As usual, they got up before daybreak to grind rice and make rice noodles. Cao Gang and Sun Bailian also came with their two children. Qi Wanfeng and Sun Bailian talked about sending their children to school.

Since Qi Wanfeng wanted to send his children there, Sun Bailian naturally wanted to send his two boys there as well. He told his husband about this. Cao Gang nodded and had no objection to this. "Okay."

So the two families decided to send a few children to school.

Cao Dapeng listened to them talking about sending children to school and listened carefully. He thought he would go back and talk to his wife about this.

"Brother Dapeng, if you also want to send your kid to school, come back and tell me, I'll go and get it done." Cao Xiangnan saw Cao Dapeng's expression and knew that he also wanted to send his child to school. He said, "I'm sending An'an to school, not to ask my An'an to pass the imperial examination, but now I just want him to learn a few words and have friends to play with instead of being locked up in the yard all day."

He didn't know how to send the child to school, and he had to go to Li Zheng to ask. Cao Xiangnan sent the child to school now just to find a teacher to teach the child to learn to read, otherwise he would be locked up in the yard all day without a few playmates. As for other things, he didn't think too much.

"Hey, I don't understand. I'll go back and ask Ah Hong." Cao Dapeng scratched his ears and said.

Seeing that their children were so old and were all going to be sent to school, Sun Ji was a little envious.

"Brother Cao Gang, I'll go with you to ask the well digger to come and dig a well." Otherwise, their family used so much water now, and even drawing water would be a major project. Cao Xiangnan followed the carriage to Fenshui Town to ask someone to dig a well.

The sky was getting light and the sky was getting brighter.

Master Feng, who was leaning on a bamboo house, and the men working there also got up and came to have breakfast. The breakfast in the yard was ready, a big pot of rice porridge, vegetable balls, and sour and spicy pickles, which made the appetite especially good.

The two children standing far away were looking at the yard. Goudan took Adi away, "Adi, let's go, let's go to the field to dig some eggs." They usually go to the field to dig some eggs and pick some wild vegetables to eat. If they are lucky, they can also pick a nest of pheasant eggs in the field. The

two children grew up like this. In the past, Goudan often carried his brother on his back, but now his brother doesn't need him to carry him anymore and can follow him.

Their father died on that mountain. Goudan looked at the mountain and never dared to take his younger brother there, nor did he dare to go there himself. He was afraid that if he died, there would be no one to take care of his father, and his mother would sell his younger brother to someone else as a daughter-in-law, so he must live well.

This child is like a wild grass, living tenaciously.

The two children walked away hand in hand.

"An'an, didn't I tell you not to go out alone? Come back quickly." Qi Wanfeng saw the child running to the door and hurried over to pull the child back. An An held his mother's hand, staring with curious eyes, pointing at two figures not far away, looking up and saying to his mother, "Mom, there are brothers over there."

Qi Wanfeng looked in the direction the child pointed, and indeed saw two little figures leaving. He suddenly knew who the two children were. But they had already left, the older one holding the younger one. His nose was sore, and he quickly went back to get two wo wo heads for An An, saying, "Go, take them to your brother."

An An took the two wo wo heads and chased after them with his short legs. Fortunately, the people had not gone far.

"Brother, brother..."

Goudan was holding his younger brother. He seemed to hear someone calling from behind, so he stopped and looked at the child running towards them. He was white and tender, and looked very good. He was a little brother like his younger brother. Holding two wo wo heads in his hand, he stuffed them into his hand and said, "Here, here."

An An gave the food and turned around and ran away, with a beautiful smile.

Until many years later, Goudan still remembered his first encounter with An An, and remembered the little brother who gave him two wo wo heads when he was hungry.

Qi Wanfeng, who was waiting at the door of his house, saw An An run over and run back again, with the two wo wo heads in his hand gone. He touched the child's head and asked, "Did you give them to your brothers?"

"Yes." An An looked like he was begging for praise.

"An An is great, let's go back." Qi Wanfeng praised his little An An as he wished, and pulled the child inside.

Goudan, who was standing there, took two fist-sized wo wo heads, broke one open and gave the larger one to his father, ate the smaller one himself, and put the remaining one in his arms, "We'll save it for when we're hungry." He still took his younger brother to dig for earth eggs.

"Okay." Xiaomao took his elder brother's hand and followed him. The scratches on his little face had already healed. This child was also sensible. Since he could remember, even if his elder brother took him, he rarely cried even when he was hungry.

