Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

  Li Baolu had a brief understanding of the village and the family.

  The village is very poor, only four houses are brick houses, the rest are thatched houses, low, narrow and even damp.

The family's surname is Qu. This surname accounts for 60% of the village. It belongs to a big surname. Because of the accumulation of several generations, they just built these three brick houses three years ago, and there are still wing houses mixed with yellow mud and thatch on both sides. , and therefore there may not be much accumulation at home, and several children have not eaten meat for a long time, which is why their saliva is drooling.

Parents are a little more patriarchal. According to my heart, when he woke up this morning to make medicine for Zhao Ning, the hostess drove the girls out to work. The big one went to fetch water in the rain. Then go to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables...

   At this moment, Li Baolu deeply realized the painstaking efforts of her grandmother and the generosity of the Qin family.

As a child bride, it is very rare for her to grow up in peace and happiness, without lack of food and drink, and she can also read, practice martial arts, and learn chess, calligraphy and painting. As long as she is interested, Aunt Qin and Aunt Qin will Try to satisfy her and teach her.

  Looking at the five children who looked up at her, Li Baolu touched their heads and smiled, "I'm going to make lunch, can you help me?"

  Zhao Di is very embarrassed, because she is about the same age as Li Baolu, and she is a little ashamed to be treated as a child at this time.

  Li Baolu turned around indifferently and said, "I want to make a sweet and sour pork loin, a stewed pork ribs, and two vegetarian dishes. I need you to help me cook the fire and wash the dishes, can you?"

   "Madam needs us to do whatever you want." Pandi glanced at the shy eldest and second sisters, and took the initiative to say: "We can't cook the dishes that the nobles eat, but it's okay to fight."

   "That's great." Li Baolu handed her the spatula and said with a smile, "Wash it up for me, I'll use it later."

The five siblings breathed a sigh of relief. Father and mother were called to the village chief's house. Before leaving, they were strictly ordered not to disturb the distinguished guests, but it was too cold in the house, and the rain was leaking, even if they were covered with a quilt The cold seeps into the bones. There was a fire in the kitchen, and Pandi went out for a walk and then took everyone to the kitchen to warm up.

   They didn't dare to eat the meals of the nobles, but they could use the fire on the stove to ward off the cold. If her mother was at home, she would definitely be reluctant to give up the firewood, but now it is the nobles who are burning the fire.

  It is great to have noble people at home. Although they have to live in a cold and rainy wing at night, the family’s income for one day is almost equal to the harvest of their fields for half a year, and sometimes the distinguished guests will give them a reward.

  It is a pity that only two people stayed here for the past two days. It would be great if there were such good things in the past and the future.

Li Baolu didn't know what they were thinking. After cutting the meat and vegetables, she cooked them in the pot. Seeing the five children who were obviously very greedy but tried to look away, she thought about it and poured out a bowl of white noodles and water. Chop some scallions and stir well before serving pancakes.

The baked cake was placed on a large plate on the side. She quickly cut a strip of pork belly and simmered it in the pot. After adding aniseed, she simmered it for a long time, then chopped it up and wrapped it in the cake. She added a piece of lettuce and gave it to them. , smiled and said, "I'll give you something to eat."

   The five children were all **** and didn't dare to move. Li Baolu simply asked Erlin to bring out the cooked food, took a piece of cake and squatted on them, "I'll eat with you."

  Li Baolu wrapped one for them, took a bite and said, "Eat it quickly, it won't be delicious if you don't eat it cold."

  Xiaobao opened his round eyes and said, "My father doesn't tell us to eat the food of the distinguished guests, that's not good."

  Pandi said solemnly, "We have food at home."

   "But I want to make friends with you. Don't friends want to share good things with each other?" Li Baolu asked, "Or you don't want to be friends with me?"

   The five hurriedly shook their heads, and Zhao Di whispered: "Madam, you are a noble person, how can you be friends with us?"

  Pandi frowned and didn't speak. Li Baolu saw her and asked her, "Do you think your sister is right?"

  Pan Di pursed her lips and said nothing, staring straight at the corner of the stove.

  Li Baolu said to herself: "I don't think it's right. This world divides people into three, six and nine classes, but in my heart, everyone is the same. Whether you can be friends depends on your temperament and fate, not your identity."

  Pandi turned to look at her and asked in a low voice, "Is that woman the same as a man?"

  Li Baolu looked at her, and Pandi looked at her with bright eyes, and asked, "Are women just like men? I mean can they be like men?"

Pandi bit her lip in distress, as if she didn't know how to explain her problem accurately, she frowned and thought for a while before saying, "Eat two bowls of rice like a man, work in the fields like a man, and take money like a man. , Do whatever you want like a man, can a woman do the same?"

   "Sanmei!" Zhao Di pulled her anxiously, and Laidi also looked at her anxiously.

"You can," Li Baolu said softly, "As long as your heart is strong enough and your skills are strong enough, of course, it would be more convenient if you could have the support of your family, but it's okay if you don't, people are always growing up in constant struggle. "

  Pandi looked at her with bright eyes, "Can that wife be her own master?"

