The sturdy peasant girl in space

Chapter 21
"Sister, you're finally back. Go home, I'll be waiting for you to eat." Bai Jingwen realized that Xiao Zhuzi was sitting on the stone beside the gate waiting for her. Still insecure.

"Let's go, what's delicious at home today?" Bai Jingwen asked while touching his withered hair.

"Ms. Zhang boiled a pot of millet soup, stewed half a pheasant, put some beans and eggplant in it, and then the steamed buns left over at noon." Xiao Zhuzi replied seriously with his head raised.

"Xiaowen is back, I'll wait for you to eat." Seeing her coming back, Bai Shuye immediately got up and walked to the dining table.

"If I come back late, you can save some for me. There is no need to wait for me to come back." Bai Jingwen knew at a glance that he was really hungry after working for a long time.

"How can it be done? Besides, it's hot in summer and so on. It won't be a problem." Mrs. Zhang said as she removed the bamboo weaving covering.

"By the way, Dad, did Uncle Zifeng say he was going to the beam that day?" Bai Jingwen asked, but she didn't notify the He family yet.

"There are big beams in the sky, don't say there are too many people, just a few days later, the small courtyard will be built." Bai Shuye replied indistinctly with steamed buns in his mouth.

"Oh, it just so happens that Shuanzi is healed, the three of us will go to my grandpa's house tomorrow and tell them the date, so you don't have to wait for us at noon." Bai Jingwen said.

"It should be, go back early, it's not safe for the crops to grow now." Bai Shuye put down the bowl and was silent for a moment before replying.

"Ms. Zhang, I don't like to hear something. Eggplants are cold and eat less. You have a baby in your belly." Bai Jing reminded Zhang as she looked at Zhang's chopsticks holding the eggplants.

Because there are very few people who are pregnant in the last days, this is the first time she has seen someone pregnant and she is related by blood. I really don't want the little guy to die before he is born.

"Hey, hey, I've made a note." Mrs. Zhang didn't expect that she would care about him, so she nodded in response.

The next day, before dawn, Bai Jingwen went up the mountain, caught a brood of eight pheasants, and hurried home.

"You child, it's not safe to go up the mountain so early in the morning. Don't do this again in the future. It's really worrying." Feng Shi happened to come out to find some wild vegetables, and saw Bai Jingwen coming down from the mountain from a distance, feeling displeased Said.

"Good morning, Sixth Granny, I've been familiar with it since I went up the mountain every day these days. It's best to catch pheasants before dawn. Look, I caught eight of them. Let's go home and feed this one to Xiao Xing'er." Bai Jingwen randomly picked one out and handed it to her and said.

"That's not going to work. There are poisonous insects on this mountain. You should be more careful. As for the chicken, you should sell it for some money." Feng knew that she was short of money, so she was willing to take it.

"I'm not going to sell today. I'm going to my grandma's house to invite them to have a meal. You can take it. This one is not bad." Bai Jingwen replied.

"You can take this child with you. You still have the meat you bought last time." Feng refused to accept anything.

"Grandma Liu loves me the most. Since this is the case, it's okay to bring these wild eggs back to you." Bai Jingwen said, taking five wild eggs from her pocket.

"Then I won't be polite, I just go back and steam an egg for him." Feng replied with a smile.

After dinner, the three put on new clothes, and Bai Jingwen went to He's house again with a basket of pheasants on her back.

"Hey, cousin, why are you here again? What's the matter?" He Lifen asked in surprise when she saw them coming in.

"Why is Xiaofen talking to your cousin? Shuanzi is here today, so come in." He Junhong came out and said when he heard the voice.

"Grandpa, you didn't go to school today." Shuanzi stepped forward and asked.

"Well, Mu Xiu today, are you here today?" He Junhong asked as he walked into the house, thinking that visiting relatives is not so frequent.

"Cousin, why did you bring so many pheasants here again? Last time, those two chickens laid enough eggs." He Lifen stuck out her tongue and said to Bai Jingwen when He Junhong returned to the house.

"What are you afraid of? Since the pheasant is still laying eggs, you can eat one each every morning. It's better than anything else." Bai Jingwen took out the pheasant and asked He Lifen to bring the scissors and cut the wings and put it in the chicken coop inside.

After they settled the chicken, they went into the house, and found that Mrs. Liu was crying while holding Shuan Zi's hand.

"What's wrong?" Bai Jingwen asked.

"Hey, when I saw Shuanzi lose so much weight, why didn't I think about the bad things?" He Junhong blamed himself.

Bai Jingwen glanced at Shuanzi and replied: "Grandpa didn't know he was betrayed when he went there, isn't he a good person now, don't think so much."

"By the way, I heard from the two of them that you plan to let Xiaozhu go to school. Is there such a thing?" He Junhong asked.

"Well, the village head of our village said he has such a brain, so I wanted to let him learn it. At least he can be a scholar and be exempted from tax and corvee."

"What about the embolus, he learned it for two years when he was a child. If your mother's health hadn't gotten worse later, it wouldn't have broken." Liu asked.

"He can pass the exam, but his temper is not suitable for taking the imperial examination. It would be good to be a literati or a bookkeeper in the future. But can Xiaowen come here by herself?" He Junhong replied.

"I won't go to the school when I'm old, as long as I can read a few words, I'll do small pillars with my sister." Shuanzi said.

Bai Jingwen thought about it for a while and felt that she should not be biased here. Anyway, there is room to make the bottom line. She didn't worry, so she said: "I have the final say, both of you can afford it. As for how far you will learn in the future, it depends on your ability. I still plan to start a business, whoever can't learn well will come to my staff and work as my accountant in the future."

"Are you really good?" He Junhong asked in surprise.

"Without the diamond, I wouldn't stop the porcelain work. Xiaojie will also be a scholar in the future and I will pay for the entrance examination." Bai Jingwen said while looking at He Wenjie who looked envious.

"Just take care of the two of them, this child, and leave Xiaojie alone." Liu scolded with a smile.

"You are not too young, so let Xiaofen take care of you? Since I have said the words, I will definitely take care of them. If you don't learn the words well, you will come to my subordinates and work hard for me." Bai Jingwen looked at Xiaojie and said.

"I know my cousin." He Wenjie nodded and replied.

"This kid, since we have decided to start school in the fall, let's send the two of them here. First, we will study with me for a year or two, and then we will see their level before we decide to let them go in that direction." He Junhong tapped He Wenjie's Head said with a smile.

"That's exactly what I mean. Shuanzi is better. If Xiaozhuzi is still petty and doesn't settle down to go to the town, those young masters will bring him down again." Bai Jingwen said.

"By the way, our main reason for coming this time is to invite you the day after tomorrow." Shuan Zi said at this time.

"Will the white leaves on the beam be able to build a house?"

"It's not mine." Bai Jingwen replied, although she told her family's affairs afterward.

"It doesn't matter if you can separate them, you can do whatever you want to live your own life, I support this matter and will definitely go." He Junhong replied with a sullen face.

"But will the Bai clan help them now that Xiaowen is here?" asked Liu with a worried expression.

"Why not, as long as Bai Zhengsong stands on their side and the others make trouble." He Junhong replied.

After the matter was settled, I made some steamed fish at noon. The three siblings rushed home after dinner.

(End of this chapter)