When she asked this, Zhong Liyue glanced her up and down by the way. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

She was wearing lotus-colored clothes, more than one meter six, with upright facial features, a very well-proportioned figure, and she looked seventeen or eighteen years old, but her eyes occasionally showed a little sharpness, and that look seemed to be a little probing.

"Are you the master of this school?" The beauty asked Zhong Liyue.

Zhong Liyue smiled and said slowly, "I asked you first." You can only answer me after you have answered, and then I can answer you, which is basic etiquette. ”

The beauty was not annoyed, she kept smiling, she took a step forward and introduced herself: "My name is Li Tong'er, I am from a neighboring village, I heard that Dinghe Village has set up a school, I want to come and have a look." ”

"You want to go to school?" Zhong Liyue said in surprise.

"Oh, no." Li Tong'er waved her hand and said bluntly: "I want to come to teach, I heard that you want to hire someone, right?" ”

Zhong Liyue nodded, and said in surprise: "I just asked the master in the village about it, and it spread to the neighboring village so quickly?" ”

"The two villages are not far apart, so the news naturally spreads faster. And there are only a few literate people, and they will find it as soon as they look for it. ”

She also has a point. But...... Zhong Liyue looked at Li Tong'er with doubts and asked, "You have a burden, don't you want to live here?" ”

Li Tong'er lowered her eyes, showed a pleading look, and asked timidly, "Is it okay?" ”

"Well...... this" Zhong Liyue couldn't help but hesitate. This Li Tong'er is too strange, there are very few women in the countryside who are literate, and she should be married at her age, but she is single with a single state of 'one person is full, and the whole family is not hungry'. Isn't it weird?

"Big sister, big sister!" Mingyue ran over from the side and whispered to Zhong Liyue: "It just so happens that there is an empty room at home, let her live in it, she is a woman's house and goes in, it is much more convenient than a man, don't you also want to find one like this?" ”

"But don't you think she's weird?" Zhong Liyue asked in a low voice.

"What's strange?" Mingyue looked dazed.

Zhong Liyue glanced at her, looked past her to Li Tong'er, and said with a smile: "Beauty, have you ever been married?" ”

Li Tong'er was stunned for a moment, then shook her head, and without waiting for Zhong Liyue to continue asking, she said directly: "It's not a secret, my father was also a teacher before his death, he was employed by an official family in Huannan when he was young, and then he has been working as a private school in the courtyard, he died of illness two years ago, and soon after, his mother also went with him, and I took their parents back to their hometown with their ashes." Thinking that he would be alone from now on, helpless, and the same everywhere, he had a plan to stay. If I could find a way to earn a living in the village, I wouldn't leave. If it hadn't been for the sudden death, my father and mother would have wanted to return to their hometown and find a family for me at home. ”

After Zhong Liyue heard her life experience, she couldn't help but sigh.

"It's so pitiful!" Jin Yue heard it on the side, and couldn't help but feel sympathy. She came over and shook Zhong Liyue's arm pleadingly, squeezing her eyes at her.

Look at Mingyue again, it is also this expression.

All right! If she didn't agree, it would seem to be very unkind. She shrugged indifferently and said, "Anyway, we have empty rooms in our house, and there are many people." ”

After taking her to find a room, in the first class in the afternoon, Zhong Liyue asked her to work for an internship.

She was not afraid to stand in front of more than two dozen children, large and small, and the class was completed smoothly. Zhong Liyue basically recognized her ability.

In the evening, Zhong Laosi came back and saw that there was an extra woman in the family, and he was stunned for a moment. Zhong Liyue told him that he was here to teach, so he quietly pulled Zhong Liyue aside and asked, "Do you really want to set up this school?" ”

"Hmmm! Wouldn't it be nice that younger siblings would be interested in going to school as well? ”

"That family came to teach, and you didn't give people money?"

"Here! Of course, if you want to give it, wouldn't it be better to teach your younger siblings tuition? ”

Zhong Laosi was anxious when he heard this, "You really don't plan to get married?" Staying at home like this all your life? ”

Zhong Liyue knew what he was thinking, so she first comforted: "Dad, I have a plan for your daughter, give me three months, a month is fine, and after a month, I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer." ”

"I said daughter, it's not that I'm in a hurry for you. At your age, it's hard to ......."

"Hey, Dad, listen, did my mother call us to eat? Let's go eat! Starved to death. Zhong Liyue deliberately forked.

Zhong Laosi sighed helplessly, turned around and returned to the hall.

After eating, Li Tong'er said to them: "If the second elder doesn't want me to stay here, Tong'er just leaves, don't be embarrassed." ”

"Dad, you just let Sister Tong'er stay! She's pathetic. Jinyue pleaded, and she told Li Tong'er's life experience. Jiaoyue kicked her under the table and told her not to say anything, and she ignored it.

Zhong Laosi knew that she was referring to just now, so he smiled kindly and explained: "It's none of your business, just now I told my eldest daughter about family matters." Our whole family is happy that you can stay. ”

Li Tong'er knelt on the ground with a 'poof' and bowed to the second elder Yingying, thanking them for their kindness.

"It's just more pairs of chopsticks, you don't dislike it." Ma Shi said, and Zhong Liyue helped her up from the ground. The whole family has basically recognized the new member.

Originally, there was a new addition to the family, Zhong Liyue thought it was just an extra pair of chopsticks. I didn't expect this Li Tong'er to be particularly diligent, with her, the home was spotless, Ma woke up in the morning, breakfast was ready, the water was boiled, and even the firewood for the pot was chopped. It's like having an extra servant.

"Are you really here to teach?" Zhong Liyue looked at the spotless home, and after a messy moment, she asked.

"You're amazing! Sister Tong'er! Jiao Yue praised sweetly.

"These are simple chores, I have been doing them with my mother since I was a child, and they are very handy, and they are nothing." Li Tong'er said with a smile.

Ma looked at her with joy in his eyes, wishing that Xiao Wu was now an adult and could get married, so that she could take such a good woman as her daughter-in-law.

"I seem to have forgotten to talk to you about it yesterday." Zhong Liyue pulled Li Tong'er to the classroom, and couldn't wait to talk to her about her salary: "You also saw it yesterday afternoon, I have compulsory education here and don't charge tuition, so you pay a lot every month...... You get the idea, right? ”

Li Tong'er smiled and said very understandingly: "Your family took me in as a lone person and gave me food and shelter, how can I get money?" ”

"How's that going to work? Why don't you do it? Three taels of silver per month, and you will be given food and lodging. Zhong Liyue opened a number according to the price.

"Three-two?" Li Tong'er was stunned, she said in a daze: "I heard before I came, your family is very rich, but it's too much, right?" Didn't you say that this school doesn't charge tuition? ”

"I won't accept it, but I can't let you do it for nothing!" Zhong Liyue said with a smile: "If you get married in the future, you will always need a dowry, right?" ”

Zhong Liyue's favor towards her suddenly increased a lot. There is still a high salary?

Li Tong'er said sadly: "I have no father and no mother, and I am over fifteen years old, who will marry me?" ”

"Don't you blacken yourself, where can you find a beautiful and literate woman like you?" (To be continued.) )