In the bamboo house, a table of meals has been prepared.

A few people occupied someone's place, so they were naturally embarrassed to let an old man be busy again, and there was rice and noodles in the house, so several people worked together and quickly tossed out a table of meals.

Maybe it was because there had been no guests at home for a long time, and the old man seemed very happy, and deliberately took out the treasured bamboo leaves and wanted to have a drink with a few young people.

The king's authority was reluctant, so he had to agree, secretly thinking that he must leave the silver when he returned.

The old man seemed to see what he was thinking, and said bluntly:

"If you are truly grateful, then eat and drink to your heart's content, and don't look back and go outside, saying that I have neglected the guests.

As for the money, I have some savings, old man, and I can afford a meal. ”

Seeing that the other party said so, Wang Quanquan was embarrassed to mention the matter of silver again, and he and Pu Wen took it seriously and saluted the old man.

When people are old, they are good at telling stories after drinking.

At present, the old man took advantage of the strength of the wine to tell the story of his young past.

The old man's surname is Zeng, this bamboo house originally lived in two people, last year because of a serious illness, the old man's wife failed to hold on, died, and the empty house was left with the old man himself.

According to the old man, his wife was seven or eight years younger than himself, and she was the daughter of his young daughter who would be "abducted" when he was working in a large family.

It's not appropriate to say it's "abduction", At that time, he was also a handsome person, and he was a showman at a young age, but it was a pity that the township test has been failing, and the foundation left by the ancestors of the family has been almost consumed, so he found a family and became a bookkeeper.

The old man of the family was surnamed Sun, and although the business was very large, he failed to produce a decent scholar.

Master Sun has two sons, both of whom are not materials for reading, one eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and the other fights, both of which are not fuel-efficient lamps.

The only little daughter left, who is knowledgeable and intelligent, is enough, but it's a pity that she is a daughter.

Every time Master Sun saw the gentle Zeng Xiucai, he could always think of his two sons who were not angry, and seeing that he couldn't count on them to provide for his old age, he had the idea of recruiting this Xiucai.

The young Zeng Xiucai still has the spirit of not admitting defeat, and he is unwilling to say anything.

It wasn't until later that the young lady, who was not particularly outstanding in appearance, but could be regarded as a small jasper, came forward in person and convinced Zeng Xiucai with her literary talent, which made him have to accept his fate.

Even if the heart is higher than the sky, you have to have a foundation to support it, right?

So after a month of consideration, the young Zeng Xiucai finally agreed to this family business.

On the day of marrying his daughter, Mr. Liu, whose hair was gradually graying, smiled happier than when he gave birth to his son.

One is because there is finally a scholar in the family, and the other is that he will never sleep on the street for the rest of his life, and he has nothing to rely on.

Mr. Liu is shrewd as a businessman and even more shrewd as a man.

While he was young and not confused, he divided his inheritance into three equal parts and gave them to his two sons and a daughter.

The two sons smiled happily when they got the foundation, thinking that no one would talk in their ears in the future, so they let go of eating, drinking and having fun, but the daughters and sons-in-law here took care of the original one-third of the foundation in an orderly manner.

After getting married for a long time, his wife still didn't show any signs of pregnancy, Zeng Xiucai even thought about the name of the child, but unfortunately there was no movement in his stomach.

Fortunately, the husband and wife have the same personalities and are harmonious, but there is no dislike because of this.

Later, the two eldest brothers lost all their family property, and cheekily came to the door to ask for silver, and the husband and wife were kind-hearted, and they planned to help the two, but they happened to be seen by Mrs. Sun.

As a result, the two sons were scolded by him, and asked Zeng Xiucai and his family to leave them alone.

But blood is thicker than water, how can they really not care about it, not to mention that Zeng Xiucai also knows in his heart that his son-in-law can be half a son, but only half of it.

After thinking about it again, the two of them still decided to give this money, but they still solemnly told the two brothers about the reason, as for how much they can listen to, it is all up to them.

