Xiao Fuyuan and Zhen glanced at each other, feeling a little empty.

She's very smart, and she's even more cute.

So, Xiao Fuyuan smiled innocently at Zhen.

Zhen's heart melted.

"My sister really loves to laugh." The more Bai Panmei looks at her sister, the more she likes it.

Xiao Fuyuan was lying in the arms of the fourth brother, with a pair of big eyes flickering. The cute little Fuyuan like a dumpling, Bai Panmei couldn't help but want to touch her sister's face with her hand, but before her hand fell on her sister's face, she shrank back.

Xiao Fuyuan saw clearly, and the fourth brother's hand cracked open.

The fourth brother is afraid that it will hurt Xiao Fuyuan.

Zhen also discovered that the fourth child of her family had chilblains on his hands, which were swollen like carrots. There is a stove in the classroom of the private school, and I only read and write on weekdays, and it is impossible for my hands to freeze like this, no matter how cold the weather is.

"Little Four, what's wrong with your hand?" Zhen asked distressedly.

"Mother, it's snowing heavily these days, it's cold, and the writing is freezing, so it's okay." Bai Panmei said lightly.

"By the way, this is the two taels of silver that the third brother asked me to give to the family, and the third brother went to Huaicheng to deliver the goods, but he couldn't come to his sister's full moon banquet."

Bai Panmei handed Xiao Fuyuan into Zhen's arms and took out the silver from her pocket.

Zhen didn't answer, and looked at Bai Panmei with a sad face.

A few days ago, the third child just came home, Zhen clearly knew the third son's monthly money, he had just been promoted from an apprentice to a buddy, and the monthly money would be a few hundred dollars a month.

"Little four, you tell your mother the truth, where did the money come from?"

Bai Panmei lowered her head, knowing that she couldn't hide anything from her mother, and confessed: "I earned it myself? ”

"What did you earn? How did you make it? You are studying in a private school, how can you make money? Zhen felt that Bai Panmei was not telling the truth.

Bai Panmei studied in Bai Erzhuang's private school as a master, and Bai Erzhuang watched during the day, and Zhen was afraid that Bai Panmei would run out to work as a coolie at night.

The chilblains on his hands cracked and opened bloody wounds, and at first glance, he looked like he had done rough and heavy work.

"Little Four, did you run out to work as a coolie at night? You still don't tell the truth to your mother? Do you want your to know? Zhen raised his voice, and his eyes turned red.

"Babble......" Xiao Fuyuan waved his hands.

Say it quickly, fourth brother.

Mother is usually such a gentle person, I'm so anxious and sad for you, you still don't tell the truth!

"Mother, I didn't run out to work as a coolie." Bai Panmei saw that her mother was sad, and she blamed herself very much, today is her sister's full moon banquet, and she shouldn't make her mother sad on a happy day.

"I earned the money from my classmates at a private school...... I make ...... money by washing clothes and brushing shoes for them," Bai Panmei said in a hutter.

Zhen understood.

In winter, it was cold, and some students from good families in the private school were reluctant to wash their own clothes, so Bai Panmei took the job behind her husband's back.

Two taels of silver, how many thick cotton clothes does Xiao Si have to wash? The heat level of the private school needs to be exchanged for food or money, and the little four are reluctant to soak their hands in the biting ice water every day.

He didn't spend it for himself, he earned money and gave it to his family, he wanted to reduce the burden on his family.

You can't blame Bai Erzhuang for not stopping this, it is estimated that Bai Erzhuang doesn't know about this at all.

Zhen's tears fell.

"Little Four, the family sent you to study, not expecting you to get ahead, but it didn't let you wash your classmates." Zhen said slowly.

"Mother, I thought that it would be so difficult at home to send me to study, and the third brother would be an apprentice for me......"

Zhen's heart hurts like a pinprick.

Originally, the family didn't plan to let their sons study, but Mrs. Bai said that being able to read was what the ancestors of the Bai family had always looked forward to. Bai Muban studied for a few years when he was seven or eight years old, but it was really not the material for reading, and he stopped studying because of a major incident at home.

When it came to Zhen's sons, Erzhuang was the first to show his talent for reading, and Mrs. Bai was the master to send them to study.

Finally, the talent in the exam!

