He asked a little brother at the time, but the other party thought he was a man and was wearing torn clothes, so he thought he was deliberately accosting, so he scolded him fiercely.

At that time, he was young, and it was the first time he encountered that kind of situation, and he was completely stunned, so he could only stand and be scolded.

The aunt who was still passing by saw the mole on his eyebrows, and stepped forward to relieve him.

It turned out that the shop was not recruiting people to do needlework, but holding an embroidery competition, and the prizes of the competition were written on the small wooden board.

Of course, he doesn't ask anyone anything stupidly now, but when he occasionally thinks about that scene, he always thinks if only he could read.

At least when he goes to a strange place in the future, he can have a little confidence.

Therefore, now Li Qiao is willing to teach him literacy, and he is 100% serious.

He studied seriously, but Li Qiao only read it a few times, and then pulled him to lie on the bed: "This will be studied when you are free, we are not in a hurry." I'm tired, you accompany me for a lunch break. ”

“…… Why don't I lie down with you, you sleep, and I take the ledger and continue to keep records? Tao Zhu was a little reluctant.

“？”

Now it's Li Qiao's turn to open his eyes wide, what's the matter, his charm can't compare to words?

"I just think it's a rare opportunity to be literate." Tao Zhu explained.

"I'm your man now, if you want to learn, you can learn every day." Li Qiao also persuaded seriously: "I think you should rest." ”

Last night was the second night of marriage, and he and Tao Zhu couldn't help it and tossed in bed for an hour.

But today Tao Zhu got up earlier than him, because Tao Zhu wanted to make breakfast for him, and when he went to the county seat after breakfast, Tao Zhu began to be busy with other work, making shaqima and twist flowers, carrying water, and cleaning the yard.

I guess he's coming back soon, and I've made lunch.

He is a supernatural, he can work all day, but Tao Zhu is not an anomaly.

"You've been busy from midnight to now, it's time to take a break."

"What is this, it's not tiring at all compared to farming."

The words are like this, but the corners of Tao Zhu's mouth are upturned, forget it, this person is right, now that they are married, if he wants to be literate, he can learn it every day.

He put down the ledger and was about to lie down, but Li Qiao stretched out his arms and hugged him into his arms.

"Sleep, wake up and work to read."

"Hmm." He closed his eyes, sniffing the same soaphorn smell on this person's body as his own, and he smiled secretly, it was good to be married.

When Li Qiao and Tao Zhu were busy making money, on the other side, Zhuang Fengshou went to the county seat to get the first batch of scythes back.

These scythes were quickly made into wheat sickles, and Li Qiao also made a special one for Zhang Xiuhua, and he would do his best to do what he had promised.

After this batch of wheat sickles was put into the intense wheat harvest, Li Qiao's reputation was much better.

Although Li Qiao repeatedly emphasized that this wheat sickle was what he saw from the book, the villagers automatically ignored his words, only knowing that he made the wheat sickle, and greeted him warmly when they saw him.

Even Tao Zhu went to the well to carry water, and received many times more greetings and smiling faces than before.

The popularity is good, and Li Qiao and Tao Zhu's mood has also improved.

Of course, there are also some people who affect their mood.

For example, Mrs. Tao, she came over and asked Tao Zhu for money to treat Tao Shu and Lai Dongmei.

Tao Shu's nose bridge is broken, the wound on his forehead has not been completely healed, and Lai Dongmei's arm is broken, all of which need to be taken and spent money on medicine.

Moreover, no one harvested her wheat!

Before, the work in the Tao family's field was all Tao Zhu's alone, but now Tao Zhu is married and doesn't go to harvest wheat, so her family's wheat is just hanging in the ground!

How can this be!

Her family didn't have much food in the first place, so they all relied on this batch of wheat to eat, and now that the wheat grows in the ground, how can her family of four eat?

Mrs. Tao's request, of course, Tao Zhu refused.

Li Qiao only promised to treat Tao Laohan's legs, after all, Tao Laohan is his father, but which onion is Tao Shu?

Even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu came, there was no reason for Li Qiao to treat Tao Shu.

Moreover, Li Qiao herself owes a lot of debt.

As for harvesting wheat in the field, don't even think about it, in these ten miles and eight villages, which married husband runs to his mother's house every day to work?

He didn't want to be taken home by Li Qiaoxiu, so he didn't go to work for the Tao family.

As for the problem of eating, if Mrs. Tao is hungry, you can come to him, eat four of them, and drink wild vegetable soup casually, and be full.

But the superfluous ones are not.

Don't even want to take it back for Tao Shu and Lai Dongmei to eat.

If you dare to take one away, he won't serve food for the next meal, let alone a vegetable nest mixed with miscellaneous grains, or he won't make pure wild vegetable soup!

