"Peach blossoms, can I also learn from them, you let me take care of the puppet stall, I don't know a few words and can't keep accounts." Sister-in-law actually wants to learn, you must know that few girls take the initiative to learn literacy, a sentence that a woman is not talented is virtue, which restricts the thoughts of too many ancient women, not to mention that the sister-in-law is still the only woman in this family who binds her feet,

"That's it, from today on, my brothers and sisters in the family, my younger brothers and sisters will learn to read and write with me, and I will teach you arithmetic first, and whoever learns well will be rewarded," "What is the award, what is the award." "As soon as I heard about learning to read and write, everyone immediately became enthusiastic." Today, the boy chooses a good learner, and a new hairband will be rewarded, and the girl who is good will be rewarded with a new head flower, and you little ones will also study hard, and tomorrow you will go out and brag with other children. "Everyone was full of fighting spirit by Peach Blossom.

When studying at night, there are a lot of people, sit in a circle neatly, listen carefully to the peach blossom teaching arithmetic, the peach blossom taught the capitalized number to nine, and taught the Arabic numerals to write, everyone is very novel, learn very seriously, the peach blossom let them take the branch on the ground and write it over and over again, the final assessment is to let each of them write once, everyone can only write seven, seven, eighty, eight, all right only Brother Wen, Brother De, and have roots, sister-in-law, four, and finally decided to remove Brother Wen, the other three have rewards, The second sister, who was angry and only made a mistake, swore that she would definitely take the first place tomorrow, and Peach Blossom let them practice during the day when they were fine, and test them again tomorrow night. Those who pass the test will be awarded 100 articles, which will be unanimously approved by everyone.

Unexpectedly, the next day, before dawn, he was dragged up by the Li family and asked to go to his grandmother's house together. It turned out that Peach Leaf was reluctant to pay the puppet's dividends. Li had to take her temporarily, Li took several bags of things, and led Peach Blossom Yougen out together, Niu Bo's car was already waiting in front of Chunliu Gate.

"Uncle Niu, I'm really sorry, it's too far away from home, so you can't eat breakfast, I have some snacks here, let's eat while walking on the road."

"Look at what you say, who doesn't have a special situation, this is the night to come back,"

"Yes, my mother's situation is like that, I'm afraid we're going to come back in the dark,"

"It's good to come back, now the family in the village doesn't envy your family's big white steamed buns and big meat slices every day, I heard that your family is about to start work today, and they are waiting to drink your white rice porridge."

"How can you eat it every day, but it is also mixed with bread and eaten."

"There is no landlord in our village, I will count your family first, I think your family eats better than Ding Xiucai's family in Dongdingzhuang, and the synthetic brother is happy."

The Li family also brought white steamed buns to Niu Bo to eat, and they also took a few bites of steamed buns. Along the way, Li and Peach Blossom talked about the situation at their grandmother's house.

Li has two brothers, a younger sister, is the eldest in the family, because of his grandfather's serious illness at that time, he married early to the Xu family, and used the dowry money to treat his grandfather, but his grandfather's illness was not cured or he went. Grandma's eyes are not very good now, the eldest uncle Li Dazhuan is a cripple, the eldest aunt is Lu, there are three children in the family, the eldest and the second is a boy named Tian Tou and Tian Lei, there is a little girl named Xiangtao, the second aunt is Yang's only one child named Tian Feng is thirteen years old, because he was injured in the mountains at that time to avoid the military disaster, and he did not give birth again, and the second uncle's mother is strange and difficult to get along with.

After walking for a long time, the peach blossoms are almost asleep like roots, and only then did they get to their grandmother's house, and the peach blossoms are almost ten o'clock when they see the sun, and they have been walking for more than two hours.

Grandma's village is poorer than theirs, not relying on the mountains, the land is also sandy, the crops are sparse, the houses in the village are more dilapidated than theirs, and the grandmother's house is not as good as the thatched hut where Peach Blossom lives now, there are four rooms in total, the yard is fenced with wooden sticks, there is not even a chicken in the house, and the doors of the houses are tied up with wooden planks.

"Grandma, grandma, we're here." "Mother, I'm back." Li also shouted outside the courtyard as if he had a root. A woman in her thirties walked out of the easternmost room, wrapped her head in a rag, wearing a jacket and pants of unknown color, and looked at Li with her inverted triangular eyes, "Eldest sister still knows to come back, she hasn't been home for a few years, and she still knows that she has a mother." ”

Hearing her say such mean words, needless to say that it was the second aunt Yang, Peach Blossom and Li got out of the car with a big bag of things, and Yang's eyes immediately changed when they saw it, "Ah, eldest sister, this is rich, let me take a look, eldest sister's clothes, look, so many things, carry them for me,"

Peach Blossom saw Yang's hand quickly stretched out, and stepped back, so that she would not give it to her, who knows if there will be a lot less in a while. "Grandma, grandma, I'm Peach Blossom, we're here." Peach Blossom shouted hard at the top of her throat.

