I don't know if I don't know it, day after day, the relationship between the two is closer, some things, if there is a first time, there will definitely be a second time, and Geng Qiu can't wait to accompany Ah Hao every night. Both of them are in their youth, and their blood is strong, and they can't help it when they open the floodgates. But knowing that Ah Hao studied so hard, Geng Qiu had to endure it, and occasionally went to Ah Hao's single room to steal incense and jade, and every time Ah Hao would be enthusiastic and unrestrained, allowing him to ascend to a happy paradise.

Ah Hao is a calm person on the surface, but he didn't expect that he was very open under the bed, very enjoyable and active, which simply surprised Geng Qiu. But Ah Hao will regain his calm in the early morning, and he will not dare to delay for a moment to start reading, and he will not be so active in seducing people at night with that serious horizontal appearance. made Geng Qiu want to tear apart his serious appearance more and more, but at the same time, he was a little embarrassed, for fear of disturbing Ah Hao's reading, and he was full of contradictions, and he couldn't get tangled.

Geng Qiu is only now truly feeling the hardships of the ancient scholars. At present, it is only the most basic talent test, Ah Hao has to be like this, day and night, basically except for eating and sleeping, he is reading all the time, in fact, he even has reduced the time to sleep a lot. Fortunately, he has a good physique, and after Dr. Li's vigorous treatment, his family life is now good, but even so, he has obviously lost weight, and every time after happiness, there will be some red threads under his eyes, and he obviously has insufficient rest.

made Geng Qiu feel more and more sorry for him, every time he ate and drank enough, he was always a little weak-hearted, as if he was a selfish person who didn't care about his partner's body. In the end, he had to pay him something delicious. Recently, every day he will change his tricks and get something for Ah Hao to make a supper at night. Usually, Ah Hao eats a few pieces of dim sum at night and serves as a supper. Geng Qiu felt that just eating dim sum was too unnutritious, not to mention that it was cold at night, and drinking something hot would make his body warmer.

"You don't have to work so hard to take care of me. I'm fine, don't you know? Seeing Geng Qiu coming in with a bowl of soup in the middle of the night, Ah Hao said with a smile half seriously. It's hard to get up in the middle of the night in the middle of the night to make a supper.

Geng Qiu understood the meaning of his words, and couldn't help but feel a little hot, he didn't expect that he was so cheeky and shy. This guy, who is usually serious, how could he still say such half-truths and half-truths to make Geng Qiu feel that he was being teased by him again. "It's okay, I don't work during the day, I can sleep as long as I want, and getting you something to eat at night is nothing. You, on the other hand, should pay attention to rest, but don't exhaust yourself. Geng Qiu said with a smile.

"Well, I'm measured. It's also a helpless thing, I've been dropping my books for too long, and now I can't study with my master, how can I pass the exam if I don't work hard. Ah Hao drank the warm hot soup in two sips, moved his hands and feet at will, and immediately felt much better, so he picked up the scroll again and forced himself to calm down and study. When he saw Geng Qiu's shy appearance being teased by his words, he was also a little moved in his heart, but the two of them had already had fun last night, and they didn't dare to be greedy today.

Geng Qiu didn't speak again, he didn't dare to point out these books that Ah Hao read, he didn't study well in liberal arts, and he had left it for many years. That book knowledge has long been returned to the teacher. In addition to being able to take care of him in life, Geng Qiu can't do much to help him. Add a few pieces of charcoal to his charcoal basin, pour a cup of hot tea and put it aside, Geng Qiu quietly left the room and went back to sleep with Xiao Ah Niu.

Master Yi is a very careful person, so the books he chooses, from easy to difficult, are all needed by Ah Hao. It also marks some of the master's own learning experiences, which is very useful for people like Ah Hao, who study by themselves. It is equivalent to having a teacher teaching him on the side, which has the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.

The one-month deadline was approaching, and it was the end of the year, which coincided with the eighth day of Laba. On this day, a big pot and stove were set up in the village, and every household took out some grain, and those who were really poor carried two bundles of firewood. Everyone gets together to cook laba porridge. Laba Day is one of the most lively festivals in the village before the year, and everyone has to participate. Geng Qiu's family is considered to be a good family in the village, so he took more things, more advanced, two catties of brown rice, one catty of millet, a bag of red dates, a bag of brown sugar and a few handfuls of peanuts.

