An Ning used a few jade pendants, which really took the hearts of the children.

From then on, the eight children stayed in the Xiao family with a solid and down-to-earth attitude, and regarded An Ning and Xiao Yuan as their biological parents to love and be filial.

An Ning knew that Xiao Yuan would be of great use after adopting these children.

Although she gave birth to five biological children, what she and Xiao Yuan have to do in the future, these five children are completely insufficient, that is, to cultivate other people, it will not be more reassuring than the children she adopted.

An Ning knows that these children will be entrusted to the existence of their backs in the future, so she has to take care of the children's hearts now.

If An Ning wants anyone to follow her with all her heart, then there is really no one who can escape.

When she was a princess earlier, she was an old fox who had been immersed in officialdom for many years, and she could make her take her heart, not to mention these children who had suffered a lot of discrimination and discrimination.

When Xiao Yuan got up from sleep, he could feel that the mental outlook of the eight children was different.

He knew that An Ning must have taken advantage of the moment when he was sleeping to bring the children together.

Xiao Yuan smiled and didn't say anything.

He ate breakfast and went to the front yard.

There were people waiting in the front yard, and several men were waiting in the yard with their children.

Xiao Yuan went over and inspected these children first.

Some children are suitable for reading, but some children are not suitable for this path.

There are a total of seven children, two of whom are very smart, if they can read, or can read, and three have mediocre qualifications, but they can also learn to read and write, and in the future, they will not take the imperial examination, and they will be able to be a tent or shopkeeper for others, and the remaining two have a handful of strength, which is a good material for learning martial arts.

After Xiao Yuan's exam, he told the families of these children.

But whoever sends the child over, it is the family life is not bad, they just want the child to have another way out in the future, not just digging in the soil like the grandparents.

Now that Xiao Yuan has found a way for them, they naturally want to give it a try.

In this way, two children stayed to learn martial arts, and the other five studied literature.

Xiao Yuan didn't overcharge these few pieces of silver, only a bundle of two taels a year, which was particularly cheap.

Xiao Yuan is not short of money, he teaches the children just to train people, and secondly, to better integrate into the village.

Xiao Yuan left seven children that day, and the next day, four more families sent their children over, and the rest were never sent over.

The bundle of two taels of silver is really not much, but it is still a very heavy burden compared to most of the peasant families, many people just can't eat enough chaff and vegetables, and some people only have two or three clothes in a family, which are worn by everyone in turn, and people like this are all luxuries for them to study and practice martial arts.

Until the Chinese New Year, An Ning was busy raising children, and Xiao Yuan was busy teaching his disciples.

In addition to teaching children, Xiao Yuan often goes to the county seat to walk around.

An Ning never asks about these things.

This winter, An Ning has been conditioning and replenishing the health and nutrition of her eight adopted children.

It has only been more than a month since these children arrived at the Xiao family, and the whole person is different.

The children grew taller and fatter, their skin became much whiter, and their hair gradually became less yellow.

The most important thing is that they have a straight spine when they walk, whether it is a boy or a girl, they always walk with their chests up and their heads up, and they always walk with big steps, always looking like they are in a hurry.

You know, these children are all with their heads down when they come, and they don't dare to look up and look directly at people, and An Ning spent more than a month to rebuild the children's self-confidence, which is really not an easy thing.

Now, Anning leaves everything to the children, and the children are in constant contact with the people in the village.

This contact makes a difference.

You must know that Dafang has also adopted ten children, and these children are often walking around, but these children are a little cringe, and they look thin and pitiful.

If you don't look carefully, you can't see the difference between the five children born to the third room, which shows that the three-room couple is really good to the children, and they are really upbringing.

Originally, they were idle in winter, but when the children in the third room went out, someone asked them: "What did your father and mother give you to eat?

