After Master Gui had eaten and drunk enough, Li Zongyan finally made a decision and said, "I will find a place for Master to settle down tonight, and then go back to talk to Master Gui, if she agrees, I will come to pick up Master Gui tomorrow." If the master does not allow it, it is not too late for Master Gui to go out of the city again. ”

"If I can, although I don't have much money to bring, I will leave the rest of the money to go home, and I will hand over the rest to the Li family. I'm only afraid that if you open your mouth, your current master will not like it. If it affects you, don't open your mouth. I won't be successful next year, so I'll wait another three years. Gui Fuzi said.

But in fact, he will be forty next year. Three years, I really can't wait.

At the mention of the master, Li Zongyan smiled and said, "The master I am talking about is the eldest daughter of the mountain chief, the one who married the champion Lang. Five years ago, I left Master Gui, and I thought that it was hopeless to raise my career, but it was Master who gave me a chance again. The Master was not only wise, but he was also extremely good, just like the mountain chief. ”

Probably the poorer a person is, the worse his self-esteem becomes.

In the situation back then, Li Zongyan would definitely not let his parents take on debts and borrow money to continue studying. However, Fu Zhenyu's proposal to borrow money to enroll in school was to make him bear a debt. Li Zongyan was ruined at that time, giving himself a chance, but the worst result was that he still couldn't read, and after the age of twenty, he slowly returned. When to pay back the money, when to marry a wife and have children, you must not drag another person down.

In the past five years, Li Zongyan didn't know how grateful he was to Fu Zhenyu.

There are many people like him, but the most direct performance is Zhao Lin. Yes, many times, Li Zongyan is very envious of Zhao Lin. envy that when he was ignorant, he was accepted into the academy by Fu Zhenyu, and he could still be attached to Fu Zhenyu like a fledgling.

Li Zongyan found a medium-sized room for two taels of silver for Gui Fuzi, which could only accommodate him, but it was very warm. These two taels of silver, Master Gui came out by himself.

Li Zongyan had been reading books with him for six years, and knew how frugal he was, and after he knew that after he left, he would stop eating at night, so he said: "Go east along Chengxian Street to the end, cross Jixian Street, and then go east to two alleys, there is a Bailin Temple, and there are many snacks around there." If Master Fan is boring, you can go and take a look. ”

This is to tell him that if he walks a little more, he will find something a little cheaper.

Gui Fuzi smiled and said, "It's only been a few days, and I'm so familiar with the capital." ”

Li Zongyan said honestly: "I'm not familiar with it. Li's house is in the alley of three streets south of Chengxian Street, which is very close. The master does not confine us, and the younger brother of Mr. Li's brother-in-law has lived in the capital for a year and is very familiar with this neighborhood. ”

The Li family is rich, but the Mu family has nothing. Yes, Mu Xin is very familiar with the cheap places in the northern city of Shuntianfu, and he also took the He family out to play. The two of them all relied on walking, saving the cost of carriage and horses, and with Mou Xin's proper arrangements, it was easy not to go to the scenic spots for eating and drinking. Playing for a whole day, the cost is no more than 100 big money, showing what it means to be "poor travel".

Master Gui really searched for what Li Zongyan said.

A bowl of mutton soup at the Tongfu Inn, a penny of silver, is ninety dollars; There is no mutton soup sold on the roadside of Bailin Temple, but there is haggis soup, and a bowl only costs twenty yuan. Spend another ten dollars to buy two steamed buns, and Gui Fuzi eats comfortably. After eating, walk back, and eat after eating.

After Li Zongyan went back, considering that he and Fu Zhenyu were not as familiar as Zhao Lin, he first talked to Zhao Lin and asked him to accompany him to see Fu Zhenyu. Zhao Lin was also from a poor background, so he didn't say a word, and said: "The two of us, no matter where we are, we can share half of the hot kang for your master." ”

Li Zongyan thanked him.

When the two saw Fu Zhenyu, Li Zongyan said what he said to Zhao Lin again: "The Gui family used to have family assets, and after Gui Fuzi's father passed away, his mother was also seriously ill. He was reluctant to give up his mother, and his daughter-in-law left her child. A family of three, the old and the young, Master Gui opened a private school and taught to live. Not long after I dropped out of private school, Mrs. Gui passed away. Three years ago, Gui Fuzi Shouxiao failed to participate in the township examination, and only took the exam this year. Master Gui is a talented and learned person, help him at this time, Mr. and Master, you will not suffer. ”

In order to keep Master Gui, Li Zongyan did everything he could. Staying in the Li family, not to save rent and food money, to be able to grow knowledge with them and get the guidance of Li Zijian and Fu Zhenyu, this is the most important thing.

Li Zongyan wanted to add a touch of help to Gui Fuzi's career path.

There were still a lot of empty houses at home, Fu Zhenyu just started to listen, and he had an idea, and when he heard the end, he said: "Don't say the last sentence, I agree with you to take him over." Now, if I agree, it's like I'm trying to do something. ”

Seeing Li Zongyan's embarrassed face, Zhao Lin immediately said, "How can there be a white gang?" Gotta figure something, right? Just said that right now, the mountain chief saved Mr. back then, and then married the master to him. ”

Fu Zhenyu was furious: "Are you saying that I don't have anyone to want, and I need my senior brother to marry home before I can get married?" ”

Since the old Wang Ge family set the return date, Li Zijian has been sad for a few days. At this time, the two of them interjected and squinted the corners of their eyes - no matter how difficult the future is, with junior sisters and so many people, what difficulties can not be overcome?

Li Zijian, who suddenly became enlightened, said to Li Zongyan: "Let's go and pick up people tomorrow morning, pick up people, take them to my master first, and then see your master." ”

Li Zongyan was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, sir." ”

After Master Gui entered the mansion, he kept fifty taels of the silver he brought as he promised, and gave the remaining three hundred taels to Fu Zhenyu. Fu Zhenyu had no choice but to accept it, thinking that he was old, and Zhao Lin and Fu Zhenshang couldn't talk about it, so he asked Li Zongyan to move out of the big courtyard where the three of them lived together, and lived in a small courtyard with him. In addition to room and board, Fu Zhenyu asked the embroidery lady at home to see that he had cut two fine cloth thick robes. It's not luxurious, but it's clean.

After Master Gui settled down, it was time for the Fu and Li families to meet.

In the front yard, according to the rhetoric prepared earlier, Fu Shanchang told him about asking his apprentice and son-in-law to settle in Runing, and with the help of Li Zijian, he began to fight with the eldest lady and others.

In the backyard, Lin generously let the old lady be on top, and said, "You are older, just sit there." ”

The old lady couldn't refute this.

The thirty-seven-year-old Lin family, except for the years when Mrs. Fu was alive and was occasionally reprimanded by her mother, her life was extremely smooth, and she looked only in her early thirties, which was younger than the eldest wife of the Li family; The eldest old lady sitting opposite the Lin clan is twenty years older, and secondly, she has not had a good relationship with the eldest old lady recently, and she looks like the old lady Lin at this time.

After sitting down, the Lin family will not talk about anything else, they have opened a academy in their own family, and they know a little about the imperial examination, so they opened their mouths and asked the old lady: "Next year's big competition, how many people in your Li family are rushing to take the exam?" There are ten good people in our academy. ”

These more than a dozen people are eleven people, including the six Qingke of the Li family. Eleven is also over ten, saying a dozen good people, Lin's face is not red, and his heart is not beating. Fu Zhenyu, who was sitting with him, blushed very much.