Wei Niangzi moved uneasily when she heard the movement of her crying father calling her mother outside, and Ting Fang threw her a reassuring look and said, "What is the matter with the lady?" ”

Wei Niangzi's face blushed before she could say anything, and she waited for a long time before waiting for Tingfang, and she couldn't open her mouth when she saw someone. But anyone who wants to be embarrassed will ask for things when they meet again.

Ting Fang waited quietly, looking at Wei Niangzi's appearance, she knew that she had something to ask for, but she was embarrassed, so don't ask more. I don't know how long it took for Wei Niangzi to whisper: "Girl...... I can't buy charcoal ......."

Ting Fang was stunned, it's not that there is no money, it's no charcoal? At this time, I don't know what to do at home, the ghost in the yard is crying wolf, her girl has gone to the upper room and has not come back, and Mother Hu must not be idle. As for the money, Fang Cai Tingshan gave her a purse, and I don't know how much it contains. But charcoal can only be obtained by being a family member. Hurriedly asked, "Are you in a hurry?" There is no hurry, they are afraid to wait, they are not idle. ”

Wei Niangzi looked outside in a panic and said, "Don't be in a hurry." ”

I'm about to stomp my feet in a hurry! Tingfang asked again: "Why is there no charcoal at the bottom?" Don't you have to sell it in Kyoto? ”

Wei Niangzi sighed: "It's very cold this year, and the charcoal stored at home has been exhausted, so I can't buy it, so I have to burn firewood." Now we can't even burn firewood, our head of the house can't freeze, I'm afraid that he will be sick, so I have the cheekiness to beg the girl. ”

Ting Fang was relieved to hear that Uncle Cheap was not sick: "I don't know where to buy charcoal." You wait. As he spoke, he pushed the cake on the table in front of Wei Niangzi, and lifted the curtain to go out to find Ting Yao.

I didn't know that Ting Yao was not there, and was called over by the old lady. I had to find Tan's mother: "Mom, do you know where to sell charcoal?" ”

Tan's mother said: "Charcoal? It's so cold this year, I'm afraid it's not easy to buy. The silver frost charcoal was out of stock a year ago, and our family made it from someone else. Short charcoal in the girl's house? ”

Ting Fang shook her head: "The lady of the Wei family came to beg for it, saying that she couldn't buy it, I want to ask you where you always know where to sell it?" ”

Mother Tan breathed a sigh of relief, and she was afraid that it would be a non-long-eyed person who would be deducted from Ting Fang's head. smiled: "I'm not afraid of the girl's annoyance, his family can't make that good charcoal, and there is still charcoal in the kitchen, so I'll ask for two baskets." Only the family also has a number, but the girl still sent some money and asked a boy to accompany her to buy it outside. As he spoke, he asked, "Do you have any loose money on hand?" ”

"And."

Tan's mother thought for a while: "I'm afraid that your monthly money is not enough, I'm looking for my wife." ”

Ting Fang is not sure how much it costs to buy charcoal, the weather is cold, and there must be unscrupulous merchants who raise prices. She is a person who does not leave any money to spare, and Ting Shan is a purse that she threw over temporarily, and eighty percent is really not enough. Busy said: "How can I work my mother, I'll go to my mother." Saying that, he didn't wait for Tan's mother to be polite, and jumped up and went to the upper room.

When Hu's mother saw Tingfang coming in, she asked, "If you don't talk to others, what are you doing here?" Could it be that Wei Qiang's family left if he didn't become a family? ”

Ting Fang said: "Oh, she said she couldn't buy charcoal, how do I know what firewood and charcoal is, so I'm going to ask my mother." ”

Chen said: "It's useless for you to ask me, ask your Uncle Hu to bring someone to buy it." ”

"How much silver?"

Chen smiled: "Then I don't know, I'm not at home." Do you know Mama Hu? ”

Hu's mother said: "Take a few taels of silver out to take a look, the spring cold is steep, and the charcoal and rice are all at a price a day, and the people in charge don't know, let alone us." Girl, don't care, you can't care. I asked someone to buy it, rented a car, and brought it back with charcoal, and the provincial Wei Qiang's family hurried away in the cold weather. ”

Chen had the heart to make a face for Ting Fang, and asked, "I heard that Wei Qiang's family also has a brother who also reads?" ”

"Seems to be the case."

