When he returned home and closed the door, Qin cleaned his hands and carefully took out the book and put it in front of Xiao Nuan, looking at her expectantly. Xiao Nuan cleared her throat and read to a column of traditional Chinese characters, "Learn and write first." Zi said: 'When you learn it, don't you also say it?' Have friends come from afar, are you happy? People don't know and are not ashamed, aren't they also gentlemen? ’......”

"That's it, that's it! I've heard this, I've heard your dad read it!" Qin's fingers were trembling, pointing to a word in the book and asking, "What do you read about this word?" ”

This simple, "people! ”

"That's right, that's right!" These were the few words that Qin Shi recognized, and she pointed to one more and asked, "What about this?" ”

This time it is a very complicated traditional Chinese character "樂", Xiao Nuan really can't recognize it if she doesn't guide the context, she reads it word by word, "Happy, happy and happy." ”

Qin Shi and Xiaocao's heads squeezed into the book and stared carefully for a long time, and then when they looked up at Xiao Nuan, their eyes flashed with stars. Xiao Nuan suddenly felt that his image had suddenly risen several times.

As a highly educated modern person, there is nothing to be proud of in such a trivial matter as breaking away from the ranks of illiterates, Xiao Nuan nodded calmly, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl.

Who would have thought, Xiaocao's eyes wandered around the paper he bought back twice, and suddenly asked, "How can my sister copy books without a pen?" There are more than a dozen pens hanging on Daddy's desk. ”

The writing brushes used by the ancients were divided into large, medium and small models in terms of models; The varieties of hair are divided into three categories: hard, soft and both, and each category is distinguished according to the different hairs used in production, such as wolf's hair, mountain horse, cow's ear, rat's whisker, mountain hare, deer brush, etc. The Chen family is poor, but Chen Zumo is poor and exquisite, and there is a row of large, medium and small soft and hard pens on the desk. Xiao Nuan didn't even have one now, and suddenly, her image was cut in half.

"Twenty a day!" Qin Shi was also anxious, "How can I write without a pen, do you want to buy it now?" Xiao Nuan, you only know the words and can't write, how long does this book have to be copied, and it won't be ten days and a half months to copy, right? Isn't that a few hundred texts? Let's either go to the bookstore and buy this book, or we will die. ”

The glorious image was cut away, and she couldn't help laughing, "If you can't use it, I'm sure I can copy it in three days!" ”

"Then write a word to me first?" Xiaocao tilted her little head and looked at her sister.

Xiao Nuan looked at the incomparably complex traditional Chinese characters in the book, and she was really a little confused.

I knew it! Xiaocao sighed like an adult, and hung the mud cry around his neck, "Mother, I'm going to play with Brother Da Niu?" ”

"Go ahead, come back early for dinner." Qin sat at the table and looked at the books and papers, worried.

Xiao Nuan's eyes turned and he had an idea!

"Mother, can you use the inkstone and ink strip you married?"

Because Chen Zumo is a scholar, the Qin family added the four treasures of the study to his daughter's dowry. However, although Chen Zumo used the Qin family's silver, he disdained to use the Qin family's dowry, and in the past ten years, the paper and brush do not know when the disaster is gone, but the inkstone and ink are still there. I brought it back the other day when I moved my things.

Qin nodded, "What should I do?" ”

"I'm going to find a pen! My mother boiled some hot water first and waited for me to come back. Xiao Nuan ran out of the door, went to the place where the straw branches were stacked at the edge of the village, picked up a few thick and sturdy chicken feathers, ran back and washed them, and cut a diagonal hole in the root of the chicken feathers with a knife.

After Qin boiled the hot water, she soaked the chicken feathers in warm water to soften them, and then began to grind the ink. Qin watched Xiao Nuan take out the chicken feathers from the water and shake them off, soaked the chicken feather tube into the ink and pinched it, then took it out, opened the paper, and put on a posture!

Qin's heart followed the pen that Xiao Nuan lifted and put it down, and then lifted it again.

