At dinner, Fanning honestly handed over the two topaz rings to his mother, and in order to protect the other treasures, he had to throw away the car and sacrifice the two rings.

"I'll make it clear, this is called the Jinshi ring, Zhou Yuanwai wore them and passed the Jinshi, if my mother sold them, I won't be able to pass the Jinshi in the future, but don't blame me."

Zhang Sanniang knocked him on the head with chopsticks, "Stinky boy, do you think my mother is so greedy for money and doesn't understand reason?" This is someone else's heart for you, will I sell it? ”

"And what do you want it to do?" Fanning asked, muttering.

"Of course, it's for you to save it, I'm afraid you'll lose it!"

Zhang Sanniang looked at the two rings carefully with a smile, such a delicate topaz, she saw it for the first time, even if she didn't know the goods, she knew that these two rings must be very valuable.

"It's just a couple, in the future, when you marry a daughter-in-law, you will each have one."

Fanning was speechless, her mother leaned on her daughter-in-law for everything, how much she wanted to be a mother-in-law?

"You don't have to leave it to your future daughter-in-law, you and your father have one, I think it's just right!"

'Ahem! Cough! Fan Tiezhou, who was eating with his head down, suddenly choked and coughed repeatedly.

Zhang Sanniang glanced at her husband and said dissatisfiedly: "If this ring is given to your father, it will definitely be worn on your fourth uncle's hand in the end." ”

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Fan Tiezhou took a sip of soup to stop coughing, and he said with a flushed face: "This is the intention that people give to Ning'er, and it will offend people if you give it away." ”

"You also know that you will offend people, so you want to give your parents thirty taels of silver for one hundred taels, have you considered my feelings?"

"Didn't you say yes? And now what does it do!"

Fan Tiezhou's face sank, slapped his chopsticks on the table, got up and left.

Zhang Sanniang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly her tears fell like pearls with broken threads, and she choked up and said to Fan Ning: "Look at your father's unreasonableness!" ”

Fan Ning was silent for a moment and said, "Why don't you hire a maid for Grandma to cook and laundry, so that you and Daddy feel better, and I'm also very happy!" ”

Zhang Sanniang thought about it and nodded in agreement, "That's okay, just help for an hour or two a day, and you don't need to live at home, thirty yuan a day is enough." ”

"It's the same money every month, and from next year, I'll pay for it!"

"Don't talk stupid, you little kid, what money can you make?"

Fanning smiled, "If it weren't for me, where would my mother's one hundred taels of silver come from?" ”

Zhang Sanniang snorted, "The stone was fished up by your father from Taihu Lake." ”

Fan Ning said triumphantly: "When I learned the ability to distinguish stones and jade from Zhou Yuanwai, I collected fine stones from the countryside for five yuan and sold them for one hundred yuan, and my mother said that I could make money?" ”

"Easier said than done!"

Zhang Sanniang didn't want to listen to her son's nonsense, so she took a bottle of wine from the cabinet and handed it to Fan Ning, "Take it to your father and drink it, so that he doesn't have a bullish temper." ”

Fan Ning walked out of the room with the wine bottle, Zhang Sanniang sighed softly, a month is consistent, a year also has to be twelve, he is careful every day, and he has worked hard for three years to save ten times, what is this called!

Fanning walked out of the room with the wine bottle and saw his father sitting on the well platform in a daze, with some sadness in his eyes.

"Ning'er, your grandma is aging too fast!" Fan Tiezhou sighed lowly.

Fanning can understand his father's sadness, grandmother is so old, she has to do laundry, cooking, do all the housework, and work tirelessly to serve a large family, of course her father will be heartbroken, of course he wants to help his mother.

But the father's method was wrong, he gave the silver to his grandfather, and his grandmother's life would not change in any way, and in the end it would only cheapen the loser.

Filial piety itself is true, but blind filial piety is meaningless.

Fan Ning sat next to his father and handed him the wine bottle, Fan Tiezhou shook his head and did not take the wine bottle.

