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

Chapter 86
Qin Yao didn't wait for Master Ding to ask questions, and said calmly:

"The weather has been fine recently, and the young lady got dizzy from reading in the mansion, so I took her into the mountains to get some fresh air and relax."

The father and daughter all looked at the wind and rain blowing outside the house and thought to themselves, do you call this a good weather?
But in the end, he found a legitimate reason for Ding Xiang's "extraordinary" behavior, and handed the ladder to Master Ding so that he could get down.

Eight dishes were prepared on the table, including meat and vegetables, as well as a stack of pastries. The aroma of the food came in waves, but a few people had no intention of starting the meal. Qin Yao thought to herself, this is too torturous for you.

So, in order to prepare dinner quickly, Qin Yao said a few more words.

It probably means that the upper-class nobles and noble women of the famous family now have to take riding and archery lessons, and Miss Ding is just getting started.

In the future, Master Ding will be admitted to Jinshi, so he will really change his family to become an official lady. Mastering two high-level social skills will help their family develop harmoniously.

The father and daughter watched Qin Yao finish her words seriously, a little bit convinced.

But how could she, a village woman, know about the social life of a noble girl?

Qin Yao smiled at the father and son, this is not the point, the point is, "If you don't eat it, the food will be cold."

Master Ding's serious expression has softened a lot. Knowing that his noble daughter also learns to ride and shoot, he suddenly feels that it is not bad for his daughter to learn these things.

He picked up the chopsticks, nodded to Qin Yao, and started the meal.

Qin Yao watched as Master Ding took a bite of the food before moving his chopsticks.

The speed was much more elegant and restrained than her usual meal, and she only ate three bowls of rice and one bowl of soup.

Ding Xiang asked worriedly: "Qin Yao, are you full?"

Qin Yao smiled politely, "I'm full, it's delicious, thank you Master Ding for your hospitality."

In fact, it’s only six points full, and it’s like losing weight today.

But Master Ding's food is really good, he has enough big fish and meat, and he envies the dead.

Of course, she also believed that the meals she would eat in the future would never be worse than this one.

After the meal, Ding Xiang and Ding Shi left, leaving only Qin Yao and Mr. Ding still in the dining room.

The servants cleared away the dishes and chopsticks. Qin Yao followed Mr. Ding to sit down on the master's chair. Butler Yu came over and handed a small cloth bag to Qin Yao.

Qin Yao took it expectantly, weighed it, and got two taels of silver as salary!

"Thank you, master." Qin Yao stood up and clasped her fists politely.

Master Ding nodded, "Ms. Qin has also worked hard this month."

He also said that if Qin Yao wanted to rest, she could stay at the house for a few more days and ask Zhang Ba to drive her home.

Qin Yao thanked him gratefully, but refused, she couldn't take it seriously because of his politeness.

The two talked for a while, mainly because Master Ding asked about Ding Xiang's situation this month, and finally asked again:
"Do all noble ladies really practice riding and shooting? Don't they mainly practice music, chess, calligraphy and painting?"

How did Qin Yao know, she just guessed it based on the previous fan novel of the emperor and empress.

But he still nodded without changing his face, "Of course you need to practice piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but cooking tea, flower arranging, riding and shooting are also indispensable. Not to mention proficiency, but you must also know a little superficial. Otherwise, others will know it, but you will not." , it’s not easy to blend in, sir, don’t you think so?”

"By the way, I heard from Steward Yu that the master will soon enter Beijing to take part in the autumn examination. When the master arrives in the capital, he will naturally know whether what I said is true or not."

With this supplement, Master Ding guessed that Qin Yao would not dare to lie to himself, so he nodded his head. He believed it eighty-nine times, and asked Qin Yao if he would stay for another month and continue to guide Ding Xiang in riding and shooting.

Qin Yao said: "Master, don't worry, I have taught Miss all the riding and shooting skills in the past few days, and I just need to practice more in the future."

"Young lady is smart and can do it with just a few clicks. As long as you are willing to work hard, it will only be a matter of time before you master it completely."

Hearing what Qin Yao said, Master Ding remembered that he had reacted so badly just now, and felt embarrassed.

In the evening, I learned from Butler Yu that Qin Yao taught very carefully, and she looked like a professional master-level teacher. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that such a person would never be just an ordinary peasant woman in the future.

He sat up in shock in the middle of the night, and decisively asked Steward Yu to go to the warehouse to get another tael of silver, and then ordered someone to go to the kitchen and ask the cook to make two more of Qin Yao's favorite pastries in the morning, and hand them to her when Qin Yao was leaving tomorrow. .

A word from the master can cause the servant to run away and break his leg.

It's okay to take money, but it's hard for the cook, the pasta for making pastries is gone, and she gets up in the middle of the night to grind.

Early the next morning, when Qin Yao packed her bags and was about to leave, she was a little touched when she saw two packages of cakes and a tael of silver brought by Butler Yu.

Ding Xiang wrapped all the books to be borrowed for her, and put an extra layer of oil paper in the cloth bag to prevent these precious books from being wet by sudden rain.

These are all the study notes made by Mr. Ding, and the notes of Mr. Juren, who would not want a scholar?

Knowing the weight of these books, Qin Yao checked them carefully before slinging the nine heavy books on her back along with the bow, arrow and sword.

Holding a pack of peach blossom cakes and a pack of mung bean cakes still steaming in his hand, under Ding Xiang's reluctantly watching, he stepped out of the door of Ding's house, waved his hand, and left.

It was still early, Qin Yao came to the town, first went to the butcher shop to buy five catties of meat and two ribs.

Then I went to the only grocery store that sold pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and bought a thick stack of white paper.

The paper had not been cut, and was tied into a small bundle, and the outer layer was wrapped in oilcloth. The oilcloth was charged five cents.

But don’t give up. It’s been raining these days. So this cloth can be used again and again. Just remember to bring it with you next time you come to buy paper.

To copy books, in order to speed up, Qin Yao bought himself a set of pens and inks, all of which cost half a tael of silver.

So studying is expensive, and the tuition is only a small part of it. The real big part is consumables such as paper, pen, and ink.There are also social favor expenses and so on.

The pastries were sent by the Ding family, but Qin Yao didn't buy any snacks.

Taking a look at the clothes on her body, she saw that the thick cotton was no longer suitable for summer. She was just trying to hold on to it now. It was too hot when the sun came up.

Qin Yao didn't dare to think about the light and thin silk that Ding Xiang was wearing, but the linen was still affordable.

Estimated the amount of each person in the family, bought a bolt of linen and a roll of cotton thread, and spent half a tael of silver.

Three taels of silver and two taels left.

The rice only matures in mid-July, and now it is June, and there is still a month and a half of food demand, so I bought another three hundred catties of grain, half fine rice and half miscellaneous grains, and I wasted one, two, and five cents of silver.

Qin Yao did the math and found that all he had now was only eighty-two-five cents.

In other people's homes, three hundred kilograms of grain would last for almost three months, but Qin Yao's food intake was as good as five, so there was no way he could save this money.

But when the rice is harvested this year, the food situation of the family of six will be greatly improved, and the food expenses should be saved.

(End of this chapter)