12dz Chapter 482 Everyone Has Clothes to Wear and Everyone Has Enough to Eat
Chapter 482 Everyone Has Clothes to Wear and Everyone Has Enough to Eat
"How can I compare to my master?"
Cao Shui shook his head modestly. Liu Qiaoshou had been a carpenter for decades, while Cao Shui had only studied for two months. Even if he was very skillful, he could not compare with Liu Qiaoshou.
"By the way, Brother Cao."
Jin Yin seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Didn't you send a letter to your family a few days ago? Have you heard anything back?"
"not yet."
Cao Shui shook his head. After settling down in Chenjia Village, he asked a scholar in the village to write him a letter and send it home, hoping that his family could move to Chenjia Village to live with him.
however……
Given the speed of transportation and information transmission in Xia Kingdom, Cao Shui didn't even know if his letter had reached his family, let alone receive a reply from them—that was a long way off.
"Brother Cao, don't worry."
Jiang Xiaobai comforted Cao Shui, saying, "Your family will definitely receive the letter. When they move to Chenjia Village, you can all be reunited as a family."
Upon hearing the words "reunion," Jin Yin and Xu San couldn't help but feel envious. Compared to them, Cao Shui was lucky; at least his family was still alive.
Their loved ones... had long since died of hunger and war, and reunion was something that could never be achieved for them.
"I hope so."
Cao Shui gazed southwards with a melancholy look, his vision seemingly piercing through endless barriers to reach his small village near the county seat.
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Just as Cao Shui was gazing south, in a small village called Yunshan Village, ten miles from the county seat, a little boy with dry, yellow hair and a thin build looked at his parents who were packing their belongings and asked curiously, "Mom, are we going to move to Chenjia Village that my brother mentioned?"
"Yes."
The woman, who was packing her luggage, touched the boy's dry, yellow hair and replied with a smile.
The woman was none other than Cao Shui's mother: Yin Xiaoniang.
A few days ago, a letter from Taiping County was delivered to Yunshan Village, specifically addressed to Yin Xiaoniang.
The illiterate Yin Xiaoniang and her husband found a village scholar to read the contents of the letter, and only then did they realize that it was a letter from their eldest son, Cao Shui, who had been missing for a long time.
Yin Xiaoniang was shocked to receive Cao Shui's letter. Several months ago, Cao Shui said he was going to the county town to find work, and then he never returned. Yin Xiaoniang almost thought that something had happened to her eldest son.
After all, the security situation wasn't good these days, with robbers and bandits everywhere. It was perfectly normal for Cao Shui, who was working away from home, to encounter some kind of accident and die.
Because of this, Yin Xiaoniang, her husband, and their two children were heartbroken for quite some time.
Unexpectedly... just as they were wiping away their heartache, they received a letter from Cao Shui.
In the letter, Cao Shui said that he went to a place called Chenjia Village and successfully became an apprentice there, learning the craft of carpentry. He then settled down in Chenjia Village and earned about one tael of silver a month.
To be honest, when they heard the village scholar read these words aloud, Yin Xiaoniang and her husband both wondered if they had misheard.
In their traditional mindset, earning a few hundred coins a month was considered a pretty good income, while earning one or two taels of silver a month...
The two of them couldn't even imagine it.
After repeatedly confirming with the village's scholars, the two finally believed it and accepted the fact that their son could earn one or two taels of silver a month.
At the end of the letter, Cao Shui also said that he had settled down in Chenjia Village and hoped that his family would move there to live.
Yin Xiaoniang and her husband were resistant to this matter.
Not everyone in this world is willing to leave their hometown, especially for farmers like Yin Xiaoniang who have spent half their lives toiling in the fields. Leaving the land that gave them birth and nurtured them is no less than a Chinese person from Earth moving to another country.
However, after returning home and seeing their two infants, the couple finally changed their minds and decided to leave Yunshan Village, where they had lived for generations, and move to Chenjia Village to live with Cao Shui.
There was no other way. The Cao family only had two acres of poor land, which was not enough to feed the whole family. In fact, most of the time, in order to feed the children, the two adults could only eat half a meal and then go to work in the fields on an empty stomach.
Poverty made the couple determined to move, but the main reason was the Chenjia Village that Cao Shui had described in his mind.
In Cao Shui's description, Chenjia Village was an extremely wealthy place where everyone had clothes to wear and enough to eat. Even the villagers could eat precious meat every few days.
This kind of life was almost exactly what Yin Xiaoniang and her husband had dreamed of, so after discussing it, Yin Xiaoniang and her husband decided to move to Chenjia Village in Taiping County.
Furthermore, her husband, Cao Qiang, contacted a caravan that was heading to Taiping County. She paid one hundred copper coins to gain the opportunity to accompany the caravan to Chenjia Village.
The two were packing their luggage because the caravan was leaving the next morning, and they needed to reach the county town before dawn to join the caravan.
"mother."
Inside the house, Cao Shui's second sister, Cao Zhu, asked hopefully, "After we move to Chenjia Village, will we really be able to eat white flour steamed buns every day, just like my eldest brother said?"
"Big brother wouldn't lie to us."
Before Yin Xiaoniang could answer, her younger brother Cao Yun interjected, "If Big Brother says we can eat white flour steamed buns, then we definitely can!"
As he spoke, Cao Yun couldn't help but swallow, as if he was thinking about the taste of white steamed buns.
In fact, Cao Yun had never eaten white flour steamed buns. At the age of nine, the food he had eaten most often was bran flour. In good years, he could eat some sorghum flour and white rice, but with the arrival of the cold disaster, sorghum flour and white rice never appeared on the Cao family's table again.
Cao Yun's understanding of white flour steamed buns came mostly from hearsay. He had heard from a village scholar that white flour steamed buns were even sweeter than white rice, which is why he longed for them.
"Yes."
Cao's father smiled and said to the two children, "Your older brother said that as long as we move to Chenjia Village, we can eat white flour steamed buns every day, and occasionally even meat."
"Eat meat!!!"
Cao Zhu and Cao Yun's eyes lit up, and they almost drooled uncontrollably.
The people of Xia Kingdom had a desire for meat that was unimaginable to the people of Earth in their previous lives.
For Cao Zhu and Cao Yun, who can't eat meat all year round, meat is the most delicious and precious food in the world, bar none!