To Zeng Rong's surprise, Ouyang Si left in a hurry on the morning of her fourth day in the academy, and before leaving, he sent Zeng Rong a set of pen, ink, paper, and inkstones.

Zeng Rong had the heart to refuse, but at that time, she was leading Zeng Hua to collect medicine on the mountain, and the things were handed over by Ouyang Situo's mother-in-law Liu.

Zeng Rong had no choice but to accept this favor.

In fact, the night before, Ouyang Si had already sent Zeng Rong a set of enlightened "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text" and "Three Character Classics", he focused on teaching Zeng Rong to memorize "Hundred Family Names", and then took the pulse for Zeng Rong, at that time she guessed the other party's departure, but she didn't expect the other party to say goodbye without saying goodbye, let alone that the other party would send these things to her.

Thinking about it carefully, it may be that what she said last night hurt the other party, as soon as Ouyang Sigang said that her body was basically recovered, Zeng Rong offered to take Zeng Hua up the mountain alone to collect medicine, saying that in the past three days, she has basically learned to identify the common local medicinal materials, and there is no need to bother Ouyang Si anymore.

"I have delayed a lot of work for Mr. in the past few days, I know that Mr. still has to study hard, our sisters have been so unhappy, but there is nothing to reciprocate, I am very ashamed, I really dare not bother Mr. anymore." These are Zeng Rong's exact words.

Ouyang Si didn't answer her immediately after hearing this, but looked at her deeply, then smiled faintly and replied with two words, "It's okay." ”

After Ouyang Si left, Zeng Rong also realized that his original words might be a bit blunt, but there was no way, living in this academy was purely helpless, if she caused some trouble that damaged her reputation, she was afraid that it would affect the old lady of the Xu family in the future.

It's just that what she never expected was that Ouyang Si would say goodbye without saying goodbye, and asked Granny Liu to send her a set of study utensils, which made it a bit difficult for her.

It doesn't count the grace of saving her life, she still owes Ouyang Si a lot of money for medicine, plus this set of utensils, this favor seems to be a little too big.

Mainly living in the academy these days, she heard Granny Liu say that Ouyang Si's mother is not in good health, she lives in the countryside alone, she can't plant land and do heavy work, and she relies on embroidery to earn some money on weekdays, so Ouyang Sicai can't study hard, and needs to earn some living expenses and tuition fees by herself.

Only in this way will this heart be more precious.

How can she pay it back?

Not to mention, there is also a Zeng Hua who admires him in the middle, and Zeng Rong has a little headache.

Fortunately, Ouyang Si has already left, Zeng Rong doesn't need to worry about him for the time being, if everything goes well, when Ouyang Si returns to this academy again, she will also leave this small village, and the favor owed can only be expected to be reciprocated by him one day.

After thinking about this, Zeng Rong quickly recustomized a plan for herself, every morning, around Maozheng, she still took Zeng Hua to pick medicine, and at the same time picking mushrooms, this was the idea she thought of temporarily when she went up the mountain to find the mushrooms in the herb bushes today, and when she learned that these mushrooms could be eaten, she did not hesitate to put them in the basket.

It's a pity that there are more children picking mushrooms in the mountains, and the children of poor families are pointing to exchange this for money to supplement their families or improve their food, so Zeng Rong and his family can not pick many mushrooms.

Fortunately, this is not Zeng Rong's main business, but there is nothing to lose.

Coming down from the mountain, she would first help Granny Liu prepare breakfast, and then she would organize the medicinal herbs, and she could sell the mushrooms directly to the academy.

At noon, she will generally follow Granny Liu to "learn" embroidery, she also knew that Granny Liu will do a little simple embroidery, said that when she was young, she had learned to embroider handkerchiefs and make purses, and in the early years, she also used this craft to earn a little pocket money to supplement the family, and in the past few years, her hands have been rough, and her eyes are not very good, so she dare not do it, but it is more than enough to teach a beginner.

In the afternoon, she will help Granny Liu prepare dinner, and after dinner, she will help clean the yard.

In the evening, Zeng Rong would use an hour to teach Zeng Hua to read and write, and he also started to learn from the names of medicinal materials, ready-made calligraphy, written by Ouyang Si himself, Zeng Rong didn't have to bother to explain anything to Zeng Hua.

Busy time always flies, and before he knows it, Zeng Rong has adapted to the life of the academy and himself after being reborn.

On this day, due to the heavy rain for two consecutive days, Zeng Rong and Zeng Hua couldn't go out, so the two of them lit a fire in the house, just using a basket to bake the medicinal herbs they had picked these days.

Coincidentally, a few days ago, when the two of them were collecting medicine, they found a nest of wild eggs, according to Zeng Hua's meaning, they wanted to use Zeng Rong to replenish their body, but Zeng Rong didn't agree, she wanted to sell it, and it just so happened that she should go to the town to deal with this batch of medicinal materials.

To tell the truth, she didn't have a penny in her hand, and she practiced embroidering handkerchiefs with old cloth for seven or eight days, and she wanted to buy a few serious handkerchiefs to embroider, but she was afraid that the money she collected these days would not be enough to buy a few silk handkerchiefs.

The two were busy for a while, and Zeng Rong was about to take advantage of this meeting to teach Zeng Hua to recite "Hundred Family Names", when he suddenly heard Zeng Hua's stomach growl twice, thinking that Zeng Hua ate gruel at home, Zeng Rong remembered the dozen or so wild eggs.

So, she buried three wild eggs in the fire, who knew that Zeng Rong had just baked the wild eggs and sent one to Granny Liu, Zeng Guixiang suddenly came in, he also just came from home, the road was drenched in the rain, and the clothes were soaked, I wanted to come to Zeng Rong's clothes to dry, how to know such a coincidence, as soon as I entered the door, I saw Zeng Rong and Zeng Hua two people holding a wild egg to peel the shell.

"Okay, you two, you two are too disrespectful, you actually steal eggs from us." Zeng Guixiang said while unceremoniously snatching the wild egg in Zeng Hua's hand.

"What are these words? How do we call it stealing, we went to the mountains to collect medicine and found these wild eggs, originally I wanted to sell them, but I heard my sister growling with hunger, so I roasted these two. Zeng Rong gave Zeng Guixiang a look of contempt.

Zeng Guixiang hadn't come to see her in the past few days when she lived in the academy, and she couldn't guess that she was embarrassed without asking, so she didn't have a good face.

She didn't remember anything else, but she remembered that the treatment of the second brother has always been the best in the family, and he can always have dry food to eat when others eat gruel, just like that, he is not satisfied, and he always talks about studying hard and so on, so the family has to add a poached egg or something to him from time to time to improve the diet.

For this, Tian Shuilan has had a lot of complaints, but Zeng Chengchun is very insistent on this point, Tian Shuilan is reluctant and difficult to brush her husband's scales, and she herself does not suffer, relying on being a pregnant woman or a mother, no matter how poor she is, she can also eat a little alone or partial food, so she has not really suffered much in the past few years since she married into the Zeng family.

Therefore, as soon as Zeng Guixiang came, he snatched Zeng Hua's eggs, and Zeng Rong really looked down on the selfishness of this second brother.