my grandmother

Chapter 145 I have to and don't have to

Li Xiaonan raised her voice and confessed to Sister Mei, stepped out of the threshold, Wan Qing leaned close to Li Xiaonan, gritted her teeth and said, "You can't make a difference!"

"Where am I not resting?" Li Xiaonan was puzzled.

"Our elder son said that he invited you to dinner, and there was another sentence before it, saying that if you refused to come out without dinner, then say that he invited you to dinner. Look at you, just for the word "eating!" Wan Qing pointed at Li Xiaonan. on the shoulders.

"Then what do you mean, should I go or not? It seems~" Li Xiaonan paused, "I went to eat, and if I didn't go, I also went to eat."

Wan Qing stared at Li Xiaonan, blinked a few times, and sighed, "Why are you so greedy!"

"Because I'm gluttonous, I've never been able to satisfy my gluttony quickly." Li Xiaonan also sighed.

Wan Qing leaned towards her, and for a moment, pushed her forward, "Then you can satisfy your hunger today, you can eat as much as you want."

"One meal can't do it. Let me tell you, if you want to get rid of this gluttony, you have to eat whatever you want, eat as much as you want, eat like this, at least the least, and you have to eat for half a year to get rid of it." Hungry insects, no hunger at all."

Pushed by Wan Qing, Li Xiaonan sighed while walking.

Wan Qing paused, took half a step forward, hugged Li Xiaonan from behind, and said in a low voice, "I can't come out, otherwise, I'll come here every day to treat you to dinner and feed your gluttons to their fullest."

"It's much better now. Sister Mei is roasting leek zygote, and the leek zygote baked by Mei sister is the best in the world. I don't want to part with this, not all because of greed." Li Xiaonan stretched out her hand to hold Wan Qing's arm.

"Don't worry, we're at the entrance of the alley." Wan Qing patted Li Xiaonan's hand back, coughed, held her breath, and lowered her eyebrows.

Li Xiaonan entered the tea house, but did not see Gu Yan, Shi Gun stood at the stairs, with a smile on his face, leaning forward to signal Li Xiaonan to go upstairs.

The upstairs is not a cubicle, but a hall similar to the downstairs, where there are square tea tables.

A young man stood at the entrance of the corridor leading to the backyard, and bowed to Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan walked through the long corridor, turned a corner, and found another spacious hall.

Standing in front of the French window, Gu Yan heard footsteps, turned to look at Li Xiaonan, and beckoned her to come over.

Li Xiaonan stood beside Gu Yan and looked out the window.

A large area of ​​houses is hidden among the green trees, and the lake is sparkling in the distance.

"This is Pingjiang Fuxue." Gu Yan introduced.

"It's so beautiful." Li Xiaonan praised sincerely.

"When the ancestors built the Bieye, they rebuilt the Pingjiang Fuxue by the way. The gentleman who built the System Bieye and the Fuxue was surnamed Zhou. This small building is where Mr. Zhou cultivated in his later years.

"Mr. Zhou was a scholar, he couldn't study well but loved reading very much, he died here and was buried in Yangzhou.

"Afterwards, this small building was assigned to Bieye. After buying the teahouse in front, I had someone build a covered bridge."

"The school is so beautiful, and your library is also very beautiful." Li Xiaonan praised.

"I went there once, why didn't I go later? Because of Miss Shi?" Gu Yan sat down at the table.

"It's not because of her. I'm busy with business, so I don't have time." Li Xiaonan sat down and sighed.

"How is your business? Is there any trouble?" Gu Yan poured a cup of tea and pushed it to Li Xiaonan.

"It went smoothly. We already have seven villages and 39 looms." Li Xiaonan said happily.

"Oh! The business is so big!" Gu Yan exaggeratedly groaned, and then laughed out loud.

Li Xiaonan rolled his eyes at him, picked up the cup and drank tea.

"Happy for you, really." Gu Yan explained with a smile.

"Where's your sea tax department? How's it going?" Li Xiaonan asked.

"I found a place to start with." Gu Yan replied with a smile.

"No wonder you're so happy."

"I'm very happy, especially when I heard that your business has become so big. To be honest, you have 39 looms, and you are a medium-sized weaving workshop."

Seeing the disbelief on Li Xiaonan's face, Gu Yan hurriedly changed the subject.

"I asked someone to steam a piece of white water fish, fried shrimp, and hibiscus crab bucket. What else do you want?"

"That's enough."

While talking, the servant brought three dishes of steamed white water fish, clear shrimp, and hibiscus crab bucket, as well as drunken chicken, clear soup and fire recipes, and two seasonal vegetables. He also brought a bowl of fine noodles and two small bowls of rice.

Li Xiaonan hesitated, and took a bowl of rice.First, I took a piece of whitewater fish.

