"Good news, good news." A tall woman in a blue coarse cloth dress shouted excitedly as she trotted with her skirt. The mountain village was very quiet, and as soon as she shouted, several mothers-in-law were curious to push the door out to see.

"Chang Fa Niang, why are you so happy?" The big mountain lady who was throwing water out with a wooden basin called out and asked her strangely. The other women craned their necks to listen.

"Dashan Niang, good news, there is a teaching gentleman from outside the mountain, I heard that he is very good-looking. The village chief's wife said that he would settle down in our Changxia Village in the future to teach the children. Our Changfa and Dashan can go to school. Rapunzel stopped and gasped with a happy smile as she heard the news, and she ran back as soon as she heard the news, and she was tired and confused along the way.

"Mountain God bless, it's really good, we are going to show off our talents in the mountains." Dashan Niang clasped her hands together and said piously and joyfully to Panlong Mountain in the distance, and the other women also showed joy.

"That's okay, Dashan Niang, and everyone, you guys are busy, I still have to go to the back street to shout at people, so that everyone knows about this good thing." Chang Fa Niang ran away excitedly after speaking.

Da Shanniang watched her go away with a smile and quickly went back to the house to put down the wooden basin, straighten her hair, and walked out quickly, she had to hurry to the village chief's house to ask if it was really as Chang Fa Niang said. Don't be deceived by this old lady, rejoice in the air.

The other women who heard the news also talked about going to the village chief's house to have a look.

The news that a teacher had come to the village soon spread throughout Changxia Village. Parents of some school-age children came to the village chief's house to inquire about the news.

The village chief's wife wore a lake-green muslin dress that only the mountain gods usually wear, and came out to greet everyone with a smile, her expression was extremely proud, and her whole face was smiling like a blooming chrysanthemum.

"Village Chief's Lady, is there really a teacher in our village?" Hu Ziniang asked with a cautious smile. Her Huzi is also nine years old, and she is a school-age child, and if this news is true, she will definitely let Huzi come to school.

"Yes, I didn't expect everyone's news to be very good. That gentleman's surname is Han, his name is Han Yixuan, and everyone calls him Mr. Han. The village chief's wife nodded, she wanted to tell everyone that there was not only a teacher in the family, but this gentleman was very good-looking, but thinking about her age, she felt that she was suspected of being disrespectful to the old and swallowed the words in her stomach. Anyway, everyone will see you sooner or later, so let's give you a surprise in the future.

"Aunt Xiwang, will this Mr. Han really stay and teach?" A good-looking young girl suddenly squeezed over and interjected. I don't believe it, no one has ever come here to teach before. It's so poor and remote that you have to walk more than 30 miles to the county seat to buy some muslin, so how can anyone be willing to teach?

This girl's name is Xiuhe, she is the village flower of the village, and she has a ten-year-old brother named Xiuchun, who she asked for her brother.

"Yes, of course. Our head of the family has agreed with Mr. that he will stay to teach the children in our village, and he doesn't ask for much, one or two taels of silver a year for each family. The village chief's wife responded to everyone with a smile, shaking her sleeve as she spoke. She has a few purple chrysanthemums embroidered on her sleeves, which are very eye-catching.

"I want a tael of silver." Someone said something very melancholy, and quit the crowd with some worry. She is a widow, her husband's surname is Ding, everyone calls her widow Ding behind her back, and their child Ding Xiangzi should also go to school, but this bundle gives her a headache.

One tael of silver is indeed not much, and the gentleman's restraint in the city outside the mountain is at least ten taels of silver, but this tael is not a small number for an orphan and widow.

"Sister-in-law of the Ding family, do you want to go back?" Watching her walk back, a girl named Yun Niang called her from behind. Although Yun Niang's appearance is not as beautiful as the embroidered lotus, her big Danfeng eyes are beautiful and spiritual, and her goose egg face is very pleasing. Her younger brother Yulong is eight years old, and she also came to inquire about the news.

Widow Ding is often the object of everyone's sympathy and discussion, she is a little sensitive, Yun Niang smiled at her kindly, but she felt that the expression on her face was a little sarcastic.

"Ah, yes, I'll go back and think of a way, no matter what, I must let our family Xiangzi go to school." Widow Ding reluctantly smiled and turned back, and walked away with heavy steps.

"It is said that one or two pieces of silver are really not much, let's go up the mountain to collect medicine, if we are lucky, we can make up enough at one time." Someone said something, and someone immediately chimed in, "Yes, we are in charge of a wild boar that we don't sell for more than this amount, and it's really not much for a tael of silver." ”

Everyone talked about Mr. teaching, and finally got a clear message, tomorrow everyone can go to the courtyard next to the ancestral hall in the west of the village to sign up, and each child will be bound to one or two silver, and the money will be counted, as long as the children aged 8-12 can come to school. After that, the husband lived in that courtyard. There were several empty rooms in the courtyard, the largest one was used for teaching, and the smaller one could be used by the gentleman to live in.

As soon as the news came out, everyone immediately rejoiced, they were happy for their children, as long as Mr. taught, their children were no longer blind, maybe in the future, they could go to the mountains to beg for a living, and they no longer had to be bored in this Panlong Mountain all day long.

Changxia Village is very closed, except for a gentle mountain road under Panlong Mountain that is not too wide and a Panlong River can lead to the mountain, other places can only go over the mountains and mountains.

