"......" Erzhu held the bowl and chopsticks and was speechless.

After all, Lin Piao knew the knot in the second aunt's heart, and he didn't speak while listening, anyway, the matter of the second pillar is not decided in a day or two, and what path to take in the future depends on the follow-up development, and it will not be settled with a pat on the thigh.

"The second aunt is right, now you have to study hard, and there will be an exam in the spring of next year, and you who are good at reading will have to take the exam, and as for the rest, you will make plans after the exam."

Erzhu could only nod dejectedly, after all, what the little sister-in-law said was right, what he needed to do now was to study, and it was important to pass the remaining months first.

The second aunt turned her head and looked at her in surprise: "What are they going to test?" ”

Lin Piao told them about the help of the county lords, and told them to keep quiet for now, and then they would choose a few of the top students to take the children's examination together.

When the second aunt and Uncle Qiu heard the news, everyone was stupid, happy and panicked: "But they can't pass the test!" Wouldn't this have disappointed the kindness of the county lord. ”

The children on the side listened dumbfounded, listening to these heartfelt words, which really pierced Lao Tie's heart.

Chapter 49

After the aunt finished speaking, she found that the group of children looked at her with each other, and even Erzhu's expression was a little uncomfortable, and she knew in her heart that she had said the wrong thing, and she stammered.

"This ...... It's not that you can't pass the test, it's just that you ...... It's just that you've only been studying for a few days and you're going to take the exam with Mr. Shen for the exam, isn't that right? ”

Lin Piao looked at his aunt's hard work, of course he knew what his aunt meant, of course they wanted every child to be admitted to the Tongsheng Examination, but this matter was unrealistic.

"Auntie, don't worry, don't worry about the students, this is an opportunity, just try your luck, just keep it in mind, don't be too stressed."

The students nodded, but they were already secretly excited, since they said that they wanted to report the best in the first few books, which ones should they be? Who's first and who's second? They lined up in their hearts, some found that they were quite far ahead, and their hearts were satisfied, and some found that they were very far behind in careful calculations, and their hearts were already secretly ruthless, and there was still a period of time to exert their strength, to see if he would immediately memorize the book.

It is normal for children to fail the examination, but they must not be left behind and become a tail.

Lin Piao saw that these children had their own expressions, and knew that some of them were already thinking about this matter.

At dinner, the children helped clean up the dishes, chopsticks, tables and chairs, the second aunt cooked the deer legs, sharpened the knife with a whetstone, and sliced the meat thinly.

Uncle Qiu went outside to dig up some wild onions and ginger and came back, washed out a lot of pickles.

The second aunt looked at the ginger and shallots: "The weather is going to be cold, and it is not good to dig outside when the time comes. ”

Lin Piao nodded approvingly, there are not many things that can be seasoned now, and if you lose green onion and ginger again, you will basically lose half of the seasoning world.

"Then let's dig some and come back to raise it when we go up the mountain in two days, it's not troublesome and not in a hurry."

"Okay."

The meat was marinated, and the stick bones were knocked open with the back of a knife, and a few ribs were chopped in together.

"Auntie, there isn't much meat in the bones alone, so cut two large white radishes into them and stew them together."

"Done."

"This year, God appreciates the rice, the rice grows well, and the radish is also watery, crisp and sweet." The second aunt split a radish into several pieces, and handed it to Lin Piao and Zheng Qiu while eating it.

Lin Piao took a bite in his hand, crisply: "It's sweet, it's not spicy at all, it's very watery, give me some more, and I'll take it to Shen Hong to eat." ”

The aunt gave him another cut, and Lin Piao took the radish back to the yard and stuffed it to Shen Hong.

Shen Hong was sitting by the stove reading a book, it was the time of the lunch break, the students had not left after eating, they were sitting in the courtyard reading, and some of them were really sleepy and fell asleep on the table.

Now that the weather is cold, Shen Hong sits by the stove, his hands are not cold when he is baked by the heat, and the water is still hot on the stove, and sometimes the students will come over with a bowl of water and pour a bowl of water to drink, and when the kettle is almost empty, the last person will carry the kettle, and then he will go to add water and put it back.

Lin Piao walked in, and the students who were still awake were not hungry when they saw that he had come to deliver radishes, and their father and mother also dug radishes at home and always washed them for them to eat when they came back.

"Shen Hong, eat a radish to quench your thirst, this radish can be sweet and watery." Lin Piao said as he gnawed on the piece in his hand, biting it crisply.

Shen Hong closed the book and put it on the other side of the table, took the snow-white radish that was somewhat translucent, and tasted it, it was indeed very sweet.

He often drank water when he sat by the fire, but it was no better than eating a piece of sweet, crisp and watery radish to quench his thirst.

