Chapter 42 Drawing of lots
Obviously, the matter has been satisfactorily answered, and the old man has enough reasons to support Zhang Jiemeng's learning, which can be regarded as an explanation to the third uncle's family, and on the way back, the old man's steps are much brisker.
Just entered the yard, I saw that everyone in the family was in the yard, for this small family, the selection of the third generation of study places, but it is a great event, Wang sat at the door of his house, although his hands were sewing and mending, but a pair of eyes were always looking at the door.
The third uncle and three aunts also sat beside the stone platform, teasing the iron eggs of the little sister-in-law's family to Xiao Ni.
After raising it for more than a month, the bag on the iron egg head is completely down, but if you look closely, there is still a shallow scar left in the middle of the forehead, but this is not a big deal.
The whole family stared at the old man who came in through the door, and the two children who followed behind the old man.
From the moment he entered the courtyard, the old man was already stiff, and others couldn't see the end of the matter at all, and at this time, Zhang Jie didn't want to stimulate the third uncle, so his face was also flat, so people couldn't guess the outcome of the matter at all.
As for Zhang Hao, this kid hasn't reacted to what is going on from beginning to end.
"Dad, what did the old master say?"
At this time, the third uncle and the third aunt and the Wang family as the parties were silent, obviously not ready to bear the consequences, but the little sister-in-law, who was an outsider, did not have too many concerns, for her, no matter who the two children chosen, it had no impact on her, anyway, there was no share of her children, so the first to ask questions was the little aunt.
"Let's let Haozi train at home for two years, the old master thinks he is too young." When he said this, the old man could be regarded as saving face for the third uncle's family.
Hearing the old man's words, Wang, who was originally sitting at the door, suddenly stumbled and fell directly to the ground, obviously, although she had always believed that Zhang Jie could learn, and now she finally got the exact answer from the old man's mouth, and she also breathed a long sigh of relief in her heart.
This will make no one laugh at the fallen Wang, because everyone is focused on Zhang Jie, since Haozi has been brushed down, there is no doubt that the seed of the third generation of reading in the family is this hairy boy who has always been considered a troublemaker.
Zhang Jie didn't care what the whole family thought, when he saw Wang fall off the bench all of a sudden, he took his little short legs to help, but he didn't want to just come to Wang, so he saw Wang grab his little fat hand, and then hold it hard in the palm of his hand.
Wang used a lot of strength, so the hand that was also covered with calluses made Zhang Jie's little hand painful, but Zhang Jie didn't break away, just let the other party hold it.
Because Zhang Jie clearly felt that Wang was holding his hand and trembling all the time.
What kind of turbulent waves is this woman's heart setting off at this moment?
"Dad, Haozi is also six years old this year, and he is seven years old, you are telling the old master, Haozi has reached the age of Mengxue, Haozi must be nervous in front of the old master, this child is good at learning at home, reciting and practicing words at home every day, Dad, you all know, for Mengxue, how much suffering this child has suffered, Dad, you also see it in your eyes, and you are talking to the old master!"
Obviously, the third aunt, who was still struggling for the last time, couldn't care so much at this time, walked up to the old man in a few steps, took the old man's hand, and looked excited.
"What do you say, this is the old master's decision, the old master has taught students for decades, and his vision can be worse than yours?"
Saying that Haozi is young, it was just a rhetoric, but seeing that the third aunt actually talked about this, the old man couldn't help but pull down his face.
"Dad, in the past few years, the military flag has been cultivated as a successor, and the two of them get up to study before dawn every day, and they stay up until midnight every day to write, in order to let Haozi get ahead, and glorify the ancestors in the future, Dad, you don't pity your grandson, but you have to look at your son's feelings, and you have to give Haozi a chance!"
Seeing the old man's face tense, if it was a side matter, the third aunt would never dare to entangle more, but seeing that his baby son was about to change from a scholar in the school to a mud leg, the third aunt who loved her son couldn't care too much, and after falling to the ground, she hugged the old man's legs, and cried with a handful of snot and tears.
At this time, the third uncle turned a blind eye to the old man's gaze, let Liu cry there, looked at Zhang Hao, who was stunned at the door and didn't know what was happening, gritted his teeth, the third uncle suddenly fluttered and knelt down, kowtowed to the old man three times in a row, and saw red on his forehead.
The old lady who had been in the house all the time was heartbroken when she saw her favorite third son like this, and hurriedly rushed out of the house, hugging the third uncle, so that the third uncle would not kowtow.
At this time, the third uncle with a deep face said in a rough voice: "Dad, the child has his own child's life, should he be prosperous and rich, or be a farmer for a lifetime, this heaven has its own certainty, we can't cut off the child's future because of the old master's words, the fate of the two children, or they should be grasped by themselves, and there is absolutely no reason to change by listening to a word from others." ”
"Humph!" With a cold snort, the old man, who had obviously lost his temper, twitched his leg fiercely, originally wanted to break free, but he didn't want the third aunt to hold the old man's leg desperately, and he was unwilling to let go of it.
"What do you say? Do you want God to thunder? Do you want God to slash the thunder on whom, and who is you choosing to study? Monkey business! ”
"Draw lots!"
When Shen said this sentence with this face, the third uncle began to kowtow there again, and the old lady on the side couldn't stop it, and the sound of the third aunt crying wolf kept ringing in the yard.
At this time, the old lady who loved her son finally couldn't help it, and complained to the old man: "His father, can still watch the child die in front of him, do you want to live a family, catch lots, catch lots, whoever catches whom, this is God's choice, no one is allowed to complain in the future." ”
Waiting to see the chickens and dogs jumping all over the yard, looking at the old lady who was constantly wiping her tears, and finally slowly closed her eyes, the old man sighed helplessly.
With the acquiescence of the old man, I saw that the third uncle, who was just about to die, got up from the ground with a cleverness, and then quickly went back to the house with his hands and feet to take a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, tore off two pieces of paper of the same size, and quickly wrote a few words on the paper, and when the two pieces of paper were folded, they quickly put them on the side of the bowl that had been prepared long ago.
Seeing the third uncle come to him with a bowl with two paper balls in it, Zhang Jie, who was a little stunned on his face, looked straight at the old man who was held by the third aunt and did not let go, and when he saw the helplessness and gloom on the old man's face, he knew that this time, the old man did not plan to support himself at the risk of going against the expectations of the whole family.
Is your fate going to be pinned on such a small ball of paper?
Zhang Jie was stunned, but seeing that Wang on the side seemed to be afraid that he would not get such an opportunity, he quickly took Zhang Jie's hand and put it into the bowl, and then randomly chose a paper ball.
When Zhang Hao, who was at the door, picked up another paper ball from the bowl, he saw the third uncle who suddenly broke the bowl in his hand and said in a deep voice:
"This is God's decision, if you choose 'go', then you will go to the school to learn, and if you choose 'no', you will be obediently at home, and no one will be allowed to complain in the future."
As the third uncle's voice fell, the whole courtyard fell silent, and the third uncle with a heavy face came to Zhang Jie in a few steps, and said solemnly: "Open it, see what you have chosen?" ”