Husband and wife are hot on the kang

Chapter 183 Hot Summer July

At noon of the first day, Yu Juren went to the school. The children who came out to study alone had handed in a workbook. Yu Juren read it one by one. After all, they were peasant children. The answers to the martial arts are all correct, but the writing is not very good. There is no way. The four treasures of the study cost two to thirty taels of silver.

It is okay to teach children to read at home, but I have never seen anyone practice calligraphy for children, so I can’t afford it.

Xiao Juren had no choice but to get two sets of the Four Treasures of the Study that others gave him, as well as rice paper, so that when they were free, they could use the broken brush to fill up the water and practice on the table. Pen, ink, paper and inkstone to write the answer.

"Thank you, Master Shan." Several older children hurriedly thanked Xiao Juren.

Although the Eighteenth Academy is a bit small, Yujuren is still the head of the mountain here, oh, the head of the mountain means the principal.

"Study hard, that's the best way to thank me." Xiao Juren finished grading homework, and it was time for the children to leave school, so he went to find the two gentlemen.

At noon, I ate in the school. The two gentlemen's family cooked the meal. Because the weather was much hotter, I ate scallion pancakes, fried vegetables and egg soup.

Although it is simple, it tastes very good, and it is very delicious for Yu Juren. By the way, I will discuss the school with the two gentlemen.

Eat without talking, sleep without talking, this saying does not exist in Yu Juren.

Just take it out to fool the little baby who doesn't sleep well.

"How do these guys look?" This is the year he and his parents are coming, and it would be great if he passed the Tongsheng exam.

"That's right, you're so smart!" Lin Jie took a sip of the soup, "I also gave them pens, inks, papers and inkstones. After all, practicing with water is not as good as using paper."

"Then use it. At worst, I'll go buy some paper. How much paper do we have here?" Xiao Juren thought for a while, and there is still a lot of paper at home, which was prepared in advance for the children in the school. But this paper was made by the predecessors after all, it is not as good as the rice paper made by traditional crafts.

I heard that the best rice paper can be made into eight layers in the hands of a master!

"The paper is enough. If it is not enough, just buy plain paper and change to rice paper a few days before the exam." In the imperial examination, in order to preserve everyone's handwriting for a long time, rice paper is used. is plain paper.

In fact, this paper is no different, anyway, they are not painting.

He returned to his home at night, Shi Hongda hadn't seen him all day, and when he saw him, he couldn't help but dragged him into the back room.

"Why... um...?" Yu Juren wanted to ask him what's wrong?Is there something wrong?As a result, Shi Hongda just pulled him in, kissed him, and didn't dare to make any big moves. One was that the two of them hadn't crossed the clear road yet, and they were afraid of being gossiped;

It's just that I haven't seen each other for a day, and he really misses her very much. A kiss can relieve the pain of lovesickness.

"I miss you, I haven't seen you for a day." Although it was in the school in the front yard, Shi Hongda couldn't go there, he knew that he was discussing something serious, and he had to take someone to wait for the field.

"Well, I miss you too." Xiao Juren blushed at the words, but seeing each other every day is like three autumns. Isn't it like this for people in love?

He felt that he and Shi Hongda were very lucky, since they never established a relationship, they were always together like this, almost inseparable.

The atmosphere was pink, and Chef Huang shouted outside: "Dinner is ready!"

Got it!

The atmosphere is gone!

Seeing Shi Hongda's constipated face, Xiao Juren couldn't help laughing and said, "Go out to eat, it's been a tiring day, take a rest after eating and washing!"

Shi Hongda squeezed his little paw, and followed him out.

After they left the next day, Xiao Juren went into the vegetable garden to look at his own vegetables. The cucumbers had already been planted, and even the beans that were planted later were creeping up. Eggplants, green peppers and other green vegetables transplanted from seedlings in advance, It has blossomed and beared fruit, and the eggplant has even grown to a palm, so it can be eaten!

