Chapter 56: Buying Books
After thinking about it, I couldn't help but laugh. If a woman like Tian Guihua had picked me up, she would have sold me long ago. She didn't have such a good heart. Only honest people like Zhong Gensheng and He Ashu would be so kind, that's why they often got taken advantage of in the village.
It's just like when Zhong Gensheng goes hunting with some villagers, and the prey they catch, Zhong Gensheng always gets a smaller share. In fact, his marksmanship is quite good, and he doesn't hold back either. It's just that he's too honest and won't fight for it, so the villagers treat him like this.
Now their family is still poor, and the villagers don't have much. If they had some money in the future, with Zhong Gensheng and He Ashu's honest temperament, wouldn't they be bullied to death?!
Shen Sisi looked at her own slender arm, sighed, and thought to herself that she still needed to cultivate more, eat a bit more, otherwise in the future she really wouldn't be able to hold on, especially if she were to encounter a shrewish woman, He Axiu would absolutely not be a match for her.
She silently looked up at the sky, she didn't want to become a shrew either, but with her parents being so honest, only she could be strong. Shen Sisi looked up at the sky with a gloomy expression.
Second Treasure muttered: "Why does Aunt Tian always beat Xiao Hua?! They're both daughters, why the difference?!"
Shen Sisi gave him a glance and smiled: "Do you think everyone can be like my mother?!" Not to mention her own daughter, the key is that she was just an adopted daughter, but she loved her to the core.
"Also..." Er Bao smiled and said, "Mother is the best mother."
"Of course..." Shen Sisi said proudly, having lived together for eight years and being pampered for eight years. Although she had never eaten anything good, Shen Sisi really had feelings for He Axiu. People's hearts are made of flesh, although she wasn't born to her, but was raised by her own hands, how could there be no feelings? Not only gratitude, but also a deep affection. This woman was the mother of her life, more intimate than her own biological mother.
The three brothers didn't know that this sister was not related by blood, so they didn't get entangled and just smiled it off.
Today Shen Sisi didn't buy anything, only spent money to buy four calabazas, one for each person, and prepared to leave the city gate. There is still meat to eat at home, and they can still eat for a while. The money from selling chestnuts can really be saved up.
Three treasures closed their eyes and licked, with a look of satisfaction on their face.
"......Today, I sold 190 coins, and after buying sugar gourd, there are still 180 coins left. Adding yesterday's, we have a total of 192 coins now......Tomorrow, let's work hard again, and soon we'll be able to save quite a bit of money......"
"......Hmm, once I've saved up enough money, I'll buy you guys a few books."
Brushes, ink, paper and inkstone are temporarily unaffordable. These things are luxury goods in this era. Shen Sisi also wants to wait until the conditions are better before buying them for practicing calligraphy. At least she has to wait until they attend private school. After all, her own brushwork is very poor, and she doesn't dare to teach them randomly, fearing that they will start with bad habits and it will be harder to correct them later when they attend private school. It's better to let them use twigs to scribble casually now and deepen their impression of recognizing characters...
But she casually mentioned wanting to buy a book, and the three of them were stunned, because for people in this era, books are also a luxury, it's said that Wang Xiucun from the neighboring village spent one or two silver coins on just an ordinary book, and it's said that more expensive ones cost over ten silver coins, which is enough to buy a good acre of land. Now hearing Shen Sisi say this, the three brothers looked at her with shocked faces, their expressions very strange.
