It was cold in the room.

The three-bedroom house was dark, cramped, cold and damp. This is the south, and there is no habit of building a kang, so everyone can only warm themselves around the charcoal basin in winter. Old man Du and the big house and the second room all have charcoal fires for heating, and the door is covered with thick cotton curtains. Only the third room has no charcoal fire, and the door is a thin wooden door that can breathe through the wind. Du Jinning took off his clothes and lay down on the bed, pulled the hard and thin quilt, and covered his body. It's just that it's not warm for half a day. She got up and got dressed, jumped dozens of times in the house, felt that her body was warm, and then went to bed, and did not dare to take off her clothes again, and covered it for a while before she felt better, and then took off the thin and hard torn cotton jacket and lay down.

She lay on the bed and thought quietly, and before she knew it, she fell asleep again.

An hour later, Du Jinning opened his eyes. She was awakened by hunger. She was now in the time to grow her body, and she was extremely hungry. It's just that it's only noon at this time, and they can't eat until the Chen family comes back in the evening. She couldn't lie on the bed, so she lifted the quilt and sat up.

She wanted to go to the school in the east of the village.

The original body was scolded by the elders in the family when he was young, and he developed a timid and cowardly temperament, and he was silent on weekdays. The only thing that went out of the ordinary was touching my cousin's book the other day. Because she longed to study, when she wasn't helping her mother with her work, the most common thing she did was to wander around the school in the east of the village. Du Yinsheng, the eldest lady of the Du family, was born as a child, and he has a very high status and status in the village. This has become the existence of the original admiration, and he believes that his uncle's grandfather can have such a status, which is related to his fame in studying. Therefore, he is very eager to study, and wants to change his situation in this way.

And Du Jinning, the traverser, agrees with the original body's point of view. Everything is inferior, only reading is high. Even though this is a dynasty that Du Jinning is not familiar with, the social order is very similar to ancient China, and scholars have a very lofty status in society.

However, in favor of the favor, her thoughts are different from the original owner. Her gender is a woman, if she really goes to take the imperial examination, once she is discovered, it will be a crime of bullying the king, so she will never be able to participate in this imperial examination. If you want to study, you just want to take this opportunity to provoke conflicts in the family, so that Sanfang can break away from the Du family. You must know that studying in this era is very expensive. The reason why the Yao family always provokes trouble is nothing more than that they are worried that the second elder of the Du family will change their attitude and let her study. In this way, it is not easy for Yao's elm-headed son to study; Second, she can also take advantage of the opportunity of literacy to earn some money. Now that she is too young and thin, she doesn't have a penny on her, so how easy is it to do business or do something else? Taking the opportunity of studying, getting a set of four treasures of the study, helping people copy books, or writing one or two books to sell, at least can change the situation of being poor and white.

Du Fangfei had to sell himself for a little medicine money, isn't he penniless?

Thinking of this, she didn't care about the cold outside, and went out with her neck bent.

It was already dusk, and there were no washers by the river. Du Jinning shrank his head and walked for a while, and only after crossing the river and walking for a while did his body feel warm.

She looked up and saw a field in front of her. It was winter, and all that was left in the field was the roots of the stubble that had been cut off and the golden yellow grass that had been piled up.

"At the beginning of people, nature is good, sex is similar, and Xi is far away......"

The sound of children reading could be heard from a distance.

Du Jinning followed the prestige and found that the sound came from a building that looked like an ancestral hall not far away. She was overjoyed and walked quickly towards the ancestral hall.

She did not dare to act recklessly, and did not enter through the main entrance of the ancestral hall, but circled around the ancestral hall, and finally found a more suitable window and looked inside.

I saw a group of boys from seven or eight years old to teenagers sitting at a table with a book in front of them. The eldest child sitting in the back lowered his head and looked at the book and read the words, while the younger one was shaking his head and reading aloud in unison.

Whether ancient or modern, there are always students who don't pay attention in class and like to look around.

Du Jinning was tiptoeing, trying to read the words on the book of the student closest to her, when she heard someone calling her name: "Du Jinning." ”

She looked up and met two pairs of dark eyes.

"Wang Yougen, Li Baoshu." A stern voice rang out.

As soon as the two children were agitated, they quickly turned their heads and sat down solemnly. Du Jinning also quickly shrank his body and squatted at the base of the wall under the window.

"Sir, it's Du Jinning. He was poking his head out of the window. A familiar voice rang out in the room.

Du Jinning bit his lip. This is the voice of Yao's son, Du Jinshou. The original owner just wanted to read his book, and was punished to kneel in the courtyard for a day, and finally fell ill with a fever. Du Jinshou's mother, Yao, didn't seem to be enough, and kept saying all kinds of prickly words, which made Du Chensheng and his wife more and more dissatisfied with the third room, and they didn't care about Du Jinning's life or death, and the original owner passed away.

Although Du Jinning took this opportunity to be reborn, she was very disgusted with Yao and Du Jinshou. At this time, it was Du Jinshou who broke her again.

She was wondering if she should hurry away when a pair of feet in black cotton shoes appeared in front of her. She raised her head and faced a face similar to Du Chensheng.

"Uncle, uncle, grandfather......" she called out.

"Brother Ning, why did you come here?" Du Yinsheng said warmly.

Looking at Du Yinsheng's kind face, Du Jinning's heart jumped, and he felt that the opportunity had come. She lowered her head and whispered, "I—I miss studying too." ”

Du Yinsheng seemed to know her situation at home. He let out a long sigh, touched her head, and didn't speak.

"I—I can memorize what they just read." Du Jinning raised his head and looked at Du Yinsheng hopefully, his eyes shining.

Du Yinsheng was stunned for a moment, looked at her, his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

Du Jinning didn't wait for him to say anything more, and directly memorized the passage of "Three Character Classic" that the children read just now: "At the beginning of people, their nature is good, their sex is similar, and their habits are far away. If you don't teach, sex is ......"

"This—that's what you just heard?" Du Yinsheng seemed a little incredulous.

Du Jinning nodded vigorously.

Du Yinsheng pondered for a moment and said, "I'll read it again, you remember it, and I'll test you later." As he spoke, he began to read, "The way of the university is in Mingmingde, in being close to the people, and in stopping at perfection." Knowing and then there is certainty, and then there is stability, and then it can be quiet, and then it can be peaceful, and then it can be considered, and then it can be obtained. Things have a beginning and an end. If you know what to do, you will be short. ”