Chapter 97

When Gu Jiao and Xiao Jingkong went down the mountain, Xiao LIULANG had come back from the Academy.

Gu Xiaoshun recently lived in the Academy. First, he broke up with the Gu family completely. Second, he was fascinated by the knife Xiao LIULANG had brought him. Every night he lit a lamp in his bedroom to carve.

As for Xiao LIULANG's safety, he doesn't have to worry about it. Recently, second uncle Luo sprained his foot, and the driver of the ox cart was replaced by his son Dazhuang.

Dazhuang has a close relationship with Gu Xiaoshun and guarantees to take good care of Xiao LIULANG.

Xiao LIULANG is drawing buckets of water into the room. He can see that he has some difficulty.

His legs and feet are inconvenient. Gu Jiao seldom lets him do this kind of heavy work. Gu Jiao walks over and takes the bucket from him: "I'll do it."

"I can." Xiao LIULANG said.

"You make a fire and I'll cook later." Gu Jiao didn't give him the chance to refuse. She took the bucket decisively, picked it up with a shoulder pole, added another bucket, and turned to fetch water at the entrance of the village.

Small clearance patted small chest: "I also want to help Jiaojiao draw water!"

After that, he found his own special tools from the backyard - a mini pole and two mini buckets. He picked them on his small shoulders like Gu Jiao and went to fetch water bravely!

Gu Jiao made this set of tools for xiaojingkong, because he wanted to help, but he couldn't lift the big barrel. So Gu Jiao made a pair of light and small wooden barrels for him, which could be sealed without watering, and matched with a small shoulder pole.

The total amount of water he picked up was less than a big bowl. On the contrary, Gu Jiao spent a lot of time and energy making tools for him.

After arriving at Gujing, Gu Jiao filled the small empty wooden bucket with water. Although he was allowed to carry water, Gu Jiao ordered him not to draw water in the well.

Small clearance is very obedient, never close to the ancient well.

A big and a small will bring the water home, Gu Jiao's two buckets of water down, the water level in the tank suddenly rose a lot.

Two buckets of water with small clearance go down... Er, like no water.

But xiaojingkong, looking at the full water tank, still feels that his two handfuls of water have played a great role. He is very proud!

"Silly what?"

It's Xiao LIULANG.

As soon as Xiao LIULANG entered the kitchen, he saw a young monk stepping on the bench and looking at the water tank with pride.

It's just a water wave. What I don't know is that he's watching the small rivers and mountains he's hit by himself!

Hearing the bad brother-in-law's voice, Xiao Jingkong's little face became serious. He raised his eyebrows and looked at him. He hummed coldly: "I'm working, I'm working!"

Xiao LIULANG was amused by him and wanted to laugh a little: "you still know how to work. What can a three-year-old boy do?"

Xiaojingkong jumped down from the bench and said angrily, "I can do much more! More than you! I can draw water! Can feed chicken! Also can help Jiao Jiao wash clothes! I washed half of the clothes at home! I do more work at home than you do! I'm not a kid! You are

Xiao LIULANG glanced at his toy pole and toy bucket and said, "then you can really work."

Let others work.

It's tiring to toss about these things.

"Hum!" In order to prove that he is really a little expert at home, Xiao Jingkong resolutely goes to the wooden basin where he is soaked in clothes, raises his trouser legs, kicks off his shoes, and jumps into the basin. Xiao LIULANG's clothes are just replaced by Xiao LIULANG's clothes!

Xiao LIULANG was stunned.

Is this the way to wash clothes at home?

The little feet of little clearance are happy to step on.

He can enjoy treading on water without rain and wash his clothes by the way. He is really a smart and hardworking child!

Gu Jiao came out, originally intended to rub the clothes, see small clearance in step on the temporary did not pass.

Xiao LIULANG asked incredulously, "is this the way to wash clothes at home?"

Gu Jiao said: "not only clothes, but also pickles you eat every day."

Xiao LIULANG immediately said "...!"

"Ha ha!" Gu Jiao laughed all of a sudden.

She seldom laughs so much, but Xiao LIULANG's expression, which seems to be swallowing a fly, really pokes at the point of her two lives.

"I lied to you." She said, "how could I let him step on pickles?"

Xiao LIULANG breathed a sigh of relief: it's OK.

Gu Jiao then said: "his strength is so small that he can't step on it well."

Xiao LIULANG said once again: --

Isn't it that the feet are not clean and can't be eaten?

In this way, if the young monk is strong in the future, he will be able to eat pickles for me?

The picture is so beautiful that Xiao LIULANG can't bear to look directly at it

Gu Jiao bent over with a smile.

"Hoo! Hoo After stepping on xiaojingkong, he was so tired that he went back to his room to drink water.

