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Chapter 124 Niu Tianci Biography (18) - Mrs. Crescent Moon

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Ji's chicken is very delicious, it is really fresh.The pancakes are also good, burnt on the bottom, loose in the middle, sweet and chewy.The big girls kindly gave Tianci a piece of sweet potato, but he didn't take it, thinking their hands were dirty. As soon as it got dark, everyone went to sleep, and Tianci was on the kang with the old man.The old man lay down by the end of the stove: "Master, are you tired? Take a rest! Kerosene is so expensive that you can't even light a lamp! Hey!" Tianci also lay down, it turned out that the kang was hot!At first, he reluctantly endured it, thinking that the heat of the kang was fun; after staying for a while, he broke out in white sweat.It can't be upright, it can't be tilted, he secretly padded the cotton trousers, still can't.His eyes were dazed, his nose was dry, and he had no place to put his hands, so he had to press his pants and hang his body, as if practicing gymnastics.The arms are bent and stretched, the belly is up and down, and it can create a little wind.But the arm couldn't take it anymore.Put all the cotton-padded jackets on, and lie down high, with nothing covering the top; the heat is much better underneath, but the top is fluttering again.After tossing around in the middle of the night, I was sleepy, hot and embarrassed to make a sound.In the middle of the night, when the Kang was colder, he tried to fall asleep.

When he woke up the next day, his eyes were piercing and his nose was stuffy. No, he couldn't bear this kind of life.He wanted not to be coquettish, but the people in the Ji family were too dirty, and he couldn't bear it.There is nothing in the village; there is only a tofu seller and a butcher seller in the morning, and it is said that they both come every three days.The small shop at the entrance of the village is the only business, but they don't sell snacks either.Old man Ji was so anxious that he had no choice but to fry some popcorn and soybeans for him to keep his mouth shut.There is nothing to play outside the village, except the ground, which is so yellow; only three or four pine trees can be seen, which are still far away.Tianci remembered that there was a piece of "Nongjiale" on the New Year picture, which was not at all different from this farmhouse.There is no fun here.The children here know what it is to worry and what it is to be frugal, and take home a dry branch.There was a cloud of cold air here, as if it was blown from some unknown place.Tianci didn't smile all day.He is homesick.

After staying for two nights, Mama Ji brought Tianci back to the city.Elder Ji sent them down, and took twenty large oily eggs for Tianci. Back home, Tianci was much more stable, and he couldn't forget the inexplicable sadness of Ji's family for a while; he also saw the three children in his dream——the youngest one was wearing a rag curtain, holding a piece of paper in his little hand. pancake.He asked Ji's mother carefully about the countryside, which was very interesting.The countryside is another world: only people, no money. He asked his father to give Ji's mother more wages, and his father agreed.Why can dad be so happy?He doesn't understand.He imagined that he should be Huang Tianba, sending a few dollars to old man Ji in the middle of the night; old man Ji is lovely and respectable.But that's just imagination, it's useless.Thinking of himself in turn made him happy again.Fortunately, he is from the city, and his father is rich.But why does he have money and others don't?Unable to figure it out, he could only celebrate his good luck.

After the new year, he was fifteen years old, and his age was counted according to the festival.There have been some changes on his body: the small hairs on his thin lips have become a little heavier, and one or two hairs can already be picked up by hand.The throat also protruded a little bit, up and down like a small jujube, the speech was not so sharp, and some red spots appeared on the face.He didn't grow much in stature, but he felt a little more strength in his body, and he often swelled outwards, which sometimes made him feel depressed and panicked.He knows grooming.I secretly bought a bottle of hair tonic, not daring to let others see, but when I was happy, I asked Mama Ji to smell his hair.It's easy to look in the mirror, but when you see a girl, you feel embarrassed, you want to look but you don't dare, even though you think you are pretty in the mirror.I haven't looked for "Bee" for a long time, because it is a girl.There were many things that made him uneasy, but he was too embarrassed to ask anyone, even Si Huzi.He felt that he was going abroad, and he felt blocked and panicked.Because of the panic, he gradually forgot about Shiliupu.He himself is more noteworthy.He is the only one in the world who is changing and playing, as if.He doesn't like the things he used to like to play with anymore, he likes a beautiful little handkerchief, a little mirror with a girl painted on the back of it, secretly inhaled half of a "Hardman", and fainted for a long time.Just polish the toes of your shoes if you have nothing to do.At this time, he loves to think about it more, and the more he thinks about it, the lonelier he becomes, and sometimes he feels that it is best to hug someone.Pa wanted him to learn business so he could carry on those careers.He remembered his mother's last words, it was better to be an official than a business.He can't decide.Sometimes he thinks for himself.When it came to the truth, he didn't bother to think about it.He is the young master.He sometimes pretends to be so-so: "Learning business?" He smiled.pointless.It's easy to walk around the street with my dad.

