The tables next door, who were originally depressed, became much calmer after hearing what Old Lintou said. Just like what Old Lintou said, there is nothing to be embarrassed about if he didn't steal anything from his family.
There was another burst of firecrackers, which meant that the banquet was about to begin. Lin Dazhu carried the burden to the next door first.
The whole family banquet was held separately for men and women. The men all sat in the third room where the ancestral tablets were placed, while the women’s tables were placed in the second room, with a temporary partition at the far left. Passage, in this case, when men come in and out, they won't be able to hinder the women's side.
Mrs. Zhou opened the lid of the basket and took out the dishes one by one with Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Feng.
Before going out, Mrs. Wu had prepared all the dishes in duplicate, so now they just brought them out.
Compared to Chunyan, Chuncao and Chunxiu, twelve-year-old Chunmei knows more and understands what it means to have her seat arranged here.
However, Chunmei, who felt uncomfortable in her heart, was quickly attracted by the smell of the food in front of her, and all her unhappiness was forgotten long ago.
I saw six bowls of dishes on the table, including oily braised pork with an attractive color, large carps fried golden on both sides, neatly arranged tender yellow egg rolls, tofu soup, and a A big bowl of radish stewed with big bones, and the last bowl was green vegetables stir-fried with lard residue.
By the way, there is also a clay pot full of white rice.
Chunyan Chuncao sipped her saliva, then quietly looked to the side, and then the two sisters looked at each other and snickered. Fortunately, no one saw the way they were drooling just now.
Chunmei helped her mother and aunt put the dishes and chopsticks together. Wu looked forward and happened to see her sister-in-law Jin looking towards her.
After the sisters-in-law made eye contact, Jin was stunned for a moment, and then a hint of showoff appeared in her eyes.
right! It was just showing off, and Mrs. Wu could see it clearly.
Pooh! Why don't you just sit a little closer to the front? What's so impressive? Wu turned her head and was too lazy to look forward.
The mother-in-law was upset, and the three sisters-in-law also saw it.
Compared with Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Liu who lowered their heads to eat, Feng's dissatisfaction was much more obvious, "Mom, don't be angry, the eldest aunt can only show off this little prestige, not to mention that she looks like a monkey." Although you are so rich, you can’t tell who will be good or bad in the future. Look at my dog, what a smart kid he is. He can memorize books very quickly and easily. With this ability, he might be able to help others in the future. You want to get an old Fengjun Dangdang!"
At first, Mrs. Wu was overjoyed when she heard her third daughter-in-law say that she was rich and that she looked like a monkey over there, but then she became more and more outrageous. You think you can become an old feudal prince just by dreaming.
How can a dog have such great ability? Do you think that just memorizing a few books will be enough?
Alas, this third daughter-in-law is so stupid.
With such a stupid mother, no matter how smart the son is, how smart can he be?
At this time, Lin Yuanqiu, who was considered "not very smart" by Wu, was looking at the table in the middle of the room. The man in the green robe must be Lin Youzhi, Lin Xiucai.
I heard people say that Lin Xiucai is about fifty years old, but he looks much younger than his peers. No, old Lintou is fifty-two years old, only two or three years older than the other party. But if they sit together , others will definitely say that the two of them are more than ten years apart.
It shows how tired the people who have been working in the fields all year round are.
"Brother Gouzi, here, this is for you!" Seeing Lin Yuanqiu looking left and right, his mind completely absent from the dinner table, Lin Yuanbai hurriedly picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of braised pork and handed it over to him.
Brother Gouzi promised that when he becomes a high official, he will buy himself many, many delicious things.
Therefore, Lin Yuanbai felt that it was necessary for him to take more care of his younger brother Gouzi at this time.
"Thank you, fourth brother!" Lin Yuanqiu took it in a bowl, then put the meat into his mouth and ate it. Well, it is fat but not greasy, has a slightly sweet texture, is soft and melts in the mouth, and is delicious to the heart.
Lin Yuanqiu decided not to think too much about today's events. Things like being treated differently because of poverty can be seen everywhere. Even in the previous life of the 21st century, such situations abounded.
So there is no point in thinking about it.
If you are not convinced, then speak with your strength.
Otherwise, it will be useless even if you are angry to death.
And when you truly succeed, you will no longer care about these people who look down on and despise you, because your mind and your world are in a wider and broader place.
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After the family banquet, the school has also entered the stage of upcoming holidays.
