Cheng Wanwan's house is very lively every day.
There were five men washing the ice powder in the backyard, and three old ladies helping filter it.
There was a big pot set up in the front yard, and villagers kept coming to cook lantana, chatting in small groups.
At this moment, seven or eight more women walked in. Big Hei and Xiao Hei rushed over and took a sniff. When they smelled the familiar smell, they relaxed their vigilance and ran around in the yard.
"Dashan Niang, let's ask about something about your nephew from the Cheng family. How long will he stay in Dahe Village?"
Cheng Wanwan put down what she was doing and said with a smile, "I can't say much about this either."
Originally, she planned to let Cheng Zhao stay with her for two years and leave after the money was paid off.
But now after getting along with Cheng Zhao, she knows what kind of person Cheng Zhao is, and she doesn't want to delay Cheng Zhao's bright future because of her own selfish desires.
If the county magistrate's door can be opened, Cheng Zhao should be able to participate in the college examination next year, so it is time to start preparing for the college examination now.
She secretly wanted to keep Cheng Zhao for one more month, so that she could teach a few children to the Tao, so that she could be more relaxed in the future.
She paused and said, "We can always stay for more than a month."
"A month is just right. Can I send my son to learn how to read with Sidan and the others? He can't live his whole life without even knowing his own name."
"Cheng Zhao is a scholar. If my son can stay with him for a while, he will definitely become a gentleman in the future."
"I don't dare to ask for anything else. I just hope that I can recognize a few more words and be worthy of my ancestors."
Cheng Wanwan had told Cheng Zhao about the literacy class before, which was equivalent to a modern literacy class that only taught literacy and basic characters.
Modern literacy classes can be attended by both men and women, old and young. Students can study for one hour a day and graduate in about two months. They can read and write, and the most important thing is to broaden their horizons.
There has been no scholar in Dahe Village for so many years. If we can start from this generation, there will always be a generation of people who can read.
Dahe Village's success in controlling locusts gave Cheng Zhao a chance to change his destiny. Then Cheng Zhao should indeed give generations of people in Dahe Village a chance to study and go out.
Cheng Wanwan asked casually, and there were seven or eight women who were willing to send their children to study. After the news spread, some more women came over. In total, more than 20 households came. After signing up, a total of twenty-nine children were sent by their families to read and learn.
Although the autumn harvest is coming, these half-year-old children don’t have much energy. Instead of expecting these children to go to the fields to harvest, it is better to let them follow the scholars and learn more words. This is a good thing for honoring the ancestors.
As for the cost of repairing the bundles, the villagers unanimously decided to send at least ten kilograms of rice after the autumn harvest.
Nowadays, the price of a pound of rice has soared to at least 30 cash, and ten pounds is 300 cash, which is a huge amount of money for farmers.
When Cheng Zhao came back in the evening, Cheng Wanwan told the matter.
Cheng Zhao naturally responded. Teaching one is teaching, and teaching twenty-nine is also teaching, but it just takes time to make some sand tables.
Cheng Wanwan asked about things in the town again.
"The county magistrate issued an order that every village should burn or boil lantana to kill locusts. If a village uses moxa to drive the locusts to other villages, the discoverer will be caught and imprisoned directly." Cheng Zhao said, " This matter is imminent. In the past two days, the county magistrate will send many yamen officials to each village to keep an eye on it to avoid sudden twists and turns. In addition, the county magistrate also asked Master Yuan to copy several copies of the locust extermination method and send them to several nearby towns... "
Cheng Wanwan nodded, it is indeed necessary for all towns to implement this together to completely eliminate the locusts.
At night, bonfires were still burning in the village to trap locusts, and the unpleasant smell floated in the sky, covering up the delicious smell of chicken soup in Cheng Wanwan's yard.
She put the four stewed pheasants in a wooden basin and placed the wooden basin at the door of the yard. When the four wild wolves came in the middle of the night, they could eat on their own. She did not need to get up in the middle of the night and be scared half to death.
Early in the morning when the sun has not yet risen.
Dahe Village is still shrouded in the darkness of dawn, and even some diligent farmers will not get up so early.
But a figure came from the end of the village. She was Zhang Lai's mother-in-law.
Mrs. Zhang had been thinking about pairing up her niece with a scholar from the Cheng family last time. She originally planned to wait until after the autumn harvest to get busy with this matter, but she heard someone say yesterday that Cheng Zhao would not be able to live in Dahe Village for long. Maybe she will leave in more than a month... She has to quickly pick up her niece from her mother's family, use this time to have more contact with Cheng Zhao, and then cook the rice before the rice is cooked, won't this matter be done?
The way back to her parents' home was through the small road at the end of the village, which happened to pass by the door of Wanwan's house.
She instinctively took a second look, and couldn't see clearly in the dim morning light, but she smelled the smell of blood. She walked over involuntarily, and then she saw, oh, there were one, two, three...eight pheasants at the door of the yard, and two more. Hare!
These beasts all have bloody holes in their necks and cannot die anymore.
Mrs. Zhang swallowed her saliva. She looked left and right, but no one passed by.
"Woooooooo..."
It seemed like something was screaming, but as long as it wasn't a human being, nothing mattered.
She knelt down, picked up a pheasant and stuffed it into her arms. She was about to leave, but she still couldn't resist the temptation. She picked up two pheasants again. Still feeling it wasn't enough, she even picked up a rabbit, and then headed home. run.
When I ran back, it was still dark.
Zhang Laitai was woken up while sleeping in bed. He cursed and said: "Didn't you go back to your parents' house? Why did you come back and do this? It's so disturbing."
"Dad Dagang, look, what is this?"
Mrs. Zhang took out the spoils, three chickens and a rabbit.
Zhang Laitai's sleepiness disappeared instantly and he jumped up from the bed: "Where did you get so many prey? Could it be that you hooked up with Hunter Zhao?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Don't throw dirty water on me!" Mrs. Zhang said proudly, "I just passed by Dashan's house and saw that their door was full of prey. Good guy, eight pheasants and two hares. I suspect that Dashan Niang has just hooked up with Hunter Zhao. Otherwise, why would Hunter Zhao give her so many prey? Not to mention, this matter was so well concealed that no one in the village guessed that these two people were there. There’s a leg.”
Zhang Rascal frowned: "I have never seen Orion Zhao say a word to Madam Zhao Cheng. You must have made a mistake."
"Then just wait and see." Granny Zhang sneered, "This prey was secretly sent by Hunter Zhao. Even if it was taken away, Dashan Niang would not dare to say anything. If we don't eat for free, you can clean it up at home. With these things, I have to go back to my parents’ house as soon as the sun doesn’t come out, so I’ll leave first.”
Zhang Laigui scratched his chin. He seemed to have heard something strange from the villagers two days ago. It seemed to be related to prey. What was it?
Forget it, hurry up and take out the prey. This is meat. It’s been a long time since the family has had a bite of meat.
Zhang Lai Lai is usually very lazy, but now that there will be meat to eat, he is no longer lazy. He gets up and starts boiling water to collect pheasants and hares...
