Mao Zong took the paper, hummed a little song, and went straight to the last courtyard. There is a small fish pond in the courtyard, Mao Zong's sister Mao Yan is lying on the railing in the small pavilion by the pool, holding a handful of wheat bran in one hand, and throwing a little in the water with the other hand, watching the fish in the water compete for food, hearing Mao Zong's footsteps, she raised her head and glanced at him, and lowered her head again: "Are you back?" ”

"It's back, yes, that's the question." Mao Zong said loudly: "I solved it, I was afraid that you would say that my handwriting was not good-looking, so I specially asked a classmate to copy it." As he spoke, he handed the half piece of paper to Mao Yan.

Mao Yan didn't answer, tilted her head and looked, secretly calculated in her heart, and laughed: "Chengming, you came to lie to me again, is this your solution or your classmate's solution?" ”

Mao Zong said loudly: "I know you don't believe it, but it doesn't matter, I just want to have a clear conscience, I don't need you to believe it." ”

"Humph! I don't know what you're capable of? I didn't solve the problem for two days, you just went out and solved it, this is not a Chinese person's substitution, what else can it be? ”

Mao Zong regretted it in his heart, but refused to admit it, just pursed his lips, twisted his head away, and snatched some wheat bran from Mao Chang's hand to feed the fish.

"What's more, it's still wrong." Mao Yan poured all the wheat bran in her palm into Mao Zong's hand and said lightly.

"Impossible." When Mao Zong heard that it was wrong, he immediately panicked, and blurted out without thinking: "Liu Deran blinded me?" When the words came out, I noticed the sly smile on Mao Yan's face, and immediately understood that she had fallen into the hands of her sister again, so she screamed angrily, turned her head and left.

Mao Yan giggled, clapped her hands, picked up the paper that Mao Zong threw aside and looked at it, and said to herself as she walked into the room: "Liu Deran? Is that the little vertical son who became Mr. Lu's book as soon as he came? Sure enough, he writes well, and he solves this problem quickly, he is a talent, no wonder this kid can be friends with him. As soon as she entered the door, she shouted loudly: "Achu, Achu, the problem has been solved." ”

As soon as the door curtain was lifted, the woman in the goose yellow shirt that Liu Xiu saw in Taoxi walked out of it, and when she saw Mao Yan's smug look, she pursed her lips and smiled: "You don't have to be so loud, I know you...... Solved out. ”

She bit your voice very hard, Mao Yan heard the meaning, and didn't mind, haha smiled: "Don't laugh at me, there are a few women like you, not only do they look like one in a thousand, but they can also read and calculate, but I am afraid that ordinary men will not have the blessing to marry you, and they can only be sent to the palace in the future." ”

"Hugh is going to talk nonsense." Ah Chu's face darkened, he took a bite of Mao, took the half of the paper, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he praised it first: "It's really good calligraphy." Then he glanced at the numbers again, and nodded again and again: "It is indeed a quick and wise one, and it was actually solved in a moment, but it was the first time I saw it." ”

"How's it going, are you tempted?" Mao Yan quipped: "I heard Chengming say, this Liu Xiuke is not bad, and he is comparable to that white horse Langjun, but his martial arts are too poor, except for brute strength, he can't even ride a horse." ”

"What if you can't shoot arrows on horseback?" Ah Chu retorted: "Do you see how many of the three princes and nine kings are from martial arts today? As long as you are proficient in the scriptures, you will naturally have a good career, so why do you need to ride a horse and shoot arrows. ”

"And!" Mao Yan pursed her lips in displeasure: "You are like those Confucian scholars, looking down on us rough people." ”

Seeing that Mao Yan was angry, Achu hurriedly laughed and said: "Sister, I didn't mean that, it's my sister who said the wrong thing, okay, my sister is here to compensate you, Sister Wanwang has a lot, don't worry." ”

Mao Yan couldn't help laughing, and reached out to twist Ah Chu's face: "I see pity, how can I hate you." By the way, when are you going to leave? If you don't leave, you won't have time to come back before the snow falls. ”

