Before coming to Qingping Town, Du Yunnuan's imaginary grandfather was a thin and tall scholar, and there might be perennial frowning folds in the center of his eyebrows.

Although even Ruolan said that her adoptive father was not such a strict person, Du Yunnuan didn't know why, and he couldn't reverse it.

But when she really met people, she realized that her imagination was very different from reality.

There is nothing wrong with being thin and tall, Lian Hao is indeed a thin and tall old man, but the eyebrows are quite sparse, and there is a sense of openness that Du Yunnuan, who is a child or a young man, can not understand.

Early in the morning, he took Du Yunnuan to the town for a walk.

Qingping Town and Luoqiao Town are almost the same, Du Yunnuan's observation yesterday and looking at it early in the morning, I feel that the scale of the two towns, the shops on the streets, the stalls next to the morning market and the people passing by are very similar.

Lian Hao took Du Yunnuan and walked over slowly, passed by the burrito stall and bought her a burrito and held it in her hand, and then went to the stall selling wine-stuffed balls and asked for a bowl of wine-stuffed balls, and then simply sat down and ate slowly.

The stall owner seemed to have known Lian Hao for many years, and after answering, he quickly brought over two bowls of wine-stuffed balls.

"Uncle Lian, my brother and sister came over last time and said, Uncle Lian, you are old, it's not good to eat things made of glutinous rice, these balls are made of glutinous rice flour, you have to eat less, otherwise you will have to accumulate food, I will beat an egg in the bowl for you."

"Is this Uncle Lian's?"

Lian Mao didn't mind the stall owner's uncle's self-assertions, and introduced him with a smile, "This is my granddaughter." ”

"Oh, this is Brother Lian's sister back?"

"yes."

Uncle the stall owner smiled, "That's filial piety, I must have rushed back to make your birthday for Uncle Lian." ”

The smile on Lian Hao's face deepened, "I've worked hard for her." ”

Du Yunnuan took a bite of the sugar water egg beaten in the wine, the yolk flowed out very beautifully, she hurriedly took a sip, and ate the egg yolk before raising her head, "Grandfather, my mother misses you very much." ”

Lian Hao touched Du Yunnuan's head, "Well, my grandfather knows." ”

After eating breakfast, Lian Hao continued to walk slowly with Du Yunnuan, and when he passed by the private school in the town, he heard the sound of Lang reading from inside, and Lian Hao involuntarily stopped.

Xu is a student who has just entered the school in the classroom near the street, and the content of the morning reading is relatively simple, and the voice is a little immature, and the words are very clear, which makes people feel energetic.

Lian Hao stood in place for a while before coming back to his senses.

"I'm sorry."

Du Yunnuan shook his head, "Does my grandfather remember when he used to be a master?" ”

Lian Hao smiled and shook his head, "Nan, do you know why your grandfather wants to be a master?" ”

Du Yunnuan raised his head and thought for a while, "Master, preach and teach to solve doubts." ”

"My grandfather was ...... You want them to learn more, right? ”

"Master, preaching and teaching to solve doubts," Lian Hao repeated this passage, "Nannan, do you know? Therein is hope. ”

"Hope?"

"The hope of the Great Depression." Lian Miao raised his head to look at the rising sun, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

"They receive education, keep the wisdom of the ancients in their minds, combine them with the current situation, and then form their own cognition of the world, no matter how long people live, decades later, there will always be iterations, we not only want to pass on, let them pass on the knowledge and experience summarized in the previous thousands of years from generation to generation, but also need to change."

Du Yunnuan's eyes shrank slightly.

She remembered a poem that Du Yunlan had taught her for no reason.

Lao Ji is in the woods, and his ambitions are thousands of miles.

Although the person in front of him is already old and can't even continue teaching as a master in a private school, what he has in his heart is not a small piece of pure land, but a great hope and future.

"Grandfather, does the Great Xiao Dynasty need change now?" Du Yunnuan knew that she shouldn't ask such a question, because an eight-year-old girl wouldn't understand these things at all, but she couldn't help it.

Lian Mao was stunned, and then he felt comforted by Lao Huai, he didn't expect Du Yunnuan to be so smart, he just sighed, and this granddaughter grabbed the point of his words.

"Nan, do you know who the current emperor is?"

Du Yunnuan hesitated, it stands to reason that she didn't know.

Today's world is that the world only knows that there is Chang Mingda, but does not know that there is an emperor, after Emperor Huaiyang ascended the throne, there is almost no movement, and even the year name has not been modified so far.

But she is different, she was at the feet of the Son of Heaven, even if she was isolated from the world, Mrs. Shui Chang did not allow her to be a blind and deaf person who didn't know anything, and the world and current affairs were passed on to her like a whisper in the boring chanting every morning, asking her to remember it to death.

Du Yunnuan's silence made Lian Miao misunderstand, "Yes, you haven't heard anyone say who the emperor is." ”

"It can be said that ninety percent of the people in this world don't know who the emperor is, and it is impossible for everyone to know it, but ...... In this world, this is not possible. ”

"I'm not polite to say it, if the minister is in charge, the country will be in chaos!"

Du Yunnuan turned his head and looked at the private school for a while, "Then grandfather, who is the emperor, and what does it have to do with them?" ”

"Nannan, you forgot what I just said, no matter how long people live, after a few decades, they always have to iterate, how long can people who are in high positions live now? Ten years, twenty years? Or thirty years? ”

"How old are the children here now? The youngest ones are eight or nine years old, the older ones are only twelve or thirteen years old, and ten or twenty years from now, when they are in the prime of their youth, and thirty years later, they will be the mainstay of the generation. ”

"We can't change the status quo, but we can't give up hope because of this, a seed that takes root in their hearts will be a big tree in ten years."

Du Yunnuan listened but gradually understood.

Lian Hao knew that he was old, even if he wanted to change the status quo of today's society, he just had more than enough heart and not enough strength.

So he put his hope on the next generation.

He firmly believes that as long as these children are educated, future adults can see the darkness and mistakes of the world, and they will do their best to change all this.

Du Yunnuan's eyes suddenly became hot.

For the sake of everyone's stable life, it is not only the soldiers on the frontier who are fighting, not only characters like Yan Tingfeng Xie Chi, but also people like her maternal grandfather.

It is like the light of fireflies, which cannot compete with the sun and the moon, but still shines in its own way.

"Grandfather, I see what you mean." Du Yunnuan smiled slightly, "My brother and I are both the hopes that my grandfather said. ”

Lian Hao smiled, he reached out and touched Du Yunnuan's head, "Yes, Nan Nan is also hope." ”