After Dressing Up As a Stepmother, I Transformed the Whole Family Into Working In the Fields

Chapter 41 Martial Arts Talent

Qin Yao listened to him quietly and raised her eyebrows and asked, "How many do you want this time? I need to stock up on vegetables for the winter. If you don't have fresh vegetables, pickles will be fine."

Liu Ji said: "I know this. Madam, bring the money and I will take care of it."

 After more than a month of personal practice, he can confidently say that no one in the family knows the kitchen better than him!

Seeing how confident he was, Qin Yao motioned him to tell a number.

Liu Ji had already thought about it when he came. He asked Qin Yao to give him four hundred coins. In addition to three meals a month, he also wanted to stock up on some shelf-stable vegetables, such as radishes and Chinese cabbage.

By the way, Liu Guolang’s daughter-in-law is the best at making pickles. If you have time, go and beg her for some. When it snows and it’s hard to go out, white porridge with pickles is also a good meal.

In terms of money, Qin Yao was the most popular person in the province and readily gave Liu Ji four pieces of silver.

 In the countryside, copper coins are mostly used, as well as scattered silver dimes, but they are not used much. Liu Ji took the silver dimes and curled his lips secretly, thinking that he would have to exchange them for copper plates again.

 The sound of "bang" brought Qin Yao's thoughts back to reality.

Liu Bai said calmly while wiping the mud on his hoe: "What's the use of studying for a year or two? You have to go home and farm, which is a waste of money."

 That is reading.

 Girls learn housekeeping skills such as being a housewife, and get married and have children when they are old, and so on.

Qin Yao smiled encouragingly at them and motioned for them to pick up the stick, "Come again!"

The boy is almost there, and he will work in the fields all his life until he dies of old age.

Qiu said that this is only the travel expenses and repairs to school, and does not include other hidden costs of studying, such as pens, inks, paper and inkstones. These are consumables and must be supplied for a long time.

 The four children looked at her in surprise, and immediately "killed" her with all the sticks in a tacit understanding.

Qin Yao is a little surprised that Dalang can persist until now, and this young boy is not as eager as the other three.

  The two of them don’t know when they started to get along with each other in a way where the woman takes the lead outside and the man takes over the house.

But this was also a time of peace. Two years ago, when the world was in chaos, every household stayed behind closed doors, and the children huddled at home, not eating enough and having no energy to play.

It's better to go into the mountains to chop some firewood and hunt, and get some exercise at the same time.

 The two little guys are also very attached to her. They don’t cry when their faces are pinched, but smile at her. Who can you think of this who can’t hold back from being pinched?

Unexpectedly, he caught her intention in advance and ducked to the side in a panic.

It turned out that she was lost in thought and suddenly knocked off all the small wooden sticks of the four siblings without paying attention.

Although preparing three meals a day is not a big deal, the repetitive work day after day is what Qin Yao dislikes the most.

 Taking advantage of his height, he swung straight at the young boy's wrist.

He said awkwardly: "Brother and sister, you can write and read. You must have lived a good life in the past. But look at the situation of our family, how can we afford to go to school?"

 Liu Merchant's house has a lot of change. Next time you want to buy oil or salt, go to his house to exchange for loose change.

Zhang, who was choosing vegetables for Qin Yao in the house, sighed, "The school is in the town, and it takes three hours to go back and forth a day. Some people in the village want their children to learn a few words so that they can go to the town in the future. Find a job."

Qin Yao saw that he was sweating profusely and still refused to give up. She dropped the stick and immediately picked it up and rushed towards her. She suddenly changed her defense and launched an offensive.

The implication is that even the wealthy ones in the village cannot afford to send them to school, let alone families like them who are still struggling to make ends meet.

 The four children looked at her aggrievedly and unconvinced.

Erlang lost most of his anger when he saw how weak we were. His stick was directly knocked away by the wooden stick swept by Qin Yao. It flew out of the high wall with a whoosh and landed in the grass outside the courtyard.

“Now he is as old as our fourth child, he does very good work in the fields, and we just got engaged, so life looks like a good one.”

“I didn’t have time to give it away. The carriage fare was four cents for a day’s return. I took it home within half a month of delivering it. I couldn’t bear the money in my hand.”

 No, it is possible, but it is difficult.

However, the reality is cruel. Qin Yao holds a stick in one hand and jumps around their encirclement with ease, like a slippery fish that cannot be touched at all.

He has been fishing for a month without catching any river fish, but he has tempered his patience.

“However, we have so much land to cultivate at home, and the baby is so young, and the road is not smooth, so we have to pick her up and drop her off every day.”

Over the past month or so, Qin Yao has discovered that the children in the village are mainly divided into two groups.

 But whether it is an older child or a younger child, the life trajectory seems to have been set.

The child's competitive spirit is quite strong. The four of them believe that they cannot knock off the stepmother's stick alone.

  She has requirements for food and accommodation, but is too lazy to do these complicated things. Liu Ji is a loser who can't do anything, but does housework well.

 “Ouch!” Erlang waved his hands angrily and could only retreat, standing under the wall with Sanlang and Siniang, cheering on the only remaining eldest brother.

 In the past month, the food at home has been good, and the five Liu family members, father and son, have gained a lot of meat.

 Very free and happy, but it seems to be a forced freedom because they have nothing else to do.

Soon, Sanlang and Siniang were exhausted and gave up out of breath.

 But this is something that everyone in the village is afraid of when they hear it. Qin Yao asked earlier why he didn't send gold treasures and gold flowers to school to learn Braille.

 The two little guys, Sanlang and Siniang, finally felt like they had some baby fat on their faces. Qin Yao couldn't help but pinch them when she saw them.

read? Ordinary people wouldn’t even dare to think about it!

 In this era of clearly defined classes, farmers have been farmers all their lives and seem to have few opportunities for advancement.

But now it seems that there have not been too many conflicts. Generally speaking, Qin Yao thinks it is acceptable.

As soon as the words came out, the expressions of everyone in the Liu family's old house changed.

If he hadn't been such a bastard, and if his own father hadn't wanted to give up on him and wanted to find a teacher to teach him, he would never have gone to school.

The first group is for children over seven years old. The male children work in the fields with the adults in the family, while the female children help with housework within their ability at home, and learn weaving and making clothes from the female elders.

If it’s someone else, they will also charge a replacement fee of two or three renminbi to exchange the money, which is not cost-effective.

Qin Yao walked out of the room and went to the backyard. She saw the four Dalang brothers and sisters playing with sticks there. She also took one from the firewood pile and joined them.

Looking at it this way, it was a great blessing that Liu Ji was able to study in the town for a year and a half.

The other group, those under seven years old, have no education and cannot do much work. A large group of little ones gather in the open space of the village to play wildly all day long.

Her time and energy doing housework is a waste.

Although the small wooden stick in his hand was finally knocked down by Qin Yao's prediction of his next move, Qin Yao was already surprised by the fact that he could avoid her first blow.

 This boy has a talent for martial arts!

 (End of this chapter)