Zhang Yuan, who returned home, gasped for breath, these two guys were really strange, and reminded Su Shu not to go to Hushan in the future, so as not to cause a lot of trouble!

He also found an opportunity to talk to Zhang Daoling about what he saw and heard today, asked about these two people, and finally got a sentence from the master, "The well water does not interfere with the river water, so you don't need to take care of it." "It's kind of settled.

Su Su's Qingxinzhai business with him is getting better and better, and it didn't take long for the reputation to spread throughout the jewelry town, on the one hand, because the pastries are really delicious, in fact, there is another reason, there are many bachelors in the town, and they have rarely seen the world, seeing Su Su such a water spirit girl from outside, it is inevitable to take a few more looks, even if he is too old, he also thinks that he can find such a girl for his son!

At first, Zhang Yuanyi didn't see the thoughts of these old ruffians, and knew that once he saw a young man actually take the opportunity to rub a handful of oil when Su Su handed him the pastry, and Zhang Yuan was so angry that he jumped up and beat the man.

Where is the current Zhang Yuanyi is still Zhang Yuanyi two years ago, he is much taller than the average young man in the countryside, the man saw Zhang Yuanyi's upright appearance, and said "You wait for me!" This kind of painless cruel words left.

Zhang Yuanyi looked at the man's back and spat out, "If you dare to have such crooked thoughts again, Lao Tzu will beat you once when he sees you!"

After that, Su Su never appeared at the front desk of the shop again, but settled accounts in the back, and the responsibility of selling things in front fell on Zhang Yuanyi's shoulders.

In this way, Qingxinzhai's business disappeared a lot in an instant, but fortunately, at least there is still a surplus, and it is more than enough to maintain daily life, but it is not as good as before.

That's how Zhang Yuanyi saw the faces of these guys clearly, and the drunkards didn't mean to drink, and they were angry when they thought about it. Only some serious people who want to buy pastries are quite comfortable to look at!

The two of them have been operating like this for half a month, and the harvest is still very rich.

On this day, a carriage came to the town, and horse-drawn carriages are still very rare in a small town like Jeweltown, after all, not everyone will set up a carriage to come to such a poor rural place.

Walked out of the carriage next good-looking boy who looked only fourteen or fifteen years old, no one had ever seen that young man, but after getting off the car, he was led by Gu Nianzhou to Grandma Gu's grave, and everyone realized that it was the only seedling of the Zhou family!

I have long heard that Grandma Gu has a handsome and handsome grandson, and he is also a seed of reading at a young age, which makes the old man proud for a while. This kind of person is in a small town, that is, the child who belongs to someone else's family, and every parent has to beat his own child with his own stick, which is the kind of "look at the child of the Zhou family!"

Then it will become a bright star in the eyes of other children, or a thorn in the eye of a curse.

Zhou Niangu didn't have much interest in feelings in his life, which stemmed from his experience when he was a child, his father died early, so he didn't feel the father's love, but he is not the kind of child who will casually take this kind of thing to spoil, he learned how to hide his thoughts well at a very young age.

Besides, he really didn't have any longing for his father's love, but he was a little resentful that his father had left so early, causing his mother to suffer so much. Of course, he didn't show these thoughts, otherwise he would make his mother sad again!

So although he showed affection and love with his wife in front of outsiders, in fact, it was just a decent respect, not to mention a warm like, but it never gave people a feeling of family disharmony. Fortunately, the wife no longer cares about these and does her duty as a wife.

But no matter how ruthless Zhou Niangu's heart is, the first will always be his mother, and then this son who is still only in his prime.

The purpose of bringing his son here this time is to entrust the child to Zhang Shi to study here, and then in a few days he will leave here and go to the imperial court.

Zhou Niangu's son is called Zhou Yuan, although this little guy usually looks very gentle, he is actually a little bastard with a very jumpy temperament behind his back. It's no wonder who Zhou Niangu is busy arranging future plans and arranging future affairs every day, and the child's mother, Li, is a real ordinary woman, except for pampering, she will not teach her children to pay attention to demeanor and other things.

But after all, this little guy still has a bit of a conscience, and often comes to visit Grandma Gu, after all, he knows that this grandmother in Jewel Town loves him the most in the world except for his mother. Now looking at Grandma Gu, who was already lying in the grave, she was sad for a while, and cried bitterly in front of the grave.

