"It's the mid-year exam soon, right?"

After being asked by the three children one after another, Governor Zhan was also sweating, I really don't know if he will test them or them will test him today.

Lu Xiaowen saw that he didn't have the strength to ask Chi Weiwei's mother and daughter, so he sent the person out of the door in person.

When Governor Zhan came, his steps were relaxed, but he didn't expect that he couldn't wait when he left.

After coming out, he finally took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweat, and the personal servant greeted him: "Master, yo, is it so hot in this garden?" ”

Governor Zhan glared at him: "Go, you talk a lot." ”

Squinting his eyes and remembering what he had just said, he turned his head and ordered: "Tell your subordinates not to check on the Jiang family, the disappearance of Miss Chi Wu should have nothing to do with them." ”

The little servant responded quickly, sneaked to see his master's expression, and was relieved to find that he was not coerced.

Chi Weiwei was fetching water in the small courtyard rented from her aunt, although the money they brought out was enough, but Aunt Tao told her to be diligent and thrifty, and to start a family in the future, these are her dowries.

Chi Weiwei, no, Tao Weiwei pouted: "Mother, it's good that I don't marry." ”

Now they live in a small courtyard, and there is only one girl to help work together, although it is a little harder, but the air is free, and she can still call Aunt Tao her mother.

I still remember when she first moved to this small courtyard, she called her mother for the first time, Aunt Tao was stunned for a moment with her back to her body tidying up things, and then she covered her mouth and cried: "Until this part, I heard you call me a mother, I didn't believe that we really left that place." ”

How good, why do you want to get married?

Aunt Tao's gentle eyebrows deliberately put on a straight face at this moment, but she still didn't have any anger.

She glanced at her daughter with disgust: "If you think your mother is a drag, just say so." ”

Tao Weiwei hugged her and didn't allow her to be angry.

The mother and daughter were in a mess, and there was a knock at the door, three points in a hurry, I don't know who it was.

Tao Weiwei sat up straight in fear and looked at Aunt Tao, and the smile on Aunt Tao's face faded.

"Mother, it won't be the government who came to arrest us, right?" Tao Weiwei has been worried that the people in the government have found her, captured herself, and made her an official slave.

"Afraid of what? If you come, you will escape through the back door, and your mother will drag you here. Aunt Tao seemed much calmer.

"I don't want it!" She lowered her voice, resisting.

"Mother's deed is in her own hands, even if you are an officer and soldier, you can't catch me, you are different! Wei'er, you are the daughter of Chi Fu, my mother is afraid."

Before he could finish speaking, there was another knock on the door, accompanied by a question: "Is anyone home?" I'm a new neighbor next door, and I have some souvenirs for your family to eat. ”

The mother and daughter glanced at each other and breathed a sigh of relief, and the voice of the person who came was gentle and polite, not like an officer or soldier trying to arrest someone.

Tao Weiwei opened the door: "Who?" ”

Unexpectedly, there was a businessman in his thirties at the door, pulling a cart of goods, and a few oil-paper bags in his hand, and he smiled shyly when he saw Tao Weiwei.

"Girl, this is my hometown's bacon sausage, I just arrived, we will be neighbors in the future, I need to take care of it."

He pointed to the room on the left, which was smaller than their courtyard, but it was just enough to live alone.

"Thank you, uncle!" Tao Weiwei responded crisply, turned around and shouted to the back room, "Mother! The uncle next door gave us a bunch of bacon! ”

Aunt Tao stepped out with small steps, her face was full of disgust: "Girl's family, why are you talking so loudly?" ”

She smiled again and thanked her new neighbor gently: "Who are you?" What's your surname? How can a person come to the capital to do business? ”

The other party saw Aunt Tao of the same age, and the people she was used to seeing on weekdays were all smug women, and the first time someone spoke to him so gently, she was even more embarrassed: "Your family is really literate, there are scholars, right?" My surname is Li, I am from Dingzhou, I have no wife and no daughters, can I just go north and south alone? ”

Tao Weiwei shook her head: "There are no scholars in my family." ”

Aunt Tao pursed her lips and smiled when she heard this, looking a little happy: "My mother's family is also from Dingzhou." ”

"That's not a coincidence, it's more important to take care of each other."

After observing for a few days, I didn't see any men in Aunt Tao's house.

Li Wanzhi inquired curiously, and the owners of the two families said: "The family is a widow, and she has just been kicked out of her husband's house, so don't talk nonsense if you have nothing to do." ”

That's right, Tao Weiwei made up a very miserable life experience for the two of them, and they were pitiful, so the landlord took the initiative to ask for less rent when bargaining.

"Ouch. That's a rude act on my part. Li Wanzhi thought of Aunt Tao's gentle and gentleness, how could she be so miserable.

In order to apologize, he often chops some firewood for them when he chops firewood, or when he carries water, he picks up a few more buckets and puts them at the door of their courtyard.

Aunt Tao accepted the benefits of others, seeing that sometimes he had no one to cook, and he asked the foot shop outside to deliver food every day, which was expensive and not delicious, so she deliberately made more and let Tao Weiwei send it next door.

This back and forth was actually seen by Tao Weiwei some signs.

So when Li Wanzhi scratched her head and asked her if her mother had any intention of remarrying, Tao Weiwei shook her head and said, "Uncle Li, if you want to know, go and ask my mother yourself!" Did you use me as a microphone? ”

She ran away unhappily.

The branches in the garden began to hang the leaves, and the maple leaves in Qixia Mountain were also red, and at this time, it was the time for the mid-year exam of the government school.

Cowen, Kong Wen'an is not afraid at all.

He barely stopped writing in the examination room, writing down with a cigarette, and the invigilator stood behind each student and read it, except for a nod to his paper.

On the riding and shooting test, Nie Lei was dressed in an orange suit, which made him stand tall and tall, and the jade tree was in the wind.

The other party raised his chin proudly: "Little man, do you dare to compete with me?" ”

Hua Shaotang was afraid that Kong Wenan would not be able to stand the agitation, so he hurriedly said: "This is going to be a lot, Nie Lei." ”

Nie Lei snorted: "Of course I know, I can win against anyone anyway, and he is the same, he can't win against anyone." ”

Kong Wenan ignored him.

The results of the draw came out, and Nie Lei drew Hua Shaotang, and he was quite happy, because Hua Shaotang's riding and shooting were not very good, but they were friends, and Nie Lei would not make things difficult for him.

And Kong Wenan drew Song Fuer.

Song Fuer was strong and strong, standing in front of him like a mountain, although it was not a wrestling competition, Hua Shaotang still swallowed his saliva.

He quietly squeezed his fist at Kong Wen'an, indicating that he would come on.

And Lu Mingyan was happier, the examiner read that he was too young, so he didn't need to compare riding and shooting, just wrote the papers of their exams once.

(End of chapter)