Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 123
When we rushed back to Lotus Village, the sky was already dark and gloomy.

Guan Wen didn't say much along the way, Li Xin asked him what's wrong, Guan Wen said: "It's nothing, just thinking, Mingzi didn't win, and the sixth brother probably won't win."

Li Xin shrugged.

Guan Zhi Chengzhong's failure has nothing to do with her. If he wins, he can't be fond of him. If he loses, he may complain.So she made up her mind that she would not comment on this matter.

When Li Xin got to the bottom of the slope, Li Xin felt something was wrong, and suddenly remembered Li Ming's performance at noon.

Taking care of what Mr. Li said, Li Ming was not disappointed when he saw that he failed the exam. Thinking about it, he remembered what he told him earlier. This child is sensible, so he can figure it out.But why was he unhappy after scanning the list?

At first, Li Xin wondered if a student with whom he had been competing with had won and he hadn't, so he felt ashamed.Later, when I thought about it, I felt that Li Ming was quite broad-minded, how could he have such thoughts.

Just as he lowered his head in thought, someone came from the new house. Guan Quan heard some movement down the slope and came to see him. When he saw Guan Wen and Li Xin, he smiled and said, "Brother and sister-in-law, are you back?"

"What's the matter?" Guan Wen led Li Xin up with a strap on his back, and Guan Quan scratched his head: "Didn't the elder brother say that the sixth younger brother's matter has come to an end and let me tell you...Father also asked I'm here to say hello to you."

Li Xin's heart skipped a beat when he heard the word "Happy News", and Guan Quan said, "Sixth brother has won. Although he is at the bottom of the list, he has won in the end. Now he is a scholar."

Li Xin raised his eyebrows, glanced at Guan Wen with a half-smile, and walked up the slope, asking Guan Quan as he walked, "Is the fourth brother's marriage ready?"

Guan Quan could only go with his elder brother, and replied to his sister-in-law: "Everything is almost ready, and the new house is also tidied up. The other Aunt Qian will help."

"That's good." Li Xin said lightly: "Ms. Hu is also an innocent girl. Although her family background is not good, but marrying you is your right wife. You are better to others. Your eldest brother and second brother are now under your knees. I have no heirs, so I have to rely on you to add grandchildren to the Guan family."

As he said that, he saw Lao Guan coming over with a cane, smiling. He must have heard Li Xin's words just now, so Li Xin asked with a smile, "Is that right, Grandpa?"

"Yes, great-grandson, great-grandson!"

At the old juncture, he cheerfully asked Li Xin and the others to go back to the house quickly. Guan Quan was embarrassed and couldn't sit still in the main room. However, Li Xin still didn't mention Guan Zhi Chengzhong's scholar, but just asked Guan Quan: "Four Have you eaten it yet? If you haven’t, you can eat it at home, I’ll get it right now.”

"Don't trouble sister-in-law..." Guan Quan fidgeted restlessly, "Father, father said to ask elder brother to go there..."

"Is there anything else I need to ask your elder brother?" Li Xin looked up at the sky: "It's so late, we are tired today, let's rest for a night and talk about it tomorrow."

Li Xin told A-mei to boil a pot of water, and said, "If the fourth brother hasn't eaten, he can stay and have a meal. Go back later and tell your father that there is something we need to discuss tomorrow."

Guan Quan could only agree.

After eating, Guan Quan left. Guan Wen sat on the bench with his forehead propped up, sighed and said, "Sixth brother really bought this scholar's fame with money."

"He's willing, didn't you stop him?" Li Xin fixed his eyes on the clothes in his hands, and sewed them with the kerosene lamp.It was made for the old juncture after the old jacket was dismantled and fluffed up in the sun.Laoguan is getting older, and he is more afraid of the cold in winter. Yesterday he muttered that his hands and feet were flustered, and Li Xin took it to heart. The old jackets he collected were dried, and now he can gossiping with Guan Wen. Make clothes for the old juncture.

Hearing what Li Xin said, Guan Wen felt a little embarrassed: "I didn't think about it that much at that time."

"Anyway, the family is separated now, so don't get involved too much with the affairs over there." Li Xin still didn't read Guan Wen, and only focused on the work in his hands: "Your father told you to go and guess it's because he wants to talk to you again." Discuss about your sixth brother, he has passed another quarter, and he is about to finish his cultivation again, right?"

Guan Wen was startled, nodded, and said "hmm".

Li Xin said with a smile: "Last time he was admitted to Tongsheng, and we held a banquet, your father scolded us for patronizing yourself and didn't hold a banquet for your sixth brother. This time your father may feel that he has a face and tightened his pants The belt is going to be a big one, so that you Guan family can show off, so that he can show his prestige. You just wait, there are only two things left."