More than a year has passed since this incident, and the two brothers have not shown up again.

Later, there was two pieces of news, one good and one bad.

The good news is that the eldest brother, who likes to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, is brave after being ashamed, and started a business with the money given to him by the couple, and now he is doing well.

The bad news is that the second brother, who likes to fight, was cut off by the guy who was probably a Jiangyang thief because he had a quarrel with someone on the street.

The old lady Sun, who heard the news, lamented "If you don't teach, your father's fault", and then the old man burst into tears.

A few years later, the eldest brother who had mixed up in the capital returned to his hometown, reconciled with Mrs. Liu, returned 20 times the silver he had borrowed before leaving, and took the old lady away.

A year later, Mrs. Xiucai, who had not seen movement for a long time, was finally found to be pregnant, and a year later, she gave birth to a son and named her husband.

……

Holding his son who had just been born, Zeng Xiucai was full of emotion in his heart.

In just ten years, too many things have happened, some people have abandoned their bad habits and become new people, and some people have died tragically on the side of the road.

There is both the death of old life and the birth of new life.

Zeng Xiucai, who had experienced all this, figured out some things, gave up the business life he didn't like, sold all the properties, and restarted the life of hard work.

said that it was a cold window, but it was much better than when he was the most down, and his wife and children were hot on the kang, which many people couldn't ask for.

Zeng Xiucai, who has been taking the exam for many years and still can't get results, finally accepted his fate, he may really have no talent for reading.

But at this moment, he found that his son's talent seemed to be much better than his own, and his proud "three years old can read and write, five years old can read a thousand words", seems to have been passed on to the child.

In addition, the child also inherited his mother's intelligence, and was not limited to memorizing dead books, and at the age of eight, he wrote poems that even he couldn't help but applaud.

Zeng Xiucai was overjoyed, and since then he has been concentrating on teaching his children to read and write, and even fearing that his rigid dogma will delay the child, so he deliberately sent him to a private school.

The child named Zeng Juren also competed, fifteen into Xiucai, twenty in the middle of the lift, and then in the state capital Yamen after a period of training, and the year of the establishment soared, becoming the youngest Tanhualang in the history of the dynasty.

Although it is not as good as the champion, it is also a figure who stands above the millions of students in the dynasty.

Coincidentally, the person who participated in the imperial examination in the same year as Zeng Tanhua and finally won the champion is the husband of the third princess now, Lian Li Lian.

And the list of those years was also a well-known family in the south of the Yangtze River.

Zeng Xiucai said that his son can have today, and most of the losses are like his mother.

He didn't mind saying more about these self-deprecating words, thanks to the support of his good wife over the years, the child could have what he has today.

Moreover, he was already rich, and he had heard too much contempt and ridicule over the years, and the bookish spirit in him had long since disappeared.

……

After the old man finished speaking, he drank the wine at the bottom of the cup and squinted his eyes.

I don't know if I'm reminiscing about the taste of wine, or reminiscing about my life.

"In this way, the old man's son is a big official, so why do you still live here?"

The girl moon cake was quick to talk, and she opened her eyes wide and asked the doubts in her heart.

The old man smiled at the corner of his mouth:

"The child knew that I liked to be quiet, so he built me a bamboo house here, and after my wife left, he wanted to take me to the capital more than once, but I was used to living here, and I really didn't want to move the nest."

After saying that, the old man stood up, walked to the window, opened the window and looked at the back of the house.

Behind the house, in an open area surrounded by bamboo trees, a lonely grave is quietly erected.

Several people saw this.

Yan Rongrong's eyes were red at this time, and he asked in a low voice:

"You say, one day we will also be separated by yin and yang?"

"Yes."

"Will you feel bad?"

Wang Quanquan looked at the old man's calm expression, and said lightly:

"It's uncomfortable to think about it now, but when the time comes, maybe I'll see it away."

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