The Spring Festival is coming, and the first winter vacation in Shuining University has begun. Due to the close distance with Fu Zheng, Shui Ning stopped there for a while.

Fu Zheng told Shui Ning that she found that she was very compatible with Yan Shanshan and could also play together. Since they met, they have gone shopping, played game consoles, watched movies, skated, and ...... It's just—she said this with a gloomy look and a confused look: he already has a girlfriend.

He's got a girlfriend and still playing with you? From what I've observed, he doesn't seem to have to make a draft for anything, don't you think he's not very reliable? I don't think this kind of person needs to get along with him first, be careful that you are the one who suffers!

No, no, Fu Zheng hurriedly said, he is not that kind of person, he said that I am just a little sister in his eyes now, except for treating me as a little sister, he has nothing else to think about.

But you don't want him to be your little sister. Shui Ning said.

I, I'm still his little sister, although I don't know what the future holds. I'll try to do it. Fu Zheng said in a low voice.

But after all, you haven't opened his mind to see it, Shui Ning said.

But I'm sure he's not that kind of person, Fu Zheng said.

People who are immersed in confusion! Shui Ning thought to herself.

Fu Zheng told Shui Ning that her mother allowed her and Yan Shanshan to make friends, but they were not allowed to fall in love. Maybe she inadvertently said that he was often surrounded by girls, and her mother stubbornly thought that this boy was distracted.

Your mother is really wise, Shui Ning said, listening to her old man, most of them are right, you know, she is an experienced "navigator".

It's impossible if I don't listen to her teaching, I haven't disobeyed her since I was a child, in her eyes I'm a good girl, Fu Zheng mysteriously approached Shui Ning and whispered, My mother said that she would rely on me for the rest of her life in the future. She also plans to hand over all the business of the family to me.

Shui Ning knew that Fu Zheng's parents had always been very good at making money, and the annual income of the small rice shop was never less than 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, but they were only partial to the youngest daughter of the four children, Fu Zheng, which was really different. Most parents are biased towards their sons, which is due to traditional concepts. Fu Zheng said that the reason why her parents favored her was mostly because her brothers and sisters were working or studying in other places, and the distance was far away.

Shui Ning listened to Fu Zheng's words, and her heart was gloomy, her family and Fu Zheng could not be compared at all, her father's company could only give him a salary of more than 200 yuan per month, and her mother, who was a teacher in a vocational high school, only had a salary of 400 yuan. The younger brothers, Shui Cheng and Shui Yuan, are both in high school or technical secondary school. The total cost of the three sisters and brothers per month is more than 600 yuan, which is just a conservative number, which means that the three of them never buy other supplies except for meals on weekdays. Shui Cheng is now in his second year of high school, Shui Yuan originally skipped a grade, and Shui Cheng took the college entrance examination in the same year, but he took into account the aging of his parents, looked at the situation at home, and was afraid that he would not be able to let the three of them go to college, so he studied a construction secondary school with his excellent grades, and now he has reached the second grade, and he will go to the internship at the end of the second year, and then it is time to find a job.

When Shui Yuan made this choice as if nothing had happened, Shui Ning and Shui Cheng felt as if they had been stabbed with a knife in their hearts, and they felt sorry for Shui Yuan.

On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, because the family owed debts, my mother told the family in advance that they would not prepare a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and make some dumplings to chat about the old and welcome the new. Even so, the family was happy. Only Shui Ning was silently sad in her heart, and this year's New Year was celebrated so simply, largely because she went to college. She really didn't know when the poverty of her family would end.

Shui Yuan saw that Shui Ning was unhappy, so he teased his sister and said, Look at that woman, she has a face that tempts teenagers to commit crimes. Shui Ning saw that he was referring to a female dancer at the Spring Festival party. The woman looked a little bewitching, but she was beautiful.

Shui Guanqing, who was watching the show carefully, couldn't help but ask Shui Yuan: You always say that people are ugly and ugly, so what kind of object do you want to find?

