Xu Yu'an went to the class to help Yusheng ask the price of copying the book, only to know how Yusheng's money came from. Copying a book can only earn eight dimes, but you have to copy it day and night for three or four days, and your eyes are black and your arms are trembling.

He asked Yusheng: "Why do you have to earn this money?" ”

Yusheng calculated carefully for him: he used to work as a worker in the waterworks, and he could earn sixteen yuan a month; Now I stay in the Xu family, including food and accommodation, but after all, I don't contribute much, only eight yuan a month. However, Mrs. Zhao is not much better, and they are only twelve yuan. Earn twelve dollars and spend all your might.

Xu Yu'an didn't know that twelve yuan was so troublesome, and the pocket money his father gave him was three yuan a month. Gao Zerui has more, but it is not enough for him to watch the small singing class.

Xu Yu'an, as a fourteen-year-old boy, used to care only about the one-third of an acre of land in front of him. He read every day, went out to play with his companions, came back to eat with his parents, and mingled with his servants. Although these people see each other every day, all of them are going around in an old house with three entrances, and the routes they pass through overlap countless times, but he never thinks about it: what trouble does his father encounter when he goes to work, what is his mother doing at home, and the servants can usually get a few yuan a month. Because before he was born, every part of his life was arranged, the cook Aunt Zhou would cook when he was hungry, the old mother Zhao would clean the house when it was dirty, and the long-term workers would chop firewood when they were about to boil water, as if they were born to do this. What the money was used for, he didn't know; He couldn't see how the money was flowing in the hands of this circle. Because he lacked nothing, he didn't think about what he would do if one day he lacked them.

When people are young, they always have that feeling that the world revolves around them. As far as the eye can see, it is like a searchlight shining into the void, and beyond the gaze, there is still darkness, darkness is darkness, and darkness is meaningless. Occasionally, I hit someone else's island as if I hit the rocks, only to realize: So you are doing this! But in addition to the emotion, what others do in the rest of their lives is still indifferent. What is there to care about, and it is not necessarily that the sky is going to fall!

This is not only Young Master Xu's son-in-law illness alone, but also Young Master Gao, Young Master Chen, Zhao Qiansun and Young Master Li, all of whom are almost like this. Some people have been old until they are old, from the young master to the master, and then to the old lady, and they have not been able to make a breakthrough. After all, this world is the world of old men.

For Xu Yu'an, his awakening came very early, and he will be fourteen years old.

Yusheng is a character that has never appeared in Xu Yu'an's family, and he is half a tutor. The other half was taken up by Xu Yuhuan, but like a wet nurse. But Xu Yu'an ignored the half of the nurse, he only felt that Yusheng was a reader who could easily come to the "Book of Hundred Parables", good-looking, and dusty temperament. He himself looked up to Yusheng, and thought that Yusheng was treated well in front of everyone. He didn't worry about food and clothing, so he didn't know that Yusheng would show an embarrassed look because of poverty. And this demeanor just belongs to the identity of a wet nurse.

Xu Yu'an suddenly felt compassion.

He suddenly understood Yusheng. From the moment Yu Sheng made that big decision, it was destined that his eyes could no longer be disdainfully removed from those trivial matters that were considered mundane. The nurse is him, and the teacher is also him. Even though his spirit floated high, his body was still rolling in the mud. But he still couldn't help but show a noble expression, which was a rarity among servants, and it was best for anyone to rub a handful of oil.

Xu Yuhuan's nurse Xiaojuan rubbed the oil. Because of Brother Huan'er, she can see Yusheng's face every day. She smiled at Yusheng, who nodded and laughed too. Yusheng's smile has a magic that makes people's hearts itch and scratch, and Xiaojuan's heart also moves. She steamed a bowl of steamed eggs with brown sugar for Yusheng—the cook Zhou Auntie thought it was for Brother Huan—she served it to Yusheng, rubbing her fingers holding the handkerchief on his wrist. Showing affection to such an extent that anyone with eyes should pretend to be careless and touch her wrist as well.

Yusheng fled almost in panic.

