At the end of the year, after a little rest, the weather became warmer, and farmers began to be busy for spring sowing.

Last year, Han Chuan collected a lot of seeds of safflower grass (milk vetch) and planted them in his family's millet field in the fall. This is the method he saw in the book of agriculture in the book of heaven, which was originally the best to plant in the rice field, but the continuous cropping of rice and wheat could not be used. Fortunately, this place in Huaiyin is moist and warm, and it can grow in dry fields that are inconvenient for irrigation, but it doesn't grow very well.

This safflower grass is cut for fodder very well, and before spring sowing, Han Chuan and Chen Yu will press the rest into the field together. Now he has been asked what to do, when he planted the safflower grass did not attract attention, when it grew out, everyone found out, and couldn't help but ask Han Chuan for advice, Han Chuan gave them a lesson about "green manure", listening to people seem to understand or not, but they all remembered to collect seeds, and wait until autumn to plant together.

The weather was warm, and Zhang Jing also sent his son to Taoxi.

Han Chuan was originally wondering if he wanted Zhang Dolphin to live at home, where did Zhang Jing's family come from to pick him up? Unexpectedly, Zhang Jing had already figured out a way.

Speaking of which, it has something to do with Han Chuan. It was he who came up with the method of composting, and it was the matter of Ligong Song sheep transporting manure back from the city. Not everyone in the county is willing, some people are suspicious, some people are lazy, and some people want to sell for money. Therefore, Song Yang contacted his acquaintances to inquire among relatives and friends, contacted people, and came to collect it every morning and in the afternoon.

As far as Peach Creek is concerned, it's enough.

Zhang Jing is one of them, so he told Song Yang that Zhang Dolphin would take this dung truck back and forth.

His idea was particularly suitable, and he didn't have to spend a penny. The only thing that suffers is Zhang Dolphin, after crying and playing Lai was suppressed by his father's iron palm, he had to cry and mourn, and went back and forth with the smell every day, which made his friends in the county not like to play with him very much.

When Han Xin learned that Zhang Dolphin was finally going to learn to read and write from him, his heart was also full of twists and turns. He actually wants to teach the slaughter dolphin to learn characters? Although he shouldn't take the things in his dreams seriously, he ...... But it's still weird in my heart.

Teach it. He seems to have managed many people in his dreams, but he can't control this guy?

Well...... In the dream, it seems to be governed by military law, and now although there is no military law, there is a father's club, and it is the same.

But......

"Father, since I want to teach people, I want to bring Uncle Chen's Ah Hu with me."

Chen Hu is the son of the Xu family, he is only five years old this year, one year younger than Han Xin and one year older than Han Wu, but he was born thin and small, as if he was younger than Han Wu. Han Chuan always thinks that he is a small point, is it too small to learn words? However, the mother of the family is kind to Han Xin, and Han Xin wants to teach, so he will go.

"You go and say it yourself, if your Uncle Chen is willing, you will teach. It's just that Chen Hu is young, you have to take care of it, don't go to the well. ”

Han Xin also immediately went to Chen Yu's house to talk about it. Chen Yu doesn't feel the need for literacy in his family, but his Chen Hu is weak and timid, and no one usually wants to play with him. I heard that Han Xin also had no one to play, and it was a good thing to be able to play together, so I agreed.

The next day, the adults went to work by themselves, Zhang Dolphin was reluctant in every way, still afraid of his father's big slap and big stick, sitting on the dung truck and wiping his tears and came to Taoxi, afraid of being ridiculed by the "enemy" Han Xin brothers, he got out of the car first after entering the inner door, and carefully wiped his tears before coming to the door.

Can he not cry, in addition to smelling the stench every day, his father also said that since he learned Chinese characters with Han Xin, his family would not pay for it, so he would help Han Xin work.

Wouldn't he be a dung picker too!

Han Xin had already taken Chen Hu to his home, dug a few shallow pits in the courtyard, covered them with sand, and folded branches for pens, making preparations.

Zhang Dolphin slowly moved over, leaned against the door, one foot was still outside the door, and shouted loudly and vigilantly: "I'm here to learn calligraphy, I won't pick up dung." ”

Chen Hu was timid, frightened by his loud voice, and shrank towards Han Xin. Han Xin patted him lightly to appease, raised his chin and said, "If you delay any longer, I will let my father tell your father, and I will punish you for picking up dung for everyone in Taoxi!" ”

Zhang Dolphin immediately pulled that foot into the door, sat down quickly, and his eyes widened: "Learn, learn quickly." ”

Han Xin was not in a hurry to teach, he first set up rules, asked them to sit and walk to listen to his orders, and they were not allowed to act without permission when studying. Then I started with one word, and I wrote it myself, and asked them to write it again in the sand pit in front of them. The dolphin wrote two words, overjoyed, and shouted: "I will, just draw horizontally." ”

Han Wu immediately giggled and stuck out his tongue at him to make a grimace. A sucker! Brother had already taught him to write a lot, and he was proud of his two illiterate children. Besides, he didn't commit such stupidity when he studied with his brother.

