Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 18
Du Jinning was very happy when he heard that Du Chensheng agreed to retire.She raised her head and smiled at Du Yinsheng, and said sweetly: "Uncle, please come in."

Du Yinsheng patted her head, and stepped into the room with one step.

The things in the house are simple and clear at a glance.Originally, Du Yinsheng, as a male elder, should not enter the house of his nephew and daughter-in-law.But he had something to say to Du Jinning, afraid that Du Chensheng would think too much, and it would be difficult to ask Du Jinning to go to him, so he had to come here.Besides, there are only a few houses in the farm family, so there is really no need to pay too much attention to it. The Chen family is not at home, so there is no need to shy away from it.

He sat down on the chair in front of the table and looked at Du Jinning kindly: "Why don't you go to school today?"

Du Jinning was surprised for a moment, then lowered his head and said, "My mother said that I'm not well yet, so she told me not to run outside."

"Oh." Du Yinsheng coughed lightly in embarrassment, and asked again, "How is your body?"

Du Jinning nodded: "It's almost better."

"It's not in a hurry, it's not too late to go after taking care of your body." Du Yinsheng said, taking out a piece of meat wrapped in lotus leaves from a cloth bag that usually goes to school for fashion sundries, and handing it to Du Jinning, "This is the mutton I asked the butcher in the village to buy from the neighboring village. It is the most nourishing. You asked your mother to chop it up and mix it in porridge and cook it for you. The meat is not easy to spoil in winter. You can eat it in several meals and eat slowly. Take it easy."

"This..." Du Jinning stood up with a look of panic on his face.

She has been here for seven or eight days, and she knows that the living conditions here are not good.The condition of Du Chensheng's family in the village is considered good, and they only eat meat meat once in ten and a half months.In Du Yinsheng's family, he is the only income from being a husband, and the income from the village is not high. Du Yunchang spends a lot on studying, and often takes medicine. Life is worse than that of Du Chensheng, how can he spend money?
"Take it." Du Yinsheng said with a smile, "don't worry, if you don't want to owe your uncle a favor, you can take care of your body now, and buy a piece of meat to honor your uncle when you grow up. Could it be that you don't Are you going to take care of uncle grandpa?"

"No, no." Du Jinning quickly waved his hands, finally took the piece of meat, and bowed to Du Yinsheng, "Thank you, uncle."

Seeing that it was getting late and Chen Shi and the others were about to return, Du Yinsheng didn't want to stay too long, so he stood up and said, "Then take good care of your body, and when you get well, go to the school." He nodded, About to go out.

"Uncle." Du Jinning hurriedly grabbed his skirt, "Can I, can I borrow your book?"

Du Yinsheng turned around and lowered his head in surprise, looked at Du Jinning, and was about to say "you can't read", but suddenly thought that Du Jinning was beaten because she reached out to touch Du Jinshou's book.The boy must have had an uncharacteristic thirst for books, which delighted him a lot.

Du Yinsheng nodded immediately: "That's no problem." He opened a private school, and naturally there would be no shortage of teaching materials for Mongolian children. It would be no problem to give Du Jinning a copy of the "Three Character Classic".

"I heard, I heard from the brothers in the village that they study "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames", and "Thousand Character Classic". Can my uncle lend me these three books? If it is bad, no one will see it. After a while, I will pay you back." Du Jinning was still not satisfied, and started to order again.

Du Yinsheng laughed and said: "You don't need to pay it back, just treat it as a gift from your uncle."

"Really?" Du Jinning raised his bright eyes to look at Du Yinsheng, his eyes were full of surprise.

Looking at the child's longing eyes, Du Yinsheng nodded vigorously.He thought for a while, then took out a bunch of copper coins from his pocket, and handed them to Du Jinning: "You should save these money for urgent use. If you need money in the future, just tell your uncle, don't hold back."

Du Jinning looked at the string of copper coins, then at Du Yinsheng, and gave him a deep bow: "Thank you, uncle. Jinning will be promising in the future, and he will definitely repay his kindness tenfold and a hundredfold."

Hearing this, Du Yin let out a long sigh.

This is a pure-hearted child who knows how to be grateful. If Du Chensheng could treat her well from the beginning, that would be great.They put all their efforts into supporting her to study, and when she has a future, can she be filial to her elders and care for her brothers and sisters?The prosperity of the Du family can be seen completely.

But it was ruined by a prejudice.

He stuffed the copper money into Du Jinning's hand, and said: "After dinner, come and get the books." Then he turned and went home.

Du Jinning counted the string of copper plates, a total of [-] Wen.Her eyes wandered around the room, she tapped on the wall, and finally found a loose brick.She pulled out the brick, knocked off a section, put the copper money in first, and then put in the remaining half of the brick, and checked that it was the same as before, and she couldn't see anything wrong, so she nodded with satisfaction.

After a while, Mrs. Chen and the others came back.Because the next day was market day, Mrs. Chen and the others picked a lot of cabbage, radish and other vegetables from their burdens, so that Du Yunnian could sell them.

At this time, dinner was served in the main room, and while Mrs. Chen and the others were busy in the kitchen, Du Jinning went to the big room in a hurry, asked Du Yinsheng to bring back the book, hid it under the cotton jacket, and ran back.

As soon as she put the book under the pillow, Du Fangling came in and asked with a straight face, "Where did you go?"

Du Jinning shrank his neck: "No, I didn't go anywhere."

"You still dare to lie!" Du Fangling walked to the bedside and threw up the pillow impatiently, "What is this?"

"Ah, you..." Du Jinning looked outside the door defensively, quickly covered the three books with a pillow, and said in a low voice, "This is given to me by my uncle, he told me not to be seen. "She didn't want to hide from Chen and the others, but she was afraid that they wouldn't tell the truth.

Du Fangling stared at her for a while, then turned around and went out, closing the door behind her.

But the next moment, she pushed the door open again, with a look of surprise and joy on her face: "Brother Ning, just now grandma said that the eldest sister's marriage has been cancelled."

"Really?" Du Jinning was busy hiding the book under the quilt, when he heard this, he raised his head in surprise.

Du Fangling nodded: "Really. When we came back, we met our grandmother, second uncle, and second aunt taking something out with sullen faces. I didn't know what it was at the time. Thinking about it now, it should be a bride price." She said happily Jumping on the spot, "Great, my uncle really has a way."

Du Jinning's heart relaxed, and the stone that was pressing on his heart finally fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)