The two children walked hand in hand, farther and farther away, until they could no longer be seen.

"Boss, where did you go so early in the morning?" The man who met the boss asked with a smile when he saw the boss getting off the carriage.

The men living in the bamboo house also woke up early when they heard the sound of horse hooves and came over. It was still so early in the morning, and people were already working in the small courtyard opposite. I heard that they were doing business in the town, and the money they made was not easy to come by.

"Go and ask the master to come and dig a well." Cao Xiangnan went to the town to ask the master to dig a well and came back. The men who were building the house were already working, and he greeted the people he met. He took the master to see the place, and he asked, "Master, look here, where would be better to dig a well?"

Master Feng also came over, and Cao Xiangnan greeted Master Feng and said, "I plan to dig a well here, so that everyone will have more convenient water in the future."

"Well, this is a good thing." Feng Guang nodded and said.

The master who dug the well was also an experienced master. He had dug so many wells before, and he also knew which location was better for digging wells. After walking around, he finally stood at a location and said, "This location is good, let's dig it first."

The old master brought his apprentices over, and the apprentices took tools and started digging. Master Feng recruited two people to dig together. After several people started working, under everyone's expectation, they soon dug two feet deep, and water came out below.

"This is a longan tree. The water dug down is sweet and sweet, and the water volume is large. Even if there is a drought, there is no need to worry about water." This proved that his judgment was correct. The old master smiled and spoke with more confidence.

"Okay, let's dig here." Since water can be seen even at such a shallow depth, Cao Xiangnan knew that this location was right.

In this age where people depend on the weather for their livelihood, if a drought really happens, the water in the well may not be enough.

Cao Xiangnan remembered that there was a drought in his previous life. All the wells in the village were dry. What was drawn was muddy water. There was a long queue of people waiting to draw water. At that time, there was a family in the village whose well had water all the time. However, the family did not allow the villagers to go to their house to draw water. Therefore, even after so many years, Cao Xiangnan still had a deep impression of the drought.

The location of the well was determined, there were enough people, and the materials were ready. Under the command of the old master, the well was dug. The water was dug more and more, and water was continuously drawn from the well.

Master Feng would come over from time to time to take a look and give some advice. With two masters here, it was impossible not to dig the well quickly.

The people over there were digging the foundation, and the people here were digging the well, all of them were busy.

Cao Gang, who had just returned, took a look and saw that the second batch of rice noodles was loaded on the car, so he drove the carriage to the town to deliver the rice noodles. When Liu, the shopkeeper, saw the black-faced boy delivering the rice noodles, he knew that Cao Xiangnan's family was building a house and he hadn't seen him for a few days, so he asked with concern.

The business in the town has always been good, Xuanxuan has always been helping out at the stall, and Sun Ji has slowly fallen in love with this smart boy. Sun Ji only saw Xuan Xuan and his mother, but not his father. Once he asked, "Where is your father? Why haven't I seen him?"

Xuan Xuan pursed his lips and said nothing. He looked unhappy.

After that, Sun Ji never asked about Xuan Xuan's father again.

An Ning came to the stall more often. He also noticed that this handsome boy was very gentle to children. He couldn't help but pay attention to An Ning.

He had never liked someone before, but it didn't mean that he didn't know what love was. Sun Ji knew that he liked An Ning. It was just that the other party was a boy with a child. Without knowing whether the other party was married, he didn't dare to express his affection rashly.

Since Sun Bailian and Qi Wanfeng were both too busy to work at the stall, Cao Xiangnan told Aning that if he had no work to do, he could come over and help out when he was free during lunch time when there were many people around. He did not ask him to work at the front, but only asked him to be responsible for washing dishes at the back, and he would pay him separately.

Aning also agreed, so now after he washes clothes for others in the morning and sends them back, he will come here to help wash dishes at noon. "Take it back." There is still some rice noodles left in the stall today, and Sun Ji packed it for Aning to take back. He knows that Cao Xiangnan usually packs some food for Aning to take back, so if there is anything left now, he will also pack some for Aning. "Thank you." Aning pushed it a few times, but finally took it.

The stall was closed, and the father and son went back to the small house they rented in the town.

"Mom, he likes you." Xuanxuan is a child with a more mature mind than ordinary children, and he pointed it out directly.

Aning smiled and asked, "Do you know what love is?"

Xuanxuan wrinkled his face into a small bun. Aning usually looks like a little kid, but he couldn't help but smile. But the child didn't know, but he knew.