The wealth of rebirth is deep in the mountains

Chapter 18 Simple Rewards

Thinking like this, she didn't hesitate, and said a few words to the children directly, and sure enough, the children shouted excitedly.

"Sister Xiaomi, my name is Meiyu. The jade bracelets in the jewelry store are the most beautiful."

"I want to call you General, my father said that General is the most prestigious!"

The children were arguing, and Lu Xiaomi couldn't stop waving, so he slapped the ruler in his hand.

The ruler was handed to them by the hunters just now. The naughty boys and girls knew that not only would the family not be distressed if they were hit by the ruler, but they would still be beaten when they returned home, so they immediately calmed down.

Lu Xiaomi's eyes rolled, she resolutely gave up teaching writing, and ran back to the backyard to move the change box, and each child was given twenty copper coins.

Learning arithmetic with coins is like using fruit in kindergarten.The children had never handled so much money before, and their faces were flushed with excitement.

Xiaomi led them to count from the beginning and do some simple addition and subtraction combinations. By the time every child had learned addition and subtraction within ten, the sun in the sky had already reached the top of their heads.

Lu Xiaomi took another snack box, and each child gave a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake as a reward, and the children who made it went home after class happily.

The men who drank a lot of tea led their children to walk in the cold wind, and couldn't help asking about what they learned today.The children couldn't hide their words, they were all chattering non-stop.

The men were all happy to hear it, but at the end they began to worry. The Lu family treated the children so seriously, they named them, taught them to read and write, and finally gave them snacks.If they really only use the feces and urine at home for the beam repair, aren't they a bit too stingy and unreasonable?

So, several men got together to discuss for a long while, and finally figured out a way, that is to plant land for the Lu family after the beginning of spring.

As a hunter, besides being able to shoot arrows and skinning, he has all his strength left.

Previously, when the Lu family was busy farming, they hired idlers outside the city to work. It is said that those idlers bullied Boss Lu soft-heartedly and ruined a lot of crops.

This year, the Lu family is Mi Zhangluo's housekeeper, and they have to use excrement and urine as fertilizer.How can a clean little girl get in touch with these stolen goods, why don't they help them dispose of them.Don't be afraid of making mistakes, just ask more questions and listen to Xiaomi more.

Everyone made up their minds, went home and threw the children to the women who had been thinking about them all morning, and then went directly to the hut or pigsty.

It is cold in winter, so it takes a lot of effort to plan the latrine, but there is also a benefit, that is, the taste is small.

Soon, men in every family picked up old baskets and hurried out of the village to the Lu family's field under Laoxiongling.

Each family was responsible for [-] mu of land, and the Lu family's [-] mu of dry land was divided up.

Lu Xiaomi didn't know that there were more than a dozen helpers in the family. He had just brought the food to the table, so he talked to Father Lu about helping the children choose their names.

After hearing this, Old Man Lu somehow perked up, and replied, "This is a serious matter. As long as the children's families agree, I don't mind helping to get some."

"Well, Dad might as well flip through the books after eating, I think I'll need them tomorrow."

Lu Xiaomi happily picked up two more pieces of meat for her father, wondering if she should find more things for her father to do in the future.Maybe when he was busy, he didn't have time to think about the deceased Bai, so naturally he wouldn't be decadent and thin.

Lao Yang listened to the father and daughter talking with envy on his face, and his eyes became softer when he looked at Xiaomi.It is a rare blessing for such a good girl to be born in someone's family.

Feng Jian, on the other hand, still remembered the Enlightenment Book. It was rare for her to break the rule of "don't talk when you eat and don't talk when you sleep", and asked, "Which book did the three-line poem Miss Lu taught today come from?"

Xiaomi stopped chopsticks when he heard it, and subconsciously asked, "The Three Character Classic, didn't you read it when you were enlightened?"

After asking, she finally belatedly remembered the "dangerousness" in it, and immediately added, "I also forgot where I read it, but I just thought it was catchy and simple, and it was very suitable for teaching children to read, so I just followed it." Use it."

Feng Jian nodded and didn't speak again, but it made Lu Xiaomi even more worried, and secretly beat himself, he must be more careful in the future.A lie needs to be covered by a hundred lies. Be careful that there are too many lies in the end that even she can't remember it, then it will be troublesome.

On the other hand, Father Lu's expression changed imperceptibly when he heard his daughter say the word "forget", and he cut the conversation with a dry cough.

Feng Jian and Lao Yang looked at each other, but they didn't say anything, but the suspicion in their expressions grew stronger.

I originally thought that the Lu family was just an ordinary farmer. If there is something different, it is that the girl is a little smarter and more delicate, so I can't help but feel more pity...

But looking at it now, the Lu family seems to be a beautiful girl covered with layers of veils, and there are some inexplicable mysteries that make people want to explore...

On the second day, when the naughty children were brought to the door by their father, they all got elegant or beautiful names. The rough guys rubbed their hands and didn't know what to say.

And Lu Xiaomi also knew that there were more than a dozen manure piles in his field.

