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Early that morning, Dafu ate a big bowl of steamed egg custard, two meat buns, and drank a bowl of milk tea at home, and felt very full.
After greasing his lips, he asked Fan Jing to lead the way and Kang He to send him off, and he skipped and jumped as he went to the main house.
Seeing this, Chen Sanfang couldn't eat his breakfast anymore. He hurriedly put down his bowl and chopsticks and followed to take a look.
Before, she always heard Zhang Jingui say that other people's children were spoiled. Their parents sent them to private schools and gave them many instructions and warnings, but they were fine when they left. However, after sitting at the table for a while, they burst into tears facing the books.
When asked what was wrong, he said he missed his parents and the little yellow dog at home.
Chen Sanfang found it funny at first and said to Zhang Jingui that these children were really spoiled. It was a great blessing for their parents to spend a lot of money to let them study without being exposed to the wind or rain.
How many children from poor families have to work from dawn to dusk.
When I passed by the gate of a private school and heard the sound of reading, I felt envious, but I could only listen from a distance for a while. If I delayed my work for too long and got home late, I would be beaten.
If she were sitting quietly studying in a private school as a child, she would probably laugh out loud just looking at the book, let alone crying with her head down.
When it comes to other people's children, I am good at giving them advice, but when my own children start going to school, I have completely forgotten all those advice.
All I remember in my mind is that the little kid would miss his parents when he went to private school.
Chen Sanfang was afraid that Dafu would die and cry when his family members left.
"Don't eat anymore. Come over and give Dafu a try."
Chen Sanfang nudged Fan's father when he left.
"His father is sending him off, are you still worried that someone might kidnap him along the way?"
Seeing that Father Fan was unwilling to give up his bowl of rice, Chen Sanfang was too lazy to bother with him and left by himself.
Before the other party left, Father Fan said to Qiao'er, "Look at your mother. What a good thing she is. She doesn't even need to eat."
Qiao'er said with a smile: "It's not a good thing for mother, she just can't bear to part with us Dafu."
Father Fan said, "Why should she be so reluctant? She's not going away to study. Not to mention where her relatives are, it's only a short walk away. Look how anxious she is."
Qiao'er didn't respond to his father, thinking that it would be better to say what he said, so as not to put down the bowl and follow him again.
She took a meat bun and started eating it by herself.
Kang He and Fan Jing brought Da Fu to the eldest wife's house. Since the girl from the Lu family married in and took over the management of the household, the eldest wife's house built a separate spacious house the following year, which was specially used for Fan Xin to teach.
When children come to study, they no longer have to crowd into the main room at home. It is convenient for people to come in and out, and the children can concentrate more on their studies.
In the past, the classroom was placed in the main hall. Sometimes the children came early and the family was still eating. If the children were not willing to come in to eat, it would not be a good idea to let them wait in another room.
In short, it would be better to build a separate room to use as a private school. No matter how early or late the children come, they will not disturb each other.
At this time, two children from the eldest wife's house had already arrived. They were from other villages and were very diligent.
As soon as he arrived at the private school, even though the class had not started yet, he was already reviewing his lessons at his desk.
"Are you here? Did Dafu have breakfast?"
When the eldest sister-in-law, Mrs. Lu, saw the couple bringing the child over, she called them into the house to sit down.
Dafu asked Mrs. Lu what she had eaten this morning, ran into the house, called Fan Xin, Zhang Jingui, and Fan Shoushan one by one, and then went to the inner room to call Mr. Fan and Mrs. Fan.
Everyone in the room was filled with joy and happiness.
Grandma Fan wanted to take out some sugar cakes for Dafu to eat, and coax him not to go to study, but to stay in the house and play with her.
She is old and has difficulty walking in the past two years. She rarely gets out of bed and is already a little confused.
He often behaves like a child and will make a scene in the house if his family members don't agree.
Seeing that she wanted to keep Dafu to play, Kang He said, "Grandma, Dafu is going to the toilet. He will come over to play with you later."
Grandma Fan refused: "Don't go, just talk to me inside."
"If you don't go, you'll have to poop in your trouser pockets soon. It'll make you choke, and how can you eat your sugar cakes?"
Grandma Fan was silent for a moment and said, "Then take him back quickly."
Kang He carried Da Fu out and told him to go back to the school quickly to avoid being seen by Grandma Fan and yelling at her. She had a bad memory and would forget about it if she didn't see anyone in a while.
