Lucky husband

With Mrs. Li's agreement, and seeing that the old man didn't seem to object, Li Chengzhi and Bai Xiuhe didn't say anything, and Li Chengshi and Jiang Zhiyun quietly made the background board.

In such a rather dull atmosphere, it was still the same until after dinner, and there was no sense of happiness after the two children in the family passed the entrance examination. Granny Li asked everyone to go back to their respective rooms and go to bed early.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Mingli got up early and appeared in the yard dressed in spiritual clothes. He looked at Bai Xiuhe: "Mother, I will go to the county town with you this morning, and I will talk to the shopkeeper of the bookstore today. .”

Li Mingli was very excited last night. He thought it would not go well if he told his family that he didn't go to school, but he didn't expect his grandma to support him.

"Okay." Bai Xiuhe looked at him twice, but didn't say anything else.

Up to now, Bai Xiuhe is still not very happy that her son gave up studying and taking the imperial examination and went to a bookstore to be an apprentice, but after chatting with Li Chengzhi for most of the night last night, she decided to listen to Li Chengzhi and not stop her son.

Li Mingli's good mood did not change because of his mother's attitude. He hummed a little tune, wishing he could put wings on his back and fly to the county seat immediately.

Li Mingde got up a little later, he came out and saw his parents were busy moving things onto wooden carts, and he pulled his younger brother over to help.

After packing up his things, Bai Xiuhe and others set off, but Li Mingde didn't follow, he went back to the house to read a book for a while.

It was still early in the county seat, the bookstore was definitely not open, and it was useless after the dawn ceremony, it would be better to stay at the rice noodle stall.

In the morning, when the most customers eat rice noodles, Bai Xiuhe and Li Caoye are too busy to come here. Li Mingli has a good memory, and he is worried that it is not good to go to the bookstore after getting his clothes dirty, so he took the rice noodle dish Let Bai Xiuhe concentrate on cooking rice noodles, and Li Caoye clean up the dishes and chopsticks that the guests have eaten.

After being busy for a while, the number of customers decreased, and it was almost time for the bookstore to open. Li Mingli left the rice noodle stall and went to the bookstore.

After Li Mingli left, Li Caoye was free and in the mood to ask the lobby sister-in-law what her nephew was doing with them in the county.

Bai Xiuhe sighed: "This kid is complaining that he doesn't want to continue studying. He wants to be an apprentice in a bookstore."

Facing Li Caoye, Bai Xiuhe repeated her thoughts: "Caoye, I don't understand why mother and husband support Mingli. Do you think it's easy to be an apprentice?"

"Not to mention whether the shopkeeper of the bookstore is willing to accept Mingli as an apprentice, just say that going out to be an apprentice for others, whoever is not a cow for the master, just be scolded if you can't do it well, some people are apprentices for a lifetime There is no time to get ahead."

"Both of their brothers have passed the Tongsheng examination, so they should study hard in the school. After passing the examination, they can do more things. It is much better to open a private school in the village than to be an apprentice like in-law Brother Jiang. "

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Hearing Bai Xiuhe's worried words, Li Caoye was a little envious, because she didn't have a son, so she didn't have such troubles.

After Bai Xiuhe finished speaking a series of words, she never heard Li Caoye's answer. She raised her head to look at Li Caoye: "Caoye, do you think it makes sense?"

"I, I..." Li Caoye didn't know what to say, she didn't understand these things at all.

"Caoye, do you also think it's better for Mingli not to continue studying?" Bai Xiuhe frowned.

"No, I just don't know, I'm a woman who doesn't know anything." Li Caoye racked her brains trying to figure out what to say, "I think it's a pity that Mingli gave up studying, but it's very difficult to be a scholar. Out of the hundreds of dolls who study, only one may pass the exam...Mingde and Mingli both study very hard, not to mention getting up early and staying late at night, it is also a lot of effort, not as easy as our physical work."

Li Caoye really didn't know anything about imperial examinations. She was introverted and didn't have much contact with outsiders. Whether it was the Liang family she was married to before or the Li family of her natal family, there was no scholar before. Li Mingde and Li Mingli were the first ones. , and the only one, most of what she said just now were what Bai Xiuhe said before.

So, after Li Caoye said these words, she didn't know what else to say, she blinked and looked at Bai Xiuhe.

Bai Xiuhe didn't let go of her frown. She always thought that it would be easier for children to study and take the imperial examination. After listening to Li Caoye's words, it seemed that it was not easy to start thinking about studying again.

Take them for example. If they sell rice noodles, they have to get up in the middle of the morning to pack up and leave. After selling the rice noodles and returning to the village, they have to prepare the broth for the next day. They have to be busy until dark before they can rest. Such a busy day In order to have money in hand.

Farming is similar. When farming is busy, you have to be in the field from morning to night. After a day's work, you are too tired to go home and don't want to move. However, there are slack seasons in farming, so you can rest.

