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Chapter 44: Going to School

"I..." Chen Wanniang bounced up suddenly, "Huo Junan, I did nothing. I didn't mean it. I was like this when I woke up."

Huo Junan thought about it for a moment, but he was not surprised, "I know, you fell asleep last night and fell on me."

"..." Is this true? She slept on him all night?

"I originally wanted to put you down, but you..." Huo Junan couldn't describe it, "You are too heavy. I see you are a little tired, and I want to wait until you get ready to sleep before letting you down... Unexpectedly... I actually slept too Get ready."

Chen Wanniang looked at the clothes of the two of them like this and wore them well on them.

Chen Wanniang didn't think anything else. Anyway, she had been together day and night under the eaves for so long, so she was not a pedantic ancient person.

Thinking about it this way, the problem was no longer big. She closed her hair in her ears, "It's time for us to get up."

The two of them got up together, Chen Wanniang packed the scattered needle and thread baskets, and Huo Junan picked up all the books.

Both little guys had already gotten up and were playing in the yard.

Chen Wanniang cooked rice porridge and heated up the leftovers from last night, so she went out to greet them, "Huo..."

Chen Wanniang's voice was halfway through, and suddenly she found two little guys playing attentively, like digging soil.

Is digging soil so fun?

Chen Wanniang quietly came over to take a look.

I saw half a word had appeared under the soft soil, which was the word "Huo" with the word "Yu". It was composed of the gullies they dug out with small wooden sticks.#@$&

Huo Chen was very happy to say to Xiao Yue'er: "Look, I have found it. This is Huo, our last name."

"Where is that Chen?" Chen Wanniang couldn't help but ask.

Huo Chen's little body paused and turned around nervously.

"mother……"

"Where is Chen?" Chen Wanniang asked again. She was much gentler this time.%&(&

"I haven't learned it yet." Huo Chen was a little nervous and a little disappointed. "Zhao Yubai refused to teach me, and he had to buy candy for him if he taught me."

Chen Wanniang burst into laughter, "If he doesn't teach, he won't teach you. Mom will teach you."

Chen Wanniang picked up the small wooden stick beside her and wrote it on the land one by one, "Look, this is the word Chen, the sun, moon, and stars."

"So that's how it is." Huo Chen was happy and immediately imitated it, and his writing was still quite decent.

"Mother, mother." Xiao Yue'er stopped working, "Where is Yue? My name is not written yet."

"Crescent moon, that's it."

"Hehe, I have to learn too." Xiao Yue'er also stroked and stroked, but she wrote it in a crooked manner, like a painting.

Chen Wanniang's eyes fell on Huo Chen.

Yue'er is actually still young, mainly Xiaochen. He is already seven years old this year, but he is the best age to study.

"Xiao Chen."

"Um?"

"Mom, ask you, do you like to read words?"

"Yeah!" Huo Chen nodded seriously, "It's great to recognize words. All the boys in our village go to study. Uncle Zhao is a scholar. Zhao Yubai's father is also in the town. What about the accountant of a wealthy family? You see, only knowledgeable people can find better jobs, such as Uncle Liu and Uncle Zeng, can only farm and herd cattle."

"You don't want to farm and herd cattle, do you?"

"Not that, but farming and herding cattle cannot make us live a better life. We need to have knowledge to know more and we can make our family live a good life."

Chen Wanniang agreed and stroked Huo Chen's little head, "Our Xiaochen's brain is so smart and sensible. Since you like to read and study, then my mother will send you to school, okay?"

"Okay." Huo Chen was overjoyed, and everyone jumped up, looking forward to it very much.

"Let's go and tell me to go to your father."

Chen Wanniang took Huo Chen to find Huo Junan and told him about Huo Chen's thoughts, "Look, Xiaochen is very literate, let's send him to school."

Huo Junan was a little incredible, "You actually agreed?"

Huo Junan mentioned Huo Chen to study a few years ago, but when Chen Wanniang heard that it was going to cost money, he refused. Huo Junan mentioned her again and made a big fuss, and then his family went up. Being poorer and less likely to study.

"Why don't you agree? It's so good to study. Look at me, just because I have little literacy, I can't understand those medical books." Chen Wanniang raised her chin and said, "What? Jun'an, are you unwilling to do it?"

Chen Wanniang didn't want to be brought up old accounts, so she turned to Huo Junan.

"Why wouldn't I want to? Actually, I've wanted to ask him to study." Huo Junan thought that Chen Wanniang's thoughts were the same as him, and she smiled at this time.

"How much does it cost to go to school?" Chen Wanniang planned it now, "We are almost 2 taels of silver now, so we can still afford to go to school. If we accept a girl, we will also send Xiaoyue'er in. ”

"This..." Huo Junan looked puzzled, "Wanniang, you don't know. The training for school is a person who needs five hundred cigars every six months."

What?

That means that two children in the family need two taels of silver for a year to study!

Who can stand this ordinary family?

No wonder scholars are so precious. Zhao Shengru is just a scholar and can become a master at a young age.

"Wanniang, you still owed someone else's gambling debts now. I'm afraid you have to discuss it slowly when studying."

"That's true." Chen Wanniang sighed, "Otherwise, Xiaochen, it's winter now. In winter, you can learn to recognize words with your father first. By the spring of the next year, your mother will make enough money. I’ll send you and Yue’er to school together!”

"Don't lie to me."

"Of course I won't lie to you. My mother uses her own head to guarantee that you will definitely let you go to school in spring."

Thinking about it, Wang cut off Huo Junan's study journey in order to occupy his family wealth, Chen Wanniang could not be as unethical as Wang.

"Huo Junan." Chen Wanniang said: "I will leave it to you for the time being about Xiaochen and Xiaoyue'er's literacy. A thousand-character text and a hundred-family surname. You must be able to memorize and recognize this winter."

"Okay." Huo Junan agreed happily.

Chen Wanniang took a few more strings of copper plates for Huo Junan, and asked him to take his two children to the town, buy a few decent books, and buy back all the pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

The two little guys were so happy that they jumped and followed.

After returning home, Huo Chen looked at the pen and ink he bought again and again, smelled it again and again, and fell asleep in the middle of the night.

It's late at night and people are quiet.

Chen Wanniang blew the light and lay on the bed. She didn't do anything during the whole day, so she couldn't sleep either.

Thinking that my family was still busy and I had not paid back the debts I owed, I still had to earn money from my two children's schooling.

Chen Wanniang turned over and looked at Huo Junan.

"Will you still go hunting tomorrow?"

"Of course I have to go, I have to pay off my debts, and I have to earn some repairs for our children." Huo Junan was thinking exactly the same as Shen Wanniang.
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