Five years have passed in a blink of an eye, and it is the late spring March of the sixth year of Chengqing. In three months, Zhao Xiu will be seven years old, and the little child who used to be unstable on the road is now more than four feet tall, taller than girls of the same age, and his facial features are becoming more and more beautiful and dusty, and he can be faintly seen to be a beautiful embryo.

When people grow up, they naturally can't compare with when they were young. She has also studied for a few years now, and she has learned a lot about needlework, housekeeping skills and manners, and when she goes out to meet people, she is also a little lady who can't make mistakes, but there are fewer taboos at home, and it is inevitable to show some of her true nature. The Zhang family dotes on her granddaughter, as long as Zhao Xiu doesn't do too much, she won't restrain her. Zhao Xiu is often glad in his heart that he is really lucky to have an open-minded elder.

She finished today's 500-character calligraphy exercise, rubbed her sore wrist, looked at the thick stack of picture albums next to her, hesitated for a moment, and decided that it was better to rest first. Studying is also a combination of work and rest.

Zhang's upbringing of his grandchildren is very strict, and when his grandson grows up, he will be sent out to study in the school, but his granddaughter is in front of her every day. She was originally a scholarly family, but her family was poor when she was a child, so she left a lot of regrets in learning, and later married into the Zhao family, and when she had the conditions, she tried her best to learn more things. Although Zhao Laojun is old and a martial artist, he really loves this young little wife, as long as he can do it, whether it is a famous calligraphy and painting or an ancient book sticker, whether it is a famous calligraphy or painting, it is good to buy it or grab it, and he can always get it back for her. He has been fighting abroad for many years, and Zhang has survived the difficult ten years very calmly with this hobby. Never troubled him, so he was more and more respected by him.

Zhang now has time. There are conditions, and there is also a level of learning. Seeing that the little granddaughter was quite talented in this area, she was naturally overjoyed and tried her best to teach.

Zhao Xiu actually regretted it in his heart, he was too unrestrained at the beginning. She was originally an adult, and when she was a child, she also took interest classes in modern times, learned calligraphy and painting, and her level was not very high, but if she was a "beginner" to perform, it would naturally be amazing. Unexpectedly, Zhang's misunderstanding. I thought she really had extraordinary talent, and she taught more diligently. Zhao Xiu complained bitterly in her heart, but she didn't want to disappoint her when she saw her grandmother's expectations so high. In addition, Zhao Xiu himself was indeed interested in calligraphy and painting, so he studied more diligently, and in the past few years, the results have been remarkable.

Zhang was very satisfied with her granddaughter's learning results, and was even more surprised that she was quite good at painting, and her painting skills were different from others. There are some signs of uniqueness, so I pay more attention to this aspect. Zhao Xiu couldn't explain that in fact, she used the Western watercolor painting and light and shadow processing skills she had learned in the past to use in Chinese painting, which is nothing surprising in modern times, so she can only continue to work hard. The result of this effort. That's doubling the amount of practice per day.

Practicing 500 words and 10 paintings a day is the most basic homework. In the future, as the level rises, it will be increased. Zhao Xiu also had to learn poetry and songs. A subset of the scriptures, a needlework female red. This is a heavy learning load. It's just catching up with the college entrance examination candidates. Since the beginning of this year, she will also audit her grandmother's housekeeper, and in two years, she will have to practice it herself. Zhao Xiu's little girl lives a regular and hard life every day.

Today's task of practicing calligraphy was completed, and I memorized the book in the morning, Zhao Xiu calculated the remaining tasks, and then looked at the day, and then looked at the day, and felt that he could probably breathe a little relief today, so he left the desk and ran outside to move his body.

In the hall, Zhang listened to Lu's mother report on the cost of buying meat and vegetables today, how many catties of pork, how much money was spent, how many catties of green vegetables were spent, how much money was spent, how much rice was sold in the market, and how much the noodles were fed. Zhao Xiu listened to it a few times, and felt that it was similar to yesterday, so he quietly slipped out of the courtyard gate.

Fortunately, now that she is a little older, her brother has moved out of the yard, and she has moved to a side room, which is much easier than before. Otherwise, if she still lived in the room next to the hall, and her every move was under her grandmother's nose, she would never be so free.

The courtyard where Zhao Wei lives now is next door, a few steps away, but he now has to go to a private school every day to attend classes, and he is not at home. Zhao Xiu didn't come here to find him, but to borrow a place to practice boxing. At that time, she learned three sets of boxing techniques from Gao Zhen and Lu Yunpeng, the prince of Guangping, and she always had to spare three or four days to fight several times in ten days, one was to strengthen her body, and the other was to increase her self-preservation. Because she has been boxing for a long time and often runs around the house, she has exercised a lot, so she looks taller than little girls of the same age, and her physical condition has always been very good, and she has hardly been sick in the past five years. Zhang originally didn't like her learning fist and foot kung fu, but when she saw that her health was improving, he no longer stopped her, but she was not allowed to fight in front of people, and every time she saw her practice, she had to say a few words. So Zhao Xiu took advantage of Zhang's busyness and ran to his brother's yard to practice.