Because Xiao Nuan didn't write it...... The chicken feathers scratched and stained the paper......

Xiao Nuan smiled dryly, "Mistakes, mistakes." But I think it works, I'll try again. ”

"Okay, you try slowly, my mother will clean up." A piece of paper and a penny, the Qin family couldn't stand it anymore, and couldn't bear to hit his daughter, so he turned around and walked out to be busy with trivial matters.

Inside the house, Xiao Nuan, who was lying on the table, tried two pieces of paper before finding the right strength and pen posture, and officially began to copy the book. For those who are accustomed to using a signature pen, it is not difficult to master the use of a quill pen, but the difficulty is to copy traditional Chinese characters that look like they know each other, but it is very difficult to write.

Xiao Nuan is a patient and persevering person, otherwise he would not be able to develop a large customer with problems into a VIP customer who contributes to profits when he was in the company. She held chicken feathers dipped in ink, and was engrossed in writing traditional characters, copying page after page.

She didn't stop until her fingers were sore, and she couldn't see clearly. This chicken feather is not as comfortable as holding a refill in his hand, and he has to improve it, Xiao Nuan turned his sore arms and neck, and suddenly saw the two people poked around him, and jumped up in fright.

"Mother, Xiaocao, when did you come in?"

Qin looked at Xiao Nuan's neatly written words in surprise, "This is really what you wrote, how can you write it so well!" ”

"My sister writes much better than my father, my sister is going to take the top prize!" It's not crooked, it's all square, it's just amazing!

"It's a pity that our Great Zhou Dynasty doesn't take the female champion, otherwise my Xiaonuan will definitely be able to get in!"

“......“

“......“

After a praising was smashed, Xiao Nuan looked at her with a smile and wrote it down one by one, at most it could only be counted as neat words, raised her head and said seriously, "I can't let others know about what I can write!" ”

"I can't say it-" Qin and Xiaocao opened their mouths regretfully at the same time, and the list of objects they each wanted to show off was pulled out.

Xiao Nuan coughed, "Isn't it amazing that I can write?" ”

The two of them nodded like pounded garlic.

"If the Chen family knows, will they want to get me back?"

Definitely! Qin and Xiaocao panicked.

scared her mother and sister like this, Xiao Nuan couldn't help it, and accepted it when she saw it, "So, I can write by myself, right?" ”

The two of them nodded immediately.

"Mother doesn't say anything, and Xiaocao doesn't say it either." Qin said excitedly, "Xiao Nuan will learn to settle accounts in the future, and she will definitely be able to find a good in-law to marry better than your second aunt, my mother is relieved, rest assured." ”

Xiaocao grinned too.

"It's to recruit a better son-in-law, not to find a mother-in-law." Xiao Nuan corrected her mother's statement, and saw that she had such a big reaction to literacy, so she decided, "Let's eat first, and then I will teach you both to read, and we must both be able to read and write." ”

Xiaocao opened its mouth again.

Qin immediately waved his hand, "My mother is old and stupid, and she can't learn." ”

Xiao Nuan pursed her lips, "Mother, in the future, our family will have to rely on the two of us to support it, how can you keep accounts if you don't know how to write, how can we recognize the land deed when we buy land?" You can't let me read it in front of outsiders, you can't always rely on your second uncle, right? In case the Chen family knows that I am literate......"

"Mother's Study!" Qin Shi immediately nodded, "Mother learns word by word, you must learn it!" ”

Xiao Nuan's nose was sour and she wanted to cry, the Chen family couldn't wait for them to die, how could they take her back. She said this to let her mother and Xiaocao develop a sense of confidentiality, and don't talk about things at home in the future.

After a simple dinner, it was dark, and the mother and daughter sat in the courtyard and watched the moon for a while, and then they were driven into the tent curtain in the house by mosquitoes, and they went to sleep after arranging the next day's itinerary.

Early the next morning, Han San's fat family came to find Xiao Nuan's fat boy, Han Daye, and pounced again.