Full of food and color

Chapter 33
These few days the Chen family has started to get busy again, and the dried corn has to be separated out to start grinding the Baogu Zhenzi. Baozhu is sitting on the porch, watching her mother pull the mill in the yard. There is only one old one in the Chen family. Niu, the women in the family have to take turns to pull the roller.

A stone mill at home was not enough. Chen Erniu took Baozhu's father and brothers to the barley field in the village. There were many mills in the field, and they lined up with the villagers to grind grain.

After working for more than half a month, the harvest is about 90 shi baogu, and the family has left [-] shi. Chen Liu's sifted out some of the baogu noodles. In addition to eating for the whole family, they also have to prepare for the beginning of spring. Pay the food tax.The rest were sold in the town for money.

Each of the three houses got a penny of money, Baozhu tilted his head and calculated, forty shi grains were wholesaled to merchants in the state government who collected grain, and at least they could sell for ten pennies. Can get six or seven.Throwing away the money to buy calves and baby chickens, before the wheat harvest in May next year, the Chen family can finally recover a bit.

Li Shuangxi's family has a rooster, and there are breeding eggs for stepping on. After all, Mrs. Wang still carried Mrs. Chen and Liu behind her back. After two afternoons of busy work with her husband, they opened up a small open space in the corner of the Niu's yard and built a chicken coop.

The cost of feeding baby chickens is not low. Without modern greenhouse batch incubation and hormone breeding, the growth rate of pure natural native chickens will be much slower.It takes four months at the earliest for a baby chicken to grow into an adult chicken. At this time, it only looks like an adult chicken. It needs to be fed for a while before the hen can start laying eggs. It takes half a year.Every day, I have to feed millet and Baogu Zhenzi, with some vegetable leaves.Baby chicks have weak resistance, and if they are not carefully fed, they will die easily.

Before the end of the year, Li Shuangxi came to report the good news. A total of more than 20 eggs had hatched and ten hens had hatched.Mrs. Wang thought about it for a while, and didn't say anything pretentious. She hurried day and night to sew two interlayer shirts for Datou and Xiaohuzi. Seeing that Mrs. Wang was not polite, Li Shuangxi packed half a basket of eggs for Mrs. Wang before leaving, saying that Runze would go to school with Datou after the year.

Ever since Fenglan entered the house, the Chen family has become the object of open and private discussions among the villagers, and Chen Liushi's ears inevitably made her a little sulky.I was in no mood all day, and didn't even go out.Originally planned to marry Cui Fen before the year before, but it has been procrastinated, that is, to catch up with the New Year's celebration, and before the year, my sow gave birth to a litter and sold it for some money. Chen Liushi has only shown some smiles in the past few days.

After the new year, Wang saw her mother-in-law who hadn't moved for a long time, and thought that the matter of Runze's enrollment was likely to be shirked again.

Seeing his daughter-in-law worrying, Chen Tiegui knew that her daughter-in-law had been thinking about Runze's schooling. Thinking about it, Runze will be ten years old, and it's time to go to school at this age.Then he expressed his thoughts: "From now on, it doesn't matter if there is one less laborer in the field. If he can learn it, we will pay him. If he fails the exam, he will come back to work in farming."

Mrs. Wang fantasized that her son would be a scholar in the future, a smile immediately bloomed on her face, and she blamed her husband, "Don't say you are a scholar, it is a matter of glory for your ancestors to be able to recognize a few more words. You can ask my mother after dinner, what is this?" It doesn’t matter what you say, it has to be agreed by mother to do it.”

After dinner, Chen Tiegui found some free time and told his parents about Runze's enrollment. Chen Liushi kept silent, while Chen Erniu sighed, "Farmers don't farm well, how many people do they know?" What can words do? Can you eat enough or can you wear warm clothes?"

Chen Tiegui was sweating profusely, "Study is not a bad thing, if you do well in the future, you will be more promising than farming!"

Mrs. Chen Liu snorted, and said contemptuously: "What can you do? Zhenghong has been studying for some years, right? Isn't he farming land for his mother at home now?"

