Chapter III

On the day of the release, the water around the door of the prefect of Fengqi was impassable.

Fu Shuye escorted me into the crowd, but there were too many people, and Fu Shuye's shoes were trampled off.

In a hurry, Fu Shuye lifted me up and shouted with all his strength: "Let's see if there is my Fu Shuye's name on it!" ”

The huge 'Fu Yazi' on the big red list came into view, and I couldn't care about being happy, so I hurriedly squinted my eyes and continued to search for Fu Shuye's name.

One looks, no, another one, not yet......

I watched these lists back and forth a few times, and the more I looked at it, the more my heart sank, so heavy that Fu Shuye, who was holding me, couldn't bear it and let go, and silently put me back on the ground.

"What a big deal," Fu Shuye scratched his head indifferently, pretending not to care: "If it doesn't work this year, there will be next year, have you been hit?" ”

I bowed my head and didn't speak, Fu Shuye hurriedly turned around and rushed back to the crowd, jumping to search for my name.

"Hit, hit! Fu Yazi, you're hit! ”

Fu Shuye ran back with a smile, slapped me on the shoulder, and said beautifully: "I just said that you can do it, you see if I am right!" ”

But I didn't speak, I'd rather be off the list myself.

Fu Shuye pulled me to take me to a good meal, saying that he wanted to celebrate me.

I let him pull me, entered the best restaurant in Fengqi, ordered a table of roast chicken wine, and raised a glass to drink with me.

I smacked my chopsticks in a daze, watching Fu Shuye gulp open the chicken leg and put it into his mouth, he drank most of the pot of soju, and the flush had already climbed on his face.

Fu Shuye said to me with a big tongue: "Yazi...... I'm not going to call you a gentleman now. ”

I frowned, pressed his toasted hand, sniffed his wine, and said, "You're drunk." ”

Fu Shuye let me take away his wine glass, and looked at me and laughed, but he cried when he laughed.

"Yazi," Fu Shuye blew bubbles in his nostrils, and said inarticulate with a pair of big eyes, "I'm really happy for you, really, even happier than I was admitted myself." ”

"But as soon as I thought of it," Fu Shuye snorted and wailed, "I feel uncomfortable when I go back and see my disappointed eyes." ”

With Fu Shuye's tears, I drank all the wine in the cup.

The news of the first place in the high school entrance examination of the Fu family's daughter spread all over the small town of Lu County, and the county Cheng personally set the wine and invited our family to celebrate.

Thousands of artillery shots burned from the head of the village to the end of the village, and I was surrounded by the crowd, and even Cheng Cheng's father, who looked down on the Fu family, was crowded in the crowd, squeezing his eyebrows and trying to get in touch with me.

Fu Shuye hid far away, the crowd pushed me forward, and when I turned around, I saw Fu Shuye standing at the entrance of the village and smiled, waved his hand, and then turned around and disappeared.

Ah Niang closed the women's private school, since Fu Shuye ran away from home, Ah Niang and Daddy are not giving up every day, I woke up in the middle of the night several times to see Daddy drinking in the courtyard, and Niang's suppressed cry came from the house.

Daddy went to Feng Qi to look for Fu Shuye a few times, and asked someone to inquire, only to say that he saw Fu Shuye appear at the door of the study, and he didn't know where he went.

The prefect of Fengqi sent people to inquire several times and invited me to continue to take the entrance examination, but I refused behind my father's back.

The man shook his head very regretfully, saying that I was the future female champion but did not seek advancement, and won the ranking of the head of the government for nothing. But even so, I am also the first female talent of Feng Qi, and the prefect of Feng Qi cherishes her talents very much, and sends people to persuade her every day.

Daddy's body suddenly deteriorated, and he has practiced medicine all his life, and all the young and old in Lu County have looked for Daddy to see him, but now that Daddy is sick, he can't look down on himself.

A-Niang stayed in front of Daddy's bed, gentle, and didn't quarrel with Daddy anymore.

I know why Daddy fell, depressed, and he was worried about Fu Shuye.

I never blamed him in my heart for running away from Fu Shuye, but now I'm angry with him.

Anyway, this is his home, what's the big thing that he can't get over and can't go home?

The day of the hospital examination is approaching day by day, and the people sent by the prefect of Fengqi can't wait to stay outside my door all day and night, and the county of Luxian County has also sent people to see it several times, but I have blocked the door.

Daddy looks like this, Auntie looks like this, I can't go.

I suddenly realized that the meaning of all this is just to give my family a better life, but now that my home is gone, what is the use of those things outside my body?

The sunset was scattered, and I went out to fetch water as usual, but Fu Shuye appeared at the door.

I was stunned, I didn't expect him to actually come back.

The people from the prefect of Fengqi carried him, and Fu Shuye, who had just tied his hair, was pushed in front of me like a little chicken by the back of his neck.

"Yazi."

Fu Shuye muttered a little apprehensively when he saw that my face was wrong, and hurriedly smoothed the wrinkled clothes with his hands and feet, trying to redeem the tall image in my heart.

I looked at him quietly, turned my head to Feng Qi's eldest brother and asked him to take Fu Shuye to wash up and take care of it before sending it back.