"It's Da Yu back, Da Yu, Da Yu," an old lady slowly leaned to the door, stretched out her hand and touched out, the old man was wearing an old jacket full of holes, and he was also holding a wooden stick, his eyes obviously couldn't see them, and his face was full of dark wrinkles. The body is emaciated, as if a gust of wind can blow away,

Li hurriedly ran over, choked and couldn't speak, took the old man's hand, tears began to flood, hugged the old man's body, and suddenly cried, the old man also hugged Li and cried, Peach Blossom was also tearful, and Yang could only watch, Yang was looking at the burden that Li fell on the ground, and Peach Blossom was watching Yang's actions, blocking in front of the burden, not letting Yang get it,

The mother and daughter cried for a while and began to talk in the house, only to know that the grandmother and the uncle, the aunt and uncle slept in one room, and gave the other room to the cousin for marriage, but in this house, is there a girl willing to come.

Grandma asked Yang to go to the field to call the uncles back, and then go to the next village to call the aunt, Yang was very reluctant to call people, she hadn't seen anything Peach Blossom took, and asked Niu Bo to send her to the field when she went out, Niu Bo didn't say anything, and went with him.

Uncle they came back, it was a lively time, adults and children didn't care to say a word, they all began to gobble up the peach blossoms they brought dim sum and steamed buns, the uncle's family is very real, although very poor, but the affection of the Li family can not be faked.

The eldest cousin and Uncle Niu went to pick up the aunt in the next village, and when the aunt and the sister-in-law came with the little cousin, they were ready to eat, and the food at noon was brought by the peach blossoms, roast chicken, meat, steamed buns and dim sum. Everyone had a good meal, and everyone couldn't walk.

"Eldest sister, why did your life suddenly get better, I'm really happy for you." Auntie's eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Li's, twenty-one or twelve years old, she is simply a young version of Li's, wearing ordinary coarse cloth clothes, and she is really happy that Li's life is better.

Li told them about the family in detail in the past few days, which attracted their admiration, and heard that Li was here to recruit people to work, and the two aunts and aunts on the spot said that they wanted to go.

"Sister, you don't know, we can grow some peanuts and soybean grains on the land in our village, we can't grow wheat, everyone is poor, the fields are sixteen, I don't mention my relatives, the good girls in the village are married, and the people in other villages don't want to marry in, this is not to give him a separate house, or not to say that the daughter-in-law comes."

"Big bolt, my sister has just eaten a full meal, this is what I and Taoya have earned in the past few days, I can only give one or two silver to your family, you eat first and then say" Li took out four taels of silver and stuffed it into his grandmother, two aunts and aunts. Peach Blossom knew that the Li family did not have much money, and a lot of things had been added to the house in the past few days, and a lot of clothes had been added to each person, and the money for building a house at home had to be repaid.

Everyone shirked it and accepted it.

"A few years ago, there was a root that his father was just away, and I couldn't attend my little sister's wedding, and I didn't see the children, and the children have grown up,"

"We all know that this is the second child, and there is an older brother on top of Xijuan."

"If I don't come again, the children won't know me anymore."

"Da Yu, you have a good life, you often come and go, when you are poor, the family can't help you when you are poor, and now it will drag you down again."

"Look at what my mother said, my sisters should help, I used to live a good life, isn't it a good thing to come back to my family quickly. It's better to go today than at home. ”

"Eldest sister, look at how we go out in this dress, I'm afraid it's unsightly. Let's make two clothes first. "The second aunt has already seen the fabric brought by the Li family, this is to ask for something.

"I pulled a few pieces of cloth, one person to make clothes, brother and sister, Eryu, don't do it first, come with me today, go to the house and let Peach Blossom buy a few ready-to-wear clothes first, our family will give twenty big dollars a day, and a new dress will come out after two days."

"Isn't the eldest sister still building a house, let Tian Tou and the second child go, it's okay if you don't need money." Uncle wants to say that he can eat enough and save someone at home.

"That's right, Tian Feng can also go, he can also work and earn money, he is energetic." One said that he was making money, and his second aunt couldn't wait to go.

"Uncle, you said that peanuts are planted in the village, do you plant too much," Peach Blossom pondered in her heart for a while, and began to understand her plans.

"Every family grows a little, but all miscellaneous grains are worthless, so some people fry some and send them to the city for change during the slack season."

"Then can each family still collect some now?"

"Every family leaves seeds, in addition to seeds, you can also harvest a little, do you want to eat peanuts, uncle will bring you some later."

"Uncle, you don't have to let your cousin go to my house to work, you just squeeze peanut oil in the living room, I will provide you with funds and technology, and you can marry a good daughter-in-law for your cousin if you do a good job.

"What's the matter with the eldest sister, how can the flower girl get so much money," the uncle stepped forward to grab it before he could reach out to the Yang family, "The eldest brother has a bad leg, let the second brother do it." ”

The peach blossom was quickly put in the hands of the eldest uncle, and the second uncle looked at it and scolded Yang, "What's the matter with you, don't be ashamed, stand aside." ”