Tang Xiaofu knew that although Fang Wenjing said this, she didn't necessarily agree with it in her heart, and further gave her confidence: "Mom, I just didn't realize the importance of learning before, and I didn't take learning seriously, so my grades were not good, but now I study seriously, so my grades have improved very quickly, you see my sister is so smart, she and I are sisters, how stupid can I be?" I'm really sure to get this scholarship. ”

Fang Wenjing thought about it, so she smiled and asked Tang Xiaolan, who was studying the side: "Xiaolan, you see that your sister has made a military order to get scholarships for three disciplines, what about you, how many disciplines are you going to get?" ”

Tang Xiaolan thought about it seriously and said, "Four doors." "She is alone in mathematics, physics, chemistry and English in the whole grade, so she is completely sure, there are competitors in other subjects, she doesn't dare to pack tickets, the bigger the hope, the greater the disappointment, she is a cautious girl.

Fang Wenjing smiled with satisfaction.

Tang Xiaolan went to bed at eleven o'clock.

Tang Xiaofu has been helping Fang Wenjing to do work until one o'clock in the morning, and the mother and daughter are so tired that their backs hurt and their necks hurt.

Fang Wenjing urged Tang Xiaofu to wash up and fall asleep quickly, the eldest daughter was only fifteen years old, and staying up late like this hurt her body.

Tang Xiaofu boiled hot water in a big iron pot, the temperature in the house rose a lot, and after washing, she got into the quilt and fell asleep as soon as she brushed her head, but she knew that Fang Wenjing was still busy on the ground.

The next morning, when Tang Xiaofu woke up, it was already eight o'clock in the morning, so she hurriedly got up.

She glanced inside the room as she dressed, and the steaming white steam was bubbling around the iron lid of the stove.

Now that it's cold, I have to wash with hot water, so Fang Wenjing boiled a pot of hot water early in the morning, so that the two Tang Xiaofu sisters would have hot water to wash when they woke up in the morning, not to mention, because the fire in the house was burned, it was warm, and they couldn't freeze when they got up.

Fang Wenjing felt sorry for her two daughters, on such a cold day, the cotton clothes and pants on her body were short and small, and the cotton inside was already hard and boardy, and there was not much warmth at all, she was frozen at school every day, and the back of her two sisters' hands was full of chilblains, so she did her best as a mother at home to take care of her two sisters.

It costs a lot of firewood to boil hot water so much, although the HB countryside is a small hilly area, there is no shortage of trees, and firewood is easy to get, so you have to ask someone to cut it, there are lazy croppers, only chop just enough firewood, and the house is so cold that you can't sit still.

Tang Xiaofu didn't see Fang Wenjing's figure, and knew that she had gone up the mountain to collect firewood.

Tang Xiaolan also woke up when she heard the sound of Tang Xiaofu getting up.

Tang Xiaofu heard movement behind her, and when she looked back, Tang Xiaolan was getting dressed and getting up, so she said thoughtfully: "It's very cold, you lie in the quilt for a while, and I'll call you when breakfast is ready." ”

Tang Xiaolan said with a smile: "I'm awake when I wake up, I don't sleep, and it's not cold in the house." ”

She looked inside the house with satisfaction, this room is really good, sturdy, as long as the doors and windows are closed tightly, the cold wind outside can't blow in at all, it's like the crumbling thatched hut they used to live in, it leaks on all sides in winter, staying in the house is not much warmer than outside, and she can hear the sound of the cold wind passing through the house, like the sound of a beast lying in ambush in the dead grass in winter, Tang Xiaolan is afraid every time she hears such a slender and sharp voice, afraid that the house will be blown down by the wind, The mother and daughter would be beaten to death by the few logs that held up the thatched hut.

She is only 14 years old, and she always feels that as long as she studies hard and is admitted to a secondary school, she can get a good job in the city, and then take her sister and mother to the city, then her mother and daughter can live a good life.

But this year, she no longer has to worry about her house being blown down by the north wind, and she can sleep peacefully every night.

And because of her sister, Chief Leng named her to buy her family's vegetables, and she could sell them to Chief Leng for one dollar a day, and she had thirty yuan a month, so she didn't have to go hungry anymore, but her mother would work hard.

Mom also said that these days she is too busy making clothes for others, and when the end of the year, she is not so busy, she will go to the village to collect more than a dozen catties of cotton, make a new bed, and then make a new padded jacket for her two sisters, and now life is really good, thanks to her sister and mother.

Tang Xiaolan thought gratefully in her heart.

After the two sisters finished washing, Tang Xiaolan picked up the textbook and began to study, there were not many things at home, and she couldn't help, so study hard.

Tang Xiaofu started to make breakfast, which was brown rice and sweet potatoes to cook a small pot of thick sweet potato porridge enough for her mother and daughter to eat, which was simple.

When the porridge was just bubbling, Fang Wenjing came back with a heavy bundle of firewood on her back, with a happy face.

Tang Xiaofu hurriedly put down the work in his hand and helped Fang Wenjing put down the firewood.

Their firewood is piled up in the house and placed outside, and even a single firewood will be stolen by the Tang family.

Tang Xiaofu couldn't figure it out, why the Tang family was so lazy, there was firewood everywhere in the mountains, why didn't they cut it, they had to come to steal it, and they didn't feel too cold, who would steal firewood in this Fangyuan ten miles and eight townships, that is, there were very few people who stole the vegetables kept by others.

The moral self-restraint of rural people is not comparable to that of people in the city, and they generally do not have unclean hands and feet, otherwise today you steal my family's vegetables, tomorrow I steal dates in front of your house, everyone will stop working, steal from each other, and finally all starve to death.

Although this is the simple customs of the countrymen, it is also a common way of survival, stealing what other people have worked hard to grow and cut back, the countrymen have zero tolerance, but those thieves who steal things in the market town are timid countrymen who hate and fear.

Fortunately, Fang Wenjing's mother and daughter have nothing to do, and living in such a large room seems empty, so putting firewood at home has no effect, but the Tang family suffers and has nowhere to steal firewood, so they have to go up the mountain to chop firewood by themselves, and they only dare to steal firewood from her mother and daughter, even if the firewood in other people's homes is piled up as high as a small mountain, they don't dare to smoke one back.

Tang Xiaofu made a basin of hot water for Fang Wenjing to wash her hands and face, and went to chop wood early in the morning, her face and hands would definitely be cold and painful from the cold wind, and it was very comfortable to soak in hot water.

She smiled and asked Fang Wenjing: "What is Mom happy about?" ”

Fang Wenjing washed his face and said: "I was chopping wood just now, and I saw a sparrow in the forest that froze and fell from the tree to the ground. ”

Last time, the braised sparrows made by the eldest daughter were quite fragrant, although the sparrows were small, and there was no half of the meat, but it was also meat, and it didn't cost money, and it was better than pork, and the most important thing was that she wanted her two daughters to eat better, grow better, and the girls who were so big were drawn and developed, and the figure gradually became a big girl, just her two daughters, and she was like a virgin's thin flat body......

The two Tang Xiaofu sisters were very excited when they heard it, they both love to eat sparrows.