The college entrance examination is over, and I heard that my nephew is not as everyone expected, he will definitely be able to pass the entrance examination to Tsinghua University and Peking University, and the adults who are hurriedly building the ancestral hall are not disappointed, and they are still working overtime day and night. Anyway, sooner or later, everyone is busy with business, and finally built more than half of it, so why don't you finish it quickly?

After walking the stone path between the bamboo forests of dozens of meters, the ancient camphor in front of you is like a cover, the stone archway of white marble is towering, the eaves and bucket arches of the Li family ancestral hall that sit in the north and face the south, and the vast green mountains are behind. Li Jiaming, who came in by truck, got out of the car, stood on the busy construction site, looked at the ancestral hall that was almost completed, and couldn't help but cheer. As a professor specializing in classical architecture, this low-key and atmospheric design is indeed original.

handed over the backpack to the second aunt who was in the same place, and Li Jiaming, who was a lot whiter, called a circle of people, rolled up his sleeves, and began to help the uncle with inconvenient legs and feet mix mortar.

"Jiaming, why did you come back?"

"Hehe, anyway, I don't have much hope this year, why don't you come back quickly after the exam?"

Building an ancestral hall is a very sacred thing, not to mention people with foreign surnames, even women in the clan are not allowed to help. If the family did something else, even if it was the house of each family the year before last, the elders would not let Li Jiaming touch it, for fear of affecting his study. This is to make an ancestral hall, he has to hurry up to fulfill his filial piety, and in a few days, when the ancestral hall is finished, it will be too late to contribute.

The fourth uncle, who had lost a lot of weight, put the mortar bucket away, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and quipped: "Jiaming, the ancestor Bodhisattva blesses you with the most virtues, it's your turn to pick!"

It was also a lot darker, and the uncle quickly filled the bucket, but put the shovel across the mortar bucket to prevent his nephew from picking it, "Jiaming, don't carry the heavy burden, you are still growing your body." ”

"He's still long, big brother, he's almost 1.8 meters!"

"What do you know, don't you see that Mao Tong is almost 1.9 meters? The man is twenty-four, and Jiaming is going to study in Beiping in the future, and they are all tall in the north, and no one will bully them when they grow taller. Jiade is 1.72 meters, which is considered short in their dormitory, and there is a 2-meter Inner Mongolian man!"

The fourth uncle, who was shirtless and showed a body of strong muscles, picked up a load of sand and said curiously: "Big brother, are you still bullying people in college?"

"What do you think? College students aren't human?"

"Hehe, it's almost the same if Jiaming doesn't bully others. ”

When the fourth uncle, who was much shorter than Li Jiaming, carried the mortar bucket and left, the sweaty uncle held a shovel and whispered: "Jiaming, don't you have a 'provincial three good students'?

Li Jiaming, who was mixing with the syrup, didn't raise his head, his subordinates still didn't stop, and he whispered: "Uncle, I know that this paper is even more difficult than last year, and even those twenty points may not be admitted to Peking University." ”

"That's just as well."

Everyone was busy for three or four days, the new ancestral hall was finally built, and the people who passed by deliberately stopped, along the stone path between the bamboo forests, came to see the rarity, praised the style, and said that this is the most magnificent ancestral hall that everyone has seen, and it makes the uncles who have been busy for more than a month proud.

After all the eldest brothers who were studying abroad came back, they killed pigs, sheep, and chickens, invited their ancestors to tablets, shared incense, and the old patriarch who came to repair the water took everyone to worship their ancestors, and firecrackers rang out.

Sent away the old patriarch and his envy of the ability of this clan, the patriarch of the Li family in Huangniping, Chuan Mengbo, led everyone to erect a monument for the most competitive fourth brother in their eyes in the quaint pavilion under a few ancient camphor trees. As for the eldest brother and second brother who are studying in the provincial capital, in the eyes of the uncles, they are not qualified to erect a white marble stele, so they can only use the local bluestone stele, but they use a marble stele for the third brother to distinguish him from a famous university.

The six strong cousins helped the gray-haired uncle and aunt to easily help the exquisite stone tablet of white marble into the stone pit, and meticulously poured the white cement mortar, and proudly said to a group of sons and sisters: "See, you study hard, and in the future, if you are admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, the clan will use the white marble stone tablet to engrave your name! In the future, the descendants of our Li family will also be able to remember which ones are the children and grandchildren who have won glory for our Li family!"

Li Jiaming, who was ridden by Xiao Wanwan on his neck, looked at this white marble stele that cost nearly three months' salary of ordinary state cadres, and thought of the uncles in his previous life, who loved this monster fourth brother, and couldn't help but have mixed feelings. Glory, this is the Wenhua stele, this treatment is only compared with the ancient Jinshi stele, the archway, if you can also have such a piece of white marble Wenhua stele, it is estimated that the mother will laugh when she sleeps in the soil.

