Chapter 7 A Guest Comes from Far Away

Chen Zeyu is very sensible in Yue, usually helping his mother take his younger brother, and when the two brothers go to private school, they follow together, and even take the youngest fourth brother Chen Qicai to follow. The old master in the private school was also very happy to see such a young child coming to learn literature, and did not say much.

Wuxing is located in the north of Zhejiang, the strategic position is extremely important, in this era is also a very developed commercial area, this place is adjacent to Shanghai in the east, Hangzhou in the south, Tianmu Mountain in the west, Taihu Lake in the north, and Wuxi and Suzhou across the lake.

The water of Taihu Lake passes through the city from the city gate in the northeast, and the private school in Wuxing County is on the south bank of a stone bridge in the river that passes through the city.

The private school occupies a small area, with two courtyards in the front and back, a few rooms in the front yard are used as classrooms, and the backyard is where the old master's family lives by themselves.

The old master's surname is Chen, he looks like he is in his sixties, and he is still a distant relative of Chen Zeyu's family, and he was lifted in the early years, which is a great achievement in the 19th century.

Chen Zeyu guessed that this old man probably couldn't play with others in the officialdom and was squeezed back to his hometown.

Even so, the old master is not ambiguous at all when he teaches books, and the Four Books and Five Classics are just that, this guy even has a knowledge of military books and war books, and his explanation of current affairs is also unique, not the kind of rotten Confucianism who blindly exalts Chinese studies and looks down on other knowledge. Usually, the students are taught in the morning, and the students go home at noon.

At this time, unlike modern transportation, it takes half a day to walk farther away.

There are also general holidays, which are two days off in October, that is, the last two days of every ten days will be a holiday. If you encounter some festivals or celebrations or bad weather, the old master does not need students to run back and forth, and usually has a holiday, which is much more person-like than the school in modern society.

Usually, when encountering holidays every ten years, Chen Zeyu and his three brothers will run around, and the Feiying Pagoda, Iron Buddha Temple, Mogan Mountain, etc. around Wuxing are all running over and over again.

If you meet your father going into the mountains to collect medicinal herbs, he will go with him.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountain eats the mountain, Wuxing is close to Tianmu Mountain, so it has become a normal thing for my father, who runs a medical hall, to go to Tianmu Mountain every once in a while to collect medicinal materials.

Of course, for large quantities, my father will still buy them from the drug dealer every month, but some varieties that are often scarce require me to find a way, and the quality of the medicine dealer's medicinal materials is also uneven, so it is a must for myself or my buddy to go up the mountain to collect the medicinal materials regularly.

The eastern part of Wuxing is mostly a water town plain, while the west is dominated by mountains and hills, and there is a saying of "five mountains, one water and four fields" in the early days, so the mountain people who live in the west usually go to the mountain stream to collect some medicinal materials to subsidize their families. At this time, the medical center where my father was located played a role, of course, sometimes the precious materials encountered on the mountain road will not be wasted, just pick them directly. According to the ancestral system, the eldest brother Chen Qiye must inherit the ancestral medical hall, so every time he goes up the mountain, his father Chen Yanyou will take him with him.

The second brother Chen Qimei simply wanted to take the opportunity to come out to play, while Chen Zeyu was purely bored.

"Dr. Chen, you're here"

"Hello, Dr. Chen"

"I've got all the last picks, so I'm waiting for you to get them."

“……”

Along the way, the mountain people who met my father would greet us loudly, and my father Chen Yanyou's reputation here is still quite good, and the price of purchasing medicinal materials from the mountain people is also very kind, because the grade is separated from the drug dealers, and the medicine merchants do not hold a grudge against him.

In addition to the medicinal materials on the mountain, his father Chen Yanyou saw some good tea, dried bamboo shoots, pecans, bamboo and wood, and would also buy some. Ordinary mountain people will give it away directly when they hear that their father wants it, and they refuse to ask for money at all. My father was not reluctant, but when he bought medicinal herbs, he would add this part directly to it.

……

The results of the line were quite fruitful, and several guys carried a basket full of Chinese herbs behind them. When he went back, the youngest brother A Cai was still carried by the eldest brother Chen Qiye as usual. It's nice to be a kid and take a ride. Chen Zeyu jokingly stared at his second brother Chen Qimei back and forth, so frightened that he shrank his head, thinking that the third brother was also tired of walking and wanted to carry him away.

