In the blink of an eye, it is a new year. A few days before the new year, the school will hold the end-of-year exam.
This time, Xiao Shitou won the first place in the test, and Eleven gave him a story book he wanted very much. Xiao Shishi was so happy that he couldn't see his teeth. Go to the little fat man who is playing alone on the bed and present the treasure, "Duanzi, this is the reward from my uncle, for you!"
Tuanzi glanced at Xiao Shishi with his mouth open, then lowered his head to read the book Xiao Shishi gave, blinked, and reached for it, but unfortunately his hand was too small to hold it.
Seeing this, Xiao Shishi brought the book in front of him so that he could grab it.
Xiao Tuanzi's two little fat hands went up together and fluttered around the book. Later, seeing that he couldn't grasp it, he put his head close, "Ahhhh" and bit the corner of the book. The corners are drool.
Xiao Shitou was drooling when he read the book, and felt a little distressed. He carefully touched the fat face of Xiao Tuanzi, and coaxed softly: "Duanzi, the book is for reading, not biting, okay?"
As a result, without the coaxing of small stones, the little fat man nibbled on it for a while and found that the taste was not good at all. He immediately let go of his mouth and stuck out his tongue with a grin. His eyes were a little disgusting, as if he was saying: Why is it so unpalatable!
The little fat man lost interest in this thing at once, didn't even look at it, continued to play with his fat feet, and even tried to put his feet in his mouth.
Little Stone hurriedly grabbed his fat feet, "Dumplings can't eat their feet, they're dirty. Come on, let's read a book, shall we?" Little Stone handed the book in his hand to the little guy again, trying to attract his attention .
However, the little fat man, who had just tasted it, lost all interest in the book, shook his head, and stretched out his hand to push the book in front of him, shouting "Ula Ula" from his mouth.
Little Stone frowned, "Duanzi, don't you like books?"
"Wow-" Fatty continued to perseverely grabbed his feet and stuffed them into his mouth.
Xiao Shishi sighed, and had to accept the fact that Xiao Tuanzi didn't like his cherished book, and instead tried to stop him from eating his own feet. However, the little fat man was always stopped, got angry, and yelled at Xiao Shishi.
"Little fat man, what are you doing!" As soon as Eleven came in, he saw the fat tortoise on the bed yelling at the little stone, and the milk was fierce.
The little fat man saw the old mother coming in, and said "Ah" at her twice.
Eleven picked him up, bit his little fat, and asked him fiercely: "Tell my mother, are you murdering your uncle? Are you itchy? Huh?"
The little fat man smacked his lips, hugged Eleven's neck, buried his face in her neck and didn't move, pretending to be dead.
Seeing this, Xiao Shi said, "Sister, the dumpling didn't kill me, but he wanted to put his foot in his mouth. I wouldn't let him, and he was angry."
Eleven touched Xiao Shishi's head, "You did the right thing. In the future, he can't stop him when he is angry. If he dares to be violent, you can beat him, just beat him!"
Little Stone laughed and looked at his cute little nephew, "I'll talk to the dumpling well, I can't beat him."
Eleven shook his head helplessly, and turned to pat the fat butt of the little fat man in his arms, "Did you stuff your foot in your mouth? How many times has my mother told you not to? I think you deserve a beating!"
The butt was beaten, the dumplings flattened their mouths, and wailed in disapproval.
Eleven beat his ass again, let him yell, ignored him, and turned to talk to Xiao Shishi, "Little Shito, you are the first in the exam this time, what about Leizi?"
"Lei Zi took the second place in the test, but he was one point less than me."
"Well, then you two are very good, this time you are more powerful."
Xiao Shishi scratched his head embarrassedly, "Last time he was first, I wasn't as good as him last time."
Eleven couldn't help laughing, thinking that the two little guys were quite interesting. They took turns sitting first and competed fiercely with each other, but their relationship was also very good.
Little Stone asked Eleven: "Sister, do we really get a reward of 300 pennies for the top three in this exam?"
Eleven nodded, "Yes, I told you masters that there are all the top three."
Xiao Shitou's eyes lit up and he was very happy, "Then I will have three hundred pennies, and I can give Tuanzi New Year's money!" After saying that, Xiao Shitou pulled the little fat man's hand, "Duanzi, uncle for the New Year will give You send a big red envelope and give you 300 pennies!"
"Duanzi still doesn't know how to spend money, you can keep it for yourself to buy things." Eleven rubbed his little head again, stupid boy, when he got the money, he wanted to give a red envelope to his little nephew, and he was so stupid that he didn't even know how to use it. Leaving a penny, it hurts this little fat man more than she and Yang Shifeng.
Xiao Shishi shook his head firmly, "I don't need the money either. I want to give it to the dumplings, let him keep them first, and buy delicious food later. Next year, I will get the top three, and I will give the dumplings lucky money."
He had no choice but to encourage him on Eleven: "Well, then you continue to work hard and try to get the top three."
