Farmhouse Golden Phoenix

Chapter 12

"Fourth brother, have you ever thought about buying a house in the town?" Su Jingmu asked after pondering for a while, Su Jingsen shook her head with a smile: "It's not the time yet, we just made a fortune, if we don't have any plans, we'll just sit and eat. My plan is to buy the land first, and after two years, if Zhiping and Zhian are successful, there will be more places to spend money, and if I buy a house this time, I guess there will not be much left."

Su Jingmu nodded in agreement: "In short, what I mean is, let Zhiping and Zhian go to school in the town. If they want to read my books, they can borrow two of them. Paper and pens, etc. I'll just take it there."

Mrs. Su Zhang hesitated for a moment: "Well, fifth brother, Xiao Lizhuang also has a school..."

"Fourth sister-in-law, if you want me to say, since you and fourth brother intend to make Zhiping and Zhi'an get good grades, you can't delay in the school in the small village. People in the town, who have a little money, all He was enlightened at the age of five or six, and he took the entrance examination for children when he was twelve or three years old. Zhiping is ten years old this year, right? Zhian is also eight years old this year. The two of them can't afford to delay. Mr. Hao teaches, it is really a waste of Shu Xiu."

Su Jingmu spoke slowly, then turned to look at Su Zhiping: "Zhiping, do you feel scared when you and Zhi'an go to town alone?"

"Don't be afraid." Su Zhiping shook his head immediately, and turned to look at Su Zhang: "Mother, my brother and I have gone to school in the town. Our two grades are not too young. If the weather is really bad or something, we can live together At Uncle Fifth's house."

Mrs. Su Zhang sighed: "You don't know that a few years ago, there were abducted children in our town. You two are not afraid, but I am worried about you. In case you meet something..."

"How about this, I'll send the two children to school." Su Jingsen was silent for a long time, and then made a decision: "It only takes an hour to go back and forth every day. Next year our family will buy land, and I won't be too busy. I must hire part-time workers, and I will be able to spare some time then. During the slack season, it will be no problem."

Seeing that the head of the family had spoken, Mrs. Su had no objection.

Seeing that the matter was confirmed, Su Jingmu turned around with a smile and said, "Where is the thing I asked you to bring back?"

Fifth Aunt Su twisted her body, turned around and went to the back room to get the package, and handed it directly to Su Jingmu: "Here."

Su Jingmu opened it, and took out two sets of pens, inkstones, two books, and a stack of paper: "It's a good thing that you two want to study, and I don't have anything to give you as an uncle, just this ink and paper Yan, you have to study hard in the future, so that you can be worthy of your parents and win glory for my Su family, you know?"

"I know, thank you Uncle Wu, we will definitely study hard." Su Zhiping stepped forward to pick up the things, and together with Su Zhian bowed to Su Jingmu, Grandpa Su, who had been invisible for a long time, said happily: "Okay, we The Su family has finally produced two more scholars. Today I am happy, my child, cook some good food, and our father and son will have a drink or two."

Grandma Su replied with a smile: "Okay, it just so happens that Jing Mu came back and brought some meat, so I can cook some delicious dishes for lunch." Then, she was about to get up to cook, and Mrs. Su Zhang hurriedly followed: "Mom, I'll come That's all right, you sit in the house and rest."

"You don't know where the things are, let me tell you, let's do it together." Grandma Su patted Su Zhang's hand and said with a smile. Fifth Aunt Su stood in the room for a while, then turned and went back to her room up.

The Su family's old house, where Grandpa Su and Grandma Su live now, has three main rooms, two west rooms, and two east rooms.When the family was separated back then, the boss of the Su family and the second child of the Su family were separated first. The third family lived in the west wing, and the other room was used as a kitchen, while the fourth child and fifth child lived in the east wing.

Later, the fourth child, after Su Jingsen got married, also moved out.Only Laowu's family was left in the East Wing. After Fifth Aunt Su passed through the door, she directly opened up the two rooms, completely turning the East Wing into her home.

"Fourth Brother, there is something else I want to discuss with you today." Su Jingmu looked at Su Jingsen and said, "You don't want your room in the East Wing, do you?"

"Well, I don't want it anymore, what's the matter?" Su Jingsen asked suspiciously, Su Jingmu looked at Grandpa Su, and said with a smile: "I want to build a house for our parents, if you don't want that house, you can sell it to me at a price."

"What are you talking about whether it's for sale or not? You can't afford it by yourself when you build a house for our parents. Just treat it as my own for my parents." Su Jingsen refused without thinking. The third child, Su Jinglin, came in, found a stool and sat down slowly: "The fifth child wants to buy a house? Why don't you buy my house, I'm about to start a new house, and money is a bit tight."

Su Jingmu nodded: "Alright, according to the market price, your prescription is about two taels of silver, and I'll give you three taels, do you think it's okay?"

"Okay, let's see, we brothers, can you still lie to me? When are you going to start building a house? I can move out too." Su Jinglin yawned and asked. Among the brothers of the Su family, Su Jinglin was the only one. He has the prettiest appearance, with a white face like jade, handsome and handsome, he doesn't look like a villager at all, even more like a scholar than Fifth Uncle Su.