Han Xin couldn't help but glance at Zhang Dolphin, ignoring him, Wen Yan said to Chen Hu: "I'll teach you to write your own name." ”

I wrote "Chen" first, but Hu didn't teach it first, Chen Hu was only five years old, and it would be good to learn Chen in one day.

Zhang Dolphin tilted his head and looked at it for a long time, feeling retreating, but Han Xin turned to him: "Your name is the dolphin, which means a little pig." Your father should wish you to be born fat and healthy. I write with you to see. ”

This word looks like a good painting, Zhang Dolphin holds the pen like a knife, and is about to go under the knife, when Han Xin is pulled by a branch in his hand to correct his posture, he is about to get angry, Han Xin glanced at him: "Don't waste time." ”

If you delay time, you will be scolded by your father to pick up dung. Zhang Dolphin gritted his teeth, changed his posture, and drew the word dolphin one by one.

But there is still a sense of accomplishment after the drawing, especially compared to the strange characters drawn by the five-year-old boy next to him, his own drawing is really good.

Zhang Dolphin admired it for a while, poured his heart to learn, and asked Han Xin: "There is another person near my house who is also a dolphin with a different surname." My family is Zhang's, how can I write Zhang's character? ”

Han Xin glanced at his crooked dolphin characters, and couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, with a serious teacher's appearance on his face: "If you learn one more word, you can't write tomorrow, I will punish you." ”

Zhang Dolphin's neck snorted: "Why do you punish me!" ”

"What your father has confessed, since I have taught you, I must teach you seriously. If you can't learn, I can't live with your father. ”

Zhang Dolphin widened his bull's eyes, and heard the meaning: If you are disobedient, tell your father!

Just as he was about to say that he wouldn't learn, he heard Han Wu shouting gloatingly: "It's too much, you can't learn it, let's learn it tomorrow." ”

"Who said I can't learn, I'll learn today!"

He was eight years old, and although he had never been literate, he tried to memorize, but he thought he could remember. It was only then that he breathed a sigh of relief, and Han Xin saw that Chen Hu had also erased and rewritten the word "Chen" more than ten times, indicating that he had memorized it, and began to teach the method of calculation again.

Now Zhang Dolphin was anxious: "Why do you still learn this?" ”

"If you ask your father, you'll know." Han Xin was not worried at all that Uncle Jing said that he was not allowed to teach, he was willing to teach more, and Uncle Jing was only happy.

As soon as the dolphin mentioned his father, he was intimidated, and he followed the study in frustration, and the learning effect was extremely poor. But today I just learned the simple method of addition, and fiddled with stones and sticks a few times, Chen Hu was still a little ignorant, and Zhang Dolphin already knew it. It seems a little easier than literacy, he thought.

At this time, there are two meals a day, and the dolphin does not go home in the middle of the day. Lin Lu poured soybean syrup for the four of them, Zhang Dolphin was stunned for a moment, and his mood of being tortured by learning suddenly became uplifted.

Even if he was the son of a wealthy butcher, his family could not eat meat every day, and caramel was also a luxury. A while ago, Han Chuan went to the county to visit his house, and he didn't put anything in the syrup he brought, heated it and drank it in his mouth, it was sweet and fragrant, he ate a lot, and a bowl was not enough at all.

Unexpectedly, Han Xinjia actually entertained him with soybean pulp. Seeing that Zhang Dolphin was in a hurry, Lin Lu poured him another bowl.

Zhang Dolphin drank it with a grunt, and Han Wu and Chen Hu drank a bowl here. Lu put away the bowl and let them continue to play together without running around.

Zhang Dolphin stood up suddenly, Han Xin was taken aback, and said in his heart that this kid finally couldn't sit still? But I heard Zhang Dolphin say loudly: "Why do you have so many syrup?" ”

"Sit down and talk." Han Xin picked up the branch and gently whipped him, drank it and made him sit down, and then explained, "The neighbors in the same room take the mushroom to grind the pulp to make the milk, and my father is not good at collecting money, so he collects a little more, grinds more every day, and puts it at home for drinking." This syrup is not released, you come to learn, and you just drink it together. ”

I have to drink it every day, and I drink it as water. Not to mention the dolphin, even Chen Hu's eyes lit up, and he whispered: "Ashin, I forgot the words when I went home, can I ask you again?" ”

He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to write tomorrow, so Han Xin wouldn't call him.

Han Xin was very gentle with him: "Yes." I really won't, I'll practice again tomorrow. ”

Without waiting for Zhang Dolphin to speak, he sneered again: "The tiger is five years old." You're ...... this year."

Zhang Dolphin's head lowered: "Eight years old." ”

Of course, he was embarrassed to share a standard with Chen Hu.

But he wants to drink syrup!