Since I don't want to learn business, and I can't be an official for a while, it seems that I have to do something to be worthy of my father.To be worthy of my father without losing my freedom, I still go to school.But the school is boring, the teachers are not good, and the classmates are not good.The current Tianci is not the previous Tianci, and he can no longer be a side dish in the school; if he goes to the school, he should be the director!He has passed the world: he died his mother, passed the soul, went to Shiliupu, rode a donkey, and bought hair tonic!What doesn't he understand? !He doesn't go to school anymore.In fact, he was also a little scared.Two things made him afraid when he thought about it, his mother's death and the cruelty at school.The best thing is to ask a gentleman to read at home, and you can read whatever you like, and you don't have to learn arithmetic and go to gymnastics.

However, he couldn't talk to dad directly, he learned to be careful.Ask Si Huzi to say that if it is going to hit a wall, it will be Si Huzi anyway.He still has to exercise and give him some gifts.Yes, it's easy to talk when you give a gift, didn't your mother always do this when she was alive? "Master Tiger!" This is a new term he coined, very masculine: "It's been a while, and I haven't given you any presents yet! What do you want? Tell me!" beard. "Don't talk nonsense, I've been unhappy these two days!" Si Huzi was very angry. "What's the matter, Lord Tiger?"

"What's the matter? I'm quitting, I can't serve you!" Si Huzi became more and more angry as he spoke. Godsent was stunned, the world would be gone without the four tigers, isn't the four tigers the oldest and oldest friend? "Let me tell you," Sihuzi was stunned by Tianci, and felt a little more comfortable: "Since the year when I had you, the dead ghost old lady has said that I will marry you. Are you in your teens this year?" "Fifteen." "Have I married a wife?" Tianci shook his head. "It's over! Let me tell you, if the money is in other people's hands, the daughter-in-law will not be able to marry. I see it through! Quit working, quit serving, what's the matter with my four sons leaving Niu's house and not being able to eat?! "

Tianci sees clearly that something is wrong with Niu's family, but he doesn't quite understand why it is so important to marry a daughter-in-law, as to make Si Huzi so anxious.If the four tigers must want a daughter-in-law, he should also want one.Isn't a daughter-in-law just a girl, and isn't a girl pretty? "Master Tiger, let me tell Dad, let's marry one each; otherwise, each of us will marry two; doesn't the big dog's father have two wives?" "Don't talk nonsense," Si Huzi laughed, "I'm here It's the real thing. I can't tell others, you are my old friend, right? I can tell you." Tianci put on a straight face, very happy in his heart, and seemed to have gained weight.Not bad, old friend! "Master Tiger, I'm really going to tell Dad."

Master Hu felt embarrassed again: "But, but, don't say I told you to go, that would be shameless!" "Whose idea is it?" "Just blow it up, if you don't have a daughter-in-law, you don't have one, accept your fate!" Master Hu softened again. "That's right, let Ji's mother talk! Old friend? Alright, hey!" He nodded, imitating old Ji. "I'm asking you something too." "Say it, anything is fine, what our brothers say!" Tianci explained the intention of inviting a gentleman, and Master Hu agreed to do it.The two old friends were very happy, and Tianci paid for Lord Tiger to eat two bunches of rock sugar hawthorn instead of giving gifts.

