Gu Dashan's family didn't know Shang Xiucai's thoughts, they only thought that Gu Jin'an was not good enough, so Shang Xiucai didn't accept him as an apprentice, but Shang Xiucai was willing to teach Gu Jin'an, and the Gu family was already very grateful.

Facing the gratitude of the Gu family, Shang Xiucai smiled and said, "Thank you for not needing, I'm restrained." You can discuss and choose a day to send An'er to my house to study. ”

The shopkeeper Tao asked the beggar to make trouble, with the handwriting of the shopkeeper Zeng and Zou Xiancheng, it is better for Brother An to follow him to study as soon as possible, so that the Lu family and Zou Xiancheng can be afraid and dare not use any more tricks to deal with the Gu family.

"Shang Xiucai rest assured, we will take Brother An to your house the day after tomorrow." Gu Dashan was so excited that he originally wanted to bring An Ge'er to the door tomorrow, but thinking that he would have to prepare a binding gift, he postponed the time by a day.

Shang Xiucai said: "Okay, then it's decided." ”

After talking about Gu Jin'an, Shang Xiucai left with Ah Jiu.

Gu Dashan's family sent Shang Xiucai out of the house, and did not return to the courtyard until Shang Xiucai's mule cart ran away from the shadow.

Now several families no longer cook spices in Gu Jinli's house, but one family takes two spices back to grind, and after grinding, they bring them to the Gu family and mix them for Gu Jinli, but the rest of the families still quickly know that Gu Jinan wants to study with Shang Xiucai.

Several families were overjoyed, and they all hoped that Gu Jinan would be able to make a name for himself and shelter them in the future.

Chen was also very happy, but in addition to being happy, he was also very unwilling, grabbed the eight-year-old Gu Dewang and beat him a few times: "You are unproductive, you were admitted to the school by Shang Xiucai with Brother An, why did Shang Xiucai only accept Brother An and not you?" Go back to grinding spices for the old lady. ”

Gu Dewang was afraid of Chen, so he shrunk his shoulders and ran back to grind spices, but he didn't think much about going to school, what's so good about going to school? The word is the same as an ant, it makes people dizzy, and he still prefers to grind spices to make tofu.

Gu Dexing filtered the soybean milk at Luo's house, listened to Chen's words in his ears, and felt that Chen was scolding himself, so he was so angry that he threw down the half-filtered soy milk and ran away.

"Brother Xing, where are you going? Isn't this done yet? Gu Dafu shouted with a bucket of soy milk, but Gu Dexing ran away without looking back as if he hadn't heard it.

Gu Dafu sighed, knowing that Gu Dexing wanted to study, but Shang Xiucai didn't accept it, what could he do?

Gu Dagui on the side said: "Big brother, there is also a private school in the town, let's send Brother Xing'er to study." ”

Brother Xing wants to study, and they can all see it. When he was in his hometown, this nephew was pinned on by his father, and he was sent to a private school at the age of seven and studied until the drought in the northwest, when he was forced to suspend school.

But Gu Dafu knew that his son, that kid was on the axis, and with Shang Xiucai in front, he would not go to other private schools to study.

"Let's see." Gu Dafu said a word and continued to be busy with the work in his hands.

After Gu Dexing ran away, he didn't go home until dark, but fortunately he didn't do anything stupid, just sulking in life.

The next day, Gu Jinli did not follow the stall, but made tofu at home, and asked Gu Dashan to take Gu Jinan to the town to buy things.

There are a lot of things they want to buy today, including a gift for Shang Xiucai, and a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone that Gu Jinan uses to go to school.

There are not many people reading in the town, but there is a small bookstore in the back street, which sells pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, as well as some common books, such as the three-character classic for enlightenment, the thousand-character text, and then there are the Analects, the Book of Poetry, and the Book of Rites.

Although there are few types of books, and the paper is still yellow, it is not cheap, and an ordinary three-character scripture costs one or two silver.

After Gu Dashan asked about the price of the books, he wanted to buy two books for Gu Jin'an, but was stopped by Gu Jin'an.

Gu Jinan said: "Dad, I don't know what Mr. wants to teach now, don't buy this book first, let's talk about it after I see Mr. tomorrow." ”

After listening to this, Gu Dashan suppressed the idea of buying a book, and after choosing in the bookstore, he bought a pen, a cheapest inkstone, two ink ingots, and ten pieces of yellow paper, gritted his teeth and bought two pieces of white rice paper.

The shopkeeper Tang of the bookstore knew Gu Dashan, this Gu family sells tofu, and recently often came to their bookstore to buy yellow paper, but this time he bought white rice paper, he couldn't help but be curious, and asked: "Brother Gu, how did you buy white rice paper this time, this paper is not cheap." ”

Yellow paper is the cheapest, costing 50 wen a piece, and white rice paper is expensive, costing 200 wen a piece, which is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Gu Dashan said: "Brother An wants to go to school, buy two pieces of rice paper to prepare, if Mr. wants to make an article, there is also rice paper available." "It's not nice to use yellow paper.

When the shopkeeper Tang heard this, he was very surprised, this Gu family had fled the famine, and he had the money to send his son to school.

"That's really going to congratulate Brother Gu." Shopkeeper Tang smiled: "Which gentleman did you worship?" But come to the private school in the town to study? ”

Gu Dashan said: "I worship Shang Xiucai from Shangjia Village, and I went to his house to study." ”

Shopkeeper Tang was completely shocked, he didn't expect Shang Xiucai to be willing to teach Gu Jia An'er, this is really ...... He remembered the rumors in the town that it was a little girl from the Gu family who saved the granddaughter of the county lieutenant, so she was taken care of by the county lieutenant.

And the son-in-law of the county lieutenant is not Shang Xiucai.

From this point of view, the rumors are true, this Gu family is really lucky, and they have been protected by Jiang County Lieutenant and Shang Xiucai.

The smile on the face of the shopkeeper Tang became stronger, and he said sincerely: "This is really a happy event, Shang Xiu is the one who has real skills, your brother An can be taught by Shang Xiucai, and he will definitely have a future in the future." ”

Shopkeeper Tang said some good things, and when he finally settled the accounts, he wiped off the odds for them, and only collected one or two or five hundred yuan, and refused to accept any more.

At the end, the shopkeeper Tang also gave Gu Dashan a package of dried celery wrapped in yellow paper: "You must buy a bundle of gifts, this celery is indispensable, there is no fresh one now, but I have dried celery in this shop to spare, give it to you." ”

Gu Dashan was grateful and took the dried celery.

Gu Jinan is not such a stupid person, he thanked the shopkeeper with a smile, and said some good words, and the father and son left the bookstore to buy other gifts.

Gu Jinli is at home to order stewed tofu and soybean oil at the same time.

Soybean oil is not difficult to make, that is, picking beans, breaking beans, frying beans, making cake embryos, and then squeezing oil.

The beans were stone-ground a few days ago, and now you can start frying them.

After she mixed the vinegar water for Cui's and helped order six pots of tofu, she built a simple stove outside the kitchen with mud bricks, took out an iron pot, lit a hot pot, poured all the crushed 20 catties of soybeans into the pot, and stir-fried over low heat.

The beans are crushed, the particles are small, and they are easy to fry, and after two quarters of an hour, twenty catties of broken beans are all cooked.