Yan took care of the housework as usual.But without my mother-in-law staring at me, I only feel a lot easier to do these things again.After she was done, she was a little worried.Even if the three daughters have gone to study in Yixue, they have food at noon, and Yixue will also distribute clothes, and she can't spend much money on frugality at home, but she can't sit and eat empty."
Tomorrow, I will go to a big family and ask if there is any work for pulpping and laundry."
Thinking like this, there was a soft sound at the gate, and Yan subconsciously shrank his shoulders, and then realized that he would come back to beat her husband at this time, and now he is still working on the river embankment, and it is his daughter who has come back from school.Hurriedly got up and went out the door."
Little trees, little flowers, little grass."
When the sisters saw their mother standing at the door, they hurriedly trotted over, "Mother." ”"I'm back, my mother has cooked dinner, let's have dinner."
Lin Xiaoshu saw the two younger sisters holding their mother's legs, so he had to reach out and pull Yan's sleeve, "Mother, why didn't you see your father and grandmother?"
”As soon as she said this, Yan noticed that the second daughter and the youngest daughter who were holding her legs stiffened, and hurriedly reached out and touched their heads comfortingly."
Use the rice first, and then I'll tell you when I'm done with the meal."
Lin Xiaoshu led his two younger sisters to wash their hands, and they were still a little unaccustomed to sitting at the dinner table.When Daddy and Grandma were there, they and their mothers could only wait for Daddy and Grandma to finish eating, and then squat and eat in the stove room.It's the first time it's officially served."
Mother bought meat!"
Lin Xiaocao's eyes lit up when he saw the oily meat on the table.Yan smiled and put a piece into the bowl of his youngest daughter, and he did not favor one over the other, and put another piece into the bowl of the other two daughters, "Eat it." ”The three sisters didn't move, Lin Xiaoshu put a piece into his mother's bowl, "Mother, Mr. said that the elders should use it first, and the juniors can use it." ”Yan was stunned for a moment, and his heart couldn't help but warm, "Okay, okay, my mother will eat first." ”Seeing that Yan had eaten the meat, the sisters ate the meat in the bowl into their mouths.At the end of eating, Yan looked at the remaining half of the meat on the plate, and said in surprise: "I thought this half catty of meat was just enough for us to eat, why is there so much left?"
”"Mother, Xiaocao is a little bit stretched at noon, and I can't eat it."
Yan couldn't help but laugh when he saw his little daughter patting her belly: "Then what delicious food did you eat at noon, and you supported your stomach." ”"There's meat, there's vegetables, there's sweet soup, and there's white rice.""
It's so rich!"
Lin Xiaoshu added to his sister on the side: "Mr. took us to the cafeteria at noon and taught us how to cook."
There are many small windows in the cafeteria, there are rice, steamed bread, noodles, meat and vegetables, there are many kinds of soup, and each of us has a pear.The meals in the canteen can be chosen at will, but after the selection, you must finish eating, and you are not allowed to leave the canteen if you can't finish eating. ”"That's to teach you not to waste food."
Lin Xiaohua nodded hurriedly while listening, "The teacher also said the same, I won't have more in the future." ”Yan couldn't help but sigh: "The queen mother is kind, she has done so much for you children, and now we can't repay it, so we must cherish the opportunity for the queen mother to give you to study, and wait until you succeed in your studies to repay the queen mother's kindness." ”After listening carefully to her mother's words, the sisters nodded solemnly, "My daughter is provincial." ”Similar words are said in many people's homes.After the meal, the mother and daughter sat on the warm kang and enjoyed a rare quiet and tranquility.Yan did not hide it, and told his three daughters truthfully what happened at home during the day.The three sisters knew for a long time that their father and grandmother didn't want to see them, but they didn't expect that they really dropped the admission voucher, just to make it impossible for them to enter the school.Yan looked at the silent daughters, "The queen mother punished your father and grandmother to do hard labor, she has her own reasons, you can't blame the queen mother for playing." ”"No," compared to her sister and younger sister, Lin Xiaohua was the calmest of the three sisters, "This matter is the fault of my father and grandma, the queen is helping us, mother, we all know it in our hearts." ”Lin Xiaoshu and Lin Xiaocao also nodded busily.Yan Shi completely put his mind at ease, "It's good that you can figure it out." ”Lin Xiaoshu didn't want to mention anything about his father and grandmother, so he shook his mother's arm, "Mother, Mr. also asked us to ask you something." ”"Ask me?
What's the matter?
”"The Queen is going to build a crash course.As long as you can enter the crash course, you can have a husband to teach you to read and write, and after learning it in half a year, you will be given errands.Mr. asked us to ask our parents and relatives at home after we went home, if we were interested, we could go to Yixue to sign up, try to study for seven days, and choose to learn quickly and with good brains to stay, too stupid to persuade them to return.After seven days, the people who stay will sign a contract with Dayong Express, and after half a year of study, they can go to Dayong Express to do things.And during the period of Yixue, the treatment is the same as ours.Mother, do you want to go?
