After the summer solstice, the night comes a little late, the sun is like "Zhou Peeling", always do not give the rural people the slightest chance to sleep, every day early climb up the East Mountain, wake up those who like to show their singing voice, so that people who lie down and do not sleep for a few hours have to get up and start the day's farming.

Today is the first day of school after the wheat harvest, Lao Mu went to school, Xiuhua simply cleaned up at home, and called Mu Yan and Mu Zhen up.

"Yan'er is making breakfast at home, Zhen'er is optimistic about your brother, I'll go to the field to be busy for a while!" Xiuhua, who had finished arranging family affairs, walked out of the house with a bench in one hand and a few handfuls of straw in the other.

Mu Yan got up obediently and rushed into the kitchen, ready to make breakfast. Five-year-old brother Mu Bao slept soundly, under normal circumstances, he could not wake up until eight o'clock, taking advantage of this time, Mu Zhen took out "Yang Jiajiang", lifted a small bench from the house, sat under the jujube tree in the courtyard, skillfully flipped to the position he saw yesterday, and read it hungrily. The farmer's day has officially begun.

"Brother, come and help me cook the pot. Lest our mother and them come back and cook badly!" Mu Yan shouted to Mu Zhen, who was reading intently.

"You can do it yourself, didn't you do it yourself when I was in school before, can't you do it yourself today?" Mu Zhen replied without leaving the book, and did not say any more.

In the kitchen, he pouted and didn't say anything more, just glared out at his brother who was reading under the tree. The two men silently went about their own business.

Just after eight o'clock, the school's bell rang, Mu Zhen hurriedly closed the book, ran into the house, opened the drawer, and quickly put the book in.

"I must not let my father see that he is reading "Yang Jiajiang", otherwise it is very likely to be a fierce criticism!" Mu Zhen put away the book, walked to the bed where his younger brother was sleeping, saw that his younger brother did not wake up at all, and quietly paced to the kitchen to see what Mu Yan was cooking, Mu Yan looked at him and smiled: "There will be time for this time?"

"yes, there's really time to help you cook. ”

"I don't need your help, I know you're reading extracurricular books, but I'm afraid that we will see it, so I hid to help me!" Mu Yan said with a smile.

"Please, sister, don't say that in front of us, or he won't spare me!" Mu Zhen begged.

"Don't worry, if you want to say that I said it earlier, look at yours, I won't say it! You go to the field and call our mother back for dinner!" Mu Yan said.

"That pull hook!" said his right hand and stretched out his little finger and grabbed Mu Yan's little finger, "Pull the hook and hang it, it will not change for a hundred years!"

After chattering, he ran out of the kitchen, turned a corner after being discharged from the hospital, and met Lao Mu who came home from school, and saw Mu Zhen running in such a hurry, "Why are you going?"

"Go and call my mother to dinner. Mu Zhen promised to leave, but Lao Mu grabbed her and said, "You don't need to go, she will come back in a while, we just wait for her at home." ”

Lao Mu pulled Mu Zhen back into the courtyard, stared at Mu Zhen up and down, saw Mu Zhen's hair straight, and muttered in his heart: "Do you know that you watched "Yang Family General"?"

"What have you been doing in the past two days?" asked Lao Mu. Hearing such a question, a stone fell in Mu Zhen's heart.

"Play with my brother!" Mu Zhen replied casually.

"Didn't you read any books?"

Mu Zhen was stunned for a moment, and pretended to ask: "The book?" ”

Lao Mu looked at his son's appearance, and felt a little funny in his heart, knowing that his son was deliberately hiding from himself, so he smiled and said bluntly: "Where did you borrow that copy of "Yang Jiajiang"?"

"I got it from my grandfather! He said he bought it from the market, and he also said let me read it to him!" Mu Zhen found that his father did not look angry, so he was relieved.

"Oh, this holiday is long, you can use this holiday to read more books, Ma Sanye's family in our village has a lot of books, you can go to him to borrow them to read!"

"That's good! it's just ......," Mu Zhen stopped when she said it.

"Just what?" asked Lao Mu suspiciously.

"Ma Sanye is like that, when I see him hiding away, will he lend it to me?"

"You go and try it, open your mouth for three points, and if you can't borrow it, you can take advantage of three points!" Lao Mu said.

"Okay, then I'll try it!" Mu Zhen's desire for books far outweighed her fear of meeting the "old pedant", and she nodded her head in agreement with her father's opinion.

As he was talking, Xiuhua came back from the field, went into the house to wake up Mu Bao, who was still asleep, and dressed him, and the family sat around their own board to eat, and they didn't say much to each other at the dinner table, but Mu Zhen was pulling the food into her mouth while thinking about borrowing books.

