continuation [farming]

Li Mu hugged Xia He who was wrapped up, with a look of longing that couldn't be concealed.Since the Zhang family and his wife already knew about it, in the Zhang family, he didn't bother to cover it up.

Standing in the yard, Lan Niang always pays attention to these two young people unconsciously. Seeing Li Mu's appearance, she feels a little ashamed. He let out a sigh, and simply ignored what the two young men were doing, and let them take Jinbao and talk around the stove.

It wasn't until Lan Niang left that Xia He said, "Brother Mu, how are you doing in Qingyang? Is the gentleman over there better than the one here?"

"Mr. Qingyang is more well-behaved, but his knowledge is really good." Li Mu smiled. The masters of the government school will not be like Mr. Ling, and they will tell him that they should pay more attention to the art of war and treat the court as a person. Words like the battlefield.

"They must like Brother Mu very much!" Xia He was quite confident about this.

"The master said that after three years, if I go to take the exam, there is hope for a first grade." Li Mu said yes.

Xia He's heart is big: "According to the virtue of you scholars who don't like to talk to death, if he dares to say that, he must be optimistic that you can enter the first class and take the leader."

Li Mu: "..." When did scholars have such "virtue", Xia He is still so confident in himself, he laughed, but said, "In Qingyang, I am strong After talking with many new friends, I feel that my vision was too small before."

"Isn't there an old saying that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books? The farther you go, the more you see, you will naturally feel that your previous vision is small. But as long as you keep looking forward and broaden your knowledge, Is that enough?" Xia He has probably been thinking about writing a book these days, and his speech is not as straightforward as before. After he finished speaking, he asked Jin Bao, "Did Jin Bao hear that? It would be good if Jin Bao also studied well in the future. , you can’t be bored at home, you have to go out for a walk more.”

Jin Bao tilted his head and looked at his aunt and uncle: "Oh! Go out and play!" He was still thinking about playing in his heart, waving his little arms, carelessly, and almost touched the flames that were flying upwards.

Xia He hurriedly snatched back his little hand that was almost burned by the fire, and complained to Li Mudao: "You should watch your son, don't let him be burned by the fire."

Li Mu was looking at Xia He all the time. After Xia He said this, he realized what happened just now, and hurriedly said: "Let's sit back, there is no need to stick to the stove."

"Didn't it look like you two came from outside, and you're all cold?" Xia He said, "It's so cold, and you still ran here with Jin Bao, so you're not afraid of freezing the baby?"

"I miss you, I can't wait." Suddenly, Li Mu said so.

Xia He had never heard such blunt words from Li Mu before, so he was stunned, and his face was burned again, and he didn't know if it was because of being roasted by the fire.

After a long while, he finally said: "You miss me? You miss me and write me only one sentence every time?"

"I have thousands of words to tell you, but when I write them down, I feel that the words are too pale anyway. It's better to wait until this day, when I come back to you." Li Mu shook his head, saying yes.

Now Xia He is looking at Li Mu. Is this really the Brother Mu he knew?How do you feel, like a different person?

But seeing that Li Mu's ears were also very red, it must not be because of the fire.Xia He stretched out her hand with a smile, and pinched his hot earlobe: "Brother Mu has been staying in Qingyang these days, I don't know who he learned from, but he has learned how to speak softly?"

"Xia He must have benefited a lot from the book these days at home, and her speech has become more refined." Li Mu countered.

Both people are familiar with each other, so even a slight change will be keenly noticed.After hearing this, Xia He smiled, "I'm really reading these days, it makes my head grow big."

Suddenly, Jin Bao seemed to remember something, excitedly said: "Uncle Uncle!! Wrote it!"

Li Mu touched Jin Bao's head, and asked Xia He: "Could it be that you wrote the agricultural book you wanted to write?"

"It's not complete, it's just about corn." Xia He rested his chin, "When I have time, I must write the whole book. But before that, I have to travel all over our great rivers and mountains."

"When you have time, let's go play together." Li Mu said yes.

"Play! I want to go too!" Jin Bao said hastily.

Li Mu agreed: "Okay, when the time comes, Daddy and your uncle will take Jinbao to play together, and we won't be separated again." Having said that, he turned his head and asked Xia He, "Is this 'Uncle'? How did it come about? This name is also interesting."

Xia He curled her lips: "What's so interesting? It's just the day I changed my words. I didn't change my words for a while, it was just a slip of the tongue, but I let Jin Bao learn it, and he refused to change anything. Sigh, he likes to say that, so forget it, Is it possible to change another name?"

Li Mu suddenly said: "I have a classmate in Qingyang, and there is also a male wife in the family. There is a concubine who has a son. They call him father and his male wife Daddy."

After understanding the meaning of Li Mu's words, Xia He looked at him strangely: "Could it be possible that you still plan to let Jin Bao call me father? - How can it be possible, he is the only seedling of your Li family's direct line."

"Why not? It's not a bad title." Li Mu nodded.

Xia He pursed his lips, and after a long while, he asked: "The person who needs His Majesty's grace to change the law and marry a male wife has never said what the sons and daughters of his family should call the male wife in his family." Is it?" Xia He began to worry sincerely, thought for a long time, but couldn't come up with any good ideas, so she had to blame the person who married a male wife in the first place.

"You mean the son of the virtuous king? He seems to have made an oath that he will not take concubines, and only respects his husband and wife, and has no heirs." Although Rao Nan's rumors about the maverick virtuous king's son are not There are many, but in Qingyang, that one is well-known by everyone.In addition, the son of the virtuous king married a man, so Li Mu paid more attention to him and knew a lot of news.