Gu Jiao just stepped forward to wash his wrinkled clothes.

Xiaojingkong has the heart to work. Gu Jiao never beats his enthusiasm. The big deal is that every time he finishes, she will clean up again.

Gu Jiao didn't go up to the level of scientific parenting. She just felt that he had a good time.

Gu Jiao didn't know that all his bravery and strength came from Gu Jiao's powerful childhood.

"You don't have to be so used to him." Xiao LIULANG said without expression.

"I'm used to you, too." Gu Jiao smiles, takes a clean wooden basin, takes out Xiao LIULANG's clothes and puts them in. Then she rubs them gently with her small hands.

"Your clothes don't usually wash like this. Today you put them in the basin by yourself, and he ran into them."

The clothes of the three of them are all coarse linen. It doesn't matter if you step on them. Xiao LIULANG's hospital clothes are made of silk and cotton. Gu Jiao cleans them in a special wooden basin with light strength.

It's light, so it's slow. One of his clothes is worth washing the whole family.

But Gu Jiao never said that.

Xiao LIULANG was still immersed in the huge impact brought by her sentence "I am also used to you". Then he saw that she washed her clothes carefully and seriously. It seemed that her hands, which were white with Gleditsia sinensis, were not grasping his collar, but his heart.

For a moment, he felt that the relationship between them was developing in an uncontrollable direction.

Xiao LIULANG was in a cold sweat.

may not.

They are just husband and wife in name. One day they will have to be lenient.

The two of them... Absolutely can't produce anything they shouldn't have.

During the meal, Xiao LIULANG sat on the bench, and the dry white hospital clothes fluttered in the wind, which made him a little upset.

After dinner, Xiao LIULANG takes a bath for Xiao Jingkong, and then takes an ax to chop firewood in the backyard.

Gu Jiao is cleaning up the kitchen.

The old lady was eating dried waxberry in her room.

The sky began to rain.

"Jiao Jiao Jiao!" Xiaojingkong suddenly ran out from Westinghouse with a pillow in his arms, "the roof is leaking!"

Gu Jiao went to Westinghouse with him.

At the moment, the rain is not big. It should be that the rain in the afternoon accumulated a pile on the tiles, and now it was blown by the wind.

The place where the rain leaks is facing their bed. It's not easy to connect them. Moreover, it may break the tiles if it gets too heavy in the middle of the night. The roof is not honest. It's not good to let the heavy rain collapse again.

Gu Jiao said: "I can't sleep here tonight. Sleep with me. When the rain stops, I'll repair the roof."

Xiaojingkong holds a small pillow and happily goes to Gu Jiao's house.

Of course, Xiao LIULANG could only sleep together.

Fortunately, Gu Jiao's bed is big enough for the three to lie down.

It's just that xiaojingkong doesn't want to give the bed to the bad brother-in-law. After all, the bad brother-in-law is so big that he has to occupy a large space. Unlike his small one, it's enough to stay in her arms.

"Can sleep with Jiao Jiao, happy!"

Xiaojingkong, full of joy, lies on Gu Jiao's bed as he wishes. He puts himself in a big word - Jiao Jiao's quilt on his body, Jiao Jiao's mattress under his body, Jiao Jiao's pillow, Jiao Jiao's pillow towel, Jiao Jiao Jiao Jiao

The little headroom rolled back and forth on the bed with excitement.

All of a sudden, the door was pushed open, and a magic hand reached out to him, grabbed his little waistband and picked him up.

Small clearance startled hands and feet for a while: "aunt?"

Old lady: "you sleep with me tonight."

Small clearance: "I don't want it!"

Old lady: "you want it."

Small clearance: "why?"

Old lady: "for my great grandson."

The old lady mercilessly took the little guy back to her house.

The dream of xiaojingkong has come to nothing. There was an unreasonable brother-in-law before, and an even more unreasonable aunt after. It's so sad to be a child!

When Gu Jiao and Xiao LIULANG finish their work, Xiao Jingkong has exhausted her strength in the fight with the old lady, and her head tilts to snore.

Gu Jiao didn't say anything. After taking a bath, she went back to the room and lay down.

Today, she was tired all day. She slept fast and breathed evenly.

Xiao LIULANG came over after taking a bath. She had already fallen asleep on the pillow.

An oil lamp was left in the room for him.

Now the weather is getting warmer and the thick quilt can't cover it. She's half covered and half kicked.

Xiao LIULANG hesitated for a moment and went to pull up the quilt for her.

Then he put out the oil lamp and lay down on her side slowly. At first, he turned his back to her, but after a long time, his body was easily numb.

So he turned around.

But what he didn't know was that Gu Jiao also happened to turn around and move her head on his pillow.

