"Hey, Uncle Dong!" Zhang Yi stepped forward slowly, and said with a smile: "As I said just now, although my business can make money, it is also easy to be imitated, and if it can't be kept secret, it will definitely not make much money." Since Uncle Dong can make ceramics and carve them, to put it bluntly, it is a very important part of my business.

Since I want to eat meat, I can't even leave you soup, right? What's more, I heard Sister Zhang say that Uncle Dong also has a grandson named Dong Xiaohu, who is studying in a private school with Wang Xiucai in the east, so he must be a good seedling for learning.

It's just that Uncle Dong must also know that reading is not easy and pen and ink are expensive, even if the uncle's family has purchased a lot of land and wants to provide a scholar, I'm afraid it is a little overwhelming, right? ”

As early as before, Zhang Yi heard Sister Zhang mention that Dong Xiaohu was studying in private school. Looking at Sister Zhang's proud face, there is no need to ask Zhang Xiaohu to be sure that his studies are not bad, and he is very valued by Dong Laohan's family.

Otherwise, although the Dong family is not enough, but the net worth is also thick, guarding more than 30 acres of land, but still going to the wharf to carry work, making pottery in the workshop, is it not a tight hand?

Zhang Yi believes that Uncle Dong will carefully consider his own problems even if he thinks about his grandson's future.

Sure enough, hearing Zhang Yi say this, Dong Laohan's seemingly relaxed old face inadvertently flashed a trace of sadness.

As Zhang Yi said, it is difficult to provide a reader!

Now it's just enlightenment, not even a child, but even so, the annual bondage, the ritual of the New Year's festival, and the knife of rice paper that costs almost a month..... It's all money.

In the past, the pottery workshop did a good business and made a lot of money. But that's also relative to ordinary people.

What's more, business is coming and going now, and the price is still very high, if you don't save money, how can you supply a scholar?

But even if you are thrifty, if you can't open source, after all, it's a big man who moves it in half, and it's not a top deal!

Thinking of this, Dong Laohan couldn't help but sigh and said with a wry smile: "Who said it wasn't?" In the early years, he really accumulated some family funds, and it is said that with these family backgrounds, my Dong Laohan family kept their duties and did not worry about eating and drinking. But I never thought that Xiaohu's child was really a piece of study material, Mr. Wang said that as long as you sharpen a few years, don't talk about it, but a show can't run, you listen, show the talent, show the master!

My Dong family's ancestors have been making a living by the Qinhuai River for generations, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mud leg, if I can produce a talented man, even if I die, I will have the face to see my ancestors! So the old man, I gritted my teeth and read .....! In the past few years, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, books and rituals, hey......"

It can be seen that Uncle Dong can be said to be relieved and worried.

I am glad that my grandson Xiucai is promising, but I am worried that the investment year after year has made the entire Dong family live like a year.

Although the Dong family has not yet reached the point of selling wheat land for education, it is not far away.

Zhang Yi also understands Dong Laohan's mood very well.

Who is not the elder of the parents, who is not looking for a son to become a dragon and a daughter to become a phoenix?

Now the little grandson is expected to become a showman, even if he smashes the pot and sells iron, he has to provide it.

In this era of the city's agricultural and industrial ranking, craftsmen are not even farmers, if the family can produce a talent, directly carp leap into the dragon gate to become a taxi. In addition to being able to climb in value, the benefits are too many to count.

In this case, what is the reason for not confessing?

But Zhang Yi knew that if he wanted to show talent, how could it be as easy as Dong Laohan thought?

If you want to become a showman, you must first become a child. The annual children's examination is presided over by the local county order, and only a few dozen children can be selected in the three rounds of examinations. But even if you are a child, you have to go through the four government tests later, and you will be screened layer by layer, and there will be no one in a hundred.

In this way, it is almost a chance of one in a thousand, and it is not an exaggeration to say that thousands of troops have crossed the single-plank bridge.

I don't know how many people are high-spirited, but their names are lost to Sun Shan, they are dazzled by reading, and they are white-headed, but in the end, how many people can be named on the red list?

Maybe Dong Xiaohu has the talent to study, but that's just talent, and he wants to become a showman..... At least Zhang Yi thinks that it will take a few years, impossible!

It is precisely for this reason that Dong Laohan's family is frugal and unable to make ends meet, but it is in line with Zhang Yi's thoughts.

Zhang Yi said: "Uncle Dong, the ancients had clouds, everything is inferior, only reading is high. There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book. Since Ling Sun has the talent of a scholar, it is right to support him as an elder, even if he is not good at learning for a while, as long as he persists, he will definitely be rewarded! ”

"Hey, that's what I thought!" Dong Laohan sighed again and muttered: "It's just that it's been three years and three years, and three years after three years, Xiaohu was enlightened at the age of seven, and now it's been more than ten years." The amount of silver spent is not a thousand taels, but there are five hundred taels of silver, but after spending so much silver, the fame of the show is still far away! ”

While talking, Dong Laohan couldn't help but point to a food box on the desk next to him, and said: "Don't hide it from the little brother, you said, the old Han family doesn't look glamorous now, in fact, even the meal is three parts of coarse grain and seven points of cabbage, and if you want to eat a meal, you can cut a pound of meat at the beginning of the month, cut it into foam and eat it tightly with Xiaohu, and we will dip it into a little oil.....

Uncle Dong's words were like opening the floodgates, and he expressed his anxiety and worries over the years, and Zhang Yi was sympathetic and depressed when he heard it.

If at the beginning, he thought that Uncle Dong's grandson was a good seedling for reading, after analyzing what Uncle Dong said, he felt that it was very likely that this was not the case.

The imperial examination is difficult, but if you are really talented, it is not a big problem to take the examination for a child at the age of seventeen or eighteen.

As far as Uncle Dong is concerned, three years and three years, and then another three years, so that Dong Xiaohu has been studying for more than nine years. Since he was seven years old, plus nine years of studying, isn't this Dong Xiaohu the same age as himself?

It's just that a seventeen or eighteen-year-old scholar who has been studying in a private school for nine years actually eats meat by himself and lets his elders watch.... The special sage book is simply read on the dog's belly!

Although Zhang Yi was also not angry, he could only swallow the words into his stomach, after all, this is someone's family matter, and he is really not good for an outsider to interfere.

"Uncle Dong, although life is hard, there is still hope after all, isn't it?" Zhang Yi comforted him, and said with a straight face: "As long as Uncle Dong is willing to come to my newspaper office to do your old job, I am willing to invite you with a layer of dry shares, not only that, but I also have a salary of six taels of silver per month, but I don't know if Uncle Dong is willing or not!" ”