Xue Tingxiang and others didn't know that there was such a scene in secret. The four went around the main entrance of the academy and saw a lot of people surrounding the door from a distance.
All are the elders in the family with the younger ones.
Mao Badou spat out a mouthful of bad luck, and said to the three of them, "Let's go another way." Then they went back the same way, went all the way to the back door, knocked on the door and let the Zaifu inside open the door for them, and the four People can get in.
Nowadays, people in the school don't go through the front door. Xue Tingxiang and others thought that no one was here at noon, but who would have thought that there would still be people watching.
There are too many students who have come to study recently, and most of them are students in the former Qinghe Academy. Mostly because of what happened before, Qingyuan was very disgusted with these people, and some students even went to Lin Miao to ask him not to accept Qinghe's students, because no one knew what the conduct of these students was.
Lin Miao did not agree, but he did not reject it. However, in terms of accepting students, even though the magistrate Xu had hinted it several times, he was still very cautious in accepting students.
Maybe people have the best mentality if they can't ask for it. Recently, more and more people come to Qingyuan. He didn't leave even if he was rejected, he just blocked at the door, with an attitude of never giving up until his goal was achieved.
The four of them returned to the house, took a short rest, and then took out their books to read, including Mao Badou, who was usually the most lazy. It was probably because of his apprenticeship that temporarily stimulated him, so I don't know how long his enthusiasm would last.
In the afternoon, it was normal for Lishu, and the class was dismissed just after halfway through Shen Shi. Tomorrow is the rest day, and during the rest time, the class will be dismissed very early on the first day.
Today is Zhao'er to pick up Xue Tingxiang. She has just learned to drive a car recently and is very interested. Xue Tingxiang stepped out of the door, and saw her wearing a man's clothes, sitting on the carriage, and looking at him with a smile.
It was a fire in July, and the weather was already very hot. Xue Tingxiang was only wearing a thin robe, and he was sweating from the heat. Not to mention Zhao'er, her face was red from the sun, and her hair on both temples was wet with sweat.
"It's so hot, and the sun is poisonous at this hour. Next time you don't come, it's not that I don't recognize the way, I know how to go back." Xue Tingxiang said a little distressed.
"You also know that the sun is poisonous, don't you walk slowly to Zhenkou to take a car, and then take the oxcart back in that terrifying death, and it will not be hot all the way? It's not hot anymore."
Xue Tingxiang was about to speak, when a mocking voice came from behind him: "Tingxiang, Sister Zhao'er is distressed for you, but not appreciative."
It was Mao Badou who spoke. Before the three stepped up, Mao Badou took the lead and called out to Sister Zhao'er, and Chen Jian also called out to Sister Zhao'er, but he was more serious. Li Datian just smiled and nodded to Zhao'er.
Mao Badou said: "Look at you, I don't know how to call someone."
Li Datian glared at him.
He grinned: "Che, it's not that you haven't called before, you are a little older than Sister Zhao'er, and you won't suffer from calling Sister."
Zhao'er looked at a few people with a dumbfounded smile. It was not the first time she had met Mao Badou and the others. She had been in touch with them when she went to investigate Sun He last time. I also know the dispositions of these three people, and this Mao Badou is a big treasure.
Li Datian was so angry that his teeth tickled, and he threw him: "You hurry up and leave, we have to go too."
He and Chen Jian live in the countryside, but they are different from Xue Tingxiang, but they can take a ride to Zhenkou and change to another car. Only Mao Badou lived in the town and had no hitchhiking.
"I won't leave, you bite me if you have the ability." After speaking, Mao Badou approached Zhao'er and pretended to be pitiful: "Sister Zhao'er, you can obey me for a while, you see this day."
The sun in Shen Shi was scorching hot, hanging high in the sky like a big fireball, emitting bursts of heat. It's just gossip for a while, and a few people are sweating profusely, not to mention Mao Badou, who is already fat.
"Then get in the car quickly."
Before he finished speaking, Mao Badou climbed into the car with agility that did not match his posture, picked up the best position, and smiled demonstratively at Li Datian.
Xue Tingxiang was almost speechless to him, the three of them filed into the car, and with a wave of Zhao'er's whip, the big green mule ran forward.
The road in the town is good and the car is safe.
Mao Badou was touting and boasting, making Zhao'er laugh again and again.
Xue Tingxiang's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. At a fork in the road, the car was not stable, so he pushed him down. Now it was Li Datian's turn to smile at Mao Badou's demonstration.
It was only after reaching the town entrance that Li Datian and Chen Jian were put down, and the car started to run faster. There are many people in the town, and if you are not careful, you will bump into people, so Zhao'er has slowed down before.
"You don't talk to Badou in the future, he's not serious."
Zhao'er looked at the road ahead distractedly, and said to him, "I think it's okay, Badou is just a little bit out of temper." She is older than Mao Badou, and Mao Badou is sweet and will please people His temperament, so Zhao'er regarded him as his younger brother.
