Chapter 13: Saving More Money to Buy Pen, Paper and Ink (Part 3)

The sun is shining on the city, and the people in the downtown rhyme. Set buyers to be diligent and diligent, looking forward to emotional thoughts.

Returning to the young year, the new jacket left the village and asked. Maybe don't leave the folks, smile and worry.

In the evening, everyone will eat a simple meal, and the next morning will continue to cook.

After eating, the lieutenant took Hanhan to Xuancheng, and the others returned the car.

The people who can make cars have a job to do, the livestock in the village has increased, and they need a lot of cars.

Xuancheng, the chief went to get a long road guide, and took the sauce beef to get it.

The villagers followed Zhu Wentian to redeem the things they kept, and the total profit was not much.

The village asks for a high price, so the profit is five cents, five percent a month.

When 10,000 wen, a month is 500 wen, a day 16 wen 6 cents, because the time is too short, 10,000 wen a day to receive 17 wen.

This amount of money is nothing to the money earned from 'investment'.

The lieutenant converging, he opened a bunch of road guides, which were valid for three months.

This is the credit of the sauce beef, otherwise it would only be opened for a month.

That is to say, you can leave the house within a month, but you can't leave the house for more than a month.

Even if you can't walk out? If you can't get out, you come back and reopen.

"Buy, buy. Hey, hey, hey! Zhu Wentian beckoned everyone to buy livestock again.

It's almost the New Year, the weather is cold, people are uncomfortable, the livestock will be sick if you are not careful, and it is still early in the spring, and there are many people who sell.

In particular, the big animals gave birth to small ones last year or the year before last, and this year they are not very good, so they are sold.

The price of such livestock is low, the price of pigs is high, pigs have to be killed during the New Year, and poultry prices have also increased.

Zhu Wentian bought it, and it was better to buy labor than to keep the money in his hands at the moment.

Medicinal herbs in hospitals and pharmacies are purchased according to the situation.

Red paper, salt, all kinds of beans, glutinous rice, brown sugar, iron nails, iron wire, iron ingots, tools for work......

Zhu Wentian spent it according to the budget of 100,000 Wen, and the people in the village didn't say anything, they were used to him.

Money is earned by others, how many things can people use themselves? Not for the sake of the village yet?

The 100,000 wen was not spent, Zhu Wentian turned his head and went to buy pen, ink and paper, he didn't buy the inkstone, he could do it in the village, just get a stone.

He doesn't need inkstone like the wind, ink like oil, water storage, and grinding, and the children in the village don't need to be so high-end.

Ink also doesn't need good ink, you can write, and the same is true for paper.

Zhu Wentian wanted to teach children to read, in the Ming Dynasty, knowledge changed fate, and academic qualifications also changed fate.

There will be a imperial examination from next year, and if you pass the imperial examination, the imperial court will give 'money', and at the same time exempt from military service.

Zhu Wentian hopes to change his character as a fool through this, it's too tired to be a fool.

When the time comes, I will say that the mountain god taught, how to drop? Who dares to question my identity as a village keeper? Or do you question the mountain god?

"It's really not good, I'll go to the ancestral hall to live for a few days, and I'll say that the ancestors have dreams," Zhu Wentian sat in the car on the way back and thought.

"Hum haw chirp" The pig who was lucky enough to ride the car continued to call, not satisfied! Look at the other animals following suit.

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Time flies in the blink of an eye, and it takes a moment to reach the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and it is a small year.

Here is the south, the twenty-fourth lunar month is the small year, and the northern lunar month is the twenty-third lunar month.

It doesn't matter which day it is, the key is to be busy and lively in the new year.

The annual activities are different in each region, but the festival stove is almost the same.

Cleaning and preparing things for the New Year, the so-called sacrificial stove, is actually to observe the situation of the stove pit.

The cracks must be repaired, and the ash blockage must be dredged.

The sacrificial stove is to repair it in time, and you can't let the stove break, and it's going to be the New Year soon, how to cook if it's broken?

If you want to repair it, a crack in the stove, wipe the mud and dry it slowly, five or six days is enough.

That's why the 23rd or 24th day of the lunar month is dedicated to the stove, setting aside time.

Many folk traditions are scientific and cannot all be regarded as feudal superstitions.

The twenty-third of the northern lunar month and the twenty-fourth lunar month of the southern part of the southern month are the difference in temperature, and the time taken to remedy and dry the stove is different.

Zhu Wentian's village is the twenty-fourth of the lunar month, and he follows the sacrificial stove.

Someone in the village painted the stove prince and wrote the stove couplet, and everyone was jubilant.

The new clothes for the New Year are ready, and the chief finds Hanhan to try them on, and changes them when the New Year is keep.

