She gave birth to three daughters in a row, and was kicked out by her mother-in-law who favored boys

Gu Qingqing was a little confused and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Dahua spoke without thinking, "She said, 'Mom, you don't like to talk at home, so let us listen to you.' She also said that if anyone says anything bad about you, we should curse back, saying that we are children and can curse. She also told us to be patient, and that Dad would find a way for us to live a good life."

"By digging canals?"

"Dad said that we won't dig canals in winter, so we'll go copy books." Dahua looked around and spoke when he saw that there was no one around.

Now it was Gu Qingqing's turn to be shocked, and her voice rose several octaves, "Copying a book?"

"That's what Dad said." Dahua blinked.

"Does your father know how to read?"

Dahua nodded first, then shook her head, and continued, "I don't know whether Dad can read or not. That's what he told me. He also told me not to talk about this at home. But if Mom asks, I can tell her, but she never asked."

Why did Gu Qingqing suddenly feel that this matter was a bit complicated?

Could he really be as evil-hearted as Zhang Cuilan said?

Gu Qingqing thought about it, but couldn't figure it out, so she decided to go back and ask Wen Wuyan what was going on!

When Dahua saw that her mother didn't say anything after she finished speaking, she thought her mother was angry, so she approached cautiously, "Mom, are you angry? Are you blaming me for not telling you earlier?"

Gu Qingqing waved her hands and said, "What is Dahua thinking? How can I be angry? I'm not angry. I just feel strange that your father can read. Come on, hurry up and dig wild vegetables. We still need to make dumplings when we go back!"

"Are you angry with your father?" Dahua was a little worried.

"I'm not angry. Why should I be angry?" Gu Qingqing asked back.

"I'm glad that mom isn't angry." Dahua smiled, and then her hands started digging wild vegetables much faster.

She was just purely curious. Why did Wen Wuyan hide the fact that he could read from everyone?

The two, one big and two small, quickly dug up a large basket full of shepherd's purse.

When Wen Wuyan returned home, he was polishing a piece of bamboo. When he saw the mother and daughter coming back, he quickly greeted them, "You're back so soon. I didn't see that there was a rolling pin at home, so I made one out of bamboo. Let's see if it fits your hands."

Wen Wuyan handed the polished rolling pin to Gu Qingqing. Gu Qingqing took it and looked at it. The bamboo joints on both sides were polished very smoothly. She weighed it in her hand and said to Wen Wuyan, "Except that it's a little light, everything else is good."

Wen Wuyan smiled and said, "Then I'll use this one first. When I can go up the mountain in the future, I'll make another one with wood."

"Okay! I'll go pick the vegetables, can you chop the meat?" Gu Qingqing asked.

Wen Wuyan nodded, but said, "Sanhua just woke up, and I coaxed her back to sleep. She must be hungry."

Gu Qingqing raised her eyebrows, it was time for her, the cow, to take the stage.

But before going to feed the baby, she placed the small table she bought today on the open space and then put the chopping board on it.

He went to the back of the house and cut off a pound of fat meat, and gave it to Wen Wuyan together with the fried meat from the day before.

She let Dahua and Erhua pick the vegetables first, and she went back to the house to feed the baby.

After Gu Qingqing came back from the wooden house, she went to the water drawn by the bamboo to wash the vegetables.

Gu Qingqing sincerely lamented how convenient it was to have a stream here. They didn't have to go to the well in the village to fetch water and could use it however they wanted.

The only bad thing now is that she came in a hurry on the first day, so she split a bamboo in half, opened up the middle joint and brought the water over.

This results in dead branches or small stones sometimes appearing in the water.

Gu Qingqing picked up a piece of dead grass that had flowed down from the basin with the water, and wondered when she could improve this.

By noon, the whole family was in action.

Wen Wuyan was rolling the dough, Gu Qingqing was in charge of wrapping it, Dahua was studying nearby, and Erhua was holding Sanhua who didn't want to sleep and was sitting in front of the table watching his parents and sister busy.

It was only then that Gu Qingqing asked Wen Wuyan, "Can you read?"

Wen Wuyan didn't seem to have expected Gu Qingqing to ask him this question suddenly. He paused with the rolling pin in his hand, then smiled and nodded, "I know a little."

"How come I don't know? Who taught you?" Gu Qingqing asked without stopping the movements of her hands.

Wen Wuyan glanced at Gu Qingqing, thought for a moment and said, "My eldest brother was the first one to go to school. Every day when he came back from learning new characters, he would teach me and my second brother."

When Wen Wuyan said this, he saw Gu Qingqing's brows getting tighter and tighter. Wen Wuyan suddenly felt that his wife was sometimes very smart and sometimes very cute, like now?

He said, "I hadn't married you yet."

Gu Qingqing suddenly realized, and she said that the original owner had no memory of this incident. So this is how it is.

"Then what?" Gu Qingqing asked.

"We don't know how many characters the teacher taught my eldest brother after he had studied for half a year, but we all remembered what he taught me and my second brother. On the contrary, my eldest brother would forget the characters he had learned after a while, and he was often beaten by the teacher for this. In the end, he told mother that he didn't want to study anymore. He saw that my second brother was learning better than him, so he pushed the issue and let him go."

"So, the characters you recognize were taught by your eldest and second brothers?" Gu Qingqing took the opportunity to interrupt.

But Wen Wuyan shook his head and said, "You are half right. My eldest brother taught me some at that time, but after my second brother went to school, he never taught me to read again."

"Why?"

"He said that since I had never paid tuition, he couldn't teach me what he had learned. Whenever he was at home studying and practicing calligraphy, he wouldn't allow me to enter his room, saying that if I learned anything, it would be like stealing his teacher's knowledge, which was considered despicable. My parents didn't understand, and they just warned me not to touch my second brother's books from then on. At that time, I was young and had a lot of work to do in the fields, so the matter was put on hold."

"Oh, I didn't realize that Wen Youcai has a big-tailed wolf face. I think he is just narrow-minded." Gu Qingqing said with some hatred to Wen Youcai.

"My second brother has never liked me. Now that he is educated, he feels that he is superior to me. He was not moved by our nonsense during the division of the family this time. He thinks that he can definitely pass the examination and become a scholar, and he is afraid that he will not have the chance in the future."

"Who taught you to read?"

"Two years ago, I followed the villagers to Wangping Town to dig a canal. There, I met a stove owner. After we got to know each other, he began to teach me how to read."

"A cook taught you to read?" Gu Qingqing was a little surprised, and the next moment she suddenly remembered the sweeping monk in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

She asked excitedly, "Does this stove have a great origin?

Wen Wuyan shook his head again. "I don't know. No one knows where Yang Zaotou came from, because besides the manager, he has been in the canal digging team the longest. I heard that he also dug canals in the beginning, but later he took charge of the fire room because he cooked delicious food."

After hearing the gossip, Gu Qingqing said jokingly, "Are those who work as cooks these days all people who can read and write? Then why did he teach you, a person who can only dig canals, because he wanted to sit close to the water and wait for the bright moon to shine on the canal so that you can have a drink and chat? Hahaha." After Gu Qingqing finished speaking, she laughed. In fact, even she found that the sarcasm was more than curiosity.

Wen Wuyan smiled helplessly, "Qingqing, you are always teasing me! I have taken the imperial examination, but I don't want to be an official. I either farm or dig canals every day. What does he want? Is it just for those loaches?"

"What loach?"