In the early morning of October, the wind in Yangzizhou was cold, but many girls got up early in the morning and started their day's work on the icy river, just to exchange for two meals of rye rice porridge and steamed buns.

Most of them were girls from poor families, the youngest was about seven or eight years old, and the oldest was only twelve or thirteen.

They are hired to wash clothes for large families, but the big families will not directly find them, poor girls and orphan girls who "wear yellow reed grass", but send their clothes to a place called "Huanyi Building", which is said to provide a complete set of services, from washing, ironing, mending, embroidery to incense.

All the girls who came to the river were the women in the "Huanyi Building", and they were the lowest jobs in the building.

"Ah Rong, your hands are broken, I'd better wash them for you, otherwise they'll rot." A somewhat thin little girl looked at another girl named Ah Rong with a look of pity in her eyes. Although they were all the same poor, when the thin little girl said this, everyone looked at Ah Rong with extra pity in their eyes.

The girl named Ah Rong squinted her eyes and smiled, not knowing what she muttered softly, before she looked at the thin little girl and said, "Xiao Shen, I'm fine, you see it's much better than a few days ago." ”

"Ah Rong, I think you should not wash it today, we will help you wash a little bit by ourselves, and you used to help us too." At this time, a face appeared next to the thin Xiao Shen, this girl's eye sockets were very deep, and she looked very thin, because she had not eaten well for a long time, most of the girls here looked very thin.

The girl named Ah Rong looked at the girls who were closer to her, and there was a coquettish smile on her face, and her eyes showed something very warm, so that the girls who were looking at her couldn't help but laugh together: "Yes, Ah Rong, let's help you." ”

After saying that, a few little girls couldn't help but take a few pieces of clothes by themselves, and Xiao Shen pushed Ah Rong aside and sat down: "Okay, you sit, we will go to my house together after we finish washing later, grandma made sweet potato dumplings, let me call everyone to eat together!" ”

Ah Rong sat on the stone and looked at them and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, for these simple and pure faces in front of her, she seemed to have the desire to cry, but the corners of her mouth moved, and what bloomed was a bright smile.

A few girls were talking and laughing and rubbing their clothes, and there were about 100 women in Huanyi up and down the entire Yang Zizhou, and this scene looked quite lively and spectacular from a distance.

There was even a poet who once wrote a long and short poem for this situation, one of which is "The fine willow is like the wind, and the delicate skin is red", which naturally refers to the thin body of the woman in the, and the hands that are white and red by the blisters.

At that time, Xiao Shen listened to this poem, but the thin little girl spit out a few dirty words and greeted the poet's ancestor fiercely.

At this time, Ah Rong sat on the stone by the water, smiling warmly and brightly, Xiao Shen glanced back at this time and said: "Ah Rong, I like to see you smile the most, everyone is very hard and tired, so they don't even bother to speak, only you are smiling even if your hands are cold and cracked." Every time I see you laughing, I feel that life is not hard at all, because Ah Rong is laughing all the time. ”

Ah Rong, who was sitting on the stone, was stunned, and his smile became brighter after a pause: "Xiao Shen is worthy of being literate, even if I smirk, you can come up with so much, Xiao Shen, we must continue to work hard, and we can't leave the homework your father gave you." ”

"You two go to the lantern of the inn every day to look down and write, and you can't leave, and you almost broke your hand last time, and you go!"

Xiao Shen, who was rubbing her clothes, always had a resolute look on her face, she was the daughter of a showman, but her family died in a chaos, leaving only a grandmother to live with, Xiao Shen had to helplessly pick up the burden of the family, and went to the "Huanyi Building" every day to wash clothes in exchange for food and copper plates that barely survived.

"Ah Ye, my father said that whether it is a man or a woman, as long as you read and write, you will have a way out. Ah Ye, Xiao Yu, Xiao Dao, and Wheat, you can read and write with you, really, what my father said will not be wrong. Ah Rong, you should persuade them too, you can read more words than I do now. "Xiao Shen and their group of six girls, except for Ah Rong who is willing to read and write with her, the other four girls are mostly shirking, maybe it is useless to learn consciously, and it takes a lot of work.

If there is usually no result in such a dispute, even if Ah Rong says it, it will be the same, but today Ah Rong said a new content, which aroused their interest: "Ah Ye, Xiao Yu, Xiao Dao, Wheat, I heard that if you want to go into the building, you must be literate, and those who are illiterate cannot enter the building." ”

"You have to be literate when you go into the building, why didn't we know it before, Ah Rong, who did you listen to?" Ah Ye was the eldest girl among them, so she was the first to ask this sentence.