Other people just make a bowl and a half bowl of beans, sorghum, millet and other grains, and even some dried pickles, but it just means something. The laba porridge cooked in this way is, to put it bluntly, just some multigrain porridge. In addition to a little rice and dates given by Geng Qiu, most of the others are beans and sorghum, and even various dried vegetables, which is really not very good. But this porridge is cooked thick and thick, and it can be regarded as a good meal compared to the thin soup at home. Some families with really poor family backgrounds can also take the opportunity to have a full meal. No, it's not cooked yet, and there are already a lot of children around the pot.

However, this year, there is Geng Qiu's family, and his family produces a lot of good food, and the Laba porridge cooked in the village this year tastes really better than in previous years. After the porridge was cooked, the village chief and the village elders first said a few words, which were nothing more than praying for a good year, wishing the village peace and joy, and then symbolically offering sacrifices to the ancestors. Then began to distribute Laba porridge, the village people regardless of size, even the women also carried a bowl of porridge, everyone sat together in groups of three or five, drinking thick porridge, talking and laughing, very happy.

Ah Hao also walked out of the house in a rare way and drank a bowl of porridge with everyone. It was the first time Ah Niu saw such a lively scene, and he was very excited, and he kept muttering something in his mouth, and his fat hands waved around, but no one could understand what he said. Even Geng Qiu couldn't understand what he was saying, making everyone laugh. Even so, no one disliked him, there were few white and fat and clean little dolls like him in the village, many people came to tease him, and soon someone took Ah Niu over to play. The black boy in the village chief's family also dragged Ning Ge'er to play hide and seek with a group of children who were about the same age.

On the third day, Geng Qiu and Ah Hao were going to Zhou Mansion again. Geng Qiu was originally worried about bringing something to the Zhou Mansion, but on the eighth day, he had an idea, so he got an eight-treasure porridge and brought it to the Zhou Mansion as a gift. On the eighth day of this dynasty, of course, it is still valued. Everyone who has the conditions should celebrate a little. Relatives, friends, and neighbors will also give each other their own laba porridge. It is not completely limited to the day of Laba, but two or three days before and after.

Because of the limitation of materials, Geng Qiu's eight-treasure porridge can be described as unique and unique. He cooked ham and bamboo shoots and dried multigrain porridge, which was salty. In addition to the rice, it is filled with ingredients that can be found at home, and the ham is also pickled at home. Dried bamboo shoots, peanuts, black beans, etc. are exchanged for him by other people's families, and basically every family in the village will make some dried bamboo shoots, after all, the local bamboo is produced, and there are bamboos all over the mountains. The porridge stewed in this way is salty, fresh and delicious, and rich in nutrients. It's much more delicious than the laba porridge cooked in the village, and the family loves to eat it.

Because he wanted to send some to the Zhou Mansion, Geng Qiu deliberately took a broken jar and filled it with charcoal cubes, and then put the small clay pot where the porridge was cooked inside, and slowly simmered all the way over low heat. When I arrived at Zhou's Mansion, the porridge had already been cooked, and it was still boiling soup, so I just took it out and ate it.

This time, he also harvested a basket of small greens, which was very green. This is the last bit of food in the greenhouse, because there is not enough firewood at home, and it is impossible to burn the greenhouse anymore. He felt a pity in his heart, otherwise such fresh vegetables would not have to be eaten every day. Seeing this basket of vegetables, Steward Zhou's eyes lit up. At this time, there are not many greens to be seen.

Although the Zhou Mansion was because of the master, he got some various seasonal vegetables from all over the place, but where could it compare to such a fresh little green vegetable just now.

Seeing the hot porridge, Steward Zhou first divided some of it himself, and asked people to send it to the master of the ceremony, and left some for him to share with Dr. Li. The first time they ate such eight-treasure porridge, both of them laughed and said, "Sure enough, Ah Qiu can make food." This is the first time we've eaten salty laba porridge. ”

"That's it, just Ah Qiu will think, this porridge is still hot." Dr. Li also smiled.

