The husband's son-in-law

Yuan Yuan wore a red double-breasted jacket, black cotton trousers, tiger shoes and a tiger hat on his feet. He was well-raised by Brother Xing. He was fat and white, and his little hands were clenched into fists. Meaty.

His father carried him into the main room, in a strange place, Yuan Yuan rolled his eyes curiously, and babbled.Brother Xing raised his hand to take off his son's hat, snorted his head with his hands, and said, "This is Grandpa's house."

"Uncle Zhou Zhou, and Uncle Gu Zhao."

Li Da was usually a taciturn person who didn't talk much, but he was soft and kind to the child, took out a red envelope from his arms and stuffed it into Yuan Yuan's hand, saying: "Yuan Yuan is healthy and healthy."

"Yeah~" Yuan Yuan clenched his fists and waved.

Brother Xing took it and called uncle, happy new year.

Sit down together in the hall.

Li Zhouzhou served melon seeds, peanuts, caramel, and a pot of tea. The big guys sat around the stove eating dry goods and chatting. The tiger head hat is made by him, and the shoes on the feet are made by my sister-in-law, and they happen to match a pair.

"It looks good, Yuan Yuan looks good." Li Zhouzhou boasted.

Wang Shitou can only eat melon seeds, he has nothing to say to Li Zhou Zhou's brother-in-law Gu Zhao, he can't read big characters, and they can't talk together, so they can only chat with Uncle Li about the crops.

"Uncle, there is enough snow and water this year. I'm afraid that the weather will be too cold and the wheat in the field will be damaged by freezing."

Li Da went to his own field for New Year's Eve and said, "The wheat underneath looks fine, don't move around, and wait until the next spring when the snow melts."

"My father also said the same thing, no matter how thick the snow is, now the cat is nestled in the wheat and dare not move."

Gu Zhao listened to the two talking about the crops, and could see that Wang Shitou had nothing to say, but he had some questions, "Father, Brother Wang, you said that winter wheat is afraid of freezing, so why not sow it in spring?"

Winter wheat is sown in October, nested for the winter, and harvested in June of the following year.Spring wheat is sown in March and April, and in September and October.

There is no difference between the two seasons of the year, and spring wheat can be planted in case the winter wheat is frozen.

Wang Shitou laughed first, and Gu Shulang knew that he had never planted crops when he heard this question.He said: "Sow wheat in spring, and fear it will dry out in summer. It is a dry field, but it is moistened by rain and snow in winter, and the field can be more fertile."

The crop field is like this. When there is enough rain and snow in winter, I am afraid that the wheat will freeze. In summer, I am afraid that if the sky does not rain, the crops in the field will die of drought. Anyway, it is right to worry about it every year.

"Besides, there are nine people in my family, with 25 acres of paddy fields and [-] acres of dry fields. Now only me, my elder brother and my father can go to the fields to take care of the crops. If there are so many fields, if the wheat is sown in spring and the harvest rushes to the rice, it will be exhausted. The field is too busy to keep up." Wang Shitou said with a smile.

Gu Zhao nodded, he understood this, Zhou Zhou had told him about it.

It may be that Gu Zhao has a good attitude, and Wang Shitou talks a lot, mainly because he can't talk about the crops with Uncle Li, he can't sit still, and he can't talk about raising children.

"The experience accumulated by the ancestors, the rice in spring and the wheat in winter, the harvest is diverged, and some peanuts, yellow rice and beans can be planted. The dry land cannot be multiplied, otherwise the land will not be fertile in the coming year, and no crops can be grown."

Serious food is the big head, and everyone else leans back.

"Isn't it fertilized? It's just dung." Gu Zhao asked.Those who grow crops now should know this, right?

Wang Shitou first boasted that Gu Zhao knew how to use manure, but then said: "How much can my family save? It is not enough to save [-] mu of dry land for a year, and the manure on weekdays is mixed with water to irrigate the vegetable field. gone."

