After a short time after Rokuro went out, he came back with two small birds in his hand, and pulled a handful of hay on the way and made a small nest for them. The two little ones shook their heads in the nest and cracked their mouths, croaking for food, adding some life to the house.

The two brothers first hunted a few grasshoppers to feed them, but the little one kept calling. In desperation, the two brothers ran to the kitchen and asked their mother for a few small pieces of boiled sweet potatoes, and stuffed them all into their stomachs, and the little one fell asleep quietly in the grass nest.

The two brothers are familiar with the road in a pair, but it is conceivable that it is not the first time to serve this kind of gadget. Chu calmly looked very happy, she had always liked small animals in another time and space, if she wasn't in a hurry to get money to support her body, she would never be willing to sell it.

"Ahem-Xiaoliu, tell the people who want to buy them, this is the authentic King Kong Starling, they are the descendants of the famous - the first master of the Western Heaven Elysium to defeat the mount of the Buddha Qi Tian Great Sage Sun Wukong - the Black Gold Divine Condor! Ahem, two of them will sell for fifty yuan. ”

"Five...... Ten texts! The two brothers exclaimed in unison, their eyes wide. Fifty is undoubtedly an astronomical amount for a country child!

"Ahem, it's fifty wen! When I'm ready, I'll give him the most wonderful story in the world, the story of Monkey King's havoc in the Heavenly Palace. ”

Chu Congrong believes that no matter which world, few children can resist the charm of Sun Wukong, and havoc in the heavenly palace is undoubtedly the most brilliant part of Journey to the West, depending on whether the twins can accurately transmit the information.

Ye came back near noon and brought back more than two catties of dried peanuts, and I didn't know which one to ask for, so the two brothers rushed out with a smoke in their nests. Chu calmly looked at the fiery backs of the two and smiled, closed his eyes to recuperate, and fell asleep unconsciously.

After touching the appointment, it was not until Ye called Chu Congrong that he woke up, and Ye had boiled the medicine. As soon as she drank a bowl of medicine, the two brothers came back in a hurry, Shichiro's pants were so heavy that they almost slipped down, and his hands were nervously tugging at the end of his pants.

As soon as Ye's front foot came out of the door, Liulang immediately closed the door nervously, and Qilang began to dig out his pockets, and soon dozens of copper coins were piled up on the bed.

"Sister, that's all there is to it!" Shichiro looked excited and smiled.

Chu calmly saw that he shouldn't be able to count, and smiled.

"Sister, as soon as I said that I wanted fifty wen, they were all frightened, only Li Fatzi was willing to buy it, and he was only willing to pay thirty wen." Rokuro explained.

"Ahem, how can there be forty-one pennies." Chu Congrong's fingers lightly picked it up.

"Sister, can you count?!" The two brothers were amazed.

"Sister another day will teach you to count." Through this incident, Chu Congrong found that the two brothers had very lively brains and a very good memory.

"Great! We'll count it later! ”

"We found a few people who had money in their families, and they all wanted to buy them but they didn't have the money. They wanted to hear the story again, so we charged them two cents, and the village chief's Li Sanwa only had one penny, saying that he owed us a penny. Sister, you won't blame us, will you?" Rokuro explained excitedly.

What's weird, it's a good thing to have one more article in this situation, not to mention eleven more articles at once.

"Sister, we must not give the money to our mother, the milk will snatch it! It's not okay to hide in the house, and if you're not careful, the fifth brother and Hachiro will steal it. Shichiro reminded from the side.

Chu Congrong was a little distressed, it was so difficult to save twenty or thirty dollars?

In the past few days, she found that she didn't have a cheating artifact such as personal space, abilities, or gold fingers, so she had to ask Qilang to pay back Lao Langzhong's ten cents first, and the remaining thirty-one cents were simply put on herself.

"Sister, we owe Grandpa Lang Zhong 300 Wen, but don't be in a hurry to pay it back." Rokuro explained that the money in Lao Lang was not in a hurry to pay it back.

Compared with 300 yuan, the foreign debt is not much, but it can reduce the risk of being stolen, and second, it can show Lao Langzhong that the family is working hard to repay the debt, and it is not a debt. The twins are young, how can they understand Chu Congrong's intentions.

There are thirty-one wen left, three wen a day to buy bones, it should be able to last for ten days, this money involves the quality of one's health, and you must try to keep it.

I can drink tube bone peanut soup for ten days in a row, and it is estimated that my body will be better.

For the next three days, Du Pozi didn't have any moths except for scolding Ye's every day. The medicine that Chu Congrong drinks every day is mainly anti-inflammatory, and this medicine is particularly harmful to the body while eliminating germs. With the blessing of peanut tube bone broth, Chu calmly recovered very quickly, and he was able to get out of bed and walk around three days later.

The unique aroma of boiled bone and peanut soup permeates the entire West Chamber, and it also floats to the courtyard, attracting people and insects. Chu Baofeng smelled the breath of his prey like a hunting dog, and often broke in to inspect it, and after lying down several times in a row, he saw a few smooth bones, not even a little meat foam, and it was so clean that the dog on the ground didn't want to lick it.

Chu Baofeng often opened a small stove with Du Pozi, and she could eat meat twice in three days, and she was not hungry for those few peanuts, and when she saw that there was indeed no meat a few times before and after, she was too lazy to come again. But she wasn't completely relieved, and from time to time she encouraged Gorou and Hachiro to come over and join in the fun. The two little ones looked east and west, and sometimes the twins couldn't hide it, and they watched the peanuts in the pot reach out and eat them, completely ignoring the hot mouths.