Those who are literate and have some ability are not willing to stay here, and many children can only go to the county seat if they want to study. If you don't have the conditions to go to the county seat, you can only be blind.

Now that someone has finally come to teach, it's no wonder that the people in the mountains are unhappy.

Changxia Village was immersed in the excitement of Mr. Teaching's arrival, and the only contradiction was probably this widow Ding. Her man died early, leaving behind an eight-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, and the usual life was tight, and now if she took out a tael of silver, then the family could only drink the northwest wind from now on.

But with such a great opportunity in front of her, she couldn't refuse this temptation. Her family Xiangzi is very smart, if she studies hard, maybe she can take the exam or something, and if she has a career in the future, she is worthy of her dead man.

"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? I shouted at you a few times and you didn't hear it. A crisp voice came, and Widow Ding subconsciously looked up, and a beautiful girl in a lilac coarse cloth dress was holding her daughter Meizi and looking at her worriedly.

The girl's name is Xiao Ruyu, a foreigner, who was washed away by the Panlong River to Changxia Village three months ago. When she heard that her family was in trouble, the people in the village sympathized with her, and finally, with the agreement of the village chief, she gave 800 yuan a year to Widow Ding and let her live in her house.

Xiao Ruyu is ingenious, embroidery skills are very good, the patterns drawn by her hands will sell very well, and the big girls and daughters-in-law in the village are very willing to ask her to help draw the patterns.

Her embroidery was all taken to the city outside the mountain by the widow of Todin to be sold, and every time she sold the money, she generously bought some candy or something for Xiangzi and Meizi to eat, and the two children were very close to her.

"Mother, hug." Meizi stretched out her arm in Xiao Ruyu's arms, wanting her mother to hug her. Widow Ding pulled a smile and reached out to take Meizi and hold it in her arms.

"There was a teacher in the village, and I went to inquire to see if we could let Xiangzi go to school." Speaking of this, Widow Ding stopped and lowered her head to tidy up Meizi's clothes, and sighed, "It costs one or two pieces of silver, it's too expensive." ”

Xiao Ruyu didn't speak, she frowned slightly, considering whether to help. Thinking of Xiangzi's eyes eager to read, the appearance of calling her aunt happily, and the well-behaved appearance of Xiangzi sneaking bird eggs for her to make up for when she first came to Widow Ding's house, she made up her mind, "Sister-in-law, you wait." With that, she turned and went back to her room.

After a while, she came back again, took out an emerald green bracelet from her bosom and handed it to Widow Ding, "Sister-in-law, I want to ask you for a favor, take this bracelet as a favor, well, it can probably be used as a few dozen taels, you help me run the pawnshop, and I will take a tael of silver to run errands for you." ”

"How can this work?" Widow Ding held the plum in one hand and waved vigorously in the other, "Miss Xiao, I know you want to help me, but you can't be this bracelet, this bracelet looks very valuable, you keep it as a dowry in the future, I will think of other ways to do the money." ”

"Alas, sister-in-law, it's useless for me to keep this bracelet, it's not good to worry about it in vain, instead of cheapening them, it's better to buy something emergency quickly. I'm not helping you, I'm really in a hurry. Xiao Ruyu stretched out her hand and took the plum again, and pushed the widow Ding, "Sister-in-law, I look at the plum, you go quickly, if the pawnshop asks you how the bracelet came from, you will say that it is your family heirloom." ”

Xiao Ruyu has been hesitant to cut off the previous relationship between the original owner since she crossed over to Changxia Village, and now it seems that this is the will of heaven.

This bracelet is the only piece of jewelry left behind by the original owner. When she woke up, she was clutched, and it seemed that the original owner liked the bracelet very much.

She had carefully observed this bracelet, and there was a faint blue silk on the green bracelet surface, the color was not too pure, it should not be a high-grade jade, and it was not too valuable.

The memories of the original owner are still there, but they are somewhat vague. In my memory, the original owner and his mother also had a grandmother surnamed Chen who grew up in the countryside. My mother knew some medical skills, and the original owner didn't like it very much, but she also learned some from it.

The original owner likes embroidery, and the embroidery is also very good. She is now very grateful to the original owner, in such a place where birds don't poop, the embroidery craft helped her settle down smoothly.

In her memory, their lives had been very hard, she didn't seem to have any decent jewelry, this bracelet was left to her by her mother before she died, and she liked it very much.

The original owner's father is in the capital and runs a medicinal herb business, so he should be very rich, but why her parents are not together, she has no memory, and maybe the original owner doesn't know.

's mother died of illness, and she kept shouting Minglang before she died, and the original owner didn't care, but Xiao Ruyu thought of her cheap father's name, Zhang Renhe, as if he was not the same person as the person in his mother's mouth. This what Minglang should be the lover of the cheap mother.

The original owner had an accident on the way back to the capital after his mother was sent by his father. They come across a group of fierce robbers. They killed people when they saw them, and insulted them when they saw young women, but the original owner and Mama Chen did not want to be humiliated and jumped into the river. It seems that the river is the Panlong River, the original owner died, and she came.

I don't know what happened to Mama Chen? Before jumping into the river, she wanted to speak and stopped, her face was full of grief and indignation, thinking that she had something very important to explain, but the situation at that time could not allow her to talk more.