The second aunt was quick with her hands and feet, boiled four eggs and steamed half a drawer of pumpkin sweet potatoes, drank a big bowl of water after breakfast, kicked a big sweet potato in the basket and went out with the basket, and did not forget to look back and tell before going out.

"Piao'er, you have to keep an eye on my monkey!"

Lin Piao raised his head in the pumpkin: "Okay aunt, I'll beat him if you're disobedient." ”

The second aunt left satisfied, and Erzhu, who was gnawing sweet potatoes on the side, secretly flattened his mouth.

Shen Hong sat on the side, listening to such a homely routine, his expression was very calm, he had a kind of too precocious temperament, which made him look very calm at a young age.

After the three of them finished breakfast, they heard a stack of beautiful calls: "Little sister-in-law, little sister-in-law." ”

With the sound of snapping footsteps, Ergou poked his head into carrying a half-old rattan basket: "Where are everyone?" ”

He swaggered in and put the basket on the corner of the stove: "Little sister-in-law, the peanuts that my mother asked me to bring, can we cook them now." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Shen Hong again: "Shen Hong, I also came with you today to learn to read and write." ”

Shen Hong nodded, didn't say anything else, lowered his head and picked up the bowl and drank water silently.

Ergou has a clever and skinny appearance, a thin nose bridge, thin lips, and a rough tan, compared to Erzhu, he is a real monkey.

Lin Piao stood up: "Have you eaten?" ”

"Nope."

"Then let's eat some first, and after eating, I will learn to read."

Ergou happily followed him close to the stove, as soon as he opened the cover, a burst of watery gas dispersed, he looked at it, and suddenly had a bitter face: "How can it be a lot." ”

I thought my sister-in-law had something delicious here.

As soon as Lin Piao heard what he said, he knew that there was no doubt about the foodie: "Make some cushions first, and get something delicious at noon." ”

"It's better to be a sister-in-law."

Erzhu saw that he was so familiar, and the boss was unhappy when he heard it next to him: "Little sister-in-law, little sister-in-law's call, is it your little sister-in-law?" ”

"Why not, my mother asked me to call it that, didn't my sister-in-law say anything, you are really a dog and a mouse to meddle with things."

Erzhu looked at him unhappily: "Hmph, you are a latecomer, it is useless to call him closer." ”

Lin Piao patted the basket: "Hey, I'm not interested in this here, what comes first and comes later, whoever reads well is the best." ”

Ergou's face was full of pride: "That's it, I'm much smarter than you, see who can compare with whom." ”

Erzhu held his breath, but thinking that he hadn't recognized the words yesterday, he was suddenly a little deflated.

Lin Piao opened the corner of the linen cloth on the basket, which was full of peanuts and looked at Ergou: "Have they all been washed?" It's really hard for your mother. ”

Ergou's face was full of pride: "That is, my mother is cute and clean, and I must be more attentive to my sister-in-law, these peanuts don't need to be washed, just go to the pot." ”

Lin Piao looked at it, it was indeed clean, and turned around to get the big porcelain bowl: "Let's vacate the things in the pot first." Several people hurriedly packed up their things, Ergou poured peanuts into the pot, and Erzhu filled the stove with a thick firewood to poke the stove up.

"The heat doesn't need to be too big, just cook slowly."

"Okay." As soon as Erzhu heard this, he drew some firewood out.

Lin Piao brought the salt pot, sprinkled salt into the pot, and asked Ergou to add three tablespoons of water.

"Okay, just cook it like this, as long as the heat is up, and it is soft and glutinous, the taste will be right."

The two of them didn't forget each other's connotations for a while, Erzhu said that Ergou didn't pour too much water, Ergou said that Erzhu was burning too much, and he wanted to compare each other.

The two fought for a while, Shen Hong put down the bowl after eating, and stood up slowly: "Come with me to the courtyard over there." ”

Erzhu, busy bickering, didn't finish breakfast, Ergou saw that the sweet potato was only half gnawed, as soon as he heard Shen Hong's words, the two immediately stopped the war, revealing their vigilance to enter the trial, and quickly followed Shen Hong out of the courtyard gate.

Under the big banyan tree outside the village, the people who are busy with the farm in the morning have finished their work in the morning, and now it is not spring ploughing and autumn planting, if it is not to go up the mountain to pick up fungi and pick wild fruits, they will also rationalize the ground every day, see if there is less in the field, whether the water level of the paddy field is suitable, and sit under the big banyan tree to rest and chat after the work in the morning.

"If you want to say that the little fox spirit of the Xiao Shen family is capable, guess what I saw when I went to reason? Aren't Lao Li's land and his family's land next to each other? Lao Li is giving him the land, do you think it's strange? ”

"No, although Lao Li is silent, he has nothing to say to his family, and his family's affairs are all his ideas."

