When Lin Shidong arrived at Loulu Village, it was already past noon, and it was the busy farming season, and there was no one in sight in the village. He walked slowly along the way, only to see that the thatched huts on both sides of the path were low, the walls were broken, and the tiles and ropes were unusually scattered, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "In the peaceful years, the people are still like this, and during the war years, I don't know how many people are left, and how many households can be finished."

Walking and walking, I came to the outside of the wall of a small courtyard, and looked inward, and the atmosphere was very different. Although the house was only three thatched houses, it was very neatly repaired, and there were no cracks or omissions, and the thatch looked like it had been newly trimmed. The courtyard wall is not higher than other people's homes, but it is newer than other people's homes, and outside the Jingmen, which is also neat, three tall locust trees cover half of the wall.

"Yes, this is it"! He nodded: "The home of the first warrior of Dongduo, although he lives in a lowly land, the weather is naturally different, Li Youlan is a strange person, and there are three trees in front of the door, and only people like him can have such insight."

He glanced behind him and motioned for his attendant to call the door. After calling for a long time, I only heard the voice of a woman inside, and answered through the window: "Guests from afar and go elsewhere, only the little woman at home is at home, it is inconvenient to welcome distant guests, and when the family comes back, it is not too late for the guests to come again."

It sounded like a young country woman, so he couldn't get in, so he had to find a stone under the big locust tree and wait slowly.

From a distance, among the group of people, a young man with long hair hanging down to the crook of his calf, some looked like a bull, the one who carried a hoe, his face was black and yellow, and his cheeks were sunken, some of them looked like Li Youlan, and the other two men and women in their forties, some of them looked like their parents.

Lin Shidong hurriedly stood up and greeted him. If you take a closer look, it's really not bad, although the appearance of several people has changed slightly, familiar people can still recognize it.

"Lin Shidong worships Old Li, Old Lady, and Brother Lan", he stepped forward to salute with a lovely smile.

"The eldest son of the Lin family is out of business", Li Yuming and Lin Shidong's father Lin Zhengke were originally old neighbors, both of them were farmers and worked together in the economy, and later there was a slight improvement, Lin Zhengke moved to the city, so that his son could still do the economy from the literature. In the past three or five years, after discounting some capital, he took it away, rented a house in the city, moved over with his family, opened a small tavern, and his two sons made a ready-made running hall, his wife made a counter, and he made an account room.

Coincidentally, on this day, Lin Zhengke came back from running the goods, and happened to pass by in front of Li Yuming's tavern, and saw from a distance that the person on the counter looked like the lady of the Li family, so he moved in to see. Na Li Niangzi also recognized Lin Kezheng, so she let him go to the back hall and called the family to recognize each other, everyone was very happy, and they talked to each other about the words after parting, knowing that Lin Zhengke at this time was already a business giant and one of the best people in the city.

Lin Zheng can see that Li Yuming's economy is depressed and his life is shabby, so he wants to take them to his home, Li Yuming is reluctant to die, and wants to help him with some economic things, he should not do anything, he has no choice but to let his wife come over and walk around from time to time, and help him from time to time. On this day, when the two families gathered, when it came to the children, Lin Zhengke said to Li Yuming: "Brother and I are making food with our hands and feet, and the hardships we have experienced are needless to say. Shidong I thought that he should let him study, learn some knowledge, and always seek a political background in the future, not expecting to be ranked in the third station, and be a wife and a son, in the end, he will leave the rush and enjoy some blessings", speaking of this, he looked at Li Yuming meaningfully, and continued: "I think the two virtuous nephews should also find some long paths, Lan and Shidong are similar, only fifteen years old, Ba Niu is only eight years old, it is a great future, the future is long, if it is so delayed, I am afraid that the future will not follow the old road of you and me"?

Li Yuming listened to what he said, and did not answer, but just drank silently. I knew that he was a little embarrassed, and I was afraid that he would not look good on his face, so I didn't say anything, and the two families broke up happily that night, and the matter was put on hold.

Lin Zhengke is a person with a heart, after saying such a thing, he has the heart to let the Li family brothers study, and directly let him come to the house to be with Lin Shidong, or invite a gentleman for them, Li Yuming will not agree to it, so he has to think of a plan at home.

He first relaxed Lin Shidong's discipline and let him have time to go out to play in addition to studying, so as to lure him to meet Li Youlan, and then make plans.

The two families are good families, and the two of them have been used to playing since childhood, and when they meet as friends, they are very cordial, not to mention inseparable, but they are almost the same. Sometimes Lin Shidong went to find Li Youlan, sometimes Li Youlan went to Lin Shidong, and often slept in any of the two families regardless of each other. They are all teenagers, and they feel strange about everything, Lin Shidong sometimes goes to the tavern to run the hall, and Li Youlan sometimes goes to study with Lin Shidong. Lin Shidong is okay, it's just a temporary freshness, and if it's too hot, it's not so attentive, but Li Youlan was attracted by this reading. This is also Lin Zhengke's plan, let the private school Mr. pick up some biographies and anecdotes to teach him, so that he was fascinated.

On this side, the other side has to be relaxed, and the things that run in the tavern can't be taken care of for a while, and the situation of losing everything has become commonplace. At first, Li Yuming didn't care very much, but later it became the norm, and he had to be interrogated. This is not an unspeakable thing, Li Youlan told him about his willingness to study, Li Yuming thought of his son's future, he had to put down his body and go to Lin Zhengke, and it was not easy to spare one, and he deviated from one, so he simply took Ba Niu with him.

This is also in line with Lin Zhengke's intentions, so he took the two children to his house and began to read.

Li Youtian is smart, although he is very late in enlightenment, but he has made rapid progress, and in two or three years, he has caught up with Lin Shidong, and his reputation has spread far and wide, and he has become a leader among the younger generations, and he has been in the limelight for a while.

But Ba Niu is very different.

When he was in the tavern, he often played tricks on the guests, because he was still young, and those guests also liked it, and when he arrived at the Lin Mansion, he was also at peace, and he also knew that under the eaves of people, everything was restrained, and after a long time, his true nature was revealed.

First of all, the teacher of the teacher, because he often chastised him, and he held a grudge against him, and he took special counsel with the gentleman to serve him by night. Although the gentleman punished him, he only hated iron and steel, and after all, he was his own student, and he was only a teenager, so he did not watch out for him. He made up his mind to make a fool of him, and that night, the old gentleman fell in love with him.

Mr. Na had a problem with night blindness, so he always put the night pot under the bed. As soon as Ba Niu came, he lit up the night pot for him, poured it for him in the morning, and brought it in at night, ten days and eight days down, accustomed to it, the old gentleman also honored him, and did not run it himself, and looked at this child differently in his heart. How do you know that Ba Niu is a person with a heart, and when he saw that he gradually forgot about this matter, he began to plan. That night, the servant went to sleep, but he took a night pot and broke it. When Mr. got up at night, he touched up and down several times, but he couldn't touch it, and he had to call Ba Niu.

Ba Niu was prepared for the plan, just waiting for this time, listening to his call, deliberately pretending to have just woken up, rubbing his eyes, came to the bed, and lazily asked the gentleman what was the matter.

Mr. then asked him about the night pot, he pretended to be frightened and shouted, and said: "Sir, it's not good, when the night pot fell this morning, it was accidentally broken, and I thought about going to the front yard to get it, but I forgot it later, I can't say, Mr. had to endure it tonight!"