This was a serious matter. Lu Xu called Lu Zhou home to ask carefully what his silly brother was thinking.
Comparing his feelings, Lu Xu thought that Lu Zhou's idea was a bit stupid.
In this era, there is no need to compete for jobs in companies, and there is no need to strive for diplomas and academic qualifications. After he works hard for a while, the business of the shop is stable, and he saves more money, he can open a restaurant. Once the restaurant is opened, he can train a few chefs, and then he will be able to open a restaurant. You can run your business steadily, earn money to buy land, and become a prosperous small landowner in Guanyang.
At that time, if his younger brothers and sisters are willing to do business, if they are not willing, they can just inherit the family business and wait for the land to be divided.
Although Guanyang is not a wealthy place, it has mountains and rivers and simple folk customs. Wouldn't it be good to be a small landowner? Why do you have to make yourself miserable?
Anyway, Lu Xu didn't like to go. His student life was neither dark nor very happy. In retrospect, it can be roughly summarized as: he couldn't read the books, he couldn't answer the questions, the teacher didn't like him, and his classmates didn't want to see him.
His father insisted on putting him in a key class, but he simply couldn't keep up. He listened to scriptures in class and was in a daze or falling asleep. By the time he wanted to learn, he couldn't catch up even though he tried hard. Even though he studied day and night during the last half of his senior year in high school, he was still not good at it.
Anyway, Lu Xu still has nightmares when it comes to reading exams.
At this time, the scientific examination was more difficult than his college entrance examination. Looking at the college examination, it was simply a disaster.
Lu Xu really couldn't understand how anyone could want to jump into such a big trap.
He looked at his silly brother with mixed emotions, "You want to study? Go to the county school to study?"
Lu Zhou nodded and said "yes" solemnly.
Lu Xu: "Why?"
Lu Zhou lowered his head and said nothing, and muttered with some embarrassment: "I want to be a civil servant."
Lu Xu sighed and persuaded patiently, "Is that what you want to be? Do you know how difficult it is to pass the exam?"
Lu Zhou was silent.
Lu Xu was good at tempting, "What's the good of being a civil servant? Our family has no power or influence. If you are admitted to Jinshi, if you are not the top scholar, you can be a small county official, but you can't be in your hometown. You want to leave your hometown and leave behind Us?"
Lu Zhou: "I'm not!"
Lu Xu: "Even if our family moves wherever you go, we may not be able to see our grandparents, third uncle and fourth uncle, Lu Wen, Lu Xuan and the others for many years."
Lu Zhou was stunned.
He didn't know there was any of this.
Lu Xu touched his head and said, "Most people become officials just to earn money for food. These brothers can make money. You don't need to cross that single-plank bridge. If you want to read and write, my brother can teach you slowly. In the future Ask your husband to teach you, and forget about taking the exam."
Lu Zhou pursed his lips and said nothing, his face full of struggle.
Lu Xu thought he had convinced him, but Lu Zhou thought for a while, then came to him again and said again: "Brother, I want to take the imperial examination."
Lu Xu was puzzled. He said it was so clear. Why is this kid still not enlightened?
He put down the half-crushed chili pepper and asked inexplicably, "Why? Tell me why?"
"I want to take the Juren exam. If I pass the Juren exam, my eldest brother and Rui'er won't have to serve." Lu Zhou blurted out categorically, as if these words had been repeated in his heart tens of thousands of times. Even though he was timid and cautious, he could Say it loudly.
Lu Xu was stunned.
He could never imagine the reason.
Lu Xu: "How do you know that Rui'er and I won't have to do corvee service if we become civil servants?"
Lu Zhou: "You said it before, and Brother Jun Qi also said it."
Lu Xu didn't remember at all: "When did I say that?"
Lu Zhou did not answer, but said: "I don't want my brother and Rui'er to be like my father and Brother Xiaohui."
Lu Xu sat on the small bench and looked up at Lu Zhou, who was standing in front of him with a stubborn face. He could no longer grind the pepper.
He waved his hand, asked Lu Zhou to sit down next to him, and rubbed Lu Zhou's little head, "I didn't say that for you."
Lu Zhou looked up at him, "Brother Junqi can do it, so can I."
His tone was less confident again.
Lu Xu laughed and said, "Okay, then you can read it."
Lu Zhou was stunned.
Lu Xu said: "But as I said before, it's because you want to study that I let you study. As for whether you can pass the exam or not, it's up to our family."
Lu Zhou looked at him blankly.
Lu Xu: "I didn't let you study just to get you to take the exam. It doesn't make any difference to me whether you get the top prize or fail to get the top grade. Do you understand?"
Lu Zhou shook his head, not understanding.
Lu Xu chuckled, his silly brother was so honest, he probably wasn't a business person, so just read it, he can afford it anyway.
