Young rich peasants

Under Zaozi's serious teaching, Lei Shounuo knew more and more characters. He was very talented in reading and almost had a photographic memory. He could remember clearly after Zaozi said it once. .Zaozi always felt a pity in his heart, if Brother Lei went to study, he would definitely be able to take the imperial examination and become an official in this place.

How nice it is to be an official, at least you don't have to live in poverty, and you don't have to worry about firewood and rice for the land all day long.

Lei Shounuo didn't think so, "There are also poor officials. To be a clean and honest official, you are doomed to have no money. If you often help the people under your command, you will be even more incapable of spending. I think farming is good. If you have your own land, you have your own food, not to mention whether you can make a fortune, at least you can fill your own stomach."

Zaozi thought about it, and it was indeed the case.In the previous world, vegetables and meat were very expensive, and many people had to spend a lot of money if they wanted to eat fresh and harmless vegetables.If you have land, you can eat it when you grow it, and you don't have to wait for others to bring it over and sell it.

Lei Shounuo said: "I learn characters to increase my knowledge so that I won't suffer losses when doing business with others in the future. After I know characters, I can read more books. The more I read, the more people understand."

What Zaozi is holding now is a book related to business, and the content is a bit difficult. "Brother Lei, you said that you won't keep doing this kind of running around."

"Yeah." Lei Shounuo rubbed Zaozi's head, "I'll take advantage of a few years to earn more, and I can hire people to run after I open up the road. Then I'll buy fields and land to fulfill my little daddy's wish, and I'll give you one too." Good life."

Zaozi is relieved, he has taught Lei Shounuo all the words in the book, and Lei Shounuo has to study the difficult content by himself.Zaozi sat next to him, concentrating on doing needlework.

Lei Shounuo kept Zhu Miao's request in mind, and asked his little father for help when he came back.Zao Zi helped Xiao Dae embroider some things that other people came to ask for, mainly to refine the frame that Xiao Dae embroidered, and if the skills required were too complicated, I left Xiao Dae to do it.

As the Spring Festival is getting closer, the embroidery on these pillowcases and handkerchiefs has been embroidered one after another. Although Zaozi is only an apprentice, the speed is already very fast.When he is concentrating, he can sit on the stool all day long, only embroidering, and doing nothing, completely deaf to what is going on outside the window.

Fresh green leaves, brilliant big red flowers, happiest birds in spring, lively children, delicate lace...all come alive under the fingertips of Zaozi.In some places, Zaozi felt that the connection between the lines was not good, so he made some modifications naturally.There are also some color combinations. Although Xiaopai has explained it in advance, he will unconsciously make changes when embroidering.

He often realizes that he has done too much after the embroidery is finished, and he is afraid that everyone will be caught if it does not look good.Fortunately, everyone likes the changes he made, and feels that the embroidery is more soft and delicate.

Only when Mei Xiaodi saw the finished product of Zaozi did he realize where his embroidery was lacking. What he had been unable to break through all the way, he finally understood after Zaozi's modification.

After completing the orders requested by others, Zaozi began to embroider other things.

He heard that Lei Shounuo was going to make a "signboard" for Litchi Longan. He didn't know if the signboard mentioned here was what he thought, but he had an idea to embroider a "promotional picture" for Litchi Longan.The specifics of how to embroider are well thought out. First, there must be a beauty, but there are only men here, so it is necessary to embroider a beautiful man, and then he holds a plate of lychee and longan meat.I remember that in the embroidery books I read before, it was taught that small animals can be used to increase the "artistic conception". One of the examples is to add a butterfly next to the beauty when embroidering it, so that everyone will feel that the beauty has a fragrance.

Zaozi asked for the opinions of Lei Shounuo and Xiaopai, Lei Shounuo agreed, but Xiaopai was curious about why he knew this - it's normal for people in big counties to understand this, but how did Zaozi learn it?

This question also implicated Zaozi's life experience.Lei Shounuo and Mei Xiaodi had doubts in their hearts, but they tacitly kept silent.

