In the blink of an eye, spring goes to winter, Liu Fang is thirteen years old, Liu Yue is eight years old, and Liu Chengdu is five years old. Just at the age of entering school, Liu Zhu took Liu Cheng to the village school to sign up early in the morning, and Zhang finally saw his son carrying a schoolbag into the school, to know how difficult it is for rural people to enter the school. I have to pay the silver to the gentleman every month, and I have to buy paper and pen and ink, these things are not rice, but they are precious?

Liu Zhuyi has discussed it, no matter how expensive it is, he has to let Liu Cheng go to school, and when he has been in the village for three years, he will have to go to the school in the town. The family must work hard to provide for Liu Cheng, and they must provide Liu Cheng as the champion. Liu Yue watched Zhang's tears while doing the work, and knew in her heart that her mother was happy, and her family could finally produce a person who could read.

In this rural area, those who can read and write are particularly respected, and those in the village who hold a red and white wedding party, and the gifts and goods sent by each family must be written down on red paper one by one by the people in the village who can read and write.

If you don't invite someone to write down the favors, then the people who come to send favors will be very unhappy, and they will be very unhappy. Or they simply forgot how much money they gave and how many old hens they sent.

This kind of personal exchange is a big deal in the countryside, if the Chen family has a happy event this year, the Li family sent two hundred yuan, twenty eggs, to the Li family next year when the happy event, the Chen family only returned a hundred yuan, and did not return the same gift as the egg.

Then the Li family will definitely not accept it, this matter will definitely be known to the whole village, and the two families will also have a good relationship, so they don't want to get along. Therefore, every family to do a big thing, you have to ask someone who can read to record these things, and you don't dare to be sloppy at all. And the person who was invited to keep accounts for others is also quite respected, and it can be said that he has face, and everyone has to call him Mr. when he sees it.

Therefore, Liu Cheng's enrollment has always been the most concerned and important thing for Liu Zhu's family. The gentleman had to pay 100 yuan a month, and after half a year, it would rise to 200 yuan a month, which was a lot of money for the villagers.

Therefore, there are not many people who go to the village to learn, but there are many of them, and everyone hopes that the children can recognize a few words and be able to calculate accounts. When it was time to take the entrance examination to the school in the town three years later, there would be even fewer people who would go, not only would there be fewer people who could get in, but even fewer people who could pay the tuition fees.

In the past few years, Liu Zhu's family has lived a good life in the eyes of the villagers, first of all, Liu Zhu's annual salary can be praised. Then there was only one pig in the family, but later there were four pigs.

There are also fifty or sixty chickens, these pigs and chickens wait until the New Year, kill and sell them to the city, they can be sold at a good price, and the chickens lay a lot of eggs, Liu Yue raised chickens to lay many eggs, and they are big, every time they are brought to the city to sell. It doesn't take an hour to sell out.

The wasteland behind Zhang's care can not only feed the family, but also take care of their own pigs and chickens, and sometimes they can take some to sell in the city, but the money they earn by buying vegetables is less.

The main thing is not to earn more by raising pigs and chickens, and the family can eat meat every year, and they can also eat Liu Yue's favorite pig's blood stewed cabbage. Liu Yue felt that this was a good day of happiness, and it was also something that Liu Yue couldn't have imagined in her previous life.

However, Liu Yue knew that she had earned this little money, and it was very difficult for Liu Cheng to continue reading. And you have to spend more money to study in the city, and you have to eat and live in the city, so Liu Yue is trying to think about how to earn more money.

Seeing that my sister is also older, it is time to look at others and prepare a dowry, and after my sister gets married, there will be one less laborer in the family, and these pigs and chickens will have to spend manpower to take care of them.

So if you want to earn money by raising these things, and you can also provide for Liu Cheng to study, it will be more and more difficult. The family's two paddy fields and dry fields can only be eaten, and Liu Cheng's monthly expenses after going to school are obviously much larger, and these funds must also be spent. Liu Zhu and Zhang are also worried about this, but rural people really don't know any other ways to make money besides farming and raising livestock.

Zhang counted with a small box again, and Liu Zhu was smoking a dry cigarette on the side, frowning, not knowing whether he choked on the smoke or why he was worried. "His father, you see that our Fang'er has also reached the age of seeing other people, and it is just thirteen years old at the beginning of spring today, do you say that you have to buy some trees and prepare for the dowry.

But after Cheng'er went to school, the family's monthly expenses were so big, and they had to save for Cheng'er to go to school in the town, which was really tight. Zhang sighed and closed the box, and then carefully put it back in place and locked it.

Liu Zhu took a puff of cigarette, and then said: "Damn, don't think too much, you see that we have also saved a lot of silver in the past few years, and it is no problem for Cheng'er to provide for it in the past few years." Fang'er's dowry can't be wronged, but we can't let Fang'er marry in the future, we don't care.

