Pray for Ya'an. Life is too fragile and too sudden. May the deceased rest in peace and the living be strong.

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Opening her eyes, a ray of red setting sun above her head was reflected from the window. After a while, Zhen Shiniang remembered that she had fallen asleep after returning from the glue. She looked up at the clepsydra on the table and said, "Fortunately, it's just after the Youshi hour."

." It was still too late to get up and make evaporated cakes. She stretched and slowly sat up.

"...Mom, mother!" Jian Wu and Jian Wen were dozing on the side. When they heard the noise, they jumped up and threw themselves into Zhen Shiniang's arms. They hugged Zhen Shiniang's waist tightly and raised their little faces.

, looked at her with tears in her eyes, as if she had been greatly wronged.

Zhen Shiniang was startled, "Brother Wen, what happened to Brother Wu?" He looked around, "Who bullied you?"

"...Miss, are you awake?" She was working outside when she heard Jian Wen and Jian Wu's voice. The magpie Qiu Ju ran in. Qiu Ju rushed to the kang in one step and looked at Zhen Shiniang up and down, her eye circles instantly turned red.

stand up.

What happened to these people?

Zhen Shiniang was puzzled.

Just as he was about to ask, Jian Wu burst into tears, "I don't want white flour steamed buns anymore. From now on, we will eat corn flour every day to save money for my mother's medical treatment!"

"I won't be playful anymore. I want to study hard. When I grow up, I will take the imperial examination and earn a lot of money to treat my mother's diseases!" Jian Wen hugged her mother's waist tightly, for fear that if she let go, her mother would die.

It's like it's gone.

Who told the child this?

Zhen Shiniang glanced sharply at Magpie, then lowered her head and patted Jian Wen's back gently, "...our Brother Wen wants to take the top prize?" Her tone was relaxed and cheerful.

Jian Wen nodded vigorously, "You can make a lot of money only if you become a high official!"

"I also want to take the No. 1 exam!" Jian Wu also nodded, "In the future, I will be like General Shen, a majestic general, and make money to treat my mother's illness!"

Do you become a general just to make money to treat her illness?

You can also make money by doing business, and you can make money faster. Why should your son not learn anything well, so why should he imitate his father and take the martial arts exam?

If you can't even pass the examination as a scholar in your life, how can you expect to make any money?

Zhen Shiniang wanted to bang her head against the wall.

Is this the relationship between flesh and blood, genetics?

He sighed secretly, but did not want to correct his son. He only smiled kindly and said, "Brother Wen and Brother Wu have such great ambitions. It's good, but you must be prepared to endure hardship."

"I'm not afraid of hardship!"

"I'm not afraid either!" Jian Wu also echoed.

"Okay." Zhen Shiniang nodded, "It's better to say it than to do it. Brother Wen and Wu will go to the West Room immediately and rewrite the second chapter of Cang Jie ten times..." Children in ancient times were enlightened early, and most of them started to use "Cang Jie" at the age of four or five.

"Yuan Shang" and "Meng Qiu" were enlightened, and then I studied the Four Books and Five Classics.

Regarding this kind of awkward and difficult classical Chinese, Zhen Shiniang remembered that she had a hard time learning it in high school in her previous life. There was a saying among her classmates, "First, they are afraid of Zhou Shuren, and second, they are afraid of classical Chinese." Now let a four-year-old child read this,

It is simply destroying the seedlings.

But all children in this era are learning this. If they don't learn it, they may not be able to understand the Four Books and Five Classics in the future. Considering that people in this era generally have short life spans, I found a copy of "Cang Jie" to enlighten Jian Wu and Jian Wen.

The rules will not change just because her soul is different. Now that they are here, she and Jian Wen and Jian Wu must move forward step by step.

After hearing this, Jian Wu and Jian Wen's face suddenly twitched.

After just a moment, Jian Wen nodded vigorously, "Mom, wait, I will come over to accompany you after I finish writing!"

After sending Jian Wen and Jian Wu away, Zhen Shiniang quietly looked at Qiu Ju and Magpie.

Qiu Ju was stunned by the sight and was a little at a loss, "Miss..."

"...I'm just very tired and want to take a nap. How could you scare the children like this?!" Zhen Shiniang's voice had never been harsher.

"Miss has been sleeping for two days and two nights." Qiu Ju whispered.

