Qiu Chen was stunned, and then a bright smile bloomed on his face.

Not to mention that Ah Fu is still young, it is the environment in which Ah Fu is and grows, surrounded by villagers and villagers, everyone is working hard for food and clothing, I have never seen or even heard of the 'study tour', so I naturally don't know what a study tour is. However, being able to think of 'reading 10,000 books is better than traveling 10,000 miles' according to what she said, it shows that her son has really gained from reading and his brain is smart enough, Qiu Chen is naturally full of joy and can't help himself.

"My son said it really well, study tour is 'reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles', walking around, learning things that are not in books. Well, for example, if we go out by car, Fu'er will be able to know what the carriage is like, how long does it take to get from our house to Anping, and how long does it take to get from our house to Anyang City...... When I walked to the beach, I also saw the life of fishermen, saw the fish and shrimp that had just been caught from the sea, and touched the fishing nets and soft octopus with my own hands...... Isn't it ...... that you can't see in books?"

Qiu Chen patiently explained to Ah Fu 'read 10,000 books, travel 10,000 miles', and then talked about study tours: "Study tours are 'reading 10,000 books and traveling 10,000 miles', but it is not exactly. Study tour is to read some books, master some book knowledge, and then go out of the road, see and listen to it with your own eyes, understand what you have learned in writing during your travels, supplement what you can't learn from books, and summarize it...... Let what you learn from books be combined with what you have seen and heard to become your real thing......"

She has no experience with children, and tries to explain clearly and simply, but always finds that her language organization is a little confusing......

However, Ah Fu is obviously smarter than she imagined, and he has been in school for a year and a half, which has also made his comprehension and acceptance very good, and it can be seen from his two black and bright eyes that he has understood Qiu Chen's words, or most of them, and is thinking about understanding and accepting.

The mother and son were communicating, Lin Xu ran in from outside, and without having time to let people report, he rushed directly into Qiu Chen's room, and asked with an anxious face: "Sister-in-law, Man'er was taken away by Mu Bo?" ”

Qiu Chen raised his eyes, looked at Lin Xu, who was sweating in a hurry, and nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Oh, sister-in-law, why are you ......" Lin Xu didn't finish complaining, paused, and then said, "Why did Mu Bo take Man'er away?" Man'er is just four years old, so ...... so young."

Qiu Chen lowered his head, patted Ah Fu's head, and bowed to Lin Xu, signaling Ah Fu.

Ah Fu looked at his mother with his eyes open, nodded with bright eyes, turned around and ran over, holding one of Lin Xu's hands, and dragging Lin Xu to sit on the chair: "Second uncle, don't worry, you sit down...... My sister is out of the city to go on a study tour, 'read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles', my sister will definitely learn a lot of things! ”

Lin Xu looked at Ah Fu stunned, and couldn't help but ease the anxiety and worry in his heart, raised his hand and touched Ah Fu's bun, sighed slightly and said: "Second Uncle knows that Dao Man'er will learn a lot of things this time, but he is just worried...... Well, it's just that I feel sorry that Man'er is too young and can't take care of him without his family. ”

Qiu Chen had already unconsciously regarded Afu Aman as his own children, and her three-year-old daughter was taken away by the unobtrusive Old Man Mu, how could she not worry about it, but since she had been taken away, she would not be needless distressed and irritable at this time, let alone crying.

At this time, seeing that Lin Xu was no longer as impatient and anxious as when he rushed in, Qiu Chen said calmly: "Second brother, don't worry too much, Chengzi chased after him, that child is a careful and thoughtful person, with him to take care of Man'er, there must be no mistakes." ”

Lin Xu looked at Qiu Chen, and a trace of remorse flashed on his face: "Alas, it would be nice if my younger brother didn't go to his classmate's house today......"

Since Chengzi can keep up, he can naturally keep up, and with him to follow, he can also take better care of Aman...... Speaking of which, when the family was poor, the sister-in-law took care of the housework every day, and had to work hard for a while to make a needlework in exchange for money, and he couldn't take care of the two children at all, but he, after returning from the school, would always take care of the children, so that the sister-in-law would work less. In this way, it is not an exaggeration to say that Afu Aman raised it with his own hands, and his intimacy with his two children is naturally not comparable to ordinary uncles and nephews. He really loves his two children from the bottom of his heart.

