When she woke up, it was already the next day, and when she got up early in the morning, Liu Man'er felt a lot better, and after stretching her waist, she went downstairs to wash.

After she finished washing, the meal was already on the table, Liu Man'er sat down in her seat, and Fang Shi started the meal.

The finely chopped minced meat and porridge are boiled together, it is really fragrant, and now Liu Man'er has passed the stage of eating and spitting, and she has now become another big stomach.

Such an appetizing porridge of fresh meat made her appetite, however, when she was about to get a steamed bun to make porridge, she realized that something was wrong on the table.

"Mother, when did you like to eat mixed noodles and steamed buns?" Liu Man'er asked a little strangely, after all, at this moment, except for two or three white-flour steamed buns on this table, all the others are mixed flour steamed buns.

"Yes, we are tired of eating white flour steamed buns, so eat some mixed flour steamed buns for a change of taste, and the white flour steamed buns are specially reserved for you to eat." Fang Clan spoke.

Liu Man'er is not stupid, naturally she will not believe her set of words, and looked into Ye He's bowl beside her, and sure enough, her bowl was only white porridge, and no lean meat was added.

"Mother, our family is not so poor as this, is it?" Liu Man'er sighed and said, "Why don't you just let me be specialized, just drink white porridge and everyone together." ”

"It's not the same if you're pregnant." Fang Shi said, "Now our family owes money, so we have to save a little, I thought about it, it is definitely not possible to eat and drink as much as before, we have to save from the source." ”

Liu Man'er deceived Fang's heart when she saw it, and smiled helplessly:

"Mother, I said that our family owes the money, I will find a way to pay it off when the time comes, how much money can you save by saving like this? Save two wen a day, twenty wen a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and you can't even save two taels of silver, so why bother. ”

"You kid, you can save two taels is two taels." Fang said angrily, she couldn't make any money, so she could only think of saving this trick.

"Forget it, I won't tell you so much, anyway, the life in this family will be arranged by me in the future." Liu Man'er directly deprived the Fang clan of the power of the family, and shouted sideways: "Aunt Han......"

"Here we are." Aunt Han hurriedly wiped her hand on her apron and came to Liu Man'er.

"Aunt Han, no matter what my mother told you, the food in the family will still be the same in the future, and the food in your family will be the same, but you can't waste it, and you have to eat up the food every day. No matter how poor we are, we can't be poor with our children, this money is earned, and the province can't be saved. ”

Liu Man'er said: "You have been here with us for so long, you know some things, wait a minute, you calculate how much it will cost us for the New Year this year, and then come to me to receive the money." ”

"Yes." Aunt Han nodded.

"Then you can go to dinner too." Liu Man'er waved at her.

After Aunt Han left, Liu Man'er made a grimace with Fang's family, "I'm sorry, mother, I demolished your platform." ”

"So what can I do with you? You said this, this money can't be saved, anyway, I don't care, these debts in the family are your young people's business, it's a big deal that you can't pay back the money when the time comes, and your mother will follow you to take a bowl and ask for food. Fang's words seemed to be a joke, but they also brought two points of anger, blaming Liu Man'er for not knowing his painstaking feelings.

"That's okay, when the time comes, you take the lead, and our family will form a beggar gang together." Liu Man'er answered with a smile.

When Fang heard her say this, he took her out of place, and could only smile helplessly, "You child, your mother is laughing, you still take it seriously." ”

"Okay, mother, you're also getting naughty now, and you're making fun of yourself, I really think this is the way back that my mother thought for us." Liu Man'er said with a smile: "No matter how poor you are, it's no big deal to be a beggar, stay in Qingshan without worrying about no firewood, what's more, isn't our family business still there, what should I do, don't worry about money." ”

"You're talking lightly, if only I had an open-minded heart like yours." Fang Shi sighed and continued to pick up the porridge in his bowl.

Liu Man'er smiled helplessly, nibbling on the steamed bun in her hand, this mixed noodle steamed bun looks very good-looking in several colors, the first bite has to be so tasteful, and eating more is a bit of a throat cut.

At noon, because of Liu Man'er's instructions, the food did not change, and in the afternoon, Liu Man'er handed over the festival fee of four taels of silver and the living expenses for the recent period to Aunt Han, and there were still two months before the New Year, and it was estimated that it was enough, and Liu Man'er left one or two silver for self-defense.

