Transmigrated into the Pastoral Scenery
Chapter 45
Although Song Jingwei gave him a hard time, he also thought of this later, so he didn't hold on to him, but said: "Remember next time, this time I will remind you." After doing similar things, he prevented Yang from cooking only meat for himself, and the young man must have noticed it.
"Yeah." Shen Junxi replied obediently, he remembered it this time.
Walking back to the kitchen with an empty bowl, he immediately talked about Song Jingwei's meaning with his mother Yang, and gestured to his mother: "My wife said that the family is not short of money, if there is any good food, let's eat together." Pursing his lips, he gestured again Said: "Daughter-in-law doesn't like to eat alone..." Eating alone is not happy.
Mrs. Yang thought the same way, and said to her son face to face, "Your wife...that's the way, she's really hot." In fact, she was very considerate of them, but whenever there was something good, she would never monopolize it for herself.
"En." Shen Junxi gestured in shame: "Daughter-in-law is right, you and father should also take regular supplements." The two elders are not too young, and the young people hope that they will live a long and healthy life.
"Understood, it's not that mother is reluctant to eat..." Yang said awkwardly, in fact, she was a little reluctant, but she was very embarrassed to be told by her daughter-in-law every time, she said: "Go back and tell your daughter-in-law, Mother knows. And what else, thank him."
Shen Junxi gestured and said: "I won't say, I just tell him that you know, and I won't say thank you for you."
Yang's eyes widened, but her son just didn't listen to her, and pretended to be busy inside, without even looking at her: "Hey..." How could he do this?
"You don't often say that we are a family, no need to thank you."
"But... your daughter-in-law is still thanking you..." Yang murmured, she naturally didn't have the habit of thanking her. Isn't this why the daughter-in-law pays attention to these things? If the daughter-in-law thinks they are rude, then she won't good.
"Don't follow him, students are divided." Shen Junxi gestured, helping his mother put the dishes and chopsticks in the cabinet.
"Forget it, I won't tell you." Yang thought for a while, then sent him out and said, "Go and help your wife look after the children, don't get in the way here."
"..." Shen Junxi is very used to this kind of gap, anyway, it has been like this for the past year or so, he is not welcomed anywhere.
Back in the house, maybe he woke up stupidly, he saw Song Jingwei holding the baby walking around the house, but he didn't hear the baby crying.
"Hush..." Song Jingwei happened to see the young man and motioned him to come in quietly. He lowered his voice and said, "Just fell asleep, I'll hug him for a while."
Shen Junxi nodded, and approached lightly, wanting to see the baby's little face.He saw that there were still teardrops hanging under the stupid eyelids, and gestured, "Did you cry just now?"
Song Jingwei patted Benben's back lightly, and replied: "I've peed, and I haven't put on a new diaper yet, come when he's fast asleep."
"Yeah." Hearing this, he went to get a new diaper first.
After about a cup of tea, feeling that the baby in his arms was fast asleep, Song Jingwei gently put him down on the bed, moving very slowly, for fear that something wrong would wake him up.In fact, he admires Shen Junxi very much, because Shen Junxi can help the baby change the diaper smoothly while the baby is sleeping without waking him up.He couldn't do it, and he didn't do it often.
He turned back to the young man and said, "Come on, be careful."
"Ah."
Song Jingwei didn't need to say anything, he did things lightly, and this time it went smoothly as well.The two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the baby sleeping soundly.Raising a child is really not an easy task, this is Song Jingwei's deepest experience since becoming a father.
"I'll take a break too." Song Jingwei said to the young man after looking at the bedside for a while.
Shen Junxi watched him helplessly, walked to his bed, took off his shoes after sitting down... He gestured hesitantly, "You sleep here?"
"Well, is there a problem?" Song Jingwei asked, took off his shoes, took off his coat, and then went to bed and pulled up the quilt, feeling relaxed.However, he tilted his head and found that the young man was still standing in the middle of the room, looking as stupid as something. He asked strangely, "Is there anything else? Just go if you want to."
"..." Shen Junxi opened his mouth, and gestured eagerly, "You sleep on my bed." At this moment, he also wanted to lie down when he was free.
"..." Song Jingwei moved inside and said, "I thought you didn't sleep." He was busy at noon for so many days, and there was no one in the afternoon.And that bed was occupied by the baby, Song Jingwei was afraid that sleeping together would wake up the little speaker, let alone resting, just coaxing him would be enough.
"Hmm..." Shen Junxi smiled, and went into the clean room to wash his face and hands before going back to the room and lying down next to his wife.
"I've been too busy recently." Song Jingwei exhaled softly and said, "I'm going to buy fish in a few days. I don't know much about fish farming. Do you know who in the village can raise fish?"
"..." Shen Junxi lay down slowly, helped them tuck in the quilt, and thought seriously after hearing this. It seems that no one in their village grows lotus roots, nor does anyone specialize in raising fish.It's just that some people are not very proficient in stocking ponds casually.After much deliberation, he gestured and said, "I understand the dumb man quite well, how about asking him for advice?"
"Well." If there is no other candidate in the village, the only choice is the dumb man. Song Jingwei closed his eyes and said softly: "Let's see in two days." However, he still has something to do: "By the way, Pei Hongxuan's belly It will grow bigger and bigger, and I will recruit two masters before April."
"Go to the town to post a notice." Shen Junxi gestured.
"Are you going to post?" Anyway, he is the one who writes, so it's better to provide one-stop service.
"Yes." The young man readily agreed.
"Okay." Song Jingwei turned over slightly and said, "Then you go to sleep, and you will collect cow dung in the afternoon, and I won't go out."
"Yes." Shen Junxi not only agreed, but also pinched his exposed shoulders and neck, knowing that he was exhausted recently.
"..." Song Jingwei wanted to tell him no need, but he was really sleepy and lost consciousness after a while.
Hearing his daughter-in-law's gentle breathing, Shen Junxi knew that he had fallen asleep, so he slowly let go of his hands and changed to hugging posture.At the same time, resting his chin on his daughter-in-law's neck, he was thinking about something in his head, and gradually fell asleep.
"Wow..." A loud baby cry sounded in the room.
Shen Junxi woke up from the dream, got out of bed quickly habitually, picked up the baby on the baby's bed and coaxed him, and checked to see if he urinated or pulled. If not, he was hungry.
"..." After feeling the diaper was still dry, he went to prepare hot milk.But the baby in his hand was still crying, and he really hoped to coax Benben quickly so that he wouldn't wake up his wife.
But this way of crying, Song Jingwei will definitely wake up.He opened his hazy eyes and said, "What's the matter, did you pee or are you hungry?"
Shen Junxi came over, patted the baby and gestured with one hand: "I'm hungry..."
"Oh..." Song Jingwei got up from the bed, sat and stretched out his hand and said, "Give it to me, you go get him something to eat."
"Yeah." Shen Junxi knew very well that his son would not stop until he ate it in his mouth, so he quickly handed it over to Song Jingwei, and went out to get goat milk by himself.
"Crying bag." Song Jingwei hugged his crying son, and had no choice but to get up and walk back and forth to coax him.
After about a quarter of an hour, the young man came in with a food box, which contained freshly heated goat milk.Song Jingwei sat down, held the baby by himself, and asked Shen Junxi to feed it spoon by spoon with a bowl in his hand.
This process is much slower than feeding a bottle, and it would be nice if there was a bottle now.
"He is so anxious to eat, and he is not afraid of getting burned." Seeing his son opening his mouth to eat like a bird, the little mouth moved, it was so cute.
"..." Shen Junxi laughed, even the breastfeeding hands trembled a little, because he also thought his son was so cute and cute.
