A few people chatted here, the fire not far away burned with the sound of thunderbolts, the sparks scurried into smoke and turned into ashes and floated down weakly, and the mosquitoes seemed to have endless energy, back and forth around the villagers, buzzing and slapping sound came from time to time.

"Ouch! Xiao Jiang, you are here, why don't you look for me, I was still talking to Li Zheng about you just now, and it just so happened that you came. The smiling village chief pulled Li Zheng, who was close to his age, and followed Yu Xuan behind him.

Like the village chief, the chief is regarded as a local steward, and the two manage each other's villages, but also check and balance each other, generally the village chief is elected by the village, while the village is elected by the county government.

Li Zheng's eyes are as small as beans, and he will smile and lose his eyebrows, and look at Jiang Yan with satisfaction: "Xiao Jiang, you have made a great contribution this time!" When the implementation continues, and the water source is solved, our village will definitely get better and better! ”

Jiang Yan nodded, raising her professional smile: "The village chief and Li Zheng don't need to be so polite, I just stumbled upon the water source, and if I want to lead the water down the mountain, I still have to rely on everyone." ”

When the original husband was not dead, the people in the village called her Lin Jiang, with her husband's surname, and later the child was her mother, and when the original husband died, everyone called her Aunt Jiang, and now, a small Jiang, Jiang Yan was covered with goosebumps, but anyway, it sounds younger!

"The younger generation has seen Aunt Jiang, and when I came to Uncle Lin today, I heard about my aunt's deeds of looking for water, and I admired it very much."

Yu Xuan on the side suddenly spoke, and waved slightly towards Jiang Yan, gentle and elegant, in this group of mud legs in the mountains, he had a white face and a slender body, and a smile and Xi, which looked out of place.

Jiang Yan subconsciously glanced at her own children, there was no comparison and no harm, her own children, all of them were tanned, and it was not an exaggeration to say that their faces were full of vicissitudes and skinny.

Especially Lin Nan, the inferiority complex in his heart almost overflowed the entity, subconsciously clenched fists and restrained embarrassment, Jiang Yan did not feel sad when he saw it, at the same age, others were admired by thousands of people when they became famous, and they were ragged and withered, simple and hard-working.

"It's just a fluke, I heard that Yu Xiucai teaches in the town, but is it true?"

Yu Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly: "This matter is true, the family is poor, I can't bear the hard work of my parents, so I enlighten some children in the Liufang Hall in the town." ”

Jiang Yan nodded, there are several schools in the town, and Liufangtang is an enlightenment school, which is not a real academy, and there are usually two or three talents sitting in the hall, while enlightening the children to read and write, while improving their knowledge, in order to prepare for the next exam.

She wants the children of the family to go to school, education should start from the baby, in this era of scholars, farmers, and businessmen, she can make money to feed the family, but the merchants are at the bottom, and everything is inferior, only the reading is high, the taxi is ranked first, no matter what, the people who read and write are higher than ordinary people, so it is necessary to read and write!

"I don't know how much the school is bound to? I want to save some money in the future and send the children at home to recognize a few words, and the name of the province will not be written. ”

Yu Xuan looked Jiang Yan up and down, and always felt that this Aunt Jiang was very different from the peasant women in the village, some of them didn't know the height of the sky, and how could everyone be able to read, he smiled and said: "It's a good thing that Auntie can have such an idea, it is naturally appropriate for enlightenment to be sent to Liufangtang, and it is only five hundred yuan a month." ”

Several members of the Lin family gasped when they heard this, and even Jiang Yan was a little shocked, it was just a simple enlightenment, it was five hundred yuan a month, not counting pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and book expenses, no wonder it was always said that the children of the ancient poor family, one person in three generations, who could read it at this high cost!

"So expensive! Two months is one tael of silver, and whoever can afford it. Lin Xi's mouth opened wide in surprise, and he dispelled the idea of wanting to read.

With this money, he can use it to buy food, and he can eat enough!

If you don't know how to read, you can't read, anyway, he will farm!

"Liufangtang is already a blessing compared to other schools, but it does cost a lot to study, and not everyone can have a bright future. The younger generation has also studied hard for more than ten years, and only then did he pass the Xiucai. ”

Yu Xuan still had a gentle smile on his face, but his heart was very distorted, he had studied for so many years, and he was finally admitted to Xiucai, you mud legs, do you still think Xiucai is very good to test? Food, clothing, and food are all problems, and I want to study! Laugh to death too!

Jiang Yan didn't speak, just looked at the village chief and Li Zheng praising and praising Yu Xuan, only hating why this Yu Xuan was not a talent in their village.

After the matter of building bamboo in the village was finalized, Jiang Yan took a few children home, and there were many Lin families, and there was one household in the village to build bamboo, so Jiang Yan asked several children to take turns to work.

As soon as she got home, Jiang Yan was busy cooking, she didn't feel it when she was busy, she felt a little hungry as soon as she stopped, she was just going up and down the mountain, Lin Nan and Lin Xi worked the mountain for several hours, and they must have been hungry.

"Prepare to eat, tomorrow the boss will go to the village to help, and you and I will go to the town to sell rice rolls."

Today is still brown rice, but the eldest daughter-in-law is considerate, and specially cooked a little brown rice porridge for the two injured children to eat, Jiang Yan asked Lin Bei to feed Erbi to eat, and she fed Lin Feng.

Lin Feng's state is a little better, and the bruises on his body have faded a lot, but he talks less than before, and he is easy to be distracted in a daze, the only thing that makes Jiang Yan feel relieved is that the little guy has a lot of dependence on her.

After returning from the threshing floor in the village, Lin Nan was a little depressed, Jiang Yan could probably guess why, man, somewhat compared in his heart, after all, he was his wife's former object, and he was much better than himself, so it was inevitable that he would have some reluctance in his heart, but Jiang Yan had no choice at present, so he could only cultivate and cultivate his second son's self-confidence in the future.

Early the next morning, Jiang Yan got up early, because the water stopped in the village yesterday, she didn't even wash her feet last night, and she ran around for another day, her whole body was sticky, and she didn't sleep well all night after being stinking with sweat, even if she smelled her own, she still had to smell Liu Xiaomeng! She wanted to take a shower again...... Even if you wipe your body.

"Mother, are you up? The second brother has already gone to carry water, and he will be able to use it in a while. Wang Jinhua said while cutting clothes.

"Going to the mountains to fetch water?"

"Uh-huh, if you go to another village to borrow water, you need food! There is water that doesn't cost money, who will go anywhere else! ”

As the two were talking, Lin Xi had come back with a bucket, and he had a big smile on his honest face: "Mother, there are many people who go to the mountains to fetch water in the morning!" Everyone is praising Niang! ”

Lin Xi couldn't close his mouth happily, and the people in the village who walked with him all praised his mother, especially when they saw the waterhole, everyone was eager to take off their clothes and swim around.

"This water is sweet, it's cold, I drank two big scoops before I came back!"

Jiang Yan pursed her lips and smiled, infected by Lin Xi's joy: "Hurry up and go back to the house, let's cook noodles and eat today, and then we will go to the town to buy a big water tank, otherwise this load of water will not be enough." ”

"Great, we finally have a water tank in our house! Be sure to buy a bigger one! ”

When the time comes, he picks up several loadloads of water a day and fills the tank!