Get rid of the crumb boss and go back to your hometown to get married

Fukuzawa Yukichi was so nervous that his mind went blank and he said whatever he wanted.He can be honest with his brother and mother, but for some reason, he has a strange feeling of worrying about gain and loss when facing her.

He only felt that he seemed to have said a lot in one go, without mentioning any important points, and he had a lot of shortcomings, so he didn't dare to look at Ah Xun, for fear that he would be unable to say anything again when he saw her face .After finishing what was on her mind, she didn't respond for a long time. She wondered if she had to find another opportunity to open her mouth for a second or even a third time. Maybe she should try to use a begging tone next time?

In fact, it didn't take too long, and it was only three or five minutes after the touch. Suddenly, I heard Ah Xun laughing and said: "Okay, yes. I thought about it, and it seems that I can't think of any reason not to agree to you. In this case , then it’s better to give you an affirmative answer.”

"You must have heard the rumors in my family. Before my parents passed away, I was entrusted to the Kondo clan. From the perspective of the world, I can't decide anything by myself, and I can't give you any help in terms of knowledge and money. Right now I'm The only thing I can do for you is probably unwavering trust, if you think this is acceptable to me." She lowered her eyelids and pursed her lips into a smile, and when she finished speaking, she turned her head to look at him, and fell into a puddle of mint green water. Qingchi was at a loss.

The boy didn't seem to expect that he could get consent so easily, first he stretched out a hand and touched her lightly to make sure he wasn't sleepy and having a dream, then he grabbed her sleeve with a little nervousness and leaned over to pull the girl into his arms He hugged her, then quickly supported her shoulders to make her stand upright, and took a half step back.

"Then, then wait. As soon as Mr. Natsume arrives in Fucheng, I will go to the door to ask for advice." He was about to lose the ability to speak, so he pieced together the meaning, blushing and stretched out his hand to her: "I'll see you off." downhill."

Ah Xun was more casual than him at the moment, put his hands on his palms and clasped them, and the two figures cuddled each other and walked towards the town together along the mountain road.

Opportunities always need to wait patiently before they come.

After the new year passed, there was finally news about the very famous Mr. Natsume in Tokyo Prefecture.When autumn came, Mr. Natsume slowly entered the prefectural city of Osaka. After a few days, there was news from the prefectural city, saying that this gentleman wanted to accept disciples. He looked around from Kanto to Kansai but did not find a suitable one. .

These years are very chaotic, the shogunate has been down for so many years, and the abolition of swords has been promulgated for so long, so the west is still doing what it is.The old feudal lords and state officials have only changed their titles on the surface, and their possession of land and population is still in an absolute position.Since the feudal lord does not fall, the samurai class attached to the feudal lord will continue to be muddled and die day after day.Even though the Kanto area has gradually prospered and has the appearance of an international city, it is still muddling along here, sticking to the old order and refusing to change it at all.

Leaving aside the general political situation, this old order, which has not changed since 1000 years, is at least quite unfavorable to other boys other than the eldest son in the same family.

According to previous international practice, in a wealthy middle-class family, the eldest son should inherit more than [-]% of the father's inheritance, and the second son will be sent to the religious system to become a monk to gain fame for the family, and the later sons will not enter the army The only way to work hard is to become a vassal of the elder brother and jointly maintain the prosperity of the family.

Those younger brothers who really want to go out independently can only take a sum of money from the elder brother to "buy out the family relationship", and try to become the son-in-law of other people's family and look forward to the father-in-law's property.Of course, some people took the money and became independent businessmen, but the family was basically just a background board for them.

This is unacceptable to the disciples of the famous family.

Then there needs to be another way to make a living, so following famous masters to study and becoming their disciples and then entering the public eye is the only reliable way for them to establish a new family.

This is the same reason as a farmer's family always sends his youngest son to a craftsman as an apprentice. It's just that the threshold for a scholar to accept an apprentice is much higher than that of a carpenter in the town. Even so, the enthusiasm of the students cannot be dispelled. .All kinds of greeting cards were sent to the desk, no matter how outrageous the reasons were, none of them were thrown out by Mr. Natsume, which aroused everyone's expectations.

If he can win the favor of this gentleman, at least he can leave this barren land alienated by the political center first. As for the future, there is still a teacher who will take care of the situation and there is no need to worry.

Centered in the prefectural city of Osaka, the craze spread rapidly, and soon the news reached Nakatsu.Fukuzawa Yukichi took his father's invitation to ask for advice - his elder brother took his father's position in Kurashiki, and as the second son, he could use this to find a way for himself to make a living.

He went to the courtyard where Mr. Natsume was renting, taking advantage of the time when he met Mr. Private School in Shangfucheng and handed in his homework.This gentleman from Tokyo Prefecture is different from other great Confucian scholars. He wears a brown cloak that no countryman has ever seen before, has hair of three different colors, and wears a hat imported from foreigners. momentum.

He scanned around the students who came to ask for advice, and a silver-haired boy with a tall figure and a dignified demeanor was particularly eye-catching.

"Come here, what's your name?" Natsume Soseki waved his hand and beckoned a boy who was taller than others to come forward and reply.It is true that he wants to take apprentices, but the requirements may be different from other scholars. He has traveled more than half of the country from Yokohama Port and has not met suitable ones—either with limited knowledge, or without the special characteristics he wants. point.

