He smiled self-deprecatingly: "Moreover, the cost of studying is too great, young master, you have the ability to study while making money, I can't; I also have no relatives to rely on to send me to school. ”

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Although Wang Lusheng and Zhang Gou'er said that if I study, they can provide for me, but how can I spend their money willingly and do that waste that drags people down?" Moreover, after spending seven or eight years of hard work and taking a show of talent and fame, will you be able to live a good life? Do I still see few poor talents? Yan Cen is an example. ”

Seeing that Du Jinning didn't show any signs of anger because of what he said just now, he turned his heart sideways and simply said the true thoughts in his heart: "Young master, if I say something unpleasant, in my eyes, it is useless to be a scholar." It's true. As he spoke, he quickly added, "Except, of course, you." I have never heard of someone as capable as you, whether you are a reader or not. ”

If Du Jinning was an authentic ancient, he was brainwashed by the way of Confucius and Mencius since he was a child, and after listening to Lu Xiaobei's words, he might feel rebellious.

But she's not.

Although she had studied until a master's degree in agriculture in her previous life, she was not the kind of person who stayed in an ivory tower all the time. Because she is an orphan, although she has social support and orphanage support, she still uses all her spare time to work outside since she was 16 years old. She has done all kinds of work at the bottom of the society, she has worked hard for five and ten yuan in wages, and she needs to work hard to earn her tuition and living expenses for the next semester when others are traveling and playing. How similar is this life experience and situation to Lu Xiaobei?

So she can especially understand Lu Xiaobei's thoughts.

It is enough to support yourself with your own hard work, to be fed and clothed, and to have a home of your own. It would be even more perfect if you could have a loved one or friend to go with you.

This is Lu Xiaobei's true thoughts, and it used to be hers. Even if I study, I want to better realize this dream.

Reading in ancient times was different from modern times. In ancient times, the cost of studying was too high, and there were too few outlets, and the competition was too fierce. This is a road of no return with high-cost investment but not necessarily returns, and it is indeed not something that an orphan like Lu Xiaobei, who is poor and white, started late, and has no one to support.

As for Wang Lusheng and Zhang Gou'er for him to study, then it's just a matter of talking. Although Du Jinning did not doubt that the two of them were sincere when they said this, but after a long time, the two will get married when they are older, and this supply is a knife to cut the brotherhood, which will only make them tear their faces, and they don't even have to be brothers.

Zhang Hongwen's two elder brothers can still make a fuss all day long because of the huge cost of his younger brother's study, let alone friends who are not related by blood? Even if Lu Xiaobei gave them a bowl of porridge when they were about to starve to death, it was not enough to provide him with the cost of studying for a long time.

"You can see it very clearly." She patted Lu Xiaobei on the shoulder, "As long as you think clearly, you won't regret it in the future." ”

Lu Xiaobei shook his head: "I won't regret it." I never regret what I've done. ”

This is a strong-willed man.

Du Jinning nodded approvingly, and stopped talking about it: "Okay, let's go into the house and sit down, and someone will come after a while." ”

"I asked Sixth Brother Qin to send the first batch of fresh leaves back before, and it is estimated that it will arrive in a while." Lu Xiaobei Road.

"Very good, so that we can save time on the stall."

The room was simply arranged by Lu Xiaobei according to Du Jinning's instructions, with tables and benches, as well as a few deck chairs that Du Jinning drew and asked Lu Xiaobei to find a craftsman. In this way, if you are tired of making tea, you can lie down and rest.

Estimating the time when Du Jinning and them arrived, Lu Xiaobei prepared the tea and snacks, and brought them to the hall at this time, intending to let the Chen family rest and rest.

Du Fangling couldn't sit still, took a sip of tea and said to Du Jinning: "Can we go up the mountain and have a look?" We can also pick tea. ”

"I'm tired of picking tea for a while, do you still have the strength to stir tea?" Du Jinning glanced at her, "Don't make trouble, stay honest, you will be busy for a while." ”

was reprimanded by her younger brother in front of Lu Xiaobei, Du Fangling was very faceless.

She blushed, pulled Chen's sleeve and said, "Mother, look at Brother Ning, do you treat me as a sister?" This tone is like teaching a child. Hum! As he spoke, he raised his fist at Du Jinning.

Chen slapped her hard: "You just owe a lesson." If you can have half of Brother Ning's sensibility, I will be Amitabha. ”

Du Fangling was beaten so that she didn't have a temper at all, and she puffed out her cheeks and stopped talking.

Du Fangfei and Du Fanghui sat on the side, pursed their lips and smiled.

Seeing this, Lu Xiaobei was quite uncomfortable, scratching his head; "Sit down, and I'll go out and see." looked at Du Jinning.

Du Jinning put down the teacup and nodded with a smile: "Go ahead." ”

Lu Xiaobei was pardoned, confessed to Chen, and ran out as if he had escaped.

Du Jinning glanced at Du Fangling and thought thoughtfully.

Lu Xiaobei went out for less than two seconds, then turned back again, and shouted in his mouth: "Young master, I heard the sound of a mule cart at the door, it is estimated that someone from the Liang family or the Yan family is coming." ”

Du Jinning hurriedly got up and went out to greet him.

Chen and the others also got up and straightened their clothes.

Du Jinning led Lu Xiaobei out to the gate of the tea garden to take a look, and saw Liang Xiankuan standing at the door with a jade tree in the wind, looking at the tea trees in the tea garden. The attendants he had brought with him stood at the door, about to shout inside.

"Senior Brother Liang, are you here? Just come in. Du Jinning personally went over and opened the firewood door.

Liang Xiankuan waved his hand and said to Du Jinning: "You come, come here." ”

Du Jinning had to walk over.

Liang Xiankuan pointed to the tea tree and asked, "Why is your tea tree different from mine?" You planted it last year, right? "How can it be so much bigger than the tea trees in their tea plantation?

"It was planted last year, but mine was directly cut with the branches of the wild tea tree on the mountain behind the academy, and you went to Jiangnan to buy the tea tree seeds, which is naturally different."

Her cuttings have been pruned and dwarfed throughout the year, and the original mother plant was an arbor-type tea tree, but now it has a tendency to develop in the direction of shrubs. The shrub type tea tree is the most suitable for tea garden plants, such tea trees have a large yield, are easy to pick, and are easy to manage.

The climate in Lingnan is the most suitable area for the growth of tea trees in China, but in a year's time, the seedlings she took cuttings have flourished, and they have become a shrub tea garden. The tea grown from the tea seeds brought back from the south of the Yangtze River by several families looks thin and malnourished because of the different time of emergence and the growth rate, some large and some small, and there is no reasonable pruning.

Liang Xiankuan frowned, and was about to speak, when he heard the sound of a "wheeling" car in the distance, obviously someone came again.