After worshipping Grandma Gu, Zhou Niangu sent Zhou Yuan to Zhang Shi for the apprenticeship, anyway, a series of complicated work, Zhou Nian, who has always done things vigorously, was stunned that he didn't give the child a chance to slow down, and it was all done in one day.

The little guy lies in bed at night with mixed feelings, and is so tired that he falls asleep all at once!

For Zhou Yuan's apprenticeship, the town caused a lot of waves, although Zhou Yuan also came back before, but after all, he just came back to see his grandmother, now it's different, here is to live here for a long time in the future, this is a good opportunity.

When the father still remembers these trivial things back then, he refuses to let go, so that those who want to tie up have no chance. But children are different, after all, children may be called brothers and sisters with you as long as they give a little sweetness. Therefore, for a long time, there were countless reasons to come to the academy to visit their children and "by the way" to care about Zhou Yuan, fruits, pastries, and even fresh chicken, duck and fish had to be sent, which made Zhou Yuan a little confused.

Until Zhang Shiren couldn't bear to make a rule, he was not allowed to visit his children during the teaching period, otherwise the parents would kick the children out of the academy. Although Zhang Shi has a hot temper many times, he has always maintained a pleasant attitude in front of the residents of these towns, and several people saw Zhang Shi's tough attitude, and they no longer dared to come to the drunkard.

The process of teaching was able to continue, but those children still wanted to get the same requirements of their parents, one by one, they had to make friends with Zhou Yuan, and one by one when they talked about brotherhood, it was called a touching thing, Zhou Yuan's things fell, and they all rushed to help pick it up. Especially when Zhou Yuan was still enjoying himself, those guys worked even harder. Zhou Yuan was like a little emperor in the entire academy, and the last person with this treatment was called Wu Xuenian!

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"A pound of pea yellow, and then half a pound of Poria cocos sandwich cake!"

Qingxinzhai is most famous in the town is the jujube paste crisp, pea yellow and poria sandwich cake, known as the "three unique hearts". Except for pea yellow, the other two are things that have never been seen in any family, and they can't make the same pastry after tasting them. As for pea yellow, although the process is cumbersome, everyone will make it, but there is still a lot of gap between the feeling of making it and Su Su's doing.

People who came immediately ordered two of the three uniques, and I think they are very familiar with the characteristics of Qingxinzhai.

"Okay!" Zhang Yuanyi was lying on the chair reading a book at this time, and when he heard the voice, he quickly put down the book, got up and picked up the oil paper to fill the pastries. When he handed the things out, he found that it was Zhou Niangu, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly beckoned Su Su to take a stool from the back room to come out to entertain Zhou Nianggu.

The two of them have been selling pastries for a month, and the reason for the good business is that they simply expanded the original palm-sized shop by themselves, first expanding the space in front of them, and then building a small cabin in the back, as a place to store pastries and Su Su to settle accounts, and now after continuous renovation, it already has the appearance of a small shop.

Zhou Niangu was not polite, took the stool and sat down, originally he came this time to have something to talk to Zhang Yuan.

Zhou Niangu first pinched up a piece of golden pea yellow, tasted it, and exclaimed: "Well, it's really different, no matter how many times you eat it, you can't forget this taste, soft and glutinous, elastic, cold and refreshing, but unfortunately it's winter now, if it's in summer, it's definitely more popular!"

Zhang Yuan smiled, "It's all Su Su's craftsmanship, the name of this little girl's piece is really good, and it comes with a pastry skill bonus." ”

Zhou Niangu laughed, and Su Su blushed and returned to the cabin inside.

Zhou Niangu saw the book "Book of Southern Qi" put down by Zhang Yuanyi again, and his eyes lit up, "Yuanyi likes to read the twenty-four histories?"

"Here, Su Su personally made green tea. Zhang Yuanyi took out a cup of tea from it and replied, "I don't like it, it's just that the master only showed me this." ”

He has always liked to read, and the more books he reads, the more the better, and what he reads is basically what Zhang Daoling gives him to read.

Since returning to the town, Zhang Daoling began to show him some classic books about each family, first "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and the like are very boring, and then there are four books, which are okay, and then they are the books of the hundred schools of thought, and finally the twenty-four histories, and now Zhang Yuanyi has seen the seventh book of the twenty-four histories. So it's understandable that he reads books quickly.

