When the pears are green

After Wu Mingde and Li Yun'an left, Song Li returned to the main room, reopened the wooden box, took out the books inside, and read them one by one with Jiang Qingzhou.

Most of them are miscellaneous notes and novels, and five or six are handwritten enlightenment books such as "Hundred Family Names", "Standards for Being a Good Pupil and Child" and "Enlarged Collection of Wise Sayings".

Song Li put the enlightenment books aside separately, and Jiang Qingzhou helped her pack the remaining books back into the wooden box.

Song Li thought for a moment, and then she said to Jiang Qingzhou, "Qingzhou, put in the books that Dad left behind. These old books may be just a few pieces of paper to others, but they are a rare treasure to us. Knowledge is never cheap. In addition to spending money, it also consumes the minds of readers."

Jiang Qingzhou nodded, he carried the wooden box into the east room and placed it on the table by the window, then he took out the books left by Jiang's father from the cabinet and put them in the wooden box.

Just as Song Li was thinking about where to put the wooden box, Jiang Qingye's laughter and the meowing of two cats were heard from the yard.

Song Li and Jiang Qingzhou saw through the window that Jiang Qingye was playing with the cat by moving a branch up and down, left and right.

Song Li pointed outside the window and said to Jiang Qingzhou with a smile, "Qingzhou, find a reason to send the enlightenment book on the stool to Qingye. There is still more than a month before the first lunar month, so let him read it slowly. Seeing how happy he is now, I want him to read more books." After saying that, Song Li made a face at Jiang Qingzhou.

Jiang Qingzhou was amused by Song Li. He touched Song Li's hair, then turned and walked to the stool beside the brazier, picked up the book on it, and walked to Jiang Qingye.

"Qingye, Xiaoli bought you some enlightenment books from Mr. Wu and Mr. Li. Take them back and read them." Jiang Qingzhou said with a smile to Jiang Qingye who was still playing with the cat.

Jiang Qingye looked up and saw the book in Jiang Qingzhou's hand. He excitedly threw away the branch in his hand. Just when he wanted to take it, he remembered that he had just played in the snow. He rubbed his hands on his clothes again, and then took the book in Jiang Qingzhou's hand with both hands.

"Brother, so many books must be very expensive." Jiang Qingye looked at the five or six books in his hand and asked a little uneasily.

Jiang Qingzhou smiled and rubbed Jiang Qingye's head. He said softly, "They are not expensive. These books were used by Master Wu and Master Li. They didn't have children who needed to go to school, so they had no use for them, so they sold them to us cheaply."

"So they came to our house to give us books. Brother, what's the matter with these two cats? Don't you dislike having cats?" Jiang Qingye asked again.

Jiang Qingzhou thought for a moment, and explained to Jiang Qingye: "Xiaoli wants to raise more chickens next year. She is afraid that there will be mice at home stealing eggs, so she wants to raise two cats in advance. Not long ago, she happened to meet Mr. Wu and told him that he wanted to buy old books and raise cats. Mr. Wu said that he had old books to sell, and he also knew someone who wanted to foster cats. He would send the old books and cats to him when he was free."

After Jiang Qingzhou finished speaking, he asked Jiang Qingye to go back to the house. Although the snow had stopped and the sun had come out, it felt much colder than yesterday.

Jiang Qingye saw Song Li walking out of the east room. He ran to Song Li and said loudly, "Thank you, sister-in-law!" Then he quickly ran back to his room.

Seeing this, Song Li muttered, "This kid..." Then she shouted to Jiang Qingzhou, "Qingzhou, as the saying goes, it's not cold when it snows, but it's cold when it melts. Come in quickly."

Jiang Qingzhou smiled and nodded, bent down, grabbed two handfuls of snow, held them in his hands and rolled them into a snowball, then slowly walked towards the main room.

Seeing this, Song Li hurriedly ran out of the house and quickly grabbed two handfuls of snow and threw them at Jiang Qingzhou.

Jiang Qingzhou was covered with snow raised by Song Li. Jiang Qingzhou gently patted the snow off his body, then put the snowball in the palm of his hand and pretended to throw it. When Song Li saw this, he hurriedly ran away.

The two of them chased each other in the yard, and their laughter lingered in the yard for a long time.

Jiang Qingye, who was sitting in the house reading a book, covered his ears, trying to block out the laughter of Song Li and Jiang Qingzhou. He told himself in his heart that the snow in the yard was not fun.

Until Song Li accidentally touched the snowman, the snowman's head hit Song Li's head. With a "bang", snow particles ran into Song Li's hair and neck.

Song Li was startled by a burst of coldness and screamed out. She shook her head angrily.

Jiang Qingzhou hurriedly dropped the snowball in his hand, and hurriedly pulled Song Li into the east room to help her clean the snow particles on her neck and hair.

"It's all your fault. I saw you holding a snowball and I thought you were going to hit me."

"It's my fault. Don't move. I'll clear the snow out of my neck."

"It's so itchy, I want to laugh."

"Smile again and the snow will melt."

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At the same time, Wu Mingde and Li Yun'an entered Heihe Town against the north wind.

Wu Mingde considered that the snow had just stopped and he was afraid that the road from Jiangjia Village to Wuzhuang Village would be difficult to travel, so he changed the route directly from Heihe Town to Wuzhuang Village. This section of the road is an official road, and there are many villages passing by, so the snow on the road must have been cleared.

Li Yun'an, who was curled up in a ball, wanted to persuade Wu Mingde not to go home again, as the academy would soon be closed for the holidays. But after seeing Wu Mingde's determined eyes, he swallowed his words.

Wu Mingde suddenly stopped the ox cart and nudged Li Yun'an with his elbow.

Li Yun'an raised his head unhappily, only to see a carriage parked on the side of the road. Lingling was lifting the curtain and looking at him and Wu Mingde.

Lingling happily jumped off the carriage, ran to the oxcart and said to Li Yunan and Wu Mingde with a smile: "Brother, Third Brother Wu, Zhimin said he wanted to send you off, but it's too cold."

Li Yun'an looked at Hu Zhimin and Kai Xin sitting on the carriage shaft, and he raised his voice: "No, Mingde and I don't feel cold. Our Master said that when God wants to give a man a great responsibility, he must first make his mind suffer, his muscles and bones tired, and his body hungry."

After hearing this, Hu Zhimin smiled and walked to the ox cart, then said to Li Yun'an: "Brother, Brother Wu San, please don't be polite to me. If your teacher was asked to drive an ox cart for more than ten miles today, he would just say that it was too cold."

After hearing Hu Zhimin's words, Wu Mingde and Li Yun'an looked at Hu Zhimin, who was a few years older than them, and felt goose bumps on their bodies. Wu Mingde couldn't help rubbing his arms with his hands.

Li Yunan saw Wu Mingde's hands were red, and he angrily threw the blanket wrapped around him aside, then took the whip from Wu Mingde and threw it onto the ox cart. Li Yunan pulled Wu Mingde off the ox cart and said to him, "Let's go take a horse carriage. I told you not to go home, but you insisted on going back, and now I owe you a favor."

When Lingling saw this, she smiled and said to Hu Zhimin, "My brother treats Wu San the best."

Hu Zhimin smiled, called Kai Xin over and asked him to drive the ox cart back to Li's house.

After Lingling, Li Yun'an and Wu Mingde entered the carriage, Hu Zhimin sat on the shaft and began to drive the carriage forward.

Soon they arrived at Wuzhuang Village. Li Yun'an smiled and said to Lingling, who was going back to Heihe Town with Hu Zhimin, "Lingling, Mingde and Minghui are going to Miss Song's house in a while. Don't you want to go?"