After dressing as a widow

The prosperity of Fucheng is not comparable to that of other towns. Before dawn, you can hear the sound of cart wheels pushing carts selling water and pouring Yexiang, and the sound of neighbors getting up to wash up and calling their children.

The monthly profit of the store cannot exceed the fixed figure of 500 taels, so Lin Zhen didn't want to be that hardworking person. He pulled up the quilt and covered his head, and fell asleep in an instant.

It wasn't until the spring sunshine came in from the window that he lazily yawned and lifted the quilt out of bed. When he went out, he saw that Gu Lin, who was supposed to go to school early in the morning, was still there, so he couldn't help counting the time: "Why didn't you go to school today?" ?”

"The academy organizes the students to go for an outing at Luoxia Mountain outside the city today, and gather at the city gate at the second quarter of the hour."

"Your academy has chosen a good life." Thinking of the rain yesterday, Lin Zhen couldn't help holding back a smirk. These scholars in wide robes and sleeves are afraid that they are going to be deep in the mud. Became a little cat.

His eyes sparkled: "Do you want to bring food?"

This is a kid going on a spring outing with his classmates. When Lin Zhen thought of Gu Lin eating with a group of peers with lunch boxes, he thought it was quite fun.

Gu Lin said: "The college has arrangements, Uncle Lin, students can bring their family members with them, do you have any urgent matters to deal with today?"

"Can I go too?" Lin Zhen didn't just work hard. He visited several places in Fucheng in the past few years, but the traffic was not smooth at this time, and he couldn't walk very far.

He is a man who likes to be comfortable. A few years ago when Gu Lin was young, he didn't think too much about it. Now that Gu Lin is 14 years old, he is about to take the government examination, take the exam, and slowly grow into an adult. It popped up again.

He wants to walk around and experience different customs and customs personally. It is best to be a running businessman, which will be more interesting.

Gu Lin nodded: "Uncle Lin is my close relative, so I can go there naturally. I heard that the pear blossoms on Luoxia Mountain are famous far and wide, and the villagers next to them also use pear blossoms to make various kinds of food. Uncle Lin just happened to go to try it."

Lin Zhen has been in the catering business for so many years, and he has no resistance to the food he has never eaten, so he immediately agreed, "Then I will change into clothes, and you go to the front of the shop and talk to your little uncle."

Zhong Yan is also studying at Huaishan Academy, and he might go on this spring outing, so it is not a problem for Gu Lin to bring one more person, but Lin Zhen feels that it is better to forget it.

According to how much Xiaoyao cares about Zhong Yan, it is more difficult to let go and more painful to meet, it is better not to see each other.

Lin Zhen quickly changed into a milky white robe. He is a brother and a widow whose husband died. Naturally, the color of his clothes should not be too pretty. Plain colors such as black, white and gray are most suitable.

Moreover, my brother is different from the boy, and the robes he wears are slightly different, such as the one on his body, with a round collar, a row of cloth buttons that are buttoned obliquely, the sleeves are slightly wider, and the feet of the robe are also wider. Pants can be worn with skirts, which look a bit like the women's dresses of the Qing Dynasty.

In Liyu village and town in the past, most people struggled to get enough food and clothing, and some of the older brothers probably wore their father's and older brothers' old clothes, so they couldn't be particular about it, and it was inconvenient to work.

It's different when it comes to Fucheng. There are many rich and noble families here, the style of writing prevails, and the boundaries between brothers, daughters, mothers and men are clear.

Gu Lin is also a student of the academy, so he naturally can't wear short brown clothes according to his temperament.

Lin Zhen wore a pair of trousers inside, casually tied his thick hair to the top of his head, braided it, and tied it at the end with a hair tie.

Looking at the blurred figure in the bronze mirror, Lin Zhen looked sideways, took out a belt made of cloth from the closet, and tied it around his waist. In an instant, the seemingly androgynous skirt-like gown showed a strange look. It's neat.

Not bad, not so awkward.

He went out and said to Gu Lin who was waiting for him in the yard: "Let's go, it will be too late if we delay."

Gu Lin was a little dazed. He knew that Lin Zhen was good-looking, but Lin Zhen seldom dressed like this. The round collar made his slender neck nowhere to hide, just like a watermelon just born in the water. It's sweet.

Pure beauty and frankness, delicate eyebrows and eyes.

Walking down the steps, Lin Zhen realized that this cheap son of his didn't know what he was thinking, and he lost his mind in front of him, shaking his hands in front of his eyes: "Hey, Gu Shuanzi."

"..." Gu Lin blinked with some concealment, and walked outside together with him. It was still early at this time, and there were not many people eating in the shop. There were two or three kittens. Lin Zhen and Gu Lin couldn't help but stare blankly.

And when we went outside, there were more people watching, the bold ones looked straight at it, and the timid ones looked secretly.

Gu Lin frowned slightly, shortened his steps, and stood shoulder to shoulder with Lin Zhen.

When he was almost outside the city gate, Lin Zhen saw from a distance a group of students from Huaishan Academy gathered there, who were studying in Huaishan Academy together, but Huang Yuwen and Wang Qin who were not in Class A saw that Lin Zhen still cared. Lin, come over and salute Lin Zhen first: "Uncle Lin."

"You two came early, didn't you bring anyone?"

