Out of Zhu Ji, Pei Laosi drove the ox cart to the market in the south of the city near the city gate.

After boring all the way, he finally asked, "Yan girl, how do you know so much?" ”

Pei Yan jumped out of the car and smiled at him, "It's written in the book." ”

"That book, so useful?" Pei Laosi, like the brothers of the Pei family, didn't even finish reading the three hundred thousand, and he didn't recognize a basket of big characters. In his impression, the book was very boring.

"yes, it's useful." Pei Yan looked at both sides of the market while talking to Pei Laosi. followed these words and persuaded him, "Anyway, the good girl and the wonderful girl are still young now, and your family doesn't need them to say anything." The fourth uncle simply taught them to read and write. ”

Along with this, she also thought of her own Pei Rong and Pei Yu

Although Pei Yue is not at home, she can teach a lesson in the name of learning some words from Pei Key.

Pei Rong didn't have a chance to learn, she could teach her. Don't teach much, first teach the "Three Character Classic". As for Pei Yu and the others, it's time to send him to school.

Pei Laosi laughed because of her mentions, "What kind of books do girls read, but serious boys don't read yet." ”

Pei Yan used herself as an example, "Look. If I don't want my brother to teach me to read and read, I don't understand any of that, do I? Now that I understand, I can still make money with what is taught in the book, how can it not be useful? ”

That's just as well!

Pei Laosi made her stunned for a moment, and then smiled again, "Cheng, I'll go home and discuss with your fourth aunt." ”

Pei Yan knew what he said, but he just said it casually.

And she just said that she let Pei Hao Pei Miao read casually, although after saying it, she felt that she had a good idea. In the end, it has to be slowly figured out.

I am still blind in the eyes of others. When will she be able to take off this hat, let's talk about the side of things.

As the two of them talked, they suddenly saw a shop, and there was a bamboo bed on the floor outside, and there were many scattered cloth heads on the bed, and there were three or four women around there to pick and choose. I squeezed through.

I picked three or four pieces of material with soft texture and refreshing color, paid the money, and then went home with Pei Laosi.

This trip. They were in a hurry, they left early, and it was only midnight when they got home. Sure enough, the Huang family was doing needlework in the courtyard, the Su family was teasing the younger son, and Wang Dazhuang's family also took the soles of the shoes. A few people gossip while doing their work.

When Pei Yan arrived home, she first helped Pei Laosi unload the flowers she bought, and then took the few pieces of cloth she bought to the Huang family.

Huang Shi looked at the soft new cloth in front of him and was stunned for a moment.

"The one who makes clothes for my little brother." Pei Yan said with a smile. Huang has given birth to two daughters and is looking forward to their sons. Although I don't know if it's a son, I always have to ask for a mouthful.

Only then did Pei Laosi know that the cloth his niece bought was for his own family. Hurriedly smiled, "I would have known that you bought it for us, and I would have stopped you." ”

Huang sneered at him and said, "What do you know? If you change to someone with a good eye, follow it. Looking at this thing that Yan girl bought, can you still guess it? He said Pei Yan again, "You didn't make a lot of money, why did you buy this for us?" ”

Pei Yan couldn't help but stuff the cloth into Huang's arms, and said with a smile, "It's as if the fourth uncle advanced his salary in advance." ”

Huang was grateful. This fourth niece daughter, she remembers every little kindness people have to her, and she is a child who knows how to reciprocate. The husband has only been helping for a few days, and he has given money to the two girls these days. There are thirty or forty texts.

He put the cloth in his arms and said, "That's it, until the day your fourth uncle pays his wages." You can remember to deduct it from it. ”

Su Shi laughed at her, "You still take it seriously." She's a sister, so she should add a fabric. ”

Huang sighed, "Being a sister is not the same as being a sister, and a few of the little ones are still growing up, so let's not talk about them." Look at the sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law, the second family. Wan Yatou followed the Kong family to Dingzhou, and she has been gone for so many years. Not to mention meeting people, now I can't even get a letter, so forget it. Juan's girl......" she said and sighed, "Well, she's not in a good situation herself, and I'm not going to pull her anymore." But this girl ......"

Huang smiled to himself when he said this, "I'm also confused." She even did something like that, and I still pointed at her and thought about others? ”

Pei Wan, the eldest of Pei's family, married to Kongjiazhuang near Shili County. That was when Mrs. Pei was alive, and her distant relatives told her that they were a relative.

It's also an ordinary people's home. It's just that Pei Wan's father-in-law has an idea, and in the second year of her marriage, the imperial court ordered "the land is narrow and densely populated to move to Dingzhou, Cangzhou and other places with sparse population".

The original immigrants were the people of Jiangzhou in Yunzhou, and there was nothing to do with Qingzhou Mansion at all.

But the old man thought that his family had a lot of mouths and little land, and he heard that if he moved over there, the land would be occupied by others, and as long as he occupied it, it would be his own. Instead of staying at home and guarding those few acres of paddy fields to live a life of hardship, it is better to let it go. So I was moved.

This journey of more than 1,000 miles, uprooted from home, is not a good thing in the eyes of ordinary people, and they are afraid that once they go, they will never come back. The boundaries of the immigrants were demarcated, and many people tried their best to hide.

He was so good that he took the initiative to go up.

The court is worried that there are not enough immigrants, so who cares where he is, as long as he is a person, he can follow him.