"How many meals did he eat today?" Song Jingwei said with a bit of disgust, he ate several meals just because he saw it.
"..." Shen Junxi didn't have time to answer him now, and was feeding his son with great joy.
"Okay." After feeding a bowl of goat milk, Song Jingwei wrapped his son up a little bit, and gently stroked his back to prevent him from spitting up milk.
Shen Junxi took the empty bowl and food box, although Song Jingwei told him to go directly to the field, so there was no need to come here.However, after a trip to the kitchen, he still fell back.Hug the son first, then quickly hug the wife, and then go to the ground.
"..." Song Jingwei looked at the back of the young man leaving, without saying anything, and there was no change on his face.He lowered his head and continued to coax Benben to sleep. After he was full, he closed his eyes and yawned.This child has a habit of putting his little hand to his mouth every time he yawns, which is very similar to an adult's reaction: "Go to sleep." He coaxed softly.
Waking up early the next day, Shen Junxi listened to his wife. After breakfast, he went back to the house and wrote a notice to recruit a wife, and then went to town.What he told Song Jingwei was that he would rush back for lunch at noon.
Song Jingwei said: "Since I've gone, I'll pay attention to the fish species, and if I think it's suitable, I'll buy some back." At the same time, I gave him the silver, and he should learn to explore these things slowly, anyway, he is not stupid.
"En." Shen Junxi nodded in agreement. He heard from Song Jingwei that he wanted to buy grass carp, carp, loach, eel, and shrimp.
"Go, go early and come back early." He said, just watching the baby in the house, and didn't go out to see Shen Junxi off.
When Shen Junxi arrived in the town, he first posted the notice, and then went to the market to find the stall owner who bought the fish.Ask if there are any fish species for sale in other people's homes?It's a pity that ten out of ten people here can't understand his gestures, so there is still no way to buy fish species.
He wasn't upset that he couldn't finish what Song Jingwei had told him, because it was something that couldn't be helped.He simply bought some fresh food and rushed home early to have lunch with his parents, wife and children.
Song Jingwei, who was at home, only remembered the problem of inconvenient communication after Shen Junxi went out.It was because he was used to communicating with Shen Junxi, so he didn't expect that Shen Junxi couldn't communicate with others.That's all right now, the young man didn't complete the task he gave, so I don't know what it will be like when he comes back?
He waited to see the dejected look of the young man, but he was surprised.
"Yo, brother Xi is back?" Yang said with a smile, and hurriedly stepped forward to bring back the things Shen Junxi brought back from the town.
The young man Song Jingwei saw didn't look downcast, his eyes were still bright, pure and warm, and a very soft person.
"How is it? Did you buy the fingerlings?" He deliberately asked him.
"..." Shen Junxi shook his head at him, and said honestly, "I didn't buy the fish species, the stall owner couldn't understand what I said." He still seemed a little innocent and wronged.
"Oh, it's fine if you don't buy it. I'll go and see it another day."
Shen Junxi gestured: "I will go with you some other day."
"The family is so busy." Song Jingwei walked up and down the house with the baby on his back, "Many tea trees haven't been planted yet, and they haven't planted them carefully enough. You have to watch it. The soil around the trees needs to be stepped on." If the soil is not solid, the roots of the tea tree will not be able to stick to the soil, and if they do not stick to the soil, they will not be able to absorb nutrients.
"En." Since Song Jingwei said so, Shen Junxi could only nod his head, even if he really wanted to go out with his wife.
After two days like this, Song Jingwei hadn't found time to go to the town to see the fish species, but the notice posted two days ago had the result.It was at noon that day, a scholar in his thirties came to apply for the post of teacher.
Song Jingwei looked this person up and down a few times, and his first impression was that he was full of bookishness, more settled than the white-faced scholar like Shen Junxi.Probably because of the age and experience in it, it feels very good.
"My surname is Song. I don't know how to call you sir?" he said.
"Don't dare, a certain surname is Qiao, and the single name is a long word." Qiao Lang said with cupped hands.
"Okay, Mr. Qiao." Song Jingwei took him directly to the bookstore, and said to him, "This is the bookstore. Although it's not big, there are about [-] students." All of them are from the village, and some families come to study. Recognize characters.
"These children are of different ages, but they are all..." Qiao Lang looked in from the window and saw that the students were of all ages, the youngest was five or six years old, and the oldest was twelve or thirteen years old.
"Yeah, they're all just enlightened, so there's no division." Song Jingwei felt that the nature of their book club needed to be made clear to Qiao Lang earlier, and he said: "Actually, our book club has just opened, and it's not for making money. The original idea , just let the children have a place to read and write."
"Oh?" It was the first time Qiao Lang heard that private schools were not set up for making money.
"Well, the children come to study, and the tuition fee is not high, only a little fee for pen and ink." Song Jingwei said, and then observed Qiao Lang's performance.
Qiao Lang nodded knowingly, and after a while he said, "Young Master Song is a great kind man."
"Oh." Song Jingwei burst out laughing, shook his head and said, "I don't count, I don't do good deeds for the sake of doing good deeds, I just do it like this." He thought, just do it, not because it's a good deed.
"It's a good move." Qiao Lang said softly, looking at the children in the window, he was determined to stay in this way.
It is said that the eyes are the windows of the soul, Song Jingwei can feel his essence even if he does not look at Qiao Lang's eyes.He likes people like this to teach the children, he said with a smile: "Although we are a public welfare bookstore, we will still give the Shuxiu that we should have. Besides Shuxiu, there is also a place to live. It's not me. It's a private courtyard, but the environment is very good." He planned to arrange Qiao Lang to go to the mute's courtyard.In this way, finding a companion for the old man will not appear too deserted.
"Okay, as long as there is a place to stay, Qiao will be satisfied." Qiao Lang smiled with a hint of melancholy in his smile.He was originally a foreigner who went far away from home. Before the age of 30, he had a passion for being named on the gold list.However, after the age of 30, only the yearning for a peaceful life remains.Right now, it is just right to find a beautiful countryside and live an elegant life of teaching and educating people.
"Alright then, I'll take you to see the residence." Song Jingwei took Qiao Lang to the dumb man's courtyard. He was not there at the moment, so he arranged for Qiao Lang to move in first.Then he took Qiao Lang to the field, found the dumb boy immediately, and told him the news.This is Song Jingwei's principle of doing things. He feels that it is disrespectful to let Qiao Lang move in without telling the mute immediately.
The two tenants have seen each other, and they both nodded to say yes, no problem.
The mute was even more excited, and gestured to Song Jingwei and said, "This young man looks too much like my elder brother."
Song Jingwei didn't take it to heart, and said casually: "You still have an elder brother, didn't you say you have no relatives?" Then he remembered that the mute was so old, his elder brother might have passed away.
The dumb man gestured and said, "I have an older brother, but... I got separated when I was very young. I haven't seen him for decades, and I don't know where to find him."
"Are you separated?" Song Jingwei was a little surprised. The old man had never said this before, so he asked, "Why didn't you go back and look for it later?"
The dumb man gestured and said, "I'm too young to remember where my home is. I only remember my elder brother's appearance, and my parents' appearance." Now that he is seventy or eighty, it is estimated that his father and mother have already died.
"Your elder brother, do you still remember his name?" Song Jingwei asked, feeling a lot of pity for this old man in his heart.He was separated from his family since he was a child and has lived alone until now.Maybe I also encountered a lot of hardships and sad things during this period.
"..." The mute nodded, found a branch on the ground, and scratched out three words crookedly.
Song Jingwei squatted down and took a closer look. It seemed to be Lu Jingping. He read: "Lu Jingping?"
