Chapter 9: A Woman's Incompetence Is Virtue And the last sentence
Su Sanlang scratched his head in embarrassment. Facing the sharp-tongued little girl, he felt frustrated. After a long time, he muttered: "I can teach my mother how to read."
"Mom, at your age, are you studying? If you are really serious, just take a look at the children at home. Qianxiu is ten years old and has not yet enlightened. There are also Shaoli and Zhuyin. Even if they don't take the imperial examination, they still don't know a single word.
"Su Fu Niang picked off the young leaves of Angelica and put them aside: "If you become a fool by reading like you, then don't teach it to the children."
Chen Yu dealt with the herbs seriously, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips when he heard Fu Niang's little mouth. Ancient people believed that reading is the only way to be inferior in everything, but the living environment is so backward, and it costs too much to cultivate a scholar.
It's not something ordinary people can afford.
Su Sanlang sighed: "My little sister said so, then should I teach the third brother or not?"
"It's really unfair to say that you are stupid in studying." Chen Yu said lightly: "Children should read and be literate. We Fangfei and Yunuan are also enlightened together. But this is not for the imperial examination to become an official, but for studying to gain knowledge.
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Su Sanlang immediately bowed: "Yes, my son will obey."
Su Funiang next to her was so angry that she put her hand on her forehead. After Su Sanlang left, she whispered in a low voice: "Pedantry! It would be better not to study at all than to study!"
"You should also learn how to write prescriptions after you become literate. You need to write prescriptions to treat diseases." Chen Yu said to Su Funiang.
Su Funiang stopped picking herbs and looked at Chen Yu in disbelief: "Mom! Really?"
"How false is this?" Chen Yu looked at Su Funiang's wide-eyed eyes and subconsciously shook her head helplessly. The original owner did not allow women to read and write, saying that a woman's lack of talent is a virtue. She was really defeated by her set of fallacies.
Already.
In order not to let Su Funiang think too much, Chen Yu had to say: "This woman's lack of talent is a virtue. There is also the previous sentence, which says that a man's virtue is talent. It probably means that a woman does not need to be capable, she only needs to obey her husband.
Already."
"Fart!" Su Funiang spat: "Mom has been living alone all these years, raised us, and obeyed her husband? Are you going to die with her if your husband is gone?"
Chen Yu: "......!!!"
Su Funiang's temperament has won Chen Yu's heart. If you train this girl well, she will definitely make a mistake!
Thinking of this, Chen Yu said with a smile: "My mother was wrong before. We have your second brother, fifth brother and sixth brother to support us outside our home. But if you didn't have your second sister-in-law and your fifth sister-in-law to take care of these trivial matters at home,
Things and life are not good either.”
Su Funiang also laughed and pulled Chen Yu's sleeves coquettishly: "Mother is the most capable! In my heart, she is as powerful as a god. If she hadn't supported our family, we would have broken up ten years ago."
When it comes to this, Chen Yu has to admit that the original owner is a powerful person. His fierce temperament is also due to being a widower. He has so many children and cannot support the family. How can he survive if he is not tough?
"Forget about those things. Don't waste your time by studying. Come back and accompany me to the mountains to learn about herbal medicine. Then we will save some prepared herbal medicine and send it to the pharmacy to sell, which can also supplement the family income." Chen Yu said.
Su Funiang happily agreed.
For dinner, Angelica sinensis and wild wolfberry were added to the pheasant soup. The medicinal food can warm the middle and replenish qi, replenish essence and marrow, which is what children need most to grow up. In addition, it can replenish blood and regulate menstruation, warming and nourishing the body, which is good for the women in the family.
There are two types of hare, braised and spicy. The spicy one stimulates the taste buds and makes all the sons sweat from eating it. The braised rabbit meat makes the faces of several children become oily after eating it.
When Su Erlang heard about the origins of pheasants and hares, he said that his family was about to have a good fortune, and such good things would happen to them.