Chen said: "It's rare for him to be motivated, and there are always people who send books to your sister's birthday, and you can be more evenly with him." Books are harder to buy than charcoal. ”

Ting Fang really didn't expect this, the problems of modern people, textbooks and everything. reminded her that books are precious, she knows, and she can forget about the lack of materials when she turns her face. In the final analysis, there has never been a lack of things in two lifetimes, and the cognition is not enough. Suddenly, there was some confusion: "I only remember eating and dressing." ”

Mother Hu smiled and teased: "How do you know what's going on outside, go talk to her, we're busy." ”

Ting Fang gossiped with a face: "What's the matter?" "Chen didn't have any sadness at all, no matter how sad the shouting outside, eighty percent had nothing to do with them, and they could inquire openly.

"The family is changing slaves, don't mess up." Chen said, "Send her away, you come to my house, I have something to tell you." ”

Ting Fang answered and ran quickly. When he returned to his house, he said to Mrs. Wei with a smile: "It's done, when you go out with Uncle Hu later, he will take you to buy charcoal, and let someone send you home when he turns around." ”

Wei Niangzi Chong Tingfang was blessed: "Miss Xie." ”

Ting Fang avoided it, and went to his study to turn over the Four Books and Five Classics. The quality of her cousin's teaching is not as good as hers, although she is several years older than her, and she learns about the same. I found a set of average quality but good annotation content and put it on the table, and said: "My mother said that the book is afraid that it will be more difficult to buy than charcoal, so she asked me to find a set of books and Wen Hao." This set looks fine, so you can take it back. Bring a few more knives of paper and inkstone pen and ink back. Be sure to urge him to work hard. Reading is a head cantilever and a cone thorn thorn, don't feel distressed. ”

Wei Niangzi hurriedly said: "I can't help it, the girl's things are all good, and they are all ruined for us." Books are really hard to buy, and I don't dare to be polite. We buy pen and paper ourselves. ”

"There may not be anything next to my house, but there is enough pen, ink, paper and inkstone. You don't have to be embarrassed, it's all ordinary. I. The daily practice of calligraphy is not good at home, and the provincial writing is used to changing the pen slightly. My brother and brother all bought it directly in the shop, which was slightly better than what you bought, but it was much better. "The imperial examinations are all uniformly issued to avoid cheating. The Ye family is based on the imperial examination, and their sisters occasionally use some good paper, and their brothers all use examination paper, which is not well adapted to the province. Therefore, the paper in their house is indeed ordinary. And reading and literacy, pen, ink, paper, inkstone is the biggest consumable, books can also be borrowed cheekily, who will borrow consumables for you? The imperial examination is difficult, and I don't expect my cheap cousin Wei Wenhao to become famous in one fell swoop, learn some culture, and it is much better to work in the shop than to be a tenant farmer. There are very few literate people in these years, as long as they have learned it systematically, it is almost equivalent to 211 in later generations, and it is not difficult to be a small white-collar worker.

The Wei family relies on Tingfang, and normally speaking, not to mention getting rich, at least they are a decent family. Tingfang's monthly money of thirty taels was thrown into their family all year round, and when she hired Aunt Wei at that time, she also bought a few acres of land with his family. It's just that Wei Qiang's health is too poor to grow it himself, so he gives it to others. Don't worry about eating, Wei Qiang is also skillful, and from time to time he does some carpentry work to make money. Wei Niangzi is even more diligent and often weaves cloth to sell. For the sake of fighting the autumn breeze at home, half of it is because Wei Qiang takes medicine all year round, and the other half is because Wei Wenhao is studying. The Wei family was ruthless and wanted not to drag down Tingfang, but the expenses were too great, so they had to come to the door again and again. When Wei Niangzi saw that Tingfang not only didn't look down on them, but also thought about them so thoughtfully, her eyes were already red.

