Mu family's little lucky girl

Chapter 4

It wasn't long before Mu Xuan started learning "Thousand Characters", so he didn't know much to recite now. After shaking his head for a while, he recited the latest learning.

It seems that there is still some unfinished business.

As soon as he finished reciting it, he excitedly stretched out his little finger to point to the words on it, and asked puzzledly, "Sister, what is the meaning of this?"

"I don't understand anything."

Mu Li also asked Mu Qing this question when she was a child.

Mu Qing is four years older than Mu Li. When Mu Qing was five years old, she went to school to study. When she was seven years old, she hadn't memorized all of "Thousand Characters".

Mu Qing, like most children of the same age, couldn't sit still in school, and couldn't stay home. As soon as she threw away her schoolbag, she ran out to play with her friends in the village.

Three-year-old Mu Li has already shown a strong interest in books. At that time, her favorite thing every day was sitting next to her brother and listening to him read.

She couldn't articulate many words clearly, or she mispronounced them, coupled with her serious appearance and milky voice, more than once made the seven-year-old Mu Qing lie on the table laughing so hard that she couldn't straighten up.

Three-year-old Xiao Muli followed her elder brother to read part of the text, and asked Xiao Muqing a question very seriously, "Brother, what do you mean by all this?"

"Why don't I understand?"

Xiao Muqing smiled and nodded Xiao Muli's eyebrows: "If you understand, you can become a teacher."

Xiao Muli leaned against Xiao Muqing, and said happily: "What does it mean that Mr. understands, you are Mr.'s student, and Mr. will definitely teach you, so you will understand?"

"You tell me."

Xiao Muqing touched the tip of her nose embarrassingly, jumped off the chair with a bald body, and ran away in a desperate manner.

He didn't listen carefully in class every day, how could he know what the teacher said.

However, since then, Xiao Muqing has changed her bad habit of not liking to study. She listens carefully to the teacher's lectures in school every day, and reviews carefully after returning.

He is an elder brother and a role model for his sister, so he cannot lose face in front of her.

That is to say, from then on, Mu Qing began to consciously teach her younger sister to read and write, and old man Mu and Mrs. Lin didn't stop her after they knew about it.

The couple's approach is not like that of other villagers, who not only do not allow girls to go to school, but also do not allow them to learn these things.

Although old man Mu and Mrs. Lin also felt that it was useless for girls to study, unlike boys who could be officials, they would not stop their sons from teaching their daughters to read and write.

Mu Li withdrew his thoughts, and started talking to him from the beginning: "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang means that when the world was first formed, the sky was blue-black, and the earth was yellow; everything in the world was in chaos and ignorance..."

Mu Xuan asked, "Why is the sky blue and black and the earth yellow?"

"But the sky is blue, right? Sometimes it's red."

When the sun goes down in the evening, it can be red all over half the sky.

The sky he saw when he opened his eyes during the day was blue.

Mu Li was stunned by this question, thinking she asked Mu Qing the same way back then, how did Mu Qing answer her back then?

You'll know it when you grow up.

But she still doesn't know why.

I don't know how old it will be to know.

Gradually, Mu Li knew it, but her brother didn't know why.

Mu Li smiled and said, "I don't know about this, but the sky we see now should be different from the sky before."

Mu Xuan nodded as before.

Mu Li explained the knowledge to Mu Xuan for a while, and then told him to go back to his room to rest.

The lights flickered, and the shadows of people were reflected on the wall.

Old man Mu has already weaved two fish baskets, and now he is weaving the last one. Mrs. Lin is sitting under the oil lamp, with a needle and thread in her hand, mending clothes for her husband.

Mu Li picked up the things in the sewing basket, looked at old man Mu, then at Mrs. Lin, seeing her daughter hesitated to speak a few times, stopped what she was doing, and asked with a smile, "What's the matter?"

Mu Li licked his lower lip, but didn't speak.

Lin was not in a hurry, opened her mouth to bite off the excess thread, folded the mended clothes and put them in the sewing basket, quietly waiting for her daughter's next words.