Even if the village chief's family raised cattle, the combined amount of cow dung and human dung would not be enough.

"You must not put it directly, or you will burn the vegetables to death." Wang Shitou thought that Gu Shulang was learning how to grow crops, and added a sentence, because he was afraid that he would burn the crops with dung, and he would not be able to settle the score with him.

"The paddy fields are good, and the rice is harvested. If you don't have to worry about it, you can catch frogs and loaches and put them in the paddy fields. The dry fields can only ask God, there is enough rain and snow, and they should be well moistened, so don't plant them too often."

So Wang Shitou's [-]-acre dry land came in rotation after the wheat was harvested.This year, a few acres of yellow rice, peanuts, and beans are planted in that field, which is enough for the family to eat.Another piece of land will come next year, and that piece will rest.

so repeatedly.

These farming experiences are accumulated from generation to generation.Peasants rely on the land to eat, so they should not be more careful.

"Last time, Zhou Zhou said that if the weather is good, it will cost about [-] catties per acre—oh, two stones is more grain."

There seem to be more paddy fields, with three hundred catties, and a little over two hundred catties in dry fields is enough.

I found the answer today. The three hundred catties of paddy fields are due to the "fertilizer", while the dry fields are purely relying on rain, snow and land rest.If there is fertilizer, the yield will not be greatly improved.

Gu Zhao said something to keep in mind, unexpectedly he learned a lot about farming.

Wang Shitou chatted quite happily, and when he got home, he told Brother Xing that Gu Zhao was a good person, as expected of a scholar who speaks differently, and praised him for his farming knowledge.

This kind of field is just farming. What knowledge do you have?Said so, Wang Shitou's face can be proud.

Now, talking about the conversation, it's time to make lunch.When Li Zhouzhou went to the stove, Brother Xing put Yuan Yuan on his man's lap, rolled up his sleeves and went to the stove to help.In fact, it was mainly chatting with his teeth. He was suffocated. It was hard to study in the main room just now, and the uncle was here.

Brother Xing is still afraid of uncle.

Now that the two of them have arrived at the stove house, and the baby doesn't need him to look at it for the time being, Brother Xing is very happy, and said while working: "You know, Mrs. Tian came back from her mother's house yesterday and scolded him all the way, did you hear that? "

Zhang Zhuzi's house is just across from Li Zhouzhou's house in Aunt Wang's yard. Brother Xing heard a lesson from the villagers, but it was not as detailed as the live version, and immediately urged Li Zhouzhou to speak, his eyes were very earnest.

Li Zhouzhou: "...Just went back to Datian Village yesterday, and Daniel seemed to have finished eating the meat his mother brought back to his natal family."

"I've heard about this. Zhang's family brought thick chickens and eggs, meat and candy when they went back to their mother's house. They said that they were in a good mood these days, and they didn't beat or scold Da Niu Niu Dan. They said it was Zhang. Zhu Zi agreed to go back to her mother's house to get a generous gift, but the Zhang family's got the good one for my younger brother, how can you be upset?" Brother Xing looked eagerly, and asked: "Why are you scolding?"

Li Zhouzhou couldn't continue studying, so he changed the subject and asked, "Will you eat a burnt fish?"

"Eat." Brother Xing recognized it, and he knew that he couldn't hear anything from Li Zhouzhou. While picking vegetables, he said, "Why are you married and a man? You still can't learn these things. I don't know why , I didn’t like to listen to it when I was a brother at home when I was young, but I like to listen to it when I become a relative.”

There were only two fish left, Li Zhouzhou fished out one fish, slaughtered it, and said, "Before they said you were talking about me, of course you didn't want to join in, and you don't have time to listen to the family work, now you are free."

"That's true." Brother Xing thought about it and it was true.When he was at home, because he was eight years older than his younger brother, he washed, cooked and fed chickens and pigs since he was a child. When he was a little older, he cut pigweed and plucked peanuts. Take the town to sell.