Back then, Gu Lin, Huang Yuwen, Wang Qin, and Chen Xing came to Fucheng to take the entrance examination for children. Gu Lin got the first place in the exam, Huang Yuwen and Chen Xing narrowly passed by falling on the tail, and Wang Qin didn't make the list.

Huang Yuwen and Wang Qin's family were not short of money, and felt that there were more wives to choose from in Fucheng, so they left the two of them here and sent servants to take care of their food and daily life.

Later that year, the two took the Tongsheng Examination and the Provincial Examination for Scholars respectively. Wang Qin worked hard for two years and finally passed the Tongsheng Examination. Huang Yuwen failed the first time and finally passed the second time.

As for Chen Xing, since his family has no money, he has been studying with Master Xu in the town. The three of them haven't heard from him for several years.

If it was said that Huang Yuwen and Wang Qin had a sense of superiority over Gu Lin and Lin Zhen because of their family background, now there is none left.

Reading the same book, using a better pen, ink, paper and inkstone than Gu Lin, but no matter how hard the two of them tried, they couldn't touch the corner of Gu Lin's robe, which was really frustrating.

Huang Yuwen said: "When Wang Qin and I came, we asked them to make arrangements for themselves. They waited on us all day long, and it was rare for us to have a free day."

"It's pretty good. They came here for four or five years away from their parents and brothers. It's okay to play for a day." The younger ones played together, and Lin Zhen was no stranger to the people who served them, old and young. The Huang family and the Wang family held the servants who sold themselves, and they were not disrespectful to the two masters.

Suddenly, when a few people were chatting, a voice came from the front, asking different classes of A, B, and C to gather together. Huang Yuwen was in Class B Middle School, and Wang Qin was working in Tong Sheng B. Hearing the news, he told Lin Zhen and Gu Lin Goodbye, go to your class.

Gu Lin also took Lin Zhen to the place where his class was. When passing through the crowd, all the students in the academy recognized him and stepped aside.

"That's Gu Lin from the first class. I heard that he won the first place in the big exam again."

"No. 1 on the top of the armor, this time the township test is already in the bag."

"Who is that man with him?"

"I'm afraid it's a brother in the family, but he brought my brother here."

A works at the front, next to the teacher who leads the academy, Gu Lin stood still, and greeted the teacher: "Students pay a visit to Master Ren."

The old man known as Master Ren looked to be in his fifties, with a goatee, hair mixed with some silver, and a majestic appearance.

He is the wife of A who specializes in teaching scriptures at work, so he naturally has a good impression of Gu Lin, an extremely talented student. When he saw Gu Lin coming, his majestic face showed a rare softness: "This outing is for you A student who spends his days in books and classics has a sense of it.”

"Yes, students, remember." Gu Lin persisted in saluting, although tall, but too thin, it looked like a bamboo shoot that had just come out of its shell and turned into a green bamboo.

Standing one step away from him, Lin Zhen couldn't help admiring that he was worthy of letting him hold his chest up and his stomach in since he started studying, and he didn't know how many little girls he would provoke in the future.

According to the meaning of the academy, their accompanying family members are divided according to the husband and wife and the boys and men, the husband and wife are in one place, and the boys and men are in one place.

Lin Zhen is a widow, so he was naturally assigned to the group of female relatives, and then he found that there were very few husbands and daughters, there were only more than 30 female husbands and husbands among hundreds of students, and they were still relatively old. The women's husbands and young brothers in those students' families didn't want to come out to show their faces.

There are many young boys and men, most of them are brothers or elders of the students. It is a very honorable thing to study in Huaishan Academy, and it is very good to go out with them.

As soon as Lin Zhen came to the group of women's husbands, his too young face and different decorations from most brothers attracted the attention of many people. They saw it for real just now, and the student who brought Lin Zhen came to work. , and the student was talking to the master of the academy, and he looked handsome.

The children in their family are also in Huaishan Academy, so they are no strangers to Huaishan Academy. Those who can work in Class A must be extremely knowledgeable in the academy.

The middle-aged woman who was closest to Lin Zhen, wearing a bean-green jacket and an autumn-colored horse-faced skirt, looked at Lin Zhen and said, "My husband looks good, but I'm ignorant. I've never seen my husband in the city before. I don't know what Fulang's family name is."

After being approached by someone, Lin Zhen nodded to the woman: "Ma'am, you're welcome. I'm not from Fucheng. I just moved here a few years ago. It's normal that Madam hasn't seen her before."

"As for my husband's family, the surname is Gu."

"It turned out to be Gu Fulang. My concubine's husband's family name is Luo, and he is from the Luo family in the west of the city. He is in the porcelain plate business. Gu Fulang is free in the future, so you can talk to me to relieve boredom." Mrs. Luo's words just now were just a test. He thought that Lin Zhen was that student's elder brother, but unexpectedly he was actually that student's father, and he looked too young.

If she saw Lin Zhen for the first time, she only felt that this brother was too handsome and a little bit of a monster, but after listening to him, her impression changed a little bit.

And Lin Zhen was a bit weird because of his husband's surname Gu just now. Although he was Gu Da's husband and Gu Lin's stepfather, Gu Da died as soon as he came here, and he never lived in Datianzi Village. When he returned to Liyu Village, everyone called him Brother Zhen or Brother Lin, and when he went to the town and Fucheng, he was called Boss Lin again, which was too strange a title.