Reborn Nongmen's little lucky wife

Chapter 70

"Find some thatch tomorrow, and I'll patch up the leaky roofs." Gu Dashan walked around in several houses and found that the roofs of several houses were rotten, and he had to repair them quickly.

Gu Jinli was holding the wormwood to smoke the mouse hole in the house. Hearing this, he said, "Dad, use the weeds in the yard to mend it."

The weeds in the yard are more than half the height of a person. Cut them all off, tie them into grass boards one by one, and lay them on the roof to make up for the missing roof.

"Eh." Gu Dashan also took a fancy to the wild grass in the yard.

While talking, some mice couldn't stand the smoke and ran out of the hole, rushing into the sack she covered at the entrance of the hole, bang dong dong, three mice at once.

She hurriedly put away the sack, tied the mouth of the sack tightly, and slammed the sack to the ground a dozen times. After killing the mouse, she poured out the dead mouse and continued to smoke down a mouse hole.

Busy until it was almost dark, I finally smoked the mouse holes in several rooms, and blocked the holes with the stones that Cheng Geer picked up.

"Second sister, won't there be any more mice crawling out of bed at night?" Brother Cheng squatted next to Gu Jinli, looked up at her and asked.

Gu Jinli nodded: "Well, the mice in the house are all cleared, and there will be no more mice crawling on Brother Cheng at night."

"Little fish, don't keep scaring Brother Cheng." Gu Jin'an carried a hoe, took a sack containing more than 20 dead mice, carried the sack out of the yard, and took the dead mouse to a distance to bury it.

When I came back, there were three grandpas by my side.

The third grandpa said: "I have seen the old well with Mr. Qin, and there is still water in it. As long as the silt in it is cleaned up and kept for a few days, the water will be usable."

They will take a fancy to this old house, not only because these old houses are connected together, and several of them can live together, but also because of the old well more than ten meters away.

With this old well, the women and girls of their families don't have to go to the village to fetch water to wash their clothes, they can avoid the rogues in the village, and they are safer.

"Hey, I'll go to the well to clear the silt tomorrow after the roof is repaired." Gu Dashan has done a lot of work, such as mason, well drilling, carpentry, iron work, anti-sacks, and clearing the silt from the old well is not a problem for him.

The third grandpa said: "No hurry, we will discuss with a few families tomorrow, and we will work on it after we set the charter."

"Don't talk about it, come over for dinner." The third grandmother and Mrs Cui had already prepared dinner and brought it to the main room.

Dinner was a pot of old rice porridge, a large bowl of simmered soybeans, and not even a little bit of oil, but everyone enjoyed it.

The third grandpa said with emotion: "We can be considered to have tiles to cover our heads."

Compared to the time when I was fleeing from the wilderness, I sat in the open field and ate boiled grass roots and leaves. Today's life is like a fairy.

The third grandmother looked at the big family and cried while eating.She has never had a son in her life, and now she lives with the Dashan family, which means she can live a life full of children and grandchildren.

When the third grandpa saw it, he scolded: "You mother-in-law, why are you crying? Today is a good day for us to move to a new house."

The third grandmother quickly wiped away her tears and said, "Hey, stop crying, you should be happy!"

After everyone finished eating, Gu Jinli took the opportunity to say, "Three grandpas, three grandmothers, parents, after the New Year, let's send eldest brother to a private school to study."

"Study?" Gu Jin'an was surprised: "Xiaoyu, why did you suddenly say this? Going to a private school costs a lot of money, where can we afford it?"

Gu Jinan misses studying very much, but he is not willing to drag down the family for his study.

Gu Jinli said, "Brother, why is the village asking us to pay three taels of silver today? It's not because we don't have a backer. If there is a scholar or leader in our family, they dare to bully us like this?"

Gu Jinli was angry about the three taels of silver given to Dafeng Village today, but she knew that they had no power and power and were still poor.

"If we want to turn around, we can only take two paths. The first is to study and test for fame, and the second is to make a lot of money."

She didn't want to live a poor life, money had to be earned, and the common people in ancient times were afraid of officials, so they couldn't fall behind when studying and taking exams.

Gu Jinan has been smart since he was a child. Gu Dashan and Mrs Cui have always wanted to send him to study, but when they were in their hometown, Mrs. Gu would not let him or allow him to read. When they saw him writing on the ground, they would be beaten. The couple always felt that I'm very sorry for Gu Jin'an. Now that I hear that Xiaoyu wants to send Gu Jin'an to study, he will not object at all, but will only support: "Brother An, my father will go to a private school after the new year, let's go to study."

The third grandpa also nodded and said, "An Ge'er, you should go to study."

Gu Jinan was very moved, but when he looked at the skinny family, he still hesitated and said: "If you want to be admitted to fame, it will take three to five years. Our family only has 32 taels of silver left. The money has to be used to buy things for living, and we don’t have any land. Even if we open up wasteland and plant land, we want to harvest it after June next year. During the half year in between, we have to buy food. There is not enough money at all, how can there be money to go to school?"

Gu Jinan wanted to go to school very much. When he was in his hometown, he went to inquire about the money for a year of private school, but it was old money. Just one year of repairing would cost fifty taels of silver. Boxing ceremony, three festivals and six ceremonies a year, it is only five taels of silver, and the consumption of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, all of which cost money.

The worst ink sticks in Da Chu cost [-] wen, and the worst yellow paper costs [-] wen. These are all things that are consumed and they have to be bought every month. Their family has no income, how can they afford him?

"We can make money without money, but we have to read this book!" Gu Jinli's attitude was very strong, she pointed at Gu Jinxiu and said, "Brother, you have also heard what the three-legged man said today, there are such bad people in this village, you If you want to protect our sisters, you have to be famous, and you have to make them afraid of us. Otherwise, if the eldest sister's appearance is robbed one day, there is no place to cry in our family. "

She is young and not afraid of being robbed.But Gu Jinxiu is different. She will be fifteen after the new year, and she looks good. If she doesn't get it right, there are those bastards who see that they are fleeing from the famine. If they want to bully people, they have to guard against it.

Seeing Gu Jinli talking about herself, Gu Jinxiu quickly said: "Don't worry, Xiaoyu, I remember all the words you told me. I don't go out alone, I carry a knife on my body, and I'm also practicing the tricks you taught me. I won't let myself get into trouble."

Xiaoyu said that she couldn't be lucky to be rescued by her every time. If she wanted to live a safe life, she had to learn some self-defense tricks and protect herself. She worked hard to learn.

Gu Jinli nodded: "Well, we know, the eldest sister is working very hard."

Looking at Gu Jin'an again, he asked him, "Brother, our family's situation is here, do you want to read this book?"

Gu Jinan looked at Gu Jinxiu, then looked at Gu Jinli, and the ignorant Cheng Ge'er, gritted his teeth, and said, "Read!"

No matter how hard it is, how hard it is, how hard it is, he has to make a name for himself. Only in this way can he protect his family.

Gu Jinan's study was settled, and the whole family was very happy.

The next day before dawn, Gu Dashan's family got up, cut the weeds in the yard, found some branches, split them into soft tree slivers, tied the weeds into fan-by-fan grass boards, and then Gu Dashan climbed to the roof , tied the straw board to the beams and columns of the house, and repaired the roof in less than half an hour.

(End of this chapter)