
Wang Zhuangzhi frowned, sighed and said seriously: "His mother, I don't gossip, but I think Yingniang's actions are inappropriate."
My sister-in-law has always been kind, but there was clearly no one else in the carriage, and the man still supported Yingniang.
Liu Zhihua frowned, not believing that Yingniang was such a person, waved his hand and said to the head of the family: "You are free to worry about other people's affairs, and your own courtyard has not been resolved yet, and what if it was a relative of the Yingniang family."
Wang Zhuangzhi choked, it was justified, but he felt that something was amiss.
"I'm not tired after running all morning, go to kang and rest for a while, I'll cook."
After he finished speaking, Liu Zhihua walked out while carrying a basket of sweet potatoes on the ground.
Wang Zhuangzhi sighed, and did not think about it anymore.
East House, the,
Xiao Li lifted the dragonfly,*** and his white eyes stared curiously at what his elder brother had taken out of the package, and asked suspiciously: "Sister, brother, what'sthis?"
Erya hugged Jiaojiao, rushed ahead of her older brother and said, "I saw this in Uncle Liu's house, this is used for color brushes."
Qiu Sheng placed the ink stones and brushes neatly on the table, and said with a smile: "Erya is right, this is a pen, ink, paper, paper, and the ink stone bought by the older brother. If any of you can write in the future, you can use this brush to practice calligraphy." ."
All of this was bought with the money he earned from copying calligraphy books for others. Although the brush is not beautiful, it is better than the small one. The surface of the paper was rough and uneven, but it did not affect him to practice calligraphy.
"Dad just said that Jiaojiao has learned all the words in that little book, Jiaojiao, big brother will come to test you."
Qiu Sheng found the booklet he had copied by hand, opened the page at will, blocked the pattern on it, and asked the words below with a smile: "Jiaojiao, how do you pronounce these two characters."
Jiaojiao approached and took a closer look, then replied in a candle-like voice: "Home."
"What about this?"
"Well, this is a bird."
Qiusheng picked a few randomly, and Jiaojiao answered everything correctly without exception. Then, he simply blocked those words and asked Jiaojiao to try writing those words while looking at the picture.
Jiaojiao found a branch, and skillfully wrote on the ground. He would never forget it after seeing it. Except for the slow strokes that were written inappropriately, Jiaojiao wrote down all the words in full.
This shocked Qiusheng, holding his sister and praising her as a young genius, and said with a smile: "Jiaojiao, the eldest brother will teach you the correct writing steps in a moment, let's study and write well in the future, Jiaojiao will definitely surpass the eldest brother and become a talented woman in her class."
Although Jiaojiao did not know what a talented woman was, since the elder brother praised her, it was a nice word, he nodded with a smile and said "OK ~".
Qiu Sheng touched his sister's head, then looked at Er Ya with a smile and asked, "Er Ya, have you learned it yet?"
Erya's dark face was slightly embarrassed, she scratched her neck with a smile and explained: "Brother, I just memorized two words with Jiaojiao. I'm not good at reading. It's okay if there's an older brother and Jiaojiao who can read at home." Xiao Li and I don't need to learn."
Xiao Li was studying with his inkstone in his hand. Hearing his brother's words, he shook his head and said, "Alright, brother and sister are learning, but Xiao Li is not."
Qiusheng kneeled helplessly, hugged them with a gentle smile, and said slowly: "If you don't like reading, you should also be able to read and write. Oldest brother is often not by your side when you are in the academy, and your parents are illiterate. If you're illiterate, now we dig up herbs and sell them for money, just in case we need to read the documents and write the name if we want to negotiate a bigger deal with someone in the future, it's okay if we meet a good person, he said, but we'll be fooled if we meet the bad guy."
Jiaojiao felt that what her elder brother said was very reasonable, like the names of all the shops in the city, and she would feel very disappointed if she did not recognize him.
Jiaojiao spoke in a sharp tone, with a serious look on her beautiful little face.
Qiu Sheng patted the back of his little sister's head, feeling very cute, and said with a gentle smile: "Jiaojiao's right, Er Ya and Xiao Li should also learn to read together, too, if there's anything you can't do, you can ask the older brother, if the older brother isn't here, ask Jiaojiao."
Erya scratched her head. Her sister was very serious, how could her older sister be lazy, she gritted her teeth and nodded, "OK, then I will try to memorize a few more words."
Xiao Li heard that someone was following him and said loudly: "Xiao Li also remembered."
"Erya can definitely do it, and our little Li is also very good. Today, big brother will teach you some simple blows..."
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After lunch, the family was still thinking about the courtyard, so they planned to travel.
The sky after the rain was vast, and the sky was endless blue.
Wang Zhuangzhi spent twelve copper coins to borrow an ox cart with Lao Yangtou. The family drove the ox cart out of the village, and the villagers they met on the street pointed and discussed.
"I don't know how many taels of silver they dug up from medicinal plants and sold. Look now, they hire ox carts every day."
"The Wang family's spirit shot up into the sky. That day when I asked Wang Zhuangzhi how to distinguish herbal medicines, he ignored them. That's obviously very petty."
"See what you say, who will tell you which business is making money? Although the old Wang family is rather evil, it has never harmed us. Don't make sarcastic comments about a village..."
...
Wang Zhuangzhi drove all the way to the highway, the bull cart swayed slowly, Wang Zhuangzhi looked around to see if anyone was on the road and asked again.
Qiusheng hugged Xiao Li, Erya stuck her head out to look around, Jiaojiao hugged Bai Miaomiao and stroked her soft fur.
"Twelve..." Liu Zhihua************** his fingers and muttered something.
Borrowing the head of Lao Yang for a while on the ox cart cost twelve copper coins. Qiusheng went back and forth at least eight times a month when he returned from school, and the head of the family had to go hunting or gathering herbs to sell in the city, and he had to go back and forth several times.
Not that I don't know. I'm appalled. If this continues, I could spend money on buying a bull cart in less than two or three years.
Liu Zhihua clapped his hands, and hurriedly shouted: "Master, go to the city tomorrow to see the ox cart. Our family will use it often in the future, so we buy it early and rent it out to others."
Wang Zhuangzhi also felt that Lao Yang's request was getting more expensive in these two days, so he nodded and replied: "OK, I will send Qiusheng to school in two days, so, and I'll check the car dealership as I pass."
When Qiu Sheng heard this, he hugged his younger brother and said softly, "Mother, this summer is almost over, and winter is coming soon after autumn, and winter is coming soon after autumn, and it will be very cold to drive a bull cart, if you really want to buy one, it is better to buy a horse cart than an ox cart. "
Although horse drawn carts are more expensive than cow carts, horse carts can be driven faster without wind or rain, whereas cow carts appear cheap but have many drawbacks, such as slow driving, sit in summer and cold in winter, and cannot travel in rainy days comfortably.
Hearing this, Liu Zhihua touched the wallet subconsciously. Now that he wanted to buy a yard, he couldn't be as wasteful as before.
Cow carts can be bought for four or five taels of silver, but cheaper carriages can cost more than ten taels of silver, which is a lot of money.