After becoming a stepmother,I transfered the whole family into farming

Chapter 188 It seems to be working again

Si Niang had asked this question no less than twenty times before.

But as the day when Dalang and Erlang were going to school got closer, the topic was mentioned more and more often.

Qin Yao had used various excuses to fool people before, but this time, it seemed that she couldn't fool people like that anymore.

Si Niang is just young, she is not stupid.

In fact, all the previous misleading reasons are not valid.

The third brother is also young, the same age as her, but he can go to school in two years, but he didn't say that she can go too when she grows up in two years.

My second brother's physical strength wasn't that great, and he couldn't walk far, but he could go to school by ox cart.

There are many, many reasons, and what my mother said is not right!

No, there is one that seems to be right.

"Because I'm a girl?" Si Niang continued to mutter in confusion, "Why can't girls do that? Boys can do that?"

Before she was four years old, without a mother around, she had never felt any difference in status between men and women.

After the age of four, the only female he came into contact with was Qin Yao. To her, there was no difference in status between men and women.

Even in the little girl's heart, her mother is better than her father, her brothers, and everyone else in the village!

It is really difficult to make her understand why girls cannot go to school.

And Liu Ji had answered this way before, but faced with the next sentence: Why can't girls do that?

He couldn't explain why, he could only say that it had been like this since ancient times.

The little girl Si Niang is very smart when she is smart, but because she is too smart, she sometimes always gets stuck in a dead end and will not give up until she gets to the bottom of things.

Qin Yao was so stubborn that she suddenly asked curiously, "Fourth Lady, are you born in the Year of the Ox?"

Si Niang paused and shook her head, "I don't know."

"Brother, what's my zodiac sign?" She immediately asked the omnipotent brother, and her attention was successfully diverted.

Dalang calculated and answered, "You are born in the Year of the Rabbit."

Si Niang nodded and continued to ask curiously, "What about the little brother?"

Dalang replied: "Of course, it is also the Rabbit."

Si Niang: "What about the second brother?"

After asking the second brother, she asked the eldest brother, and after asking the eldest brother, she asked her father.

Qin Yao secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly asked the four brothers and sisters to wash up and go back to their rooms to sleep!

As for the question of Si Niang, let her think about how to answer it first, and then answer her.

Qin Yao went to bed very late that night.

One is to draw the book box division diagram.

The second is to think about the answer to Si Niang's question.

But the reality of society is really cruel to the little girl. If possible, Qin Yao would rather she grow up in confusion like Jinhua or other little girls in the village, and not ask so many whys.

All the little girl's expectations and hopes were wiped out early on. It would be better to leave such an inhumane thing to Liu Ji.

In a blink of an eye, it was January 28th, and there were only four days left until the start of school in February.

Carpenter Liu worked hard and finally made the magical bookcase for Dalang and Erlang.

It is made of very solid wood, with some carvings on the exterior, and painted black, giving it an antique and high-end feel.

Qin Yao specially customized the layered grid inside according to the different needs of the two people. Dalang's grid can only hold his slingshot and dagger.

Erlang's is a piece of open large grid, he can put it however he wants.

Carpenter Liu was addicted to it. He even had a piece of huanghuali wood at home, and he wanted to make a luxurious and exquisite bookcase out of it.

It is not for selling, but to show off one's exquisite craftsmanship. It is also known as the treasure of the shop.

Qin Yao brought the two finished magical bookcases home. Dalang and Erlang immediately took them to their own rooms and filled them with things.

Sanlang followed his brothers curiously, watching them prepare the pens, ink, paper and inkstone they would need for school.

The day before, Qin Yao took the two of them to Dingjiazhuang to meet Old Madam Ding first. Although the old lady looked a little disappointed that Liu Ji did not show up, the brothers' admission to school was settled.

Everything is ready, just waiting for school to start.

However, Si Niang was in a very low mood these days because her three brothers always played together and Jinhua was locked up at home by her mother to learn needlework. The little girl often sat alone on the doorstep, staring at one place for an hour without moving.

Qin Yao said she wanted to teach her martial arts, but she was not interested. She had clearly seen her elder brother practicing martial arts before and had been clamoring to learn it. Now that Qin Yao had agreed, she didn't want to learn it.

Dalang and Jilang ignored their sister at first, but now that everything is ready, they turned their attention away from the enrollment issue and immediately noticed that their sister was unhappy.

The two men coaxed her, saying that after they learned it at the clan school, they would come back home to teach her and Sanlang.

But the little girl still didn't recover her energy. Sometimes she found their words so annoying that she simply ignored them and continued to immerse herself in her little world.

Just when the whole family was worried about this, the sound of gongs and drums came from the opposite side of the river.

"What good news?" Erlang stood up, ran to the front of the slope, and looked towards the village curiously.

After a while, Liu Qi's tall and strong figure appeared on the river bank, beating the gong and shouting:

"The village chief has good news to announce. Everyone, go to the ancestral hall!"

As if to confirm whether the mother and children on the mountain had heard it, Liu Qi raised his hand and waved, and Erlang also waved in response.

Knowing that they heard it, Liu Qi was happy to walk less distance, turned around, and went into the village to continue beating gongs and drums to notify every household.

"Mother, the village chief has good news to announce. Let's all go to the ancestral hall." Erlang excitedly ran back to the gate to inform his family.

Qin Yao had heard it a long time ago. She took a pitiful look at Si Niang, picked up the little one, and signaled Da Lang and the others to lock the door and follow, and then rushed to the ancestral hall in the village.

I met many villagers on the way. They were all excited and curious. What good news was the village chief beating the gongs and drums like this?

Could it be that the taxes would be reduced this year?

With curiosity, all the villagers who were not working in the fields gathered at the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall was small, so each family selected one person to go in, and the rest of the people gathered outside the door. Or some strong young men would climb up to the treetops and look into the ancestral hall through the courtyard wall.

Seeing that everyone was present, the village chief smiled and picked up a roll of hot documents he had just received and began to read it.

The villagers were totally uneducated and were completely confused by the flowery words.

But I could hear the part about "two years of tuition reduction" clearly and my heart beat faster.

When it comes to matters related to tax relief, the villagers don't have the patience to wait for you to finish reading the documents. Those who are older will directly interrupt the village chief and ask him to explain it to everyone quickly and stop reading the documents that are incomprehensible.

Old man Liu next to him also echoed: "That's right, we don't listen to that document, we just listen to you, the village chief, and we believe whatever you say!"

If the village chief had a beard, he would surely be so angry at these "troublemakers" that his beard would stick up.

(End of this chapter)