Dafu ran to the classroom happily.
Fan Xin and he were sitting in the middle position. Although he was young, he was not short in stature, so it was inappropriate for him to sit in the front.
But since he has just started studying, I am afraid that the seat next to the window will easily distract his attention from things outside. So I will discipline him first, and after he gets used to it, it doesn’t matter where he sits.
Dafu sat down at the table and found everything new and interesting. He touched the dry brush and flipped through the Thousand Character Classic on the table, feeling extremely happy.
Kang He sent Dafu to study on the first day, but he was still worried. He said a few words to Fan Xin outside: "I'm sorry to trouble you to keep an eye on him. If he makes trouble in class, you can scold him, but don't let him disrupt the class."
Fan Xin said, "Don't worry, Dafu is a calm and steady person, and he's never been naughty. If he does make trouble in class, I'll teach him a lesson myself."
"You two go ahead and do your work. I'll be watching over here."
Kang He responded and was about to call Fan Jing, who was standing at the window with his arms folded looking at Dafu, to leave, when Chen Sanfang arrived.
"You're in? Are you used to it?"
Kang He smiled and said, "There's nothing to be accustomed to. Look at him, he's so fresh that he didn't even bother to look at his father when he was leaving."
"It's okay, let's go home."
Chen Sanfang didn't listen. She went to the window and looked out again and again. She said to Kang He and Fan Jing, "You two go and do your work. I won't leave. I'll just stay here and watch over Dafu. It would be so heartbreaking if he started crying and making a fuss while I wasn't around."
Kang He and Fan Jing couldn't persuade Chen Sanfang to leave, so they just let her go.
They often had to run around, going out during the day and returning in the afternoon or late at night. They only looked after the children for a few hours a day. This morning, apart from being afraid of bothering Fan Xin, they really had no regrets about letting him go.
Kang He and Fan Jing went out to the county. Zhang Jingui saw Chen Sanfang staying there, so she went over to tease Chen Sanfang.
"Look at you, you're looking at gold ingots. You used to say other people's children were spoiled, but why are you spoiling Dafu like this too?"
"If you're like this, when Dafu gets married, won't you have to take care of his grandson's wife as well?"
Seeing Zhang Jingui making fun of her like this, Chen Sanfang looked melancholy and said, "You don't even have a grandson yet, so how can you understand the feelings we, as grandmothers, feel?"
Zhang Jingui felt sour in her heart when she heard this that she was speechless and could not laugh at Chen Sanfang anymore.
Xiangxiu gave birth to a girl two years ago, but Daxin and Lu have been married for three years and still have no children.
But she, as a mother-in-law, said that she couldn't scold her daughter-in-law. That young lady was very powerful.
She felt that she had been deceived by Xiangxiu!
Speaking of Zhang Jingui's daughter-in-law, Lu, she is quite a character.
At first, Zhang Jingui didn't know what kind of person her daughter-in-law was. After Lu got married, the family saw that she was a beautiful girl who was smart in speaking and doing things, and they were very satisfied.
Once Zhang Jingui raised her eyebrows, she felt that she could hold her head up again. She did not do any work all day and went out to chat and brag with the idle women and men in the village.
When she came home, she wanted to act like her mother-in-law, ordering Lu to do this and that. She would call her over every day to lecture her, telling her to be filial to her mother-in-law and serve her husband. She also wanted Lu to massage her shoulders and legs, wash her feet and pour water for her...
Mrs. Lu fulfilled her duties as a daughter-in-law and did everything she was supposed to do. No one could say anything wrong about her.
But Zhang Jingui was the kind of person who didn't know when to stop when he saw an opportunity. He just thought that people were easy to manipulate and wanted to climb up the ladder. Seeing that his daughter-in-law was so good at serving others, he simply stopped doing anything and just sat there waiting for food and clothes to be provided for him.
Mrs. Lu saw that her mother-in-law did nothing all day long and slept lazily in the house. After finally getting up, she went out to chat with others. She came home in the afternoon and still shouted that she was tired and asked her to massage her legs and feet.
Mrs. Lu got angry the first day and scolded Zhang Jingui harshly: "Mother-in-law is idle all day long, but she still wants me to serve her. How can this be justified?"
Zhang Jingui saw her daughter-in-law questioning her, thinking it was outrageous, and immediately scolded her, "A daughter-in-law should be filial and serve her mother-in-law. That's only natural!"
