Du Jinning heard that Du Chensheng promised to withdraw from his family, and he was overjoyed. She raised her head and smiled at Du Yinsheng, and said sweetly, "Uncle, please come in." ”

Du Yinsheng touched her head and stepped into the house.

The things in the house are simple and easy to see at a glance. Originally, Du Yinsheng, as a male elder, should not have entered his nephew's daughter-in-law's house. But he had something to say to Du Jinning, for fear that Du Chensheng would think too much, and it was not good to ask Du Jinning to go to him, so he had to come over. Besides, the people of the peasant family have only a few houses, and they really can't pay too much attention to it, and the Chen family is not at home, so there is no need to avoid it.

He sat down on the chair in front of the table and looked at Du Jinning with a very kind gaze: "Why don't you go to the school today?" ”

Du Jinning was taken aback, then lowered his head, and said, "My mother said that my body is not well, and told me not to run out." ”

"Oh." Du Yinsheng coughed lightly in embarrassment, and asked again, "How is your body?" ”

Du Jinning nodded: "It's almost good." ”

"That's not in a hurry, it's not too late to go after you've completely recovered your body." Du Yinsheng said, took out a piece of meat wrapped in lotus leaves from a cloth bag of fashion sundries that he usually goes to the school, and handed it to Du Jinning, "This is the mutton that I asked the butcher in the village to buy in the neighboring village, it is the most nourishing, you asked your mother to chop it up and mix it in the porridge to boil it for you to eat." Meat in winter is not easy to spoil, so you can eat it in several meals and recuperate slowly. ”

"This ......" Du Jinning stood up, his face a little panicked.

She has been here for seven or eight days, and she knows that the living conditions here are not good. The conditions of Du Chensheng's family in the village are good, and they only eat meat once in ten days and a half months. Du Yinsheng is the only one in his family, and the shackles in the village are not high, Du Yunchang spends a lot of money on studying, and he often takes medicine, even if he even pays the income from the fields planted by the tenants for others, it is just to maintain a balance between income and expenditure, and his life is worse than Du Chensheng's, where is it good for him to break the bank?

"Take it." Du Yinsheng smiled, "Don't worry, if you don't want to owe your uncle and grandfather favors, you can take care of your body now, and when you grow up, you can buy a piece of meat to honor your uncle and grandfather." Don't you plan to do it in the future? ”

"No, no, no." Du Jinning hurriedly waved his hand, and finally took the piece of meat, bowed to Du Yinsheng, "Thank you, grandfather." ”

Seeing that it was getting late, and the Chen family was about to come back, Du Yinsheng didn't stay long, so he stood up and said, "Then you take care of your body, and when your body is well, you will go to the school to have a look." He nodded and was about to go out.

"Uncle, grandfather." Du Jinning hurriedly grabbed his shirt, "Can I, can I borrow your book to take a look?" ”

Du Yin turned around and lowered his head in surprise, looked at Du Jinning, and was about to say, "You are illiterate", but suddenly thought that Du Jinning was beaten because she reached out and touched Du Jinshou's book. Presumably, this child has an unusual desire for books, which makes him very happy.

Du Yinsheng immediately nodded: "That's no problem." He opened a private school, and naturally there would be no shortage of teaching materials for the Mengtong children at hand, and it would be no problem to send a copy of the "Three Character Classic" to Du Jinning.

"I listened to and listened to the brothers in the village say that they learned the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", and also learned the "Thousand Character Text", can my uncle and grandfather lend me these three books? I'm not going to crumple and break, and I'm not going to be seen. After a while, I'll pay you back. Du Jinning was not satisfied, and began to order again.

Du Yinsheng laughed and said, "You don't need to pay it back, just give it to you as your uncle's grandfather." ”

"Really?" Du Jinning raised his bright eyes and looked at Du Yinsheng, his eyes full of surprise.

Looking at the child's eager gaze, Du Yinsheng nodded vigorously. He thought for a while, took out a string of copper coins from his arms, and handed them to Du Jinning: "You can keep these money in a hurry." If you want to use money in the future, just tell your uncle and grandfather, don't force it. ”

Du Jinning looked at the string of copper coins, then looked at Du Yinsheng, and bowed to him deeply: "Thank you, uncle, grandfather." Jin Ning will have a future in the future, and he will definitely repay his uncle's kindness tenfold and hundredfold. ”

Hearing this, Du Yinchang sighed.

This is a child with a pure heart and a sense of gratitude, if Du Chensheng could be good to her at the beginning, how good it would be. They poured their efforts into supporting her to study, and when she has a career in the future, can she be filial to her elders and care for her brothers and sisters? The prosperity of the Du family can be seen completely.

But it was ruined by a prejudice.

He stuffed the copper coin into Du Jinning's hand and advised, "After dinner, you come over and get the book." With that, he turned and went home.

Du Jinning counted the string of copper plates, a full hundred dollars. Her eyes wandered around the room, tapping on the wall, and finally found a loose brick. She pulled out the brick, knocked out a section, put the copper coin in it first, and then put the remaining half of the brick in it, and saw that it was the same as before, and saw that there was nothing wrong with it, and nodded with satisfaction.

After a while, the Chen family and the others returned. Because the next day was the market day, the Chen family picked a lot of cabbage, radishes and other vegetables in their burdens, so that Du Yunnian could sell them.

At this time, the main house was also cooking, Du Jinning took advantage of the Chen family and their busy work in the stove, slipped a cigarette to the big room, looked for Du Yinsheng to take the book back, hid under the padded jacket and ran back.

As soon as she put the book under the pillow, Du Fangling came in and asked with a straight face, "Where did you just go?" ”

Du Jinning shrunk his neck: "No, I didn't go anywhere." ”

"Dare to lie!" Du Fangling walked to the side of the bed and lifted the pillow unexpectedly, "What is this?" ”

"Ah, you ......" Du Jinning looked out of the door defensively, quickly covered the three books with a pillow again, and said in a low voice, "This is given to me by my uncle, and he told me not to let people see it." She didn't want to hide it from Chen and the others, but she was afraid that they didn't tell the door.

Du Fangling looked at her for a while, then turned her head and went out, and closed the door with her hand.

But the next moment, she pushed the door open again, and the expression on her face was both surprised and joyful: "Brother Ning, just now my grandmother came to say that the eldest sister's family affairs have been withdrawn." ”

"Really?" Du Jinning was busy hiding the books he took out and put them in the quilt, and when he heard this, he raised his head in surprise.

Du Fangling nodded: "Really." When we came back, we met my grandmother and my second uncle and second aunt going out with things with a calm face. I didn't know what it was at the time. Now that I think about it, it should be a dowry. As she spoke, she happily jumped on the spot, "Great, Uncle Grandpa really has a way." ”

Du Jinning's heart was relieved, and the stone that was pressed on his heart finally fell to the ground.