Chapter 91: The Suspicious Little Patriarch (Part 1)
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Gui Chongyang returned to Mujia Village at the end of May, and it has been more than two months since then. It has been a lot of similar doubts before, but it has not cared as much as it is today.
In addition to the wrong opening, if you think about it carefully, there are many things that are wrong with that family in Nanjing. There are industries in the house there, shops in the city, villages outside the city, seventh and seventh in Gui Chongyang, and after the age of eight, the family manager will take them to see them.
The shop is right in front of Confucius Temple Street in Qinhuai River. There are two prosperous shops, each with three storefronts. One is a four-treasure shop in the study and the other is a silk shop. The rent for the two places can be 300 taels per year. At that time, it was said that it was Gui Chongyang's mother's dowry. Gui Chongyang "born and lost her mother" naturally had never seen her biological mother. Now, thinking about the biological mother is gone, what about the other people in the outside world? No one has mentioned it?
There is not much land outside the city, only ten hectares of land. It is nothing in Nanjing, where the powerful are gathered, but if you really have to figure it out, how could the one who can accompany his daughter to accompany these 1,000 acres of land, be it the "daughter of Wu Da" mentioned in the Gui Chongyang household registration post? Is the "Wu family" really surnamed Wu, or does it mean "no such person"?
When I was a child, "Dad" asked Gui Chongyang to call him "Dad" and "Father", and when there was no one, he called him "Dad". Gui Chongyang was strangely surprised that this name was not common, and "Dad" said it was the name of his hometown. However, Gui Chongyang returned to Mujia Village for two months and had never heard of a similar title.
The children still have the sound of reading, but Gui Chongyang shivered.
What's going on? Is "Dad" really Gui Yuan? My mother is not Wu, who is that?
I was in a daze all morning, time passed quickly, and it was lunch time.
The primary school students sat in groups of three or two, took out the food boxes and had dinner together.
Yang Wu and Mei Xiaoba naturally sat with Gui Chongyang. The primary school student who was studying before was named Mei Chen. When he was about Mei Xiaoba's great-grandfather's cousin, he came over and said hello. He looked at Mei Xiaoba's schoolbag for a while, but he went back to sit with his friends.
Mei Xiaoba was questioned by Yang Wu, scolded by his master, and despised by his cousin again. The excitement of going to school was passed, and finally she showed some worries.
Perhaps this is what Mei Xiaoba’s stepmother wants.
Gui Chongyang was in a state of confusion. Seeing Mei Xiaoba like this, he lost some patience and frowned and said, "A broken schoolbag, it's inappropriate to change tomorrow! He was so sad that he came here to study, but he was not better than anyone's schoolbag!"
Although Mei Xiaoba was scolded, she was much more energetic. She nodded quickly and said, "Well, I won't worry anymore. I know... My mother is busy and won't change it for me. Then if I don't change it, I will continue to recite this..."
But this is a private school, and Mei Tongsheng has already asked to change it. If Mei Xiaoba doesn't change it, she will not know how to wear small shoes in the future after Mei Tongsheng's face.
Mei Xiaoba didn't think of this, so Gui Chongyang naturally thought of it and said, "You go back today and tell your parents what you say, "Look at what your parents mean, I will ask my aunt to prepare one for you. If your family doesn't change it, go to my house to change it."
Mei Xiaoba shook her head and said, "Don't bother my aunt, my mother said that this is a waste of money."
It’s a waste of money, at most two feet of cloth!
Even Gui Chongyang was swearing by Mei Xiaoba's stepmother.
Gui Chongyang said: "You have been to school, but my aunt is not short of these two feet of cloth! If you are a heretic, do you think your aunt is not as good as your parents? But your parents don't offer you school!"
When Mei Xiaoba heard this, she immediately drooped her head like a eggplant made by frost.
Gui Chongyang was unwilling to say these harsh words, but Mei Xiaoba was really over. If she didn't say it clearly, this guy was grateful to his scumbag father and stepmother.
Yang Wu was shocked when he listened to this sentence. That was three hundred yuan a year, and according to the rules, four-color gifts must be prepared by the end of the year, which are all a lot of money.
Mei Xiaoba family is still poor, so why do you let others pay?