"..." The mute nodded, showing nostalgia and yearning on his face. This may be the only relative he knows in the world.
"Old man." Qiao Lang shook his finger, pointed at the three characters on the ground, and asked, "You said your eldest brother is called Lu Jingping, but... Lu Jingping from Tangxia Village, Baima Town?"
The dumb man couldn't remember his hometown clearly, so he couldn't answer this question. He shook his head and said, "I don't remember. Anyway, my elder brother's name is that. I remember it correctly." .
"Then what are your parents' names? Do you still remember?" Qiao Ran asked eagerly, with a very excited expression on his face. If it's true...it's possible, very likely!
"Dumb, if you remember, write it down." Song Jingwei looked at Qiao Lang, and something was wrong. From the moment he saw the name Lu Jingping, he couldn't help but have a bold guess. Could it be that the two are relatives?
"..." The mute didn't understand why this young man was so excited, he still scratched out the names of his parents on the ground, one was Lu Yuexiang, and the other was Liu Yingdi.
After seeing these two names, Qiao Lang suddenly burst into tears hugging the dumb boy. He shouted excitedly, "You are my uncle! You must be the uncle who got lost!"
Both the mute and Song Jingwei were stunned unexpectedly, especially the mute, who was crazy about his relatives, and suddenly a strange young man told him that it was his nephew, with his tongueless mouth open, The old tears flowed down.
Qiao Lang also saw the old uncle's mouth, and he cried bitterly: "How did you become like this?" God is so unfair, why did his uncle suffer such a situation!
The mute shook his hands and tightly grasped Joram's arm, unable to speak.But judging by his expression, he was in a hurry to say something and asked something.
Song Jingwei hurriedly said: "Use sign language, I'll help you say what you want to say."
The excited mute, he gestured eagerly: "Are you my elder brother's son? Is my elder brother okay? Are your grandparents okay too?"
After listening to Song Jingwei's translation, Qiao Lang said quickly: "Yes, my name is Qiao Lang, and I am my father's second son. My surname is Qiao because I have my younger father's surname. I have an older brother named Lu Mengyang who also has The two sons have grown up. Grandfather and grandmother went away a few years ago, and they all went there peacefully without suffering." As he spoke, Qiao Lang couldn't hold back his tears, and said, "I have listened to your affairs since I was a child. Dad said, his old man always thinks about it, and every time he mentions it these years, he blames himself so much that he didn't come first... I didn't expect..." He had already made up his mind to die in a foreign country, but he didn't expect to hit it by mistake Met the old man.Just this one, he is willing in this life, and it is not a waste of time.
"..." The dumb man was heartbroken when he heard that his old parents had passed away, but when he thought of his elder brother and the children under his knees, he cheered up again, and he gestured, "What about you, son, why are you here?" ?”
Qiao Lang said: "I went on a study tour and prepared to take the imperial examination, but I failed the exam for ten years in a row, and felt ashamed to face my parents. I..."
The dumb boy gestured quickly: "Silly boy, you silly boy!" He wanted to go home for so many years, but his nephew didn't even want to go home.
"Uncle, I know I'm missing something, and it's not that I really don't want to go back to my hometown." Qiao Lang wiped his tears and said, "Now that I have found you, I have to take you back no matter what."
The mute gestured, "Is our home far away?"
Qiao Lang shook his head and said, "No, it will take five days by boat." He had traveled further before, but he was too timid to come here, so he dared not go any further.
Song Jingwei acted as an interpreter, and waited for the uncles and nephews to talk about the past before saying, "So, you want to go back to your hometown?" Since the old man found his hometown, he should go back.It's just a pity that the pair of uncles and nephews left, and he lacked another pair of good helpers.
The dumb man gestured and said: "After a while, I will finish the work in the field. I will go with Xiao Lang and go back to see my brother."
Qiao Lang also said: "The old uncle hasn't returned for decades, and I will go back to his hometown with his old man. As for the future... I'm sorry, I can't decide right now." Maybe the old uncle will retire there after he returns.Maybe after he goes back by himself, he won't come out again.These are all uncertain.
"It's okay, I can understand." Song Jingwei didn't insist on leaving them behind. In this world, there is no better thing than finding their loved ones after being separated for decades. He doesn't intend to destroy them.He said with a smile: "First of all, congratulations on your reunion. Whether you stay or leave in the future, I will always welcome you here."
Qiao Lang nodded gratefully and said, "Mr. Song, you are a great kind person. If it weren't for you, how would my uncle and I know each other." How lucky is the vast crowd.If he hadn't seen that little notice, if he hadn't come to try his luck, if one small deviation could have ruined the encounter.It's incredible to think about it now.
"You don't need to thank me, it's the fate between you two." Song Jing said with a smile. In fact, this incident can really be regarded as a miracle, and he was indeed the one who made the miracle.If he hadn't come to this time and space, if he hadn't wanted to plant lotus roots, if he hadn't brought a dumb boy... A series of causes and effects have brought about the miraculous encounter between the uncle and nephew today.
In short, family affection is rare and should be cherished.
"Thank you, thank you." The mute gestured solemnly to him, with tears still in the eyes of the old man.
Song Jingwei said: "The two of you will go back first and talk about it. Don't worry about anything else today. Let you catch up on the old days."
The two nodded quickly, thanked Song Jingwei again, and Qiao Lang helped the dumb man back home together.
In the evening, Song Jingwei asked Shen Junxi to go to the dumb man's yard, and called his nephew and uncle to his home for dinner.At the dinner table, he told the rest of the Shen family about the good things that happened today.
After hearing this, the Shen family couple sighed and said with emotion: "That's really lucky, you should meet, it's God's destiny."
"Since I have recognized my old uncle, I will honor your uncle well in the future." Shen Dongming said to Qiao Lang.
"That's natural. I will definitely respect uncle." Knowing that the old uncle had never been married, Qiao Lang resolutely said, "I will take care of the old uncle in the future, and I will be the old uncle's son."
The dumb man was moved and relieved when he heard this.The eldest brother in his memory is such a good person, and the children raised by the eldest brother are also very good, very good.
After dinner, the mute and Qiao Lang went back to their yard, and there were five members of the eldest family of the Shen family in the house.Yang was holding her eldest grandson in her arms, and she was coaxing her to sleep just now. While patting her gently, she sighed in a low voice: "It's really a coincidence, it's really a coincidence, and it's fortunate that we met." They didn't know each other before. I know that the original mute still has this experience.
Although he didn't say why he was dumb, it was definitely not sick, unlike Shen Junxi.
"I think the mute was abducted by a kidnapper. It's very pitiful." Shen Dongming said, he had known for a long time that the tongue of the mute was cut off during the days he spent with the mute.
"A kidnapper is really hateful!" Yang squeezed the baby in her arms tightly, and said, "You still have to take care of your child, otherwise, if you don't pay attention, the child will be abducted by someone, and there will be no place to cry!" In such a situation, she wished she could keep an eye on the child twelve hours a day.
"Hey, we don't have kidnappers here, right?" Shen Dongming said without worry, he felt that Chashan Village was safe.
"Just in case you understand?" Yang said with a glare at him.
Song Jingwei listened to what the two elders said to each other, and said, "The dumb uncle may return to his hometown in a few days, and be with his nephew."
Hearing this, Shen Dongming smiled and assured his daughter-in-law: "Don't worry, Jing Wei, I have already learned ten percent of your dumb idea of planting lotus root." In the past, he and the dumb did it together As for the job, the dumb man will just say a word, and he will remember everything he hasn't remembered.
"That's good, you can do it yourself in the future." Song Jing smiled slightly, sometimes thinking that Shen Junxi's father is quite cute.