"Well, yesterday the building recruited mendling clothes, and the steward asked the people who came if they could read and write, and those who shook their heads were not selected, and those who nodded were selected. I inquired, the girls in the building are all literate and can write, and many of them can also couplet, so let's read and write with Xiaoshen in the future. Ah Rong said it very seriously, she understood how important it was to enter the building for the girls in front of her, as long as she entered the building, she would no longer have to starve and be cold, and the lowest "clothes" had a hundred copper plates every month, which was better than the girl in the clothes I don't know how many times.

The girls were silent at the same time, and they all looked at each other, and that evening they gathered together, and read one by one by the faint light outside the inn. In the cold wind, the night was as dark as ink, and several little girls were huddled together, all shivering from the cold, but their hearts were warm and bright, because a seed called hope began to be planted in their hearts.

"This is the word fish, Xiaoyu is your name, you see that at the beginning the word fish is like this, like not like a small fish, and then slowly change and become like this, and then ...... like this" Ah Rong also wrote out all kinds of changes in the word fish, and then showed it to Xiaoyu with a smile, of course, I also hope to make Xiaoyu more interested, rather than thinking that literacy is a difficult and boring process.

Obviously, Ah Rong's teaching method made Xiao Yu very useful, looking at the words on the wooden board and asking questions happily, Xiao Shen smiled when he saw this: "Ah Rong still has a way, I used to say that they were not so happy." ”

At this time, Xiaodao also came over to join in the fun, and said to Ah Rong: "Then you write to me, what is my name, is it also like a fish that can move?" ”

"No, rice is like this, you don't look like it when the rice produces millet, this kind of is called pictograms, because it is very similar to the thing itself, so it is called pictograms." Ah Rong listed the changes of various fonts one by one, and was glad that Xiao Dao could watch her write so attentively.

"That'...... Do I have that too? Ah Ye, who was the least interested in the original, also slowly moved over, and she was also very interested in this way, at least very interesting.

I saw Ah Rong write another word like a leaf on the wooden board, pointed at it and said: "Look, like a leaf, in fact, every word is not difficult, so don't think about it too troublesomely, you will recognize three words at once." As long as you recognize three words a day, you will have more than 1,000 words in a year, and you can read books like Xiao Shen. You know, the story in the book is good-looking, and the gods and monsters have the ability to escape from the heavens and the earth. ”

Perhaps tempted by Ah Rong's words, several girls were excited, thinking that they could recognize so many words in a year, and they could still enter the building, the future seemed infinitely brighter, and several girls were also ready to do a good job.

But at this time, several Xiao Er in the inn came out with brooms, and said fiercely: "It's the two of you again, I even brought a few more today, I said how to twitter like sparrows, it was a few of you who were arguing here, and I was not afraid of alarming the distinguished guests who came from afar today." ”

"Big brother, I'm sorry, it's our fault, let's leave now, don't disturb the eldest brother to entertain distinguished guests. I'm really sorry just now, and I ask my eldest brother for forgiveness. Ah Rong could only bow and apologize politely, and then pick up the plank and was about to leave.

But I don't know how today, Xiao Er, who apologizes and admits his mistake on weekdays, will not be held accountable: "Now I know that it is wrong, it's useless, there is a distinguished guest in the building today, and the owner said that if we disturb the distinguished guest, we will die." For the sake of our lives, we can only teach you a good lesson, so that you will not dare to come in the future. ”

The shopkeeper raised the broom as he spoke, in fact, the shopkeeper didn't want to hurt them, but just to scare them, and a few girls actually knew that although the shopkeeper looked fierce, he had been taking good care of them. Sometimes there are leftovers at night and they will give them some, but today I am afraid that the distinguished guests inside will really be disturbed by them, and it is the shopkeeper who has spoken, and Xiao Er has become this attitude.

It seems that today's beating is inevitable to take a few hits, among the girls, Ah Ye and Ah Rong are a little older, although they are only twelve or thirteen years old, they both have the sense of responsibility of a big sister, so the two of them are in front of them, and they are thinking about taking two hits and leaving quickly.

But just as the two of them closed their eyes and prepared for the impending pain, they heard a very light and bright voice coming: "Don't embarrass them, let them go, it's just a few little girls." ”

When Xiao Er heard this, he hurriedly put away the broom, looked at the girls and said viciously, "Don't leave yet." ”

Of course, after hearing this, I was about to disperse, but after a low exclamation, I heard the brisk and bright voice just now say again: "Wait." ”

After a slight sound of footsteps, a young man in a dark blue robe stepped down from above, stared at the wooden board in front of Ah Rong's head, and said, "Who wrote this?" ”

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