"Xiancheng!" Qian Xiangui interrupted his younger brother's words unhappily, the muscles on his face trembled a few times, he barely suppressed his anger, and then smiled kindly, "Why are you so pedantic?" The emperor of the first dynasty once wrote a poem: rich families don't need to buy fertile land, and there are thousands of bells in the book. There is no need to erect tall buildings to live in peace, and there is a golden house in the book. Don't hate unscrupulous matchmakers when marrying a wife, there is Yan Ruyu in the book. Don't hate to go out with no one, there are many cars and horses in the book. The boy wants to fulfill his life's aspirations, and reads the Pentateuch to the window. ”

He paused heavily: "Xiancheng, do you know the meaning of this poem?" You say, if you don't enter the official career, how can you reflect the deep meaning of the sages? ”

Qian Xiancheng said disapprerovingly: "Wen Jin learned from books how to grow rice, hunt wolves and even cook, isn't this a reflection of the deep meaning of the sages?" Why do you have to get into the job? ”

Qian Xiangui didn't expect his younger brother to say this, he was stunned for a while, and couldn't pick up the conversation, but he came prepared, how could he give up? So he pulled the topic away and talked about something else.

"Xiancheng, I think that when my father and second uncle were alive, what kind of atmosphere was our family, who didn't greet each other with a smile when they walked to the street? We don't have to worry about food and clothing, just study with peace of mind, and prepare for the ...... of the imperial court competition" Speaking of the good old days, both of them sighed, and the situation on the tea table immediately became harmonious and friendly.

"Xiancheng, my father and second uncle are alive, why did they come? I just want our brothers to get ahead and glorify our ancestors, but unfortunately we don't have a good gentleman here, and I have to serve Gaotang, I can't travel all over the world like the third brother, read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, and see that I am old, if I don't rely on donations, how can I complete the will of the two old men? In the past, I had a third brother to count on, but now he has not been heard from for five years, and it seems that there is no hope. ”

Qian Xiancheng bowed his head gloomily.

Qian Xiangui was very satisfied with this effect, cleared his throat and said: "My brother is diligent and thrifty, and he tries his best to save a few dollars and take it all out, just to complete the wishes of the two old men, Xiancheng, why do you think my brother wants to join the office, don't I know how good it is to be at home at ease, I have to run to see people's faces, and suffer from that nest?" ”

Qian Xiancheng blushed embarrassedly and looked apologetic.

"Xiancheng, your brother has suffered so much and suffered so many grievances for the sake of our Qian family, what do you think?" Old Jiao interjected in a low and amicable voice.

"I, I don't want to be in the office."

"I didn't ask you to join the company." Qian Xiangui said, "What does my mother mean, do you support what your brother did?" ”

"Well, support, support!" Qian Xiancheng nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

Qian Xiangui puffed up his chest proudly: "That's it, if my brother is in the office, how can he lose the benefits of the second room?" In the future, when my younger brother goes out, everyone will respect the second master, how decent it is. ”

"I, no, no!" Qian Xiancheng is not uncommon, the respect he asks for is earned by his own ability, not by others.

"You're nothing, don't you want to support your brother?"

"No, it's not!"

"In this case, in the future, our Qian family will have blessings and hardships, what is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, how about it?"

"Good, good!" Qian Xiancheng missed the happy days when the family was in harmony and depended on each other, and nodded again and again.

"That's very good, let's do it, on the eighth day of the first month, my brother wants to go to the county to visit the king, will you go with me?"

"I, I won't go, my brother will go by himself."

"Then, Xiancheng, we are in the poor countryside, and my brother doesn't have any good gifts, you see......"

Qian Xiancheng blinked stupidly, not knowing what was going on, and made Qian Xiangui so angry that he had to put it bluntly: "Isn't there so many ducks in my brother's house?" I heard that there are fish, do you want to help my brother? ”

"Second uncle!" Wen Jin finally waited for Qian Xiangui to show his fox tail, and hurriedly interjected, "Second uncle, uncle's food and clothing are worse than yours?" ”

"Nope!" Qian Xiancheng was still ignorant, and he didn't know why his nephew suddenly asked this question, but Qian Xiangui's face changed.

"Since Uncle is better than you in everything, this is you, right? In that case, it is he who should support us, not us who supports him, right? ”

"Qian Wenjin!" Jiao couldn't help but shout angrily, and was glared at fiercely by Qian Xiangui.

At this point, if Wei still didn't understand, it would be in vain, she quietly pulled the man and stood up: "Auntie, Wen Han's father still has to visit a few friends, so let's leave." ”

Qian Xiancheng suddenly understood, but he didn't care about a few ducks, and he opened his mouth and wanted to agree, but was stopped by Wei's repeated eyes.

"Xiancheng, you are, a few ducks and a few fish are reluctant?" Qian Xiangui is not dead.

"I, I ......"

Webster kept pulling at the placket, and Qian Xiancheng couldn't nod. In the past, his wife had never given him an ugly look in front of others, and this family was up to him, and today, Qian Xiancheng was very annoyed.

But he teaches his son in front of him and his wife behind his back, he can't be angry now.

Also, Webster is quite polite, he also has to listen to his wife's reasons, right?

"I'll go back now." Qian Xiancheng finally held back a sentence, bowed his head in embarrassment and withdrew, Wei followed, Wen Han took Wen Jin's hand, and also walked out of the black lacquered wooden door of the Qian family's big house.

