Two months ago, a group of Leran people who came to Zhucheng to set fire to Zhucheng were caught. Then one of them confessed that he was a spy in the city. Nie Zhao led his men to kill them all one by one. As expected, many of the thieves who made trouble in the past were Leran people. The city was much more stable these days, and Nie Zhao didn't run out of the house very often. Only then did he remember again what he had said before about sending Jiang Yue to learn a trade.
He was lying on the tree and Jiang Yue was squatting on the ground. He turned sideways and looked carefully, wondering whether this matter was suitable and whether he was a little too young. Should I study for a few more years? Where did she read when she was at home?
Jiang Yue didn't notice his gaze and was still busy with her own business - staring at the sky and counting birds. When she got tired of counting, she rubbed her eyes and counted again.
"One, two, three, four, five..."
"One, two, three, four, five..."
Nie Zhao looked at her for a long time and found that she only did these two things, and every time she only counted to five before starting again. He didn't know what her habit was, and suddenly found it boring. He broke off a branch casually, then went down and hit it. Jiang Yue covered her head and looked up blankly. Nie Zhao raised his chin at her: "Aren't you bored like this all the time?"
Jiang Yue shook her head: "No, Third Brother, Third Brother, you are not bored lying on the tree all day long, and, besides, I used to be at home, just like this..."
After she finished speaking, she counted the birds above her head again: "One, two, three..."
"Hey, are you still comparing yourself to me? Can you be the same as me?" He felt like he was living day by day. Being able to survive in Zhucheng until now was already a requirement. How old was she? Is it okay to just mess around like this at such a young age? It would be more reliable to send her to the abacus, as he would have to waste his energy studying.
Jiang Yue didn't know how to argue with his words, so she immediately stood up in fear: "Third brother, do you think that third brother dislikes me and doesn't do anything to me? I, I'll go and clean the room right now." It was her wife She is lazy and sits all day long. If the third brother dislikes her because of this, it would be bad to kick her out.
"I'll spare you the trouble. You have to wipe it every day. You have to wipe such a broken spot eight hundred times a day. The stove will be reflective even after you wipe it." Nie Zhao interrupted her move to get up, coughed twice, and picked her up. Shoulder, "Don't say I'm not good to you. As for me, I'm so kind-hearted that I'm going to send you to Yuji Grain Store as an accounting apprentice. How about that? Then you can make money on your own and learn something useful." thing."
Although he didn't say it clearly, there was a hint of pride in his expression. His eyes glanced at Jiang Yue's face, and it was written all over his body that it's rare for me to be so good to you. Please be grateful and praise me with a few words to make me feel comfortable.
Jiang Yue was shocked. She didn't expect that he was weighing this matter, so she subconsciously blurted out: "How can a girl show up in public?" She realized what she said and quickly covered her mouth. As expected, Nie Zhao's face turned dark and she hurriedly changed her words. , "I, I can't do it."
Nie Zhao glanced at her fiercely: "Why can't you do it? Do you have no hands or no brains? What everyone else can do, why can't you do it as a girl? Show yourself to the public? Are you willing to be a hidden person? A puppet who lives by other people's moods at home? You don't want to make some money yourself, but you haven't even had a full meal in the past few days." Jiang Yue blushed anxiously, and Nie Zhao was still aggressive, "What day If I unfortunately die, do you think anyone in Zhucheng will be kind enough to give you another bite to eat?"
"You, how could you die?" Jiang Yue was dumbfounded.
Nie Zhao was very angry that she couldn't grasp the key point. Is the key point in this matter whether he would die?
"Yes, I will die, maybe tomorrow, next year, the day after tomorrow, the year after tomorrow. I will die in the past few years. Everything in this world has long made me extremely bored." After he finished speaking, he felt slightly startled. For a moment, I didn't expect to say what was in my heart.
After saying these words, he felt weak and could not argue with her any more, so he turned around and turned his back to her again.
