Chapter 16 Parents and Sons
The person sitting in front of Village Chief Du was not someone else, but a young woman, wearing fine silk clothes and fine powder on her face. She looked like she was only twenty-seven or eight years old, and she was the Li family who filled the house in the village chief Du.
Li was the wife of Gui Da's original wife. She was originally thirty-four and five years old. After remarried after the "Nine Dynasties" of "the difficulty of the Nine Dynasties". Because she has been rich and comfortable in recent years, she is not as hardworking as an ordinary peasant woman. She looks much younger than she is in reality.
However, Li was not as calm as Village Chief Du, and frowned slightly: "But what does Jiang Wu mean? I sent it back in person. Is it to support my cousin?"
Du Village is over fifty years old and has a wife with the old couple in Li. In addition, Li has given birth to the only male child in the Du family. He has always loved Li the most, but now he hears her paying attention to the Gui family so much, and he droops his face and looks at her with a slanted look, saying, "Why are you always thinking about the Gui family? Are you tired of living a good life and wanting those that are not there?"
When Li heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows and cursed: "Don't you bet your mother! I'm afraid that they will take revenge on Qilang for some reason? Do you have the attitude to suspect me? Last month, the madam Baba from Xinghualou sent someone over. Who are you going to see?"
The "Qilang" mentioned by Li's name is the only son of the Du family. Before Village Chief Du married Li, he married several concubines and married a concubine. He also raised a good friend outside, but gave birth to six girls in a row. It was not until Li entered the house that a male man was born. He was supposed to be ranked "Du Dalang". He was afraid that the golden treasure would not be able to support him, so he gave him a nickname, "Qigu", fooling the soul-catching little ghost. He was raising him until he was five or six years old and changed his nickname to "Qilang".
When talking about his son, Village Chief Du's heart fire dissipated and immediately said, "It's hot, I don't know if Qilang is good at studying, so I ask Liu Niang to clean up her needle and thread for Qilang."
Li responded and secretly looked at the expression of Village Chief Du. Seeing that he didn't take the Gui family to heart, he didn't know whether to relax or worry for a moment, and he was very worried.
It’s not because Li is afraid of the Gui family, who told her to be the Gui family’s daughter-in-law before remarrying?
In the "Nine Dings" that year, the villagers scolded Gui Yuan. Li's husband and brother died. Like them, he hated his elder brother-in-law to take care of his elder brother-in-law. However, his parents forced him to remarry him to the Du family and learned some of the hidden things back then. Li understood that there were the Du family's tricks.
Others may not think of anything, but the Gui family has not yet reacted over the years. There is also Li's mother's family who took advantage of the chaos to occupy the new Gui family's house. Now the family of three generations still lives leisurely.
For the "Xigui", the old ones, the young ones, the only one with excellent qualifications, has become a son-in-law, so there is nothing to worry about before. But when the young one comes back, he is dressed as a scholar, who knows whether it will soar into the sky? If you take revenge at that time, the Du family and Li family will be the first to be affected.
In the countryside, people have a natural awe for scholars.
His son is already thirteen years old and has an ordinary qualification for studying. He will most likely inherit the position of village chief Du and become a rich man. Li is unwilling to have trouble with his son's life.
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The box in the Gui family's old house had already been unloaded. Gui Chongyang counted the copper coins and sent the hired carriage back. Just after removing a few boxes, Grandma Gui came with Grandpa Gui Er.
The old couple looked at Master Jiang Wu, and their eyes were red.
Seeing this, Master Jiang Wu hurriedly went up to meet him: "Dad, mom, why are you here?"
Grandpa Gui Er refused to speak softly and said with a stern face: "I heard that the Double Ninth Festival luggage has arrived, let's come and take a look."
However, Grandma Gui pulled her son's arm: "Shuxian's belly has not moved yet?"
The most fundamental reason for Mr. Jiang Wu’s situation is that the couple did not have children. Even if Mr. Jiang knew it was most likely that his weak daughter, there were differences between people and was guarding against Mr. Jiang Wu, fearing that he would not be able to treat Jiang well in a hundred years and marry someone else.
The second grandma Gui felt so aggrieved for her son, but she also knew that this was not something they could cause trouble. Her son had already become a naturalized person in the Jiang family, and was already a member of the Jiang family, or even her own daughter-in-law, the Gui family was also thinking about her good deeds. Otherwise, she nodded and chose Master Jiang Wu and gave the Gui family thirty taels of silver. Gui Chun would not be able to survive at all. This family might have broken up long ago.
Master Jiang Wu helped Grandma Gui and said, "Don't worry about it, Sister Xian's health is getting better, and there will always be movement."
Grandma Gui nodded vigorously, but she knew in her heart that she had no hope of relying on the sick Jiang Shuxian. Although the old lady was dissatisfied, she could not do anything to curse Jiang's death as soon as possible. Now she can only hope for the blessing of God and Buddha.
Gui Chongyang looked at the family of three in front of him and felt a little envious. The separation of flesh and blood was just separation, and he could not say that there would be a chance to reunite; the relatives died, but there was no day to see each other again.
On the other hand, Mei helped Gui Chongyang sort out several boxes that had been opened. She was also a scholarly person. She found that the box containing books was not the 300,000 books that were ordinary boys, and several "Four Books Collection Notes" and the annotations with new handwriting next to her, which made Mei's hand tremble: "Chongyang, are these all your books?"
Gui Chongyang glanced at it and said, "It was my nephew who used it."
When Mr. Jiang Wu heard the two of them talking, he looked over, and saw the title of the book, and he hurried over: "Cousin, let me see."
When Mei entered the door, Master Jiang Wu had not yet had a wife and did not agree with his cousin's "wedding" method, so he never changed his words.
Mei handed over the book. Master Jiang Wu read it carefully. The more he looked, the more he looked, the more he became, and he hesitated: "Dragon is in Nanjing, but have you been a famous teacher?"
Gui Chongyang shook his head and said, "It was the neighbor over there who taught me. After studying for several years, he did not specifically become a disciple."
Scholars value the relationship between teachers and students, but they acknowledge that Master Meng can only be considered a half-teacher, not a formal teacher.
Master Jiang Wu sighed: "It is said that Jiangnan’s literary style is prosperous, but I don’t believe it. I didn’t expect that all the Mongolian masters in the countryside have such insights."
Gui Chongyang smiled and said nothing. Obviously, Master Jiang Wu misunderstood. He thought that Gui Chongyang had no special teacher in his knowledge and knowledge, so he learned from Master Meng, but he did not expect Gui Yuan to do so.
Gui Chongyang thought of writing books and writing biography for "dad" and passing on the knowledge he learned from him, but it is not now.
"Uncle Wu, before my father got sick, he also said that he asked someone to take the test for him. He prepared a lot of books. Now I am filial and can't use it for the time being. Why don't Uncle Wu take it to use it first?" Gui Chongyang said.
It is already May, the county examination is February every year, and the government examination is April every year. If Jiang Wuye wants to end up, he still has seven months to prepare.
Mr. Jiang Wu was not polite and said, "I am missing these in my hands. I won't take them back this time, and I will pick them up next time."
After hearing this, Gui Chongyang knew that he had made the decision to move out of the Jiang family. He secretly rejoiced and said, "My nephew has fifty taels of silver in his hand. You can buy a small shop. If the fifth uncle wants to use it, don't ask the heretics to take it first."
There are two types of son-in-law who return to the family. One is that the government judges that the husband and wife are "unrighteous" and that the man and the woman are not related to marriage; the other is to agree privately to change into marriage, and the man must repay the "betrothal gift" and give the woman another "brand of gift".
Chapter completed!