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

"No thanks, just say what you want to eat, I'll bring you a plate to fill it, and it's convenient for you to eat while reading."

"You can't use one mind for the other, and it doesn't hurt to eat it after reading it."

Lin Piao nodded, he didn't expect this little cub to be quite particular about reading, and he couldn't eat snacks without saying a word.

"Then you study hard, and I'll go see the dishes."

"Okay."

Lin Piao returned to the second aunt's courtyard and saw that the second aunt had already put all the radishes into the soup.

The second aunt saw him coming and said, "The big pieces of radish are forbidden to be stewed, and the small fire is soaked in it and the big stick bones are simmered together for an hour, and a long firewood is enough to burn slowly, and we will roast peanuts to eat." ”

A pot of meat is marinated, a pot of soup is stewed, they roast peanuts around a small stove and boil a pot of hot water, on which are placed the leftover red lotus eaten in the morning, cut into finger-thick slices, and put the red lotus on when the water is boiled.

The three of them chatted, and Uncle Qiu talked about his current situation: "I made another batch of bean skin last night, and it was almost dried overnight, so I put it in the hall, and I made a lot of it this time, and it is estimated that it will be enough to sell for a while. ”

Lin Piao said: "No wonder I saw that there was a big pot of bean dregs in the kitchen at noon this day." ”

"It's really refreshing to cook and eat, and you say that eating is good for your health, and you say that it's good for nutrition, and I will definitely use it for the children to eat."

Uncle Qiu didn't mention the fact that his money was put in Lin Piao's place, one was afraid that the second aunt would think too much, and the other was that they would not tell anyone about it.

"Didn't Aunt Wang come to my house and tell me not to do this business?"

The second aunt heard this for the first time, rubbing her peanut clothes and raising her head: "What will you do?" ”

Uncle Qiu told the second aunt all the causes and consequences, and the second aunt said: "If you want to be beautiful, that is, the king of heaven is here, we have to earn the money we should earn, if we don't earn what we eat and drink, we just don't live if we are afraid." ”

"I think the same way, I don't care about her, continue to be mine, she saw that I didn't listen to the persuasion but did more and more diligent, and then always came to the door to say to me, sometimes come to buy tofu to give me a good meal, saying that I don't know the severity, didn't I stuff tofu again last night, she heard the movement and came to knock on the door, came in and saw my yard of tofu so angry, said yes is not that she thinks she is hurting me, the more she can't do anything, the more she has to do it, and she scolds me if she doesn't know the hearts of good people or anything."

The second aunt frowned: "What kind of madness is this old woman." ”

"I was thinking about the neighborhood, before she always said that I didn't hear it, I just didn't hear it, but I didn't expect her to come to the door now and point her nose and scold me, Da Zhuang was still next to me at the time, and I was startled to see her rush in like this, I thought to myself that it's just usual, and I will endure it, so I won't say anything about her after rushing into my house."

"Yes."

I said that she was nosy, it was better to worry about her family's money bag, and she didn't say a word, she cried, saying that a good heart was said to be like this, and then she made a fuss so that the neighbors in the neighborhood came out to see it, and his son and daughter-in-law ran out to ask me to give an explanation, and I said that she asked me not to make tofu skin, I didn't listen to it and was still doing it, and asked her to leave me alone, and she cried angrily, and her son and daughter-in-law's face was really green, and they felt that their faces couldn't hang up when they listened. When the neighbors heard this, they also bluntly said that Aunt Wang's mind was not sober and that her son and daughter-in-law did not dare to say yes anymore, and quickly helped her back. ”

He still learned this trick from Lin Piao, don't dare to say anything when you encounter something, I don't care much about her, the more embarrassed you are, the more others think you have a problem, not only to say, but also to say it clearly, loudly, frankly, but so that the people watching on the side have nothing to say.

The second aunt laughed when she heard this: "It's good to be nosy, it's annoying to be nosy, it's really strange to be in charge of the heavens and the earth and other people's money, speaking of which there is another thing, Piao'er will definitely not know when she comes back, Zheng Qiu, have you listened to them?" ”

"What's the matter?"

"The son of the Da Shen family came back, and he was admitted to Tongsheng, and he was ready to take the Xiucai exam."

"Just the eldest son of Uncle Lin Piao's mother's family?"

"Yes."

"What is he doing when he comes back, isn't this a matter of preparing for the exam?"

"Didn't he take leave to come back to help the family collect grain during the autumn harvest, how long did it take for a while, you said, said that his daughter-in-law had, it is estimated that even if he was pregnant during the autumn harvest, he was the eldest son in the family, but the daughter-in-law was not pregnant for several years, Shen Bo was the second family already had a child, he didn't have it yet, his mother went to fortune telling, saying that his daughter-in-law had a good face, the lying silkworm was plump, and where else was it good, it was the face of a son and a daughter in his life, but his face was not good, and the children in his life were thin, and now he said that he was pregnant. His mother wrote a letter to the past, and he didn't hurry up to take leave and come back to see his daughter-in-law. ”

"Then next year there will be more children in the village."

