Feeling happy, Li Mo decided to reward Song Dashan with something delicious that night.
Take out the last bit of white flour at home, and let Song Dashan go to the vegetable garden to cut off the newly grown leeks, and make dumplings for dinner tonight.
Hearing that they were eating dumplings tonight, not only Xiao Bao jumped up and down happily, even Song Dashan's eyes lit up, and he cut the leeks very quickly.
Next, Li Mo was basically useless, Song Dashan did everything from stamping the vegetable stuffing to kneading the dough, and in the end, Li Mo couldn't even make the dumplings as fast as he did.
With Song Dashan around, a meal of dumplings was made quickly. I boiled a pot of hot water and put the dumplings in. After the dumplings were cooked, the family sat around the table and ate the delicious dumplings. Don’t worry about it. It was so beautiful, Xiaobao squinted his eyes even when he was eating, his little stomach insisted on eating fifteen dumplings, and his belly was plump.
Li Mo was full after eating ten dumplings, and the rest went into Song Dashan's stomach. The whole family ate their stomachs round and satisfied.
"Aunt Mo, can I eat dumplings next time?" Xiao Bao asked in a childish voice, looking at Li Mo eagerly.
The dumplings are so delicious, he has never eaten them before.
Li Mo is of course willing to satisfy the child with such a small wish, and immediately nodded and agreed: "Of course, I can wait for Aunt Mo to go to the town and buy a lot of flour, and Xiaobao can make it when he wants to eat it."
Xiaobao laughed immediately, already looking forward to eating dumplings next time.
It was still early after eating the dumplings, so Song Dashan directly brought over the unfinished chicken coop, and continued to weave by the candlelight in the main room.
Li Mo also sat at the table, held Xiaobao in her arms, and taught Xiaobao how to count.
Xiaobao can only recognize two numbers at present, one is "one" and the other is "four". I don't know who he learned these two numbers from, but he doesn't know the other numbers.
Li Mo was going to teach him the numbers within ten first, and each time she taught a number, she would stretch out a few fingers accordingly and read out the sound at the same time, and Xiaobao followed her in reading.
Li Mo found that Xiao Bao was very smart, she only taught him twice, and he memorized it immediately, he could count from one to ten directly.
Li Mo stretched out three fingers at random, and asked Xiaobao: "Xiaobao, what is this?"
Xiao Bao rolled his dark eyeballs, and immediately replied crisply: "This is three!"
Li Mo stretched out five fingers again, "Then how much is this?"
Little Treasure thought for a moment and replied, "This is five!"
Li Mo lowered her head and kissed Xiao Bao's face, and praised: "Our Xiao Bao is so smart, we got all the answers right!"
Xiaobao was both shy and proud after being praised, his little face was flushed, his eyes were shining as he looked at Li Mo, and there was a longing in Li Mo's eyes to ask more questions.
Following his will, Li Mo stretched out seven fingers again for him to recognize.
This time there are a lot of fingers, Xiaobao broke Li Mo's hands and counted them one by one: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, this is seven!"
After Xiaobao finished speaking, he looked at Li Mo expectantly, telling her to announce the correct answer quickly.
Li Mo nodded heavily, "Congratulations, Xiaobao, you got the answer right again!"
Xiaobao laughed "giggling" immediately, and looked at Song Dashan, the meaning of seeking praise in his eyes was self-evident.
Song Dashan has been listening by the side, and now he is also smiling and touching Xiaobao's head to express his appreciation.
Li Mo was a little surprised by Xiaobao's cleverness. The child is only three years old. No one taught him before. The first time he recognizes numbers, he will be able to do it twice. He is really smart. Maybe he is a good reader material.
Li Mo knows that children in this era, especially those in the village, don’t pay much attention to education. One reason is that they don’t read books. It’s too expensive, and you can’t go on reading without money. Like Song Dazhu’s brother Shan, who read a book and dragged the whole family to it. It’s hard for so many people to earn money to support a scholar. How dare the villagers send their children to study casually? .
But Li Mo, as a modern person, has a deep-rooted concept of valuing education. It is absolutely impossible for her to let her watch children work at home and not study, so she plans to teach Xiaobao first, and wait for Xiaobao to reach a certain age. I sent him to a private school to study, not seeking to be famous, but it is good to learn some skills, and it would be good to be a teacher or an accountant in the future, much better than a country boy who faces the loess and his back to the sky and can't get enough to eat.
Fortunately, Xiaobao is still young, and there are still a few years before she can go to school. She can teach some basic things first, and then take advantage of these few years to save a little more money, and then send Xiaobao to study in a private school.
What Li Mo didn't know was that because of her decision, the Daxia Dynasty had a very famous young Tanhualang, and it was a good story for a while. Of course, this is something.
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Early the next morning, while Li Mo and Xiaobao were still sleeping, Song Dashan made breakfast and went out.
When Li Mo woke up and had breakfast, he didn't see Song Dashan's figure. He didn't come back until the sun rose, holding a big box in his hand.
Seeing Li Mo, Song Dashan immediately held up the box in his hand and showed it to her, "Li Mo, look at the box I went to Uncle Zhang to pack."
Li Mo was puzzled, "What's this for?"
