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After dinner, the whole family talked about the fact that Mr. Liu wanted to hire Mingjue as his children's teacher. .

Ming Jue still said the same thing, saying that Qiao Mingjin had worked too hard, and he wanted to stay in Yuejia Village to help his sister.He said that he would wait for Qiao Mingjin to recover after a while before thinking about other things.

He Xiaochun also ate and lived with the brothers and sisters of the Qiao family these few days, and got to know the family better. He also felt that Qiao Mingjin was working too hard, so it would be better for Mingjue to help her at home.

Ming Heng and Ming Qi also nodded when they heard this.It is said that Ming Jue is at home, and the whole family works together...

Qiao Mingjin heard a lot of chatter from his younger siblings.Very pleased.What a blessing to have met such wonderful brothers and sisters.

Qiao Mingjin finally spoke and expressed her thoughts.

She wanted Mingjue to become a teacher for Yuanwai Liu's son.

When Ming Jue was about to speak, Qiao Mingjin stopped her.

Said: "Letting you become a teacher is not only for yourself. You have a good environment and can pick up books again after teaching. You must know that grandma and dad have always placed high hopes on you. Yes. Although we don't know where father and grandmother came from, we can tell that they hope that you and Ming Heng can win in the future."

Ming Jue fell silent after hearing this.Even Mingheng lowered his head when he heard this.

Qiao Mingjin said again: "Being a gentleman, in addition to having a good study environment, you can also help the family. The ten taels of silver is not low. The average scholar who comes to be a teacher only costs five taels of silver. That is to say, Liu Yuanwai's son was too stubborn and left several gentlemen before he gave such a good condition. With your salary, the family will be better off. Slowly save, Mingheng will also have money to study. In the future, you Even if you go to take the exam, you still have money. Why do you refuse such a good job?"

Mingjue was silent for a long time, then looked up at Qiao Mingjin and said, "But sister. You are working too hard now."

Qiao Mingjin smiled and said: "Don't worry about my sister. Before you didn't come, didn't Ming Heng and Ming Qi and I did a good job? It's because you came that my sister got lazy. You're not here, Ming Heng Ming Qi will do well too, won't she?"

Ming Heng and Ming Qi nodded vigorously. .

Ming Heng patted his chest and said: "Second brother, don't worry, with me here, I won't make my sister work too hard!"

Qiao Mingjin and Mingjue both laughed.

Ming Jue then said: "What can you do? Haven't read a book for so many days? You still need to read some books when you have time in the future, otherwise. Even if your family's conditions are better and you are sent to study in the future, you won't be able to keep up."

Mingheng stopped talking.He thinks it's good to follow his sister.

Qiao Mingjin took a look at Mingheng and said to Mingjue: "Now is also a special situation. After Mingheng comes back from the city, he doesn't have to go up the mountain. He can just read some books at home. And you don't have to worry about sister. Although it is difficult now, But this situation will not always be like this. After my sister saves some money and buys a field, she will not have to work so hard. She may only go to the city every three or four days. Or find something else Things don’t always work so hard.”

Mingjue heard this, thought for a while, and said, "Now my sister has to sell firewood and send fertilizer to the Green Willow Villa. If I leave, my sister will go to the city every day. First, it is too hard. .Secondly, I don’t have time to go up the mountain to cut firewood. I’d better wait a while before going.”

Qiao Mingjin thought for a while, and now it is really difficult, other book friends are reading:.She was like taking two jobs.

At the beginning, when sending firewood every other day, I also wanted to leave a day to go up the mountain to cut firewood and rest.Now I have to go to the city every day, I'm afraid it will be too much.There was no time to chop wood.

And the fertile soil, I'm afraid it won't last long.This mountain does not belong to her family.As long as the people in the village know about it, they will definitely go up the mountain to spread the fertile soil on the fields.

I'm afraid she won't be able to sell for long.

Qiao Mingjin thought for a while, and then said to Mingjue: "You will go to the city tomorrow to deliver firewood. When you come back, go to Yunjia Village and talk to your father and grandmother, and see what they say. I'm afraid we won't be able to sell this fertile soil for long. When you go to the villa the day after tomorrow, you should come down. But tell Yuanwai Liu that you will go there in a month. I am afraid that this fertile soil can only be sold for a month. You can see whether Yuanwai Liu agrees. .In this way, my sister also has a buffer period..."

Ming Jue thought for a while and agreed.

The family said some more words before they separated.

Qiao Mingjin went to He Xiaochun to see the progress of his work...

By the end of May, Qiao Mingjin had sent the fertile soil to Green Willow Villa for more than half a month.

These days, it's going well.Just selling the fertile soil has already saved ten taels of silver.Of course, the ones sent by Guangmingheng and Mingjue couldn't get so much money.

It was because Liu Yuanwai heard Ming Jue say that he would postpone becoming a teacher for a month.And the reason is just to help his sister at home.

After Mr. Liu heard about it, he sent someone to the house to collect the fertile soil.

Every day, people were sent to pull two ox carts, all of which were assembled at Qiao's house and covered with thick felt cloth.Others couldn't see what was on the bullock cart.

In addition, Qiao Mingjin also happened to live on the outskirts of the village. Except for sister Xiu who knew that the fertile soil was sold for money, no one knew about it.

