Xue Gouzi has been ill for several days, and his face is thin and out of shape, and his eyes are getting bigger and bigger.
Zhao'er has always felt that the eyes of the little man are the most beautiful eyes in the world, although these eyes are always disgusted and resisted when facing her.
In fact, Xue Gouzi's eyes look good all over his body. He was frail since he was a child, and the second wife and his wife managed to support him, and he was pampered on weekdays. The boys of the same age as him in the village are all dark-skinned and as strong as calves, but he is pale and thin, and he is silent and taciturn.
However, Zhao'er has always been domineering, never allowing anyone to speak of a little man, and whoever says she is anxious. Because of this, she had fought with many girls in the village, although some people said behind their backs that no one dared to point fingers in front of people.
Zhao'er always felt that the little man's eyes were strange today, and he averted his eyes uncomfortably.
She knew that the little man must be angry again. He didn't like her saying 'the dog is my man'. Every time he heard her say this, he could ignore her for a few days. In fact, Zhao'er also needs face, but she is the child bride of the second room of the Xue family. If she didn't claim to be like this, how could she have the qualifications to challenge the fourth aunt Sun.
"Are you hungry? Look what I brought you back?"
Zhao'er turned his head and put these troubles behind his head, and took out a paper bag from his arms. Opening the paper bag, there were two steaming steamed buns inside. They were fat and cute, and they made people like them when they looked at them.
"Eat it fast, while it's still hot." She smiled and put the paper bag into the little man's hand, placing the basket on her shoulders in the corner of the wall.
Xue Gouzi glanced at her.
The girl in front of her was in her cardamom age, and her skin was the common wheat color of a country girl, but Zhao'er's complexion was very different from others. It was smooth and lustrous, as if smeared with honey. He has a tall nose, a pair of eyes that are not too big or small, and swarthy pupils. When he smiles, he has a flash of inspiration, and he looks lively.
Zhao'er is taller than ordinary girls, and is well developed. Her body is full of youthful vigor.
It was so alive, as alive as in his dreams.
He took the steamed buns and nibbled them unconsciously. Seeing this move, he laughed even more happily. He went to the kitchen and poured him a bowl of water and put it on his hand. He bent down to clean up the scattered bedding on the kang, while thinking about what to do for him at night to make up for his body.
The little man finally got better, and the medicine has to be continued to drink, and a few more doses can be consolidated. From this, he naturally began to calculate the little money left in his hand, and then he thought of a way to get some money, in order to solve the urgent need.
"Have you eaten?" Xue Gouzi asked.
This kind of behavior rarely happens to him, so Zhao'er can't help but look up at the little man sitting on the kang.
In fact, the little man has a handsome appearance, which is different from the fair skin of the countryman. The corners of his eyes are slightly raised, and the curvature makes his face a little more delicate and handsome. It's that the little man always had his head half down, his temperament was gloomy and silent, and he was too thin and inconspicuous in front of others.
Zhao'er's eyes warmed, her smile even wider, and her mouth crackled as she said, "I ate it, I ate it outside, this is for you."
After she finished speaking, she realized that she had missed her mouth. She waited for the little man to show a disgusted expression, or to condemn her daughter's house for not running around, but he didn't say anything, and seemed to have something on his mind. Eating buns.
Zhao'er couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but at the same time, her heart ached, she couldn't help saying: "Dog, don't worry too much, after all, you heard what you said, and since you didn't say it face to face, you can't take it as the truth. Don't be afraid, just make money for you to study."
Xue Gouzi's head actually still hurts a little, and he was dizzy. Zhao'er thought he had something on his mind, but in fact he was just thinking about that dream. Hearing Zhao'er's words at this time, he suddenly remembered why he had this serious illness.
Seriously, Xue Gouzi's serious illness was caused by stagnation of liver qi.
When I mention this, let's talk about the general situation of the Xue family.
Yuqing Village is a village located under Huyang Town, Xia County, Pingyang Prefecture. There are only more than 200 households in the village.
The Xue family is one of them.
However, the Xue family is different from other ordinary farmers, and it can be regarded as having some origins.