”Looking at the expectant gaze of the three daughters, Yan couldn't help but press the thumping heart, "Is this serious?"
”The sisters nodded again and again as if a chicken was pecking rice.Yan naturally wanted to go, but he also had more concerns, "But my mother is just a girl, and she has never studied, and her brain is very stupid, so I'm afraid the crash course doesn't want me, right?"
”"Mother," Lin Xiaohua saw her mother's intentions, and hurriedly grabbed her mother's hand and shook it again and again, "My daughter thinks you can give it a try, if you are really left by Mr., your daughter will be able to go to school with her mother in the future."
How nice that would be!
”Yan's two hands were shaken over, and he couldn't help but smile and nodded, "You two let my mother think about it, let my mother think about it."
You have to get up early tomorrow morning, so you go to bed first. ”When her daughter fell asleep side by side on the kang, Yan quietly got up and put on a dress and walked out of the house.It was already cold at night in early November, and Yan stood in the courtyard and looked at the empty and dilapidated courtyard around him, and then looked up at the sky.The weather was fine during the day, and the night was no exception.The moon is shining brightly, and the stars are all over the sky.Yan looked up for a long time, and when he returned to the house, he had already made a decision in his heart.The other side.Qin Zhoudu also told Qin Gu in detail about the crash course.Finally, he asked, "Uncle, do you want to go?"
”Qin Gu sandwiched a light and tasteless cabbage fried by his nephew with chopsticks, and drank another sip of gruel, but the corners of his mouth finally couldn't control the grinning, "Go, why don't you go."
Although it is only half a year, it has also fulfilled your uncle's dream.Not to mention that after half a year, you can directly enter Dayong Express, what a good errand.Do you know how much you can earn in Dayong Express in January?
Your uncle and I wanted to go before, but people only need to know hyphenation.What a great opportunity, I would be foolish not to go. ”It was the first time Qin Zhoudu saw his uncle talking about Dayong Express, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but be curious, "How much salary can you earn in a month?"
”"There are different wages for different errands in it, at least six dollars of silver a month, and more of them are responsible for riding horses to deliver letters and goods everywhere in the city, in addition to the fixed five dollars of silver per month, sending a letter or a piece of goods, there are three to a dozen copper plates ranging from a commission, your uncle and I inquired about the most delivered in a month, enough to earn five taels of silver.But the most is the delivery of letters or goods between states, if the goods are valuable or the letters are urgent, that is the most profitable, ten taels of silver a month is easy.The most important thing is that the Dayong Express family has a big business and has never been in arrears.Your uncle and I have worked hard for a month now, sometimes I can't even earn a penny of silver, and sometimes I meet black-hearted customers, and I can't even get a copper plate for a month, do you think I can't be envious?
Otherwise, I will send you to study, this learned person can easily find a good job, like your uncle and me, who are not educated, all you can find are some hard work.So, you know how useful it is to study now, right?
”Qin Zhoudu nodded, "I've always known that studying is very useful!"
”Qin Gu patted his nephew's head, "Okay, hurry up and go to bed, I'll wash the dishes, and our uncle and nephew will go to Yixue early tomorrow morning." ”Early the next morning, without Yan calling, the three sisters got up as soon as it was dawn.After eating the breakfast carefully prepared by his mother, Lin Xiaoshu noticed that his mother was a little different from before.The clothes on his body were no longer the coarse cloth clothes sewn with patches that he used to wear, but he had changed into a plain and new jacket skirt, and his hair was neatly pulled up, and a wooden hairpin was inserted.Being watched intently by his daughter, Yan touched his face a little uncomfortably, "Is there anything wrong with my mother?"
”"No, no," without his father and grandmother at home, Lin Xiaoshu's temperament has become a lot more lively, "My mother looks good when she dresses up a little." ”Yan nodded his eldest daughter's head, and couldn't help but smile: "Just you can speak." ”Lin Xiaohua held Lin Xiaocao in one hand and the two of them in the other, "Mother wants to go to Yixue with us?"
”Yan snorted lightly, "My mother thought about it seriously for a long time last night, and I still want to give it a try." ”"Great, mother, let's go.""
Alas, bring all the things, mother lock the door."
The mother and daughter didn't go far out of the gate, the opposite gate opened, Aunt Liu looked at the mother and daughter walking easily on the street, and pouted, "The husband and mother-in-law have been arrested, and they are still following as if they are fine, I really don't know what to say." ”The entrance of Yixue.Wen Jiuming expected that the parents of the righteous disciples might come to sign up for the crash course today, and divided the registration task early.Gu Yanwu and Su Yan each occupied one side of the table, and both of them originally felt that there should not be many people coming, and this job should be very easy.As it turned out, they couldn't have been more wrong.I didn't expect that whether it was the opportunity to study or the opportunity to get an errand for Dayong Express, how rare it would be for those people who were struggling to make ends meet.And once they have the opportunity, they want to seize it even if they desperately.