No time to listen to right and wrong to learn from right and wrong.

Marrying into the Wang family, the housework is just that. The elder sister-in-law and mother-in-law are quick and industrious, and there is not much work in the public housing, so I just need to take care of the things in my house and wash the clothes.Later, Huai Yuanyuan became pregnant, and I had less work to do. It was boring to hold back all day at home, and I could listen to gossip all afternoon by strolling around.

"You are busy now. When you get pregnant, you will definitely be the same as me. I learned this problem when I was pregnant with Yuanyuan." Brother Xing said with certainty.

When Li Zhouzhou thought of having a child, he felt both anticipation and apprehension. His elder brother's mole was too faint, and if he didn't look closely, he couldn't see it at all, and he didn't know if he could conceive...

The two people in the stove house were talking without stopping their hands, and they cleaned up a table of meals in a while.

Roasted fish with soybean sauce, a bowl of fried chicken balls, a large bowl of stewed pork, cabbage and tofu, the sausages I made from Dongping Village last night hung up all night, steamed and cut into slices, and pig offal, cooked in soybean sauce A pig's head meat, stewed a pot of white rice, don't eat miscellaneous grains.

"Zhou Zhou, the first year I married into Wang's family, I never saw the food so good." Brother Xing looked at the table, almost catching up with the table.

Li Zhouzhou said: "Fish is traded by my father for meat. There are more fish and offal this year. My husband said the fried chicken is delicious. There are a lot of chickens, but it's my family, so I eat it when I eat it." There is nothing distressing of.

After hearing this, Brother Xing felt the irony in his heart, and knew that Li Zhouzhou's character was not one to speak nice words.

The food was served on the big table in the main room, there were three long benches, Li Da sat on one, Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao sat on one, Xinggeer Wang Shitou sat on one, it was just right.

Brother Yuanyuan Xing hugged him. Now that he could eat some food, he mashed the rice with tofu and fed a small bowl. After eating, Yuan Yuan babbled and didn’t make trouble. Eat whole with one hand.

Li Zhouzhou saw that it was inconvenient for Brother Xing to hold Yuan Yuan for dinner, so he said he would.Brother Xing shook his head, "Don't look at him as a good boy now, he is in my hands, if you hug him, he will cry."

Yuan Yuan of his family is someone who adults want to hug when eating, and it has to be him.

After eating, we sat down and talked for a long time. It was getting dark when Brother Xing said he was going back. He put a hat on Yuan Yuan and wrapped him tightly. Wang Shitou was holding the child. Snow, Brother Xing is afraid that he will not be able to walk steadily and fall.

Li Zhouzhou sent Gu Zhao off, and when he came out of the yard, he heard Tian scolding Da Niu again in a high voice, Li Zhouzhou looked at Brother Xing first, the bright light couldn't hide Brother Xing's eyes watching the excitement.

"Walk carefully on the road, don't forget to look at the road." Li Zhouzhou reminded.

Brother Xing waved his hand, "Understood, you guys go back quickly, we're leaving." He took his man to take two more steps, and he could hear clearly when he got closer.

The family of three walked away, and Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou returned to the yard and tied the gate of the yard.

"I'm tired all day, so I won't eat at night. I'll go to bed early after soaking my feet in hot water." Gu Zhao said.

Li Zhouzhou: "I asked Dad if he still eats."

After breakfast in the morning, the meal at noon was all meaty, that is, stewed tofu with cabbage was fried with sliced ​​meat, because the Wang family was in the same village, so there was no need to worry about going back late, and the meal was almost two or three o'clock. In the afternoon, we chatted, drank tea, and ate dried peanuts. Look, the stomach is not hungry at all.

Li Zhouzhou asked his father, and Li Da also said that he was not hungry, and he only had two meals today, so he stopped cooking.

After washing up, I went to the kang.

