After the chickens in Anning Village crow two or three times, every household began to take a hoe to the field, although the seeds are sown, fertilization and weeding are indispensable, tired after a morning home to have lunch and rest for a while, should go to the ground, should do the work to do the work, everyone's life is in order, except for the Lin family.

Aunt Lin put a bowl of stewed chicken soup in front of Lin Nan: "Son, you see that you study so hard, let's drink a bowl of chicken soup to rest and rest first, and replenish nutrition." ”

Since Lin Nan is about to prepare for the exam, Aunt Lin has not been less busy, three meals a day to cook for Lin Nan, this big bone soup chicken, duck and fish is no less.

Lin Nan took the book, and he didn't memorize a short ancient text several times, so he couldn't help but be upset, and pushed Aunt Lin to the side: "Mother, what are you doing here?" You've influenced me to read. ”

Aunt Lin sat next to her, she didn't know where to put her little feet, and she still showed a happy expression on her face: "Don't be nervous, you can pass the exam." ”

Lin Nan Zheng'er has only two children in the eight classics, but he has not passed once, and most of the students in the same class have passed, leaving only himself.

Originally, the family did not support him to study, but Lin Nan's master said that Lin Nan had a talent for reading, and every time he failed to take the exam, he said that the teacher made a mistake, and he didn't blame Lin Nan.

The Lin family really believes it, and those who smash the pot and sell iron have to let the Lin family come out with a champion.

"What if you're nervous or not?" Lin Linnan threw the brush directly on the table, and the pen and ink splashed on the ground.

Seeing Lin Nan's appearance, Aunt Lin couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter, could it be that someone bullied you?" ”

That Lin Nan leaned back on the chair, crossed Erlang's legs and said, "Mother, I don't know that my classmates are not seriously preparing for revision now, but are thinking about how to make up the money." ”

"Although it costs money to take the test for children, it can't cost so much money, you can rest assured that the family has already prepared it for you, and you don't have to worry about the money." Aunt Lin hurriedly said, for fear that her baby son would have any worries.

But that Lin Nan was a drunkard who didn't mean to drink, he pulled Aunt Lin into a step and whispered: "You don't understand what I mean, I mean why do we want to take the test honestly?" Why don't we scrape together the money to buy a child? ”

"Buy a child?" It was the first time that Aunt Lin had heard of such a thing, and her whole body trembled with fright. "Alas, my son, we must not think about such a thing, this is illegal, and if the official lord knows about it, he will be arrested and put in prison, let's take the exam."

No matter how much she loves Lin Nan, she is also a woman and timid.

Lin Nan was unhappy, so he stood up and said, "Do you want me to be a good official, I don't want to give me any money, what?" Am I not your son anymore? ”

Aunt Lin stood up and just wanted to say, but she also thought about it in her heart.

This Lin Nan has not taken the test twice, and this time I am afraid it is also a little difficult.

Thinking of this, Aunt Lin was afraid that Lin Nan would be angry and that her tone was not good: "How much does it cost to buy children?" ”

"Three hundred taels of silver?" When Lin Nan stretched out three fingers and said the three hundred taels, it seemed to be something that was easy.

Aunt Lin shook her head, her eyes widened with fright: "These three hundred taels of silver are too expensive." ”

"Oh, it's not expensive, it's not expensive." Lin Nan hurriedly pulled Aunt Lin up and pushed her into the bedroom. "Hurry up and see how much money our family has, can you scrape together enough money to buy me a child?"

That Aunt Lin really listened to Lin Nan's words, Lin Nan said that she resolutely didn't say two, she really went to the bedroom, took out all the silver taels pressed under the bed board, counted them again and again, and finally said helplessly: "This money doesn't seem to be enough, only one hundred and fifty taels." ”

"One hundred and fifty taels?" That Lin Nan couldn't wait to jump up immediately. "How is it that our family has only one hundred and fifty taels of silver? It costs 300 taels to buy a child, and there is still a difference of 150 taels, where can we get it? ”

"What are you talking about?"

Uncle Lin was originally polishing iron tools in the yard, and when he heard the noise in the house, he couldn't help but come around.

When Aunt Lin saw Uncle Lin's wretched look, she couldn't help but get angry, and threw the silver taels directly on the ground: "Ask!" What is there to ask. Why didn't I open my eyes to marry you, and now my son can't pass the exam if he wants to. ”

Uncle Lin didn't know, Lin Nan didn't tell the story in a good voice.

Uncle Lin has always had no backbone, and since Aunt Lin said that she wanted to buy it, she insisted on buying it, so the old couple squatted on the kang like this, both with sad faces.

