Looking at the stove that Su Hao had repaired, Yang Gendi asked dubiously. From an intuitive point of view, the stove that Su Hao had repaired was larger than before. This was mainly due to the thickening of the furnace wall. The mud plastered around was quite neat, which was different from the original one.
Compared with the stove that has been used for decades, it does look much better, which gives Yang Gendi a little confidence in Su Hao. But the quality of the stove is not determined by its appearance after all.
"You'll know after you burn it." Su Hao leaned against the kitchen door and said with a smile.
"Mom, let me cook pig food." Lu Xiuer thought of a way to test the stove. She raised a pig at home, which she planned to kill for some pocket money during the Chinese New Year. Cooking pig food was done every day.
This is just a good time to test the quality of the stove.
Yang Gendi nodded in agreement. Lu Xiuer went to the woodshed and brought a bundle of straw, took out a small handful, lit it with a sickle, stuffed it into the furnace, and started to light the fire. Yang Gendi scooped a few ladles of water into the pot, covered the pot, and started to light the fire.
Within minutes, you could see steam coming out of the pot.
"So fast?" Yang Gendi was really shocked.
"Mom, this stove is really good for burning. The fire is very strong and there is no smoke yet."
"Are you trying your best to put out straws?"
"No, I just put in a few handfuls of grass and the fire started. It really saves firewood!" Lu Xiuer shouted happily.
"Haha, you still don't believe what this scholar has done?" Su Hao said proudly.
Yang Gendi looked at Su Hao and asked, "Hao'er, is this really your fault?"
"Who else could it be if it wasn't me?" Su Hao felt that he had been slighted and was quite annoyed.
"Didn't you ask Dr. Zao to fix it?"
"What Dr. Zao? I am Dr. Zao, okay?" Su Hao said.
"My brother is better than Dr. Zao!" Lu Xiuer asserted, "The stove in the village chief's house was made by the best doctor stove in Shitan Town. Last time there was a wedding at the village chief's house, I went to help light the fire and he used it.
The stove at home is not even half as good as ours."
"Why do you know how to cook?" Yang Gendi asked strangely.
Su Hao could only push all these unexplained phenomena into the book. He said: "Mom, look at me studying all day long. Do I think I have read about pigs? Scholars know the world's affairs without going out. All these things
Wells, repairing stoves, they are all knowledge, they are all written in books."
"But, why haven't I heard you say this before?" Yang Gendi still didn't believe it. Her son suddenly had so many abilities that he had no clue about before. How could she believe it?
Su Hao said: "In the past, wasn't I busy taking the scholar exam? This scholar exam mainly tests the Four Books and Five Classics. It only needs to be able to recite. Now that I have the title of scholar, I will have to take the exam in the future. This exam tests both the scholar and the scholar.
But it’s different. The examination of candidates’ ability to do things is a test, so I started to learn these things.”
Yang Gendi still didn't believe it: "You mean, you need to take the Zaoxiu exam to take the exam? Then why can't Lord Tingzhao do it?"
Ting Zhaogong was the last scholar in the village and the father of Su Zhong, the village chief. Before Su Hao became a scholar, Su Ting Zhao was the most knowledgeable person in the village, but no one had ever heard of him.
He knew how to repair the stove. On the contrary, he said that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, which means that scholars cannot go to the kitchen.
Su Hao couldn't be bothered by such quick-thinking questions. He smiled and said, "Didn't Duke Tingzhao fail to pass the exam? It's because he doesn't know how to repair a stove."
"You lied." After all, Lu Xiu'er was young and had a much sharper brain. She immediately realized that Su Hao was talking nonsense. "You said before that you also need to take an essay test to take the examination. You never said that you would take the test."
Repair the stove."
"That's because you don't understand." Su Hao opened his mouth and said, "In the scholar exam, of course you won't compete directly with the tile knife, but you will have to write out the process of repairing the stove. After reading it, the examiner will know whether you can
Got it. This is called theory guiding practice, it’s very profound.”
"Oh... So that's it?" Lu Xiuer really didn't understand and began to reflect on her own IQ.
It's too weak to win... Su Hao secretly blamed himself for using some terminology from later generations to fool a little Lolita from the Ming Dynasty. It was too weak to use force.
