On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Xu Qiuliang gave Lin Erhu a rare holiday.

Early in the morning, before dawn, Lin Xiaoman got up and boiled the eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs. I also deliberately bought a few early eggs at other people's houses in the village, saying that the children ate the first eggs on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, and their stomachs did not hurt later. Lin Xiaoman marked all the eggs.

And he planted mugwort and peach branches in front of and behind the house. I also hung up a small Dragon Boat Festival suit bought from there, with monkeys, axes and brooms.

went to Lin Erhu's house to tie colorful ropes to his hands and feet, and then dragged Lin Erhu, who was still asleep, from the kang.

"I've got some dew, you get up and wash your face."

Lin Erhu washed his face with dew three or two times, and was dragged back by Lin Xiaoman and washed it again.

Eggs eaten in the morning, rice dumplings, salted duck eggs. After eating, Lin Erhu took a goose egg and went to the friends in the village to hit the eggs.

There are not many people who raise geese in the village, even if there are people who raise geese, and no one is as dog as Lin Erhu. The friends took either duck eggs or eggs, none of them could hit Lin Erhu, and naturally Lin Erhu became the egg king of this year's Dragon Boat Festival.

When he came back, he walked with the steps of six relatives who did not recognize him, and he was followed by the dog egg who came back from the city, and the dog egg had a pocket on his back, which contained more than a dozen broken eggs.

As soon as the dog saw Lin Xiaoman, he rushed over from afar, "Second sister, second sister, I miss you." ”

Lin Xiaoman caught the Lin dog egg that smashed over like a cannonball, picked it up and checked it, "It's sinking, have you eaten well lately?" ”

Lin Goudan was shy, "That's it, I can eat meat several times a month." ”

Thinking that in the past, when he was in front of Mrs. Lin, although he didn't have to do any work, Mrs. Lin watched closely in eating, although others were not like the sisters and brothers, they often couldn't eat enough, but they couldn't eat meat a few times a year.

Even if there is meat, the old man and the old lady eat it first, and it would be good if others could eat a soup and cook vegetables.

Nowadays, eating meat several times a month does not seem to be much, and it is much stronger than before.

Lin Goudan took out a small money bag from his body, "My sister asked me to give it to the second sister, saying that the beads are selling very well, and I want the second sister to help get some more real pearls." ”

Lin Xiaoman opened the money bag, and there was a lot of broken silver in it, which looked like two or two more than she said before.

Lin Xiaoman was satisfied, these two cousins were much more sensible than before, and it was not in vain for her to help them.

After accepting the silver, Lin Xiaoman said: "I got some real pearls here, and I took twice as much as your house last time, can you bring them back yourself?" ”

Lin Goudan smiled, "My eldest brother is also back, and he was called by the patriarch to talk to the house, and he said that he would come to talk to the second sister later." ”

Knowing that Lin Wenyao also came back, Lin Xiaoman was not worried.

After finishing the business, Lin Goudan pointed to the bag of smashed eggs he was carrying and complained to Lin Xiaoman, "Second sister, second brother is bad, he smashed all my eggs." ”

Lin Erhu laughed hesitantly, holding the goose egg in his hand that was still intact.

Lin Xiaoman glared at him and took Lin Goudan's egg packet, "Second sister, boil these eggs of yours into tea eggs." ”

Lin Goudan has never eaten tea eggs, but the second sister makes the same delicious food as the second aunt, she said that making tea eggs, tea eggs must be delicious.

Let Lin Goudan and Lin Erhu go to his house to play, she went to get a small stove, put Lin Goudan and a dozen eggs into the pot, added tea, salt, soy sauce and five spice packets, and put them on the top of the small pot to cook. She went to the stove room to get a few more dishes.

When the weather is hot, if you burn the stove in the house, you won't be able to treat people in the house, Lin Xiaoman has already started to use the stove room with an independent stove.

