"Little girl, your answer is very good, the old man is very satisfied, say, what reward do you want? Do you want candy seeds? Or do you want money? ”

Ji Nansheng stroked his beard and asked Tao Sixi with a pleasant face.

Tao Sixi knew that she was right to repay the peach, so she couldn't hold back her excitement, she shook her head: "Sir, I don't want candy or money, I just want Mr. to teach me knowledge." ”

"Huh?" Ji Nansheng thought he had misheard.

looked at Tao Sixi again.

The little girl in front of her looked no more than ten years old, black and thin, and the coarse cloth clothes she was wearing were also patched, and she looked like a child from a poor family.

"Why do you want to be a scholar?" He couldn't help but ask.

Tao Sixi said with a serious face: "It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, candy seeds and silver coins will soon be eaten up, but knowledge can make people distinguish right from wrong and broaden their horizons." ”

"I once heard an old boy in the village say, there is Yan Ruyu in the book, there is a golden house in the book, although I am a woman, but I also want to seek knowledge, there will always be a place to use in the future, ask Mr. to be perfect!"

She took a step back, folded her hands, and bowed down.

Ji Nansheng narrowed his eyes, and the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were full of appreciation.

I never imagined that in this poor and remote place, I could meet such a smart, studious and motivated female doll.

"Okay, I promise you!" He said.

Hearing his promise, Tao Sixi looked up in surprise.

"Sir, I still have a reluctant request, I also have a young brother at home, my father and mother are working outside, and most of my younger brothers are taken care of by me, please Mr. fulfillment, let me take my younger brother to study together!" She said again.

Ji Nansheng smiled, "Okay, the old man will fulfill your sister and brother!" ”

……

The spring rain fell overnight, and it was still raining the next morning.

After breakfast, the old Tao family couldn't work in the field, so they gathered in the canteen to smoke dry tobacco, gossip, and talk about the specific arrangements for spring ploughing after a period of time.

Except for Tao Dalan, who went into the mountains to pick mushrooms with a few sisters-in-law in the village early in the morning, the other women of the old Tao family came to the dining hall with needlework baskets and listened to the men's chatter while doing needlework.

Tao Sanxia obediently lay beside Ma and helped Ma thread the needle.

Tao Sixi and Tao Eryun sisters gathered together and whispered to discuss embroidery patterns, while Fan Shi played the soles of his shoes.

Zhu is an idler, sitting there knocking melon seeds, his eyes glancing around.

Sweeping to Fan's needlework basket, she suddenly came over.

He scooped up the two pieces of cloth that had been cut out and looked at them in front of him.

One is blue, and the other is autumnal.

"Sister-in-law, what are you going to sew?" Zhu asked curiously.

Fan Shi glanced at the two pieces of cloth and smiled: "Sewing the schoolbag." ”

"School bag?" Zhu's eyes lit up.

"Oh sister-in-law, you are so hearty, you actually gave me a Daming sewing schoolbag, that kid is solid, a schoolbag was not carried for two days to be dirty, I was thinking about sewing two more for him, so that I could change the shoulder, you will sew it to save my trouble......"

Zhu grabbed the two pieces of cloth and smiled with joy on his face.

"It's just that this autumn-colored cloth is too delicate, my family is a boy, and I can't carry this delicate schoolbag, sister-in-law, why don't you change the material?"

Fan's face flushed slightly, and he explained in a low voice: "Second brother and sister, if your Daming is short of a schoolbag, I'll sew another one for him when I go back, and the two pieces of cloth in your hand are what I prepared for Daping and the four girls." ”

Zhu was stunned for a moment.

Ma also stopped what he was doing, and turned his head to look at Fan's side: "The two of them don't study, what do they want to do with their schoolbags?" Waste that fabric, loser! ”