"Chengming said that he wanted to participate in this exercise to protect the village, I want to wait until he finishes the drill before leaving, anyway, it's not bad for these two days." Ah Chu smiled: "Besides, it's rare to have the opportunity to be with a great Confucian like Lu Jun, I still have to ask him more questions, how can I be willing to leave now." ”

Mao Yan shook her head, her face was a little serious: "Lu Jun can stay here for a few days, he will have to go to Luoyang sooner or later, wouldn't it be more convenient for you to ask him for advice then?" Even if I go to Liaoxi, it's not too late to come back. You don't know the weather in the north, it may snow as soon as it enters August, and the Xianbei people are fierce, what if something happens at that time? It is only right to go early and return early. ”

Achu thought for a moment, but also felt that there was some truth, and did not say anything more. She looked at the half of the paper in her hand, and suddenly smiled: "Since this person is good at calculation, why don't you let Chengming ask him a few more questions, maybe there will be an accident." ”

Mao Yan also smiled, and reached out to poke Achu's forehead: "You, you should give birth to a boy, enter Taixue to become a doctor, and glorify the lintel of your Wang family. No wonder my uncle sighed at the mention of you. ”

"You don't want to talk nonsense." Ah Chu said embarrassedly: "My brother is so bad, my father named him Bin, which means to take the meaning of all-round talent in civil and military affairs, and the minister said that although his early achievements were not obvious, he can enter the court as an official in the future." ”

"I'm afraid I'll have to touch your light." Mao Yan laughed, her eyes were a little yearning: "Once you enter Luoyang, presumably the young talents who come to the door to ask for marriage will break through the threshold, but I am pitiful, staying in this near Hu place, I can only marry a husband in the future and live a random life." ”

"Not really." Seeing Mao's resentment, Achu persuaded softly: "Sister heroes don't let Xu Mei, they will have good companions in the future." ”

"Good company?" Mao Yan sighed and became even more depressed: "I don't have the appearance and knowledge like you, my surname is wild, I have to dance with a knife and a sword, I can't be a woman, and I can't touch the four virtues of women." People with family backgrounds don't look down on me, and people without family backgrounds I don't look down on people, and now I'm almost twenty years old, and I don't even have a single one to propose, so what kind of good companion do you expect. Alas, forget it, anyway, they all treat me as a man, Ah Weng is old and frail, and Chengming is still young, so I will pick up the burden of this young owner for him for a few years. Zhuoxian Simao, I can't let Ximao fall from my hands. ”

Achu was silent. Zhuoxian Simao, headed by Ximao, relied on Mao Chang, Mao Zong's uncle Mao Kai did Yiwu Sima that year, made military merits, and sealed the Pavilion Marquis, but unfortunately Mao Kai later died in Pu Shihai, and even did not have a son who inherited the title. It's just that Mao Qin is an honest and useless person, when Mao Kai was in Yiwu Sima, he did a term of foreign Huang Ling, but he had no political achievements, Mao Kai died, he had no chance to be promoted, so he had to go home and live idlely, and after taking over the position of the head of the Ximao family, he did nothing, and Ximao's strength declined day by day.

This time, Lu Zhi went to the official due to illness and returned to his hometown to recuperate, but after her father got the news, he immediately asked her to rush to Zhuo County, hoping that Ximao would seize this opportunity and invite Lu Zhi to Taogu to teach as an apprentice. Lu Zhi is Zhuo Jun, the most promising talent in the past hundred years, and his reputation is very great, and inviting Lu Zhi to Peach Valley to teach as an apprentice has a very great effect on enhancing Ximao's reputation. Mao Qin was still a little hesitant, but it was Mao Yan who made this happen. After Lu Zhi arrived in Peach Valley, almost all the people in Zhuo County came to visit Peach Valley, and Ximao ushered in a rare scenery for decades, and the other heads of Sanmao could only look up.

But they all know that once Lu Zhi's health improves, he will definitely leave Peach Valley to come back as an official, he has brought opportunities to Ximao, but whether he can seize this opportunity and revive Ximao's family business depends on the ability of the Mao family themselves. Mao Qin was weak and incompetent, Mao Zong was young and ignorant, and the burden fell on the shoulders of a woman named Mao Chang.