Jiaxi and Jia'an, two naughty boys, talked about chopping wood during the day, and fell and gnawed a mouthful of mud, which made the family laugh.

"Giggles!" Jiayin was lying on Mrs. Li's lap, and she also laughed at her brother.

Mrs. Li rubbed her granddaughter's face, looked at Li Jiaren, who was drinking porridge, made up her mind, and said, "I plan to send the children to study in the county seat." ”

As soon as these words came out, the dinner table suddenly fell silent.

Everyone looked at Mrs. Li in surprise, and didn't understand why she said this, after all, even if she couldn't be hungry today, but studying was too expensive, and the burden was still too heavy for the Li family!

Wu Cuihua'er was the first to refuse, "Mother! How much money does it cost to study, where did our family get so much money? You have to provide them with education, we can't live this life! ”

She almost jumped up and shouted, for fear that if the children were allowed to study, she would have to go hungry.

"Reading is a good thing, second sister-in-law, what are you yelling about?" Zhao Yuru couldn't stand Wu Cuihua'er's appearance, and couldn't help but say.

"A good thing? It's a good thing that you pay for the three rooms? There are a few pennies left in the family, all for the children to read, let's drink the northwest wind! Wu Cuihuaer didn't know how much money the old lady had in her hands, but it was a hundred taels to buy yards and fields, and she guessed that there were not many left.

"Alright, shut up!" Mrs. Li glanced at Wu Cuihua'er with a dark face, and she was scared out of the fire with one sentence, "I plan to only send Jiaren to study." ”

"Huh?" Wu Cuihuaer was stunned when she heard this, it turned out that she only sent her son to study!

She glanced at her eldest son, eager to pick up all the words she had just said, and laughed twice with an embarrassed face, "Mother... Mother has the final say. ”

Everyone didn't say anything about her, but their eyes weren't friendly.

Wu Cuihua'er hurriedly lowered her head and drank porridge, not daring to say another word.

Li Jiaren was even more ashamed of his mother, he put down his rice bowl and said, "Milk, our family has just settled here, and there are many places to spend money, I am not in a hurry to study, let's talk about it when the family has a harvest next year." ”

Mrs. Li is very pleased that her grandson is so sensible, but she will never change her mind about what she has decided.

"If our family wants to really put down roots here, this is not enough for the time being. Helping the people in the village do some small favors or buy family property is just in front of you, if you want our Li family to prosper for a long time, you still have to have children and grandchildren to study. Mrs. Li glanced at everyone and saw that they were all nodding before continuing.

"Isn't there a saying that says? If there is no student at home, where do the officials come from? Even if it is not a show, only a child is examined, and outsiders who want to bully the Li family have to weigh it. Jiaren, grandma thinks you are the material for reading, go study, the family can afford you! ”

Jiaren really likes to read, usually as long as he is idle, he must find something with words to read, or just hold a wooden stick to write on the ground, these are not only Mrs. Li, the Li family are in the eyes.

Li Laosan and Li Laosi both opened their mouths to support, "Yes, Jiaren goes to study, and we will definitely be able to afford the money." ”

"Milk, third uncle, fourth uncle..."Jiaren's eyes were filled with tears, he took a deep breath, got up and saluted the elders, "I must study hard and fight for our family!" ”

"Good boy!" Mrs. Li smiled a little.

Wu Cuihua'er saw that her son's reading was a certainty, the corners of her mouth were almost to the root of her ears, and she took her son's hand and said.

"My son is the most obedient, he will definitely be able to study well, as long as we don't be like your uncle, everyone is gone to read... Oops! ”

Before Wu Cuihuaer finished speaking, Li Lao Er quickly pinched her arm, so painful that her tears came out, and when she was about to scold Li Lao Er, she finally realized that Mrs. Li's face was as black as ink...

Wu Cuihua'er suddenly remembered the taboo at home, and immediately panicked, and before she could make amends, Mrs. Li slammed the porridge bowl, and hot porridge ideas jumped everywhere.

A lump landed right on Jiayin's exposed arm, and she shivered in pain.

But Mrs. Li was obviously in a wrong mood, and Jiayin endured it and didn't say anything.

"You heartless thing!" Li Lao Er was afraid that Mrs. Li would be even more angry when she saw Wu Cuihua'er, so she directly pulled her arm and dragged her to the back room to teach her a lesson.

Everyone listened to the reprimand from the back room, looked at Mrs. Li's face carefully, and didn't dare to serve the bowl again.

Jiayin twisted her little head to look around, looking at the appearance of everyone in her family who wanted to know the reason, and her heart became more and more curious.

It turns out that her uncle, who has never shown up, is it taboo, and she can't even mention it?

Jiayin was eager to know the uncle's story, but she couldn't speak, so she could only raise her hand to touch Mrs. Li's face and babble and coax her.

Mrs. Li couldn't eat, so she simply carried her granddaughter back to the house, leaving a table of quails with shrunken necks.

As soon as Mrs. Li put her granddaughter on the kang, she saw a patch of red on her granddaughter's little arm.

She hurried up to take a look, and felt another porridge with temperature on her sleeve, and immediately understood that her granddaughter was burned.

But the child didn't cry just now, wasn't she scared?

Mrs. Li's heart was full of remorse and distress, why did she forget that her granddaughter was in her arms, what kind of porridge bowl she fell!

She hurriedly picked up her granddaughter and raised her little arm, kissing and blowing.

"Does Fu Niu'er hurt? It's all to blame grandma, grandma shouldn't lose her temper, didn't she scare our Fu Niuer......"

Of course, Jiayin couldn't say that it hurt, and she couldn't say it, so she could only giggle and respond, hoping that the old lady would blame herself less.

Seeing her granddaughter's eyes wide open, reaching out to touch her face as if to appease her, Mrs. Li felt more and more uncomfortable, and finally hugged her granddaughter and cried.

Jiayin was held upright in her arms by Mrs. Li, her head was on her shoulder, she really felt her grandmother's trembling body, and when she heard the suppressed whimper, her heart hurt too.

Grandma has always been the backbone of the Li family, as a family, she speaks and does things neatly, extremely strong, and escapes with more than a dozen people all the way, no matter how difficult it is, she has never shed tears. I'm crying so sadly...

She tried hard to rub her grandmother's face with her little face, and wanted to raise her hand to wipe her tears away, but unfortunately her little hand was not very obedient, and in the end it became a slap in the face...

Since that day, Wu Cuihuaer was severely reprimanded by Li Lao Er, and she no longer dared to talk too much at home, for fear that Mrs. Li would be unhappy and not let her son go to school.

On this day, Li Laosi went to the mountain to hunt early in the morning, but he didn't come back at noon, and Mrs. Li was worried that something would happen, so she asked her second son to go out to greet her.

As a result, as soon as Li Lao Er arrived at the gate of the courtyard, he was startled, and a man covered in blood broke in outside the door, carrying a red deer on his shoulder!

He was just about to call someone, but after a closer look, he found out that this person was actually Li Laosi!

"Autumn birth? You... How did you get it like this? But hurt? Li Lao Er's eyes didn't know for a while, whether to look at Li Lao Si or the red deer.