Gui Chongyang returned to Mujia Village at the end of May, and it has been more than two months. It's not that I haven't had similar doubts before, but I don't care as much about it today.

In addition to being enlightened, there are many things wrong in the home in Nanjing, if you think about it carefully. There is an industry in the family over there, there are shops in the city, Zhuangzi outside the city, Gui Chongyang will read the accounts after he is seven or eight years old, and the housekeeper will take him to see it.

The shop is in front of the Qinhuai River Confucius Temple Street, there are two prosperous shops, each of which is three storefronts, one is a four-treasure shop for the study, and one is a silk village, and the two places add up to three hundred taels of rent per year. At that time, it was said that it was Gui Chongyang's mother's marriage, Gui Chongyang's "born and lost his mother" naturally had never seen his biological mother, and now that he thinks that his biological mother is gone, what about the rest of the family? Why hasn't anyone mentioned it?

The Zhuangzi outside the city does not have much land, and it is only ten hectares. It's nothing in Nanjing, where the powerful gather, but if you really want to think about it, how can it be the "daughter of the people's Wu Da" mentioned in Gui Chongyang's household registration post? Is "Wu" really surnamed Wu, or does it mean "there is no such person"?

When he was a child in front of outsiders, "Dad" asked Gui Chongyang to call him "Dad" and "Father", and let him call him "Dad" when no one was around. Gui Chongyang also wondered that this title was uncommon, and "Dad" said that it was the title of his hometown. But Gui Chongyang returned to Mujia Village for two months, and he had never heard of a similar name.

Mengtong is still a book, but Gui Chongyang is shivering.

What's going on? Is "Dad" really Guiyuan? My mother is not Wu, so who is it?

The morning was chaotic, time flew by, and it was time for lunch in a blink of an eye.

The elementary school students sat in twos and threes, and took food boxes out to eat together.

Yang Wu and Mei Xiaoba naturally sat with Gui Chongyang, and the primary school student who read before was named Mei Chen, and Mei Xiaoba was a cousin of the same great-grandfather, so he came over to say hello, looked at Mei Xiaoba's schoolbag and struggled for a while, or went back to sit with his friends.

Mei Xiaoba was questioned by Yang Wu, reprimanded by his master, and despised by his little cousin again, and the excitement of going to school passed, and finally showed a little worry.

Perhaps, Mei Xiaoba's stepmother wants this.

Gui Chongyang's heart was in turmoil, and when he saw Mei Xiaoba like this, he also lost a little patience, and frowned: "A broken schoolbag, it's not appropriate to change it tomorrow!" Frowning and making a sad face, after all, I came here to read, and it is not better than anyone's schoolbag! ”

Although Mei Xiaoba was reprimanded, she was in a lot of energy, and quickly nodded: "Well, I don't have to worry." I know...... My mother is busy, so she won't change it. If I don't change it, I'll continue to carry this......"

But this is a private school, Mei Tongsheng has already opened his mouth to let him change, if Mei Xiaoba doesn't change, Mei Tongsheng's face will be off, and he won't know how to wear small shoes in the future.

Mei Xiaoba wouldn't have thought of this, Gui Chongyang naturally thought of it, and said: "You go back today and tell your father and mother what your father and mother mean, I will ask my aunt to prepare one for you, if you don't change it at home, go to my house to change it." ”

Mei Xiaoba shook her head and said, "Don't bother my aunt, my mother said, this is a matter of Feibu." “

It's a fart, a matter of two feet of cloth at most!

Rao is Gui Chongyang, and he was also made rude by Mei Xiaoba's stepmother.

Gui Chongyang said: "For you to go to school, my aunt is not short of this two-foot cloth!" Do you think your aunt is not as good as your father? But your father and mother don't have a book for you! ”

When Mei Xiaoba heard this, she immediately drooped her head like a frosted eggplant.

Gui Chongyang didn't want to say these cruel words, but this Mei Xiaoba was really over, and he didn't make it clear that this guy was still grateful to his scumbag stepmother.

Yang Wu listened to this sentence with a stunned expression on his face. That's 300 yuan a year, and according to the rules, you have to prepare a four-color ceremony at the end of the year, which is a lot of money.

Mei Xiaoba's family is not poor, how can she let others pay for it?

