MTL - The Sweet Little Fulang-Chapter 187
Every winter, when the private school in the countryside opens, wild boys from several nearby villages are sent to study. Most of them have enough food at home after the autumn harvest to have money for them to study.
Shen Xuanqing went to the neighboring village to buy tofu with a bamboo basket. It was almost noon time for lunch. When Lu Gu got up early, he said he wanted to eat stewed tofu with sauerkraut. The rest of the family was busy, and Lu Gu had to take the child, so he had to go out.
The tofu workshop is not far from the school. You can hear the sound of reading aloud and read for the children. The private school was built with funds raised by seven or eight villages.
Shen Yaoqing loves to joke a lot, but he is very respectful and sensible when he is studying. He seldom messes around with others. He talks less and looks dull, but he and Da Chen are the most troublesome. Fighting with people is often known by the old gentleman, and he must be beaten.
Because Shen Yaoqing was five years older than him, he jumped up and down for a year or two when he was just studying. When his husband hit him on the palm with a ruler, he would blow his beard and stare at him. Obviously they were brothers, how could they be so naughty when they were young.
Shen Xuanqing learned fast when he was studying and still remembered it. Whether it was memorizing articles or writing poems, even if he couldn't win the top prize, he couldn't fall behind. Therefore, the husband was unavoidably partial to him, and he was not as important as others.
"It's three jins enough." The douban wife weighed him well, put it in a bamboo basket, handed it over and smiled: "It's ready, don't shake it, you haven't seen your mother come here recently."
"There's a lot of work at home, and my mother has to help with the baby, so I don't visit the house very much." Shen Xuanqing took out the copper plate while chatting, and took the basket.
"Do you still have any rabbits?" Douban's wife asked again.
Shen Xuanqing nodded and said, "Yes, my aunt wants it?"
The douban wife covered the tofu with the cloth, looked up and asked him, "How much is one?"
Shen Xuanqing said: "If my aunt wants it, it will cost 20 wen for a skinned and only fleshy one, and 32 wen for a whole live one. This is the price that is sold to our village, and outsiders can't buy it."
Douban's wife understood what he meant, and said quickly, "Don't worry, auntie can still say something?"
She thought for a moment and said, "If you don't want the skin, you will kill it?"
It's just a meal of rabbit meat at home. Buying only one, buying a live one and peeling off a rabbit skin will not do anything.
"It's natural. Once the skin is peeled off, the internal organs are also taken out, leaving the heart, liver and kidneys to eat, so my aunt doesn't have to slaughter it." Shen Xuanqing replied.
In this case, Douban's wife said: "That's it, you kill one, your Douban uncle is not at home, I am the only one watching the stall, and I can't live without people."
Shen Xuanqing said, "I'll kill it and bring it to my aunt."
"Okay." Wife Douban nodded hurriedly, and added: "Don't throw away the internal organs, bring them to me to feed the dog."
"I know my aunt, I'll go back first, and I'll bring it to you later." Shen Xuanqing agreed, and went back with a basket.
In addition to selling the raised rabbits to the town, sometimes people from several nearby villages will come to their house to buy them. They are all neighbors, and they are sold for a few cents cheaper than in the town, because he wants to save more rabbit skins for the family. Everyone makes leather and furs, and they wear warm clothes in winter, so they come up with this method. They only sell meat and not skins. After the price is cheaper, there will be more people willing to buy them.
Unlike pork with a lot of fat, rabbits are all lean meat, so they are no more eye-catching than the fatty pork. Even so, as long as they sell them, they can make money, so why not do it.
He walked home with a bamboo basket, and the sound of reading behind him gradually became inaudible.
Speaking of which, Zhao'er and Xiaoling'er both want to study in the future. Thinking of how their two children will study in the future, Shen Xuanqing's brows have a faint smile.
But then he frowned slightly, Zhao'er was fine, Lingjun was a pair of children, and he couldn't study with a group of boys in the school. It would be good if a countryman could afford the children's education, and the girl and the pair were rarely sent to school. For those who are studying, they cannot recruit a few students at all, so they have to go to a private school in the town. For example, in Fenggu Town, there is a private school where a female teacher teaches.
There are not many children who can study in the countryside. He doesn’t want his children to be illiterate in the future. The private school in the town can be accommodated in it. It is enough to pay a certain amount of money every year, or he can stay at a relative’s house.
Shen Yutao and Shen Yuxi often live in Fenggu Town. Although he is a cousin, but according to the big house's temperament of climbing high and stepping low, don't even think about it. It is absolutely impossible for Lingjun to live there. The child is small and it's good to live under the fence. , In case of being bullied or taught badly, it will be too late to regret it.
If you live in a school, it’s a problem if you can’t eat well or sleep well. If you have family members around you when you study, your child will not be bullied. Besides, once you enter the private school, you won’t be able to go home for ten days and a half months, let alone Lu Gu. He also misses.
