It's getting hot.

The Hai family has changed into single clothes, the covers on the kang have also been replaced with quilts, and the water consumption at home has also increased. Hai Chang'an, Haijiao and Begonia have to practice martial arts every day, in the past, after practicing with a dry towel to wipe the sweat, just change into clean clothes, but now you need to take a shower to get rid of the sweat stains on your body.

Although there is a well in Haijia, there is not much water out, and the water quality is average, so you have to buy water from the street every day to eat and wash. Seeing this, Jin Jiashu took the initiative to propose that the Hai family could go to his well to fetch water. Anyway, there are only four people in his family now, at most one more Zhou Xiaojian, who comes to eat every day but has to go home to stay, two tanks of water a day are more than enough, and the water from the well in the back garden is used for washing and watering the ground, and half of it is evenly used for the Hai family, and there is no pressure.

In order to save trouble, Ma accepted Jin Jiashu's kindness. In return, every day she would send someone to bring him some food and snacks, so that he would not go hungry while he was growing older. In addition, even the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone for daily use, she also bought his share together with the three old men, Xie, Cao, and Lu, to save money and trouble, and she didn't have to worry that Jin Jiashu would be coaxed by the cunning merchant because he was a new face and a young face.

With these daily contacts, Jin Jiashu did not have an estranged relationship with the Hai family because he moved out of the Hai family, but became more and more harmonious. Because of this relationship, he is much more comfortable with his teacher Xie Wenzai than another classmate Wu Ke. When Wu Ke saw it, he couldn't help but show an envious expression, but he didn't dare to learn from Jin Jiashu, and he was always a little restrained when facing his teacher Xie Wenzai and the other two teachers Cao Gengyun and Lu Bainian, who often instructed him in his homework.

He actually knew that the teachers really cared about him, and he didn't hold a grudge against him because his grandfather had turned his back on his students and subordinates. But the more magnanimous the teachers were, the more uneasy he became. He feared that he would disappoint his teachers and disappoint their expectations.

After losing to his classmate Jin Jiashu in his homework again, his mood was even more lost. The teacher Xie Wenzai gave him a few anthologies of famous predecessors, and asked him to go home to read and figure out, he took the book, and left in despair, even the four treasures of his commonly used study room were left on the desk and forgot to take them away.

Cao Gengyun looked at his departing back, and couldn't help but say to his old friend Xie Wenzai: "This kid is too weak-hearted. It's just that I'm not as good as others in my homework for a while, and I work hard to study to catch up, so why be so depressed? If he does this again, I am afraid that he will have a heart disease, and even if I know what shortcomings his article has in the future, it will not be easy to point it out directly. ”

Xie Wenzai frowned: "He has a good foundation, and his foundation is much more solid than Jiashu, but in terms of the aura of writing articles, it is indeed slightly inferior by three points." Read more poems and articles of your predecessors, practice more on weekdays, and slowly you can practice your writing, but the aura can't be forced. He always has to compare himself with others, he is upset that he is not as good as others, and when he is restless, he is impatient, and when he is impatient, he makes mistakes. Recently, there have been more than one undeserved mistake in his articles, and this is not a long-term solution.

"It's not that he hates the talent of others, it's just that he's afraid that he won't do well enough and let us down. But whether he does well or not, he only compares himself with Jiashu, but if he is not as good as Jiashu, he is not good enough. At the moment, it's just the two of him classmates, and that's it, when he really wants to take the imperial examination in the future, there are more people he has to compare, can he compare?! ”

Xie Wenzai pursed his lips: "Instead of focusing on competing with Jiashu, it is better for him to cultivate his mind first!" ”

Lu Bainian raised his eyebrows on the side: "It's easy for us to persuade him, but I'm afraid that his front foot will be persuaded by us, and his back foot will be drilled with horns." His aunt was the culprit. If we can't keep Wu Ke away from his aunt, no matter how much we teach, I'm afraid it will be useless. ”