So, in the afternoon, she hurriedly took the boss Lu and the second brother Lu who had nowhere to vent his brute strength to the field.When Lao Yang saw him, he also followed behind in a sheepskin jacket.

Composting is not simply mixing manure and urine together, especially when pig manure is mixed with black soil, crushed hay and the like to ferment together.Human excrement is okay, just add black soil and air-dry it.

As for the horse manure, it can only be used to cool off the thin seedlings, and the rotten roots of the crops will be burned if it is scattered in the field.

Not to mention how Lu Xiaomi is excitedly looking forward to composting and farming at home, and only mentions the Wasteland Academy a hundred miles away.When the academy was first built, the site was really located in a wilderness, taking the implication of students "not afraid of difficulties and bravely climbing the mountain of books".

The academy covers an area of ​​[-] mu. There are study buildings, schools, dormitories, even pavilions, and flowing water everywhere.

But the outside of the academy is sparsely populated because of the remoteness and jagged rocks.

However, with the passing of time, the servants of some scholars, or small business vendors, and the husband's family members gradually gathered, and now a fairly prosperous town has formed outside the academy.

At this moment, it was afternoon, and although the sun was not warm, it was better than nothing.

In the only tea house in the small town, a few scholars dressed in brocade robes or furs, not afraid of the cold wind, leaned against the window and talked and laughed loudly while drinking tea.

Today is the college's rest day every seven days. There are such scholars everywhere. Go out of the college and spend some money to improve the food, or simply find some fun to vent the depression that has been pent up in the college for many days.

This is also the happiest time for hawkers, no matter who sells snacks or gadgets, even the little girls who sing in teahouses can earn a few more pennies.

At the corner of the teahouse, a small table was set up at some point, with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table, and a scholar in a cloak was writing a letter for the old lady.

The old lady babbled endlessly, and the scholar kept laughing and listening while writing, and occasionally baked the inkstone on the brass hand stove to save the ink from freezing.

When he had to send the old lady off, he stuffed the money into his purse with a satisfied smile on his face.

A few scholars upstairs couldn't help showing disdain when they saw it, and gossiped, "That guy Lu Qian, didn't he get kicked out of his head by the donkey at home during the holidays? It's really weird to set up a stall to write letters to the untouchables." Disgraceful!"

"That's right, he's also a scholar, so he should be far away from the Bao kitchen and the copper smell. It's fine to cook and eat in the dormitory on weekdays, but now he comes out to sell calligraphy for a few pennies. It's really... self-deprecating!"

"The gentlemen are also blind. They have been praising him for his good writing before, but these days they are talking more and more."

Lu Qian downstairs didn't hear these words, and of course he wouldn't care if he heard them.

Occasionally reaching out to touch the hard copper coins in his purse, he couldn't help laughing.

Although it's not much, you can earn hundreds of coins every holiday and holiday. If you accumulate them together, you can buy a silver hairpin for your sister when you go home.It's just in time to use it when my sister reaches Jiji next year and rolls up her hair.

At such a time, a smiling boy ran out of the teahouse, holding a small teapot in his hand, came to the desk, and quickly poured a cup of hot tea for Lu Qian.

"Mr. Lu, your business is very good today! Our shopkeeper told you to go in for dinner later."

Lu Qian took a sip of hot tea, and gathered up the flimsy but extremely warm down poncho on his body. Although he didn't feel cold, he still thanked him.

"Thank you, little brother, for running out to bring me tea, and also thank shopkeeper Luo for me. As for lunch, I won't eat it. If the chef is free, just cook the food for me."

"Is it dumplings today or frozen noodles with meat sauce?" The boy was so happy that his eyebrows and eyes were curled up. Every holiday day when Lu Qian came to set up a stall, he would ask him to help heat the rice.Occasionally, he would be given two dumplings, and sometimes he would be rewarded with two pennies, which was very polite anyway.

Lu Qian took out a small cloth bag from under the table, with some reluctance in his eyes.

Although his younger sister prepared food for him when he was away from home, she couldn't stand the fact that there were more wolves and less meat. Two friends in the same dormitory have been staring at his rice bowl all day long since they ate with him once.

Now, the meat sauce has been completely divided up, and the rolled and frozen noodles have also been eaten up.There are only a dozen or so dumplings left. After eating this meal, I will have to go home to eat them again.

At this time, another old shopkeeper came out of the teahouse. He was slightly fat and smiled kindly. He first drove the boy to cook dumplings, and finally swept the surroundings casually, and then handed over the banknotes in his hand to Lu. modest.

"Mr. Lu, the people sent by the old man to the two cities in the south have returned. Fangzi didn't sell much money. This is your half, exactly 50 taels."

A look of joy flashed in Lu Qian's eyes, and he thanked him, "Thank you, shopkeeper Luo."

"No hard work, no hard work. I also started making candied haws here today, and they will be sold on the street tomorrow. I didn't expect that such a humble snack would make a lot of money. If there is such a good business in the future, Lu Young master must be thinking of old age."

Shopkeeper Luo touched his beard twice and smiled. When Lu Qian came to him with the prescription, he didn't expect to make money seriously.

(End of this chapter)