Travel to ancient times and become rich women with your bestie

Chapter 126 Not even a pair of pants left

"Study? Do you mean go to school?" Sizhu asked first.

"Yes, but it's not going to school, it's just learning to read and write temporarily."

Upon hearing the news, the children had different reactions.

The girls were nervous but also a little expectant. After all, they had never heard of any family allowing their daughters to study. They wanted to learn but didn't know if their mother would let them.

Dashu looked like he was just doing whatever his mother told him to do, and didn't have any special reaction.

Sizhu was very excited when he heard the news: "I will learn! I will learn! Mom, I want to study!"

The child didn't know what reading meant. He only knew that not many children in the village could read. Only the village chief and Uncle Sun had scholars in their families, and even the adults in the village respected them very much.

Thinking about how he would become a scholar after studying, and how everyone in the village would look at him with envy, Sizhu couldn't wait to start studying.

"Ah~ We are so old now, we don't need to study anymore. Sizhu is still young, let Sizhu study. I won't study. I will just follow mom and do business. Right, mom?" Erhe approached Zheng Yuan with a playful smile.

Since he bought paper and pen last time, Erhe knew that his mother and aunt were planning to let the family read, but he didn't expect that everyone would have to learn. Seeing those words with horizontal and vertical lines combined together, his head hurt, but Erhe didn't want to.

It was Erhe again. Zheng Yuan looked at the face that was close to him and became so angry that he reached out and grabbed Erhe's ear.

"Doing business? Do you think doing business is as simple as setting up a stall on the street to sell ice jelly? There are so many contracts and account books for you to look at. You can't read a single word, and you still want to do business. I'm afraid you'll be cheated out of nothing before you even leave Lao Huaiqing."

"Ouch~ Ouch~ Mom, please let me go!" Zheng Yuan used all his strength and Erhe grimaced in pain.

Duan Minmin also came up and held her hand: "Talk to the child nicely, don't do it."

Zheng Yuan glared at him unhappily and let go of his hand.

Erhe rubbed his ears which had been pulled red and hot, and looked at Zheng Yuan aggrievedly, why is it always me who gets hurt.

"We let you go to school, not to let you take the imperial examination and win an imperial decree for us. The ancestral tombs of our two families must not be buried well, otherwise we wouldn't have lived so miserably for so many years, so we don't have to dream about it. The purpose of studying is to let us all learn to read and count, so that we won't be blind no matter where we go in the future, and we won't have to help others count money when we are cheated."

"Erhe, you said you don't want to learn. How can you help me and your aunt if you don't learn? If all you do in your life is to run a jelly stand in the city, then I definitely won't ask you to learn. Now you can see that we will definitely not just hang around that jelly stand in the future. If we are still blind and the characters know you but you don't, then we can only be cheated."

"Also, learning is not just about learning knowledge, but also about learning many life principles and increasing your knowledge. Why do we say reading the books of sages? It means that there are many principles summed up by sages throughout their lives. Through reading, we can learn the thoughts of sages and see everything in the world. So, we hope that you can all read and learn to understand the truth."

"When we were young, we didn't have the conditions, so we turned a blind eye. Now that our family is doing better, we naturally want to do our best to create opportunities for you. We don't want you to suffer without knowledge and culture when you reach our age."

Duan Minmin and Zheng Yuan spoke earnestly, and brought over all the principles that their teachers in their previous lives had taught disobedient students.

"Mom, I understand. I will study hard!" Erhe promised quickly after hearing this.

It wasn't because he wanted to learn to read and understand as they said, he simply remembered that if he was illiterate he would be cheated and couldn't do big business. His dream was to open a business, and he couldn't let illiteracy hold him back at the first step.

"Mom, can I learn too?" Xing'er was a little nervous and looked at them timidly.

"Learn! Of course you can't learn! Have you forgotten what we said? In our family, boys and girls are the same, and studying is the same. Not only you, but we also have to learn. When the time comes, we can hold a competition, select the little learning model every month, and give out bonuses! How do you think?"

And bonuses?

For a moment, even Erhe, who least wanted to study, became excited and had to study hard for the bonus.

Looking at the children's eyes shining with desire for knowledge, Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin were quite accomplished and should have gone to a normal school at that time.

After the mobilization was completed, Zheng Yuan returned to the house, took out the paper and divided it into ten equal parts.

"Each of you will receive ten sheets. Keep your own things safe. We will use these to study temporarily. When you have learned enough, we will buy you better ones. As for the pens, we will take you up the mountain this afternoon to make a few for yourselves."

Xu Hui Niang's fingertips were shaking as she held the paper in her hand, tears welling up in her eyes. She didn't want anyone to notice, so she could only lower her head and pretend to look at the paper in her hand.

In fact, when Xing Er asked just now, she also wanted to ask if she could learn. After all, she was a daughter-in-law from outside, and studying was such a precious thing, she couldn't believe that her two mothers would let her participate.

She didn't dare to ask, fearing that she would get an answer she didn't want to hear. Unexpectedly, the two mothers had never thought of excluding her. What they said about everyone being equal in this family was true.

"Okay, you guys wait at home first, we'll go to the village chief's house."

"Mom, why are you going to the village chief's house?"

When the children heard them say they were going to the village chief's house, they looked up from the paper.

"Since we have decided to study, we naturally need to find a teacher. Besides, Mr. Jiang will send someone to deliver those things this afternoon. We have to go to the village chief's house and ask if there is any empty house in the village that can be reached by horse carriages that we can rent to use as a factory."

"Dashu, Hui Niang, you can take the children and clean up the house. We will come back later and go to the mountain to cut bamboo together."

After arranging the children, the two of them took out four pounds of brown sugar and twenty eggs from the cupboard. They hadn't eaten many eggs recently, and they hadn't sold them, so they saved up quite a few eggs.

"Mom, I'll go with you too."

Before the two of them had gone far, Erhe caught up with them.

This kid is quite interested in doing business and dealing with people, it seems that he can develop in these areas. Well, following them and learning from them is much more effective than just talking.

"bring it on."

After getting their consent, Erhe ran up happily and took the things from their hands.

The village chief's house was in the middle of the village, not far from their home, and the three of them strolled there quickly.

Looking at the big blue brick tile house in front of them, the yard was also surrounded by blue bricks, so they couldn't see what was inside. The two of them sighed that it was worthy of being the village chief's house. This house could be said to be unique in the village. This is called a house. Theirs is at most a shack.

The two of them secretly thought that after they made money this time, they would definitely arrange to build a large brick and tile house.

"Button, button, button..."

After expressing his envy, Zheng Yuan walked up and knocked on the door.

Soon, a voice came from the yard: "Here they come!"

The vermilion door creaked open from the inside, and the person who opened the door was the village chief's daughter-in-law, Wang.

"Hey~ Jiaming's wife, Yuandong's wife, why are you here? What's the matter?"

The village head's wife was a little worried about why these two plague gods came, and she did not invite them in.

Although the old man said that the two have changed for the better, when she thinks about what happened to them before, the village head's wife still doesn't believe that a dog can stop eating shit.