As the saying goes, "Uncle Xie deceived his nephew without respecting martial ethics, and the foolish Ah Shi sacrificed his life to save his father from being trapped. From then on, he studied hard and studied hard in the sea"!
The whole family suppressed their laughter and did not expose Xie Sen's lies, lest their children refuse to study and insist on becoming Taoist priests.
Trapped in the dark, Xie Shi could only accept the reality with a grimace that he would be sent to school soon.
As for the only system that has the potential to reveal the truth?
It would only be happy to see the results, how could it possibly awaken the host?
Thinking of the days when the host will study and study obediently in the future, and the energy will be continuously credited to the account, the system just wants to say a heartfelt message to Uncle Xie and the other Xie family members who completed the assist: Thank you, thank you all, you all are my wings!
This is the most beautiful day since the system woke up, and it decided to set it as an anniversary to celebrate - the host that it couldn't kill before was finally cured, right?
In the snow-white space deep in Xie Shi's consciousness, a fat civet cat stood up and spun in circles to the beat. Its dance was clumsy and cheerful, and the accompaniment was earthy and upbeat: "Today is a good day~ I'm thinking Everything can be done~”*
The joys and sorrows of people cannot communicate with each other. The system happily rolled into a cat ball and rolled around, but Xie Shi spread out like a salted fish.
He was lying on the large smooth bluestone at the entrance of the village, with his hands behind his head and his head blankly looking up at the sky, as if he had no love left in his life.
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Seeing this, friends who were acquaintances gathered around him and asked him what was wrong. Was he spanked?
Xie Shi remained motionless and shook his head blankly: His butt was safe, but his father's butt was in danger.
Alas, there is no other way, in order to protect daddy’s ass...
When asked by his friends, Xiao Tuanzi melancholy took a drag on a non-existent cigarette, exhaled a puff of non-existent smoke, and said with a face filled with vicissitudes of life: "I will go to school in the future."
What child would like to read? The group of children suddenly understood and understood immediately. No wonder Xie Shi is so listless!
For a moment, several seven-year-old children who felt the same said angrily: "My parents said they would send me to social school next spring. You are only four years old and you are going to school..."
In contrast, they are less resistant to going to school. After all, other people's children have to go to school at the age of four, and they suddenly feel that their parents are really good!
"My brother has been studying for a year and stopped." Suddenly, a child with a tough head patted Xie Shi, and the six-year-old kid named Zhuzi comforted him in a rough voice, "When you stop studying, go back to the village. , let’s play together.”
Nowadays, children from poor families are like this. When they are seven or eight years old, they go to social school for a while. After dropping out of school, they still have to cultivate the land and learn crafts. Those who are smart and eager to learn will seize the opportunity to read, write, and learn arithmetic. When they grow up, they will have the opportunity to find another career, such as being a bookkeeper. Those who are stupid and lazy will do well in social studies. In the end, if they can recognize a few words and know how to write their own names, it will be good. They just thought that Xie Shi was just messing around.
"Waiting for me to stop reading?"
The crazy old boy with white hair and beard in the dream of the past appeared in front of him again. Xiaotuanzi quickly waved it away: No, no! He doesn't want to become that person!
In order to prevent his father from getting beaten up, he will cooperate and go to school for now. It will not be too late to become a Taoist priest when he grows up in a few years. The dream of cultivating Taoism and becoming an immortal has not ended, it has just been delayed!
"Thanks, Zhuzi!"
After thinking about it, Xie Shi immediately regained his energy. He patted the confused pillar, climbed down the big bluestone neatly in twos and twos, waved at the group of children like a leader, and rushed forward happily: "Let's go, let's touch the shrimps in the river."
Within two days, the news that the Xie family was sending their youngest grandson to school spread throughout Erqiao Village through word of mouth among a group of children.
The villagers who heard the news were surprised.
It’s not that I’m surprised that the Xie family actually wants to send their children to school. After all, whose children don’t go to social studies these days? It's just that Xie Shi's age is too young, why should he be a few years older?
There are nine villages in Yuquan Town, and there are two social schools. Even the nearest social school to Erqiao Village is more than ten miles away. Mengtong has to live in the social school except for two holidays a year. Can such a little Douding, who is not even five years old, be able to adapt? Are sociology schools willing to accept students at such a young age?
"Don't go to social studies."
When Mrs. Yu was washing clothes by the river, she heard some curious aunts come over to ask. They did not say why they did not like social studies. They only smiled and said: "Brother Shi is still young, so he lives in the school like this. I'm not worried either. My family is looking around to find him a private school close to home and live at home every day."
The way the aunts looked at her suddenly changed.
Today's social studies have long declined and are incomparable with private schools. The former is just a messy place. I am willing to serve as a social teacher mainly for the benefits of being exempted from military service, and my spiritual training is not high. The latter was a school set up by a scholar or even a master who held the imperial examination. It was by no means as perfunctory as social teachers. They taught students to prepare for the imperial examination in the future.
Just to learn a few words, you spend money to send your children to private schools? If you only want to be close to home because of the short distance, who would believe it?
The villagers may not be very knowledgeable, but they are not fools.
All kinds of discussions immediately spread throughout Erqiao Village. Some laughed, some were puzzled, and most of them looked on with cold eyes.
The imperial examination is a road that not only costs money but also hurts the body. If you succeed, you will be like a chicken or a dog, but if you fail, you may bring down your whole family.
How can a literary star come out of a poor family?
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There are only thirty households in Erqiao Village, and if an egg is stolen from any household, it will cause a disturbance to everyone in the village.
