Hu Guoqing came to find Ma Sanye, naturally he wanted to inquire about some ancestral things, but he didn't expect this Ma Sanye not only guessed, but also told it so specifically, if it wasn't for Ma Sanye to tell it, it is estimated that no one will know this little-known story, Hu Guoqing's harvest is not only the story he talked about, but more importantly, he also got the relics left by his ancestors, a "Kangxi Dictionary" that he had never seen before, he looked at the dictionary handed to Ma Sanye as if he had found a treasure.

Ma Sanye looked at Hu Guoqing and couldn't put it down, and asked with concern, "Which of the two of you can study well?"

"He studies well!" Hu Guoqing raised his eyes and looked at Mu Zhen and hurriedly replied.

"If you hadn't missed your homework last year, you would have been better off than me!" Mu Zhen added.

A trace of doubt appeared on Ma Sanye's face: "Why did you delay your homework?"

Mu Zhen briefly told Hu Guoqing's father about his illness, and Ma Sanye immediately asked: "That can't delay the child's learning!"

"It's not that it's delayed, it's that I don't want to go to school, the situation at home is very bad at that time, and there is a lack of work, so I just want to help with farm work at home, so I dropped out of school, but now I don't have to think about farming, my family's land is all handed over to my neighbors to cultivate, so it won't be delayed anymore!" Hu Guoqing felt that there were too many family affairs, and it was inconvenient to tell the old man, for fear that the old man would be sad because of his own family affairs.

"That's good, your ancestors still admired reading very much, although they didn't achieve any great fame, it doesn't mean that the book was not read well, the chaos of the imperial examination in the late Qing Dynasty, spending money and donating officials everywhere, no matter how good the exam was, it was not as good as the three thousand lines of silver, how could you eat with your ability?" Ma Sanye said very slowly, revealing his extreme dissatisfaction with that era.

"I only know about our ancestors' father and son, but I have never heard of so many ups and downs, if it is now, I will definitely become a pillar of the country!" Hu Guoqing heard the ancestral story told by Ma Sanye, and said a little indignantly.

"I don't know much about your ancestors, I was young at that time, and I wasn't much older than him, but I studied very hard, never lazy, and I also loved books very much, Mr. took a fancy to me, so he handed over this dictionary to me!" Ma Sanye pointed to Mu Bao who was standing on the side and said.

"I also have an inkstone there, which is said to have been left by my ancestors!" Hu Guoqing said.

"Yantai, do you mean a square inkstone?" asked Ma Sanye with a solemn face.

"How do you know?" asked Hu Guoqing in surprise.

"This inkstone has a history, when Mr. was young, full of economy, he had been to the county as a master, and later because of Geng upright, he hated the unhealthy atmosphere in the officialdom, so he proposed to the county lord that he was ill, and intended to return to his hometown, the county lord was reluctant to resign from Mr., and deliberately could not keep it, so he took out this inkstone and gave it to Mr., although Mr. hated the officialdom, but according to Mr. The county lord has a good temperament, and Mr. also respects him, because of this, Mr. can keep his body out, the county lord gave Mr. this inkstone, Mr. has been with him, when he taught private school here, he has always brought this inkstone with him, and use it very lovingly, if you mention this inkstone now, I can naturally remember it. After Ma Sanye finished speaking, he picked up the teacup in front of him and drank two sips of water.

Seeing this, Hu Guoqing immediately picked up the teapot on the table and filled it again.

Mu Zhen and Mu Bao listened carefully to Ma Sanye's story, but did not speak, Hu Guoqing finished pouring water and continued to ask: "Has the county master ever been to our village?"

"Listen to Mr., the second year after he resigned and came back, the county lord was framed by others, and he had been to your house, but at that time, the county lord was dismissed as an official, and naturally he was also light, and he lived in your house for a few days, and talked with Mr. Well, it was not chic, and later during the Republic of China, the county lord participated in the revolutionary party and died in the war, Mr. was extremely sad, and wrote a poem, Mr. had shown it to me, but I couldn't remember half of the sentence, so Mr. cherished the inkstone sent by the county master more and more!" Ma Sanye's tone was low, obviously very respectful of Mr.

