The four acres of dry land at home were finally fertilized by the Tang Tiezhu brothers, and after resting at home for a few days, Li Zheng told the villagers door to door: "The new Zhou master in the village is going to open a school, and if you want to read and write, let her father and mother go to Zhou Fuzi to sign up, and each person will receive 500 wen a year."

After this news came out, some people were happy and some were worried, people with a little extra money in their hands wanted to let the baby know Braille, and those who had no money also wanted to, but people couldn't eat enough and couldn't dress warmly, where was there money to make the baby literate, so they could only sigh at home because they had more than enough money to do so.

There are three days, Zhou Fuzi is going to open a class to teach, has not bought pen, ink, paper and inkstone for wood and stone, this day while the head of the house is idle, he said to him: "I should buy pens and paper for the babies, I calculated, in addition to the two sons of the money, there are still two taels of silver left in the family, this money does not know if it is enough to buy pen and paper?" I really hope that there is still some money left over to buy some winter cotton clothes for the babies. "They don't care about the cold, for fear of freezing the babies.

"Don't think about it so much, it's important for the sons to study, tomorrow happens to be the market in the town, let's go to the town early, go to a few more shops and ask the price," now Tang Tiezhu has no choice, he can only comfort his mother-in-law like this, and take one step at a time.

Tang Qing'er heard her father's conversation, her face couldn't help but darken, and she thought: If she grows up quickly, she can help her father and mother earn money, thinking that tomorrow they will go to the town, she has not been there when she is so old, when she was not separated before, her father and mother went to the town or the field, she was at home to help cook or take her younger siblings, and there was no chance to go to the town at all, and see what kind of situation it was.

If she also goes to the town with her, she may be able to find some ways to make money, and she said to her father: "Dad, I also want to go to the town with you, I haven't been there yet, my mother will take me there!" ”

Li disagreed, this time I didn't go to the town to play, if Qing'er looked at something, the family didn't have spare money to buy it for her, Tang Qing'er looked at her father pitifully, Tang Tiezhu has always felt sorry for his daughter, he didn't think it was a big deal, he was saying that his daughter has always been obedient, and echoed: "Go, take my daughter, your mother won't take you, your father will take you," Li helplessly watched the two father and daughter sing and reconcile and decided to go to the town.

The next day, the sky was still slightly bright, Tang Tiezhu and Li took Tang Qing'er to the town, and halfway through, they saw Tang Da Niu coming over with an ox cart, Tang Qing'er couldn't help but be excited, this is good, you don't have to walk to the town, with her eight-year-old calf, walking for such a long time is already a little unbearable, and she wants to retreat and go home to stay.

Tang Daniu was still very enthusiastic as last time: "It's a coincidence, you are also going to the market, and I will give you a ride when you come up,"

Tang Tiezhu and his wife saw that there were many people from the same village on the ox cart, including Tang Da Niu's mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, and Tang Tiezhu's aunt, Tang Tiezhu hugged Qing'er on the ox cart first, and then sat down with his mother-in-law on one side of the ox cart, the car was slightly crowded, there was no way for Li to hold Tang Qing'er in his arms, and everyone moved the place again, so they felt more relaxed.

Tang Tiezhu's aunt Qi touched Tang Qing'er's head and said: "Your father is finally not confused, he divided the family, if you don't divide the family, you will both complain and suffer, now your brothers have their own lives, you are a capable person, and you will have a prosperous life in the future, if you encounter any difficulties, you will find your uncle," Although Qi did not look at Tang Tiezhu, everyone knew that Lu Dao said this to Tang Tiezhu.

Tang Tiezhu was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "What the eldest aunt said is true! "It's not squeaking.

Half an hour later, Tang Qing'er and the others finally arrived in the town, Tang Tiezhu got out of the car and thanked Tang Daniu's family, Tang Daniu smiled and said: "We will gather at the entrance of the town when Shenshi, if you don't leave at that time, go back to the village with us," Tang Tiezhu hurriedly smiled and agreed.

