She washed her hair, and she was wiping it with a cotton cloth.

This cotton cloth was just bought by Jin Xiaoye, and since he had income, Jin Xiaoye has successively added some small things to his family.

"Ah Qing, you got a lot of things back from Master Zhu's house, what are they?" Jin Xiaoye asked curiously.

Li Qing insisted: "It was the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone that I used in Zhu's house before, and Master Zhu gave it to me." ”

"That should be worth a lot of money?" Jin Xiaoye asked.

Since she started boating, she has been in contact with more and more people and knows more and more things.

After learning that Li Qingzhi wanted to copy books at home, she inquired with Mrs. Xu, and found that the price of pen, ink, paper and inkstone was very expensive.

Mrs. Xu's son went to study at Li Xiucai, and it cost more than a dozen taels of silver a year!

Of course, Mrs. Xu's son is already very economical, and she only learned a few days ago that Yao Zhenfu next door costs fifty taels a year.

"The inkstone and pen and ink that Master Zhu prepared for me are all good things, and those add up, I'm afraid they are worth more than a dozen taels of silver." Li Qing insisted.

Zhu Qian was bent on befriending him, so he gave him a few more pieces of ink and a few pens.

The ink is all good ink, and the pen is also a good pen, and most students are only willing to use such good pen and ink when they go to the county exam.

"This thing is so expensive?" Jin Xiaoye didn't dare to touch those things.

"Reading costs money." Li Qing sighed. In Daqi, the price of reading is equivalent to sending children to private schools in modern times, ranging from tens of thousands a year to more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, and of course there are more expensive ones, with no upper limit.

The income sources of ordinary people in Daqi are very limited, and the vast majority of them rely on farming to support themselves, and there is not much land, so they naturally cannot afford to provide for their children to study.

In fact, even in modern times, farmers who only cultivate a few acres of their own land cannot afford to send their children to private schools.

Jin Xiaoye exhaled deeply.

"By the way, Xiaoye, I have something for you." Li Qing insisted.

"What's that?" Jin Xiaoye asked, and then saw Li Qingzhi take out a few heavy ingots of silver from his bookcase.

Last time, Zhu Qian gave Li Qing a silver ticket, because he was afraid that Li Qing would not be able to take it.

But this time, he arranged for someone to send Li Qing to ...... He gave Li Qing the silver.

This silver is ten taels and one ingots, a total of five ingots, and there is no brilliance in the dim room, but when Jin Xiaoye saw it, he even stopped breathing.

Although Jin Xiaoye has already seen a hundred taels of silver tickets, the silver is more realistic and more popular than the silver tickets.

"Where did you get all this money?" Jin Xiaoye's voice trembled a little.

Li Qingzhi said in a low voice: "Thirty taels was given by Master Zhu, I promised to help him revise the book, and the remaining twenty taels were the deposit given by Master Ding." ”

Jin Xiaoye hugged Li Qingzhi and kissed Li Qingzhi on the face: "Xianggong, you are too powerful, right?" Why are you so good! ”

As soon as Jin Xiaoye finished kissing, the two children ran over: "Dad, I want to kiss too!" ”

Li Damao, Li Ermao, left and right, skillfully kissed Li Qingzhi, so that Li Qingzhi didn't have time to catch the silly Jin Xiaoye and kiss a few more mouthfuls.

And Jin Xiaoye had already come back to her senses at this time, she held the silver in her arms, opened the box of their house, and rummaged through the cabinets to find a place to hide the silver.

"Mother?" Li Damao and Li Ermao looked at Jin Xiaoye in confusion.

Jin Xiaoye put the silver into the box, turned his head and hugged them, and kissed them a few times: "Da Mao Ermao, my mother will kill ducks for you to eat tomorrow!" ”

Li Damao and Li Ermao were very surprised.

They worked so hard to feed the ducks just to be able to eat their meat one day, and now they can finally eat it!

