Nongmen scholar

Chapter 114 There Is a Little Monk Uncle (2)
"No, I don't want to ask them either. Let's go to the people who live near the Bai's house first to see if anyone knows where grandma lives after the separation." Gu Xiaobei said plainly.

"That's the only way." Gu Erye nodded.

So the brother and sister went to the vicinity of Bai's house to inquire.

"We don't know either. I heard that the Bai family did not agree to split the family, but the Li family insisted on it, so the Patriarch of the Bai family let them leave the house in a fit of anger." An aunt who lived near the Bai family told them. they said.

"They?" Gu Xiaobei asked suspiciously. As far as she knew, besides Bai He and Bai Rong, her grandmother had no children, and her grandfather also died a few months before Gu Xiaobei's father died. Only grandma is left, why is there a "they"?
"No wonder you are surprised. Even the people around us didn't know about this matter before, and they only heard about it in the past few days. I heard that Li Shi had a posthumous child when her husband died, but she was weak and sick and almost died If they are dead, even they as a medical family cannot save them. At that time, a monk happened to pass by Baifu, saying that the child had a destiny with the Buddha, and if he was asked to take the child to become a monk, maybe he could help cure it. Well, Mrs. Li was naturally reluctant, but she couldn't let the child die in vain. She struggled for a long time until the monk said that if the child was lucky enough to survive, she would let him return to vulgar life after ten years. She finally agreed. It's exactly ten years now, That child has returned." Seeing that they were puzzled, the aunt rushed to tell them one by one.

"The Patriarch of the Bai family refuses to separate the family, saying that the Bai family has ancestral precepts that they cannot separate the family, and they have no habit of separating the family. If it was a bit realistic to say that only the Li family wanted to separate the family, then this little monk is back now. Their Bai family can no longer let the blood of the Bai family flow outside, unless they leave the house completely, they will let them go out to live." The aunt continued, with a strange look on her brows, thinking that the Bai family is very strange.

Gu Xiaobei and Gu Erye were dumbfounded by what the aunt said, and they didn't expect such a big news that they didn't know.

This is too dramatic, right?Gu Xiaobei frowned coarsely, but the light in her eyes was a little cold. If she guessed correctly, apart from the ancestral precepts and the lack of this practice, the Bai family's refusal to separate is more likely because the Bai family has become more and more mature now. The more they got worse, they refused to let Mrs. Li take away the property that belonged to their house. They were not willing to give them away until Mrs. Li proposed to leave the house.

I really don't know why these people stick to those ancestral precepts. If they separated, they might not have fallen so fast. After all, there are various disadvantages when there are too many people, one of which is inertia.If they were separated, each small family would definitely work hard to make a living in order to live a better life for themselves, instead of relying on each other like a big family now, no one is willing to work hard, and no one wants to suffer.

Gu Xiaobei shook her head, no matter what happens to the Bai family, it's not her turn to take care of it, maybe the only thing she can take care of now is their grandma.

"Thank you, aunt." Gu Xiaobei thanked with a smile, and walked out of the aunt's house with Gu Erye.

"Shall we go to the inn to look for it?" Gu Erye looked at the sky worriedly, if you don't look for it quickly, it will be hard to find it when it gets dark.

Gu Xiaobei shook his head and said: "Don't go to the inn. If they leave the house without leaving the house, they should not have much money on them. At most, they only have some hidden personal money. They won't be able to stay in the inn for long. If I guessed correctly, They should have found the cheapest house in the city and rented it, after all, they can live much longer this way."

"Then we just need to find out where the rent is the cheapest." Gu Erye nodded.

"Correct."

The two began to inquire everywhere, and learned that the cheapest houses in the city were in the western suburbs of the city, so the brother and sister rushed to the western suburbs of the city.

The sun was almost setting when they found out.

Looking at the dilapidated small courtyard in front of her, Gu Xiaobei felt bitter. This small courtyard was similar to the small courtyard she saw in Rongcheng where Ling Muchen lived. It was very damp and dilapidated everywhere.

"Amitabha!" Just as they were looking at the small courtyard, a childish voice suddenly sounded from behind them.

Gu Xiaobei and Gu Erye turned around and saw a cute little monk Yuxue around ten years old standing quietly behind them and looking at them expressionlessly. Gu Xiaobei knew that this must be her brother-in-law.

"Little brother...uncle, where's your mother?" Gu Xiaobei looked at the little monk who appeared out of nowhere with a smile, feeling filled with emotion.

In the 21st century, she once heard her grandma say that her grandma’s generation had more than a dozen brothers and sisters. The first eldest sister of her grandma got married and gave birth to a child. Grandma's youngest brother is two or three years older.Unexpectedly, such a thing happened to her. This little monk uncle is four years younger than her!
But thinking about this being in ancient times, Gu Xiaobei doesn't find it strange. After all, women in ancient times got married early and had children early, so it was normal for nephews to be older than uncles.

The little monk glanced at them, then walked past them into the yard without saying a word.

Gu Xiaobei and Gu Erye looked at each other with embarrassment on their faces. In fact, Gu Erye felt much more embarrassed than Gu Xiaobei. He was eight years older than the little monk, and he was still a man. So when Gu Xiaobei called the little monk his uncle, he Can't even cry out.

But Gu Xiaobei's current curiosity is much more than embarrassment, how did this little monk develop a paralyzed expression at such a young age?And does he really want to return to vulgarity?Why does she look a little different?

"Xiaobei, Erye! How did you find this place?" Li Shi came out to look after hearing the little monk say that someone was outside in the kitchen. She was very happy when she saw that it was Gu Xiaobei and Gu Erye. Come and take the two grandchildren into the house.

Gu Xiaobei and Gu Erye entered the house and looked it up and down. The house is very old, but it seems that it has just been cleaned and decorated, and it looks much cleaner and tidy than the outside yard.The room was divided into two parts by curtains. Gu Xiaobei guessed that the inner part should be the bed where Mrs. Li slept. The outer part was probably because he just moved here, so it was empty without even a stool.

"No time, bring two stools from the kitchen!" Seeing that they had no place to sit, Mrs. Li smiled awkwardly and shouted into the kitchen.

After a while, the little monk moved in with three small stools. He didn't say a word when he came in. He put the stools in front of them, glanced at them again, and left.

Mrs. Li smiled and said: "Don't be surprised, Wuxia is like this. Maybe it's because he lived in the temple for a long time and couldn't get used to it all at once." Although Mrs. Li was smiling, there was a trace of worry on his face.

(End of this chapter)