Everyone is working hard at night, Cao'er and Ye He are busy embroidering handkerchiefs, Ye Feng has been copying books, seeing their diligent appearance, Liu Man'er is a little helpless, but she is warm, everyone is working hard.

The fire in the study is warm, the Ye family is a small family, and there is no distinction between master and servant, Aunt Han's family also sits here to bake the fire, Fang's family and Aunt Han make clothes together, Ye Tianchen is holding Shuai Shuai and is roasting the fire, Han Fang leans on Ye He to watch her embroidery, and hands her scissors, Han Ping helps Ye Feng and Liu Man'er to sharpen ink, but it is Han Xin, a big man is sitting there, quite a little nothing.

Liu Man'er saw that he was bored, so she said, "Uncle Han, you can help me cut some paper." ”

"Hey, okay." Such a small request, Han Shixin immediately agreed, he was idle and bored.

Liu Man'er handed him a stack of blank paper, and gave him a sample with pen and paper, while she continued to write hard.

"Sister-in-law, what are you writing?" Ye Feng saw that Liu Man'er had been writing about this thing all this time, and he was a little curious in his heart, so he couldn't help but ask.

"I'm writing a notebook." Liu Man'er said with a smile: "Aren't you worried that you won't be able to pay off the money by then, when I write this book, you don't have to worry." ”

"Sister-in-law can also write a notebook?" Ye He raised his head after hearing Liu Man'er's words.

"Of course." Liu Man'er nodded.

"Can I take a look?" Ye He said that now she knows a lot of words, and she was quite curious when she heard Liu Man'er say that she was writing a notebook.

"Yes." Liu Man'er nodded, handed a stack of papers to Ye He, and said, "Don't mess up." ”

"No, it won't." Ye He nodded, and looked at it on the table, originally she just wanted to take a casual look, but who knew that after seeing it, the more she watched, the more addicted she became, and when she saw Tao Yao being injured and Sun Wukong angrily walking in the East China Sea to seek immortal law, tears couldn't help but fall.

Hearing the sobbing, Liu Man'er raised her head, saw Ye He's tearful appearance, and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"Woo, sister-in-law, your writing is so touching, so beautiful." Ye He was still a little immersed in the article at the moment and couldn't extricate himself, "Sister-in-law, this book you wrote is much better than the one that the third brother brought me last time." ”

Because she has nothing to do at home, Ye He will also ask Ye Feng to bring her some notebooks in the county seat, which are all stories of talented and beautiful women, and she secretly reads them at night. After Ye Feng heard Ye He's words, he couldn't help frowning, didn't this Ye He say that he wouldn't tell others, and betrayed himself so quickly.

So I couldn't help but say: "Sister-in-law, I just brought that book to Xiaohe, and I have never read it myself." ”

"Really?" Liu Man'er snorted and laughed twice, and said, "I didn't ask you, what are you in a hurry to answer?" ”

Ye Feng couldn't help but feel secretly annoyed, he didn't admit himself now.

In the academy, the master does not allow students to read this kind of book, and if the sister-in-law knows that she reads this kind of book, she will definitely be disappointed.

Clinker Liu Man'er just said lightly: "Just read it, it's okay, those books of talented and beautiful people, I also read a few books when I copied books for the bookstore in the past, they are all sour texts written by some poor scholars, I can't take it seriously, you read less." ”

"Yes." Ye Feng hurriedly nodded in response and continued to copy his book.

Ye He held the story that Liu Man'er said and read it, until she saw the last page, she was still a little unsatisfied, and said, "Sister-in-law, what else?" ”

"I'll see tomorrow if I have the rest." Liu Man'er said and took out a large stack from the desk again, and said, "Uncle Han, please help me nail all of these together, and nail them into a book every twenty times." ”

"Yes." The Korean style took Liu Man'er's manuscript with both hands and began to help Liu Man'er punch and assemble the line.

Ye He looked itchy and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be so stingy, you just let me see it first." ”

"I'll talk about it tomorrow, it's not early, you two go and rest." Liu Man'er waved her hand and asked Ye He not to be coquettish with her.

"Okay, I'll embroider first, sister-in-law, you must show it to me tomorrow." Ye He said and returned to his table.

