Chapter 281
The leftover dishes from the banquet were divided among the villagers and brought back. The borrowed tables, benches, dishes, etc. were cleaned and returned. After the entire yard was cleaned, the Qin family could be regarded as a complete move into their new home.

After Qin Shaoxian and Qin Miao drove the carriage home, the family had a carriage, and it was much more convenient to go to the town to buy things for the New Year.

Yuanse Cloth Village in the county made about 2000 taels of profit in the second half of the year, and Qin Shaoxian handed over the banknotes to Qin Feng. Together with the profit of more than 1 taels from the Taifeng Grain Store that had been settled before, there was a total of [-] taels of profit. More than two thousand taels of silver were handed over to father Qin Feng.

For a while, the Qin family's family property became the richest family in a hundred miles, with a family property of more than 2 taels of silver, even if it was placed in the county, it would be a rich family.

In a flash of time, it came to the end of the twelfth lunar month, and the new year will be celebrated in a few days.

The weather was fine that day, and the elder brother and the second elder brother drove the carriage to the town early in the morning to buy new year's goods.

Speaking of this year's New Year's goods, there is nothing special in need. Qin Miao moved a lot of dried fish and vegetables from the house where the grain was stored in the town before, and they were all sent to the banquet earlier. After it was used up, there were still a lot of dried fish and vegetables left, which happened to be reserved for the New Year.

Afterwards, Qin Miao secretly filled the rice and noodle jars at home to the brim, all of which were polished rice and fine noodles from the spatial grain depot.The family has a large population, and the mother has given birth to a little sister who is not yet confinement. Everyone is busy serving the mother and teasing the little sister, or buying new year's goods or gifts from the villagers. No one notices the food in the kitchen. Seeing that the food was piled up, I thought it was the new year's goods bought by the two boys.

In addition, there was no need for cloth, Qin Miao and Qin Shaoxian brought a lot of cloth when they came back from the county, new clothes for the whole family were enough.

So Qin Shaoxian and Qin Shaolian went around the town and only bought some pastries, pork and so on.In fact, there is no shortage of pastries. When I came back from the county, I brought a lot of good pastries, but they were eaten up by the villagers who came to congratulate me before the New Year, so I had to buy some more.

Speaking of pork, the Qin family has long passed the situation where they can’t afford pork. A catty of pork costs 25 Wen. The whole pig is only a few taels of silver when it comes back.According to the Qin family's current family property of more than 2 taels of silver, there is no need to record it in the account.

This evening, dinner was made of noodles in pork bone soup.The kitchen in the new courtyard is very spacious.Excluding the stove, vegetable cabinet, desk, and firewood enclosure, there is still a lot of open space.

My mother was not yet confinement, so the cooking errands fell to the fourth sister, Qin Miaoyuan. Fortunately, the fourth sister had learned cooking skills from He Hua before, and now she can cook very well.The fourth sister wore her mother's apron to stew bone soup, the elder brother and the second elder brother came to the kitchen to light a fire to keep warm when they came back from the town to buy new year's goods, Qin Miao came to the kitchen to join in the fun when she had nothing to do, and her father had less work at the end of the year, so he also Go into the kitchen and talk to the kids.

The situation of the Qin family is better now, and the goal of everyone's life is not just to have enough food and clothing.Now that the family is not short of money, the most regrettable thing in father Qin Feng's heart is that he could not continue to study because of the war disaster. If you can't study, you can't study and you can be an official. After so many years, you are just a farmer in the countryside .The bitterness in it is only understood in my heart.

Such regret and bitterness, Qin Feng did not want to stage it on his sons.In the past, my family was poor, and it was a very expensive thing to study and get a good reputation, so I had to press it and not mention it.It's different now, the foundation of the family is strong, although the boys missed the good time of enlightenment, it's not too late to start studying now.

So I paid special attention to the schooling situation of my sons.

Qin Shaoxian will be seventeen after the new year. Although he has worshiped Mr. Zhu as his master, he is a bit old after all, and he has not studied before, and his foundation is too weak.Qin Feng couldn't help but care a few words: "Boss, listen to Miaomiao, you will take the exam next year, are you prepared?"

Qin Shaoxian is now the hope of everyone in the Qin family, so he naturally did not dare to slack off. Hearing his father's question, he hurriedly put down his work, stood in front of his father in an orderly manner, and replied solemnly: "My son has already Get ready, dad, you can rest assured."

Having said that, Qin Feng still couldn't let it go. He had only studied for three or four months at the end of the year when he became a teacher last autumn.But think about it again, in the early years of war, the country was destroyed, who still cares about studying, the emperor just posted the emperor's list this spring, saying that he would open Enke, no one had expected that the new emperor who was born in the north of the barbarian would love the Central Plains Imperial interest.

Speaking of which, the scholars who are going to take the exam next spring will only start studying in the last year.Since everyone just started studying recently, their level is about the same. Maybe, maybe, the eldest son can really come back with a good grade in the exam?
Qin Feng sat on the small stool in the kitchen where he usually sits to choose vegetables, thinking about it, frowning for a while, and Qin Shaoxian didn't know what his father was thinking, so he had to persuade him again: "Dad, son I will study hard and I will not let you down."

Qin Feng smiled kindly and said "yes" twice.

After talking about the eldest son, Qin Feng's eyes fell on the second son.

Qin Shaolian was currently adding firewood to the stove with great joy. Before, it was the elder brother who was lighting the fire and he leaned beside him to keep warm. Later, the elder brother was called by his father to ask questions, so he sat on the fire place to add firewood and warm up.He was having a great time roasting, when he suddenly heard his father's voice saying: "Shaolian, why don't you go to the county with your eldest brother next spring, and see if you can also go to Mr. Zhu's house to study."

Qin Shaolian was taken aback by the sudden words, and when he touched sparks while adding firewood, his hands were immediately burned with a blister.Busily stood up and waved his hands: "Don't, Dad, big brother is a good material for reading, but I am not. I think I'd better stay at home and help you with farm work."

Qin Feng said sternly: "The two acres of land at home are not worth anything, a man is a man, he can learn martial arts, and sell it to the emperor's house, so that he can honor his family."

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants rank at the bottom. If there is no one in the family who is an official, no matter how much money they earn, it is just an illusion.A word from someone who is an official can wipe out all these family wealth.One hundred thousand snowflakes of silver from the prefect a year is not because the prefect is not clean enough, but because the rich are vying to curry favor with the prefect. As long as they can get a job with the official, it is worth the money.

(End of this chapter)

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