Group pet small peasant girls: Escape the famine with the space of merit

Chapter 43
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Wen Nuan laughed and said: "Sister-in-law Su, don't tell me you didn't see it, the magistrate actually wanted to use my hand to give the piglets to the villagers?"

Su shi laughed.

Of course she saw it, but with all 20 piglets in her hands, even if she didn't give them to the folks, would the magistrate still come to her?
"Besides," Wen Nuan wrinkled his nose again and said, "We have so many pigs to raise by ourselves, where do we raise them? I don't want to live in that smell all day long."

Su laughed loudly: "So you suggested to the village chief to build the pig house next to the village because you don't want to smell pig feces?"

Seeing some folks looking over, Wen Nuan gave Su Shi a sullen look: "Can you keep your voice down?"

"Don't talk, don't talk, let's go back and cook something delicious." Su Shi pulled her out quietly.

When they got home, the two saw Qi'er and Goro squatting in the yard with Shiro, not knowing what to say.

"Are you counting ants?" Nuan Nuan joked.

Wu Lang raised his smiling face: "Sister, Mrs. Su, brother Qi'er is teaching fourth brother and me how to read."

Hearing this, her warm expression paused.

As far as she knows, the family background of the Wen family was not bad a few years ago. The first three boys all went to private schools for a few years. Later, the eldest sister got married, the eldest brother got married, and the second and third brothers who were only half a year apart also wanted to say goodbye , The family life is getting more and more difficult to break up the family.

Shiro is now 8 years old and has not yet enlightened. Qier is only one year older than Shiro, but he has finished reading "Thousand Character Classics", "Three Character Classics", and "Hundred Surnames".

Nuan Wen walked over and touched Shiro's head: "Shiro, do you want to study?"

Shiro nodded shyly.

He and this cousin hadn't seen each other a few times in total, so he was a little embarrassed to talk to her.

Warm and proud: "Okay, then I will find a way to send you to study!"

Goro is also about to be six years old. The children of this dynasty are enlightened early, and it is time to put the two children's studies on the agenda.

Wen Nuan went to the city with Su Shi early the next morning to inquire about private schools in Anping County.

Now when the soldiers guarding the city saw Wen Nuan, they would immediately come down and open the city gate for her without her asking.

The two walked around and knew that there were two private schools in Anping City, but after seeing the gentlemen of the two private schools, let alone the warmth, even the Su family couldn't help frowning.

After leaving the private school, Su couldn't help but said: "A small county is a small county. A gentleman like this can't let his children come to study here without Shuxiu?"

As soon as the two gentlemen heard that they wanted to send their children to study, they looked them up and down several times with a clear face. This feeling was very uncomfortable.

What was even more exaggerated was that one of the gentlemen directly rejected them when he heard that they were the exiles living in the suburbs.

The reason is that they don't want refugees to sneak into the city and hurt the people in the city.

Su Shi almost died of anger.

"It's the same thing." Nuan Nuan sneered.

Even Cheng Xianzhong, the parent official of a county, can clearly express his dislike for the refugees. Can the people in the city not be affected?

"Then what should we do now?" Su suddenly felt a deep sense of frustration.

If you don't study, the children will be like this in this life.

Wen Nuan snorted coldly: "They don't teach, but it doesn't mean that a few children can't learn knowledge!"

Su raised her head suddenly: "You want to teach yourself?"

"You don't have to teach yourself, just take a step at a time."

When she was a freshman in the previous life, she had been a tutor for others during the holidays, and it was okay to enlighten a few children, but she didn't know much about this dynasty after all, and she didn't plan to enlighten Shiro Goro herself unless she was forced to do so.

"Let's go, let's go to the bookstore to buy some enlightenment books and go back."

Nuan Nuan took Su to the bookstore and asked the shopkeeper for two copies of "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Surnames", and also bought pen, ink and paper.

"A total of 156 taels." In a small county like Anping County, it was the first time for the shopkeeper to meet such a bold and big customer, and he couldn't see his eyebrows with a smile: "You two bought a lot, so I will charge you 155 taels and give it away. Ten sheets of rice paper."

Wen Nuan paused for a moment as he stretched out his hand towards the purse: "155 taels?"

How much does this thing cost?
"Girl, six books and the Sanfang inkstone, three writing brushes and a knife of paper, 155 taels is already very cheap." The shopkeeper was afraid that the big customer would run away, so he hurriedly explained: "Look at the Sanfang inkstone, the stone is delicate It is compact and has good toughness, and the ink that is ground is also fine and uniform, and it will not damage the brush..."

The shopkeeper kept on introducing the advantages of the three-party inkstone, but Wen Nuan heard one head and two big ones. She didn't understand these things, so she couldn't help looking at Mrs. Su for help.

I saw Mrs. Su listening carefully, then picked up the inkstone to look carefully, and then tapped lightly: "Shopkeeper, this inkstone is just an ordinary inkstone, plus a few books, it doesn't need to be so expensive, right? How about this, we don't need your one tael of silver, just 156 taels, and you give us three more brushes like this and a knife of paper!"

The shopkeeper hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth: "Deal!"

Su wanted to pay, but Nuannuan paid the money first.

Out of the bookstore, Su said in a low voice: "These 156 taels are really not expensive. The inkstones I bought for Qi'er before were of similar quality, and each side cost 60 taels, not to mention that the silver is not worth much now. gone."

Su seriously suspects that the shopkeeper of the bookstore is an ignorant person, or that the market is not good because he is so talkative.

What Nuan Nuan thought was, no wonder ordinary people in ancient times couldn't afford to study. The pens, ink, paper and inkstones bought today can cost the entire family of ordinary people for several years, even more than ten years. Who can afford to read.

Before Nuan Nuan thought that the gold, silver and jewels he collected from Liu Shu were enough for his family to eat and drink for the rest of their lives, and if they wanted to pay Shiro Goro for his studies, the money was really not much.

When life stabilizes, you have to find a way to make money!

Pens, inks, papers and inkstones are too expensive. After Wen Nuan returned to the village, she asked Shangsan Tang to accompany her to cut trees in the mountains. She decided to make a few sand tables for the children to practice calligraphy, and then practice fonts after the strokes are correct.

Wen Nuan knew that Deng Shi was a carpenter, so he went to his house specially: "Brother Deng, can you please help me make something, it may take a little time to make these things, but I won't let you do white work, 100 cash per day, you Can you see it?"

After talking with Nuan Nuan about the carpentry work to be done, Deng Shi reckoned that he could finish it in at most three days without delaying too much farm work, so he immediately agreed: "They are all from the village, how can I help for a few days?" What about wages?"

He is not an ungrateful person. It is thanks to Nuan Nuan that they can settle here. Otherwise, it is hard to say whether their family can survive.

"If Big Brother Deng doesn't charge money, then I'll go to the city and hire another carpenter." Nuan Nuan doesn't like to take advantage of others, and doesn't want Deng Shi to break this precedent and ruin the market.

(End of this chapter)