When the tea planting business was coming to an end, the weather began to show signs of warming up.Song Jingwei took some time to go to the town, found the stall owners who bought fish, and asked them one by one if they had fish species for sale in their homes?
A fat-headed stall owner said: "If you want to buy fish fry, you can come to me. My fish pond is the largest fish pond in Shiliba Village. You can find whatever fish fry you want."
"I want grass carp, carp, eel and loach, and some shrimp." Song Jingwei counted them one by one.
"Success, I'll collect the stall, and you come back with me to get it."
In the afternoon of that day, Song Jingwei took a lot of effort to transport all kinds of fish fry from the stall owner's home.Then put the fry into the pond according to the experience taught by the stall owner.
After finishing this, the farm work at home has temporarily come to an end.
But Song Jingwei didn't take a break because of this. He heard that the mute and Qiao Lang were planning to return to their hometown in the next two days.He didn't stop him, but instead gave the uncle and nephew a lot of trouble, so that they could go on the road more smoothly.
He said to the mute and Qiao Lang on the pier: "What I promised you will always be counted. You can come back whenever you want." I won’t send it over, so think about it yourself.”
Knowing that he was just joking, the mute gestured happily, "Alright, old man, if I don't come back, you can keep the money yourself."
"Take care." Song Jingwei was silent for a while, feeling that there was nothing to say, meeting each other by chance, everyone saw each other for a while, so there was no need to be too persistent.
"Take care." Joram stood on the boat, gave him a final bow, and then helped the mute into the cabin.
The young man stood beside him, quietly accompanying him, looking at the distant ship.He quietly held his hand and squeezed it in the palm of his hand, with gentle comfort.
"Go back." There are too many partings in a person's life, Song Jingwei is not a sentimental person, maybe even the young people around him feel more than he does.
"En." Shen Junxi clenched his hands, he was indeed a little reluctant to part, but more, he was praying all the time so that he and his beloved would not have to experience parting.
Before Qiao Lang and the mute left, perhaps some long-term workers knew that they were leaving, and that the book club was now recruiting teachers.At that time, several people came to Song Jingwei to recommend themselves. Of course, they were not recommending themselves, but relatives or sons at home.
Song Jingwei was not very willing to accept such half-baked things, so she politely refused.
The reason why Wu Xi was accepted at the beginning was also the result of the combination of the right time, place and people and various factors.At present, the book club is in urgent need of two experienced masters, rather than novices who need to adapt.
Just two days later, a middle-aged scholar who looked a little familiar came to the door, and he said that he would apply for a job as a teacher.
"Mister, have I met you somewhere?" The more Song Jingwei looked at him, the more familiar he felt.He is very confident in his memory, not to mention this one is more distinctive, he has a beautifully trimmed beard on his chin.
"Perhaps I have seen it before." The gentleman with a beautiful beard, surnamed Xu, named Xu Heng, said with a little embarrassment: "Actually, I used to be the master of Shen's private school, but for various reasons, I wanted to come to Liangshan Publishing House Be a wife."
"Oh?" Song Jingwei became clear when he heard that it was from Shen's private school, and he said how could he look familiar, so it turned out that he had seen it last year.He said: "What are the various reasons?" Since he ran away from Shen's private school, he couldn't help but be careful.
"Uh, this..." Xu Heng's face became more and more embarrassing, and he had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "I'm really ashamed, the reason why I don't stay in Shen's private school to continue to be a teacher is because of Shu Xiu's problem. .”
"What's wrong with Shu Xiu?" He asked, he remembered that the treatment in Shen's private school was good.
"Well, Mr. Song doesn't know. Since the beginning of this year, the private school has given us a lot of money." Xu Heng said. There is a lot left. In January and February of this year, after deducting the accommodation and food expenses, they only gave one or two taels of silver per month."
In all fairness, being a master in such a rural place can earn two taels of silver a month is pretty good.But a sudden halving would be unbearable.
Song Jingwei asked: "Actually, a tael of silver is not a lot. You come to our bookstore to teach, have you thought about how much we can give you?" Or, the other party didn't leave Shen's private school at all, but just asked for news.
"Actually, it's not all because of Shuxiu's problems. I just feel that the private school is no longer the original private school. Since it needs to reduce the teachers' Shuxiu to maintain it, how do we know what the future will be like?" Xu Heng said: "It's the Liangshan Publishing House. I believe it will get better and better."
"Oh, you've been asking a lot, haven't you? Did you know that the book club was appreciated by the county master?" Song Jingwei didn't believe it. Xu Heng would be full of confidence in the book club for no reason. Even his boss might not have such firm confidence.
"Hey..." Xu Heng honestly nodded and admitted after being told the truth.He had indeed inquired about it in many ways, and he also learned that Song Jingwei's background was very strong, so he was definitely right to follow him.
"The so-called icing on the cake is easy, but it is difficult to give charcoal in the snow. You choose to take refuge in me at this time, because you are a smart person. But I hope you will remember your choice, cherish your choice, and don't get confused when the time comes." Of course he can give to the loyal People's good treatment and trust, I am afraid that some people will not cherish it, and think that they are very high if they think that they are elders.
"This is natural, and I will definitely keep it in mind." Xu Heng said sincerely. He made the decision to tear himself apart from Shen's private school by taking today's action.
"Then, you don't have a place to live in the village, do you? Just bring your luggage over today, and I'll arrange a place for you." Song Jingwei looked at him and said slowly, "It's different from Shen's private school, I will provide you with meals and food There is no need to deduct your money for your residence. But Shuxiu can only give you one or two a month, and give you a bonus every quarter according to your performance. If you teach well, I will not treat you badly."
Xu Heng was not disappointed. He was already mentally prepared for the fact that Shu Xiu would be less, but he didn't expect that there was still a tael of silver. He said: "It's already very good, thank you, Mr. Song." Then he said: "I will go back and clean up immediately Luggage, come back in an hour."
"Okay, let's go." Song Jing nodded slightly.
Having successfully found a new employer, and it is currently the hottest big employer in the village, Xu Heng was very pleased.But he is a literati, even if he is happy in his heart, he will not be ecstatic. He will only express poetry in everything he sees, and feel that everything is beautiful.
Naturally, he had also inquired before he came that Liangshan Publishing House currently only had two masters, and they were a couple.One of them was pregnant with a child, so it was urgent to find another wife.When the time comes, the one who is pregnant will go down, and the other will have to go back to take care of her.In this way, he is the only one left in the book club, and even if another teacher comes later, it will not be as qualified as his first-come-first-served qualifications.
Xu Heng stroked his beard and smiled complacently. He had already thought of his bright future as the president.
Smiling, he buried his head into the private school's residence, and suddenly looked up to see the old boss Shen Dongying with a black face.
Shen Dongying was teaching in a private school early in the morning, when suddenly someone ran over and told him that a master surnamed Xu left the students and hurried out.He went over and saw that there was a lot of discussion in the classroom that Master Xu was in charge of, and everyone was surprised why Master Xu didn't come.
"This Xu Heng!" He gritted his teeth angrily, and went to Xu Heng's residence to arrest him.
Now that Xu Heng finally came back, Shen Dongying's anger gradually calmed down, and he asked Xu Heng with a sullen face, "Master Xu, where did you go early in the morning?"
Xu Heng must have been very nervous if his old club questioned himself like this in the past, because this matter is related to his job.However, there is no need to be nervous right now, he has already found a better new employer, he said with a smile: "It turned out that Shen Shan came here, what do you want to do with Xu?"
Shen Dongying's eyes were burning with anger, and he said, "You asked me why I was looking for you? You left the students alone early in the morning, but you are talking about what I am looking for you?" He was also surprised, this Master Xu is usually honest. He said that one is one, and never dared to smile in front of him.What happened today, what was the stimulus?
