The road of the farmer's fortune and the imperial examination

Chapter 150 Two Years Later

Time flies, like a white horse passing by, this is the winter of Dayan's 60th year.

Gu Chengyu staggered all the way back to Shangling Village in the bullock cart driven by Gu Chengli.

Today is the third day of the twelfth lunar month, and it is the last day of school this year.Although there are still some days before the Chinese New Year, as the saying goes: After Laba is the New Year.In addition, it is located in the north, and the snow falls early, so if you want to go to school, the road is not easy to walk.

The cow's hooves stepped on the solid snow, making "creak" and "creak" sounds.Gu Chengyu opened the curtain and saw a snow-covered mountain forest and wilderness. If he walked a little further, he could see the village of Shangling Village.

Breathing the cold air in the mountains and forests, it was so cold that my head hurt.

"Brother! Are you cold? If it's cold, come in and rest for a while, it's really cold today!" Gu Chengyu opened the front curtain and talked to Gu Chengli who was driving the car.

"Haha! How can this be considered cold? You little ones just can't help freezing. The fur gloves, clothes, and knee pads you bought for me last time are warm enough to wear, not cold at all." Gu Chengli turned back to Gu Chengyu and laughed.

The fur clothes, knee pads, and gloves were taken out of the space by him, but the style was changed.After all, Papa Gu was getting old, and the pick-up and drop-off in winter was too much, so he changed it to Gu Chengli.

Gu Chengyu remembered the Pi Zi he saw in the town two days ago. With his current internal strength and martial arts moves, he should be able to walk a little to the inner circle of the mountain.He decided to rest at home for a while, so he took his third brother to hunt together.

That's right, it's his third brother. As early as two years ago, Gu Chengyu brought out his martial arts mentality. Who knows that no one in the Gu family has such a talent. Inner strength mental method, let them learn a few strokes of outer martial arts.

That's it, only the third brother is interested and works extra hard. The other boys only want to go to school, because they can't make achievements in martial arts, so they don't want to spend time on it.

But the third brother doesn't like reading. Of course, one is that he is too old to sit and study with a group of children, and the other is that he is only interested in martial arts, so he didn't go to the private school, and only cares about the son of the family when he comes back. Then teach him some words.

Gu Chengli drove the ox cart fast and steadily, and passed the mountains and forests in a short while, and the village in front of him was already faintly visible.

It gets dark early in winter, and by the time the ox cart enters the village, the silver-gray dusk has enveloped the entire village.The bullock cart walked a little further, and arrived at the gate of the Gu family's courtyard.

The Gu family is now the only one in the village other than Landlord Zhao's house.Although the two courtyards are not as small as those in the town and county, they are not too small.

The gray-black tiles cover the roof, and the walls paved with blue bricks look out of place with the earth embryo room next to it.The courtyard wall is piled up with big stones, two meters high. Looking in from the open courtyard door, you can see the flat stone road.

Originally, Gu Chengyu wanted to use blue bricks as the courtyard wall, but Gu Lao and the others disagreed.The yard is very large, if you use blue bricks, how many bricks will you need?That's all silver!Later, Gu Chengyu had no choice but to compromise. Now that he looked at the courtyard wall made of big stones, he didn't think it was ugly, but it wasn't very pretty. After two years, his father had to pick it up and put green bricks on it.

The current layout of the Gu family says that Father Gu and the others live in the second main room, with two rooms in the main room and one side room on each side.Gu Wan lived in the one on the east side, and Gu Chengyu lived in the other one, and the south is the kitchen.

The first room and the second room still live in the east and west rooms respectively, and his third brother got married last year. Considering that there are many brothers in the Gu family, the east and west rooms each have a wing room. Originally, the east and west rooms each had two A bigger house, so that after the third brother and the fourth brother get married, they can each have a room.A woodshed and barn were added to the west.

There is no room on both sides of Gu's house, but the back can be extended, so it is much longer in length.Only in this way, the first entry is smaller, except for a study room, there is only one room for entertaining guests, one guest room.

This kind of layout is a bit small, but fortunately, there is still a lot of open space behind their house, and the grandchildren will get married in the future, and they can extend it later.

When the ox cart passed by the study, Gu Chengyu first took off the book bag and the food bought for the family from the cart.After Gu Chengli waited for Gu Chengyu to come down, he drove the ox cart to the barn in the inner courtyard.

Dalang from the Gu family are all studying in Xiasang Village. The private school in Xiasang Village is run by an old scholar. Although Master Qian is not as famous as Master Wen, he still has some knowledge to be admitted to a scholar.

At the beginning, under his persuasion, Gu's father did agree to Gu Jiaerlang's study.However, he put forward a condition, that is, to study for only three years, if you feel that you have learned enough, you can try it; if you think you can't pass the exam, you can learn a craft, otherwise you can find some jobs in the town.

In fact, three years is really short, and there are many people with outstanding knowledge who have not been admitted to the scholar within three years.

Gu Chengyu felt that it was a little unfair, but Mr. Gu had made up his mind, saying that it was impossible for the family to support so many people all the time, and the cost of studying was too high, so it would be difficult to support one child, let alone so many children.

Later, Mrs. Gu told him in private that he said this to encourage everyone to study hard. How well they study, they will have their own conclusions at that time. If you study well, you can continue to study, and if you do not study well, naturally you can’t. Go on.

In more than two years, Gu Chengyu's stature has grown a lot. The life of the Gu family is much better now, and the food is good. Not only him, but also Da Lang and the others have really grown some flesh.

Putting the plum cake and pine nut candy brought back from the town in the study, Gu Chengyu went straight to the backyard.

Mrs. Lu had brought Mrs. Fang and the others to put all the food on the table, and they were waiting for Gu Chengyu to serve. Xiasang Village had announced a vacation five days ago, so Gu Chengyu was the last to arrive.

"Xiaobao! Come in, isn't it cold? Your masters are serious, the other private schools have been released long ago, why are you still studying until today? Isn't it dangerous to get up so early and there is such a thick snow on the road?" Mrs. Lu Gu Chengyu entered the main room, and hurriedly dragged Gu Chengyu to sit on the hot kang.

"Mom! I'm not cold, I'm wearing a lot of clothes! Today is the last day of school this year, tomorrow I don't have to go to a private school, I can just study at home." Gu Chengyu smiled at Mrs. Lu and said .

I saw that Lu Shi was wearing a lake blue fine cotton jacket with narrow sleeves and a navy blue pleated skirt. The lake blue made her complexion fair and smooth.Looking again, there are two silver hairpins inserted on the head.

"Huh? Mother! What a good day today?"

(End of this chapter)