Li Zhi came back from the new farmer's village that day. When he walked into the house, he saw Cui Hezheng and the maid Ju'er sitting on the bedside together, embroidering a handkerchief there.
"you are back!"
Seeing Li Zhi coming back, Cui He happily put down his handkerchief and came up to hug Li Zhi. Cui He was not only a little childish, but also very clingy. After getting married, she would stick to Li Zhi whenever she saw him.
Li Zhi touched the back of Cui He's head and said, "Aren't I bored?"
"It's so boring!" Cui He protested dissatisfied.
Li Zhi lowered his head and put his ear to Cui He's belly, listened to the movement in Cui He's belly, and said, "Don't you have a child with you? It's been six months!"
Cui He tilted his head and said, "But he can't speak!" Cui He thought for a while and suddenly said, "Shall we go fly a kite?"
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment and said, "You have such a big belly, can you fly a kite?"
Cui He stood on tiptoes and said, "I want you to let it go. Just put it down and let me catch it."
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Okay, let's go."
Cui He laughed when he saw Li Zhi agreeing.
Li Zhi found a large butterfly kite and asked four servants to prepare a sedan to carry Cui He away. He led the way on horseback. He led the servants to a small hill covered with withered grass and stopped the horse.
Ask the servant to open the front curtain of the sedan and let Cui He watch him fly the kite.
Li Zhi wore a thick cotton coat and gloves and flew the kite himself.
The cold wind in November was blowing loudly. Li Zhi took the kite and ran for a few steps. The kite flew up in the north wind, dragging its tail towards the sky. Being held by the string, the kite flying upward was blown by the wind.
The kite swayed from side to side and circled, as if struggling. Li Zhi quickly put out the line and let the kite fly to high places little by little.
Seeing Li Zhi flying the kite in no time, Cui He clapped his hands and shouted: "It's so awesome! It's so awesome! My husband is so awesome!"
Li Zhi walked to the front of the sedan chair, handed the kite to Cui He, and said, "Here, let's fly the string!"
Cui He blinked and took the kite. She seemed a little nervous when she first grabbed the coil, with a serious expression on her face. But as she let out the kite string bit by bit, her expression slowly relaxed.
. Seeing the kite flying higher and higher in the sky, Cui He gradually became excited and grinned widely.
Li Zhi saw Cui He's excitement in flying the kite and secretly thought that she was still a little woman who liked to play with kites. If in later generations, the eighteen-year-old Cui He was just a college freshman having fun everywhere.
After putting out a cup of tea, Cui He took a breath and said, "I'm so tired, I'll give you back the kite!"
Li Zhi took the kite, slowly let out the string, and pulled it back and forth in the wind.
Cui He watched with great interest in the sedan chair, and clapped his hands in admiration from time to time.
After playing for half an hour, Li Zhi saw that Cui He was also a little tired, so he said, "Okay, let's go back!"
Cui He nodded and said, "My husband is so awesome! Give me a hug!"
Li Zhi walked into the sedan chair, hugged Cui He, and then took down the coil little by little. Putting away the kite, Li Zhi rode back to Fanjiazhuang with a group of people.
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Wu Ku is an oil seller in Fanjiazhuang.
He was originally an oil seller in Tianjin Weicheng. He had a mother and two children, and lived a poor life. There were too many oil sellers in Tianjin Weicheng, and everyone's business was not good. He was alone at that time.
He could only earn one or two taels of silver per month, and sometimes he could not earn even this little money. Without money, Wu Ku's family of five would often go hungry. Wu Ku would look sad every day and only wanted to find a way out.
, make money and have enough to eat.
At the beginning of this year, he heard that Fanjiazhuang was very prosperous and people could make money in all walks of life, so he gritted his teeth and moved to Fanjiazhuang. He asked his nephew, who worked in a textile factory, to act as a guarantor and sold the oil to Fanjiazhuang.