"Hmm! I must study hard! But everyone else wants to get the three hundred pennies. Everyone studies hard. They say that with these three hundred pennies, the next year's training will be available. I can continue studying, but..." Xiao Shishi said this, slightly distressed, "but there are a few poor families who didn't get the three hundred pennies this time, they were very sad, Said that he would not be able to study in the next year."
"Huh? Don't come to study?"
"Yeah! A few people said that they would not come after studying this year, because their family had no money. It seemed that they had no money to study because they had given the money to the high-ranking officials who came to collect the money. They all cried."
Eleven frowned. The high official who came to collect the money from Xiao Shishi's mouth was the yamen who came down to recruit some time ago. People who are willing to give money don't have to hand over the money as long as they give the money to these yamen. It seems that this time giving the first money, even the children will be affected.
Could it be true that these children can only study for one year, and will they all leave one by one in the future? Then what's the point of them going so hard to invite Master Qiao back? Could it be that the purpose of her creation of this school is to read to her two children
Eleven felt that the situation was a little serious, and he had to think of a way.
Looking at Eleven, she was stunned, and Xiao Shishi shook his hand in front of her, "Sister, what's the matter with you?"
The little fat man also yelled at Eleven, "Wow!", and his little feet stamped hard, and he stomped Eleven back to his senses, and his legs still hurt.
Eleven widened his eyes and pinched the fat face of the little fat man, "What are you doing, little fat man? Are you going to smash your mother's leg?"
Seeing his old mother's glaring rage, the little fat man "giggled" and stomped his feet again.
Eleven felt that she wanted to beat the little fat man.
Seeing that the little nephew was about to suffer, Xiao Shishi hurriedly came out to smooth things out, "Sister, I want to invite Leizi to our house tomorrow, okay? It's going to be a holiday after tomorrow, and I won't see him for a long time."
Eleven let the little fat man go and nodded to Xiao Shishi, "Okay, it's normal to invite a good friend to come to play at home. You can invite him tomorrow, and I'll ask your brother to cook more dishes to entertain him."
Little Stone grinned immediately, "Okay! Thank you, sister."
The next day, Eleven gave the rewards for the top three children to Master Qiao, who gave the rewards to the children in class, and announced a holiday after saying a few words of encouragement.
Little Stone returned home happily, followed by a little boy.
The little boy is surprisingly thin, his eyes are very big, his clothes are covered with patches, and the cotton wool inside the jacket has leaked out, and the cotton wool is still black and yellow. It was also torn apart, and the feet inside could be vaguely seen.
Grandpa Yang greeted with a smile: "It's Leizi, good boy, come in, come in quickly."
Lei Zi pursed his lips and shouted at Grandpa Yang cautiously, "Hello, Grandpa." Then he turned to Eleven, who was holding the child, "Hello, sister."
After saying hello, I saw the little fat man in Eleven's arms looking at him with his black eyes. He was a little happy, and whispered, "Hello baby."
Eleven smiled, lowered his head and said to the little fat man in his arms: "Look, Uncle Leizi is saying hello to you, hurry up, you can say hello to him too." Although it should be called Leizi and brother, but who asked Xiaoshi of seniority.
"Ah—" The little fat man was familiar with himself, waving his small arms and shouting at Lei Zi twice, his small body still leaned forward, trying to reach Lei Zi.
Eleven clearly saw Leizi's eyes light up, and he was amused. He handed the little fat man forward and let him reach Leizi's face smoothly, "Okay, please touch Uncle Leizi."
The little fat man stretched out his little fat hand and touched Leizi's face directly, and yelled while touching it, while Leizi let him touch him without moving, with a smile in his eyes.
Eleven didn't know where his little fat man got so much charm, so he was fascinated by another.
Afraid that Lei Zi's face would be peeled off if he touched it any more, Eleven took the little fat man back and said to Lei Zi, "Come and go to the table with Xiao Shi to sit on the table and eat something, and we'll be there later. dinner's ready."
Leizi glanced at the little fat man, and his eyes were a little reluctant, but he couldn't say anything, so he went to sit with the little stone.
As a result, the little fat man saw that Uncle and Uncle Leizi were sitting there eating deliciously, but he didn't, so he quit immediately, leaning hard against the table, stretched his fleshy arms to grab it, and said anxiously in his mouth " Ah" yelled, panicking.
Eleven was going to be so mad at him, he patted his fat ass, "What's your name! You can't eat it!"
The little fat man turned his head at Eleven and made a sound, and continued to work hard there.
Seeing the little fat man like this, Leizi put down the seeds at a loss, not knowing what to do.
Seeing this on Eleven, he said, "Leizi, you eat what you eat, don't worry about this little fat man, he can only eat milk now, and can't eat anything else."
Leizi nodded, but still stopped eating, for fear of making the little guy sad, Xiao Shishi didn't eat it when he saw it.
Eleven didn't know how to persuade, but fortunately, Yang Shifeng came in with the dishes at this time, "Okay, let's have dinner."
