I traveled through time, this is unscientific

Zhou Xiaozhou was forced to accept the proposal.

The main thing is that there is nothing she can do if she doesn't accept it. God knows, she needs Wu Sanmei's help even to walk.

The dinner was kindly sponsored by the village chief, Lao Wu’s family.

But look at the bland wild vegetable porridge and the pickled vegetables that have been on the table for who knows how many days.

Zhou Xiaozhou really couldn't bring himself to eat it.

She went back to her room, saying she was not feeling well.

Yes, the village chief's family even temporarily cleared out a room for her so that she could have a good rest.

The stars were particularly bright tonight, but Zhou Xiaozhou didn't have the leisure to appreciate them properly.

She sat on a bed covered with a thin layer of straw, looking at a lit oil lamp, feeling the cool breeze blowing from all directions, and fell into deep thought.

squeak~

The movement of the door panel made the old broken wooden door groan.

The person who opened the door heard the noise and subconsciously reached out to hold the door to stop it from making any noise, then carefully entered the house.

The man walked into the house, took out the flint and was about to light the oil lamp, but was interrupted by a sudden voice from inside the house: "Don't light it, it's a waste of money, the moon is so big, I'm not blind yet."

"Dad~" Wu Wen was startled by his father's sudden voice, and felt that what his father said was very humiliating, so his face flushed and he groped in the dark towards the place where his father spoke.

He shouted in a low voice: "What are you doing?"

Old Wu took the flint from his son and lit the pipe in his hand.

In the flickering light of the flint, an old face full of wrinkles appeared - next to it were several other wrinkled faces.

Wu Wen didn't expect that there were so many people hiding in his father's small room. They were squatting on the ground with listless faces, as if they had been constipated for ten days.

"Uncle Wu, please say something!" Li Jinniu, who was still impatient, spoke first. "It's not usually such a good thing to give us a teacher for free."

"It's the teacher." Someone next to him corrected him.

"Yes, teacher. The county is giving us a teacher for free, we should not refuse it!" Li Jinniu approached Old Wu and forced a smile on his wrinkled face.

Old Wu took a long puff of his cigarette and said, "Free? Didn't you hear what she said? It has to include food and lodging."

"It's a good deal if it includes food and accommodation." Li Jinniu thought there was nothing wrong with including food and accommodation.

As for this teacher, a learned man, he has to collect a lot of tuition wherever he teaches, and many people bring gold, silver and treasures with them.

I was also afraid that if I went too late, they would have too many students and wouldn’t want the place.

"Village chief, our village has suffered so much from illiteracy over the years," said the person who helped Li Jinniu persuade the village chief. "Last time, those bastards from Kuching County took advantage of their literacy to cheat us, didn't they?"

Yes, Old Wu narrowed his eyes and thought carefully.

Before the New Year, several young men in the village went to Kuching County to pay taxes. Because they were illiterate, someone forced them to add an extra number to their tax payment notebook.

Because of this, the village gave out a lot more food.

Otherwise, it would only be the end of April, and every household would not have to work so hard to dig wild vegetables and eat wild vegetable porridge every day.

The man continued, "Village chief, we have been digging for food in the fields all our lives, so it's okay to be blind. But now there are more and more children in the village. Now that we have this opportunity, we must let them learn some skills."

The man looked at the people around him and tried to get their approval: "It doesn't matter if we suffer a little. We just provide her with food, so we will."

"That's not the case." Old Wu knocked on his pipe and shook out the remaining unburned cigarette butt.

I was feeling depressed and smoked a lot of cigarettes.

Wu Wen took his father's pipe, filled it with tobacco, and lit it: "Dad, what's the reason?"

Wu Wen was thinking that they had a child named Wu Xiaobao who was just at the age to start learning, but the family was so poor that even food became a problem, let alone sending him to school.

It's also his fault as a father who is incompetent and can't earn enough money to send his children to school.

Coincidentally, a Miss Zhou came. Although she was a woman and might not be very well educated, it would be great if Wu Xiaobao could learn some words from her.

Old Wu took the pipe filled by his son, took two puffs, suppressed the annoyance in his heart, and called out a name: "Liu Ming."

The man was squatting in a corner, with a pair of big eyes, listening to the noise here, and when he heard him being called, he quickly responded: "Village chief, I'm here."

"Liu Ming, let me ask you, do you still remember the questions that Jinniu asked you this afternoon?" Old Wu continued to puff away smoke.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Liu Ming quickly recalled: "I remember, village chief. Jinniu asked me if anyone entered the village today. Xiao Liuzi and I were guarding the pass, but we didn't see anyone coming up from the pass."

Seeing that everyone was still confused, Old Wu quickly pointed it out: "Taurus, you haven't figured it out yet."

Old Wu took another puff of his cigarette.

"Where did this Miss Zhou come from? If she didn't come up from the pass, is it possible that she can fly?"

Lai'an Village is a good choice!

It is a gourd land surrounded by mountains, that is, there are mountains on all sides, with only two slightly circular flat lands, one large and one small, in the middle. In the middle, there is a small stream converging from all directions, which ensures the water supply for farming.

Old Wu’s grandfather came here to escape the war.

At that time, when wars broke out and people were being recruited, no matter whether you were the only son in nine generations or not, they would capture anyone they saw.

It was also thanks to his grandfather's fast running that I heard later that no one could breathe within dozens of miles of his hometown.

Their house is hidden at the gourd mouth at the innermost part of the land.

Most of the people who came later fled to the mountains to escape famine. When they built houses, they chose the place with the most fields on the side of Huludushi.

Even if it is surrounded by mountains, there must be a way to get there.

The beauty of this gourd field is that the waist of this gourd field is well-shaped.

On one side of the mountain there is a gentle mountain road of moderate size, which runs along the edge of the mountain all the way down to Kuching County.

On the other side of the waist is the Qingfeng Mountain with towering ancient trees. If you go further and climb over a mountain, there will be no road at all!

It's a huge cliff. Unless Miss Zhou can fly, she will never be able to get into the village from this cliff.

Then the problem is coming.

How did Miss Zhou get to their village?

Liu Ming's face changed, his eyes opened wider, and he stiffened his neck and said, "Village chief, Xiao Liuzi and I were on duty today and we kept our eyes open, but no one came up from the pass."

"Don't worry about where she came from." said another old man.

This is Lin Daiyu’s grandfather, also an old man in the village. He speaks with authority and likes to go against Old Wu.

Old Man Lin couldn't stand Old Man Wu's hesitation: "Even if there is a way to get into the village that we don't know about, Miss Zhou mentioned it today. Why don't we ask the village guards to go and check and find the way?"

"If you ask me, this is really an opportunity," Old Man Lin continued to express his thoughts.

"Even if this Zhou girl is a trap set by the county, we have to take advantage of it. We should learn the characters she knows first, and it won't matter if we just give her more food."

Old Man Lin thought very clearly that they had been at odds with the county for more than a day or two.

He could probably guess what the county's rules were, and it was nothing more than asking them to pay more grain.

In order for the children to have a teacher to teach them, Old Man Lin was willing to pay any amount of grain.

"Uncle Lin is right." Li Jinniu chimed in, "Wu Wen, have you asked your third sister? Has she found out the details of that woman?"