The people in the big house, all of them had dark faces, Qian Xiancheng was so depressed that he couldn't even raise his head, he really wanted to nod and agree, as for making a fuss? Walking out into the street, he said disappreciatively to Merriam-Webster: "Isn't it just a few ducks......

"That's Wen Jin's raising, in the future, ours, you can give it away casually, and if you have three rooms, don't make your own decisions." Wei glanced behind him, and saw that Wen Han and Wen Jin didn't know what to say, and they were far away from them, so he hurriedly whispered.

"Wen Jin, she ......" Thinking of the dissatisfaction on his nephew's face just now, Qian Xiancheng was a little unhappy, feeling that his nephew was stingy and loved money more than family affection, but he was a reasonable person, it can be said that without his nephew, there would be no comfort and comfort for his family, and he really couldn't cross the line and give away his brother's things.

Wen Han was much more sober than his father, and he angrily pulled Wen Jin's hand: "Dafang, here you go again." ”

"Humph!"

"Don't worry, even if my father is deceived, I won't agree, I will help you." Wen Han comforted.

Wen Jin squeezed out a smile comfortingly, her second uncle, how can she be transformed?

The first year of junior high school was spent in such a depressed and weird atmosphere.

The dawn of the second day of the first lunar month shone into the courtyard, and the people in the second room of the Qian family finally showed a smile, happily packed up their things, and prepared to go to the Wei family.

Uncle Wei is decisive and bold, daring to act, very temperamental to Wen Jin, he learned that Wen Jin was an orphan, he waved his hand very generously: "When you have time, come to your uncle's house with Wen Han, from now on, the Wei family will be your maternal uncle's house." Wen Jin was very moved. Wen Jin is not a rigid person, she is willing to deal with Wei Chenglan.

Qian Xiancheng did not hesitate to carry a bag of rice, two killed ducks, a few fish, a basket of salted duck eggs and Songhua eggs to the donkey cart, Wei carried a bag in his hand, which was a moslin moleskin coat, and Wen Han carried a small burden with boots.

A donkey cart, pulling things, can't sit four people, Wen Jin has already arranged it, Cheng Yu's uncle's house is in Chenzhuang, five miles away from Weijiawan, his father Cheng Keming wants to go to his father-in-law's house with his wife and children, and his grandfather accompanies his old wife to his brother-in-law's house.

The land of the Cheng family is adjacent to the Qian family, Wen Jin intends to make friends with the Cheng family, after all, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and the Cheng family is not bad, I heard that Wen Jin is going to Weijiawan, and took the initiative to let them take the ox cart.

Father Cheng arrived in Chenzhuang and left his wife, so he had to give the Qian family another ride, but Qian Xiancheng repeatedly excused himself and failed to stop him. Wen Jin watched from the side, and sighed in his heart, why is the Qian family's big house not such a person?

Wei Chenglan didn't expect her brother-in-law to come and bring so many gifts, which could barely be worth the sum of the previous ten years, and she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

"Uncle!" Wen Han shouted happily, and Wen Jin followed suit.

"Hey, hey, come in and sit."

"Brother-in-law, sister, drink some hot tea, it's really cold this year!"

My brother-in-law hasn't been here for several years, and Wei Chenglan also knows why, so she held back this year and didn't mention the old topics in the past, Qian Xiancheng became happy.

Wen Han took Wen Jin and went to find Wei Lianggong, the cousin of the Wei family.

Wei Lianggong is eight years old, but he hasn't studied, he is making kites: "Cousin Han, it'll be fine soon, let's take it and fly a kite on Dianzi." ”

"It's so cold this year, it's all ice on Dianzi, where do you dare to run, it's just wrestling."

"Then what are we going to play, I haven't had a good time all winter."

"What did you do in the winter?" Wen Jin was very strange.

Wei Lianggong rolled her eyes: "Sell candy with my father." ”

"Can you sell it?"

"Phew!" Wei Lianggong was unhappy.

"He is skillful, the sugar rooster he makes, and the little monkey are the same as the living, better than his uncle's."

No wonder he didn't read, Wen Jin remembered the scenery he saw after Chenzhuang, and stopped talking, after the diversion of the Jin River, although the stream of Moling Mountain was still injected into the old river, but the water flow was much smaller, Weijiawan was built on the exposed old river, the ground was full of fine sand, there was no fertility, the yield was too low, and almost all the people in the village had some small skills, otherwise they would not be able to live.

The former land of the Wei family was all buried in the new river, otherwise, the days would not be like this.

It is really difficult for Wei Chenglan to fill the stomach of the family in such a difficult environment, and it is really not easy.

"Brother, you say, can my uncle move to the mountain nest? We still want to raise more pigs, ducks, and lotus roots this year, where can we be busy? Why don't you ask your uncle for help? Lianggong's younger brother is so young, he can't be illiterate. ”

When Wen Han heard this, his slightly frowning brows suddenly relaxed, his eyes lit up, his right hand clenched into a fist, and he struck his left palm: "Yes, why didn't I think of this." Uncle is having a hard time. Do you know? In several villages in this part of Weijiawan, 'planting a slope, harvesting a car, making a dustpan, and steaming a pot', no matter how diligent and how much land is planted, it is difficult to eat enough. In such an environment, Wei Chenglan can still be so hearty and optimistic, how strong his mind is, Wen Jin is in awe of this tough guy who stands tall in a hard life.

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