Zaozi didn't know that they had misunderstood so much. Now he only cared about what kind of fabric and thread to use.It's stronger with a quilt, but it doesn't look like... well... nothing... oh!Class is the class that adults often say.And with cotton thread, you can't embroider the clear feeling of the flesh.But with silk and silk thread... He was afraid that he would spoil the good things.

Lei Shounuo was a neat person, he went to the county town to buy good silk cloth, and when he came back, he stretched the big bamboo without saying a word, put the cloth on, arranged the needle and thread, and pushed the jujube to sit in the back. "You, you are too cautious. With Brother Lei here, what are you afraid of? Let's embroider, my dad said that it can be embroidered on silk, and when it is framed, it can just hang on the wall of the shop."

After everyone in charge said this, Zaozi's heart was naturally at ease.However, his craftsmanship is not exquisite enough, so he only embroidered a picture frame, and he dared not continue to embroider until his father came back from the outside and asked for his opinion.The silk thread, which is much thinner than cotton thread, is very beautiful, and Zaozi is very careful every time, almost sticking his eyes to it.

Lei Shounuo was sitting next to him reading a book, pulling his head up and rubbing his shoulders from time to time.Zaozi knew that reading was tiring, so she taught Lei Shounuo to do eye exercises.Lei Shounuo didn't know why, so he almost poked his eye once.

On one side, the two of them were working together sweetly, while on the other side, Xiaorong was holding a small round bamboo frame, feeling extremely distressed.

He really couldn't think of what to embroider, and Mei Ada didn't have time to teach him, so he asked him to embroider some flowers and plants at will to practice his hands.However, Ye Xiaorong only has food in his eyes, and when he sees a fallen leaf, he will think of how to make it delicious, or whether it can be used to make the food more delicious.

Scratching his ears and cheeks for several days, he simply followed his heart, smiled, and embroidered the prototype of a roasted chicken wing on the linen cloth—it was a very simple kind, and the base cloth was exposed when viewed sideways.

He took it away and looked at it carefully for a while, and found that it was too little to eat, so he made up five more.Next to it are embroidered charcoal piles of grilled chicken wings, red flames and a pile of melons and fruits.

Ye Xiaorong had never tried to embroider such-so-big pictures, and his temples were drenched with sweat after a short while, all thanks to his strong obsession with food that supported him to continue waving his fingers.

When Ye Xiaorong and Zaozi were immersed in the world of needlework, the Spring Festival was getting closer and closer.

Throughout the year, the Spring Festival is the second most popular festival in Gaoliang County.This is a day of celebration and a day of family reunion.Some people who worked outside came back one after another with large and small bags of gifts, including sweets for children and practical objects for the elderly.The people in Mazishang Village are united.

All households began to clean up one after another, bought door gods, and bought red paper to write Spring Festival couplets and good things.Zaozi knows that the good things mentioned in the south refer to red envelopes, but why is the red envelope here a piece of red paper?Also wrote auspicious words of four characters.

Lei Shounuo explained to him that this favor is different from that favor, this one is to be pasted on the door frame, and the three cards are arranged in a row.He demonstrated to paste a rectangular piece of red paper on the door frame. Zaozi thought it was going to be pasted directly on the wall, but it turned out that it was not. On the top, after the three sheets are pasted, they will flutter with the wind when the wind blows.

As soon as Lei Shounuo posted it, he was taught a lesson by Mei Xiaopai, who wasted money before the Spring Festival, he should be beaten!

Zaozi snickered and opened his hands to protect his brother Lei, pleading with his dad, "Brother Lei knows his mistake, dad, don't be angry."

The younger dad didn't really beat him either, seeing Zaozi wholeheartedly protecting him, he pretended to be angry and said, "Even Zaozi helped that brat, see if I don't beat him up!"

"Little dad, don't be angry, little dad, Brother Lei is an adult now, so he can't fight anymore."

"Zaozi get out of the way, my little daddy can still fight when he grows up."

"Daddy..."

After all the hard work, both the beating and the beating were exhausted, and the family of three continued to sort out the red paper.They were all cut and sent to Hua's family for writing.