He pinched Lu Zhou's little face, which had gained weight recently, "I can't read anyway, and I hate reading. Since you like it, I hope you can read happily and read more. Understand more, study for fun, to broaden your horizons, and don’t study for the sake of being a candidate or becoming an official. If you study for the purpose of becoming an official, you probably won’t become a good official, and even if you pass the exam, you might as well not pass the exam.”
Lu Zhou seemed to understand.
Lu Xu let go of him, "If one day you really pass the exam, I hope you can protect one side like our county magistrate, and don't just think about me and Rui'er. That won't solve the fundamental problem, and it's too hopeless. Think more about Lu Wen, Lu Xuan, your brothers, relatives, fellow villagers, Guanyang, Longxing, and even all kinds of people you know or don’t know all over the world. Since you have ambitions, then set a big goal ambition."
Lu Zhou was confused, digesting a problem that was far beyond his scope.
Lu Xu waved his hand, "Go ahead and have fun. I'll take you there tomorrow to ask how to enroll in school."
Lu Zhou left, in a daze.
Lu Xu sat on the small bench and meditated. In fact, he was also in a trance.
He clapped his hands, ran to Yan Junqi's house, and said to Yan Junqi mysteriously, "Our family, Lu Zhou, wants to study and take the exam!"
Yan Junqi blinked and said not too surprised, "Oh."
Lu Xu was no longer calm, "You know?"
Yan Junqi nodded and shook his head, "It's just some speculation. Xiaozhou also brings books with him to work recently. I see him writing on the ground when he goes outside to collect vegetables and cut grass."
Lu Xu was shocked. He went home confused and happened to meet La Yue and Wen Zhen. They bought dried apricots from the grocery store and ate them while walking. They came back hand in hand. Lu Xu stopped La Yue and said, "Your second brother wants to study, do you know?" "
La Yue nodded, and Wen Zhen nodded too.
Lu Xu tilted his head and looked at Wen Zhen, "You also know?"
Wen Zhen said: "Brother Xiaozhou can recite poems faster than me."
The twelfth lunar month: "My brother is always writing next to the pig pen."
Reasonable and well-founded.
Lu Xu went to ask Yuan Manniang, Yuan Manniang was not too surprised, "Didn't Zhou'er teach Lu Yue and Xiao Wen how to read?"
Lu Xu is autistic.
He didn't know about the whole family.
He walked silently to the pig pen and saw that the open space three steps away from the pig pen was leveled by Lu Wen to create an open space one foot wide and two feet long. Different from the solid ground beside him, only the soil here was loosened. , there is a straight branch as long as a writing brush placed against the wall.
Lu Xu picked it up and found that the branches had long since dried, the bark was worn, and there were signs of being held for a long time.
Lu Zhou feeds the pigs and chickens at home. He rarely comes to the pig pen, so Lu Zhou opened a calligraphy practice base here to prevent him from seeing it, right?
Lu Xu thought depressedly, he felt that he already cared about his family, but it seemed that it was not enough.
Lu Xu and the half-grown pig looked at each other for a while, then took a branch and gritted his teeth and wrote a line of big characters on Lu Zhou's "calligraphy paper": "Lu Zhou is a stupid pig"!
Lu Zhou didn't know that his secret base had been exposed, so he ran to his third aunt's house to call Lu Wen out. The two squatted by the vegetable field and muttered.
Lu Zhou said, "Big brother has agreed to let me study." His tone was filled with joy.
Lu Wen was happy for him, but he acted very disapprovingly, "I just told you to talk to eldest brother, if you insist. You want to study, but you don't want to gamble, can eldest brother not let you do it?"
Lu Zhou was immersed in joy and did not refute even though he was hurt, "I heard from Brother Junqi that the academy has a day off for the first ten days of the year. When I am waiting for the holiday, I want to go to Brother Shanbao's shop to help him keep accounts and earn some paper and ink. money."
Lu Wen said "Yeah" and said quietly, "Then he must be happy."
Lu Zhou noticed that Lu Wen was not in high spirits and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong with you?"
Lu Wen scratched his head, "It's annoying."
Lu Zhou: "What's bothering you?"
Lu Wen scratched his head hard for a while, messing up his hair, "Xiao Xia insists on going to work in Big Brother's shop."
Lu Zhou: "You don't want her to go?"
Lu Wen: "No."
Lu Zhou: "Then what's bothering you?"
Lu Wen said depressedly: "Doesn't she make me look useless like this?! I agreed that I would take care of them for my brother..."
Lu Wen gradually lost his voice.
The brothers were silent for a while, then sighed together.
Why is it always so far away from what they can do and what they want to do...
The young man was troubled, but Lu Xu didn't know about it.
At the family reunion in the evening, Xiaoxia and Hanlu finally convinced their parents.