Xia He was a little strange: "This son will be a prince in the future. Those officials and lords all love beauties, and those who are princes have more power than the officials, shouldn't they all have beautiful wives and beautiful concubines by their side? Why did you say that?"

"Even if I become an official, I will be the same as this son in the future, only you." Li Mu promised Xia He, "It's nothing strange, is it?"

Xia He now really wants to know what exactly Li Mu learned in Qingyang to become like this, making every effort to tell him his heart.He hugged Jin Bao rather awkwardly, covered the little baby's ears, and didn't tell him to listen, and said: "Aren't you afraid that little Jin Bao will learn it if you talk glibly in front of the child?"

"I want him to learn it. When he has a sweetheart in the future, he can pursue it straightforwardly, so that he won't be delayed for a long time like me." Li Mu laughed, and suddenly hugged Xia He, "Xia He, It was only when I was far away that I realized how much I missed you, and even wanted to let go of everything and come back regardless."

Xia He thought for a while, then leaned on Li Mu, and said: "I miss you too, but you still have things to do, and I have things to do, so I can't let go, otherwise, I would have gone to you long ago , even if it’s by walking.”

"It's coming soon, after three years, I hope everything will be over." Li Mu sighed.

Although the methods used are different, the two want to do the same thing, hoping to make the Zhang family's innocence clear to the world.Let's hope, I hope that in three years, everything will go smoothly, and it will be settled properly, and both of them will survive, so that they can spend the remaining four or fifty years of their lives.If any misfortune happened, Xia He suddenly stopped covering Jin Bao's ears, and told little Jin Bao: "In case of any accident, Jin Bao remembers to collect the corpses of your father and uncle, and bury us together so that we can Hold hands and walk the road to Huangquan, and we will not be separated in the next life."

Jin Bao looked at his uncle who suddenly became serious, and shook his head, not understanding what he was saying.What Huangquan Road Naihe Bridge is too early for a three-year-old doll.

After saying these words, Xia He suddenly remembered: "I'll show you what I wrote, and you can help me correct it, and see how I can attract the attention of Liang Jing's gentlemen."

After all, before Li Mu agreed, he hurriedly stuffed Jinbao into Li Mu's arms, and ran to get the booklet by himself, bringing a pen and ink along the way.

There is no table next to the stove, only the stove. Xia He put the inkstone on the stove, put the booklet in Li Mu's hand, and began to dip the pen in Li Mu's ink.

The ink in winter is not so easy to grind, but fortunately it is warmer by the fire.After Xia He researched the ink, she dipped the pen into the ink and handed it to Li Mu graciously. Unexpectedly, Jin Bao grabbed her and wiped it on the little baby's own face.

"You take Jin Bao to wash your face and hands, I'll show you." Li Mu raised the pen high, not allowing Jin Bao to reach it, and said to Xia He regardless of Jin Bao's asking for the pen.

"I want to pick up a pen at such a young age. Maybe Jin Bao will be a great writer in the future!" Xia He happily picked up Jin Bao and said.

"Okay, don't just praise him, look at what he did on his face." Li Mu smiled and shook his head, Jin Bao had already drawn a beard around his mouth.

Xia He grabbed Jin Bao's hand, not letting him smear any more: "Come on, Jin Bao, don't put your fingers in your mouth, what's so good about ink?"

"Fragrant!" Jin Bao laughed.

Just as she carried Jin Bao out of the house, Lan Niang saw her and asked, "What are you two doing, why did you make the child like this?"

"Where is it? It's Jin Bao who wants to grab the pen when he sees it." Xia He said.

"Hey, it's said that three years old is old, and Jin Bao can grasp a pen at three years old, and he must be a learned man in the future!" Lan Niang said the same thing as Xia He.

Calling Li Mu in the room to listen, he smiled helplessly and shook his head.

After Xia He washed the ink off Jin Bao's body and asked Lan Niang to take Jin Bao away, and when she came back, she saw Li Mu seriously correcting his booklet.

After a while, Li Mu turned to the last page and said to Xia He, "Is this the first thing you wrote?"

"..." Xia He was surprised, sat next to Li Mu, and asked, "How did you find out?"

"Actually, this page is very well written. If you want to show it to those who are impatient, you can hand it in directly, to make it clear." Li Mudao said, "If those who like flowery rhetoric, then hand over this book Booklet, pretending to ask for advice, let him discover what is hidden behind it."

When Xia He heard this, he nodded and said, "To deal with different people, you have to use different methods, right?"

"That's right." Li Mu responded, and roughly revised it. What Xia He wrote with care was still full of problems in his eyes. How could he correct it in this tone, "I'll take it away first, and I'll take it away when I go back." Let me show you carefully."

"It turns out that it's the New Year's Eve, and I even found you something to do." Xia He was a little embarrassed.

"It's nothing, anyway, it's very cold in winter, so I don't like to go out." Li Mu said yes.

Xia He pondered for a while, then asked: "You don't like to go out, and I don't like to go out, so when will we meet?"

Li Mu: "..."

Suddenly Xia He came up with a wonderful idea: "Anyway, there are only four people in your family, and there are only three in my family. Why don't we get together to celebrate the New Year." The year will not end until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Xia He just had a whim, and he didn't even think about it, who would celebrate the New Year at someone else's house?

Unexpectedly, Li Mu actually agreed: "Okay, I will go back today and tell my mother that I will pick you up tomorrow."