Mrs. Lu said: "To be filial is to be filial to the elders who are worthy of respect, and to serve is to serve the elders who have suffered hardships and worked hard.
Mother-in-law, please tell me in detail, since I married into the Fan family, besides giving birth to Daxin, have you done anything respectable? And what hard work have you done to support the family?"
"Besides seeing you sleeping all day and bragging to other people outside like a gossip, do you have anything serious to do, my daughter-in-law?"
"My family wasn't wealthy, and we hadn't accumulated any wealth. Daxin was the only one who ran a school and taught there, and there were five or six mouths to feed.
My mother-in-law is in her prime, her hands and feet are nimble, and she doesn't try to learn a craft, nor does she work in the fields to tend to the crops. She just seems to be an idle person, but she still needs people to wait on her, which is a waste of a laborer."
"In this situation, the family doesn't have a united mindset. Instead of trying to run a business, they've already started enjoying themselves. Daxin is teaching now, earning a good reputation. But in the future, because our family is poor, they'll have no choice but to accept money from others, ruining their reputation and being cursed! Is this what my mother-in-law wants us to do?"
Zhang Jingui was originally ready to argue with Lu, but after hearing what Lu said, she couldn't stand up straight, and she felt that she was indeed not in the right.
Mrs. Lu said, "If my marriage into this family has caused my mother-in-law to become like this, even if I don't care how much trouble my future will bring, I will leave her and save her from causing harm to another family and causing me eternal restlessness."
When Fan Shoushan heard his daughter-in-law was about to scold Zhang Jingui, he scolded Zhang Jingui instead. Xiangxiu got to know what happened and also came home to scold Zhang Jingui. From then on, she never dared to do anything to Qiao again.
After Zhang Jingui dared not do anything strange, Lu Shi had to take charge of the household. She took out a shop that came as a dowry from the family and discussed business with Kang He and his family. They started a grain business and the family of the eldest wife became much more prosperous.
Even with such a good life, Zhang Jingui still felt unhappy because the village women outside were laughing at her for asking her daughter-in-law to take care of her, saying that this daughter-in-law would bring her trouble.
She knew in her heart that people were jealous of her for marrying a daughter-in-law who was capable of managing the household, so she said such things.
But she felt unhappy, and wanted to use the fact that Lu and Daxin had been married for three years and still had no children to suppress Lu's arrogance.
Who would have thought that Mrs. Lu was so straightforward that she would treat the disease immediately if she felt it was real, so she asked Doctor Zhu to see her. Doctor Zhu heard that the patient was in good health and there was nothing wrong with him. She was afraid that one of them might have made a mistake, so she asked Zhang Jingui to accompany her to the city to see two other doctors, and both doctors made the same diagnosis.
Forget it, she asked the doctor and Fan Xin to take a look, but she didn't expect that the problem was with him.
Fan Xin started taking medicine every day to regulate his body, and Zhang Jingui no longer dared to stir.
Just let your daughter-in-law take care of it.
"You just wait here. I'm going to do some laundry."
Chen Sanfang laughed at her when she heard this: "Whose are you washing? My daughter-in-law's?"
Zhang Jingui said, "Go to hell."
Chen Sanfang hummed twice and listened to the sound of reading coming from the other end of the classroom. Just as he was about to go over to check on Dafu, he saw Father Fan coming over here with his hands behind his back and looking around.
"You're not coming, who are you doing this for?"
Father Fan thought this man had gone to the county with Kang He and the others to look after the shop, but he didn't expect him to be still here. He said, "I went to the fields. This way is closer, so I stopped by to take a look."
Chen Sanfang snorted, but didn't expose the man's thoughts.
He led everyone to the window outside the classroom and quietly pointed out Dafu's location to Fan Dad.
This kid, holding the book, straightened his back and followed Fan Xin in reciting the Thousand Character Classic aloud.
The two elders felt a pang of anxiety in their hearts when they saw this.
Originally, the family was worried that Dafu would complain of being tired and refuse to go after studying for three or five days, but who would have thought that this kid really loved reading.
I read for more than half a month, and every day I felt as fresh as if I had read it the first day.
When he came back, he wanted to tell Fan Jingkanghe how many new words he had learned that day and what stories Uncle Fan Xin had told him. He also wanted to unfold the Thousand Character Classic and read it before going to bed. It was only when Kanghe stopped teaching him to read it because he was afraid that it would damage his eyes that he went to bed.
