"Alas, your second uncle is really unlucky today, when he went to the city to sell vegetables, he was stolen money, and when he chased the thief, he was beaten and injured, I asked your second aunt to cook soft and some porridge and send it to the room for him to eat." Du Chensheng said.

Du Jinning looked surprised and asked, "Is the injury serious?" Don't bother, right? ”

"It's okay, skin trauma, just take care of it for a few days."

Niu scolded over there: "That thief is really tens of millions, even if he steals money, he even beats people, this kind of person will definitely go out and be killed by lightning, the whole family will not end well, and there are rotten sores from head to toe......"

Du Chensheng saw that the more Niu scolded him, the more out of line, he shouted lightly: "Okay, don't say a word, eat." ”

Niu Shi closed his mouth and lowered his head to eat.

After dinner, when he returned to the room, Chen asked Du Jinning, "Where did you go at noon?" Your fourth sister didn't see you when she came back. ”

"I'm reading at the fourth uncle's." Du Jinning's face did not change and said, "Tell the fourth sister not to come back at noon in the future, I'm fine now." ”

In the past few days, after Chen returned from the field, he went to the kitchen to help, and after eating, Du Fangfei and the sisters went back to the room to rest. Although their rooms are now separated, there is only a thin layer of wood, and the beds in the two small rooms are close to each other, and no matter how small the voice is, she can hear it, so she has no chance to say anything to Du Jinning when her stomach is full.

This time finally asked Du Fangfei to take the two younger sisters away, and found such an opportunity for the two to be alone, she asked Du Jinning in a low voice: "Brother Ning, your grandfather told you to study, what are you going to do in the future?" ”

According to Du Chensheng and Niu's mercenary nature, if they paid money for Du Jinning to study, they would definitely get a tenfold and hundredfold return. If they don't take a test for a child or even come back, they will never give up.

But Du Jinning is a girl, how can she participate in the imperial examination? But if they spent their money, but they didn't even want to participate in the children's test, the two old guys would have to eat their mother and daughter alive.

So when they heard that Du Chensheng was willing to send Du Jinning to study, Du Fangling and Du Fanghui, who didn't know the inside story, were overjoyed, but she and Du Fangfei were heavy in their hearts and didn't know what to do.

However, if she couldn't refuse this at the time, even if she could, could she really refuse? Du Fangfei's marriage is just around the corner, Du Fangling is also older, and she has to say goodbye in a year, she can't take care of Du Jinning's future affairs, so she just ignores her daughter's marriage in front of her, right? The backs of her hands and palms were full of meat, and she couldn't do such a thing.

So in the past two days, she has acquiesced in this matter, and has been thinking of a way in her spare time, hoping to come up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

But she thought about it for two days, and her head hurt when she thought about it, and she didn't come up with anything. It was Du Fangfei who reminded her, saying that now Du Jinning has grown up and has a smart brain, maybe she can come up with a way, which is why she has this question.

"Mother, don't worry." Du Jinning winked at her, "I have a way, don't worry, just look at it, there will be results for the New Year at the latest." Don't ask just yet. ”

Chen didn't know why, but Du Fangling's voice was already outside the door, and the wall had ears, so it was better not to say anything about the plan.

As long as Du Jinning said that there was a way, she would be at peace in her heart. Anyway, there are at least a few years to plan for this, but not this time, so let's do it again next time.

……

The next day, Du Jinning was still at home writing a script.

In the last volume, she broke the chapter in the most critical place where Wen Ruo sold Dongting Hong. One volume is only 3,000 words, and Guan Jiaze has already finished reading the book when he thinks about it in one night. If he likes it, he will ask Zhang Hongwen to come to her to ask for a book tomorrow at the latest, but it is not ruled out that he will like the book until today.

Although in her plan, this book was not ready to be given to Guan Jiaze so quickly, but it was always right to prepare it early. Because her family will be back tomorrow.

After writing thousands of words in the first two books, Du Jinning has become more proficient in the use of traditional characters. In pursuit of speed, she spent half the morning writing the draft in simplified Chinese and then transcribing it in traditional Chinese in the afternoon. By evening, she was almost done with the book.

"Brother Ning, is Brother Ning at home?" A familiar voice came from outside the door.

Here it comes!

Du Jinning was overjoyed, and hurriedly put away the manuscript and the four treasures of the study room under the bed, and then opened the door: "Brother Zhang, are you here?" Come in. ”

Zhang Hongwen entered the house, first glanced outside, and saw that the Niu family did not come out of the house, so he asked Du Jinning in a low voice: "You went to the academy yesterday?" ”

Du Jinning nodded: "Yes." ”

Zhang Hongwen smiled: "Young Master Guan Qi asked me to urge you to see how your next book is written." ”

"He's done?"

Zhang Hongwen nodded: "You don't know, the dialogue book of the seventh young master is the most fascinating." As long as he meets what he likes, he will read it without eating or sleeping. Your book is not long, he read it last night, and he came to me early this morning, so I had to come to you at noon. ”

Speaking of this, he laughed: "I said that you didn't write so fast, and you can't get a new volume when you come back, so he gave up." When I came back, he told me to urge you to write, and it would be better for him to see the next volume tomorrow. He said that if he could write it tomorrow, he would have five hundred dollars more. He looked at Du Jinning with admiration, "Your book seems to be really well written." ”

Du Jinning was very happy.

Of course, she was not for the extra five hundred dollars, nor for Zhang Hongwen's praise, but because things were developing in the direction she expected.

"I'll try my best." "But it could take two or three days." ”

"There's no hurry, write slowly, and the most important thing is to write wonderfully."

Zhang Hongwen also did not want Du Jinning to cause the quality to decline in order to rush the work. Guan Jiaze's vision has always been very high, if Du Jinning wrote the words shoddy in order to write them earlier, Guan Jiaze would not only not study the next volume, but his impression of Du Jinning would also deteriorate.

He and Du Jinning are from the same village, and he can get acquainted with Guan Jiaze, because he borrowed Du Jinning's light this time, and he doesn't want Du Jinning to be looked down upon by Guan Jiaze.

"Brother Zhang, I went to see your academy today, it's really magnificent." Du Jinning said in a very envious tone, "If only I could let you go to your academy to study." ”

As soon as he said this, Zhang Hongwen was very proud: "It's not." This is the Guanda people in Beijing and several Lishui officials jointly funded the construction, the worst of the gentlemen in it are all Lishan Shengsheng, there are several people, and the most famous is Mr. Yuan Xiuzhu, he is a jinshi, after the return to serve, half of the academy was funded by him. It stands to reason that this academy should have been Mr. Yuan as the mountain chief, but Mr. Yuan was too old and unwilling to work hard, so he refused and elected the current mountain chief. There are thousands of books in the library of our college, which were donated by these officials. I didn't stop at noon, so I went to the library to read. ”