Tao Zhu's words, the angry Mrs. Tao cried, scolded Tao Zhu for being unfilial, and called the villagers over, wanting the villagers to know that Tao Zhu was a white-eyed wolf.

Mrs. Tao sold miserably to the villagers, Tao Zhu also silently reddened his eyes, he was not easy, the Tao family threw away all his things, treated him as an old scalper, he was married and chased him to let him work for the Tao family, which married husband is so miserable?

And his man Li Qiao is in debt, and there is no land at home, he has just married Li Qiao, if he moves the things that Li Qiao has earned so hard to move to the Tao family, then the Li family will definitely not agree!

It was not easy for both sides to cry, and the villagers watched a lot of excitement, and most of them stood on Taozhu's side.

Li Qiao only married Tao Zhu alone, not the entire Tao family, if you want to rely on Li Qiao like this, there is really no such reason in the world.

Mrs. Tao couldn't bargain, so she could only go home.

In the afternoon, Li Qiao came back from the county seat, knew about it from the villagers, and immediately praised Tao Zhu after returning home, and did a good job!

Soon the day of malt growth came, and Li Liang Wang Guihua came to learn to make maltose.

The malt is washed, chopped, and then mixed with the steamed glutinous rice, and finally the stirred malt glutinous rice is placed in a warm place to ferment for three hours.

Now that the weather is hot, you can ferment directly on the stove.

Soon in the evening, after the fermentation is completed, find a clean linen cloth to wrap the fermented malt glutinous rice, and then squeeze it vigorously to squeeze out the water inside.

This water is sugar water.

Pour the water into the pot and boil over high heat, and when the pot is bubbly, then simmer over low heat.

The juice in the pot quickly turns yellow, and if you continue to boil, the maltose in liquid form is ready.

"This is maltose?"

Li Liang, Wang Guihua, and Tao Zhu all stared at the iron pot in surprise.

"Yes, this is maltose, when it cools a little, you can pull the sugar, pull it into white, and then cut it into small pieces, that is the maltose we eat on weekdays."

Li Qiao nodded.

From today onwards, he finally doesn't have to be wronged, and he can save a lot of money!

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Chapter 29 How Much Do You Earn Every Day? What's your business!

After the temperature of the maltose cooled down a bit, Li buckwheat began to pull the sugar.

This is a hard work, he said to Li Liang and Wang Guihua while pulling: "This work is very laborious, if you pull it for a long time, you will have back pain." ”

But Li Liang disdainful: "That's it? ”

He doesn't work much harder to farm than to pull sugar.

"Get out of the way, I'll come."

"I'll try it too."

Wang Guihua also wants to get started.

When the two of them tried it in person, the husband and wife were hehe, there is a gap between comparisons, compared with farming, what kind of hard work is this.

Not to mention the two of them, even Li Xiaoshan can do it.

"From today onwards, your eldest brother and I will make maltose, this time you and Brother Zhu don't interfere in the whole process, let the two of us try it alone." Wang Guihua said to Li Qiao.

She has four children at home, and she is afraid that the children will not be able to control their mouths, so she temporarily put the place where she made maltose to Li Qiao's house.

When she and Li Liang can make maltose independently, they will renovate her house and make room for maltose.

"Okay." Li Qiao should go down.

Glimpsing Tao Zhu standing next to him and eager to try pulling sugar, he also let Tao Zhu try it, and he himself used the syrup to pinch out a few fat ducklings more than a finger long.

He left a little duck, and let Li Liang and Wang Guihua take the rest back for Li Xiaolan and a few of them to eat.

This is the maltose made by themselves, and the cost is low, so Li Liang and Wang Guihua were not polite, and left with a few ducklings.

"You just give them to Xiaolan, why did you leave one for me?" Tao Zhu looked at the vivid duckling on the board and asked.

"Because I want to give it to you, I think you'll like it."

Li Qian replied as she cleaned up the kitchen.

It was the expected answer, but Tao Zhu was still happy, yes, he liked it very much, whether it was such a large piece of maltose or a chubby shape, he liked it very much.

"I'll pinch a duckling for you next time."

"Pinch a tiger, the tiger is majestic."

"But where are you majestic?" Tao Zhu's gaze stopped on Li Qiao's body, and looked from head to foot, this person is a scholar, compared with other men of the same age in the village, his body is slightly thin, not strong enough, and he does not match the tiger at all.

"Am I not majestic in bed?" Li Qian asked rhetorically.

Tao Zhu: "......"

Some inappropriate images poured out of his mind, which made him a little embarrassed, but he nodded lightly: "Okay, I'll pinch a tiger for you next time." ”

"Then you go wash up now, and I'll clean up the kitchen before I go."