Their father said that they could eat meat every day in the future, and it seems to be true!

It was already dark, so Li Qingzhi took the two children to bed.

Li Damao and Li Ermao lay beside Li Qingzhi, pestering Li Qingzhi to tell them stories.

There was no entertainment these days, and listening to stories was a very interesting thing for the two children.

Li Qingzhi worked hard to make up stories to tell them, but after talking for a while, he stopped telling them: "Da Mao Ermao, let's talk about it tomorrow, let's go to bed first." ”

Li Ermao said: "Dad, let's talk a little more, talk a little more." ”

Li Damao didn't speak, but he silently kissed Li Qingzhi, propped up his upper body and waited for Li Qingzhi to continue speaking.

Li Qing insisted: "No, no, no, my father is too tired, he wants to sleep......" After speaking, he immediately closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

Li Damao and Li Ermao had no choice but to lie down and sleep, and fell asleep after a while.

Li Qingzhi asked in a low voice, "Xiao Ye, have you slept?" ”

"Not yet." Jin Xiaoye Road.

Li Qingzhi hugged Li Ermao, who was leaning on Jin Xiaoye's side, to the other side and held Jin Xiaoye's hand: "Xiaoye, let's build another bathroom." ”

"Okay!" Jin Xiaoye agreed, and then hugged Li Qingzhi's hand and kissed it.

She's really, really happy, so happy.

Li Qing insisted: "When the time comes, buy some furniture, and use the wooden board of the bed you are sleeping on now to make the door, and we will buy a new bed......

"Okay!" Jin Xiaoye was dizzy now, feeling that he could agree to anything.

Li Qingzhi said softly: "The two children are also older, it's time to sleep separately, and we will live together then?" ”

"That's what I planned," Jin Xiaoye said, "But you can't mess around, you're not in good health!" ”

Li Qingzhi: "......" his body is really better! It's just a little skinny!

The two talked a lot that day, and Li Qingzhi also said that he wanted to participate in the scientific expedition.

Jin Xiaoye did not object.

Although Yao Zhenfu went to the county seat to study and made a lot of trouble, Jin Xiaoye himself was not disgusted with the imperial examination.

Mrs. Xu's son plans to take the imperial examination, and it is good for people to study in a down-to-earth manner.

Yao Zhenfu is different, he hooked up with that good friend before he got married, and he didn't want to study hard!

"If you want to take the imperial examination, do you want to apprentice? I remember that the Yao family bought jerky for apprenticeship, and I went to see the excitement. Jin Xiaoye chattered, and said: "You can try, if you can't pass the test, you can't keep taking the test!" ”

Jin Xiaoye didn't mind Li Qingzhi going to participate in the imperial examination, Li Qingzhi had already earned a lot of money, and it was okay to take the money to study for a few years and take a few exams.

But if Li Qing can't pass the exam and keeps taking the exam, then it won't work.

There is an old boy in the county, who is in his fifties and still thinks about the examination of Xiucai, she thinks that this person is sick.

"If I can't pass the exam a few times, I won't take the exam, and as for apprenticeship, I'm not in a hurry now," Li Qing said with a smile, "I definitely have to write books to earn money now." ”

Li Qingzhi is really different from Yao Zhenfu! Jin Xiaoye heard that Li Qingzhi was going to continue to write books, and he was completely relieved.

The two talked a lot that day, and they slept late. But the next day, Jin Xiaoye still got up early in the morning and got up to kill the ducks!

Today is the day when their family builds a house, Jin Xiaoye spent money to hire a master who specializes in helping people build houses, and has a lot of tools in hand, and invited a few people from the village to help.

The people she asked to help were her father Jin Dajiang, her lobby brother Jin Liushu, and three other relatives of the Jin family.

In addition, Li Laogen also called two people to help, one is Li Laogen's nephew, and the other is Li Laogen's third brother.

Li Laogen's father and mother gave birth to a total of three sons, namely Li Laogen, Li Lao's second and Li Lao's third.