Guan Wen smiled bitterly, and after a while he asked his wife, "Then tell me, what shall we say then?"

"It's up to you." Li Xin squinted at him: "If you are willing to pay the money, you don't need to say anything. If you don't have to pay the money, don't you know how to pretend to be poor?"

Guan Wen was at war with man and heaven there, and Li Xin yelled: "Don't think that we are rich now, and everything will be fine if we pay off all our debts. Ah Wen, let me make it clear to you, money Now it's all on my side, and we have to discuss it with our family before spending any money. With your father, if there is one, there will be two, and if there are two, there will be three. Does it mean that in the future, whenever your father and your sixth brother ask you for money? You gave it out without hesitation and didn’t keep anything for yourself? To put it bluntly, the remaining money is enough for us to spend a year or two without working hard, but if there is no income from throwing out a lot, then Too much money is not enough, you have to figure it out for yourself.”

Guan Wen watched his daughter-in-law concentrating on sewing under the lamp, recalled what she had just said, and finally made up his mind: "Then I won't give it to..."

Li Xin nodded and said: "It's best not to give them money. Anyway, I don't agree with giving them money. Your sixth brother's fame as a scholar is just bought. How can you invite people to dinner without shame like that? Shuxiu... Since that Mr. Zhang can talk to your sixth brother, he is not a gentleman of good conduct, and the cost of training is so high, it is better to change him to a gentleman who teaches well but does not ask for a high price."

Speaking of another gentleman, Guan Wen immediately thought of Mr. Gu from Noon.

Li Xin naturally thought of Mr. Gu.

Mr. Gu is as modest as a valley, with deep pockets in his chest, and what is rare is that he has no money. He is a teacher who cherishes and loves his talents.Li Ming learned knowledge from Mr. Gu and Li Xin was very relieved.

Li Xin suddenly paused, opened his mouth slightly, said "ah", and Guan Wen asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's all right."

She suddenly remembered the reason for Li Ming's displeasure—could it be that he was ashamed when he scanned the list and saw that Guan Zhi was on the list, but he didn't win?One is the brother-in-law's brother, and the other is the brother-in-law's brother. The brother-in-law's brother overwhelms the brother-in-law's brother. Li Ming feels uncomfortable?

Li Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, shook his head and said to Guan Wen: "No wonder Ming'er didn't tell you why he was unhappy in front of you at noon today. I looked at him and felt that he was being suppressed by your sixth brother." I'm upset now." Then he said with a smile: "After all, he is still a child at heart, always wanting to judge whether he wins or loses, but the other people don't care, but he is related to your sixth brother by marriage, which aroused his desire to win, and he lost in the end. I feel uncomfortable."

Guan Wen also figured out this joint, and said with a smile: "Mingzi is not very old, there will be many opportunities in the future, and he can develop further." Thinking of his sixth brother again, Guan Wen sighed deeply: "But Xiao Liu is afraid that he will not be able to pass the Juren examination in the future, so he will only be able to survive on his fame as a scholar."

Li Xin didn't take it seriously, things in this world were much more complicated, could Guan Zhicheng be lucky one day?
The couple thought that Li Ming was unhappy about this matter, but it was more than that.

Li Ming's mood change was indeed related to Guan Zhicheng.

He looked at the list and saw about Zhi Cheng, and subconsciously thought, "If I lose to others, my sister will have a hard time in their house."Such thoughts have always troubled him.And one is a student of Zhang Zishan, and he is a student of Mr. Gu's side. Losing to Guan Zhicheng made him feel ashamed of his husband, and made his sister's family a little shorter in front of her sister-in-law's family.

Not just being uncomfortable about losing to an acquaintance.

He listened to Li Xin's words, and his teacher had enlightened him before he took the exam, so he just took this exam as an experience, and he was already prepared in his heart to fail.But he never expected that Guan Zhicheng would be selected as a scholar.Even though it was at the bottom of the list, it still made him feel embarrassed to see that name appear on the list.

He couldn't help but think of Guan Zhicheng who he saw when his sister and brother-in-law opened a new house and held a banquet after the separation.

That was the first time the two of them met, Guan Zhicheng was arrogant and high-minded, he rarely communicated with others, and he ignored him as his biological brother, and even looked down upon him a bit.At that time, Li Ming felt that neither his elder brother nor his father-in-law liked his sister, and his sister knew it too, so he never approached them.

At that time Li Ming knew that his sister was not doing well in the Guan family.

