

Cheng Yuanxi has been tied to the Cheng family and this big family in his life.

Mingyi was silent, feeling that while the family was united, she also felt that this father did a good job; In these years, Cheng Yuanxi paid half of the annual conscription, and his grandfather and grandmother paid half of the exemption.

When recruiting for the army, it was Cheng Yuanxi who took the money and ran before and after, and none of them went to military service.

Taxes are paid from the family's fields.

The father in this life is really a top man.

"Daddy is amazing." Mingyi couldn't help but sigh.

Cheng Mingli nodded, "I will also be a person like my father in the future, with a sense of responsibility and responsibility; When I get famous, my sister will marry if she wants to marry, and if you don't want to marry, let's recruit a son-in-law, and my brother will take care of you. ”

"Then thank you, brother." Mingyi smiled, and I have to say that I was happy in my heart.

In ancient times, the greatest reliance on a woman was not the dowry, but the strength of the mother's family; The true love of her parents and brothers is a girl's greatest confidence, and the dowry is just the icing on the cake.

Of course, if the parents and brothers are unreliable, the girl has to hold on to the dowry and stand up straight.

Cheng Mingli, the little brother, follows the feudal system, which is the best way for girls.

Cheng Mingli smiled.

When Chen Daya and his wife came over with their bags, Cheng Mingli's brothers and sisters took their parents to the room as soon as possible to show their trophies.

"Daddy, look." Mingyi's smile was bright and cute, Cheng Mingli was holding Sven's dogma, but the smile at the corner of his mouth was very obvious.

Cheng Yuanxi and Chen Daya were taken aback when they saw the two burdens unfolded, "Where did you come from?" ”

"I looked for it in the yard, and we searched the yard in the back." The smile between Mingyi's eyebrows and eyes is lively, and it can be seen that she is really happy; I saw her pick up two cotton bags on the ground and open them to show them, "Not only these, but also gold and silver." ”

Cheng Yuanxi and his wife's eyes widened, "So many?!" ”

"Well, my father and mother will take it, and the ginseng will not be sold first; The money was enough for a long time, and after settling down, we sent my brother to continue his education. After Mingyi finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that she didn't sweep the kitchen of this mansion, "Daddy, brother, you watch first, I'll go out." ”

"Hey, Yiyi, where are you going?"

Chen Daya shouted a step too late, and Mingyi had already run out of the courtyard.

Mingyi ran to the kitchen in the front yard first, and it was simple to walk again after running once; I found the kitchen and walked in to see that there were some spices on the stove and some food in the kitchen cabinet.

Not much, but all fine grains.

The family was in such a hurry that the food was left behind, and there was still food to come.

With an idea, Mingyi packed up her things and dragged them back to the small courtyard to give them to her father.

Chen Daya was pleasantly surprised, "I didn't expect the owner of this courtyard to leave, and there are still a lot of things left." ”

"It should be that the refugees haven't been here yet, so there are them." Cheng Yuanxi was relatively calm, happy but not so obvious, "There are so many things in this mansion, but what about other places?" ”

"Just look for food, don't rummage through the rest." Chen Daya grabbed his hand, and the surprise was gone, for fear that they would break into the empty house.

Cheng Yuanxi nodded in response, and that night, Cheng Yuanxi took his children and went out at night.

By night, they specially looked for people who could open the door, and after entering, they only looked for the location of the kitchen; Some people didn't take all the things with them, they found three iron pots and two casseroles.

These are all good things.

There are too many iron pots and casseroles, and they can only take away one iron pot and one casserole; When the rest was leaving, Mingyi took it all away.

In the middle of the night, four rich families were found, and seven jars of salt and three bags of fine grain were found; A bag of fifty catties, more than fifty catties of flour, the bag is not finished, thirty catties of millet, seventy catties of rice.

However, they mixed rice and millet together, and they had to cook and eat it anyway; There is not so much attention on the way to escape from the wilderness, and if you can eat fine grains, it is a good food for the sky.

Pingbai got more than 230 catties of fine grain, Cheng Yuanxi discussed it with Chen Daya, and left 20 catties of flour and 30 catties of rice and millet; A total of fifty pounds of fine grain, divided into four portions.

Cheng Yuanxi carried twenty catties of flour, and Chen Daya carried about fifteen catties of rice; Cheng Mingli's brother and sister carry about seven or eight catties of rice on their backs, and they are not conspicuous when they are separated, so they have to carry multiple burdens.

"It would be nice if we could find the livestock pulling the cart, and we will cover up half of these things for my parents-in-law and keep half of them." It's a pity that there are no livestock, they can't carry so much.

It's not that you want to swallow it privately, after all, it is impossible for a family to eat together.

"If you want to do so much, we will leave fifty pounds of fine grain; Now that there are casseroles and small iron pots, Yiyi and Mingli have the opportunity to go out and eat. "That's all that matters.

The children were not well fed and thin, and he felt distressed when he saw it.

Now there are spices, salt, pots, and grains; It's good to be able to open a small stove for your children, so that you won't lose too much.

Chen Daya thought about it, "That pot has to be hidden." ”

Iron pots and casseroles are placed in a pile of clothes and wild herbs so that no one can find out; And the dried meat was divided, and some was put on the children, and they took the rest, and some of them were stuffed into a casserole and an iron pot and put it together in the bag.