Xiji Town, Yuanjia Academy.

Gui Wu took a volume of the time text and came out of the Yuan Family Academy. His classmates were all elementary school students in their teens, and not many of them were old. He was already in his prime and was inevitably abrupt in the process, which attracted many people's attention.

Gui Wu was calm and did not take it seriously. After being a child husband and wife for more than ten years, the Jiang family was kind to him, but he also suffered all the despises in the eyes of outsiders.

If a person with a narrow heart has a decline in his family, his situation changes greatly, and he is despised by all kinds of despises, he will inevitably be cynical and may blame his family for dragging him down, and even repaid his grudges and blame the Jiang family.

Jiang Wu is open-minded and does not take these in his heart.

Since returning to Xiji Town, Gui Wu started studying again. Except for the teacher and a few friends, everyone else regarded it as a joke, including the three brothers-in-law of the Jiang family, and said a lot of ugly words. If Gui Wu remembered it in his heart, he would only complain and he would not have to study at all.

Mei Xiucai stood not far outside the school hall, wandering around and around, impatiently waiting. Seeing Gui May Day come out, he immediately went up to meet him.

Compared with a few days ago, Mei Xiucai's face looked even more ugly, thin and sallow, with more wrinkles on his Confucian shirt, and his hair was full of sourness and rottenness.

Gui Wu has been operating a teahouse for more than ten years and has developed a good habit of loving cleanliness. His sense of smell is more sensitive than ordinary people. He has endured the smell of Mei Xiucai and did not vomit after he could not.

"Lao Wu, you finally figured it out. I have something to do with you!" Mei Xiucai stepped forward and almost hooked his shoulders. He no longer had the airs he had been holding before, and his tone became warmer.

Gui Wu turned sideways and said, "Don't Mr. Mei pay back the money in advance?"

The repayment time mentioned in the IOU mentioned in the previous IOU was half a month, and there were still a few days left.

Mei Xiucai swallowed and said, "That one is aside first, I want to move some money. Don't worry, it's still the same rule, pledge the land deed!"

Gui Wu frowned and looked at Mei Xiucai and said, "What's wrong with Mei Xiucai? Two hundred taels of silver is not enough, so I have to raise money again? Even if you borrow it, I will not dare to collect land deeds. The Mei family has only accumulated acres of land, and it's a pledge, what if it's better?"

Mei Xiucai immediately became anxious and said, "It's just a few days to embezzle. What's the point? Lao Wu, help people to the end, you can't give up halfway!"

This is what it takes to die.

Gui Wu hesitated for a while and said, "It's not impossible to help you, but this time I can't just talk about pledge, so I have to add one. I regret it when I refuse to take the land pledge, so I will pay double the compensation; if I sell the land, it will be based on the current price."

Although there are people in the county government office, and it is not difficult to transfer the property, we have to prevent the Mei family from biting back. For this reason, the interest agreed on the IOU is extremely low, which is why Mei Xiucai came to Gui Wu again instead of continuing to borrow money from the owner of the casino Boss Bai.

Mei Xiucai was waiting to use money, so he naturally followed all the conditions.

When he arrived at Gui's house, Mei Xiucai immediately urged paper and pen.

After Gui Wu took the paper and pen, Mei Xiucai immediately wrote the IOU.

Because I had pledged 30 acres of middle fields before, I borrowed 200 taels; this time, Mei Xiucai was afraid of delaying his time, so he wrote 150 taels and pledged 25 acres.

Gui Wu read that everything he should have written on the IOU was written, so he took out the money.

Mei Xiucai snatched it, put it in his arms, and hurried away.

Gui Wu stood at the door of Gui's house, looked at Mei Xiucai's back, sneered, turned around and entered the second hospital.

Jiang helped the maid out. Seeing this, Gui Wu hurriedly greeted him and said, "Isn't you just sent someone to tell you that you should eat first? What's the point of being hungry?"

"There is no time left?" Jiang smiled and the couple returned to the main hall for dinner.

After lunch and removing the dishes, Jiang said, "Lao Wu is in a good mood, but what kind of happy events have he encountered?"

