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Chapter 11 Borrowing Books

Wei Nian felt that she was just talking casually, but as a result, on the dining table that day, Chen Xuan was subjected to a lot of sour words from Mrs. Wei and Wei Jin. Wei Jin said that she was "a girl in the countryside is causing trouble." Old Mrs. Wei said, "What are you saying? Women are the most important thing to do more work, this is the duty of being a daughter-in-law."

Seeing his mother, Chen Xuan didn't say a word, just drank porridge, and quickly said, "Look at you, isn't it good to recognize words? At least you can't read it wrong when you go out to see a sign or something. If you calculate the account or something, you will be very smart."

"Women, there are shopkeepers in the shop, so she needs to settle the score?" Old Mrs. Wei sniffed her eyes and looked at Chen Xuan carefully. She felt that although Chen Xuan was from the countryside, she was really mean, so she said, "It's your sister-in-law's business if we buy vegetables. You don't need your wife. What kind of words to learn to recognize is useless!" She found Chen Xuan's work again, "If you are idle, the shop's shop's spring clothes have not been done yet, so I will cut them together today."

Don’t be honest, she has some benefits. No matter what the Wei family says, she doesn’t say anything, and she won’t listen to old Mrs. Wei’s words that she doesn’t ask her to read. Chen Xuan was not confused when she was having breakfast, and she drank two bowls of porridge.

The men went to the shop to work, and Chen Xuan and Li packed the kitchen. Chen Xuan thought about it and said to Li quietly, "Sister-in-law, I learned to recognize words, not to buy vegetables and keep accounts. Alas, I just came from the countryside and didn't know a big word, so I thought about learning two with Sister Yin."

Li put the bowl in the cabinet of the yarn treasure and laughed, "What's wrong? It's really convenient to recognize some words." He whispered to Chen Xuan, "The old lady and sister-in-law are so kind, don't worry." In fact, even Chen Xuan learned the words to grab the purchase mission, Li didn't care at all. Li had such a gentle temperament. She got along well with Chen Xuan. Chen Xuan was diligent and often helped make clothes and shoes for several children when she had time. Li didn't think too much about it.

Seeing Li like this, Chen Xuan was secretly grateful.

She was in the Wei family for two lives, and the most fortunate thing was that she met her sister-in-law Wei Yin and her eldest sister-in-law Li, both of whom were kind-hearted people.

Chen Xuan had too many tricks in her hands because of Wei Nian's big mouth.

When she was making midnight snacks at night, she didn't change the styles for Wei Nian, so she simply asked Wei Nian to eat mutton patties.

Wei Nian knew that she was talking too much, and told Chen Xuan to be criticized by his mother and sister. After eating mutton cakes for ten days, Wei Nian handed Chen Xuan a kraft bag when she returned to the house at night. Chen Xuan asked, "What is it? Keep your own things yourself, don't give them to me." Chen Xuan has a good temperament, but she is not an angry person. However, she is used to being cowardly. Even if she is angry, she will not quarrel with others. She is nothing but not talking and being dull. So, it has been more than ten days. Wei Nian goes back to the house every night, no matter what he says, Chen Xuan ignores him. Wei Nian is also a young master, and sometimes he will get angry, but he feels that he will ignore this matter. Fortunately, he is a living person, and handed it to Chen Xuan, "It's for you."

Chen Xuan took it and opened the kraft paper bag. She saw it was an indigo cover. When she opened it, there was snow-white paper inside. Chen Xuan stared in her eyes, "Book?"

"This is called a notebook." Wei Nian took out his pen from the drawer and stuck it on the indigo hard shell cover for Chen Xuan. He stuck it on the cover of the notebook. Wei Nian covered the corner of his mouth and said, "I was quick-talking that day, and didn't think much about it. You have to learn to recognize words. I see that you are writing on some old paper. I gave you this book to you, right? I'm giving you the pen to you, so don't be angry."

The old saying goes, people's hands are short, and people's mouths are short.

Chen Xuan thought to herself that this old saying is really good. However, Chen Xuan is a principled person. She said, "I heard from A Yin that your money is a branded pen and a precious thing. I don't want this money, you usually lend me a hand. I will accept this book. You can't say everything if you think about it in the future. The old lady gave me a lot of needlework and thread, and I have less time to practice calligraphy now."