Mu Zhen understands that Lao Mu let go of his extracurricular books this time, and because he was admitted to the county No. 1 middle school, he set this precedent for himself. Today, Father Yan provided a place to borrow books, although he was a little surprised, but it seems to be reasonable, since going to school, Dad basically did not mention what extracurricular books he wanted to read, and now he supports himself to go to Ma Sanye's house to borrow books to read, it has indeed changed a lot, this opportunity is really rare. ”

After breakfast, Mu Yan followed Xiuhua to the field to do farm work, Mu Zhen watched Mu Bao at home, and his younger brother listened to him. Mu Zhen moved two small benches and the old-fashioned circle chair at home under the jujube tree in the courtyard, and took out the picture album he had seen when he was a child from the drawer, and lay in the courtyard to teach Mu Bao to read and read paintings.

After teaching for about half an hour, Mu Zhen suddenly stopped, he asked his younger brother to look at it for a while, but he held his cheeks and thought about going to Ma Sanye to borrow books.

"What kind of books to borrow?" Mu Zhen put a question mark in her heart, and couldn't help but think of what happened two years ago: "At that time, because I read a few villain books adapted from the stories in "Journey to the West", I especially wanted to find this book to read. I went to the commune bookstore many times, and asked more than once if there was a sale of "Journey to the West"? After waiting for a negative answer, I was silently praying, and when one day I found that the book was on the shelves, I asked the salesperson to show it to me. The next three sets of books, although the price of the three books at that time was only three yuan and four corners, but I really couldn't make up so much, so I discussed with the salesperson to open it and sell it, but the salesperson explained that the whole set of sales is the regulation of the unit, and it doesn't count if I say it, and when I save enough money and go to buy books, the books have been sold out. Now that my father allows me to borrow books to read, I will borrow that set of "Journey to the West" first!"

After clarifying the title of the book, Mu Zhen was thinking about what Ma Sanye said, this Ma Sanye is different from the grandfather of the same sect, after all, he deals with the grandfather of the same sect all day long, and the grandfather does not know how to read, not so much to borrow books, but to buy books for people who can read to him, borrowing it is naturally a matter of course, and this Ma Sanye is different. Every time I see Ma Sanye's serious eyes, I still remember when I was a child, a few children played with glass balls at the entrance of the village, and suddenly a child shouted, "Old man Ma is here!", the children immediately picked up their glass balls and ran away, since then, the children secretly gave Ma Sanye a nickname "Ghost Sorrow", although they did not recognize this title, but they really did not say hello to Ma Sanye. Now if you borrow books from him, don't say that you don't necessarily borrow them, even if your father borrows them himself, he may not be able to borrow them! Maybe my father is right, and there is no harm in opening my mouth to try it, but if I can't borrow it, I won't lose anything.

After thinking about it, Mu Zhen's desire to read finally overcame his frightened mentality, and he decided that no matter what the result was, he would boldly go to Ma Sanye's house to make a move.

Mu Zhen looked at Mu Bao, who was reading the album carefully, stroked Mu Ding's head and said, "Xiaobao, do you want me to tell you the story of Sun Monkey?"

When Mu Bao heard this, he immediately put down the album in his hand, raised his head and responded happily: "I want to, you can talk quickly!"

"Okay, if you want to hear it, don't run around, read the album honestly at home, and when I come back, I promise to tell you the story of Sun Monkey!"

"What are you going to do? I'll go along. Mu Bao looked up and blinked.

"You can't go to this, you just wait at home, I'll come back and tell you the story, okay?"

"Okay, I'll be waiting for you at home. Mu Bao heard his brother come back and continue to tell the story, and agreed to his brother's request a little unhappily.

Before leaving the gate, Mu Zhen walked over and stroked the head of the big yellow dog lying not far from him, and said to himself: "Rhubarb, take care of the house at home, don't let Bao'er go out!" After speaking, he hurriedly rushed out of the gate and ran towards the village, the distance from home to the village usually takes seven or eight minutes, but this time in Mu Zhen's cheerful footsteps, it has been doubled.

Mu Zhen ran directly to the back wall of Ma Sanye's thatched house, stopped, gasped in his mouth, and looked at Ma Sanye's house carefully, these three thatched houses are a little different from others, the lower part is a waist-high brick wall, and the upper outer wall is wrapped in a little whitish mud, which looks very smooth, and the roof is no different from other homes, and it is also inclined and laid with thick wheat straw.

"This strange old man is really different from other families!" Mu Zhen had never looked at any family's residence as carefully as he did now, and after looking at Ma Sanye's house at this time, he muttered in his heart.

Mu Zhen bypassed the corner of Ma Sanye's back wall, walked two steps, and arrived at the courtyard gate of Ma Sanye's house, the courtyard gate looked very simple, the earthen walls connected to the house on both sides of the door, erected a small gatehouse covered with grass, and the two wooden doors under the gatehouse were staggered before and after, Mu Zhen calmed down slightly, gently pushed the door in, and saw that the door in the courtyard was open, Mu Zhen did not immediately approach, only stood at the gate of the courtyard, and asked softly: "Is anyone at home?" Waiting, I didn't hear any response, "Is there anyone?" This time Mu Zhen raised his voice again.

