A farmer's daughter travels through time, farming and dividing the family to fight for the best

Li Xiaoxiao handed it to her considerately and let her touch it. Li Huawen and Li Ruolan also came over curiously and touched it again and again out of curiosity.

Finally, the silver was handed to Li Dahai. Li Dahai didn't know how to describe his current mood and was silent for a moment.

"Xiaoxiao, this money is earned through your hard work, so you should keep it. In the future, all the money in the family will be given to you, and you will be the manager of the household."

Li Xiaoxiao had thought about this matter. If she was given a housekeeper, she wouldn't have to report everything she bought in the future. However, she didn't expect Li Dahai to say it on his own initiative. It showed that what she said just now worked, and he really wanted to keep a distance from the Li family.

"Okay, I will definitely make our family better and better." He put the silver back into his purse.

Suddenly he remembered that there was something important, and like a magic trick he took out two books from his backpack and waved them in front of Li Huawen.

Li Huawen's eyes suddenly lit up: "Second sister, is this book bought for me?"

"If not you, who else can I give it to?" Li Xiaoxiao patted his head lovingly.

"I have already asked. There are two academies in the county, both are good. One of them is called Xiyuan Academy, which has accommodation for students. My home is far from the county, so I want my younger brother to stay there at night. The tuition fee is two taels of silver per year."

"So much silver?" Sun exclaimed. She always knew that studying would cost a lot of silver, but she didn't know that tuition alone would cost two taels of silver, plus the pens, ink, paper and inkstone needed for studying, how much would that cost.

"Mom, don't worry. Since I said I'd let my little brother go, I'll definitely have money to support him. We have more than twenty taels of silver now, which is definitely enough for his studies. The next step is to build a house. Then everyone will have a room, and we won't have to squeeze into one room anymore."

After selling the ginseng, she thought about how to spend the money. Tomorrow she would go to find Li Quanfu. It was busy with farming these days, so she could decide on it first and start building it later. She wanted to build a house made of blue bricks and tiles. The safety factor of adobe houses was not high, and she didn't want to be the first time traveler in history to be killed by a broken adobe house.

Li Huawen flipped through the book happily, but very carefully. The book was expensive, so he didn't dare to damage it. He didn't recognize a single word on the book, but he read it carefully one by one, as if he was holding a rare treasure.

Li Xiaoxiao knew him, but she couldn't teach him. She had never been to school since she was a child, and it was hard to explain to her how to read suddenly. She could only teach him from the side, "These two books are enlightenment books. You have to learn them at the beginning of the school year. If you can't read now, learn to write first. Write on the ground. When you're done, I'll go buy you a pen and ink."

"I will definitely write it well." Li Huawen raised his little face and assured her, with excitement in his voice.

Twelve pounds of pig offal means a lot of it, so Li Xiaoxiao taught Sun how to clean it. She grabbed a handful of flour, which Sun called a waste, so Li Xiaoxiao patiently explained it to her.

Wash it clean, then find a large basin and soak it in clean water. You can make pig offal for the party. The smell makes you drool just thinking about it.

It was already mid-afternoon, and Li Xiaoxiao had nothing to do, so she went to see the piece of mountain land they had been allocated. In Qinghe Village, every household had a piece of mountain land, but their family had a large population, so they got more mountain land.

After leaving the village, they walked west for about ten minutes to reach the field. The field was on a hillside, surrounded by gravel and weeds, and the terrain was flat. The mountain in front of them could be said to be a rocky mountain with a few small trees occasionally, so there was no need to worry about mudslides. Next to it was Jiunu Mountain, which was covered with trees. Now there was food for the wild beasts on the mountain, but in winter the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, and no one knew if the wild beasts would come down. They were far away from the village, and her family would be the first to suffer if there was any danger.

Thinking of this, he became more determined to build a brick and tile house, and also to build a high courtyard wall.

She planned to fence off the three acres of land so that she could raise pigs, sheep, and grow some vegetables. At the same time, she was calculating how much silver it would cost. A blue brick house would cost five taels of silver. There were five people in her family, one for Sun and Li Dahai, one for each of the three of them, a kitchen, and a utility room. She also wanted to build a special bathing room, which could be small. As a time traveler, everything else was fine with her except that she couldn't take a bath every day in the summer. She really couldn't adapt to it.

By this calculation, there are seven rooms, each costing five taels of silver, a total of thirty-five taels. Such a large courtyard wall requires a lot of bricks, so at fifteen taels, the total is fifty taels. Now she has a total of more than twenty taels in her hand, which is half of the total. There is also the silver for Li Huawen's studies, and after deducting ten taels, there is a shortfall of more than thirty taels. Fortunately, she is only planning to build it, and there is still some time before the actual construction begins, so she should be able to earn this money.

I walked around again before going down the mountain.

When she came back, she saw Li Huawen squatting on the ground, holding a branch in his hand, writing on the ground. He looked focused and serious, and he didn't even notice her coming over.

Li Xiaoxiao looked at the words on the ground. Although they were not very good, it was obvious that each stroke was written with great care and neatness. Afraid that Li Huawen didn't know how to start writing, she lied and said that when buying the book, she asked the waiter how to write. The waiter demonstrated it to him and he remembered it all. She didn't expect that Li Huawen had a talent for learning. In this way, it was worth spending more money on schooling.

Because their family has no land, they usually cook earlier than other families. Li Xiaoxiao cleans the pig offal again to make sure there is no peculiar smell, and cuts it into small pieces to make it easier to absorb the flavor.

Pig tongue and pig heart are fried and eaten. Li Xiaoxiao is still the chef. Now whenever she is at home, she is almost always the chef, because everything she cooks, even if it is just wild vegetables, tastes better than others. As a senior foodie, Li Xiaoxiao also enjoys it.

Li Xiaoxiao plans to braise the remaining pig stomach, liver, lungs, stomach, kidneys, spleen, large intestine and small intestine. The method is simple and convenient and the taste is good.

Put the pork offal and a few slices of ginger into a pot with cold water, and secretly add the spices to remove the fishy smell. After the water boils, skim off the foam, remove the water, wash it and set aside.

Put sugar in the pot. There was no white sugar in this era, only brown sugar. Take out a little bit of brown sugar and simmer it slowly over low heat. Li Xiaoxiao poured the white sugar in her sleeves into the pot as the spatula shook. Boil until the soup thickened and changed color, then add water, pork offal, bay leaves, star anise, cinnamon and other seasonings, onions, ginger, garlic, chili, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, cooking wine, and a bottle of beer.

After covering the pot, the aroma soon wafted out. Sun sniffed and said, "Xiaoxiao, how did you make this? It's so fragrant, and tastes different from usual." The food Sun made in the past was always smelly and no one wanted to eat it.

"Mom, that's because you didn't clean it thoroughly. Next time we do it at home, you should clean it according to the method I told you. I'll do it." Li Xiaoxiao smelled the long-lost fragrance and really missed it.

Even Li Huawen, who had been concentrating on practicing calligraphy, came over following the fragrance.