Mei Xiaoba was startled and hurried to see Gui Chongyang's hand, but there was no trace. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's scary. It's not fun to be caught by a cat."

Gui Chongyang said: "Lanxiao was having fun with me." He said this, and he was also puzzled. What's wrong with this Lanxiao Master? How to start with it?

When Gui Chongyang went to see Lantern Festival, he saw Lantern Festival look at him contemptuously, then jumped from Gui Chongyang to the edge of the kang, and walked majestic to the kang table.

Gui Chongyang was angry and came over and said, "I didn't call you again!"

Lantern Festival ignored people and lie on the other side of the table.

Gui Chongyang's heart is that Lantern Festival is a relative. Seeing that it is so sad, he tempted: "Little Ba brother can catch fish. I will go there tomorrow and I will catch fish for you to eat."

Yuanxiao lowered her head, smelled her claws, and turned her head with a look of disgust.

Gui Chongyang was shocked. Is he disliked himself as if he was so disgusted? He even disliked him as he had been hit by his claws.

Mei Xiaoba reacted first, pointed to Gui Chongyang's hand and said, "Brother Chongyang, have you touched the wild boar just now?"

Gui Chongyang looked at his hands: "I touched it, but I washed my hands just now."

Mei Xiaoba smiled and said, "What's the cat's nose? It must be more sensible than ours."

Even though Gui Chongyang did not have a cleanliness, he thought that he was disgusting with the smell of a wild boar on his body and said, "Sit down, I'll go and rush!" After that, he walked out.

Mei Xiaoba stayed in the room and immediately became more restrained. She stood on the edge of the kang and didn't dare to do it while sitting. She looked at the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the kang table, and her face showed envy.

Mei Duo came in with a fruit plate, looked at it, and couldn't help but frown.

Mei Xiaoba turned around when she heard the movement and quickly looked away: "Sister Jiu."

"This is the melon in the backyard. There are a few ripe ones today. Xiaoba tastes sweet or not." Mei Duo put the fruit plate on the edge of the kang and asked Xiaoba to eat the melon.

All the seeds of the cantaloupe melons were cut in half, and the fruit plate was a total of six pieces of melons.

In the countryside, the fruits, pears and peaches are all owned by their own family and are not valuable. Mei Xiaoba was not polite and took a piece directly, nodded while eating, "Sweet and crispy. The rice melons I grow in my family can eat, so I can pick them a few tomorrow, and I will try them with my aunt, and there is also Brother Chongyang."

The little boy was satisfied with food, and there was no sadness on his face, as if he was not him who was envious when he looked at the book just now.

Mei Duo also took half a piece of melon and stuttered a few bites. Fang asked, "You are ten years old this year. Your father hasn't said when to send you to the village school? No matter what, you have to read a few words and you can't be blind."

In fact, since the two brothers of Mei Tongsheng became Tongsheng one after another, the children of the Mei clan had to study for more or less for two years. After two scholars were released one after another, the children of the Mei clan even understood the virtuous and every household had children to study.

After all, the village has its own private school, so you don’t have to go to the town to study, because it is a private school run by the village, and Shufu is not expensive. Each elementary school student has 300 pm a year, which is much cheaper than the town. If you study in the town, it is a cheaper museum for Shufu, and Shufu is 100 or 200 pm a month.

The children in the city were in vain at the age of five, and the country boys did not expect to be a real imperial examination. They just read and read, so they were sent to the village school at the age of seven or eight.

Mei Xiaoba is ten years old this year, but she has never seen her in school for a day.

When Mei Duo mentioned schooling, Mei Xiaoba immediately felt like frosted eggplant, lost her energy, drooped her head, and whispered: "My father said, "My family is busy, let me see my brother at home."

Mei Duo frowned and said, "Did your stepmother let you see it?"

If Mei Xiaoba really stayed to see the child, how could this child still have the time to run around the village? It was just an excuse.

Mei Xiaoba shook her head: "My mother said that my brother is still young and will not take him to play in a few years."

Mei Duo frowned: "Your brother is four years younger than you, and he is six years old this year. Will he go to school next year?"

Although Mei Xiaoba was real, she was not a fool, and she felt a little aggrieved: "I heard from my mother and my father that my brother is spiritual. Just like when he was a child, I should give him good money. From now on, there will be many scholars in the family."

This "Fourth Brother" is nothing else, but Mei Sheng, who is already a scholar, ranks fourth in the clan.

With a stepmother, I have a stepfather, and Mei Duo is very angry.

Geng, the stepmother of Mei Xiaoba, is a very good at doing facial skills. He cannot be said to treat Xiaoba as if he was born, but he has never beaten and scolded him. He has enough food and clothing, and he can't tell anything wrong. However, when the entire Mei family let his descendants study and gain fame, Geng stopped Xiaoba from studying, and his mind was distorted.

Why is it difficult for poor families to have noble children? This enlightenment and recognition of words is not a big expense, but if you keep reading, the burden is not ordinary. Geng obviously wants to stay at Xiaoba’s home to be a cow and horse, and then provide her own son with his studies.

