Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 224

Xiuyao slapped him with a "slap", "Nonsense." This little poor child, she just spit on herself casually, but he also learned it. Sure enough, children are sometimes spies.

Everyone laughed and went to the kang to eat.

When eating, Qin Yang held the chopsticks with his left hand, Xiuyao saw it strangely and asked, "Little Yang, why do you use your left hand?" He used to be right handed.Qin Yang was a little embarrassed, and said haha, "I eat with my left hand and write with my right. I'm used to it."

When Liu Shi heard this, she felt distressed, and said, "It's been so hard."

But Xiuyao saw through him, "Did you get beaten again?"

Qin Yang bit his lip, but Xiurong pulled his hand away, and saw that his right hand was already swollen, and his left hand was still scarred, but it was older than his right hand.Seeing it, Liu twitched in distress, and sighed: "This book is good to read."

Qin Yang smiled and said, "It's okay, I don't hurt, I'm used to it."

Liu Shi felt even more uncomfortable, but said, "Mr. beat you because I have expectations for you, and it's for your own good."

Qin Yang hummed, "I know. Mister said that if you don't fight, you won't succeed."

Xiuyao also knows that Mr. Ren expects a lot from him, and she is afraid that his child will be too lax, so she always urges him.However, Qin Yang is still young after all, he is only a seven-year-old child, no matter how good his aptitude is, he has not been exposed to it since he was a child, and he has only studied for two years.Mr. Ren asked him to learn so many things, sometimes he couldn't understand them all at once, and he would be beaten if he made a mistake.Xiuyao disagreed with this point, but she couldn't point fingers at other people's education methods.

Originally, she thought that if Qin Yang was beaten once, he would not be beaten if he was sensible, but she ignored Mr. Ren's expectations.Mr. Ren looks like a friendly person, but in fact, when it comes to reading, if he has expectations for others, it is unprecedentedly strict.

Qin Xian couldn't help feeling a little sad when he heard the conversation between Xiuyao and Qin Yang, talking about Mr. Shu's expectations and the words that a strict teacher will produce a good apprentice.Zhou Huiren didn't have such high expectations for him. He studied desperately, and even his husband advised him to take it easy and not push himself too hard.But he will be 15 years old in the next year, and his husband said that he is not good enough, at least he will have to wait until later before going to the end of the game to hone his skills.Although he didn't say it clearly, he knew that what Mr. Zhou meant was that he couldn't do it in the past two years.

Now that there are two scholars in the family, Xiuyao discussed with her parents that there is no need to ask someone to write couplets anymore, just let them write.However, the big characters that Qin Yang is learning now are mainly simple ones, and he can't even memorize many books. This is Mr. Ren's way.Qin Xian learned to write a lot, not only to be able to write, but also to be able to read, memorize, and speak, so he wrote the couplets at home.

Qin Xian learned Chinese characters late, and although they are not very good, they are still passable, enough for his own family.

A few children went to the market, bought red paper, and wrote couplets at home. It was nothing more than a good harvest, double-year-old overnight, two years at five o'clock, and joy when they looked up.Mrs. Zhang saw that it was cheap and profitable, so she naturally stopped preparing, and asked Qin Xian to write it all, and post it together when the time comes.

28 On this day, Xiuyao and the others were busy pasting the couplets. Qin Xian looked at his own words and wondered, "Yaoyao, will it be too ugly?"

Xiuyao smiled at him and said, "Second brother, what's so ugly? I think it's very good. Look, your handwriting already has a strong character. Don't forget how long you've only been practicing. You've made great progress! "

Qin Xian felt warm in his heart, and felt confident that he would be able to give it a try in two years. Those classmates also envied him. After all, he had such achievements in his talents and studies, which was already very remarkable.

There are a lot of people in the family, and the big dumplings, steamed buns, etc. have already been prepared, and they are placed in a crock, and they will not make anything else for the whole first month, just eat ready-made ones.After doing this, Mrs. Liu asked the daughters to relax, so they don't have to be busy anymore. Anyway, Mrs. Zhang has a lot of people there, so there is no need to let her daughters go to trouble.

Qin Yang and Xiuli were still thinking about letting Xiuyao make candied haws for them to eat. There are hawthorns at home, and Xiuyao bought some expensive white sugar and rock candy before.

Xiuyao said: "Help me, I'll make candied hawthorn for you." She went to pick out a small pot of hawthorn, washed it, soaked it in warm water, and then asked her second sister to clean the hawthorn with scissors and remove the stalks. and nuclear.

Then I took a cloth to dry the hawthorns, and put them on with bamboo sticks. The bamboo sticks are ordinary chopsticks that are broken into four pieces, and it is good to polish them slightly.

Xiuyao put a little water in the pot, then asked Xiurong to turn on the fire, and when it boiled, began to add rock sugar, stirred with chopsticks, and waited for the sugar to start bubbling and turn yellow.Xiuyao picked up a little bit with chopsticks and put it in the cold water to look at it. After drawing the silk, she asked Xiuli and Qin Yang to quickly bring the hawthorns in bunches to hang the paste.

Xiuyao moved quickly, scooped up the syrup with a spoon and quickly hung it on the string of candied haws. With a quick turn of her right hand, a string of candied haws was ready.