"Mei Laoer sent another land deed!" Du Wu said with a smile.

Gui Wu told his wife about the last incident, so after briefly speaking, Jiang also understood and shook his head and said, "So you can get any tricks, but you can't get tricks on gambling."

As for her husband's plot against the Mei family, Jiang hesitated and advised: "Since the Mei family has a seed of study, would you offend people like this? Otherwise, forget it and save yourself from the next enemy."

Gui Wu said calmly: "If Mei Sheng holds a grudge, the Gui family will be an irreconcilable enemy who kills his father. What is this normal land transaction? If he doesn't hold grudges, it will be even more uneasy."

Seeing that her husband had an idea, Jiang stopped talking.

Gui Wu looked at the hourglass and looked out the window.

"Shaba" and "The sound of knocking on the door was heard. Gui Wu stood up and said to his wife: "It should be done this time!"

*

Mujia Village, village school.

Looking at Du Qi's empty seat, Mei Tongsheng stood in front, snorted coldly, and began to talk about today's homework.

In the last row, Mei Xiaoba and Yang Wu were a little absent-minded, and Gui Chongyang also looked at Du Qi's empty seat for a while before looking away.

Mei Xiaoba and Yang Wu were reluctant to part with Du Qi. The young man’s friendship came quickly. Everyone got along well these days. Even though they took their anger at Du Qi before, they just took their anger and had no intention of breaking off diplomatic relations with him.

Unexpectedly, Du Qi stopped coming.

Gui Chongyang thought of another level. Du Lizheng did not stop his son from interacting with him before, but this time he was isolated. It seemed that he had put his ultimate move in order to prevent Du Qi from joining him.

When get out of class ended, Mei Xiaoba and Yang Wu both came over and waited for Gui Chongyang to make an idea.

"Brother Chongyang, is Du Qi angry?" Mei Xiaoba asked with regret.

Yang Wuze said: "It should be that his father didn't let him come, what should I do? Then he will not have any books to study in the future?"

In Yang Wu's eyes, studying is hard-won, so he does not want Du Qizhen to drop out of school.

Gui Chongyang thought for a while and said, "Du Qi had studied in the county before, and most of them were going to study in the town again."

Yang Wu then breathed a sigh of relief, and Mei Xiaoba couldn't help but feel annoyed: "I shouldn't say Du Qi like that. He didn't know anything, and he was confused by me."

But there is no medicine for regret in the world, and no one can tell the fate between people. Perhaps Du Qi and their three classmates have only been in the past few days.

Gui Chongyang remained calm, but he was thinking about Gui Wu and Gui Qiu in the town.

If the Mei family’s land has not been obtained, it will be difficult to reveal Mei Xiucai’s affairs; what everyone can do now is to collect autumn taxes.

One day the emperor and another day the ministers, this is true for a country and a place.

When the emperor moved the capital, Beijing became Zhili, and the shortage of Tongzhou became a popular shortage. The magistrate changed his personnel and the county magistrate changed his personnel. In the past two years, the administration of Tongzhou has been greatly promoted from top to bottom.

There are about ten grain leaders in a county, and the grain leader is the only one who grows in the lower part.

The village is mostly responsible for large grain households or highly respected people, and they do not change people easily; but the grain is here, but it is not always the same, but it depends on the relationship with the county magistrate.

Because of this, the grain chief in Xiji Town has only recently changed people. It is because the old grain chief was promoted by the former county magistrate, and he was dismissed from the grain chief because he lost and respected the new county magistrate.

The new grain chief came to power, and in order to be obedient by more than ten subordinates, he could not say that he would "kill the chicken and scare the monkey" even if he wanted to "kill the chicken and scare the monkey".

Those who are from the old family are not easy to touch, and those who are not easy to touch are easy to deal with outsiders like Du Lizheng.

Du Lizheng was familiar with the "killing chickens and scaring monkeys" style, but he didn't know what he would feel after becoming a "chicken".

*

Du family’s house, east wing.

