Chapter 1932

The elders also saw the look of old Zhou tou.

Seeing them look over, old Zhou tou immediately said, "no way. My family is still waiting for the rent to be put into the pot this year. Although manbao has a salary, he has to spend money on a handful of vegetables in the capital. Even if he doesn't buy meat and only eats vegetables, that's not enough."

The elders of the clan almost exit. Then why do you want your family to stay in the capital?

But seeing Zhou man's happy face, and remembering Qian's arrogant statement that Zhou man was raised by her and had to be filial to her that day, he didn't say anything.

After returning home, the elders told the patriarch about the matter at the edge of the field.

The Xia clan chief frowned and asked, "is she telling the truth or deceiving us? What's the meaning of this? Urging me to give her the rent? Or are you afraid that we will come to the door to play the autumn wind? "

"I don't think so. She also knows a lot about farming. After standing in the field and looking at the wheat for a while, she estimated the approximate yield with us. I looked carefully and found that her estimation was not much different from our private estimation, but that's it. Speaking of last year's drought, she said without blinking an eye that she didn't want to rent a son this year to help the orphans and widows and run ethnic studies."

"Yes, her uncle is very stingy. If he hadn't stared at her, the land rented by Xu Lichang would have been donated to the family."

"Looking at the Zhou family, it seems that they are not rich in the capital."

"Do you think the clothes they wear look like they are not rich?"

"Losers don't lose the array. This is our Xia's territory. Naturally, they should wear better. If they wear worse, who can look down on them?" An old man said, "but officials, it's said that the imperial court gave them cotton silk. They don't look like the cloth sold by the cloth shop outside. It may be issued by the government."

Xia's son also said, "Dad, I heard that the two brothers of the Zhou family changed the door lock of the house yesterday. They heard that they wanted to buy some old furniture in the old market and rent the house later."

Clan leader Xia: "... Really so poor?"

He didn't believe it on his face. "Don't talk about the Zhou family. Do you think she and the two little CHILDES of the Bai family have no money? Don't be fooled by her. "

"She's so strong. Why should she lie to us?" An old man said, "but it's true that she wears well, but officials always have to toss better. She doesn't want to be inferior in communication, let alone others?"

"As for the two CHILDES of the Bai family, there are still some details about whether they are aristocratic families."

Xia clan leader came back and asked, "why did you suddenly say good things about her? What do you want to do? "

When the elders were quiet, they said, "I don't want to do anything. Don't you suspect that she has a bad intention? We thought, "maybe she's really hard."

Xia clan leader snorted coldly: "no matter how difficult it is, it can't change her ulterior intention. At this time, let's run ethnology. It's completely ulterior motives..."

"You can't say that. What she said is reasonable. There are too few people studying in the family. There was no school field in the past, but now there is one. Mr. shuxiu's repair is enough. The family cultivates that field in turn. Why stop the children?"

"Reading doesn't only cost Mr. shuxiu, but also books, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Mr. three meals a day and clothes in four seasons, not to mention building schools. These are all for money..."

"There are so many people in the family. Just come out at that time."

Xia clan leader was a little upset: "Wulang and Qilang will be admitted to the government school. As long as they pass the examination, they can try to take the examination in three or two years. Even if they can't pass the Jinshi examination, Mingke and other examinations can be tried. At that time, the election of officials will need the help of the family..."

But Xia Wulang and Xia Qilang are not their own grandchildren. Why do they take their own money to provide them?

In the past, they had no choice. Now they can send their children to school, can't they?

Seeing that things seemed to have returned to the origin of the dispute these days, clan leader Xia suddenly didn't want to talk.

What makes him more tired is that even his sons and grandchildren don't agree with him. Obviously, they also want their children to go to school instead of offering sacrifices to their nephews and cousins.

The Xia clan leader waved his hand tired and asked, "where are they?"

"I went to Xia Yi's house. After all, it's the closest one. I have to go and see what I say."

Clan leader Xia thought, is that to annoy people?

Man Bao is really not angry. Even if she goes with this idea, she can't show it. Behind her, there are a large number of Xia's young people, all of whom are her cousins, uncles and nephews, although she doesn't know any of them.

Xia Yi's family is on the edge of Hongtian village, with fields in front and several families behind.

When he arrived at the place, man Bao nodded with satisfaction. As expected, it was very dilapidated. There were several mud rooms. Some of the outer walls fell off. There were potholes on the yellow mud walls, and some could even see the house from the outside.

It's still summer now. It will freeze to death in winter.

Man Bao walked over, sighed as he approached, and asked, "didn't the Yitang uncle repair the house before?"

A cousin replied, "I come back two or three times a year and stay for three or two days each time. Who is impatient to repair it?"

Who could have thought that Xia Yan's granddaughter would come back alive? Even if I went back, I could really let the family spit out what they ate in their mouth.

Man Bao looked at Xia Yi's house and sighed. He was born for her. No wonder he was always bullied by her father.

This is fate.

When Xia Yi's two sons and one daughter saw Zhou man and them coming, they all stood in the yard and stared at them, forbidding them to go in.

Except that the little girl was only seven or eight years old, the other two were almost as big as man Bao, but she looked at their size and firmly thought they were smaller than her, so she smiled and asked, "are you my cousin?"

The three stared at her without answering.

The young people who followed saw that she didn't seem to mind and liked her better, so they took the initiative to explain, "they are younger than you."

Some of the young people who followed were much older than her and had an impression of the past. In addition, sometimes the adults at home would say it, so they revealed: "when your grandfather said he wanted to adopt a successor, uncle Yitang kept waiting. As a result, they didn't start to talk about marriage until your mother was going to get married, so they were all younger than you."

Man Bao:

Bai Shan couldn't help smiling.

Man Bao was a little uncomfortable. He looked at Xia Yi's yard and found that there were a lot of furniture in the yard. He sighed: "how can this be done? No matter how good the furniture is placed in the open air, it will break down. Why not move in?"

The young cousin replied, "it's a mess inside. How to put it? I don't know if there are pits on the ground."

This is indeed enough pit, this is determined not to go back to the countryside, so we try our best to spoil our qualified home?