Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 4

"Bah!" Du Tang spat, "It's good to read well, isn't our father also a scholar, and he will be a shabby educated man until he dies!"

"Who said that?" Du Xiaoyu raised her head and said, "My master said that if you study well, you can become an official. In the future, the second elder brother will get whatever he wants when he becomes an official. He can beat anyone he wants! What are you helping me in the capital, anyway, it’s just a very powerful person doing things, sister, in the future, the second brother will be admitted as a scholar, and there will be exams, exams..."

"Examination for Juren, examination for Jinshi, and palace examination in the future!" Du Huanghua's eyes sparkled, "Second brother is rare and smart, my master said so, otherwise we wouldn't be able to waive half of the fee."

Everyone in the village knew about this. Du Wenyuan was very talented. He was able to recite poems and compose lyrics very early on. Mr. Liu often praised him.

Seeing the confident smiles on the faces of the two sisters, as if Du Wenyuan had become an official, Du Tang and Bao couldn't help being stunned, imagining their tragic experience after Du Wenyuan became an official, and dared not continue for a while. say.

Du Xiaoyu laughed secretly in her heart, ran to the main room, and shouted, "Mother, I'll go find my second brother and tell my grandma that we are going home!"

Du Tang was in a hurry, he was sure that his elder brother and his family would leave in anger, but he didn't expect to make trouble with his old mother, but when he was about to chase, he saw Du Xiaoyu disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Grandma, grandma..." Du Xiaoyu shouted while running in front.

The woman guarding the main room was the one who took the jar from Du Xian earlier, surnamed Zhong, and said with a smile, "Miss Xiaoyu is here, the old lady is talking to your second brother."

"I have something urgent, mother-in-law quickly take me in to find my mother-in-law!" She grabbed the corner of Mrs. Zhong's clothes.

Mrs. Zhong thought for a while and walked in, knocked on the door when she reached the door and said softly, "Old lady, Miss Xiaoyu wants to see you."

Before Li Shi could speak, Du Xiaoyu slammed the door open, it was not locked anyway.

Mrs. Li and Du Wenyuan were taken aback for a moment. Du Wenyuan was about to say that she was rude and wanted to educate her as an older brother, but Du Xiaoyu burst into tears and hugged Du Wenyuan's leg. Hurry us home, woo woo, second brother, let's go, second uncle said he wants to eat our chicken, if the chicken is eaten, there will be no eggs, and we will starve to death in the future! Second brother, hurry back Come on, Second Uncle is going to grab the chicken!"

"What? Is this really the case?" Du Wenyuan frowned, grabbing the chicken?

Mrs. Li knew the virtue of his second son Du Tang, he slammed the table and said, "It's really outrageous!"

Du Xiaoyu continued to cry, "Second brother, let's go, don't come here again, the second uncle is so scary, he even snatched our chickens, and the aunt said that the grandmother is not as important as the chickens, even the chickens are inferior superior……"

When Li Shi heard this, her face turned red and white with anger, but when she saw that Du Xiaoyu was determined to drag Du Wenyuan away, she quickly said softly, "Don't be afraid, Xiaoyu, the grandma is in charge of you, and no one can drive you away, that chicken, that Even your second uncle wouldn't dare to snatch the chicken!"

At this moment, Du Tang had already chased after him, and as soon as Li Shi saw him, he scolded, "What are you talking about with a child? Look at you as a second uncle, what are you talking about! It scared Xiaoyu to tears, Wen Yuan and the others finally came here, do you have to mess with my birthday to be happy? Why don’t you coax your niece!”

Du Tang still restrained himself no matter how arrogant he was in front of his old lady, he hurriedly said with a smile, "I'm just kidding, hey, this kid will take it seriously, I'm very happy that my eldest brother and sister-in-law are here, how could I drive them away."

Seeing that Xiaoyu was crying so hard just now, Du Wenyuan wanted to wipe her with his sleeve, but he raised his face and saw that he couldn't find a single tear. His face was dry and quiet, so he immediately understood, and stretched out his hand to wipe her forehead. Afterwards, he said softly, "Your brother lied too, you damn girl!" But he still wiped her seriously with his sleeve.

Others also came over at this time, and Mrs. Bao inevitably reprimanded Mrs. Li.

"Xian'er, daughter-in-law, I was just joking, and they were scolded by me." Shi Li paused as she spoke, she was not used to soft-spoken words, "My birthday is once every 50 years, and I will also I don’t know if there will be a [-]th birthday gift, but you should stay here, I like the three children very much, and I will see them more in the future, who dares to say that I will drive you away, I will be the first to drive them away!”

"Mother, don't worry, we won't leave, let's tidy up and have a good birthday, all the guests are here." Du Xian replied, but Zhao didn't express his opinion.

Mrs. Li looked at Mrs. Zhao, her face darkened a bit.

"Grandma's clothes are so beautiful!" Du Xiaoyu stretched out her hand to caress the maroon embroidered silk. The material must be very expensive. When she thought of her own situation, her brows tightened. Mrs. Li is obviously a landlady, and Mrs. Bao kept saying Tian ah Tian Yes, she was afraid that their family would intervene. What she is most curious about now is why Du Xian left the Du family to live such a difficult life back then?And why is there a tendency to go back now?

