Chapter 57 Li An teaches Zhou Muniu to learn
Li Sandong is a loyal fan of Li Wanyue and immediately jumped out: "I think what you said is right, I support you."
Li Wanyue smiled and the whole family nodded in agreement.
Then they all gathered around the table to watch. Li Youshan was turning the top of the table like a child. "Yueyue, how did you come up with this idea? When we eat, we can just turn it over and get whatever dish we want."
"If you think about it more, you'll figure it out."
For dinner, the family ate at the new table and felt that the money they spent was really worth it.
The next day, Li Wanyue came to the backyard of the house, picked up a bamboo tube with her left hand, took a knife in her right hand, and cut a crack in the middle of the bamboo tube. Then she broke the bamboo joint apart to reveal the solidified soap inside. Looking at the formed soap, the Li family was amazed.
Wang Guixiang picked up the green one and smelled it, it had a scent of mugwort mixed with the scent of flowers. She picked up the white one and smelled it, it had a scent of flowers, and almost no smell of lard.
"Little sister, is it ready to use?"
"Not yet. You have to cut it into pieces and saponify it for more than a month before you can use it."
“It’s going to take that long.”
"Yes, but good things wait. The weather will be hot in a month, so I can take a bath with this."
“That’s right.”
Several people chatted and laughed as they opened the bamboo joints and cut the soap into blocks, nine blocks per bamboo tube, for a total of 216 blocks.
Li Wanyue asked her family to help smooth the surface of the soap and put it in a cool place to saponify.
The taste is just a little off.
After thinking for a while, she looked at the three brothers of the Li family and said, "Big brother, when you go to the mountain to chop wood next time, if you see the windmill jasmine I picked before, pick some for me and put it on top of the soap to absorb the smell. The soap will smell better."
Li Dachuan immediately agreed: "Really? Then I'll go this afternoon."
When Li Xiaolan heard this, she immediately raised her hand and said, "Aunt, I know where the flowers you picked are. Xiaotao and I will go pick them right away."
"Okay, then be careful, don't go to dangerous places, don't go to the mountains."
"Don't worry, we can pick them without going up the mountain." After Li Xiaolan said this, the two of them put on their backpacks and went out.
Li Wanyue looked at the soap. It was all money. She would go to the town or county to see if she could find a reliable partner with a good background. Otherwise, she would not be able to keep the business without any power or influence.
In this day and age, it is extremely easy to make a person or a family disappear.
In the afternoon, she found Li Sandong and said, "Sandong, can you help me cut two thin bamboos, thicker than a finger?"
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Half an hour later, Li Sandong carried the bamboo back, and Li Wanyue asked him to saw it into small pieces and make some suitable wooden stoppers.
Li Wanyue took a bamboo tube of shampoo and poured it into the small bamboo tube, about twenty drops at a time.
"Sister, what are you doing?" Curious baby Li Sandong felt that since his sister came home, the questions he asked most often were 'What is this, what are you doing, this and that'.
"When I go to the county town to sell ink sticks later, take these with you. They will be useful."
Li Sandong nodded and said he would know when the time comes.
On the hillside, many people were digging wild vegetables and picking grass for pigs.
Li Xiaolan, Li Xiaotao and others were also there, digging wild vegetables and reciting the Three Character Classic.
Zhou Muniu, the son of the neighbor Zhou Chen, heard the two people mumbling something and asked curiously: "Xiaolan, what are you mumbling about?"
"I'm reciting the Three Character Classic."
"Three Character Classic? What is that?"
"My aunt said it was an enlightenment book. If I want to read, I should start with this book."
Zhou Muniu's eyes dimmed. It would be impossible for him to study in this life.
Li An saw him lowering his head and asked, "Brother Daniu, do you want to learn?"
"I don't want to." Zhou Muniu shook his head hypocritically.
"Brother Daniu, if you want to learn, we will teach you. Anyway, we often collect firewood and cut grass for pigs here. I can recite it to you. We also have time to rest. Auntie also taught us to write. I can teach you. We can just use branches to write. I can write a few simple words now."
Zhou Muniu's eyes lit up and he asked excitedly, "Really? Xiao An, are you really willing to teach me?"
"Of course we are willing. Brother Daniu often helps us, so of course we are willing to teach you."
"Xiao An, Xiao Lan, thank you. You take a rest. I will help you cut grass for the pigs. This is considered as tuition."
"Brother Daniu, no need. We have cut enough grass for the pigs. I will recite it to you. Please listen carefully."
After he finished speaking, Li An began to recite. Zhou Muniu stared at Li An motionlessly, trying to memorize it attentively, his eyes full of desire for knowledge.
After Li An finished reciting, he said, "Brother Daniu, I will recite these few sentences to you today. When you can recite them, I will teach you the rest. Otherwise, you won't be able to remember them if you recite too much. In the afternoon, when we have nothing to do, let's find a place by the big locust tree and I will teach you how to write the strokes."
"Okay, thank you, Xiao An."
"You're welcome." Xiao An grinned, revealing a row of small white teeth, but without any front teeth, making him look like a little old man.
In the afternoon, when Li An, Xiaolan, Xiaotao and others arrived at the big locust tree, Zhou Muniu and his sister Zhou Xiaomiao were already waiting not far away.
When he saw those people, Zhou Muniu immediately waved.
They found a quiet place. Zhou Muniu took out a black-faced pancake and gave it to Li Xiaolan a little embarrassedly: "Xiaolan, I don't have anything good at home. This pancake is for you."
He knew that Aunt Yue of the Li family had made a lot of money recently. He could smell the aroma of meat and rice in their house, and was afraid that she would not look down on this black-faced pancake. However, this was already the best he could offer.
He saved it in the morning, thinking that he and his sister would each have half for lunch.
Seeing Zhou Xiaomiao staring at the pancake and licking his lips, Li Xiaolan immediately pushed it back: "Daniu, we have food at home now, Aunt Chen is very kind to us, and we often work and play together. Teaching you is equivalent to consolidating our knowledge. If you are like this, we will not teach you."
Zhou Muniu's eyes were a little hot, and he handed the cake to his sister. Zhou Xiaomiao took it and broke off a piece for him: "Brother, eat too."
"Eat, and then we'll study." Li Xiaolan smiled sweetly.
The willows by the river fluttered in the wind, willow catkins floated in the air, butterflies danced among the wild flowers, and several children squatted under the willow tree, holding branches and writing strokes carefully together, like a painting.
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Bluestone Town
In Ruifulou, the shopkeeper was furious as he saw Zuixianju's business was booming. After so many days, he thought that after the novelty wore off, Zuixianju's business would return to what it was before, but he didn't expect that they had launched some kind of West Lake jade and their business was even better.
Let’s look at their Ruifulou. Their business was so good in the past, but now its revenue is less than half of what it used to be, at most only 20% to 30% of what it used to be.
His master said that if he continued like this, he would have to quit his job as the shopkeeper.
He called Zhou Jiawang over, and Zhou Jiawang looked nervous: "Boss, are you looking for me?"
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