Poor family mother and son

Chapter 5 Silver Ingots That Look Like Foot Rubbing Stones

It is clear that this is considered to be a job, and board and lodging are also included.

The school in the village is a joint venture of three nearby villages, and it is considered a private school.

Because Wukeshu Village has the longest history, the largest place, and is located in the middle of the three villages, the school was set up in Wukeshu Village.

Mr. Xie was originally a teacher of Linfu School, but he was straightforward and couldn't understand the bad atmosphere in the school. After being suppressed for a long time, he simply resigned.

Mr. Xie is a Juren himself, knowledgeable and talented, and has a lot of research in medicine, so minor illnesses and disasters are not a problem.But the two sons were not expected to pass the imperial examinations, so they both went to work in agriculture if they couldn't pass the exams.

Mr. Xie came to Wukeshu Village to teach, accompanied by his old wife, but the old wife's legs and feet are not very good, probably due to rheumatoid arthritis or something, her legs hurt all the year round, and she can't do school work.

In the past, women from different families in the village took turns to cook, but they often couldn't make it on time when they got busy.

Students pay 6 catties of rice or noodles plus 30 Wen per month, which is considered as tuition and food expenses.

Chu Qing's salary is 120 Wen per month, plus 8 catties of rice. If lunch is included, 6 catties of rice will be deducted.

The work is to clean the school and cook a meal at noon.

The dormitory is in the utility room at the far end of the school.The school is closed every ten days, that is, the tenth, twentieth and end of each month.

The sad reminder is that it is the beginning of April, and the "field holiday" will be in May, which is the busy farming holiday, and the holiday is one month.No salary this month.Forget it, at least I won't starve to death this month.

Chu Qing followed Mr. Xie to the school, Mr. Xie pointed out the location of the utility room and left.Chu Qing moved a small bench for Xiaobao to sit at the door, then went to the kitchen, saw that there was still more than half of the water in the kettle, so he found a bowl and poured water for Xiaobao to drink.Then off to tidy up the utility room.

The utility room is not small, but it is not properly arranged, which is a waste of space. Even the windows are blocked, and it is very dark.

After Chu Qing made full use of the high space, the whole room immediately became much larger, and the windows were exposed, making it much brighter.

When Chu Qing was tidying up, she was worried about what to do for dinner.After cleaning up, the village chief's wife came and brought 5 pancakes and a basket of vegetables from her own vegetable garden.

Before leaving, this warm-hearted woman said: "Go to Naha after eating."

Chu Qing was very moved, this was the first person who took the initiative to care about her after time travelling.

In fact, there are rice noodles in the kitchen, but it is too slow to make them fresh.The village head's wife brought ready-made pancakes, so just stir-fry the vegetables to start a meal.

There was only half a can of meat oil in the oil jar, Chu Qing didn't dare to use more, and only used a small amount, put the washed green vegetables in the pot for a couple of times and sprinkle some salt and it was ready.

The pancakes are still warm and ready to eat.After the green vegetables were filled, they didn't wash the pot. They went directly to the water and threw in the order leaves. Pick a few leaves of each vegetable, put some salt, and it was considered a soup.It's quick to do.

The only thing that is slow is studying the usage of Xiahuo Zhezi.

There was no one in the kitchen, so Chu Qing led Xiaobao to hold a bench and ate the second meal of the couple around the pot.

Chu Qing picked up the spoon, scooped up a spoonful of soup, and wanted to cool it down and feed it to Xiaobao. He sweated a lot today and needed to add salt.In the end, Xiaobao saw Xiaobao blowing there with a spoon.

The child was young, and the spoon could not be held steadily, and there was only half a spoonful of soup in it, but Xiaobao blew it seriously, and then drank it snortingly, spoon after spoon.

Chu Qing's eyes became hot.Meng understands that until now, he had to fill out half a bowl of soup in advance to dry, and he would not drink it until it became warmer.

Xiaobao put down the spoon, and suddenly felt in his arms, Chu Qing also remembered, Xiaobao still has eggs.It's been so long, don't you stink?
"Is it not smelly?" Chu Qing asked worriedly.

Xiaobao brought the eggs under his nose to smell, some of them reached under Chuqing's nose.No smell.

"Peel it open and have a look, does it stink inside?" Chu Qing was worried.He reached out his hand and was ready to take it and peel it off.