"That's because you haven't seen the other side of him."
"There's another side to Badou?" Zhao'er got interested and glanced at him.
"Of course. He is rambunctious by nature. He likes to get along with girls the most. There are no girls near his house who have not been provoked by him." Xiaohua's younger sister, and Xiaocao's younger sister from the same street.
"And this? I think he's a little lively." Zhao'er couldn't believe it.
"Can you still tell? Think about it, his mouth is so sweet, it's definitely not natural. There is naturally someone who makes him learn to be slick. You don't know, he is not only romantic, but also the most sloppy... "
Xue Tingxiang did not hesitate at all, and told some of Mao Badou's bad things, how to discredit Mao Badou, anyway, from the root of his hair to the heel, there is not a single hair that is good, all are bad hairs.
At this time, Mao Badou, who had just stepped into the house, sneezed several times in a row, thinking in his mind which bastard was scolding him, and even scolded him several times.
"Then you are still on good terms with him?"
Xue Tingxiang suffocated before saying, "In fact, apart from these, others are actually pretty good."
"He's so romantic, which girl will marry him in the future, it's really going to be bad luck."
"No! So you don't talk to him in the future. He is the best at coaxing people, and the girl's family will be fooled by him."
Xue Tingxiang, who said nonsense with no conscience at all, never expected that after a few days, his words would be passed into the ears of a certain girl, so that Mao Badou found out later, and wished he would be sent to him. Squeeze to death.
But that's for later.
The first thing they did when they got home was to take a shower.
Zhao'er washed first, followed by Xue Tingxiang. After he finished washing, changed into clean clothes and walked out from the back, he heard Zhao shi sitting in front of the main room and scolding.
Naturally, it was the Qinghe Academy that killed thousands of knives, and they closed their doors after taking their money. Xue Juncai came back from the academy. He didn't say anything about what happened in the academy. He just said that the owner of the academy committed a crime and the academy was closed, so he can't go to school now.
The next day, Xue Qingshan took him to the town, went to take a look, and sure enough, there was a big seal on the door, and he could only return without success. Since then, when Zhao thinks about this, he will scold a few words, scolding the owner of the hall for hurting people, and scolding the academy for cheating people.
"Mother, can you say a few words less, Juncai is still reading in the room." Mrs. Yang said a word through the window sash, Mrs. Zhao was silent immediately.
Xue Tingxiang entered the door of the second house, and Zhao'er in the house also heard the outside words, the two looked at each other and sighed helplessly.
After that, Zhao’er also asked Xue Juncai if he wanted to study in Qingyuan. With Xue Tingxiang's relationship, and the fact that this case can be reversed, it all depends on his news. It is not difficult to enter Qingyuan.
Unexpectedly, her chance to choose was unfortunate. Even though there was no one around, she was bumped into by the Yang family and caused a mess. Mrs. Yang said that Zhao'er was not good-hearted and gloated on misfortune. What's the pity for them? They also said that the kind of broken places in Qingyuan are not rare for their talented people.
Even if the trouble reaches Mr. Zhao and Mr. Xue, Mr. Xue came forward to stop it, and that's all.
In this case, Xue Juncai naturally refused. And since he came back from town, Xue Juncai has been idle at home, and he is rarely seen going out.
"Why don't I ask again?"
"Okay, don't worry about this shit. Xue Juncai is fine. The uncle and aunt are not good people, and they will cause a mess again."
Zhao'er nodded, in fact, she didn't want to care, otherwise she wouldn't speak in this tone.
When it was time for dinner, Xue Qingshan came back from outside. He looked drunk, and at a glance he knew where he had been drinking.
"Shanzi, have you eaten? If you haven't, just sit down and eat." Old Master Xue said.
Xue Qingshan weighed his stomach and burped: "Father, I won't eat it."
Zhao said: "Yang, don't help your man back to the house to rest."
Mr. Yang put down the bowls and chopsticks and supported Xue Qingshan back to the east wing.
She put him on the kang, but she didn't move him well. She saw him struggling on the kang, and he looked like he didn't hate people too much.
Mrs Yang suppressed her anger and asked, "What happened to Juncai going to school? I see you going out every day, and every time I drink unconsciously, I don't have any news of my affairs. It's all given to you, if you still can't do it, you can do it yourself."
Xue Qingshan waved his hand and said impatiently: "You think it's easy to do this? It's better to stay at home if you go to that bad school. The good school doesn't accept people at this time. Yes, but who told you to make things like that in the first place, it wasn't because of you that I went out every day to run for favors?"
Yang was speechless.
If she had known that Qingyuan Academy would be so good, she wouldn't have said such words if she was killed. It's also because things are changing so fast, who would have thought that the originally ordinary Qingyuan Academy would suddenly be favored by the county magistrate and become one of the hottest academies in Huyang Township.