Her brother Zhao Wei has just turned eleven years old this year, and he is already a handsome young man. He moved out of his grandmother's yard three years ago, and although he lived alone, it was actually just a small courtyard.

When Zhang first returned to the two-room old house of the Zhao family in Fengxian, because Zhao Jiong took a step back and occupied the main house of the main courtyard, when she moved in, although Zhao Jiong was not there, she was impatient to see his things, so she lived in the courtyard behind the main courtyard. It was originally set up for the elders of the family, and even if there was no capsizing incident, the Zhang family, as the successor of the old county prince, should also live here, so no one thought it was inappropriate. Later, Zhao Jiong fell from his horse and was injured, and was sent to the East Courtyard by the servant Gao Cheng to temporarily avoid the Zhang family's edge, and the main courtyard was empty, and it was regarded as a place for hospitality by the Zhang family. Until Zhao Jiong and the Jiang family were sent away, and no one came back after the Zhao family's small long house lost their titles, this arrangement continued.

Zhang considers herself a widow, no matter who is the head of the family, she no longer plans to live in the main courtyard as the head of the house, although now she is indeed the head of the Zhao family's second room.

This courtyard at the back of the main courtyard, the place is not small, the house materials are also good, when the county grandfather ordered someone to build, he had the idea of bringing his wife back to support the elderly when he was old, although he has not been able to make the trip, but the house is no one dares to cut corners, which uses a lot of ingenious mechanisms handed down by Emperor Taizu, so that although this house looks ordinary on the outside, it is actually quite comfortable to live in. If it weren't for Zhao Wei's age, the Zhang family also intended to cultivate his ability to be independent, and didn't want him to lose his manliness because he had been raised in the hands of a woman for many years, so he strongly agreed with him living alone in a courtyard, and he really didn't mind living in this courtyard for a few more years.

However, the Zhang family is also reluctant to let his grandson go too far, but also because the old house occupies a large area, and there are many attached small cross-courtyards outside the house before and after the three roads in the east and west, and outsiders who don't recognize the road may get lost while strolling around, and now they only have three grandchildren living here, and the number of male and female servants is not much, many yards are locked, and few people pass by nearby, and the safety problem cannot be ignored, so he is placed in the small courtyard next door, which is convenient to enter and exit, and there will not be much change in diet and living, which can make Zhao Wei adapt well.

It's just that this yard is a little smaller, there are three main rooms, one on the left and one on the right, all of them are bungalows, and a few old trees are planted, and even the patio is nearly half smaller than Zhang's yard, Zhao Wei has no problem living, and there is barely enough place to practice boxing, but it is too narrow to practice riding and archery. Since last year, Lu Yunpeng has officially taught him horseback archery and eighteen weapons, and the Zhang family has people demolish the front yard of Donglu and build a large school field for their masters and apprentices. Zhao Wei practiced martial arts on weekdays, and he no longer stayed in this courtyard, but there were still wooden figures and other things he used in the corner of the courtyard.

Zhao Xiu entered the courtyard, said hello to the two mothers-in-law who were in charge of sprinkling and sweeping in the courtyard, found an excuse to separate them, and began to practice boxing. After punching twice in a quarter of an hour, I sweated all over, and I suddenly felt much more comfortable. Seeing that the two mothers-in-law had returned, she returned to her grandmother's yard and planned to continue practicing painting.

Before returning to the house, Zhang saw her walking in the courtyard and called her into the hall: "In the spring of this year, there will be more rain in Shanghai than in previous years, although it is a good thing, but I am afraid that it will become a waterlogging." I have commanded them to go down and have a pond and ditch dug around the land of our house, just in case. Let Uncle Lu do this thing, but the money and food you need will be accounted for. The person in the account room has something to do, and he can't spare his hand, Lu Ma is not very good at arithmetic, you go and calculate the account for her. ”

Zhao Xiu had done this kind of thing before, so he hurriedly agreed, so he sat aside, took the account book in Lu's mother's hand, listened to her report one by one, and then calculated the amount of money and food needed, and re-copied it with paper, neatly, although there was no form, but it was also clear at a glance.

Mother Lu was amazed: "Our eldest sister is really smart! Who doesn't know that our eldest sister is a famous prodigy? At this age, the words are better than others, the paintings are better than others, the flowers are like the real ones, and they can also calculate the accounts, and they can calculate quickly and well, they are simply the fairy daughters of the Queen Mother's side! ”

Zhao Xiu had to listen to her praise herself almost every day, her cheeks had already been thickened, she coughed lightly, and handed the account to Lu's mother: "You show it to your grandmother, but what is wrong or missing?" ”

"How could it go wrong? The eldest sister has never made a mistake! Having said that, Lu's mother still handed the paper to Zhang's for inspection, and Zhang glanced at it and didn't find anything wrong, so he handed it back to her: "According to this number, let the account room allocate money, and do your best." ”

Lu's mother retreated, Zhao Xiu was about to say something to her grandmother, so she went back to the room to continue practicing, and suddenly saw her little brother Zhao Wei rushing in from outside, and his face was very ugly: "Grandmother, something is wrong!" My grandson heard in school that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince led the troops on behalf of his father and blocked the attack of the Qing people, but he was hit by an arrow from the Qing people and his injuries were not good! (To be continued......)