"yes, I'm stewing on the road. Stew all the way, to Zhoufu, just out of the pot. Geng Qiu also smiled.

"It's really heartfelt. I said, why do you have a brain that looks so different from people, and you still want to cook porridge all the way. Dr. Li didn't care about burning his mouth, tasted it carefully, and sighed with satisfaction.

"Yes. This porridge is really good. Steward Zhou also tasted it and gave Geng Qiu a thumbs up.

On the other side, Master Yi also had a great appetite and used a bowl of porridge, and said with a smile: "It's really good, it's much better than the sweet porridge of the tired dead." ”

"Ouch, master, that sweet porridge from the dead is something that many people can't eat if they want to. It's all the best things boiled together, and it's good for the body. You like to eat this salty porridge, let the kitchen simmer another day. Ju's mother said. Now the taste of the master of the instrument is much better, the amount of food has increased a lot, and the belly is finally revealed, and the round look knows that the fetus has grown a lot. The doctors all said that the master of Yi had raised this fetus very well.

This salty porridge is really simple, even Ju's mother tried it, and felt that she had made it herself, and the ham cured in Geng Qiu's own house added some unique umami to this porridge. The cook deserves to be a cook, but she just looked at it, tried a few more bites, and said, "This porridge is easy to make." The ingredients at home are complete, and the materials are better than theirs. ”

"Okay, let's stew another pot in two days and eat it." Master Yi said with satisfaction. He was afraid that he would have to ask Geng Qiu to write a recipe for how to do it. Each family has its own secret recipes for these food recipes, and it is not easy to find people to ask for them. He didn't care about it at first, mainly because he was a little powerless, and then he deliberately let Ju's mother do that. He mainly wanted to see Geng Qiu and Ah Hao's personalities. Look at worthless interactions. He hadn't dealt with outsiders for too long, and he was a little out of proportion, but fortunately, Ah Hao and Geng Qiu were both cheerful people. The master of the ceremony was very satisfied.

After drinking the porridge, Dr. Li cleaned his hands, and went to treat Ah Hao with satisfaction, while Geng Qiu and Dr. Li were still waiting in the outer room. Now Dr. Li's time for Ahao's needle is getting shorter and shorter, but Dr. Li also said that he can cure Ahao's physical problems. But he doesn't have a good way to remember things that he can't remember clearly, after all, the problems in his head can only rely on Ah Hao himself, maybe one day he will remember them all, and he may not be able to remember them for the rest of his life. However, these are not too big things for Ah Hao and Geng Qiu. Anyway, the current Ah Hao is a normal person, and he has long been out of disease. My head doesn't hurt anymore, and my body is getting better.

After Ah Hao finished pricking the needle, Ju's mother was already waiting on the side, and she wanted to take him to see the master of Yi. On the way, Ju's mother also chatted with Ah Hao enthusiastically. Ah Hao returned the books and thanked him. Master Yi thought for a while, and asked Ah Hao a few questions, the two of you asked and answered back and forth, Master Yi was a university scholar, and quickly studied Ah Hao's level, and competed for his shortcomings, and deliberately mentioned it. Then, according to his needs, I found a few more books to lend to him.

"Yes, that's good. You have a good foundation, and if you continue like this, there is a lot of hope. Master Yi said with rare admiration. He didn't expect that Ah Hao would really be able to pick up the books again so quickly. Between the Q&A, it was also very smooth and insightful. It can be seen that Ah Hao was also a good seedling when he studied before, but it was a pity that he was delayed.

"Thank you for your advice, it's also your credit, I wouldn't be able to do without these books." Ah Hao said gratefully.

"No matter how much others help, they have to rely on themselves to stand up to be useful. Although there are very few of us who are from the public examination, it is also very good for you to have the identity of a showman. "Master Yi is also a smart man. He didn't have much interest in being such an idle official, otherwise, he wouldn't have gone to the imperial examination early in the morning.

"Yes. It's too hard to be a commoner. If you haven't had a good life before, you can come. For the sake of future generations, we have to fight now. "Ah Hao is telling the truth this time. He didn't intend to lie to the master. Originally, he just wanted to take the test.