After all, if he died, it would be Jiang Yue who starved to death, not him, and he would have happily reunited with his family in the underworld. His relatives are all dead, his enemies are also dead, and he has no worries. Isn't this how he lives his life? It depends on when he has had enough. His longing is invincible, and he is relieved with a touch on his neck.
When Jiang Yue heard him say that he didn't want to live anymore, she was at a loss at first. She couldn't figure out how the third brother could have such thoughts when he looked at such a cheerful and carefree person all day long. Then she thought that he lived in a broken house and didn't do much repairs. , If you don’t save money, you can just lie on a tree for a whole day. Isn’t this just a way of living one day at a time?
She was so anxious that she hugged the tree with tears in her eyes and tried to climb up, but couldn't. She could only shout, "I'm going! Third brother, don't die!"
"Whether you want to love me or not, didn't you say you couldn't do it? Now you can do it again?" Nie Zhao still ignored her.
"I, I, I, I can't read, I can't do it..." Jiang Yue quickly explained.
After she finished speaking, the surroundings seemed to be still for a moment. Only the sound of the flapping wings of birds in the sky was particularly clear. After a long time, Nie Zhao asked in a daze: "What?"
"I, I'm illiterate, third brother." Jiang Yue repeated, still looking at him eagerly. She was racking her brains to think of something nice to say to coax him, "Third brother, I, I know you, you are good to me..."
An idea flashed in Nie Zhao's mind, and he interrupted and asked, "How many can you count?"
Jiang Yue raised a hand to him, no more, no less: "Five."
He closed his eyes in pain and fell back with a sigh. No wonder she started counting birds all over again every time she counted to five. Nie Zhao had a lot of curse words in his mind at this time, but he didn't know where to start. In the end, he just reduced it to one sentence: "Damn it," he asked again, "don't you know the three obediences and four virtues by heart? Why can't you read? Learned?"
Jiang Yue answered honestly: "I, I follow them one by one. I follow them."
"Can you write your own name?" He refused to give up.
Jiang Yue shook her head honestly.
"Can you write numbers from one to five?"
Jiang Yue thought for a while, wrote a crooked "one" on the ground and smiled silly at him.
At this moment, Nie Zhao not only felt pain in his head, but also in his heart. He had thought about everything, but he had never thought that Jiang Yue could not even write his own name.
I broke the law in my previous life and was born into this kind of family? As for the richest man in Canzhou, he doesn't give her a good meal, doesn't read books, and doesn't let her go out. He pours pedantic poison into her head all day long. If she isn't stupid, who is?
The more he thought about it, the more angry he became. He held his heart and comforted himself. After more than ten years of education like this, she is now kind and obedient. Although sometimes she can't grasp the key points when listening to him, she has never read a book, so this is already very good. , can’t ask for too much more.
It is indeed not easy for people to identify with something they have never seen before and something that is contrary to their own perceptions.
Illiterate, pedantic, stammering, and lacking in brains, Nie Zhao didn't dare to think about it. If he suddenly died one day, Jiang Yue was deceived into signing a deed of betrayal, and he didn't even know why she wanted to live or die. If she follows herself, there is really no way out for her to live on her own.
Nie Zhao knew that she was illiterate, so he suddenly became a little tolerant towards her, feeling that what he had just said to her was a bit excessive.
When he was stunned, Jiang Yue weakly raised her hand: "Third, third brother, I know how to weave. I, I can make money by weaving."
"How can you make money? If you don't study at your age, how can you make money?" Nie Zhao retorted, then looked at her solemnly and said quietly, "If you don't study, there will be no future."
Jiang Yue was stunned for a while, as if struggling for a long time, and then she followed him and said solemnly: "Yes."
The Canzhou girl is not allowed to study, saying that people will become cunning and cunning, but she feels that being able to read and count is great. Sometimes she wonders why her brother can study, but her study will turn bad. Isn't my brother afraid of becoming bad?
She thought about it for a long time, and finally felt that she should listen to her elders. This would not be wrong. Now the third brother is her elder. If the third brother said that there is no future if you don't study, then she should listen to the third brother.
