Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 70 Plan
Du Fangling knew that the drama was about to start, and hurriedly followed what Du Jinning said yesterday: "No, no need." His voice was trembling, "I, I... I'll just come, you can feed the chicken."

Seeing Du Jinning clenched her fists and made a "come on" gesture, she collected herself and said, "The pig will be slaughtered in two days, and there will be no need to cut pig grass, and there will be pork to eat, that's great!" After a pause , she said in a very cheerful tone, "Let grandma buy two more piglets next year, we will raise them up, and we will have more pork to eat during the Chinese New Year next year."

After stammering a few sentences, this time she spoke smoothly and entered the state.

Du Jinning gave her a thumbs up, and when she heard footsteps outside the courtyard, her voice raised a little, pretending to be angry and said: "What are you raising so much for? No matter how much you raise, it's not enough for the second uncle to pay off his gambling debts. "

"What?" Du Fangling asked suspiciously, "What kind of gambling debt should you pay? Second uncle won't gamble outside, right?"

"That's not true. That day I went to the academy to play with Brother Zhang, and I heard someone say: 'Du Yunnian, if you don't return the 30 taels of silver in five days, I'll break your leg and come to make trouble.' Calculate the time, tomorrow is the date for repaying the debt, and I don't know if my grandfather has used the money to help my second uncle repay the debt."

In order to prevent Du Jincheng and his son outside the wall from being familiar with their voices, Du Jinning deliberately pointed out the three words "Du Yunnian" and called the name very loudly.

Sure enough, Du Jincheng and his brothers didn't take it seriously at first, they just lowered their heads and walked home, but when they heard the word "Du Yunian", they paused, looked at each other, and stopped.

"Brother, you are talking about the second uncle." Du Jinde said, thinking for a while, "there are people from the third uncle's family? Why are they here?"

When he came back in the morning, Du Jincheng overheard the conversation between Niu Shi and Zhang Shi.He then explained in a low voice: "Mother thinks that raising livestock is tasteful, so my grandmother raised all the livestock in the family at Mrs. Lin's house. I think this is the house."

Hearing another voice inside, he made a silent movement and pricked up his ears to listen.

"30 taels?" Du Fangling exclaimed inside, "Why did the second uncle borrow so much money? Our family...does grandfather have so much silver? Last time you were sick, grandma said that she had no money, so she only took out ten coins. .”

"Who knows?" Du Jinning lowered his voice, as if sad, and his tone became indifferent, "Can we compare with the second uncle? He is the son of the grandfather and grandmother. Even if the grandfather has no money, there is still an uncle? The eldest uncle works as a bookkeeper in the city, and he does not know how much money he earns in a year. It is not difficult to think about taking 30 taels of silver to pay off the debt to the second uncle."

"But the uncle's family also needs to eat and drink. The two elder brothers are still studying, and studying costs money. Besides, brother Jincheng is 17 years old, right? It's time to get married, and it all costs money. How can the uncle make money?" Should all the money go to the second uncle to pay off the debt? It would be good to support the second uncle’s family and support the third brother’s education.”

"Isn't there a grandfather here? My grandfather asked my uncle for money, how dare my uncle refuse to give it?" Du Jinning said.

Seeing that it was almost finished, she said again: "Forget it, it has nothing to do with us. Anyway, don't be so stupid and don't be tired. The second uncle is a big man at home all day long, and the second aunt doesn't care. Don’t do anything, rely on us and uncle to raise it, what’s the matter? You’d better not tell grandma about raising an extra pig, so as not to suffer yourself.”

"Yes, I see." Du Fangling responded.

"..."

Hearing the conversation inside the fence was worthless, Du Jincheng pulled his younger brother's arm, pursed his lips and said, "Go, go back."

The two brothers walked forward for a while, some distance away from the Lin family, Du Jinde asked his brother: "Brother, do you want to tell Dad about this?"

Du Jincheng nodded: "That's natural."

These people in my hometown are really hateful, just like that leech, staring at people until they suck up the blood and won't let them go.The second uncle actually went to gamble, and the grandfather didn't say he beat him to death or maimed him when he owed debts. The academy of ten taels of silver, if you miss it, go to study, really think that their family's money is blown by a strong wind?

With anger in their hearts, the two walked quickly, and returned to the second room of Du's house in a short while.

At this time, Mrs. Niu was instructing Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Yao to put the sacrifices on the confession case, while Du Chensheng, Du Yunyi, Du Yunian and his son sat on chairs and talked.

When Du Jinde saw his father, he was about to tell him to go inside to talk, but Du Jincheng pulled his sleeve in time and pulled him into the inside.

Holding a teacup in her hand, Mrs. Zhang was teaching Du Fangyun how to embroider. When she saw her two sons coming in, she asked with a smile, "Where did you go for a stroll? It's so cold, what is there to do in this village? It's very dirty." .”

As he said that, he looked at the feet of his two sons, saw some mud on the clean shoes, and frowned: "Hurry up and change the shoes."

Du Jincheng and his brothers knew that their mother was very clean. Usually, they would wipe the soles of their shoes before entering the house, and then enter the house after wiping them clean.But just now I couldn't contain my anger, how could I expect this crop?He didn't even bother to change his shoes at the moment, Du Jincheng said, "Mother, we have something to tell you."

Mrs. Zhang knew her two sons very well, seeing that their expressions were not right, she hurriedly put down the teacup in her hand, and asked seriously: "What's the matter?"

The two found a chair and sat down. Du Jincheng looked outside and saw that the three people outside were talking vigorously. He probably couldn't hear their conversation inside, so he told his mother the two news he just heard.

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhang frowned her slender eyebrows and showed displeasure on her face.

"Mom, what are they treating our family for? Are we really thinking that we have dug up mountains of gold and silver?" Du Fangyun, who was sitting by the side, couldn't help but said angrily.

She is already engaged, and has to prepare a dowry in the past two years.If the family brought back one tael of silver more, her dowry would be less.

"Don't worry, your father won't agree."

Mrs. Zhang still has great confidence in her husband.

When Du Yunyi was young, he was still very responsible. He felt that he was the eldest son and took over his father's work. If he earned money, he should give it to his parents to support his father's family.But after getting married, Du Yunyi has basically taken care of his small family after many times of training//teaching by her. He has no objection to taking money back to support his parents; Not happy anymore.

Now don't say that Du Yunyi didn't have the idea of ​​using the money to pay off his second brother's gambling debts and for his nephew to go to school.Even if there is, their small and big houses can't afford that much money.

(End of this chapter)