Look at the two children again. I don’t know what it’s like to be in school. If it’s not the busy time when they go home, they also have to read books at home from dawn to dusk, and write articles to practice handwriting. No matter whether it’s cold or hot, they never relax .

In this way, studying does not seem to be much easier. If you fail to pass the exam, then all your efforts will be in vain. It seems that it is better for them to sell rice noodles, at least you can get money every day.

After thinking about it, Bai Xiuhe was actually convinced by this set of theories.

She said she was persuaded, but in fact, Bai Xiuhe knew in her heart that studying was not comparable to farming or setting up a stall to sell rice noodles. It was just that Li Mingli's family members agreed that Li Mingli did not study, and she was just looking for a reason to persuade herself.

After she figured it out, Bai Xiuhe didn't bother with this matter anymore. She was a person with no scheming and open-mindedness. Since her son wanted to be an apprentice in a bookstore, it would be good to think that an apprentice in a bookstore would not be exposed to the wind and sun. , but also deal with books every day.

After the change of mind, Bai Xiuhe began to wait for Li Mingli to come back, to see if he would bring back good news.

Bai Xiuhe and Li Caoye sat and rested at the rice noodle booth until the noon round was over, but Li Mingli still didn't come back.

When it was almost noon, Bai Xiuhe and the others were about to close the stall and go back to the village, when Li Mingli ran over panting, although he ran a little fast, but the smile on his face was still very eye-catching: "Mother, shopkeeper Qu is willing to let me be their bookstore's manager." apprentice!"

He said he was an apprentice, but he was actually a buddy. The bookstore that Li Mingli went to today was a bookstore called Mingxin Bookstore. In Changping County, there was a shopkeeper and three buddies. One of the buddies resigned before the Chinese New Year and left. Now there are two other buddies. It's not too busy to come here, shopkeeper Qu has been recruiting people.

The main reason is that the bookstore is different from other places. The guys are all dealing with books, so you should pay attention when recruiting people. If you hire a guy who can’t read a few words, some students make a mistake when they come to ask for books and make a joke. Reputation gets in the way.

People who are a little better educated look down on the job of being a bookstore clerk, and shopkeeper Qu looks down on those who are not educated enough, so until now the storekeeper Qu of Mingxin Bookstore has not found a new clerk.

Today, after Li Mingli went over to explain his intentions, shopkeeper Qu saw that although he was young, he had the air of a scholar, so he didn't object, and let him stay in the bookstore for a long time, trying to do a job as a bookstore clerk - sorting books .

Shopkeeper Qu didn't tell Liming Li how to sort the books, nor how did Liming Li do it. After Liming Li said that he had divided the box of books, Qu shopkeeper went to check and found that Liming Li did a good job. Okay, most of them are not wrongly classified, only some of the more remote and abstruse books are not placed correctly.

At this time, it was already noon, so shopkeeper Qu asked Li Mingli to have dinner with him and other staff.

It was only during the meal that the shopkeeper learned that Li Mingli was a newly admitted child student this year. Besides him, the Li family had an older brother who was willing to continue studying in the school, and the Li family had a servant who worked in the county government.

Knowing Li Mingli's family background clearly, shopkeeper Qu is very satisfied with him. The only worry is that his family will disagree with such a young boy giving up his study, so he asked Li Mingli to come with his parents tomorrow. The bookstore came to confirm that his family members agreed before signing an employment contract with him.

Take the elders of the family to the bookstore to confirm that there is no problem, because yesterday, Mrs. Li had promised that as long as the people in the bookstore were willing to accept Liming Li, she would agree to him being an apprentice.

On the way back to the village, Li Mingli told the request of the shopkeeper Qu of Mingxin Bookstore. Hearing what his son said about what he did at the bookstore today, and seeing the happy smile on his son's face, Bai Xiuhe suddenly felt that he should let his son go to the bookstore. There is nothing wrong with being an apprentice in a bookstore.

The next day, Li Chengzhi accompanied Li Mingli to Mingxin Bookstore. Li Mingli signed a simple employment contract with Mingxin Bookstore, and stayed at Mingxin Bookstore to become a new apprentice.

From then on, Li Mingli's apprenticeship officially started, learning what to do in the bookstore from Shopkeeper Qu and other guys.

The master at the school felt a pity when he learned that Li Mingli would not continue his studies. He felt that with Li Mingli's mind, if he continued to study in the school, he might be able to pass the exam.

However, in elementary schools in a small place like Changping County, there are often things that students don't read after reading.

The spring plowing gradually passed, and the paddy fields of Li's family were full of green rice seedlings, and corn, sweet potatoes and other grains began to be planted on the dry land, and the work in the fields began to decrease. After discussing with Li Chengzhi and the old man, he Back in the line selling rice noodles, Li's fish soup rice noodles reappeared in the county.

When life returned to peace, Li Mingjin began to have that vague and strange dream again.

This time, after doing the same for three consecutive days, he finally had a better understanding of the blurry figure beside him - saw the other person's eyes clearly, those eyes were very special, and where he had seen them before.

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