Seeing that Dafu loved reading and was very hardworking, his family was very happy and bought him a set of reading supplies.
Even when Fan Jing was running outside, he began to pay special attention to books, pens and ink, things he had never paid attention to before.
Everyone was happy that Dafu was able to go to school, except for one sad child.
That is the fifteenth one in Xu Yang's family.
"Isn't Brother Dafu at home again?"
On this day, Xiaomei, the farmhand of the Fifteenth Sect's family, brought him to look for Dafu. He didn't see Dafu in the yard, so he asked Xiaoxiang.
Xiaoxiang and Xiaomei were very good friends. When they saw her coming, they asked her to sit down and made tea for her.
He hugged the chubby Shiwu and said to him, "Brother Dafu has gone to study with Mr. Fan Xin. He's not home during the day and won't be back until after school."
Fifteen didn’t know how to go to and from school. He just wanted to play with his brother Dafu, so he came over to look for him.
I didn't see him the day before yesterday, and I didn't see him today either. From what Sister Xiaoxiang said, Xu might not be at home tomorrow.
Fifteen's little face suddenly drooped.
When he got home, he started crying sadly, saying that he could never play with Brother Dafu again.
When he saw Xu Yang at night, he clamored to go to the private school to study.
"How about sending him to a private school and trying it out?"
Xu Yang coaxed Shiwu to sleep and discussed with Yuan Ge'er.
After hearing what her husband said, Yuan Ge'er put down her needlework and said, "How can you send a child to school at the age of four? Didn't you see that Dafu didn't go to a private school until he was five and a half? The whole family was worried.
Besides, there are a lot of people in the house. Dafu should call Mr. Fan Xin "uncle". It's okay if there are more people to look after him. But how can you be so embarrassed to send Shiwu over there?"
Xu Yang let out a breath and thought to himself that this was indeed the case.
At first, he didn't start his education until he was six or seven years old. Fifteen was too young. Sending him to a private school didn't require him to learn anything. It was good for him to learn from others.
Putting a child of my own age in Fan Xin's class would require me to focus more on him. It would be troublesome to Fan Xin, but it would also delay the studies of the older children in the school.
It is not easy for children in the village private school to go to school. Many of them can only study one day at a time, and they never know when their families will stop teaching them.
A school is a place to study and gain knowledge, not a place to leave children.
Xu Yang said, "Then let's send Shiwu to his parents' house for a while. I'm sure he'll miss me. When he's a year older, if he still wants to go to school with Dafu, then let him go."
Only then did Yuan Ge'er nod.
On this day, Dafu finally had his day off. He happily went to Xu's house to find Shiwu, holding a Cuju ball, and said he wanted to play with him.
When I arrived at the Xu family, I heard that Shiwu had gone to his grandparents' home in the county and would not be home for a while. I was very sad.
When he got home, he lay on the bed and refused to eat even the osmanthus and taro dumplings made by Qiaoer.
When Fan Jing returned home, he was given two clay birds bought in the city. He saw that the little birds had plump bellies and were very cute. He blew on one and it made a loud sound. Joy appeared on his face again and he put the other one in the new cabinet.
Fan Jing asked him, "Don't you like the other red one?"
"I'll leave one for Fifteen and give it to him when he returns from the city."
Fan Jing touched Dafu's head, took him out of the house, and played Cuju with him in the yard for a while, which they couldn't play at Xu's house during the day.
The two children were in different places. I thought that children were forgetful and would become unfamiliar with each other if they didn't see each other often.
Unexpectedly, the little guy is still worried about it. Whenever he eats something delicious or has a new toy, he always saves an extra portion, saying that he wants to keep it for each other.
In a blink of an eye, we entered the autumn moon.
The two osmanthus trees that Kanghe bought and planted in the yard were blooming so fragrantly. Qiao'er called Xiaoxiang to shake down a lot of osmanthus flowers, dried them and collected them to make osmanthus tea and snacks, saving her from having to go out to buy them.
During the autumn harvest season, everyone is busy. This year, not only do we have to harvest the crops at home, but we also have another busy task.
The material trees that Kang Hexun bought a few years ago finally bore fruit this year.
The Sichuan pepper tree, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, has been carefully cared for for almost four years. It has grown strong and is bearing fruit this year.
As I got closer to the woods, I could smell a strong aroma of spices, which seemed to be more fragrant than the varieties sold outside.
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