It was already dark at nine o'clock, and everyone was tired from the day, and they all lay down in bed early.

There is no light in every household in the village, and when the weather is bad, it can really be described as a sentence that you can't see your fingers.

However, it may be because the weather is quite good today, and there is a big and bright quarter moon in the evening. In the silvery moonlight, the dark branches, the battlements, and the outlines of the houses seemed to be much gentler.

Sweet girl lies next to her mother and listens to her tell the story of the kitten fishing with her tail.

"Although there is no bait on the kitten's tail, the tip of the tail can move around, and there is a big lobster with a bad eye, so I use it as food......

Ruan Yu's tone of storytelling was slow, and her voice was soft, as gentle and gentle as the faint moonlight that fell on her.

In the first half, the sweet girl still had the spirit to ask a few questions, and then gradually closed her eyes.

The stories told by my mother are not the same as those told by my grandmother.

Grandma only tells those old-fashioned folklore, what is the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, the legend of the White Snake, and the Seven Fairies, but Grandma doesn't know many stories, and when she talks about it, she starts to tell the stories that have been told. The first time I listened to it, I thought it was very interesting, but after listening to it two or three times, I got tired of it.

Mom is different. My mother teaches in the town's primary school, and she will hear many interesting stories, some of which are made up by the teachers to coax the children, and some of which the primary school students themselves come up with and write in their essays.

Every time her mother lulls her to sleep, Sweet Girl hears new stories.

Ruan Yu didn't plan to teach Tianniu literacy by herself, elementary school teachers in pinyin and Chinese characters would teach her, and if Tianniu didn't learn well, it didn't matter if she came to tutor again. The child is still young, and she is unwilling to shackle the imagination of the sweet girl.

But not teaching literacy doesn't mean teaching nothing, she will teach Sweet Girl to count, and will also tell her some interesting historical stories.

Ruan Yu also bought some picture books. Some of them were bought from the bookstore in town, and some of them were specially instructed to be brought back by the child's father.

Except for the cover and table of contents, there is not a word in the rest of the book. Some books are individual paintings, while others are continuous stories that are strung together from beginning to end.

Sweet Girl loves these funny picture books, a book can be flipped through many times, and every time she can see a new story.

The children in the village do not play outside early in the morning, and the older children more or less have to help the family do some housework within their ability, and usually only have time to play with their friends in the afternoon.

That is, on the weekend, the older children who go to school at home have a holiday and share some of the housework, so that they can go out earlier.

When no friends come to play with her, Tianniu will flip through the picture books at home by herself. She was so small that there was really nothing she could do to help, and the adults in the family were afraid that she would accidentally bump into it, so they told her that she could just play by herself.

Sweet Niu is really a very well-behaved child, she does love these beautiful picture books, but she will not hesitate to lend them as long as her brothers and sisters want to read them.

When I borrow it, I will seriously emphasize, "I will look at it after washing my hands." ”

Books in this era are still very valuable, and Tianniu will wash her hands before reading the book, and she is very careful when she reads it, and the book will not be folded and curled at all after turning it over.

She did it herself, and even did it better, and the children didn't think there was anything wrong with her saying that.

There are also children who want to see but don't dare to borrow, such as the late girl of the second family.

The evening girl really wants to read, and it is good to read picture books, but she knows that her father and mother will not agree, they think that girls don't need to read any books, and it is better to go to the stove to learn how to stir-fry when they have this time.

In fact, she has always had a desire in her heart that she didn't dare to talk about it to others, she wanted to be like the third aunt.

The third aunt is different from the people in the village, she has a good temper, she knows a lot, she talks softly to the children, and she will treat them very patiently, and she does not think they are naïve at all.

The third aunt is an elementary school teacher, so she must have finished junior high school, or even a high school graduate.

If she can also go to school, go to elementary school, and go to junior high school, will she be one step closer to becoming a person like the third aunt?

But she also knew that this wish would not come true, and her father would not agree to send her to school.

She can only sneak up to take a look at the sweet girl when she is reading, and she can only quietly ask the elementary school brother about the new things when the adults are going to work in the fields.

This Sunday morning didn't seem to be any different than usual. Ruan Yu dressed Tianniu and carried her to the small courtyard to comb her hair. Today, it was He Xiaohe's turn to cook, Qin Liuya got up late, and before she got up, Ou Wan quietly ran over to listen to the story.

It was not Ruan Yu who told the story in the morning, but Tian Niu. She has read so many picture books, and she can always make up a little story or two of her own.

For children over three years old, the conversation is okay on weekdays, and there are some incompatibles when telling stories. Ruan Yu listened patiently and guided a few sentences from time to time.

After tying the pigtails, pinning the small hairpin, and tying a bow with a ribbon, Ruan Yu looked left and right, feeling that his hair tie was not yet rusty.

I had been concentrating on tying my hair before and didn't notice it, but when I turned my head, I saw Ou Wan who had been staring at the sweet girl next to me. The little girl was fascinated by it, and her eyes were bright.

Ruan Yu saw the hair ring on her head that was not decorated at all and understood. No matter how old she is, a girl's nature to love beauty is always the same, and the evening girl is envious of the sweet girl's head tweed.

"Tianniu, you see that you have so many hairpins for your head, and your sister doesn't have any of them, can you give one to your sister?"

Sweet Girl was happily telling the story, but she was suddenly interrupted, but the child's interest became very fast, and his attention quickly shifted to the question just now.

She directly took off the hairpin she had just pinned from her head, ran to Ou Wan and handed it to her, "Sister, this hairpin is for you." ”

Ou Wan originally thought that she had eavesdropped on the story and was discovered, but when she realized that Tianniu was coming to give her a card, she was so ashamed that her face turned red.

"I don't want ...... It's good for the sweet girl to wear it herself......"

She thought, Tianniu is so young, she can already tell such a beautiful story, she must be a very smart child, and she will definitely go to school smoothly in the future, she can go all the way from elementary school to high school, and maybe she can continue to read.

And she......

At this moment, the young girl realized the injustice of fate in a daze.

She didn't know her very well at this time, but she vaguely felt that when she grew up, she and her sister would become people of two worlds.