Wangyuan Street in the west of Jinling City, which is the street where foreign residents in Jinling City are concentrated.

On this street, there is a small old courtyard with mossy exterior walls, and there are only three small low-tiled houses in the courtyard.

The three houses, one kitchen, two bedrooms, and no hall to entertain guests.

However, although the small courtyard was cramped and shabby, it was well organized, and under the low old walls were planted with herbs and flowers, among which a few autumn chrysanthemums were in full bloom, and the air was filled with a fresh and fragrant smell.

If outsiders walk into this orderly small courtyard from the dirty street outside, they will immediately feel like they are outside the world, and there is another cave.

It was dark, Miss Mi got up early, got dressed, washed up, and when she entered the kitchen to make breakfast, there was a sound of Lang Lang reading in the courtyard outside the kitchen.

"Zeng Zi said: 'Scholars can't fail to Hongyi, and there is a long way to go. Benevolence is its own responsibility, isn't it also important? Death is gone, isn't it far away? ’……”

The sound of the recitation book is relatively young and full of children's voices.

When Miss Mi heard the sound of the book, she couldn't help but show a warm smile on her pretty face.

She turned her head to look out, and sure enough, she saw a boy of six or seven years old sitting in the middle of the courtyard, shaking his head and concentrating on reading.

"Brother, the morning fog is heavy, you can sit under the eaves." She called out to the boy.

In order to save money and light less lights, her brother gets up in the morning and reads in the morning, and sits in the middle of the courtyard.

It's just that after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the fog in the morning has worsened a lot.

The boy stopped reading, stood up, put the book on the stool, then turned to face the kitchen, and bowed to the kitchen, "No." ”

When he had finished saluting, the boy turned and picked up his stool and walked under the eaves, and then continued to read earnestly.

Miss Mi continued to make breakfast.

When breakfast was ready, Miss Mi moved the dining table and stool to the middle of the courtyard, then moved the breakfast out, and finally called her younger brother and the mother who had already gotten up to help make a female celebrity to have breakfast.

After the family had breakfast, Miss Mi's younger brother hung up his schoolbag and saluted Mother Mi and Miss Mi in style: "Mother, sister, are going to school." ”

"Go ahead. Listen carefully to the teachings of the gentleman. Mi Mu said lovingly.

Mi's mother is a middle-aged and beautiful woman in her forties, very similar to Mi girl, although she is frugally dressed and wears a bamboo hairpin, she can hardly hide the noble lady's temperament accumulated over the years.

Miss Mi also smiled and advised, "Pay attention to safety on the road." ”

"Obey the order." Mi Ziyuan bowed his hand and bowed, then turned around and walked out of the courtyard to go to school.

After Mi Ziyuan went to school, Miss Mi quickly cleaned up the yard for a while, watered the flowers and plants planted under the root of the wall, and she was about to go to the Poetry Pavilion.

"Mother, my daughter is going to the Poetry Pavilion." Miss Mi saluted Mi's mother, who was making a female celebrity, and said, "This time I went to the Poetry Pavilion to officially resign from my job there." ”

Mi's mother stopped her needlework, raised her face, looked at Miss Mi, sighed "sighs", and asked, "Do you really want to resign as a taster in the Poetry Pavilion and then go to Sanwei Academy to be a gentleman?" ”

"Mother, the remuneration of being a gentleman in Sanwei Academy is no less than that of being a taster in the Poetry Pavilion." Miss Mi explained, "This is the agreement between my daughter and Ji Gongzi at the beginning, and my daughter can't be untrustworthy. ”

"Rong'er, if you keep your word, you should support your mother." Mi's mother said in a deep tone, "But your father is still far away in the northern Xinjiang exile and suffering, and he has to ask someone to send him two taels of silver every three months, otherwise the northern Xinjiang is bitter and cold, and your father's body can't survive it at all." ”

"Your brother is over seven years old, and he is preparing for his mother to find him a famous and talented gentleman in the spring of next year. Your brother's shackles will be a big expense. Although your brother is currently guilty of a crime and cannot participate in the imperial examination for the time being, he can still participate in eight years. Although the conditions are difficult now, we cannot delay him. Whether the Mi family can revive the lintel or not, you can only count on your brother. ”

"It's useless for my mother, when I was still in the boudoir, I was greedy and lazy, I didn't have the talent to learn, and I didn't know how to run a business, and now I can only help people to make some money as a female celebrity, so I have to wronged you to show up and earn money to support your family......"

"Mother, my daughter is not wronged." Miss Mi said.

She paused and said, "Although my daughter resigned as a taster in the Poetry Pavilion, she can also support her family as a husband in Sanwei Academy. Moreover, the daughter does not work in the poetry pavilion, but can also write some poems and sell them to subsidize the family. The daughter will only earn more. ”

"If it's other academies, I won't obstruct it, but the Sanwei Academy ......," Mi's mother frowned and said, "I'm afraid that it won't last long." You are in the Poetry Pavilion, your work is elegant and relaxed, you have a status, and you can marry a good husband in the future, which is the envy of everyone. Why would you give up such a good and stable livelihood for the sake of a joke? ”

Miss Mi knelt down "plopped", and pleaded with tears in her eyes: "Mother, my daughter is unfilial to make you worry and worry. However, her daughter reads the books of sages and knows that she can't break her promise and get fat. ”

"Ji Gongzi is talented, resourceful, and has unique insights, which is not comparable to ordinary pedantic scholars, and Sanwei Academy will definitely grow under his management. The daughter is not in danger of losing her livelihood. ”

"The daughter implored the mother to believe her daughter's gaze."

After saying that, she kowtowed.

Mi's mother hurriedly helped Miss Mi up, sighed and said, "Being a mother is not all for the sake of the family, but also for you." You are so determined to go to Sanwei Academy to be a gentleman, I am afraid it is not simply to fulfill your promise. Do you like Ji Ning anymore? ”

Without waiting for Miss Mi to admit it, Mother Mi continued: "I am worried about my mother, you have paid so much, the years have passed, and in the end, the bamboo basket has been empty. Do you understand? ”

"My daughter is not afraid, and she does not regret it!" Miss Mi was told the secret of her heart by Mi's mother, and her pretty face was blushing, but she said with a firm gaze.

Mi's mother looked at Mi girl carefully for a while, and Mi girl tried her best to endure her shame and meet her mother's gaze.

"Alas——," Mi's mother suddenly sighed and said, "If it weren't for your father being implicated, losing his official position and being exiled, and the whole family being convicted of crimes, with the lintel of Mi's mansion back then, he Ji Ning might not be worthy of you." Why do you like someone today, and you are worried that the other person will dislike your criminal status? ”

"Mother, my daughter has no complaints." Miss Mi said, "Please support your daughter to go to Sanwei Academy." ”

"Okay." Mi's mother said, "Support you for your mother." ”

Miss Mi immediately saluted happily and exclaimed, "Thank you, mother!" ”

Mi's mother helped Miss Mi up, looked at her daughter, who looked almost exactly like her, stretched out her hand and stroked her daughter's green silk with pity, and sighed: "It's just that I hurt you." ”

"My daughter is not bitter!" Miss Mi held her mother's jade hand, shook her head lightly and said.