Shui Cheng grabbed the topic and said, it's very simple, my mother will prepare two certificates, a graduation certificate, and a completion certificate. Find a few girls who don't look too disgusting, let them enter the door for internships, okay, retention, issue graduation certificates, and be daughters-in-law directly; No, give a face, issue a certificate of completion and sweep the door out.

Mother Zhang Bowei couldn't help but smile and said, it was you two brothers who were looking for a girlfriend, not for me.

I'm looking for a helper for you! Shui Cheng and Shui Yuan almost spoke in unison.

Shui Ning was amused by them, and casually interjected, who do you think you are, you can respond to every call, and whoever you want to intern will come?

Ha! Sister, this time you have thrown yourself into the net! Shui Yuan immediately turned the spearhead to Shui Ning (as long as the two brothers have the opportunity, they will always form a united front to jointly deal with Shui Ning): We will study the problem of your future brother-in-law for you now. Ah, this, brother-in-law, although he doesn't have to be a dragon and phoenix among people, at least he must be worthy of my brother's standards...... When he said this, Chong Shuicheng squeezed his eyebrows. Shui Cheng said as if he understood, yes, sister, you don't know, my brother and I are heartbroken for your business, as soon as we are free, we will give you what standards my brother-in-law should meet, and thousands of brain cells have died.

Shui Yuan nodded: Yes, sister, we have worked hard for you. But finally one day, we worked out the selection criteria for our future brother-in-law! (Oh my God, they thought it was a brother-in-law contest)

However, we are really worried about our future brother-in-law, because if he wants to marry you and go home, he must pass four levels! In the first level, my brother will take charge of archaeology to replace Chinese knowledge, and he will spare no effort to list once-in-a-lifetime problems, and he will never give up without testing his personal back-to-back translation. He explained that the whole family has a certain understanding of Chinese culture, so if you want to mingle with your family, you can't understand the ancient Chinese handed down by our ancestors. In addition, the exam also includes the creation of a book brief.

Shujian is a kind of primitive book made in ancient times, when there was no paper, people wore bamboo pieces together, and it is a kind of primitive book. Why do you want to make a book brief? Shui Yuan said that the reason why Shui Cheng is so knowledgeable now is because he made a lot of books similar to bamboo slips when he was a child, and copied those traditional Chinese characters on these books. Thinking about the books made by Shui Cheng in those years, there were five cars in the pile, so he reached the five cars of Xuefu. With five cars of talent, Shui Cheng is basically the first in the world. What an honor it is to learn how to make a book from someone who is the most talented? The brother-in-law who can be a scholar will definitely become a brother-in-law who is rich and rich, and there will be no domestic violence.

In fact, Shui Cheng's production of the book slip happened when he was a teenager, and Shui Ning also participated in it. At that time, the family would often buy some comic books, many of which told the stories of the ancients who read books, such as Kuang Heng chiseled the wall. But the Seven Days Heng Chisel Wall was once suspected by later generations. Because the light of the ancient lamp was too weak, how big a hole did he have to dig to see the words on the book? What if the hole is dug too big and is discovered by a neighbor and not treated as a rat? Of course, let's leave this matter aside, anyway, it has nothing to do with Shui Cheng's production of books.

At that time, Shui Cheng probably thought that the ancients were very angry when they opened the long bamboo slips to read, so they cut the paper shell into strips, pasted white paper on it, and then wrote poems and inscriptions on the paper. Not only that, but he also inscribed poems on fans like the ancient literati. Shui Ning has also been inscribed, but she is better at filling in ancient words. Ancient words are said to be played and sung in ancient times, and the siblings regretted for a long time that they did not find material in this regard. But then they heard that the Book of Music had disappeared when Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism (one said to be a warlock in the book burning pit), and they were full of regret, because if it was still there, perhaps they could find some way to explore the ancient words and sing in it.

Whether it is Shui Cheng's copycat book or folding fan, it is secretly made, in order to prevent his parents from being beaten when they find out, Shui Ning and Shui Yuan have helped him with these things. In fact, even if his parents found out, they might not beat him, but they couldn't grasp the heart of their elders at that time.