Looking at Lin Xu's self-blame and guilt, Qiu Chen also knew that he had a deep relationship with the two children, so he could only be relieved: "Second brother doesn't have to blame himself. If a character like Mu Bo didn't really think about Aman, he wouldn't have taken Aman to the mountains to find medicine in person. Although our family is now well-off, one day, Aman Afu will grow up, face many things independently, and be able to be carefully taught by Mu Bo, and I don't expect her to achieve anything, but at least we don't have to worry about her self-preservation. ”

As he spoke, he poured a cup of tea and handed it to Lin Xu: "Since this is already the case, the second brother should think about it more!" ”

Lin Xu leaned over to take the tea, lowered his eyes and nodded, for a moment, raised his eyes to look at Qiu Chen, and said solemnly: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, my younger brother will study hard, and he must be famous in the exam...... I will take care of Ah Fu and Ah Man. ”

Qiu Chen's face was full of relief, hugged Ah Fu, nodded and said, "Sister-in-law believes in you." ”

It seemed that Qiu Chen was calm and calm, but the careful Lin family still felt the sadness of their wife.

Originally, the plan to go to Anyang Mansion to see the lanterns during the Lantern Festival was canceled, and Qiu Chen went to Dongkuan Courtyard early in the morning every day - the new soap liquid for bathing and shampooing has been put into trial production, and Qiu Chen personally went to the soap-making workshop every day, first teaching Yang Shumeng the formula process, and then staring at the operation of the entire process in several workshops. Although Qiu Chen was always kind, but with her staring, the workers in the workshop were still more nervous than usual, and they were extra careful in every place, somewhat trembling.

Qiu Chen leaned in the workshop, and Yang Shumeng also worked hard to familiarize himself with the production process and process of new products. Jialiang is the only one left in the glass-burning kiln, Jialiang is also a tolerant person, every day after breakfast rushed into the kiln, delving into the glass decolorization and shaping process, now all the windows of the Lin family's Liu Jiaao's house have been installed with glass in the center, and even the houses where people live in the backyard have not fallen. The school is being renovated in the past few days, and strives to complete the installation before the Lantern Festival.

Qin Li and Qin Yong felt a little guilty about Man'er being taken away, although they didn't say it, they kept it in their hearts. Originally, I only had to take the children to exercise in the morning and evening, and I would catch fish in the pond in front of the door during the day, or play chess and poker in the room, but now I don't have this leisure, and I ride a horse up the mountain after breakfast every day, and as a result, there are endless game on the Lin family's table every day, and there are four musk deer and three sika deer in the musk pen in the backyard, and there are more than a dozen pheasants with cut wings in the chicken nest, and there is one more rabbit nest, and more than ten uninjured hares. Even Lan Ying's pigsty has six more little wild boars chirping. At the same time as the game increased greatly, Qiu Chen's warehouse also had dozens of various furs. To Qiu Chen's surprise, Zeng Da Niu actually had a very good craft of cooked skin, and after his cooked skin, the color of the fur was bright and smooth, fluffy and soft, and there was no peculiar smell, which was much better than most of the furs she saw in the fur shop.

At the same time, since Lin Xu solemnly promised that day, he never went out, and studied hard in the room all day long, at most, to ask Pan Jiaqing and Mr. Yuan some questions that he didn't understand. After a few days, the person lost a lot of weight, Qiu Chen noticed it in his hurry, and did not stop Lin Xu from studying hard, but hurriedly told Chen to increase Lin Xu's nutrition sooner or later.

The Lantern Festival is here in the blink of an eye.

The two brothers, Junwen and Junshu, rushed back to Liujiaao on the day of the Lantern Festival.

The family has been separated for more than ten days, and they should have been infinitely happy when they met, but because of Man'er's affairs, they were a little melancholy, and their emotions obviously couldn't be raised.

"Okay, don't be here either, hurry up and go back to wash and change your clothes, today's Lantern Festival, let's not go to Anyang City, and hang up the lanterns to enjoy the festival by ourselves!" Qiu Chen didn't want the family's mood to continue to be sluggish, so he waved his hand and smiled and drove Junwen Junshu, who had been in the dust all the way, back to the room.