"Oh, so that's the case, Xu is also about to
"Yeah." Shen Junxi replied obediently, he remembered it this time.
Walking back to the kitchen with an empty bowl, he immediately talked about Song Jingwei's meaning with his mother Yang, and gestured to his mother: "My wife said that the family is not short of money, if there is any good food, let's eat together." Pursing his lips, he gestured again Said: "Daughter-in-law doesn't like to eat alone..." Eating alone is not happy.
Mrs. Yang thought the same way, and said to her son face to face, "Your wife...that's the way, she's really hot." In fact, she was very considerate of them, but whenever there was something good, she would never monopolize it for herself.
"En." Shen Junxi gestured in shame: "Daughter-in-law is right, you and father should also take regular supplements." The two elders are not too young, and the young people hope that they will live a long and healthy life.
"Understood, it's not that mother is reluctant to eat..." Yang said awkwardly, in fact, she was a little reluctant, but she was very embarrassed to be told by her daughter-in-law every time, she said: "Go back and tell your daughter-in-law, Mother knows. And what else, thank him."
Shen Junxi gestured and said: "I won't say, I just tell him that you know, and I won't say thank you for you."
Yang's eyes widened, but her son just didn't listen to her, and pretended to be busy inside, without even looking at her: "Hey..." How could he do this?
"You don't often say that we are a family, no need to thank you."
"But... your daughter-in-law is still thanking you..." Yang murmured, she naturally didn't have the habit of thanking her. Isn't this why the daughter-in-law pays attention to these things? If the daughter-in-law thinks they are rude, then she won't good.
"Don't follow him, students are divided." Shen Junxi gestured, helping his mother put the dishes and chopsticks in the cabinet.
"Forget it, I won't tell you." Yang thought for a while, then sent him out and said, "Go and help your wife look after the children, don't get in the way here."
"..." Shen Junxi is very used to this kind of gap, anyway, it has been like this for the past year or so, he is not welcomed anywhere.
Back in the house, maybe he woke up stupidly, he saw Song Jingwei holding the baby walking around the house, but he didn't hear the baby crying.
"Hush..." Song Jingwei happened to see the young man and motioned him to come in quietly. He lowered his voice and said, "Just fell asleep, I'll hug him for a while."
Shen Junxi nodded, and approached lightly, wanting to see the baby's little face.He saw that there were still teardrops hanging under the stupid eyelids, and gestured, "Did you cry just now?"
Song Jingwei patted Benben's back lightly, and replied: "I've peed, and I haven't put on a new diaper yet, come when he's fast asleep."
"Yeah." Hearing this, he went to get a new diaper first.
After about a cup of tea, feeling that the baby in his arms was fast asleep, Song Jingwei gently put him down on the bed, moving very slowly, for fear that something wrong would wake him up.In fact, he admires Shen Junxi very much, because Shen Junxi can help the baby change the diaper smoothly while the baby is sleeping without waking him up.He couldn't do it, and he didn't do it often.
He turned back to the young man and said, "Come on, be careful."
"Ah."
Song Jingwei didn't need to say anything, he did things lightly, and this time it went smoothly as well.The two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the baby sleeping soundly.Raising a child is really not an easy task, this is Song Jingwei's deepest experience since becoming a father.
"I'll take a break too." Song Jingwei said to the young man after looking at the bedside for a while.
Shen Junxi watched him helplessly, walked to his bed, took off his shoes after sitting down... He gestured hesitantly, "You sleep here?"
"Well, is there a problem?" Song Jingwei asked, took off his shoes, took off his coat, and then went to bed and pulled up the quilt, feeling relaxed.However, he tilted his head and found that the young man was still standing in the middle of the room, looking as stupid as something. He asked strangely, "Is there anything else? Just go if you want to."
"..." Shen Junxi opened his mouth, and gestured eagerly, "You sleep on my bed." At this moment, he also wanted to lie down when he was free.
"..." Song Jingwei moved inside and said, "I thought you didn't sleep." He was busy at noon for so many days, and there was no one in the afternoon.And that bed was occupied by the baby, Song Jingwei was afraid that sleeping together would wake up the little speaker, let alone resting, just coaxing him would be enough.
"Hmm..." Shen Junxi smiled, and went into the clean room to wash his face and hands before going back to the room and lying down next to his wife.
"I've been too busy recently." Song Jingwei exhaled softly and said, "I'm going to buy fish in a few days. I don't know much about fish farming. Do you know who in the village can raise fish?"
"..." Shen Junxi lay down slowly, helped them tuck in the quilt, and thought seriously after hearing this. It seems that no one in their village grows lotus roots, nor does anyone specialize in raising fish.It's just that some people are not very proficient in stocking ponds casually.After much deliberation, he gestured and said, "I understand the dumb man quite well, how about asking him for advice?"
"Well." If there is no other candidate in the village, the only choice is the dumb man. Song Jingwei closed his eyes and said softly: "Let's see in two days." However, he still has something to do: "By the way, Pei Hongxuan's belly It will grow bigger and bigger, and I will recruit two masters before April."
"Go to the town to post a notice." Shen Junxi gestured.
"Are you going to post?" Anyway, he is the one who writes, so it's better to provide one-stop service.
"Yes." The young man readily agreed.
"Okay." Song Jingwei turned over slightly and said, "Then you go to sleep, and you will collect cow dung in the afternoon, and I won't go out."
"Yes." Shen Junxi not only agreed, but also pinched his exposed shoulders and neck, knowing that he was exhausted recently.
"..." Song Jingwei wanted to tell him no need, but he was really sleepy and lost consciousness after a while.
Hearing his daughter-in-law's gentle breathing, Shen Junxi knew that he had fallen asleep, so he slowly let go of his hands and changed to hugging posture.At the same time, resting his chin on his daughter-in-law's neck, he was thinking about something in his head, and gradually fell asleep.
"Wow..." A loud baby cry sounded in the room.
Shen Junxi woke up from the dream, got out of bed quickly habitually, picked up the baby on the baby's bed and coaxed him, and checked to see if he urinated or pulled. If not, he was hungry.
"..." After feeling the diaper was still dry, he went to prepare hot milk.But the baby in his hand was still crying, and he really hoped to coax Benben quickly so that he wouldn't wake up his wife.
But this way of crying, Song Jingwei will definitely wake up.He opened his hazy eyes and said, "What's the matter, did you pee or are you hungry?"
Shen Junxi came over, patted the baby and gestured with one hand: "I'm hungry..."
"Oh..." Song Jingwei got up from the bed, sat and stretched out his hand and said, "Give it to me, you go get him something to eat."
"Yeah." Shen Junxi knew very well that his son would not stop until he ate it in his mouth, so he quickly handed it over to Song Jingwei, and went out to get goat milk by himself.
"Crying bag." Song Jingwei hugged his crying son, and had no choice but to get up and walk back and forth to coax him.
After about a quarter of an hour, the young man came in with a food box, which contained freshly heated goat milk.Song Jingwei sat down, held the baby by himself, and asked Shen Junxi to feed it spoon by spoon with a bowl in his hand.
This process is much slower than feeding a bottle, and it would be nice if there was a bottle now.
"He is so anxious to eat, and he is not afraid of getting burned." Seeing his son opening his mouth to eat like a bird, the little mouth moved, it was so cute.
"..." Shen Junxi laughed, even the breastfeeding hands trembled a little, because he also thought his son was so cute and cute.
"How many meals did he eat today?" Song Jingwei said with a bit of disgust, he ate several meals just because he saw it.
"..." Shen Junxi didn't have time to answer him now, and was feeding his son with great joy.
