The husband's son-in-law

There are a lot of things to be built in the village this year, and they all belong to the big guys. Originally, the villagers wanted to learn from the ancestral hall, so it was just a few big tile-roofed houses, but it didn’t work out. It almost became the yard of the old man’s house in the town. .

Also invited people from the town to come over.

The men from the east and west villages looked at it and thought that Li's family is really being polite. What are they doing to hire outsiders for this money? They know how to build a house and lay bricks.In the end, I saw the ones in the town, and took out the blueprints. They were marking lines and directing. Even the wood of the window frames were carved.

The whole summer was spent on the go.

The ancestral hall starts at the foot of the mountain in the middle of the two villages, and spread out below is the cemetery where people were buried in the past. Except for festivals and offerings, villagers from the two villages rarely come to this area. The environment is quiet and the trees are luxuriant. There is a sense of coolness, and it is about a moment away from the water source.

On the gentle hillside, looking from the bottom of the two villages, there is a long horizontal strip. In front of it is a house with a number plate, three tile-roofed houses, and a walkway passing through the middle. There are two rooms on the left and right, and one is vacant. Anyone who seeks asylum will do.

It gets wider and wider, and it is a concave shape. It is composed of four main rooms and four side rooms on the left and right. Inside, the walls are lined with partitions made of blue bricks and wood, which are used to place memorial tablets. Put the table for worship and burn incense.

In the main room is the tablet of Li Zhou Zhou's father.

After the ancestral hall is built, the two villages are half of one village, and the four main houses in the middle are also facing each other, but Li and Gu's family are placed in the middle, which is also what should be done. The money paid by the Li family,

Please place the ancestral tablets in place.

The room is cold, and the desk is lingering with incense.

Auntie Gu was supported by someone, looked at the spirit card of the man who had gone earlier, and said, "Okay, there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and I will put it next to you when I am gone."

"Mother, what are you talking about?" Mrs. Gu spit and said, "Now is the time to enjoy the blessings. Zhao'er has been promoted, and you are in good health and tough. Why are you talking about being unlucky in this kind of place?"

Grandma Gu is not afraid of death, but knowing that the juniors have good intentions, she will not say this.

"Where are Zhou Zhou and Fu Bao?"

"I guess he's still talking to his father next door."

Li Zhouzhou knelt on the futon, kowtowed three times to his father, Fu Bao followed suit, and after burning incense, Li Zhouzhou turned his head and said to Fu Bao, "Go outside to see Grandpa and Grandma Zeng."

"Okay." Fu Bao nodded his head and went out.

There was no one else in the room, so Li Zhouzhou looked at Father's spirit card and said, "Father, I heard from Brother Xing that Li San's family is not doing well, those two old men are constantly starving in patchwork clothes, and they can't get Brother Xing to beg for food." Brother Xing didn’t give it to me, so he brought Wang Shitou to Li San’s house to scold him, and he didn’t dare to come again after that.”

"Speaking of these mouth-stomping crimes, but every time I think of my father who has a vague memory, I won't say it. I am a son of man."

"Father, I used to be in Zhaozhou, but now I'm back. The family life is very good. You can see it, but if there is a next life, and I want to be a family, I will show my filial piety in front of you."

After Li Zhouzhou finished speaking, he kowtowed again, looked at Father's spirit card for a long time, and then went out.

A locust tree was transplanted in the middle of the yard, and a railing was built around the tree trunk. Aunt Gu and Li Dayi sat and stood talking in a low voice. Aunt Gu took Fu Bao's hand and said, "Grandma Zeng I can't even look enough, your grandpa can raise children, how well he raises them."

Li Da just laughed, and said to Mrs. Gu: "Father will follow his body and bones."

"That's right, Grandma Zeng, Fufu is strong, if you don't believe me, touch it." Li Zhaoxi spoke a little softly, coaxing Grandma Zeng into joy, saying repeatedly: "Touch, touch."

Seeing Li Zhouzhou coming out, his eyes were slightly red, and no one in the room asked any further questions.

Grandma Gu said: "Zhou Zhou is a good boy, Fu Fu grows with Zhou Zhou's size, it's great."

"It looks like the Gu family's beautiful one, and the two ends are long." Li Zhouzhou said while supporting Grandma's arm.

Grandma Gu was really happier when she heard that her grandson, Gu Zhao, was married. Now that she has become a top official, this is the most uncomfortable thing for the entire Gu family, but there is no way around it. Now, Li Zhouzhou said that Fubao is also good for the Gu family. Naturally happy.