Song Dashan put the box in his hand on the ground and said, "Don't you want to raise chickens? I found out that a batch of chicks had just hatched at Uncle Zhao Laogen's house in our village. I'll go to his house to buy some chicks later." Cubs, keep them in a box first, and then they can stay in a cage when they grow up."
It turns out that the newborn chicks are kept in boxes.
Li Mo was very happy to be able to raise chickens, she wanted to raise chickens a long time ago, otherwise she would have to buy eggs if she wanted to eat, so she followed Song Dashan to Zhao Laogen's house.
Zhao Laogen’s family specializes in hatching chickens. If they want to raise chickens in the nearby villages, they will come to his house to buy them. Some people will give eggs to his family to hatch into chickens, and some simply buy chickens directly from his family. .
When Li Mo and Song Dashan went in, a woman was moving the chicks from one box to another, and a group of chicks were chirping, very lively.
Seeing Li Mo and the other two, the woman greeted immediately, "Da Shan, is this your wife?"
Song Dashan nodded, and then expressed his intention: "Auntie, I want to buy some chickens from you."
The woman nodded, pointing to the box in front of her and said: "It's a coincidence that you came here. A batch of chicks have just hatched recently, and they are all here. If you come later, someone else will buy them. Come and pick them." .”
Song Dashan put the box on the ground, and squatted on the ground to look into the box containing the chicks. Li Mo also squatted beside him to look, but she didn't see anything, and felt that a group of chicks all looked the same.
The woman asked, "How many roosters and hens do you want?"
Song Dashan thought about it, and replied: "Ten hens, five roosters."
The woman nodded, pointed to the box and said, "The rooster is here, and the hen is in the box next to it. You can choose it yourself."
Song Dashan carefully looked at the group of chicks, then carefully put his hand into the box, slowly took out a selected chick, and moved it to the box he brought.
A hen cost three Wen and a rooster cost two Wen. When the final selection was made, Li Mo gave the woman forty Wen.
When Song Dashan and the two came out of Zhao Laogen's house, Li Mo couldn't help stretching his head to look at the little chicks in the box. The latter is not the same at all.
"Brother Dashan, what do these little chickens eat? What shall we feed them?" Li Mo asked.
Song Dashan said as he walked: "Such a small chicken, boil it with millet, break it up and feed it to them."
Li Mo asked again: "How many times do we have to feed them that day?"
Song Dashan: "Feed three times a day."
Li Mo didn't know how to raise chickens at all, and asked Song Dashan for advice all the way. When the two arrived home, they saw a carriage parked in front of the house. Many villagers were watching the carriage, and a young man was standing there. At the gate, it looks like they are waiting for something.
Li Mo and Song Dashan looked at each other and walked forward quickly.
Song Dashan asked the man standing at the door: "Who are you looking for?"
The young man glanced at Song Dashan, then looked at Li Mo behind Song Dashan, as if he was making sure of something, he cupped his hands at Song Dashan and Li Mo, and asked, "May I ask if this is Mrs. Song's home?"
Song Dashan replied: "My family name is indeed Song."
The man nodded, walked to the carriage, and said to the carriage, "Mother, I'm back, come down."
As soon as the words were finished, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, a middle-aged woman got out of the carriage, saw Li Mo standing there, immediately smiled and said: "Miss Song, I'm bothering you today."
Li Mo saw that this was Chen Xiaoting's mother who went to town to put on makeup last time.
"Mrs. Chen, why are you here?" Li Mo went up to her and asked.
Mrs. Chen took Li Mo's hand and said softly: "I came today to ask for your help, I don't know if it's convenient for me to go into the room and talk about it in detail."
Li Mo came to her senses and immediately asked Song Dashan to open the door to welcome him into the house, and the carriage was also pulled in.
As for the villagers watching at the door of the house, Li Mo just smiled and said that a friend came to visit, and then closed the door.
When Mrs. Chen entered the door and saw the dilapidated appearance of the house, she was very surprised, but after all, she had never seen the market, so she immediately covered up her surprise and sat on the stool in the main room with a smile.
Li Mo brought two bowls of tea and said with a smile: "The house is simple and there is no good tea, I hope the wife and son will make it up."
Mrs. Chen waved her hand immediately: "Don't be so polite." After speaking, she looked towards Song Dashan and asked, "Is this Mrs. Song's husband?"
Li Mo nodded, "He is the head of my family, called Song Dashan, you can just call him Dashan."
Mrs. Chen nodded with a smile, but she was very puzzled in her heart. She didn't understand how such a beautiful and talented lady could marry a man with an ordinary appearance and a lame leg. It was really incomprehensible.
But she didn't come here today to think about these things. She has more important things to do.
Mrs. Chen took Li Mo's hand and said: "Miss Song, I was entrusted to come here today. A friend of mine found out that you made up my Xiaoting before, and I would like to ask you to do it for me. Zhuang, I don't know what you want? If possible, I will pick you up tomorrow to go to town."
Li Mo asked with a smile: "Is there a young lady who wants to get married?"
Mrs. Chen thought for a while, then shook her head, "It's not marriage, but it's about the same."
What is almost? Li Mo was puzzled, and asked directly: "Madam Chen, can you tell me who is looking for me to make up? So that I can prepare."
Mrs. Chen paused, then leaned over to Li Mo's ear and said, "To tell you the truth, Miss Jiu, the magistrate's family, wants to invite you to do makeup."
Li Mo was slightly surprised.