It's just that more and more people are going up the mountain to build fertile soil these days.Yuejia Village has the fewest acres of land, and they all have two or three acres of land. Knowing that this thing can fertilize the field, how can it be kept there?

Qiao Mingjin felt a little helpless when he thought about the land on the mountain that was almost turned over these days.

Fortunately, Ming Jue doesn't need to send fertilizer to Green Willow Villa these days.In the days when no firewood was delivered, apart from helping Qiao Mingjin chop firewood, the two brothers helped Qiao Mingjin bag the fertilizer on the mountain, and then transported it home to store, so that when the Liu family's servants came, they would have something to take away.

Although there were many people on the mountain, no one knew that they brought so many bags home to sell money. They only thought they were sent to Qiao Mingjin's natal family.

In the past half a month, Qiao Mingjin's chickens have also been raised.

Sister Xiu helped her buy several half-sized hens and a dozen half-sized baby chickens in the village.There are about twenty of them in total.

Then He Xiaochun is a capable carpenter, isn't it easy to make a few chicken coops for more than [-] chickens?

It means that the baby chicks that will hatch in a few days have nests.

Every day after dawn, Qiao Mingjin and He Xiaochun picked a few chicken cages and went into the mountain, and then released the baby chickens, and then waited for the brothers to come back in the afternoon, and then pulled them back with a bullock cart.

The chicken loved to eat insects in the mountains, and ran happily.I don't know how happy I am.It's only been half a month, and I've gained weight just by looking at it.They can all be sold for money.

For more than half a month, Yue Zhongyao didn't come back to the village for some unknown reason.Xiao Wan'er waited at the door of the house every day, but her father did not come back.

Looking at her daughter's disappointed face every day, Qiao Mingjin's heart was sore.

Occasionally, Ming Heng and Ming Jue also said that they haven't seen Yue Zhongyao in the city these days.The two coaxed Xiao Wan'er that her father was very busy and would definitely come back to see her if he had time, so the little thing felt a little better.

Qiao's father and grandmother Lan heard that Mingjue was going to the city to become a husband, and at first they said that Mingjue should stay by Qiao Mingjin's side to help.Unexpectedly, it was Qiao Mingjin who supported Mingjue.

Qiao's father and Lan's also stopped talking, after all, ten taels of silver this month is indeed a lot.The family also needs money everywhere.The pens, inks, papers and inkstones of the two brothers, the money that Ming Jue will spend to rush for the exam in the future, which one does not need money?

tonight.Qiao Mingjin poured out all the money he had saved these days, and the whole family counted it.

Since the past two days, there has been no cattail vegetables for sale.Even the sporadic cattails in the river in Xiahe village were pulled out by Qiao Mingjin.

If she was ruthless enough, the cattail would be extinct in Xiahe Village.

But fortunately these days, apart from the money from selling the fertile soil.Selling cattail vegetables is also a big deal.Twelve cents a catty, that thing is also known to eat, but it sold for a lot of money.

Before selling the fertile soil, the family had already saved 34 taels of silver, and with the addition of more than ten taels from selling the fertile soil, it was 44 taels.

In addition, I got 25 taels of silver for selling cattail vegetables for half a month.In addition to the price difference from selling firewood, eggs, and other things, and more than three taels of silver from selling pheasants and hares, the family now has a total of more than 72 taels of silver.

The family counted the money happily, looking at the silver coins scattered on the bed and the copper plates strung in many strings.All grinning happily.

Not to mention Heng Mingjue, even Qiao Mingjin saw so much money for the first time.Has the Qiao family ever seen so much money?

The siblings all had bright eyes, and even Xiao Wan'er clapped her hands happily and shouted, "A lot of money!"

Then the two small hands grabbed the silver coins and copper plates and muttered to the side: "This piece is one tael, and you can exchange ten dimes... This piece is one coin, and you can exchange it for a string of yuan coins..."

The little thing probably still remembers the first time he sold umbrellas in a restaurant.If you want to exchange one tael of silver for fifty copper coins, you still think that one given by others is not enough.It takes so much in one hand...

Qiao Mingjin looked at her daughter and smiled.

These days, when Qiao Mingjin was free, he taught her how to count.He also asked He Xiaochun to chop a lot of thin and smooth bamboo sticks for her to count and play with.

Ming Heng and Ming Qi also followed suit.

If you don't know the words, you can learn slowly, but you can't count.It is a joke to use a tael of silver as a copper plate.Besides, the children of farmers' families all want to go to the market to exchange things, sell things for food, how can they not know how to count?

Qiao Mingjin is also subconsciously teaching a few children some superficial arithmetic of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of numbers.

Xiao Wan'er was still counting, and could add and subtract within ten, and couldn't digest that much at once.

On the contrary, Ming Heng and Ming Qi studied very seriously, and almost the siblings taught by Qiao Mingjin could digest it.Especially Mingheng, he has a good brain, he can solve the problems given by him very quickly, and he is also very good at mental arithmetic.

As a result, Qiao Mingjin didn't know whether to be happy or worried. Is this brother really going to go on a business trip?

In his free time, Qiao Mingjin would also let him read more books, and it happened that Ming Jue was there, so he could give him some pointers.

On the other hand, He Xiaochun has also been here for nearly a month, and according to Qiao Mingjin's request, his stuff has finally been made.

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