When Gu Jiansi was eight years old, he felt that he was caught in the most difficult choice in his life.

He thought anxiously all night, and finally like a strong man broke his wrist, he ran to find his father before dawn.

Early in the morning, Gu Yanzhang was very surprised, and when he heard him tell him about the cause and effect, his face became serious, and he asked, "Why are you doing your homework for Du Zheng?" ”

Gu Jiansi felt a little weak in his heart, and even lowered his voice, and said: "He always can't do his homework well, but Uncle Du has already said before that this time he must be rated by Mr. before he can return to Beijing together." We said that we would go to Yujin Garden, and we had already circled the Jiaozhi tamer, the Champa golden lion, and the green peacock...... If Du Zheng can't go, he will secretly cry his nose......"

As he spoke, he looked like the sky was about to fall, and said, "Daddy, I did something wrong. But my mother said that there are many rare and exotic beasts in the Yujin Garden, especially the vegetable insects, which are bigger than the ones outside! Not only green, but also red, blue, and other colors, which is very powerful! She also drew pictures for me...... Du Zheng came back to look at it, the day before yesterday, Sister Du told me that Mr. Liao went back to school to take the school homework, Du Zheng only got middle school, and he didn't even have the heart to eat the next day, and he was still copying books in the middle of the night, and secretly begged her to help draw the appearance of many birds and beasts in the future, and he tried his best......

Gu Yanzhang saw that his son was like this, and his heart was already half soft, but he knew about the child's affairs, and he couldn't completely interfere, so he said: "Du Zheng's previous homework, what is the level?" ”

Gu Jiansi lowered his head and said, "It's mostly medium, and I only have to go through the middle and upper ...... once."

Gu Yanzhang touched his son's head and said, "Since he has never been superior, why did he agree when he heard your Uncle Du say that he wanted to be superior?" ”

Gu Jiansi said in a sullen voice: "I don't know, I asked Du Zheng, and he said that he didn't dare to tell Uncle Du that he couldn't do it......"

When Gu Yanzhang heard this, he couldn't help but sigh.

The Du family has a son and two daughters, the eldest daughter has been smart since she was a child, and she is fluent in poetry and writing, and her son Du Zheng is only a medium qualification, although he has always been diligent, but the results are always unsatisfactory. also has the backdrop of many juniors of the Liu family, and Gu Jiansi is beside him, which makes him even more dull.

Du Tanzhi himself was born in the imperial examination, and reading is naturally good, but he doesn't understand why he can know things that he can remember when he reads them a few times, and his son will listen to the explanation many times, and he will memorize it for a long time, but he still knows half of it, and he stumbles on his back.

Although he can comfort himself with "his son has not yet opened his mind", he can see that others are striding ahead, his family is 18,000 miles behind, he is really anxious, he is busy with business, and his wife Liu Muhe has a little daughter, and he is taking care of the baby, and he can't keep an eye on it all the time, so he has to ask his husband to be strict, and on the other hand, he has thought of many ways to hang in front of him.

This is only a way to return to Beijing to report on work together if you do your homework well, which Du Tanzhi used to motivate his son to work hard.

Originally, Du Zheng and Gu Jiansi played very smoothly this time Li Daitaozhuang, and they were already superior, who would have thought that Mr. saw that the students were really doing a good job, and they were very pleased, so he specially took it to the same master's house to invite credit.

In Du Tanzhi's busy schedule, he was naturally happy to see that his son had made progress, and took advantage of his father-in-law's imminent birthday to send Du Zheng's homework back to Beijing along with the rest of the congratulatory gifts.

Gu Jiansi was personally enlightened by Mr. Da Liu, even when Gu Yanzhang was an official, he would send his son's articles to Liu Mansion for review every month, because although his great-grandson's homework had been changed, he still saw the strangeness at a glance.

Especially Du Zheng is really a little naïve, and he doesn't know how to use his brain when copying, Gu Jiansi quoted allusions, because there are several places with the words "Yan" and "Zhang", in order to avoid his father's shame, he used homophonic words, and specially reminded him that he could still change two missing places.

Fortunately, Liu Boshan felt sorry for the two little ones, and did not directly puncture them, but only mentioned the matter slightly in his letter to Gu Jiansi.

At this moment, Gu Jiansi no longer had the luxury of letting Du Zheng return to Beijing together, and whispered: "Daddy, it's my fault this time, and I won't go to Yujin Garden anymore, can you think of a way, don't Uncle Du call you to know?" ”

Gu Yanzhang asked, "Does your mother know about this?" ”

Hearing his words, Gu Jiansi's eyes turned red, and he said, "I don't want to talk to my mother, she praised me yesterday...... I don't know how disappointed I am when I do such a wrong thing......"

Gu Yanzhang's heart was slightly sour, and for a while, he actually ate Ji Qingling's vinegar a little, and asked: "Are you afraid that your mother will be disappointed, and you don't want to talk to your mother, how can you want to talk to your father?" Aren't you afraid that your father will be disappointed? ”

Gu Jiansi's tears flowed down.

He was originally sitting on the chair, and when he was talking to Gu Yanzhang, he had already stood up, but at this time, he couldn't control it anymore, took two steps forward, hugged Gu Yanzhang's leg at once, buried his head in his knees, and called out with a strong cry: "Daddy!" I know I'm wrong! ”

All at once, the fabric between my father's knees was wet.

Gu Yanzhang couldn't hold it, so he hurriedly took the handkerchief, leaned down to wipe his son's tears, educated him a few words first, and then said softly: "You go and apologize to your mother first, find a way by yourself during the day, and your father will come back at night, and wait for you to tell me what to do." ”

In Gu Jiansi's opinion, his father is omnipotent, although he only gave such words, although he did not promise anything, but inexplicably, his heart that was clenched tightly suddenly relaxed, and he was happy and self-blamed, but he still remembered to turn his head to look at the missing moment, and when he saw that the hour was approaching, he hurriedly said: "Daddy hasn't eaten breakfast yet, and he is going to order something......"

As he spoke, he wiped his tears with his sleeve, secretly glanced at his father, leaned forward hesitantly, hugged Gu Yanzhang's back with both hands, turned his head sideways and blushed: "Daddy, I'm sorry!" I will never do such a wrong thing again! ”

After speaking, he turned around, and without looking back, he staggered out.

That afternoon, Gu Yanzhang returned very early.

After he knew that Gu Jian Sishang was practicing whipping with a martial artist in the backyard, he went to Ji Qingling first and asked his son if he had explained to her that he had caught a knife for Du Zheng.

Ji Qingling nodded and sighed: "I haven't had time to say anything, I'm already so sad that I can't bear to blame anymore - he said that he wants to discuss with you, can you not tell Du Sange about this, while there are still two months to go, he will definitely bring Du Zheng out of the 'first-class' by himself." ”

He asked again, "Fifth brother, what did you tell him earlier?" ”

Gu Yanzhang heard that her tone was a little wrong, so he asked, "I don't seem to have said anything, what's wrong?" ”

Ji Qingling's tone was gloomy, and he couldn't tell what it tasted like, so he only handed over a piece of paper in his hand and said, "I didn't say anything, how could he suddenly write such a thing?" ”

Gu Yanzhang could take it, looked down, but was caught unguarded by a line of words.

It turned out to be the handwriting of his son Gu Jiansi, written on a piece of used manuscript paper, but it was just a few sentences, and it was still a vernacular without any literary brilliance, but it made his whole person's eyes so gentle that they could drip water.

"I like Daddy the most."

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