"Okay." After feeding a bowl of goat milk, Song Jingwei wrapped his son up a little bit, and gently stroked his back to prevent him from spitting up milk.
Shen Junxi took the empty bowl and food box, although Song Jingwei told him to go directly to the field, so there was no need to come here.However, after a trip to the kitchen, he still fell back.Hug the son first, then quickly hug the wife, and then go to the ground.
"..." Song Jingwei looked at the back of the young man leaving, without saying anything, and there was no change on his face.He lowered his head and continued to coax Benben to sleep. After he was full, he closed his eyes and yawned.This child has a habit of putting his little hand to his mouth every time he yawns, which is very similar to an adult's reaction: "Go to sleep." He coaxed softly.
Waking up early the next day, Shen Junxi listened to his wife. After breakfast, he went back to the house and wrote a notice to recruit a wife, and then went to town.What he told Song Jingwei was that he would rush back for lunch at noon.
Song Jingwei said: "Since I've gone, I'll pay attention to the fish species, and if I think it's suitable, I'll buy some back." At the same time, I gave him the silver, and he should learn to explore these things slowly, anyway, he is not stupid.
"En." Shen Junxi nodded in agreement. He heard from Song Jingwei that he wanted to buy grass carp, carp, loach, eel, and shrimp.
"Go, go early and come back early." He said, just watching the baby in the house, and didn't go out to see Shen Junxi off.
When Shen Junxi arrived in the town, he first posted the notice, and then went to the market to find the stall owner who bought the fish.Ask if there are any fish species for sale in other people's homes?It's a pity that ten out of ten people here can't understand his gestures, so there is still no way to buy fish species.
He wasn't upset that he couldn't finish what Song Jingwei had told him, because it was something that couldn't be helped.He simply bought some fresh food and rushed home early to have lunch with his parents, wife and children.
Song Jingwei, who was at home, only remembered the problem of inconvenient communication after Shen Junxi went out.It was because he was used to communicating with Shen Junxi, so he didn't expect that Shen Junxi couldn't communicate with others.That's all right now, the young man didn't complete the task he gave, so I don't know what it will be like when he comes back?
He waited to see the dejected look of the young man, but he was surprised.
"Yo, brother Xi is back?" Yang said with a smile, and hurriedly stepped forward to bring back the things Shen Junxi brought back from the town.
The young man Song Jingwei saw didn't look downcast, his eyes were still bright, pure and warm, and a very soft person.
"How is it? Did you buy the fingerlings?" He deliberately asked him.
"..." Shen Junxi shook his head at him, and said honestly, "I didn't buy the fish species, the stall owner couldn't understand what I said." He still seemed a little innocent and wronged.
"Oh, it's fine if you don't buy it. I'll go and see it another day."
Shen Junxi gestured: "I will go with you some other day."
"The family is so busy." Song Jingwei walked up and down the house with the baby on his back, "Many tea trees haven't been planted yet, and they haven't planted them carefully enough. You have to watch it. The soil around the trees needs to be stepped on." If the soil is not solid, the roots of the tea tree will not be able to stick to the soil, and if they do not stick to the soil, they will not be able to absorb nutrients.
"En." Since Song Jingwei said so, Shen Junxi could only nod his head, even if he really wanted to go out with his wife.
After two days like this, Song Jingwei hadn't found time to go to the town to see the fish species, but the notice posted two days ago had the result.It was at noon that day, a scholar in his thirties came to apply for the post of teacher.
Song Jingwei looked this person up and down a few times, and his first impression was that he was full of bookishness, more settled than the white-faced scholar like Shen Junxi.Probably because of the age and experience in it, it feels very good.
"My surname is Song. I don't know how to call you sir?" he said.
"Don't dare, a certain surname is Qiao, and the single name is a long word." Qiao Lang said with cupped hands.
"Okay, Mr. Qiao." Song Jingwei took him directly to the bookstore, and said to him, "This is the bookstore. Although it's not big, there are about [-] students." All of them are from the village, and some families come to study. Recognize characters.
"These children are of different ages, but they are all..." Qiao Lang looked in from the window and saw that the students were of all ages, the youngest was five or six years old, and the oldest was twelve or thirteen years old.
"Yeah, they're all just enlightened, so there's no division." Song Jingwei felt that the nature of their book club needed to be made clear to Qiao Lang earlier, and he said: "Actually, our book club has just opened, and it's not for making money. The original idea , just let the children have a place to read and write."
"Oh?" It was the first time Qiao Lang heard that private schools were not set up for making money.
"Well, the children come to study, and the tuition fee is not high, only a little fee for pen and ink." Song Jingwei said, and then observed Qiao Lang's performance.
Qiao Lang nodded knowingly, and after a while he said, "Young Master Song is a great kind man."
"Oh." Song Jingwei burst out laughing, shook his head and said, "I don't count, I don't do good deeds for the sake of doing good deeds, I just do it like this." He thought, just do it, not because it's a good deed.
"It's a good move." Qiao Lang said softly, looking at the children in the window, he was determined to stay in this way.
It is said that the eyes are the windows of the soul, Song Jingwei can feel his essence even if he does not look at Qiao Lang's eyes.He likes people like this to teach the children, he said with a smile: "Although we are a public welfare bookstore, we will still give the Shuxiu that we should have. Besides Shuxiu, there is also a place to live. It's not me. It's a private courtyard, but the environment is very good." He planned to arrange Qiao Lang to go to the mute's courtyard.In this way, finding a companion for the old man will not appear too deserted.
"Okay, as long as there is a place to stay, Qiao will be satisfied." Qiao Lang smiled with a hint of melancholy in his smile.He was originally a foreigner who went far away from home. Before the age of 30, he had a passion for being named on the gold list.However, after the age of 30, only the yearning for a peaceful life remains.Right now, it is just right to find a beautiful countryside and live an elegant life of teaching and educating people.
"Alright then, I'll take you to see the residence." Song Jingwei took Qiao Lang to the dumb man's courtyard. He was not there at the moment, so he arranged for Qiao Lang to move in first.Then he took Qiao Lang to the field, found the dumb boy immediately, and told him the news.This is Song Jingwei's principle of doing things. He feels that it is disrespectful to let Qiao Lang move in without telling the mute immediately.
The two tenants have seen each other, and they both nodded to say yes, no problem.
The mute was even more excited, and gestured to Song Jingwei and said, "This young man looks too much like my elder brother."
Song Jingwei didn't take it to heart, and said casually: "You still have an elder brother, didn't you say you have no relatives?" Then he remembered that the mute was so old, his elder brother might have passed away.
The dumb man gestured and said, "I have an older brother, but... I got separated when I was very young. I haven't seen him for decades, and I don't know where to find him."
"Are you separated?" Song Jingwei was a little surprised. The old man had never said this before, so he asked, "Why didn't you go back and look for it later?"
The dumb man gestured and said, "I'm too young to remember where my home is. I only remember my elder brother's appearance, and my parents' appearance." Now that he is seventy or eighty, it is estimated that his father and mother have already died.
"Your elder brother, do you still remember his name?" Song Jingwei asked, feeling a lot of pity for this old man in his heart.He was separated from his family since he was a child and has lived alone until now.Maybe I also encountered a lot of hardships and sad things during this period.
"..." The mute nodded, found a branch on the ground, and scratched out three words crookedly.
Song Jingwei squatted down and took a closer look. It seemed to be Lu Jingping. He read: "Lu Jingping?"
"..." The mute nodded, showing nostalgia and yearning on his face. This may be the only relative he knows in the world.