Lin Nan stood in front of them, although the clothes he was wearing were clean and tidy, his heart was dark: "Anyway, no matter what I do, you have to buy me a child." ”

"As long as you want to buy Tongsheng, we will buy it for you if we smash the pot and sell iron, but this difference of one hundred and fifty taels will sell our two old bones and you can't afford it." Uncle Na Lin said as he smoked an old cigarette gun.

Aunt Lin's eyes turned left and right, and she didn't know if she suddenly thought of something, so she stood up and said, "We don't have silver taels, but we still have the forest." A shameless man in the forest now ran to the mountains to live, and we asked him to beat a tiger and come back to the town to sell it, not to mention one hundred and fifty cars, even two hundred taels. ”

What she said is really good, the price of a tiger is comparable to a thousand gold, and this one hundred and fifty taels can still be obtained, but to catch a tiger is equivalent to losing half a life, she really doesn't regard Lin Zhong as her son.

Thinking of this, Aunt Lin also pulled Uncle Lin in a hurry: "Let's not grind the two of us, now hurry to the mountain, and let the tiger catch in the forest." ”

Lin Zhong lived in the mountains for seven or eight days, but he was also used to the life in the mountains, hunting every day for money, and the extra things could be roasted for himself, and the quiet around him was only the sound of cordyceps, as if he was cultivating immortals.

Lin Zhong likes this kind of life very much, but this quiet is interrupted by Aunt Lin's voice: "Now that the family is so poor that they can't open the pot, how can you still be so leisurely?" ”

Aunt Lin saw that the place where Lin Zhong lived was so clean and tidy, and there were hares roasted on the bonfire, so she was angry.

"Why can't you open the pot when you're poor?" Stand up in the woods. "I remember that I left you a lot of silver taels at home when I left, and I had to hunt every day, so I should have exchanged a lot of money."

Lin Zhong was not much happy to see the arrival of the second elder, but he still replied stubbornly.

Aunt Lin leaned against a tree, her eyes pouted in the forest, her mouth closed hard, and she spoke to reveal a mouthful of big yellow dragon teeth: "Don't you know that your brother is about to take the child exam?" Now there is still a gap of one hundred and fifty taels for him to buy a child, so don't be idle today, hurry up and catch a tiger and come back, and you can make up the one hundred and fifty taels. ”

"What?" Lin Zhong frowned, and put out the campfire at once. "You guys are ridiculously ridiculous, how can you do such a thing? If you want to take the test in a down-to-earth manner, how can you buy a child? ”

Aunt Lin didn't want to listen to what Lin Zhong said, so she just scolded: "Now there are so many things for you to fight a tiger?" If your brother doesn't pass the top prize in the future, will you be able to afford it? ”

"I will never do this thing of buying children's children." Lin Zhong still knows what to do.

Aunt Lin and Uncle Lin were ignorant and confused by Lin Nan's words, but Lin Zhong knew what a big sin this was, and he would not agree to anything.

"Dad, mother, if you come here today for this matter, you can go back, don't say whether the tiger can be caught, even if you can catch it, I don't want to spend some money to let Lin Nan buy Tongsheng, if he can't take the exam next year, it will be done."

"Ugh!" As soon as Aunt Lin heard this, she directly took off the shoes on her feet and threw them on Lin Zhong's body. "You white-eyed wolf knew I wouldn't have ...... when I saw you by the stream."

"Alas, old woman!"

Before Aunt Lin finished speaking, Uncle Lin seemed to have heard something terrible, and hurriedly interrupted: "Since he is unwilling in the forest, let's not embarrass him, I think he is living very hard in the mountains now, and the tiger is not easy to catch." ”

According to Aunt Lin's previous temper, she was already in a hurry, but the next second, she also realized that she had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly covered her mouth.

What does Aunt Lin want to say? I want to say that if I knew that there was such a white-eyed wolf in the forest, I wouldn't have picked him up when I saw him as a baby by the stream.

Aunt Lin may not have done any good deeds in her life, but she only did this one, but it planted the seeds for a lifetime of karma.

The forest didn't pay attention to it at the time, and didn't understand what was hidden in it.

And Uncle Lin directly pulled Aunt Lin's arm: "Old woman, since you don't want this forest, let's not force him." ”

"What about Lin Nan's examination of children? That's still a hundred and fifty taels left, where are we going to get it? ”

Uncle Lin's old smoking gun was knocking on the tree, and his eyes looked into the distance with a look of mist and sorrow: "Let's turn over the bottom, sell a piece of the field and the old house, and we can always make up enough for this one hundred and fifty taels, and when Lin Nan is admitted to Tongsheng, it is easy to say anything." ”

In fact, Uncle Lin still has his own careful thoughts and has not said it, when the time comes, they will not be able to eat rice, so they can only drink the northwest wind, I don't believe that this person with hands and feet in the forest can come to help when he sees his father and mother suffering?

If this person uses the skill of calculating people's hearts to manage his own life, I don't know how many times better.