Chen grabbed Du Jinning's arm, because she was too excited, and her strength was a little strong: "Okay, good writing, good writing, good writing, no wrong writing......" As she spoke, her tears fell down in a stream.

"Mother......" Chen's mood, Du Jinning can guess some of it, she sighed secretly and diverted Chen's attention, "You scratched me." ”

"Huh?" Chen hurriedly let go of his hand, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, my mother didn't mean it." He rolled up Du Jinning's sleeve again, wanting to see if he was scratched.

"It's fine." Du Jinning withdrew his arm and asked, "Mother, how do you see my story?" ”

"Okay, that's well written." Chen's thinking returned to the novel, and his gaze at Du Jinning was a little weird, "My mother can't believe that you wrote it." ”

No, although she had only read a few lines, the story was very attractive from the beginning, and the language was fluent, the characters were vivid, and the words and sentences were so subtle that it was hard to imagine that it was written by a newly literate and self-taught ten-year-old child.

Du Jinning didn't expect that Chen could read and write, and he could also read articles, so he thought that Chen was so foolish that he didn't think so much about it before taking out the novel. Seeing Chen's suspicions at this time, she quickly lowered her voice and pretended to be mysterious: "Mother, I'll tell you a secret." ”

"What's the secret?" Chen also lowered his voice cooperatively and leaned his head over, but his heart turned back and forth, and he always thought that Du Jinning was going to tell her something supernatural, such as Wenqu Xingtuomeng's dream that only had this story in her hand, and so on.

"I've read all the books that my uncle bought." Du Jinning said.

Du Chensheng's eldest son, Du Yunyi, because he had no talent for reading and the family did not have the financial resources to support a few scholars, dropped out of school after Du Chensheng found out that Du Yuncheng had a talent for reading, and followed Du Chensheng to the county to learn to be an accountant. His biggest hobby is reading novels, and when he has spare money, he will buy two to read. He was also filial to Du Chensheng, knowing that his father did not go out often because of his poor health, and he disdained to chat and gossip with those ignorant villagers in the village, and he was very bored at home, so he brought back the words he had read to relieve his father's boredom. So Du Jinning has this statement, which is reasonable.

Chen was taken aback, and his first reaction was Du Jinning's safety: "Are you crazy? Is that what you can touch? How did you get the book? ”

Du Jinning pointed to the passage at the back: "The windows of the main house are always wide open, and the storybooks are placed in front of the windows. I walked around here in the evening, sneaked a copy, crouched in the corner and read it before putting it back. You were working in the kitchen, my grandparents were eating, and no one noticed me. ”

"You skinny boy, why are you so unreassuring?" Chen was angry, but he was reluctant to hit Du Jinning, glaring at her and wanting to say two cruel words, but thinking that this kid had experienced two lives and deaths in a few days, he was distressed, and finally had to warn, "You can't do this in the future, you know?" You touched your cousin's book, and you were punished to kneel and lose half your life. If it was known that you stole your grandfather's book, would you still be alive? You're going to die, and your mother and your sister won't be able to live......"

As she spoke, she hugged Du Jinning in her arms and cried "woo".

"Mother, don't cry." Du Jinning also panicked. She is a tight-skinned person, not afraid of beating and scolding, but she is the most unbearable tears of her relatives.

She stretched out her hand and patted Chen's back: "I'm not going, I'm not going again, don't cry, mother." "And unkindly scare Chen," the second aunt is next door, if she hears it, she will cause trouble. ”

Chen listened and quickly stopped crying. She wiped away her tears and looked at Du Jinning with red eyes: "Really not going?" ”

"Well, I don't want to go, I swear." Du Jinning's little face was serious, and he half raised his hand.

Chen gave up at this time, took the two pieces of paper again, and his face was full of pride: "My son is smarter than others, but he can write such a story just by knowing a few words." ”

Du Jinning accepted the praise in full and asked Chen, "Do you think my story can be sold?" ”

Chen thought for a moment and nodded: "Yes, surely." As he spoke, his face was full of sorrow, "Before your father's death, he also bought me two books, and your father still had many books, but later your grandfather took them all." ”

Du Jin didn't dare to let her mind run over there anymore, and quickly pulled it back: "Mother, can you take me to the county?" There are many literate people in the county, and there are also many people who are willing to spend money on books. ”

Chen carefully rubbed the piece of paper with his rough hands, and felt very guilty in his heart. Du Jinning is only ten years old. Such a big child, who doesn't just care about eating and playing stupidly, being naughty, where will he go through life and death several times, and now he has to do everything he can to make money for his family? It's all useless for herself.

Thinking of Du Fangfei's marriage, she couldn't refuse Du Jinning's heart. She raised her head and nodded at Du Jinning: "Okay, when you get well, my mother will take you to the county." ”

"I'm all right." Du Jinning jumped up from the bed and jumped twice on the ground, "Mother, look, I'm so good." ”

"No, raise it for two more days." Chen insisted on this, grabbed Du Jinning alive, stuffed her back into the quilt, and a smile appeared on his face.

In the next two days, Du Jinning was still resting at home, pondering another novel by the way. If that "Ah Bao" can be sold, she will have to write another one when she returns.

Two days passed quickly, Chen called Du Jinning to get up early in the morning, took her to the field under the pretext of taking her, and after leaving the village, he instructed the three sisters of Du Fangfei: "You go to the field by yourself, be careful." I took my brother to the county. ”

Everyone was amazed. Du Fangling asked first: "What are you going to do in the county?" As he spoke, his eyes turned to Du Jinning, and there seemed to be dissatisfaction in his expression. She really listened that day, Du Jinning inquired about the affairs of the county, and today's Chen family went to the county, which must be related to Du Jinning.

"I'll tell you something later." Chen said lightly, took Du Jinning's hand and left, "Let's go." ”

Although the Chen family is gentle, they are very assertive people, and the three Du Fangling sisters are very obedient to her discipline. Seeing that she didn't say anything at this time, Du Fangling didn't dare to say anything, but just pouted: "It's mysterious, and I don't know what I'm doing." ”

"If you can let us know, my mother will naturally say it. Since it didn't say it, it's inconvenient to let us know. Du Fangfei persuaded, "Okay, let's go to the field quickly." ”

……

The county seat is twelve miles away from Taohua Village, and the distance is not far or close. It doesn't take much effort to ride in a carriage, but if you walk with your feet, especially for a person like Du Jinning, who doesn't walk fast with small steps and needs to rest for a while, it will take a lot of time. By the time the two of them walked to the county, it was close to noon.