"Why don't you fall asleep, don't burn your eyes, what are you carving?"

"It's good to engrave a few more words, now they are learning the three-character scripture, and after a rough memorization, they will be allowed to learn a thousand characters."

"Don't work too hard." Lin Piao sat down on the side of the kang and said with a smile: "In this way, I'll teach you a few movements, and in the future, if you want to read at night with a lamp before going to bed, do these things." ”

"Come, bend your fingers, yes, put them on your eyebrows, huh, scrape like this, scrape down, press it, tap it."

Lin Piao's incomplete version of eye exercises is being taught, guarding the eyesight of the hard-working uncle.

Chapter 19

The next day, Lin Piao was still shrunk in the quilt, and the second aunt had already cleaned up neatly, sitting on the edge of his bed and patting him gently.

"Piao'er, Piao'er, will you be able to get up."

Lin Piao opened his eyes in a daze, and only after a moment of confusion did he remember the matter of refining lard, and sat up with his body propped up: "I can get up." ”

As soon as he sat up, the second aunt was embarrassed, so he hurriedly said: "Ouch, you, don't be ashamed." ”

Now the summer weather is hot, although the small tiled house is very shady and insulated, Lin Piao still sleeps naked and upper.

Lin Piao thought of his identity, and puffed up his chest: "I'm my brother, what are you ashamed of, auntie." ”

The second aunt glanced at him: "You are not afraid that your brother-in-law will bump into him." ”

"It's okay, he never comes to my house."

Lin Piao put on her clothes, pulled her hair back and tied it with a hairband, and followed her second aunt out of the house.

When he arrived at the yard of the second aunt, he first fetched well water to clean the oil, and then Lin Piao watched from the side, stretching out his hand from time to time to point.

"Auntie, look at the bunch of bubbles next to this, cut it off."

The second aunt was puzzled: "Do you boil separately?" ”

"I don't want this little piece."

The second aunt was shocked: "Why don't you want this good meat." ”

Lin Piao didn't know how to explain the lymphatic thing, so he could only say: "Auntie, just listen to me, this piece stinks, and when the time comes, it will be sassy to eat a pot of oil." ”

"I've never heard of lard being ......," the second aunt muttered, but she still cut off all the places that Lin Piao pointed to, and then cut them into even small pieces according to what Lin Piao said, and added a few pieces of ginger and a small handful of green onions.

"Add more water."

"Boil with water?" The second aunt was shocked again, although she knew that she was going to add some water, but adding half a pot was too much, right?

"Add more first, and then it will boil, tighten the meat, and beat off the foam on it, so that the oil will be tender and clear." So says the food theorist.

"Oh my God, this is a lot of money, how much less lard does it take to boil and run away?" Food practitioners are shocked.

The second aunt felt that this method of boiling oil was too unbelievable, and at the same time operated it quickly according to what Lin Piao said.

When the water boiled and the foam floated up, the second aunt quickly knocked it off: "Okay, okay, there's no foam, that's it." ”

Lin Piao couldn't laugh: "Okay, okay, I won't get the little foam next to me, just stay up like this." ”

After about ten minutes, the water began to tighten and dry, and the upper layer was full of clear and bright lard, and the second aunt scooped it with a spoon, and was amazed: "Piao'er, your method is really amazing, it is really clear as water, I have boiled the lard a few times, and it is all white when it is cold, but when it is boiled out, it is yellow, this pot of lard is really beautiful." ”

Erzhu came out of the house and came to the stove with fragrant eyes: "Mother, this lard is really fragrant, give me some oil residue." ”

"Go, give you a beautiful look, this oil residue hasn't dried yet, go and get a clean jar."

Erzhu went to pick up a clean crockpot, and the second aunt sprinkled some salt on the bottom of the jar, saying that she was afraid of spoilage, and then scooped the sparkling oil into the jar spoonful by spoonful.

The remaining oil residue is still relatively white in color, only a little tender yellow, she pressed it with a spoon, boiled it for a while, and boiled it until it was browned and browned before scooping up the oil residue: "The remaining little oil is not good-looking, so don't scoop it into the jar, leave it in the pot, and fry a vegetable at noon to eat." ”

Lin Piao raised his hands in agreement, and the two pillars on the side were still hungry for oil residue.

