The gruel turned into water halfway through, making Wu Jin's stomach growl, but he ran faster and faster - there was only one engraving company in Kuanzhou, and if you wanted to pick up the waste paper they discarded, you had to do it early.
Spring is about to pass, but the weather has not completely warmed up yet. It is still sunny and rainy at times, and today it is drizzling continuously. He gritted his teeth and walked forward in the rain, resisting the cold and wet, until he ran to the back door of the engraving office and picked up a stack of waste paper from the corridor.
It's half a finger thick.
Printed on the front is "Summary of Sheyi", which was discarded due to many typos. The back is not empty either. Instead, it is reprinted from Kuanzhou's grain collection album in previous years. It contains the number of stones in each of the six southern counties.
Character.
After he took it back, he still had to cut out the empty paper at the beginning and end and press it flat before it could be used for writing.
After picking up the paper, he was a little slower on the way back. Like the drizzle, he passed by countless doorways as silently as the drizzle. When he was about to arrive at the state school, he suddenly saw Mo Lingfeng.
Mo Lingfeng was alone, renting a donkey from somewhere, riding on the donkey, holding an umbrella crookedly with one hand, and walking towards the Yuxi River.
Wu Jin looked around and saw no guards following him.
"Miss Mo." He walked out of the corridor and called to Mo Lingfeng.
Mo Lingfeng turned to look at him, closed his umbrella, and tried to hold the donkey at the same time - but the donkey was stubborn and wouldn't go away until he hit it. He tried to back up and ask it to stop, but it still took two steps.
After finally controlling the donkey, she bared her teeth and smiled: "Wu Jin."
Her teeth were badly damaged, and one of them was shaky, so she couldn't help but stick out her tongue to lick it, which made her lips dry.
After licking it, she suddenly thought of something, her face changed, and she glared at Wu Jin: "I won't play with you anymore."
Then he whipped the donkey hard, trying to move forward. When he whipped it down, the effect was obvious. The donkey spun around in circles. Mo Lingfeng had no choice but to sigh heavily and lick his teeth again.
That tooth hangs in the mouth dangerously, but it won't fall out.
Wu Jin only felt that she looked innocent and cute, but it was difficult to smile. He could only lower his head and not look at her: "Don't lick your teeth, otherwise they will grow crooked. What are you doing?"
Mo Lingfeng controlled his tongue and replied with great momentum: "My brother is sick. I will go to Xiongshan Temple to draw a stick for my brother."
Wu Jin did not expect that Mo Qianlan would be ill, so he quickly asked: "Is the illness serious?"
Mo Lingfeng shook his head at first: "The doctor said it's not serious."
After finishing speaking, she immediately nodded again: "Of course it's very heavy in my heart."
After that, she took out a piece of candy from her sleeve pocket and stretched out her arm to give it to Wu Jin. Wu Jin reached out to pick it up, but unexpectedly she said "Hey!", tilted her body, and handed the candy to Wu Jin.
All of it was stuffed into his mouth.
She sat back and opened her mouth to show Wu Jin her teeth: "I'll stick my teeth for you to eat."
At this time, the donkey suddenly enlightened, flicked its tail, and took steps forward.
Wu Jin's mouth was full of sweetness. Standing where he was, he saw Mo Lingfeng, a small person, sitting alone on the back of a donkey, staggering around holding an umbrella, and going to ask for a signature for his brother.
The donkey shadow disappeared, and only Wu Jin was left in the rain.
Wu Jin suddenly felt depressed. The desolation of the Mo family spread through the lonely Mo Lingfeng, and his reason told him that the Mo family was a magnificent abyss, but his heart softened uncontrollably.
He walked into the prefecture school, calmly attended the class for a day, asked to see the mountain leader, and talked with the mountain leader for two quarters of an hour. Then he went to Mofujiaomen to see Yin Bei. When he hurried home, Wu Yi had already returned from selling cakes.
, Wu’s mother was about to serve the meal.
Wu Jin carried Father Wu into a chair and served food to Father Wu so that he could eat more comfortably. When the food was almost done, he put down the bowl and chopsticks: "Mom, Dad, I still decided to go to Mo Mansion to be a servant."
With a "pop" sound, Wu Mu slapped her chopsticks on the table. Her withered face suddenly came to life, and her cloudy eyes glowed with an undeniable light: "No!"
Wu Yi shivered with fright and carefully put down the bowl. He suppressed his surging appetite and was secretly happy.
Mother Wu said with a cold face: "We have worked so hard for you to study, not to make you feel inferior, but to make you stand out! If you become a Zhai servant, even if you pass the exam, you will not be able to straighten up!"
"I'm open and honest, and I'm not afraid of what others say," Wu Jin explained in a gentle voice, "I've already told the principal of Zhou Xueshan that I won't go to class tomorrow."
"You!" Wu's mother didn't expect that he would kill first and then play. She was so angry that she couldn't sit still. She stood up suddenly, reached out to grab Wu Jin's clothes, and dragged her out with all her strength, "Come on, let's go find the mountain chief, you
You are young and ignorant, and you cannot make the decision on such a big thing."
Wu Jin stood up following Wu's mother's strength and staggered for two steps until she reached the door. Seeing that she would trip Wu's mother, she made up her mind: "Auntie, I have made up my mind."
He was very strong. Once he stood still, Wu's mother couldn't hold him still. She stamped her feet angrily and hit him twice: "You are short-sighted, how can the Mo family be so kind! Mrs. Huang told me, that Jiedu envoy
There is no incense, just a girl. They want to recruit you because they want to see your honesty!"
Speaking of this, she suddenly felt hateful - she hated her family for being too poor, she hated Wu's father for having a broken leg, and she hated Wu Jin for being ignorant.
That son-in-law who knocked on the door will be laughed at for several lifetimes.
Thinking of this, she immediately became sad, with many tears rolling out of her eyes, thinking that Wu Jin's "ignorance" was all because he was too sensible.
She stretched out her hand to smooth Wu Jin's clothes and couldn't help crying: "My son, you have suffered so much, it's all because of your useless parents!"
Father Wu sighed quietly and remained silent.
After listening to this roar, Wu Jin felt calm in his heart. He probably thought that his job as a servant would not be any more difficult than it was now, no matter how complicated the situation was.
He calmly led Wu's mother back to her seat and said in a gentle voice: "Father, mother, I'm not doing it for the money. If it were for the money, I would have accepted it yesterday. Don't listen to other people's nonsense. I'm not doing it for the sake of digging in. Mo Jiedu
The envoy's sister is only eight years old, as old as him."
He stretched out his hand and pointed at Wu Yi.
Wu's mother gradually calmed down in his voice, and Wu Jin also said that famous teachers are rare. If you can get a few pointers, it will be several times better than studying in the state.
After spending a lot of words to reassure the two elders, he returned to his room.
It was getting dark, so he lit the oil lamp, spread out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone to write down his diary.
It was just that Wu Yi was asking questions around him, and kept making excited noises, which made him lose all the concentration he had finally gathered.
He was exhausted and felt like a trapped animal. He rubbed his forehead vigorously, took out the waste paper he picked up today, and asked Wu Yi to help cut out the blank head and tail parts and keep them for later use.
After Wu Yi immersed himself in hard work, he gathered his scattered thoughts and wrote: "On the 23rd of March in the 20th year of Yuan Zhang, Xiaoyu made an appointment with Yin Nao to go to Mo Mansion to do it the day after tomorrow.