It didn't take much effort for Lao Kongtou to join the army of immigrants. After knowing this, Pei Lao and his wife also went to make a fuss, and they didn't let Pei Wan follow the Kong family over, it was a big deal.

Pei Wan is willing, Pei Boss is a big couple, so there is no way. came back and said that this girl was afraid that she had been raised for nothing.

Mentioning this incident, Su Shi also sighed, "Wan Yatou has been gone for five or six years, right?" I don't know what the situation is over there. "Since the old Kong family left, only after arriving in Dingzhou, the trustee came back with a message. said that it was good to say that it was all over there, and sure enough, it was the same as what the court said, the sky and the earth were big, and there were barren fields everywhere. He also said that due to the sparse population and the lack of merchants, it was not easy to carry the letter, so they should not worry about it.

Since then, there has been no news since.

Following this conversation, the two sighed for a long time.

The original little girl's impression of this lobby sister was already a little vague, and Pei Yan took the opportunity to listen to her ears. After the two of them stopped talking, they went to the east courtyard to place her newly bought flowers and plants.

Place them in the yard to let them take a break and get used to their new surroundings. Wait until the strength has passed, and then cut chrysanthemum seedlings.

Now it is still early from the season of cuttings of monopoly, just take advantage of this time, first insert seedlings, and so these survive, just hit the tip, let them have more branches, to the rainy season, just have more chrysanthemum seedlings for cuttings monophylla.

The calculation stopped, and in the afternoon, he still went to the mountain with Pei Laosi and others to find the ivy. This time, they didn't go to Nanshan, which they often visited, but to Dongshan.

I thought that the hills on the other side of Dongshan were undulating, one higher than the other, and the forest was deeper than the other, and there would be a lot of ivy over there. Who would have thought that after running for half an afternoon, he didn't even find a single ivy seedling.

However, I was surprised to see a lot of lilies.

At this time, the flower had failed, and the fat seed pods bulged slightly.

Pei Yan and Pei Laosi and the others cut some tribulus terrestris and slightly covered the lilies, so that they could harvest the seeds when they were ripe. Again, when the armpit balls are ripe, pick up some of them. Wait until late autumn, when the plants have completely withered, and dig up the bulbs home.

After returning home after being busy with these, in the next two days, Pei Laosi waited for Huang's birth, and Pei Yan no longer went up the mountain.

At home, he tended to the ivy that had been cut and the flowers and plants that had just been bought.

On the fifth day of the fourth lunar month, not long after breakfast here, Pei Hao hurriedly came to Su Shi and said, "Third uncle, my mother is about to give birth." Mama, the second aunt and the eldest aunt are not at home. My dad told me to call you. ”

Su Shi also hung about this matter in his heart, hurriedly hugged his youngest son, called Pei Yan, Pei Rong and Pei Yu, and hurried to the old courtyard.

When the mother and son arrived, the old courtyard of the Pei family, which was constantly crowded from morning to night, was quiet. Only Huang's faint moans came from the east room of the South House.

Su Shi hurriedly handed over his youngest son to Pei Rong, and asked her to wait outside with Brother Yu, Pei Hao and others, and asked Pei Yan to boil water. Hurriedly entered the house and saw that there was only a five-year-old Pei Miao, who was standing beside the bed with a white face and blue lips and a frightened face.

Hurriedly asked her, "What about your father?" ”

"I'm going to get a midwife." Pei Miao said this, and cried with a "wow".

Su Shi hurriedly asked Pei Hao to lead her out, and when the little girls and children went out, he lifted the quilt to see Huang's situation, and asked her, "Why is there no one in the family?" ”

Huang first comforted her, "Don't worry, third sister-in-law, I gave birth to two, I know it in my heart, it's okay." Only then did he say, "Yesterday, it seems that the dowry that the Song family asked for was gathered." Early this morning, my father and mother took the second brother, the second sister-in-law and the girl to the city together. Obedient, it seems that he wants to go directly to the Song family to explain in person, if he wants to come up with any more embarrassing ideas, he will simply strangle the girl in front of them......"

As he spoke, his stomach cramped violently. Huang "ouch", smiled, patted his stomach through the quilt and said, "This must be a kid, I don't like her mother to gossip." ”

Su Shi also laughed, "Isn't this exactly what you're looking forward to?" He also told her to rest first, don't talk, etc.

After a while, Pei Laosi hurriedly came with his midwife. Seeing that the Huang family had just started, the midwife also had the leisure to gossip, and said, "Your old courtyard, nearly 20 people, usually pass in front of the door, the house is lively, why is it so quiet today?" ”

Su Shi smiled, "The family is busy with happy events, and they are all busy." ”

The midwife smiled and said, "Your niece marries a good family, and your brother and daughter-in-law add a big white fat boy, double happiness." That's a great thing! ”

Three hours later, Huang gave birth to a big white fat boy. And in the middle of the afternoon, the group that went to Fucheng came back, not only did not strangle Pei Rao to death, but also brought back the news that the Song family had decided to welcome the family.

It's just that looking at the complexion of Lao Pei Tou, Pei Liu and others, it is difficult to say whether it is double happiness or not.

But whether you like it or not, the day when the Song family welcomes their relatives is really determined. On April 20th, it was also a matter of sight.

………… (To be continued.) )