Shen Zhen thought he had something serious, and after glancing at him, Shen Linquan said: "My 'best in the world' is still waiting for me, do you want to fight for it?" ”

Shen Zhen glared at him, and Shen Linquan laughed.

Shen Xingsi said with a smile: "Xiao Zhen doesn't have to fight, people have 'love'." ”

He burst out laughing as he spoke, and said with a smile: "I heard you relay it before, I thought it was some kind of mountain spirit ghost, who lived for hundreds of thousands of years to be so smart, but now I know that it is just a precocious little fart." ”

"Yes," Shen Linquan also smiled: "Don't talk about mountain spirits and ghosts, even if she is seven or eight years old and knows a little about personnel, she will be a little shy, but now she obviously doesn't understand it at all, but she is just a little bit of a learner, stupid, and her little eyes are ignorant and incomprehensible, which is really funny." ”

Shen Zhen said: "It's very cute. ”

"It's cute." Shen Linquan waved his hand: "I think her second uncle must be a very interesting character." ”

Shen Zhen nodded: "Indeed." ”

Shen Xingsi suddenly remembered and asked Old Man Shen: "Dad, why don't you tell them about studying?" ”

Old Man Shen waved his hand: "Their family is smart people, and they are very wary of us, so we can't say that it's best to go with the flow." He walked into the house as he said, "Don't say anything, I have to go write a notebook." ”

Several people couldn't help but burst into laughter.

The two families are not far away, Tang Mingqi took his sister's little hand all the way home, and felt that the atmosphere in the village was a little strange, as if there was some happy event, and it was very lively everywhere.

As a result, before he returned home and didn't have time to ask, Fan Niangzi asked him, "Did Elder Shen tell you anything?" ”

Tang Mingqi was puzzled: "No?" ”

"No?" Fan Niangzi was also a little strange: "But today the patriarch came over and said that Shen Lao said that from the day after tomorrow, the children in the village, who have read books, if they encounter something they don't understand in the future, they can go to his house every morning to ask him, and the unenlightened children in the village also go to his house every morning from the beginning of Chen (7:00) to the beginning of noon (11:00), so that Shen Xingsi can help enlighten." ”

Tang Minglin was stunned for a moment.

You must know that because of the influence of the old patriarch, Taoyuan Village is very eager to study, and almost every villager takes sending their children to study as a goal.

But hope is hope, and no money is no money.

There are really very few good hunters like Tang Youxiang who can save money, usually the people in the village can hunt a hare every once in a while, and the main income is in food.

The land tax of the Ming Dynasty is not high, and the lower county only collects three out of a hundred taxes, but purely by planting grain, it really doesn't make enough money, unless there is really a lot of land, and the family population is also large, and it can be planted, but even then, it is necessary to pour the whole family's strength.

The bundle is very expensive, like the nearest to them, the rich village in the east, the Xiucai is a teacher, and the bundle is two taels of silver a month; In the second closest willow village, the teacher is only a student, and the bundle also costs one or two halves of silver a month.

In addition, there are three festivals and two birthdays, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the New Year's Festival, as well as the birthday of Confucius and the birthday of the teacher himself, all of which must be given as gifts.

In addition to binding and giving gifts, buying books, and buying the four treasures of the study, everything is silver, so ordinary people really can't afford it.

Moreover, the terrain of Taoyuan Village is special, no matter which side of the private school you go to, you have to go around the mountain, and the time on the road alone will be at least two hours, that is to say, you have to go before dawn, and it will be dark when you come back, and adults and children are hard.

But even so, there were a few children in the village who went to school for a few years, and at that time the parents took turns and the children went together in donkey carts or ox carts.

It's just that after the drought, I really couldn't save up the bundles, so I just did.

Old Man Shen's move will definitely make the people of the village grateful to Dade.

But he didn't tell him about it.

Obviously, Old Man Shen didn't intend for them to remember his feelings.

They have been worried that they will come to Mi Baolai, for fear that they will make a request that the family can't do, and they have been on strict guard, but when it comes to this kind of time that they can't refuse, they don't mention it.

If they are really aiming for Mi Baolai, then this style is very gentlemanly.

Fan Niangzi was still saying: "The patriarch said, although the old man Shen said not to tie the belly, but everyone can't help but give, and when the grain is collected, a child must not be less than one stone of millet rice, and you can also make up for it with money, vegetables, game, etc., so you don't see everyone plowing the ground outside the yard, thinking of a variety of dishes, how much to make up." ”

She paused: "At our house, Brother Song said that he didn't want to study anymore, you guys, plus Brother Bai'er, I discussed with your father, let's buy two sets of books, you take turns, or make do with them to read together." ”

Tang Mingqi opened his mouth and closed it again.

The five people in their family all learned from their mothers, and they all finished learning 300,000, but in fact, they never used books from beginning to end, and they were all taught by their mothers with charcoal, so compared to those who learned from private schools, it is estimated that it is much worse.

Fan Niangzi also thought of it, and sighed: "I can't think about it, I really can't think about it, when I think of it, I want to strangle Old Lady Shi to death." ”

In fact, if Mrs. Shi asked Tang Youfu to study, she would have gone out to make a fuss, but because Tang Youfu didn't go to study, they felt that Mrs. Shi was just picking the door, not making it bad, and thinking about persuading her day by day.

In these years, filial piety is bigger than the sky, and the dead old woman has the name of an elder, and there is no big mistake to live in, even if it makes a fuss, outsiders can't say anything.

There were too many worries, and it was delayed for several years.

Fat Tuanzi interjected next to him: "Mother, why don't you buy five sets?" When the time comes, my brother can also take notes on it. ”

Fan Niangzi shook her head: "The book is quite expensive, and after reading the beginning, the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are all expenses, so it is better to save some use." ”

Mi Bao taught her seriously: "Mother, you didn't let your brother study at the beginning, do you regret it now?" If you don't let your brother buy one now, you will definitely regret it next year. ”

Fan Niangzi was happy: "This is not the same thing as that, I ......"

Before he finished speaking, he saw a pile of golden beans slowly gathering in front of him, and then slowly adding more, until they gathered into a small pile.

There are actually a lot of gold bars in Mibao's space, and there are also a little gold ingots and golden melon seeds.

But the gold ingots are engraved with the name of the bank or the name of the manufacturer, and the golden melon seeds are engraved with "pure gold 999-2G", but the 1G golden bean is engraved on it, because it is very small, only 999 is engraved, and there are no Arabic numerals at this time, so it should be like a strange pattern in their opinion, right?

Mi Bao threw out more than a thousand golden beans in one go, and there were two or three hundred taels of silver in total, and Mei Zizi tilted his head: "Mother, is it enough to buy books?" ”

Fan Niangzi helped her forehead: "That's enough." ”

Tang Youxiang came back in the evening, and the two of them discussed it behind closed doors.