"The county magistrate dismissed the official and went to our house, is it just to talk about the past and the present with the ancestors?" Hu Guoqing felt that even if the county magistrate had a friendship with the ancestors, it was a bit contrary to common sense to quit the official and go to live at home, so he asked.

"The question you raised, when Mr. told me back then, I also had the same question, Mr. just sighed and didn't explain the reason to me, and I didn't bother to ask again, now that I think about it, the county lord found his former subordinates, naturally he has his reasons, but simply talking about the past and the present, there is no need for this, it is estimated that there should be something, otherwise how can you stay in your house for a few days?" Ma Sanye said with doubts.

"Even if there is something, it has already been done with others!" Hu Guoqing said with more and more emotion.

Ma Sanye was about to continue, but was interrupted by a greeting from outside the door.

"I heard that the uncle fainted, are you okay now?" With the voice coming in, a middle-aged woman came in, Mu Zhen recognized that this was the niece and daughter-in-law of Ma Sanye's family, Mu Zhen immediately stood up and said hello to the visitor.

Hu Guoqing saw that someone came to see Ma Sanye, and immediately said goodbye to Ma Sanye.

Ma Sanye was a little attached and reluctantly confessed: "If you have time, come and sit here with me!"

"Definitely, grandpa, I will definitely come to see you again!" After speaking, Hu Guoqing and his party withdrew from Ma Sanye's room.

On the way back, Mu Zhen asked Hu Guoqing: "I only thought that this Ma Sanye was an old pedant, but I didn't expect that there were really a lot of stories about him, and I don't know what anecdotes of the previous dynasty will be told next time?"

"Since I saw him for the first time yesterday, when I saw his books, I felt that he was unusual, and the way he looked at me, it seemed that he had a lot of words, so I thought of visiting him today, and I never thought that I would not only talk about the things of my ancestors, but also get the relics of my ancestors, which is really a double win!" Hu Guoqing said a little excitedly, holding up the dictionary to show off.

"Although he didn't explain it today, I always think that you must look like your ancestors, otherwise he wouldn't look at you so strangely!" Mu Zhen guessed.

"This is not surprising, what makes me wonder the most is that the county magistrate dismissed the official and came to live in my house, there must be something important, otherwise, how could he come to a subordinate's house?" Hu Guoqing's words implied mystery.

"Maybe it's just for distraction?" Mu Zhen was very interested in the dismissal of the county magistrate, and he really didn't pay much attention to Hu Guoqing's speculation, after all, he was an old friend, and it was inevitable that he would visit.

"This is unlikely, the county magistrate can have a deep friendship with his ancestors, which means that he is a fellow believer, and besides, this county magistrate later joined the revolutionary party, which means that he is a progressive, do you say that this county magistrate was a revolutionary party before he was dismissed? Or after the dismissal?" Hu Guoqing was obviously still immersed in the story told by Ma Sanye.

"Where is this clear, almost a hundred years have passed, and the people at that time have already done the ancients, where can they still find traces?" Mu Zhen thought that no matter which possibility it was, it was just speculation, so why bother thinking about it?

"Of course there is, if it was a revolutionary party before the dismissal, and he found his ancestor, it is very likely that he will drag our ancestor to join the revolutionary party, if it is after the dismissal, then the matter will be even more confusing!"

Hu Guoqing's answer made Mu Zhen feel very reasonable, but no matter what kind of answer it was, it didn't seem to have anything to do with Hu Guoqing.

"What does this have to do with you?" said Mu Zhen with a smile.

"Maybe not, but I have a hunch that the matter of the ancestors seems to have something to do with me, and the relationship is not small!" Hu Guoqing said with a serious expression.

"What you said makes me creepy, how can those old things still have anything to do with you? At that time, the ancestors could know that there was you?" Mu Zhen really laughed at Hu Guoqing's nonsense.

"Don't say it, you don't understand it!" Hu Guoqing then fell silent.

Mu Bao suddenly shouted, "Don't hit the telephone pole!"

Mu Bao's reminder made Hu Guoqing stunned suddenly, he laughed first, just now because he was too engrossed, he didn't even notice the telephone pole in front of him, if it wasn't for Mu Bao's reminder, he would have almost hit it half a step.

Mu Zhen and Mu Bao saw Hu Guoqing standing there smirking, and the brothers laughed happily.