At sunset, the moon replaced the sun, hanging high in the air, and the air above Xiaolongkan was filled with the smell of fireworks.

Old man Shao carried a bamboo basket on his back, walking quietly under the moonlit night, and someone squatted outside the door to eat, and greeted him when he saw him.

"Uncle Shao, are you going to the market again?"

"Ahh Old man Shao gave a short and casual answer, and he was not in the mood for small talk.

The others stopped talking with amusement.

Instead, talk to the people around you about other gossip.

The village is not big, forty or fifty households, except for working in the fields, there are no entertainment activities next to them, and whoever has something happening at home will fly everywhere, which is regarded as a topic of conversation after tea and dinner.

Seeing Old Man Shao, there was a woman who seemed to think of something.

Seeing that Old Man Shao was walking away, he lowered his voice, looked around, and said mysteriously to the people beside him: "Do you know? Uncle Shao intends to let his stupid and expensive grandson marry a daughter-in-law! ”

Old man Shao is the most outstanding hunter in Xiaolongkan, who has a problem on weekdays, he is willing to help when he goes to him, and over time, everyone respectfully calls him Uncle Shao.

Old man Shao has no children and no daughters, and he has never heard him mention this matter, but he only knows that his grandson is a fool, he doesn't like to take care of people on weekdays, and he looks much better than the best-looking girl in the village.

Uncle Shao treated him very well, he was really pampered as the root of his life, and he didn't let him touch the work at home in the field, and he spent a lot of money to send him to study.

A few years ago, in order to send Aji to a private school, Old Man Shao got a horse out of nowhere, and the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the village every morning, so he knew that Old Man Shao was riding a horse to send his grandson to school.

Can a fool read too? The people in the village didn't know that someone had come to Old Man Shao a few times, so it was better to let Aji learn a serious skill and make a living in the future.

But the old man Shao, who has always been good-tempered, just couldn't listen to this, and lost his temper a few times, so that no one said anything about it again.

Aji didn't study for two years, then he returned to the village and stopped studying, his horse may have been sold again, and no one in the village sent his children to study, what is the use of studying? It can't be used for farming, it can't fill its stomach, and no one is willing to do this kind of thing.

It costs at least a hundred taels of silver to raise a scholar, and the expensive pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are like a moat, straddling between the people and scholars, and clearly telling them what is extravagant hope.

Ordinary people, it is difficult enough to live, where can they delusionally rely on reading to reach the sky.

Because of Old Man Shao's sending Aji to study, the village didn't say it on the surface, but there was a lot of discussion in private.

Some people say that sending Aji to study hollowed out Old Man Shao's family.

Some people say that the gentleman in the private school dislikes Aji as a fool and does not ask him to come again.

But it was passed around, and no one knew what was going on.

Although Old Man Shao got along with everyone kindly, he rarely invited people from the village to the bamboo forest where he lived.

It was a no-go zone in the village.

Over time, everyone lost their curiosity and gradually accepted that there was such a strange family in the village.

Everyone knew that Old Man Shao loved his grandson, and everyone originally thought that this old guy wanted to marry a young lady to his grandson, and everyone was beautiful and the like, but they never thought that Aji, who was good-looking like an immortal, would marry a village girl.

Listening to the woman's tone, it seemed that she was still a girl from their village.

All of a sudden, everyone's curiosity was aroused.

"Who does Uncle Shao have a crush on?"

"Which girl in our village is so capable that she can get into Uncle Shao's eyes, if she marries into their family, I'm afraid she will eat and drink for the rest of her life!"

"Tell me, who the hell is it?"

Aunt Ying's mouth almost pulled the corners of her mouth, this feeling of being supported by everyone is really good, and she became more and more mysterious: "You just want to break your head today, and you definitely can't figure out who it is!" ”

"Who else could it be? Which girl in the village is the best-looking and worthy of his precious grandson? ”

"Ah Liu is the best-looking, she is sixteen years old this year, her little face is tender and can pinch out the water, her mother has not let her go down to the ground since she was twelve years old in order to let her marry a rich family as a concubine, and that small waist, a thin pinch! If you want me to say, you must have taken a fancy to Ah Liu! ”

"It makes sense, instead of being a concubine for others, Ah Liu might as well marry Ah Ji as a wife!"

I saw that the people in the village were talking about it, but they didn't pull it on Gu Lan at all, and Aunt Ying was anxious.

"You guys are really talking nonsense, can Shao Bo take a fancy to Ah Liu's little girl? You just say she's good-looking, but does she look like she can live a good life? I haven't married yet, I hook up with this and that all day long, and Aji married him, I'm afraid that the green hat will be on my head the next day! ”

"Poof!"

Everyone in the village laughed, thinking about Ah Liu's style, it seemed that this was indeed the case.

But on second thought, there are no other good-looking girls in the village?

Aunt Ying rolled her eyes, stopped selling Guanzi, and said directly: "I said, nine times out of ten, Uncle Shao has taken a fancy to the Gu family's Lan girl!" ”

"What?"

As soon as this sentence came out, it was almost shocking.

"You mean the eldest daughter of the Gu third family, Gu Lan?"

"That's right!" Aunt Ying looked taken for granted.

"Impossible! When pigs fly! I've seen Gu Lan's girl, exposed to the wind and sun, dark, more like a man than Aji, can Uncle Shao take a fancy to her as his daughter-in-law? ”

"Phew! Your brain is dead, the girls in our village work in the fields, how can there be people who don't have dark skin, besides, Gu Lanhei is a little darker, but the parents are not ugly, in the field at home, you can do any work, and take care of several younger brothers and sisters so much, you say, which girl in the village can be more capable than her? ”

"Oh~ I understand, shouldn't Uncle Shao be afraid that he will be too old to take care of his grandson, so he will simply find someone to take care of his grandson?"

Everyone finally understood the meaning of Aunt Ying's words, and after thinking about it, Gu Lan pulled three children and a fool by herself, and she was sympathetic and funny.

Old man Shao didn't know that he had passed through the village for a while, and the matter was so outrageous.

Aunt Ying didn't really guess his thoughts, but when she passed by the foot of the mountain at noon today, she saw Zhao Fusheng pulling and pulling Gu Lan, and saw Aji helping Gu Lan break the siege, and the two of them held hands and left affectionately.

Only then did I think of the previous few times Uncle Shao helped Gu Lan, and I had today's talking point.

Old man Shao finally returned home, and a candle the size of a soybean was lit in the bamboo house, and the dim light made him relax.

He untied the basket behind him, took out the expensive food and clothing from it, and pushed open the bamboo door.

"Aggie, are you hungry? I'm going to cook rice, and you eat some pastries to cushion your stomach first. ”

In front of the bamboo table, Aji was dressed in white, holding a bamboo tube in one hand, and was reading a book by candlelight.

In the tray next to his hand, there were several strange pieces, and he was pinching one of them and putting it in his mouth.