Three thousand taels of silver made the old man lose a tooth, and if Ma Du earned tens of thousands of family fortunes in the future, the old man's mouth full of teeth would not be lost, and he really couldn't take the silver casually at home in the future.

Ma Du took Zhang Liu and the others out of the door, swaying and walking eastward, the target was at the foot of Fang Mountain, where the little turtle was studying, not very far, and after walking only a mile through the official road, he saw a farm.

This is more than 500 acres of land bought by the old loach, because although it is close to the Qinhuai River, it is also close to the Fangshan Mountain, and the terrain is slightly higher, even if it is digging a ditch to divert water, it is not easy to irrigate, so this side is dry land.

There is a small village on the edge of the grange, which is not the blue-tiled and white-walled Jiangnan water town building that Ma Du expected, but the same adobe walls and thatched houses, and it is very dilapidated, it seems to be decades old.

Two women at the entrance of the village held a basket and while talking, they picked out a soybean from the finely chopped bean shell and put it into a porcelain bowl on the side, and the soybean clanged on the wall of the bowl.

The ragged man carried a wooden bucket into the well, shook the rope a few times, and brought out a bucket of water with a flat pole, hooked it on his shoulders and swayed home.

There were also some women washing clothes by the mouth of the well, and in their hands they held a smooth wooden stick, and struck the clothes on the bluestone slab with great force, for fear that the clothes would not rot thoroughly enough.

These villagers didn't seem to be surprised when they saw Ma Du and his party, and an old man who was building a mud wall at the door of his house enthusiastically pointed the way, "If the little officials want to enter Fangshan to play, they can take the big road in the north, and our side is a small road, that is, let the villagers go up the mountain to chop firewood." The road is difficult to walk, not to mention that it is easy to get lost, and it is easy to fall down. ”

Lao Liu replied: "Didn't we go up the mountain to play, isn't there a school here?" Let's take a look. ”

"School, follow the road and go inside, after passing the village, you will arrive at half a mile, and you will be in the broken temple." The old man looked at Ma Du and asked, "This little official is also here to study!" ”

Lao Liu said: "No, just come and have a look, please let my husband show me the way." As he spoke, he stuffed two copper coins into the old man.

"My surname is Cui, just call me Cui Laohan." The old man was so happy that he didn't even get along with the mud, and walked half a mile through the village, and really saw a small temple facing south of the back mountain, which should be a mountain temple, which was really broken, but the surrounding scenery was good.

There are towering trees, smooth boulders, large lawns, babbling mountain springs, and a large field of wild cherry trees, and although it is early winter, everything has begun to bleak, but Mado can fully imagine what it will be like in spring.

Ma Du patted his head, in the future this location should be within the scope of Fangshan Geopark, why didn't he think about it

Cui Laohan obviously misunderstood Ma Du's thoughts, he sighed and said: "I also think it's a pity, such a large piece of land, but the grass is full of sand and gravel to grow crops." ”

"It doesn't matter if you can't grow crops, you can do something else." Madu strode towards the small ruined temple.

The door of the temple was wide open, and you could see the broken statue of the mountain god in the middle from a distance, and under the statue stood a thin black man in his thirties, wearing a shabby robe, shaking his head and reciting a book.

There were about twenty children sitting on the floor, listening to the gentleman's endorsement with their heads blank, and there were no tables, chairs, or benches, or even books. Mr. recited a sentence, and the children below shook their heads and followed along.

It was memorized as a passage from "Disciple Rules", and Zhu Xiaosan was learning this, so Ma Du remembered.

Cui Laohan pointed, "That is Mr. Yuan, he is the most knowledgeable in the village, Mr. Yuan is well-educated, and his character is good, whoever wants to write a letter or something in the village looks for him, he has never been impatient, although he is an outsider, everyone respects him very much." ”

That Mr. Yuan faced the temple gate, of course, he could see Ma Du and a few people, and he didn't come out to say hello, and continued to shake his head to teach the child to endorse, the child seemed to be very involved, and Ma Du didn't interrupt, just stood outside the door and watched.

After Mr. Yuan memorized it a few times, he began to ask the children to get up and memorize it. If the child memorizes the wrong or stuck, he will immediately be hit with a ring ruler, and after he prompts a few words, he will let the child continue to memorize.

It's only 200 words, and I'm afraid I'll have to take more than a dozen hits to memorize it like this. Cui Laohan smiled, "That's my grandson, good fight!" ”

Soon it was the turn of the little turtle to endorse, "get up ......early in the morning" he only memorized the first sentence, and he was hit twice on his hand, "sleep ......late at night" snapped twice, and the little turtle had to be hit twice for every sentence he recited.

Ma Du was on fire, and yesterday he thought that the little turtle would not be beaten like that after only a few hits, wouldn't he have to take dozens of hits to memorize this paragraph.

Cui Laohan sneered, "This is the young master of our owner's family, I heard my grandson say that he is a stutterer, and he has to be beaten a lot every day......"

Not only Cui Laohan was laughing, but even the children in the house were also laughing, their shoulders kept shaking one by one, but they didn't dare to laugh out loud.

Ma Du said to Cui Laohan: "Please help me call that gentleman out, and say that I want to donate to help them study, you can give them a flip school, donate tables, chairs, books, pens, ink, paper and inkstones." ”

"Seriously!" Cui Laohan's face was overjoyed when he heard this, "Great, our new owner is too picky, so he gives Mr. Yuan 500 wen every month, and he doesn't care about anything, and he owes Mr. Yuan to take care of his young master every day......"

Lao Liu scolded: "What nonsense, don't call people out quickly!" ”

"Okay!" Cui Laohan shrank his neck in fright, hurriedly ran into the temple, muttered a few words to Mr. Yuan, and came out of the temple. Cui Laohan was in a hurry, but this Mr. Yuan walked to Ma Du in a figure-eight step and saluted respectfully: "Yuan Jiuli has seen a small official, but I don't know the name of the little official?" ”

Ma Du smiled and said: "The contemptible surname is Ma, and I saw that the scenery here is good today, so I came over for a walk." Seeing that your school is simple, I can't bear it, and I heard that Mr. educates the township without pay, which makes Ma very impressed. Although he is not talented, he also has some family resources, so it is better to donate money to study if he stays at home and is moldy. Mr. Yuen thinks how much is appropriate? ”

Yuan Jiuli was overjoyed, "The good deeds of small officials must have good karma, and I thanked the villagers and students below." Don't expect too much, if you can add some tables, chairs, benches and enlightenment books for the children. ”

Cui Laohan poked Yuan Jiuli with his elbow, but Yuan Jiuli ignored him, Cui Laohan stubbornly said: "Just now, the little official said that he would renovate the school for us." ”

Yuan Jiuli said: "That's not necessary, ten years of hard work, reading is not an easy thing, there is no need to let children live too comfortably, this mountain temple is enough." ”

Ma Du said with a smile: "What Mr. Yuan said is that children should suffer more, and only when they are older can they become successful." Hey, what's the thing in the gentleman's hand? ”

"Oh, this is a ring ruler, the little official doesn't recognize it?" Yuan Jiuli sent the ring ruler in his hand forward, and said in his heart Which family is this, don't you haven't read a book, there is no one who has read a book who doesn't recognize the ring ruler, and who hasn't been beaten by Mr.

"This is the ring ruler!" Ma Du stretched out his hand to take it, and gestured twice, "It doesn't look unusual, return it to Mr. Yuan." ”

Yuan Jiuli naturally reached out to take it, but the ring ruler suddenly raised violently, and a crisp sound was directly pumped on his hand, hiss! He gasped for cold air in his mouth and jerked his hand back.

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