Gu Changning was stunned for a moment, hurriedly turned around to look at him, still holding a knife in his hand, and asked in surprise, "Don't go to the academy?" Why! ”

“…… How can I read about this situation at home? Gu Huaian said with a hint of astringency in his smile.

"What is the situation at home, how can you read it? What's wrong at home! Gu Changning frowned, his hand shook with excitement, and he waved a kitchen knife and said fiercely, "If you don't study the material, brother, forget it, but you obviously study very well, and the master in the school has said that you can go to the children's examination next year to show talent, but now you say that you don't study, are you worthy of A-Niang?!" ”

"Ning Ning, Daddy is gone, I am now the only male in the family, Auntie is still pregnant, and when my younger brothers and sisters come out, it is a big expense, if I still want to continue to go to school, it will be a burden on the family." Gu Huai'an sighed, "I am the eldest son, and I should shoulder the heavy responsibility of the family." ”

"A-Niang's belly is a younger brother, not a younger sister." Listening to his words, Gu Changning still didn't forget to emphasize this point in anger.

Gu Huaian twitched the corners of his mouth: "How do you know if it's a younger brother or a younger sister?" ”

"My brother gave me a dream, saying that he was a younger brother." Gu Changning said confidently.

"...... "Whether it's a younger brother or a younger sister, it doesn't matter, Gu Huai'an didn't continue to dwell on this matter, but took the previous words, and said: "Whether it's a younger brother or a younger sister, in short, A-Niang will give birth about winter, and when the time comes, she will take care of her mother and younger brother, and the silver will definitely be left for this time, you have also seen the situation at home, where is there any extra money to send me to the school." ”

What's more, pen, ink and paper are also a kind of consumption, when Gu Shan was still there before, in addition to serving his own five acres of land, he also went to the township from time to time to find work, Yang Huiyun would also take the embroidery work to do at home, and there was still some surplus in a year, which was more or less affordable for him to study.

Now that the family not only has no income, but also has a lot of expenses, he can only give up the idea of continuing to go to school and go out to find a job to supplement the family.

"That's it, after the first month of filial piety, I'll go out to find a job." Gu Huai'an made a decision by himself.

The filial piety period is three months, but the first month is the most critical, this month not only to go out less, but also to avoid dealing with people, so the first month of filial piety in the family will stay at home and not go anywhere.

"That's it!" Gu Changning immediately exploded when he heard this, and glared anxiously and angrily, "What is decided!" Brother, where can you find a job when you are so thin and powerless? Is it hard to work hard, can you afford it? Or do you want to say that you can plant the five acres of land at home and be a mud-legged farmer who depends on the sky for food? ”

Gu Changning didn't look down on the croppers, but she knew that making a living by planting crops depended on God's face.

If God appreciates the face and gives a bumper harvest year, it will be enough for the family to eat for a year or two, but if it is a year of catastrophe, the harvest of the light one will be halved, and the heavy one will really have no harvest.

When it came to a catastrophe year, the parents were willing to sell it if they gave one or two halves of silver, those children cried and begged their parents not to sell themselves, and the parents took the money and turned around without hesitation.

Gu Huai'an's face turned red when she asked, and he was speechless for a long time.

"I can understand my brother's desire to reduce the burden on the family, but forget about this one." Gu Changning turned around and continued to cut cabbage leaves, and said, "Brother, you just go to study, with me at home, with me, I will definitely take care of my mother, and I will raise him after my brother is born, just like the boy in the New Year's painting!" ”

"You? What can you do? Gu Huai'an looked at his sister's immature little face with an extremely inappropriate seriousness, the depression in his heart dissipated, and he couldn't help laughing, "You are only eight years old, what can you think of?" ”

"You're twelve, have you come up with anything?" Gu Changning snorted, and replied without showing any mercy to his brother, "Anyway, the family has not reached the point of being poor and white now, you just need to continue studying, if you really want to help me share a little burden, then you can help others copy books, and you can earn a few pennies anyway!" ”

Gu Changning had an idea and came up with this idea, and immediately felt that the job of copying books was very suitable!

First, this copy can deepen the impression, second, it can be exchanged for silver two subsidies to supplement the family, third, it can be used as a practice of calligraphy, and fourth...... You can also borrow books for free!

You must know that books are very expensive, a thin one costs several taels of silver, and their family can't afford it, so almost all the books in the family are copied by Gu Huai'an after borrowing from his master.

If you can copy a book that the master's house doesn't have in the bookstore, then it's really worth it.

Gu Changning secretly calculated in his heart and found that this was really a good thing to kill four birds with one stone!

"Copying books?" Gu Huai'an frowned, he had never thought of making money by selling words, and he was a little reluctant at this time.

"What? Don't want to? If you don't want to, forget it, anyway, I won't agree to any other way to make money except for this. After thinking about it, Gu Changning added, "My mother won't agree either!" ”

Gu Huai'an was silent.

He knew that there were also students in the private school who made money by helping others copy books, and when Gu Shan was still there before, he didn't have to worry about the livelihood of his family, so although he knew that someone relied on this to supplement the family, he never thought about it.

Now listening to my sister, I can't help but feel a little moved.

Of course, he still wanted to study, because he knew that he was not the material for farming.

Although Gu Shan is burly and powerful like an ox, he seems to have inherited his mother's bloodline, his body is slender, his appearance is clear, and he looks like a weak scholar, it is difficult for people to associate him with the rough man who farms.

Gu Changning saw that he seemed to be moved by his own words, and continued to make persistent efforts to predict: "As long as my brother is admitted to Xiucai, the imperial court will have a food subsidy, and if you can be admitted to the lifting of people, you can also be exempted from taxes, although the five acres of land in the family have been exempted from taxes, but after the birth of my younger brother, these five acres of land are not enough for our family to live in, if we can be admitted to the lifting people, we can hang the fields under our names, so that we can support ourselves just by collecting rent, so this book, my brother still has to continue to read!" ”

After a pause, I remembered that some people failed the exam for many years, so I hurriedly said: "Of course, I know that it is very difficult to lift people, in case my brother can't pass the exam, and he comes back to open a private school to be a gentleman, that's also good!" That's what my grandfather did. ”

There is another reason why she will work so hard to persuade her brother to continue studying.

In the last life, after my brother gave up studying, he worked as a handyman in a restaurant in the town, but he only got half of his salary, and the boss still had an expression of not wanting to pull it down, which really made her angry.

At the beginning, he said that he would give 300 wen a month, but the shopkeeper saw that his brother was still young, and he knew the situation in their family, so he deliberately deceived him, and let him do a lot of work, but on the day he received his salary, he was only willing to give 150 wen.

At that time, my mother was taking the medicine prescribed by the village doctor, although her body was a little better, but because she was red in the early days, and she had been immersed in the news of her father's death, she was depressed all day long, but she lost weight, as if a gust of wind could blow away, and this medicine was even more afraid to be broken, and my brother could only accept this salary.

When Gu Huai'an said that she was going out to find a job, she didn't have to think about it, and she guessed that her brother must have the idea of going to do chores for others, but in this way, didn't she take the old path of the previous life?

So she must dispel this idea of her brother!

Gu Huai'an listened to Gu Changning's words and nodded thoughtfully.

Shaoqing, as if he wanted to make some decision, replied seriously: "What you said Ning Ning is that I can go and copy books for people to supplement my family, and I still have to go to this school." ”

Gu Changning saw that his brother had finally figured it out, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and nodded again and again: "Well, brother, it's good if you can figure it out!" ”