I was divorced because I got pregnant during the lean years, so I went back to my parents’ home and

"There's nothing. The villagers turned the entire bamboo forest upside down, but didn't even see any bamboo shoots, let alone bamboo rats." Xiaoju complained. If she had known this, she might as well have rested at home.

Suddenly, Ji Xiaobei felt three pairs of eyes staring at him.

She pretended not to see it and looked up at the sky. It was gray and had a slight smell of Saturn.

"Don't ask me. That's where I found it. I guess there were only a few I dug up. Maybe that bamboo rat was an ancestor and I caught it."

Ji Xiaobei just made up a story, knowing that others would not believe it, and she did not expect others to believe it.

Now the only one who believes in her is Wang Erya. I wonder if she has gone into the mountains now.

As soon as he finished his meal, Shitou put down his bowl and was about to run away.

"Come back!" Ji Xiaobei shouted and pulled his sleeve.

He said with a somewhat painful expression: "Sister, poop, I'm going to poop!"

"Go, come back and read!"

"I don't know how to do it either!" Shitou muttered softly and ran away, holding his stomach.

When he passed by Ji Decai in the yard, he rubbed its belly and scolded: Go and poop, and come back to read after you’re done.

Ji Decai: ...ah...

"Sister, is this the book you bought?" Xiaoju held the book reverently in her hands and walked over with a respectful look on her face.

"You hold the book upside down!"

"Ah, it's reversed, what's wrong?" Xiaoju was confused.

"Second sister, the little man is upside down!" Xiaohua came over and turned the book over.

Xiaoju smiled and said, "Wow, there are pictures too. What kind of book is this?"

"Three Character Classic!" said Ji Xiaobei.

"Oh, Three Sons Sutra! Three Sons Sutra!" Xiaoju repeated it several times, and suddenly her eyes lit up and she clapped her hands, as if she had suddenly realized something. "Three Sons Sutra, that means three sons chanting sutras, right?"

Ji Xiaobei: ...Three bastards chanting sutras!

After an incense stick of time, Shitou finally came back after defecating. He stood by the table and smiled: "Big sister, please teach me!"

He did it on purpose. My elder sister couldn't read a single word.

Xiaoju looked at Shitou, who looked gloating, and felt very worried.

Ji Xiaobei said quietly, "I am not a teacher either. You should trace the characters first, which means writing according to the characters in the book."

Shitou pouted: "No pen!"

"Brother, use this!" Xiaohua handed over the black fire poker.

"Yes, use this one!" Ji Xiaobei looked at Xiaohua with praise.

Seeing Shitou holding the fire stick in a daze, Lin slapped him on the back of the head and said, "Your elder sister has bought you a book. If you don't study, it will be a waste of money!"

"Brother, just draw it like this..." Xiaohua squatted on the ground and demonstrated, drawing two long strips neatly.

"Yes, just draw it like this according to the book. No, write it like this!" Ji Xiaobei said with a yawn.

"Big sister, go and have a rest. I won't play with Tiedan anymore. I'll supervise my brother!"

Xiaohua said, patting her chest.

Xiaoju also said, "Sister, you've been running around town for a long time, take a rest, I'm here for you."

Seeing her eldest daughter looking exhausted, Lin said, "Bei, go and rest. I'll watch over the three of them! You are not allowed to leave until the stone is finished."

Stone: Woo woo woo…

Xiaohua sat on a small stool, looking at her eagerly. Xiaoju was picking wild onions at the door, looking up at him from time to time.

Mrs. Lin was mending clothes in the yard, watching over the three children in the house.

Shitou could only squat on the ground and draw words. The first two words were easy to draw, but he couldn't draw the third word well no matter how hard he tried. He was so anxious that he was about to cry.

Xiaohua tilted her head to look over. This word was indeed difficult to draw. She looked at her brother with sympathy.

Ji Xiaobei took a nap, and when he woke up, he found Shitou sitting on the ground, looking dejected.

Xiaohua was so sleepy that she watched the chicks pecking at rice.

Xiaoju and Mrs. Lin have disappeared.

Shitou finally died at the "first" level, which was really difficult for him.

Self-taught, Shi Tou’s ability is far from being good enough.

Ji Xiaobei could teach him personally, but she really didn't want to teach him to read.

It would be easier to let her teach Xiaohua Taekwondo.

"Let's stop here for today! Let's go to the fields and work!" said Ji Xiaobei.

When Shitou heard that he was liberated, he jumped up suddenly. Working in the fields was much easier than drawing words. He couldn't understand why people had to read. The words were like ants and looked almost the same. It was really hard to tell them apart.

In the afternoon, beans were to be planted, so Ji Xiaobei followed him to the field.

When Lin saw her coming, she hurriedly said, "Bei, why are you here? Just rest on the side of the field!"

Shitou finally had the chance to drive the donkey cart out with a clear conscience, and he cracked the whip loudly along the way.

However, I felt a little disappointed because I didn’t meet any friends.

The donkey cart was pulling the plow borrowed from the village head's house, and Ji Decai finally had a place to use his skills, pulling the plow.

This might be Ji Decai's first time pulling the plow, and he was moving crookedly. It was only with Ji Xiaobei pulling in front that he was able to barely move in a straight line.

Lin was throwing beans in the back.

Xiaohua and Xiaoju were burying the soil in the back, and the family cooperated very well.

From a distance, I could see Wang Erya and her two sisters-in-law heading towards the mountains.

Ji Xiaobei chuckled.

Ji Decai was also a smart man. After walking twice, he could walk in a straight line. Ji Xiaobei had nothing to do, so he said he wanted to take a walk at the foot of the mountain.

Lin told her to just walk along the creek at the foot of the mountain and not to go into the mountains as it was unsafe.

There is not much water in the stream and it flows slowly.

She strolled aimlessly along the river bank.

Where will tomorrow's money come from?

She looked up at the sky and a fishy smell of earth entered her nostrils.

She felt a little uncomfortable under her feet, so she looked down and saw a few beautiful stones in the mud. She squatted down and picked them out.

It's red agate with bloodshot!

She continued to pick and found another big one, and then she dug out five more of different sizes.

I hope they won’t destroy the Agate family’s lair.

I don’t know if this is valuable or not?

The quality looks better than the agate bracelets sold in jewelry stores.

As she lowered her head and continued digging, she heard a small voice saying, "Sister Xiaobei, what are you looking for?"

She raised her head and saw Ming'er from Aunt Song's family.

Aunt Song even asked me to introduce a husband to her that day.

Ming'er is small and thin, with a palm-sized face. He looks pretty and is one year older than Xiaoju.

"Nothing, I just saw a bug and dug it for fun!" Ji Xiaobei said with a laugh.

The little girl suddenly blushed and said, "Sister, are there really bamboo rats in the bamboo forest?"

She just took it to have a look. Everyone in the village had divided up a plot of bamboo. The entire bamboo forest had an owner and people were digging desperately.

"Yes, but there are none now! If there were, they were scared away by the villagers." Ji Xiaobei said after a moment of hesitation.

"Okay, thank you Sister Xiaobei!" The little girl said and walked away with her head down.

This child is really a social phobic!

After packing the stones, she went directly to the town. She wanted to have the people at the jewelry store take a look.

The waiter from the jewelry store came running over, looking very attentive.

Ji Xiaobei took out a stone and put it on the counter and asked, "How much can this be sold for?"