"I'll introduce you to a gentleman in a moment. His surname is Sun. He is the most knowledgeable gentleman in Hanbo Academy and the dean's brother-in-law. The dean is not often in the academy, and this Mr. Sun is also in charge of general affairs. Jinban is the one with the best grades in the academy, you must be studying with him."

Li Jiaren nodded repeatedly and thanked him.

Mr. Sun is drinking tea at the moment. He heard that there are new students who want to study here, but he didn't refuse.

Li Jiaren can write and count, wears clean clothes, and speaks softly and politely.Mr. Sun was very satisfied with the teaching test, so he accepted the meeting gift from Li's second son, and then ordered Jiaren to formally enter the academy for the ceremony of apprenticeship in three days.

Li's second father and son hurriedly thanked them, and they were very happy when they left the academy.

At this moment, Li Laosi also sold deerskin and antler, and came to meet him.

The deer antlers were sent to Baicaotang, and they got five taels of silver directly. The deerskin was cheaper, and the fur shop gave one and a half taels.

A red deer earns more than six taels, which is almost enough for Jiaren to study for half a year, and he finally feels less guilty.

When the three returned home, they learned that Jiaren had been accepted by the most educated gentleman in the academy. The Li family was very happy, so they steamed two rice and stewed a pheasant that night to celebrate.

It was a good thing for the Li family to send their children to study, and the Li family did not hide it. Soon everyone in the village knew about it, and everyone admired the courage of the Li family.

In the past few days, people from the village came to Li's house to talk every now and then, and they all wanted to see Jiaren and get acquainted with the future scholar in advance.

"Jiaren, you have to study hard when you come to the academy. You were born into a good family, and you have to repay your grandma for your success!"

Jiaren agreed one by one, and when Mrs. Li saw him blushing, she sent him to the backyard to chop firewood.

"This child is really filial and sensible, and he will definitely have great promise in the future!"

"Old Li's children are all good at it, and the youngest, Jia An, is also smart! My bastard is bigger than Jia An, and she knows how to be mischievous every day..."

Mrs. Li smiled and listened to their praise, and grabbed a few fried chestnuts for each of them, and said a few polite words from time to time.

At this time, the village head uncle also came, "Old sister-in-law, my old lady heard that Jiaren was going to study in the county, so she specially sewed him a sachet with the name of the gold list. Just take a sniff and you won't be sleepy."

After saying this, he handed over a box containing two sachets made of dark blue muslin, smelling the inscriptions on the gold list, they were very delicate.

Mrs. Li hurriedly expressed her thanks and asked the village chief to sit down and drink tea. Jiaren heard the movement and threw an ax to salute.

"There will be scholars in our village in the future. Jiaren is a child who can't be wrong. He will definitely win the face of Qingshui Village!" The village elder patted Jiaren on the shoulder, liking him for his stability and politeness.

"Then I will borrow your good words." Mrs. Li beckoned everyone to sit down again, and said when she remembered something, "By the way, big brother, in the last few days, while Jiaren is still at home, I would like to trouble you to take our family to Pay homage to the original owner of this yard." Before going to the county town to sell velvet antlers, Li Lao Si bought half a basket of yellow paper joss sticks.

The village chief was stunned for a moment, but then he replied, "Okay, I can go tomorrow."

"Then I'll ask Hongying to prepare things tonight." Mrs. Li also said simply, and the matter was settled.

That night, Tao Hongying made a few snow-white steamed buns with fine flour, steamed the rabbit meat and put them in a bowl with two plates of fruit.

Early the next morning, the family took their belongings and went to the gate of the village chief's house to wait.

The village head also brought some food and wine, and then led the Li family to set off in a mighty way.

The original owner had no children, and after his death, the village head helped to bury him deep in the mountains.There was a single grave, and the Li family felt a little sad when they saw it.

Tao Hongying and Zhao Yuru quickly placed the sacrifices and incense candles, and helped the village head pour the wine.

Wu Cuihua'er probably felt that this place was unlucky, so she refused to help at all, and wished she could stay eight feet away. Now she was hiding behind the crowd, and Li Lao Er couldn't even pull her.

The village chief sat in front of the tombstone with a sad expression on his face. Back then when he fought against the enemy on the battlefield, he bled and sweated to death, but failed to make this strong man shed half a tear, but now his eyes are easily red.

"My old brother, he died in a slump." The village chief knew that someone in the village was gossiping about the Li family's current yard, and he was afraid that the Li family would misunderstand, so he planned to take this opportunity to explain.

"Back when we were fighting, enemy troops attacked at night, and many brothers had their necks wiped in the camp. My brother had a bad stomach to save his life, but he also suffered from heart problems and couldn't sleep well at night.

Later when we came to Qingshui Village, he married a wife and lived a good life.But once he had a nightmare at night, his wife didn't understand, so she called him a few times, but he mistook her as an enemy army and killed her by mistake.

When I arrived, my brother just sat there stupidly, said sorry to his wife, and wiped his neck in front of me..."

The Li family was surprised when they heard this, but they were more sympathetic. The good family was broken up like this, and the family was destroyed.

Mrs. Li sighed, "He is also a poor person, village head brother, don't worry, our Li family is also considered cheap, as long as our Li family lives in this Qingshui Village, I will let my children and grandchildren come to worship every year. I won’t ask this brother underground to cut off the incense and worship.”

The village chief just wanted this sentence, so he quickly thanked, "I thank you and your family on behalf of my brother."

Everyone burned the paper, kowtowed together, and cleaned up the weeds on the grave. As usual, the village chief wanted to stay and talk for a while, and the Li family went down the mountain together.

The Li family was so disturbed, the villagers naturally knew about it. Some said the Li family was benevolent, and some said the Li family was brave. Of course, there would be nothing good to say about the Liu family.

"It's really a lot of money to burn. If there is such a good thing, I will send it to a dead person! The whole family is a fool!" Guo was so angry that he sat at the gate of the courtyard and cursed. The Li family was willing to subsidize a dead person. Also refused to give them a little home.

Liu Laifu came back from the city two days ago and saw his daughter-in-law beating his sister-in-law until her nose was bruised and her face was swollen, without even farting.

Hearing Guo's swearing at this moment, he became more and more irritable, so he went directly to the city to find Wu Ergou in the casino.

"Wu Er, what are you still doing here? Your sister and her husband's family are so rich, why don't you let your sister raise you?" Liu Laifu's sour words made Wu Ergou confused.

He used to gamble all the little wages he earned as a clerk, and now he lost nothing, and was worried. After hearing this, he ran back to Li's house in a hurry.

Wu Cuihua'er saw her younger brother came back, she was busy preparing food for him, and also planned to take out the leftover venison and smoked rabbit.

"Second sister-in-law! My mother told me to keep the venison and rabbit for the Chinese New Year. If your brother wants to eat it, he can go up the mountain and fetch it himself!" Tao Hongying was not polite at all, and directly closed the door of the warehouse.

Jiayin was lying on the old lady's back, just watching the excitement, now she stretched out her little hand and babbled twice, cheering her mother on!

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