"Auntie, divide it into two plates, sprinkle some salt on one plate, and eat breakfast together later, how about the other plate for lunch?"

"Okay, eat more oil and water, and read smartly."

Put the oil residue on a plate and sprinkle a little salt, Lin Piao first took a few hot ones and put them in his hands, and tasted one first, it was fragrant and crispy, the slightly charred fat meat was dry, and the aroma of burnt and lard filled his mouth and nasal cavity.

Turning his head to see that Erzhu had also eaten secretly, Lin Piao thought of Shen Hong, who was still carving.

"It tastes good, I'll take some for Shen Hong to taste first." As he spoke, he took a few more and put them in the palm of his hand, turned his head and walked out of the yard.

Shen Hong was carving bamboo slips on the steps when he heard a call.

"Shen Hong."

Shen Hong raised his head, and saw his sister-in-law walking in from outside with a smile on the corners of her eyebrows and eyes, and he thought no wonder the eldest brother had to marry his sister-in-law.

My sister-in-law smiled beautifully.

When he got to the front, his sister-in-law stretched out her hand and stuffed something into his mouth, which was hot and fragrant.

"Eat it." As he spoke, Lin Piao grabbed his hand and poured the rest into his palm.

"Delicious, right?"

The sister-in-law looked at him with sparkling eyes.

Shen Hong chewed it, it was oil residue, not bitter, not salty, very fragrant oil residue.

He nodded: "Is this the oil residue made by my sister-in-law's method?" It's delicious. ”

"If you like it, remember to go over for breakfast after carving this line."

After saying that, Lin Piao rushed out again, Shen Hong sat in place, the oil residue in his palm was still hot, he ate one by one, and slowly finished it.

For breakfast, one egg per person, some red pumpkin, and a plate of crispy oil residue.

When Dasheng saw that he ate better today than yesterday, he was speechless, fortunately he didn't come empty-handed today, otherwise he would probably not be able to raise his head.

He carried the big fat hen that he had brought from home, and his mother tied the wings with straw rope in the morning, so he carried them in his hands, and went into the yard and put the chicken on the ground.

"My mother asked me to bring a chicken to my sister-in-law."

When he went there last night, his father and his mother asked him about what he had learned, what he had done, and what he had eaten.

He replied roughly, saying that Ergou's family sent a hen to his second aunt to raise for daily eggs, and his mother gritted her teeth and caught her fattest and largest hen into the cage in the dark.

Nothing else can be in a hurry, but he must also have what others have, otherwise he will not be looked down upon?

Dasheng walked through the street carrying chickens, causing a sensation in the village again.

The idle men and women couldn't sit still under the big banyan tree.

"How many chickens are there? Tell me how many chickens are there? ”

"I haven't learned two words yet, and I've collected two chickens!"

"Don't talk about the Erzhu family, now it's like a family, what chickens and ducks are all made by Lin Piao's brother."

"I think I deserve it, you said that Dasheng's father, who said that he would not call Lin Piao, but later he still wanted to send Dasheng over, and he was still taking care of other people's paddy fields!"

"Who doesn't want to be productive? Who doesn't want to be developed, I said that it is useful to send it to recognize a few words, our mud legs are mud legs, and if you know how to read, you can become those people in the big family at once? ”

"That's it, how can it be so easy, Lin Piao's words are light, and it will be stupid to believe it."

A group of people said it, but I don't know who sighed: "But Lin Piao is right in what he said, reading does have a lot of money to earn, with Shen Hong's literacy and reading, how much has he earned in the past few days?" ”

The crowd sneered twice and frolicked for her to hurry up and send the chickens over.

Although everyone was disdainful, their hearts were a little lively.

They only thought about the cost of reading and the hard work of studying, why did they forget to read it and make money quickly? Look at the current Xiao Shen family, they are stunned to rely on a half-grown teenager to prop up the lintel.

But they also beat the drum in their hearts, if their sons can also be read as Shen Hong, they will smash the pot and sell the iron to offer, they are afraid that the money will be spent, the mind will be wasted, and in the end they will not learn anything, they are still a fool, so it is better not to spend this effort at the beginning.

