Chapter 33 Mind

Cui Hejin nodded and sat down to burn firewood.

His movements were slow and orderly, even if he was just arranging the firewood on the stove, he looked noble and elegant.

Jiang Zhiluo opened her mouth, but she still didn't refuse after all.

After all the dishes were cut and ready, Cui Hejin saw that she was going to cook, so she lit firewood and started cooking.

Jiang Zhiluo always felt that sitting here and lighting a fire with his temperament, there was a feeling of recklessness.

But now is not the time to pay attention to these things.

Do cook first.

Mrs. Cui watched her son helping to light the fire with a smile on her face.

After Jiang Zhiluo finished cooking, he heated up the bowl of stewed chicken and mushrooms that he brought back yesterday.

Then the three of them washed their hands and sat down to eat.

Everyone has a bowl of steamed buns and stir-fried vegetables in their bowls.

Mrs. Cui and Cui Hejin have never eaten like this.

But I picked up the chopsticks and tasted it, it was really delicious.

Mrs. Cui felt that Zhiluo seemed to be talented in terms of taste, and she could always adjust the taste of the food to a particularly good taste.

While eating, Mrs. Cui and Jiang Zhiluo discussed going to the village to collect beets in the afternoon.

Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Well, mother, you charge more, let's make more brown sugar this afternoon."

"Two pots are used together in the afternoon."

What Jiang Zhiluo wanted was to leaven the noodles after lunch, so that she could make meat buns, and at the same time, she had to stew the pork in the pot. After everything was done, the pot could be used to boil the brown sugar together.

Jiang Zhiluo thought about it in her heart, and felt that she was busy in the afternoon.

Originally, she wanted to go to the river to get some willow buds, but she probably didn't have much time.

After Mrs. Cui and Jiang Zhiluo finished discussing what to do in the afternoon, Cui Hejin put down her chopsticks after eating, and then said leisurely: "I will go to the town school to give lectures from tomorrow, and I will have two taels of silver a month for my family. "

As soon as Cui Hejin's words fell, Mrs. Cui and Jiang Zhiluo stopped eating in their hands.

They all looked at Cui Hejin in unison.

Mrs. Cui said: "Are you going to be a wife?"

Two taels of silver a month is indeed a lot.

She also knows about her son's knowledge, and it is indeed no problem to be a wife.

Cui Hejin Qingrun replied: "Yes."

Mrs. Cui's expression changed. She knew that her son had no intention of going back to the capital, nor did he think of taking part in the scientific examination.

In the past, he was the eldest son of the Duke's Mansion, inheriting the family business and the position as the eldest son, so he didn't need the scientific examination to occupy other people's places, nor did he need the scientific examination to prove his knowledge.

But now that Cui Guogong's mansion is gone, if their family wants to recover, they can only take the imperial examination.

But apparently the son didn't think so.

Otherwise, he would not be a teacher.

"Are you trying to earn those two taels of silver?"

Cui Hejin said: "Not all of them."

Mrs. Cui sighed, she was becoming more and more unpredictable about what this son was thinking.

Jiang Zhiluo didn't say anything, because any words she said now were very pale.

Even if she wanted Cui Hejin to go to the county academy to study, it still needed money, and without money, it was impossible to support the study.

Although he said that there are two taels of silver for the monthly bankers to use every month.

But Jiang Zhiluo thought, she should earn more money as soon as possible, so that Cui Hejin wouldn't have to worry about making money to subsidize her family.

Mrs. Cui said: "Then going to the school to teach is more difficult, do you have time to rest, do you want to live in the school?"

Cui Hejin slowly explained: "The school is very close to home, so you don't need to live in the school. Si Shi Chu has class, Shen Zheng has get out of class, and an hour's break at noon..."

Jiang Zhiluo listened silently, and calculated in her heart, that is, class starts at about nine o'clock in the morning and ends at four o'clock in the afternoon.

There is also a two-hour break at noon. In this case, even teaching is much easier.

She thought that the school should also have a holiday.

But Cui Hejin can come to the house every day, and it doesn't matter whether he rests or not.

That's fine, so he doesn't have to work so hard copying ink books.

After lunch was packed, Jiang Zhiluo and Mrs. Cui got busy.

Jiang Zhiluo gave Mrs. Cui a hundred coins and said, "Mother, buy more, we've been selling brown sugar for the past few days."

What Jiang Zhiluo thought was to buy more beets during this time, maybe there won't be many beets after a while.

Beet is a winter vegetable. There are no greenhouse vegetables here, and all vegetables must come according to the season.

Without beets, there is no way to make sugar, since there is no sugar cane here.

If there is sugar cane, she will not be afraid that there will be no brown sugar.

Mrs. Cui knew that Jiang Zhiluo had rules for everything she did, so she did as she said.

"Mother, go to a few more houses to see, but there are still copper coins here, so don't give them to me."

Last time Cui Hejin sold eggs and copied books. After buying rough noodles, there was still fifty Wen left.

Jiang Zhiluo said, "Mother, just hold it."

Jiang Zhiluo insisted, but Mrs. Cui did not refuse.

After that, Mrs. Cui went to buy beets.

Jiang Zhiluo began to make friends with each other.

After kneading the dough into a ball, she covered it with a clean cloth and waited for it to rise before making Roujiamo buns.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Zhiluo began to stew the pig into the water.

She was going to do this while lighting the fire.

But it was a bit too busy to keep up, Cui Hejin packed some things in the house, and when she came out, she saw Jiang Zhiluo looking at the firewood and the pot at the same time.

There was not enough firewood, so she took one and put it in the stove, then washed her hands and stir-fried in the pot with a spoon.

Cui Hejin's expression changed, she walked over, sat down and helped to light the fire.

Seeing someone helping, Jiang Zhiluo breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you."

Cui Hejin's lips moved, "I should thank you."

Thank you for everything she does for the family.

He could see that the mother was in a good mood these days, and she didn't have time to worry too much.

All this is due to his little wife.

Jiang Zhiluo smiled slightly and said, "It's the right thing to do."

"You don't have to think too much, I also eat well for myself."

But when the stir-frying was done, Jiang Zhiluo asked Cui Hejin to help him light the fire and watch the pot while it was stewing.

She went to the yard to peel the few beets left at home, and she never stopped.

……

Mrs. Cui thought about collecting beets, so she went to Lizheng's house first.

Li Zheng's family has more fields, and there should be a lot of beets.

Besides, the daughter-in-law Zhu Shi helped her a lot on weekdays, and she was also grateful in her heart.

"Sister Zhu, are you home?"

Mrs. Zhu had just eaten and was planting vegetables in the vegetable garden in the yard, when she heard the sound, she hurried out.

"Oh, it's Sister Cui, what wind brought you here, come in quickly."

Mrs. Zhu now looks at Mrs. Cui very enthusiastically.

After pulling Mrs. Cui into the house, she also talked about saving lives before.

"Thanks to your family, Zhiluo, the magistrate's housekeeper even said that I should thank you very much when I look back, but I saw that the county magistrate's house seemed to have something important at the time, so I didn't take care of that much..."

But no matter what, because Zhiluo saved the noble daughter of the county magistrate, that is also a credit, and even took them along with her.

Mrs. Cui was taken aback when she heard this, she didn't expect such a thing.

(End of this chapter)

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