This village school has a three-day holiday, and many villagers are talking about Mei Tongsheng's age, whether he is over fifty years old, is this body unable to stand up?

If that's the case, what can the village juku do?

Except for the poor families, who can't really send their children and grandchildren to study, other families have to send their children and grandchildren to study for a year if they can squeeze out a few dollars at home.

If you go to the town to beg for a living, literacy and illiteracy are two kinds of treatment. If you're lucky, you can be literate and become an apprentice, and you'll have the ability to live in peace for a lifetime.

It was Gui Chongyang who sent Gui Chun away, and he muttered in his heart, this Mei Tongsheng looked fine for the past two days, not like he was sick again, that was Mei Xiucai's side gambling again?

This gamble is easy to break.

It's just that the Mei family's land has been sold, and the rest is the dowry of the Du family, and Mei Xiucai has no capital for gambling, and she doesn't know what moths will be born.

Gui Chongyang thought about this, and saw Mei Xiaoba carrying a pocket in his hand, frowning and coming out of the outside, muttering an unhappy appearance.

Gui Chongyang saw that he was still clean, and he didn't look like he was doing it with people, so he was relieved and said with a smile: "Who is this messing with?" ”

Mei Xiaoba frowned and shook her head, and then sighed heavily like a little adult.

Gui Chongyang picked up the teapot, poured a cup of chrysanthemum tea, and as soon as he brought it to his mouth, he heard Mei Xiaoba say: "Grandpa Good is going to continue the string!" ”

Gui Chongyang took a sip of tea, nodded, and then reacted, almost choked, hurriedly swallowed the tea in his mouth, and said, "Who did you listen to?" Could it be that Mei Fuzi is not on vacation today because he is not feeling well, but to see each other? ”

There are Gui Chun and Gui Qiu brothers who have successively set up marriages, and Gui Chongyang also listens to the marriage customs in the north.

Before this is officially married, the man's and woman's relatives must be the same.

It's just that the age of this Mei Fuzi is not small, and the Ming Dynasty, which can call itself an "old man" at the age of thirty, is already considered to be a middle life in his fifties.

Mei Xiaoba said in a sullen voice: "Li Hu said, Mei Fuzi wore new clothes today and went to his house, and I want to see Aunt Huaihua." ”

"Aunt Huaihua" is Li Huaihua, who died a few days ago and returned to her parents' home.

Li Hu's mother is the daughter of "Donggui". Before, "Donggui" knew that Gui Wu had family assets, and Gui Si's grandmother was involved, and she wanted to tell Li Huaihua to Gui Wu to be a concubine and give birth, so that Gui Er's grandmother scolded her.

Regarding this Li Huaihua, Gui Chongyang also inquired a few words before. If nothing else, I'm afraid that she will really beat Gui Wu's idea, which will make it difficult for the Jiang family.

Although Jiang's body is weak and her personality is not soft, she only accepted Gui Wu's "Mao Sui self-recommendation" with her "discerning eyes" back then, and she is the benefactor of the Gui family. If there was no Jiang family's original choice, Gui Wu wanted to save his nephew, then he would only be left to sell himself as a slave.

If Gui Wu hadn't scraped together the money, it would be hard to say how many of the Gui family's second rooms would be left now.

Even if Gui Wu really took a concubine and gave birth to a child, it shouldn't be a little widow sent to the door like this, and the Jiang family always had to be the one who chose the right one.

Because of this inquiry, Gui Chongyang knows more about Li Huaihua, an eighteen-year-old widow, who became a bride of Chongxi, did not rush to live but rushed to death, but left a man, and his belly was competitive.

"This age is much worse!" Gui Chongyang Road.

One is eighteen, one is about to be fifty-eight, this is "old cows eat tender grass"?

Mei Xiaoba pouted and said, "Not only is there a difference in age, but also a difference of generations!"

Mei Tongsheng's wife, who died of illness five years ago, is also a member of the Li family, and is the older generation of the Li family's aunt and grandmother.