"Don't embroider, waste your eyes, this winter, everyone go back to rest." Liu Man'er began to drive people away, in the village, many families were reluctant to use oil lamps, and they fell asleep one day after dark, usually Ye He and others had already slept at this time, but now no one went to sleep, they were all busy.

"Don't worry, I'll go to sleep when I'm done with this dress." Fang said.

Ye He and Cao'er also insisted on embroidering a handkerchief, and they refused to go to sleep, Liu Man'er really had nothing to do with them, and they rushed several times, and when Uncle Han nailed Liu Man'er's manuscript, they couldn't find an excuse, so they left one after another.

After Liu Man'er was about to break off, after washing her feet and washing her face and coaxing Ye Tianchen, she was about to go downstairs again, planning to sneak into the study to continue writing.

However, as soon as she went out, she found the light at the door of Ye He and the others, she shook her head helplessly, knowing that these two girls were secretly embroidering handkerchiefs, so she stood at the door and said, "You two don't sleep, why are you lighting the lamp?" ”

"It's nothing, we're just lighting the lights and looking for something." Ye He excused.

"Okay, don't lie, knowing that you guys are secretly embroidering, I can see the shadows of you two hitting the window." Liu Man'er ruthlessly exposed them and said, "Hurry up and turn off the lights and go to bed." ”

"Yes." When the two saw that they were discovered by Liu Man'er, they were stunned, and they could only pack up their things and blow out the lights.

After the light went out, Liu Man'er went downstairs, but before she reached the door of the study, she found the light in the study again, until she walked in, Ye Feng hadn't found it, she silently picked up the charcoal basin buried in the ashes, and then brought it over.

When Ye Feng heard the voice, he found Liu Man'er, and he couldn't help but shake his hand, and a drop of ink fell, staining the white paper.

"Sister-in-law, why did you come all of a sudden?" Ye Feng said with some panic.

"I knew you were going to come here at night without sleeping, what are you doing?" Liu Man'er said: "Copying books? ”

"Hmm." Ye Feng nodded and said, "I have a good book in my hand, and it will be good to copy a few copies and sell them in the bookstore when the time comes." ”

"Rest early." Liu Man'er urged Ye Feng to leave, and said: "I used to ask you to copy books, mainly because I wanted to keep the knowledge in the book in my mind in the process of copying books, and I would get more than one stone, if you copy books for money, then there is no need, it is better to study hard and be admitted to the examination as soon as possible, that is to help the family a lot." ”

"Sister-in-law, don't get me wrong." Ye Feng hurriedly explained: "This is also one of the scriptures to be tested in the exam, I will copy it a few more times, firstly because I can make money, and secondly, I can write it down myself." ”

"Oh, that's pretty much it." Liu Man'er nodded and said: "Even so, but you can't be too tired, my sister-in-law will find a way to deal with money, I see that everyone is working hard this day, I am very pleased, but I hope you don't have too much pressure, especially you, don't think too much, do you know?" ”

"Got it." Ye Feng nodded, and said, "Sister-in-law, I'll go to rest after another copy." ”

"Hmm." Liu Man'er nodded and said, "Originally, I asked you to go to the academy, but the weather is indeed cold, since you said that you can't learn anything in the academy in this county, then I won't force you to do the remaining ten days, and study hard at home, it's the same." ”

"Yes." Ye Feng nodded again, and then picked up the pen.

Liu Man'er also took out her pen, ink, paper and inkstone and continued to write her story.

The story of Journey to the West is already very long, Liu Man'er has added a lot of small stories, and the speed of writing books is really slow, and writing with a brush is even slower, so now she hasn't even written half of it, so she can only come over at night and write it for a while.

The night is getting deeper, although the charcoal basin is lit, but the people who are still cold at night shiver, after a shiver, the last spark of the charcoal basin is also extinguished, Liu Man'er put down the pen, greeted Ye Feng, and said, "Let's go, go back to sleep." ”

"Yes." Ye Feng also put down the pen, and after packing up his things, the two of them went out of the study and went back to their rooms to rest.

For several days, Ye Feng and Liu Man'er secretly copied and wrote books in the study, and this time they were discovered by Ye He who got up in the thatched room, so Ye He and Cao Er also worked overtime with Liu Man'er every night.

Only when the child sleeps well can he be in good health, but these two little girls think that they have learned Liu Man'er's secret, and they just refuse to leave every night.