How difficult it was at home before, not all of them came over, but now it's better I don't know how many times. ”

Zhang frowned and pushed Liu Zhu: "You know that before you mention it, you have to think about it later, the children are older one by one, and it's time to spend money." You see that these livestock raised at home are not all a big favor from the two daughters, how good we raise chickens in Yue'er! ”

"What you said is that these two girls are really capable, look at the daughters of other families in the village, but none of them can compare to our family's Fang'er and Yue'er. So you can't be sloppy about Fang'er's marriage, and you can't let Fang'er marry aggrieved. ”

Zhang nodded, thinking about Liu Fang's affairs in his heart, a few days ago, several matchmakers came to the door, but Fang'er was in front of him, it was not easy to talk in detail, I was afraid that Fang'er would not agree.

Tomorrow, I will have a good talk with Aunt Li, and let them help inquire, this daughter's marriage is a lifelong event, but I can't be sloppy, I just hope to meet someone who knows the roots, and really treats Fang'er well, and is more diligent and smart. With these few things, you won't be sad, and you will be able to live smoothly.

But before the Zhang family could go to Liu Fang's Zhang Luo, Zhang's mother's family asked someone to bring a letter, saying that Mrs. Zhang wanted to see Fang'er, and asked Zhang to take Fang'er back to her parents' house. When Zhang heard the news, he was still a little uncomfortable.

If you want to say that Mrs. Zhang has feelings for Fang'er, no one really dares to believe it, over the years, in addition to asking for things, her mother's family has not given Fang'er anything to Yue'er, and she has never eaten a piece of candy. Now Mrs. Zhang asked herself to take Fang'er back to her parents' house, which sounds a little weird, but Zhang's family doesn't think badly about her mother's family, but she is just uneasy.

When the Zhang family told Liu Zhu and Liu Fang sisters about it in the evening, Liu Fang was really unhappy: "Mother, I won't go, it's not good for grandma to find us." Mother, think about it, our family has been to grandma's house over the years, and every year it is just a gift for the New Year, and it also brings new clothes to grandma, and then grandma didn't say that she will be 60th birthday?

Seeing that you refused to find the golden ring, you didn't do it, and told people that you raised a white-eyed wolf, why Fang'er didn't understand why grandma wanted to see me. ”

Liu Zhu has never said anything about Zhang's mother's family, whether it is good or bad, it is up to Zhang's to say. As soon as Liu Yue heard the news, she immediately remembered the events of her previous life. It was also Mrs. Zhang who asked her mother to take her sister over, and as a result, the landlord's family took a fancy to it, and immediately came to her house to say goodbye.

At first, my mother disagreed, but later Mrs. Zhang came to persuade her personally, and Liu Fang thought about living a good life again, and this matter naturally became a reality.

Presumably Mrs. Zhang has taken a lot of benefits from it, and Mrs. Zhang has also done this thing of selling her grandwife, no wonder she was able to sell Zhang's daughter back then. So I can't let Mrs. Zhang get her wish this time, but I can't tell the past!

Even if you say it, I don't know if you believe it or not, so this matter can only be seen and dismantled. I believe that my sister will not be the same as in her previous life, willingly concubine, and my mother will not agree to let my sister be my aunt's concubine.

I just can see that my mother still wants to go back and see, but when the time comes, I must go with her, and I will also meet the black-hearted grandmother, "Sister, why don't we all go with my mother and see what my grandmother wants to do?" Is it difficult for my mother to watch my grandmother get angry, let's take it? ”

Zhang glanced at Liu Yue with relief, in fact, he still wanted to go back to his parents' house to see it in the past few years, but he had no excuse, and his mother's family did not take the initiative to pick him up. The rare Mrs. Zhang said that she wanted to take Liu Fang back by herself, which was an opportunity. Anyway, if I go back now, I won't let the two daughters be looked down upon, and I won't let the sisters-in-law calculate, so it's a big deal to turn around and leave.

Liu Zhu saw a calculating look in his youngest daughter's eyes, and he sweated for Zhang's heart, Liu Yue, this girl will not be bullied. If you don't do it, it will make Zhang's mother's family half angry.

Over the years, Liu Zhu has seen that the little girl is very thoughtful, and she is very able to endure hardships, and she is also smart and discerning. The eldest girl is a head behind the little girl, so Liu Zhu thinks that Liu Yue must be no problem with him. It's just that the Zhang family is going to regret it when he comes back, Liu Zhu knows in his heart that Mrs. Zhang asked the Zhang family to take Fang'er back for no reason, there must be something wrong here.

However, Liu Zhu felt that he had to give face to the Zhang family, so he never asked about the Zhang family, and the annual gifts were also generous, and they would not be worse than those given by other people's families. Zhang was also very grateful to Liu Zhu in his heart, knowing that this was Liu Zhu's kindness to him.

After the family discussed it, they decided to go to Zhang's mother's house early tomorrow morning, and it happened that Liu Chengde would go to school, so he didn't care about following. It's just that the lunch has to be eaten at Aunt Li's house, which is not a big deal, but the two sisters are worried about being hungry again, and the Zhang family has to ensure that they go early and return early to ensure that they are not hungry. The two sisters went back to the house to sleep with confidence.

Sleeping on the kang, Liu Yue thought about how to test her sister's bottom in her heart, although the family has been much richer in the past few years, at least it will not be much worse than the people in the village, but it is definitely not as good as the people in the city. "Sister, did you say that our family's life is good?"