Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

"Ah! Why are you going?!" The woman ran out with a spatula, saw her daughter running around in the yard, and was furious, "Come back soon!"

Er Ya turned her head and said, "No! Mother! There are people in town today, I want to see it!"

The woman became even angrier: "What are you looking at? What does it matter to you that people come from town?"

Erya: "I'm going to study in the town! I heard that there is no money to study in the town!"

The woman sneered: "You little girl, what book are you reading? Your brother has gone to study, and if you go again, who will do the housework?"

Er Ya said angrily: "Why can I work, but my brother can't? He is five years old, and I can go to the fields when I am five years old. Why can't he?"

The woman rolled her eyes: "Can you compare with your brother?"

Erya made a funny face at her mother: "He's just one more than me! What's so precious?"

The woman ran out angrily: "Come here, see if I don't teach you a lesson today!"

Erya rolled her eyes. She was small, with quick legs and feet, and she ran with wind. She said while running, "I'm going to study! I'll find a job in the city in the future! I can make you happy even if I earn money!" "

"I enjoy the blessing of your fart!" The woman panted with her hips on her hips, her face flushed with anger before she said, "Can't you save me some trouble? It's not easy for me and your father to raise the three of you. You save some dowry, and you will be worthy of you when you get married in the future."

"I don't want a dowry!" Erya hid behind a wooden pile, "I just want to study, I don't want to stay in the village all my life."

The woman was furious: "What's wrong with the village? Is it because you need to eat or wear? Erya! You have no conscience!"

Erya shouted: "I have! The gentlemen in the town have said that going to the city is not to draw a line with the village, but to go to the city to learn more and contribute to the village in the future!"

Mr. Town...

The woman said angrily: "He's just a gentleman! I'm still your mother!"

Erya: "Widow Zhao at the east end of the village sent her daughter to study, why can't I go?"

Woman: "Widow Zhao only has one daughter. I have your elder brother and younger brother. It's not like my family has no sons. Why do you expect a girl to go to school?"

Erya bit her lip until it bled: "I don't, I'm going to study. There is no charge for studying, I know."

"Mom, I beg you. Let me go to study. I will come back to work when I am on vacation. My husband said that he will give me a vacation when the farming season is busy."

Woman: "Don't go! If I say you can't go, then don't go! You go to study, what do people in the village think of us?"

"Noisy, noisy!" The man stepped into the yard and said to the woman, "You just can't control her!"

Woman: "You don't care! She just made a fuss and went to study!"

The man frowned and said, "Isn't this just nonsense? Widow Zhao is the only one who sent the girl to study in eight villages. Her family pointed at the girl because she didn't have a man. It's not like our family has no men."

Woman: "I said the same, but she won't listen! What can I do!"

Man: "Didn't Da Zhuang be on vacation for a few days? When he comes back, ask him to talk about his girl. He is a scholar, so he can talk better than us."

When the woman heard her husband mention her eldest son, she also had a smile on her face: "That's right, when we grow up, we will take the No. [-] Scholar Examination! How can we not convince a girl."

"Go, go, stop squatting there." The woman shouted at Er Ya, "Go and collect firewood."

Erya: "You tell me to read and I'll pick it up again!"

The woman smiled angrily: "It's fine if you don't pick it up, then don't eat, be hungry! When you stop arguing about studying, when will you eat again."

Erya: "If you don't eat, you don't eat!"

However, that night, Erya was so hungry that she couldn't sleep, she sneaked into the field to dig potatoes to eat, built a fire by the side of the field and roasted them, and buried the burnt wood after eating.

After three days like this, Er Ya didn't touch any oil, and she didn't eat during the day, but went secretly to dig potatoes in the field at night.

"Da Zhuang is back!" Erya heard the happy voice of her parents before entering the door.

She curled her lips. Anyway, since she was a child, her brothers and sisters are the treasures of her parents. What is she?The stones on the ground don't worry about breaking if they fall, and no one cares about them.

Erya didn't expect her elder brother to speak for her. Her brother, like her parents, thought that she, a girl, would marry someone in the future, and sending her to study would be someone who would get married after it was cheaper.

"Where's Er Ya?" She heard her eldest brother ask inside.

Her mother said: "Where did you go to go wild again? These days, I and your father have been angry with me and your father. I insist on studying, and I don't want to see if I am reading materials. Besides, there are no girls who study. "

"It's said to send girls to study, but those are from the south, we don't send them to the north."

Er Ya curled her lips when she heard this.

Da Zhuang said: "Mother, I went to the city and found that many women from the south are working in the city. They are all educated, and their work is also a manager's job. At least two dollars a month."

The woman snapped her tongue: "Hey, that's amazing, let alone two cents, two cents can be enough for our family to eat for a long time."