After being tired all morning, Su Hao went to bed after eating. Although he knew that his mother and sister had gone to work in the fields and it was really sinful for him to sleep at home, his physical condition was too poor and he couldn't help even if he wanted to.
First, it’s better to recuperate your energy first, then think about ways to make money with your intelligence, and get some money to supplement your family income.
He had only slept for an hour when he was woken up by the noise coming from outside the door. When he listened carefully, it seemed that his mother was walking home with several other middle-aged women in the village. Although the number was not large, they could not stand it.
These country women have loud voices and sound very spectacular.
"Mom, why are you back?" Su Hao got up from the bed and came to the door to greet his mother, Yang Gendi.
When the women saw Su Hao, they started chirping and commenting:
"Oh, we must have disturbed the scholar to study, right?"
"Gendi, look at how talented your Hao'er is. I told you a long time ago that Hao'er will definitely become a high official."
"That's for sure. I heard from my damn family that Hao'er talked to that Feng Shui master yesterday, and that Feng Shui master couldn't even speak to him."
"Xiucailang will definitely win the first prize, Gendi, and you will definitely enjoy happiness."
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Yang Gendi was both excited and embarrassed by the comments from the group of women, and she kept saying:
"My Hao'er is good at studying and can't do anything. If I can win the imperial examination in the future, I will laugh to death. How dare I think about winning the top prize."
Su Hao, the second monk, was scratching his head. He didn't know why his mother brought a group of middle-aged women home. Could it be that his character had exploded on the first day and these women wanted to come and match him? In the impression, these women's families were full of people.
Yes, you have a daughter. However, you seem to have a child bride, okay? Well, if your daughter is beautiful, it is not impossible to introduce her to her, but you have to agree that she can only be a concubine...
Su Hao was in the midst of lust when he saw Yang Gendi timidly approaching and said to Su Hao in a low voice: "Hao'er, it's all my fault for being so talkative. She told aunts like you about your stove repair. They all
I want to come and take a look, look at this..."
Uh... Su Hao was speechless. The person who rushed to his lover's house to see it was not him, but the stove he had built. He could guess it without thinking. He must have built a good stove by himself. His mother was so proud that she was all over the place.
The publicity was gone, so these rural women organized a visiting group to come and observe.
"It's okay, let's take a look." Su Hao said openly.
A group of women, led by Yang Gendi, entered the kitchen of Su Hao's house. Before they started to light the fire, everyone started shouting and yelling. What they said was nothing more than how beautiful and exquisite the stove was. Anyway, it was a compliment.
There is no need to pay taxes, and no one will begrudge a few kind words.
Yang Gendi brought a bundle of straw and scooped some water into the pot, and each woman began to take turns trying to light the fire. As soon as the fire started, everyone calmed down. These women are all people who cook all day long, and they know how good the stove is.
It was bad, they could feel it as soon as they started using it. Before coming to Su Hao's house, they still had some doubts about how good the stove could be, and felt that Yang Gendi's words were somewhat bragging. When they came to burn the stove themselves
When they saw it, they felt completely shocked: It turns out that the stove can be so easy to use!
"Gendi, if your scholar has time, can you help me build a stove like this?"
Some people began to make requests to Yang Gendi. They came to Su Hao's house to visit the eye stove. The purpose was of course not only to open their eyes, but more importantly, to see if the eye stove was really so magical. If the situation was true, then they would beg for help.
Su Hao went to help them take a look at this kind of stove.
Like Su Hao's family, the whole village has the same problem of not having enough straw collected from the fields to burn. Going out to collect firewood every day is no small task. If you can have a firewood-saving stove, you can save a lot of labor.
It was impressive, and according to what Yang Gendi told them, making a stove was just Su Hao's whole morning's work.
This is why Yang Gendi was quite apologetic in front of Su Hao. Of course she knew what these sisters were thinking, but she couldn't refuse. Su Hao had to be asked to do things like cooking the stove. Would this delay her son?
What about studying? Also, will my son, who has always been aloof, be willing to do this?
Yang Gendi looked at her son with timid eyes, waiting for him to speak.