Wan Fang's mother and son sat until close to noon before leaving, the old lady was going to leave them for dinner, Wan Fang said that she had filial piety, and it was inconvenient to bother other people for too long, so she went back with the two children.

The old lady sent them out of the courtyard and followed them for a while, and when she came back, she shook her head and sighed: "Alas! It's a pity that such a good daughter-in-law has to be widowed at a young age! With two children, the days after that...... Alas! ”

Ling'er said: "Mother, do you think Aunt Wanfang is very good?" ”

The old lady looked down at her and said with a tiger face: "You girl, have you heard people talk nonsense again?" Alas, those people are really, they don't accumulate any virtue in their mouths for the New Year, they just died, and they have children, and they still have filial piety, so they start pouring dirty water on others, and they are not afraid of retribution! ”

Ling'er was stunned for a moment, she just said casually, why did the old lady react so strongly? Watching the old lady muttering and walking away, she turned her head and thought for a while, and suddenly realized.

By the way, no wonder Wan Fang came here early this morning, she probably still suspected that her heart had broken her adultery, and she was afraid that Ling'er would come back and tell her father, and she would be finished if her father and mother passed it out! She mostly pretended to be pitiful to win sympathy, and by the way, she probed into the bottom and vaccinated her father and mother! Huh~~ This woman is quite scheming, but fortunately she didn't say anything!

In the next few days, Wan'er really often brought her younger brother to play with Ling'er, Ling'er sympathized with the two siblings, and secondly, the siblings were beautiful and sensible and diligent, and Ling'er liked them in her heart. In fact, the old lady likes them more than herself, and every time she wants to do something delicious, she must keep a copy for the two sisters and brothers, which is better than herself!

After coming and going, Wan'er's sister and brother became acquainted with Ling'er's family, and coming to Ling'er's house was like going to their own home. Wan'er has also invited Ling'er to her house many times to play, and Ling'er felt awkward when she remembered what her mother Wanfang had done, so she naturally didn't want to go. Fortunately, Wan'er is sensible and doesn't force it, but it seems that she should think that her family has just held a funeral, so Ling'er doesn't want to go!

After a few days, Xiaohuzi and Yue'er came back, and when they came to find Ling'er together, Ling'er introduced Wan'er's sister and brother to them, Yue'er was the most angry and liked to be the boss the most, so she patted Wan'er on the shoulder on the spot and said: "Okay, Wan'er, you will follow me in the future, I promise that no one will dare to bully you again!" ”

Xiaohuzi was originally the head of the doll in the village, and these days he has been overwhelmed by Yue'er, and when he sees that Xiao Yong'er is cute, he often takes Xiao Yong'er to play. In this way, Ling'er's house became much more lively all of a sudden, the three girls often chatted together, and Xiaohuzi took Xiao Yong'er to run around.

If it was someone else's family, it would have been annoying for a long time, but the second elder of the Yang family was very happy, they had been lonely for most of their lives and what they wanted most was a full house of children and grandchildren, and now even if these are not their own children and grandchildren, at least there is that atmosphere in the lively and lively atmosphere, isn't it?

In the blink of an eye, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has passed, and the New Year is over, and people gradually put away their idle and lazy thoughts and begin to prepare for the new year's livelihood: those who run errands go back to work, those who run goods are ready to go on the road, the children are ready to go to school, and the farmers are ready to farm.

Ling'er's family has no land, and her father and mother are old, so naturally they have no land to work, and they don't need to go to the field. After a few months of cultivation, my father's spirit is much better than before, and his body has recovered well.

The family discussed, and felt that it was suitable for the father to make a money-making livelihood or weaving bamboo, and the mother in addition to taking care of the housework and taking care of the father and Ling'er, she also took care of the soles of shoes, embroidered handkerchiefs or something. On the Fridays of every month, Ling'er and the old lady will work together to get bamboo, shoe soles and other things to sell in the market, and they can get a hundred wen each time, which is barely passable.

Of course, Ling'er's first priority is to go to school, but she is worried about her father's health, so she explains the situation to the old village chief. Now she only goes to school for half a day every day, and comes back in the afternoon to help her father and mother work, such as chopping bamboo, chopping firewood or something, so my father saves a lot of effort, and the bamboo weaving tool is also fast, in the past, I could only weave a pair of baskets at most a day, but now I can sometimes weave two pairs!

The days seem to be very smooth, Ling'er goes back and forth between the old village chief and his house every day, studying with Yue'er and Xiaohuzi in the morning, and going home to work in the afternoon.

In the afternoon of this day, Ling'er cleaned up the yard after chopping firewood, and as soon as she moved out of the small bench, she heard a milky child's voice. After a while, Xiao Yong'er giggled and staggered in, and the old lady rushed out of the kitchen with her little feet when she heard the sound: "Oh, Xiao Yong'er, you are here, you want to kill Grandma Yang!" ”

The old lady hugged Xiao Yong'er and made love, took out a warm roasted sweet potato and stuffed it to him, Xiao Yong'er got the sweet potato and turned around and handed his sister: "Sister, give it to you!" ”

Wan'er smiled and touched his head: "My sister doesn't eat it, my brother eats it!" Then Wan'er thanked the old lady, and the two moved out of the small stool as usual, put paper and ink, and began to practice calligraphy.

After Ling'er finished writing a page, she stopped and rubbed her wrist to see Wan'er's progress, I have to say that this girl has some talent, so she started to learn, and she looks like one horizontal and one vertical, much better than when Ling'er first started practicing!

Wan'er also put down her pen and said, "Ling'er, I heard that you have finished learning the thousand-character text and the three-character scripture?" Is it true? ”

"Well, yes! The Master began to teach us poetry! ”

"That's amazing! You've only been two or three months since you started studying, right? I've heard that it takes a year to finish teaching this in the school! I still have to take an exam or something, I have to beat my palms if I make a mistake or can't memorize it, has the old village chief ever beaten you? ”

"No, although the old village chief is strict, he never beats his palms! But if you make a mistake, you have to be trained, stand in the corner, last time I was punished for standing all morning, standing in front of a corner made me dizzy and wanted to sleep! ”

Wan'er burst out laughing, and after a while, she said with a melancholy face: "Alas, I really envy you, you can go to school together!" ”

Ling'er saw that her face was not good, so she changed the topic and said, "Wan'er, did your mother really go to the king's house to be a servant?" ”

"Well, yes! I've been going for more than a month, and the day before yesterday my mother came back, bringing a lot of good things, food and use, and gave me 50 yuan for household use! Oops, I said I brought you snacks at noon, and I forgot about it! ”

"Hehe, no, no, I don't like sweet things! Hey, Wan'er, your mother... Isn't it in... Is it an errand in Mr. Wang's study? ”

"Well, yes! How do you know? ”

"Huh? This one... Hehe, I see that the pen and ink you brought yesterday are good, and there is the logo of the Wang family on it! ”

"Really? Where is it? Let me see! Wan'er picked up her pen and looked over and over again, and sure enough, she saw a small engraved character on the pen.

Wan'er frowned and said: "Suffer, there are words on it, if it is known by the people outside the king's family, they will definitely say that my mother's hands and feet are not clean, no, I have to take it back and let my mother return it to others!" ”

"Don't you? Maybe your mother did a good job, and Master Wang rewarded him! ”

Wan'er was skeptical: "Can the pen also appreciate people?" ”

"Of course, big families are like this, you don't care!"

Wan'er nodded, dipped a little ink and wanted to write, she suddenly stopped: "By the way, Ling'er, listen to my mother, Wang Yuanwai may send Wang Fugui to the old village chief to study in the past two days!" ”