Therefore, when he saw him again, Ah Chou only sighed.

That's it, I still don't say hello, otherwise, I don't know what to say, I don't know where to start. Moreover, he should have put it down too, right?

When you are young and ignorant, who has never mistakenly thought that those false beauty are your true heart.

It's a pity that she is no longer young and ignorant, and she will no longer be mistaken and unable to appreciate what is vain and beautiful.

Is it a pity?

Ah Ugly sighed and walked calmly behind Ding Juwen.

Stranger.

When I got home in the evening, at the dinner table, Ah Chou praised Tian Qiumei's craftsmanship repeatedly.

"Qiu Mei, this girl, is very talented, I just saw that she was interested in learning, so I gave her a few recipes, and made me a full ten!" Ah Chou said to Grandma Xu.

Grandma Xu smiled kindly: "Before, Qiumei's father was very picky about her, and there was nothing good to do, but she practiced a good craft, even eggplant can be made more fragrant than meat!" ”

"Isn't that what you're capable of?" Ugly head admired.

Grandma Xu rolled her somewhat cloudy eyes, and seemed to think for a while before speaking: "Today, someone sent a letter." ”

"Hey, grandma didn't say it earlier, whose letter was it?" Ugly wondered.

"It was written by Xiao Wu of the Tong family, on the table in the back room, you can take a look after eating." Grandma Xu looked a little strange.

Ah Chou became more and more puzzled, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and walked to the back room to take out the letter, the handwriting was still crooked, but the content was ......

After reading it, Ah Chou put down the letter and sat back on the table, but he didn't pick up the dishes and chopsticks: "The letter, it was sent by Ding Juwen, right?" ”

Grandma Xu was a little surprised, how did Ah Chou guess it. But he still nodded: "Yes." ”

"What did Ding Juwen say?" Ugly asked.

"Hey, this kid is really," Grandma Xu also put down the dishes and chopsticks, clenched her hands, "He told me that he came to Huainan City to participate in the Autumn Festival, and Xiao Wuxin asked Ah Ugly to take care of him, but he felt that there was really no need to trouble Ah Ugly, so he didn't bother." I forced him to stay in our house, where there were many rooms. It's not that there is no vacant land, and there are people who live at home to take care of it, but he ...... But he refused, and he didn't even agree to come in and sit, and ran away after putting down the letter! ”

Ugly lowered his eyes. There are no words.

Ding Juwen's family is not rich, it can be said that he has come to this point. It's all Aunt Ding's hard work. I came here with him to save money and eat frugally. Moreover, he himself is not a spendthrift, and he chooses to open an inn instead of relatives and friends - maybe he is really afraid of himself, right?

"We've also invited, and since we don't come, we don't have any other way. But after all, it comes from a village, and it doesn't mean a little bit. We can't get by ourselves. Grandma, you will send him ten taels of silver tomorrow to wish him high school. In any case, you can't let him shirk, just say. If we don't accept it, we will be trapped in a place of inhumanity. Ah Ugly sighed again, ten taels of silver, not the money itself, but the etiquette.

Du Yisheng and Jin Dacheng's first month's salary was only more than four taels of silver per person, which was the highest salary among the guys in the entire Qiaojun City.

But for people who are away from home, ten taels of silver is not a generous number, but it is not a good number, it is a moderate amount.

Ten taels of silver is to help fellow villagers, and the etiquette itself can be regarded as a grievance.

The next day, Grandma Xu came to Kai'an Inn to look for Ding Juwen.

Ding Juwen opened the door and saw the comer, his eyes were a little trance: "Grandma Xu, is there something wrong?" ”

"It's nothing," Grandma Xu said softly, "You refused to come to live at home yesterday, I don't worry, I came to see you today." Listen to what Ugly said, the ninth day of the next month is the autumn season, this is the end of the month, a few days, or live at home? There is someone to take care of at home, too! ”

"Thank you Grandma Xu for your kindness, Juwen always thinks that the inn is quieter and easier to review," Ding Juwen thanked him, "I have nothing to do here, grandma, please go back." ”

Seeing that the persuasion was unsuccessful, Grandma Xu was no longer reluctant, and took out a bag of silver and stuffed it into Ding Juwen's hand: "Since you don't come home, this must be accepted, otherwise we will lose our manners." ”

"How dare this, I have no merit, how can I accept this!" Ding Juwen hurriedly excused himself.

"Naturally," Grandma Xu pushed back his hand, "After all, we are fellow villagers, and if you refuse it like this, people still think that we have done something bad to make you so disgusted; Or even more unknowingly, we don't even take care of our fellow villagers, ruthless and unjust......"

Ding Juwen shook his head and denied: "Grandma Xu, you know I don't mean that......"