Fu Bao's surname is Li, and later the Li family's children will enter the Li family's ancestral grave, but no matter what, the blood of the Gu family is also flowing in his body.Li's family got Zhao'er, and they didn't forget to take care of Gu's family, which is already very good.

The whole family went out, it was summer, this ancestral hall was newly built or for some other reason, it was chilly and cold as soon as they entered the door, the juniors naturally didn't dare to let old man stay too much - afraid that it would not be clean, old lady Gu would More than 80, just in case you get caught.

Outside the gate, the son of Uncle Gu's family met him. He was a strong and strong man who went to work in the fields, and his face was tanned.With the help of the big guys, Grandma Gu climbed up tremblingly.

"Go back." Grandma Gu said.

The younger generation of the Gu family bid farewell to the Li family, and the two families went back to the village one by one.

Going down the dirt road, the ancestral hall is on the side of the mountain, and the place next to the main road on the other side is New Hope - Ethnology.

Ethnology is also well covered.

In fact, Li Zhouzhou looked at it as a very simple courtyard, without the complicated style that the villagers said, a bit like the school in Zhaozhou - smaller than that.

The gate, the rectangular courtyard with a corridor, the middle garden, planted with dwarf pine, etc.Not far behind was a small courtyard built—this is where the master lives.

It is close to the river, which is convenient for eating, washing, and fetching water. Looking from the front, there are endless wheat fields in the distance, and the back is against the water.The scenery is not as quiet as the mountain, but it is full of vitality and hope.

At the end of August, the ethnology was officially completed, and even the master's house, the furniture and tables inside were all ready.

Brother Xing asked about Zhou Zhou's words, and told his in-laws the next day after returning home, and it was exactly as Brother Xing guessed, and the two elders agreed quickly.

Over the years, the youngest son and brother Xing have been doing business in prefectures and counties, saving food and money, and bringing back half of the money every year. The eldest family has nothing to say, and the land is also rich.

The Wang family split up happily and harmoniously. The old couple lived with the eldest brother. The ancestral house in the village belonged to brother Wang Shitou, and the two brothers shared the fields equally.Big Brother Wang has no objection. Over the years, their family has taken advantage of his younger brother.

The money for the house was paid by the old couple of the Wang family, and Brother Xing didn't refuse, thanking his in-laws.After building the yard, Brother Xing thought about it, and it wasn’t too big. Wang Shitou was still puzzled, he didn’t feel like Brother Xing, and he had money, so why didn’t he build a bigger one?

Brother Xing’s personality is actually a bit like his mother’s. Although he is a good and reserved businessman, he has the capital to show off. Liu Huaxiang is six points to show off and twelve points, and Brother Xing is half of it.

If you don't show off, you will suffocate Brother Xing to death.

At this moment, brother Xing Bai Wang Shitou said: "You think I am not happy. We are doing business in the prefecture and county. Everyone in the village is thinking about how much money we have, but we haven't shown up. We can still use Yuan Yuan to go to school. The cost is too expensive to block back, if we build a big yard this time, which is as grand as the uncle's house, the people in this village must know that we are rich."

"The grandeur of the uncle's house is that Mr. Gu is an official. We can't compare it."

Of course, the villagers know that this is not the most important thing.

"Mu Sanniang will have her filial piety period in November. By the end of the year, the wedding will be held. Sanniang lives with Yuan Yuan in the village. Yuan Yuan goes to school. Sanniang takes care of the house, and her second brother comes to live with him."

"The two of us are young now and can work for a few more years. We can save money for our children, and then go to prefectures and counties to do business. When we come back during the Chinese New Year, it will be done. The yard is too grand. Sanniang is from the prefecture and county, a newlywed woman. If you don't know what the women in the village say, you are afraid that you will run on Sanniang."

After hearing this, Wang Shitou praised Brother Xing for being right.

"Of course. We have money in our hands, and when we return to the village to take care of the elderly, are we afraid that we won't be able to build a big house?" Brother Xing is also proud of his thoughtfulness.

The homestead is a little bit out of the way, but it is very close to the ethnology.

There are four main rooms built in the small courtyard, a row of stove houses and grain storage, Xingge's son Wang Shitou has a room, a central room in the middle, a room for the young couple, and a room for the second brother of Mu Sanniang's family.Really didn't cover much.

The construction was simple and fast, and when the villagers saw it, they inevitably murmured in front of Liu Huaxiang: "Why did your brother Xing build such a small house? When the Wang family separated, you didn't give Xing brother any ideas."

There are also those who say that the old couple of the Wang family are unfair.

