peasant girl allure

Chapter 37 How to Use 500 Taels

In the evening, two brothers, Jing Rui and Jing Hao, each carried a food box of pastries, twisted two grass carp with straw ropes on their mouths, and each of them walked into the house with a wooden box.

Seeing that there were only the two of them, Xiao'er asked, "Where are Brother Zixuan and Young Master Li?"

"Brother Li has something to do at home, so he left first, and said he would visit next time. These are cakes made by Brother Li's house, and he also gave us two sets of pens and ink."

"Our family also prepared a basket of fruit for him. Since he has already left, we can only give him something in return next time." Mrs. Liu liked Li Zhewei very much, and felt that he had no airs.

Xiao'er stepped forward to take the fish from Jing Rui's hand, "Let's eat fish with pickled cabbage tonight."

She plans to cook a plate of pickled fish and a pot of fish soup. Mrs. Liu has to breastfeed her younger sister. Recently, Mrs. Liu has enough food and milk, and her younger sister has grown fatter because she is full. , Sleep when you are full, sleep for an hour and a half, wake up and play for a while, cry when you are hungry, it is very non-existent.

When Xiaoer cooks, she replaces the fish with the fish raised in the space, and the taste is simply irresistible.

"I originally said that our family couldn't finish eating two such big fish, but I didn't expect that I could eat another one."

In the upper room, the old man and Mrs. Shen Zhuang didn't like to eat fish, but they ate very badly and swallowed the bones.

After the family had dinner, Xiaoer washed a plate of fruit and put it on the table. Then she took out all the pens, inks, papers, inkstones, books and money she earned today. While cutting paper and making account books, she said: "I I bought two enlightenment books, one is "Three Sons Classic" and the other is "Hundred Family Surnames". Today I sold two design drawings of porcelain and made a total of 500 taels of silver. Brother and younger brother Kaichun next year Then you can go to school to study, let’s study at home before going to school.”

"Father can also read two characters. Father will come to teach you guys at night. However, the money Xiao'er earns is kept as a dowry, and we don't need it." Shen Chengyao spoke out his thoughts.

Xiaoer didn't expect Shen Chengyao to think so. When shopkeeper Yao gave the banknotes before, Shen Chengyao told her that she only let her hold the banknotes because he thought it was safer to keep them with her. After all, no one would have thought of it. A child in rough clothes will carry a huge sum of several hundred taels on his body.

Mrs. Liu and the two brothers nodded. Their mothers were always embarrassed by their grandma because they didn't have any dowry. The dowry can make a woman lift her chest and straighten her back in her husband's house.

Xiao'er had no choice but to praise the character of this family again, but now it is a family, whoever has the ability should do more, and making a fortune together is the last word.

"I will talk about my dowry later. Now that I am still young, it is too early to say the dowry."

"It's too early, my sister-in-law has been saving since she was born!" Jing Hao felt that his sister saved too late.

"Now that the family has money, I think next year I will send my brother and Jing Hao to study in a college in the county, and then we will also buy some fields and build a new house, how about it?" Xiao'er directly bypassed the dowry and said her own plan.

"Study, buy fields, and build houses. Is this enough money?" Jing Rui was a little worried that he would run out of money.

"You can make money if you don't have enough! It's not that you can't make money. Mother can make silk flowers, father and you can hunt and dig herbs, and I can draw pictures. There are many ways to make money, as long as you are diligent enough."

"I must be very diligent. Next time Mantou asks me to play, I won't go either." Jing Hao hurriedly reached out his hand to promise.

"Why don't you buy some land first? There is a field at home, so don't panic."

Xiao'er actually wants to build a new house and move out. She wants a relatively quiet and peaceful living environment. Here, so many people live together, and every now and then, Li Shi will make trouble. It is a waste of time and life, but she cherishes time and life very much.

"We have to buy fields and homesteads. If we build a new house, we can build a chicken coop or a pig coop, so that we can catch more chickens and pigs to raise them. The chickens can sell their eggs, and the pigs can be sold when they grow bigger. Now, I have another income, and the room where my elder brother and younger brother live is too small, and my uncle’s house only has one room. When we build a new house, we can give up the current house to my uncle. Now it’s just During the slack season, it is convenient to hire someone to build a house, and we can move to a new house before the new year. In the spring of next year, my elder brother and younger brother will have their own study room, so we don’t have to worry about being disturbed.”

After hearing this, Shen Chengyao and Mrs. Liu also thought of Mrs. Li and wanted to move. Reading should not be distracted all the time, so he nodded, "Then build a house."

He loves children very much. He used to see children starving and freezing, their faces were yellow and thin, and he was very sad that his children suffered along with him. Even the clothes were changed from old clothes of adults, or I just pick up what my nephew or niece doesn’t want. I have never had a new dress, and my nephew and niece all have new clothes for the New Year, but my own children don’t. Now that the family is separated, I can be the master of the house. Everything can be given priority to the wishes of the child, making up for the shortcomings over the years.

"Father, is there any homestead in our village that is suitable for building a house? It needs to be bigger."

Shen Chengyao thought for a while, "The big unclaimed land in the village is gone, but there is a wasteland at the head of the village, and the wasteland can also be bought to build a house, but there are many stones and grass in the wasteland. People in the village have also tried to plant it before. Grain and vegetables, but the grass always grows faster than the crops, so no one will go to open up wasteland, and the seeds and energy will not be wasted in vain.”

"How much is an acre of daddy's wasteland?" Xiao'er also knew that the wasteland was very large and uneven, it should be more than 40 mu, and it was connected to two small hills.

"The wasteland costs one tael of silver per mu."

"Father, let's buy the whole wasteland and those two small hills." The two mountains are like twin mountains, Xiao'er plans to open them to grow fruits and medicinal materials, and then take out the fruits and medicinal materials in the space There is also a source for selling.

After hearing this, Shen Chengyao was shocked, "This is too much, how much money will it cost, do we have enough money?"
Mrs. Liu was taken aback when she heard that, "Xiao'er, wasteland is difficult to take care of, and we can't do it if we buy too much. Just buy two or three acres enough to build a house."

Xiao'er thought about it, and decided to buy the wasteland first, and then buy two hills later, "Then let's buy the wasteland first, and then ask someone to open up the wasteland, and I can find a way to enrich the land."

Shen Chengyao originally disagreed, but after hearing this, he became silent. If there is a way to fertilize the land, then buying wasteland will be a big profit.

"That's good, let's buy them all. Anyway, farmland is much more expensive than wasteland. Let's not buy farmland anymore."

Xiaoer smiled wryly, Shen Chengyao was really used to it when he bought wasteland but not fields.

Mrs. Liu thought of her own family because Xiaoer can sell land and build a house now, and her son can also study. She really felt that God treated their family well. It is the centenary birthday of the Five Gods Temple, let's go to pay respects, and add some sesame oil money by the way."

Shen Chengyao nodded hurriedly after hearing this, "Yes, all of them will go, and no one will be missing."

"Tomorrow I have to go to the neighboring county to inquire about Yun'er. It will take a few days to go back and forth, and the family depends on you." Shen Chengyao said to Liu Shi
Xiao'er wanted to say that she would not go, she was not interested in these things, so she nodded after hearing this.

Shen Chengguang's voice suddenly came from outside: "Father, mother, we are back."

Xiaoer was surprised that it was so late, what would happen when Shen Chengguang came back?
Shen Chengyao was also worried that something happened to the shop, so he stood up, "I'll go and see if there's anything wrong with Big Brother coming back so late."

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