Both sides' words reached Dad's ears, and Dad agreed as usual, but he had no idea.Who should I ask to teach?Whose girl is it?There is no way. Tianci knew a girl—"Bee", and recommended it immediately.Dad thinks it is very good, "Bee" is already sixteen years old, and according to Yuncheng's method, he is fully qualified to be a daughter-in-law.But Lao Hei didn't want to, thinking that Lord Tiger was too old.He is willing to give the bees a gift from heaven, but the old man Niu is unwilling, because Lao Hei's status in the business world is too low.In the end, Ji's mother was the matchmaker, and she talked about a girl in Shiliupu. It is said that the talent is good, but the mouth is not very good, and it is crooked.Lord Tiger doesn't care about this, as long as he wants to be nice.Tianci didn't quite agree, and he panicked when he heard about Shiliupu; but since his old friend wanted to, he couldn't say more, and instead imagined the benefits of Shiliupu: "Master Tiger, there are donkeys there, It's not bad!" Even if the marriage is settled, Ji's mother also acts as a matchmaker, and her status has improved rapidly.

Si Huzi got married in March, and Tianci only found her husband in April.This gentleman, surnamed Zhao, graduated from university, loves to study, can compose poetry, has nothing to do, and is quite poor.Mr. Zhao failed to teach several times in the school. He couldn't control the students.His head is shaped like an onion somehow, with a few hairs standing on top of his head. He is very good at teaching Tianci.He opened up with Tianci: You can read whatever you like, and ask if you don't understand; it doesn't matter if you don't ask.Godsend is happy to do that.There is a lesson called "Thoughts" every day. Teachers and students are relatively speechless, thinking about their own thoughts.Discuss when you have finished thinking, and pull it down if you can't think of it.Tianci wanted to renovate Shiliupu. First, he built a road, and Mr. Zhao made up for it: there must be trees and running water on both sides of the road.Tianci admired Teacher Zhao very much, and asked him all the questions, and the teacher answered everything.Godsend to read novels, the teacher dares to recite them!When Dad came to check, Tianci practiced calligraphy, and the teacher taught him to write Wei Bei.After Dad left, teachers and students studied Lin Daiyu's character and habits.The teacher would say: "Close your eyes and think about it!" Once you close your eyes, Tianci is very good at imagining that he saw Daiyu!He really wanted to find the "bee"; but the bee is not like Daiyu!Probably there is no second Daiyu in the world, unless another one comes up.He thought, he wrote blindly with a pen, and one day he wrote "Bee". Teacher Zhao praised her very much and asked him to visit her again and write again when he came back.He went to find her. "Bee" has grown into a big girl, her face seems to be longer, and her feet are not bare, her black eyes are still so black, but they are too black to understand.She walked very lightly, as if her big feet didn't wipe the ground.Tianci didn't dare to look at her too much, she wasn't as natural as before, she would laugh out something.Tianci came back, frowning and thinking: What if the "bee" had a smaller mouth and a longer nose, and then matched with those two black eyes?That must look better.The bees have to walk barefoot on the river bank, under the green shade, without making a sound!Well, so he wrote one.Teacher Zhao said: "That's right, this is literature, do you understand? But you didn't write a main point, what is the best 'bee'? Of course it is the pair of eyes, black, how black?" "He waited for God to send himself to think. "As black as—ink!" The teacher shook his head. "As dark as—night!" The teacher patted the table: "On the river bank, under the shade of green, your eyes are as black as night! God bless you, you are taller than me! Guess what I imagined? Like two black beads. The beads are dead, the night will move and flow , I don’t know how far it flows, does it?” Tianci understands, he also learns to compose poetry, no one cares about him, he can work hard by himself.He looked at everything carefully, and then thought about it.He called Mrs. Si Huzi "Ms. Crescent Moon" because of her crooked mouth; Master Hu almost annoyed him.Master Hu said that his wife is the most crooked mouth in the world, and Tianci said that there is only one Crescent Moon, so they are still good friends. Dad wondered what kind of mess Mr. Zhao taught.He talked to the teacher, and the teacher praised God for being a genius.Dad doesn't understand.The teacher brought out the Godsend article, and Dad believed that the Godsend book was not in vain. One article used six sheets of red grid paper!Dad didn't read what was said, and counted the numbers, which was enough for 1,500 words! "More than a thousand words! This is simply a theory!" Teacher Zhao smiled: "With three years of work, he can do anything!" "But don't tire him too much," Dad changed his mind, "I have such a kid! It's tiring to write!" Dad convinced Mr. Zhao and was proud of his son.Every person must say that Godsend will make an argument.Tianci is also very happy. When his father asks him to do something, he will say: "Don't, don't mess with my mind, I'm talking here!"
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