In the wee hours of the morning, before the moon had completely set, and the sky was gloomy, a little girl of about three or four years old was squatting under a tree, with her short yellow hair scattered and forked, wearing a shirt that barely looked like two rags, and poked the ants on the ground with a branch.

One, two, three......

The stupid girl poked slowly with a small branch, and each time an ant corpse separated, and after poking for a long time, there was already a pile of ant corpses on the ground, and she felt bored and stopped.

Originally, this was supposed to be the time to sleep, after all, there was a lot of work to do during the day, and if she didn't rest well, she would have no energy during the day, but she couldn't sleep, so she came out to poke the ants to play, but it was not interesting to poke the ants, and she dropped the branches, and the village was quiet, and even the rooster raised by the aunt next door had not woken up and crowed, she sat under the tree and began to look at the sky in a daze.

Stupid girl was originally not called Stupid Ya, she was called Erya, she was the second girl of the old Li family, most of the families in Tangxia Village were surnamed Li, and there may be most of the little girls on Li Erya Street who want to agree. The girls in the village were all called Li Mouya when they were young, like the stupid eldest sister Li Daya, when they grew up and got married, they were called Li Tujia, and after giving birth to a child, they were called Shi Ta Niang, and they didn't have their own names in this life, which was really boring.

Although the name Stupid Ya is not a compliment when I hear it, but at least it is different from other little girls in the village, Silly Ya is still quite satisfied, she is actually not stupid, on the contrary, she is very smart, and her memory is also very good, and she still remembers things when she is more than a year old, but she is too lazy to say, too lazy to take care of it, she feels boring.

The day gradually dawned, and after the first rooster crowed, the village began to be lively, and every family boiled water and cooked rice, but the stupid girl did not have it at home, and she heard the voice of her father and mother whispering in the back room, and she did not listen carefully, as if she was discussing something.

"Stupid!"

The stupid girl agreed, slowly got up and walked into the yard, waiting for her mother to assign her work, either to light a fire, or to fetch water, or to go to the mountains to collect firewood.

But today is a little strange, my father and mother are dressed neatly, as if they are going out. The mother hugged the three girls who were not yet one year old and went to the neighbor's aunt's house, and the father said that he didn't have to make breakfast today, and he would eat again when he came back.

The stupid girl didn't say anything, she honestly followed behind her father, what does it mean to eat again when she comes back, what is the difference between eating now and what are the benefits?

It may be that when you come back to eat food that can save a person, you can save the stupid girl, that is to say, today, the stupid girl does not have to go home, and there may be no home in the future.

She understands what this means, last year, the stupid eldest brother Li Dawa made a fuss about going to private school, and the family had no money, so she sold the eldest girl two taels of silver to a cripple in his thirties in the next village, she remembered that the cripple was called Li Tu, and at the end of the year, a male baby was born, called Shishi.

But she is not yet four years old, I am afraid that the cripple will not give birth to a doll the size of a stone.

It may be that she wants to be a slave to the young grandmother of a large family, and the aunt next door said that she will wash the feet of the young grandmother, she will, she often washes the feet of the mother, and the difference may be that she has to kneel in front of the young grandmother.

It's a little difficult, she thought, she's still young, and her kneeling end is probably unstable, and if she does, she will be punished for not having anything to eat. But it doesn't matter, she will be able to stand steady when she grows up in two years.

"Stupid," the mother walked over, looked her up and down, and then ripped off the rags from her body. "Take this off, and you can wear it for Sanya in two years. ”

These two rags were also worn by the eldest girl when she was a child, and the eldest girl passed it on to the stupid girl, and the stupid girl passed it on to the third girl. But it's strange that my father and my eldest brother are always dressed cleanly.

Dad raised his hand to stop his mother and said, "Forget it, when I get the money, I will tear a new dress for the eldest baby, and the old clothes I have replaced are enough for Sanya to wear." ”

The mother reluctantly said after hearing this: "It's cheap, this stupid girl." ”

The stupid girl lowered her head and didn't speak or resist, and her father and mother never shy away from her when she spoke, because they all thought she was stupid and stupid, and couldn't understand them.

The three of them walked out of the village and walked along the road until it was dawn, and then they arrived at Qutang Town, and entered an alley and looked at a very magnificent courtyard, the courtyard door was wide open, not like a business shop, nor like a private house.

In the hall sat a middle-aged man in his thirties, dressed in a blue shirt and a scholar's hat, whistling and teasing the parrot on the table.

The stupid girl looked up and saw that the bird was colorful and beautiful.

Dad bent over and smiled cautiously, "My lord, I'm here with a child." ”

"How old are you?" the middle-aged man asked absentmindedly.

"It's four years old. ”

The man held out his hand, "Come here and let me see." "The hand was slender and clean, the nails were round and round, and there was a white jade wrench on the thumb. The stupid girl looked at the wisps of yellow dirt that hung down in front of her eyes, and the rags on her body still exuded a musty smell, and walked over with some hesitation.

The man turned his head to look at her, with a hint of disgust in his long narrow eyes, he pinched her shoulder and arm a few times at will, and picked up a handkerchief from the table to wipe his fingers carefully, and his father and mother did not speak, and when he finished wiping slowly, he took out a string of copper coins from the cabinet and threw it on the table, and said to the stupid girl: "The bones are okay, go in, turn left into the second room, and you are not allowed to run around." ”

The stupid girl answered yes and was about to go inside, but her father and mother were anxious, "My lord......!

"Miscellaneous servants are not accepted for those under the age of ten, okay, let's go. The man waved his hand impatiently.

"My lord, it's not a miscellaneous servant...... Niang whispered her defense, looking a little anxious, she sent the stupid girl here, not in exchange for eight hundred copper coins, otherwise it was sent to the human tooth, and it could also be exchanged for one or two taels of silver.

The man was a little puzzled and looked at it, "Are you the child's own parents?"

Daddy nodded repeatedly, "Of course it is!"

"Then I'll explain it to you again, don't be deceived by some uneasy and kind people. There are three kinds of people accepted by our Holy Sect, the first is to be a disciple of the sect, go up the mountain to practice martial arts, listen to the orders of the Holy Sect, and after ten years, you can see your family when you go down the mountain, 800 Wen; the second type, you can be a servant and miscellaneous servant, and you can become a slave, and if you do well, you can go to the sect to be a treasurer in the industry, two taels of silver; this third ......" He deliberately paused, and saw that his father and mother were nervous, "Be a medicine tester, and the elders in the sect need people to test the effect of medicine to study medical skills, regardless of life or death, seven taels of silver." ”

The middle-aged man said as he took out two silver ingots, one large and one small, from the cabinet and placed them on the table, lined up with the eight hundred copper coins on the original table, "Have you figured out how to choose?"

The mother picked up the larger silver ingot from the table and stuffed it into her arms, "I think about it, I think about it, thank you, don't bother your lord." ”

The stupid girl watched her father and mother exit the yard with a smile, and looked at the middle-aged man with a blank look, and the man glanced at her angrily, "What are you doing here, don't go in yet!"