When Qu Xiang returned to Zhuangzi, he took the dustpan from Dafu's hand and ran to the inner courtyard to find his grandmother Guo.

Guo Shi saw his grandson come in with a dustpan, and the dustpan still exuded the fragrance of food, so he couldn't help but get up from the chair, looked at him, and asked, "Xiang Bao, what are you holding in your hand?" ”

"It's a roasted bird! It's delicious! Grandmother, you have a taste! Qu Xiang put the dustpan in his hand on the table beside him, and stepped forward to help his grandmother over and sit down.

"Roasted birds?"

Guo had lived in Beijing before, and had never seen such food.

At this time, Qu Lao Guogong, who is Qu Xiang's grandfather, heard the movement in the inner courtyard and came out of the study, and when he saw the roast birds on the table, his face showed a nostalgic expression: "Roast birds!" It's delicious! ”

As he spoke, Qu Lao Guogong pinched one with his hand, put it in his mouth and bit it, and half of it disappeared.

"Well~ fragrant, crispy, not greasy! Not bad! ”

Qu Lao Guogong solved the roast bird in his hand, then pinched another one and handed it to his old wife flatteringly: "Huilan, you can also taste it." ”

Guo Shi glared at him and then reached out to take the roast bird, and after taking a small bite, he nodded with satisfaction: "It's really good, Xiang Bao, where did you get these?" ”

Qu Xiang took the handkerchief from the handmaid beside him, put it in his grandmother's hand so that she could pick up the bones that had been spit out, and said, "My grandson took it from the village to the family." ”

As he spoke, he roughly explained the afternoon's events to his grandfather and grandmother, and then said: "I promised the maids that they will also invite them to eat the soft beef intestines next time, grandmother, when I am free in two days, I will let the cook at home make this dish again, okay?" ”

Although some people don't like their grandchildren to play in the village all day long, and now even the birds and birds have begun to catch, but seeing that the grandson is much more cheerful than when he was in Beijing, Guo Shi threw away that little bit of nostalgia and nodded: "But, when the arrangements are made in two days, let the cook cook it for you!" ”

"Thank you, Grandmother!"

Qu Xiang saw that his grandmother had answered, so he happily ran out to play by himself.

Guo Shi saw that he didn't look at the fragrant roast birds on the table, and knew that he must have come back after he had eaten enough at home, so he instructed the maid on the side: "Go and get some dried hawthorn and boil water, go and give some to the little master to drink." ”

Then he turned his head and glared at Qu Lao Guogong, who had been eating roast birds and sparrows on the side: "You still eat!" This roasted bird is not easy to restrain itself, and you will have to give me a bowl of hawthorn water later! Your grandson was always depressed when he came back from a few days ago, but he finally came back today with a smile on his face..."

Qu Lao Guogong was reprimanded by his wife, a little embarrassed, but what the old wife said was also reasonable, it was almost late, and it was indeed difficult to restrain himself from eating so many roast birds, so he reluctantly put down the roast bird he had just picked up in his hand, and said: "Xiang Bao made a playmate in the village, isn't it a good thing......

"A good thing is a good thing, but I'm always worried that he is not used to it here, he has been living with us in Beijing since he was born and out of confinement, and Chengwen and Shuxue are so far away from the border, they probably don't know that you have returned to your hometown and come to this peach blossom village! You said that you, if you don't go back to your ancestral land, why do you come here to a place full of mountains and water?! Although Feng Shui is good here, how will Xiang Bao's future studies be good? ”

"Don't worry, Chengwen and Xiang's side have already asked people to bring letters before they left Beijing, and they may have received them by this time. And there is nothing bad about this Peach Blossom Village, you also said, there are mountains and rivers, this is a treasure of feng shui, and the villagers of Peach Blossom Village are very good, it can be seen that this place is extremely nourishing! Don't worry, didn't we discuss it? Build a school in the village, Mr. I invited one back in the county, and Mr. still learned it from the four disciplines, so Xiang Bao's academic problems don't have to worry. ”

Qu Lao Guogong's face sank slightly as he spoke, and he said: "The saint is old, there are too many suspicions, if I don't stay away from the ancestral land, far away from Beijing, I'm afraid that Chengwen and them will have a lot of inconvenience in the army..."

"You mean......" Guo Shi's expression was a little heavy when he heard him say this, "It's all because the current saint can't choose the person who succeeds to the position, if it weren't for the fear that those princes would form a party and form a faction, why do you need to sue the old man?!" Why do you want our ancestors and grandchildren to leave Beijing thousands of miles away and come to this far away Peach Blossom Village? ”

After speaking, both of them looked a little unsightly, and the topic ended there.

On the side of the old Xiang family, Xiang Tiange also told his family about the school.

"Grandpa, uncle and second uncle, father, Qu Xiang said, his family wants to build a school in our village, I told him okay, let his family invite you to build a school at that time, then our family will have money, and my brothers and I will be able to study in the newly built school!"

"Are you really going to build a school in our village?"

Lao Xiangtou was a little surprised, because their Peach Blossom Village is a very remote village, although there is also an official road here, and it is not far from the town, but Peach Blossom Village is in a continuous mountain, and the big mountain village next door is also the same.

If you take the official road to the town, they will go farther, so they will pass directly through the mountains, and then they will need to pass through the other two Ping'an villages, that is, the villages where Xiang Tiange's grandfather's house is located, and then walk a little longer to get to the town.

As for the school, there are no villages nearby, and only in the town.

So when Lao Xiangtou heard that the Qu family who lived in Zhuangzi was going to build a school in their Peach Blossom Village, the first reaction was not to believe it, and the second reaction was that this family is not stupid, right?

Seeing him like this, the old Jiang naturally guessed what he was thinking, glared at him slightly, and then asked Xiang Tiange: "Yaya, did the little young master Qu really tell you this?" Want to build a school in our village? Could it be that you are mistaken? ”

"Uh-huh, of course! I have a good memory! You can't be mistaken! ”

Xiang Tiange nodded his little head.

Xiang Saburo and the others on the side also nodded to the eighth sister and confirmed: "It's the real grandma, we also heard it." ”

"Then since this is the case, then we should go and help build the school, and don't collect the salary, the Qu family is doing a good deed for our village! We also take other people's wages, what is that like?! ”

"I heard that there are no bosses, second and third, if the master of the Qu family comes over and asks the villagers in the village to build a school, you are not allowed to collect other people's wages, especially you, the old man, have you heard?!"

Old Jiang finished instructing his three sons, and then glared at Lao Xiangtou and warned.