Gu Yi couldn't laugh: "Hades still needs a scholar?" ”

Xu Lan said with a serious face: "The Hades Palace is so big, where can he take care of it alone?" This scholar is a little ghost, who helps grind and work! ”

Gu Yi nodded instructively: "I see, Uncle Niang, you know a lot." "Fortunately, Gu Danian was prescient and didn't give Gu Mo any nickname!

She could imagine Gu Jingyi's crazy expression when she was called a nickname.

"Well, I heard the fortune teller too." Xu Lan smiled, looked at Gu Mo with his head down and didn't hold chopsticks, and said busily: "Xiaomo eats vegetables, how can you just gnaw on the nest!" ”

"Uh-huh." Gu Mo nodded, but he didn't move, looking timid.

"Mother, when will the eldest brother come back?" But for a moment, Gu Jingyi, a bookish and picturesque young man, walked in.

"It's going to be next month." Xu Lan thought of her eldest son, who had been away from home for half a month, her smile narrowed, and there was a trace of worry in her eyes.

Gu Yi asked curiously, "Where did the eldest brother go?" ”

The two sons of Gu Shan's family, the eldest is called Gu Jinghui, who is eighteen years old this year.

In the memory of the original owner, before Gu Danian's death, this Gu Jinghui seemed to have a crush on a woman from a neighboring village, and also caused a little girl in the village to be sad and disappointed.

It stands to reason that now should be the time to discuss marriage, how can you go far away?

"Alas, speaking of which, it's still me and your uncle who can't stand it."

Xu Lan sighed deeply: "Your brother Huizi and a girl from the neighboring village have seen each other, that family, I have also seen it, they are all honest and responsible, but the family is too poor, and the poor can't open the pot, your brother Huizi can't bear it, and wants to give more dowry, I heard that there are people running businesses in the town, so I went with them, I don't listen to what I say, alas!" ”

In fact, there is another reason, that is, Gu Jingyi's study expenses are too expensive, in addition to the master's money, there are also book fees, food, clothing, housing and transportation expenses, plus pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., the cost is huge.

In order to provide him with education, the money saved by Gu Shan's family in the past few years is about to be used up, and Xu Lan still has the money that Gu Jinghui is marrying and does not dare to move, but Gu Jingyi will definitely spend more money on studying in the future.

Gu Jinghui didn't want to see the family continue to cut down on food and clothing, I heard that people make a lot of money by running businesses, and this time the place is far away, so I went to Fucheng.

He inquired about it, and he could earn at least ten taels of silver at a time, and then throw away the expenses or something, there were still six or seven taels!

Working in the town, the annual salary is only more than 300 copper coins, and even half a tael of silver can't be reached, just like this, only craftsmen like Gu Yi's father Gu Danian can have, and others have a maximum of 200 copper plates.

Six or seven taels, this has to be earned by a family for several years, but it is also rich and dangerous, this year, although it is a peaceful and prosperous era, but the road is not safe, there are definitely a lot of horse bandits and the like, completely risking life and luck to make money.

Xu Lan resolutely disagreed at first, but she didn't know what Gu Jinghui said to Gu Shan, so she persuaded him and agreed.

Since Gu Jinghui left, Xu Lan was worried every day, but it was only because Gu Jingyi came back from the school that she suppressed her worries and pretended to be calm every day.

"Next month." After Gu Jingyi finished speaking, he fell silent.