"Alas, your martial arts are not bad, why don't you want to compete for a military merit?" Master Yi asked curiously. Sure enough, it was a stupid pregnant person, and he only remembered now that wouldn't it be better for Xianggong to join the martial arts, and Ah Hao himself has martial arts.

"My father used to be under the general, although he was a small military general who was not in the stream, and he died beforehand, but I want to enter the military from the military, I'm afraid I will also lose hope." Ah Hao said.

He was not afraid to say these words, and the master of Yi had long known his details. His current status is the only son of a low-ranking military general. Because the family background is also quite passable, and lost his mother since he was a child, he was fostered in other places, learning literature and martial arts, and later his father died, and the family lost income, so he left his books. After his father's filial piety, he recruited Geng Qiu to go home according to his father's order, and dragged his family back to his hometown.

"Yes. You have that kind of birth, it's really not good to enter the military service, not to mention that most of the current military power is in the hands of the prince, it's not good, you don't even know how to die. Master Yi sighed and said. What happened in the General's Mansion was known even to him, a person who lived far away from the temple and lived here. However, after the general's accident, Master Zhou will be transferred to Jianghuai. The general's matter was also sued by Master Zhou.

"yes, otherwise, we wouldn't have moved back to our ancestral home in the countryside." Ah Hao sighed and said unhappily.

"Yes. You just have to know what you want. Do everything according to your ability, go with the flow, and don't do some useless struggles. "Master Yi, this is also feeling. If I could have thought the same way more than ten years ago, wouldn't my life have been the way it is now?

Geng Qiu didn't go with Ah Hao to see Master Yi this time. Instead, he drank tea and chatted with Steward Zhou, Dr. Li. These two people now regard him as one of the great pleasures of life, and they are waiting for him to come over every day. Talking to him always brings something out of the ordinary. If Geng Qiu hadn't been somewhat restrained now, I'm afraid he would have told more strange things that they didn't know.

Geng Qiu came from another time and space, and his stomach contained a lot of things that everyone didn't know about since he was a child. Dr. Li is also a person who has traveled from south to north and has seen a lot, and Steward Zhou, who has followed Master Zhou to many places, can be regarded as well-informed, although everyone now lives in this small place, there are still many common topics. And these words, they are usually not easy to talk about with other people, not every time they talk about it, the feelings of several people are a little better.

However, Geng Qiu was just thinking about inquiring about some things, and he didn't know about the customs and current affairs of the dynasty, so he was afraid that he would accidentally say something prohibited, so of course he had to pick some strange things and anecdotes to tell, which made Zhou and Li keep asking questions, and they were very happy. In the casual conversation with Zhou and Li, he learned a lot of things he wanted to know. Steward Zhou and Master Li will also be inadvertently led by him, and talk about some current affairs and political affairs, customs and common sense to him.

For example, sue him, after Ah Hao wins Xiucai, the villagers will be honored when they see Ah Hao, Master Xiucai. If his family has more property, and the children continue to study, it can be said that they will be heirlooms in the future. It is also possible to leave the remote and poor ravine and settle in the town or county, which is more convenient to buy property.

These words made Geng Qiu very happy to listen to them. He doesn't want to stay in a small ravine for the rest of his life as a little villager with his face facing the loess and his back to the sky, and he can't eat enough. It's hard to become a crossing army, at least you have to walk around and appreciate the great rivers and mountains of ancient times.

"Master Zhou, do you rarely come here?" Geng Qiu pulled the topic to the official, just to find out who the old man was this week, and to see if he could make some effort to help Ah Hao. And he has never seen Master Zhou once, I don't know if it's hard to see this official, and I don't know what an ancient official was like?

"It's almost the New Year. Our lord will be here for the holidays this year. The day before yesterday, I let people say that I will come back on the day of the seal. Steward Zhou said happily.

Since he came to this courtyard with the master of the ceremony, he and Master Zhou have completely relied on correspondence and oral messages to communicate, and the number of meetings is small, let alone spending the New Year in one place. He is also looking forward to Master Zhou being able to spend the New Year in this courtyard. And the courtyard immediately added another little master, and the annex, which was originally calm like a cloud of stagnant water, is now much more active.