The ancestor of the Xue family, that is, the grandfather of the old man Xue, was a scholar. In a poor mountain and depression like Yuqing Village, it is a great event to honor the ancestors.
Because of this talented man, the Xue family's generation became the patriarch of the Xue family, and several village elders were attached to the family, and finally they had some say in Yuqing Village. At the same time, he naturally blessed his younger generation. Father Xue's father was hardworking and hardworking. With the help of his elders, he also slowly built a family business.
By the time of Mr. Xue's generation, the Xue family already has more than 30 acres of fertile land, and several sons also have their own livelihoods.
Mr. Xue and his wife, Mrs. Zhao, have four sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Xue Qingshan, married Mrs. Yang and gave birth to two sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Xue Juncai, is fifteen years old, the second son, Xue Youcai, is ten years old, and the eldest daughter, Xue Man'er, is married.
The second child, Xue Qingsong, is a carpenter, married to his wife Qiu, and gave birth to a son, Xue Gouzi, now fourteen years old. The third child, Xue Qingbai, is a man from a banker’s family. He married the Zhou family and gave birth to a son and a daughter. The eldest daughter, Xue Tao'er, is thirteen this year, and the youngest son, Xue Shuanzi, is eight years old. The fourth eldest, Xue Qinghuai, is a picker, married to the Sun family, and has a son named Xue Maodan, who is only four years old this year.
As for the two daughters, the eldest daughter Xue Cuiping is already married, and the youngest daughter Xue Cuiping is fourteen this year and is still waiting to be married.
It is worth mentioning that now there are parents who say that they do not separate their families. In addition, all the families in the countryside are governed by clans, so the Xue family is not divided.
The Xue family has tasted the benefits of reading, so they have more vision than ordinary farmers. Xue Qingshan was smart because he was a child, and he was the eldest son. Father Xue had high hopes for him. When he reached the age of enlightenment, he spent money to send him to a private school.
Xue Qingshan is also very good. At the age of 20, he passed the test of Tongsheng. Although he still stops at being a scholar, he is still a scholar who can be counted in ten miles and eight townships.
Don't underestimate Tongsheng! As the saying goes, scholars, peasants, businessmen, and scholars are the highest class of people in the current society. If ordinary people want to turn the people into scholars, the only way is to take the imperial examinations. As for the imperial examinations, it is only possible to go to the West to learn scriptures, but to pass through various levels and go through hardships and hardships.
If you want to embark on this path, you must first be qualified, and Tong Sheng is a person with this qualification. It is necessary to pass both the county and the prefectural examination to be called a child. As for the next step is to become a scholar, to become a scholar is to go to school, and it is also the first step on the road to the imperial examination.
It can be seen from this that Tong Sheng is not an ordinary person, so Xue Qingshan's status in the Xue family can be imagined.
But as I said before, the Xue family's family background in the countryside can only be regarded as a middle-class family. If a family like this is to support a scholar, it will almost exhaust all the human and financial resources of the whole family. Because the eldest son is the eldest son, he will set up a door in the future, and he is talented and intelligent, so the following sons naturally have to give in.
As for why Xue Gouzi became seriously ill, it has to be related to another old matter of the Xue family.
Back then, after Xue Qingshan was conceived as a child, he was considered to be a young man with ambition. He was full of ambition and wanted to pass the academy exam in one fell swoop, and he would also be able to be a scholar. Unfortunately, it is not according to people's wishes.
He was only one step away from the door, and he was not reconciled to anyone else. Xue Qingshan could only quiet down, be angry and try to be strong, hoping to be successful next time.
After so many years, the initial smugness was completely devastated by reality. Xue Qingshan failed many times in the exam, and he couldn't stay at home and eat rice all the time. In desperation, I set up a private school in the village, which specializes in accepting children from this village and several nearby villages to read and write, and they can even eat.
With such convenient conditions, several children of the Xue family naturally followed suit. The next few children are still young, and in their grandchildren's life, Xue Juncai, the eldest son of the first room, and Xue Gouzi of the second room have learned the longest.
However, compared to his cousin Xue Juncai, Xue Gouzi is obviously not as good. It is also because he is too weak. When he was a child, he was always sick every three days, which delayed a lot of homework.
