Li Huarong looked down upon Liu Jiamei's attitude towards learning.
She is really too lazy. Zhao Xiaoyan is only eleven years old and has already done most of the housework at home.
Now Li Huarong actually wants to leave the tofu making to Zhao Xiaoyan, who is just a little taller than the stove.
"Xiaoyan, have you learned it?" Chen Zhaozhao looked at Zhao Xiaoyan gently.
Zhao Xiaoyan's cheeks were slightly red, she hesitated and shook her head.
"How can she remember when she is so young?" Li Huarong glanced at Liu Jiamei who had already walked outside the woodshed. She really couldn't stand her behavior.
Zhao Xiaoyan lowered her head in embarrassment.
Chen Zhaozhao looked at her like this and sighed secretly in his heart, this is also a poor child.
"Let's do this. I'll write down the steps and things to pay attention to. When you go back to do it, let those who know the alphabet read it aloud." Chen Zhaozhao said.
Li Huarong's eyes lit up, "That's great, please Zhao Zhao."
"It's okay." Chen Zhaozhao smiled and went back to his room to write down the steps.
Li Huarong was very serious about learning to make tofu. When Chen Zhaozhao left her, she chatted with Chen Damei. Zhao Xiaoyan still listened obediently.
If she doesn't listen, she won't learn, and if her mother tells her, she won't have anything to eat.
And her mother, Liu Jiamei, was asking Liu Guihua what she was doing in cleaning the firewood shed. Of course Liu Guihua would not tell her the real purpose, only that she was putting things away.
After hearing this, Liu Jiamei lost interest in asking, and instead asked how much money she made from selling tofu and vegetables.
People in this era have no sense of privacy. As long as they are thick-skinned enough, they can inquire about anything they want.
Not to mention this era, many rural people in later generations will not hide how much money they make. Some people are eager to tell the world after making a little money. Some even exaggerate the amount of money made to show their power and make people feel uncomfortable.
envious.
People who inquire are more likely to inquire.
Originally, Liu Guihua was an honest person and would tell the truth truthfully when asked, but because of Chen Zhaozhao's explanation, she did not give details and only said that she had earned some money to buy rice.
Liu Jiamei knew that their family was in trouble. Although the whole family was diligent, everything was taken away by Jiang Chunxiu and others.
As the wife of the village chief, she knew more clearly how much work points and food Jiang Chunxiu had stolen from them.
They said they only made enough money to buy rice, so she believed them.
Then she asked about Yu Jing's return.
Asked Yu Jinggui about his work, asked Yu Jinggui when he would marry Chen Zhaozhao, asked him what was going on in his family, asked him whether his family did not agree with him marrying Chen Zhaozhao, etc.
Liu Guihua was a little overwhelmed by her question, but she couldn't give a definite answer, so she just answered vaguely.
After asking around, Liu Jiamei found that she didn't get anything at all, and immediately lost interest.
So why doesn't she like Liu Guihua? This person is just not very good at chatting and has no meaning at all.
She didn't know why Li Huarong liked to hang out with Liu Guihua so much. She walked towards the kitchen, smelling the aroma of beans in the air. She was so greedy that she secretly cursed Chen Zhaozhao and shouted inwardly.
"Xiaoyan, have you learned it well? Let's go back and do it after we learn it."
At this moment, Chen Zhaozhao came out after writing down the steps, and she handed the papers to Li Huarong and Zhao Xiaoyan respectively.
Zhao Xiaoyan took it, thanked Chen Zhaozhao, and replied, "Okay."
"Then let's go back, hurry up." Liu Jiamei couldn't fill her stomach, and she didn't enjoy the gossip. She felt unhappy and urged impatiently.
Next time, she said she didn't want to come to Da Chen's house anymore, which was totally meaningless.
Zhao Xiaoyan responded, Chen Zhaozhao gave her the brine and went out quickly. Liu Jiamei said politely to Liu Guihua and the others and left in a hurry.
Li Huarong couldn't bear it and shook her head, "The village chief's failure is that he found such a wife. How can she show her face? Who should she show her to?"
"Of course you showed it to me." Chen Zhaozhao smiled and said nonchalantly.