This qiē made him happy. Although Steward Zhou is a descendant of the Zhou family, his status is equivalent to half of the master, and because he has been with Master Zhou since he was a child, he and Master Zhou are not simply masters and subordinates, and the relationship between the two is very good. Master Zhou trusts him very much, and many things can be handed over to him with confidence.

"Oh, the old man's time at home that week was not short, so it's not good for us to disturb during this time." Geng Qiu said again.

"The old man has twenty seals in the month of La, and it may be twenty-two before he can get home. The seal is a month, but the seventeenth day of the first month is to leave home. During this period, there are still many colleagues and friends of the lord to move around, and the masters have to sacrifice and worship their ancestors. Our house will soon be busy. When the time comes, I really won't have time to talk to you. Well, then, come back on the 19th day of the first month. Steward Zhou thought about it in his heart and said.

"Okay." Geng Qiu responded in his mouth, but he was thinking in his heart, it's really good, the officials of this dynasty have a long vacation, a month. The three of them were gossiping again, and laughter came from time to time in the small courtyard. The people who can obviously speak are in a good mood.

Master Yi has been studying with his grandfather since he was a child, and his knowledge is quite good. He had a lot of books on hand. The two have a very late feeling of seeing each other. If it weren't for the fact that Ah Hao lived too far away, the master of Yi still thought that Ah Hao would come to talk to him about his homework every few days. It's not just about schoolwork, it's about other things. But Ah Hao didn't dare to tire him too much, because the most important thing for him now was to take care of his body.

"It's almost the New Year. There's a lot going on at home, and it's going to take a while before you can come back. This time, bring some more books back to read. If there's anything you don't understand, write it down and talk to me another day. Master Yi said.

"Okay, thank you so much." Ah Hao hurriedly stepped forward to help him and walked around the yard with him. The master of the ceremony is usually quiet, and there are not many people waiting in the courtyard. In addition, he is now in a special period, and no one dares to trouble him if there is anything. Ah Hao has been here for almost two hours, and he hasn't seen anyone.

"Hey, I'm a little tired. I'm really careless in this body. When you were pregnant before, were you okay? "Master Yi just talked a little more, and after walking around, he felt tired.

"Let's sit down and rest. I'm not as good as you, I've been practicing martial arts since I was a child, I'm in good health, I've done everything with my child, I'm not picky about eating, and there's nothing uncomfortable. The child is still delivered by Brother Qiu himself. Those who are in the wilderness are all on their own. Ah Hao smiled.

Thinking of these things, he also felt a little scared now. At that time, there was really no way, I kept on the run, between life and death, where could I take care of anything else. But no matter how dangerous the situation, Ah Niu stayed in his belly well, and I have to say, this is really lucky. Of course, Ah Niu's biological father worked very hard, worked hard, and finally lost his life to ensure that he dragged to the present Geng Qiu. Therefore, Ah Hao should not be killed.

In fact, until now, he still doesn't remember a lot of things, he only knows that he is on the run all the way, and no matter where he goes, he doesn't dare to stop. If it is more than ten days and a half months, the place will be transferred, and if it is less than one and a half days, it will have to leave. Several times he also had to defend himself, and it was not uncommon for him to fight and kill people. But in this way, he still gave birth to Ah Niu safely, and Ah Niu was still raised strong. This can only be said to be able to go to heaven and have the virtue of a good life.

"Ouch, there's no one like you. Your child is really fateful, from the snack is bitter, and when he grows up, he will become a big thing. Master Yi said enviously. He is now raising this baby very carefully, and he is scared half to death at the slightest breeze, how do you know that people are pregnant with a child and give birth to a child, it's so simple. I can't even envy it.

Speaking of children, the topic of the two became more relaxed, Ah Hao unconsciously showed a gentle smile as a father, the master stroked his belly, and the two chatted about some parenting. Anyway, Ah Niu was also brought up by Geng Qiu and Ah Hao, even if there were three uncles and three aunts later, Ah Hao had less time to take care of Ah Niu personally. But he is also a person who has taken care of the children, even now, he has to take a little time out every day to tease Ah Niu for a while. In his mind, taking care of children is not a waste of time, and Ah Hao is also a good parent.

