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

Chapter 88

Qin Yao cleared everything on the table aside, pushed the heavy cloth bag to the middle, looked at the five father and son in front of her, and said seriously: "Copy the book!"

The faces of the five father and son were carved out of the same mold. They all looked at Qin Yao in confusion. What book were they copying?

Qin Yao opened the cloth bag and the oil paper inside, and nine books were revealed in front of the father and son.

Liu Ji took a deep breath, hurriedly closed the door of the main room, and looked back at Qin Yao in shock, "You stole so many books from others, are you going to die?"

That's member Ding. The county magistrate has to politely call Ding Juren when he sees him. If this is discovered, can their family's heads be saved?
Qin Yao glanced at Liu Ji coldly, "Who do you think stole it? I borrowed it, and I have to return it after copying it."

Hearing this, Liu Ji's pounding heart fell to the ground in an instant. Knowing that he had misunderstood, he smiled awkwardly, "It's fine if it's not, it's fine if it's not, but it scared me to death."

"Look at your potential." Qin Yao snorted and rewrapped the book, "Let's have lunch first. After that, we will have a family meeting in the afternoon. Everyone must be there. No leave is allowed."

The four Dalang brothers and sisters nodded. They had a hunch that what the stepmother was going to say would definitely be something big!
Liu Ji glanced at the nine re-wrapped books. If he had read correctly just now, they were the Four Books and Five Classics that were necessary for the scientific examination.

Is it possible that this evil woman wants them to study and take the imperial examination?
But as soon as this idea came up, Liu Ji himself denied it in his heart. What are you kidding, people like them are also worthy of the imperial examination? !

Thinking of Qin Yao's wages, Liu Ji sent the children out, asked Erlang to take a bowl to the old house to beg for a bowl of wine, and asked Dalang to carry a bucket of cold well water.

In this hot day, come to a bowl of ice-cold wine fermented sugar water, let alone relieve the heat.

Qin Yao took a chair and sat under the eaves, drinking a spoonful of brewed sugar water, facing the gate, facing the wind, and felt the heat disappear.

It's still comfortable in your own home.

Liu Ji brought the fried eggplant, fried meat, egg and vegetable soup to the table. When passing by the door, he asked tentatively:
"Madam, how much wages did Mr. Ding settle for you?"

Qin Yao didn't even raise her eyelids, "The settlement wages are all spent."

Liu Ji suddenly felt heartbroken, and it was all spent again, as was the wages from logging last time, why didn't she know how to save money at all?

Qin Yao saw his resentful little eyes, and said coldly: "When will dinner be served!"

Liu Jixiao's heart suddenly tightened. He quickly stopped his resentment and said with a smile: "I'll go and serve the rice right away."

After saying that, he waved his hands and asked the four brothers and sisters in the courtyard to set up the dishes and serve the cooked rice. It was full of a pottery pot, which was three times the usual amount for the five of them, father and son.

Liu Ji thought of Qin Yao's appetite and was glad that this woman could make money, otherwise he would not be able to feed her mouth.

When she was not at home, he felt that he could not finish the rice in the rice vat.

As soon as she came back, the rice vat bottomed out.

She simply bought another three hundred catties of rice and came back to make do with it, just to be able to eat the harvested rice.

While eating, Liu Ji glanced at Qin Yao from time to time and mentally calculated what Qin Yao had brought back this time.

Not to mention pen, ink and paper, I can't get them without five cents of silver.

The linen is not cheap, and the five coins are gone.

Three hundred kilograms of rice, mixed with fine rice and other grains, cost her one, two, five cents.

This adds up to twenty taels and five taels. The salary given by the Ding family was twenty taels, and it was indeed all spent.

Not only was it spent, but it was overspended!

Liu Ji felt depressed in his heart. This woman spent money more lavishly than he did, and the rice in the bowl was not even tasty.

Qin Yao didn't care if he ate deliciously or not, but she was full anyway.

Putting down the bowls and chopsticks, Da Lang and Erlang consciously picked up the bowls and chopsticks and took them to the kitchen door for washing.

Sanlang and Si Niang clung to her, and Si Niang opened her small mouth and told her the interesting things that happened during this period. She was very talkative.

Liu Ji took the cloth and meat, and four pieces of snacks, and went to the Liu family's old house.

Just now when Erlang came over to ask for wine, the family knew that Qin Yao had returned, thinking that someone might come over in a while.

He and Qiu glanced in the direction of the gate from time to time, looking forward to it tacitly.

The third brother and sister are the most generous. This time they brought so many things back from the town, maybe they were among them.

Sure enough, the third sibling never let them down.

Liu Ji brought a pound of meat, which made the whole family smile happily. They asked about Qin Yao's situation with concern. They knew that she had just returned home and needed a good rest, so they all said they would not disturb her for a few days.

He and Qiu took the cloth and asked the sizes of several children in Liu Ji's family. After all, children's sizes vary every year, and the size of last year's winter coat may not be suitable.

There were only four pieces of dim sum. Jinbao and Jinhua each took one piece, leaving two pieces. The two elders kept one piece and gave the other piece to Liu Fei.

"I'm old now, so I'd better leave the snacks that only these children eat to Jinhua Jinbao." Liu Fei said sheepishly.

Liu Ji immediately reached for it, "Dad, I love to eat. If he won't eat, I'll eat it. This mung bean snack is refreshing and soft. It's made by Mr. Ding's cook. You can't even buy it outside!"

Seeing him reaching out to ask for it, Liu Fei suddenly felt angry and said, "You are so shameless, and you are still grabbing snacks from children!"

Liu Ji happily said to him: "In front of parents, no one is still a child."

It's a pity that Old Man Liu didn't give him any pastry and asked Liu Bai to take it. The three brothers shared the sweets themselves and tasted the good things from this noble man's house.

As for the two daughters-in-law, the children were thinking about their mother and had separated them early.

"It has to be that Yao Niang is promising, otherwise we won't be able to taste such good things." Mrs. Zhang praised with a smile.

Liu Ji immediately put money on his face, "That's right, and we don't even look at who takes him home."

Old man Liu looked towards the courtyard in surprise, "Why are you still here?"

Yao Niang just came home and didn't know how to go back to wait on her. She is still standing here and is an eyesore!

Mrs. Zhang asked Liu Ji to wait a while, got up and went to the house to fill another half jar of fermented rice, and asked Liu Ji to take it back for Qin Yao to eat.

Just now she heard the third child mention it, saying that Yao Niang really likes to drink.

It's simple to make, just use some glutinous rice. Drinking it in summer is the best way to relieve the heat. She originally brewed more wine for roasting, but it was too late to make wine, and the adults and children in the family were about to eat it all.

In this case, she simply used it as snacks for everyone.

Afterwards, he went to the vegetable garden to pick a basket full of vegetables and asked Liu Ji to take them back together.

Qin Yao watched Liu Ji come back with both hands full, Hu asked: "I asked you to deliver something, why did you come back with so many hugs?"

Liu Ji put down the heavy vegetable basket and pottery pot. He didn't like to hear this, "What do you mean by cuddling? This is the kindness of the two elders."

As he spoke, he added: "Look, I'll bring them all back. Don't mention how happy the second elder is."

(End of this chapter)