Chapter 214: Collective Sports
However, in order to pass the examination and enter the Ding clan school next year, he persisted painfully.
Over time, the status of the two sisters was reversed.
In the past, it was Jinhua who took her younger sister Si Niang to play everywhere, but now Si Niang goes out all day long to chase her home to learn to write.
Tired of chasing, Si Niang racked her little brain and came up with a great idea - let Sister Jinhua teach her needlework, and the two of them would take turns being the teacher.
Jinhua was indeed in a good mood. She no longer wanted to go to the mountains with the other children in the evening. She learned new ways from her mother seriously and waited for Si Niang to come back and teach her.
In this way, Si Niang learned how to thread a needle and make small things, and Jin Hua also became interested in learning to read.
Occasionally, when I see a beautiful pattern with some characters on it, I immediately go to Si Niang and ask her, "What is this character?"
Si Niang recognized some of them but not some, so she had no choice but to take the flowers and go look for her brother again.
If the brothers didn't know either, they would run to the open space next to the ancestral hall to look for Qin Yao.
"Mother, what do you think this word is?"
Qin Yao was teaching several breeders selected from the village how to spread mud. Her hands were covered with mud. She asked Si Niang to hold the flower pattern higher, "Let me see. It should be a word for blessing, as in blessing."
The pattern looks a bit artistic and is indeed hard to recognize.
Jinhua was immediately surprised and said: "So this is also a word!"
Si Niang also became interested. She held up the flower pattern and looked at the fancy "Fu" character on it. She exclaimed, "It turns out that words can be written so beautifully, like flowers."
Qin Yao explained, "There are many ways to write Chinese characters. What you are learning now is the simplest regular script. In addition, there are cursive script, running script, compiled script, official script, etc. Even more advanced, there are different creative characters. For example, the word "Fu" you see now should be a creative way of writing."
Jinhua and Si Niang looked at Qin Yao with admiration, thinking that she was so amazing and knew everything.
Qin Yao waved her hand and said, "Go play somewhere else. There's mud all over here. Be careful not to get your clothes dirty."
"Yes!" The two sisters nodded obediently, got the answer, and went home happily to continue playing the teacher role-playing game.
After watching the two little guys walk away, Qin Yao coughed lightly, reminding the people around her to concentrate and continue the teaching.
Because of the need to plow the fields, each household in the village was short of manpower. Plus, since it was the first time for everyone to learn seed breeding, they were afraid that uneven results would affect the harvest. So, after everyone reached a consensus, they decided to send a few smart people to learn from Qin Yao, and the whole village would concentrate on breeding together.
In this way, only a larger breeding shed is needed to meet the needs of the entire village and solve the problem of shortage of manpower.
The most important thing is that it is easy to manage, and the people in charge of breeding can take turns to guard and care for it.
So every household sent rice seeds according to their needs, and Qin Yao and Liu Qi, Liu Gong, Qiu Shi, Yun Niang and other young people in the village were jointly responsible for it.
Each store should register the quantity in advance, mark it, and then you can pick it up yourself when the time comes.
Yunniang is good at carpentry and is responsible for all the seedling trays.
Mrs. Qiu was careful and patient, so Qin Yao arranged for her to have the baby.
Liu Qi was strong, so he went to pick up the mud.
Qin Yao led Liu Gong to divide the charcoal produced by each household into charcoal basins, burn them and place them in various corners of the breeding shed.
Because everyone is using Qin Yao's family's water mill, the original manual mill has been vacant for a long time. Now it is directly used as a breeding shed, saving the breeding team a lot of effort.
The temperature must be controlled well, neither too hot nor too cold, and a bucket of water should be placed so that the humidity inside can be maintained after the water vapor evaporates.
Without the assistance of various modern temperature measuring instruments, everything can only be judged based on experience.
Qin Yao would place rough yellow paper inside to test the humidity.
The temperature is relatively easy to feel, and after experiencing it a few times, the breeding team members can roughly estimate it.
The human body temperature is 36 to 37 degrees. If you feel a little hot, then the temperature is just right.
If you feel so hot that you start to sweat, you should cover the charcoal fire to lower the temperature.
Liu Gong and his colleagues benefited greatly from learning this breeding method. Not only did they learn how to breed, but they also accidentally learned something about natural science.
For example, the condensation of water vapor and the changes of water into different forms, etc., all made several people exclaim in wonder.
They thought it was some secret that was not to be disclosed to outsiders, but Qin Yao said, "It's all in these books."
It's just that the modern description is different from the ancient description, but in essence they are talking about the same thing.
Qiu originally thought that there was no point in sending her own Jinhua to school, but Qin Yao agreed, so she let her go.
Even though she failed the assessment, I didn't have any strong obsession to let her go to school.
But after this breeding study, she suddenly realized that studying and taking the imperial examinations were no longer absolutely related.
What you learn from books can benefit you for your whole life.
So after cultivating all the seeds, Qiu returned home and actually started teaching Jinhua.
"You have to get into school next year, you know that? Stop hanging out with those naked guys all day long and stay at home and practice calligraphy. Didn't Si Niang and San Lang teach you a lot? Come, sit down and write for me."
Mrs. Qiu placed the sand table made by Liu Zhong on the table, and put chopsticks and a pen made of pig hair on the sand table, waiting for her daughter to write a few words for her.
Holding the mud buns and dumplings in her hands, Jinhua stared at her mother with wide eyes and asked weakly, "Mom, are you possessed by evil spirits?"
Mrs. Qiu took a deep breath. As gentle as she was, she almost couldn't help but raise her hand to slap the girl in front of her on the butt.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Throw away the mud on your hands!"
Mrs. Qiu picked up her whimpering son from the wooden cradle, lifted her clothes to feed the younger one, and stared at the older one with wide eyes. Parents are always worried about their children's future.
Jinhua reluctantly protected the 'dish' in her hand, "This is not mud, this is the dumplings I made for Si Niang. San Lang said he wanted to eat dumplings, so I made him a few more. I will cook for them when they get home from school."
These words made people laugh and cry.
Zhang passed by the door and handed her a dustpan. "Put it here first. I'll cook it for you later."
Jinhua responded loudly: "Hey!"
She happily put her treasure into a dustpan and asked her grandmother to keep it safe. Then she sat down and wrote for her mother.
At night, Qin Yao stood at the door and shouted, "Liu Dalang! Come home for dinner!"
A powerful voice was heard from far away.
When Dalang and his two siblings heard the call, they immediately left Jinbao and Jinhua behind and ran back home.
Sanlang and Si Niang rushed to Qin Yao with great joy and invited her to eat the freshly cooked buns and dumplings.
Qin Yao looked down and saw that the small palm was holding a leaf, which was gray and soft with a few pieces of mud on it.
How should I put it, it really looks like shit.
(End of this chapter)