The Du family wanted to threaten them with taking the imperial examination. As long as there were people in their family who could take the imperial examination and passed the examination, the Du family would have nothing to fear.
Qiao Lan: "..."
Qiao Lan took a look at the sky outside the house, then glanced at Duan Mingjing, who was standing at the door with a nervous expression, and said helplessly, "You are looking forward to them taking the imperial examination, why don't you take it yourself?"
Duan Mingjing immediately lowered his head and gave in: "My son can't do it. My son is stupid. It's no use studying for so many years."
"Is it difficult to take the imperial examination?" Qiao Lan asked.
Duan Mingjing's face was full of approval, "It's difficult."
He has been taking the exam for so many years and still can’t pass the exam, it must be because it’s difficult!
Qiao Lan: "There is a kind of bird that can't fly high, so it pecks its brother's head to let him fly. What do you think of this bird?"
Why does he feel that his mother is talking about him?
Duan Mingjing: "A bird is as necessary to fly as a person is to eat. My son thinks this bird is good and will urge his brothers to study hard."
Qiao Lan: "Oh, really? Tomorrow I will ask your two younger brothers to teach you how to read. You must follow them and learn well!"
Duan Mingjing:????
Why is he studying again?
Duan Mingjing was a person who was quick to give up. He immediately admitted his mistake and said: "Mom, my son can't do it! My son has a dull head and is not enlightened. The family has to educate a bunch of children, and it costs a lot of pen and ink money every month to educate his son.
Reading will only waste this ink money!"
Qiao Lan didn't expect Duan Mingjing to be so self-aware.
Qiao Lan: "You just said that it's a good thing for the bird to urge our brothers!"
Duan Mingjing: "That must be someone else's bird! We don't have birds in our house, we only have chickens! My son raises chickens every day, and when he sees the chickens walking on their own in the mountains, they rarely fight over them, let alone
Fly! This is the truth contained in it, and my son believes it deeply!"
Qiao Lan:......
Unexpectedly, Duan Mingjing can still make great sense in raising chickens!
It can be considered...a talent!
Duan Mingqing and Duan Mingchen both have their own ideas. Qiao Lan does not intend to use the legacy of her elders to pressure them, nor does she want Duan Mingjing to say some high-sounding words or use her identity to pressure them.
As for the Du family, Qiao Lan really didn't take it to heart.
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The weather is slowly getting warmer, and the green on the branches is gradually dyed into dark green. The farmers working in the fields have already put on light clothes.
Qiao Lan planted seven or eight acres of fruit trees, all of which were saplings and wooden stakes transplanted from elsewhere.
In the past few days, she had read a small category in the second section of Qiangguo, and was planning to try grafting, so she found some handy tools to plant saplings in this perfect spring season.
The children at home wanted to go out to play, so Qiao Lan took them all with her.
Several children were wandering around in the woods, looking curiously at the young trees that had just sprouted buds.
"Grandma, when will this tree grow fruit?" Duan Yutao asked, holding a small basket.
He carried this basket for his two twin cousins. The two little girls were happily walking through the fields, picking wild flowers in the fields.
Duan Yutao didn't have much interest in picking flowers, so he had to hold the basket.
"Two or three years if it's fast, three or four if it's slow!" Qiao Lan thought.
Duan Yutao nodded, looking a little frustrated.
In the spacious wilderness on the other side, Duan Mingchen was teaching his older children to ride horses.
Yu Tao was a little younger and couldn't climb on the horse's back, so he just followed Qiao Lan like a little tail, watching Qiao Lan peel a piece of bark and tie it to another branch. His mother was still beside him to help tie it up.
Yes, very interesting.
Duan Mingchen was teaching the children how to mount, dismount, and hold the horse's reins.
Duan Sitong and Fei Yan share a horse, Duan Yuxing and Duan Yujin share a horse, three horses are just right. The Duan family's horses are docile and stand quietly, letting their little masters turn up and down.
The younger ones in the Duan family are not interested in these things, but they make the children in the village extremely envious.
Everyone gathered outside the field and was excited. I don't know whether they were excited to see the horses or to see the Duan family's children learning to ride horses.
Watching the children of the Duan family holding the reins to let the horse take a few steps, the crowd of children occasionally burst into exclamations, "It's moving, it's moving, the horse is moving!"
"It's great! Do you know what it feels like to ride a horse?"
Duan Sitong noticed the boys gathered in a circle next to him, with reserved expressions.
She had lived in the back house since she was a child, and there were not that many foreign men around her. Even when she went out to attend banquets, there were usually girls of similar age around her.
Fourth uncle came over to comfort her, which made her relax a lot.
After being stared at for a long time, Duan Sitong gradually got used to this gaze.
It's just a few glances, no big deal.
The children of the Duan family practiced horse riding outside all afternoon, and the children in the village watched outside all afternoon.
When the Duan family practiced horse racing the next day, there were more children in the outer circle, and it seemed that many from neighboring villages were here, with longing in their eyes.
"That's great, I want to ride a horse too!" A skinny boy of seven or eight years old couldn't help but muttered.
The slightly shorter boy next to him said, "Archie, if your brother can study and be a scholar, your family will definitely have a horse rider in the future."
When the skinny boy heard this, he didn't know what he thought of. He pursed his lips tightly and the light in his eyes dimmed.
The two only looked at each other for a while and then dispersed. After all, their homes were far away and they were from the next village.
After walking through a neat field bank, the two boys said goodbye at a fork in the yellow mud road.
The boy named Archie ran home quickly and arrived in front of a dilapidated fenced yard.
As soon as he pushed open the courtyard door, he saw the figure emerging from the door, and instinctively shrank his neck.
"You damn kid, where did you go to be lazy? You don't do your work well at home. You play all day long and don't go home until dark. I really owed you a debt in my last life. I gave birth to a young master..." The woman came out and cursed.
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Archie stood at the door, holding on to the fence door tightly with his fingers, his straw sandals pulling down on the ground, feeling a little helpless.
"Mom, please stop scolding my brother. He is young and it is normal for him to be playful. I am useless and cannot help my mother with work. Only my brother can help you." A gentle voice came from the earthen house, and a neatly dressed man
A young man with a very different temperament walked out of the house.
"How can your brother compare with you? You study all day long, and you are the one who shines on the lintel of our Lu family! Your brother can't read a word!" The woman praised the eldest son without hesitation, but turned around and said nothing to the younger son.
Good look.
"Okay, mother! Didn't you say you were going to find Sister-in-law Zhao next door? Go quickly and I'll have a talk with my brother." The young man said with relief.
After hearing this, the woman reluctantly left the yard.
"Where have you been these two days? I haven't seen you yet!" Lu Dian walked up to his brother and asked.
Facing his biological brother, Lu Qi was not as scared as before, and told him that he had gone to Duan's house to watch people riding horses in the past two days.