He Laosan drank the wine, his face turned slightly red, and when he heard the words, he looked at her helplessly, and his expression was faintly embarrassed.

Chen understood him best, and when he saw this, he guessed: "Is it the money taken by the second uncle?" ”

"Daddy took it." He Laosan sighed: "I forgot everything, at that time, I gave you the money, and I had to pay the bill after I went back, and I was embarrassed for a long time, but my father also brought money......

He shook his head, as if trying to shake off the guilt of that moment.

He Zao's children glanced at each other, and they all wanted to laugh.

He Laosan said: "I have to pay back one or two pieces of silver." It's not easy for our father's money......"

He Zao naturally wanted He Lao Er to take it out, but the other party was a dime and a hairless iron rooster, so Old Man He had to take it himself.

This tael of silver is enough to live in the old house for half a year, which is a lot of money.

But for the third room, it is really nothing.

He Zao moved his mouth and swallowed the words back.

It's for the sake of the old man's face.

If you are a junior, you will always have to suffer a loss.

She didn't say anything, and the others didn't say anything, but He Laosan was very surprised, thinking that her daughters were sensible.

In fact, when she got out of the car just now, Mrs. He was still arguing about the one or two pieces of silver, squinting at him and signaling him to return it.

This was originally caused by the second brother.

But just now in the town, my mother didn't say a word.

He Laosan was also a little uncomfortable in his heart.

He washed his face, sat cross-legged on the kang, and the staple food he made at night was yellow egg gnocchi soup, which was yellow and cancan, and his appetite was very good, and he fried peanuts and winter melon stew, and mixed shredded potatoes with green peppers, which was still the way He Zao said, before Lujia Village ate potatoes, that is, fried and stewed, and boiled and sweet potatoes as the staple food in the famine year.

This kind of cold shredded potatoes has another flavor than the fried and stewed ones, and the people in the three rooms love to eat it.

Because of seeing peanuts, He Laosan remembered something and asked, "Have we ground peanut oil?" ”

He Chun'er smiled: "I said that I was going to take it to the town today, but I forgot about it in a panic, let's go tomorrow, I'll go with Zao'er tomorrow." ”

The peanuts were peeled and left there to wait.

Because it was empty at night, He Laosan was interested, so he turned over the remaining peanuts, found more than a dozen catties of bad ones, and sat in the kitchen and stir-fried them with a small stove and shells.

Mix sand in a small iron pot, fry for a while, and the sand will be hot.

The peanuts and melon seeds in the countryside are stir-fried like this.

Almost every household will keep some peanuts to put away, and when the New Year is stir-fried for guests, the countrymen will live, and they can buy it without paying for it, try not to pay for it, a plate of peanuts, home-grown melon seeds, and then a plate of dried sweet potatoes, dried red in the mountains, even if it is hospitality.

He had never seen this before, and sat on the side to watch the excitement with great interest.

But He Chun'er shouted after he was busy: "Zao'er, you don't write anymore?" ”

Sibao and Qibao are reading and writing in the specially arranged study, and every now and then, He Zao and He Chun'er will also join.

The latter was shy at first, always feeling that she was a girl and unworthy of study.

He had already straightened his face and lectured her: "What do you mean by being worthy or not, eldest sister, what's wrong with our girls, you shouldn't be influenced by our grandparents, I think girls should be worse than boys!" Sibao and their boys learned words to take the imperial examination, but we learned words for the sake of reason! ”

When Jin Juren heard this, he praised it.

He Chun'er let go a little and followed He Zao to learn to read and write.

He Zaoyuan still wanted to drag He Laosan and Chen over to learn together, but Chen said that he would not learn anything, but He Laosan was busy, and he didn't have the energy to teach all the Four Treasures and Seven Treasures, so He Zao decided to wait for the winter and teach it by herself.

She thinks that with her bachelor's degree in her previous life, she can teach an adult to read and write!

Sibao listened to her decision, and endured it so that he didn't laugh.

It's not that he doesn't have confidence in Hezao, but it's really that the latter learns quickly and recognizes quickly, or he doesn't write well, and he always lacks strokes, and this problem can't be changed after so many days.

Let her teach He Laosan, but she is afraid that she will teach a student who can't write all the strokes.

However, these two people did not take the imperial examination, as long as they could read and write, he did not make a sound.

At this time, He had already grabbed a handful of fried peanuts that were still slightly hot, and jumped to the study.

The Four Treasures and the Seven Treasures have finished their homework and explained them to their students.

The Four Treasures learn quickly, and He Zao also learns quickly, and the Seven Treasures are the most basic to learn, which is suitable for He Chun'er, who also has no foundation.

After the lecture, I will copy today's article twice.

After studying for a while, Sibao packed up his things and went to sleep in the private school with He Laosan.

When they got there, the Four Treasures still didn't rest, and they would read at night.

He has a lot of homework, and he has the posture of the college entrance examination in his previous life.

But he worked very hard, very hard, for some of He Zao's ideas, he knew, and also knew that only when he and Qibao became stronger and became famous, the He family could go further, otherwise they would always be just a merchant! And he started too late and had to use all the time he could.

He Laosan drank wine, got thirsty in the middle of the night, and saw that the light in his son's room was still on, so he knew that he was still studying.

He Laosan was also reluctant to disturb his son's hard work, so he only tiptoed to the toilet, secretly thinking that he would have to tell his daughter-in-law that he had to prepare a supper for his son after he went back, and he would definitely be hungry if he read it until midnight every day.

After thinking about it, he sighed again, the second brother studied at home when he was a child, and he had seen it, but he had never worked so hard at that time!

There are no big treasures and two treasures.

Otherwise, wouldn't they have all passed the exam a long time ago?

The next day, Chen took He Chun'er and He Zao to the town to grind peanut oil.

At this time, there were sesame oil grinders in the town, and the utensils were also rough, and they could barely be used to extract oil for peanuts.

It's just that they still paid an extra ten cents for Hezao, and the other party agreed.

Grinding out twenty catties of peanut oil is a kung fu, Chen sat there and watched, He Chun'er went out with He Zao for a walk, bought some gadgets and snacks before coming back.

The peanut oil has been ground up, and the golden color is almost exactly the same as that of later generations, but there are more impurities underneath.

The remaining hard and flat dregs were used to say that they were useful, and the store also wrapped them up, and went back to tell He Chun'er: "This is a good feed for catching fish." ”

People in Lujia Village rarely use hooks to catch fish.

It can only be said that because it is located in the north of the Central Plains, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River are far away, and the fishing industry is not developed.

He Chun'er was interested: "Let's try it in the afternoon." ”

As for noon, it is natural to stir-fry with freshly baked peanut oil.

Peanut oil smells much better than meat oil, and there is a faint mellow aroma of peanuts.

After stir-frying the shredded potatoes and tasting them, Chen also praised: "This is much better than stir-fried meat oil." ”

The dishes stir-fried in meat oil always have a fishy smell.

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