It is said that "the world's troubles begin to read", Mei Xiaoba, who has always been happy, studied on the first day today, and the troubles that followed also began.

followed Gui Chongyang for half a month, and saw the Li family's meanness and ruthlessness towards Li Taoer, and Mei Xiaoba was not as heartless as before.

Gui Chongyang lowered his eyes and did not explain Mei Xiaoba's meaning. This is how children grow up, they can't always be innocent, they must always start learning to grow their brains.

But do you really have a brain? If it weren't for everyone, Gui Chongyang would want to hammer himself twice.

Mei Xiaoba's food box is the same as Gui Chongyang, which was prepared by Mei's family.

Mei Xiaoba opened the food box in a daze, and her eyes lit up all of a sudden.

The food box has two layers, one with four flower rolls, and one with vinegared cabbage and pickled celery. Mei's father and brother are both scholars, and they saw their brother's food box when they were young, so they know what to prepare for food that is not afraid of cold and is convenient to eat.

When I arrived at Yang Wu, it didn't work, and there was no food box, only two large bowls wrapped in coarse cloth, with tofu stewed pickles under it and two sorghum noodles on top.

From time to time, some primary school students looked over curiously, and some pouted when they saw Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba's food boxes, and some covered up their humble lunch boxes; When he saw the two black-faced nests in Yang Wuer's big bowl, someone said "haha".

Gui Chongyang was in a bad mood when he heard a look passing. His face was dark and his eyes were cold, which startled the schoolboy.

In the end, it's just a group of ten-year-old nurses. Gui Chongyang felt a little anxious, lowered his head and had no appetite, and pushed the food box to Yang Wu.

Yang Wu took a flower roll, pushed his rice bowl, and said, "Do you want to taste it, my mother's steamed nest." ”

Gui Chongyang took a nest head, which was like a hard gnocchi, where could it be compared to a white-faced flower roll, but because he was thinking about his heart, he ate it one bite at a time.

When it was time for lunch, several elementary school students in charge of sweeping began to sweep the floor.

In the afternoon, everyone was reciting for half an hour, but it was a five-character quatrain.

It wasn't until everyone finished reciting that Mei Fuzi arrived, but he was tired on his face. He had just come back from the lecture in the next class, his mouth was dry, and he was impatient, so he asked everyone to review the "Three Character Classic" again, and asked a few elementary school students, so he asked everyone to write big characters, and went back to the master's room by himself.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the bell rang for the end of school, and the elementary school students rushed out.

Not only did Gui Chongyang sit with a sore back and have a sore back, but Yang Wu and Mei Xiaoba had never sat for a long time, and they kept shaking their necks.

Although Gui Chongyang has not entered the social studies in the south, he has heard of it.

The social studies in the south are divided into morning school, afternoon school, and evening school every day, and every day we have to review the book and study the etiquette, teach the advance and retreat, response, treat the teacher, and the etiquette of the family, and then urge everyone to review the reading in the morning and afternoon school, and then disperse the school.

The private school in this village obviously skips the evening school, that is, the morning school and afternoon school are also perfunctory, but they can read and write.

Gui Chongyang didn't expect much from the village school before, but he was not disappointed.

After looking at Yang Wu and Mei Xiaoba, I saw Yang Wu stretching out his arms and moving his legs: "It's really more tiring than going to the ground, no wonder someone ran away halfway through it." ”

Yang Wu is already thirteen, such a kid is already a full-time labor force in the village, so he naturally knows how hard it is to farm.

Mei Xiaoba touched the back of his head, "hehe" and said with a smile: "In the future, if others praise the fourth brother, I will also follow the praise, literacy is tired, not to mention that he has been taking the test." ”

Gui Chongyang smiled and said nothing, it was really childlike. Shinong industry and commerce, the four people are distinct. Compared to farming in the field, what is this in the school?

The three of them came out of the village school and said goodbye at the intersection.

Approaching the Gui family's old house, Gui Chongyang stopped.

"Dad" mentioned his parents before, but he didn't mention the two eldest brothers, nor did he mention the eldest sister-in-law and the aunt and cousin who have been married since childhood. Are the parents in the mouth of "Dad" the late He Changhai and his wife? Or someone else?

Is "Dad" really the Gui Yuan who stole 200 taels of silver from the family and cheated his family and in-laws? Is he really a descendant of the He family?