After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

The water in Liu Carpenter's house is brought from the mountain. The flow is not large, but it is enough for drinking. You can also get water from the nearby river for daily water, which is very convenient.

On the periphery of the main house, he built a terrace, which was similar to the viewing platform at the gate of Lotus Garden, but with a thatched shed, a stove, tables, chairs and benches, and wooden boards.

Now that Carpenter Liu's family was rich, they even renovated the furniture in the house, which suddenly overshadowed Liu Dafu's courtyard and became the most luxurious-looking courtyard in the village.

On the day of the housewarming, Carpenter Liu specially roasted melon seeds, cooked tea, burned a charcoal stove in the thatched shed, bought quilts, and invited Qin Yao and his wife, Gong Liangxiao and Qi Xianguan masters and apprentices to enjoy the snow and taste tea.

"Mother Yao, what do you think of this?" After the greenhouse banquet was over, Carpenter Liu specially pulled Qin Yao aside and asked her opinion.

Qin Yao didn't expect that Carpenter Liu would actually restore all the things she mentioned casually, and she was very surprised in her heart.

But when it comes to this tea shack, she really has suggestions.

"It's cold. Even if you burn a charcoal pot and cover yourself with a thin quilt, it's still a bit unbearable to sit for a long time. I see you still have a lot of straw at home. You can weave a straw curtain and hang it around to block the wind."

If you are not afraid of the cold, you can roll up the straw mat and see the scenery in the distance.

After talking about the shortcomings, the rest are all advantages: "The tea is made well, but the quality can be prepared a few more grades to give guests more choices. Furthermore, your melon seeds are fragrant enough, and the scenery on this seat is Excellent, I think it works.”

However, Grandma Wang’s yard already has regular customers. If Carpenter Liu’s family wants to attract customers, they need to have more tricks, otherwise they will always lack some characteristics.

Carpenter Liu's wife said, "I have a guest room at home. Can you please help me, Mr. Qin?"

Qin Yao nodded and followed the couple to the guest room they prepared.

The room has windows facing the sun and has wooden floors. The furniture in the room was copied by Carpenter Liu from a restaurant in the county town.

But Qin Yao always felt that it was empty and without content.

"How about adding some calligraphy and painting? You can also prepare pens, inks, paper and inkstones at the tea shed, so that the guests here can leave their poems or thoughts. It would be interesting to select good wooden plaques and hang them up for other readers to appreciate. .”

As far as she knew, poetry fighting was also a very popular activity among readers, so it would be better to use poetry as a characteristic theme of Liu Carpenter's family business.

As soon as Qin Yao proposed this idea, Carpenter Liu immediately clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's use this!"

Carpenter Liu's wife said a little embarrassedly: "Manager Qin, can you ask your guests for a poem so that we can hang it outside the tea shed?"

Afraid of being offended, Qin Yao quickly waved her hand and said it was inconvenient without waiting for Qin Yao to answer.

Qin Yao smiled lightly and looked at Carpenter Liu and his wife encouragingly, "I suggest you go find your husband and let him decide for himself."

"Those scholars couldn't get in, can we?" Liu Carpenter asked anxiously.

Qin Yao suggested: "One is to pay a visit, and the other is to give Mr. some souvenirs. Mr. just told me that your melon seeds are very fragrant."

After saying this, if Carpenter Liu still didn't understand, he would have worked in the stationery factory for nothing. He felt excited, forcibly suppressed it, and sent Qin Yao across the river.

For convenience, Carpenter Liu's family spent money to build a bridge on the river beach. It was the dry season, so the bridge piers had been repaired and wide wooden boards were temporarily put up to facilitate walking. It should be completed before the year.

There is also a large mill that the villagers raised money to build. The list of book boxes in the factory has been completed, and everyone is now busy working on this mill.

The location of the mill is closest to Carpenter Liu's house, which makes the villagers envious.

Due to the intensive construction in the whole village, the village has attracted many refugees staying in Kaiyang County in the past two months. The vacant abandoned houses and old courtyards in the village have become their temporary residence. In addition, Mu Da's reputation as a scholar comes from Scholars, even in Liujia Village at night in winter, they can still hear the noisy voices.

Carpenter Liu sent Qin Yao to the gate of the stationery factory, but she persuaded her to come back.

Qin Yao walked to the village alone, and met Liu Ji on the bridge going home. The couple looked at each other and socialized for more than half a month. The exhausted two people tacitly kept silent and returned home together. .

The children have already gone back to their rooms to sleep under Awang's arrangement. They have to go to school tomorrow morning, and it will be difficult to get up if they don't go to bed early.

Getting up early to go to school in the winter is really terrible. If the small house in the farmhouse in the town had not been rented out, the four brothers and sisters wanted to sleep there, so that they could sleep for half an hour longer in the morning.

But the children are also very sensible. Although they are sleepy in the winter, they did not ask their parents to help them take a leave from school.

Of course, this possibility is only possible in Qin Yao's family. If it were Jinbao, he would not dare to ask his parents to help him go to the school to ask for sick leave with his wife because he wanted to sleep in.

Qin Yao simply washed her face and prepared to go back to the house to sleep. Unexpectedly, Liu Jiyin brought a basin of hot water into the main room and said, "Madam, let's soak your feet."

Qin Yao looked at him suspiciously and said, "To be courteous for nothing is to be either a traitor or a thief."

My body was very honest. I immediately sat down and took off my shoes and socks, put my cold feet into the hot footbath, and squinted my eyes comfortably.

Liu Ji helped her wash her feet only once or twice. He massaged her feet skillfully and did not refute what Qin Yao just said. He said with some worry:

"There is a letter from Fucheng. The younger brother's aunt has sent someone to take him to Fucheng to celebrate the New Year, so the younger brother and the teacher will go back in two days."

He was afraid that if the teacher left, he would come back next time, or maybe not at all.

Qin Yao has been busy eating recently, but she forgot to count the days.

Looking at it now, tomorrow will be the twelfth lunar month, and people have to prepare for the arrival of the New Year. They have to be busy with the human relations and etiquette before the new year, and each family's accounts have to be settled clearly before the new year, so that they can celebrate the New Year with peace of mind.

"Did you ask sir what his plan was?" Qin Yao squinted her eyes and asked while enjoying herself.

Liu Jincheng nodded, "I asked, and the teacher said that if there is nothing else to do after the new year, he will come over to stay for a while. He also arranged a lot of homework for me and said that he will come back to check up next year."

but!

Because Qi Xianguan will actively take the exam next year, I am afraid Aunt Qi will keep them in Fucheng.

So Gong Liangxiao's words don't count, only what the Qi family says.

With his own aunt and uncle here, and with so many relatives in his ancestral home, Qi Xianguan couldn't leave his aunt alone and stay in this small mountain village.

Even though he himself is reluctant to do so, he is still a ten-year-old child and there are always many things he cannot help himself with.

Qin Yao is not very concerned about this issue. If the mountain doesn't come, they can just go looking for it.

The point is, "Did you, sir, have anything to say about your government examination next year?"

Liu Ji is somewhat confident, "The teacher said that he knows all the academic officials who will examine the papers for the government examination, and he also told me which essay styles the examiners will like. I should be fine if I practice accordingly for next year's government examination."

In addition, the younger brother was not stingy in telling him many tips on how to take the exam, so Liu Ji himself was quite confident.