The two sat in the courtyard for a while, but no one came, and Ah Hao hurriedly shouted: "Mother Ju, Mother Ju." ”

"Hey, it's coming, it's coming." Mother Ju's loud echo came from afar, and after a while, she trotted over with a bowl of hot soup. It turned out that she went to the kitchen to prepare a meal for Master Yi. With Ah Hao accompanying the master, she was very relieved. Because as soon as Ah Hao came, the master of Yi was in a particularly good mood.

"Your body, in addition to eating well, should be more active, so that the child will be stronger and easier to give birth in the future." Ah Hao looked at Master Yi and said with some concern.

"Well, that's what the doctor said. I now press a few times a day and walk around the yard a few times. Now I'm in good shape. It's just that I feel a little more. Master Yi smiled. He also knows that he is old, and he is indeed more cautious than others in Shunshun production. Therefore, he did not dare to discount the doctor's instructions at all, and he was very cooperative.

Ah Hao said goodbye and came out to find Geng Qiu. The two went home together.

A few days ago, Master Zhou sent someone to send some Jianghuai specialties back. A few years ago, every Spring Festival, he was in the capital to accompany his family for the New Year, this year because the master of the ceremony is pregnant, he wants to stay with the master of the ceremony for the New Year.

Therefore, there are a lot more items sent here this year than in previous years. No, since entering the wax moon, the family has been receiving gifts every day. The storerooms are almost full. The master of the ceremony only occasionally came to pick up some things he liked, and he didn't bother to look at most of them. At most, it's just to send Ju's mother to pick out a few and send some back to his old house.

Anyway, now Master Zhou is a lot more generous to him, not only sending good things like running water to his room, but also buying him a lot of properties. The master didn't take the initiative to ask for these things, but he wouldn't refuse those that were sent to him. As for the New Year's gifts and other things, he didn't bother to worry about it. These things have always been taken care of by Steward Zhou. Anyway, most of them are relatives and friends of Master Zhou, he didn't care about it before, but now he is inconvenient and even more lazy to care.

When Geng Qiu and Ah Hao left, Steward Zhou and Master Yi each gave them New Year's gifts. Laba porridge is indispensable, of course, people's eight-treasure porridge, but it is authentic, and there are many good materials in it. It's full of casserole porridge. Sending Laba porridge to each other on the occasion of Laba is also a normal human exchange activity.

In addition, some Jianghuai specialties were also sent to them. For example, the big fish, which is a fish in the river, is bigger than what they catch in the mountains, and it tastes a little more delicious. The two big fish weighed fifty or sixty pounds. What's even more rare is that some seafood was also given to them. There are two catties of kelp alone, and there is also a package of dried scallops and a package of dried shrimp. This is the first time Geng Qiu has seen seafood since ancient times. In ancient times, it was rare to see seafood sold far from the sea, and the price was very high. He couldn't even figure out the price of two catties of kelp, and Ahao didn't even recognize it. Geng Qiu said with a smile: "Dried scallops are good goods, go back to cook porridge, stew soup is good, very replenishing." ”

Because the Chinese New Year was approaching, Geng Qiu and Ah Hao originally planned to buy some New Year's goods at the market. Now that they have these New Year's goods, they only selectively buy a few things, and the most expensive thing is to buy a few catties of pork belly and a few fat hooves. The weather is getting colder and colder, it is very inconvenient to travel, and they don't use Zhoufu to get needles, and during the New Year's Eve, they don't plan to come to the town again, so they have to buy everything this time. But I spent it so casually, and I spent more than a tael of silver.

Anyway, their family has no relatives to leave here, and they don't need too many New Year's gifts to give away. It's just a New Year's gift to the village chief and an elder. Keep some sweets and snacks at home in case the children come to make trouble, and everyone can send two handfuls.

Because Geng Qiu and Ah Hao went to the market town more often than the people in the village, some people in the village would also discuss it in private. Geng Qiu specially told the village chief last time that their family had a relative who worked in a big family, and the main family was very good to him, not only sent them a lot of things, but also asked Ah Hao to take the Xiucai test through the relationship of the main family.

