I went ashore by weaving straw shoes and became a master craftsman

Chapter 55
After returning to the secondary main house, Wang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. Wang Dalang was deaf, stroked the top of his hair, and asked, "What have you learned from this incident?"

"I learned from my sister's carefulness. My sister has only been to that Ge Yu's house once, and she knows that the family is lazy. I also learned... a family should tell what they know. It is better for us to be on guard alone. Take precautions with the long room."

Wang Ge took his brother on his lap and said to his father: "A poor man cannot be short-sighted, and a poor family cannot be lazy. The family is too lazy to pull out the weeds in the yard. Come."

Wang Yun worried: "Then what if she wants to marry Third Uncle again?"

Wang Dalang smiled: "Impossible."

Wang Ge said "hmm", "If the third uncle fell in love with the family at the beginning, maybe it would have been successful. Now that we have been rejected by our elder family, how can two marriages be combined into one family? Wouldn't it disturb the family? What? The elder parents won't respond."

As Wang Ge said, the eldest mother rejected the matter, and Ge Yu didn't ask anyone to talk about it.

After mid-autumn, the autumn temperature drops very fast.

The thatched huts in the barracks in the west of the village were all built into thatched huts, and the officials and concubines were all given straw mats to keep out the cold.

This year's case household comparison, the people of Jiashe Village do not have to rush to the township office, but go directly to the thatched hut in the Linshui Pavilion in the township camp for the household registration and case inspection.

Compared with these days, Huan Zhen, who can read, write, and writes very beautifully, has finally shown his ambition in the village soldiers, and Ren Suzhi can hardly blame him.

When Wang Ge's family came over, the inspection was faster than other families. Huan Zhen only changed the age of each person, and added the four characters "white face" and "thick hands" to Wang Ge's facial features, and left the rest unchanged.

"Wang Jiangtong," he called Wang Ge, "The township office asked me to inform you that the county has passed the craftsman's exam quota. This is the certificate of the office. I have seen it. There is no problem. You should keep it safe. " After finishing speaking, he skipped Wang Ge's extended hand and handed the proof of his past to Wang Weng.

Wang Ge didn't care about the young man's prank, and thanked him happily, held his father tightly, and left beside his elder parents.

Wang Yun had already learned a lot of etiquette, and after bowing to Huan Zhen, he moved his short legs to catch up with sister and the others.

Huan Zhen sat back on the table again, poked the homemade eggshell tumbler next to him with his bald pen, and began to test the next villager.

Two days later, it was time for Huanzhen to teach Wang Yun to study. When he came over, Wang Ge was making bamboo slips in the courtyard.Speaking of making bamboo slips, Wang Ge really didn't know it before. After the bamboo strips were roasted on the fire to get the water out, the green skin was scraped off and the side close to the inner wall was polished.

Huan Zhen told her that this procedure is called "history" or "finishing", which is more conducive to writing and easy to preserve and prevent moths.

There is only one window in each room of the Wang family, which is built into the wall and mullioned. The light transmission is extremely poor, and it is impossible to read in the room for a long time.As the weather turned colder, Huan Zhen and Wang Yun sitting in the yard had mattresses under their legs, but after a while, both of them were still sniffling.

After Wang Peng fed the chickens, he looked at his younger brother enviously when he returned to the main house. He was not as sleepy as usual. He simply sat on the threshold, sometimes watching his elder sister cut bamboo, and sometimes listening to his younger brother recite books.

The elder father once warned the family not to approach or disturb my younger brother when he was studying.Wang Peng can be obedient, but he doesn't think that the older parents are partial, but how can the children's envy, grievances, and self-pity be held back?
When Wang Ge came over to look at his grandfather, the first thing he saw was Wang Peng silently wiping away his tears, his cheeks chapped by the wind.She ignored the child for the time being, and came into the back room, where Father was groping to compile the bamboo slips she had made into an album with hemp rope.

The bamboo slips are all one foot long, and three ropes can be braided.

"Tiger Treasure?" Wang Dalang asked quietly when he heard the movement.

"Father, is it cold?"

"I'm not cold, look at Aai, she just fell asleep."

Wang Ge has already seen it, and the quilt is well covered. "Ai is fine."

After finishing speaking, she went back to the door, led Wang Peng in, and persuaded him in a low voice: "Look at your uncle, look at me, we don't even have a chance to study with Hutou. Is it because of this that we can't live?"

