Wen Family Has a Wife

   Chapter 73

Generally, it takes four days to go to the county seat, one day to repair the trap, two days to catch the sea, and another day to go to the county seat. With such a tossing, in the off-season, it is not bad to get 10 taels a month. If you work hard a year, you can save 200 taels. If you don’t want to work so hard, you can save 180 taels, which is enough for him. A child is reading.

In the past, he didn't dare to think about letting his child take the exam for fame and so on, but now he's moved his mind. Since he has this ability, he can't miss the child's future. It's a big deal to try a few times. Here, Wen Youshan couldn't sit still, thinking about having a good talk with the autumn harvest children when they came back.

After a busy day, when Wen Youshan came back from the county, the sky just darkened. Most of the people in the village turned off the lights, and a few people were still moving, but no candles were lit. It was estimated that he was about to rest. He drove the donkey cart back slowly. When I got home, I found that the lights in the main room were still on, and two figures, one big and one small, were busy.

   "Why are you so late and haven't rested yet?" Wen Youshan rushed in and asked in shock, they were usually resting at this time, but today was an exception.

  Wen Yuanzhen ran over excitedly, pulled Wen Youshan over to look, "Dad, look, mother really wove silk cloth, just today, today, mother knitted one."

  Wen Yuanzhen gestured hard with a finger, looking excited, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

Wen Youshan also noticed the cloth beside the table at this moment. The pure white cloth glowed with a smooth and supple light under the light of the candlelight. Said: "This is... Really weaving something?"

"Mmmmmmm..." Wen Yuanzhen nodded desperately, "It started this morning, my mother's speed was slow at first, and then gradually accelerated when I got used to it, and by noon, only the voice of my mother weaving cloth was left in our house. Little brother and little sister don't dare to make trouble, the three of us just watched my mother work for a day today."

"How can it be so exaggerated!" Chen Ningya pinched Wen Yuanzhen's small face angrily, raised her head and turned her neck, and said with Wen Youshan, "I knitted one today, and the silk thread is still long, it has been sitting for a long time. It will turn yellow when it sees the light, and the woven cloth will not be able to sell for a good price, so I want you to find a way to cover the window so that the light does not come through. Free it up, wait for this kilometer of silk thread to be woven, and then transfer the things to the next door, and I will work there in the future."

Wen Youshan swallowed his saliva violently, and after careful calculation, a piece of cloth was four feet long, and the silk thread was as long as a kilometer. It seems that these threads can weave at least seventy pieces of cloth. According to what Chen Ningya said before, A piece of pure white silk cloth is three taels of silver, and seventy pieces are two hundred and one hundred taels. Weaving one piece a day is ninety taels of silver a month.

  Wen Youshan was already dizzy, and he didn't even think about why Chen Ningya knew how to weave blindly, but if he knew a little bit, he could see that this blind weaver was not something a novice weaver would know.

The father and daughter are now directly taking Chen Ningya's words as the imperial edict, and they are pointing to where to fight. They actually sealed the windows of the main room overnight, and moved all the things in the main room to the next door. In the future, Chen Ningya has done it here. the place.

For the next few days, Chen Ningya was like living in the main room. She was working in the rest of the time except sleeping. The work at home fell to eight-year-old Wen Yuanzhen and four-year-old Wen Yuanjing, and even the youngest Wen Yuanxing was arrested. I was assigned to feed chickens and ducks. Fortunately, the children of poor families were in charge early, and the three children got used to it within two days.

Chen Ningya waited and watched for two days. Seeing that the children did not make any mistakes, she let go. She was all focused on weaving. It took more than two months to weave the kilometer-long silk thread. It's late summer and early autumn.

  Wen Yuanzhen heard the movement and ran over and asked, "Mother, are you not working today?"

  Chen Ningya chuckled and shook her head, "Stop working, take a break."

  Wen Yuanzhen's eyes lit up, "Have those silk threads been woven?"

  Chen Ningya nodded slightly, and the little girl jumped up with joy, "I knew that mother is the best, mother, what shall we do next?"

Chen Ningya rubbed her chin and pondered: "I'll try to dye a piece of cloth first, if there is no problem, let your father send it to the county cloth village to see what price it can sell, but you have to help me pick bluegrass first. Go, I'll go to Huang's house."

Since we want to dye the cloth, we naturally need some lime. This thing is readily available in the Huang family. Since we are going to the Huang family, naturally we cannot do it empty-handed. There is a small half-altar, and the dried bacon has not been eaten, and there are some fresh seafood left by Wen Youshan on the other side of the kitchen.

She simply took out some of these things separately. Chopped the dried pickles and bamboo shoots, mixed with diced bacon, shrimp, and diced octopus, and mixed them all together. Put two eggs on the rough surface to wake up. Put some oil in it, put the stuffing on the proofed rough bread, flatten it, put it in the pan and fry it, and the fragrance will come out soon.

  Because of the thought of satisfying the children's cravings, Chen Ningya fried a basket at once. It is estimated that there are a dozen or twenty, and she gave six to the Huang family, and the rest was enough for their family to eat.

   After frying the pancakes, while the pan was still hot, Chen Ningya added some oil, sautéed chopped green onions, and made vegetable egg drop soup for the children, which was just right with pancakes.

After the things were placed on the table, the three children ate honestly and squinted their eyes in enjoyment, especially the youngest Wen Yuanxing, who kept shouting about the fragrance of the cakes, and Chen Ningya brought three more and said: " After you finish eating, pack up and go out to pick bluegrass, if you can't find it, it doesn't matter, don't go far, I'll come back after a trip to the village."

  The children nodded.

Chen Ningya went out with her things, and when she passed by the Sun's house, she found that the yard was quiet, and she didn't know if the whole family had gone down, but it was just right to save her having to greet each other, walking all the way to the Huang's house, and the people she met. She didn't know anyone, so when people greeted her, she responded with a smile, so that nothing could go wrong.

Huang's house was near the entrance of the village, and it took a long time to walk from Wen's house. Before Chen Ningya entered the yard, she heard the sound of beating and beating. In this case, no one could hear the call. See, she simply pushed the door and went in, looking for the stove and going in directly.

   Mr. Zhao was cooking, and when he turned around, he almost threw the spatula in his hand, "My God! Rare customer! I thought I was blinded!"

   Zhao's shocking enthusiasm made Chen Ningya smile a little embarrassedly: "Alian, I have something to ask you to tell me, this is the pancake I made, I will give you a taste."

   (end of this chapter)