A few brothers, needless to say Chen Zeyu himself, the other three are also very healthy and lively. But if you really want to hold a little brother weighing more than 50 pounds and walk on a mountain road for more than ten miles, it is still too terrifying for Chen Qimei, the second brother who is only three years older than herself.

"Third brother, look! You see! Skylark! ”

"Third brother, look, grass leopard!! ——”

"Third brother, look, it's a little squirrel!!"

Chen Zeyu, the third brother who is only half a year younger than himself, has not stopped along the way, but it can be seen that his status as the third brother in his mind is really high enough, hehe.

Speaking of which, most people will feel different when they see Chen Zeyu and his younger brother Chen Qicai, although they are only a little bigger than the latter, they usually still unnaturally reveal some modern temperament.

Therefore, when ordinary people communicate with Chen Zeyu, they will unconsciously adopt the tone of their peers. And the latter Chen Qicai is completely a doll, perhaps this is also the reason why the younger brother is very dependent on his third brother. "Knowledge" and "ability" are older than themselves, and they are not several years older than the eldest brother and second brother, and they can "play" with themselves, and the child is not close to him.

Gossip aside, by the time the father and son returned to the old house in the city, it was already dark.

"Sir, they're back! - " "The master is back—"

As soon as a few people walked to the front of the house, before they could call the door, the guys in the house shouted loudly.

Chen Zeyu entered the courtyard and saw a middle-aged uncle wearing a Western-style dark dress at home, and he had short hair and no braids, he was about a few years older than his father, although he was also in good spirits, but his hair was already gray, and he didn't know how to maintain it like his parents.

"Second brother!" "Big brother! You're back, come on, Ah Ye Ami, Ah Yu Ah Cai, call Uncle quickly"

"Uncle!" "Uncle!" "Uncle!" "Uncle!"

"Hey, it's good, it's all good, it's all good children" The middle-aged man touched the children's big heads one by one, and when it was Chen Zeyu's turn, he suddenly hugged him, "Hey, our Ayu has grown so big" "Hello uncle!" "Well, that's good."

The little brother Ah Cai who could see the bottom pouted, "Uncle, and me!" ”

"Oh, I almost forgot our most well-behaved Ah Cai," the uncle hugged the fourth brother again

Chen Yanyou: "Come on, let's eat first, Youshan, let the guys eat"

"Hao Lat"

During the meal, the atmosphere at the table was very warm.

Talk less and listen more, Chen Zeyu knows, the uncle's name is Chen Yanyu, and he worked in the Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou when he was young.

Later, his business changed, he left the South Seas, and became an American citizen. However, in this era, the management of nationality in China is not very clear, and it is normal for someone to join several foreign nationalities.

Judging from the attitudes of several brothers and younger brothers, this uncle has been here a few times before, and I don't know why he suddenly came back now.

After the family had dinner, Chen Zeyu was ready to go back to his room as usual, but he actually secretly went back to his own space to have a look.

As soon as he and a few brothers stood up, Chen Zeyu was called over by his parents and came to the back hall with a few elders, his mother Wu Youshan took Chen Zeyu in her arms and sat on one side, and his father and uncle sat on the other side.

After the maid served the tea, "Ah Yu, come to my father" The father called Chen Zeyu closer.

Chen Zeyu walked up to his father Chen Yanyou for some reason, "Father! ”

"Ah Yu, your eldest uncle wants you to go to Nanyang with him to inherit the family business, are you willing to go" Chen Yanyou said the purpose to his son straightforwardly.

Chen Zeyu looked at his father's slightly reluctant face and his uncle's expectant eyes, and instantly understood what his father meant. His uncle probably has no heirs, and he has worked hard in Nanyang for half his life, and finally remembered the house of his father who has many heirs in the family.

It is rare that my father can ask Chen Zeyu for his own opinion in this regard......

Chen Zeyu looked back at his mother, to be honest, since he came to the nineteenth century, he has reintegrated into another family, a carefree life that is different from the taste of a single-parent family in his previous life.

For a while, he even forgot his original name, his parents and brothers, and sometimes he thought that it might be a good choice to live like this.

But now, this dream woke up, and when an opportunity to go out was put in front of him, Chen Zeyu realized that his heart did not really belong here, although there was a loving father, a gentle mother, a respectable brother, and a lovely brother, now let all this come to an end temporarily.

"I'm willing to go!"

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