Thinking of this, he thought in his mind that he might be able to rent a house in the town in the future. Anyway, let the children study for a few more years, not to force fame and fortune, and to be a literate and reasonable person when he grows up.
Xiao Lingjun is not even half a year old now, and it will take several years to study, so he is not in a hurry to do it.
Lu Gu was playing with the sleeping baby in the room when he heard Shen Xuanqing calling him outside, saying that the tofu had been bought.
"Then come hold it, I'll cut vegetables and tofu, A-sister-in-law and mother haven't come yet." He said, and gave the child to Shen Xuanqing.
Xiao Lingjun had just eaten milk fruit, and the swaddles were thickly wrapped. He waved Lu Gu's handkerchief in his hand, and babbled in his mouth, and his saliva soon flowed out.
Shen Xuanqing sat down on the bed with the child in his arms, and wanted to take the handkerchief out of his son's hand to wipe his saliva, but Xiao Lingjun was gripped tightly, and his son's dissatisfied cry caused him to let go quickly. , took another handkerchief from the bed.
As soon as Lu Gu came out of the main room door, the cold wind blew, he fastened his badger leather collar and wrapped his neck tightly. There was hot water simmering in a clay pot on the clay stove, and he added two thin woods to the stove, and then scooped the water to wash the vegetables.
"Auntie Douban said just now that she wants a rabbit. You can cut the vegetables. I'll kill her there and send it over there." Shen Xuanqing teased his son, and then shouted through the window.
"Understood." Lu Gu agreed. After a while, the wasabi and tofu were cut, and it would not be too late to cook when Ji Qiuyue and the others came back.
When he was done, he came in and hugged the child. Shen Xuanqing didn't leave immediately and asked, "I'm going to deliver rabbits to the town tomorrow. What do you want to buy, I'll bring it back."
Lu Gu's brows and eyes were slightly curved. He hadn't been to town for a long time. He used to be pregnant and could not walk long distances or ride a mule cart. After giving birth to a child, he didn't dare to leave. Lingjun cried when he woke up. Most of the time Only he can coax him down.
"Buy some pears back, cook sweet pear soup to eat, and then buy a roast chicken." He was not polite, he told Shen Xuanqing what he wanted to eat, and said, "Look at what Niang and Yanyan want to eat. , and ask later."
"Okay." Shen Xuanqing agreed with a smile, and lightly squeezed Lu Gu's earlobe and then put it down.
It's been a good day recently. It's not snowing, so it's easier to walk on the road. Early in the morning, Shen Xuanqing packed a mule cart and drove to the town.
Lu Gu stayed at his hometown and didn't go there. There were so many people there that he didn't need his help. He just needed to take care of the children at home.
The sun rose in the east, Xiao Lingjun was still sleeping, covered with a thick quilt, he took out Mrs. Tang from the quilt, and after the night passed, there was not much heat in the hot water.
He scooped hot water into the big pot again, plugged the lid, and put it into the child's bed. The child's skin was tender and he didn't dare to get too close to Mrs. Tang. The weather was so cold, adults could say, Xiaoling can't be frozen.
When he got up early, Shen Yan only swept the yard. Seeing that the child showed no signs of waking up, after washing the milk fruit, he swept the chairs, tables and other utensils in the hall with a feather duster.
The good boy lay on the sack and curled up into a ball. After he had finished sweeping the dust, he got up lazily, opened his mouth wide and yawned, and wagged his tail lazily to rub his calf.
"Hungry?" Lu Gu smiled, Ji Qiuyue and Zhao'er slept in the big mansion at night, Wei Lanxiang and Shen Yan also went to work there early in the morning, only he and Xiao Lingjun had a good boy at home .
There is still half a plate of peanuts in the fruit plate on the table. Wei Lanxiang and Zhou Xiangjun ate the leftovers when they took the soles of their shoes yesterday afternoon. He had nothing to do, put away the feather duster, grabbed a handful, and sat on the chair while peeling and feeding the good boy. , I ate a few peanut beans myself, which are new peanuts this year, and sold some after saving enough for the family to eat.
It's been a while since he has cooked bean rice. After he peeled it for the good boy, he went to the low house and brought out a bamboo basket with half a basket of peanuts in it. He closed half the door of the main room to avoid the cold wind blowing in and his hands and feet were too cold. He sat down and peeled peanuts one by one, and the good boy ate the peeled peanut beans at his feet. Dog gold is precious and valuable, even if you eat a peanut, someone will peel it.
Of course, Lu Gu is usually distressed when there is no one at home, and he will not eat too many peanuts. After all, it is the ration of the whole family. In the past, when he was in the Lu family, it was rare to eat peanuts.
He peeled the peanuts while paying attention to the movement in the room. He poured the peanuts in the fruit plate into the bamboo basket and peeled them together. The empty plate was used to put peanut beans. After peeling them out, put them in a clean pocket and prepare them. When do you want to cook the beans? After dinner, grab a handful.
