Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

After signing up for the county examination, the students fell headlong into reading and writing articles.

Mr. Zheng didn't give any lectures these days, he let the students study by themselves below, if there is anything they don't understand, just come up and ask him.

The snow at sunset just melted away a while ago, and new snow fell in the sky this afternoon.The cold wind howled, and the already not very warm classroom became even colder.

Mengzhen sat in his seat, wrote for a while and rubbed his hands. After one afternoon, his hands and feet were cold, and his head seemed to be frozen. He didn't know what he was writing.

After the afternoon class, Mr. Zheng gave everyone the annual vacation, from the 27th of the twelfth lunar month to the [-]th of the first lunar month.

After coming out of the school, Meng Zhen sat in the carriage, watching the county town in the twilight gradually disappearing into the night, the lights on both sides of the street were lit up, fine and small snowflakes fluttered down from the endless sky, and some of them blew on him On his face, he lifted the curtain with his hands and did not avoid it, letting the snowflakes caress his cheeks, and then melted into pieces of coldness.

"Master, you're home!"

When Ah Qing's voice came, Meng Zhen got out of the carriage in a daze.

As soon as he stepped into the gate of his courtyard, Meng Hong greeted him, "Father, you are back!"

Meng Zhen nodded and stepped into the room with a few steps.

The charcoal fire in the room was very hot, as soon as he came in, a gust of heat came rushing towards his face, Meng Zhen couldn't help but sigh, it's better to be at home, at least his hands and feet won't be cold.

He took off his coat and hung it on the hanger, Meng Hong brought a shirt over, "Father, I bought this from a tailor shop in the afternoon, you can try it on."

Meng Zhen glanced sideways, the purple ones, and said: "Your elder brother only bought two a few days ago, why did you buy them again?"

Meng Hong smiled and said: "Big Brother belongs to Big Brother, I belong to me, we brothers don't conflict."

When the clothes arrived at Mengzhen's hand, Mengzhen raised his arm, and Menghong put it on his body along his arm.

"Father's dress fits you very well and looks good!" Meng Hong commented with a smile in his eyes as he took two steps forward.

"It's a bad old man, it doesn't look good." Meng Zhen took off his clothes, threw them into Meng Hong's hands, and took a piece of home clothes to put on.

Then he asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

Meng Hong smiled and said: "Not yet, let's eat together when Dad comes back."

Most of their family's dinners are eaten in their own rooms, and occasionally they get together in Mengzhen's room.But it was cold today, although the houses were not far apart, it was troublesome to go back and forth, so the brothers ate in their own rooms.

Meng Hong came to deliver clothes to his father today, and left one for dinner by the way.

For dinner, I ate millet porridge, stewed tofu with cabbage, and white flour steamed buns, which was very light.

But it suits Meng's real appetite. When people are old, eating some light food is not only comfortable for the stomach, but also sleeps soundly at night.

After eating a few mouthfuls of porridge, Meng Hong asked, "Father, isn't your school still on holiday?"

Meng Zhen said: "Release, the holiday is from tomorrow to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month."

When he said this, he was burying his head in his meal. There was no movement on the other side for a long time, so he raised his head and met Meng Hong's eyes.

Meng Hong stared at him without blinking his eyes for a long time, his face was already displeased, and he knocked his hand with a chopstick, "What kind of crazy are you to your father, eat!"

Meng Hong retracted the hand that was hurt by the beating, and said while kneading: "Father, I see that your complexion has improved a lot this year, and you are even younger than before, but is there any panacea?"

Meng Zhen said unexpectedly: "What kind of panacea, when did you see me take the medicine? Wasn't it because your father and I got up early and exercised well, and also supplemented with food and supplements, that this rotten body was restored."

"Yes, yes," Meng Hong smiled, "What dad said is true, I was the one who was rude."

Meng Zhen ignored him and continued to eat.

Meng Hong then said: "Father, tomorrow you will go shopping with your son in the street, and I haven't gone shopping with you for a long time."

"Don't go!" Meng Zhen flatly refused, "Your father and I are used to being quiet, and don't like excitement, you can take Che'er for a stroll."

Meng Hong disagreed, and insisted: "Father, just let me go. Isn't there a saying that work and rest should be combined? You can't stay in the room and read a book all the time. It's not good if people look stupid. Go out once in a while to relax and come back. Learning efficiency will be better later on.”

