Xie Kun and Qi Jiguang left.

Xu He felt that life suddenly returned to normal.

Approaching the end of the year, the school has been on vacation.

Xu He, who was originally going to take Sister Gu back to Hailing directly, was buying food and drink in Yangzhou at this time.

After loading a carriage of things, the carriage went straight to Fuxue to give gifts.

Don't get me wrong, government schools are not social studies or private schools, and you don't need to give gifts to teachers at the end of the year.

But Professor Gao and Jiao Zejiao have turned a blind eye to Xu He's long leave in the past six months, and they are always embarrassed.

The life of the instructors of the official school of the dynasty is still very hard.

If the county is small and poor, the tax is equal to zero, and its income is even more pitiful, so it can only rely on the rent of the field of Xuetian Heyitian.

If Tian Shao's food encounters a natural disaster and the output of the field is small, the life of the instructors will be even more difficult.

So don't look at Gao Bi and Jiao Ze when they see the Great Grandmaster and Peng Ruyu and others, they don't have to kneel, they just make a long bow, and even Peng Ruyu and others are very polite to them, and sometimes the court gives orders, and they try to be as tactful as possible when conveying them.

But in our society, the noble will be poor, this is an iron law, and their life is very hard.

Because of the low grade, except for the annual examination and the scientific examination twice every three years, you can get some money from the candidate's registration fee and the student as a guarantee, as well as the training of the attached student who is enrolled, there is no other place at all.

When Xu He walked into the public office, he found that the doorman who was originally unable to move and guard the door had already gone home for the New Year.

The entire school and the public hall are much quieter than usual.

knocked on the door and saw that no one answered, Xu He had to ask someone to put things at the door, and he took Wu Decao into the back hall of the public hall.

As soon as I entered the back pavilion, I saw black smoke curling and two coughing voices one after another.

When he got closer, he was surprised to find that Gao Bi and Gao Wenda, father and son, were cooking on fire.

It may be that there is no experience, or it may be that the firewood is wet, the father and son are around the stove, blowing and fanning, tossing for a long time, the fire is not leading, and the smoke smokes the eyes of the father and son into peaches.

"Dad, why don't we invite someone here?" Gao Guoguang wiped his tears and asked his father beside him.

Gao Bi was also in tears, but he couldn't pull his face down and go out to beg those small people in the market, so he shook his head and said: "Determined to be strong but not sharp, success is not fast for a long time, your temperament is still too impatient!" ”

Gao Guoguang was speechless for a while: "Dad, when I smooth out my temperament, we will both starve to death!" ”

As soon as his words fell, the small flame that had just been lit in the stove went out again.

This directly collapsed Professor Gao.

I saw him throw the fire fold in his hand on the ground, and scolded stupidly: "Killing people is lazy, and people are sad to read through the ages!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Xu He laughed out loud.

Gao Bi saw that it was Xu He, that embarrassing yo.

Hurriedly covered his big face with his sleeve, and went into the house to tidy up his appearance.

However, Gao Guoguang and Xu He were familiar with Xu He and said in surprise: "Liangsheng, why are you here?" ”

Xu He said with a smile: "The New Year is approaching, Brother Yaochen and I will come to see the professor." ”

Gao Guoguang said with a bitter face: "I thought that the days of school classes were already very hard, but who knew that after the holiday, I couldn't live this day directly." ”

Xu He looked down and saw a few pottery bowls placed by the stove, and the bowls were full of green, and the good guys were all wild vegetables.

"You, that's all you eat?" Xu He was surprised.

Gao Guoguang was a little embarrassed and said: "During the school holidays, my father and I can only eat some alfalfa rice!" ”

Alfalfa rice is actually a bowl of coarse grains and a common name for a few dishes.

The scholars laughed at themselves for living like horses, and they could only eat some wild vegetables and alfalfa every day, so they called it "alfalfa rice"!