His lips rubbed against her face without warning.

His brain immediately hummed and went blank.

It rained heavily outside, and he was pounding on the tiles, but he didn't hear anything. All he could think about was his heartbeat.

He subconsciously raised his hand and intended to push her away, but what he pushed was not the place. The touch was strange and soft, and his mind exploded

--

Gu Jiao had a good night's sleep.

Xu is the golden sore medicine and the herbal medicine Xiao LIULANG seized back to work. When she gets up, she feels that her wound doesn't hurt at all.

However, she found a few drops of dried blood on the pillow.

"Why? Whose blood? "

Xiao LIULANG has already started and is burning the sacred fire in the kitchen.

Gu Jiao also went to the kitchen after washing.

Today's sky is brighter than winter, and the kitchen is no longer dark. Gu Jiao can see Xiao LIULANG's face clearly.

She looked for a long time, blinked her eyes and asked, "didn't you sleep well?"

With two huge black circles under his eyes, Xiao LIULANG said, "I read a little late."

"Oh." Gu Jiao went to bed early, so there was no way to know when he saw in his book.

Thinking of what, Gu Jiao said: "by the way, are you hurt? There's blood on the pillow. "

Xiao LIULANG said, "it's not my blood."

Gu Jiao doubted: "is that mine? My wound has healed long ago

Xiao LIULANG took a deep look at her and said solemnly: "you're on fire. I've seen your nose bleed."

Gu Jiao was puzzled: "I drink Houttuynia tea every day, how can I get angry?"

Xiao LIULANG said without expression: "who knows?"

Xiao LIULANG's expression is so serious that it's hard for people to doubt. Gu Jiao goes to the main room and pours a big bowl of Houttuynia tea with her nose.

After drinking so much, I won't get angry again!

Xiao LIULANG closed his eyes with a guilty heart and broke out in a cold sweat.

When he had breakfast, Xiao LIULANG suddenly remembered something: "I forgot to say yesterday that I found a family in the town for elementary school. Today I can take my free time to school."

All of a sudden, I was forced to go to school with a small clearance of "...?!"

"So suddenly?" Gu Jiao served a bowl of sweet potato porridge for the old lady and Xiao Jingkong.

While sucking sweet potato porridge, xiaojingkong watched the bad brother-in-law warily.

... I always feel that it's the plot of a bad brother-in-law!

"I forgot to say it yesterday." I was teased as soon as I got home. I really forgot.

Xiao LIULANG then said: "when a child of a wealthy family is five years old, he will invite a teacher at home. When he is six or seven years old, he will read a thousand characters and then he will be sent to a clan school or a private school for elementary education. Although he is a little younger, he is so smart that he has had a class in a temple. It's not a big problem."

For the first time, he was praised by his bad brother-in-law for being smart, but xiaojingkong was more and more alert.

Conspiracy, proper conspiracy!

"Where is the elementary school?" Gu Jiao asked.

Xiao LIULANG said: "near Tianxiang academy, it is a private school that has been open for more than ten years. There is a primary school class in it. The class time is similar to that of me. He can go to school with me every day."

Come, come, bad brother-in-law will start to separate him from Jiaojiao!

Gu Jiao had a kindergarten in her previous life, so her acceptance of three-year-old children going to school is very high.

Gu Jiao is not at home, small clearance is a small trumpet master, all day long, the old lady suffered, also happy to see him go to school.

Gu Jiao turns her head and looks at xiaojingkong: "does Jingkong want to go to school?"

No!

Xiaojing's empty words leave an eye on her lips. If she says she doesn't want to go to school, isn't she a child who is tired of learning?

The bad brother-in-law really digs holes for him!

Fortunately, I am smart!

"If I go to school, Jiaojiao will not see me all day," xiaojingkong said

Gu Jiao touched his small head: "it's OK. I'll see you off in the morning and wait for you at the village entrance in the evening. If I have time, I'll pick you up at the private school."

Speaking of this, xiaojingkong is not a sensible child if she refuses again.

He swallowed the sweet potato porridge in his mouth and squeezed out a cute smile: "well, since Jiaojiao wants me to go to school, I'll go!"

School is a must, but in order to save the day did not see the loss of Gu Jiao, small clearance for their own ask for two parting little relatives.

It's not cheap to start a school. If you spend two taels of silver a month, you can have lunch. If you don't go to school, you won't get a refund.

Gu Jiao put two liang of silver into xiaojingkong's pocket. He insisted that he should pay shuxiu by himself, instead of breaking his brother-in-law.

A big one and a small one get on the ox cart and go to school.

Gu Jiao is at home pondering how to repair the roof.

