The Landlord And His Wife

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    Liu Changgeng bent down to rest the rabbit's nest, which was several times larger than before. When he came out, he made a chicken nest and prepared to move the chicken nest out. Otherwise, there would be more and more rabbits. The small nest can't live in it, not to mention that the little rabbit is easily frightened, and the chicken is thirsty.

    After a busy day, a sturdy shelf was erected against the wall, and some broken mats and linoleum were found around it to cover it, and two large stones were moved to press it on it, also called Willow went to the kitchen to find a broken china bowl, and used this to feed the chickens in the future.

    Willow came to the kitchen to rummage, and Mr. He couldn't help mumbling, "How can there be a porcelain bowl for chickens? There are not enough people."

    The willow smiles.

    Liu Xuer just flew out to see, 'Wow' shouted: "Dad! You made a chicken coop so quickly!"

    Liu Changgeng smiled and said: "Chickens can no longer share a house with rabbits, otherwise both chickens and rabbits will easily get sick, and the chickens should run outside more when they grow up."

    The catkins asked, "Will they be too cold?"

    Liu Lin fed Liu Sen and ate the chicken legs, and after drinking the whole bowl of chicken soup, Xiao Liu Sen’s mouth was full of oil, and when he saw the chicken coop, he also screamed, and ran over to see the strangeness.

    After half an hour, it will be dinner. The farmers have worked hard for a year. A year of hard work was not in vain.

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    The family ate and drank around the kang table, talking and laughing. Liu Changgeng took a sip of the wine and made a 'Z' sound, looked at the two sons who were sitting, then looked at the younger son who was rolling around beside him, and looked at the girl sitting across from him, and said with emotion: "Next year. For the Chinese New Year, each of you will have new clothes! There will also be a cannonball! You are also setting off a cannonball at our door, it is very lively!"

    When He heard the words, he looked at his children one by one, and saw that they were still wearing ordinary clothes, but luckily no one's pants were showing half of their ankles, and was about to sigh, Willow Suger He already said with a smile: "Mother! Can't sigh, we have already done a good job this year, and we have a goal, next year's life will definitely be better than this year, and it will get better and better in the future!"

    Liu Changgeng nodded hurriedly: "Yes! New Year's Eve is not happy to sigh."

    The willow tree also nodded: "Yes, when the family split this year, my mother was worried that there was not enough food to eat. Now I have eaten chicken, fish, and big pig head meat!"

    Liu Lin laughed hahaha and asked Liu Sen: "Mori, do you think you've eaten well recently? Do you often eat egg custard?"

    Liu Sen was full, playing on the kang, and nodded hurriedly: "I want to eat egg custard."

    Liu Xuer was teased and laughed, and angered Liu Lin: "Look, remind him!"

    He also finally smiled and said with a smile: "Yes, you are right, our life has indeed improved a lot...don't go, he is full!" After staying with Liu Xuer, who wanted to steam the egg custard, he said the second half of the sentence.

    The food was almost finished, He led Liu Xuer to make dumplings, Xiao Liusen was full and played in the house.

    It was almost time for the dumplings to be served, and at this time, the sound of the gun battles began to intensify, almost resounding through the sky.

    Senzi had already slept for a while, and she woke up again without screaming, rubbed her eyes and got up to eat dumplings. go.

    He and Liu Xuer cleaned up the table, and the family chatted on the kang. He and Liu Changgeng looked at several finished ornaments Liu Xuer made this morning and thought they were okay, but they didn't know if they could sell them. He asked, "How much do you plan to sell each for?"

    Liu Xuer laughed when she heard it: "I haven't thought about it yet..." When she said this, she suddenly thought about it, and hurriedly said: "Father, mother! When I talk about this, I think of another Things, Shicheng said, we need to keep accounts when we do these things, how much money we started to spend, how much we spent on what we bought, and how much money we sold. After keeping the accounts, it will be clear whether we make any money or not. How much! I also feel that I must keep an account!"

    Liu Changgeng nodded after hearing this: "You're right! You should keep accounts... If you can write, you should keep your accounts."

    Liu Xuer hurriedly shook her head, pointed to Liu Shu and said, "Big brother is the best bookkeeper. I think Big Brother has a good memory and remembers everything clearly." She wanted to ask Liu Shu to keep accounts, the most important purpose was to To convince my parents to let Liu Shu and Liu Lin learn to read, so I exaggerated the benefits of Liu Shu's bookkeeping: "Last time I bought so many things, I forgot which one cost and how much, or the big brother remembers. , tell me the same thing, but I still didn't remember it, I forgot it when I came back, called it to remember it, and it was written on the wall, clearly!"