"Oh, don't cry!" Ting Fang hurriedly said, "It's not too late to cry when my brother is out." ”

Wei Niangzi wiped her tears and choked up: "We met the girl after great luck, not to mention the side, so we had to ask the Bodhisattva to bless the girl at home." ”

What is it to fund a young man who has dropped out of school, is she a tyrant in her life? It's a bit inconvenient to often get no cash, but it's just a hooligan to deal with, and there is always a lot of daily use. Why be so stingy. Although he can't shout, in the end he is his cousin, so he naturally hopes that he will be promising. In the patriarchal society of the cheating father, there is a cousin of Niu X, and there will be one more person who will smash bricks in the future, so why not? Besides, I always have to repay Aunt Wei for her fertility, right? She even lost her life in order to give birth, and nothing is more precious than life.

Not long after, Narcissus and Lily came back, and helped Tingfang pack a table of school supplies with a very complicated expression. Ting Fangle threw away her hand and only accompanied Wei Niangzi to gossip: "Brother is going to say kiss, right?" ”

said to a Lori that marriage gossip was a little weird, but fortunately, Wei Niangzi was used to Tingfang's sensibility, so she only said: "There is nothing, it's hard to say." He wanted to take the test and mention it again. ”

Tong Sheng, the first level of the imperial examination. In the age of fifty young jinshi, it is equivalent to being admitted to a key high school and stamping a "high-performance stock" on himself. Considering the university acceptance rate (Xiucai), high school students are already very valuable among the common people, and they can be directly arranged for employment. It is indeed a good invisible dowry. Ting Fang thought about it for a while, and then said: "Then you want him to run more errands, pack up his daily homework books, and send them to the concierge every once in a while, and ask the concierge to send them directly to Mr. Kang." Mr. Kang of our family is a two-list jinshi, even if he gives two words, he will benefit immensely. ”

Wei Niangzi's eyes widened: "Girl! ”

Ting Fang said: "I knew he was literate, but I didn't know that he wanted to go to school. Since he wants to, we have to push behind if we have the ability. There is a difference between men and women, I am a sister, and I can't give it to each other privately. The homework book doesn't need to pass through my hands, I will talk to the porter, and then kowtow to Mr. Kang a few times, almost away. "Mr. Kang is a talent-loving person, think about his own IQ, and then look at her father's IQ, if it weren't for the intergenerational inheritance of grandparents, it is estimated that the Wei family would not be bad. The baby who grew up under the red flag, studying hard every day is absolutely correct, seeing self-motivated children, few rich and idle masters can hold back the itchy hands and not help.

Wei Niangzi finally cried: "Girl, I really don't know how to thank you." ”

Ting Fang opened the two girls and whispered in Wei Niangzi's ear: "That's my cousin, what do you thank me?" ”

Wei Niangzi bit her lip and didn't speak.

Ting Fang smiled and took a stack of paper from Lily's hand when she came back: "I drew some wooden toys, Uncle Wei is good at craftsmanship, make it for me, I coax my brother to play." He's still young, don't be in a hurry, just don't forget. ”

Wei Niangzi nodded busily: "Can't forget." ”

"It's cold, I won't keep you." Ting Fang took out her purse from her sleeve, poured out the broken silver in it and put it in Wei Niangzi's hand, "Lady take it and drink a bowl of tea." ”

Wei Niangzi pushed the silver back: "Last year, he was ruthless for a year, and Wen Hao made some money copying books for others." There is still silver at home, but I can't buy charcoal before I ask for the girl's door. Relying on his age to say a few words, the girl does not save the poor, he is such a body, I dare not say that I will not rely on the girl in the future, but I dare not rely on the girl to hide when I go back. When I'm really anxious, I'll come and ask the girl again. ”

Ting Fang said happily: "Okay! I look forward to your family's prosperity, and when you come back, just send me silver. ”

Wei Niangzi couldn't help but smile: "Girl Jiyan, there will be that day." ”

"I'll wait!"