Unlike the south, it is inconvenient to build roads in the north. Although the folk customs are simple, they don’t communicate too much with the outside world. How much impact it has on them.

Da Zhuang said again: "Erya wants to study, let her go to study, let alone examiners in the future, it would be good if she can find a job in charge."

Woman: "Even if she becomes a steward, won't she have to get married in the future? Becoming another housewife? It has nothing to do with our family. If she is asked to go to school, there will be one less person who can work in the family."

Er Ya listened, feeling uncomfortable.

She still remembered Widow Zhao's daughter, named Yueniang, who used to live the same way as her. Later, Widow Zhao sent Yueniang to study in a college in the city despite the obstruction of her relatives. Yueniang learned to read and learn to count , because the abacus is really good, a shop owner in the city has asked her if she would like to work as an accountant in their shop after graduation.

Yueniang also told her that if she worked as a bookkeeper in such a big shop, she would have at least one dollar a month.

Among them, the highest bidder was willing to give her half a month.

"If you don't study, how can you earn so much money?" Yueniang smiled happily at the time, and said to Erya, "You should go to study earlier, I went late, if you go now, you can make more money." If you study for a few years, maybe you can take the scientific examination and become a high-ranking official in the future!"

"I heard that there is a female adult in the capital!"

Erya didn't expect that she could take part in the scientific examination and become a high official.

She just didn't want to do farm work at home all the time, marry a man like her father, and have a few children.

That day, she felt terrible just thinking about it.

Da Zhuang sighed: "Mother, Erya was also born from your belly. She is really married and is your daughter. Besides, there is a law now. If something happens to me and my third brother, Erya will be your daughter." I have to take care of you until the end of my life."

"She has studied and can earn more money. Only when she can gain a firm foothold in her husband's family can she honor you."

The woman waved her hand: "I don't want her to be filial, I have two sons!"

For them, it is a serious crime for a woman not to have a son. Whoever has more sons can hold his head higher when he goes out.

The more sons the better, as for the daughters—they will always be married off, and now they are not allowed to change marriages.

If life was not good, these girls would have been drowned long ago.

Such is the custom of their place.

Da Zhuang sighed: "Mom, you should go out with my father and take a look outside."

Woman: "Look at what?"

Da Zhuang: "I'll take Erya away this time and let her go to study with me. It happens that the first grade is recruiting new students again. Go and register first, and the school will start in September in the second half of the year."

The woman rolled her eyes and showed her son: "It is said that you don't need money to study, but you need money for clothes, food, and accommodation."

Da Zhuang had nothing to say.

His mother can't make sense, and his father can't make sense.

Erya wiped her tears outside.

Her parents love her eldest brother the most, and it is rare for her elder brother to speak for her, but her parents still don't let go.

Erya crouched in the corner, crying with her head buried.

When she came home, the family had already had dinner, and she was growing strong, so she already had a lot to eat. She went to the kitchen to search, but only found half a steamed bun, which she ate voraciously.

"What are you doing?"

Er Ya turned her head and saw Da Zhuang standing at the door of the kitchen, she sniffed and said harshly, "You want to care?!"

Da Zhuang: "I heard from my mother that you want to go to school."

Er Ya muffled: "What's the use of my thinking? I can't even think about it. Anyway, it's like this. After I get married, I won't come back. When I give birth to a child, regardless of gender, I will send them to study. "

Da Zhuang squatted down: "I have a method, you can study as long as you listen to me."

Erya didn't believe it: "Really?"

Da Zhuang looked determined: "Why should I lie to you? I'm no good."

Er Ya still didn't believe it: "Why did you help me?"

Da Zhuang bullied her a lot when he was a child, and together with his companions told her to lose money because she ate a piece of meat that only he can eat.

Could it be that after going to school, Da Zhuang changed his appearance?Can reading make Da Zhuang better?

Da Zhuang: "On the day I go to the city, you wait by the side of the road. I will ask the bullock cart to stop and take you with me."

Erya's eyes widened: "But, but I went to the city and signed up. I still have to go back to the village. They won't let me go in September, and I won't be able to go to school."

Da Zhuang laughed and said, "What's the matter? You go to the city and stay there, waiting for school to start. This is called raw rice and cooked rice. They have to do it if they don't."

Erya hesitated: "Then... where did I get the money for living so long?"

Da Zhuang: "I held a poetry club with a few classmates in the city, and I nominated those merchants to write poems. I could earn some writing fees and have a place to live. As long as you save some money, you won't starve to death."

Erya nodded desperately: "I'll save it, I'll definitely save it! I can only eat one potato a day, as long as my fist is this big! I can't eat much!"

Da Zhuang rubbed Erya's head: "Then it's settled."

Er Ya grabbed the hem of Da Zhuang's clothes, raised her head, and called out sincerely for the first time: "Brother."