Bai Sanzhuang is the earliest literate among his sons, and the second Zhuang is studying in the room, and he can listen to it a few times at the age of three or four. Mrs. Bai felt that she could not waste such a good seedling, so she tightened her belt and sent Sanzhuang to a private school, Sanzhuang studied for a few years and went to the lacquerware shop as an apprentice without even being a child, and Mrs. Bai almost expelled him from the house.

Bai Panmei is not as good as Bai Erzhuang in terms of talent, and she is no better than Bai Sanzhuang in terms of literacy. But he likes to read, and at the age of seven or eight he read Bai Sanzhuang's books and secretly practiced calligraphy on the ground with branches. The family didn't think about sending him to study, because they couldn't afford it, Zhen couldn't stand Xiaosi's eagerness to study, and last year he was forced to send him to a private school.

Bai Panmei is very competitive, he was the latest to enlighten in the entire private school, but he worked the hardest, from not being able to catch up to studying hard for a year to catch up with the progress of school.

"Little four, it is the responsibility of parents to meet their children's desire to study, whether the family is difficult or not is not something you should consider, since you go to a private school, you should study hard. And your third brother, he went to be an apprentice for you to study, and it doesn't make you feel guilty. In a family, everyone has everyone's responsibility, and your responsibility is to study hard, so that you can't live up to your parents, grandmothers and your third brother. "Zhen's Zhengse.

Xiao Fuyuan sighed in his heart.

What my wife said is quite level, not like a country woman at all!

Mother, you are not a treasure mother.

"Think about it, because you feel guilty about making money to subsidize your family, you get frostbitten in the laundry clothes in a private school, you can't hold a pen in your hand and delay your study, do you pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelons? If you want to take the road of the imperial examination, you have to show the attitude of reading, you are so half-hearted, in case you miss the exam, wouldn't it be a waste of the money at home for you to study? ”

Bai Panmei bowed her head and was silent.

Zhen sighed, knowing that her son listened to her. Zhen put Xiao Fuyuan on the bed and covered the quilt, and then pulled Bai Panmei to the stove, there was a basin of hot water sitting on the stove, Zhen tested the water temperature, and put Bai Panmei's hands in it to scrub.

"Oops." Bai Panmei couldn't help but cry out in pain.

"Bear with me." Zhen's heart was sour, and he carefully rubbed Bai Panmei's hand.

Bai Panmei choked up for a while, her mother is so good.

"Mother, I was wrong." Bai Panmei said softly, "I won't dare to do it again in the future, I must study hard." ”

Zhen took Bai Panmei's hand out of the hot water, carefully wiped it with a dry towel, and applied clam oil.

Although he has always wanted a daughter, his sons are sensible and distressing.

"It's good to know. Fang just said that when you become the champion, you should take care of your sister, how can you be the champion if you can't hold this pen. Zhen said that she must lead the fourth child to the "right path".

Bai Panmei secretly decided that she must study hard in the future, pay homage to the prime minister, and be the most solid support for the whole family.

"Come, try it, my mother has made you a new cotton coat." Zhen picked up the cotton clothes from the bed and put them on Bai Panmei.

For the cotton that Bai Dazhuang bought last time, Zhen made a cotton coat for each of the children.

"It's warm." Bai Panmei said.

The cotton clothes on the fourth child's body were too thin, and the underwear was also tattered, and Zhen's nose began to sour again.

"Mother, this silver is for you." Bai Panmei promised that she would never dare again next time, but the money she earned this time would also be given to her family.

"Today, my sister is full moon, and this silver will buy flowers and clothes for my sister to wear." Bai Panmei handed the silver to Zhen's, turned her head and smiled at Xiao Fuyuan, "Did you say yes, sister." ”

"Babbling ......"

Xiao Fuyuan said that there are flowers and mulberry clothes to wear, so it is better for the fourth brother to keep them.

Zhen confiscated the silver and said with relief: "You can rest assured that you can take your sister to heart, but your sister can't use this silver for the time being." You keep it for yourself, buy paper and pencils, and hand it over. ”

When Zhen was educating Bai Laosi, the Bai family's compound was bustling with a banquet.

"Da Zhuang Niang, you can also come out to eat." The old lady Bai shouted through the window.

Today is the only female doll full moon banquet in the Bai family, and Zhen's mother, naturally has to go through the motions during the banquet.

"This is ......," Zhen responded.

Xiao Fuyuan was lying on the bed, she was babbling and enjoying herself, go, mother, she would be obedient.

Zhen kissed Xiao Fuyuan's forehead and said, "Yuanbao is obedient, my mother will come when she goes." ”