Ma Du turned his head and asked, "The family is all scholars?" ”

The little boy took a sip of mutton soup and smacked his lips with an aftertaste, "The whole family is a family, old and young, men and women are all scholars, and they can't even plant land, and their family has the least harvest in a village." ”

Ma Du glanced at Xu Da, and the two said in unison: "Interesting." ”

"Come here, little baby, there's something delicious here." Madu greeted him more attentively.

Finally, a girl with pigtails couldn't help it, and trotted over and stopped in front of the cauldron.

Ma Du looked up and down, and the dress was really different from that of a country child, there was no dust on his hands and face, and although his clothes were patched, they were cleanly washed and seemed to have been ironed, which was by no means a habit that ordinary farmers should have.

A little girl came, and the others couldn't help it, and ran over one by one to stand in a row, and it could be seen that they were very greedy, but they were not as impatient as other country boys who circled around the pot.

Urina filled a bowl of rice and handed it to the girl, who curts, bowed and thanked her, and then took the bowl and drank it in her hand.

The boy next to Ma Du put down the bowl in his hand and sneered: "Wood, aren't your family members all scholars and don't eat chicken food?" ”

"It's not chicken food, it's food that comes from the mouth." A young man who had already tied his hair in a bun took a small step forward, "Younger brothers and sisters haven't seen meat for a year, thank you Venerable for the gift." He was only eleven or twelve years old, but he looked like a little adult, and after speaking, he solemnly said that he spoke in Shandong's dialect, but it was difficult to hide the thick Hebei accent.

Ma Du smiled and gave him a handful, "A mouthful of mutton soup is not worth anything, you don't have to go to your heart, your name is wood?" ”

He didn't quite understand how he could give his child such a down-to-earth name since he was a scholar.

"The villain's surname Guo is a single name of 'pastoral', the 'pastor' of the shepherd's side, the villagers don't understand, so they call me wood, since they call it smooth, the villain is too lazy to correct." He said it humbly, but it was difficult to hide the pride on his face.

"It's gone, there's no soup." Uzhna pounded the cauldron with a spoon, "There is only one bowl left, and this wood can't be eaten." ”

Hearing this, Guo Mu's younger siblings held the bowl to him and asked him to eat first, but Guo Mu excused himself and only lied that he was not hungry. In the end, it is only an eleven or twelve-year-old child, and the longing in his eyes can not be concealed.

Xu Da poked Ma Du with his elbow, "Do you have such a brother and brother in your family?" ”

"Brother said and laughed, and it is common for Bi Lin and Xiao Biao to break their heads for a sentence."

Chang Mao said hesitantly: "It's nothing to break the head, the three of us brothers can't move the knife without moving their mouths." ”

"My family is also Miaoyun is more sensible, it seems that there are sages in this countryside."

Ma Du turned his head and asked his daughter, "Does Bilin still have snacks?" ”

"It's gone!" Bi Lin's head shook like a rattle, and the two pigtails were flicked and flicked, but it was difficult to hide the emptiness on her face.

"Is it really gone? What do you eat in your mouth? ”

"Milk candy." The little girl's mouth was high, and she opened her close-fitting purse, "There are only a few children left." ”

Milk candy was made up by Madu to coax children, but now it has become a high-income industry for the family, and it is also Bilin's favorite snack.

"It's better to eat less, if you have a toothache, I'll ignore you." took the purse and copied out a few pieces of candy and gave it to a kid named Guo Mu.

Guo Mu took it very generously and sniffed it on the tip of his nose, took a strip of wax paper, stuffed the snow-white sugar cube into the mouth of his youngest sister, and put the rest into his arms.

Zhu Di patted his thigh and shouted: "How can you kid eat alone, if you have good things, you have to eat more and occupy more, which is a bit like me." ”

"The villain smells the sweetness of this milk candy, it must be a rare and delicious food, and he should honor his grandfather and other elders in the family."

"Oh, since it's filial piety to the elders, why do you want to give it to the younger sister?"

"The little man was in poverty, and his cousin often fainted because of his poor diet, so he should have eaten some good food, but his uncle was stubborn, and when he had good things, he would enjoy them to his grandfather. Although my grandfather kept them for our brothers and sisters, my cousin couldn't help but be greedy, and now she saved her from crying for the New Year. ”

Zhu Di smiled and said: "It sounds more sensible than a few of us, and he is a good baby, well, this king has some jerky to reward you." ”

He untied a small bag from his waist and threw it at Guo Mu's feet, and a small piece of neatly cut beef jerky rolled out of the bag, looking very attractive with red and clear.

Guo Mu didn't look at it and said with a stalk around his neck: "Don't eat the food that comes from you!" ”

Zhu Di snorted heavily in his nose, "If you don't eat and pull down, I hate you sour things the most, and I can't wait to treat myself as the emperor when I know a few words." ”

A big yellow dog came out from behind Li Jinglong, and was about to go to the beef jerky on the ground, but as soon as he stuck out his tongue, he was kicked away by Ping'an.