Master Wang also imitated the county academy and organized year-end examinations for the students. The content of the examination naturally came from three hundred thousand.
The answers to the questions are based on scriptures, which is similar to the fill-in-the-blank questions in previous lives.
Seventeen students, except for the two who couldn't bear the hard work and dropped out, the remaining fifteen were all present. After the master handed out the papers, the students opened the porcelain bottle and poured out the ink, then dipped in the ink to adjust the pen, and began He answered.
For Lin Yuanqiu, who had memorized the textbooks by heart, these questions were certainly not difficult, but he did not dare to take them lightly. He was really afraid that he would miss a stroke of traditional Chinese characters, which would result in a wrong question.
Compared with other students who were scratching their heads, Lin Wenjin answered the question much more smoothly. His two brothers are both scholars. Before he came to family studies, Lin Wenjin was able to recite several paragraphs from the book under his brother's influence. .
This is why he was never beaten because he couldn't memorize a book.
Therefore, Lin Wenjin felt that the thick piece of white paper placed on the table in front of Master Wang must belong to him.
But he forgot that besides him, there was also Lin Yuanqiu, his deskmate and cousin, who had never had his palms slapped.
Therefore, when Mrs. Wang, who had finished approving the test papers and compared the scores, gave the reward to Lin Yuanqiu, Lin Wenjin on the side was simply stunned.
In order to promote the children's enterprising spirit, after several clan elders discussed it, they specially took out 300 coins from the clan farm income and went to the town to buy a blank piece of paper as a reward for outstanding students.
There are a hundred pieces of paper in the knife, and it is the kind that opens three feet wide. It is not easy for a small man like Lin Yuanqiu to pick it up.
Therefore, in the end, it was Lin Sanzhu who helped carry the knife back home. The journey from his clan to his home, which was only half an hour, actually made Lin Sanzhu feel like a long journey. As for why it was a "trek", of course it was because The village road is covered with thick snow.
So, on this day, most of the villagers met Lin Sanzhu holding a large roll of white paper at the door of their homes.
For example: Lin Youcai walked to the gate of the courtyard and was about to carry some straw back to pad the pig pen, when he saw Lin Sanzhu passing by the door of his house holding a bundle of white paper.
Lin Youcai: "Hey, Sanzhu, I haven't seen you for many days. Why did you buy so much paper?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Sanzhu smiled and rolled his eyes. He said to himself that it was a good question to ask about wealth. It saved him the effort to change the topic. Otherwise, he would have to think of ways to change the topic to a blank page. He would also be very tired. That's good.
Lin Sanzhu turned the white paper he held to his chest and said with a smile, "I didn't buy this. No, my family Yuanqiu got a top grade in the clan science competition today. These papers were awarded to him by the clan. You What's the point of getting a top grade for this child? It's such a hard winter for me as a father. Brother Youcai, you continue to put the pig pen in, I'll go back first, oh, this paper is really heavy!"
Lin Youcai: "..."
Another example: Lin Qingshan was holding a shovel and was about to shovel the snow at the door. When he looked up, he saw Lin Sanzhu coming.
Lin Qingshan was a little confused. Sanzhu's house was on the west side of the village, and he was on the east side of the village. So, why did he come here?
"Sanzhu, why did you come here in such a cold weather?"
Lin Sanzhu handed the paper to Lin Qingshan to look at, "Well, it's not just to get this. Today, my family, Yuanqiu, won the top grade in the family study competition. This is a reward given by the family study. Alas, this child is really annoying. It's so cold that his father has to go out and he won't be able to sleep even if he's lying on the bed. Oh, that's right, Brother Qingshan, you can continue shoveling the snow, I won't delay you any longer."
Lin Qingshan: "..."
Hey, you haven't told me yet, why did you go around from the west end of the village to the east end of the village?
In this way, Lin Sanzhu, holding the roll of paper, took care of every corner of the small mountain village.
Mrs. Wu was certain that if it hadn't snowed again outside, her youngest child might have had to spin a few more times.
Lin Sanzhu, can you not show off? Darling, this is three hundred coins. If you are carrying a sack, it is a one-hundred-jin bag. You will have to carry a full nine hundred sacks.
Hahaha, his dog is still the most powerful, and he easily earned back three hundred coins.
Seeing Cheap Dad grinning from the corners of his mouth to his ears, Lin Yuanqiu wanted to say that he was not relaxed at all, hadn't he? Didn't you see that his hands were covered with frostbite?
