Along the way, they successively sent away fat rich businessmen and scholars, and soon after arriving in Huaining County, Zhu Ping'an was left alone in the carriage.

The closer he got to home, the more excited Zhu Ping'an's mood became.

The birds love the old forest, and the pond fish thinks about the old place. There is no warmer place than home, and there is no warmer person than family. It's beautiful outside, but I have to go home.

When he arrived in Gushan Town, Zhu Ping'an said goodbye to the carriage and horses, took a short walk around the town with his bags on his back and bought some small gifts for his family. I bought a silver stud earring for my mother, a small jar of ten-year-old wine for my father, and a bag of fine tobacco for my grandfather......

After buying good things and carefully packing them in his bag, Zhu Ping'an walked out of the town with his bags on his back.

There is a strange ox cart parked at the intersection outside the mountain town, much longer and wider than the average ox cart, there are two rows of seats on it, and there is a top made of clean linoleum, which can shelter from the rain and sun, and in front of the ox cart is a big black ox with a tail and a big bell hanging from its neck.

There were already five people sitting in the carriage, and a bronze man in front of the big black bull was carrying a basin to feed the big black bull.

"Hey, Shouyi, look at that kid over there, isn't it your second child?" A lady in the car saw Zhu Ping'an, who was walking this way in the distance, how did she look at it, she felt a little familiar, and couldn't help but say to the man in front of him who was holding a basin of water to feed the cows.

"Auntie, you are here again, this is the third time this month." The bronzed man said with a wry smile, and continued to give the cow salt water, without raising his head, he was fooled twice, and he would be fooled for the third time. When the cow is finished, he has to rush home, and when he comes home late, his mother should complain again.

Zhu Ping'an recognized his own ox cart at a glance, it was too conspicuous, so he walked in the direction of the ox cart with his bags on his back.

"Shouyi, Shouyi, it's really your second boy, someone from the town beat gongs and drums at your door a few days ago, but it's not your second boy who came back." The lady sitting on the ox cart looked at Zhu Ping'an, who was getting closer and closer, and believed in her eyes more and more, and couldn't help but excitedly stretched out her hand and patted the shoulder of the man who was feeding the cow.

"Auntie, don't make trouble, when Da Hei finishes drinking this basin of water, I will rush everyone home." The bronze man who fed the cattle smiled bitterly, as if he had been deceived by the lady on the ox cart.

The eldest lady was so excited that she couldn't help herself, she didn't know how to say it to make the man who fed the cow believe, but the other people sitting on the ox cart were not from Xiahe Village, and she didn't know Zhu Ping'an, which made the aunt not know how to say it to make the man who fed the cow believe, but she patted the cow man on the shoulder several times, and kept saying, "It's true, it's really ......"

Although the eldest lady has not heard the story of the wolf, her mood is the same as the child herding sheep in the story.

"Dad, I'm back."

Seeing that the big black cow was about to drink up a large basin of water, the man feeding the cow suddenly heard a familiar voice overhead.

Familiar, this voice is so familiar that you can hear it when you cover your ears.

The man who fed the cow was suddenly excited.

For the excitement of feeding the cow man, the big black cow has the most right to speak: I was drinking the water well, well, the water is still a little salty, very delicious, seeing that I am about to finish drinking, I didn't expect, I never expected, the basin suddenly pressed my nose...... Tears choked out......

The man who fed the cow was Zhu Ping'an's father, Zhu Shouyi, who was excited, pressed the basin in his hand to the nose of the big black cow, and then he couldn't care about feeding the cow anymore, raised his head to look at Zhu Ping'an, and smiled on Mu Ne's honest face all of a sudden, and then pretended to say casually:

"Why are you back, a few days ago, someone from the yamen in the town came to the house to report the good news, saying that you passed the test and were admitted to the children's school, and they also said that you might continue to study over there, and then you will have to go to Yingtian to take the exam again."

Zhu Ping'an put his bags on the ox cart, said hello to the lady and others on the ox cart, and took the basin from Zhu Shouyi's hand to help feed the cattle, and explained to his father while feeding the cattle: "The hospital exam can only be taken in August, but now it's only more than April, and the time is still early, I can also review it when I go home, besides, the food cooked by my mother is a hundred times better than the outside." ”

"It will take half a month to go back and forth, so it is better to stay there and study." Father Zhu rubbed his hands, then checked the ox cart rope buckle, looked at Zhu Ping'an and said.

Before Zhu Ping'an could speak, the eldest lady in the car interjected and came in, "Hello, don't believe your father's words, you don't know what your father was happy when the eldest mother teased your father for the first time and said that you were coming." ”

"Ahem, auntie, you are talking nonsense......" Father Zhu was a little embarrassed, but fortunately, his face was black, and he couldn't see the red at all.

After Zhu Ping'an got into the car, three more people came up one after another, and there were a total of nine people in the car, and Zhu's father drove the big black bull to the outside of the town with a whip.

The car is also very lively, when I know that the youngest child in the town who is sitting in the car is the boiling in the town recently, the passengers on the ox cart are either around Zhu Ping'an to ask this and that, or around Zhu's father to ask how to educate the child, etc., for a while, it feels like a child with excellent grades after the modern college entrance examination is surrounded by parents to ask about experience.

Zhu's father drove the ox cart along this zigzag arc around an S shape to send people from different villages on the ox cart to their vicinity, and after driving the ox cart for so many years, Zhu's father could accurately send people to their neighborhood with his eyes closed.

When I returned to Xiahe Village, there was only one old lady on the ox cart, and the eldest lady was a talkative person, and chatted with Zhu Ping'an and Zhu's father all the way on the ox cart.

Entered Xiahe Village, successively met the villagers they knew, the villagers saw Zhu Ping'an are praised, it seems that a few days ago the town came to beat the gong and drum to report the good news The impact is quite big, at least basically the whole village knows that Zhu Ping'an was admitted to Tongsheng, and it is also the first place in the entire Anqing Mansion, you must know that the highest education in the entire Xiahe Village is Tongsheng, or the uncle took the exam for many years before the crane tail was examined, when the villagers sent Zhu Ping'an and others to catch the exam, no one expected that Zhu Ping'an could pass the Tongsheng exam, Now Zhu Ping'an is not only admitted, but also the first place in the entire Anqing Mansion, so people can't wait to see Zhu Ping'an when they see Zhu Ping'an, it's too rare.

Zhu Ping'an also greeted the neighbors one by one, which made the neighbors very happy, and they felt that they had face, and the people in the village cared about this.

Because it took more time to talk to the neighbors, when I got home, my mother Chen had already prepared the meal.

Before I entered the door, I heard the conversation between the eldest brother and the mother.

"Mother, why did you make a big table of dishes, it's chicken and fish, and we can't finish it." This is the voice of the big brother.

"What do you know, what if Biao'er comes back, he is not as blessed as you outside, he can eat the food I cook every day, and I don't know if Biao'er has lost weight again...... ''s voice's voice came immediately.

"The restaurant outside is better...... "The eldest brother muttered quietly.

"What, Dachuan, you say it again, my mother didn't hear clearly!" The mother's voice was three points higher.

"Ahem, cough, I said that my mother is much more delicious than the restaurant outside......"

Under the authority of his mother Chen, the honest eldest brother was forced to say flattering words, and it seems that the eldest brother has been taught a lesson in the past two days.

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