The children laughed: "I don't eat anything, it's rice or something, sometimes there is meat, I can eat enough, I have three meals a day, if I don't get hungry at the meal, there are snacks in the house at any time, my mother doesn't care about us, whoever is hungry and finds something to eat, the snacks in the house are gone, my mother will add some, my mother said, we are all growing bodies, children are hungry, and they can't be wronged, anyway, our thirteen children eat the same." ”

Children don't lie, and they know by looking at the way they look that they must be well fed and lived.

When the adults heard the child's words, they all praised the benevolence and righteousness of the three-room couple, saying that it was the adoption of the child, which was really treated as a biological child, unlike the big house, which was the adoption of the child, and that was the free labor force to be found.

Although it is said that the big house does not adopt those children, I am afraid that the children will have a worse life.

After all, they are all fatherless and motherless orphans, no one takes care of them, and no one cares about them when they are cold and hungry.

But a lot of things are afraid of comparison, if there is no three-room for these children to compare, the people in the village may think that the big house is very good for the children.

can be compared with the children in the third room, it is really not a star and a half.

There is everything in the village, and when this word reached Dafang's ears, Dafang's Zhao family was angry, and secretly scolded An Ning for being a fool, why should he be so good to them if he wasn't his own baby, anyway, there was not a good word in Zhao's mouth.

An Ning doesn't care about this, she just takes care of her own family.

There are thirteen children in the family, and it takes a lot of effort to raise them well.

A few days ago, a group of pirates came ashore, harming many villages, and almost ran to Jingtian Village, but Xiao Yuan organized some young adults in the village who had studied martial arts with him to run to a place ten miles away from the village, and it took a lot of effort to beat the pirates away.

However, many villages around Jingtian Village were devastated, many families were robbed and killed, some women were killed, and some wealthy families were robbed of gold and silver by pirates.

The county commander who came to the county also organized people to resist the pirates, and also asked for the support of the garrison of Nanyi Prefecture, but there were still many villages and towns that were burned and looted, and the Xun county commander who came to the county was also worried.

Xiao Yuan took this opportunity to enter the eyes of Xun County Ling.

He went to the county government a few times, gave Xun County Commander a lot of ideas, and in addition, he also helped organize Xiang Yong or something, Xun County Commander simply handed over the matter of organizing Xiang Yong to resist pirates to Xiao Yuan, and also gave him an official position to inspect Jiupin.

Everyone in the Pingguo Mansion was exiled, but there are really almost no people in charge of a place like Nanyi, it can be said that the emperor is far away, and Xiao Yuan is a person who will come to things, during this time, not only the county seat, but also the government and the city have also opened up the relationship, and the civil and military officials have been contacted, and it is really not a matter to get a military attache of the ninth grade.

Even if the court knew about it, it would be nothing.

A nine-rank official in a foreign land, no one in the court cares.

Besides, there are still three points of iron for the broken ship, even if the Xiao family is exiled, but there are still some connections in the court, everyone always has a face, who has nothing to do to poke this matter.

As a result, Xiao Yuan's inspection of the nine products took office.

In the court, these nine-grade officials are really nothing, and the low-end ones are almost not high-grade.

But for people in the countryside, Jiupin Guan is really a very tall existence.

As soon as they entered the room, the people of Jingtian Village looked at the Xiao family's three rooms differently.

Xiao Yuan took office as an inspector, recruited a lot of people out of his own pocket, and then began to teach martial arts, and began to take people to inspect or something, anyway, since he took office, there are many fewer traitors in this county.

Xun County Ling is naturally happy, he didn't have a penny, he had a team of soldiers to protect him, and Xiao Yuan was also very shrewd, often giving him ideas, let him fight for face in Shangguan, this is equivalent to having a think tank, how could he not be happy.

Then, when it was almost the New Year, Xun County Ling was transferred because of the achievements in governing the place, and left from the remote place of Laixian County, and went to a rich place.

The new county magistrate is a person surnamed Liu who An Ning and Xiao Yuan had rescued on the way to Nanyi.