Although Chen Tiegui's voice was a little weaker, he still insisted on holding his neck, "It's not the same if you can read more characters. Our Baozhu was named by others."

Chen Liushi scolded with a suspenseful face, "It takes thirty eggs every year just to go to school, which is quite a lot. A hen only lays two hundred eggs a year. How many days do the old hens in our family have to lay?" ? Don’t you need money for the food you feed every day?”

Chen Tiegui suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, but thinking about it, he didn't accomplish the thing that his daughter-in-law had been thinking about for a year, and he still didn't feel at ease, and he didn't give up and asked: "I don't take eggs from our house every year. You can't figure it out yourself!"

Mrs. Chen Liu stood up from her chair, turned around and got on the kang, without raising her eyes, she said: "You can figure it out yourself. If you want to ask me and your father what you mean, don't go to Runze's school. Our family has passed on for generations. Those are all honest farming, if you don’t like reading, what can you do if you read it? That’s how easy it is for a scholar to take the exam? Wishful thinking!”

As soon as Mrs. Wang coaxed Baozhu to sleep, Chen Tiegui entered the door with a dark face. Mrs. Wang knew that the matter had not been settled, so she just wanted to separate the family if it failed. The family didn't let the eggs be taken. Whether my son can enter school or not depends on his mother-in-law's face. It's a really useless life.

These words had been stuffed in his heart for several days, and just as he was about to vomit, Chen Tiegui put down his teacup and patted the table, "Tomorrow, I will take Runze to Mr.'s house to have a look."

Mrs. Wang was surprised, "What's the matter? Mother agreed?"

Chen Tiegui frowned and talked about Chen Erniu's and Chen Liu's opinions, and then said: "I think we can do well, but in the future we won't be able to pass the examination as a scholar. If we know a few more words, our fellow villagers will be respected by others! "

On the second day, the Wang couple took thirty eggs and led Runsheng and Runze to the private school. Yantou Village is a small village among the nearby villages, and there is only one private school. The teacher's surname is Zhu. Old scholar.

Because they don't come and go often on weekdays, although they are not far away, this is the first time they have met. The teacher asked a few questions casually. Seeing that Runze enunciated clearly, he answered with style, and he could recognize a dozen words , was quite satisfied, stroked his beard and smiled and accepted the egg, and asked Wang and his wife to send Runze to school after the first lunar month.

The days were still going on day by day, and after the first month passed, the weather gradually warmed up, and Runze went to school with the big head of Li Shuangxi's family.Going there in the morning and returning before dinner in the evening, Mrs. Wang finally let go of a major matter on her mind.

Baozhu's small stature has also grown a bit. Today, Mrs. Wang was busy working in the kitchen, when she suddenly heard Runsheng shouting outside, "Mother, come out quickly, my little sister can scream!"

Surprised, Wang put down the work in her hand, wiped it twice and ran outside. Zhang Fenglan held the precious pearl and smiled at Wang, "Call me another precious pearl?"

Baozhu pointed at Runsheng, opened her small mouth, and said "Brother" in a childish voice, which was accurately transmitted to several people's ears.

Baozhu originally thought that as an adult whose soul was close to thirty, she naturally didn't need to learn to speak like a baby, and she could open her mouth at any time when her vocal cords were fully developed.But I thought about it again, if no one taught me, I just spoke rashly, wouldn't I become a child prodigy?Today, Zhang Fenglan happened to be pointing at Runsheng to teach Baozhu to call her elder brother in the yard. Zhang Fenglan taught her twice casually, and Baozhu immediately followed suit. The happy Zhang Fenglan taught "auntie" again. Baozhu didn't dare to show off anymore, and opened her small mouth The son only called her brother Runsheng.

Wang Shile beamed, embraced Baozhu and kissed again and again, and chatted with Chen Tiegui about it after dinner.

Wang pursed her lips and smiled, "Our Baozhu is smart, and Runze only learned to call when he was one year old, right?"

Chen Tiegui's face was calm, and he was quite proud, "What's so strange about this, how stupid can our baby be?"

(End of this chapter)