It is said that "the troubles in the world begin to study." Mei Xiaoba, who has always been happy, studied on the first day of today, and the troubles that followed also began.
Half a month after Gui Chongyang, he saw the Li family's meanness and ruthlessness towards Li Taoer again, and Mei Xiaoba was no longer as heartless as before.
Gui Chongyang lowered his eyes and did not express Mei Xiaoba's intention. This is how children grow up. They can't always be naive and start to learn to grow their brains.
But I really have a brain? If it weren't for everyone, Gui Chongyang would want to punch himself twice.
Mei Xiaoba’s food box is prepared by Mei’s family, just like Gui Chongyang.
Mei Xiaoba was so angry that she opened the food box and her eyes suddenly lit up.
There are two layers of food boxes, one layer contains four flower rolls, and the other layer is vinegar, cabbage and pickled celery. The father and brother of Mei family are both scholars. When they were young, they met their elder brother's food boxes, so they knew what to prepare for without fear of cold food and eating convenient food.
When I arrived at Yang Wu, I couldn’t do it anymore. There was no food box. I only had two large bowls of coarse cloth, with tofu stewed pickles underneath, and two sorghum noodles on top.
From time to time, elementary school students looked over curiously. When they saw Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba Food Boxes, some of them curled their lips, while others covered their simple lunch boxes. When they saw the two black steamed buns in Yang Wu's two big bowls, someone said "haha".
Gui Chongyang was in a bad mood and heard a look. He had a dark face and cold eyes, which scared the elementary school student.
After all, it was just a group of 10-year-old kids. Gui Chongyang felt a little anxious and lowered his head and had no appetite, so he pushed the food box to Yang Wu.
Yang Wu took a flower roll and pushed his rice bowl, saying, "Do you want to try it? My mother's steamed steamed steamed buns?"
Gui Chongyang took a steamed bun, which looked like a piece of hard dough. It was no match for the white dough roll, but because he was thinking about his thoughts, he finished eating it one bite at a time.
After lunch, several primary school students who were in charge of sweeping began to sweep the floor.
In the afternoon, everyone recited it for half an hour, but it was a five-character quatrain.
It was not until everyone finished memorizing that Matsushi arrived, but his face was exhausted. He came back from the class next door to teach the scriptures. He was dry and impatient, so he asked everyone to review the "Three Character Classic" again, and asked a few elementary school students, so he asked everyone to write big characters and go back to the Master's Room by himself.
It was early afternoon (5 pm), and the bell of the school was ringing, and the primary school students ran out in a swarm.
Not only did Gui Chongyang feel sore and back pain when he sat down, but Yang Wu and Mei Xiaoba hadn't sat for a long time, they kept shaking their necks.
Although Gui Chongyang has never been to the southern sociology, he has heard of it.
The society in the south is divided into early learning, afternoon learning, and evening learning. Every day, we need to review books and practice etiquette, teach advance and retreat, respond, wait for teachers, and serve parents. After teaching, we will urge everyone to review the early learning and afternoon reading, and then learn freely.
The private schools in this village are obviously studying too late, even if they are early, they are perfunctory, but they are just able to read.
Gui Chongyang had never had too much hope for the village school before, so it was not disappointed.
When Yang Wu and Mei Xiaoba were watching, Yang Wu stretched out his arms and moved his legs: "It's really tiring than going to the ground. No wonder someone ran away halfway through reading."
Yang Wu is already thirteen. Such a boy is already working as a labor force in the village, so he naturally knows how hard he farms.
Mei Xiaoba touched the back of her head and smiled, "Hehe" and said, "If others praise Brother Sheng in the future, I will also praise you. I will be tired of reading, let alone he keeps taking the exam."
Gui Chongyang smiled but didn't say anything, it was really a child's talk. Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are clearly distinguished. Compared with farming in the fields, what is this in the school?
The three of them came out of the village school and said goodbye at the intersection.
When he was about to arrive at the Gui family's old house, Gui Chongyang stopped.
"Dad" mentioned his parents before, but he did not mention his two elder brothers, nor did he mention his sister-in-law and her cousin who had been engaged since childhood. Are the parents mentioned by "Dad" the late He Changhai and his wife? Or is it someone else next to him?
Chapter completed!