That person didn't talk nonsense, picked up Fu Shuye and left.

Fu Shuye panicked, dancing and shouting for me to save him.

Maintaining the indifference on his face, he turned around and closed the door, blocking the curious and inquiring eyes of the neighbors.

Since Auntie closed the private school, Daddy was sick again, and our family couldn't get out. I have heard some rumors outside, they say that the blessing of the Fu family ancestor is too thin to support a champion, and this will be incense if you don't take the head of the house.

I thought that the people of Lu County were simple, but I never thought that the evil of children is pure evil, but the good of adults is complex good.

The suspicions of others are like ghost fires, burning in my heart day and night.

When Fu Shuye returned, it was already late at night.

Feng Qi's eldest brother was very particular, and he didn't knock on the door in the middle of the night to wake up Daddy and Auntie, but directly airdropped Fu Shuye into the yard, which made me worry for a while.

Fu Shuye opened his arms to me with a smile, and asked me to jump in like a child, so that he could lift me.

I wiped the corners of my eyes, remembering that when I was a child, the big yellow dog in the village chased me and barked, Fu Shuye lifted me up and beat the big yellow dog away heroically with a wooden stick that I picked up from nowhere.

At that time, I thought Fu Shuye was a hero, and every time I sneaked to the teahouse to listen to the story of the white-clothed hero, I clapped my hands, but what I thought about was the majestic back of Fu Shuye beating a dog.

At that time, he was just a young man, and I was still a yellow-mouthed child.

"Daddy is sick, do you know?" I didn't respond to Fu Shuye's enthusiasm and stood still.

Fu Shuye panicked, and ran to his father's house in the middle of the night.

His strength was so great that I could barely hold him.

"Don't go to quarrel with your parents!" I hugged Fu Shuye's leg and said in a suppressed voice: "A-Niang is tired these days, and it is not easy to sleep!" ”

Fu Shuye paused in his struggling movements, and asked a little anxiously: "What's the matter?!" ”

I dragged Fu Shuye into the house and told him everything about these days.

Speaking of Daddy's illness, Fu Shuye couldn't hold back any longer, and got up to see Daddy.

"I told them that they slept, can't I go back tomorrow?" I was in a hurry to tell.

"When Daddy and Auntie saw me earlier, their hearts settled down a moment earlier." Fu Shuye broke the fingers of my sleeve one by one, and said firmly: "Besides, do you think that A-Niang is asleep when the lights are out?" ”

As he spoke, a suppressed cough faintly came from his father's room.

I let go of my hand and watched Fu Shuye stride into the room.

Seeing that the candle flame in his father's house was rekindled, Fu Shuye's figure knelt down.

I saw A-Niang get up from the bed and pounce on Fu Shuye's body, as if beating and scolding, as if distressed, the raised palm was high but did not fall, and Fu Shuye did not dodge A-Niang's raised hand for the first time.

I sat in the courtyard with my arms crossed, looking at the three people hugging each other in the candle shadow, and suddenly understood.

Fu Shuye is right, he has always been right.

The rooster crows at dawn, and Fu Shuye got up early instead of normal.

He carried a bucket to the old well at the entrance of the village to fetch water, and chopped wood to make a fire and gathered a table of food.

I looked at the meat that Fu Shuye sandwiched in my bowl and pulled my mouth: "You did my job, so what should I do?" ”

Fu Shuye swallowed a mouthful full of food with difficulty, choking him and rolling his eyes, but A-Niang happily brought him tea.

"You're going to study!" Fu Shuye replied as a matter of course: "If you pass the entrance examination, you will fall short if you don't go to the hospital exam, I can't let this happen, after all, I still point to you to get ahead so that you can support me." ”

"I'm not going," I faintly refused: "I want to accompany Daddy and Auntie." ”

"Oh, what are you doing with us!" Ah Niang shouted, Fu Shuye came back overnight, as if he had recovered his spirits, and said with full anger: "It's enough for me and your father to have a book industry to take care of, and you have no use at home, and you have to add more dishes and chopsticks." ”

Daddy coughed and nodded in agreement.

A-Niang has never called Fu Shuye so affectionately, A-Niang calls me Yazi, but she doesn't call him Shuye. A-Niang said that Fu Shuye is a boy, and he has to stand up to the sky and carry a piece of the sky, and calling too intimate is easy for him to become dependent, which is not conducive to the cultivation of Fu Shuye, so she doesn't call and doesn't let Daddy call it.

Ah Niang has always been an idea and courageous, just like her name Feng Cuifen in the past, she felt rustic since she read the book, and because she left her hometown with her father, she took Tao Yuanming's poem "Stopping the Clouds" and changed its name to show that she missed her relatives and friends.

Fu Shuye calmly stuffed another big mouthful of rice into his mouth, chewed it and said slowly: "If you don't go to make money, Daddy is not in good health, and Auntie is also old, do you want us to raise you?" ”

I opened my mouth, feeling that what Fu Shuye said was very reasonable, and I didn't know how to refute him.

A-Niang saw that I was stumped, and excitedly gave Fu Shuye a thumbs up.

In this way, I was half-pushed and half-pushed into the carriage sent by the prefect of Fengqi, and embarked on the journey again.