"Uncle Chuanmeng, this is not fair!"

The little sister who was held in her brother's hand screamed, which caused Li Jiaming, who was a brother, to be relieved, for the sake of the timid little sister who dared to do this, she has been worth it in the past few years.

"How is it unfair?"

"I, I, I learned to paint, and when I am admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, you will also carve a white stone tablet for me!"

If it is something else, Uncle Chuan Meng, this is the face of the whole clan, even Li Chuanlin, who is a father, will not be willing. This is the Wenhua stele made according to the ancient Jinshi stele, and it commends the descendants who are the most proficient in reading, and it is the Jinshi memorial arch in ancient times! How can an ordinary famous university use a white marble stele? I heard Chuanjian and Fang's sister-in-law who have been to Beiping say that this kind of white marble stone was used in the imperial palace in the past. That is, those who read can only use it once when they pass the title of the Jinshi Gold List in the examination!

"You can't draw!"

What the little sister wanted, even if it was the moon in the sky, she had to pour a basin of water to make her happy for a while, but seeing that her uncle was unwilling, Li Jiaming compromised: "Uncle Chuanmeng, what Wenwen said is also right, university is just the beginning, and there will be master's and doctorate degrees in the future, as well as studying abroad." I think that if you specialize in art, as long as you are outstanding in your studies, you should use white marble steles. ”

One person monopolizes the glory of a white marble Wenhua monument, even if it is only temporary, and it also makes the fourth brother, who is usually calm and clear, not calm, seeing that his cousin opened his head and spoke very reasonably, he hurriedly helped: "Uncle Chuanmeng, what Jia Ming said is right." Our education is an examination-oriented education, which cannot fully reflect a person's ability, and there are many nerds in Tsinghua University and Peking University, and there are few people who can make a big difference. I think that as long as you enter a world-class famous university for further study, whether you are studying literature, science, or art, you should set up a Wenhua monument of white marble. ”

The words "world-class famous universities" make the uncles' eyes shine, Tsinghua University and Peking University are good, but they know that there are better universities in the world, and if there are children and grandchildren who can go to those universities to study, it will be a more face-saving thing!

"Yes, in the future, if you can enter a world-class famous school taught by Jiade, or get a doctorate, I will still set up a white marble monument for you. ”

The little sister, who was already as vain as an ordinary little girl, heard Uncle Meng say this, and quickly shook her brother's hand, and begged: "Brother, I want to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence!"

Li Jiaming really hasn't heard of this school, but since Xiaomei knows, it must be the best in the art world. Even if she can't pass the exam, as long as the little sister wants to go, no matter how big the price is, she has to let her go!

"As long as you can pass the test, my brother will definitely send it!"

"Hmm!"

The full sister next to her did not show weakness, and coaxed: "Fifth brother, I also want to be admitted to Peking University!"

"Well, you have ambition! If you pass the test, the fifth brother will give you the best car in the future!"

"Isn't it better than the third uncle's?"

"A hundred times better!"

"Yay!"

When this little cowhide ghost is finished, the more timid Jin Mei and the self-aware Gui Mei don't dare to talk big, Peking University is so good at taking the test? Brother Jiaming is so powerful, he didn't get the test this year!

The eldest brother and the second brother can't do it anymore, but they can still tell the cousin if they make fun of the cousin.

"Jiaming, I heard Uncle Chuanmeng say no, our two brothers can only make a bluestone tablet if they are not angry, you can't follow our example. ”

"Cut, my brother will definitely pass the exam! My brother will definitely study for a master's degree or a doctorate in the future!"

Li Jiaming is a god in the heart of the little sister, and he is an immortal in the eyes of the full sister, and he hurriedly said: "Yes, the fifth brother is so powerful, better than Sister Sasha, will he fail the exam? Fifth brother, you will definitely study for a doctorate in the future!"

Li Jiaming, who rode one on his neck and held two in his hands, sweated profusely, these two little girls who didn't know the height of the sky and the height of the earth, really regarded Tsinghua University and Peking University as vegetable gardens, and they could enter if they wanted to?

However, for the Wenhua Stele Forest specially built by the uncles, even if he can't get extra points this year, he has to fight for another two years.

Let the family and the deceased mother feel glorious, that is the real filial piety. As for the master's degree and doctorate that Xiaomei and Manmei are shouting about, it's better not to touch that thing, it's not that you can't pass the exam, but it's not necessary.

It's over, Li Jiaming accidentally saw his father's hot eyes, and suddenly felt shocked, he may have dug a bigger hole for himself.