After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

Qin Yao didn't wait for Master Ding to question him, and said calmly:

The weather has been nice recently, and the young lady felt dizzy while studying at home, so I took her into the mountains to get some air and relax.

The father and daughter all looked at the wind and rain blowing outside the house and thought to themselves, do you call this a good weather?

However, he finally found a valid reason for Ding Xiang's 'extraordinary' behavior, and handed Master Ding a ladder to let him down.

Eight dishes were prepared on the table, including meat and vegetables, as well as a stack of pastries. The aroma of the food came in waves, but a few people had no intention of starting the meal. Qin Yao thought to herself, this is too torturous for you.

So, in order to start eating quickly, Qin Yao said a few more words.

The general meaning is that now all upper-class nobles and famous ladies have to take riding and archery lessons, and Miss Ding is just the entry point.

In the future, Mr. Ding will take the Jinshi examination, and he will really change his family and become a lady from an official family. Mastering two upper-class social skills will be conducive to the harmonious development of their family.

The father and daughter watched Qin Yao finish her words seriously, a little bit convinced.

But how could she, a village woman, know about the social life of a noble girl?

Qin Yao smiled at the father and son. This is not the point. The point is, If you don't eat it, the food will be cold.

Mr. Ding's serious expression had softened a lot. He knew that noble girls also learned riding and shooting, and suddenly felt that it would be good for his daughter to learn these things.

Picking up the chopsticks, he nodded to Qin Yao and started eating.

Qin Yao watched Master Ding take a bite of the food before using his chopsticks.

She ate much more gracefully and with much restraint than she usually did, and only ate three bowls of rice and one bowl of soup.

Ding Xiang asked worriedly: Qin Yao, are you full?

Qin Yao smiled politely, I'm full. It's delicious. Thank you Master Ding for your hospitality.

In fact, I am only six percent full, and I will treat it as if I have lost weight today.

But Master Ding’s food is really good. There’s enough fish and meat to eat. I’d envy him to death.

Of course, she also believed that the meals she would eat in the future would never be worse than this one.

After the meal, Ding Xiang and Ding Shi left, leaving only Qin Yao and Mr. Ding still in the dining room.

The servants cleared away the dishes and chopsticks. Qin Yao followed Mr. Ding to sit down on the master's chair. Butler Yu came over and handed a small cloth bag to Qin Yao.

Qin Yao took it expectantly, weighed it, and got two taels of silver as salary!

Thank you, sir. Qin Yao stood up and gave a polite fist.

Master Ding nodded, Ms. Qin has worked hard this month.

He also said that if Qin Yao wanted to rest, she could stay at the house for a few more days and ask Zhang Ba to drive her home.

Qin Yao thanked him gratefully and refused. She couldn't take people's politeness seriously.

The two talked for a while, mainly Mr. Ding asked about Ding Xiang's situation this month, and finally asked again:

Do all noble ladies really practice riding and shooting? Don't they mainly practice music, chess, calligraphy and painting?

How did Qin Yao know? She just guessed it based on the previous fan novel about the emperor and the empress.

But he still nodded calmly, Of course you need to practice music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but tea making, flower arranging, riding and shooting are also indispensable. Not to mention proficiency, but you also need to know a little bit about it. Otherwise, others can do it, but you can't. , it’s not easy to blend in, sir, don’t you think so?”

By the way, I heard from Butler Yu that I will be in Beijing soon to take part in the autumn examination. When I arrive in Beijing, I will naturally know whether what I said is true or false.

With this supplement, Mr. Ding expected that Qin Yao would not dare to lie to him. He nodded, already eighty-nine percent convinced, and asked Qin Yao if he wanted to stay for another month and continue to guide Ding Xiang in riding and shooting.

Qin Yao said: Don't worry, sir. I have taught you all the riding and shooting skills in the past few days. I just need to practice more in the future.

Young lady is smart and can do it with just a few clicks. As long as you are willing to work hard, it will only be a matter of time before you master it completely.

Hearing what Qin Yao said, Mr. Ding remembered that he was so embarrassed just now because he had such a big reaction.

In the evening, I learned from Butler Yu that Qin Yao taught very carefully, and she looked like a professional master-level teacher. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that such a person would never be just an ordinary peasant woman in the future.

In the middle of the night, he sat up in shock and decisively asked Butler Yu to go to the warehouse to get another tael of silver. He also ordered someone to go to the kitchen and asked the cook to make two more portions of Qin Yao's favorite pastries in the morning and hand them to Qin Yao when she left tomorrow. .

A word from the master can cause the servant to run away and break his leg.

It's okay to get money, but it's hard for the cook. There is no pasta for making pastries, so she has to get up in the middle of the night to grind.

Early the next morning, when Qin Yao packed her bags and was about to leave, she was a little touched when she saw two packages of cakes and a tael of silver brought by Butler Yu.

Ding Xiang wrapped all the books he wanted to borrow for her, and put an extra layer of oil paper in the cloth bag to prevent the sudden rain from getting these precious books wet.

These are all study notes made by Master Ding. What scholar wouldn’t want the notes of Master Ding?

Knowing the weight of these books, Qin Yao checked them carefully before slinging the nine heavy books on her back along with the bow, arrow and sword.

Still steaming in his hand were a pack of peach blossom cakes and a pack of mung bean cakes. Under Ding Xiang's reluctant eyes, he stepped out of the Ding's house door, waved and left.

It was still early, Qin Yao came to the town, and first went to the butcher shop to buy five kilograms of meat and two ribs.

Then I went to the only grocery store that sold pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and bought a thick stack of white paper.

The paper had not been cut, and was tied into a small bundle, and the outer layer was wrapped in oilcloth. The oilcloth was charged five cents.

But don’t give up. It’s raining these days. So this cloth can be used again and again. Just remember to bring it with you next time you come to buy paper.

To copy books faster, Qin Yao bought herself a set of pens and ink. All in all, she spent half a tael of silver.

So studying is expensive, and the tuition is only a small part of it. The real big part is consumables such as paper, pen, and ink. There are also social favor expenses and so on.

The pastries were sent by the Ding family, but Qin Yao didn't buy any snacks.

Taking a look at the clothes on her body, she saw that the thick cotton was no longer suitable for summer. She was just trying to hold on to it now. It was too hot when the sun came up.

Qin Yao couldn't bear to think of the light silk Ding Xiang was wearing, but he could still afford linen.

I estimated how much each person in the family would need, and bought a piece of linen and a roll of cotton thread, spending another half a tael of silver.

There are still two taels left of the three taels of silver.

The rice only matures in mid-July, and now it is June, and there is still a month and a half of food demand, so I bought another three hundred catties of grain, half fine rice and half miscellaneous grains, and I wasted one, two, and five cents of silver.

Qin Yao did the math and found that all he had now was only eighty-two-five cents.

In other people's homes, three hundred kilograms of grain would last for almost three months, but Qin Yao's food intake was as good as five, so there was no way he could save this money.

However, once the rice is harvested this year, the food situation of the family of six will be greatly improved, and the food expenses should be saved.