At first, they loved Li Laogen, after all, Li Laogen was the eldest son, and according to the customs of Miaoqian Village, those who were fathers and mothers basically lived with the eldest son.

Even Li Laogen's name can see that his father and mother attach great importance to him - Lao Gen, Lao Gen, Lao Li's root!

But Li Laogen has been thin since he was a child, which makes people doubt whether he can feed him.

In addition, in less than two years, Li Lao Er was born...... Lai Lao Gen

's parents paid less and less attention to Li Laogen, and when Li Lao'er grew taller than Li Laogen within a few years, Li Laogen was even less valued.

Li Laogen is thin and small, so he has no strength to work, and the Li family is very poor...... When Li Laogen grew up, it was natural that no one wanted to marry him, but Li Laoer married his daughter-in-law and gave birth to a child.

Li Laogen's parents finally gave all the family business to Li Laoer.

As for Li Laosan...... He was also not valued by Li Laogen's parents, and was basically brought up by his two elder brothers.

When he grew up, Li Lao Er had already married a daughter-in-law, and the Li family's family was unable to marry a daughter-in-law for his two sons.

In other words, Li Laosan is destined to be a bachelor like Li Laogen.

However, Li Laosan's body is longer than Li Laogen...... He found a widow and made her a son-in-law.

The widow was from the next village, and eight years after she got married, her husband fell ill and died, leaving her and a son and a daughter, and the family still owed a lot of debts to treat him.

When she was alone, the widow wanted to find someone to come to her door and change her husband's surname to the door of her husband's house.

At that time, the widow found Li Laosan, and Li Laosan agreed without thinking about it.

He can't marry a daughter-in-law on his own, and his second brother and sister-in-law still look at him and Li Laogen unpleasantly, and only give them a little bit every time they eat, he is already so hungry that he can't stand it.

It was a great thing for him to be able to live in a widow's house!

The widow's house had more land than his house.

In short, Li Laosan entered the widow's house like this, and changed his surname to the widow's husband's surname, from Li Laosan to Zhao Laosan.

Just the year before Li Qing came to Miaoqian Village, there was a big flood in the Yao River, and there was also a flood in Miaoqian Village to reduce grain production.

When a person is hungry for a long time, when he is about to starve to death, his head will be swollen and enlarged, and Li Laogen's head will become bigger at that time.

He felt that he was about to die, so he went to Zhao Laosan's house, lived in Zhao Laosan's house with a dead face, and ate Zhao Laosan's family's food.

Although Zhao Laosan's wife didn't like Li Laogen, she didn't drive Li Laogen away, Li Laogen picked up a life in this way, and because of this, he had a good relationship with Zhao Laosan's younger brother.

This time, the family wants to build a house, and Li Laogen actually doesn't want Li Lao'er's family to come over to help, but the two sides are relatives...... He went to inform Li Laoer, and then Li Laoer asked his son Li to come to Li Qingzhi's house to help.

As for Zhao Laosan, Li Laogen happily went to inform him, it has been a farming slack recently, and Zhao Laosan is naturally willing to help.

Li Qingzhi knew the situation of the Li family, and after he walked through, he also saw Li Lao Er and Li Biting Feng in the village.

He hasn't seen Zhao Laosan, but the original owner has seen it, and he can recognize people.

As for those Jin family members, they are all from Miaoqian Village, and Li Qingzhi knows them all.

Jin Xiaoye took the duck's blood with a bowl, then soaked the duck in hot water and plucked the duck's feathers.

Of course, duck feathers don't throw away, which can also be sold for money, but it's not very valuable.

"Why doesn't this duck have eiderdown?" Li Qing asked Jin Xiaoye. He had seen duck down in the memory of the original owner, but it was not used to make down jackets, but to make cotton swabs.

Duck down was wrapped around a small wooden stick to make a cotton swab, which the original owner used to use to pick out his ears.