Jia Huan's rebirth and revenge

Although the conversation with the young master of the Xu family only shifted to matters such as going to sea with the content of the conversation, Jia Xun secretly agreed with what he said about the judgment of whether he was healthy or not. He had already discovered that Well, most of those people who stay in the house and study all day long are physically weak, such as Jia Zhu. With such conditions at home, Mrs. Wang almost gave him all the things that make up for the body at home for free. The few people in power in the family, even Jia She, took good care of him because of his future, and hoped that he could add some glory to the Jia family, but even so, it still exhausted him. A wind chill will kill you.

On the contrary, those students who are busy all day long and even have to work at home, even if they don’t eat well, even if they are tired from work, and even if they have to go too far to catch the exam, they can still persevere. This shows that , Even reading requires a combination of movement and stillness. I haven’t seen that all the children of the aristocratic families who take care of riding and shooting are all healthy. From this we can see that it is really necessary to promote the six arts of a gentleman. Music theory soothes nerves, cultivates temperament, and riding Shooting exercises the body and strengthens the bones.

Thinking about it this way, he suddenly realized that it is a very wise arrangement for his family to study and go to sea every day. Not only will it not delay studying, but it will also make him physically strong and fully prepared for future scientific examinations.

He hastily selected three books that he did not own, and another copybook, and agreed with Master Xu on the date of return. Jia Xun went to Zhifang again, bought a lot of paper, and prepared to go back to copy books and copybooks. For practicing calligraphy, their brothers have been studying for a long time now, and there is no problem in literacy. The next step is to practice calligraphy. His calligraphy is not a problem, but Brother Xing is still not good enough. , Although water saves money, it is impossible to practice good calligraphy, so these should also be used regularly.

Of course, she couldn't just bring these things back when she came out this time. She went to the embroidery room of the cloth village and bought a sack of rags for ten yuan. Although most of the bags were ordinary The cotton cloth and the like can only be used for shoes, but about [-]% of it is silk and satin. Although these things are mostly small pieces of cloth, they are exactly what their family needs now, and the Qi family is eager to buy them. Use these things to prepare a purse handkerchief for the fish girl, which can be used as a dowry.

Jia Xun Chengcheng has such a harvest in one trip, not only Brother Xing is happy, Qi is happy, even the village chief is also happy, not only about 50 taels of silver, although with this money he is very happy for the village. There is more capital in the matter of elementary school, but the most important thing is the matter of those books.

Books are always more money-intensive and energy-intensive than others for those who buy elementary school from nothing like them. The wife he has already finalized and plans to hire is also a poor family. Even if such a family already has a child In this case, if one's own elementary school can buy a set of books that are considered complete, it will still be very attractive to such a teacher, let alone such a teacher. The first set, then other children will not have to worry about books when they study, even if they have no money to buy them, they can copy them by themselves.

As for the opening of elementary schools in the village, as I said earlier, almost every household attaches great importance to it. In just half a month, not only the third room in the ancestral hall for elementary school classes has been tidied up, but also the classrooms for elementary schools on the edge of the ancestral hall. The two-entry house prepared by the husband is also built.

Although it is said that in order to save money, the house was finally built with stones as the foundation, thin bricks covered with clay and a seaweed roof, but it is still a two-entry house. There are three main rooms in the front and two on each side. The wing room, the back seat, the kitchen, the firewood room, and the backyard built three rooms, and another chicken coop, with a three-point vegetable field, and a large earthen yard outside, enough for one person high.It looks simple, but it is very detailed and tight. According to the situation of the wife's house, it is the best. The house in the back can provide the wife's old mother with health care, raise some chickens, and grow some vegetables to subsidize it. For home use, the small courtyard in front is neat and bright, whether it is for the wife to study by herself, entertain guests, or even stay with friends.

If it is next to the elementary school classroom behind the ancestral hall, in the study room for the master to rest between classes, there are more than a dozen books that have been copied neatly, and there are 30 taels of Shuxiu a year. It is actually possible to invite a scholar.It's a pity that there are few people with fame in this county, and such people have been invited away long ago. In remote villages like theirs, even if they have the same conditions as others, they can only invite people of lower rank .Fortunately, this person has Liu Dianli as his guarantor, and his character and knowledge are reassuring.

When the master moved here and moved into the school, the elementary school in Hailuo Village finally started, and the children of each family began to have certain restraints. They no longer ran around on the beach every day. The clear and clear sound of reading can be heard from behind the ancestral hall, making the whole village quiet and peaceful, and only after school in the afternoon can I see the children who grew up by the sea again, son, beach, tossing in the sea, continue Rendering belongs to the wantonness of fishermen's children.

Even Brother Xing, Jia Xun, and Xiaosan, because they have masters in their own village, after listening to a few classes and feeling that they are no worse than the old masters over there, they returned to study in their own villages, saving Not to mention a lot of distance, I can finally live a normal student life, going to school in the morning and going to sea in the afternoon.