Still didn't respond, and then heard the sound of moving things in the room, Ma Sanye had already stood at the door of the room, he looked Mu Zhen up and down, at this time when Mu Zhen and Ma Sanye's eyes met, if in normal times Mu Zhen would turn his head and run away, but at this time, Mu Zhen stood there as if he was frozen, and let Ma Sanye look at it.

"Third grandfather, I have something to do with you!" Mu Zhen said boldly.

"Is there something to do with me?" Ma Sanye's eyes widened and he answered.

Mu Zhen looked at Ma Sanye's surprised eyes, and really wanted to run away, but his feet seemed to be fixed, he couldn't move, and replied with a little calm: "I want to borrow a book from you to read!"

"What books to borrow?" Ma Sanye may have been infected by the idea of such a child to borrow books, and a slight smile appeared on his face.

"Journey to the West. At this time, Mu Zhen saw Ma Sanye's tolerant smile, and she was much bolder, and she didn't have any worries about speaking.

"Come in, I'll find you. Ma Sanye's words when he beckoned Mu Zhen into the house made Mu Zhen's mood relax a lot when she wanted to run.

Mu Zhen walked a few steps briskly and entered the door, and Ma Sanye also retreated to the room. There is nothing separated by anything in the three rooms, you can see the four walls of the room when you enter the door, the furnishings in the house are very simple, there is a painting of the middle hall of the crane prolonging the year on the back wall of the door, the couplet with black characters on the red background on both sides - "Fu is like the long flowing water of the East China Sea, the longevity is more than the old pine of the South Mountain", there is a long table against the wall, a table of eight immortals, a big red round tray is placed on the table of the eight immortals, and a set of white porcelain tea sets are neatly placed in the tray.

In the middle of the room in front of the table of the Eight Immortals, there are a few seal characters written by Ma Sanye, Mu Zhen looked at it carefully, but he didn't understand which words they were. Ma Sanye was a little stunned when he saw Mu Zhen, pointed to the seal characters and said, "Sit quietly and think about yourself." After speaking, he walked straight to the bed in the east bedroom, bent down and dragged a large wooden box from under the bed, Mu Zhen stepped forward and squatted down to help, Ma Sanye had already pulled it out, opened the lid of the box, Mu Zhen saw that this was a whole box of books, the books were neatly placed in four stacks in the box, Ma Sanye flipped through a few times, and carefully pulled out a book wrapped in dark yellow kraft paper, and the book cover was written in small letters with a brush "Journey to the West (I)" on the book, wiped the front of the book with the sleeve of his left hand, handed it to Mu Zhen, and said: "There are three volumes in this set, this is the first volume, and you will change the middle volume after you finish reading it. ”

"Hmm!" Mu Zhen stretched out his hands and took the book that looked still new but a little yellow from Ma Sanye's hand, and hurriedly agreed.

Ma Sanye bent down again and pushed the bookcase under the bed.

Mu Zhen watched Ma Sanye push the bookcase and said to Ma Sanye: "Thank you, I will finish reading it as soon as possible to change it." ”

"Go, child, just cherish it!" Ma Sanye instructed.

"I will, Third Grandpa!" After speaking, Mu Zhen withdrew from Ma Sanye's door with the book in both hands, turned around and trotted out of Ma Sanye's courtyard door.

Ma Sanye stood at the door of the room and looked at Mu Zhen's jumping figure, and nodded thoughtfully.

On the way home, Mu Zhen felt extremely relaxed in her heart, "I didn't expect that the strange old man who is usually so serious is so amiable at this time, and his speech is not unpleasant at all." When Mu Zhen returned home, his younger brother Mu Bao was still in the courtyard flipping through the picture album he was looking at when he left.

"Xiaobao, what do you see in my hand?" Mu Zhen raised the newly borrowed "Journey to the West" with both hands and shouted to Mu Bao.

"What sketchbook?"

"It's not a sketchbook. ”

"What's that?" Mu Bao looked at the book his brother held above his head.

"It's the original book about Sun Monkey. ”

"Hello Sun Monkey!" Mu Bao put down the album in his hand and clapped his hands.

"How about I read you a passage?"

"Okay, okay, study the Heavenly Palace!" Mu Bao shouted.

Mu Zhen put down the book, flipped to the table of contents, and saw the seventh episode "Escape from the Great Sage in the Bagua Furnace, Settle the Ape under the Five Elements Mountain", "Read to you that Sun Monkey has been refining in the Laojun furnace for seven seven and forty-nine days, refining a fiery eye!" Mu Zhen prompted.

"Okay!" Mu Bao casually agreed.

Mu Zhen turned to the seventh place and said to Mu Bao: "Move a bench!"

Mu Bao was really obedient, and hurriedly moved a bench and put it behind his brother Mu Zhen's buttocks. Mu Zhen sat down and read: "The Monkey King was escorted by all the heavenly soldiers to the demon slaying platform, tied to the demon subduing pillar, chopped with a knife and axe, and stabbed with a spear, don't want to hurt his body." The Southern Dipper ordered the gods of the Fire Department to set fire to simmer, but they could not burn ......"

One of the brothers spoke vividly, and the other listened fascinated, and they enjoyed themselves.