"Oh~!Master Zhang Daoling?" Zhou Niangu took a sip of tea, "It's a gentleman who is rich and rich!"

The most difficult thing about teaching is that I am afraid of pulling out the seedlings to help them grow, and I am afraid of wasting my talents. It's not good to be exposed too early at this age and too late.

For example, if you let your child go to see what Buddha thinks early in the morning, then you have to do it, and you can threaten to see through the red dust at a young age without the world, which is ridiculous and clever. If you have a single idea, you have to feel the suffering of the world, which will only make people laugh.

And if you have been allowing your child to develop freely, you may be lucky enough to become a ghost, but your luck is almost to go to the wrong path, leaving a deep-rooted strange idea in the child's heart. In fact, if you think about it, it's just some grandstanding clowns, fiddling right and wrong there, deliberately shaking off half of the ink in their stomachs!

What books you read are important, and what books you read at what time and age are also important. You can't ask people to give up everything and become a Buddha when you are young.

He does not agree with many of Confucianism's sayings, to talk about self-cultivation and Qi family to govern the country and level the world, and to ask people to be willing to be poor and lowly and unequal, what to use to cultivate one's self and rule the country and the world, and take the breeze stone?

So what he wants is to break this extreme class relationship, in addition to the imperial power, the positions below each rely on their ability!

This is also the reason why Zhou Niangu sincerely admires Zhang Daoling, knowing that he understands Zhang Yuanyi's situation, and slowly guides Zhang Yuanyi to wait until the time is ripe before letting go of his hands and feet, and let Zhang Yuanyi explore the way inside!

But that's not what he's here for!

Zhou Niangu pinched another piece of pea yellow, smashed it and said, "Yuanyi, do you want to go to the academy to study?"

Zhang Yuanyi, who was still drinking tea, almost spit out all the tea, if he hadn't seen Zhou Niangu forcibly swallowing it here and a bunch of pastries here, it was estimated that he would be able to spray his face, and the pastries in this stall would be invalid.

He bent down and coughed, coughing and intermittently asking, "Brother Zhou, you're not joking, are you?"

Zhou Niangu nodded.

Zhang Yuanyi recovered, his expression was solemn, and he fell into memory.

I still remember the first time I heard about the academy from Brother Dayong, and then he was discovered by eavesdropping outside the academy, and his fate may have changed quietly from that time.

He has mixed feelings about the academy, from the almost fanatical liking at the beginning, envying those children who can study, but then hating and hating, and now it may be mediocre and has no feelings.

He hesitated for a moment but still said what was in his heart, "I don't think the academy means much to me now. All the masters who can learn from the academy can teach me. ”

"But the atmosphere is destined to be different. Zhou Niangu said, "There are still many new people and things in the academy that can be lifted, and you can't meet them alone!"

Zhang Yuanyi picked up a piece of pastry for himself, usually he never tasted these things when he managed the shop, "There is no need, I have met a lot of people, it is not necessarily that I meet more people, my life will be more exciting, I am quite satisfied with now." ”

He sells pastries every day, reads idle books, and is very satisfied with his carefree life. He is not a person with great ambitions in his heart, and the ordinary life is a good enjoyment for him.

It's just that when he grows up a little more, he will go to a distant place to see the big brother who lives in the withered leaf city, and see the Zhu Zhiwen in the imperial city, just to see that he will still come back, because he is very satisfied with the life here.

Someone wants to be a general, but there is always someone who wants to be a small soldier, the big man has the romance of the big man, but he also has to carry a lot of unbearable troubles for ordinary people, although the little man is a little vulgar but also has simple happiness.

I care about what smiles are always open, and there is happiness when I go in.

Zhou Niangu originally wanted to let Zhang Yuanyi go to the academy to take care of Zhou Yuan, lest Zhou Yuan be taken by someone when he was young, but since Zhang Yuanyi had his own ideas, forget it.

In the winter, he took the pastry in his hand, looked at the snow on the mountain in the distance, and exhaled a long breath, "Then it's up to you next." ”

Zhang Yuanyi looked at Zhou Niangu's back, his eyes were complicated, in fact, he still had a worry, that is, there would be no one to take care of Su Su when he left, so he could be regarded as disappointing Zhou Niangu.