Then within two days, Wang Shitou's father and mother came up and gave the two children money to repair the side room opposite the stove house. The original words were very angry, "It is built like this, what do you say Do you have any objections to splitting up with your elder brother?"

Wang Shitou Xinggeer: ...

Of course not, the division has been agreed upon, and there is no grievance or resentment in my heart.

They go back with money, but they are also older brothers and sisters who have been taking care of their parents and elders in the village for so many years. When the old people feel uncomfortable, sometimes they find trouble and get angry.

It's nothing.

Naturally, Wang Shitou refused to ask his parents' money to repair the side room for them, and finally sent his parents away in a good manner.

The old couple of the Wang family almost turned their backs in aggrieved manner.Brother Xing dare not take responsibility.

"...Come on, cover it, I didn't expect this side." Brother Xing was scared, and his face was also hot.

Later, the side room was repaired, and the pigsty in the backyard toilets and pigpens were fully rebuilt, and the furniture was newly built-Brother Wang gave several large cabinets and beds.

In this way, no one in the whole village would say that Old Man Wang and Mrs. Wang were named after Li Gouzi—Daddy Li.

The old couple in Li's family had a biased family separation, causing brothers to turn against each other, and their old age was miserable, which has become a template for the lessons and experiences of the two villages of Dongxiping and Dongxiping.If you make up your children's disobedience behind their backs, then take out Wang Ergou and say that your second Wang Ergou will die in the paddy field sooner or later.

If the elders are eccentric to the armpit, then talk to the elders of the Li family.

At the beginning of September, the two wives arrived in a hurry, and they brought their servants with them.The people in the village saw that there were horse-drawn carriages and servants. Unlike ordinary masters, the Li family went to pick them up.

Those who came back from watching the excitement said: "It's terrible, I heard Zhou Zhou calling for Jinshi."

"There is also Juren, is this Juren some master Juren?"

"It should be?"

There are only scholars in the village. I have never met Juren. I heard that the master Juren can become an official. Now I come to their village to teach. This time, the two villages will feel the power of "Gu Ge Lao" again.

Yuan Yuan asked Uncle Zhou Zhou, Uncle Zhou Zhou said that it would not be a problem, so he wrote a letter to his classmate, wife and brother in the prefecture and county, asking him to come to their village as soon as possible, and also left his address.

Mu Erlang arrived in mid-August, not only came by himself, but also his mother and younger sister.

Brother Xing'er's house was built at that time, just enough to live in.

When the two in-laws met, Mother Mu was a little apprehensive and said, "...I don't know that your in-laws have such a big relationship with you, why, why—"

"It's not my family either, mother-in-law don't say that, our family's marriage is settled, I'll wait for Sanniang to pass the filial piety period, so that the marriage can be completed, otherwise I don't worry, Sanniang is such a good girl." Brother Xing All these years of business has been done in vain, and the hearts of the Mu family have been reassured.

Mu Mu's heart also settled down. When he received a letter from Xiping Village in Fuxian County, Erlang was shocked after reading it. When he asked about such a big relationship, the two families were considered to be well-matched before, but now they are afraid that people will dislike their family.

Seeing the worried faces of his family members, Erlang said, "I know Wang Yuan's nature, and he will definitely not be a person who loves vanity, dislikes poverty, loves wealth and climbs high. Otherwise, he would not have told Wang Yuan about the third sister."

"He is good, but he is afraid of his family members." Mu Dalang said.

Erlang thought about it for a while and said, "Otherwise, this time I will bring my mother and third sister to go there together. Our two families have already made a marriage agreement. Now Wang Yuan recommends the family school for me. With this name, my mother and I thank the first assistant." Ma'am, just take my sister to relax." It also makes my sister feel at ease.

Mother Mu was a little afraid of being unruly and made the Wang family look down on their Mu family, but after thinking about it, she gritted her teeth and agreed with the second son's statement, so let's go and have a look.If the Wang family dislikes their family, then I hope that for Erlang's sake, say it well, so as not to ruin the reputation of her family Sanniang.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived in the village, the Wang family valued it very much and built a new house, leaving a house for Erlang. They also said that after they got married, the young couple and Erlang moved to the village, and the elders would go to the prefecture to do business.

Mu Mu's heart settled down. Before the Wang family built the house, they thought carefully, always thinking about her family's third mother, and even thinking about Erlang. Such a good in-laws came from the blessings of the previous life.

When Li Zhouzhou heard that the Mu family was here, he said to have a meal together.

"Fubao and I are going back to Beijing in a few days. We wanted to go with dad. Dad is enjoying himself in the village. He said that he will go there after the yard is tidied up." Li Zhouzhou had no choice but to go. After living in the village for a long time, he wanted to be a husband.

