sent Luo Fengtang away, and soon ushered in the wax moon.

From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the families are working for their livelihoods.

Finally, the crops in the fields are still in the dormant period, and they have to wait for the spring breeze next year to wake them up.

Therefore, this wax month is a month of agricultural leisure.

Every household is preparing for the upcoming New Year.

It's called a busy year.

However, the masters of the old Yang family are busy with another thing.

That's to build a school!

Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang funded a piece of land on the edge of the woods behind the village, along the small river, on a hillside with a wide view.

It is planned to build a two-hall courtyard to be used as a school.

"Dad, this is the drawing of the school, I drew it all on paper, you take it and sum it up with the craftsmen."

In the hall, Yang Ruoqing handed a piece of paper to Yang Huazhong.

"The courtyard in front of these two entrances, I plan to use the courtyard in front of me as a classroom for teaching."

She explained, "The wing room behind here is the teacher's living room, the student's sleeping room, the stove room for cooking and the dining hall for eating, and the back is the latrine. ”

Yang Huazhong squinted, looked carefully, and asked, "Why do you have to make so many sleeping rooms in the back?" And this stove house, aren't the students all from the nearby village? It's near! ”

Yang Ruoqing said: "To make a sleeping room and a stove room, there are two main considerations. ”

"First, the school is facing the enrollment of these ten miles and eight villages, and the villages are far and near."

"It's close, just like our Changping Village and the nearby Zhengjia Village, Lijia Village, Yujia Village, etc., a bag of cigarettes can go back and forth between home and school."

"But if it's farther away, for example, a few miles away in Jinjia Village, Liujia Village, or something, it's a little difficult for students to go back and forth."

"When the weather is bad, windy and rainy, it is very inconvenient for them to go to school."

"With this stove room, they don't have to go home to eat at noon, and they don't have to bring cold dishes and cold rice to the school to satisfy their hunger."

"At noon, you can squint in the bedroom for a while to recharge your energy for the next day's study."

"Even, if you have a long way, you can stay in the school at night."

After listening to Yang Ruoqing's analysis, before Yang Huazhong could express his position, Sun fell aside and praised him.

"I agree with Qing'er's approach, this is really convenient for the students!"

Sun continued: "Let's take Da'an and Dajie as examples, I went back and forth to study in the school in Lijia Village before, and there was no food there at noon, so I brought them from home. ”

"I make dry food cakes for them, and the children don't have a lot to eat."

"Sometimes it's windy and rainy, and I have to get wet when I come back from school."

"Now I go to the town to go to school, there is food in the school, and there is a carriage to pick up and drop off at home, which is really better."

"If the school in our village can be like this, then Da'an and Dajie don't have to go to the town." Sun said.

Yang Ruoqing smiled and nodded.

Then he looked at Yang Huazhong: "Dad, what do you think of this idea?" ”

Yang Huazhong said: "Listening to you say this, it's really not bad. ”

"It's just that, in this way, you have to ask for another cook in the school, who will go......"

Yang Ruoqing said: "Originally, in the school, I had to ask a woman to sweep the floor and wipe the tables and chairs, and then I would have to invite a woman who worked quickly and had clean hands and feet to go to the school to do things." ”

"Our wages are high, this errand is something that many people want to do."

"Qing'er, shall I go? In this way, we can also save a lot of wages! Sun said.

Hearing this, Yang Ruoqing and Yang Huazhong glanced at each other, and both father and daughter laughed.

Yang Huazhong said: "There is enough work at home, as well as crops and vegetable gardens in the fields, children, these are enough for you to manage, let Qing'er invite others in the school!" ”

Yang Ruoqing turned around and grabbed Sun's hand and said, "Mother, if it's not like this, find someone to go to the school to do chores, and leave this errand to my mother to complete." ”

"My mother is looking for candidates in the village, and I'll tell you when I'm done, okay?"

When Sun heard this, he nodded happily: "Okay, okay, I'll go and ask Osmanthus Dayun and them when I go back to see if anyone wants to go." ”

Yang Ruoqing explained to the Sun family about the salary and treatment of the errand in the school, so that when the Sun family went to talk to them, he would have a bottom in his heart.

……

The eighth day of the lunar month.

Yang Ruoqing got up early in the morning and put the dried fruits and glutinous rice that she had soaked last night into a big pot to boil.

Today is Laba Festival, and it is fashionable to drink Laba porridge in this area of Changping Village.

Relatives and friends also have to give gifts to each other.

This year's laba porridge, Yang Ruoqing has put a lot of thought into it.

Because of the flood in the previous summer day, the rice grains were not harvested, and the harvest of other agricultural and sideline products was also not good.

Therefore, many of the ingredients in this Laba porridge, such as glutinous rice, yellow rice, barley, etc., she went to Wanghai County to buy them.

Carefully boil a pot of laba porridge and drink it for yourself and your family to nourish your body and warm your spleen and stomach in this cold winter.

I also send some to relatives and friends to deepen the relationship.

"Mother, Laba porridge is ready, you can taste it."

Yang Ruoqing came to Tuoba Xian's house with breakfast, and Tuoba Xian was sitting cross-legged on the warm kang.

There is a small kang table on the warm kang, which was made for Tuoba Xian when Luo Fengtang's house came last time.

On the table was a needlework dustpan with circles of colorful thread.

Tuoba Xian is picking up a pair of small tiger head shoes.

Hearing Yang Ruoqing's voice, Tuoba Xian put the little tiger head shoe in her hand in the dustpan and put the dustpan aside.

"It's so fragrant, this is the laba porridge you have here?"

Tuoba Xian asked with a smile.

Yang Ruoqing nodded lightly: "Mother, you can taste it, see if it is still closed." ”

She put the tray on the small kang table, a bowl of colorful laba porridge, a fluffy white flour steamed bun, a fried golden poached egg on both sides, and a stack of meat foam snow mushrooms.

Seeing this nutritious and elegant breakfast set, Tuoba Xian's eyes flashed with appreciation.

Especially when Tuoba Xian's eyes saw the last small plate of green dishes, her face obviously showed a strange expression.

"Qing'er, this is ...... Emerald jasper? ”

She pointed to the small green dish with a hint of trilling in her voice.

Yang Ruoqing smiled softly: "The name Jade Jasper is really elegant, but I still get used to calling it Laba Garlic." ”

Tuoba Xian raised her eyes and looked at Yang Ruoqing: "This laba garlic, you also made it?" ”

Yang Ruoqing nodded: "Yes, the first time I did it, I don't know if there is too much vinegar, mother, you can make do with it." ”

Tuoba Xian hurriedly lifted her chopsticks and added a piece of green garlic to chew lightly in her mouth.

Then, her eye sockets moistened a little.

"Mother, what's wrong?"

"Isn't it doing something wrong?"

Yang Ruoqing was a little panicked and hurriedly asked.