After transmigrating into a stepmother, I transformed my whole family to work on farming

Chapter 41 Martial arts talent
After listening to him quietly, Qin Yao raised her eyebrows and asked, "How much do you want this time, and you have to stock up for winter, pickles are fine if you don't have fresh vegetables."

Liu Ji said: "I know this. If the lady brings the money, I will buy it myself."

After more than a month of personal practice, he can confidently say that no one in the family knows the kitchen better than him!
Seeing how confident he was, Qin Yao signaled him to say a number.

When Liu Ji came, he made up his mind and asked Qin Yao to give him [-] Wen. In addition to the three meals a month, he also had to stock up some shelf-stable vegetables, such as radishes and Chinese cabbage.

By the way, the daughter-in-law of the Liu shopkeeper's family is the best at pickling pickles, and I have time to ask her for some. When it's snowing and it's hard to go out, white porridge with sauce is also a good meal.

In terms of money, Qin Yao was the province's favorite, so he readily gave Liu Ji four coins.

Copper coins are mostly used in the countryside, and scattered silver coins are also used, but they are not used much. Liu Ji took the silver coins and curled his lips secretly, thinking that he would have to change them for copper plates again.

Liu Merchant’s house has a lot of change. Next time I want to buy oil or salt, I will go to his house to exchange for loose change.

If it was someone else, they would have to charge two or three coins for replacement, which is not worthwhile.

The two of them don't know when they have reached the mode of getting along with each other as a female lead outside a male lead inside.

But now it seems that there haven't been any major conflicts. Generally speaking, Qin Yao thinks it's acceptable.

She has requirements for food and lodging, but she is too lazy to do these complicated things. Liu Ji is a good-for-nothing, but he does housework well.

Although preparing three meals a day is not a big deal, Qin Yao dislikes the repetitive work day after day.

Her time and energy were wasted doing housework.

It's better to go into the mountains to chop some firewood and hunt, and get some exercise at the same time.

In the past month, the food at home has been good, and the five Liu family members have gained a lot of meat.

The two little guys, Sanlang and Siniang, finally felt like they had some baby fat on their faces. When Qin Yao saw it, she couldn't help but pinch it.

The two little guys are also very clingy to her, and they don't cry when their faces are pinched, but smile at her, who can't resist pinching.

Qin Yao walked out of the room and went to the backyard. She saw the four brothers and sisters of Dalang playing with sticks there. She also took one from the firewood pile and joined them.

The four children looked at her in surprise, and immediately 'killed' all the sticks towards her tacitly.

For more than a month, Qin Yao found that the children in the village were mainly divided into two groups.

One group is over seven years old. The male children work in the fields with the adults in the family, while the female children help with housework within their ability at home, and learn weaving and making clothes from the female elders.

The other group is those under the age of seven, who have not studied and can’t do much work. A large group of little ones gather in the open space of the village to play wildly all day long.

Very free and very happy, but it seems to be a kind of forced freedom, because they have nothing else to do.

But this is also a matter of Taiping years. In the past two years, when the world was in chaos, every household closed their doors and children curled up at home. They didn't have enough to eat and had no energy to play.

But whether it is a child or a child, the life trajectory of a lifetime seems to be predetermined.

The girl learns housekeeping skills such as being a housekeeper, becoming a heroine, and getting married and having children when she is old enough, and so on.

The boy was almost there, busy in the fields all his life until he died of old age.

In this era of clearly defined classes, farmers have remained farmers all their lives and seem to have few opportunities for advancement.

No, it is possible, but it is difficult.

That is reading.

But this is something that everyone in the village is afraid of when they hear it.

Earlier, Qin Yao asked why Jin Bao and Jin Hua were not sent to school to learn Braille.

As soon as the words came out, the expressions of everyone in Liu's old house changed.

He said embarrassingly: "My brother and sister, you can write and read. You used to have a good life, but look at our family's situation, how can you afford to go to school?"

While wiping the mud off his hoe, Liu Bo said calmly, "What's the use of studying for a year or two? Why don't you have to go home and farm the land, wasting money for nothing."

Mrs. Zhang, who was picking vegetables for Qin Yao in the house, sighed, "The school is in the town, and it takes three hours to go back and forth a day. There are people in the village who want their children to learn a few words so that they can go to the town in the future." Find a job."

"But, there are so many fields to cultivate at home, the baby is so young, and the road is not smooth, so we have to pick him up and drop him off every day."

"I don't have time to deliver it. Four cents a day for transportation and transportation. I took it home within half a month after delivering it. I can't bear the money in my hand."

"Now everyone is about the same age as the fourth child in our family, and the work in the field is very good. I just got married, and the days are not bad."

The implication is that even the well-off people in the village can't afford to go to school, let alone people like them who are still struggling with food and clothing.

Ms. Qiu said that this is only the travel expenses and repairs to school, and does not include other hidden costs of studying, such as pens, inks, paper and inkstones. These are consumables and must be supplied for a long time.

read?Ordinary people wouldn’t even dare to think about it!

Looking at it this way, Liu Ji was able to go to the town to study for a year and a half, which was a great fortune.

If he wasn't such a bastard, if his own father didn't want to give up on him and wanted to find a teacher to educate him, he wouldn't be able to go to school at all.

The sound of "bang" brought Qin Yao's thoughts back to reality.

It turned out that she was just thinking about something, and she didn't pay attention all of a sudden, and knocked off all the little wooden sticks of the four brothers and sisters.

The four children looked at her aggrieved and unconvinced.

Qin Yao gave them an encouraging smile, motioned them to pick up the stick, "Come again!"

The child's competitive spirit is quite strong. There are four of them. I don't believe they can knock off the stepmother's stick alone.

However, the reality is cruel. Qin Yao holds a stick in one hand and jumps around their encirclement with ease, like a slippery fish that cannot be touched at all.

Soon, Sanlang and Siniang were exhausted and gave up out of breath.

Erlang saw that our side was so weak, most of the anger in his heart was vented, the stick was directly hit by the wooden stick that Qin Yao swept away, and it flew out of the high wall with a "swoosh" and landed in the grass outside the courtyard.

"Oh!" Erlang waved his hands angrily, and could only step back, standing under the wall with Sanlang and Siniang, cheering for the only remaining elder brother.

Qin Yao was a little surprised that Dalang could persist until now, and the young boy was not as eager as the other three.

He had been fishing for a month without catching any river fish, but he had tempered his patience.

Qin Yao saw that he was sweating profusely and refused to give up. She dropped the stick and immediately picked it up and rushed towards her. She suddenly changed her defense and launched an offensive.

Taking advantage of his height advantage, he swung straight at the young boy's wrist.

Unexpectedly, he caught her intention in advance and hid to the side in panic.

Although the small wooden stick in his hand was finally knocked down by Qin Yao's prediction of his next move, Qin Yao was already surprised by the fact that he could avoid her first blow.

This kid has a talent for martial arts!

(End of this chapter)