"Hanhan, the village is your home, one day you go out and are wronged, don't be afraid, go back to the village, you are the keeper of our village!"

When the lieutenant tried on Zhu Wentian's clothes, he suddenly said such a sentence.

Zhu Wentian raised his head suddenly, looked at the lieutenant chief, and smiled: "No, don't go, in the village, hehe, hehehe!" All the time, in the village, hey, hey, hey! ”

The lieutenant was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Okay, good!" We have money, and when we make you a beautiful dress in the spring, the village keeper should be the best. ”

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'Hey! Hi Yo ......'

The villagers of Xiaqiu Village watched as the workers pushed large logs bare-chested, and the village was squeezing oil.

This doesn't need Zhu Wentian to teach, the village will, but there was no money to buy beans before, and he didn't have time to plant a large number of beans.

The soybeans that were bought back were squeezed for oil, and there were leftover soybeans and other beans, and each family shared some of them, and they made their own sprouts to eat during the New Year.

These beans were bought with the minister's money, according to the population.

Elsewhere, there are also people feeding the livestock, the labor force for the next year, and the sheep to produce milk.

The ewes are pregnant, and the people in the village want to give birth sooner.

Horses are the most difficult to serve, and they have to be fed once in the middle of the night, and when it's cold, they lose weight if they don't feed.

Zhu Wentian wants to get started, he has a lot of strength! The villagers don't need him, you rest, eat your rock sugar gourd.

Zhu Wentian had no choice but to watch from the sidelines, holding a string of rock sugar gourds in his hand, mixed with hawthorn and yam.

The temperature in the village is sometimes below zero degrees Celsius at night, and in the middle of the night he asks his friends to come over and make sugar gourds.

The sugar gourd replaced with white sugar is made in the middle of the night according to the local temperature, and it will melt tomorrow.

But rock candy is no problem, it is more than ten degrees above zero, and it is still strong.

In the middle of the night, hang sugar on the sugar gourd, snap and fall, fall out of a large piece, and the room temperature does not melt, this is rock sugar.

Happy friends! Eat sugar freely, why is the large piece of sugar so sweet?

The adults in the village didn't eat sugar gourds, but they felt sweet when they watched children eat them.

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On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the people of Xiaqiu Village drink sheep soup, which is not a festival, but a problem for sheep.

Zhu Wentian bought back a large number of sheep, there were five rams, and two of them were completely defeated in the competition, which was the competition process of choosing a mate.

The villagers didn't give the two rams a chance to make a comeback, and the rest was enough.

Plus three ewes, who firmly rejected all rams, the two-way choice was unsuccessful, sorry!

Five sheep are enough to eat, and the village has been feeding them hard for a long time! There is more meat than when it was bought.

"Yichang, Yichang, you're here, oops! We've been on a long journey! ”

Feng Gui, the lieutenant chief of Xihe Village, came again, still with two followers.

Zhu Yichang is learning to cook mutton soup with Hanhan, cooking mutton soup is also a technical job, opening the lid and closing the lid, depending on whether you want to boil soup or make mutton fat.

Lamb legs, lamb chops, etc. must be taken out in advance after cooking, otherwise the meat will 'fly'.

"Coming? I happened to drink mutton soup, and the village specially baked cakes, and it was not appropriate to drink soup and eat rice. ”

The lieutenant greeted the lieutenant and was very calm, not to pretend to be forced, his village is so rich, what's the matter?

"Sit, sit, hey, hey, hey!" Zhu Wentian got up and invited, and he sat at the main table.

Feng Gui nodded to the two people who followed, and the two ran to the last table and sat down.

He himself sat at the table, and someone brought a bowl with the sheep and the mutton, and after a few dozen breaths, someone else brought soup with mutton fat with a scoop.

There is no pepper, pepper is too expensive, and the village is reluctant to buy it.

But sweet garlic is there, and it's good to use this with lamb broth.

"It's a long time! I won't ask you where the money comes from, I just want to say, with our relationship, can you borrow some livestock next year? ”

Feng Gui is envious and jealous! Where did Xiaqiu Village get the money? A large herd of livestock.

The lieutenant nodded vigorously, and at the same time took out the wine and poured it for the other party: "I rent the cattle of your Xihe Village in Xiaqiu Village, you give face, and your Xihe Village rents my livestock in Xiaqiu Village, and I will give face as well." ”

He made it clear, I didn't use the cattle in your village for nothing, you used mine for nothing?

"Uh-huh! Rent! Hey! Zhu Wentian expressed his support, and he held a lamb in front of the leg to gnaw.

The hind legs are not good, there is too much meat, it cannot be eaten, and it is wasted.

Feng Gui was stunned for a moment, so why did he answer next?