Wang Peng wiped away his tears: "I also want to know how to write my own name."

"So you can know how to write if you cry all the time?"

When Wang Peng heard this, he was even more wronged, he put his arms around Wang Dalang and complained: "Uncle, my elder sister doesn't love me."

Wang Dalang patted him to coax him.

Wang Ge glanced at Wang Ai, but he was not woken up, and continued to whisper in peace of mind: "If sister Cong doesn't love you, will she pull you into the house and cry? Look at your face. Apeng, do you want to be literate? Good thing, that alone is better than those kids who just want to play in the mud."

"Huh? Really, really?" Wang Peng asked with a sob.

"Really. Your current thoughts are called ambition. Anyone who wants to read and write must first have ambition. Then you must not be afraid of hardship. You can't pretend that you are not afraid of hardship. Instead, you must make your father and mother feel that you are not afraid of hardship." You are really not afraid of suffering."

"And then what?"

"You can read and write."

"Ah?" Surprised, Wang Peng quickly covered his mouth again, and continued to sob and ask, "It's so easy? Then how, how can I make my elder parents feel, feel that I am not afraid of hardship?"

"Wake up early every day to empty the urinal and clean up the house; take good care of my younger sister, so that your father can rest easy; usually go to the main house to clean up, and give the elder parents a shoulder and back; Go back to the house immediately, you have to close the table with Hutou; then you have to dig through the sheep manure every day, clean the courtyard and the hut, you can’t just feed the chickens.”

The more Wang Peng heard it, the more frightened he became, his brows frowned, and finally he waved his hands quickly: "Sister Cong, uncle, I don't want to learn my name anymore, I just know that my name is Wang Peng." Lang Jun took the bamboo ruler to smack Wang Yun's palm, and immediately shivered, thinking: "Study is so scary, brother Cong is so pitiful."

In September, each household began to pick reeds to prepare for the cold.

Wang Ge was about to leave home, so he first replaced the reeds in the old cotton-padded clothes of his eldest parents and grandfather with new ones, and then sewed two more replacements for Hutou.Then after thinking about it, he still sewed a cotton jacket for Huan Langjun, and told Hutou that if Mr. Huan Lang had a cotton jacket, he didn't need to give him a cotton jacket, and don't tell others about it.

In the past, there was too little wool in Jia Jia’s house, so she mixed the wool with reed wadding to make a pair of new cotton shoes for her elder parents.

As for herself, the pleats and cotton crotch of last year's cotton trousers were both small, so she used some scraps of cloth to splice them together to fill them with reed wadding.Two pairs of knee pads and a double-layered Gebu turban were also made.

During the craftsman exam, there was a rule that "you can't go to the toilet." She was a little hesitant to sew a diaper.Because the colder the weather, the more suffocated people tend to be.

In this way, while preparing and waiting, the day of departure finally arrived, which is also the time when the land rent is collected every year.It was a coincidence that Wang Zhu didn't go to anyone in the county at all in the past half month. Wang Zhu sent a message from Zhang Cai's mother's family, saying that he was suffering from the cold and wanted to come back, so Wang Sanlang hurried to Shatun. .

In this situation, even if Wang Ge stayed at home, he would be too busy, so why would he let his second uncle see her off.She packed her bags and went out alone again, waving goodbye to her elder parents, grandfather, Hutou, and second uncle.

In addition to the family, there are busy road builders, bustling livestock carts, and the deafening sound of ramming the ground.

The new road has been built to the front of the house.

The corners of her eyes were moist, and she stepped forward.Ahead, is the artisan avenue that belongs to her, Wang Ge and Wang Nanxing!When she returns, it will be a great way!
　Zhongqiu: Refers to the Mid-Autumn Festival. The early Mid-Autumn Festival was the day of the "autumn equinox" of the 24 solar terms.

　　Case-to-household Bimin: The Population Census of the Han Dynasty.The real Jin Dynasty was in chaos, and it is estimated that there was no census. This article follows the Han Dynasty’s case inspection policy.

　　Trouser pleats: The pleats are tops, and the length of the clothes is no longer than the knees.The trousers are loose and wide-mouthed, fastened at the knees with cords for warmth.

　　裲 (liǎng) crotch: collarless and sleeveless, with one piece on the front and back to keep warm.In the early days, it was worn inside, and it began to be worn outside in the late Western Jin Dynasty.

　　
　
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