"Oh, the red lettuce is baked, eat it quickly, be careful not to be mushy, pick it up and bake it more on the plate, and eat this in the afternoon, otherwise you won't be able to eat enough meat alone."

The three of them divided the sweet potato chips, scalded them on their fingertips and ate them hot, and the steamed soft sweet potatoes baked a thin layer of hard crispy puff pastry on the stove, which was fragrant and soft inside, and the taste of the powder was even a little glutinous.

The three of them chatted while eating, Lin Piao chatted with each other on the side, and soon it was time for dinner, and the stove was replaced with a few large firewood, which quickly burned past the hottest time of the initial flame, and the outer layer was like charred charcoal, and the small flame wrapped the whole firewood.

During the fire, hot water was boiled, and when the flames stabilized, an iron net was put on and the children were called.

One person served a bowl of soup, each bowl contained two large pieces of white radish, and a thin layer of oil was applied to the iron net, and the marinated meat was spread one by one.

The hot roasted red slices were placed on the table, and the students each took two of them in their hands, and ate them hot with deer bone soup, staring at the barbecue.

"Don't worry, there's a lot of meat, everyone can eat it." The meat slices removed from the leg meat are sliced into thin slices, and almost half of the pot is piled up, and salted in it, and a lot of water from the green onion is pickled.

Lin Piao also received a bowl of deer bone soup, sat next to the small oven, drank a sip of hot soup, inserted chopsticks into the radish and pressed it gently, and the soft radish became two halves.

Several people circled around the oven together, serving the grilled meat in bowls.

"Fortunately, the blacksmith made the opening a little bigger when making the stove, and the iron mesh frame is so big that it can be baked a lot more."

The second aunt nodded straightly: "This size is just right, no matter how big it is, it is bulky, no matter how small it is, it is not suitable for anything." ”

The barbecue was given to Shen Hong first, and when Shen Hong had eaten it and several of them tasted it, they began to eat it evenly, and after it was roasted, it was put on a plate and sent to the table.

This meal was hot, I don't know if it was psychological, Lin Piao only felt that his back was hot, he was wearing an autumn coat and a small vest inside, but now it was so hot that he wanted to take off his clothes and change into summer clothes.

He put down the soup bowl: "You eat more, I can't help but make up for it, I feel that my back is very hot, you drink more to grow taller." ”

Uncle Qiu and the second aunt stopped drinking the soup: "It's very hot to drink, I thought you didn't feel it." ”

"It's hot, this meat is still different from pork, no matter how much pork you eat, it's really a supplement."

However, those students didn't feel anything, they were originally young and hot, and now they don't feel cold when they wear single clothes, and they don't feel hot when they eat.

After the children finished dinner, they dispersed, and it was getting late soon, so Lin Piao was so hot that he went to change his summer clothes, but he felt a little cold when he was dressed, so he added a vest to it, so that it was cool and would not feel cold.

After changing his clothes and coming out, Lin Piao looked at Shen Hong: "You are really not hot." ”

"Sister-in-law, I'm not hot, but I drink the soup and my body is really warm."

Lin Piao nodded, thinking that sure enough, there is still a lot of room for children to take supplements, and it is easy to get angry when they eat these things when they get older.

"Then sit down a little longer and go to bed early."

"Hmm."

The two of them went back to their rooms, and Lin Piao was curled up in the quilt, because his mind was too energetic, and he didn't know what time he would fall asleep.

In the morning, before Lin Piao woke up, he dimly heard the sound of water outside and some noises for a while.

Lin Piao opened his eyes in his sleep, thinking that it should be the sound of Shen Hong's early washing, so he opened a small opening in the window lattice, and looked out from the couch, and saw that Shen Hong was carrying water in the well, and it was not heated, so he fell into the basin and put his hand into it.

"Shen Hong, you boil some hot water, don't be cold."

Shen Hong didn't seem to expect him to wake up at this time, his back froze for a moment, and he said in a calm voice: "Sister-in-law, no need." ”

"You burn some, I'll use it later."

"Sister-in-law, let's rest for a while, I'll boil water for my sister-in-law later, and call my sister-in-law when it's boiled."

"Okay."

Shen Hong turned his back to Lin Piao, and did not hear the sound of the window closing, so he knew that his sister-in-law was still looking at him, and her back became more and more stiff.

After a while, Lin Piao directly put on his clothes and came out, and looked into his basin: "What are you washing?" ”