"Er Ya! What are you doing?!" The woman ran out with a spatula, and saw her daughter running around in the yard, she was angry, "Come back soon!"
Erya turned her head and said, "No! Mother! There are people in town today, I want to see them!"
The woman was even more angry: "What are you looking at? What's your business with people coming from the town?"
Erya: "I'm going to study in the town! I heard that there is no money to study in the town!"
The woman sneered: "You are a girl, what book do you read? Your brother is going to study. If you go again, who will do the work at home?"
Erya said angrily: "Why can't my brother do it if I can work? He is also five years old, and I can follow me to the ground when I was five years old. Why can't he?"
The woman rolled her eyes: "Can you compare with your brother?"
Erya made a face at her mother: "He's one more than me! What's so precious?"
The woman ran out angrily: "Come here and see if I won't teach you a lesson today!"
Erya rolled her eyes, she was small, her legs were neat, and she ran with wind. She said as she ran, "I'm going to study! I'll find work in the city in the future! Even if I earn money, I can make you happy! "
"I'll enjoy your ass!" The woman gasped on her hips, her face flushed with anger, and said, "Can't you let me save some snacks? It's not easy for me and your father to raise the three of you, let's give If you save some dowry, you will be worthy of you when you marry later."
"I don't want a dowry!" Erya hid behind a wooden stake, "I just want to study, I don't want to stay in the village all my life."
The woman was furious: "What's wrong with the village? Is it missing one bite of you to eat or one bite to wear? Erya! You have no conscience!"
Erya shouted: "I have! The gentlemen in the town have said that going to the city is not to draw a line with the village, but to go to the city to learn more things and contribute to the village in the future!"
Mr. Town...
The woman said angrily, "He's just a gentleman! I'm still your mother!"
Erya: "The widow Zhao in the east of the village has sent her daughter to study, why can't I go?"
Woman: "Widow Zhao has only one daughter, I have your elder brother and younger brother, and my family doesn't have no son, why do you expect a girl to study?"
Erya bit her lip and bleeds her lips: "I don't, I'm going to study, I don't charge money for studying, I know."
"Mother, I beg you, please let me go to study, I will come back to work during the holiday, and the husband said that when the farming is busy, he will also give me a holiday."
Woman: "Don't go! If I say no, don't go! If you go to study, what do people in the village think of us?"
"Noisy, noisy!" The man stepped into the yard and said to the woman, "You just can't control her!"
Woman: "You don't care! She just makes a fuss and goes to study!"
The man frowned and said, "Isn't this nonsense? From Shili Ba Village, it was Widow Zhao who sent the girl to study. She only pointed to the girl when there was no man in her family. It's not that there are no men in our family."
Woman: "I said the same, but she doesn't listen! What can I do!"
Man: "Isn't Da Zhuang on vacation these few days? When he comes back, ask him to talk about his sister, he is a scholar, better than we can say."
When the woman heard her husband mention her eldest son, she also had a smile on her face: "That's right, when we grow up, we are going to be the champion! We can't convince a girl."
"Go, go, don't squat there." The woman shouted to Erya, "Go and pick up firewood."
Erya: "You ask me to read and I'll pick it up!"
The woman laughed angrily: "If you don't pick it up, then don't eat, go hungry! When you stop arguing about reading, when will you eat again."
Erya: "If you don't eat, don't eat!"
However, that night, Erya was so hungry that she could not sleep, so she sneaked into the field to dig potatoes to eat, and made a fire by the field to roast them, and buried the burnt wood after eating.
After three days, Erya didn't touch the oil star at all, and she didn't eat during the day. She only secretly went to the field at night to dig potatoes.
"Da Zhuang is back!" Before Er Ya entered the door, she heard her parents' happy voices.
She pouted. Anyway, from childhood to adulthood, my brothers and sisters are my parents' treasures. What is she? The stones on the ground are not worried that they will be broken when they fall, and no one wants to care about them.
Erya didn't expect her eldest brother to speak for her. Like her father and mother, her brother felt that she would marry a girl in the future, and sending her to study would be a family who would get married after it was cheap.
"Where's Er Ya?" She heard her elder brother ask inside.
Her mother said: "Where have you gone wild again? You and I have been angry with your father these days. You have to go to study, and don't check if you have the material for reading. Besides, how can there be a girl who reads. "
"It's said outside to send the girl to study, it's all in the south, we don't send it in the north."
Erya pouted when she heard this.
Dazhuang said, "Mother, I went to the city and found that many women from the south of the city were working. All of them had read books.
The woman snapped her tongue: "My darling, that's amazing. At least I have two coins. Two coins are enough for our family to eat for a long time."