After the meal, Su Sanlang took the children to eat in the courtyard, and taught the children the surnames of hundreds of families. The children's tender and loud voices came from the small courtyard and spread far and wide.
The two daughters-in-law were making medicine and cleaning the kitchen. After Chen Yu and Su Funiang dried the herbs, Su Funiang went into the house and helped Ms. Cui out and sat on a bamboo chair in the yard. Ms. Cui was still very reserved at first, looking at the children.
Gradually, a smile appeared on his face.
Chen Yu called Su Erlang over, used a wooden stick to draw a bamboo basket for drying medicine on the ground, and asked: "Second brother, do you know how to weave this from bamboo?"
"Yes, how many do you want for me? I'll take Lao Wu and Lao Liu to the back to chop bamboo." Su Erlang looked at the herbs: "My son has seen these bamboo baskets in the backyard of the pharmacy. I also know how to stand them. I'll prepare some more for my mother."
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"Okay." Chen Yu watched as Su Erlang took Lao Wu and Lao Liu to the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain with machetes, and then went over to diagnose Cui's pulse.
Mrs. Zheng cut off the wings and feathers of the male pheasant, and even put a straw rope on the legs to keep the male pheasant safe. The female pheasant was buckled in the chicken coop, and the chicks were chirping around the chicken coop.
The days have never been more leisurely, and the smile on Mrs. Zheng's face never fades.
In the next few days, Chen Yu was exploring the specific role of replacement space. Every morning, she took Su Funiang and the children into the mountains to collect herbs. The children were all very enthusiastic and gained something every day. Several children took turns picking up things.
, wild duck eggs, wild ducks have not even broken the nest ends, rails and turtle doves.
Chen Yu discovered that as long as they did not pass through his own hands, all the game would not appear in the replacement space, which also greatly reduced the hidden dangers. Otherwise, the space would be full of these game and it would become a breeding farm.
From game to river fresh food, fish, shrimps and crabs can be caught, and it has spread in the village that the old Su family eats meat every day.
After the herbal medicines were prepared, Chen Yu decided to go to Qingniu County in person to check out the market. Zheng was eager to take the prepared river fresh food, hares, wild ducks and exchange money.
"Then let the third child take care of me at home. Let's take a day off tomorrow and borrow an ox cart to go to the county." Chen Yu said, and the whole family did not object.
Early the next morning, Su Erlang borrowed a bullock cart, and Chen Yu took the children to sit on the cart. There were several pots on the cart containing freshly cooked spicy snails, and some cages containing hares.
wild duck.
Su Erlang led the ox cart, Lao Wu Lao Liu carried the load, and the guts were filled with fish and crabs. Zheng and Li carried the baggage, which contained the work of the embroidery village. Su Funiang carried the basket on her back, and the basket contained
Assortment of prepared herbal medicines.
The family headed to Qingniu County in a grand way. They went out in the morning and arrived at Qingniu Town at noon.
Su Erlang and his two younger brothers parked the oxcart at the entrance of the downtown area. When they opened the wooden barrel, the spicy and fragrant smell spread out. Su Wulang, with a red head and a swollen face, shouted: "Delicious snails, two cents a piece."
It’s a bowl, taste it first and then buy it, if it doesn’t taste good, you don’t have to pay for it!”
This is a task that Chen Yu taught Lao Wu in advance. There were fresh fish in the wooden bucket of Su Erlang next to him. There was a bundle of straw ropes on his waist to tie the fish. In front of Lao Liu, there was a small pot of boiled crabs in the bucket.
There are almost hundreds of solid crabs.
When they arrived in Qingniu County, Su Funiang took her two sisters-in-law to Xiuzhuang to work, then followed Chen Yu to the herbal medicine shop. As soon as they arrived in front of De'an Medicine Shop, they met a doctor with a bruised nose and face who wanted to enter the medicine shop.
Chen Yu had an idea flash in his mind and stood down...