Gu Zhao was clinging to his family's Zhou Zhou's arms, he liked to touch Zhou Zhou's fingertips with his hands, and rubbed them for a while.Li Zhouzhou moved a little, Gu Zhao raised his head and didn't say a word, just asked with his eyes what's the matter, is he not feeling well?

"No." Li Zhouzhou understood the answer, and after a while, he couldn't hold back and said in a low voice, "Master Xing, Yuan Yuan from Brother Xing's family is so cute and chubby."

The first thought in Gu Zhao's mind blurted out: "I'm also white and tender, am I not cute?"

If he is not cute anymore, he can still practice the green tea technique.

Li Zhouzhou got stuck, didn't know what to say, and replied that his husband was cute.Gu Zhao also realized that Zhou Zhou probably didn't love him anymore, and said, "Zhou Zhou, do you like babies and want children?"

"...It's not bad." Li Zhouzhou didn't dare to say that he liked it when he saw his husband's eyes sparkling.

Why does Xianggong even eat children's jealousy?

Gu Zhao snorted and said, "I think I'm still young now, and I'm Li Zhouyi's little husband-in-law. Let's not worry about the child. We'll talk about it in two years." After finishing speaking, he coquettishly posted to his wife, "How about it~ "

"Okay, okay." Li Zhouzhou immediately complied.

When he fell asleep, he realized that he was worried that he would not be able to have a baby. He just started talking about Yuan Yuan. It also took an extra year.

It turned out that Xianggong was not in a hurry to have a child.The stone in Li Zhouzhou's heart has loosened, and if the mole fades, either it means that she will not be able to conceive, or the chances are small. After making up her body, she should succeed, right?

On the fifth day of the junior high school.

Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao had dinner early in the morning, and went to Zhu Xiucai's house in Shili Village with a basket.

At that time, Li Da was killing pigs in Shili Village, and Zhu Xiucai happened to be at home. Zhu Xiucai's wife gave birth to a son for Zhu Xiucai. One day, I went back to study again.

Usually Zhu Xiucai is not at home, and there are Zhu Xiucai's parents, wife, and a child who is less than two months old.Therefore, the gate of the courtyard is closed on weekdays, unlike other courtyards in the village, where the door is open.

Gu Zhao knocked on the door, who was he asking in the yard?

"Gu Zhao, the son-in-law of the Li family in Xiping Village, and Li Zhouzhou, his wife." Gu Zhao responded.

The room shouted to wait a moment, and then called mother-in-law.It should be Zhu Xiucai's wife who just asked the question.

Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou waited for a while, when someone opened the door, it was an old woman, probably Zhu Xiucai's mother.

Zhu Xiucai was 22 years old last year. People in ancient times got married early, so Zhu Xiucai’s mother was estimated to be around forty years old, but the woman in front of her was gray at the temples and her waist was bent. She looked like she was in her fifties or sixties.

After exchanging pleasantries, Mrs. Zhu Xiucai invited the two of them to sit in the room.

The courtyard of Zhu Xiucai’s house is small, and the three main rooms are also small, with tile roofs and mud walls. Li Zhouzhou looked at it for a while, and it seemed that a wall was built between the two main rooms to separate them into three rooms. After entering, he would know That's right.

The light in the house is poor, and the main room has windows, even in winter, the light is still good in the morning.The main room of Zhu's house is dark and cold, and the stove is not lit.

"The family is shabby, I'm laughing at it." Zhu Xiucai cupped his hands and said.

This is self-effacement. Of course, Gu Zhao can't say that your family is really shabby. This is lack of understanding. He quickly laughed and said, "Where, every family is the same."

Aunt Zhu Xiucai served hot tea and went to the kitchen.

Gu Zhao and Zhu Xiucai explained their purpose of coming, of course they said nice words, first they praised Zhu Xiucai, said that Zhu Xiucai is a good scholar, he was selected as a scholar at a young age, unlike last year when he was criticized as a negative teaching material, I am really ashamed of my master, no Read for face, but don't read, can't lift hands and can't plant crops, I don't want to try again...