Now the Xie family has become the center of a new round of heated discussion. This is one less egg than the one in the East family, and the quarrel between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the West family is even more unusual.
A hundred years after the founding of Daqi, several other villages had produced children and even scholars, but Erqiao Village had never even produced children.
Therefore, there have always been rumors that Erqiao Village has no literary luck - although the Xie family is from outside, can they still break the "curse"?
"Have you heard all the gossip in the village?"
In the small courtyard of the Xie family, old Mrs. Xu crossed her arms angrily.
"Why can't our brother Shi go to private school? A bunch of short-sighted people think that my grandson is just like those seven or eight-year-old crooked melons and cracked jujubes in their family who still wet the bed!"
"Some people can make three-foot waves even if there is no wind. Mother, you don't know that. Why bother arguing with ignorant people!"
Xie Sen, the third son of the Xie family, smiled and comforted his mother: "Don't worry, mother. When my son comes to town, he will ask his friends to find out what private schools are nearby. I will definitely choose one for Brother Shi that is close to home and has a good teacher. If there are no private schools around, If it's appropriate, just let Brother Shi go to a private school in the town and live with his son."
Only then did Old Xu calm down the anger in her chest: "You are reliable. Brother Shi's future depends on you."
The busiest season of autumn harvest has passed, and Sanfang and his wife are preparing to return to Yuquan Town, where they have to say goodbye to the whole family.
Although they had made up their mind to send Xie Shi to a private school, the whole family knew nothing about the conditions of nearby private schools, so they had no choice but to entrust the task to Xie Sen, who had the widest connections and the best information.
Xie Sen had never paid attention to this news before, and now he happened to be in Yuquan Town, so he wanted to inquire about it carefully.
The youngest son was about to leave the village, and the old couple were a little reluctant to leave. They hurriedly directed the eldest son, the second son, and the two daughters-in-law to carry out the large and small bags that had been prepared and load them on the oxcart.
The vegetables and fruits grown at home, a dozen eggs, and a bunch of local specialties were all brought back to the town.
Xie Sen quickly shied away: "My son is not at home all the year round, so he relies on his eldest and second brothers to serve him. He is just coming home to help us. He is here to fulfill his filial piety, so how can he even eat and drink?"
"Take it if I tell you to." Mrs. Xu was not polite to him, "Where is it for you? This is for the in-laws. The in-laws married their daughter to our Lao Xie family, and they support you as their own son. As a son-in-law, you should be respectful to me with all your heart."
After all, the younger son brought his daughter back to work for a few months. During this period, although the younger daughter-in-law Zhang did not go to the fields, she did not shirk away from the busy work at home and abroad. Old Xu was not an evil mother-in-law. Although she was reluctant to let her son live in the town, she He knows what is good and what is bad, and he also knows how to reciprocate love with love.
Sure enough, the face of the youngest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Zhang, was full of smiles, and her eyes looked at her mother-in-law with a touch of emotion and admiration.
Gurgling.
The oxcart slowly drove away, carrying the family's expectations and thoughts.
In the rustling autumn wind, the Xie family turned around and returned home.
Mrs. Yu was also puzzled: "Brother Shi is such a kid. When his third uncle is leaving, he doesn't even know to come and see him off. Aren't he the closest to his third uncle on weekdays? It's really a waste of time to love him."
Mrs. Xu immediately defended her grandson: "You are not allowed to talk about your children like that! Why does the third child need to be given to him if he has hands and feet? Children are all very playful. Maybe they have gone somewhere to play."
"That's right." Ms. Liu immediately united with her mother-in-law, "Brother Shi has always been considerate, maybe he forgot that his third uncle was leaving, otherwise he would have been sent away."
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law put forward a united front to condemn Yu's inappropriate remarks. Unknowing outsiders saw this and thought she was a vicious stepmother.
Mrs. Yu really didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she could only surrender: "Okay, I won't say anything anymore. Mom, sister-in-law, just let him get used to you."
At this time, no one realized the seriousness of the matter.
It wasn't until the sun set and Xie Shi still didn't return home that they realized something was wrong. They hurriedly went out to look for the children, but they learned unexpected news from a group of urchins.
"Xie Shi? He left halfway through our game, saying he was going to the town with his third uncle."
Mrs. Yu almost thought she heard wrongly.
"To the town? How will he get there?"
"Ride in an ox cart! He said he would ride in an ox cart with his third uncle." The tiger-headed Zhuli sniffed, as if remembering something, and added, "I almost forgot to mention that he wanted us to tell our uncle and aunt before going home for dinner. Don’t worry.”
"..." The Xie family fell into silence.
I bet this little guy even set a timer for his message?
If you tell him too early, the cart will be discovered before it has gone far, and he will be taken home; if you tell him too late, the family will think he is missing and will be extremely worried. I deliberately stuck it at dinner time so that my family would receive the news as soon as they found out he was missing. They didn't have to worry about him missing, but there was no chance of catching him back.
——Should intelligence be used in this kind of place?
Mrs. Liu couldn't help but scratch her head and struggled to recall, and finally pulled out the fleeting and unnoticed scene from her mind.
When they were saying goodbye to the third brother and his wife, what seemed to be behind the piles of packages on the bullock cart behind the third brother?
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On the other side, an hour ago.
As the bullock cart passed halfway, a small head suddenly poked out from behind the bulging bundle.
Xie Sen, who heard the noise, looked over and immediately met a pair of big, round, black eyes.
Xie Shi, whose face was still stained with dust, tilted his head, gave him a sweet smile, and waved hello sweetly:
"Third uncle!"
Xie Sen: "???"