Chu Congrong felt disgusted when he heard the twins' description, but in order to get better quickly, he had to frown and drink it. Keeping two meals of bone broth at noon and evening every day, maybe the original owner's body is too able to absorb nutrients, or maybe Chu calmly has too strong desire to survive, as the copper coins on his body become less and less, Chu calmly feels that he is completely alive.

In the following days, the sweet rice soup was gone. The twins couldn't borrow a grain of rice from all over the village, and everyone's family was really gone. Chu calmly figured out that rice was very expensive in recent years, and it cost more than a dozen yuan per catty. Fortunately, the peanut soup is never stopped, which is an important source of nutrients.

Chu calmly began to accept coarse grains, or sweet potato millet porridge, or dried cassava millet porridge. In another time and space, urbanites treat these as snack foods, but they are difficult to swallow at the moment. I heard the twins say that this kind of food is quite good in the village, many families can only eat sugar vegetables, and some even eat wild vegetables every day.

Even in such harsh conditions, Chu calmly felt that his body was getting better day by day, and he recovered at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

In the afternoon, three men in blue robes and paper fans walked into the courtyard. In front of him was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a few half-foot long beards on his face, a smile on his face, and a polite appearance. The other two young men, both of whom were nearly ten years old, the slightly older one looked very arrogant, and the slightly younger one had nostrils facing the sky, ignoring Chu Congrong.

"Uncle is good, Brother Lang is good, Brother Erlang is good!" Rokuro rushed over and greeted the three of them loudly, his sister had forgotten a lot of things due to her illness, and she might not recognize the three of them.

Chu Congrong also shouted to Liulang. I know that these are the three scholars of the Chu family, the eldest is the eldest uncle Chu Youwen, and the other two are Dalang Chu Shijun and Erlang Chu Yongjun.

Looking at the lofty demeanor of the three of them, at that moment, a famous sentence welled up in Chu Congrong's mind: Everything is inferior, only reading is high!

Chu Youwen looked at Chu Congrong, and there was some surprise on his face, but he still nodded in response. He unceremoniously asked Liulang to go to the field to inform Old Man Chu that his father and son had returned.

Chu Congrong suddenly lost his appetite, feeling that this is treating Liulang as a servant?

Old Man Chu was also a little surprised when he heard that the boss had returned, it was not yet time for the academy to rest, shouldn't they be in the academy in the town?

"Dad, the child came back this time to discuss with you about this hospital exam." Chu Youwen gave a salute to his father, who had been a child many years ago.

"You and Dalang County have passed the government test, you only need to take the hospital test. It's only June, isn't it early for August?"

Daning's road to study, the examination show has to pass three levels, namely the county examination, the government examination and the hospital examination. After the county examination, he is called a child, and he can only become a talent after the hospital examination. Xiucai can be regarded as really famous, he can be exempted from 60 acres of land tax, and he can also see officials without worshipping. With the qualification of Xiucai, you can participate in the next level of examination - the township examination. The township test high school is to raise people, and if you want to really become an official, there are also general examinations and palace examinations.

This is somewhat similar to the Ming Dynasty in another time and space.

"Father, the reason why the child wants to take Da Lang Erlang to the county in advance is to let them get familiar with the venue as soon as possible and see more of the world. There are many talented people in the county, and it is convenient for children to find teachers and friends, discuss and exchange knowledge with learned students from all over the world, so as to win the college examination as soon as possible, and specially ask their father for permission. ”

Master Chu had read books when he was young, of course he knew that it was necessary to communicate with each other, he thought for a while and said: "You have a good word, but you went two months early, and the cost of the three of them is not a small amount." ”

"The child estimates a little, and it only takes thirty taels to save some flowers." Chu Youwen saw that the old man agreed with his words, and his expression was greatly relieved.

"Thirty taels!" Old Man Chu gasped, it's really not a small amount, you can buy five or six acres of good paddy fields.

"It stands to reason that the three children and grandchildren only need to spend a few taels in two months. But the child wants to find a teacher to visit friends, and the consumption in the county is quite expensive, so it is not good for the child to have a shabby face. In case we are fortunate enough to meet nobles such as teachers and masters, we can't always meet people with empty sleeves. Therefore, the child thinks that it is better to have a few more taels in advance. ”

Old man Chu thought to himself, the eldest father and son took the exam at the same time, and he didn't dare to expect the three of them to pass the exam at the same time, as long as one of them could pass the test, it would be very cost-effective. It's just thirty taels, which is definitely a lot of money for any farmer. After thinking about it, he couldn't agree directly, and said that he would discuss it with Du Pozi after dinner.

Du Pozi knew that the eldest and the two grandsons were back, so she immediately paid for Chen to buy knife pork belly and a big herring, saying that it was too hard for the three of them to study, and they were making up for their brains.

The second daughter-in-law, Wang, said with a sour smile on her face: "Sister-in-law, you see how good my mother is to you!" It's fish and meat again. ”

Du Pozi's round eyes widened, and she shouted: "Second child, what do you mean by being sour!" The three of your eldest brother have made a good time studying, but it's not you who are naked?"

Wang said with a smile: "Mother, I'm not happy, Dalang Erlang has meat to eat tonight, and Shilang Jiulang can also eat one or two slices." ”

"You are a glutton, and you are even worried about a little food for a scholar. Don't eat the taste of the boss's family, I have discussed with your father, and after the autumn harvest is over, I will ask someone to find an apprentice for Shiro in the town, and I also have a craft to make a good living in the future. Du Pozi said confidently.

"Thank you for your concern!"

Wang suddenly became smiling, how could there be a little sour. Shiro is sixteen years old, and the couple are worried about his future. When an apprentice starts with a little hard, once he gets out of the teacher, he can get ahead, so it's not a good way out.