But Xiaobao knocked the egg on the stove by himself, and then rolled around on the stove while pressing the egg.Do not start peeling until the shell of the egg is evenly broken.A child under the age of three even flipped his fingers up and down, and quickly peeled it off.

Chu Qing was lost again.Meng Dao didn't start peeling egg shells until he was 6 years old, and he is still very slow to peel them now.Could it be that Xiaobao often eats eggs, practice makes perfect?

"Xiaobao often eats eggs?" Chu Qing couldn't help asking.

Xiaobao shook his head.

That's right, Chu Qing remembered that she was a cook, and restaurants seldom boiled eggs, they were all scrambled, and the proprietress's back kitchen didn't cook eggs very much, and often steamed custard.

"Xiaobao is so good! You are the king of peeling eggshells!" Chu Qing gestured to Xiaobao with his thumb.

Xiao Bao sniffed the egg and handed it to Chu Qing.Chu Qing took it and smelled it, it was all right, nothing changed.And hand it back to Xiaobao.

Xiao Bao refused to answer, shook his head, pointed to Chu Qing, and asked Chu Qing to eat.Chu Qing thought about it, it seemed that Xiaobao also had an egg near his armpit.

"Xiaobao, don't you still have an egg, take it out and eat it, or it will spoil if you don't eat it."

Xiao Bao shook his head, reached into his bosom and took out another... silver ingot!
"My God!" Chu Qing exclaimed, "A silver ingot?" Xiao Bao nodded.

Chu Qing saw that the silver ingot was about the size of an egg, but the bottom was in the shape of an egg, and the front was sunken, not shiny, but blackened and oxidized.There are many small holes on the bottom of the silver ingot, just like volcanic stones for rubbing your feet.

It's so different from the silver ingots in the TV series.

After looking at it carefully, I remembered that in that vague dream yesterday, the uncle and sister-in-law seemed to get a silver ingot similar to this for selling herself.

Weighing the weight, "Five taels?" Xiaobao nodded.

"You planned to run away from home! You brought eggs and money!"

Xiaobao continued to drink soup and eat pancakes.

Chu Qing returned the silver ingot to Xiaobao, "Take it away yourself. Eat the eggs, don't waste them."

Xiaobao bit the egg, but didn't take the silver ingot.Chu Qing thought Xiaobao didn't see it, so he handed the silver ingot to his bowl.Xiao Bao picked it up and put it in Chu Qing's hand.

Chu Qing was not polite: "That's right, you are too young to store it, come with me!" Before the meal was finished, Chu Qing took Xiao Bao back to the utility room first, under a broken bookshelf, there was a book in the corner. Half a loose brick, which was discovered during the cleaning just now.Take out the half brick and put the silver ingot in it.Put the brick back in again.

"Hide here first, you remember. We will move it when there is a better place." Xiaobao pointed clearly, and then pointed to the broken table that was supposed to be a bed.It seems that they want to buy bedding clearly?

"I'll figure out a way to cover the quilt. Let's deal with it tonight. We won't take off our clothes to sleep. I'll hug you and promise not to let you get cold. The money is yours, so keep it for you." Xiaobao shook his head and nodded again. .

"Okay, let's continue eating."

The next morning, when the sky was still bright, I woke up.The chicken has not had time to crow.One is that I went to bed early last night, and the other is that there is no bedding and it is cold.Sleeping with Xiaobao in his arms, his chest was warmed by the fire, but his back and feet were always cold.Xiao Bao also got up, sat up in a daze, didn't move, just looked at Chu Qing.

"Little Treasure, our mother's life has begun!" Chu Qing announced. "Is it cold?" Xiao Bao shook his head. "Come out even if it's not cold. I'll go to the school to clean the table and boil water for Mr. Xie. You just walk around the yard in circles, walking quickly until you sweat." Xiaobao didn't know why, but he did.

Chu Qing went into the classroom to clean up, but Xiaobao was still walking around when she came out.Chu Qing went to the kitchen to boil water again, and the roosters in the village crowed, occasionally accompanied by dogs barking.

Now it's clear that it's not cold anymore.While it was still early, I put the leftover pancakes from last night into the pan and baked them, and then picked some vegetable leaves to cook the soup.Just have a hasty breakfast, if you are not hungry.Xiaobao is still walking in circles.

It's just that children have to eat meat!There must be eggs!Chu Qing frowned.

(End of this chapter)