Wei Nian also had no choice but to treat his mother and sister, and repeatedly promised Chen Xuan, "I will definitely think twice before doing it in the future."

Chen Xuan solemnly accepted the notebook that Wei Nian gave her and said, "Then I won't be angry with you."

Wei Nian took the opportunity to say, "I can't eat mutton patties tomorrow."

Chen Xuan's lips slightly burst into pieces, "You're a little angry, so you'd better eat vegetarian noodles to reduce the heat."

"Okay, okay!"

Chen Xuan originally planned not to be angry with Wei Nian when she saw that there was a sore on her mouth, but she didn't expect that Wei Nian would give her a notebook. Chen Xuan was not greedy for things, but this notebook was really in line with her wishes and was something she needed now, so Chen Xuan happily accepted it.

Because Chen Xuan received Wei Nian's heavy gifts, she not only started to change the styles for Wei Nian to make late-night snacks, but also used a small stove to cook mung bean porridge for Wei Nian. She said that Wei Nian had a little heat and gave him some food to reduce the heat. Sometimes, she would also use tremella pears to make soup for Wei Nian. At this time, the old lady Wei would also say that she had a heat and ate two bowls.

Wei Yindu said, "There is no one who loves my second brother more than my second sister-in-law."

"What does it hurt or not? This is the duty of being a wife!" said Old Mrs. Wei.

Wei Yin whispered to her sister and said to her mother, "Mom, you should just say these words to your elder sister."

"What's wrong with your elder sister? Your elder sister gave birth to two eldest sons for the Zhao family, which is not good?" Mrs. Wei talked about the eldest daughter giving birth to a son for the Zhao family, and couldn't help but think that Chen Xuan had been in the house for three months, so why didn't she see any movement?

However, thinking about it, it has only been three months, so it is normal that there is no movement.

After glanced at Chen Xuan who was changing clothes, Old Lady Wei didn't say anything.

After the first month of the year, the weather became warmer, so Chen Xuan took off the big cotton jacket from last year and washed it. She removed a layer of cotton and changed the clothes to clips to continue wearing them.

But there were two things that made Chen Xuan worry. The first thing was that she still couldn't find a way to make money to pay Wei Nian's money; the second thing was that Wei Yin knew only limited words, and Wei Yin basically taught Chen Xuan what she knew.

Chen Xuan was thinking, how could she recognize more words?

In fact, Chen Xuan now can basically recognize all the commonly used characters at home, but she is willing to recognize more characters. She always feels that recognizing characters is an excellent thing, and naturally the more characters you recognize, the better.

In order to recognize more words, Chen Xuan even read the Wei family's month cards and old almanac.

It can be said that Chen Xuan's desire to recognize words is simply to suppress the debt.

Chen Xuan thought for a few days and finally came up with a solution for her. Chen Xuan discussed with Wei Yin privately, "Sister Yin, I heard you say that our neighbor, Mr. Xu, is a scholarly family. Sister Yin, I thought, we think about what words we recognize out of thin air, and the more we think about it, the more we can't think of it. You said, can we borrow a book from the Xu family? In this way, since we read the book, if there are any words we don't recognize, we can recognize it."

"Borrow books from Uncle Xu?" Wei Yin waved his hands as soon as he heard this, "Second sister-in-law, don't think about this. Uncle Xu takes books as his life. Once, a friend of Uncle Xu borrowed a book from him and forgot to repay it. The friend's house is in Jiangnan, so he took the books to Jiangnan. Uncle Xu had limited money. He borrowed a large amount of money from our father, bought a train ticket overnight, chased him to Jiangnan, and took the books back. Why would he lend us books?"

When Chen Xuan heard it, she felt that there was no such thing as a secret. However, after thinking about it for a while, she said, "Hey, I heard that Jiangnan is a very far place."

"Not it, I have to walk for two days and two nights by train."

"The master of the Xu family has to take back the book even if he runs so far, which shows that he loves books very much." Chen Xuan said seriously, "This is because his friend is wrong. How can he forget to return the book? There are borrowings and repaying them, and it is not difficult to borrow again."

The neighbors Chen Xuan knew were only familiar with the Xu family, and the other was a scholarly family. Apart from the Xu family, Chen Xuan really had no place to borrow books. Chen Xuan made up his mind and said to Wei Yin, "Sister Yin, there is no hurry to do this, let's try it first."

