After returning home, Chen Wen looked around inside and out, but didn't see his grandmother, and was wondering, early in the morning, where did she go, and Zhang Alan shouted outside.

As soon as Zhang Alan got home, she was caught by Sister A and went to the field together, she took the farm tools, and when she went out, she shouted Chen Wen through the fence, "Sister Xiaowen, let's work in the field together?" ”

Chen Wen agreed, answered her, and went to the firewood room to get farm tools. As a result, I found that the farm tools I wanted to use were gone, and I realized that my grandmother had gone to the field.

So Chen Wen ran out, lay on the fence, poked his head out, and said to Zhang Alan: "My grandmother went, so I won't go today." ”

Zhang Alan nodded and walked side by side with her sister.

Although it has been overworked, every household in the village has several acres of fields, including paddy fields and dry fields, all of which need to be pulled out of weeds every day.

So even though most of the men were not at home, the women and children were not idle. Chen Wen's family only has one acre of paddy field, which is easy to take care of, and only one person needs to go once a day.

Grandma went today, Chen Wen stayed at home, busy with housework for a while, and had nothing to do in her spare time, she thought about drawing a draft for the wedding dress first.

Squatting beside the stove, carefully turning over the firewood from the place where the firewood was burned, turning over the unburned wood from the morning cooking, and then choosing a suitable piece of charcoal that has been burned black.

Black charcoal can write, so the 'pen' of the sketch was found, but Chen Wen searched inside and out, but he couldn't find a suitable 'paper'.

The earthen wall outside can't be painted, it's not easy to scrub, and the painting is in and out of the ground for fear of stepping on it, which is not suitable for the pen, which makes Chen Wen feel a little depressed.

How she missed the handy pen and paper at this moment.

It would be nice if she had pen and paper, she hadn't written on paper for a long time, and what she used to be most annoying to touch was now a luxury.

If only someone in the village had gone to school......

School? Private!

Suddenly, Chen Wen remembered someone, Aunt Bixia!

There is no private school in the township, and if you want to go to a private school, you have to go to the county seat.

The county is far away, and it costs money to go to a private school, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, tuition, food, and I have to give Mr. gifts every year, which does not cost money.

Therefore, there are no conditions in the village, and very few children have gone to private schools, but few does not mean that there are none.

What can make Chen Wen think of is Aunt Bixia's youngest son.

At the beginning, I was still living in the village chief's house, and I heard Aunt Bixia mention that her youngest son went to a private school, which almost made her forget.

Chen Wen hurriedly took the rattan basket, went to the courtyard to pick half a basket of mulberries, washed them and put them on. Thinking that if I could borrow something, I would come back quickly, so I just closed the wooden door of the house slightly and went out.

It was a long way from home to the village chief's house, and it was not long to arrive.

It's just that his house is closed, and Chen Wen probes his brain to see.

Not at home? Are they all going to the ground?

Chen Wen took two steps back and forth, hesitated for a moment, and still stood outside the fence and shouted: "Aunt Bixia, Aunt Bixia, Village Chief Zhang...... Anybody home? ”

After shouting and waiting for a while, no one answered, and it seemed that he had really gone to the ground. Chen Wen grabbed the rattan basket tightly, thinking that it was not a coincidence that he came, so he would come back later.

As a result, as soon as he turned around and took a few steps back, he was stopped.

"This is Su Niang's family?"

Hearing his grandmother's name, Chen Wen looked back and saw Village Chief Zhang walking from another road with a cane.

Chen Wen saw Village Chief Zhang, and she turned back again.

"You remember me."

"How can you not remember, don't look at me old, my legs and feet are inconvenient, but I can remember well." Village Chief Zhang opened the door of the fence and asked her, "Why are you here?" ”

Chen Wen raised the rattan basket at his wrist and smiled, "I have something to ask for." ”

Village Chief Zhang unlocked the door of the wooden house and brought her in.

"Are you okay living at Su Niang's house?" He pointed to the chair again: "Sit down." ”

"Very good, grandma takes good care of me." Chen Wen entered the house, put the rattan basket on the table, sat down, and said witticism: "This is thanks to the village chief who is willing to leave me in Zhangjia Village, I can live so well now, otherwise I don't know where to wander." ”

Who doesn't want to hear good words, Chen Wen is still very good at talking, and when he was a teacher before, he didn't listen to or say less.

Village Chief Zhang was really comfortable after hearing this, and said with a smile: "When we first met, you were still a little girl who spoke the same size as a mosquito, and you were very shy, but now you are more cheerful, not bad." ”

Chen Wen smiled a little embarrassedly. At the beginning, I was really confused, after all, whoever encounters such a thing that violates science through the crossing can't behave naturally.

And one of her is unfamiliar with life, so she doesn't dare to speak loudly; The second is that she is afraid that Village Chief Zhang will kick her out, so it is always right to behave well-behaved and harmless.

Now, I have been living here for more than ten days, and I have made a friend like Zhang Alan, so I was gradually brought over by her, and I am naturally a lot bolder.

"What are you looking for me?"

Chen Wen was silent for a moment before he said, "I came this time with a reluctant request. ”

"What reluctance?"

"I'm ...... I'm here to borrow pen and paper. ”

In fact, she just borrowed it with the mentality of giving it a try, and it was a little difficult to talk about it.

Ancient paper should be quite expensive, and this is the countryside, and everyone is not a rich family, so this kind of valuable thing should not be borrowed casually.

Village Chief Zhang was also stunned, he didn't expect this little girl to want to borrow paper and pencils?

Indeed, this thing is the only one in the village that his little grandson has. His grandson was pampered by his mother, and he had to learn a little bit of everything, and it took a lot of effort for the family to let him go to school.

The people in the village are not educated, and no one will borrow this thing if they don't ask someone to write couplets before the end of the year.

"What are you borrowing it for?"

"Draw." Chen Wen told the truth: "Sister Shuhua is not going to get married soon, I will take over the matter of making a wedding dress for Sister Shuhua, no, the cloth is there, I want to make a sketch, so that there is a direction, so that I don't want to make clothes when I want to come out of one." ”

"Sketches? Do you know how to draw? Learned? ”

Chen Wen pinched the tip of his index finger with the thumb of his right hand and said modestly: "I have learned a little." ”

This point is not the other point, she has studied Chinese painting for several years, and it is not in vain.

Village Chief Zhang was interested, he had heard of the little girl saying that he would make a wedding dress for Shuhua just now, but he didn't expect her to be able to paint.

These days, there aren't many people who read, let alone paint. There is a special studio in the county, but it is more expensive than reading, and he thought that no one would learn it.

"What about showing a hand?" Village Chief Zhang was also curious about a little girl who was stranded in Zhangjia Village, what kind of painting she would draw, and promised her: "If the painting is good, I will lend it to you." ”

"Huh?" Chen Wen was a little dazed.

"Follow me."

Then Chen Wen was taken to a small room with good lighting, the house was facing the sun, and the windows were open to let in the light.