Gu Yan didn't serve any rice, so Shi Gun stepped forward, took some fine noodles from a small bowl, poured a spoonful of clear soup and served it in front of Gu Yan.

Gu Yan ate the noodles slowly, looking at Li Xiaonan who was concentrating on eating.

This little girl is so engrossed no matter what she eats.

After eating quietly, Shi Gun made tea and brought it up.

"Qiu Wei at the end of October, how is your brother preparing?" Gu Yan asked.

Li Xiaonan was stunned, and then she uttered an oh, and instead of answering Gu Yan's words, she asked instead: "Why do you ask this?"

"Your brother was Odd Zhuo again in the first half of the year, and with two Odd Zhuo in a row, it would be reasonable if he got something this autumn." Gu Yan said with something in his words.

"What do you want to do?" Li Xiaonan pressed her hands on the table, leaned her upper body forward, and asked in a low voice.

"Take care, let your brother pass the exam." Gu Yan replied directly.

Li Xiaonan gave a long and slow oh, leaned back in the chair, looked at Gu Yan, was silent for a moment, dragged the chair and moved forward, put her arms on the table, looked at Gu Yan and said: "Thank you, but. "

Li Xiaonan paused, lowered her eyes, looked up at Gu Yan for a moment and asked, "Have you read my brother's article? What do you think? Is it good enough to pass the Qiu Wei test?"

Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan, but didn't answer.

"Those articles still took three to five days, seven or eight days, and I had to help him read and correct them two or three times."

Li Xiaonan looked down at her fingers.

"My brother's academic articles, even now, are not easy to be admitted to the scholar."

Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan, his brows slightly raised.

"Back then, you heard about how Uncle Santang bullied us, the day Mr. Huang Xianzun tried the case." Li Xiaonan glanced at Gu Yan.

Gu Yan nodded.

"That's a big thing, and there are more small things in ordinary times. San Tangbo's family and the people in the village seem to have nothing else to do, and they are thinking about how to bully us every day.

"Empty the water in our field, don't take the field stalks, insist on wading through our field, throwing water snakes and leeches into our field, the elder sister and the second elder sister have to go to the field to watch almost every day .

"As long as the third aunt is not happy, she will run to our house and block the courtyard door to scold us. After half a year, the tank in our house was smashed by the third aunt three times, and several grandchildren of the third uncle's family threw it into our yard. Stone, pee."

Li Xiaonan's throat was choked, she lowered her head, and after a while she continued: "Elder Sister is worried about Brother, I have been worried about Eldest Sister and Second Sister, fearing that they will be too tired and won't be able to get up when they fall down.

"There is really no other way. I took the exam under the name of my brother. I didn't dare to think that I could pass the exam. I just thought that if I could pass one or two exams, I asked Mr. Gao to help me talk about the project and let my brother go to the county school. Xue, our family sold the field and moved to live in the county.

"The elder sister said, as long as it keeps us alive, we can live.

"The replacement was for the lives of our siblings. Now, we shouldn't do such a thing again."

"A scholar, it's really too low. Besides, if you don't have enough knowledge and articles, there are lucky ones every year." Gu Yan thought for a while and persuaded.

"For our family, talent is enough. If heaven and earth take care of us and we are lucky enough to win, that would be luck, but it's not such a fluke now, is it?" Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan.

"Don't be too rigid about this." Gu Yan persuaded again, "Your brother is not too bad, it's unavoidable for the world and people."

Li Xiaonan shook her head, "Elder Sister has said long ago that the exam is a last resort, in order to survive, I have already lived my life, and I still live so well, so I shouldn't covet any more.

"What's going on in the world, what's going on with others, what should we do?

"When I was in Xiaoli Village, the elder sister often said: We can't be like them.

"Uncle Santang was forced to have his family ruined by the clan, and the elder sister was very angry. She said that bullying Uncle Santang like this is the same as how Uncle Santang bullied us back then. This is the reason why elder sister wants to stand in the ancestral hall to speak. thing.

"Elder Sister said that we should do things with a heart, and I think what Eldest Sister said is right."

"Your elder sister is admirable." Gu Yan lifted the pot and refilled Li Xiaonan's tea.

"However, now the entire Liangzhe Road, and even the entire Jiangnan, probably know that I have a friendship with you, or there are other sayings that your brother enters the exam and doesn't need me to say anything."

"I'll go back and discuss with elder sister and elder brother that we won't take the exam." Li Xiaonan was silent for a moment, looking at Gu Yan and said.

"Why give up eating because of choking." Gu Yan was a little dumbfounded.

"Wait until my brother's academic articles are enough for a candidate, and then go for the exam. To be a human being, you must first be at ease, otherwise, you will not know the taste of food, and you will turn a blind eye to the beautiful scenery. You will not be in the mood." Li Xiaonan laughed.

"No wonder everything you eat is so delicious, you're taught." Gu Yan arched his hands and said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)