He stepped on himself and lifted Zhu Xiucai, and found that Zhu Xiucai's expression softened a lot.

Sure enough, everyone loves to hear beautiful words.

After saying this, Zhu Xiucai's serious face eased a little, and he comforted Gu Zhao by saying that he was only a scholar in the second middle school in his twenties, meaning that Gu Zhao should not be discouraged.

"I came to visit this time. First, thank you for the four books recommended by Brother Zhu last time. Gu bought two of them in the town. Second, I came to ask if Brother Zhu could help Gu bring the remaining two books. This book? My home is far away from the prefecture and county, and it is inconvenient to go there, so I have the cheek to bother Brother Zhu." Gu Zhaogong cupped his hands.

Zhu Xiucai said: "After the Lantern Festival, I will set off for the prefecture and county. It may not be until July when I return next time."

It means that if Gu Zhao is not in a hurry, he will help to bring it.

"Gu has waited. Don't be afraid of Brother Zhu's jokes. After the college exam last year, I abandoned my studies for more than a year, and now I pick up the old ones."

After Gu Zhao said this, Zhu Xiucai agreed, saying that the two books in the prefecture and county were printed, one was two taels of silver, and one half was hand-copied.Gu Zhao then said that the handwritten copy would do.

Li Zhouzhou never found a chance to go to the stove house, and stayed to listen to Xianggong and Zhu Xiucai talking. This time he would finally be useful, so he quickly took out three taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to Xianggong.

Scholars pay attention to trustworthiness at this time, and when Gu Zhao asks someone to do something, it's hard to say that you can make a letter for me. If he dares to say this, Zhu Xiucai will immediately beat him out. Believe it or not?

Who is this insulting?

Immediately, he happily handed over the silver to Zhu Xiucai.

Zhu Xiucai took the money, and then talked about the conversation, and talked about some things about the school.For example, if a scholar has passed the exam, those with high rankings will enter the government school very smoothly. If the grades are low, they will need a letter of recommendation from the master and take the school exam again and again before they can stay.

A government school is a government school established by a prefecture or county, and the status of a student must be a scholar.

After entering the government school, there will be school exams every month. If the case is the first time, the government school will reward three taels of silver.

"...Zhu has no knowledge and has never obtained it, but rice noodles are distributed every month, so he can't go hungry." Zhu Xiucai said.

Gu Zhao's translation: The school is in charge of food.

Accommodation and meals are officially covered.Policies are good.

Government schools have two holidays a year, July and Chinese New Year.Originally there was no holiday in July, or more than ten years ago, in an Enke examination, the second place in the palace examination was a farmer's son, which was a rare thing, so Emperor Kang Jing asked a few more questions about the farmer's family.

In the era of small-scale peasant economy, agriculture is the foundation of the country.

Emperor Kang Jing asked, and the second place came back. He said that when he was studying, what was the harvest of the family's fields and how hard his father worked. He was studying in the government school, and every time the rice was harvested, he felt very guilty for not being able to help his parents in farming.

Gu Zhao dug up this matter in his memory, guessing that the second place in the list might have been sincere when he said this, or it might be to win Emperor Kang Jing's attention, who knows.Anyway, Emperor Kang Jing valued filial piety, and after hearing the words of the second place, he was very moved, and specially approved a July 'farming leave' for the poor family farmers.

As for the No. [-] who pioneered agricultural holidays, the top three entered the Imperial Academy, and now he is officially worshiped as the second rank.

It is the idol target of all peasants in the world.

The original body doesn't remember much about Li Zhou's family, but the deeds of this adult are clear and impressive.Unfortunately, within a few years, this Master Chu was beheaded for corruption, accepting bribes, and forming a party for personal gain.

Speaking of the agricultural holiday, Gu Zhaoshun boasted that Zhu Xiucai has the demeanor of Mr. Chu.

