After dinner, the family talked together about Yuan Liu’s plan to hire Ming Jue as his son’s teacher.
Mingjue still said the same thing, saying that Qiao Mingjin was working too hard and that he would stay in Yuejia Village to help his sister. He said that he would wait for Qiao Mingjin to recover after a while before thinking about other things.
He Xiaochun has been eating and living with several siblings of the Qiao family these days, and has gotten to know the family better. He also feels that Qiao Mingjin is working too hard, so it would be better to let Mingjue help her at home.
Mingheng and Mingqi nodded after hearing this. They said they wanted Mingjue to stay at home and the family to work together...
Qiao Mingjin listened to a lot of chatter from her younger siblings. She was very pleased. How lucky she was to meet such a good younger brother and sister.
Qiao Mingjin finally spoke and expressed his thoughts.
She wanted Mingjue to be the husband of Liu Yuanwai's son.
Mingjue was about to speak after hearing this, but Qiao Mingjin stopped her.
Said: "Let you become a teacher, this is not just for yourself. You have a good environment, and you can pick up books again after teaching. You must know that your grandmother and father have always placed high hopes on you.
Although we don’t know where dad and grandma are from, we can tell that they hope that you and Mingheng can compete with each other in the future."
Mingjue fell silent after hearing this. Even Mingheng lowered his head after hearing this.
Qiao Mingjin added: "Being a teacher, not only will you have a good study environment, but you can also help your family. These ten taels of silver are not low. The average scholar who comes to work as a teacher only costs five taels of silver.
That is to say, Yuan Liu’s son was too naughty and had to leave several gentlemen before he offered such a good condition. With your salary, the family will be better off. Gradually saving up, Mingheng will have money to study. In the future, you
Even if you go to take the exam, you will have money. Why refuse such a good thing?"
Mingjue was silent for a long time, then looked up at Qiao Mingjin and said, "But sister, it's too hard for you to be like this now."
Qiao Mingjin then said with a smile: "Don't worry about sister. Didn't Mingheng and Mingqi, I, and I did a good job before you came? It's because you came that sister became lazy. When you weren't here, Mingheng Mingming
Qi will also do well, right?"
Mingheng and Mingqi nodded fiercely.
Mingheng also patted his chest and said, "Second brother, don't worry, I'm here and I won't make your sister too hard!"
Qiao Mingjin and Mingjue both laughed when they saw it.
Mingjue then said, "What can you do? You haven't read in so many days, right? You have to read some books when you have time in the future. Otherwise, even if your family's conditions improve and I send you to study, you won't be able to keep up."
Mingheng stopped talking. He thought it was better to follow his sister.
Qiao Mingjin glanced at Mingheng and said to Mingjue: "Now is also a special situation. In the future, when Mingheng comes back from the city, he doesn't have to go up the mountain. He can just read some books at home. And you don't have to worry about me, sister. Although it is difficult now,
But this situation won't always be like this. After I save some money and buy a field, I won't have to work so hard. Maybe I will go to the city every three or four days or find something else.
Things won’t always be so hard.”
After hearing this, Mingjue thought for a while and said, "Now I have to sell firewood and deliver fertilizer to Green Willow Villa. If I leave, I will have to go to the city every day. First, it is too hard.
Secondly, I don’t have time to go up the mountain to chop firewood. I’d better wait for a while before going.”
Qiao Mingjin thought about it and realized that it was indeed a bit difficult now. Other book friends were reading: She had received two jobs.
When I delivered firewood every other day, I wanted to leave some space to go up the mountain to cut firewood and rest. Now I have to go to the city every day, and I'm afraid it will be too much and I won't have time to chop firewood.
And I'm afraid the fertile soil won't be able to cover it for long. The mountain doesn't belong to her family. As long as the people in the village know about it, they will all go up the mountain to pick up the fertile soil and spread it into the fields.
I'm afraid she won't be able to sell it for long.
Qiao Mingjin thought for a while and then said to Mingjue: "You go to the city tomorrow to deliver firewood. When you come back, go to Yunjia Village and talk to your father and grandmother and see what they say. I'm afraid we won't be able to sell this fertile land for long.
When you go to the villa the day after tomorrow, you should come down. But tell Liu Yuanwai that you can go there in a month. I'm afraid I can only sell this fertile soil for a month. Let's see if Liu Yuanwai agrees.
.This way, my sister will have a buffer period..."
Mingjue thought for a while and then agreed.
The family talked some more and then dispersed.
Qiao Mingjin still went to He Xiaochun to see the progress of his work...
By the end of May, Qiao Mingjin had already sent fertile soil to Green Willow Villa for more than half a month.
These days have been going pretty smoothly. I have already saved ten taels of silver just by selling fertilizer. Of course, what Guangming Heng and Ming Jue sent me cannot get so much silver.
It was because Liu Yuanwai heard Ming Jue say that he would postpone becoming a teacher for a month. The reason was just to help his sister at home.
After Liu Yuanwai heard about it, he sent people to the house to fertilize the soil.
Two oxcarts were sent out every day, and they were all installed at Qiao's house and covered with thick felt cloth. No one else could tell what was loaded on the oxcart.
In addition, Qiao Mingjin also happened to live on the outskirts of the village. Apart from Sister Xiu, who knew that the fertile soil was being sold for money, no one knew about it.