Xiao Juan was so angry that she smashed the bowl. She went back to the kitchen with the fragments of the bowl, and Aunt Zhou asked, "What's going on?" How can you be so careless? “

Xiaojuan was stunned, came back to her senses, chopped her feet and said, "Yusheng broke it." ”

Aunt Zhou said: "He is very careful on weekdays." ”

Xiaojuan didn't seem to hear it, and scolded herself: "This dog thing who doesn't know what to do!" Once upon a time, I kidnapped a girl and eloped, making a shameless mess at home, and was kicked out of the house, who knows what else I have done? Did he still think he was the young master's life? A pair of eyes grow to the sky! Mother's West! “

If you don't like that bit of incompatibility, you will be spurned by everyone.

When the cook Zhou Damiang saw Xiaojuan's expression, she vaguely guessed what was happening. She is a kind person and doesn't make evaluations, but after sitting together to eat, the quota for Yusheng unconsciously tightened her hands. She thinks that Xiaojuan is her own person, and she is a person that everyone hates, so why give her an extra spoonful.

And Xiaojuan's words were listened to by the long-term workers, and they all laughed suspiciously. They are all ruthless singles, and the nurses in the family never disdain, but they favor a foreign jade student, which is a slap in the face.

So when they spread the word, it became: "Yusheng, the thing raised by this woman, her hands and feet are not clean, and she will not let go of the nurse at home and his grandmother!" Lao Tzu wants to see him again and break his other leg too! ”

Although they didn't really break Yusheng's other leg when they met next time, they always had to provoke Yusheng when they sat down to eat together every day: "What about your woman, hey, where do you live, do you raise her or do she support you?" She didn't have a good time when you broke your leg. Brothers, what can't you say? ”

Changgong Xiaoyi insisted: "Yusheng is a fucking rabbit master, selling ass, and being a slut." A fart young master is from a background, and I don't know which master is the bag! ”

So when the brothers gave Yusheng no face at the dinner table, he always added: "What is it outside?" ”

Yusheng just didn't hear it and was silent.

Old Mother Zhao listened to it and perfunctory it, which was another rhetoric, which was more vivid: "Yusheng, that little handsome official, don't you know, who was wrapped up by a woman, lives outside on Dongliuxi Street." Yusheng's leg was broken by her man. So, a man with a handsome face, there is no good thing! ”

It is a rare thing to accumulate virtue in these daily toils, and if you can find someone to vent your grievances, everyone's life seems to be better. Whoever calls Yusheng is like a crystal clear fragile product, everyone wants to break it.

This word reached Mrs. Xu's ears again, after all, Mrs. Xu was a reader, and she seemed to have heard Mr. Xu tell her the ins and outs, so she turned cold and reprimanded: "Don't talk nonsense! Mouth cleaner! ”

Xu Yu'an heard these words and became suspicious, so he wandered around the porch and casually asked, "What's wrong with Yusheng?" ”

The long-term workers immediately complained about it, and Xiao Yi was the most vulgar.

Xu Yu's head was on fire.

He asked Yusheng, "How did you break your leg?" ”

At that time, in the old position in the front hall, Xu Yuhuan was sitting next to Yusheng writing big characters, he keenly felt the change in the atmosphere, and raised his head curiously to look at his brother, but was reprimanded by his brother: "Write your words!" ”

Yusheng was also holding a pen and copying the book, his hand was very steady, he didn't raise his head, and he didn't even take his eyes off the booklet: "When I was working at the waterworks, I was wrecked and broken." ”

Xu Yu'an said, I believe it.

He is 1,100 Xin Yusheng. This is not just his own wishful thinking, Yusheng's virtue is really enlightened by Lin Mochunlin's old man Chrysostom Yuyan. Lin Mochun is Lin Guiying's grandfather, and he is the old lady Lin who is behind closed doors in the Lin family. Mrs. Lin's clear height, well-known neighborhoods, from the end of Dajing Lane to the end of the alley, who does not know that Mrs. Lin's eyes are higher than the top, and it is the pressing stone of the old archway.

The reason why Lin Mochun praised him also came from this story of copying books.

Xu Yu'an asked around the class if anyone needed to copy the book. Although he patted his chest and said that the quality guarantee was passed, no one cared about it.