Fan Ning said with a smile: "I just told my mother that I would hire a helper for my grandmother, who is only responsible for cooking and laundry, and I have a consistent amount of money for a month, and my mother agreed." ”

A bright color flashed in Fan Tiezhou's eyes, yes! Why didn't I think of this solution?

"Your mother agreed?"

Fanning nodded, "Mother is not an unreasonable person, although she is a little dissatisfied with Grandpa, she is very good to Grandma, and she took the initiative to give Grandma a pair of cloth shoes, Daddy forgot?" ”

"Yes! When your mother first got married, your grandmother treated her best, people praised her for being virtuous, and your mother was also filial to her. ”

Fan Tiezhou felt a big stone in his heart, and his mood was much more relaxed, he reached out and snatched the wine bottle, took a few big sips, and said with a smile: "I haven't drunk so much for a long time." ”

"Let me give Daddy a piece of advice! Don't go and rent land, just buy a few acres of land. ”

Fan Tiezhou shook his head, "Shangtian costs eight yuan per mu, and you can only buy ten mu at most, which is too little for me." ”

"But has Daddy ever thought about it, planting 50 acres of land is very hard, how many days can there be in a year? There is no time to run the boat at all, and if you are busy, you have to hire helpers, so it is better to plant less fields at home, and you will have time to run the boat. ”

Fan Tiezhou is right to think about it, he only cares about his maximum bearing capacity for farming, but he forgets that he still has to run a boat, and he is really too busy to plant fifty acres.

He patted his son's head, "It's still your kid who is smart, this time my father will listen to you, buy ten acres of upper fields, plus our family's three acres of fields, a total of thirteen acres, and then run the boat." ”

"Daddy had better go pick up some medicine and boil a few bottles of that bruise ointment, maybe I can make a lot of friends with it."

Fanning knew that his father was warm-hearted and righteous, so he never mentioned using it to make money.

"Good!"

Fan Tiezhou happily agreed, "I'll go up the mountain tomorrow to have a look!" ”

As the saying goes, husband and wife are the two plackets of clothes, and children are buttons.

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Two days later, Zhang Sanniang sent her son and husband to the boat at the entrance of the village before dawn.

Zhang Sanniang thought that her son had left her side, her tears rolled down again, Fan Ning smiled: "Mother, it's not going to the capital, I'll be back in a few days." ”

Zhang Sanniang wiped away her tears and said: "You stinky boy, you don't study hard, your mother will beat you when you come back." ”

"Mother, don't worry! I promise to save you another 10 dollars next year. ”

Zhang Sanniang nodded, and told her husband: "After you send Ning'er, come back early." ”

"I know, I'm going to check out the boat."

"Be careful yourself, don't be deceived."

Uncle Mizune, who rocked the boat, smiled: "I said eldest niece, you are talking about me!" ”

"Uncle Shuigen, how could I say you, you guys go quickly! Don't delay your child's school. ”

The boat swayed and swayed away on the water, Zhang Sanniang reluctantly watched her son's back disappear, and then went home.

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Uncle Shuigen's surname is Zhang, he is Zhang Sanniang's cousin, about fifty years old, and he was also a fisherman at the earliest, and he was Fan Tiezhou's introductory master, and he was the matchmaker who matched Zhang Sanniang, a niece from a neighboring village, to Fan Tiezhou.

Zhang Shuigen has been in the passenger boat business for more than ten years, and he knows that running a passenger boat is more profitable than running a fishing boat, and he can easily take care of his family, so he has been persuading Fan Tiezhou to change his career to run a passenger boat with him.

Zhang Shuigen said with a smile: "This year, the offspring in our village are all good, and there are five children who are going to study in the town. ”

"Who else but Ning'er?" Fan Tiezhou asked curiously.

"There are also Jiang Yuanwai's son Jiang Agui, Zhao Li's son Zhao Xiaoyi, and the two boys of Han Zhuang's family, all four of them went to study in the town's government-run school, of course, not as good as Yanying School."