Lei Shounuo learned to write from Big Brother Hua intermittently, which is different from recognizing characters, as long as you master those few strokes, writing will be easy to practice in the future.Even if you don't understand the word, you can write it directly.

But writing Spring Festival couplets is a big deal, and Lei Shounuo is not good enough to take the lead, so he still has to send it to Brother Hua, who has the best calligraphy in the village.

In addition to these, there are also firecrackers, ingots and candles... all of them must be prepared.

The last person who worked outside Mazi Shang Village came back, and he brought back a big bag of candied haws, a snack in the north, and the children in the village were very happy.Zaozi shouldn't have had it, because his identity is a new Baozi.But Ye Xiaorong insisted on stuffing him with a bunch.

He, Lei Shounuo and the little dad shared the meal, and listened to Ye Jia's talk.

Ah Da of the Ye family said: "Do you know? Atang who brought back candied haws said that the imperial court will also build a good fortune hall in Gaoliang County."

Zaozi asked, "What does Fushantang do?"

Ye Jia Ada said: "Fushantang is a great charity. It is dedicated to adopting those children who have been thrown away. After the coming-of-age ceremony, they will be sent out to support themselves. The plague damaged too many people in the past few years. The court has been worried about plowing the fields. There are not enough people farming, Fushantang is one of the laws issued for this.”

Zaozi said happily, "I used to live there too!"

Lei Shounuo and Xiaopai looked at each other, wondering: Didn't Zaozi mention the dean?Is it related to the head teacher?

Lei Shounuo asked Zaozi, "Didn't you mean the dean?"

Zaozi tilted his head, "Yes, the orphanage is just like Fushantang, taking in abandoned children. I was picked up by the dean's grandfather."

Lei Shounuo finally understood that Zaozi didn't come from some Yingchunyuan, he was a child from Fushantang elsewhere.The name is different, and there is a big misunderstanding.

Zaozi secretly looked at Lei Shounuo's expression, flinched and said: "Brother Lei, daddy... Zaozi is a good man, although Zaozi doesn't have a father, but Zaozi is very good and won't cause trouble."

Lei Shounuo comforted Zaozi, "Brother Lei and Daddy won't dislike you."

After thinking about it, he asked again, "How is Grandpa treating you?"

Only then did Zaozi smile a little, and said, "Grandpa is very kind to us! Taught us to read and write! He also gave us food!"

Lei Shounuo gave Zaozi a comforting smile, but he was too sour to laugh, "Is it hard work?"

"It's not hard." Zaozi shook his head, "Grandpa and brothers go out to work, so we can just study."

Lei Shounuo nodded, "Zaozi reads very well, and can be Lei Ge's little teacher."

Mei Xiaodi asked: "But Zaozi hasn't passed the coming-of-age ceremony yet, and it's doing well in Fushantang. Why was it picked up by the Lei family by the river?"

The Ye family was surprised and said: "Could it be abducted? It's too wicked!"

Zaozi rubbed his sleeves vigorously, and answered intermittently: "No, I...someone was jealous of me and pushed me down the stairs. I thought I was dead, but when I woke up, I was here. I'm not dead, but I'm not dead either. Do you know where this is... They picked me up and gave it to Brother Lei..."

When Zaozi just woke up, his mind was quite clear. After being pinched and frightened by the matchmaker, he seemed to be unable to think clearly.All he knew was that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't figure it out.

Ada Ye couldn't help touching Zaozi's small face, "I've heard that the children of Fushantang are considered as homeless before they reach adulthood, and those who die accidentally are usually buried in water. If I think about it, it should be that Zaozi offended some child and was injured when he was pushed down the stairs.

Everyone was still discussing, Lei Shounuo suddenly remembered that Brother Hua said that Zao Zi had been greatly stimulated and had a heart attack.

He patted himself on the head hard: Heart disease can't be stimulated anymore, why did he let Zaozi listen to all kinds of guesses.

He hurried back to the room with his arms around Zaozi to comfort him.

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The author has something to say: consider creating a separate article for Xiao Rong and Master Zhu, yes.It feels like it will be a long-term struggle story, and writing it in detail here will distract from the content of the protagonist, and writing it briefly is not enough.What do you all think?