Fukuzawa Yukichi stood out of the crowd, answered his father's name and his own name earnestly, and fluently answered various exams asked by his husband.The people around heard more and more exclamations. They never expected that the youngest son of the Fukuzawa family, who was considered "stupid" in the village, turned out to be a man of extensive knowledge.Everyone only knew that he was good at swordsmanship and martial arts, but they didn't expect that this person was also good at books and studies.

Natsume Soseki didn't have much expectations at first, and he had already walked to Kansai and planned to turn back to find another way. Suddenly, he found a boy who was different from others in the pile of radishes.

"Very good, you know the education of benevolence, righteousness, honesty and shame in the Shang Kingdom, but you know the natural evolution from Europe and America? Natural selection is not a way of life that can be born by being gentle, courteous and thrifty. You need to learn from the best of a hundred schools of thought in your studies. In the end, a square inch is nothing but a frog's ear at the bottom of a well, would you like to follow me to study in Tokyo Prefecture?"

This is to accept him as a disciple. From then on, if he goes out and declares his family, he will have to say the name of master.Master-student, master-student, master is also father, no different from father.

Surrounded by the students watching, there was an uproar, and they all booed and asked Master Fuze to learn as a teacher quickly, so that they could have some conversations with others after they left the house.

Of course the young man is willing, to be able to get a famous teacher and earn a living in the family wall, probably he has achieved what his elder brother said "forge ahead"... I feel a little worried in my heart.

Over the past year, most of the time has been spent on teaching Ah Xun to read. She learned too fast, not to mention the pseudonyms and Chinese characters, and she can even understand the meaning of the scriptures—the boy had to light the lamp at night. Reading, for fear of being embarrassed by "students" during the day, what will be your status at home in the future?

Nowadays, university students from Tokyo Prefecture can also answer questions fluently, and they must rely on TOEFL for this playful "advancement".

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Master Fuze had paid homage to his master here and was sent home to announce the good news. He didn't realize a very bad thing until he stood outside the teacher's door.If he followed Natsume-sensei to go to Tokyo to study, his mother would have an older brother to take care of him so he wouldn't have to worry about it, but Kaoru...is still raised in someone else's house, what should I do?

No matter how well planned, Kaoru would not be able to take people away just by nodding his head, and there would be trouble behind the Kondo vassal's refusal to let people go.

When he walked slowly into the house, the eldest brother and mother had already heard the news from other places, and came up beamingly to congratulate him on his success in learning in the future.The young master of the Fukuzawa family patted his younger brother on the shoulder to tell him the good news: "I have already handed over the invitation, and I will go to see the Kondo feudal lord tomorrow morning to ask for his adopted daughter for you. First decide on the name, don't worry and Mr. Go to Tokyo Prefecture, and send her to follow you when the two families are ready."

Without such a proper arrangement, the boy would only nod his face when he blushed, but would be speechless.

So the next day the young master brought the tea leaves that the late Mr. Fukuzawa collected to visit the Kondo feudal vassal, and stayed until the afternoon.

"Master Kondo nodded happily, saying that he is willing to marry his adopted daughter to you. Don't worry? Follow Mr. Natsume well, and you don't need to worry about family affairs." The eldest son is not just taking care of the family property, he also bears the responsibility of the entire family. It is also up to him to discipline the younger brothers and sisters below.

Fukuzawa Yukichi felt that this was probably the moment when his elder brother was the smartest and most like a brother in his life. He is usually stupid, especially when he believes in the karma of loyalty and chastity.The general erected the emperor as a doll and displayed it to the world. How loyal are you?Can you figure out which one is the "jun"?Even if you take a hundred steps back, even the general's family has been down for so many years, and now the feudal lord is the cancer that really refuses to obey the state's control. I don't know what happened to the elder brother's head. Is it caught?

Of course, I only dare to slander this in my stomach, or say it to Ah Xun.

This girl is very courageous, standing under the torii gate and listening to his complaints, she "eat, eat, eat" and said with a smile that she has a way to prove that gods and Buddhas are just piles of wood, and the feudal lord is no more than ordinary people.

After entering the shrine, she picked up charcoal strips and secretly wrote the name of the feudal lord on the stone slab in front of the main hall, in serious and standard Chinese characters, tall and straight and handsome.The black color of the charcoal strips was written on the bluestone slabs, and the people who came to worship could not see it. They stepped on it and left it for seven days.

This is still stepping on in front of the gods, and there is no reaction at all. Sure enough, the cages on those niches are all ignorant stones, blocks of wood, and broken iron sheets.

"But I would like to give some comfort. For example, the proprietress of Eight Hundred House, after worshiping in the temple and worshiping the shrine, she went back and sold the spoiled vegetables to the common people. Do you see that her family's business is not doing well?"

The girl raised her chin and squinted her eyes and smiled. The boy who was blindfolded and bought hollow radishes several times because he was too honest thought that this was indeed the case, and he immediately calmed down a little uneasy after doing "bad things": "Sure enough in this way!"

Just thinking about her makes me laugh, no one is as clever and cunning as her.