Mei Duo saw this when he watched, but I didn't believe that Mei Xiaoba couldn't see this, but I was just distorted.

"In the future, you will come here when you have time. My sister will teach you how to read." Mei Duo said.

Mei Xiaoba's eyes shone brightly when she heard this, and then she became dim again: "I will be idle for a month. My father said that I am not young anymore, and I will follow him to learn to serve crops in the future."

Before, Mei Xiao was eight years old, and Geng was a famous man, so he was naturally unwilling to bear the reputation of a vicious stepmother. Now that he is ten years old, he has gone to the ground in other people's houses, so he naturally has a sense of arrangement.

Mei Duo felt depressed. To outsiders, Geng's stepmother was kind-hearted and not only gave Xiao Ba food and clothing, but also ordered him to work. He allowed him to touch loaches by the river and go up the mountain to hunt birds every day, and became a famous naughty boy in the village.

In fact, Geng asked her brother to come over and secretly taught Xiao Ba to touch the loach and kill birds. From then on, he urged him to come out every day. Whenever he gained something, he either satisfies his own craving or gives gifts. He praised Xiao Ba and praised him again and again, which forced Xiao Ba to treat the fishing and bird-hitting matter as a livelihood.

In the eyes of the villagers, it was that Mei Xiaoba, a child who couldn't calm down and was too naughty. Even if Mei Xiaoba did not enter the village school, no one would believe that the Mei family deliberately did not send him to school, and just thought he was naughty and could not sit still and refused to study.

My aunt and nephew ate a lot of loaches for this child. Previously, except for the second wife of the Gui family, other villagers gave their aunt and nephew cold eyes. The little warmth all came from this child.

Mei Duo inexplicably felt a little proud and said, "Do you want to study? Is it okay for my sister to send you to a village school?"

Mei Xiaoba was stunned when she heard this. After a while, she realized it. She shook her head and said, "No, no, I'm stupid. I'm not a material for studying, so I don't have to blind Sister Jiu's money."

Mei Duo frowned and said, "You haven't been there yet, how can you know that you are stupid? Is it your stepmother said again?"

Mei Xiaoba looked sad and said in a muffled voice: "What my father said, a few years ago, my father asked my cousin to teach me the "Three Character Classic". I didn't remember it, so my father wouldn't let me learn it."

After trying it once, I felt at ease to let my child drop out of school? But it is not normal for a seven or eight-year-old child to not remember it for the first time he studied?

Gui Chongyang stood at the door and listened to the conversation between the siblings, but he became more and more optimistic about Mei Xiaoba.

Mei Xiaoba is a pure-minded person. She doesn't complain so much. She is really not smart enough. However, only with such a kind and simple personality, she can truly regard Mei and Mei Duo's aunt and nephew as relatives instead of just caring about her own relatives.

Seeing that Mei Duo couldn't help but get into an attack, Gui Chongyang picked up the curtain and kissed her. Mei Duo had already said too much before. Mei Xiaoba was not a scheming person. If one or two words were passed, it would be Mei Duo's uneasy and kind-hearted provoking Mei Xiaoba's disobedience.

Gui Chongyang smiled and said, "Xiao Ba, I will go to the village school in a few days. I am worried that I don't know anyone and dare not go. Just go, we just happen to be our company."

Going to a village school instead of going directly to the town was the opportunity that Gui Chongyang begged in front of Gui Wu for a long time.

It’s not that Gui Chongyang underestimated people, but when he was in Nanjing, the men who followed him were all old Jinshi, old Hanlin, and the Four Books and Five Classics had been read through for a long time, but he really didn’t think that a teacher in a school in a town could teach him anything new.

On the contrary, there is a young generation in the village school. If Gui Chongyang wants to establish himself in Mujia Village and run the Gui family, it must break the cold relationship between the villagers and the previous "Xigui".

Now that Guiwu has come, villagers are afraid to despise and bully Xigui anymore because of their "fear". However, if they are close, there are not many households. Those who can be sent to village schools are all children valued by each household. They cannot be said to be able to use a breakthrough to completely ease the relationship between Xigui and villagers.

Mei Xiaoba still shook her head and said, "I won't go, it's three hundred folks, my father won't give me money."

Mei Duo said: "I didn't say it just now, sister will give you a slap!"

Mei Xiaoba quickly shook her head and said, "Sister Jiu's money cannot be moved, that's the one who is the dowry..." As he said the latter, he couldn't help but look at Gui Chongyang.

The future "Jiu brother-in-law" is too young, so it would be better if he grows up a little longer. Sister Jiu can get married as soon as possible, so he can make people worry about the third grandfather's side doing bad things.

Gui Chongyang was seen for no reason. Just as Mei Xiaoba was worried about Mei Duo's future, she immediately said boldly: "I have prepared my cousin's dowry. My cousin's money is all about me, and I can spend whatever I want!"
Chapter completed!