Turning around, Qiu Chen beckoned Junyan Junzhang and Junwen Afu to a few small ones: "Appreciate the lantern and guess the riddle, you also think about it, what are the good riddles, write them down, prepare a gift, whoever guesses it, the gift will be a reward!" ”

The children have guessed the riddles, but it is the first time for them to let these small puzzles for others to guess, and a few small ones have become interested and discussed with interest.

Jun Yan is the least interested in these words, and he is also very interested in puzzles, but he is not usually serious in reading, and he knows a few riddles that have either been guessed by the big guys, or he listened to his grandmother and mother when he was a child, and those riddles are very simple, and there is no difficulty at all. What else is the meaning of a riddle that can be guessed with a single guess?

Junzhang and Ah Fu ran to write the puzzles they thought of with confidence, Junli was young and didn't know how to love face, so he followed Junzhang to watch his brother write puzzles. Only Junyan was left scratching his ears and cheeks, and he was so red that he was in a hurry.

Qiu Chen looked at the performance of several children, and then looked at Junyan's embarrassed appearance, he couldn't help but laugh, walked over and patted Junyan's head, and asked in a low voice, "What, Junyan doesn't have a puzzle?" ”

"Who said no!" Junyan couldn't think of it, but the duck that was still cooked had a hard mouth, and subconsciously tilted his head and said, seeing clearly that the person asking was his aunt, he was inevitably a little weak-hearted, and very embarrassed, he hung his head and hummed quietly, "What, I know the way like the eldest brother, the second brother and the fourth brother, they also know the way......"

Qiu Chen raised his eyebrows, suppressed the amusement in his heart, and continued to whisper: "You can go to someone to discuss, you don't know the way, others may know a lot of things...... For example, Brother Huan of Mr. Yuan's house, I went to Mr. Yuan's house two days ago, and it seems that I saw Brother Huan reading a copy of "Shooting Cover", there must be several puzzles on it! ”

Brother Huan is the son of Mr. Yuan, who is over nine years old, one year younger than Junyan Junzhang, although he is relatively quiet on weekdays and loves to read, but after all, he is the same age as Junyan Junzhang, and they are studying together, Junyan is not scared at all when he goes to find Brother Huan.

Junyan's eyes lit up, nodded, and rushed out of the Lu to find Brother Huan'er of the Yuan family. But this kid doesn't care if Brother Huan reads "Shooting Cover" or not, what he thinks is that Brother Huan'er's father is Mr. Yuan, Mr. Yuan can be a gentleman, but he can still be stumped by a puzzle? Jun Yan doesn't like to read, but he is a little cautious, he is a disciple of Mr. Yuan, the disciple will not, of course he has to ask Mr. if he encounters a problem? Hehe, with Mr. Yuan out of the horse, he will definitely be able to come out on top tonight...... Oh, by the way, just now my aunt only said that they would make a puzzle to prepare a reward, but she didn't say that there was a reward after winning the most luke? What a reward! However, there is no hurry in this matter, and when he asks a good riddle from Mr. Yuan, he will go back and ask his aunt.

According to my aunt's generosity, the prize won by tonight's guess must be worth looking forward to! Hey...... Thinking about it, Jun Yan couldn't help but smile proudly, as if he had won the guessing riddle, held his aunt's prize in his arms, and accepted the envy of the eldest brother, the second brother and the fourth brother!

But after two quarters of an hour, Junyan returned. However, this kid came back differently from when he ran to ask for advice just now, and he actually took a small square step, and his expression and posture were really ...... On high ropes! Moreover, he was followed by a boy with a delicate appearance and wearing an indigo muslin cotton robe, and it was Mr. Yuan's son Yuan Zhenhuan who was also walking unhurriedly.

"Auntie, let's guess the lantern riddle at night, if the winner is in addition to the gadgets we prepared, is there a prize?" Junyan felt confident at this time, so he naturally wanted to ask about the prize.

Qiu Chen raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at the arrogant little guy with a smile, and thought for a while: "Prize...... Naturally, there is, and there is no limit to my aunt, whoever wins can choose the prize by herself! ”

Listening to Qiu Chen's deliberate pause, Junyan looked nervous, afraid that his aunt would suddenly say that there was no prize. He had already boasted about Haikou with Yuan Zhenhuan just now. As soon as Qiu Chen finished speaking, not only would there be prizes, but they could also choose their own...... Junyan's eyes and mouth were wide open, and after a while, he jumped up and cheered.

