Annie returned to the east wing and all three children gathered around.

They called Dad in a regular manner and looked behind Annie.

All three were disappointed when they didn't see the person they had been waiting for for a long time.

Zhou Yufen was young and had the deepest longing for her mother in her heart. She couldn't help but ask: "Where is Dad, where is Mom?"

Annie said: "Your grandmother is not in good health. Your mother will stay in the Liu family to serve the elderly."

"Ah? Then, when will that mother come back?"

Zhou Yufen was so anxious that she was about to cry. She lived eleven years old and had done all the work she had never done before.

This is because Mrs. Tan felt sorry for her and did not let her do too much, too tired and too dirty work, but it was an unbearable thing for Zhou Yufen.

She desperately hoped that her mother would come back soon, but she thought that as long as she came back, everything would go back to the past.

She can also wear good-looking clothes and eat delicious food, but she doesn't have to work.

With her mother here, her father will not scold her, nor will he help outsiders bully her!

"She won't be back in the near future."

Annie was not sure, but through today's conversation with Mr. Liu, Annie felt that Mr. Liu was not a short-sighted person and should not allow Liu and Li.

Liu did not want to be a peasant woman, and he was even more reluctant to live a hard life in Zhoujiaao. The best state was to retain the status of husband and wife, but Liu stayed in the Liu family for a long time.

Annie didn't think anything about this, and she didn't want to spend time with Liu, let alone live a couple life.

Therefore, this separation is the most suitable state.

"...Woooooo, mother, why don't you come back?"

Zhou Yufen finally couldn't hold on anymore, covered her face and ran back to the inner room crying.

"Your mother didn't mean to come back. The old man was sick. She should serve her children in front of the bed."

Annie watched Zhou Yufen cry and ran away, turned to see Zhou Xiande and Zhou Xiancheng, "Don't think too much, it's important to study."

"Yes, dad, we understand!"

Zhou Xiande and Zhou Xiancheng looked at each other. Although they felt that their mother's departure was not as simple as their father said, since their father said so, they should believe their father.

In the evening, the family gathered in the main hall for dinner.

Maybe Zhou Yaozu could save a lot of money by no means going to the academy, or maybe Old Mrs. Tan already knew that her eldest son had brought back another 100 taels of silver, and she suddenly felt confident. When cooking, she did not be as frugal as she used to cook, but instead took some newly made flour this year, mixed bean flour and corn flour and steamed some mixed grain steamed buns.

Old Mrs. Tan even took out a small piece of bacon and asked her second daughter-in-law to stew cabbage.

Usually, this meal was filled with porridge and pickles. Men could eat some dry food, while women and children could only eat enough water.

The meal today was particularly rich, which made only a few children very happy and screamed around the table.

Even Zhou Yaozong, Zhou Yaoting couldn't help swallowing.

Ma and Chang even exchanged glances with each other: Look, as long as the boss no longer continues to attend any academy, their Zhou family's life will not be too bad.

This is just the beginning, and life will get better and better in the future.

The whole family had a happy dinner. After the meal, Annie shook her eyes at Old Lady Tan.

Old Mrs. Tan knew it and called her two sons and daughter-in-law, and even a few girls were kept.

"I have something to discuss with you,"

There is not only one difference between vernacular and classical Chinese!

Anne had no choice but to blend the original owner's memory.

Well, this time I have no barriers to reading. I can solve the problem smoothly when I see the question.

But Annie always felt something was missing.

After rubbing his eyebrows, Annie took out the enlightenment pill.

The pill was the size of longan, and was as dark as a chocolate bean. Anne hesitated to put the pill in her mouth.

The pills have almost no smell and melt in their mouths.

Anne felt a cool air flowing through her throat and finally spread through her stomach and intestines to her limbs and bones.

This is a Qingming Festival that has never been seen before. The content of the imperial examination and eight-legged essay in my mind seemed to have been sorted out again, and it was particularly clear and clear.

Annie thought about it briefly and wrote down all the questions of the provincial examination that Zhou Yaozu had just participated in.

Annie glanced at the first question, well, this is an excerpt from the Analects of Confucius.

Annie's mind instantly burst into various related knowledge, and her literary thoughts surged, grabbed a brush and wrote it out.

Zhou Yaozu's original calligraphy is a regular style of the Pavilion. He has practiced it for more than ten years and has a very good font.

Annie didn't bother writing herself, and directly followed her muscle memory. Rows of neat fonts appeared on the white paper.

Anne finally finished writing it after an hour.

Put down my pen and read the article carefully. Well, that's right, this article is much better than when I was taking the exam.

Annie decided to write a few more eight-legged essays in the past few days, and when she went to the county town, she would give her help to her.
Chapter completed!