Village school, Mengtong class.

As Gui Chongyang said, after a few days off, Mei Tongsheng went directly to the next class to check his homework.

Here in the Mengtong class, it is still reciting, led by Mei Chen, and others are reading.

When Du Qi sneaked in, he saw a bunch of small radish heads shaking their heads.

Some people read carefully, their eyes closed, and their hearts are unavoidable; Some couldn't sit still at all, their eyes flew wildly, and their hands danced.

Someone saw Du Qiniao coming in quietly, and they had to stick out their tongues and make faces.

Seeing this, Du Qi's originally gloomy mood was much better, and he also made a naughty grimace, which made the primary school students who had made faces before cover their mouths.

Although every family is afraid of the Du family and the Li family, and tells their children and grandchildren to stay away from Du Qi, there are also first-class fathers and mothers who want to lean on the thigh of the Du family and tell their own children to flatter Du Qi.

However, most of the children are seven or eight years old, which is the age when all the minds are playful, who cares whether the Du family is powerful or not.

Seeing that Du Qi was amiable and brought snacks to everyone to eat, some primary school students couldn't help but come here.

When the bell rang outside, when it was time for the class break, two elementary school students, you squeezed me, and I squeezed you, came forward and said, "Brother Du, did you bring kraft candy?" ”

Before Du Qi was on duty in the morning, he once took a bag of sugar and gave it to the elementary school students. These two came late, only listened to one ear, endured a lesson, and finally couldn't help but come over to beg for it.

Du Qi didn't hesitate, and directly took out a brown paper bag, and said, "Xiaoba bought it, you take it yourself." ”

This kraft candy was bought by Mei Xiaoba in the town when Baiweixiang opened on August 18, just to thank Du Qi for the big yellow eel that he had cast his net before.

The paper bag was cut into diamond-shaped pieces the size of thumbs, and the two elementary school students were not greedy, one took a piece and walked away.

Mei Chen turned his head and looked at Du Qi with a frown. He claimed to be the head of the class, and it was his responsibility to maintain class order, and when everyone started reciting, Du Qi's seat was empty.

Is Du Qi late? But he was still on duty before class.

Mei Chen didn't pay attention to Du Qi's change of clothes, and he was a little confused, so he fell into a tangle, not knowing whether to sue Mei Tongsheng or not. If you don't complain, others will follow suit, and the order will be broken; If you sue, will it make Du Qi and the others unhappy?

The few big and tall people in the back row are obviously in a group, and there are also their own cousins.

As soon as Du Qi looked up, he saw Mei Chen looking at him with a bitter and hateful face, but when he also wanted to eat candy, he was embarrassed to come over to ask for it, knowing that he was Mei Xiaoba's cousin, and the family was ranked nineth, so he got up and went over, sent the kraft candy in his hand forward, and said with a little enthusiasm: "Mei Xiaojiu, give it to you!" ”

Mei Chen was stunned, looked at Du Qi, and then looked at the kraft candy in Du Qi's hand, wondering if he was going to "buy" himself. As the head of the class, I have to stick to my principles, but the kraft candy is full of sesame seeds, which seems to be very sweet.

Mei Chen was still hesitating, Du Qi had already grabbed a handful, stuffed it into his hand, and took the brown paper bag to find someone else.

*

After the break between classes, Mei Tongsheng came over, still with a drooping face, this time the schoolwork of the small class was spot-checked.

The content of the spot check is the "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names" recited before the holiday, and the order of the spot check is from back to front, obviously for Gui Chongyang and the four people.

Mei Tongsheng took the ring ruler in his hand, his face was gloomy, and he was a little unkind when he looked at the four of them.

However, Gui Chongyang and Du Qi were clumsy before, and they would not be afraid of this little question.

Mei Xiaoba here, there is Gui Chongyang's homework to go back to, although there are some stumbles, he also passed the test smoothly.

What worries people is Yang Wu. Fortunately, Yang Wuji cherished the opportunity to go to school, and when he went home, he also listened to Gui Chongyang's advice, reviewed his homework, and the fear of Mei Tongsheng in his heart was reduced a little, and he even spoke clearly and answered smoothly.

The four of them escaped, and the irritability on Mei Tongsheng's face could not be suppressed, and the remaining primary school students were unlucky.

After a while, Mei Tongsheng smoked a few elementary school students' handboards, although they didn't cry for everyone, they all wanted to cry or not.

The last one is Mei Chen, because Mei Tongsheng was too serious, so that Mei Chen, who originally remembered clearly, began to forget the words.

Thinking of Mei Chen's cousin relationship with Mei Xiaoba, Mei Tongsheng didn't care that this was also his own nephew, so he immediately took the ring ruler and unceremoniously pulled it down.

Mei Chen's face was flushed, not only in pain, but also in shame.

