The poor in the downtown no one asks, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.

Recently, there have been more people visiting the Bao family, and the people of the Qin Mansion often come to the Bao family, and they are willing to set foot in this small mansion, which is a little small and a little dirty, as if there is some treasure in it.

They often bring some gifts, praising Lao Bao for having a good son, Bao Guowei is a person who wants to be a master, and so on.

Bao Guowei felt that maybe one day another group of people would come, claiming to be distant relatives of the Bao family......

The gifts in the house are piling up more and more, and the smile on Lao Bao's face is becoming more and more common.

It's just that sometimes Bao Guowei can see Lao Bao sitting at his bedside in the middle of the night, wearing that pair of reading glasses, looking at Guowei's photos, and silently shedding tears.

Once Lao Bao was pressed by the burden of life, he had no time to think about other things, he injected all his feelings into how to make Bao Guowei live a better life, how to let him live a personal life.

The pressure of life used to be an excuse for Lao Bao to avoid facing Guo Weiniang's death, but now, Lao Bao has to face these.

Sometimes Lao Bao would lose his mind when cooking, leaving tears in his eyes, and sometimes he would just sit on the bench and look ahead in a daze.

But Bao Guowei didn't care about it, this is Lao Bao's own business, he can't help, and he also has his own things to face.

The fact that the toad had become a madman made him always care about it. Even a little lost interest in his beloved gun.

Bao Guowei's life gradually slowed down, and he often wandered outside, beginning to observe the world carefully.

The city of Gusu is very large, and there are all kinds of people.

There are beggars in rags, and big smokers who are addicted to drugs.

There are rampant bullies and drunken drunken Mengzi.

There are rickshaw drivers who sweat blood, and there are young and simple students.

There are women in green houses who have become goods, itinerant vendors who get up early and are greedy for darkness, high-ranking officials and nobles who are richly dressed, serious school teachers, and humorous teahouse storytellers......

There are poor people, there are pathetic people, there are hateful people, there are ridiculous people.

There are respectable people, there are wooden people, there are hard-working, lazy, proud, and inferior......

However, most of them seem to have one thing in common, even if they are well-dressed, they can't hide a certain emotion in their hearts.

Bao Guowei could feel that emotion very keenly, and he didn't know how to describe it.

If I have to describe it, it is probably a mixture of despair and inferiority.

He wanted to do something, but he was just an ordinary person after all.

So Bao Guowei just exercised every day, read books, taught Zhang Siwu to read and write, occasionally went out with a few friends of the same age, coped with petitioners at home, and immersed himself in his own world.

Bao Guowei didn't expect that he was actually a person who had a little good life and wanted to do something for others.

Time passed.

On October 31, 1927, there was only one day left before the tentative opening of the provincial high school.

"School starts tomorrow."

At the end of the early morning exercise, Bao Guowei's arms were slightly stronger, his muscles were tense, and a sense of abundant strength came.

After these days of exercise, combined with a healthy and hearty diet, his strength has improved dramatically – at least compared to before his workout.

This makes Bao Guowei's skills more agile, and the upper limit of brain overload has also been raised a little, and he can even clearly observe the trajectory of the leaves fluttering in the late autumn wind.

"Guowei, come over and eat something to make up for your body, this foreign school still has to take the physical education test."

This is Lao Bao's voice, and now Lao Bao doesn't have to get up so early to cook and rush to work in Qinfu.

As the current "big housekeeper" of the Qin Mansion, Lao Bao only needs to ensure that his subordinates take care of the Qin Mansion in an orderly manner, and no one will take care of it when they get to and from work.

At the dinner table, Lao Bao looked a little happy, after all, Bao Guowei was about to go to the foreign school, which was a provincial high school, and it was easy to become an official after graduation.

Although the current national maintenance is already very good, there are people who are optimistic about him, and after all, there is no peace of mind that he is an official.

"Guowei, I told you Uncle Zhang and Uncle Hu, a few families are going to get together with you and hold a deer, yes, the deer is called a banquet!"

"That's called the Deer Feast."

"Yes, it's the deer feast, do you want to go?"

"Let's go, after all, Uncle Zhang and Uncle Hu are all your friends, since you have already said it, if you don't go, you won't go in person. But don't call anyone else except Zhang Hu's family, I don't like too many people. ”

Hearing Bao Guowei's promise, Lao Bao was even happier: The children of the Zhang family and the old Hu family are not as good as the Guowei of my Bao family! People are more popular than people, and they don't know how much they envy themselves.

"Okay, okay, it's in the Hu Family Mansion, I'll go at noon."

……

The Hu Family Mansion is closed today, and the usual customers can only give up when they see this.

Lao Bao took Bao Guowei to the Hu Family Mansion and greeted Hu Da at the door.

"Come on, come on, come in, everyone is waiting for you!"

Hu laughed and said, leading the two to the inner courtyard and the house.

There are two long banners of red paper and black letters pasted on the door of the inner courtyard, one is: I wish Bao Guowei to study hard and become a big official.

This is probably written by Lao Bao looking for someone, and he has to come up with a sentence himself, Hu Da and Uncle Zhang can't come up with such a simple and unpretentious sentence if they are ghostwriters.

Fortunately, it was also written on the other side: I wish Bao Guowei success in his studies and a bright future. After all, the blessing of the wild atmosphere in this countryside has been contaminated with some literary atmosphere.

Hu Da pushed open the door, and the people inside thought that they had come early and waited, and no one in the Bao family would move chopsticks if they didn't come.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Lao Bao smiled politely and gave his hand to the people seated, causing everyone to shush and ask for warmth.

Lao Bao took Bao Guowei to sit on the main seat, and Lao Bao sat next to him, after all, this banquet was held for Bao Guowei.

Hu Da made a large table full of dishes, sweet and sour chicken wings, cold beef, braised pork trotters, sauerkraut fish and so on.

In the end, Hu Da was a cook for the Qin Mansion, and he was very particular about cooking, taking the meaning of Dapeng spreading his wings, angry bullfighting, the title of the gold list, and the fish leaping over the dragon gate.

Although only Bao Zhang Hu's family came, there were only eight people.

Hu Da, Hu Niang, Hu Xiaoshan, and Hu Xiaohong are a family, Lao Bao and Bao Guowei are a family, and there are few people from the Zhang family, only Lao Zhang and Zhang Siwu.

Speaking of which, only the Hu family is considered a normal family, of course, in this era, normal families are a little abnormal because of their rarity.

"Come on, come on, everyone drink, I wish Bao Guowei to be promoted to a provincial middle school!"

Hu Da took a pot of wine and poured it for everyone, except for Hu Xiaohong, who was still young, they all got some wine.