Junzhang and Ah Fu Junli also heard Qiu Chen's words, and naturally they were also extremely happy, and cheered.

Chen got the order, stared at the big kitchen and made a large table full of dishes, Qiu Chen and Lin Xu took the Junwen Junli brothers to dinner, Yuan Zhenhuan and a few friends couldn't help but rush over.

At the gate of the Lin family, two red gauze lanterns were hung on Chinese New Year's Eve, and at this time, on the willow trees on the pond embankment outside the gate, many small red gauze lamps the size of fists have been hung, such as red fruits hanging on the tree branches, dotted with stars, and where only the children were attracted, even the adults and even the old people and women in the village rushed to the door of the Lin family to enjoy the lanterns.

Junwen Junshu and Lin Xu were older, but they also found the guessing puzzle interesting and elegant, so they each came out with a red gauze ball lamp and took the lead in hanging it on the branch at the door. Junyan Junzhang and Junli Afu are a few small, and the lamps are much more exquisite, with glass lamps, marquee lamps, and octagonal palace lamps...... However, whether the lamps are delicate or not, there is a note hanging from the bottom of each lamp, on which are the children's own neatly written puzzles. Moreover, the children also carefully selected the rewards for guessing the riddles, and the Junwen Junshu was a good wolf pen and a piece of pine smoke ink; What Jun Yan took out was his favorite slingshot, made of cow tendon; What Junzhang took out was a mud Ah Fu; Ah Fu prepared a folding fan, and the fan surface was a freehand lotus that he had learned to paint; Junli also held his own small palace lamp, and also prepared a reward, which was a delicious big orange.

Qin Li and Qin Yong also joined in the fun, holding the children and hanging the lanterns they had prepared on the branches of the trees.

Because the school started classes after the Lantern Festival, Mr. Ding and several other gentlemen had already arrived in the afternoon. At this time, I also came out to join in the fun.

Qiu Chen stood at the head of the door, greeted the gentlemen, greeted, and pointed to the empty lantern hanging on the tree and said with a smile: "A few gentlemen must also have a lot of interesting puzzles, or poems, why don't you write them down and hang them under the lamp, and it can be regarded as having fun with the people, how about it?" ”

Mr. Ding looked at Pan Jiaqing, looked at Mr. Yuan, and the others, and they all smiled and agreed.

Qiu Chen said to the people in the village who watched the excitement again: "Don't be restrained tonight, whoever has a good stuffiness can also write it out and hang it on the lamp, tonight's guess is rewarded, whoever wins the last one, ten taels of silver can be chosen!" ”

If it is said that it is a guessing riddle, no one in the village knows the way, it can be said to be a guess, not to mention the school, it is the old lady and the old man in the village, who can't name a few!

When he landed, the crowd became excited, and the chatter began.

An old man asked loudly: "Fu'er Niang, we old men can't write?" ”

Qiu Chen smiled and pointed to the bookcase at the door, the four treasures of the study had been prepared on the bookcase, and then pointed to the children at the door with a happy face: "We have so many little scholars in Liujiaao, are we afraid that no one will write?" Uncles and aunts have boring children, just come over and say, let the little scholars record it for you and hang it up. If you really get a reward, you can buy a piece of candy for your child! ”

As soon as the words fell, there were a lot of echoes in the crowd.

Pan Jiaqing looked at a few gentlemen, and then looked at the noisy and enthusiastic villagers, and couldn't help laughing. In this way, the guessing of village dialect slang and the guessing of elegant rhetoric go hand in hand...... It's really like what Lin Niangzi said, and I'm happy with the people!

The extremely lively Lantern Festival lantern guessing riddles, the villagers' enthusiasm was unprecedentedly high, and they did not disperse until the time passed. What is surprising is that the winner of the most eloquent is not the confident Junyan and the children, nor the gentlemen who are full of poetry and books, but the third grandmother who lives in front of them.

The old lady's stuffy child is -- 'the sky is long, the ground is long, the river is long, the road has a waist', one night, whether it is the villagers or the gentlemen and students, no one guessed it! Deservedly a winner!

The most embarrassing old lady smiled and uncovered the mystery, and everyone was stunned!

Mr. Ding smiled and sighed: "The village dialect is slang, and the wisdom of the elders is really not to be underestimated!" Admire, admire! ”