After finishing talking with Su Jingmu, Su Jinglin turned to look at Su Jingsen again: "Fourth brother, I heard that you made a lot of money? Is there any way to make money, and you can also support the third brother."

"Third brother, I sold the recipe with a hammer, and sold the prescription directly to others." Su Jingsen said with a smile, and was a little puzzled. As the third brother, he has always had food, drink and a place to sleep. Concerned about making money?

When I had doubts, I asked questions. Su Jinglin didn't say anything at first, but finally she was asked by Grandpa Su, and then she spit out. It turned out that she had fallen in love with a widow in the next village and wanted to marry her into the house.It's just that the widow asked for more gifts, so Su Jinglin only wanted to make some money.

"Third brother, how is the character of the widow?" Just as Su Jingsen asked out of the building, Grandpa Su coughed next to him: "Xiao He, go talk to your fourth sister, and call your fourth sister over for dinner later .”

Su Qinghe nodded, and walked towards the door depressedly, it's all over now, eavesdropping is no longer allowed.

Su Qinglan is the only daughter left by Su Jinglin's ex-wife. She is only three years older than Su Qinghe. She usually lives on the far left side of the main room, and the main room where she talks to Grandpa Su and the others is just a wall away.

When Su Qinghe entered, Su Qinglan was wiping tears.

"Fourth sister, what's the matter with you?" Su Qinghe was taken aback, and quickly asked, Su Qinglan choked, "My father is going to marry a stepmother, and everyone in the village says that if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather, What if my father doesn't love me anymore?"

"Fourth sister, what are you afraid of? Don't you still have grandparents here?" Su Qinghe climbed onto the chair, sat opposite Su Qinglan and held her hand: "Besides, after two years, when you are old enough, let grandma see you off." Go to the embroidery workshop in the town, you make money yourself, are you afraid that someone will treat you badly?"

Su Qinglan continued to cry: "Is it enough to make money?"

"That's natural. You have made money yourself. You can buy whatever you want. Don't worry that Uncle San doesn't love you anymore, so he won't give you pocket money." Su Qinghe tried to fool Su Qinglan so much that she wanted to start learning girls right away. red.

"Don't worry, isn't the embroidery workshop only accepting people aged 12 to 16? You're still young." Su Qinghe quickly comforted her, thinking about the conversation just now. Uncle Wu is going to build a house for his grandparents. Can I build a new house by myself?
Although the current house of their family is enough to live in, the mud house is always a bit colder than the tile house, and it is more stuffy in summer.If she builds a new house, can she convince her parents to bury a set of earthen heating underneath?
But where do we get this heating pipe?Bury it in the ground so it won't rust.Farm tools in this era have to be purchased from special places. Is it impossible to buy an extra set of pipes?
Besides, ironware is easy to rust, and the material is not good.There are no plastic pipes at the moment, let alone stainless steel ones. The bricks and tiles are probably not good for heat penetration, which is too much of a waste of firewood. Is there no other way?
After thinking about it, Su Qinghe could only sigh, she couldn't study metal objects by herself, could she?These damn times.

A month later, Su Qinghe also changed into a winter coat made of grass, which was as thick as two fingers. After wearing it, it was like carrying four or five catties of iron. Su Qinghe no longer even had the thought of sighing.

Anyway, although the clothes are uncomfortable to wear, they can block some wind at least.

"Mother, are you going to town today?" As usual, I walked around the kitchen in the morning, and saw that Mrs. Su Zhang was opening the jar in the corner and picking up the preserved eggs inside. Su Qinghe hurriedly asked, and Mrs. Su nodded, "Today It's exactly one month, let's go buy some new year's goods, and take a look at how the preserved eggs at shopkeeper Yang are doing."

"Mother, didn't you say you wanted to send some to Doctor Song last time?" Su Qinghe suddenly remembered this person, and said quickly, "Why don't you bring some more?"

"Yo, do you still remember Doctor Song?" Su Zhang was a little surprised, Su Qinghe nodded a little embarrassedly: "Of course I remember, I'm smart now, not only remember Doctor Song, I also remember the boss of Buzhuang .”

"Yes, my daughter is smart." Mrs. Su Zhang nodded with a smile: "Then bring some to Dr. Song. Speaking of which, it is thanks to Dr. Song that our Preserved Egg Recipe can sell for money." .”

Saying that, Mrs. Su Zhang had already cracked open a pine flower egg in her hand, and was relieved to see that there was indeed a blue-black egg with pine flowers inside.She has not dared to spend more on the 300 taels of silver, for fear that there is something wrong with the prescription and she will lose double the money.

Su Qinghe could see it clearly, and said with a grin, "Mother, let's eat this today, shall we? Use this to cook porridge and add some lean meat."

"Okay, listen to my daughter." Mrs. Su Zhang was in a good mood, and two days ago, someone slaughtered pigs in the village, and the family bought some pork. Naturally, she responded generously.Su Qinghe followed Su Zhangshi, pretending not to care, and reminded her a few times. After working for half an hour, the world's first pot of preserved egg and lean meat porridge was finally ready.

(End of this chapter)