Mei Tongsheng vented, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still irritable, and when the bell rang at noon, he announced one thing, and put the "autumn harvest holiday" for half a month.

The elementary school student, who had just been frightened, immediately smiled.

The general village school has an autumn harvest holiday, that is, the village school in Mujia Village, which also has an autumn harvest holiday when Grandpa Mei is presiding.

After all, the most important day of the year in the village is the autumn harvest, and the children in the village school are also half of the labor force at home; Even if you are young, you should also know the hardships of the crops and the hard work of your father.

But because Mei Tongsheng's land was tenant and did not farm, he never took the autumn harvest seriously, and when he presided over the private school, the first thing to change was to cancel the autumn harvest holiday.

It's not that there are no opinions from the parents of the students, but Mei Tongsheng said "everything is inferior, only reading is high", and he pushed people back.

At the moment, Mei Tongsheng was obviously in a short mood and had no patience to perfunctory the primary school students, so he brought up the "autumn harvest holiday" again.

Like the primary school students, Gui Chongyang looked at each other and was happy.

In addition to the Du family's own non-farming, the Gui and Yang families both have land, and Gui Chongyang and Yang Wu naturally don't want to sit in the village school when they are busy with the autumn harvest at home, and they can't intervene to help.

It's just that Gui Chongyang also kept an eye on it, guessing whether it was Mei Xiucai's gambling incident, otherwise it was just for the family affairs of the Mei Du family, Mei Tongsheng would not be irritable to the point of losing his temper, but he couldn't teach it for a day, and announced the holiday of the village school after half a day of class.

Du Qi lost the mood to play with Gui Chongyang and others because of the previous family affairs, thanked Mei Xiaoba again for the kraft candy, and gave Mei Xiaoba a large bag of food he had prepared before as a return gift, which was not careless, and prepared a small bag for Yang Wu, and then went home by himself.

As for Gui Chongyang, living with Mei Xiaoba, Du Qi naturally didn't need to prepare anything else.

Yang Wu was a little excited, and said to Gui Chongyang: "Look at the arrangement between my father and cousin Chun, most of them are harvested together." ”

The Gui family was short of labor before, and it has indeed been thanks to the help of the Yang family father and son in the past ten years.

According to Gui Chongyang's idea, it is better to hire short-term workers directly than to work so hard, but he also knows that Gui Erye and Gui Chun will not agree to this kind of thinking, so they put up with it.

Even Gui Chongyang, the person in the second room of the Gui family, is unwilling to trouble, let alone the father and son of the Yang family?

However, living in the village, the favor is greater than the sky, and sometimes the debt is also a kind of invisible, if everything is clear, it can't be said that the relationship is born.

Gui Chongyang scolded in his heart, his face was not obvious, and he nodded: "Most of the time." ”

Because the lunch had not yet been eaten, the teenagers did not delay, and went back to their respective homes with food boxes.

*

The old house of the Gui family, the hall house.

Mei brought the hot meal and said curiously: "Why did you put the autumn harvest holiday well?" The village school didn't let go before? ”

Gui Chongyang was already sick and weak, and Mei was eight years younger, so Mei naturally didn't think about asking the two of them to go to the ground. This study delay of half a month is not a trivial matter.

"Who knows? Looking at Mei Fuzi's appearance, it seemed that there was something urgent at home, and he couldn't pull away for a while, so he simply took a vacation. Gui Chongyang said.

"What's the urgency?" Mei Duo came in with a plate of dim sum, and when she heard Gui Chongyang's words, her eyes were full of light.

"It's so urgent, it's probably related to money." Because Mei Xiaoba was there, Gui Chongyang changed his rhetoric.

Mei Duo's eyes brightened, revealing schadenfreude. She knew about Mei Xiucai's gambling in the town, and she wished that the incident would happen as soon as possible, so that she could add gambling to Mei's family's room.

Gui Chongyang also smiled, his eyes fell on the dim sum in Mei Duo's hand, and he said curiously: "Sesame baked cakes? It looks smaller than the town. ”

One of the sesame baked cakes in the town is the size of an adult's palm, and the one in front of me is the size of a chess piece. This is Du Qi's thank you gift, Mei Duo loaded a plate and brought it to everyone to try.

Mei Xiaoba was already swallowing saliva on the side, but she let it go, and when everyone took it, she quickly took one, took a big bite, and said happily: "It's so sweet!" Sugar-filled yakiniku! ”

Gui Chongyang smiled and took a bite, but his face changed.

This cake looks golden or orange in color, and the white sesame seeds are evenly adhered on both sides, it looks like a small baked cake, which can be bitten down, and the filling inside is diced white sugar osmanthus lard, which is crispy and fragrant, sweet and fatty.

This is "Taishi Cake", also known as "Taishi Cake", one of Jinling's specialties.