The four old surnames Gui, Mei, Yang, and Li are related to each other, but they are all young men and women of the same generation, and Li Huaihua is Li Facai's cousin, which is Mei Xiucai's junior.

"Has the Li Hu family had any trouble lately?" Gui Chongyang said: "Looking at the Li family's previous appearance, it seems that they love their daughter, how can they be willing to marry their daughter to Mei Fuzi?" ”

If you don't hurt your daughter, the married daughter will spill water, and she won't take the widowed daughter's return.

Mei Xiaoba nodded and said: "Li Hu's father committed an autumn cough, and the doctor prescribed a prescription, which used lilies, saying that if he didn't recuperate well, he would turn tuberculosis, and the Li family was afraid of it." ”

Lilies are produced in the northwest and transported thousands of miles to the capital, and the price is very expensive. This "autumn cough" is not a pair of medicines, two medicines can be good, and it can be conditioned.

If the Li family is willing to sell their daughter, they will not leave their daughter in their parents' house for two or three months in vain, and now there is no other way.

Gui Chongyang is not familiar with the Li family, even if there is a large bag of dried lilies in the kitchen at home, he will not think about sending it over.

Mei Xiaoba just sighed.

Just now, Mei Xiaoba and the friends in the village went to the back mountain to pick green walnuts, and after gossiping at this time, they also thought of walnuts, and immediately said: "Brother Chongyang, let's peel the green skin and eat it, it can be tender and sweet!" After that, he took the cloth bag in his hand and showed it to Gui Chongyang.

There are twenty or thirty catties of green-skinned walnuts in it.

"That's a lot, don't get tired carefully!" Gui Chongyang checked it, frowned, and said: "Even if it is the delicious food you love, you have to weigh it, isn't it wronged to be tired like this?" ”

Mei Xiaoba touched the back of his head and said, "Brother Chongyang, the green skin of this walnut accounts for a lot of weight, and you can't peel off half of it." ”

Gui Chongyang said: "Anyway, if you don't want to grow taller, just toss in the future, and don't hide and cry when you become a small man." ”

Mei Xiaoba said "hehe" twice, stopped talking, only took the pliers and peeled the green skin.

*

Because of the holiday of the private school, the children in the village were happy as if they were in the wind, and the news of the continuation of the Mei Fuzi then spread to the families that night.

Every household who got the news felt strange.

This man has a lot of strings, but like Mei Tongsheng, who has children and grandchildren, it is strange to want to continue the strings.

When the village elder Mei An heard this, he felt that something was wrong, so he came to the door on crutches, so he came to talk to Mei Tongsheng.

Mei Tongsheng was wearing a new cocoon silk gown, but he looked proud of the spring breeze.

Seeing this, Mei An couldn't help but persuade: "If you want to find a house, you have to think about it more, the girl in the Li family is not the same age." ”

Mei Tongsheng finished reading the picture during the day, and was very satisfied, it was Xing's head, he only felt unhappy when he heard the words, and said with a straight face: "It's just an in-law who has turned a corner, and it hasn't violated the "Da Ming Law", why can't you marry?" Brother An is too, how can he everything! ”

In the words, he disliked Mei An's nosy appearance.

Mei An sighed and said: "It's not that the old man is nosy, it's just that this involves Brother Bai and Brother Xiao Sheng after all, and it's better to be when they are both in Fang." ”

This suddenly has one more stepmother and a step-grandmother, who knows if Mei Xiucai's uncle and nephew will be happy. When the time comes, fathers, sons, grandfathers and grandchildren will be red-faced, and there will be jokes.

Mei Tongsheng said disapprerovingly: "This has always been only the grandfather who is in charge of his son and grandson, but I haven't heard that the children and grandchildren here are also in charge of the head of the pro-Laozi and the pro-grandfather." If Brother An wants to object, it's too late now, I have already left the dowry and written the marriage letter. ”