Yes, Lin Yuanqiu, who had never suffered from chilblains in his previous life, suddenly and tragically discovered that he had chilblains on his two little fingers.
Fortunately, the Ethnology School will be on vacation soon. I can take advantage of this vacation time to cover my hands, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable if the skin is broken by then.
…
After the holiday, Lin Yuanqiu didn't go out much except for a snowball fight with his third brother and fourth brother.
It's not because of frostbite, or because I'm afraid of the cold. It's just that Master Wang gave them a lot of homework. In addition to reciting three hundred thousand words every day, the rest is to write forty pieces of calligraphy. Forty pieces, the entire annual vacation is just Twenty-six days, if you don’t hurry up, it will definitely be difficult to complete.
Lin Yuanqiu set himself a limit of two sheets a day. As for the writing paper, he still used the ones given by shopkeeper Gao. As for the sword rewarded by clan science, Lin Yuanqiu planned to use it all for copying books. If possible, he planned to do it next I copied one of the Four Books and Five Classics.
This way you no longer have to worry about not being able to afford books.
Mrs. Feng was also sitting at the kang table, holding colored thread in her hand and sewing quickly.
She has already embroidered six pairs of insoles and plans to take them to the town tomorrow to check them out. By the way, she also has two purses made by her second sister-in-law and stitches made by her elder sister-in-law. She is also planning to take them to the shop to ask about them.
After Ms. Zhou got pricked on her hand again while learning embroidery, Ms. Feng directly taught her how to make embroidery.
Strangely enough, Mr. Zhou, who struggled to learn embroidery, was very dexterous in making loops. No, after only half an hour of learning, he was able to braid a single loop.
This made Mrs. Zhou extremely happy. The depression caused by learning embroidery was swept away. She said that she was not bright in the east but bright in the west. She was really using her skills in the right place.
So in the next few days, Zhou made more than 30 strings whenever she had time, and soon she had made more than 30 strings, until all the strings she bought were used up, and some were left. The meaning is still not finished.
In the past two days, Mrs. Zhou has been looking forward to good weather so that she can go to town to sell luozi.
Lin Yuanqiu carefully moved the written words to the kang, turned around and was about to get another piece of paper, but saw Lin Sanzhu staring at what he had written.
Lin Yuanqiu was wondering if the ink on the words had melted, when Lin Sanzhu said, "My dear, if you embroider the words written by my dog onto the insoles, will anyone want it?"
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Chapter 19 Embroidery
"Embroidered characters?"
Feng was stunned. She had done a lot of embroidery work when she was at her parents' home, but she had embroidered flowers, plants, insects and birds, but she had never embroidered words.
"Yes, it's just embroidery!"
Lin Sanzhu was a little excited. He just said it casually, but now, the more Lin Sanzhu thought about it, the more he felt that his idea was feasible. No, he had already thought about what words to embroider.
"Let's let Gouzi pick some colorful words from the book to make embroidery samples. Someone will definitely buy them."
Feng's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this, and she immediately understood what her husband meant. She couldn't help but nodded repeatedly and said, "My husband, this is a good idea. Let's embroider the words "please beg for money", regardless of the insole or the handkerchief. All the bags can be embroidered, and there are also fan covers and pencil cases, which will be easy to sell when the time comes. Oh, sir, you are so smart!"
Feng is full of confidence. Although she is illiterate, as long as the words are given to her, no matter how complicated they are, she guarantees that she can embroider them.
Hearing his wife praising him for being smart, Lin Sanzhu almost grinned.
Of course he is smart, otherwise how could his dog get a piece of paper by following his smart father?
Now that they had made up their mind, the next step was to prepare the embroidery pattern. The couple both looked at their son.
Lin Sanzhu asked, "Gouzi, are there any meaningful words in your book?"
"Yes, yes, it's like the word that the shopkeeper will make a fortune and the shopkeeper will have great luck."
Lin Sanzhu rolled his eyes at Mr. Feng, "The shopkeeper is going to make a fortune, and the shopkeeper is going to have great luck. Do you think you can make up a begging speech? I say don't make blind decisions, let the dog help you pick, we dogs But scholars must know more than the two of us."
For some reason, when Lin Sanzhu mentioned the word "scholar", he felt proud in his heart.
When Feng heard this, she felt that her husband was right. She had better listen to what Gouzi had to say.
At this time, Lin Yuanqiu had not yet recovered from his cheap father's good idea.