"Why can't it, how can he go to make sense? Is it for him to be idle and panicked? ”

The person next to him waved his hand again and again: "Brother Zhao, you don't know this, now Lao Li's second dog is learning to read and write with Shen Hong." ”

As soon as these words came out, they fell to the ground like thunder, and the people around them asked if it was true and when they went, but they didn't hear anyone say it.

"It must be true, isn't my family's Na Yanda in the middle of the old Li family and the Xiao Shen family? Last night I watched his family carrying two big baskets of things over, I asked him what he was going to do, she refused to say with a smile on her face, said to come back and tell me, I didn't go to my heart, and then I went into the house to eat, and I didn't meet them back, this morning I saw Ergou carrying a big basket and running over there, I asked him what he was doing early in the morning, he said he was going to find Shen Hongxue to read and write, this can be fake? ”

"Why did you go to learn to read and write? It was a basket and a basket, and there was really food to burn. Boss Yang stood in the crowd and sneered.

His mother-in-law was next to her, silent.

As soon as the people next to him heard him shouting, they coaxed: "Isn't your Dasheng about the same age as Erzhu?" Let him also learn to read and write, anyway, his family still has two acres of paddy fields, so I will hand it over to you to cultivate! ”

"Go, I'm so idle that I don't call a little brother when I go to the river in a panic, it's really a shame for my eight lifetimes." Elder Yang shouted loudly to clear up the involvement.

When the people heard him say this, there was another burst of laughter, and they came out of the paddy field, and although they washed themselves with the water from the field, their calves under the trousers were still covered with muddy water, and they hurried home to wash their feet, and after staying for a while, they left the chattering crowd.

The two returned to their house, Boss Yang was digging well water in the yard, and his daughter-in-law went straight to the side of the livestock shed to sit down, picked up a knife and began to chop pig vegetables.

Boss Yang turned his head to see her sitting in the shed after rushing his feet: "Don't wash your feet?" Don't you love to be clean, and you won't let me go on the kang without washing my feet. ”

"I won't wash it."

"What's wrong with you, you don't speak from under the big banyan tree, so why don't you bother?"

Old Lady Yang's daughter-in-law chopped hard, threw the kitchen knife into the pig vegetable pile, and turned her head to look at him: "I ask you, Erzhu went to recognize words, and Ergou also went to read and write, so you don't have anything to think about?" ”

"What do I think? Could it be that you also want Dasheng to read and write, you mother-in-law is dizzy, are you, that little brother of the Shen family a good thing? He relied on Shen Hong to be able to recognize a few words, so he wanted us to provide for him, don't fall for him. ”

"I feel bad when I think about it." Boss Yang's daughter-in-law wiped her face angrily, although there were no tears.

"What are you uncomfortable with, if you are uncomfortable with this, then you should hold back and stop talking, let others know how embarrassing it is."

"Don't you feel sorry for our Dasheng, there are only a few people in the village who are the same age as him, Ergou and Erzhu usually play together, and now that people can read and write, they are a lot higher than our Dasheng."

"Hey, they lack heart eyes, why are they a little taller."

"I didn't think Ergou and Erzhu didn't know how to read before, but now they play together, grow up and farm together, they are all babies in the village, and now they can read and write, can they be the same thing as our Dasheng in the future? Do you remember Wang Tongsheng in the next village? He was admitted to fame, not to mention how much the village respected him. ”

"Shen Hongxian don't say it, do you think Ergou and Erzhu can be admitted to Tongsheng?"

"I'm not talking about Wang Tongsheng! Wang Tongsheng next door to a few families, there is a surname Yang do you remember, and you are a family, he is also a person who can read and write, but his knowledge is not as good as Wang Tongsheng, nothing was admitted, but with his ability to write, every New Year's holiday, weddings and funerals, who does not invite him to write, when the village baby is named, please not Wang Tongsheng should also ask him to see, how beautiful and useful it is, can this be the same! ”

Boss Yang was stopped by his daughter-in-law, standing by the well and pondering for a long time, no matter how lazy this person is, he is afraid of comparing, the people in the distance are powerful, and the people in the next village are not uncomfortable, the people around him are powerful, and the baby who lives next door is more powerful than his own baby, which is called making people's eyes red and sour, scratching his ears and cheeks, originally he didn't feel that he was said by his daughter-in-law, and suddenly reminded people of those people in the Da Shen family. Because they are literate and literate, the people in the village still eat his family's set, although they don't say it, but in their hearts they all think that his family is a step higher.

The more Boss Yang's daughter-in-law thought about it, the more anxious she became: "Where did we send them?" If it's better to take the two of them in the future, who is to blame, and who is to blame. ”

"Okay, don't put this anxious eye away, you have to ask Dasheng what he means first, you put this anxious eye aside, if Dasheng doesn't want to learn, let us spend money and beg that stubborn seed?"