It seems that it has been a long time, and it seems that it has not been too long, Mu Li said: "Mother, I made the decision to pay Aunt Meng two taels of silver without the permission of you and father. Now that the family has no money, we have to pay again If you go back to the days when you often didn't have enough to eat, will you blame me?"

"I still think it's a big deal." Hearing this, Mrs. Lin laughed, and then said: "You have your own opinions and ideas in doing things since you were a child. Mother knows that you are doing this for the good of this family."

"Your Aunt Meng came home this time because she made up her mind not to go back empty-handed. The ring that her natal family gave her was lost, and she couldn't find who the thief was. Now that someone came forward to testify, how could she let it go? You If she doesn't take out the money, she will make trouble in our house."

"When the time comes, the whole village will know about the disturbance. Not only will it bring bad reputation to our family, it will also affect your brother's schooling, and it will also have a great impact on Ah Xuan. I am very weak. If we let her continue to make trouble, it will be designated Get angry."

"However, the money is gone, so we can earn more."

"Your mother is right." Old Mu also raised his head and said, "Besides, who is Ah Xuan? Others don't know, but we don't know? Then let your Aunt Meng keep some money for us for the time being." God, when we find the real thief, let's see what that woman will say."

Lin gave him a sharp look, "Didn't you distrust Ah Xuan? You even beat your son in front of the villagers."

Being scolded by his wife in front of his daughter, old man Mu blushed and said uncomfortably: "Who said I don't believe it? Didn't I lose my head with anger?"

The understanding and support of her parents made Muli feel warm in her heart, and the fear of being accused by her parents disappeared, and she said seriously: "Father, mother, don't worry, I will definitely find the real one as soon as possible. Whose thief is it?"

Lin smiled in relief, patted the back of her hand, and said softly: "My daughter is very capable."

Feeling a little embarrassed by Lin's praise, Mu Li scratched his face uncomfortably.

"Don't you have to go fishing tomorrow morning? Take a rest and go." Lin urged her.

Seeing the daughter returned to the room, old man Mu was sitting opposite Lin with a half-finished fish basket, his serious expression reflected by the candlelight.

"Sigh." Old Man Mu sighed heavily, and suddenly blamed himself: "It's all my fault for being useless, I've worked so hard for most of my life, and I haven't even saved enough money for my daughter's dowry."

When mentioning the dowry, Lin's complexion also became serious. When other people's daughters were as old as Ah Li, the family had almost prepared them.

But her family...

Now that we are stretched, and we are about to run out of rice, we can't go on like this forever.

The son and daughter are pure-hearted, thinking that if they find the real thief, they can get the money back, but Lin doesn't have much hope for this.

It is easy to give money, but it is not a simple matter to let others spit out money, and I am afraid that it will cause trouble to the county government.

So from now on, they have to prepare for hardship for a long time.

In addition, the son is still studying, and the marriage can be postponed for a few years, so there is no need to be so anxious, but the daughter's marriage is different. Once the girl is over the age of marriage, it will be difficult to find a child from a good family.

But there are at least three years left, and the family has worked hard for three years to save a dowry money for Ah Li, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

Although it can't be as rich as the dowry given by the lady from a rich family, their family's dowry can't be too shabby.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Lin glanced at the fish basket on the table, and said to old man Mu: "In the past few days, you can weave more bamboo baskets, and when there are fairs, you can take them to the fair and sell them, whether it's for exchange or Sell ​​it, and it will help the family a bit.”

Old man Mu nodded.

"I'll make some bamboo hats and coir raincoats when I have time, and bring them to the market to sell."

Old man Mu didn't understand, "every household in the village has this thing, who would spend money on it?"

Lin: "every household has them. It doesn't mean that every household carries them with you. You will have to take a few with you whenever you go to the market. If it rains, you might be able to sell them to make some money."

Old man Mu suddenly realized, while praising his wife for her brains, he also felt that it was troublesome to have to bring it every time because of the uncertainty of when it would rain, and he couldn't make much money. Under the gaze, old man Mu could only nod his head in agreement.

(End of this chapter)