Different from the south, it is inconvenient to build roads in the north. Although the folk customs are simple, they do not have too much communication with the outside world. People live in a closed life. Even though the new dynasty has been established for so long, it has been promoting the slogan that boys and girls are the same. how much it affects them.
Da Zhuang added: "Er Ya wants to study, just ask her to study, not to mention the examiner in the future, it would be good to find a manager to do the job."
Woman: "She's just a steward, so won't she get married in the future? Become another housewife? It has nothing to do with our family. If you ask her to go to school, there will be one less person in the family who can work."
Erya listened and felt uncomfortable.
She still remembered Widow Zhao's daughter, Yueniang, who lived like her before. Later, Widow Zhao ignored the obstruction of her relatives and sent Yueniang to a college in the city. Yueniang learned to read, and she also learned to plan , Because the abacus is really good, some shop owners in the city have asked her if she would like to work as an accountant in their shop after graduation.
Yueniang also told her that if she went to such a big shop to be the accountant, at worst, she had one money a month.
The highest bidder was also willing to give her half a month.
"If you don't study, how can you earn so much money?" Yueniang smiled happily at that time, and said to Erya, "You have to go to study earlier, I'm going late, if you go now, you can earn more money. After studying for a few years, maybe I will be able to participate in the scientific examination and become a high official!"
"I heard that there are female adults in the capital!"
Erya doesn't expect to be able to take part in the scientific examination and become a high-ranking official.
She just doesn't want to keep doing farm work at home, marrying a man like her father and having a few more babies.
That day, she thought it was scary.
Da Zhuang sighed: "Mother, Er Ya was also born from your stomach, she is really married and your daughter, besides, there is a law now, if something happens to my third brother and I, Er Ya is really married and your daughter. You have to retire for your retirement."
"She can earn more money after reading books, and when she arrives at her husband's house, she can establish a firm foothold and honor you."
The woman waved her hand: "I don't want her to be filial. I have two sons!"
For them, it is a big sin for a woman to have no sons. Whoever has more sons can raise their heads higher when they go out.
The more sons, the better. As for daughters, they will always marry, and now they are not allowed to change parents.
If it wasn't for a good day, these girls would have been drowned.
Such is their custom here.
Da Zhuang sighed: "Mother, you and my father should go out for a walk and have a look outside."
Woman: "What are you looking at?"
Da Zhuang: "I'll take Erya away this time, and let her go to school with me. It just so happens that the first grade is about to recruit new students. Go and register first, and the school will start in September in the second half of the year."
The woman rolled her eyes and showed her son, "You say you don't need money for your studies, but you need money for everything like clothes, meals, and accommodation."
Big Zhuang was speechless.
His mother can't make sense, and his father can't make sense.
Erya wiped her tears outside.
Her parents love eldest brother the most, and it is rare for her eldest brother to speak for her, but her parents still won't let go.
The second girl squatted in the corner, crying with her head down.
When she got home, the family had already eaten dinner. She was growing up and had a lot to eat. She went to the kitchen to search, only to find half a bun, and hurriedly devoured it.
"What are you doing?"
Erya turned her head and saw Dazhuang standing at the door of the kitchen. She sniffed and said in a stern tone, "I want you to take care of it?!"
Da Zhuang: "I heard my mother say that you want to study."
Erya sullenly said: "What's the use of what I think? I can't even think about it. Anyway, that's it. After I get married, I won't come back. When I give birth to a child, regardless of gender, I will send them to study. "
Da Zhuang squatted down: "I have a way, you can study by listening to me."
Er Ya didn't believe it: "Really?"
Da Zhuang looked confident: "Why am I lying to you? I have no benefit."
Erya still doesn't believe it: "Why are you helping me?"
When he was a child, Da Zhuang bullied her a lot, and told her to lose money with his companions, just because she stole a piece of meat that only he could eat.
Could it be that after studying, Da Zhuang changed his face? Can reading make a big man better
Dazhuang: "The day I went to the city, you waited by the side of the road. I'll ask the bullock cart to stop and take you with me."
Erya's eyes widened: "But, but I went to the city to sign up. I still have to go back to the village. They won't let me go in September, and I won't be able to go to school."
Da Zhuang smiled and said, "What's the matter? You won't leave if you go to the city, waiting for the school to start. It's called cooked rice with raw rice, and they have to do it if they don't."
Erya hesitated: "Then... I lived for so long, where did the money come from?"
Da Zhuang: "I held a poetry party with a few classmates in the city. I nominated those merchants to write poems. I could earn some money for writing and have a place to live. If you save a little, you won't die of starvation."
Erya nodded desperately: "I will save it! I can only eat one potato a day, as long as my fist is so big! I can't eat much!"
Dazhuang rubbed Erya's head: "Then it's settled."
Erya grabbed the hem of Da Zhuang's clothes, raised her head, and called out sincerely, "Brother."