She went to the roof to have a look, and found that there were a lot of broken tiles. In a few more heavy rains, it was estimated that all three rooms would leak.

She decided to repair the whole roof and, by the way, build two small rooms on the East and west sides of the backyard, so that Gu Xiaoshun would not worry about having no place to live in the village.

She had some silver on hand, but it was not enough for her to do so many things. She went to Zhouji bank in the town and took twenty Liang silver. By the way, she asked how much money was left in it.

As a result, the bank manager told her: "one thousand and one hundred Liang."

Gu Jiao was confused for three seconds.

"Are you mistaken? Not 112? One thousand and one hundred liang? "

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "our Zhouji bank is about credit. We can't blackmail the girl's money without conscience."

When Xiao LIULANG gave her the pair of cards, she didn't think much about it. She just thought it was a hundred eighty-two. She never expected so much.

In fact, it used to be more, but it took a hundred Liang to buy a brush for Gu Jiao. That's a unique master work of Quan Zhaoguo. Poor Gu Jiao, he has been complaining about his straight man for a long time.

The other twenty Liang are the travel expenses Gu Jiao put in Xiao LIULANG's burden. Xiao LIULANG has not spent all of them, but has also been put into the bank.

Gu Jiao is a little suspicious of life: "did he really go to the exam?"

Are you sure you're not going to Fucheng to carry out copy business?

Then Gu Jiao suddenly remembered the fraud in the hospital examination that President Li mentioned to her. President Li said that she didn't know why Xiao LIULANG didn't take the exam again. Gu Jiao thought that she probably knew.

--

After getting the money, Gu Jiao went back to the village to repair the house. She invited some craftsmen from the village to tell them what she wanted, so that they could repair the house in the shortest time.

As long as they give more money, they don't worry about people's work. What's more, this is Xiao Xiucai's home. They hope that in the future Xiao LIULANG high school will be able to hang a few acres of free land under Xiao LIULANG's name.

Gu Jiao is in full swing to repair the house, but Gu Jinyu is suddenly ill.

The night she went back from Qingquan village, she didn't feel right. She just thought that she was tired and didn't go to her heart. She started a fever in the middle of the night.

The old servant woman of the villa said that it was something unclean when she went to the grave.

The imperial doctor prescribed the medicine, but it had little effect.

Marquis Gu was very anxious: "if I had known, I would not have let Jinyu go to the grave!"

"Cough..." Gu Jinyu covered her mouth with a handkerchief and coughed twice. She asked weakly, "I'm ok. How's my brother?"

Gu Yan is not comfortable these two days. The main reason is that he is naturally weak. After a night of excitement, he overdraw his body.

In order to prevent him from running around, Yao had to stay in front of his bed.

"He's fine." When it comes to this, marquis Gu is very pleased. His son's body is really much stronger than before. If he dared to do so in the past, he would have lost his life. Now he only lies on the bed for a few days and then he is alive again.

However, for the sake of caution, he and Yao both felt that they should let their son rest in the room for a few more days.

"If my brother is OK." Gu Jinyu coughed.

"Oh, you are so sick that you worry about your brother," said Marquis Gu

Gu Jinyu smile: "he is my only brother after all."

Marquis Gu thought of the unfilial girl Gu Jiao, gritted his teeth and said, "if only the girl could be half as sensible as you. I've heard what Huang Zhong said that day. She gave you a look, didn't she? I don't think you ran into something dirty. It just made that girl angry! "

Gu Jinyu said in a hurry: "Dad, don't say that about my sister. My sister has been growing up in the countryside these years, and that family is not good to her. She just suffered too much and doesn't know how to deal with people. If it were me, it would not be better than my sister. "

"You are so kind-hearted," said Marquis Gu

Gu Jinyu shook his head: "my sister is really not responsible for my illness. I blame myself."

After a pause, she told Marquis Gu about losing the paper.

"My aunt had high hopes for me, but I lost half of the problem I had solved. I fell ill in a hurry."

Gu Hou Ye patted the back of her hand: "silly girl, what's so urgent? Even if you can't do it, your aunt won't blame you. "

"Really?" Gu Jinyu didn't believe it.

Marquis Gu laughed mysteriously: "your aunt wrote again. Guess what she said in her letter?"

Gu Jinyu thought seriously: "let my father take me back to Beijing as soon as possible?"

Marquis Gu said, "this is nature. What else?"

Gu Jinyu's eyebrows slightly frowned: "my daughter can't guess."

Marquis Gu gave her a pet look and said with a proud smile, "your aunt has prepared a big gift for you. I'm going to give you a surprise when you go back to Beijing. It's OK to tell you earlier. Your aunt asked for grace from your majesty. On the day you arrived at the hairpin, your majesty will personally order you to be the head of the county! "