In order to prevent a large number of refugees from gathering in Fanjiazhuang, the guerrilla generals in Fanjiazhuang stipulated that only workers working in Lijiazhuang's workshop could guaranty before outsiders could enter Fanjiazhuang to do business, and each worker could only guaranty one foreign merchant. This also made Wu Wu
Ku had always loved this nephew since he was a child, so he got the opportunity to join the Fan family village.
When they arrived at Fanjiazhuang, Wu Ku found that business here was indeed much easier. The entire market in the north of the city corresponded to thousands of residents in the north of the city, but there were only four oil sellers in the market. Not to mention that the people in Fanjiazhuang were rich and ate a lot of oil. Although the sellers
The price of oil is still the same as that in Tianjin, but there are many more buyers. Wu Ku makes small profits but quick turnover, and can earn 2, 2, 5, and 5 silver coins a month.
Including his wife's income from weaving at home, his family has an income of 328 yuan a month. This amount of money is enough for his family of five to live. Not only can they have enough to eat, but they can also make cotton-padded jackets in winter and single clothes in summer.
Eat meat during the holidays.
Not only that, the rent in Fanjiazhuang is also cheap. In the past, Wu Ku rented two leaky and dilapidated houses in Tianjin for three cents per month, but now Wu Ku rents two houses in the general's villa, and he has no worries.
The rent for a house only costs two cents and one cent.
Today's good life is something Wu Ku never dared to imagine before.
However, something even better came at the end of this year. The General gave children free books and allowed them to go to school!
How honorable is studying? Wu Ku came from a poor family and had never gone to school for a day in his life. What he admired most were scholars. Every time he saw a scholar, he would stay with him respectfully and not dare to talk casually. Even
The names of his eldest son and youngest daughter were both chosen by him for a hundred pence from a scholar.
I heard that those who work in the general's property, as long as they have read and know how to read, will be promoted to supervisors in a year or two and receive a monthly salary of three or even four taels of silver. Their future is very different from that of the illiterate.
After all, Wu Ku was just an oil seller in the past. He couldn't afford to pay for repairs, so he couldn't provide education and literacy for his two children. But now that the general is sending his children to school for free, Wu Ku won't miss such a good thing. He went to the government office early
I went there to sign up. The people in the government office said that both boys and girls could study here. There were one class for boys and one class for girls. However, only children over eight years old were allowed to enroll in the first batch. Wuku’s eldest son went to study, and his youngest daughter
Wait a few more years.
On December 20th, the school started, and Wuku's eldest son went to the school to study.
It only took two days for my son to learn to write his name.
Wu Ku was very excited when he saw that his son could write. He took his son's calligraphy to the market in the north of the city and showed it off, telling others that it was what his son had learned in school. Those who saw Wu Ku's son's "calligraphy"
Everyone praised Wuku's son for his potential, which made Wuku very proud.
On this day, before closing the stall, Wu Ku showed off his son's "calligraphy" outside and then returned home.
When he arrived at home, Wu Ku saw his son practicing writing with water on the table as soon as he walked in. He was immediately happy - his son studied so hard, and he would be able to read and hyphenate in a short time. Wouldn't that mean he would be successful in the future?
If my son can work for the General when he grows up, wouldn't he also be able to become a supervisor?
Wu Ku pushed the oil cart to the wall of the hall, walked to the table and asked his son: "Son, what word did you write?"
Wuku's son raised his head and said: "This is the new character my husband taught me today. It is my father's name, the word "ku" of Wuku!"
Wu Ku burst into laughter when he heard this and said, "Dad can't even write his own name, but you can. You're so promising!"
Wu Ku's son took out a piece of paper and said, "Dad, I will teach you how to write your name!"
Wu Ku was overjoyed when he heard this and said: "Okay, son, you teach dad to write his name!"
Wu Ku's son took out a piece of white paper, dipped his brush in ink and wrote Wu Ku's name on the paper. He handed the two words to Wu Ku and said, "Dad, take a chopstick and point it at what I wrote."
Let’s practice calligraphy.”
Seeing that his son could write proficiently, Wu Ku smiled happily and said, "Okay! Okay! My son is really capable and will definitely be more promising than his father in the future!"
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