Along the way one after another, he sent away fat rich merchants and downtrodden scholars, and soon after arriving at Huai Ning County, Zhu Ping An was left alone in the carriage.
The closer he got to his home, the more excited Zhu Pingan’s mood became.
The birds love the old forest, the fish miss the old abyss. There is no place warmer than home, and no one warmer than family. It’s beautiful outside, but I have to go home.
When he arrived at Guanshan Town, Zhu Pingan said goodbye to the carriage company, put on his bag and strolled around the town for a short while to buy some small gifts for his family. Bought a silver earring for my mother, a small jar of ten year old wine for my father, and a bag of fine tobacco for my grandfather. ……
After buying the good things, carefully packed in the travelling bag, Zhu Pingan carried the travelling bag to the outside of the town.
The intersection of the leaning town outward parked a strange oxcart, longer than the average oxcart, also much wider, there are two rows of seats on top, there is also a clean linoleum made of the top of the roof, can be sheltered from the rain and the sun, in front of the oxcart is a wrestling with the tail of the big black ox, hanging on the neck of the big bells!
There were already five people sitting on the wagon, in front of the big black ox a bronze-coloured burly man was carrying a water basin to feed the big black ox water.
“Hey, Shouyi, look at that kid coming over there, isn’t that your family’s Er Xiao.” An older woman in the car saw Zhu Pingan who was walking this way in the distance, how do I look at him, he felt a bit familiar, he couldn’t help but open his mouth and said to the man in front of him who was carrying a water basin to feed water to the cow.
“Maiden, you’re here again, this month alone is the third time.” The bronze-coloured burly Han said with a bitter smile, continuing to give the cattle dietary salt water, without looking up, he himself had been fooled twice, that would be the third time he would be fooled. Waiting for the cattle to finish drinking, he still has to rush home, go home late, his mother should complain again.
Zhu Pingan recognised his family’s oxcart at a glance, it was too conspicuous, so he carried his bag and went towards the direction of the oxcart.
“Shouyi, Shouyi, it’s really your second son, the other day the town came to your door to beat a gong and drums, but not your two little this is back.” The damsel sitting on the oxcart looked at Zhu Pingan who was getting closer and closer, more and more believing in her eyes, couldn’t help but excitedly stretching out her hand to clap on the shoulder of the man who was feeding the ox.
“Damiang stop it, when Dahei finishes drinking this basin of water, I will drive the cart to send everyone home.” The ancient copper burly man feeding the oxen laughed bitterly, seeming to be scared of being tricked by the damsel on the ox cart.
The damsel was so excited that she couldn’t help herself, she didn’t know what to say to make the ox-feeding han believe, and the other people sitting on the ox cart weren’t from the lower river village and didn’t know Zhu Pingan, which made it even more so that the damsel didn’t know what to say to make the ox-feeding han believe, she just patted the ox-feeding han’s shoulder several times in a row, and kept saying with her mouth, “It’s true, it’s really ……”
Although she had never heard the story of the wolf, she felt the same way as the sheep herder in the story.
“Father, I’m back.”
Seeing that the big black ox was about to drink all the water from a large basin, the man feeding the ox suddenly heard a familiar voice from above his head.
Familiar, this voice was so familiar that he could hear it even if he covered his ears.
The man feeding the cow was instantly excited.
For feeding the cattle Hanzi’s excitement, the big black cow has the most right to speak: I had a good drink of water, en, the water is still a little salty, very good, looking at me to drink out, I did not expect, never thought, the basin at once pressed my nose to go up the …… tears are choking out … …
Feed the cattle of the man is also Zhu Pingan s father Zhu Shouyi, under the excitement of the basin in the hand all of a sudden pressed to the nose of the big black cattle, and then also do not care to feed the cattle again, raised his head to look at Zhu Pingan, mute and naive face all of a sudden smiled open, and then but pretended to be casual open mouth:
“Why did you come back, the other day the town Yamen came to the house to report the good news that you passed some kind of test and passed the examination, people also said that you might continue to study over there and then you have to go to Yingtian to take another test.”
