The water for Carpenter Liu's house is brought from the mountain. The flow is not large, but it is enough for drinking. For daily life, he can also get water from the nearby river, which is very convenient.
On the outskirts of the main courtyard, he built a terrace, similar to the observation deck at the gate of Lianyuan, but with a thatched shed, a stove, tables, chairs, benches, and wooden boards.
Carpenter Liu's family is now rich, and they renovated the furniture in the house. In an instant, the yard surpassed that of Liu Dafu's house and became the most luxurious courtyard in the village.
On the day of moving, Carpenter Liu specially roasted melon seeds, boiled tea, lit a charcoal stove in the thatched shed, bought quilts, and invited Qin Yao and his wife and Gong Liangliao and Qi Xianguan and his apprentice to enjoy the snow and drink tea.
"Yao Niang, what do you think of this?" After the house-warming party, Carpenter Liu pulled Qin Yao aside and asked for her opinion.
Qin Yao didn't expect that Carpenter Liu could actually restore all the things she mentioned casually, and she was very amazed.
But when it comes to this tea shed, she does have some suggestions.
"It's cold now. Even if you light a charcoal pot and cover yourself with a thin blanket, it's still a bit unbearable to sit for a long time. I see you have a lot of straw at home. You can make 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.
Having said the disadvantages, the rest are all advantages: "The tea is well brewed, but the quality can be improved a few levels to give customers more choices. Also, your melon seeds are fragrant, and the view from this seat is great. I think it's great."
However, Grandma Wang's yard already has regular customers. If Carpenter Liu wants to attract customers, he needs to come up with more ideas, otherwise it will always lack some characteristics.
Carpenter Liu's wife said, "I have a guest room at home. Can you help me take a look at it, Mr. Qin?"
Qin Yao nodded and followed the couple to the guest room they had prepared.
The room has windows facing the sun and wooden floors. The furniture in the room was bought back from a restaurant in the county town by Carpenter Liu.
But Qin Yao always felt empty and without substance.
"How about adding some calligraphy and paintings? The teahouse can also prepare writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstones, so that the guests here can leave their poems or thoughts, and select the good ones to be made into wooden plaques and hung up for other readers to appreciate. It should be very interesting."
As far as she knew, poetry competition was also an activity that scholars loved very much, so she decided to use poetry as the special theme of Liu Mujiang's 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 somewhat embarrassedly, "Manager Qin, can you ask your guest for a poem so that we can hang it outside the teahouse?"
Afraid of offending others, he waved his hand and said it was inconvenient without waiting for Qin Yao to answer.
Qin Yao smiled faintly and looked at Carpenter Liu and his wife encouragingly, "I suggest you go find the gentleman and let him decide for himself."
"Those scholars couldn't get in, how can we?" Carpenter Liu asked nervously.
Qin Yao suggested: "One is to pay a visit, and the other is to send some local specialties to the gentleman. The gentleman just told me that your melon seeds are very fragrant."
At this point, if Carpenter Liu still didn't understand, then he would have worked in the stationery factory in vain. He was excited, but he suppressed his excitement 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, the bridge piers had been repaired, and wide wooden boards were temporarily laid on it for easy walking. It should be completely completed before the New Year.
There is also a large mill built with funds raised by the villagers. The factory’s bookcase list has been completed and they are now busy with this mill.
The location of the mill is closest to Carpenter Liu's home, which makes the villagers envious.
Due to the large-scale construction in the village, many refugees who stayed in Kaiyang County came to the village in the past two months. The vacant and abandoned houses in the village became their temporary resting place. In addition, there were also scholars who came here because of their admiration for the great scholar's reputation. Even in the winter night, you could still hear noisy voices in Liujia Village.
Carpenter Liu sent Qin Yao to the gate of the stationery factory, but was persuaded by her to go back.
Qin Yao walked towards the village alone. On the bridge on her way home, she met Liu Ji, who had just returned from Lianyuan. The couple looked at each other. They had been socializing for more than half a month and were mentally exhausted. So they tacitly remained silent and returned home together.
The children have gone back to their rooms and gone 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 winter is really difficult. If the small house on the farm in town had not been rented out, the four brothers and sisters would have wanted to sleep there so that they could sleep half an hour longer in the morning.
But the children were also very sensible. Although they were sleepy in the winter, they did not ask their parents to help them take leave from going to school.
Of course, this possibility is only possible in Qin Yao's family. If it were Jin Bao, he would not dare to ask his parents to go to school and ask for sick leave from the teacher just because he wanted to sleep in.
Qin Yao simply washed her face and prepared to go back to her room to sleep, but unexpectedly Liu Ji brought a basin of hot water into the main room and said, "Madam, soak your feet."
Qin Yao looked at him suspiciously, "If someone is being nice to you for no reason, he is either a traitor or a thief."
My body was very honest. I immediately sat down, took off my shoes and socks, put my cold feet into the hot foot basin, and squinted my eyes comfortably.
Liu Ji had washed her feet more than once or twice, and he massaged them skillfully. He did not refute what Qin Yao had just said, and said with some concern:
"We received a letter from the capital city saying that Junior Brother's aunt has sent someone to take him to the capital city to celebrate the New Year, so Junior Brother and Teacher will be going back in two days."
He was afraid that once the teacher left, he wouldn’t know when he would come back, or he might not come back at all.
Qin Yao has been so busy with the banquet recently that she forgot to calculate the date.
Now, if we calculate, tomorrow will be the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. People will have to start preparing for the coming of the New Year. They will be busy with the social etiquette before the New Year, and each family's accounts must be settled before the New Year so that they can celebrate the New Year peacefully.
"Have you asked the gentleman what his plans are?" Qin Yao narrowed her eyes and asked while enjoying herself.
Liu Ji nodded and said, "I asked, and the teacher said that if there is nothing else after the New Year, I can come and stay for a while. He also arranged a lot of homework for me and said that he will come back to check next year."
but!
Because Qi Xiangun will actively take the exam next year, I am afraid that Aunt Qi will keep them in the city.
So Gong Liangliao’s words don’t count, only Qi family’s words count.
With his own aunt, uncle and relatives around, and so many relatives in the ancestral home, Qi Xianguan couldn't just leave his own aunt's place and stay in this small mountain village.
Even though he himself was reluctant, he was still a ten-year-old child after all, and there were always many things that he could not control.
Qin Yao didn't care much about this issue. If the mountain didn't come, they could just go find a mountain.
The point is, "What does the teacher have to say about your provincial examination next year?"
Liu Ji was somewhat confident. "The teacher said that he knows all the examiners of the provincial examinations, and he also told me which writing styles the examiners like. I should have no problem practicing according to them for the provincial examination next year."
In addition, his junior brother generously told him many test-taking tips, so Liu Ji himself was quite confident.
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