Li looked at the food that was still motionless and couldn't help feeling distressed, saying, "I took a few bites of Chaoshi and made the Sixi meatballs you like at noon. Why didn't I move my chopsticks?"

Du Qi was so angry that he said: "Mom, my son is not hungry and doesn't want to eat."

Li shook his head and said, "Why are you not hungry? Are you trying to bother yourself or your parents?"

Du Qi looked out the window and said pitifully: "But my son wants to go to school. Everyone else goes to school, so my son stays at home."

Li hurriedly said, "I've just had two days off. The master went to the town to find someone for your schooling. The master has always loved you, so you can't hurt the master's heart for outsiders."

Du Qi looked at Li, pulled her to the opposite side of him and sat down, and said seriously: "Mom, this is wrong, it's not right!"

"Ah? What's wrong?" Li was confused when he heard this.

Du Qi hesitated for a moment and said, "This is not right for the Gui family!"

Li immediately changed his face, stood up "lively", gritted his teeth and said, "What ecstasy pill did that boy from Gui family give you? He asked you to point at his mother and say no?"

Du Qi hurriedly pulled Li and begged, "Don't be upset, my son feels uncomfortable, just listen to his son say a few words."

Li was so angry that he felt so angry that he still suppressed his anger: "Okay, you said, I want to hear it, how can you feel uncomfortable?"

Du Qi cheered himself up in his heart and said, "Mom, do you know that the Gui family's room is on the list of 'tax owes'?"

This incident was very rumored in the village. Old Mrs. Li also made a special trip to Du Li and asked Li to blow the pillow wind to Du Li, and wanted to take the opportunity to clean up the Gui family. This is what I remembered last time when I compensated the tree, so I wished to see the Gui family unlucky.

Li nodded impatiently and said, "So his kid is unreliable! What's the use of being smart when you usually think of it? Who can be so careless?"

Du Qi frowned and said, "Mom, that's the Gui family, not someone else's family! Just for the reputation of his parents, I should advise my father and stop targeting the Gui family. What do you mean outside? There is no such reason. If my father cares about my mother so much, he will definitely listen to her advice!"

Li lowered his face and said, "But who is chewing on your ears?"

Du Qi shook his head and said, "Mom, justice is in the hearts of the people. If you don't say anything else, just relying on the relationship between Gui and Li families, I won't be careful to look at my father against Gui family."

As Gui Wu's days rose, "Xi Gui" was not a taboo in Mujia Village. Everyone talked about the past of the Gui family, and Du Qi also heard it twice.

The orphan and widowed mother of the Li family were able to survive it all thanks to the righteousness of the Gui family. Although the Li family's ungrateful face was too ugly and criticized by others, in Du Qi's eyes, his mother was different from his grandmother and uncle.

Even if the Li family did not miss the care of the elders of the Gui family back then, they should have thought about the love between the deceased and should not have watched her husband target the Gui family.

Seeing his son's tight face, Li felt a little upset and couldn't speak for a moment.

What Du Qi said was really in his heart. He really felt that his parents were not normal in his attitude towards the Gui family. He was fine with his father, and he might be afraid of his wife's ex-husband. There were things he couldn't think of, but his mother should really persuade and comfort him.

Du Qi has read the book of Confucius and Mencius for five years, and he remembers it in his heart that it is also the "benevolence, righteousness and morality".

Seeing that his parents seemed to be unkind and righteous, Du Qi couldn't help but speak.

However, after all the admonition, Du Qi was still a filial and good child. Seeing that Li didn't say anything, he couldn't help but worry: "Mom, are you angry? Your son can't speak, don't be angry!"

Li shook his head and said, "Mom is not angry, don't worry, mom won't get tired of your reputation."

Du Qi waved his hand and said, "This is not what my son means. My son doesn't care what others say, just don't want his parents to be told."

Li pulled the corners of his mouth, smiled lightly, and did not persuade his son to have a meal, so he brought the food to continue.

My son is pure-minded, but he is too pure. He doesn't know the pain at all. Since he doesn't want to eat, he doesn't eat. If he has hunger, he will not be able to figure it out.
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