Only the Chen brothers had a hippie smile: "Don't you copy the account book?" My brother and I were pressed by my father to copy the account book every day, and they died of trouble. ”

Xu Yu'an didn't have time to think about it: "It's okay." ”

The brothers of the Chen family waved their hands and said very face-savingly: "My brothers are approved, it depends on whether my brother is allowed or not." ”

His son is definitely not allowed, and the promise of the two of them is equivalent to a joke. Xu Yu'an's face was gloomy.

The younger brother Chen Zhenxuan laughed, and the elder brother Chen Zhenkun was a little more honest and explained: "Brother An, it's not for my brothers to tear down the stage, modern printing technology has been popularized, who still needs a copyist?" ”

Xu Yu'an said: "If there is any ancient book that is afraid of breaking, you can take out an extra copy, isn't it insurance?" ”

Chen Zhenxuan waved his hand, meaning to tell him not to joke: "Young Master Xu, Young Master Xu, your family is really a scholarly family, and there are still ancient books at home?" ”

In the end, Lin Guiying remembered a bunch of ancient books of the old man Lin, most of them are solitary, the old man's baby is tight, and he will copy the book when he has nothing to do, for fear that he will be accidentally destroyed by insects, so that the wisdom of the sages will not be passed on through the ages, and the sins will be deep.

Xu Yu'an was overjoyed and bargained with Lin Guiying. Lin Guiying turned out to be not a shy girl, she spoke firmly, one sentence after another, and she didn't miss her cousins at all. Finally, an octagonal book was sold.

Xu Yu'an reported the good news when he went home, and received a big thank you from Yusheng, and he was comfortable. The next day, Lin Guiying said: "Brother An, my old man is old-fashioned, and he is afraid that he will hand over the book to get dirty and lose it, or copy the book and be impetuous, and he will be abrupt about the ancient books." ”

She paused for a while, saw that Xu Yu'an was silent, and said, "Brother Xu." ”

She made up her mind: "I'll steal a copy for you, and I'll pay for it." ”

Xu Yu'an was taken aback: "This doesn't have to be like this. ”

I only heard her say: "My grandfather really doesn't know Yuantong, he is old, he writes very slowly, he can't sit for a long time, a box of lonely books, I don't know when to copy." As my granddaughter, I will make a decision for him, so what's the matter? Her tone was very calm, and her words were not impassioned, but they showed a kind of determination that lifted the weight lightly.

Sure enough, he stole it out one day, wrapped it in three layers of oily paper and three layers of it in it, and then handed it to Xu Yu'an, and carefully told him not to tear off the paper package vigorously to avoid damage.

Xu Yu'an remembered his kindness - since he had made a deal, he was his brother and sister - and invited her to come to the house to accompany Mrs. Xu during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

He said it casually, but Lin Guiying's eyes lit up: "I haven't seen Aunt Qing for a long time, and I have always admired her, I will definitely go home and discuss with my mother." "It's on the agenda as a big deal.

Four days later, Lin Guiying returned the original to Zhao, and as if offering a treasure, he took a copy and showed it to Mrs. Lin. Old lady Lin was so angry that she threw the copy on the ground, Lin Guiying was afraid that although she was afraid, she still picked it up, and she must take a look at it. Mrs. Lin didn't look at it, but she was taken aback, put on her reading glasses, turned her anger into joy, and nodded her head: "This person is very strict, and there is no condensation, the pen is steep and clear, and the words are really temperamental." ”

He also talked at length, "Holding Yuan Shouyi" and "Body Exposed Golden Wind" Yunyun, citing Buddhism, and the following life is about the way of being a person and holding festivals.

He added: "After the next copy is finished, you can invite this little friend to come to your home to talk about it." ”

After listening to this, Lin Guiying summed it up, and said to Xu Yu'an the next day: "The old man said, the words are very good, and I want to send the book home next time." After several back and forth negotiations, she and Xu Yu'an became acquainted, and her speech became more and more concise.

Xu Yu'an replied: "The leg is broken, I can't go, I'll get it myself." ”

Lin Guiying actually glanced at him: "Baby, kill you." "Get up and go.

Xu Yu'an touched the back of his head for a long time, and smacked his tongue: "This little girl." ”

In short, Yusheng's words were approved by Lin Mochun himself, according to his rule of "seeing words as seeing people", rounding up, Yusheng's character was also approved.