"I'll pick up the manure for you." He said with a lot of determination. But Han Xin was not happy, but shook his head: "Would you rather be punished for picking up dung than work hard and remember what you have learned?" ”

Zhang Dolphin was stunned, scratched his head, and said sneeringly: "I'm afraid I forgot." ”

"Then don't be greedy. Today is for you to learn more, and don't be reckless in the future. Han Xin nodded at the bunker in front of him, "Keep practicing." You have to do what you say, and tomorrow you won't, so you'll pick up dung. ”

Zhang Dolphin had a bitter face, feeling that he couldn't escape, and he dragged the sand with a branch with a bitter hatred. Han Xin saw that they were really working hard, and he was not idle, so he took the bamboo slips that had been processed, and silently picked up the book one by one.

Zhang Dolphin peeked at it, and saw that Han Xin wrote those words and songs on the bamboo slips, like a book from heaven, he couldn't help but stick out his tongue, looking at his name, and he didn't blame his father for wanting Zhang, and named himself Dolphin, instead of calling one, two, three, and something like that.

Han Wu's eyes were sharp, he saw him peeking, and he saw him sticking out his tongue, hating him for bullying his brother, and deliberately leaned over to write in his sand pit: "What's so difficult about this, Brother has taught me, and I can also write." ”

Zhang Dolphin didn't believe it, but Han Wu wrote one, he stretched his neck to look at one at Han Xin, and sure enough, it was written the same, and asked Han Wu again, Han Wu read it to him, and it was really a sentence. Zhang Dolphin was silent, and his writing was a little more serious.

Han Xin didn't want to detain them for a day, but saw that they had studied hard, and let them go home in the afternoon. Zhang Dolphin had to wait for the car together, and he also asked Zhang Dolphin to play by himself, so he didn't have to sit all the time. Zhang Dolphin refused, he must memorize the words he learned today.

Han Xin was angry and funny, and let him do whatever he could, and help his mother with housework. Han Wu didn't pester him this time, took the small branch, and stayed alive to urge Zhang Dolphin to work hard.

On the second day, sure enough, Zhang Dolphin knew the dolphin character and the arithmetic he learned, but he wrote the wrong Zhang character, Han Xin was only going to hit the palm of his hand, but he said yesterday that he wanted to pick up dung, Han Xin first asked him to review the Zhang character, and then consolidated the arithmetic, and then gave him a basket, and really asked him to work with the children in Taoxi.

Zhang Dolphin also did what he said, although he was reluctant in every way, he still did it when he saw the syrup. It was on the road that he covered his face with his hands, unwilling to let his friends see it, until he found that the children in Peach Creek were carrying a small basket in their hands, and it didn't matter if they really picked up dung when they played, the important thing was to make a look of picking it up for their parents, and he calmed down - anyway, everyone was the same.

In this way, by the end of spring sowing, Chen Hu had learned four or five words and counted with ten fingers. Zhang Dolphin learned to cross about Mo and calculated the addition within ten. He also went reluctantly, and gradually developed friendship, and followed Han Xin to help every day, comforting himself for the sake of friendship and righteousness, and he was not ashamed of being embarrassed in front of his partners in the county.

Han Chuan took the time to go to the county and told Zhang Jing something. Now there is too much syrup at home every day, and it can't really be drunk as water. He also wanted to make some money, so he planned to grind and make milk at home and sell it on consignment in the butcher's shop in the well. Although the two are unrelated, something that has never been in the market before should be able to be sold.

Sure enough, when Zhang Dolphin began to play with Han Xin with peace of mind, Han Chuan was also welcomed with the syrup and milk in Zhangjing's shop, and he could sell a bucket of pulp and two plates of milk every day. Maybe he can sell more, but Han Chuan doesn't want to take the risk of discounting the capital, so he shares the profits of Zhang Jing a little, and he has a stable income of more than ten yuan a day, and he is already very satisfied. After all, with money and many things in the heavenly book, he can continue to try.

Of course, first of all, he had to make life better for his family.

Han Chuan finally bought a big fish, cooked it with tofu, and put green onions, and it was really delicious. I can't get enough of this milk. Lu carefully picked the thorns and put the fish in his son's bowl, and Han Xin took a bite and shed tears in the heat.

"Father, Mother......"

Han Chuan stretched out his hand to wipe his son, and said in his heart that he was fortunate to be healed on the way to Huaiyin, otherwise if it was really the same as the child's dream, the family didn't know how miserable it was at this time this year, thinking about it, he almost burst into tears, and said softly: "It's all right, Father is here, our family will be better next year." ”

Han Wu looked left and right, and didn't understand why Brother was crying when the fish soup was so delicious. He quietly sandwiched a piece of big fish meat given to him by his mother into his brother's bowl, and comforted him in an old-fashioned manner: "Brother, I'll give it to you, don't cry." ”

"Hmm." Han Xin looked at him and smiled, then looked at his parents, lowered his head and slashed the rice. Some things he can't tell clearly because of his age, and sometimes he wakes up in a dream and forgets the contents, but he has a strong unwillingness, but he knows that it is just a dream. He only wishes that his parents and brothers will be healthy, and he is willing to plough the fields as a business from now on, and be a farmer who only knows the sunrise and rests at sunset.