It was five years ago, and this year, the academic officer held the academy exam in Fucheng. Xue Qingshan naturally would not miss it. He stopped the private school early and went to Fucheng to take the exam.
It's not easy to go out at this time. Besides, Mr. Xue doesn't worry about the eldest son going out alone, so he asks the second child, Xue Qingsong, to accompany him.
That is, something happened this time. Xue Qingshan didn't know who offended someone in the city. Xue Qingsong was beaten all over in order to protect his eldest brother. The person was finally pulled back, but he died within a few days after returning. Before his death, Xue Qingsong asked Xue Qingshan to promise himself that he must do everything in his power to confess Xue Gouzi.
In fact, after giving way for others all his life, how could Xue Qingsong have no complaints in his heart, but he is simple and honest in nature, and he knows that his talent is not as good as that of the big brother, so he has always been silent and dedicated.
But when it came to his son, especially Xue Gouzi was frail since he was a child, no matter how he looked at it, he was not someone who ate the house's meal, and he was dying soon, so Xue Qingsong would take the opportunity to force his eldest brother to make a promise.
Xue Qingsong would do this, but he wanted to break the status quo that the resources of the Xue family had been tilted towards the big house. The Xue family only has two scholars in the big room. Now there is another Xue Gouzi. The children of the third room were still young, and the fourth child was not married. As long as Xue Qingshan agrees, others will naturally have nothing to say, and Xue Qingsong can be regarded as doing his best for his son Brown.
Xue Qingshan agreed to this matter on the spot, crying blood and saying that he would treat Xue Gouzi as his son, and Xue Qingsong closed his eyes.
Not long after that, Qiu Shi, who was already in poor health, became depressed and died. Since then, Xue Gouzi has become a poor child with no parents and no mother. Fortunately, there are still grandparents, uncles, and Zhaoer, a child bride, so there is no need to worry about the lack of food and clothing.
In the following years, Xue Qingshan really treated Xue Gouzi like a parent-child. No one in the village said that the eldest of the Xue family was raising his nephew as his own son. But as the saying goes, the human heart is the most fickle, and selfishness is the nature of human beings. As time passed, the big house gradually changed its attitude.
This year, seeing that he had nothing to teach his son, Xue Qingshan decided to send Xue Juncai to the town school to study for two years.
But going to the academy to study costs a lot of silver, not to mention that one year’s training costs two silver coins, the three festivals and six rituals of the husband, and the pen, ink, paper and inkstone that are usually used, all of which cost money. Because the Xue family confessed to Xue Qingshan, their vitality has already been seriously damaged, and there is no money for the two children to go together.
You can only take out one piece of silver, which means that Xue Juncai and Xue Gouzi can only go to one.
Xue Qingshan told the matter in front of the whole family, Xue Gouzi didn't say anything interesting, but chose to be silent.
During that time, the atmosphere of the Xue family was strange, the old man Xue was frowning, and the grandmother Zhao was eccentric all day long, but the couple in the big room were still the same as before, and they thought nothing of it.
This is not to mention, it is also a coincidence that Xue Gouzi accidentally heard the aunt Yang and the fourth aunt Sun talking secretly, saying that the parents-in-law should come forward and Xue Gouzi would take the initiative to give up the place to study in the town. , Xue Gouzi became seriously ill under his anger.
Thinking of this, Xue Gouzi felt uneasy for a while, and at the same time, many pictures appeared in his mind, which were exactly the contents of his previous dreams.
The Xue Tingxiang in the dream also faced the same situation in the 14th year, and the other party also changed his temperament greatly through this incident, changing his earlier temperament.
Could it be that he is Xue Tingxiang, and that Xue Tingxiang is him? But why does he dream of these things!
Xue Gouzi felt a throbbing pain in his head, the steamed bun in his hand fell on the kang, and the water bowl next to him was knocked over. When Zhao'er heard the movement, he rushed up and hugged him in his arms.
"Dog, dog, don't scare me!"
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Seeing a little fairy asking if it is the male protagonist's perspective, can I say it is a mix-and-match perspective