Speaking of Mrs. Gui, even Xie Wenzai couldn't help but have a headache: "How long did it stop a few days ago?" Now he began to stare at Wu Ke again. Although she no longer stops Wu Ke from studying, the crooked reasoning she taught Wu Ke to compare with others everywhere is ten times more hateful than her blocking Wu Ke from studying! ”

Cao Gengyun couldn't help but say: "How did you teach your daughter when you returned home?" I didn't expect his daughter to be such a character! It's just that she is the daughter-in-law of Wu Wen'an, a young widow, and raised the two only remaining orphans of the Wu family. When I write to my old friends, I have to complain. Even if we are grateful for the old love of Duke Wu, we can't let that woman come nonsense! There are only two small seedlings left in the Wu family now, and the female doll is born to the Gui family, so we can't control it. But if she ruined Wu Ke's future, no amount of credit could make up for this sin! ”

Not to mention how the three division commanders Xie, Cao, and Lu complained about Mrs. Gui, after Wu Ke returned to the small courtyard next to the Zhenguo Mansion, he found that he had left the study box at the teacher's place, and he couldn't help but feel annoyed.

He took out the spare four treasures of the study at home, took out the anthology lent to him by the teacher, and wanted to read it, but he couldn't read it.

He didn't understand, obviously he had been studying since he was a child, and the teacher who enlightened him was still a well-educated female official in the palace, and his knowledge was no worse than that of the Hanlin outside the palace, and even Teacher Xie had praised him for his good foundation. But why, Jin Jiashu, who has been delayed by his family since he was a child, will always have good ideas when he writes articles, even if his foundation is not as good as him, he will always be compared to him?

Could it be that as my aunt said, is his talent inferior to others? He doesn't have a talent for reading? He is not worthy of being a descendant of the Wu family?!

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he felt that he was out of breath, and he couldn't help but get up, walk around the room a few times, and push open the window again, trying to breathe in the fresh air outside.

As soon as he felt a little better, he saw his cousin Wu Qiong walking in from outside the courtyard with a girl. He hurriedly greeted the door: "Why did my sister come over?" But does my aunt have orders? ”

Wu Qiong pointed to the box in the hand of the girl behind her: "Today, there are incense pills in the house over there, I asked for an extra one to send to my brother, and I specially picked the pine and bamboo fragrances, does my brother like it?" ”

Wu Ke didn't care about these things, he was only happy that his cousin cared about him, took the box and opened it a few times, praised it twice, and put it aside.

While calling someone for tea, he asked Wu Qiong: "How is my aunt feeling in the past two days?" Didn't lose my temper at you anymore, did you? ”

Wu Qiong shook her head: "It's okay these two days, it rained last night, the weather is not so hot, she sleeps better, and her spirit is better today, not as irritable and irritable as a few days ago." The old lady of the Tang family came to the mansion to talk to the Duchess of Zhenguo and chatted for a long time. My mother inquired about who they were talking about, so she wanted to find out more information, and she didn't bother scolding me for the time being. ”

It's just that Wu Qiong thought that her mother Gui Madame was asking about other people's children, and she was worried about her life's affairs, and her mood was not much better.

Wu Ke knew his cousin's thoughts, but he didn't have any way to comfort her, so he could only say dryly: "Duchess Zhenguo will definitely find a safe and good family for her sister, and my sister doesn't have to worry." ”

Wu Qiong said in her heart, the good family affairs approved by the Duchess of Zhenguo may not make her mother happy, but I am afraid that there will be many troubles in the future, how can she not be worried?

However, these things were not interesting to talk to my cousin, so Wu Qiong put aside this topic and brought up the news of the Zhenguo Mansion: "There is someone in the capital today, but I don't know who it is." I heard that it was not a person from the Chengenhou Mansion, but it seemed to come out of the palace. ”

Wu Ke was taken aback: "From the palace? What to do?! "Could it be that the emperor is finally going to be ruthless to his aunt?!

(End of chapter)