Yu Juren picked a lot of eggplants, green peppers and cucumbers and went back, carrying a basket directly into the kitchen: "Let's eat these for lunch today!"

Chef Huang was startled when he heard Yu Juren's voice, "Can you eat all of these?"

He has been wandering around in the kitchen for the past few days, can he eat all the vegetables in the yard?It's only the beginning of June!

"It can be eaten." Yu Juren doesn't want to eat dried vegetables anymore, and there are Xinqun vegetables at home, why not eat them?

"Aren't you going to sell it?" Mrs. Liu Song, who came to deliver the washed apron, happened to hear the conversation. After staying with her husband for a long time, she also looked at the money and made a lot of money.

"What are you selling? We have a lot of green vegetables in our village, let's eat them ourselves!" Xiao Juren also knows that the people outside who grow seedlings and grow vegetables with him may be anxious to sell the vegetables before they grow, because they plowed in spring. Sometimes, there is indeed a lack of money.

It's normal to sell vegetables to buy some meat to make up for your family.

Shibalipu has at least half a month in advance, and there are vegetables such as eggplant, green pepper and cucumber, which are different from fast-growing vegetables such as spinach and rapeseed. There are not many fruit vegetables such as persimmon and cucumber in the town. Ten The men in Balipu go to the fields, and the women go out to the market to sell vegetables. They walk together, with small hoes and machetes pinned to their waists. There are many people, and they are not afraid of wild animals. Today your family will send a car, and tomorrow his family will send a horse. Just now In three days, a special vegetable vendor came to Shibalipu to collect the vegetables. They sold them to the county capital, and everyone didn't have time, so they just sold them to the vegetable vendor!

Save the time of going out to sell vegetables, and do some housework and cooking at home.

This thing was sold early, after a while, all the green vegetables came down, but they were worthless, and no one picked them up on the bad street.

If I eat a few days later at home, I will eat a few days later, and I will not starve to death if I have no green vegetables. Last year's dried vegetables are eaten at this time, just in time!

Smaller than Juren can't do it, he wants to eat green vegetables, fresh vegetables!

As a result, a vegetable vendor came to collect the vegetables that morning. Chef Huang communicated directly with the vegetable vendor and decided to change the vegetables!

When they came back at noon, their meals were stewed crucian carp and cucumbers in sauce, and they ate small rice, and the soup was seaweed and shrimp soup.

Everyone was amazed while eating, and touched by the way. Every time I went to work at Xiaoju’s house, I could eat well, drink well, sleep well, and even have a chance to take a bath!

For dinner, there are fried pork slices with green peppers and scrambled eggs, big bone soup, and sorghum rice.

"All you eat today is green vegetables?" Shi Hongda lay on the kang after washing up, chatting teeth with Xiao Juren.

"Who said it's all vegetables? Don't they have meat?" When excited, Yu Juren stood up.

It is lower than Juren's standard, that is, there must be a combination of meat and vegetables, and the food must be done well.

"I mean, the vegetables in the meat!" Shi Hongda quickly corrected himself.

To be honest, there are indeed less vegetables and more meat, but to be able to eat vegetables at this time is indeed less generous than Juren.

"Anyway, it's all grown, so why don't you eat it?" Xiao Yu went back and said, "Our family doesn't need to sell vegetables, and Chef Huang even trades green vegetables for meat with other people's vegetable vendors!"

There is no butcher in Shibalipu, and naturally there is no place to sell meat. Usually, they either go to the market in Zhangjia Village to buy, or go to the county town. Now the family is shoveling the ground, and there is a serious shortage of manpower. Chef Huang can't go out, so he simply follows the The human vegetable seller said that they use vegetables to exchange meat. They don't sell vegetables, but they can exchange meat.

The result was three catties of eggplants, three catties of cucumbers, for one catty of meat, then three catties of persimmons, and three catties of green peppers, for two catties of big bones.

