As soon as the day passed, it was getting colder and colder. Gu Chunzhu sent a can of Chinese cabbage to the welcoming building to solve the urgency of burning eyebrows there.

The master cabinet generously gave money and silver, which was used by Gu Chunzhu to buy coal and enough brown rice for the New Year's Eve.

On this day, Gu Chunzhu returned home after selling the river shrimp and saw Xiaocheng sitting in the yard, wearing a thin autumn coat, the sun just covered him.

Ann painted something in a mess with a branch on the mud, and the pink jacket looked extraordinarily eye-catching.

“Why is Xiaocheng not wearing a cotton padded jacket? Is it cold?” Gu Chunzhu went to touch Xiaocheng's hand and found that his hand was not cold.

“Not cold.” He shook his head just to look thin in thin clothes.

“Mother, brother he...” Ann threw the branches and ran over to hold Gu Chunzhu's hand like it was a complaint. Xiaocheng's eyes were frightened and Ann was afraid to speak. She could only bury her little head in Gu Chunzhu's neck.

Gu Chunzhu shook Ann in his arms. He glanced at her in surprise. He was the one who was most protective of her sister during the week. Why is it abnormal today?

She glanced at him and asked, "What's gotten into you? ”

“No!” Xiaocheng shook her head and moved her lips. Finally, she didn't open her mouth, and her handsome little face slammed into the inner room.

Ann too, no matter what Gu Chunzhu asked her, she refused to say it.

Mindful that the two children were in a bad mood today, Gu Chunzhu grabbed up his sleeve and started preparing them to make brown sugar buns, just as the white noodles and brown sugar were fully prepared in the house.

Ask Sister Fu's family to borrow an old noodle. Gu Chunzhu began to rub the noodle. After a while, when the dough was about to form, Xiaocheng walked over. Her hands were behind her back, as if she had something to say.

Gu Chunzhu raised her head and rubbed her face off with a sweat. She wiped her sweat with her sleeve. "Is there something Xiaocheng has to tell her? ”

Xiaocheng's eyebrows wrinkled tightly.

“Let's go and wrap the cotton padded jacket first, it's cold in the house...”

Gu Chunzhu didn't finish his speech. Little accomplishment held his lip: “I replaced the cotton jacket with this one. ”

A book with a blue page attached to it was handed to Gu Chunzhu. She rubbed her hands on her face and looked at the words on the cover. She asked patiently: "Do you want to read a thousand words? ”

Xiao Cheng looked at Gu Chunzhu with surprise. She could not believe she knew that the book was a thousand words.

But he switched out the cotton padded jacket. Xiaocheng twisted his eyebrow and said: “If you want to hit me, hit me, but a thousand words will cost five cents of silver. The cotton padded jacket doesn't have to be that expensive. I'm not afraid of cold. ”

The whisper was extraordinarily firm. He was ready to be beaten. After all, books could not be eaten and worn. Gu Chunzhu definitely could not understand the heart he wanted to read.

Gu Chunzhu was angry and fell into the pot with a heavy dough.

I used to see all kinds of children who loved to learn from the classics. I thought they were really nice. But when this child became a child of his own, the only feeling was that he swapped cotton jackets for books. This is stupid. This is freezing. I think his body is too good!

She quickly rubbed her face a few more times and put it in the basin. She washed her hands before breaking Cheng's little shoulder and talking to him.

“Xiaocheng, Mother told you that it's right to want to read, but we have to solve the problem of eating and wearing warmth first, right? ”

“No, I won't freeze to death without my cotton padded jacket, but with this book I can read a thousand words.” Xiaocheng's eyes were firm and his hands in the book were hard white.

Gu Chunzhu's face was heavy and his tone was low. “But Mother would worry if you didn't wear warm clothes! ”

Xiaocheng's eyelashes trembled, his head still drooling and he didn't say a word.

The sound in the stove shocked Ann playing outside, and she slipped her calves in and saw that the book in Little Cheng's hand already knew what was going on.

The little voice was like a milk cat screaming. I was scared, but I came in, “Mother, don't call me brother, okay? ”

Gu Chunzhu sighed and held An in his arms. “My mother didn't curse my brother. My mother reasoned with him. She came one step ahead if she was not full and not warm. When Mom and Dad are rich, can we not send you to school? ”

“Brother said that reading is good, after reading, you can make a little more money, and you can buy Ann good food.” Ann looked at Xiaocheng and hung her fingers: “But my brother will be cold. ”

Little white tears fell on his face.

Gu Chunzhu was right. He could shake himself through the winter, but his family would worry.

“Come on, change it all. If someone really wants to change it for you, it's not a loss.” Gu Chunzhu pulled Xiaocheng into his arm on the other side and wiped his fingers off the tears on his cheek, "Mother just spent some more money pulling cloth to make you a cotton jacket. ”

“No need." Xiaocheng sobbed.

His intention was either to spend more money at home, or to make a cotton padded jacket.

“When you're a man and you survive the winter with your bare arms, it's frosty out there when you get up early.” Gu Chunzhu took off his warm belly towel and gave it to Xiaocheng.

He still struggled at first, Gu Chunzhu said: “You and Ann's warm tummy towel are already being done by Youngzi's mother. In a few days, she will be able to wear the old jacket. ”

This warm belly towel is her size wrapped around Xiaocheng. Of course, it is too big. Gu Chunzhu found a long cloth head to tie up the warm belly towel so that it won't fall off.

Xiaocheng also warmed up after wrapping a warm belly towel with Gu Chunzhu's body temperature. He was stunned with a small face. I can't believe this is over.

Gu Chunzhu continued to ask, “By the way, who did you exchange the thousand words for? ”

Gu Chunzhu saw Xiaocheng take a small step back. Her eyebrows wrinkled lightly. What kind of person is that?

Few children go to school in this village. Gu Chunzhu can think of it in her head, but she still looks forward to Xiaocheng.

It takes more communication to deepen the feelings between them.

“I'm asking Xiao...” Xiaocheng was talking and Chai Gate sounded kicked open.

“Gu Chunzhu came out with you two bastards. Huh, the bitch raised a bastard. He was a thief who stole things. Do you have the guts to come out and see someone?” The Qiu family kicked the chai door open and stood at the door with her waist forked. The swear in her mouth was as much as rain in the sky.

Gu Chunzhumei twisted her heart and already knew who the thousand words belonged to. She bit her teeth: "Here comes the goddamn mess, Mother agrees you can't get the book either. ”

She lowered her head and glanced at the thousand words he was holding tight to her. Her eyes flashed helplessly and she went out to deal with the Qiu family.

“What's your dog's name when you come to my house?” Gu Chunzhu grabbed the laundry gavel and flushed it out, pointing at Qiu's disgusting face. "Did you forget the consequences of the last time you insulted me? ”