"Mother."

Aunt Cui heard the shouting behind her, turned around, looked at Yu Xiaoxiu who was trotting towards her, frowned, and said:

"How many times have I told you, don't call me that in front of people."

Yu Xiaoxiu retreated and lowered his head, "I have something to say to you." ”

Aunt Cui looked at the people around her and saw that they had not dispersed, "Come over here." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu obediently followed Aunt Cui around to a corner of the flower pond where no one was around.

"Don't you have any money again?" As she spoke, Aunt Cui impatiently took off the purse hanging from her waist, picked out a small corner of silver from it, weighed it, stuffed it back, replaced it with a smaller one, and handed it to Yu Xiaoxiu.

"I don't want money," Yu Xiaoxiu stared at his tiptoes, "You talk to the third master, don't let me go to the private school again, I don't want to learn easy." ”

Aunt Cui's eyes widened suddenly, and she couldn't restrain her sharp voice, "What crazy are you talking about, kid?" ”

Yu Xiaoxiu looked at his mother's cannibalistic eyes, and said in a muffled voice: "I didn't say crazy things, I don't want to go to school anymore, I want to go out of my way to learn a craft——"

"That's it!" Aunt Cui interrupted Yu Xiaoxiu's explanation fiercely, grabbed one of his hands, and randomly stuffed the small corner of silver into his hand, and said angrily:

"How many people in this Yiyang City want to go to that place to study, just your life, pick up a big bargain and be stupid, your sister is not angry, I don't care about her, she is a daughter's family, relying on a face, when the time comes, you can eat and drink without worrying if you are looking for someone to marry, if you don't fight again, who will raise you in the future, are you ready to live in the Ji family's room for a lifetime? Something that doesn't make a difference. ”

Yu Xiaoxiu's neck was red, and his upper body trembled, Aunt Cui didn't seem to notice that he was wrong, reached out and twisted his shoulders and shook it, and lowered her voice to warn:

"Do you listen to me and learn it for me? Did you hear that? ”

"Didn't you hear it!"

Yu Xiaoxiu didn't say a word, Aunt Cui lost her patience, looked up and saw that a few maids over there were about to approach with plates, so she angrily pushed Yu Xiaoxiu's shoulders away, and left quickly with steps.

Yu Xiaoxiu stubbornly saved the small corner of silver, raised the back of his hand, stubbornly rubbed the corners of his eyes, and waited until the maids walked away again before he walked out.

Yu Shu hid in the narrow passage of the flower pond, listened to the conversation between the mother and son, and finally endured it until Yu Xiaoxiu walked away, so he hurriedly stepped on the flower platform, jumped down along the side of the wall, and chased after him in three steps and two steps.

"Xiao Xiu," Yu Shu caught up with Yu Xiao Xiu's lonely back, called him, and when he turned his head to hand over a defensive look, he pretended to be innocent and reached out and patted him on the shoulder, complaining:

"I just looked for you, where have you been?"

Hearing this, Yu Xiaoxiu put away the precautions in his eyes, ignored Yu Shu's inquiry, and walked forward by himself.

Yu Shu didn't mind his coldness, but cordially reached out to put his hand on his shoulder, and said with a smile: "I'm really full tonight, I don't think I need to eat tomorrow morning, let's go back quickly, I said that there are good things for you to see." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu didn't answer, but he didn't break free of Yu Shu's pull, and listened absentmindedly to her chattering in her ear about tonight's meal, and the gloom between her eyebrows and eyes was much less than that of her age.

***

"Look! Paper, and—ink! ”

Yu Shu took out all the gains from this afternoon and put them on the table.

A few pieces of coarse hemp paper and a small packet of scattered ink blocks were worthless in the eyes of any child in the Ji family, but Yu Xiaoxiu's eyes widened in surprise, and he involuntarily stretched out his hand, touched this, and flipped through that.

After a short period of surprise, the young and old Brother Yu then wondered where these things came from.

"Where did you get it?"

"Anyway, it's not stealing, you can use it with confidence, I promise you, if these things come from the wrong way, let me get up tomorrow morning and my nose will be crooked."

Yu Shu didn't plan to tell him that he had found a job outside, not to mention whether it was right for a girl to go out to make money, it would be difficult to explain it to him if she planned to deal with it.

Yu Shu's assurance dispelled the suspicion on Yu Xiaoxiu's face, not that he believed in her character, but that he knew her stinky and beautiful temperament, and would not curse herself for disfigurement in order to lie.

"I didn't do my homework last night, I was punished this morning, I don't want to be embarrassed tomorrow, you see, I found all the paper and ink, for the sake of fairness, you have to teach me to write later, you know that I can't write many words."

Yu Xiaoxiu glanced at her with disdain, with reluctance on his face, but he still nodded slightly.

Yu Shu turned around happily and went to rummage through the cabinets:

"Where's the pen? What about pens? I remember seeing a brush in the cabinet yesterday. ”

Yu Xiaoxiu touched the rough paper again, got up and took a small bowl with a torn hole, took a little water back, picked out two pieces of broken ink in the paper bag, melted it with water, and when the ink was adjusted, Yu Shu also found the pen.

The hairs of the nib of the pen were forked, Yu Xiaoxiu pulled out a few disobedient ones, dipped them in ink, the tip of the pen looked quite supple, and the paper was flattened, he rolled up his sleeves and was about to put down the pen, but Yu Shu pulled his sleeves aside.

"You're going to write this? Don't you have to do the math first? Yu Shu didn't forget that Master Liu talked about a lot of theories and hexagrams in class yesterday, and only after the last assignment was to let them go home and calculate tomorrow's sunny or rainy day.

"I've done the math."

"Huh? When did you count? "How can I already calculate it, she originally thought that she could go to school on the side.

"When you're out in the afternoon." Yu Xiaoxiu pulled away Yu Shu's hand and wrote the results of the calculation directly on the paper, stroke by stroke, seriously.

It's not that she is out of the air to play or not, Yu Shu has a hard time, so she has to frustratefully shift her attention to Yu Xiaoxiu's words.

An Dynasty inherited the culture of the Song Dynasty, there are many kinds of fonts, line script, cursive, official script, line grass, line Kai, Yu Shu is a layman, just think Yu Xiaoxiu's handwriting is neat, so he praised:

"Xiao Xiu, your handwriting is so beautiful."

Yu Xiaoxiu didn't appreciate it, and took the opportunity to sarcastically mock her: "If you were less playful, you wouldn't even be able to hold the pen well." ”

Yu Shu laughed dryly, for fear of disturbing him to write wrongly, so he quieted down.

Yu Xiaoxiu finished writing his share, and after drying it, he continued to take a piece of paper and write it from the beginning, Yu Shu watched from the side, just as if he was writing his own share, while secretly happy, while pretending to be embarrassed and said:

"You don't have to help me write, I'll just copy it myself, although the handwriting is crooked, just be able to read it clearly."

Hearing that she was amorous, Yu Xiaoxiu didn't bother to raise her head, "Wait a minute, you copy this, write two copies that are exactly the same, won't you scold as a gentleman, stupid." ”

Is it true that bullying her for not being illiterate, is it not bullying her for being uneducated, Yu Shu was secretly indignant, but he didn't dare to talk back, stared at the back of his head, and silently opened his mouth to scold:

Stinky boy.