Meng Zhen looked at him suspiciously.

"What I said is true." Meng Hong picked up a chopstick of food and put it in his bowl, "Don't believe me, the new year is approaching, and the streets are full of people, full of joy, so I'll take a walk there and get a taste of it. With the joy of the festival, there is a great possibility that the county will try it in the coming year.”

Meng Zhen still looked at him without blinking, but his mouth was tightly closed, so Meng Hong said shamelessly, "If you don't speak, you just promise me."

"You have a mouth that can speak well." After a while, Meng Zhen opened his mouth, and the chopsticks in his hand unconsciously picked up the food that Meng Hong gave him.

"Father was joking," Meng Hong still had a playful smile on his face, "my mouth is considered stupid, you have never seen such a good mouth, witty words, full of tongues, what you say is so brilliant, it's a wild gossip. "

"Let's eat your meal." Meng Zhen glared at him, blocking his eloquence.

He thought about what Meng Hong said about being happy during the festival, and if he got a good grade in the county test next year, he would go shopping in the streets with people early the next morning.

Only when I came here did I realize when I became so superstitious.

The street was really lively and festive, pedestrians crowded shoulder to shoulder, various hawkers kept hawking and yelling, he was pushed by people, and he managed to get out of the crowded crowd, but before he could catch his breath, Meng Che who was accompanying him insisted on dragging him away Buy a few pairs of lanterns.

Meng Zhen waved his hand: "Your father and I can't do it anymore, let your second brother accompany you."

A few children next to him were running and playing, one of them ran past Mengzhen, the ground was slippery, accidentally fell, and rolled right at Mengzhen's feet.

Maybe it was hurting from the fall, the child was crying, and Meng Zhen was about to squat down to comfort the child, when a man suddenly ran out from the crowd, rushed to Meng Zhen, and yelled at Meng Zhen: "You old man, what are you bullying?" My niece."

Meng Zhen was stunned for a moment, but after he realized it, his blood surged upwards, this person came to reprimand him indiscriminately, there was something wrong with him.

He was about to cry out a few times, but the man bent down and picked up the girl, "Good girl, don't cry, stay away from the old man, the old man is sick."

I was so angry that I wanted to kick him. What do you mean old men are sick? I think you are the only one who is sick.

However, the man didn't seem to notice it, and walked away holding the child.

At the other end of the crowd, Meng Hong walked over with two bunches of candied haws in his hand, one was given to Meng Che, and the other was held up to Meng Zhen.

Meng Zhen couldn't be in the mood to eat this, so he raised his hand and refused.Seeing that his father's expression was not right, Meng Hong quickly asked what was wrong.

Meng Zhen didn't say anything, but Meng Che spoke quickly and told everything that happened just now.

Meng Hong crossed his waist and looked around, if he couldn't find the man who bullied his father right now, he would have gone up and beat him to vent his father's anger.

Seeing him pretending to be angry, Meng Zhen said, "Okay, your father and I are fine. Just now Che'er said that he wants to match the lantern, you can take him to buy it."

Meng Hong looked at Meng Che and said, "Then Che'er stays here with Dad, I'll go buy it."

Meng Che grabbed the man's sleeve at once, and said anxiously, "Second brother, take me there, I want to choose by myself." He broke his arm three months ago, and just removed the splint a few days ago, it was the right hand Meng Hong's sleeves were pulled.

Meng Hong had no choice but to turn his eyes to his father again, Meng Zhen waved his hand: "Go, I'll wait for you here."

There happened to be a rock not far away, so Meng Hong helped him to sit there, "Well, daddy sit here and rest for a while, I will bring Che'er and buy a lantern and come." Meng Zhen nodded, and he He took Meng Che into the crowd.

When the figures of the two of them disappeared into the crowd, Meng Zhen let out a long breath, remembering what Meng Hong said last night that was full of festive joy, he unconsciously raised his eyebrows in embarrassment.

It's not like looking for happiness, but looking for bad luck.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind:

"My father-in-law?"

The author says:

感谢在2022-03-3122:31:18~2022-04-0121:40:09期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: 256789101;

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: 8 bottles of sickness; 1 bottle of Xiao Zhanzhan;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!