"I'll wait a minute, Ergou and Erzhu are half the size of a young man, my family is still young, they will study for a few years, if they really learn to learn decently, I will let my son go too."

"Yes, my family is still young, don't worry, take a look again, let the people in front explore the way."

As soon as they said this, several parents of their sons of the same age at home present were like fried oil, and they didn't know what to do.

When they returned home, they tentatively asked the children if they wanted to go to Shen Hong to study, thinking that they would say that they would not die and roll around like this, but they didn't expect their eyes to be shining, and they looked happy to look forward to them asking like this.

After all, Shen Hong eats well and the whole village knows, not to mention children, occasionally meet Ergou and Erzhu, they say how fun it is for the little sister-in-law to take them out, what they ate yesterday, what they eat today, everyone eats together, plays together, reads together, and from time to time they have to go to the mountains to play.

When my father and mother saw their own virtue, they hesitated, thinking that they would go to Lin Piao to inquire about the news first, see the situation, and if they wanted to be harmonious, they would simply send their children over to read a book.

On the other side, the second aunt naturally heard the news, and was chattering in front of the eldest aunt after dinner: "I heard my daughter-in-law say that everyone has been thinking about it for a while, and several people who are thinking about this matter have gone home and asked their own sons, if they are willing to read and write, I thought that Lin Piao was looking for a few children to make some money, and now they want to bring all the children in the village together?" Such a great majesty was given to Shen Hong and that little fox spirit, why didn't we think of this method, is our children's knowledge not as good as Shen Hong? ”

The eldest aunt saw that she was full of thoughts, and reminded: "We are scholars, hard work is the most important thing, this kind of thing is also Lin Piaoli's desire to do it, Shen Hong, a child who is not sensible, was brought into this by him, now is there a good sentence about him outside, who mentioned him didn't say that he was lazy and thick-skinned, you let your nephew do the same to earn that unworthy money, do you want a reputation?" ”

The second aunt thought to herself, what is the 'nephew' to earn that undue money? The two cousins still want to split up, let her son do it, and her own son won't do it?

The second aunt sneered: "Okay, okay, my sister-in-law's son will be the champion in the future, reputation is important, my son doesn't have this family business, it's better to work hard by himself." ”

"You." The eldest aunt still wanted to persuade her.

"Me? I'll worry about myself, sister-in-law leave me alone. The second aunt was in a hurry, the money spent in vain was in front of her, and if she didn't intervene at this time, she wouldn't be able to catch up with this opportunity when the students were all swept away by Shen Hong.

She went back to the yard and found her man to take care of the matter.

The second uncle thought about it carefully and sighed a long sigh: "But my son has no fame, although he can be admitted to Tongsheng, but he had an illness that year, and his performance is also abnormal. ”

"What is ugly or not ugly, Shen Hong is not famous, he can teach it, my son can also teach it, will Lin Piao win people's hearts? I'm sure I'll coax those cubs into submission, too. ”

Chapter 20

The second aunt was fast, adhering to the central concept of not seizing the opportunity and eating to catch up with the heat, so she sent her daughter-in-law out to spread the news that evening.

The daughter-in-law stood under the big banyan tree, holding her fat son in her hand and shaking and coaxing: "Speaking of which, the one in my family is also literate, but I am not like Lin Piao, who knows how to Zhang Luo, and now I can't spare time with my children, otherwise it is enough to teach the children in the village." ”

When everyone heard this, their eyes immediately lit up: "Big sister, what are you talking about?" Where do you want to be busy, when the child sits in your house, your man will take care of it, where will you have to manage it? ”

The more they looked, the more they felt that this matter was reliable, after all, the family was a literate reader, what is it called a set of cultivators and heirlooms, her man is young and strong, a tall and polite young man, who looks much more reliable than Shen Hong, a half-grown teenager, and one by one persuaded her to go back and try to talk to her man.

"Okay, I'll go home and talk to my man, he's been busy reading books lately, and he doesn't know if he's free."

"Sister, how much you persuade, what a good thing, it must be empty."

"Okay, I'll persuade more."