And in those few days, she was annoyed by the unfortunate things in her family, so when she heard Zhao'er say that, and saw her son's dizzy head, she subconsciously thought that this dead girl Zhao'er was deliberately mocking his family.
Now that the whole family knows about it, and it was so stiff at the time, even if she knew afterwards that she was blind, she wouldn't say anything wrong.
There was no way to do this, so the couple summed it up, Yang Shi gritted his teeth and took out the money he had saved for a long time, and let Xue Qingshan go out to run for favors, and he must find a better school for Xue Juncai than Qingyuan. It's a pity that Xue Qingshan ran for many days and didn't bring back any good news.
"Give me some more money, and I'll invite my classmates for a drink tomorrow. This matter is almost clear."
"How about a drink? Why don't you invite me to the house? I'll cook by myself..."
"Give it to me as soon as possible, and invite your classmates to come to the house for dinner. In this remote rural area, everyone is willing to come? How can you do things without spending money, and others will ask you to do things without spending money, would you like to?"
"Where's the money at home..."
Xue Qingshan squinted and half leaned on the kang and snorted, but did not speak.
Yang shi hesitated for a while before going to the cabinet. After a while, he turned back, holding a piece of broken silver in his hand, his face was full of pain.
"That's it."
Xue Qingshan grabbed it, put it into his arms, and continued to lie there to sober up.
Whenever Xue Tingyan took a break, Zhao'er would try to choose this day to be at home.
One is to do something good to make up for him, and the other is to take the opportunity to clean up the house. When Xue Tingxiang was not at home, she either went out and didn't return. Even when she came back, she was too tired to clean up, so she just took advantage of this day to clean up.
So Zhao'er was busy washing clothes and quilts early in the morning. Some of them were replaced at home, and some were brought back from school by Xue Tingxiang.
Xue Tingxiang couldn't help her, so she fetched water for her.
He has done this job many times. From the time when he could only fill a small half bucket of water and was ridiculed by the recruits, he can now fill a large half bucket. Among them, this bucket can only hold more than half of the bucket, and it is not full at all. During the process of pulling it up from the well, a lot of water will flow out.
The two were talking while washing their clothes. Zhao'er washes very quickly, someone fetches water for her, she has to save a lot of trouble.
After washing, the two of them worked together to wring out the sheets, one by one, twisting in opposite directions. Now Xue Tingxiang's work is getting more and more like-minded, and he doesn't need to be taught by Zhao'er at all.
Don't look at Zhao'er's usual doting on Xue Tingyan, but she doesn't have any idea that a gentleman would cook far away and men would not do housework. It was also Xue Qingsong who set a good example. When he was still around, he did everything inside and out.
The clothes-drying rope was behind the house, and the two of them took the sheets to the back to dry. From a distance, they saw Xue Qingshan's sneaky back, disappearing behind the haystack.
The Xue family's vegetable fields are all surrounded by fences as high as one person, and the folk customs in the countryside are simple. Although there is a sense of guarding against gentlemen but not villains, no one comes here to steal things. There is also a door behind the vegetable field. In the past, Zhao'er used to go out to do business from here. Usually, it was tied with a straw rope and untied when it was used.
This Xue Qingshan didn't go through the main entrance during the day, why did he come here
The two were suspicious, but they didn't think much about it.
Because there were still clothes to dry, the two of them went back to the front again, but as soon as they came out of the back of the house, they ran into Xue Juncai, who was in a hurry with his head down.
"Uh, I'm going to the toilet." Xue Juncai seemed to have something on his mind, but he didn't realize how strange he looked, because he usually didn't talk to the people in the second room at home, let alone this kind of thing about going to the toilet. To reiterate.
Zhao'er and Xue Tingxiang glanced at each other, then they turned their heads and followed from behind.
After arriving at the house, Xue Juncai did not go to the toilet, but disappeared behind the haystack.
Behind that haystack is the back door.
"Go and have a look."
"You are too curious."
Zhao'er smiled and said, "It's fine anyway, I always think this is a tricky thing."
In fact, Xue Tingxiang thought so too.
The two walked out of the back door and followed Xue Juncai far away.
It was in the middle of the morning, and the sun was already very poisonous, and there were almost no people on the roads in the village. In particular, Xue Juncai went to the end of the village again, where there were fewer people.
The layout of each house in the village is similar. The front of the house is the yard, the back of the house is the vegetable field, and there are several haystacks behind each house. For a while, he followed around for a while, and the more he went, the more remote he went. Seeing that Xue Juncai quickened his pace and disappeared behind a haystack, Zhao'er and Xue Tingxiang also hurriedly accelerated their pace and chased after him.
But when they chased it, they didn't see anyone, and this place looked like the back of a certain family's house. The two looked at each other, and Xue Tingxiang asked in a low voice, "Where is this place?"
"Widow Xue's house."