Although Chen Xuan said it very well, in fact, she was not sure at all. Mr. Xu could take a train for a book for two days and two nights to a place far away from Jiangnan. Those who cherish books like this would probably not want to lend the book to a country woman like her. However, even if she was not sure, Chen Xuan wanted to give it a try.

After thinking about it for several days, Chen Xuan made up her mind.

She has always been honest and made up her mind, but she felt that this matter was not very bright, as if she was planning to plot against others. However, Chen Xuan was still shameless. When the girl from the Xu family came to find Wei Yin, she was very attentive to help serve tea and water. Sometimes, when Mrs. Wei was not at home, she even took advantage of her courage to get some snacks from Mrs. Wei's snack box. Chen Xuan didn't eat any of them. She put them in a white porcelain plate and sent them to her sister-in-law Wei Yin and the girl from the Xu family, and asked them to eat.

The first day, Mrs. Wei asked Mrs. Wei to find out about this. It was not that Mrs. Wei took out the snack box and counted it. Wei Jin told Mrs. Wei. Because, when Chen Xuan brought the snack, Wei Jin was unhappy and asked Chen Xuan to take it. Chen Xuan had the idea of ​​the girl from the Xu family. She insisted on Wei Jin's pair of hanging eyes and said, "The sister of the Xu family is A Yin's friend. Our great master is good at having a relationship with Mr. Xu. Our family is not a stingy family." Then, Chen Xuan took three pieces of snacks and put them on the plate and took them away.

Wei Jin didn't complain. Old Mrs. Wei said several words to Chen Xuan and said to Chen Xuan, "Is this yours? You are so generous."

Chen Xuan let Old Lady Wei scold her, and then the Xu sisters came back, and Chen Xuan also brought them some snacks, which made Old Lady Wei angry and directly locked the snack box. Chen Xuan had no choice but to have no snacks for the Xu sisters, Chen Xuan had already met them with her shamelessness.

This is mainly because Xu Ermei and Xu Sanmei went to school since childhood. She has learned a lot, and her needlework is very ordinary. It is said that she doesn't know how to do it. Mrs. Xu has to handle family affairs every day. When she is too busy, she occasionally nails buttons and sews a button and has to do it by herself. Anyway, that job is quite average. This is still a kind person like Chen Xuan, and Chen Xuan said to them, "Your wife and concubines are also busy. You and A Yin are good sisters. I am a few years older than you. If you don't think I'm not educated, just call me sister. Alas, you are gentle people, needlework and other things, it shouldn't be your duty. I look at you, just look at your sister. I'm just looking at you.

Like a girl, if you don’t dislike it, I will take it off first, and I will help you sew it for a while, so that you can avoid the trouble of calling you wife and concubines back." This string of words was not something Chen Xuan said suddenly. She always wanted to make friends with the Xu sisters, and she could have the courage to give them the snacks of Mrs. Wei. Chen Xuan has always been paying attention to the Xu sisters. She had long seen the needle and thread on the Xu sisters, and some places were even more average than usual. Chen Xuan was not familiar with others before, so she couldn’t tell why your needle and thread on the body was so bad. She gradually became familiar with her. She felt that she was not good at talking, so she practiced privately for a long time before she found an opportunity to talk to the Xu sisters.

Chen Xuan has no other advantage. She is just used to doing work. She helped the Xu sisters to disassemble the work done by the two sisters themselves, sewing it carefully and beautifully. The Xu sisters thanked Chen Xuan very much. Chen Xuan smiled, "I'm doing this at home all day, a small thing, don't do this. If you have such a thing, just tell me, it's fine."

Chen Xuan feels that she is an honest person, but honest people can also be very thief.

She only helped the Xu sisters with this little help, but Chen Xuan didn't even talk about letting her teach her to read.

Although the Xu sisters were in school, they did not have the same clothes as Wei Yin, nor were they skillful as Wei Yin. The same clothes looked particularly good when Wei Yin made. The Xu sisters often wore them when their sisters wore them. When they wanted to change, the Xu sisters would come over to discuss the styles they changed with Wei Yin.

After Chen Xuan and the others had agreed, they took the needle and thread and helped them out.

After two or three times, Chen Xuan said that she wanted to borrow this book to read.

Yes.

This time, Chen Xuan doesn’t just have to learn to recognize words.

She planned to borrow a book to read.

With books, are you still afraid that you won’t recognize them?
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