Village Girl Struggle

Holding a small branch in her hand, Wang Xiuer thought about it, and wrote two characters Jiang Ying on the ground stroke by stroke.

Jiang Ying, who was watching with trepidation, only a stone fell to the ground. Fortunately, luckily, unfortunately, the characters in this different world are similar to those of the Huanhua Dynasty, so I don’t know how to read big characters here. Illiterate.

Jiang Ying smiled and praised Wang Xiu'er, "The word Xiu'er is really well written."

After finishing talking, he also found a branch, pretending to learn to write cats and dogs on the ground.

Wang Xiu'er glanced over, but saw that Jiang Ying, a village girl, actually made her write in a decent way. Although the strokes were a bit crooked, it was already excellent for beginners.

Wang Xiu'er wrote a few more common words in surprise. Jiang Ying has learnt it. Wang Xiu'er is even more surprised. If he does not believe in evil, he has to teach again. Jiang Ying hurriedly said with a smile, "Sister Xiu'er will teach me again tomorrow. There are too many words, but I can't remember them."

After these few days, Wang Xiu'er finally stopped crying during the day and night. Because living in the same house with Jiang Ying, he knew a lot about it. Only then did Jiang Ying know about Wang Xiu'er's family. Her father and brother are actually talented people. Xiucai is the first one among the scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. Scholars who pass the examination can be exempted from the tax on 20 acres of land. Therefore, they are generally respected. If they pass the government examination, they can become Juren and pass the examination. The top 30 candidates can enter the palace exam. The emperor selects the top ten, and those who win the Jinshi can become officials.

Wang Xiu'er's family originally had 20 acres of land. Only these years, her father and brother read and wrote, and went to the provincial capital to rush for the exam. Gradually, the land was sold out, and her father and brother never passed the exam. The whole family They depended on the two women in their family to do some needlework. A few months ago, her father was ill again and owed a lot of medical money, so he had to sell embroidery.

Jiang Ying was a little dumbfounded, "Your family depends on your mother and you to make a living. What about your father and your brother? What do they do?"

"Naturally read a book."

Wang Xiu'er glanced at this Jiang family girl. Sometimes this girl is really stupid, saying that they are talented people. Wouldn't it be possible to do business and farm land without studying?

Jiang Ying still couldn't figure out the situation, "...you can't make money from studying, right?"

The two elders, who have hands and feet, are really hard to imagine that they are holding books all day long and eating the rice that the two women in the family have worked so hard to earn without doing anything!

"When you are successful, you will have monthly silver to receive!"

Hearing that Wang Xiu'er's tone was a little unhappy, Jiang Ying stopped asking, but he came to a conclusion in his heart.

According to Wang Xiu'er just now, her father has been taking the exam for three years since she was born, and it has been more than ten years that she has not passed the exam. It is difficult for Wang Xiu'er to have such confidence in her father.

Well, it turns out that the talented person who was not selected = Mi Chong, and I want the women in the family to support him.

Jiang Ying put his cheeks in his hands, a little dumbfounded, even if he passed the entrance examination all the way, he was awarded the Juren but also the Jinshi, such men who only study and do nothing are governed by officials, is it really okay?

Wouldn't there be a bunch of nerdy officials and harm the people instead?

If Huanhua Dynasty did something like this, it would have stopped cooking long ago...Ah, yeah, Huanhua Dynasty wouldn’t be so silly!

"Xiao Ying, Xiu'er, come out quickly. My aunt asked us to come over, and I have something to say."

Chun Liu’s crisp voice sounded outside, interrupting Jiang Ying’s debate about Xiucai and Mi insects. The five little girls who lived in the small penthouse all walked out of the room and stood in a row in the courtyard, waiting for Liu The aunt came over to talk.

Mrs. Liu stood in front of the little girl in Yishui'er, looking at these five, they were all cleaned up, she deserves to be a little girl of this age, even the second girl who looked at the poorest Jiang family is raising her own house. In the past ten days, it was much more spiritual than before, and he couldn't help but nodded in his heart, coughed, and said something to these five people.