Fan Tiezhou nodded and asked, "What about the primary school in the village?" ”

"Didn't you say that you should let the fourth child of your family be a gentleman, you don't know?"

Fan Tiezhou was stunned, what is going on?

He suddenly looked back at his son.

Fan Tiezhou suddenly understood, it must have been his son who was looking for Zhou Yuanwai, he pointed at his son, and the meaning in his eyes was, 'You stinky boy, this kind of thing is actually hidden from me!' ’

Fan Tiezhou was suddenly in a good mood, and the fourth child finally had something to do, so he didn't have to drag his parents down anymore.

During this time, everything was going well at home, and Fan Tiezhou was suddenly full of confidence in his future.

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When the boat arrived at Mudu Town, it was already dark, and Fan Tiezhou came to the gate of Yanqing School with his suitcase and son.

A teaching assistant ran out of the school hall and said with a smile: "The master of the academy said that Fan Shaolang is coming today, and I have been waiting. ”

"I'm sorry to keep me waiting."

"It's okay, I'll take care of the rest! Parents can go home. ”

Fan Tiezhou hesitated, then handed the box to the assistant teacher, and instructed Fan Ning: "If there is anything, you go to the dock to find Grandpa Shuigen, and he will help you." ”

"I know, Daddy can go and get busy if he has something!"

Fan Tiezhou smiled and waved to his son, turned around and walked in the direction of the dock, he made an appointment to see the boat today, if it was suitable, he would buy it directly.

"Shaolang, please follow me!"

Fanning nodded, and followed the assistant teacher towards the school, "You go and report to the professor first, and at noon, I will come to you to arrange a dormitory." ”

"Thank you, sir!"

It wasn't long before Fanning met the school's first professor.

Generally speaking, literati had only one master in their life, and they had to hold rituals and worship their teachers, and they would be teachers for one day and their fathers for life.

And studying in the school, you will come into contact with a lot of gentlemen, these are ordinary teachers, generally called Mr., like the main teachers of the school and the county school are called professors, generally a little famous old gentlemen, and younger teachers are called Mr. or teaching assistants.

The teaching assistant introduced him to today's professor, "Fan Shaolang, this is Professor Yan, who teaches the Analects in the school, and has studied the Analects deeply, and is also one of the best in Wu County. ”

Professor Yan is a straight-faced old man, not tall, thin, with silver hair, who looks very learned, but has a rosacea, which destroys his image a little.

Fanning was helpless, so he had to kneel down and make a big salute, "Student Fanning meets the professor!" ”

The first time we met, I had to kneel down and give a big salute to my husband, which was the rule of the Tianxia Academy, and I didn't need it in the future.

Professor Yan nodded, "According to the usual practice, you have to take a test when you enter the door, but today is the class exam, so I don't have to give you questions alone, you come with me!" ”

Fan Ning carried his schoolbag and followed Professor Yan into the school, there were about thirty people in the school, all of whom were admitted to the school last year, and they were about to be promoted to the next level.

Everyone is writing with their heads down, and they are taking exams, and there are exam questions hanging on the shelf opposite, including five articles: "Shuer", "Taibo", "Zihan", "Township Party", and "Advanced".

The school, like the schools of later generations, is also a table for two people, but one chair per person.

Professor Yan led him to the first row of window seats, where only one person sits.

He pointed to the empty seat and said to Fanning, "You will sit here from now on!" ”

"The students got it."

"The exam questions are hanging in the front, the papers are on the table, let's start quickly!"

Fanning sat down, Professor Yan turned and left, he hadn't used to it for a while, and he started the exam.

Helpless, Fanning had to take out the pen and inkstone, but found that he had no ink, and he had to study ink, but where was the water?

Professor Yan had already gone out, and Fanning looked around, but could not find the bucket, when his tablemate gently pushed a plate of ink over.

"Thank you so much!"

Fan Ning was very grateful in his heart, and looked up at the same table, only to see that the same table had picturesque eyebrows and eyes, a handsome face, and was an extremely handsome little gentleman.

Fanning said, 'Ah! Jumped up, his eyes widened, why are you again?