Two days and two nights?

Zhen Shiniang was a little surprised.

"...Miss, you slept so deeply that you didn't even wake up while the slaves wiped your body." Magpie's eyes flashed with worry, "...When I feed you rice and soup, you only know how to swallow it, and you don't wake up no matter what."

She has always been a light sleeper, how could this happen?

Zhen Shiniang looked down at her clothes.

Sure enough, she changed into a quilt and her body felt dry. She still remembered that her body felt sticky and uncomfortable before going to bed, but at that time her body was as heavy as a mountain and she didn't want to move a finger.

"...Then you can't scare the children like this." Zhen Shiniang's tone softened, "Brother Wen and Wu are careful, they will take everything adults say seriously." Since he was a child, Jian Wen and Jian Wu have not had a father, so they are better than ordinary children.

All are sensitive.

Therefore, even though she was still a child, Zhen Shiniang was very careful about what she said in front of them.

"They overheard it themselves..." Qiu Ju muttered softly.

"Eavesdropping?" Zhen Shiniang frowned, "What's going on?"

Just as she was about to speak, Magpie coughed. Qiu Ju quickly shut her mouth, turned around and walked out, "...Miss, you must be thirsty just after waking up. I will give you some water."

"I'm not thirsty, tell me!" Zhen Shiniang didn't even look at the magpie, her eyes were fixed on Qiu Ju, "What's going on?"

"Yes...Sister-in-law Luo died the night before yesterday..." Qiu Ju turned back slowly and said bravely.

Mrs. Luo is their neighbor, right next to Yu Liang's house in the alley where she went before. Her husband died a year ago, and she lives alone with her six-year-old daughter, Sister Ling. She lost too much blood after childbirth and couldn't nurse her back, so she has been very sick.

, it’s just that Zhen Shiniang had a hemorrhage at the time, which was much more serious than hers. They were raising the children alone, and they were in sympathy with each other. In the past two years, Sister-in-law Luo and Zhen Shiniang had been walking around most frequently, and Zhen Shiniang often helped her with some donkey-hide gelatin, but nothing happened.

They are all people who have not had enough to eat, and the relief is limited.

As the saying goes, there is nothing but money, and there is nothing but illness. Because she had been taking medicine all the time, her family had already been depleted. After her husband died, Sister-in-law Luo relied on washing clothes for others and sewing and mending to support her daughter, not to mention recuperating her mother.

It was difficult for the two women to make ends meet, and they missed their husband. As they went back and forth, their bodies became more and more exhausted. In the blink of an eye, they followed her husband. The more she talked about it, the redder Qiu Ju's eyes became, "...I just feel sorry for Sister Ling, not even...

When he was seven years old, he was taken away by his uncle, saying that he was going to sell it to a big family in the city to pay off his debts. "Sister-in-law Luo owed a lot of money to her natal brothers because she borrowed money to buy medicine, plus the cost of delivering it this time, "...

... He said he would leave early tomorrow morning."

"...Sister Ling was sold by his uncle?" Zhen Shiniang's heart twitched as she thought of Sister Ling's big black eyes flashing and Jian Wu and Jian Wen laughing and laughing in front of her.

"How come no one cares?"

"Who dares to take care of my uncle?" Magpie said, "Besides, it is said outside that Sister Ling is a tough-minded person. First she killed her grandparents, then her father, and now she has killed her own mother. Everyone is talking about it.

I wish she could leave Wutong Town quickly, how can anyone speak for her?"

"They are just six or seven-year-old children, these people..." Zhen Shiniang's voice contained a rare hint of injustice, "They are so heartless!"

"This is none of our business. Miss, don't worry about it." Zhen Shiniang has always been calm. This is the first time Magpie has seen her like this. "Your illness is the most worrying thing."

Think about it, I don't even know where I will end up tomorrow, and I really can't control it.

This is not modern times. In ancient times, buying and selling people was a legitimate and legal business!

Zhen Shiniang sighed, "I often hear people say that the maids of some wealthy families are more respectable than the daughters of ordinary families. I hope she can get into a good family." Not wanting to talk more, she changed the topic.

, "Brother Wen and Brother Wu were afraid because they heard that Sister Ling was sold?"

"Hmm..." Magpie responded vaguely.

"No..." Qiu Ju shook her head.
Chapter completed!