On the Dragon Boat Festival, Xu Qiuliang gave Lin Erhu a rare holiday.

Early in the morning, before dawn, Lin Xiaoman got up and cooked eggs, ducks, and goose eggs. He even bought a few freshly laid eggs from other people's houses in the village, saying that on the Dragon Boat Festival, children eat freshly laid eggs.

, my stomach doesn’t hurt anymore. Lin Xiaoman marked all these eggs.

I also planted mugwort and peach branches in front and back of the house. I also hung a small Dragon Boat Festival suit bought from there, including a monkey, an ax and a broom.

Then he went to Lin Erhu's house and tied colorful ropes on his hands and feet, and then pulled Lin Erhu up from the kang, who was still sleeping.

"I got some dew, you get up and wash your face."

Lin Erhu washed his face with dew in twos and twos. Lin Xiaoman held him down and dragged him back to wash his face again.

I ate egg rice dumplings and salted duck eggs in the morning. After eating, Lin Erhu took a goose egg and went to beat it with his friends in the village.

There are not many families who raise geese in the village. Even if there are people who raise geese, no one is as doggy as Lin Erhu. The friends are holding either duck eggs or chicken eggs. None of them can beat Lin Erhu. Naturally, Lin Erhu has become this year's Dragon Boat Festival.

The Egg King.

When he came back, he walked as if he didn't recognize his relatives, and behind him was Goudan, who had returned from the city. Goudan had a bag on his back, which contained more than a dozen broken eggs.

As soon as Goudan saw Lin Xiaoman, he rushed over from all the way, "Second sister, second sister, I miss you so much."

Lin Xiaoman caught Lin Goudan, who was hitting him like a cannonball, picked him up and weighed him, "It's heavy. Have you eaten well recently?"

Lin Goudan was shy, "That's right, you can eat meat several times a month."

Thinking back to the time when he was with Old Mrs. Lin, although he didn't have to do any work, Old Mrs. Lin paid close attention to food. Although others didn't always have enough to eat like the siblings, they couldn't eat meat more than once a year.
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Even if there is meat, the old man and the old lady will eat it first. It would be nice if others can have soup and vegetables.

Now I eat meat several times a month. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s much better than before.

Lin Goudan took out a small money bag from his body and said, "My sister asked me to give it to my second sister. She said that the pearl flowers were selling well, and she also wanted her to help her get some real pearls."

Lin Xiaoman opened her money bag and found a lot of broken silver in it, which seemed to be much more than the two or two she had mentioned before.

Lin Xiaoman was satisfied. These two cousins ​​were much more sensible than before, and it was not in vain for her to help them.

After collecting the money, Lin Xiaoman said: "I got some more pearls here, twice as much as I got from you last time. Can you take them back yourself?"

Lin Goudan smiled, "My eldest brother is also back. He was asked by the clan leader to go home to talk. He said he would come and talk to the second sister in a while."

Knowing that Lin Wenyao is also coming back, Lin Xiaoman doesn't worry anymore.

After getting down to business, Lin Goudan pointed to the bag of broken eggs he was carrying and complained to Lin Xiaoman, "Second sister, second brother is bad. He broke all my eggs."

Lin Erhu laughed slyly, holding the goose egg that was still intact in his hand to make people angry.

Lin Xiaoman glared at him and took Lin Goudan's egg bun, "Second sister, please boil these eggs of yours into tea eggs."

Lin Goudan has never eaten tea eggs, but the ones made by the second sister are as delicious as the second aunt. She said that the tea eggs must be delicious.

She asked Lin Goudan and Lin Erhu to play in his house. She went to get a small stove, put Lin Goudan's dozen eggs into the pot, added tea, salt, soy sauce and five spice bags, and put them together.

Cooking in a small pot. She went to the kitchen to prepare some dishes.

When the weather is hot, if the stove in the house is turned on, there will be no room for people in the house. Lin Xiaoman has long started to use the independent stove in the kitchen.

The food for the festival must be better than usual. Xu Qiuliang also wants to send some. Lin Wenyao and Lin Goudan are also here. Lin Xiaoman plans to cook eight dishes, including fish, meat, eggs and seafood.

Before Lin Xiaoman's dishes were ready, Lin Wenyao had already arrived.

People who used to have no fingers in the spring water roll up their sleeves and want to help as soon as they enter the door.

Lin Xiaoman's refusal was ineffective and asked him to go to the vegetable field in front to pull out some freshly grown vegetables, chop them and feed them to the chickens, ducks and geese.

Lin Xiaoman built a nest in the backyard, where he raised more than fifty chickens, twenty ducks, and a few goslings.

At this time, the chickens, ducks and geese are still small and don't eat much. The vegetables grown in the field outside the courtyard gate are enough to feed them. When they grow up, they will build another nest outside the courtyard to raise them.

By then the beet leaves can be broken and fed, and no matter how much you raise, you won’t have to worry about running out of vegetables to feed.

After Lin Wenyao chopped the chicken food, Lin Xiaoman asked him to go to the backyard to boil the pig food. After Lin Wenyao finished cooking, Lin Xiaoman's eight dishes were also cooked.

Divide half of it for Lin Erhu, Lin Wenyao and Lin Goudan to send to Xu Qiuliang, and also bring a pot of Fenjiu with a low alcohol content, so that they can start eating when they come back.

Their family just drank the realgar wine that Shen Guihua asked Qiuhua to bring back.

But the food was almost cold, and the three brothers hadn't come back yet. Lin Xiaoman looked outside the door and saw no one, so he just went to the front to see what was going on.

When I walked outside Xu Qiuliang's house, I saw Xu Qiuliang sitting at the table eating and drinking. Several of his brothers were also eating and drinking. Lin Erhu and three others were standing nearby and waiting for Xu Qiuliang to drink.

Maybe after a few glasses of wine, Xu Qiuliang was a little excited, "Let me tell you, Wenyao, you are already twenty years old, and you have not yet been admitted as a scholar. You have to work harder."

Lin Wenyao nodded respectfully, "That's what you taught me, sir."

Xu Qiuliang lit the recently emptied wine glass on the table, and Lin Wenyao immediately filled it up. Xu Qiuliang was very satisfied. He thought of the students he taught before, and then looked at Lin Wenyao. Sure enough, there is no harm without comparison. Students from other families still know how to respect their teachers.

Zhongdao, his students will only be angry with him.

"Go back and pack some books and some clothes. Come live here tomorrow and study with me for two months. You will pass the examination with Wei Zhen in Fucheng in August this year. You will be on the list no matter what. It just so happens that the hospital

After the examination is the provincial examination. Wei Zhen is still young, so I won’t leave now. You can stay in Fucheng for a few more days. If you are admitted as a scholar, you can also take the examination."

Lin Wenyao was overjoyed when he heard this. He had already known that there lived in the west of the village an official who was exiled from the capital. He once taught the prince to read, so his knowledge was evident.

I was envious when I heard that Lin Erhu was studying with him before. Now that he is willing to teach me, even if it only takes a few months, he will benefit a lot.

Lin Wenyao immediately bowed down and said, "Student, thank you for your hard work, sir."

But Xu Qiuliang waved his hand and said: "I am doing this for the sake of their siblings. If you are going to be successful in the future, don't imitate your uncle. Your third uncle can't help you. They have no relatives in this world. Wei Wei

Zhen is going to become an official again. You are his cousin. I ask you to help him and not hold him back."

Lin Wenyao was a little embarrassed. Although Xu Qiuliang's words were not wrong, they were not polite. As expected, the only reason he looked at him with admiration was because he was Lin Erhu's cousin.
Chapter completed!