Hearing that Ah Hao was going to take the Xiucai exam, the village chief and Ah Qing were a little stunned, but the village chief reacted quickly and said with a smile: "Then congratulations first." When Ming'er Ahao is admitted, he must set up a few tables in the village. Let our whole village be wiped out. In the future, our village can be regarded as knowledgeable. ”

Although his youngest son is also in school, he is also going to try it after the next year, but the master also said, that is, let him try his hand first, and whether he can win or not will be two words. Obviously, the kid's grades weren't very good. However, he is not very old, only fifteen years old, and he will not be able to pass the exam next year, and he will not be afraid to stay up for a few more years. It's that the cost of the family will be much larger.

Raising a child who reads is really very difficult for ordinary people. A year's bundle of juan has to be a few taels, plus pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., no matter how little, a year of more than ten or twenty taels of silver to spend. That's why the village chief's family is so poor. I really left all the money for this little son to study.

"I'm sorry for your good words, I'm sure I'll invite everyone to eat and drink when the time comes." Geng Qiu said with a smile. He is very confident in Ah Haoke.

Now the village chief is even more convinced that Ah Hao has a family background, and he still didn't understand why Geng Qiu married Ah Hao's father-in-law in this way. Now I feel that Geng Qiu is not at a loss. Ah Hao is able to write and martial arts, and he will be an official in the future. Even if Geng Qiu has this status, he doesn't have to worry about life, not to mention that his children will no longer be ordinary people in the future. And they have a good relationship, and they can have another child with the surname Geng Qiu, and Geng Qiu can be regarded as a successor.

As for Geng Qiu, he didn't know much about the embarrassment of his identity at all. He doesn't know the customs of this dynasty, how can he know that he is married to Ah Hao, and Ah Hao marries him, the difference is so big, anyway, in his eyes, Ah Hao is his wife. As for the head of the household being Ah Hao, he didn't feel anything wrong at all. In modern times, there is no difference between how many women are heads of households, and men are heads of households. A lot of women are better than men.

Because Ah Hao is becoming more and more serious about studying, his family basically doesn't dare to speak loudly during the day, that is, Ah Niu sometimes makes noise, and whenever this happens, Geng Qiu will take him out to play, and go to the house of someone who is familiar with him to play, especially if there are children about the same size as him at home. Sometimes he goes to the village chief's house, sometimes he goes to Azhu Amu's house, and when the sun is shining, he will also take Ah Niu and Ning Ge'er to play at his doorstep. At this time, he will also ask Ah Hao to go out, read in the yard, and bask in the sun by the way. It's not good to be locked in the house every day.

In order to ensure that Ah Hao uses charcoal, Geng Qiu completely gave up burning the warm shed, but there are still bean sprouts and bean sprouts at home, in order to let Ah Hao order more delicious dishes. He usually sleeps until ten o'clock at night and gets up to make supper, and he just cooks a bowl of batter and beats a poached egg or something. After all, with this condition at home, it is impossible to get many good things. But because of these suppers, Ah Hao's life is still much better. If you eat something at night to cushion your stomach, you won't feel hungry anymore when you sleep, your body will be warm, and you will fall asleep quickly. When you wake up during the day, your spirits will be much better.

Ah Hao usually eats supper, reads a book for more than half an hour, and then goes to sleep. At this time, it is about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night and wakes up at about six o'clock in the morning. In a day, you can only sleep for six hours. After waking up, do a set of boxing, move for two quarters of an hour, that is, about half an hour, and then sit down to study. Generally speaking, at seven o'clock, the third aunt gets up and starts to make breakfast for him. Before eight o'clock, Ah Hao could have breakfast. At this time, Geng Qiu and Brother A Niu Ning were still sleeping. They don't get up until about ten o'clock. And the third aunt will also arrange the family's first meal at this time. It was about half past ten, and the family had dinner together. Dinner is eaten between 5 and 6 p.m., and it is eaten late.

