The person sitting in front of Village Chief Du was no one else, but a young woman, dressed in fine silk clothes, with fine powder on her face, looking like she was no more than twenty-seven or eight years old.

Li is the wife of Gui Dayuan, who was thirty-four or five years old, and remarried after the "difficulty of nine dings", because she has been rich and comfortable these years, and she does not work like ordinary peasant women, and she looks much younger than her actual age.

The Li family was not as calm as Village Chief Du, and frowned slightly: "But what does Jiang Wu mean?" I sent it back in person, is this to support my cousin? ”

Du Village has been more than half a hundred years old, and the old husband and young wife of the Li family, plus the Li family gave birth to the only male of the Du family, and has always loved the Li family the most, but now that she pays so much attention to the Gui family, she also lowered her face, squinted at her, and said: "Why do you always think about the Gui family, are you tired of the good life, and you think about those who don't have it?" ”

When Li heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows and scolded: "Let your mother's fart!" Which is the old lady for, isn't she afraid that they will hold a grudge and calculate it on Qilang? You have the face to suspect me, last month, the old bustard in Xinghualou sent someone over, which one do you want to see? ”

Li's mouth "Qilang" is the only son of the Du family, before the head of the Du village did not marry the Li family, he married a wife and concubine for several rooms, and raised a good outside, but he gave birth to six girls in a row, until the Li family entered the door, only to land a man, who should have been ranked "Du Dalang", and was afraid that Jin Gui would not be able to raise it, so he gave a milk name, called "Qigu", fooled the ghost, raised to five or six years old and changed his nickname to "Qilang".

At the mention of his son, no matter how big the village chief Du's heart was, he immediately said: "It's hot, and I don't know if Qilang is good in school, so let Liuniang pack up two more needles and threads for Qilang." ”

The Li family responded, secretly looked at the look of Village Chief Du, and saw that he didn't take the Gui family to heart, and he didn't know whether to relax or worry for a while, and he was entangled.

It's no wonder that the Li family is jealous of the Gui family, who let her be the Gui family's daughter-in-law before she remarried.

In the "Difficulty of Jiuding" back then, the villagers scolded Gui Yuan, the Li family died of her husband and brother, and like them, she hated her brother-in-law who took care of her to death; But he was forcibly remarried to the Du family by his parents, and after knowing some of the secrets of the year, the Li family understood that there were the hands and feet of the Du family.

Others may not think of anything, but the Gui family hasn't reacted all these years? There is also the Li family's maiden family, who took advantage of the chaos to occupy the Gui family's new house, and now the three generations of the family still live leisurely.

For "Xigui", the old and the young, the only one with excellent qualifications has also been a son-in-law, so there is really nothing to worry about before. But when he comes back to a small one, he is dressed as a scholar, who knows if he will soar into the sky, and if he retaliates at that time, the Du family and the Li family will bear the brunt.

Rural people have a natural awe of readers.

His son is thirteen years old, his reading qualifications are ordinary, and he will most likely inherit the position of village chief Du and become a rich man in the future.

*

In the old mansion of the Gui family, the box had already been unloaded, Gui Chongyang counted the copper coins and sent the hired carriage back. Just opened a few boxes here, and Gui's second grandmother came with Gui's second grandfather.

The old couple looked at Jiang Wuye, and their eyes were red.

Seeing this, Jiang Wuye hurriedly greeted him: "Dad, mother, why are you here?" ”

Second Grandpa Gui refused to say soft words, and said with a straight face: "I heard that Chongyang's luggage has arrived, let's come and have a look."

Gui's second grandmother pulled her son's arm: "Shuxian's stomach hasn't moved yet?" ”

Jiang Wuye's situation is difficult, the most fundamental reason is because the husband and wife have no children, even if Master Jiang knows that most of the reasons are his weak daughter, but in the end, there is a difference between far and near, and he is afraid of Jiang Wuye, afraid that he will not be able to treat the Jiang family well in a hundred years and marry someone else.