"I know, of course I know," Grandma Xu nodded slowly, "but others don't know, this etiquette still needs to be there." You just take it. ”

"Thank you, Grandma Xu." Ding Juwen knew that he couldn't say anything if he resigned, so he had to bow and thank him.

Grandma Xu glanced at the room where he lived again: "People who are about to take the exam, also exchange this silver for a better room, don't be frugal, if there is anything, not enough silver, or if there are any joints, go to Xu's Mansion to find me, or look for an ugly girl in the Sumire Hall during the day, she also has some communication, maybe she can help!" ”

Seeing that Ding Juwen agreed on his face, but based on the situation of the past two days, Grandma Xu knew that Ding Juwen would not go to them again, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart: Hey, this kid!

Sending Grandma Xu away, Ding Juwen closed the door, put the bag of silver on the table, sat down on the edge of the bed, and was silent for a long time.

That day, the truth fell with the veil and was revealed before his eyes.

Later, when he got home, he locked himself in the house and thought about it for many, many days.

At that time, my mother always thought that she was just studying hard, but in fact, he didn't read a word.

Ding Juwen came back to his senses a little, and reached out to brush a book on the bed. It was a book she had borrowed, and there seemed to be a little bit of her consciousness left, which made him a little trance-like.

Yes, he thought about it many, many days.

For a long time, his obsession has been to study hard, gain fame, and live up to his mother's hard work for many years. I still remember when I was a child, it seemed that I had just remembered, my mother was almost blind from crying at my father's grave, and she was not very awake after being carried back. But even in the most sober days of her mother, she was still working, working, telling him to study hard.

After so many years, my mother has long lost her former brilliance, and her white hair seems to have become the most natural decoration on her head. Whenever his mother cried and went crazy, he was always helpless and sad, he was powerless to change all this, and he couldn't protect his own mother who gave birth to him and raised him. All he could do was study hard.

He longed for the world depicted in the book, and longed for fame and fame, especially after Lu Zhaoting was admitted to the examination, he returned to his hometown and moved his family to Huainan. Their bright clothes, as well as the crowds of travel, gave him a new desire. At that time, he stood behind the door, thinking to himself that if one day he could do this, he could let his mother live such a life, and he would be able to get what he wanted.

Later, he met Ugly.

Born in the countryside, although he has never seen the world, he really has never come into contact with a woman who knows books and etiquette. However, Ah Ugly is not a wood who knows books and etiquette, her depression is beyond her age, which makes people feel awe-inspired, but it reveals a tenacity from her bones.

She is not spicy, but she is not quiet, she seems to have all the qualities, and she seems to be detached from them, different from the world.

Yes, she is so special, so different.

She doesn't seem to pay attention to anything, but she is not ignorant and arrogant, and her attitude towards this world is also quite different.

But he was just attracted.

He had never seen her face under the veil, but he always had a kind of ardent expectation for beauty, and felt that even if it was not stunning, she would be a delicate and dignified woman.

When he was a child, he read books, and there was Yan Ruyu in the book, he shook his head and didn't believe it, but he also imagined that his future wife should be Hui Mei Xianshu, Qin Se and Ming.

Now, there was a person he was willing to look forward to, and he had rightly placed such expectations on her, and he was convinced of them.

At first, he thought that she was just a down-and-out daughter, and her family was in the middle of the road, and she might still be burdened with a sea of blood and hatred.

So, he knew that he had to work hard, very hard, to be worthy of her identity, talent, and to give her only meager help.

But she rejected him.

He thought she was inappropriate for his civilian status.

But then, when the truth came to an end-

He came home and sat for a long time, thinking about everything since he met and met, and then he realized how ridiculous he was!

Not deceived by her, but deceived by herself!

It was always himself who deceived him!

The beauty he is for, the expectations he is looking forward to, are all lies of his own imagination!

Yes, she never showed the slightest affection for him, and she righteously rejected his friendship, and she never mentioned her own face. It was he who deceived himself.

When disillusioned, he laughs at his own stupidity, at his ignorance, at everything he does. So he began to study hard, wanting to numb himself with reading.

He studied hard day and night, and didn't even go out for a month, until his mind was full of those literary and political theories, which were about to drive him crazy, and he walked out of the house a little haggard, and he knew that the room at the foot of the mountain had long been empty.

Listening to Xiao Wu, she is doing well in Huainan City, and she will never come back.

But he is going to Huainan City to participate in the Autumn Festival, is this destined in the dark, or is it something else?

He didn't want to think about it, he kept running away, and he ran away to this day.

Yesterday in the lobby on the first floor of the Kai'an Inn, he saw her.

The autumn-colored dress is not luxurious and rich, but it is extraordinary, which is completely different from the dress in Gujing Village. It seems that she is really doing well. What remains unchanged is the beige veil.

She walked far behind her, silently, without breath, but he smelled a trace of sadness, and I don't know if it was from her or his own heart. (To be continued......)

PS: Supplement 2