People can be poor or have no money, but they must not be without knowledge.

But now that there is no room for the family to be fed and clothed, how can they be sent to study.

Ruyi felt a sense of guilt in her heart, no matter what, she must send them to study after a while, Ruyi said silently in her heart.

"Do you miss school?" Ruyi tilted her head to look at the brothers.

"What is studying?" Xiaobao is still too young, after Liu gave birth to him, he was busy with food every day, and he couldn't even cope with his livelihood, no one would mention daydreams like studying, so Xiaobao looked at Ruyi ignorantly.

Ruyi was shocked by his innocent eyes, he was still too young, and he didn't know why he had to suffer hunger day after day before, and he didn't know why some people could be high-ranking Zhumen wine and meat smelly, and they wanted to be frozen bones on the side of the road, and they didn't know that there was a way to change their fate, how innocent was the child? Ruyi sighed softly in his heart.

But Dabao had heard his father talk about studying and taking the imperial examination before, and he knew that he could become an official by studying.

"Sister, can you become an official after studying?"

"No, studying is not necessarily an official, many people don't have to be an official after studying, unless they are particularly good at studying!"

"So what is a special ability to study?" Dabao frowned in thought.

"It's that you can think quickly, the content in the book can draw inferences from one another, and then through layers of selection, you can get the first and second place in every exam, and you need to be able to endure hardships and study very hard." Ruyi summed it up simply, hoping that he would understand it.

"Is that if I get the first place in the exam, I can become an official?"

"Do you really want to be an official?" Ruyi looked him squarely in the eyes.

"If I become an official, our family doesn't have to go hungry, my sister doesn't have to work so hard, and my mother doesn't have to beg for food everywhere, then I want to be an official."

"Even if it's hard?"

"Then I'm not afraid, it's enough for me to work hard alone, you can all be happy, eat enough food and wear enough clothes, no matter how hard you work, I'm not afraid."

"Good boy, ambitious. But my sister told you, if you are an official, you don't want to protect our family, you want to protect the people under your jurisdiction, what you want to do is to let the farmers under your jurisdiction have food, so that they will not go hungry even in a famine year like now, and they will have a home, don't wander around begging like our family, then you are a hero in the eyes of your sister. ”

"And what is a hero?"

"It's the people who are admired and worshiped by many people and make us proud are heroes." Ruyi replied patiently.

"Then I'm going to be a hero."

"Xiaobao also wants to be a hero."

Ruyi smiled and touched the two furry heads.

"But we don't have the money to study...... Dabao was a little depressed, how poor his family was, he knew, and the light like stars in his eyes gradually dimmed.

"And what if my sister can let you study?" Ruyi couldn't bear to look at his disappointed appearance.

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, my sister won't lie to you."

"Then if I can really study, I must be the kind of official my sister said and be a hero."

"Then let's pull the hook, you write a letter of guarantee, and my sister will definitely let you study in the spring next year."

"Okay, but I can't write......"

"My sister can write, you don't have to write."

Ruyi found a rag, embroidered a few lines of words on it with a needle and thread, and handed it to Dabao.

"Where, here you go, keep it well, and when you study in the future, just write your name."

"Okay." Dabao took it cautiously, folded it and put it in his close-fitting pocket.

Liu was coming in from the gate of the courtyard, and in the afternoon, Liu was looking for some wild vegetables around.

Dabao was about to run over and tell Liu's sister about the promise he had made to let him study.

Ruyi hurriedly called Dabao.

"It's our secret, and we can't tell anyone."

"Okay then." Dabao was a little reluctant.

Ruyi doesn't want Liu to know yet, there are still too many things, and it's not a good thing to put too much pressure on Liu's heart.

Idle, a family of four began to smash chestnuts, there was no suitable guy, just smashed with stones, after smashing open, take out the chestnuts, Xu Zihao came back to help, because the weather was very good, Li was also helped out, basking in the sun.

A few people were busy, talking and laughing, very lively.

Li looked very envious, he didn't have such a blessing, he could have so many children, and he didn't have such a good body.

The excitement here infected the Li family, and even she felt that she was not only in good spirits today, but also a lot more comfortable.

This yard hasn't been so lively for many years.

After the family moved in, Hao Yanzi became much happier, they used to be silent, but now they look like children.

The sun is getting late, Liu goes into the house to make dinner, and tomorrow the children will go to the city, and there will be noodles at home, and they will take some cakes to eat on the way.

Liu boiled brown rice porridge as usual. He baked some bread and put it on the table and ate it.

Ruyi drank porridge, it was really hard to swallow, as long as Liu's cooking these days, almost all of them were brown rice porridge, drinking it was really pulling the throat, but the taste of hunger was really uncomfortable, Ruyi endured it and endured it, at this moment I felt that I couldn't bear it, watching Xiaobao eat porridge and eat fragrantly, I added the remaining half of my bowl to Xiaobao.

"Sister, why don't you eat it?" Xiaobao is a little strange.

"Sister is not hungry, you should eat quickly, eat more."

"But this porridge is not to your liking?" Liu asked.

"No, I'm not hungry."

"Then you eat more bread."

"Mother, you eat more, you are still pregnant with a child." Liu's abdomen has been a little bulging recently, and he is not very dexterous in his work.

"Okay, my mother knows." Liu touched his stomach with a happy face.

Although this is his fifth child, there are too many children.

Xiaobao didn't know what pregnancy meant, but Dabao was very happy when he heard this.

"Is my mother pregnant with a baby?" Raised his head from the bowl and asked.

"Yes, my mother is pregnant with a baby, do you want my mother to give you a brother or a sister?" Liu caressed Dabao's head.

"Then give me a sister! My brother already has a little treasure, and I will love her very much. Dabao said excitedly.

"Xiaobao, do you want your mother to give you a brother or a sister?" Ruyi asked Xiaobao.

"I also want a sister, I also want a sister......" Xiaobao understood when he heard that he had a child, looked at Ruyi anxiously, and asked himself with his eyes.

"Okay, you both want a sister, I want a younger brother, if you give birth to a sister, you two, give birth to a younger brother to me......" Ruyi laughed.

"That's not good, my brother and I want it too." Dabao hurriedly argued.

"Yes, I want my brother too." Xiaobao also said anxiously, for fear that he would give birth to a younger brother and return to Ruyi.

"Whether it's a brother or a sister, it's all our good babies." Liu held his stomach.

The family happily discussed what to name the baby and refused to go to sleep until late at night.

Ruyi lay on the bed, thinking about selling chestnuts tomorrow, and was willing to fall asleep after thinking about it.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Ruyi got up. I'm going to sell chestnuts today.