Li Huarong saw her smiling and smiled too, "I think she must have a grudge against you."
"If you have a grudge, just bear it." Chen Zhaozhao said nonchalantly.
Liu Jiamei is the wife of the village chief, so people in the village tend to fawn over her and usually support her and give her face.
If it were in someone else's house, she would have been full of these tofu puddings, and the gossip would definitely have given her great satisfaction.
As a result, they found nothing at their house.
It's strange that she doesn't hold grudges against people who don't take her seriously.
Others are afraid of offending her, but Chen Zhaozhao is not afraid. She is not used to other people's bad habits.
Li Huarong stayed until almost noon and watched Chen Zhaozhao making tofu again before leaving.
After Chen Zhaozhao made the tofu, he went to the woodshed to see Liu Guihua and the others. Except for Chen Damei who was cooking in the kitchen and Chen Ermei who was sewing pants in the main room, everyone else including Chen Xiaoni was busy in the woodshed.
There was actually not much firewood in the woodshed, only about ten bundles, plus three bundles that had been chopped into short pieces. The chopped pieces were all moved to the kitchen stove and placed under the stove. If there was not enough firewood under the stove, they were stacked in the corner next to the stove.
In addition, the bundles of firewood were temporarily moved to the pig pen and duck house for stacking.
Now that spring has just begun, before the pigs and ducks are caught and fed, the family raises five big hens, and the empty pens are perfect for storing firewood.
Anyway, it will take some time before catching pigs and ducks to raise. When it stops raining, we can build a shed next to the woodshed and put out firewood.
One morning passed, all the firewood and debris piled in the woodshed were cleared out, and the floor and walls were cleaned.
"You guys are so fast." Chen Zhaozhao couldn't help but sigh.
"Of course." Liu Guihua was very happy, "When your father prepared the firewood shed, he just built it casually. Fortunately, he listened to me and installed it properly. Now it is just in use."
Liu Guihua had better plans for her life. When she first built her new house, she was very poor and had no money, but now that she had built it, she decided to build it in a better location.
She and Chen Dawang built this house slowly, one by one, wood by wood, plank by plank.
Because she planned to store sundries in the firewood room, Liu Guihua asked Chen Dawang to decorate it as a normal room, and the area was larger than that of the room over there, nearly half the area.
"I'll wipe the wall again in the afternoon. Dad, you go chop down some miscellaneous wood and make a bed. You can live in it in two days."
"Hey." Chen Dawang responded. Nowadays, no one cares about cutting down the miscellaneous trees on the mountain. Chen Dawang made the bed at home with the miscellaneous wood. He has experience and can make the bed in one day.
"It's raining, and the trees on the mountain are wet." Chen Zhaozhao reminded silently.
"Ouch~" Liu Guihua said melancholy, "Then we have to wait before we can make the bed. Let's chop the wood back first."
In the afternoon, Chen Dawang and Zhang Genshan went up the mountain to chop wood. Liu Guihua coaxed Chen Xiaoni to sleep and wiped the wall.
Chen Sanmei and Chen Simei were pulling out the vegetable seedlings to be sold tomorrow, Chen Damei and Chen Ermei were sewing clothes and pants, and Chen Zhaozhao had nothing to do and started doing the task Liu Guihua had given her last night.
Sewing trousers was faster than knitting sweaters, so she sewed the trousers first. Chen Ermei had cut out the material first, so she just sewed it.
Sewing stitch by stitch, Chen Zhaozhao couldn't help complaining, "This is too difficult to sew. Do you think we should buy a sewing machine?"
"No, it's too expensive." Chen Ermei refused without thinking.
"Yes, no, it's too expensive and we don't have tickets yet." Chen Damei also refused.
Chen Zhaozhao nodded, these are indeed problems. After careful calculation, the combined money they earn now can barely buy a cheap sewing machine.
Forget about the sewing machine, she didn't want to think about it for now. The speed of making money now was too slow. She had better think of other ways to make money and make more money.
Chen Zhaozhao temporarily put the sewing machine behind, but he didn't expect that when Yu Jing returned in the evening, he would bring them a huge surprise.