Xianggong farming

Chapter 120 Guidance
As soon as Ji Xinmiao said that, Qi Li yelled: "Ji, what are you talking about? Why doesn't Shilang want to be a scholar? Don't tell him that there are some poems, just write one for him. !"

Qi Silang looked at Qi Lishi with a stubborn face and said: "Mother, the sister-in-law is not talking nonsense, she is asking me. Mother, let me tell you, I will not take the exam for the scholar of Lao Shizi. What's the point of being a scholar? Shangping Village has only had one Juren in so many years. The Juren was too old to go to the capital to take the exam, so he borrowed money. Now it looks good, with the grant of land and Fenglu Well, everyone looked jealous, but they didn't want to think about the fact that he only started a family in his thirties, and he was already a grandfather at his age, so he became a father.

Besides, our master took the exam all his life and didn't even get a raise. The family has no land and no land, and there are a lot of children.Living on these bundle repairs, life at home is not as good as ours.I don't want to be like him, at this age I can do nothing but be a wife. "

Well, this single-plank bridge is indeed harder than climbing to the sky, she admitted.But if she really wants to support Qi Silang not to go to school, this Qi Li is afraid that she will cut her off: "Fourth Uncle, I can't say that you are wrong, but it is always good to study more. It is also good to study and take the scholar exam." It’s not that you have to be a master, in fact, there are many paths, it just depends on what you want to do at the time. I heard people say that there is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book, maybe the master hasn’t read the place where there is a golden house. "

Qi Silang curled his lips: "Since many people haven't read the golden house, I can't even read the realm. Anyway, I don't like reading, and I doze off when I sit in the school. It's better to learn hunting from my elder brother. Daddy is learning how to farm."

Seeing that Mrs. Qi's face was getting darker and darker, Ji Xinmiao had no choice but to continue to persuade: "In fact, hunting is very dangerous and farming is very hard. You may not imagine it. If one day you regret learning hunting and farming, then fourth uncle you What are you going to do?"

"I..." It's dangerous to type wrongly, and my father also broke his leg because of hunting, and now he can't bear the heavy burden.Is farming hard?He really doesn't know.Qi Shilang said hesitantly: "Brother also often goes hunting..."

Qi Dalang answered immediately: "Don't think that I often go to the mountains to hunt. This is an easy job. If it is really that easy, why do all the old people in the village want to follow me into the mountains? Because hunting requires skill, which is not as easy as reading. If you really don’t want to study, your elder brother won’t force you to save money in the school. You are almost 14 years old, and you will be engaged in two years, and you will no longer be a child. Once you decide something, I hope you can stick to it. "

Qi Shilang couldn't refute what his brother and sister-in-law said for a while, so he lowered his head and stopped humming.

At this time, Qi Erlang and Qi Sanlang came out when they heard the quarrel between the younger brother and his mother, and they all nodded in unison when they heard what the elder brother said.

Qi Li looked at the stepson couple in front of her coldly, especially Ji Xinmiao's guidance, and she understood the meaning.But in his heart, he was even more aggrieved because Father Qi favored the eldest son.

In order to ease the atmosphere, Qi Erqin ran over and looked at the big wooden barrel and said to Ji Xinmiao: "Sister-in-law, what should I do with this white powder now?"

Ji Xinmiao chuckled: "This is not white powder, it's the powder washed from sweet potatoes, called potato flour. Now let your elder brother pour out the water, you can find a basket and a spatula, we will put This potato flour is taken out and dried in the sun."

Qi Erqin's eyes sparkled when he heard it: "Sister-in-law, is this potato flour really delicious?"

Ji Xinmiao nodded: "Well, isn't there a winter festival in the village in a few days? At that time, every family will have to go to the general's hall to have a sacrificial dinner. Then I will use these potatoes to make several kinds of food. I guarantee you that it will be delicious. "

As soon as Qi Erqin heard this, she immediately ran home to fetch a basket: "The basket and spatula are here, sister-in-law, you can get them."

Qi Liushi asked Qi Sanlang after listening to Ji Xinmiao's words: "Sanlang, every family is drying the shredded potatoes now, and the water they washed has been poured out, how about we go to each house to collect them? "

Qi Sanlang's face changed: "If everyone knew that we asked the villagers to collect the water for washing potato shreds in order to get potato shreds powder, wouldn't we be ridiculed by the whole village? Since there is potato flour in the water for washing potato shreds, Why don't you tell the villagers that every family collects these potato flours, and if they really don't have enough food, they can still fill their stomachs."

Qi Liu muttered: "You're just stupid, he's going to collapse anyway, why should we be embarrassed about coming? It's none of our business that people don't have enough food?"

Qi Sanlang's face darkened: "I want to go to you, so I won't be ashamed!"

Qi Sanlang's words reminded the people in the yard, and Qi Erlang hurriedly said to Qi Hong: "Your mother's family also has a lot of sweet potatoes that are almost shredded these days, so hurry up and tell your parents after dinner."

Qi Hongshi responded, and Qi Liushi also hurried into the house. Ji Xinmiao knew that she was also rushing back to talk to the Liu family.

In less than one morning, everyone in Shangping Village knew that the water used to wash sweet potato shreds could produce potato flour. It was hard to believe that there were still people coming to Qi's yard to see it.When I saw the potato flour drying on the tray, I believed it.

"Over the years, every family has dried a lot of potato chips. It's a pity to pour out this potato flour, which is whiter than white flour."

"Seventh aunt, is your family so short of potato flour?"

Aunt Liu Qi looked regretful: "This food must be delicious. Didn't you see that it is whiter and thinner than flour? It's not a question of whether it's not bad, but it's a pity to waste it. Although my family has a few more acres of land than yours , but it’s not the kind of family that can waste it. This thing is also important to my family. In fact, except for Mr. Liu who is a rich man in our village, which one can be considered rich? This time, I have to thank Dalang’s wife for letting this matter go. Tell everyone."

Aunt Fan agrees even more: "Sister-in-law Qi, you are born locally. It's okay to say that outsiders like us don't have much land in the first place. With more and more people, the food is getting less and less enough to eat. Although the potato flour is not necessarily How many meals can be eaten, but one meal is one meal."

Aunt Liu Qi smiled: "It's all the same. How can there be so many migrants and local households in our village? Our Liu family is not born and raised in Shangping Village, but it's just that we came here a few years earlier than you. Xinmiao, listen Tell me, these aunts, how do you eat this thing?"

Ji Xinmiao smiled and said, "Auntie, there are many ways to eat this potato flour. Let me just talk about the most common way. People like my family who don't have a lot of oil and salt, the most common way to eat it is like steamed egg custard. Steaming method. If you like spicy food, add chili pepper and soy sauce, put it on the rice and steam it, and it will be a bowl of vegetables.”

"Oh, Dalang's daughter-in-law, if you want to say that your family is poor, then we don't know whether we should complain! How many of us in Shangping Village can give us a dowry of 20 taels of silver? Are you Are you proud?"

As soon as Liu Qian's words came out, everyone changed their faces.

(End of this chapter)