"Everyone! There is no need to pay the rent. Someone has already paid for us!" Gu Chengyu put down the package in his hand and said to them.
"How can this happen? Doesn't that mean we are taking advantage of you?" He's father disapproved. If you receive a favor from others, you owe a favor, and it is not easy to repay favors.
"Uncle He, don't take it to heart! Someone familiar with it did pay." Gu Chengyu was also helpless.
Gu Chengyu was sitting on the bullock cart going home, and couldn't help but think of the Gu family. It had been ten days since he came out, and he didn't know if his mother and second sister missed him.
Ye Zhiqiu looked at the woods on the roadside, thinking about his mother and sisters at home. He finally lived up to their hopes, which made him feel much better after being overwhelmed.
Although this was the county examination, it was also the first step towards taking the imperial examination. His hand touched the five taels of silver in his arms. He actually didn't get a penny out of this examination. He felt a little embarrassed, just following along all the way.
Gu Chengyu and the others ate and drank.
"Senior brother! Master asked us to go to the private school the day after tomorrow, so we can rest at home for a day." Gu Chengyu also wanted to go home and rest. He was really nervous about the exams in the past few days.
"That's fine! The national exam is in April. Let's go to the private school the day after tomorrow. We can still catch our breath!" Sun Xian came back in a bullock cart with the Gu family.
"Boy from the Sun family, has your mother settled down when you come out this time?" Father Gu took a look at Sun Xian. Gu Chengyu had mentioned to Father Gu before that he wanted to bring Gu Wan and Sun Xian together.
During this period, he has been observing Sun Xian. He is filial to his mother, understands how people behave, and more importantly, has a future. As a father, he certainly hopes that his daughter will marry well. Although Sun Xian's family is poor,
But his ambition is not short, and if he can be given some help, he might be able to become an official in the future.
He has also taken a fancy to Sun Xian's qualifications. If Wan'er marries him and he supplements the dowry, her life should not be bad. As for the Sun family's mother, although she is in poor health and often needs to take medicine, she can
From what Sun Xian said, at most it was just that he had become sick due to overwork in the past and had lost his health, so he just had to take care of himself. In the past few days, he had thought about it for a lot of time and felt that Sun Xian was a good candidate.
When the old man reaches his age, he wants to marry him. Da Ya is already thirteen this year, so he is eagerly waiting to marry her husband's family. People in the village usually marry each other when they are thirteen or fourteen years old, but the sister-in-law and niece are about the same age, so the sister-in-law does not want to marry her.
, as a niece, don’t be impatient, otherwise you will have to let others talk, so you have to look at Wan’er first.
"My mother is already able to get out of bed and walk around. Before I came here, she asked the aunt next door to take care of her!" Sun Xian was a little worried when he talked about his mother. He had been out for so many days and he didn't know if his mother could take care of her.
Be good to yourself.
Gu Chengyu sat and listened, secretly thinking that his father had a plan? As for Ye Zhiqiu on the side, he didn't think about it. It's not that Ye Zhiqiu is not good, it's just that Ye Zhiqiu is not very old, one year younger than Gu Wan
Woolen cloth!
Moreover, the boy has not grown up yet, and his temperament has not yet been determined. Who knows what his temperament will be in the future? Besides, for the three female dependents of the Ye family, if the second sister is married, it is inevitable that she will be angered by her temperament. Ye’s mother pulled Ye Zhiqiu out.
Da, the family life is so difficult, but they still insist on him. It can be seen that Ye's mother has high hopes for Ye Zhiqiu. Even the two sisters are afraid that they want to wait until Ye Zhiqiu has achieved fame before marrying. Ye Zhiqiu's burden is too heavy.
, he wanted his second sister to live easier and faster.
"Oh! Ordinarily you are not young at your age, right? Your mother hasn't told you about your marriage yet?" Father Gu looked at Sun Xian opposite and stared into his eyes.
"My family was having a hard time in the past few years. Which girl would marry me? The past two years have been more relaxed, but now I focus all my energy on exams, so I have ignored it." Sun Xian smiled bitterly. His family was poor before.
His mother wanted to ask the matchmaker to arrange marriage, but the matchmaker didn't come to the house at all.
His mother always said that she was the one who dragged him down. If it weren't for her medicine pot, he would have married him long ago. For this reason, he once wanted to die, and his belt was hung on the beam. He had to get up at night to drink water.
Found and rescued.
Things have gotten better in the past two years, and the matchmaker has also come, but he doesn't want to talk about a kiss. Last time, the matchmaker told him one, but she asked for a betrothal gift of ten taels of silver. How could he get it? Maybe they just liked him.
I work as a bookkeeper in the town and I think I get a lot of money every month, so I said this.
However, if he still wanted it, it would naturally cost a lot. Even if it was only ten taels of silver, it was still not enough, so the marriage would naturally be ruined! After that, he didn't care much about the marriage.
"Your mother hasn't been looking for you in the past two years? You are already a grown-up, don't you still want to marry me?" Father Gu's sudden attentiveness made Ye Zhiqiu look at Father Gu several times.
"I don't want to think about this for now!" Sun Xian felt a little embarrassed when he saw that Father Gu kept talking about this topic.
Father Gu would not believe Sun Xian's words. Whose son doesn't want to marry a wife? It's just that he didn't see the right one! After thinking about it, he had an idea in his mind.
"It's getting late today. You have to go back and settle down. You won't be home for more than ten days. In two days, I will ask Xiaobao to invite you to my house to play! There are many good things in Changling Mountain next to us.
, let Xiaobao lead you around."
Gu Chengyu knew that Father Gu wanted Sun Xian to go home and secretly looked at each other. After all, although they had frequent contacts in the past, most of the time Gu Chengyu and Sun Xian made appointments to go to private school or to Sun's house.
"Uncle Gu is also polite! I won't say those polite words. As long as Uncle Gu doesn't mind us bothering you, then I won't be polite!" When Sun Xian saw Father Gu inviting him, he thought it was because Father Gu was being hospitable.
"When the time comes, Senior Brother Ye will also come with us, and we will invite Senior Brother Wang Qikai and Senior Brother You. The more people we have, the more lively it will be!" Invite more people, so that Sun Xian will not be too conspicuous when he goes there.
"Then I'm sorry!" Seeing Gu Chengyu's sincere invitation, Ye Zhiqiu stopped being polite.
"There is a beautiful scenery on Changling Mountain where we live. There is also a small waterfall in Xialing Village. You can bring some dry food and have fun! Don't young people like to go outing? Haha!"
The uncle also chimed in, but he thought that Father Gu really invited Xiaobao's classmates and wanted Xiaobao to interact with his classmates more.
"Yes! Uncle, you have to call me when the time comes!" When Gu Wanhua heard that the Gu family planned to invite many classmates, including some from well-off families, he naturally wanted to join in the fun!
"Isn't that at our house? Just come! But my niece will ask you to come out? Don't you want to take care of the baby?" Gu Chengyu glanced at Gu Wanhua. Gu Wanhua was a consanguineous marriage and married his cousin. Her natal family was Dayang Village.
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Gu Chengyu remembered that in modern times, it is always said that if close relatives marry, the children born will be deformed or mentally retarded. However, in ancient times, there were many close relatives getting married, but they were all very lucky. So far, all they have seen are normal.
Gu Wanhua's son is over one year old and looks very cute. He also brought him something that the child likes from the county, a wooden toy with a chicken pecking at rice, which is very delicate.