"Just to see Yuan Yuan's daughter-in-law who hasn't passed the family. I'm afraid the child will be married in time. Now that we have met and given a gift, we should congratulate him in advance."

When the Mu family heard that Mrs. Shoufu was treating guests to dinner, they immediately felt nervous and restrained. Even Mu Erlang didn't have the "sit still" of a scholar in the past.Mu Sanniang was even more afraid, afraid that she would be rude, and that Madam would look down on her.

Yuan Yuan said: "Uncle Zhou Zhou is very easy-going and polite." Seeing that the two brothers and sisters were still nervous, he thought about it, changed the subject and said, "You don't know, my cousin Fu Bao is good at studying and learning. "

"Although I am much older than him, I am no match in terms of knowledge."

Mu Erlang and Sanniang aroused curiosity one after another.

Seeing that Sanniang was not worried anymore, Yuan Yuan continued: "When we just came back, Father said in front of Uncle Zhou Zhou, Yuan Yuan Xue said hello, if there is anything Fubao doesn't know, feel free to ask. I At that time, Fu Bao was only 13 years old, and I was already in my [-]s. I was the big brother, so naturally I had to take care of Fu Bao more."

"What happened next?" Mu Erlang asked.

Yuan Yuan told the truth: "It's incomparable. Fubao has a good memory. He reads more books than I do. He writes articles naturally without embellishment. He doesn't have so much tedious craftmanship. It will come naturally. He has something to say about things and writes well. better than me."

"Is it really as powerful as you say? I won't talk about the article. You said that you have something to say about the matter. He is a child, where did he get the knowledge?" Mu Erlang wanted to argue, "You must be protecting the child. .”

He didn't say that it was because Gu Nian Fubao was the brother of the chief assistant's family that he praised him a lot.

Yuan Yuan couldn't see what Erlang was thinking. He was as arrogant as Erlang at first, thinking that he was older than Fubao, and that he was a man who could go out and learn. He studied hard for many years, but finally refused to admit defeat.

He said: "My cousin was in Beijing when he was four years old, and then went to Zhaozhou with his family. According to him, he started to learn to read and write with his father when he was five years old. When he was six years old, he went out with his father. Traveling in prefectures and counties, Zhaozhou established a government school when he was seven years old, and his masters were all among the ranks of Jinshi. In a few years, Master Sun of Chuzhou came to Zhaozhou to teach him knowledge, and his wife, Mr. Bai, taught Fubao to paint..."

After a pause, Mu Erlang was stunned.

Wang Yuan said: "The "Three Years and Two Examinations" that Master regards as the standard—" He didn't say anything, Erlang had already understood it, and his face was full of shame.

"I shouldn't be preconceived, thinking that he is young, and if he is a brother, I will despise him." Mu Erlang reflected in shame.

Wang Yuan said: "Erlang, we still have a lot to learn. It's good to be able to introspect yourself. It's not too late. Even if you get a blow at this time, you will definitely work harder in the future."

"You should be yourself." Mu Erlang also got serious.

After saying these words, the Mu brothers and sisters were no longer nervous.Mu Erlang wanted to meet Wang Yuan's Fubao for the sake of learning, while Mu Sanniang felt that his future husband would be an upright and self-effacing person after reading it and listening to it.

The host and guest enjoyed the meal.

After the meal, the adults of the three families sat and chatted together. There was watermelon on the table under the tree in the yard outside.Fu Bao took a small tooth and gnawed slowly, while listening to the second brother of the Mu family talking about the article, in fact, he lacked interest, this article is boring, and it suppresses human nature, talking about what a woman should do.

"Listen to him talking nonsense and farting."

Kijiro: ...

It's okay for scholars to argue, but swear words come out.

Fu Bao said: "According to what he said, then his mother shouldn't have given birth to him. His desires are gone. Where did he come from? In the wars in the past few years, many soldiers died and were injured. How does the Dali develop if we restrain people's desires through rites?"

"Speaking of it at a young age, people have lived for so long. Today I like to eat watermelon, and tomorrow I like to eat pears. I can't eat watermelon for the rest of my life. If I eat a pear, I will be beaten to death? I have to guard the watermelon for the rest of my life. If the watermelon is broken It's rotten, so I still want to keep it? It's a good idea."

"Everyone is human, so why should a man eat whatever he wants?"

"I don't like it."

After gnawing on the watermelon, Fubao said, "Most of the book writers in this world are men, and most of the content they write is biased towards men. I also want to write an article, and I will write about what girls like to eat. Whoever you love to play with."

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