In winter, it gets dark early, and the Mengtong children are young, so Xu Fuzi temporarily set "two schools a day", two hours of time and time (7:00~11:00), and go to school in the morning; An hour at noon (11:00~13:00) is for the Mongolian children to eat and take a nap to nourish their spirits, and then it is an hour of lunch school (13:00~15:00). When the weather warms up and the days get longer, the lunch hours will be extended.

Xu Fuzi's house is a small house with two entrances, the front yard is used as a school by Xu Fuzi, and the back yard is used for the daily living of the Xu family.

There are three main halls in the front yard, and in the middle is a private school for Mengtong children; On the west side is Xu Fuzi's study, where there is a statue of Confucius, where Xie Shi completed his apprenticeship ceremony; On the east side is the "canteen" that has been specially cleaned up.

As soon as noon came, the Mengtong got up to bid farewell to the master, and before the master left, they ran to the canteen with joy - there was a kitchen in the front yard, and the women of Xujia Village were responsible for cooking, and Mengtong only needed to pay three cents a day for food to have lunch. If you don't want to spend money, you can also bring food from home early and eat it hot in the kitchen at noon.

With the price of 60 wen of rice in Yuquan Town, three wen can buy half a liter of rice, and the canteen not only has rice and vegetables, but also occasionally fish soup, and the food cost of three wen is really cheap enough.

Even so, it costs a tael of silver a year.

People who are willing to spend money to send their children to private school either have surplus wealth or have a long-term vision, so they will naturally not be stingy with these two silvers.

The Xie family is naturally the latter.

Xie Shi, who is only four years old, has already bought books and pen, ink, paper and inkstone on his own - this set adds up to more than one or two silver, how can a group of adults in the family be stingy with food expenses?

In the words of Lao Xu: "How old is my good grandson going to endure hardships, is it not for the future of our old Xie family, and why don't you want my good grandson to eat something good?" Isn't it money? Can a family earn it with hands and feet? ”

By the way, Xie Shi "rolled" in the private school, and the old Xu family mobilized the whole family to "roll" at home.

During the slack time, there was no work in the field, but the Xie family did not rest up and down. Men worked as carpenters in the yard to support the family; Women are busy sewing clothes, collecting shoe soles, and embroidering purses, not only for their own families, but also for selling them to the town's embroidery workshop; Even the Xie Mei Xie Lan sisters in the big house were not idle, learning female workers while doing embroidery work by the way.

However, today there is one less small group that pops up anytime and anywhere, and the atmosphere of the Xie family is not as lively as in the past, and the family always feels that they are much more tired than usual when they work.

Lao Xu has to say a good grandson from time to time, I don't know if he is doing well in the school, worried that he is being bullied, worried that the master is too strict with corporal punishment of students, classmates are too domineering and bullying the weak, worried that the food in the school is not delicious, and starves her good grandson...... As she chattered all the time, the Xie family invariably made up a scene in the same mind: the courtyard door was pushed open, and the little ball ran home like a wilting radish, crying and shouting.

Old Xu's worries immediately spread and infected the whole family.

The whole courtyard was covered with gloomy clouds and mist, and there were long sighs and sighs.

People passing by couldn't help but take a detour when they saw it from afar.

Looking at the bright sun hanging high in the sky, the Xie Mei sisters, who were sitting side by side embroidering flowers, couldn't help but sigh sadly:

"When will Brother Shi'er return home......"

If you don't return home, your grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts will die of worry!

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At the same time, Xie Shizheng and his new friend Xu Shouwen sat at a table to eat, and today's lunch consisted of leek eggs and tofu soup, which tasted delicious with rice.

After reading a book all morning, several children who were no more than eight years old were already hungry and devoured one after another, and Fang Peng, who had the worst appearance, even splashed soup on his clothes. The youngest Xie Shi is the most calm, and his speed is not slow, but he has a bit of a chewing and slow swallowing posture when he takes a mouthful of "ah-woo".

At first glance, it really doesn't look like an ordinary farmer.

has eaten countless delicious delicacies in his dreams, and the "good food and good dishes" in the eyes of ordinary children are not attractive to Xie Shi.

It's better to say that after eating the sweet white rice in your dreams, you can also eat the brown rice in reality, instead of crying and tossing your family, as a cub is already intimate enough.

Xu Shouwen subconsciously stayed away from the table where the soup was splashing, and he liked this little junior brother who loved cleanliness even more, and he asked while picking up rice: "Ah Shi, you really didn't enlighten before?" Today is still the first time to learn the "Three Character Classic"? ”

"Uh-huh, yes."

Xie Shi replied to him vaguely.

"You're amazing. When I was enlightened, I didn't memorize these words in a single day. ”

Xu Shouwen exclaimed without doubt.

“…… The master also said that there is no prodigy in the world, and that reading is expensive and diligent, and he doesn't like prodigies very much, so now he has opened his eyes, right? ”

He shared many anecdotes about Master Xu with Xie Shi, including but not limited to how many times he swore in front of Xu Shouwen: Be a down-to-earth person, and a stupid bird must learn to fly first. Prodigies don't exist! He's never seen it in his life! The pursuit of prodigies is nothing but pompousness, and he has never been a prodigy!

When Xu Shouwen shared Xu Fuzi's old remarks, Xie Shi listened and worked seriously, and was very careful not to let the food or soup stain his new clothes.

- This is a cotton coat made for him by his mother! The cloth and cotton are all earned by his own hard work, and they are the selfless dedication and sacrifice of the Golden Armor General!