Although Zhu Xiucai was happy in his heart, of course he couldn't admit it on the face. He said humbly that he was not as good as Mr. Chu.

Only if you win the Juren, can you be qualified to be an official. If you really turn over, you can be called the master of Juren.Of course, the ancestor Mengze, the descendants of the aristocratic class are not counted.

Just like Zhu Xiucai, his mother aged ten years in order to support him to study, and his son couldn't take care of him, so he went to study alone.If Zhu Xiucai's family was in good condition and belonged to the landlord class, then the whole family could move to prefectures and counties as accompanying students.

On the way back, Gu Zhao was thinking about this.

If he passed the examination as a scholar, it is necessary to go to the government school, and only after going to the government school can he gain more knowledge and make more people.

Ask him to go to school alone——

"Zhou Zhou~" Gu Zhaola's wife moaned.

Hearing Xianggong's sticky voice, Li Zhouzhou smiled in his eyes, hummed, and asked nicely, "What's the matter, Xianggong."

"I'm my wife, Bao Nan, and I can't bear to part with my family Zhou Zhou, and I can't live without Zhou Zhou."

Although Li Zhouzhou didn't understand what the wife Bao Nan was talking about, but after he understood it, he felt sweet in his heart, first hummed, and then said: "I won't leave my husband either."

The two went back holding hands like sticky candies. Fortunately, the snow was snowing in winter and the fields were empty everywhere.

Gu Zhao made up his mind that before his next court exam for a scholar, his family had to save a lot of money to cover the expenses of moving his family to the prefecture.

As for whether you can take this question once?

That doesn't affect the family's ability to make money.The money is earned first.

There are two ways to get money at home, one is to sell food, and rely on the land.Two do business.Putting business aside, Gu Zhao thought of the fertilizer Wang Shitou mentioned when he came to the house a few days ago.

Dry fields cannot be fertilized, because there is no fertilizer to use.

Peasants know that manure is a good thing, but it’s rare. It takes about ten acres of land, and Wang Shitou’s family of nine people, the manure collected for a month is not enough for one mu of land, right?

Gu Zhao had no idea, so he went back and dragged Zhou Zhou and said that he wanted to see where his field was.Li Zhouzhou favored Mr. Xianggong, so he just looked at the fields and took a detour, what's the point?

When he reached the field ridge, Li Zhouzhou pointed and said, "Master, this is our family's ten mu of dry land. The paddy field is next to the river, not here."

Gu Zhao looked at the endless field.

OO! ! !

This is still only ten acres!

"Zhou Zhou, I really worked hard on you before." Gu Zhao stroked the callus on his wife's hand.

Li Zhouzhou never really thought about suffering or not before. Everyone did it like this. The crops in the fields are good, and it’s too late to be happy. Tired is tired, but there is always something to do.

"It's good to be busy for a while."

"This year has a lot of rain and snow. When the next year's vernalization blooms, the crops will definitely be good."

Gu Zhao then said: "Zhou Zhou, if I have a way to increase the yield of crops in the field, oh, it will be a harvest, do you believe me or not?"

Farmers rely on the fields for food. No one would believe what a scholar and layman said.

"Can Xianggong really have such a good way?" Li Zhouzhou asked seriously, looked at Xianggong, and added, "If you say it can be done, I will believe you."

He knew that Xianggong was not someone who ran wildly in the fields.

She really trusted him unconditionally.Gu Zhao was happy, seeing that there was no one around, he leaned over to stick to his family Zhou Zhou, and said, "Wife, you are well~" He didn't dare to mess around in broad daylight, Zhou Zhou would be ashamed.

He has a thick skin and is not afraid.

But on the outside, there is still some sense of propriety.Gu Zhao only held Zhou Zhou's hand, shook it, and said with a smile, "I'll think about it when I go back, and I have something to ask my father and you."

"it is good."