  Li Baolu's mouth curled slightly and said, "I have a heart that yearns for freedom, and I also have a relative who supports me, so I think I can be my own master."

  Pandi looked at her enviously.

  Li Baolu pushed the wrapped cakes towards them and whispered, "Eat it, we'll drink bone soup after eating, just in time to dispel wind and cold."

This time, the five of them didn't refuse any more. They took the wrapped pancake and ate it in big mouthfuls. Xiaobao's mouth was full of oil. This was the first time he had eaten something so delicious. He took a mouthful of bone soup. Both eyes smiled.

  Tai Di is about the same as Xiao Bao.

  The tears of Zhaodi and Laidi couldn't help falling. Although they didn't fully understand the conversation between Sanmei and Li Baolu, they couldn't help but feel sad and sad.

   And Pandi lowered her head and wondered what she was thinking.

  Li Baolu and the others wiped out all the pancakes and meat, and drank the bone broth, before patting the buttocks to go back, Xiaobao wiped his mouth and asked, "Madam, can I go to the son to play?"

   "Which son?"

   "It's the big brother who taught me to read this morning," Xiaobao said with bright eyes, "I like listening to him read."

   "Then do you understand?"

  Xiaobao shook his head, "But I will carry it."

   "Oh?" Li Baolu, who was about to leave, stopped and raised her head slightly, "Then tell me."

  Xiaobao followed the way he did in the morning and carried his hands to the back, shaking his head and starting to memorize the Three Character Classic, but in the morning he only read the fourth verse, so now he is only reciting the fourth verse.

  Li Baolu patted his head and said, "If you want to play, go to him, your smart big brother will definitely like you."

   When Li Baolu returned to the main room, they had just finished lunch, Gu Jingyun turned his head and glanced at her, "How's the chicken soup for the soul?"

   "Delicious."

   "Sometimes being awake is more painful than being awake. If they can't find a way out, I'm afraid they would rather never be awake."

"If you don't have the chance to work hard, then it's not just painful, but sad." Li Baolu said sternly: "Everyone has the right to choose, if I don't see it, it's fine, I always have to stretch out my hand when I see it. ."

   Gu Jingyun was distressed, "Then what do you think we can leave them with? Money can't reach them, they can't read books, and as for skills, they won't be able to learn anything in a short period of time."

   "I decided to leave them a hope," Li Baolu looked at the gray sky outside and said, "What do you think of me asking the emperor and the crown prince to repay my life-saving grace?"

"Um?"

   "I think women's education is a very good thing, at least it can improve the status of women in a short period of time, and after a long time, maybe one day women can really stand on an equal footing with men."

"Well, that's a really good idea, so do you think the Qu family couple will send their daughter to school?" Named their daughters like that, and told them to work in the rain without pity, but they would send their daughters when they stayed indoors. go to school?

Does the   women's society give money to schoolgirls?

  Zhao Ning coughed lightly and raised his hand to interrupt the husband's vicious tongue, "Sir, I chatted with Qu... Brother Qu last night. His family is saving money to send Xiaobao to school in a few years."

  Li Baolu: "If you want to call him uncle, you don't need to feel wronged."

   Gu Jingyun said: "It's a lofty ideal and worth encouraging. Xiaobao's memory is very good, at least from this morning, he still has a talent for reading."

"I'm more curious about his qualities that you value most, so that you would teach him to read in the morning." Although Gu Jingyun is a good teacher, he is very picky. If he only knew how to read, he would never take the initiative to teach Xiaobao to read. .

Gu Jingyun raised his mouth slightly and looked at the yard. The five siblings were running from the kitchen to the wing while the rain had just stopped. The five-year-old Xiaobao didn't want to be held by the elder sister, so he ran back on his toes and turned around. I took two stones from under the eaves and placed them in the two deepest places to give my sisters their feet.

Gu Jingyun said: "He's very caring, isn't he? He has a pair of parents who are extremely patriarchal and eccentric. In an environment where both parents treat his sisters as livestock, he can maintain a pure heart, but it is rare to get delicious food. When he saw the candy, he didn't keep it private, and didn't give it to his parents to distribute it. Instead, he distributed it to his sisters and stared at them and stuffed it into his mouth; he knew that the sisters only had a pair of cloth shoes, and if they got wet, they could only I was wearing wet clothes, so I ran out to find stones to put my sisters on..."

   Gu Jingyun regretted, "If it weren't for the location and time, I would almost have to stay to teach him. He is the first student I want to accept after excluding all external factors."

   Zhao Ning covered his chest sadly, "Sir, I am your eldest apprentice!!!"

   "Yeah, I'm not denying that."

   "What external factors affected you when you accepted me?"

"We have been together for so long that I have developed feelings for you. Under the **** of emotions, I don't want you to take detours, so even if you are not very satisfactory to me in various fields, I will still accept you as a disciple. As for Your second senior brother," Gu Jingyun pouted, "I wouldn't have accepted him if he hadn't been my grandson."