Xiao Shi hurriedly put away the food on the table, and helped Yang Shifeng to serve the dishes, while Lei Zi followed behind.
During the meal, Xiao Shitou did his best to serve Leizi, and Grandpa Yang also said, "Leizi, eat more, look at how thin you are."
Leizi lowered his head and nodded, his voice muffled, "Thank you grandpa, thank you brother and sister."
Anyone can hear the cry in his words, it seems that this child usually lives too hard.
In order to divert the child's attention, Eleven asked, "Leizi, can you still come to school next year?"
Lei Zi paused and nodded, "Come on, my grandfather said that as long as I miss it, he will let me read it, and this year I got three hundred pennies, and I can hand it over for cultivation next year, and I will continue to read it!"
"That's good." Eleven felt that it would be a pity if such a smart, hard-working and good seedling stopped studying.
But Leizi was not so happy. "But the people who came with me from our village will not come next year because his family has no money. His father is going to go out to find work, and he has to go back to help the family work."
Lei Zi's words made the people at the table not in a good mood. It seems that the situation in these eight villages is the same, and everyone has a hard time. In comparison, their family is an outlier.
After eating, Yang Shifeng packed Leizi some melon seeds candy as a New Year's gift, and he just took it back to him. When Leizi left, his eyes were red.
In the evening, Eleven rested his head on Yang Shifeng's lap, with a little fat man entertaining himself on his stomach, and told him about the school, "I heard from Xiao Shifeng that many children will not come to study next year."
Yang Shifeng touched Eleven's long hair, "It's no wonder, before, the family had extra money to send their children to study, but when the army was recruited, the rich in the family paid for the heads of the family. Once so much money came out, there was really no money. Now, people in the village basically eat brown rice porridge twice a day, and very few people can eat white rice.”
Eleven also knew about this, because the business in the shop was really bad, and everyone had no money to buy New Year's goods.
Eleven realizes for the first time how involuntary the people at the bottom of this era are. But none of them can change anything. The only pity is that those children who had no money to study, who could have changed their fate, still died.
"It's a pity that not many children will go to school next year."
Yang Shifeng said with emotion: "Yeah, if you don't have money at home, you won't be allowed to read, unless the villagers can make money, but making money from farming will not be slowed down in three years, and it is estimated that they will send their children in three years. Going to school is expected to be more."
make money? Eleven bit his lip, staring at the little fat man on his stomach, lost in thought.
The little fat man saw his mother staring at him all the time, still motionless, blinked curiously, and called out "Ah" twice. As a result, his mother ignored him, so he waved his legs and hands, how could he dance with his hands and feet, his hands and feet hit Eleven, and Eleven hissed in pain.
Eleven raised his slap, "Little Fatty, you don't get itchy all day?!"
"what-"
"I see you owe a fight!"
"Whoa-"
Yang Shifeng saw that the mother and son were about to quarrel again, and hurriedly carried Eleven to the side, then took the little fat man on her into his arms, separated the two, and then patted the little fat man on the back to coax, "Okay, okay, Stop screaming, can't you be so hard next time to know? Mother will be hurt by you."
The little fat man called "Ah" twice again, but after the call, he put his arms around his father's neck and stopped barking, which was a great way to save face.
Eleven looked at him and groaned, full of sour water, who in the end was the one who had been pregnant with him for ten months and gave birth to him so hard! Who in the end is the one who gives him a ration every day!
Yang Shifeng strolled around the room with the little fat man in his arms, patting him as he walked, and after a while he coaxed the little fat man to sleep.
Eleven closed his eyes, feeling weak, "Is this born from me? Why are you yelling at me? You are so good in front of you?" God knows what happened.
Yang Shifeng sighed, put his fat son to sleep in the cradle, went to the bed and put her in his arms, patted her like a son, "Okay, don't be angry, I'll wait until he's older. Would you like to teach him a lesson?"
Eleven snorted, "I don't believe what you said, he is now your sweetheart eyeball, your super baby, are you willing to teach him a lesson? Why don't I do it myself."
Yang Shifeng smiled happily and kissed her on the forehead, "Nonsense, you are my sweetheart eyeball, my super baby, and the dumplings can't compare to you."
Eleven tried to control the smile on the corner of his mouth, but it was very difficult.
Yang Shifeng suddenly picked Eleven up from the bed, wrapped her legs around his waist, and asked her to wrap her arms around his neck, swaying and patting her on the back like a dumpling, "Okay, after coaxing baby, It's time to put the big baby to sleep."
"Pfft—" Eleven couldn't help but smile, and buried his face in Yang Shifeng's neck and smiled.
This man, his love story skills are advancing by leaps and bounds.
But, let's not say, it's quite comfortable to be held and coaxed like this, Eleven didn't know what to do, and gradually closed his eyes and really fell asleep.
However, at night, Eleven suddenly opened his eyes and heard an abnormal sound in his ears.