Li Jinglong snorted dissatisfiedly, "Why did Ping An bully my Ah Huang again." ”

Ping An ignored him, picked up the beef on the ground and handed it to Guo Mu, he still didn't want it, "It's really stubborn, little sister, you take it, this is not for your parents to share it with themselves." ”

The girl thanked the peace, took the small bag of beef jerky, put the beef jerky into the bowl she licked clean one by one, and kept counting in her mouth, "One, two, three、...... Twenty-five, twenty-six, each of us has one left, and the extra is for the eldest brother, who didn't drink the broth just now. ”

"Big brother doesn't eat it, so I'll leave quickly after dividing it and return the bag to others."

The girl walked up to Zhu Di with the bag, as if she thought he was too fierce, and turned to hand it to Ma Du.

Ma Du didn't care about Zhu Di's broken bag, he just wanted to know how this little girl knew how to do mathematics, so she did a simple math problem just now when she was dividing beef jerky.

It is not uncommon to read and write at the home of the daughter of the Ming Dynasty, and after enlightenment, they generally learn "Female Rules" and "Female Commandments", and at most learn some poetry, but there are very few people who learn mathematics.

He reached out and took the bag and asked with a smile, "If I give you another thirty pieces of jerky, how will the five of you divide it?" ”

The girl opened her mouth and came, "It's six per person." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand shyly, as if waiting for Madu to give her jerky, this gluttonous little girl was far less arrogant than his brother.

"Don't worry, you can't miss it, I'll ask you ...... again"

Ma Du asked a few simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations in a row, and he didn't know how to memorize multiplication tables when he was so old, and others were also surprised.

Ping'an suddenly interjected and asked, "Little sister, I'll ask you, a team of soldiers, a group of three more than two people, a group of five more than three people......

Without waiting for him to finish asking, Guo Mu interrupted: "You asked the wrong person, my cousin is still young, and she hasn't learned Han Xin's question of ordering soldiers, so come here." It's not too early, thank you for your gifts, the villain brothers and sisters have said goodbye. After saluting, he hurried away with his younger siblings.

It wasn't until they entered the village that Ma Du withdrew his gaze, and Xu Da poked Ma Du with his elbow, "Is Xuan important to visit Xian?" I will go with you. ”

"I'm going!" Ma Du touched the mustache on his lips suspiciously, "I'm just wondering what the other party will be, my brother has the answer?" ”

"I don't know, in the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the people were displaced, and many big families were unable to protect themselves, and they fell apart and fled separately, so it is not strange to settle in this poor and remote place. Instead of guessing, let's take a look. ”

Zhu Di said: "I'm also curious, let's go and take a look." ”

"It's okay to go, but don't play with your prince's majesty and temper."

"That's natural, my father was a corporal of Lixian back then, and I also got a bit of true inheritance."

The ghost only believed it, but Ma Du knew that Liu Ji was accepted by Lao Zhu Lian and frightened, and the Wang Mian who could paint was sick, and he was carried around on a stretcher by Hu Dahai and died within a few days.

There were children in the village to guide the way, and soon found the family, a few very ordinary adobe thatched houses, the yard was surrounded by waist-high fences, and it was very clean, there was no and sheep manure common in ordinary farms, but there was a small vegetable garden, full of green rape.

A small plum tree is blooming brightly, and the branches are obviously carefully pruned, and they are all down to this point and have the heart to plant tweed, which can be sure that this family used to be a big family, and ordinary farmers who did not plant edible persimmon trees or jujube trees in the yard.

Zhu Di said: "It turned out that this family was a broken household, and before I went to the village to buy, this family had no chickens, no ducks, no pigs and no sheep, and they didn't let people enter the yard." ”

As he spoke, he saw a thin middle-aged man in a Confucian robe come out of the house, holding a tray woven with sorghum stalks in his hand, on which were placed dumplings like ingots, as well as toffee and dried meat that had been sent out before.

He didn't open the door, so he asked through the fence, "Dare to ask how many of them gave food to the children in the family just now?" ”

Ma Du nodded and replied, "Exactly, a little snack is really not worth anything." ”

"Thank you for your kindness, all the things will be returned, as for the sheep soup at home, there is really no one, a plate of vegetarian dumplings as compensation, please go back." The middle-aged man stuffed the tray in his hand into Madu's hand and turned around and went back to the house, faintly hearing a click as if he had closed the door bolt.

This situation greatly surprised everyone, Zhu Di said angrily: "How can you let us go like a thief, as if we were rushing to see him, uncle, let's go back." ”

Ma Du shook his head again and again, and said with a smile: "Don't go, I'm getting more and more interested now, hehe......"