Li's and Tang Tiezhu took Tang Qing'er to order three bowls of somen noodles in the small shop selling noodles at the gate of the town, and a big bowl was only two pennies, Tang Qing'er couldn't finish eating and gave her father more than half, and after eating the noodles, the people who sold noodles inquired about which street the shop selling pen and paper was, and after knowing the location of Lu Dao, the three of them went directly to the Rumo Zhai in the town.

Tang Tiezhu and his wife went to the door of Rumo Zhai, seeing that such a big store hesitated to go in, Tang Qinger didn't care about this, directly played the front, and went in first, the two people in the back could only follow the girl to go in, the shopkeeper saw that the three of them were wearing patched linen clothes, and they were not rich people at first glance, and said in a bad tone: "Guest officer, you are wrong, this is a place to sell pen, ink, paper and inkstone to literati, not a pawn shop or a place to sell cloth, when things, go forward and turn to the third one, buy cloth in the shop next door," After speaking, he didn't pay attention to them, Take a feather duster and shake off the dust off the book.

Tang Tiezhu and Li's faces were not good, and Tang Qing'er said angrily: "Who said that we are not here to buy pen, ink, paper and inkstone, we are not blind, we can go to the wrong place, unlike some people who look down on people with dogs, and I don't know what the store thinks, please ask a dog to come to the store." ”

The shopkeeper was choked and his face was flushed, and he said angrily: "Who do you say is a dog?"

"Whoever answers is a dog," Tang Qing'er's mouth couldn't say a word of Zhang's choking, let alone the pretentious shopkeeper in front of him.

"You...... You ......"

"What am I, I'm here to buy something, don't you sell it?"

"Okay, so what are you going to buy?" The shopkeeper squinted at them with a look that you can't afford.

"You don't care what we buy! Call your shopkeeper out, we don't need you to entertain," Tang Qing'er sat on the stool in the bookstore, playing with the taste, the shopkeeper didn't go, and the two sides were so stiff.

The golden shopkeeper heard the noise outside in the room, lifted the curtain and came out, and saw that the shopkeeper was staring at a seven or eight-year-old girl, and said to the shopkeeper unhappily: "What are you doing here, you are all guest officers here, just like you, where are there any guest officers who are willing to come to my store to buy things,"

When the shopkeeper heard him say this, although he was not convinced, he still promised to apologize to the shopkeeper and said: "I was wrong with the shopkeeper, I won't dare to do it in the future," and whispered to the shopkeeper: "I see that they are dressed like this, not like people who can buy pen and ink,"

thought that what he said was heard by him and the shopkeeper, but unfortunately Tang Qing'er heard it, and said indifferently: "Don't think that the town sells pen, ink, paper, and inkstone at your house, we are here for the name of Ru Mo Zhai, heh, who would have thought that there is such a dog-eyed Xiao Er in such a store." ”

After the golden shopkeeper came over and said a word, he didn't squeak anymore, he has been listening to the conversation between Xiao Er and the little girl, seeing that the little girl's father and mother did not speak, but she spoke clearly, every sentence was reasonable, I couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and saw that it was Xiao Er who made the mistake, and scolded: "Shut up, Hugh has to say it again," stood up and apologized to Tang Tiezhu and said: "Guest officer, my little second is really rude, I will compensate you, my surname is Jin, I am the shopkeeper of this house, I have just been here for a few days, so you are frightened, and I will definitely discipline him well in the future." ，”

Tang Qing'er smiled like a fox, pursed her lips and said, "Uncle, you really should discipline and discipline your family's junior second, if you don't teach it again, the guests in the future will almost let him run away,"

Li Shi saw that his daughter was talking more and more vigorously, and gently dragged her, signaling not to squeak, Tang Qing'er didn't speak, but her small mouth was still bulging.

Tang Tiezhu didn't want to speak, but he was a rural villager who would only use brute force and wouldn't say anything big, and when he saw that his daughter was talking about the Tao, he didn't speak even more, and waited for the shopkeeper of the house to apologize to him, so he opened his mouth and said: "The shopkeeper is polite, the little baby is not sensible, I hope the shopkeeper doesn't mind,"

The golden shopkeeper smiled and said, "Where! Where! I think you're a good girl, articulate and smart. ”