Zhu Pingan put his bag on the oxcart, and greeted the eldest mother and others on the oxcart, then took the water basin from Zhu Shouyi’s hand to help feed the oxen, and while feeding the oxen, he explained to his father, “The courtyard examination will not be held until more than August, and now it’s only a little more than April, so it’s still early, and I can study at home as well, and besides, the food that my mother cooks can be one hundred times better than the food outside, not only. more than that.”
“It will take half a month to travel back and forth, so I might as well stay there and study.” Zhu father rubbed his hands together, then checked the oxcart rope buckle and looked at Zhu Pingan and said.
Before Zhu Pingan could open his mouth, the eldest mother on the cart interjected, “Swine, don’t believe your father’s words, you don’t even know that the first time the eldest mother teased your father that you were here, your father was as happy as anything.”
“Ahem, Auntie you net blindly say ……,” Zhu father is a little embarrassed, fortunately the face is dark, red can not be seen at all.
After Zhu Pingan sat on the car, one after another, there are three people up, a total of nine people sitting in a car, Zhu father then waved the whip to drive the big black cattle to the town outside.
The car is also very lively, when you know that sitting in the car is the recent town rumours of the town’s youngest student after the cattle car passengers are either surrounded by Zhu Pingan asked this and that, is surrounded by Zhu father asked how to educate the child and so on, at a time, the feeling is like a very modern college entrance exams after the outstanding results of the child was surrounded by parents to ask about the experience.
Zhu’s father drove the oxcart along a curved arc around an s-shape to send people from different villages on the oxcart to the neighbourhood of their house, after driving the oxcart for so many years, Zhu’s father could accurately send people to the neighbourhood of their house almost with his eyes closed.
When they returned to Xihe Village, the only passenger on the oxcart was the old lady, who was a talkative person and chatted with Zhu Pingan and Zhu’s father all the way on the oxcart.
Into the next river village, one after another encountered the villagers know, the villagers see Zhu Pingan are complimented, it seems that the other day the town came to beat the drums and drums to report the good news of the impact of quite large, at least basically the whole village know Zhu Pingan on the examination of the student, but also the entire Anqing Province, the first, we must know that the entire village of the next river, the highest level of education is the student, or the eldest uncle examined for many years only to be hanged up the end of the examination in the village to send Zhu Pingan and other people to catch the examination of the time, the village people to send Zhu Pingan and other people to catch the examination of the time, the village people to send Zhu Pingan and others. When the village people sent Zhu Pingan and other people to catch the examination, no one expected Zhu Pingan to pass the examination, and now Zhu Pingan not only passed the examination, but also the first place in the whole Anqing prefecture, so people see Zhu Pingan are eager to see Zhu Pingan see the flowers, it is too rare.
Zhu Pingan also greeted his neighbours one by one, which made the neighbours very happy and feel dignified, the village people care about this.
Because talking to the neighbours took some time, when I returned home, my mother, Chen, had already prepared the meal.
Without entering the door, I heard the dialogue between my elder brother and my mother.
“Mother, why did you make another big table of food ah, another chicken and fish, we can’t eat it all.” This was big brother’s voice.
“What do you know, in case the swine child came back it, he is not as lucky as you outside, can eat my cooking every day, I don’t know the swine child has become thin no ……” the mother’s voice came immediately after.
“Outside the restaurant to do more delicious it ……” big brother muttered in a small voice.
“What, Da Chuan you say it again, mother did not hear!” Mother’s voice was three times higher.
“Cough cough cough, I said that Mother is much more delicious than the ones made by outside restaurants ……”
In the mother Chen’s power, mute and simple big brother was forced to say pleasing words, it seems that the two days of big brother did not less because of this lesson!