"Old man." Qiao Lang shook his finger, pointed at the three characters on the ground, and asked, "You said your eldest brother is called Lu Jingping, but... Lu Jingping from Tangxia Village, Baima Town?"
The dumb man couldn't remember his hometown clearly, so he couldn't answer this question. He shook his head and said, "I don't remember. Anyway, my elder brother's name is that. I remember it correctly." .
"Then what are your parents' names? Do you still remember?" Qiao Ran asked eagerly, with a very excited expression on his face. If it's true...it's possible, very likely!
"Dumb, if you remember, write it down." Song Jingwei looked at Qiao Lang, and something was wrong. From the moment he saw the name Lu Jingping, he couldn't help but have a bold guess. Could it be that the two are relatives?
"..." The mute didn't understand why this young man was so excited, he still scratched out the names of his parents on the ground, one was Lu Yuexiang, and the other was Liu Yingdi.
After seeing these two names, Qiao Lang suddenly burst into tears hugging the dumb boy. He shouted excitedly, "You are my uncle! You must be the uncle who got lost!"
Both the mute and Song Jingwei were stunned unexpectedly, especially the mute, who was crazy about his relatives, and suddenly a strange young man told him that it was his nephew, with his tongueless mouth open, The old tears flowed down.
Qiao Lang also saw the old uncle's mouth, and he cried bitterly: "How did you become like this?" God is so unfair, why did his uncle suffer such a situation!
The mute shook his hands and tightly grasped Joram's arm, unable to speak.But judging by his expression, he was in a hurry to say something and asked something.
Song Jingwei hurriedly said: "Use sign language, I'll help you say what you want to say."
The excited mute, he gestured eagerly: "Are you my elder brother's son? Is my elder brother okay? Are your grandparents okay too?"
After listening to Song Jingwei's translation, Qiao Lang said quickly: "Yes, my name is Qiao Lang, and I am my father's second son. My surname is Qiao because I have my younger father's surname. I have an older brother named Lu Mengyang who also has The two sons have grown up. Grandfather and grandmother went away a few years ago, and they all went there peacefully without suffering." As he spoke, Qiao Lang couldn't hold back his tears, and said, "I have listened to your affairs since I was a child. Dad said, his old man always thinks about it, and every time he mentions it these years, he blames himself so much that he didn't come first... I didn't expect..." He had already made up his mind to die in a foreign country, but he didn't expect to hit it by mistake Met the old man.Just this one, he is willing in this life, and it is not a waste of time.
"..." The dumb man was heartbroken when he heard that his old parents had passed away, but when he thought of his elder brother and the children under his knees, he cheered up again, and he gestured, "What about you, son, why are you here?" ?”
Qiao Lang said: "I went on a study tour and prepared to take the imperial examination, but I failed the exam for ten years in a row, and felt ashamed to face my parents. I..."
The dumb boy gestured quickly: "Silly boy, you silly boy!" He wanted to go home for so many years, but his nephew didn't even want to go home.
"Uncle, I know I'm missing something, and it's not that I really don't want to go back to my hometown." Qiao Lang wiped his tears and said, "Now that I have found you, I have to take you back no matter what."
The mute gestured, "Is our home far away?"
Qiao Lang shook his head and said, "No, it will take five days by boat." He had traveled further before, but he was too timid to come here, so he dared not go any further.
Song Jingwei acted as an interpreter, and waited for the uncles and nephews to talk about the past before saying, "So, you want to go back to your hometown?" Since the old man found his hometown, he should go back.It's just a pity that the pair of uncles and nephews left, and he lacked another pair of good helpers.
The dumb man gestured and said: "After a while, I will finish the work in the field. I will go with Xiao Lang and go back to see my brother."
Qiao Lang also said: "The old uncle hasn't returned for decades, and I will go back to his hometown with his old man. As for the future... I'm sorry, I can't decide right now." Maybe the old uncle will retire there after he returns.Maybe after he goes back by himself, he won't come out again.These are all uncertain.
"It's okay, I can understand." Song Jingwei didn't insist on leaving them behind. In this world, there is no better thing than finding their loved ones after being separated for decades. He doesn't intend to destroy them.He said with a smile: "First of all, congratulations on your reunion. Whether you stay or leave in the future, I will always welcome you here."
Qiao Lang nodded gratefully and said, "Mr. Song, you are a great kind person. If it weren't for you, how would my uncle and I know each other." How lucky is the vast crowd.If he hadn't seen that little notice, if he hadn't come to try his luck, if one small deviation could have ruined the encounter.It's incredible to think about it now.
"You don't need to thank me, it's the fate between you two." Song Jing said with a smile. In fact, this incident can really be regarded as a miracle, and he was indeed the one who made the miracle.If he hadn't come to this time and space, if he hadn't wanted to plant lotus roots, if he hadn't brought a dumb boy... A series of causes and effects have brought about the miraculous encounter between the uncle and nephew today.
In short, family affection is rare and should be cherished.
"Thank you, thank you." The mute gestured solemnly to him, with tears still in the eyes of the old man.
Song Jingwei said: "The two of you will go back first and talk about it. Don't worry about anything else today. Let you catch up on the old days."
The two nodded quickly, thanked Song Jingwei again, and Qiao Lang helped the dumb man back home together.
In the evening, Song Jingwei asked Shen Junxi to go to the dumb man's yard, and called his nephew and uncle to his home for dinner.At the dinner table, he told the rest of the Shen family about the good things that happened today.
After hearing this, the Shen family couple sighed and said with emotion: "That's really lucky, you should meet, it's God's destiny."
"Since I have recognized my old uncle, I will honor your uncle well in the future." Shen Dongming said to Qiao Lang.
"That's natural. I will definitely respect uncle." Knowing that the old uncle had never been married, Qiao Lang resolutely said, "I will take care of the old uncle in the future, and I will be the old uncle's son."
The dumb man was moved and relieved when he heard this.The eldest brother in his memory is such a good person, and the children raised by the eldest brother are also very good, very good.
After dinner, the mute and Qiao Lang went back to their yard, and there were five members of the eldest family of the Shen family in the house.Yang was holding her eldest grandson in her arms, and she was coaxing her to sleep just now. While patting her gently, she sighed in a low voice: "It's really a coincidence, it's really a coincidence, and it's fortunate that we met." They didn't know each other before. I know that the original mute still has this experience.
Although he didn't say why he was dumb, it was definitely not sick, unlike Shen Junxi.
"I think the mute was abducted by a kidnapper. It's very pitiful." Shen Dongming said, he had known for a long time that the tongue of the mute was cut off during the days he spent with the mute.
"A kidnapper is really hateful!" Yang squeezed the baby in her arms tightly, and said, "You still have to take care of your child, otherwise, if you don't pay attention, the child will be abducted by someone, and there will be no place to cry!" In such a situation, she wished she could keep an eye on the child twelve hours a day.
"Hey, we don't have kidnappers here, right?" Shen Dongming said without worry, he felt that Chashan Village was safe.
"Just in case you understand?" Yang said with a glare at him.
Song Jingwei listened to what the two elders said to each other, and said, "The dumb uncle may return to his hometown in a few days, and be with his nephew."
Hearing this, Shen Dongming smiled and assured his daughter-in-law: "Don't worry, Jing Wei, I have already learned ten percent of your dumb idea of planting lotus root." In the past, he and the dumb did it together As for the job, the dumb man will just say a word, and he will remember everything he hasn't remembered.
"That's good, you can do it yourself in the future." Song Jing smiled slightly, sometimes thinking that Shen Junxi's father is quite cute.
When the tea planting business was coming to an end, the weather began to show signs of warming up.Song Jingwei took some time to go to the town, found the stall owners who bought fish, and asked them one by one if they had fish species for sale in their homes?