Qin Yang anxiously picked up one and gnawed it, "Ah——hot!"

Xiuyao slapped him, "I'll eat it later." She hurried to hang other candied haws, otherwise the syrup would be cold and unusable.

Even though she moved swiftly, she still got a scalding blister, and quickly put it in cold water to freeze it, "Oh, I sacrificed a lot for your greedy mouth."

Qin Yang rushed over and kissed her finger, "I'll just kiss." He ate until the corners of his mouth were covered with sugar and hawthorn juice, and he gave Xiuyao a hand.

Xiuyao pinched his thin face, "Don't eat too much, be careful to spit out sour water." Hawthorn is good, but when she was a child, she often ate sour water at night.

Xiurong's food is good, but she is obsessed with money, "Yaoyao, let's sell it."

Xiuyao laughed and said, "You can earn a few pennies selling candied haws. If you're exhausted, forget it."

29 Mrs. Liu is busy making rice cakes. The rice cakes here are not made from Jiangmi in the south, but sticky yellow rice.The non-sticky millet is called millet, and the sticky millet is yellow rice. It is made into a square rice cake with red dates on it. After it dries, it is hard to put.When you want to eat it, steam it in a pan, or cut it into pieces and fry it in a pan. It is the favorite of children to eat with sugar.

But Qin Yang was very scared, because every time the adults said to dip it in water, otherwise it would stick the intestines, and it would be a terrible thing to stick the intestines.So up to now he still dare not eat it, every time he watches others eat it, and coaxes him to say that his intestines are stuck.

Xiuyao picked up a rice cake with chopsticks, dipped it in water and then sugar, and was about to put it in her mouth, but Qin Yang knocked it off with a "snap", he threatened, "Sister, the intestines are stuck. "

Xiuyao watched helplessly as the golden rice cake on her chopsticks was knocked off by him, and couldn't help pinching his face, "Little idiot, people say sticky intestines don't want you to eat it, they should eat more, why are you so stupid. As soon as Qin Yang heard it, he immediately picked up the bowl and shouted to Xiuyao: "Sister, hurry up, let's go outside to eat."

Xiurong and the others laughed and chased after him again, "Give me something to eat, I haven't eaten yet."

Everyone was having fun when someone came in and said with a smile, "You guys are so lively."

Xiuyao turned her head to look, and saw a thin, middle-sized woman with a haggard face. She didn't recognize her, so she asked, "Who are you looking for?"

The woman smiled and said: "You are Xiurong, you are so beautiful, I am your aunt, don't you know me?"

Qin Yang shouted: "You are not my aunt, we don't know you."

At this time, Xiuxian came over and said, "This is the sister-in-law of our old aunt's family." Here, grandpa's sister and grandchildren are called Laogu. Old Qintou had a sister who married to Songjia Village, and later took the Qin family The second aunt also said to go.This woman is Song Yuan'er, the daughter of the old aunt's family, who is now married to Liu Gezhuang.

Xiuxian asked in surprise, "Sister-in-law, why are you here?"

Liu Gezhuang is far away from here, and besides, for those who celebrate the New Year, even if they leave relatives, it will not be the next year.

Song Yuaner asked, "Are your father and mother at home?"

Xiuyao said: "My father was not at home when I went, but my mother was. Sister, do you want to go to my grandpa's house?" Ordinarily, when the old sister's daughter came, she would naturally go to her uncle's house. What's the matter with coming to their house Son.

Song Yuan'er smiled and said, "Then I'll talk to my sister-in-law." Calling her sister-in-law, she walked inside.

Mrs. Liu heard it, came out to have a look, exchanged some pleasantries, and said, "Go talk to my father."

Song Yuan'er didn't move, looked inside and outside the house, and saw that there were only three small shabby houses, but the courtyard floor was paved with stones, the pigsty and chicken coop were empty and turned into utility rooms, and the screen walls were all covered with stones. It's made of sorghum straw, and it's a bit rotten for too long.

She hesitated a little, but said, "Sister-in-law, I'm here to ask you for a favor."

Liu said with a smile: "Just say it, we will try our best to help." He took off his apron, wiped his hands, and handed it to Xiurong.

Xiurong took a look at Song Yuan'er, wishing to drive her away. She winked at Xiuyao and Qin Yang, indicating that this woman came to fight Qiufeng.

Song Yuan'er licked her lips and said, "Sister-in-law, I, I'm here to borrow some money. You see, it's the Chinese New Year, our family..." She sniffed and began to wipe her tears, "Nian Can't make it through."

Mrs. Liu said calmly, "We are relatives, so we should walk around. We don't have many people in our family. We can save two hundred dollars. You can use it for emergencies." Then he went to get the money.

For ordinary people, one hundred dollars a year is enough.

Song Yuan'er hurriedly called her, "Sister-in-law."

Liu Shi looked at her, and Song Yuan'er wondered: "Sister-in-law, can you have more?"

Mrs. Liu raised her eyebrows and said, "Sister-in-law, we just separated, and the family married a daughter and a daughter-in-law, and they still owed a lot of money. This year, the child's new clothes are all given by his grandma's family." "She said this to let Song Yuan'er understand that her family doesn't have much money.

(End of this chapter)