Dong Rong looked down on their stinginess in her heart, but the necessary etiquette had to be observed. She took the stupid pillar forward to give Niu's a simple salute, Niu's Xu was afraid that she would cry and complain that she had no dowry, so she took the opportunity to ask for money, but with a polite sentence of three or five words, she excused them to hurry out every night.

Dong Rong glanced at the big sun hanging overhead, and did not refute, only asked where Dong Ping was and walked out of the courtyard.

Not to mention how the three of Niu's mother and son put down their high-hanging cautious eyes, blaming each other for forgetting to go back to the door, only saying that Dong Ping was wielding a sickle to cut pigweed at the foot of Dongshan, and he saw his sister and brother-in-law looking for him from a distance, and he was very happy to greet him.

Dong Rong saw that he was so hot that his hair was soaked, so she felt sorry for him and pulled him to sit under the shade of a tree. Dong Ping didn't want his sister to worry about it, so he smiled and said, "Sister, if you don't come today, I plan to go to a slope tomorrow." ”

"What, but there's something to say?" Dong Rong raised her hand to wipe the sweat beads on her brother's forehead while responding casually, but she was thinking about how to open her mouth and move her brother to help her serve Niu's "old nest" together.

Dong Ping didn't see his sister's absent-mindedness, and after thinking about it for a while, he said, "I'm going back to the academy the day after tomorrow, thinking about saying hello to my sister and saving my sister from worrying about me." ”

Dong Rong was puzzled, "The bundle of the academy costs twenty taels of silver every year, how can the Niu family be willing to give it?" ”

Dong Ping knew that he couldn't hide this matter in the end, so he told the truth, "Well, a classmate from the academy invited me to study with him, and help do some small things about studying ink and drying books on weekdays. As for the bundles, my classmates will help me get them together. ”

The more Dong Rong listened, the tighter her brows wrinkled, where is this to study and learn together, obviously let Dong Ping be a scholar. It stands to reason that Dong Ping is now a child, although he failed the county exam last time, but with his hard work and intelligence, he will definitely succeed next time. And this classmate asked him to be a scholar, no matter what he thought, he deliberately humiliated him.

"No, I don't agree."

Dong Ping was a little surprised that his sister, who had always had a soft temper, would oppose it in such a tough tone, but he still explained in a low voice, "Sister, don't worry, I... I'm fine. ”

"That's not going to work, don't worry, in two months, my sister will definitely send you to study in the academy with silver."

"Sister, the bundle is so expensive, where do you have it..."Dong Rong really couldn't guess what her sister could do, but she didn't want to question her sister's words, so she was very embarrassed for a while.

Dong Rong looked at the stupid pillar lying not far away and fighting ants with branches, as if she didn't pay attention to their sister and brother's conversation, so she said the plan that she had been thinking about for most of the night.

Dong Ping's face changed in shock, and he didn't close his mouth for a long time with his mouth wide open. He is a student who has read the books of sages, how can he steal the money of his elders? If the incident spreads, what face will he have to meet people. He had the heart to refuse to help, but remembering that his sister married to the Cao family empty-handed, he might have suffered a lot of grievances, if he made money from this ice sale, even if he only added a few new clothes to his sister.

Dong Rong saw his struggle and contradictions, and hurriedly persuaded, "Brother Ping, don't worry, we don't take it and don't pay it back, as long as we earn the silver, bury it back immediately, and no one will find out if we don't know it." ”

Dong Ping thought about it carefully, the place where the Niu family usually hid their private silver was in the northeast corner of their vegetable garden, if it weren't for the fact that he and his sister were so hungry a few years ago that they got up in the middle of the night to break cucumbers to fill their stomachs, I'm afraid they wouldn't have known that she had secretly hidden so much silver. If they "borrowed" ten and a half moons this time, as long as they were careful, maybe they wouldn't be discovered, right?

"Sister, when are we going to steal... No, to borrow silver? ”

Dong Rong heard her brother's tone, and she was very happy in her heart, and said in a low voice, "Without further ado, I'll borrow it tonight." If the experiment is successful, it is best to start selling it at the time of the eighth temple fair, and the storage business will be prosperous at that time. ”

Dong Ping also wanted to ask a few details, and he didn't want anyone to take the lead, "Where are you going to play, take me one!" ”

Dong Rong's sister and brother thought that Fang Cai's words had been heard by outsiders, and their faces turned pale with fright, and their heartbeats almost stopped. As a result, when I looked back, it was Silly Zhu'er who squatted behind the two of them at some point, smiling with a smile on his face.

Dong Rong patted her chest fiercely and said angrily, "When did you run over?" We're just going to get down to business, we can't take you. ”

Silly Zhu'er had a bitter face aggrieved, and muttered in a low voice, "If you don't bring it, you won't bring it, I'll go and sue Aunt Sù that you want to steal something..."

Dong Rong hurriedly covered his mouth, weighed it again and again, and finally had to agree, and told him not to reveal it to others, and the stupid Zhu'er naturally patted his chest and promised not to tell anyone.

Things were arranged, Dong Rong left Dong Ping to continue mowing the grass, and then took the stupid pillar back to Aunt Cao's house, and it happened that everyone had just woken up from a nap, so they gossiped and laughed and broke toons as usual.

Soon, the sun had finished, night covered the land, birds chirped back into the woods, smoke rose from the chimneys of every house, and the village was quiet.

Dong Rong had dinner and under the pretext of being sleepy, she pulled the stupid pillar into the room arranged by Aunt Cao early, and Aunt Cao secretly rejoiced that her nephew and daughter-in-law were so "loving", who knew that in the middle of the night, her nephew and daughter-in-law took her nephew to be a thief.

Dong Ping found a small pickaxe early and hid it outside his vegetable garden, and saw two shadows under the moonlight from a distance, so he quickly trembled his lips and learned two cuckoo calls.

Dong Rong replied twice, the sister and brother successfully converged, and after carefully instructing Silly Zhu'er how to look at the wind, he jumped into his vegetable garden by the very light moonlight.