Xiao Tuanzi spent three seconds in his heart to thank General Jinjia for his selfless dedication, and then wiped his mouth happily.

He put the small bowl on the table, which had no rice left and was cleaner than licking, and burped: "I'm full!" ”

His voice was directly overshadowed by Xu Shouwen's loud voice: "...... Ah Shi, you didn't see it, don't look at the master's appearance of pretending to be serious, his beard was about to rise when he got out of school, and he was designated to accept a prodigy student! ”

Xie Shi's eyes widened in surprise.

I looked at the master's face, and I thought he was not satisfied...... "Otherwise, he wouldn't have worked so hard to improve the progress and hollowed himself out."

"Pretend!" Xu Shouwen rolled his eyes, "Haha, pretend, pretend!" ”

As he said this, he laughed happily. Who knew that the joy was extremely sad, and he choked all of a sudden, and coughed again and again.

"Senior brother, you can take it easy......

Seeing this, Xie Shi hurriedly handed him water.

Xu Shouwen made too much noise, and almost non-stop teasing the master praised Xie Shi for a quarter of an hour, and several Mengtong in the dining hall heard it, and one of Mengtong snorted coldly:

"What a prodigy, to be ashamed! Who knows if he has learned it at home and pretended to be illiterate to deceive the master! ”

Another Meng Tong at the same table glanced at Xie Shi who handed the water with disdain: "I will be courteous to the master's son!" ”

A few question marks slowly popped up on Xiao Tuanzi's head.

“？？？” Who are these?

The irrelevant doubts were put aside, and Xie Shi looked at Xu Shouwen in surprise: "Senior brother, the master is your father?!" ”

Although Xu Shouwen and Xu Fuzi have the same surname, this is Xujia Village, and it is not surprising that there are several people with the surname Xu. Only one of the six Mengtong children in this private school is surnamed Xu, which is strange.

Therefore, Xie Shi only thought that Xu Shouwen and Master Xu had a kinship relationship, so he knew the master very well.

Unexpectedly, the only Meng Tong surnamed Xu was the son of the master.

…… In the entire Xujia Village, there was not a single school-age child who worshiped under the master's door. Is it because the people in Xujia Village are unwilling to spend money to go to private school, or is it that Xu Fuzi has a bad relationship with them? It can't be that the master was ostracized and bullied by the villagers when he was young and underdeveloped, right?

In the dream, Xie Shi's well-informed thinking gradually diverged, and his brain made up one small story after another, and his eyes couldn't help but light up: Could it be that Master Fei actually held the script of "Don't bully the poor boy"?

Xie Shi, who was caught in the infinite brain supplement, directly forgot about the two sour passers-by A to the edge of the sky, but Xu Shouwen slapped the table angrily and stood up: "What stinky bullshit!" ”

"Ah Shi is smart, not only smarter, but also harder than you!" He raised his head like a big brother in the rivers and lakes and said, "Fang Peng, Wu Yue, you two don't have to study, and you have nothing to do, bullying a child, it's not a shame!" ”

Behind him, Xie Shi, who was awakened from his brain by Xu Shouwen's loud voice, looked in the direction of Xu Shouwen's finger, with a dazed face that was about to come back to his senses.

He caught the key words in Xu Shouwen's words for the first time: Oh, it turns out that these two people are called Fang Peng and Wu Yue?

Fang Wu and the others were reprimanded by Xu Shouwen, and the other two classmates also cast disapproving glances, and they couldn't help but blush.

looked at the short little group behind Xu Shouwen, and happened to meet his eyes from dazed to abrupt, and the two became more and more ashamed: it was really right to say that they were bullying children. Look at this kid, he hasn't reacted to being bullied until now!

Their nature is not bad, but they were carried away by jealousy for a while, and hurriedly apologized to Xie Shi at this time: "It's our lard that blinds our hearts, Senior Brother Xie, we shouldn't talk nonsense." ”

As the child king of the village, Xie has seen a lot of bumps and bumps between children, and often acts as a mediator.

"If you know your mistakes and can change them, you are a good child." He opened his mouth with a familiar face, put on a serious little face, and waved his hand solemnly: "The two senior brothers don't do it again in the future." ”

At this point, Xie Shi didn't take it to heart at all, and took advantage of the fact that there was still a period of time before lunch, and got to know the schoolchildren in the private school, he took out a few straw grasshoppers and dragonflies, and invited the new friends to play.

In addition, he has a good hand of hole cards.

- That's the Monkey King!

Even Zhao Zixin, who was dedicated to studying and was not interested in children's gadgets, was captured by the Monkey King.

The boat of friendship rises in the wind.

After the lunch school of just one hour, Xie Lin came to the door of the private school early with the expectations of the whole family.

was able to come here to pick up the child, but he defeated a vote of people including his father, his mother, his eldest brother and his daughter-in-law, and only then did he successfully defend the glorious mission of "picking up brothers".

The courtyard door opened, and Xie Shi, who was holding his head high, was surrounded by several Mengtong in the middle, like a majestic mountain king.

Schelling:...... This scene is so familiar!

Xie Shi's eyes lit up when he saw him.

"Dad, you're coming to pick me up!"

The little group cheered and ran over.

Soon after, with the same bright smile and cheers, he rushed into his yard, and the sound of cheerful footsteps shrouded the gloom and mist shrouded in the courtyard was shattered.

"Grandparents, aunts, aunts, sisters, and second sisters - I'm back!"