There are still some red dates and red beans at home. The brown sugar has not been eaten since Shen Xuanqing bought it last time. It is better to cook some at noon today and put some brown sugar for sweetness. The rice at home is also new rice, and the cooked bean rice porridge is more fragrant and soft. Waxy, Zhao Er especially liked the bean rice that I cooked last time.
It's cold outside, and the good boy is smart. Except for going out to pee under the wall, he has never left the main room door. After eating peanuts, he ate two buns with mixed noodles. He smelled the broken pieces of buns and was a little reluctant, but Lu Gu didn't throw bones at it, so he had to slowly finish it.
Seeing its reluctant and disgusting appearance, Lu Gu peeled off the peanuts and said with a smile, "I know you are greedy. Erqing will come back today to buy roast chicken, and I will give you the bones."
The good boy is smart, and when he hears the word "Bone", he looks up at him, his tail wagging lazily becoming more cheerful.
The smile on Lu Gu's face was even bigger, and he wanted to tease the good boy again, when he heard Lingjun cry in the room, he got up quickly, and brushed the peanut shell fragments and peanut clothes off his body.
Brother Xiaoling is a little heavier than last month, and the red mark between his eyebrows is a little brighter than before, not so light anymore. That's what babies want.
The baby girl in her arms cried a few times, but she didn't shed any tears today. After coaxing her, Lu Gu smiled and rolled her eyes. Their little twins gradually opened up and looked really good-looking, with **** eyes looking at people. Seriously, my heart is about to melt, and even the red marks on the eyebrows are the most beautiful little flowers.
He hugged the child and coaxed him for a while, but the family hadn't come back, so he had to put the child on the bed first, and hurried outside to tie the milk fruit before coming in.
Brother Xiaoling grows up a little, and seems to have more strength to suckle, and his little mouth keeps licking.
Needless to say, he took care of the children. He was already a familiar one, and sometimes he couldn't care about anything else. Fortunately, Wei Lanxiang and Shen Yan came back not long after.
On the other side, Shen Xuanqing first went to the brothel to unload the rabbits, so that the mule cart could be lighter, and then drove to Jixing Town. When he returned from Jixing Town, the sun was shining high at noon, and the north wind was blowing tight. , many people on the road are wrapped tightly.
He rushed to the wharf in Fenggu Town, where the roast chicken shop was there. When he met a pear seller shouting along the street, he stopped and bought half a basket of winter pears. After buying the roast chicken, he smelled the aroma of the butter cake. Bought ten.
Yesterday Shen Yan said that he wanted new silk flowers and headbands. There are many women and husbands in the family. In this winter, there is no green scene, and no flowers are blooming. Everywhere, he looks at the gray, and sometimes he sees a bright little silk flower on his head. It's pretty good looking.
Their little brother also has hair, black and thick, such a beautiful little doll, wearing a small flower will definitely make Yuxue more cute.
Thinking like this, Shen Xuanqing stopped in front of the embroidery workshop. He came from Zhiyun Embroidery Workshop. He used to send handkerchiefs and nets here before, so he was familiar with the boss, and he also dropped by.
He never wanted to go in, but saw Xu Yanrong coming out of the shop with the curtain raised. He stopped for a while, and Xu Yanrong did the same. Since the last time, the two of them have never met each other again.
Now that he has seen it, it is really embarrassing to pretend that he does not know the current situation. Shen Xuanqing nodded slightly to the other party, and Quan regarded it as a greeting, and went to pick silk flowers beside him without saying a word.
The same is true for Xu Yanrong. He and Shen Xuanqing didn't have much interaction. He had a conversation with Shen Xuanqing in the tavern before. After learning about Lu Gu's existence, he originally wanted to do something for Yuzhen's son to make up for the year, but again. After thinking about it, I gave up. Even without him, Lu Gu's embroidery work can be seen by Sun Yaofu. He doesn't need his help at all. went home.
Although I was in a bad mood for a moment when I met someone I didn't want to see, but after picking out a tender yellow and a lilac-purple silk flower for their little brother, Shen Xuanqing smiled again, the child. Short hair is short, but it doesn't hinder dressing up.
He drove the mule cart home, bought food and headwear, the wheels rolled over the ground, and the mules trotted home.
On the way, he thought about the children's schooling in the future. Although Fenggu Town is closer, one Li family and Lu Wen, and the other Xu Yanrong, have nothing to do with these two families now, but they are always uncomfortable when they meet each other. Gu also hates Xu Yanrong, and every time he mentions it, he will be unhappy for a long time.
Their area is all under the jurisdiction of Yuqing Mansion City. No matter Jixing Town or Fenggu Town, they are all Yuqing people. There is no worry of household registration migration in Jixing Town. It is better to take their children to Jixing Town to study in the school. Everyone is over there, and they take care of each other.