The last time Li Xin went back to her natal home, he only heard about it from her family and didn't know the specific situation. Now it seems that if she couldn't stand it anymore, her sister would not go back to her natal home.

He's made up his mind ever since.

Just lost the first battle.

Li Xin didn't know about Li Ming's petty thoughts, but thought he was a child throwing a temper tantrum.The next day, after breakfast, the family of four went to the old house.

The gate of the Guan family was wide open, and it could be seen that there was a lot of excitement inside.

Guan Wen frowned, and when someone saw him coming out to greet him, he said happily, "Brother Guan is here? Congratulations, Xiao Liu has been selected as a scholar, and he has honored the whole village!"

There are people around.

Li Xin looked around, she had hardly seen these people, and each of them always looked a little flattering, and some people whispered and kept looking at something, and they looked not serious.

Li Xin pulled Guan Wen, coughed and said, "Your father has guests here, we will come back another day."

Just as he was about to leave, Guan Ming shouted loudly: "Awen! You are here! Come in!"

Guan Wen had no choice but to walk in at the last moment, with Li Xin and Amei following behind.

The people in the yard were chirping with compliments like "Congratulations", "Ancestors have accumulated virtue", "the future is boundless", etc. Li Xin picked out his ears, and took his sister to sit aside. I heard Guan Ming talking to others in an official tone: "Fellow folks, folks! Thank you for your kindness! Everyone go back first, and we will have a banquet at Guan's house another day. Welcome everyone, welcome!"

All these people went out happily.

Li Xin gently pulled the corner of his mouth, Guan Ming asked Guan Wu to bolt the door, and when he turned his head, his face was full of smiles.

"Ah Wen, do you know that your sixth brother is a scholar this time? A scholar! Our ancestors of the Guan family have never produced a scholar! From now on, your sixth brother will not have to pay this tax..."

Guan Wen said "um" without a word, and Guan Zhicheng sat in the side seat with a smile on his face, looking like an official.

Guan Ming said to Lao Guan again: "Father, father! Our Guan family has produced a scholar, and the ancestral grave is smoking..."

Li Xin sneered.If the ancestral grave really smoked, I would probably be angry.It is no wonder that future generations spend money to buy fame that is useless.

Guan Ming was still talking: "Bless the ancestors, bless the ancestors! This is also thanks to Xiao Liu... It's not that Xiao Liu is smart and capable, and I don't know how many lifetimes it takes for our Guan family to have a scholar..."

Guan Wen couldn't help but interjected: "Father, you have something to ask us to come. Let's talk about it first? There are still things at home..."

"What's the matter in your family?" Guan Ming was immediately displeased: "The matter of your sixth brother is the biggest matter in the family!"

Li Xin said lightly: "Father, no matter how capable the sixth brother is, we won't be able to touch him even if we split up. Even the matter of paying taxes won't be on our shoulders, will it?"

Guan Ming choked, and glared at Li Xin angrily, "Shut up when men talk, women!"

Li Xin shrugged indifferently, "Then I will keep my mouth shut."

Satisfied, Guan Ming looked at Guan Wen and said, "Your sixth younger brother has been admitted as a scholar this time. If you work harder, it will be no problem to be admitted as a Jinshi! Mr. Zhang's Shuxiu is about to be paid, and Your sixth brother is very happy this time, so he has to show it to the people in the village. Dad is thinking about holding a banquet or something in the future. I called you here to let you brothers discuss it. It is a big happy event for our Guan family. We have to figure it out."

The implication of these words is that you brothers have to watch out for the money.

Li Xin curled her lips, she felt that she was amazing, and she could guess Guan Ming's motives exactly.

Guan Wu said in embarrassment: "Father, it's not like you don't know that I don't have any money with me."

Guan Quan also opened his eyes and said nonsense: "I have never saved any money." He said it very naturally, if Li Xin hadn't asked Guan Wen to give him the money in the first two days, Li Xin probably would have thought what he said It's the truth.

Guan Ming moved his mouth to scold someone, but Guan Wen said with a deep voice, "Father, I don't have any money, even if I have money, I don't agree with making a fuss about this matter."

"What do you mean!" Guan Ming exclaimed angrily, "If you set up your own house and invite people to eat, you will have money. No matter how big of a shit you are, you can still spend money to buy banquets. Now your sixth brother earns money for your ancestors. Face, it’s even more right to invite someone to dinner, but now you’re saying that you can’t afford it!”

Guan Wen was also annoyed: "Don't others know that our own family doesn't know? How did he get his reputation as a scholar? How can he have the face to tell people that he is a scholar like Guan Zhicheng? Earn face for the ancestors." ? Dad, you can say that too!"

(End of this chapter)