Xu He sighed and said, "Why don't you buy two pieces of tofu too!" ”

"The price of Yangzhou is expensive, two pieces of tofu cost four yuan, my father said that he wanted to save this money and buy me some Cheng Wen to see!" Gao Guoguang said this, his throat seemed to be blocked, and he choked up a little.

At this time, Gao Bi washed his face and walked out of the room, and at this time he had long since returned to his old unkind appearance.

asked Xu He with a cold face: "It's the Spring Festival soon, if you don't go home, what are you doing here?" ”

Xu He slandered in his heart that this old man's face changed faster than turning a book, and said with a smile: "It's almost the New Year, so I bought some gifts for the teachers and instructors." ”

Gao Bi frowned when he heard this: "There is no such rule, don't accept it!" ”

Xu He smiled bitterly, and Wu Decao, who was beside him, hurriedly said: "Professor Gao, you can accept it, this is also a bright voice." ”

Who knew that he regarded himself as a little transparent, and as soon as he appeared in front of Lao Gao, Gao Bi said with disgust: "You epiphyte, you are embarrassed to appear in my father-in-law, if it weren't for Xu He saying please, I would have cured you years ago!" ”

Professor Gao, you and I don't exist, I will now perform and disappear in place!

Wu Decao dodged.

Only Xu He was left facing the high wall.

Xu He said: "The instructors work weekdays, and I also have a little heart as a student." ”

"Besides, it's not all for you, Jiao Xun has them all!"

Gao Bi still wanted to refuse, but Gao Guoguang said: "Dad, you want to be a gentleman who keeps the festival, but you can't let Jiao Xundao and them starve with you!" It's not good to blow a piece of heart with a bright voice, right? ”

Gao Bi wanted to reprimand Gao Guoguang, but when he saw his son's increasingly thin body in the past half a year, he couldn't bear to say in his heart: "Sweeping the snow and calling for children, it is not a little bit of today; Thunder treat, everyone knows that yesterday is a meeting! ”

People who don't understand the official rules of the Great Wei Dynasty will definitely not understand these two sentences.

This couplet is actually Lao Gao's self-description of his embarrassment.

In ancient times, there were clerks in the local officials' yamen, and they had to check whether they were on duty by name, which was called [Dianmao]!

In the instructor's office, there are only family children, so calling their own children to clear the snow on a heavy snow day is like a point, but it is not really a point.

Lao Gao's Shanglian is laughing at himself, and this official deserves to be a wreck.

The instructors have no meat to eat on weekdays, and they don't even have meat to entertain guests, so if they want to eat meat, they can only wait for the spring and autumn lunar calendars in February and August.

Because the sacrificial holes are all on the first day of Ding, it is called Ding sacrifice.

During the sacrifice, a whole pig should be presented, which is called a young prison.

After the sacrifice, the pig was shared by the instructors of the school, and it was named Fen Yan.

It is also the only time of the year that the instructors have a few meals full of meat.

If there happens to be a guest after the Ding Festival, or if the instructor has an important guest to invite to dinner, it will be arranged at this time.

Therefore, Lao Gao jokingly said that as soon as the instructors invited guests, people knew that the Ding Festival had passed, so there was a saying that "when the thunder invited guests, they all knew that they met Ding yesterday".

When Xu He heard this, he didn't think about how miserable Lao Gao was, but that the Great Wei Dynasty did not have a scientific pig raising, and the pigs must not be fed, even if there are fat pigs, everyone is reluctant to take them to offer.

Therefore, a pig is only a hundred catties at most, and it is estimated that it is only twenty or thirty catties when it is divided into Lao Gao.

There is no refrigerator in these years, and you can't eat it all at once, isn't that a waste?

Hey, it's a little interesting, I guess I'll store some of it in the butcher's shop, and when I want to eat it, I might cut a little bit and beat the tooth sacrifice.

After giving the gift, Xu He and Wu Decao walked out of the school, looking at the bleak street scene on the road, he folded his collar and sighed: "The thirty-sixth year of Zhizheng is coming!" ”