In winter, the whole village eats two meals, in fact, most of the time, the villagers also eat two meals, as long as Geng Qiu is accustomed to eating three meals, but in winter, there is indeed less activity during the day, and he gets up late, so gradually the family has become two staple foods, however, their family still prepares a lot of snacks, sometimes not to eat, hungry on the cushion of two pieces is almost the same.

Time flies quickly, when it comes to the New Year, every household is worshiping their ancestors, Ah Hao also put down his books on this day, prepared some paper money, incense and candles at home, he wrote something again, and turned it at the gate together. There is no ancestral tomb of his family here, and he didn't even dare to set up a tablet for his relatives, so he had to act so simply, which can be regarded as an explanation to his ancestors. Fortunately, in such a small and remote place, everyone's approach is very simple.

The third uncle and the third aunt secretly wiped their tears a few times, probably thinking of those deceased people again. But they didn't dare to do anything, after all, it was the most important period for Ah Hao, and they couldn't spoil his mood. If there's anything, everyone will let it go first.

Because of school, Ah Xuan, the youngest brother of Ah Qing's family, also returned to the village a few days earlier. On this day, under the leadership of Ah Qing, he deliberately came over to make a visit, and also talked to Ah Hao about learning by the way. After all, there are only two of them in the whole village now. When he usually comes back, he just shuts himself in the house and studies hard, but this time, Ah Hao still received Ah Xuan very warmly.

Ah Xuan is several years younger than Ah Hao, and because he has been studying since he was a child, he has never done any farm work, so he looks a little thin, and he is a handsome young man. However, others are very active, and their basic skills are also solid, so they can talk to Ah Hao. However, when he saw the books that Ah Hao read, he was very surprised and envious, and it was obvious that these books were extremely precious to him.

"You can take these two copies back and copy them down first. Look at it slowly in the future, I also borrowed it, and I have to return it to others on the nineteenth day of the first month. Ah Hao took out two books that he had already read and said.

"Really, that's great." Ah Xuan took the book as if he had taken a treasure, thanked him, and didn't even bother to eat snacks, so he ran home to copy the book. He'll have to hurry up and copy it down. Finding a book like this is a real thing for him to come by.

Ah Qing also thanked Ah Hao again and again in the back, but he didn't expect Ah Hao to lend the book to his younger brother so generously, and also allowed him to copy it. You must know that their family is poor, and they rarely can buy books for Ah Xuan, and some books can't be bought even if they have money. That's why Ah Xuan is so gaffe.

"It's okay, this kid also loves books." Ah Hao smiled and waved his hand, if he had time, he would copy a few books and keep them, and it would be excellent to keep them for Brother Ning in the future. It's just that he really doesn't have the energy to do it now, so he has to look at the present. However, he also recorded a lot of content, and asked the third aunt to bind several books for him, after all, a lot of content also has to be memorized while reading.

These books, the master of the ceremony clearly said, he can copy them. You can even lend it to others, and it's up to him to make his decisions. That's why he lent it to Ah Xuan. In fact, he also knew that it was indeed difficult to find such a good book. He was purely lucky to meet the master of the ceremony. People are born in real scholarly families, and these books can be passed down from generation to generation as family property. For some families like this, marrying their daughters and using these books as a dowry is a very face-saving thing that is liked by the husband's family.

Ah Hao rarely rested for a day, and of course accompanied Geng Qiu for one night at night, and the two made a good relationship. But the next day, when Geng Qiu woke up, Ah Hao was still reading. Not affected at all. When Ah Niu woke up, there was one less person who was sleeping with him in the same bed, and he was still humming and making a fuss, Geng Qiu took him to Ah Hao, and after playing for a while, he quieted down.

"Little conscienceless, the old man takes you every day, but you think about your father." Geng Qiu smiled and scolded Ah Niu, who was held in his hand by Ah Hao. Ah Niu only cared about giggling, where could he care about this, his father was eating vinegar on the side.

"Ah Niu, go out with your father, your father is going to study." Ah Hao listened to his words, smiled and discussed with his son, and handed Ah Niu to him.

Ah Niu also had a good time, and obediently left Ah Hao's study with Geng Qiu. He also knew that he couldn't disturb his Ah Hao studying.