Gui's second grandmother couldn't be wronged for her son, but she also knew that it was not something they could follow to make trouble. The son has been naturalized in the Jiang family, and he is already a member of the Jiang family, not the Gui family. is her daughter-in-law, and the Gui family also thinks of her good, otherwise she nodded and chose Jiang Wuye and gave the Gui family thirty taels of silver, Gui Chun wouldn't be able to survive at all, and the family would have dispersed early.

Jiang Wuye helped Gui Er's grandmother and said, "Mother, don't worry, Sister Xian's health is getting better, there will always be movement." ”

Grandma Gui nodded vigorously, but she knew in her heart that Jiang Shuxian, who was counting on the sick, had no hope of adding anything. Although the old lady was dissatisfied, she couldn't do anything viciously to curse the Jiang family for dying of illness as soon as possible, and now she could only hope for the blessing of God and Buddha.

Gui Chongyang looked at the family of three in front of him, faintly envious. The separation of flesh and blood is only separation, and it is impossible to say when there will be a chance to reunite; Relatives died, but there was no goodbye.

On the other side, Mei helped Gui Chongyang sort out the few boxes that had been opened. She can be regarded as a scholarly person, and she is a knowledgeable person, so she found that the box containing the books was not the three hundred thousand of ordinary children's enlightenment, as well as a few "Four Books Collection Notes", as well as the annotations with fresh handwriting next to it, which made Mei's hands tremble: "Chongyang, these are all your books?" ”

Gui Chongyang glanced at it and said, "It's my nephew who used it." ”

Jiang Wuye heard the two of them talking, looked over, saw the title of the book, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly came over: "Cousin, let me see." ”

When Mei entered the door, Jiang Wuye had not yet come out, and he did not agree with his cousin's "widowhood" method, so he never changed his words.

Mei handed over the book, Jiang Wuye read it carefully, the more he looked at it, the more solemn his expression became, and he hesitated: "Chongyang is in Nanjing, but he worshiped a famous teacher?" ”

Gui Chongyang shook his head and said: "It was the neighbor over there who enlightened him, and after a few years of studying, he never deliberately apprenticed." ”

Scholars attach great importance to the relationship between teachers and students, but they default that a teacher can only be regarded as a half-teacher, not a formal teacher.

Jiang Wuye sighed: "It is said that Jiangnan has a prosperous literary style, I still don't believe it, I didn't expect that all the Mongolian teachers in the countryside have such opinions." ”

Gui Chongyang smiled silently, obviously Jiang Wuye misunderstood, thinking that Gui Chongyang's knowledge and insight did not have a special teacher, that is, he learned it from Master Meng, but he didn't expect Gui Yuan.

Gui Chongyang thought about writing a book for his "father" and passing on the knowledge he learned from him, but not now.

"Fifth uncle, before my father fell ill, he also said that he asked people to take the children's exam, and prepared a lot of books. Now that I keep filial piety, I can't use it for the time being, why don't I use it first? Gui Chongyang said.

It's already May, the county exam is in February every year, and the government exam is in April every year.

Jiang Wuye was also not polite, and said: "I am lacking these in my hands, so I won't take them back this time, and I will come back next time." ”

When Gui Chongyang heard this, he knew that he had made the decision to move out of the Jiang family, and secretly rejoiced, and said: "My nephew has fifty taels of silver in his hand, and he can buy a small shop. ”

There are two kinds of sons-in-law, one is that the government sentences both husband and wife to be "righteous", and the marriage of men and women has nothing to do with each other; One is to privately agree that if the marriage is changed, the man will have to repay the "bride price" and give the woman another "bride price".

With the character of the fifth master of Jiang, even if the Jiang family is wronged again, since the Jiang family is there, they will not go to the official judgment, and the rest can only be agreed in private, and the silver will be indispensable at that time.