    Liu Changgeng and He Shi looked at Liu Shu in surprise, Liu Shu scratched his head and smiled: "It's not so good... I just write it down."

    Liu Xuer said: "Dad, do you think someone should keep the accounts? But it must be a special person to keep the books, if you still think about other things, it will be easy to get mixed up... I think it's the most suitable for my eldest brother to keep accounts! The only bad thing is that he can't recognize a few words... My second brother doesn't know a few words... and me."

    After hearing this, Liu Shu nodded unconsciously, because he also felt that he could not recognize many words and could not write many words.

    Liu Changgeng and He Shi looked at each other, and then both looked at Liu Xuer: "What are you trying to say? Do you want to ask your brother to learn to read? Then... we can't afford to go to school. "

    Liu Xuer tilted her head and said: "Why can't you afford it, I have already asked Shicheng, he said that Mr. Xuetang's bundle repair is only one or two taels of silver a year, and it will be given to him during the New Year and festivals. Get something... I know we can't get it now, but this year we are going to start a small business, maybe we can do it well, and we can pay one or two taels of money... It's just that we have to call Big Brother and Er a little earlier in the new year. Brother going to the school... The school has time! Learn something, and there are people who can read at home, which is a good thing."

    Liu Changgeng lowered his head and pondered. In comparison, he was the easier one to persuade, and there was another reason. You can use it, but when you really need it, you can't find anyone who knows how to read. Then you will be blinded and you will know the benefits of reading.

    He didn't hear it right, and exclaimed, "What, what? You still want to kill your second brother... how can there be so much money!"

    "The second brother is also a boy! If you don't know the words, you will be looked down upon."

    "Many boys in the village don't know how to read! Nine out of ten don't know how to read, and I don't see anyone looking down on anyone! Besides, they all go to school, who does the housework? Your brother It's still labor!"

    The willow tree is busy trying to smooth things out: "Otherwise, I'll follow Shicheng to learn to practice..."

     "His mother is always staring at him to read, you always go to Shicheng and waste his time, you know that Aunt Shi is comfortable?"

    Liu Changgeng raised his head and said: "This matter is under discussion, reading and literacy is indeed a good thing, I have heard people say that there is a school run by a gentleman in the county, and you don't have to go every day, but twice a month. Three times, there are not many Shuxiu who learn to write and read, about one or two a year, wait for the market to open and ask, if such a school still accepts, I will ask Liushu Liulin to go." He looked at He and said. : "Xu'er's handicraft work can always make some money, and let the children learn to read. This is the right way."

    He said so, Mr. He couldn't say anything else, he could only sigh: "Okay, you two have the final say! Now in this family, Xu'er is half of the family, Be the master of most of the time!"

    Liu Xuer stuck her tongue out and approached her: "Mother, aren't you happy? Then I'll listen to you in the future, okay?"

    He sneered, stretched out his finger and tapped on her forehead: "You don't listen to me! You still listen..."

    Liu Xuer smiled and was about to lean over to fawn over her mother, when Liu Lin came in with a yawning Liu Sen: "Mother, Mori is very sleepy!"

    He hurriedly reached out and hugged Liu Sen, moved into the kang, softly coaxed Mori to sleep, Liu Lin also climbed up on the kang, everyone continued to whisper, Liu Lin listened to go Learning to read, I was actually very happy, nodded and said, "I want to go! Shicheng can read a book, and my sister knows more characters than me!"

    After discussing in a low voice, Liu Changgeng decided to send them to school. No matter what, they should go!

    Yin Shi, it was still dark outside, Liu Changgeng asked a few children to warm up the cotton-padded jackets, and Liu Shu went to the kitchen stove to find a burning firewood and lit an open fire as a torch.

    Liu Changgeng moved down the kang himself, and dressed warmly, and told Mr. He not to go at home. Looking at Mori who was sleeping, he led several other children with a stick. The old house is here.

    He just didn't want to ask the fourth child to come and carry him, so he left very early and moved slowly to the old house, just as Liu Changshi went out with a hat on his head, when he saw them It was already here, so I was surprised and came up to support you and shouted, "Why are you here? Didn't you say you were waiting for me to carry you at home?"

    Liu Changgeng said with a smile: "It's okay, I can go now, I can do it slowly."

    Entering the house, Liu Gao was placing the tablet, because the farmer did not have the conditions to find an empty room to offer the ancestral tablet alone, let alone build an ancestral hall like a rich man. Therefore, the tablet is usually placed somewhere and covered with a cloth, or is stored in a box, and is taken out during the Chinese New Year and festivals.

    The old man Liu was still muttering: "Now that there are many empty houses, I will clean up one and put a special incense table... Let's put a table."