Shui Guanqing and Zhang Bowei had never heard these anecdotes from the children, and they could hear them at the moment. But they figured out one thing, the younger son was exposing his brother's old story in a humorous way.

Shui Yuan next said that the second level that my brother-in-law has to pass is the kitchen knowledge that our mother will test. However, to Shui Ning's delight, her mother's cooking skills are really not very good, except for mastering more tricks, her mother has nothing to praise in cooking. She has always been busy, and when she cooks, she is always busy with other things, so it is obviously a fragrant and delicious dish, but when it comes to her hands, she always puts the dishes and spices into the pot together, and then adds a lot of water to let the dishes simmer in the pot by themselves. Since the rest of her work often takes longer than the time it takes for the dishes to mature, her dishes are not full of flavor.

However, Zhang Bodui has grown up to this day in cooking, and it is really a last resort, when she was young, she was busy with work and three sisters and brothers, and she didn't have any respite almost every day. Fortunately, her ability to coordinate affairs has benefited Shui Ning a lot, and when she grows up, she is often able to complete the affairs that others can complete for a long time in the shortest time, which is undoubtedly from her mother's true biography.

Because they understand their mother's hard work, the Shui Ning sisters and brothers have tolerated her cooking skills, and they try not to pick and choose when eating.

The third hurdle set by Shui Yuan for his future brother-in-law is to pass the exams in astronomy and astrology. He said that because he had the habit of divination every day, my brother-in-law should at least know some astrology in order to win my favor.

Zhang Bodui almost burst into tears when she heard this. She said, "My children, it seems that you are suffering a lot from books, and it is hard for me to imagine what it was like at home when I was not at home with your father." Is it that Shui Cheng is making books and folding fans here, Shui Yuan is watching the stars and predicting the future, and Shui Ning is painting opera characters on the other side? If that's the case, you're a play. It's a pity that no one saw it.

Shui Yuan laughed and said, "The scene you mentioned happened from time to time back then, and the most wonderful plot is that whenever your footsteps alarm the dogs in the yard and the dogs bark, we start to clean up the battlefield and deal with all the signs, and as soon as you come back, we will all be normal immediately." So, our childhood is a childhood that you don't know.

Zhang Bodui sighed and didn't speak again. The children's childhood seems to have been missed by the turmoil of their husband and wife, or she never knew that they had such a wonderful time back then, that she had never heard that making books, folding fans, and painting could be a kind of entertainment?

Shui Yuan usually likes to study the Book of Changes. Whoever says it is superstition in front of him, he will rush to the theory with his eyes in his eyes and say, it is science, ancient science, at least metaphysics! His astronomical aptitude is like this: if one day he glances out of the window and predicts that the next day will be sunny, then the next day it will definitely rain; If he says it's going to rain, it's probably going to be clear. Shui Yuan said that this is the level, since ancient times, there has been no one like him, what he says is nothing, and it is never anything.

At the last level, our dad will test civility and politeness, which is a virtue of the Chinese nation, and I think my dad will be very harsh in examining his future son-in-law in this regard. Shui Yuan gloated at Shui Ning.

Indeed, Shui Guanqing's discipline of Shui Ning's sisters and brothers is quite strict, even the posture when hoeing is required to be correct, which is basically a civilian version of military education. Let him take the test of civility and politeness, which is destined to be very difficult.

So Shui Ning couldn't help but say, you are obviously trying your best to make me unable to get married!

What you said, Shui Yuan said, I am here for your good, so that you can find someone who is truly worthy of entrusting your life!

The whole family couldn't help but laugh.

Laughing and Shui Ning said, Shui Yuan, let me tell you, if you find a boyfriend in this way, I have to go back to 800 years ago and invite Qin Shaoyou to the 20th century.

You'd better not get that little lovesick tear from last year, I'm afraid. Mizubuchi made a scared look. Last year, the legend of a little lovesick tears was a classic when Qin Shaoyou and his sister Su Xiaomei were paired, because Su Xiaomei had a long chin, so she wrote poems and laughed.

This is how the Shui family, who seek happiness in suffering, passes the years of poverty and pressure day after day.