Hearing this sentence, Du Feng, the eldest daughter of the Wu family, looked at Du Xiaoyu and said, "The fourth sister is also very beautiful wearing flowers."

This is a very smart person, Du Xiaoyu judged it from Du Feng's behavior just now, and smiled at her, "It was worn by my second brother, and my sister is also very pretty, can you take me out to play later?" ?” Turned around and asked Li Shi, “Grandmother, can I go outside to play? If I go to play, will Second Uncle secretly go to our house to steal chickens?”

Du Huanghua burst out laughing, but Du Tang couldn't laugh or cry.

"Go and play. Your second uncle will stay here today and he won't be able to go anywhere. You can go and play without worry." Li Shi was very patient and looked at Du Wenyuan gently, "I haven't finished the story you just told, wait a while Let’s continue talking after the banquet, my grandma likes to listen.”

Du Xiaoyu went out to play with Du Feng and Wu's youngest daughter Du Yu, while the adults received guests and arranged birthday gifts.

Li's three daughter-in-laws, Bao's, are the most beautiful, and they have a very headstrong personality. I don't know what their origins are. Wu's appearance is similar to Zhao's. As for the second uncle's daughter-in-law, Du Xiaoyu didn't see her, which made her very puzzled.

Among them, Du Feng and Du Yu look different. Du Feng looks like her mother Wu, with gentle eyebrows and eyes. Du Yu may be a little more like her father, Du Yi, but a little less.

Since the Du family was Du Xian's former home, Du Xiaoyu naturally wanted to take a good look at it. Blood is thicker than water. He was born here, so he was destined to intersect with this place and this family. What will happen in the future more or less , It is said that knowing oneself and knowing the enemy, Du Xiaoyu, as the granddaughter of the Du family, must make preparations in order to be invincible in the future.

It is very big here, besides the three-entry courtyard, there are two independent small courtyards at the back, which are for Du Yi and Du Zhang to live in, while Du Tang and Li Shi live in the big courtyard.The Du family's fields surround the east and west sides of the yard. Looking at the size of the servants, Du Xiaoyu estimated that there should be three or four hundred acres of fields. She is still young, so she definitely would not ask Du Feng such a question, and could only guess for yourself.

This land is actually not much, at best it is just a small landlord.

She thought it was a little funny, Bao's and Du Tang's faces seemed like they had a lot of property in the Du family, they were really watching the sky from the bottom of a well!

Soon it was evening, the guests had almost left, and Du Xian bid farewell to Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li seemed a little bit reluctant, and kept asking them to come more often.

After returning home, Mrs. Zhao went to the kitchen to boil water. Du Huanghua cut vegetables and fed the chickens. Du Xiaoyu sat at the door and stared at the shining stars in a daze. In the lake, it is even more like a bright pearl sinking at the bottom of the water, emitting a seductive light.

Du Wenyuan took a look at her from a distance. Since he recovered from his illness, his eyes always had a strange brilliance, as if he was missing something and yearning for something.

"Xiaoyu." He walked over and sat beside her, "Looking at the stars again?"

Ever since she came to this world, she can't help but look up at the sky. I don't know if it's a dynasty thousands of years ago, or a completely strange time and space, but the sky is the same, with the sun, the stars, With the moon, she felt a deep sense of reality only when she saw those first few days.

All this is not illusory, the past is thrown into time after all, and she will never go back.

"Brother, do you know what star this is?" She pointed to one of the Big Dipper, which was a pattern she liked to find in the sky since she was a child.

Du Wenyuan looked in that direction, smiled, took her hand and drew a picture, "This is called the Big Dipper, do you see it? It looks like a bucket together, and the seven stars in it are called Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, Yaoguang. "Huainanzi" states that if the bucket handle points to the east, the world will be spring; if the bucket handle points to the south, the world will be summer, and if the handle points to the west, it will be autumn and winter."

"Oh, it's spring now, so this handle points to the east." Du Xiaoyu clapped his hands and said, "Brother is so powerful, you all know that."

"It's all in the books, so you have to learn how to read well, and you can read any book in the future."

Du Xiaoyu was deeply convinced, and nodded again and again, "I will definitely, my brother will teach Xiaoyu when I have time." She also wants to ask many questions, such as who is the current emperor?
Unexpectedly, Du Wenyuan suddenly slapped her on the head at this time, "By the way, who told you what you want when you become an official, and you can beat anyone you want?"

"This..." Du Xiaoyu grinned, "I just want to scare my second uncle and my aunt. If my brother really becomes an official, he must be a good official and he will never beat anyone!"

Now Du Wenyuan laughed out loud, "Are you sure that I am a good person? Well, since being an official has so many benefits, I must work hard."

Don't be ashamed, Du Xiaoyu didn't say big things last time. It might not be a big deal to be a scholar, but it is more difficult to be a scholar or even a Jinshi than to be a Tsinghua University. How can it be that simple? This second brother is really not humble!

(End of this chapter)