It’s just that these days, more and more people are going up the mountain to fertilize the soil. Even the households in Yuejia Village with the smallest fields have two or three acres of land. Knowing that this thing can fertilize the fields, how can they leave it there without moving?
Qiao Mingjin felt helpless as she thought about how much land on the mountain had been plowed over these days.
Fortunately, Mingjue doesn't have to send fertilizer to Green Willow Villa these days. On days when firewood is not delivered, in addition to helping Qiao Mingjin chop firewood, the two brothers help Qiao Mingjin pick up fertilizer and bag it in the mountains, and then transport it home for storage.
, so that the Liu family’s young man will have something to take away when he comes.
Although there were many people on the mountain, no one knew that they were bringing so many bags home to sell them for money. They just thought they were sent to Qiao Mingjin’s family.
In the past half month, Qiao Mingjin also raised chickens.
Sister Xiu helped her buy several half-grown hens and a dozen half-grown chickens in the village. There were more than twenty in total.
Then He Xiaochun is a capable carpenter. Isn’t it easy to build several chicken cages for more than 20 chickens?
Even the chicks that will hatch in a few days already have nests.
Every day after dawn, Qiao Mingjin and He Xiaochun picked a few chicken cages and went into the mountain, then released the chickens out of the cages. Then they waited for the brothers to come back in the afternoon and then used a bullock cart to pull them back.
That chicken loves to eat bugs in the mountains and runs around happily. I don't know how happy it is. It has only been half a month and it has gained a lot of weight. It can be sold for money.
For more than half a month, for some reason, Yue Zhongyao never came back to the village. Xiao Wan'er waited at the door of the house every day, but she never saw her father come back.
Looking at her daughter's disappointed face every day, Qiao Mingjin felt very sour in her heart.
Occasionally, Mingheng and Mingjue also said that they had not seen Yue Zhongyao in the city these days. Good novel: The two coaxed Xiao Wan'er and said that her father was busy and would definitely come back to see her if he had time.
Things are slightly better now.
When the Qiao family's father Qiao and his grandmother Lan heard that Mingjue was going to the city to be a husband, they initially asked Mingjue to stay with Qiao Mingjin to help. Unexpectedly, it was Qiao Mingjin who supported Mingjue's move.
Father Qiao and Mr. Lan stopped talking. After all, ten taels of silver a month is indeed a lot. The family also needs money everywhere. The pens, inks, paper and inkstones of the two brothers, and the money Mingjue will spend on taking exams in the future, none of them are needed.
money?
That night, Qiao Mingjin took out all the money he had saved these days, and the whole family counted it.
Since the past two days, no more cattails have been sold. Even the scattered cattails in the river in Xiahe Village have been pulled up by Qiao Mingjin.
If she is ruthless enough, I am afraid that this pucai will become extinct in Xiahe Village.
But fortunately these days, in addition to the money from selling fertilized soil, I also get a lot of money from selling cattails. Twelve cents per catty, and that stuff is worth a lot of money, so I sell it for a lot of money.
Before selling the fertilizer, the family had already saved thirty-four taels of silver. Adding in the extra ten taels from selling the fertilizer, it became forty-four taels.
In addition, I have received twenty-five taels of silver from selling cattails in the past half month. Plus the price difference from selling firewood, eggs, and other items, and more than three dozen taels of silver from selling pheasants and rabbits. The family now has a total of
That's more than seventy-two taels of silver.
The family happily counted the money and looked at the silver coins scattered on the bed and the copper plates strung into many strings. They all grinned happily.
Not to mention Heng Mingjue and others, it was also the first time for Qiao Mingjin to see so much money. How had the Qiao family ever seen so much money?
The eyes of all the siblings were shining, and even Xiao Wan'er clapped her hands happily and shouted: "That's a lot of money!"
Then he grabbed the silver dime and copper plate with his two small hands and muttered to the side: "This piece is one tael, which can be exchanged for ten dimes... This piece is one cent, which can be exchanged for a bunch of round coins..."
I'm afraid the little guy still remembers the first time he sold umbrellas in a restaurant. He had to exchange one tael of silver for fifty copper plates, and he thought the one they gave him wasn't enough. He wanted as much as one hand...
Qiao Mingjin looked at her daughter and smiled.
These days, when Qiao Mingjin has free time, he has taught her to count. He also asked He Xiaochun to split many thin and smooth bamboo sticks for her to count and play with.
Mingheng and Mingqi also followed suit.
If you don't know the words, you can learn them slowly, but you have to be able to count. It would be a joke to use one tael of silver as a copper plate. Besides, the children of the villagers have to go to the market to exchange things and sell things in exchange.
How can you not know how to count grain?
Qiao Mingjin also subconsciously taught several children some simple numerical addition, subtraction, multiplication and division algorithms.
Xiao Wan'er is still counting, and can only add and subtract within ten, but she can't digest so much at once.
On the other hand, Mingheng and Mingqi studied very seriously, and almost all the siblings taught by Qiao Mingjin were able to digest it. Mingheng, in particular, had a good brain, and he could complete the problems given quickly, and he was also very good at mental arithmetic.
sharp.
Qiao Mingjin didn't know whether to be happy or worried. Is this brother really going to go into business?
In his free time, Qiao Mingjin would also ask him to read more books. Mingjue happened to be there and could give him some guidance.
On the other side, He Xiaochun has also been here for nearly a month. According to Qiao Mingjin's request, his stuff was finally made.
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