It is a custom in villages to catnap in winter, especially on days when snow falls.
Once the snow falls, everywhere freezing, the village is empty, the village townspeople are busy with the crops in the ground, most of them are sitting around the bed, the stove on the sewing and mending needlework, even if the sky collapses are not willing to go out a step.
Today, however, the village is an exception, despite the snow flurries outside the north wind whistling, but the cold did not freeze people’s enthusiasm, the whole village of the river is a red-hot lively cheers.
Lead to the village of the lower river is an exception to the thing: Zhu Shouyi family thirteen-year-old son won the examination.
Early in the morning after the village head of the announcing the joy of the errand boy set off firecrackers, the whole village of the lively has never calmed down. Even after the announcing officer finished receiving the red packet and rode on a fast horse to leave Xihe Village, Xihe Village was still a lively sea.
Zhu Pingan’s house was full of people, and the courtyard was also crowded with people.
In addition to the townspeople, Zhu’s grandparents in the old mansion, three uncles and three aunts, as well as Pavilion Yuel, four uncles and four aunts, as well as the great-uncle mother and Zhu Pingjun are all in the house of Zhu Pingan, only the great-uncle Zhu Shouren absent, er, the great-uncle Zhu Shouren last night to read until the night of the cold, in the old mansion is in the quilt, “recuperate” it. But in the eyes of the village people, the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren is not ashamed to come over to pretend to be sick.
Grandfather sat in the house, baring a dry cigarette, listening to the village congratulations, happy but could not help but let out a few sighs; as for the fourth uncle and fourth aunt, they are happy in the village people walk sideways, but the grandmother and the great-aunt is a little bit not very happy with the sour taste, if possible, they would prefer to win the election is the great-uncle.
Although the village people are congratulating Zhu Pingan’s family is also congratulating the Zhu family’s old house people, but in the courtyard there are still many village people in the secret whisper discussion about the Zhu family ten years ago the separation of the incident, secretly ridicule grandfather must be for the first time for the matter of repentance broken intestines.
If the family is not separated, grandfather, they are not a hundred times more honourable than now, when the first son of the optimistic even the Xiu Cai did not pass the examination, forced to take the blame of the second son not only made a fortune, and even the youngest grandchildren not only won the Xiu Cai in a year more Zhonglu Zhuren.
In addition to the promotion of status and so on, the most direct benefit is to exempt taxes, corvée. Unfortunately, the Zhu family old house in order to take care of the reputation of the oldest, hard to call the head of the family, all in the county record registration, this benefit is not enjoy! The Zhu family’s old house is estimated to be all remorseful for the last few days is not able to eat.
The most happy or Zhu Pingan’s parents and siblings. Especially the mother Chen’s even more happy mouth do not know how to close.
“His second aunt, you’re the wife of a high ranking scholar, it’s really enviable. You also give us a big group of people to tell us, how did you cultivate the Lifted Man?”
The village people asked Zhu Pingan’s mother, Chen, with both envy and curiosity as well as compliments.
Upon hearing this, the smile on her mother Chen’s face became even brighter. With a modest face, she waved her hand repeatedly, but her voice had nothing to do with modesty:
“I don’t know anything about cultivation, I just raise them like everyone else. However, you don’t have to tell me, my swine’s son has been understanding since he was a child, and at only two years old, he already knew how to care for his mother.”
Upon hearing this, the people of the village, both curious and complimentary, repeatedly asked how the only Lifted Master in the lower river village was able to understand things at the age of two.
When Chen heard this, her chin went up to the sky, and she looked proud of her son, “You don’t know. Our family’s Ping An has always understood things since he was a child. When he was two years old, he was still in swaddling clothes, and at that time, he had a bad day, and once he quarrelled with your family’s second brother in the house, don’t look at your family’s second brother honestly, but he was angry with others, and he made me angry and cried, and at that time, he was hugging the piglet, who was still in his swaddling clothes. Guess what?”
“What happened? Heh heh, second sister-in-law beat up second brother.” Some village people cajoled, causing everyone to laugh.
When everyone’s laughter ended. Chen only shook her head, a face of pride and relief then said, “His skin is thick ah, hit him shall not strand pain in my hand ah. At that time. Our swine was only two years old, and when he saw me crying, he knew to pull the nappy out of the swaddling clothes and wipe my tears.”
He was only two years old, he didn’t know how to feel sorry for people. The swine’s skin was so strong when he was a child that he didn’t understand anything until he was five years old, when he got well. He is only two years old and has not even been weaned, so he doesn’t know anything yet!
“He pissed himself.” Father Zhu really couldn’t listen anymore and couldn’t help but interject.
Then the entire courtyard was coaxed into a good-natured laugh, filled with a happy atmosphere.
Chen was on the rise, by Zhu father so a splash of cold water, Chen naturally did not do it, glared hard at the innocent Zhu Shouyi, will Zhu Shouyi glared like a quail lowered his head before finishing.
Then, like a victorious rooster, Chen continued to tilt her head back and shared with the village people the story of Zhu Pingan’s childhood intelligence, understanding, diligence, and recognition of learning, and the village people also listened with great interest, discomfort and envy to echo Chen a few sentences, and then Chen became even more energetic, and complimented Zhu Pingan’s heavenly rare on the ground, and if Zhu Pingan were here, surely would have listened to the red face.
For Zhu Pingan’s praise, Chen’s is not the only one, the other side of the Zhu Pingjun also ignored his mother’s face is not good at that with the village people said Zhu Pingan’s childhood, of course, there are things in him, there are some positive and some negative, but Zhu Pingjun does not care, said the rise of the froth at the mouth, which is also a person to go crazy, long time have not enjoyed the feeling of being held up by the crowd.
“To tell you ah, when I was a child and swine brother closest, really, school we all go together. To tell you the truth, swine brother didn’t stand a chance in the student examination. Because one of our senior brothers had a sudden accident in his family, he had to be worried at home, do you know what “worried” means? The teacher wanted me to go, but I said, “No, let swine brother go,” and swine brother went. Otherwise, swine brother would not be here today.”
“Don’t believe me, it’s true. Why did I let swine brother go, because swine brother is a little bit smarter than me. Let me tell you about my childhood. When I was little, I was close to Piggy, and we played together all the time.
One time, Piggy wanted to go to the mountains with Da Chuan to pick fruits, and I wanted to play with Piggy again, but Piggy wanted to go with Da Chuan to pick fruits. So he told me to play hide-and-seek, saying that if I couldn’t find him, I had to keep looking for him and never come out on my own.”
Speaking of this, Zhu Pingjun had a sighing face and looked up at the sky at forty-five degrees.
“That day, I foolishly lay on my back in the woodpile and hid for half a day until my mother made dinner and burnt the fire”
On the side of the great aunt at this time, hate to will their own this fortune-telling Wenquxing descending son, pressed to the ground stink beat, this do not know the shame of the contraption
This day, the entire lower river village has been bustling all day, the village only one after another in the evening dispersed. The people of the Zhu family’s old house stayed at Zhu Pingan’s house to have dinner, and only after dark did Xue Ming return to the old house.
