The water in Liu Carpenter's house is brought from the mountain. The flow is not large, but it is enough for drinking. You can also get water from the nearby river for daily water, which is very convenient.
At the periphery of the main house, he built a terrace, which was similar to the observation deck at the gate of Lotus Garden, except that he built a thatched shed with a stove, tables, chairs and benches, and wooden boards.
Carpenter Liu's family is now rich, and they have refurbished the furniture in the house, which suddenly surpassed Liu Dafu's yard and became the most luxurious looking yard in the village.
On the day of the housewarming, Carpenter Liu fried melon seeds, made tea, burned a charcoal stove in the thatched shed, bought quilts, and invited Qin Yao and his wife, Gong Liangxiao and Qi Xianguan masters and apprentices to enjoy the snow and taste tea.
“Yao Niang, what do you think of this?” After the warm-house banquet was over, Liu Carpenter specially pulled Qin Yao aside and asked her opinion.
Qin Yao didn't expect that Carpenter Liu would actually restore all the things she mentioned casually, and she was very surprised in her heart.
But when it comes to this tea shack, she really has some suggestions.
“It's cold. Even if you burn a charcoal pot and cover yourself with a thin quilt, it's still a bit unbearable to sit for a long time. I see you still have a lot of straw at home. You can weave a straw curtain and hang it around to block the wind.”
If you are not afraid of the cold, you can roll up the straw mat and see the scenery in the distance.
After talking about the shortcomings, the rest are all advantages: "The tea is brewed well, but the quality can be prepared a few more grades to give guests more choices. Furthermore, your melon seeds are fragrant enough, and the scenery on this seat is Excellent, I think it works.”
However, Grandma Wang's yard already has regular customers. If Carpenter Liu's family wants to attract customers, they need to have more tricks, otherwise they will always lack some characteristics.
Carpenter Liu's wife said, "I have a guest room at home. Mr. Qin, would you like to help me check it out?"
Qin Yao nodded and followed the couple to the guest room they prepared.
The room faces the sun and has windows and wooden floors. The furniture in the room was brought back from a restaurant in the county by Carpenter Liu.
But Qin Yao always felt that it was empty and without content.
"How about adding some calligraphy and painting? You can also prepare pens, inks, paper and inkstones at the tea shed, so that guests here can leave their poems or thoughts. It would be interesting to select good wooden plaques and hang them up for other readers to appreciate. ”
As far as she knows, poetry fighting is also a very popular activity among readers, so it would be better to use poetry as a special theme of Liu Carpenter's family business.
As soon as Qin Yao proposed this idea, Carpenter Liu immediately clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's use this!"
Carpenter Liu's wife said a little embarrassedly: "Manager Qin, can you ask your guest for a poem so that we can hang it outside the tea shed?"
Afraid of being offended, before Qin Yao could answer, he waved his hand and said it was inconvenient.
Qin Yao smiled lightly and looked at Carpenter Liu and his wife encouragingly, "I suggest you go find your husband and let him decide for himself."
“Those scholars can't get in, can we?” Liu Carpenter asked anxiously.
Qin Yao pointed out: "One is to pay a visit, and the other is to give Mr. some local products. Mr. just told me that your melon seeds are very fragrant."
Having said this, if Carpenter Liu still didn't understand, he was working in the stationery factory for nothing. He felt excited, suppressed it forcibly, and sent Qin Yao across the river.
For convenience, Carpenter Liu's family spent money to build a bridge on the river beach. It was the dry season, so the bridge piers had been repaired and wide wooden boards were temporarily put up to facilitate walking. It should be completed before the year.
There is also a large mill that the villagers raised money to build. The list of book boxes in the factory has been completed, and everyone is now busy working on this mill.
The location of the mill is closest to Carpenter Liu's house, which makes the villagers in the village envious. Due to the large-scale construction in the village, the village has attracted many refugees who stayed in Kaiyang County in the past two months. The vacant abandoned houses and old courtyards in the village have become their temporary residence. In addition, Mu Da's reputation as a scholar comes from Scholars, even in Liujia Village at night in winter, they can still hear the noisy voices.
Carpenter Liu sent Qin Yao to the gate of the stationery factory, but she persuaded her to come back.
Qin Yao walked to the village alone, and met Liu Ji on the bridge going home. The couple looked at each other and socialized for more than half a month. The exhausted two people tacitly kept silent and returned home together. .
The children have gone back to their rooms to sleep under Awang's arrangement, and they have to go to school tomorrow morning. It will be difficult to get up if they don't go to bed early.
Getting up early to go to school in winter is really life-threatening. If the small house on the farm in the town hadn't been rented out and the four siblings wanted to sleep there, they could have slept half an hour longer in the morning.
But the children are also very sensible. Although they are sleepy in the winter, they did not ask their parents to help them take a leave from school.
Of course, this possibility is only possible in Qin Yao's family. If it were Jin Bao, he would not dare to ask his parents to help him go to school to ask for sick leave with his wife because he wanted to sleep in.
Qin Yao simply washed her face and prepared to go back to the house to sleep. Unexpectedly, Liu Ji diligently brought a basin of hot water into the hall and said, "Madam, let's soak your feet."
Qin Yao looked at him suspiciously, "If you show your courtesy for nothing, you are either committing adultery or stealing."
My body was very honest. I immediately sat down and took off my shoes and socks, put my cold feet into the hot footbath, and squinted my eyes comfortably.
Liu Ji helped her wash her feet only once or twice. He massaged her feet skillfully and did not refute what Qin Yao just said. He said with some worry:
“I received a letter from Fucheng. My senior brother and his aunt have sent someone to take him to Fucheng to celebrate the New Year, so my senior brother and the teacher will go back in two days.”
He was afraid that once the teacher left, he didn't know when he would come back next time, or he might not come back at all.
Qin Yao has been busy eating recently, but she forgot to count the days.
Thinking about it now, tomorrow will be the twelfth lunar month, and people have to prepare for the arrival of the New Year. They have to be busy with human relations and etiquette before the new year, and each family's accounts need to be settled clearly before the new year, so that they can celebrate the New Year with peace of mind.
"Have you asked sir what his plan is?" Qin Yao squinted her eyes and asked while enjoying herself.
Liu Jin nodded enthusiastically, "I asked, and the teacher said that if there is nothing else to do after the new year, he will come over to stay for a while. He also arranged a lot of homework for me and said that he will come back to check up next year."
but!
Because Qi Xianguan will actively take the exam next year, I'm afraid Aunt Qi will keep them in Fucheng.
So what Gong Liangliao says does not count, only what the Qi family says counts.
Since his aunt and uncle were here, and there were so many relatives in the ancestral home, Qi Xianguan could not leave his aunt alone and stay in this small mountain village.
Even though he himself is reluctant to do so, he is still a ten-year-old child, and there are always many things he cannot help himself with.
Qin Yao is not very concerned about this issue. If the mountain doesn't come, they can just go looking for it.
The point is, “Did you, sir, have anything to say about your government examination next year?”
Liu Ji is somewhat confident, "The teacher said that he knows all the academic officials who will examine the examination papers for the government examination, and he also told me which essay styles the examiners will like. I should be fine if I practice accordingly for next year's government examination."
Furthermore, the younger senior brother was not stingy in telling him many tips on how to take the exam, so Liu Ji himself was quite confident.
Chapter end
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