The third uncle, the third aunt, the fourth uncle and the fourth aunt were not unhappy at all. On the contrary, Lu Wen and Lu Xuan had noses that were not noses, and eyes that were not eyes.
The mood of these two people was not within Lu Xu's consideration. He told Xiao Xia and Han Lu that they would only be responsible for the shop selling staple food, and they would take their time step by step. They would prepare things together tomorrow and officially start work the day after tomorrow.
Yuan Manniang mentioned that the third grandmother heard that they were going to open a shop in the county and wanted her youngest son and daughter-in-law to do some odd jobs in the shop.
The third grandma's youngest son is called Lu Junxin, whom Lu Xu knows. According to his seniority, he has to be called uncle. He is smart, but a little thin. Anyway, there wasn't anything too heavy in his shop, so Lu Xu nodded, "Okay, I'll ask them later."
After talking about the shop, Lu Xu coughed and said, "Now let's talk about something more serious. Lu Zhou wants to go to the county school to study. Who else wants to go? Raise your hand."
There was silence in the Lu family, serious business? County school? read?
Does this have anything to do with them?
Just when Lu Xu thought no one responded, Lan Yue and Xiao Man raised their hands.
Lu Xu was stunned, looking at the innocent little faces of his two sisters, and was suddenly speechless.
Han Lu said: "Girls can't study."
Lu Yue's smiling expression turned doubtful. She subconsciously looked at her omnipotent brother and asked in a sweet voice, "Why can't girls study? Can't Lu Yue also?"
Lu Xu's throat was clogged and he couldn't speak.
Han Lu: "You are a girl, of course you can't?"
Twelfth Moon is only five years old. She doesn't have much concept of gender, and she doesn't know much about etiquette and customs. She just thinks it's fun. Why can her brother go but she can't? Han Lu said it firmly, but for some reason, Lu Yue felt that her words seemed to have a thorn in her. She asked again, "Can't Lu Yue do it?"
Lu Xu was silent, La Yue understood, she couldn't, but she couldn't understand why she couldn't. She looked left and right, but no one explained it to her, not even her brother who knew everything.
Yuan Manniang stretched out her hand to hug her, "Little girls should learn to embroider and make clothes, and little boys should study."
Twelfth Moon was unhappy. She didn't like embroidery or making clothes. She curled her lips, with tears in her eyes, ran towards Lu Xu aggrievedly, threw herself into Lu Xu's arms, and cried aggrievedly.
Lu Xu patted her back, picked her up and wiped her tears.
The adults didn't take it too seriously. They just thought that the twelfth lunar month was too small and they would understand it when they grow up.
They discussed whether they should also find part-time workers to help in the autumn harvest, and how to help Lu Xu on the day when his shop opened. Lu Xu hugged the twelfth moon, his arms were heavy, and he always felt a little unable to concentrate.
His precious little brother and sister gave him too many critical blows in one day, and Lu Xusheng felt strangely frustrated.
Coming out of the fourth uncle's house, Lu Xu carried La Yue on her back and walked in front. Yuan Maniang held Lu Rui in her arms and led Lu Zhou behind. Lu Xu couldn't help but asked La Yue, "La Yue wants to go to school, but my brother is gone and there is no one." I want to play with my brother in the twelfth month, do you want to keep me company?"
La Yue thought for a while and said softly: "Yeah."
Lu Xu felt a little better.
Unexpectedly, La Yue asked again, "Brother, isn't there a place for girls to read?"
Lu Xu was silent and asked again, "Do you like reading in the twelfth month of the month?"
She said "Hmm" louder, "She likes books, books are fun, but embroidery is not fun. She doesn't want to learn embroidery." She said this in a soft voice, as if she was telling her brother quietly.
Lu Xu laughed, "Then I won't embroider."
La Yue frowned: "But mother said, no one will want a little girl who can't embroider and make clothes in the future."
Lu Xu: "Do you know what no one wants?"
Obviously, La Yue doesn't understand.
Lu Xu talked her up, "When you grow up, my brother will open an embroidery shop for you. You will be the boss. You don't have to embroider or make clothes. Whatever you want, let others make it for you. Whatever you want to wear, let others make it for you." You decide."
La Yue was happy. Her mother took her to the cloth shop in the town. There were many cloths and rolls in the cloth shop. La Yue lay on Lu Xu's shoulder and giggled.
Lu Xu called Lu Zhou over, "Come here, I'll give you a job. You go home every day and go to the shop to teach your younger brothers and sisters how to read and read. As long as there are people listening, you have to teach."
Lu Zhou nodded. He originally taught Lu Yue how to read.
Lu Xu smiled happily and said, "Okay, this job is worth your tuition! If you teach well, I will give you a bonus!"
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Lu Xu (puffing his chest proudly): My brother is the smartest stupid pig!
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