"Then what do you say if Dasheng wants to go?"

Boss Yang was forced to be helpless, and gritted his teeth: "If he really wants to study, isn't it just two acres of paddy fields, I'll take care of it!" ”

Boss Yang's daughter-in-law patted her leg: "Okay, you just promise, when Dasheng comes back, I'll ask him well, the baby and the one next door went to play in the mountains." ”

"Running to the sky, where is the ass idle reader." Boss Yang shook his head.

"How do you know if you're not idle!"

"I just know my seed."

The two quarreled, and Yang's daughter-in-law was worried, she pointed to Dasheng to learn well, but Dasheng drilled into the mountains all day long, and she didn't know if she could learn well.

Chapter 12

When Dasheng came out of the mountains and returned home, it was already noon, and he was holding two small finches in his hands: "Mother, I will put them in the stove and cook them for me later." ”

Da Sheng Niang looked at the finch that was not as big as a palm: "I can't even catch a rabbit and drill into the mountains every day, and the time is delayed in it." ”

"No matter how small the finch is, it's still meat, otherwise you slaughter a chicken for me to eat."

"You gluttonous monkey, throw the finch at the stove, come here! My mother has something to tell you. ”

Da Sheng reluctantly moved forward, and Da Sheng Niang pulled him into the house: "My mother has something important to tell you, do you know that the two pillars are reading and knowing?" ”

"I know, who doesn't know in the village?"

"Then do you know that Ergou also went to Shen Hong to read and write?"

Dasheng was taken aback: "Ergou? What does he recognize? How could he have such a good life. ”

"When people go, they have this kind of good life, my mother asks you, do you want to go, if you want to go, my mother will let you go."

Dasheng looked at her expression: "What did Dad say?" ”

"You don't care about him, as long as you agree, he has to agree if he doesn't agree."

"Hey, forget it, mother, don't be foolish, reading is hard and costs money, Shen Hong is so good at reading, how much money has his family sent to Mr. over the years, grain, rice and noodles, last year's New Year's Day killed pigs, his family killed one, and he had to take a big pork leg to honor Mr., and other pigs also intermittently changed money for Shen Hong, and now there are only a few tender piglets left in the family."

"How can it be so frightening, Lin Piao definitely doesn't dare to ask for as much as Mr. Serious."

"Anyway, I'm not going, what's wrong with this food."

When Da Shengniang heard that his tone was the same as his father's, she was so angry that she wanted to pat him, but she withdrew her hand halfway, hating that iron is not steel: "Where do you know the benefits of reading!" ”

Dasheng was afraid of being beaten, so he ran outside with a smoke: "Don't go!" ”

Lin Piao had already finished eating, they ate mushrooms at noon, the second aunt picked up several kinds of mushrooms, and originally planned to fry a big pot, but Lin Piao saw that the second aunt was reluctant to use oil, what was the meaning of the mushrooms stir-fried in no oil and water, so she let her cook it into a mixed mushroom soup, fry an egg to cook the soup base, increase the aroma of the soup base is not too bland, and rolled a spoonful of chicken fat in the jar, the yellow, orange and orange oil flowers floated in the soup noodles, the miscellaneous mushrooms were delicious, and then put a little salt, not to mention how delicious.

Eating soft glutinous salted peanuts again, the peanuts are cooked thoroughly, peeling off the moist shell, and one after another can't stop.

The second aunt's cooking is not bad, coupled with the guidance provided by Lin Piao, the taste is even more unique in the whole village, and the second dog gives a thumbs up: "My sister-in-law knows so much, my aunt's cooking is really delicious, unlike my mother, who will be the same, red lotus, pumpkin, and hodgepodge." ”

According to Lin Piao's several inquiries, although Ergou is skinny, he is very smart, and he can remember how to write the strokes of the word twice a little, and the progress on the first day of learning exceeds that of Erzhu, which has already started two days.

After eating, Lin Piao asked them to go out to have a good time, which was considered a break between classes.

The two didn't look at each other, and they didn't pay attention to each other, but they had to get together and walk, and as they walked, they met Dasheng who ran out of the house with a stick, and Dasheng also brought several companions of different sizes around him, each holding a slingshot bamboo basket in his hand.

As soon as the second dog saw him, he came to the heart: "Dasheng! Where to go? ”

Erzhu also hurriedly asked, "What did you catch today?" ”

Dasheng gnawed on the wolf: "I caught two little finches today, I haven't eaten them yet, I will go back in the evening and roast them again, I will go to the river to turn over crabs, will you go." ”

Ergou shook his head: "The hard ones are panicked, the small ones are okay, and the big ones are not eating." ”

Da Sheng heard his tone: "What did you eat at noon?" Eating crabs is too toothy. ”