A fat-headed stall owner said: "If you want to buy fish fry, you can come to me. My fish pond is the largest fish pond in Shiliba Village. You can find whatever fish fry you want."
"I want grass carp, carp, eel and loach, and some shrimp." Song Jingwei counted them one by one.
"Success, I'll collect the stall, and you come back with me to get it."
In the afternoon of that day, Song Jingwei took a lot of effort to transport all kinds of fish fry from the stall owner's home.Then put the fry into the pond according to the experience taught by the stall owner.
After finishing this, the farm work at home has temporarily come to an end.
But Song Jingwei didn't take a break because of this. He heard that the mute and Qiao Lang were planning to return to their hometown in the next two days.He didn't stop him, but instead gave the uncle and nephew a lot of trouble, so that they could go on the road more smoothly.
He said to the mute and Qiao Lang on the pier: "What I promised you will always be counted. You can come back whenever you want." I won’t send it over, so think about it yourself.”
Knowing that he was just joking, the mute gestured happily, "Alright, old man, if I don't come back, you can keep the money yourself."
"Take care." Song Jingwei was silent for a while, feeling that there was nothing to say, meeting each other by chance, everyone saw each other for a while, so there was no need to be too persistent.
"Take care." Joram stood on the boat, gave him a final bow, and then helped the mute into the cabin.
The young man stood beside him, quietly accompanying him, looking at the distant ship.He quietly held his hand and squeezed it in the palm of his hand, with gentle comfort.
"Go back." There are too many partings in a person's life, Song Jingwei is not a sentimental person, maybe even the young people around him feel more than he does.
"En." Shen Junxi clenched his hands, he was indeed a little reluctant to part, but more, he was praying all the time so that he and his beloved would not have to experience parting.
Before Qiao Lang and the mute left, perhaps some long-term workers knew that they were leaving, and that the book club was now recruiting teachers.At that time, several people came to Song Jingwei to recommend themselves. Of course, they were not recommending themselves, but relatives or sons at home.
Song Jingwei was not very willing to accept such half-baked things, so she politely refused.
The reason why Wu Xi was accepted at the beginning was also the result of the combination of the right time, place and people and various factors.At present, the book club is in urgent need of two experienced masters, rather than novices who need to adapt.
Just two days later, a middle-aged scholar who looked a little familiar came to the door, and he said that he would apply for a job as a teacher.
"Mister, have I met you somewhere?" The more Song Jingwei looked at him, the more familiar he felt.He is very confident in his memory, not to mention this one is more distinctive, he has a beautifully trimmed beard on his chin.
"Perhaps I have seen it before." The gentleman with a beautiful beard, surnamed Xu, named Xu Heng, said with a little embarrassment: "Actually, I used to be the master of Shen's private school, but for various reasons, I wanted to come to Liangshan Publishing House Be a wife."
"Oh?" Song Jingwei became clear when he heard that it was from Shen's private school, and he said how could he look familiar, so it turned out that he had seen it last year.He said: "What are the various reasons?" Since he ran away from Shen's private school, he couldn't help but be careful.
"Uh, this..." Xu Heng's face became more and more embarrassing, and he had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "I'm really ashamed, the reason why I don't stay in Shen's private school to continue to be a teacher is because of Shu Xiu's problem. .”
"What's wrong with Shu Xiu?" He asked, he remembered that the treatment in Shen's private school was good.
"Well, Mr. Song doesn't know. Since the beginning of this year, the private school has given us a lot of money." Xu Heng said. There is a lot left. In January and February of this year, after deducting the accommodation and food expenses, they only gave one or two taels of silver per month."
In all fairness, being a master in such a rural place can earn two taels of silver a month is pretty good.But a sudden halving would be unbearable.
Song Jingwei asked: "Actually, a tael of silver is not a lot. You come to our bookstore to teach, have you thought about how much we can give you?" Or, the other party didn't leave Shen's private school at all, but just asked for news.
"Actually, it's not all because of Shuxiu's problems. I just feel that the private school is no longer the original private school. Since it needs to reduce the teachers' Shuxiu to maintain it, how do we know what the future will be like?" Xu Heng said: "It's the Liangshan Publishing House. I believe it will get better and better."
"Oh, you've been asking a lot, haven't you? Did you know that the book club was appreciated by the county master?" Song Jingwei didn't believe it. Xu Heng would be full of confidence in the book club for no reason. Even his boss might not have such firm confidence.
"Hey..." Xu Heng honestly nodded and admitted after being told the truth.He had indeed inquired about it in many ways, and he also learned that Song Jingwei's background was very strong, so he was definitely right to follow him.
"The so-called icing on the cake is easy, but it is difficult to give charcoal in the snow. You choose to take refuge in me at this time, because you are a smart person. But I hope you will remember your choice, cherish your choice, and don't get confused when the time comes." Of course he can give to the loyal People's good treatment and trust, I am afraid that some people will not cherish it, and think that they are very high if they think that they are elders.
"This is natural, and I will definitely keep it in mind." Xu Heng said sincerely. He made the decision to tear himself apart from Shen's private school by taking today's action.
"Then, you don't have a place to live in the village, do you? Just bring your luggage over today, and I'll arrange a place for you." Song Jingwei looked at him and said slowly, "It's different from Shen's private school, I will provide you with meals and food There is no need to deduct your money for your residence. But Shuxiu can only give you one or two a month, and give you a bonus every quarter according to your performance. If you teach well, I will not treat you badly."
Xu Heng was not disappointed. He was already mentally prepared for the fact that Shu Xiu would be less, but he didn't expect that there was still a tael of silver. He said: "It's already very good, thank you, Mr. Song." Then he said: "I will go back and clean up immediately Luggage, come back in an hour."
"Okay, let's go." Song Jing nodded slightly.
Having successfully found a new employer, and it is currently the hottest big employer in the village, Xu Heng was very pleased.But he is a literati, even if he is happy in his heart, he will not be ecstatic. He will only express poetry in everything he sees, and feel that everything is beautiful.
Naturally, he had also inquired before he came that Liangshan Publishing House currently only had two masters, and they were a couple.One of them was pregnant with a child, so it was urgent to find another wife.When the time comes, the one who is pregnant will go down, and the other will have to go back to take care of her.In this way, he is the only one left in the book club, and even if another teacher comes later, it will not be as qualified as his first-come-first-served qualifications.
Xu Heng stroked his beard and smiled complacently. He had already thought of his bright future as the president.
Smiling, he buried his head into the private school's residence, and suddenly looked up to see the old boss Shen Dongying with a black face.
Shen Dongying was teaching in a private school early in the morning, when suddenly someone ran over and told him that a master surnamed Xu left the students and hurried out.He went over and saw that there was a lot of discussion in the classroom that Master Xu was in charge of, and everyone was surprised why Master Xu didn't come.
"This Xu Heng!" He gritted his teeth angrily, and went to Xu Heng's residence to arrest him.
Now that Xu Heng finally came back, Shen Dongying's anger gradually calmed down, and he asked Xu Heng with a sullen face, "Master Xu, where did you go early in the morning?"
Xu Heng must have been very nervous if his old club questioned himself like this in the past, because this matter is related to his job.However, there is no need to be nervous right now, he has already found a better new employer, he said with a smile: "It turned out that Shen Shan came here, what do you want to do with Xu?"
Shen Dongying's eyes were burning with anger, and he said, "You asked me why I was looking for you? You left the students alone early in the morning, but you are talking about what I am looking for you?" He was also surprised, this Master Xu is usually honest. He said that one is one, and never dared to smile in front of him.What happened today, what was the stimulus?
"Oh, so that's the case, Xu is also about to
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