"You five, all of you can't support at home. They are sold to me. My Auntie Liu is not a bad-hearted person who only recognizes money. All of you are doing serious business. Although you are from a poor family, you are also from a good family. Girl, if you send you to those Xia San Lu places, although you can earn a little more money, it is not what we are doing in a serious manner."

Mrs. Liu's words were both kind and powerful, and she kept looking at everyone's reactions with her eyes, and then went on to say.

"In my family these days, what I should teach you is not too much to teach you. I will take you to see a master’s house tomorrow. As a errand at home, you must remember the rules I taught you. You should be a man and do things, and don’t smash my old Liu’s signboard,..."

Mrs. Liu stopped talking, Chunliu was the most clever among the five little girls, nodding hurriedly in response, and others were busy following their determination.

"Ming'er, the master’s house is the most famous Zhao family in our Yangping County. Master Zhao’s family, he was a fourth-rank official in the capital, and now Ding You has returned to his hometown and he is the county magistrate of Yangping County. See you The elder Zhao family is also polite. The servants in Zhao's family come out a bit more decent than ordinary people. This time just in time for the elder Zhao family to come back from Beijing, there are not enough staff to wait and buy into the mansion. There are many girls here, if you can be picked in, that would be an inexhaustible blessing..."

Seeing the little girls widening their eyes, holding their breaths, listening carefully, even the spring, autumn and winter three, the eyes burst with the light that they must win, and the lady Liu smiled in her heart, and then said, "You don't have to work tonight. , Rest well, you should clean up your head and face. Tomorrow is to follow the rules taught. Remember not to make mistakes. After this good opportunity, I am afraid that you will no longer want to enter such a good house. NS."

Mrs. Liu dropped the words and left. The little girls were busy washing their hair, bathing, cutting their nails and so on. Even Wang Xiuer, who had been a little unhappy, showed a few smiles for an unprecedented time.

Jiang Ying didn't care if he entered Zhao Mansion or not, but everyone was so happy, and if he acted too outrageously, it would not be good, so he also cleaned up afterwards, but it was much more refreshing.

At night, Jiang Ying was asleep again, and when he woke up in the middle of the night, he heard Wang Xiu'er talking in sleep on the bed opposite, "...Father, I have a month's money, buy you paper and pen..."

Jiang Ying curled his lips, turned over and went to sleep.

I woke up early the next morning, thinking that I would go to the main house to make a treaty. The breakfast was actually much richer than usual. The five girls ate and followed Granny Liu into the cart and came to a large house in the east of the city. Aside.

Old lady Liu brought five people in through the back door, led by a lady of the Zhao family, and waited outside a flower hall.

Along the way, even though the girls did not dare to look around, they all felt rich and wealthy in the corner of their eyes, and their heartbeat accelerated a little when they thought that they would be able to work here in the future.

Only Jiang Ying thought to himself that this Zhao family's yard is more than lavish, but not so smart.

The woman went in and gave a notification, and then she came out and asked Mother Liu to take someone in.

The five people followed Mrs. Liu into the Flower Hall, and saw a thirty-something Duanli lady sitting on the Flower Hall, wearing a stone-blue lake-lined shirt with large sleeves and a high-waisted lotus-colored long skirt. Although the color of the dress was simple, but It is embroidered with gold thread on the fabric, and I don’t feel it at the first glance. When I take a closer look, it is a cluster of flowers with a faint golden light.

As soon as Mrs. Liu entered, she was deeply blessed with a smile on her face, "The old lady pleased the madam."

The five little girls also followed behind and performed blessings, but their movements were neat, and it was a joy to see the lady, "No need to be polite, Mother Liu has been working hard today."

The lady next to the lady came up to give her a false help, and she stood up. Seeing the lady's gaze on the girls standing next to her, she smiled and introduced, "These girls, all He is from an honest family who knows the roots and knows the bottom line. There are no rapists in the family for several generations. After a month of training in my house, I dared to show it to my wife,..."