This kind of stable life is very fast. In a blink of an eye, half a year has passed, and it is the time of harvest. This year's autumn harvest, people in Jia's family attach great importance to it. In fact, everyone in the whole village attaches great importance to it. After all, after so much tossing from last year to the beginning of this year, every household has a field, and hastily planted something, just waiting for this season to see how the harvest is, although basically these fishermen don’t know how to plant The land is only rented out, but this does not affect their expectations for the autumn harvest.

"How is it? How much did you charge this year?"

The Qi family couldn't help but looked at his son expectantly after Brother Xing went to collect the rent and came back, his eyes were so bright.

"It's pretty good. The 32-acre middle field has harvested more this year than last year. On average, the harvest of two stones per mu has gone out of tax and labor money, leaving four buckets of stone for one stone. We and the tenants are split half and half. It is seven buckets of grain, a total of twenty-two stones and four buckets. I saw that our family has enough rice and grain, and there are two hundred catties, so I simply didn't keep it and sold it to the grain shop. Now the newly harvested wheat can Fifteen cash, a full exchange of 22 taels of silver. The 33 acres of sloping land at the entrance of the village is planted with beans, which is about the same amount. Two stones per mu, a total of forty stones. Uncle and uncle The family didn't need to distribute grain, but just took about 28 catties of beans outside the integer, saying it was an oil change. They didn't have to pay taxes, so the figure was a bit bigger, but the price of the beans was lower, and they were sold to oil mills. , It’s only seven cents a catty, and I got 13 taels. As for the land in our valley, there is more land, but it’s really poor, with some sand. At the beginning, like other families, they planted yam eggs that don’t matter. The harvest was good, there were more than three stones in one mu of land, a total of 61 catties, but they couldn’t be sold for a penny and a catty, so I simply kept five hundred catties for myself. The others asked Liu Dianli, and sold them to the government’s ordinary warehouses for disaster prevention stocks, and gave them [-] taels of silver. Calculated in this way, in total, we have [-] taels of cash this time.”

Brother Xing pulled out the paper that had been on his body for the past few days, and while looking at it, he calculated the big and small things in the house. He felt that although these lands were not particularly good fields, they were The income is really not bad. After all, the sloping land here and the land in the Conch Valley are wastelands that have just been opened, and the land is very barren. I thought I would not have much income, but I saved nearly 30 taels , Let this family earn more than 60 taels of silver this season. To put it bluntly, with such an income, the whole family does not work, and that is enough to eat and drink.

"Okay, it seems that if you have money, you should buy land. See, isn't it? In just over a year, the capital has returned a lot. When the land is tidied up, we are planting the radishes and cabbages of the previous season. Relying on the ground for a year, we can have an income of seven to eighty taels."

Mrs. Qi is happy. The children are diligent and hardworking. They have earned a lot of money these days by relying on seafood. The cost of preparing the dowry for Yu Niang is more than 50 taels of silver. With this amount of silver, her heart will be at ease next year when it comes to weddings, and she doesn't have to worry about it.

"How about your uncle's house? Is the income still enough? What about your uncle's house and your second uncle's house? Didn't you go to the city together? How are they?"

Now that his family is stable, the Qi family naturally began to care about his relatives.

"My uncle's house is needless to say. Although I didn't look closely, there are always 20 taels. I saw that my uncle's face is pretty good, and the uncles are also doing well. They planted beans on the slopes this year, just like our family. , I sold it without keeping it, and when I came back, I told me to go to dinner later, so it was good."

The family is good, the relatives are good too, the Qi family is more and more happy, and can't help but feel a little embarrassed, and said to the children with a look of foresight:

"Look, it can be seen that I did the right thing when I asked your uncle to buy the land. If you don't pay taxes for three years, even if it is hard to open up wasteland, it is worth it. Now in a blink of an eye, I am afraid that I will earn back the original land purchase money. Yes, it will be pure profit in the future. As long as you put in a little effort, are you afraid that you will not be able to eat? As long as there are no major troubles, after a few years and a few acres of land, the business will be comparable to When your great-grandfather was around."

Speaking of great-grandfather, the Qi family immediately talked about ancient times, talking about the good old days and so on in their grandfather's mouth. I don't know how many times I have heard them in the past. Jia Xun felt dizzy and said that it was a good time. , it is just a rich peasant who is not even a small landlord with [-] acres of land. If it weren't for the fact that the family business is really down, I'm afraid there is no way to show it off. I really don't know why the Qi family likes to say so much Well, to be honest, it's quite a bit worse than the current family's property, okay?

I couldn't help raising my head slightly, just in time to see Brother Xing also frowning helplessly, okay, the two brothers have a good understanding?Jia Xun pulled the corner of his mouth, just about to show a smile or something, but he didn't want to be called by Qi's name again.

"Second son, your elder sister's purse is pretty good, and the cloth is also ready to go. Have you copied the book that was promised to your elder sister's box? Hurry up, this is meticulous work, and you can't copy it. Let’s take it as a dowry. Brother Xing, you too, you have practiced your handwriting for a long time, and I see that it looks a bit better, so I also help copy some, this thing is not too much.”

She is not too much, but their hands are sore.