"You don't want to sell it, so you have to exchange it. They are selling money in a corner!" After selling the money to buy meat, it is better to exchange vegetables for meat, which saves money.

"Anyway, I don't want to sell vegetables, so I can change meat for meat!" Yu Juren insisted.

"Okay, okay, go to sleep, otherwise, you will lose energy tomorrow." Shi Hongda hugged Yu Juren, patted him on the back, just like coaxing a child.

Yu Juren was also tired and fell asleep after a while.

It took seven days to shovel the land this time, all because of the abundant rain on the other side of the wasteland opened by their family, not only the seedlings grew well, but also the grass grew much more lushly!

It is also used to pack the grass back in a frame, and the less familiar people go to search for wild vegetables inside, then take out the clean ones and dip them in sauce to eat, go to the fire!

During the seven days, the weather became much hotter, and it didn't rain during these seven days, but Xiao Juren still paid the wages as usual, and treated them to a meal of four dishes and one soup.

After the hired workers were sent away, it rained on the third day. It was not a downpour, because if it was a downpour, it would definitely water the young seedlings. Looking at the two apricot trees in the yard from the window, if there is another peace tank or something, plant some lotus in it, and raise two carp, it will be the same as the Jiangnan small courtyard, right?

Before he knew it, he said it and was heard by Shi Hongda next to him.

When the rain stopped, the seedlings in the field became greener and greener. In a few days, the family bought two large pottery jars. Shi Hongda put them under the steps of the corridor in front of the window of the east room, and the four-tailed reds were grown in them. Carp, and two small lotus flowers that cannot bloom.

Yu Juren wandered around the big tank twice, the big tank was not too high, but it reached the position of his stomach, it was very thick, the water in it was crystal clear, and it could be seen that it was covered with pebbles.

"How do you know I want this?" Yu Juren asked Shi Hongda, looking at the red carp wandering inside.

"You muttered that day. Since there's nothing else to do now, I'll get you one quickly. No matter how fragrant the rain is, you can see the majesty of the drizzle and the rippling lotus leaves." Small lotus leaves.

Yu Juren: "..."

In mid-June, the apricots of each family were ripe, and the whole village was making licorice apricots. Yu Juren emphasized that they must be sterilized and cleaned before storage. The hygiene is not good, and it is easy to grow apricots. Are jar maggots good?

Yu Juren strictly demanded water: "It's not that I'm picky, but I don't want everyone to make a fuss. You said that if it's not clean, it's spoiled, and you can't eat it. Isn't it a waste of time?"

Some people who don't want to make a fuss listen to it and think about it, don't they?After all this tossing, if it goes bad by then, it won't be sold or eaten, and it won't vomit to death!

Everyone in the village is busy, only the two brothers of the Fu family are at a standstill. Fu Dazhuzi's family has no mature apricot trees, and Fu Erzhuzi?He was beating his children and scolding his wife on a cloudy and rainy day!

Because apricots can be eaten until July, until the seventh and eighth day of the seventh month, all the apricots in the village should be made into licorice apricots, and the rest that cannot be made are shared with everyone.

On the ninth day of July, Yu's family began to shovel the ground twice.

July is the most familiar season of the year in the north. This kind of heat is hot and dry, unlike the south where it is still hot and humid.

Shi Hongda and the others started to go out early and return late to shovel the ground twice. At this time, it was too ripe at noon to do work, so they could only talk in the morning and evening while the coolness was cool, so they got up at almost three or four o'clock to eat, and then the sun was gone. When I got up, I went to the field to shovel the ground. I walked back at ten o’clock, came back to wash and eat, went to bed at noon, and slept until 01:30 in the afternoon. It was much cooler after two o'clock.

In order to prevent them from being bitten by mosquitoes, Xiao Juren asked people to smoke a lot of mugwort to smoke mosquitoes. The whole field was full of smoke, and sometimes it looked like a fairyland on earth at night.