The meals for the festival must be better than usual, Xu Qiuliang will also send some over, Lin Wenyao and Lin Goudan are also here, Lin Xiaoman plans to cook eight dishes, there are fish, meat, eggs and seafood.

Without waiting for Lin Xiaoman's dishes to be ready, Lin Wenyao had already come.

In the past, people who didn't touch the spring water with their fingers rolled up their sleeves to help as soon as they entered the door.

Lin Xiaoman's refusal was invalid, so he asked him to go to the vegetable field in front of him to pull out some small vegetables that had just grown and chop them and feed them to the chickens, ducks and geese.

Lin Xiaoman built a nest in the backyard, which raised more than 50 chickens, about 20 ducks, and a few little geese.

At this time, the chickens, ducks and geese are still small, and they don't eat much, and the small vegetables planted in the field outside the courtyard gate are enough to feed, and when they grow up, they will build a nest outside the courtyard.

At that time, the beet leaves can also be fed, and no matter how much you raise, you won't have to worry about running out of vegetables to feed.

Waiting for Lin Wenyao to chop the chicken food well, Lin Xiaoman asked him to go to the backyard to boil the pig food, and when Lin Wenyao was finished, Lin Xiaoman's eight dishes were also out of the pot.

Divide half of it and let Lin Erhu, Lin Wenyao and Lin Goudan send it to Xu Qiuliang together, and also bring a pot of Fenjiu with a low degree, and when they come back, they can start eating.

Their family drank the realgar wine that Shen Guihua brought back with the handlebar.

But the dishes are almost cold, and the three brothers haven't come back yet. Lin Xiaoman looked outside the door and saw no one, so he simply went to the front to see what was going on.

It was not until he walked outside Xu Qiuliang's house that he saw Xu Qiuliang sitting at the table eating and drinking, several of his brothers were also eating and drinking, and Lin Erhu and the three of them were standing next to Xu Qiuliang and waiting for Xu Qiuliang to drink.

Xu is stomach after a few glasses of wine, Xu Qiuliang was a little excited, "I said Wen Yao, you are twenty years old, and you haven't been admitted to Xiucai yet, so you have to work harder." ”

Lin Wenyao nodded respectfully, "Mr. is a lesson." ”

Xu Qiuliang lit the empty wine glass on the table, Lin Wenyao immediately filled it, Xu Qiuliang was very satisfied, thinking of the students he taught in the past, and then looking at Lin Wenyao, sure enough, there is no harm if there is no comparison, or other people's students know that they respect teachers, and his students will only be angry with him as a gentleman.

"Go back and pack some books, bring a few clothes, stay tomorrow, study with me for two months, you will end up with Wei Zhen in the hospital exam in Fucheng in August this year, and you will be on the list." It just happened that after the hospital exam, it was the township exam, Wei Zhen was still young, so he wouldn't be out of the field first, you can stay in Fucheng for a few more days, and if you are admitted to Xiucai, you can also give it a try. ”

Lin Wenyao was overjoyed when he heard this, he had long known that there was an official exiled from the capital living in the west of the village, and he had taught the prince to read, and his knowledge could be imagined.

I heard that Lin Erhu was envious of him studying with him before, but now he is willing to teach himself, even if he only teaches for a few months, he will benefit him a lot.

Lin Wenyao immediately bent down to salute, "Mr. Lao has bothered to teach. ”

Xu Qiuliang waved his hand and said: "I also look at the face of their sister and brother, you will have a future in the future, but don't learn from your third uncle." Their sister and brother have no relatives in this world, and Wei Zhen is going to enter the office, you are his cousin, don't ask you to help him, just don't hold back. ”

Lin Wenyao was a little embarrassed, although Xu Qiuliang said nothing wrong, but it was not polite, sure enough, he was only impressed by him because he was Lin Erhu's cousin.

"Sir, rest assured, the student and the second brother are connected by blood, if the student can become an official in the future, he will definitely not disappoint Mr. today's hard work."