When the pears are green

Chapter 161: Knowing mistakes can correct them

Before leaving, Wu Mingde asked Song Li for the address of Yang Jing's home. After returning home, he heard Wu Li talk about Wu Mingshu's matter. Although the matter was over, he, as a younger brother, still wanted to visit Yang Jing's home in person to express his family's gratitude.

"Mingde, wait a moment. I heard Qingye say that Jing'er and the others have moved. I'll go ask Qingye if he knows about it." Song Li hurriedly knocked on the door of the west room and called out Jiang Qingye who was hiding in the room reading a picture book.

Song Li told Jiang Qingye the reason, and Jiang Qingye quickly told Wu Mingde the current address of Yang Jing's family: "Brother Wu San, I only know that they moved to Nanguan. You can ask about the newly moved Yang Yu there."

"Okay, I got it, thank you Qingye." Wu Mingde smiled and touched Jiang Qingye's head. He let Jiang Qingye continue to do his own thing.

Seeing that Li Yun'an was staring at the rabbits, Jiang Qingzhou smiled and caught a pair of rabbits from the rabbit nest and gave them to Li Yun'an.

Li Yun'an quickly waved his hand to refuse. He explained with a blushing face that he just liked these furry little animals very much and had no intention of raising rabbits.

"Mr. Li, don't refuse. Take it back and let Lingling raise it for fun." Song Li came over and took the rabbit from Jiang Qingzhou's hand. She put the rabbit in a small basket so that Li Yun'an could carry it when he went back.

Li Yun'an took the basket embarrassedly. He remembered that Li Ying and Li Liu had said that they would hold a banquet for him in two days for passing the imperial examination. He wanted to buy some things from the Jiang family since he had done nothing but accept gifts.

"Brother Jiang, my family is going to hold a banquet in two days. Since you have chickens at home, we won't have to buy them from other families. Please send ten chickens and fifty eggs to the shop tomorrow morning." After Li Yun'an finished speaking, he took out his purse to give Jiang Qingzhou a deposit.

Jiang Qingzhou quickly refused: "Mr. Li, you and I are acquaintances, there is no need to do this."

"Brother Jiang, this is the rule of doing business. Even brothers have to settle accounts clearly, and we should also do things according to the rules. Let's not sign a document, just let Mingde be the middleman between you and me. If I don't acknowledge the debt, I will go to Mingde to ask for money." Li Yun'an stuffed thirty copper coins into Jiang Qingzhou's hand, and he told Jiang Qingzhou not to go too early tomorrow.

Wu Mingde was used to Li Yun'an's style of doing things, so he just smiled and shook his head without refutating Li Yun'an's words.

As Wu Mingde still had to go to the Yang family to express his gratitude, he said goodbye to Song Li and Jiang Qingzhou.

"Qingzhou, doesn't our family have a two-acre piece of land? I want to take it back and plant some watermelons and chrysanthemums next year." Song Li discussed with Jiang Qingzhou after closing the gate.

Jiang Qingzhou nodded after hearing this, and he told Song Li: "I will go to Brother Liu's house and tell him that the radishes can be harvested in less than a month. They grow a lot of radishes every year, so let's buy from them this year."

Jiang Qingzhou handed the copper coin in his hand to Song Li, and turned to go to Liu Chun's house, where he rented his own land.

Song Li first returned to the east room to put the copper coins away, and then asked Jiang Qingye, who was immersed in the comic book, to go to the yard to review his homework.

Jiang Qingye reluctantly took the book and walked to Song Li. Song Li took the Thousand Characters and asked Jiang Qingye with a smile: "Qingye, where did you read the comic book?"

"Seeing Bo Yikao paying tribute to atone his sins." Jiang Qingye's heart was like an ant crawling around, and he really wanted to know what the next content would be.

Song Li glanced at Jiang Qingye, who was "in Cao's camp but his heart was with Han", and she casually opened a page and began to ask questions: "The capital of China is the East and West Capitals. Which are the East and West Capitals you are referring to?"

"It refers to Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty, and Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The two places are collectively known as the Eastern and Western Capitals." Jiang Qingye answered confidently.

"What's the previous sentence of Kunchi Jieshi?" Song Li asked.

Jiang Qingye was stunned. He frowned at first, then kept scratching his head, and finally lowered his head embarrassedly and told Song Li that he didn't know.

"Yanmen is the purple pass, Jitian is the red city. Kunchi and Jieshi are the lakes, Juye and Dongting are the lakes." Song Li told Jiang Qingye the correct answer.

Song Li closed the book. She didn't mean to make things difficult for Jiang Qingye, but she was afraid that Jiang Qingye would think that he had memorized all the contents of the book and start to become lax.

Jiang Qingye lowered his head and took the book from Song Li's hand. He whispered, "Sister-in-law, I know I was wrong."

"What's wrong?" Song Li asked with a smile.

Jiang Qingye replied in a low voice: "I shouldn't be addicted to comic books. Brother Wu San gave me comic books so that I can read them when I want to relax. I am wasting Brother Wu San's kindness by doing this."

"It is the greatest virtue to admit one's mistakes and correct them. Didn't Master Yang ask you to write five-character or seven-character quatrains on the theme of autumn? You write a five-character quatrain first. If it is good, Qingzhou and I will take you to the bookstore in the county town to buy a few more sets of picture books on the Mid-Autumn Festival, okay?" Seeing that Jiang Qingye had realized his mistake, Song Li no longer dwelled on it. If she gave the child more rewards, he would do better.

Jiang Qingye thought Song Li would be angry, but he didn't expect that she would still take him to the county town to buy picture books. He quickly nodded and agreed, secretly vowing in his heart to study hard.

Jiang Qingzhou came back soon. He first told Song Li, who was modifying winter clothes, that the Liu family would irrigate the two acres of land after cutting the straw, and then quietly asked: "Isn't Qingye reading a comic book? Why did you come out?"

"I'll come out naturally when I get tired of reading. I haven't finished the homework assigned by Master Yang yet." Song Li smiled and asked Jiang Qingzhou to go and see what Jiang Qingye was writing.

Jiang Qingzhou squatted beside Jiang Qingye and saw something written on the ground: I climbed the high embankment in my spare time, and the setting sun was reflected on the water. No one from the old days was there, only the wild ducks were returning.

"It's well written." Jiang Qingzhou smiled and patted Jiang Qingye's shoulder. He called Song Li over to see Jiang Qingye's new work.

Song Li read it in a low voice and asked Jiang Qingye why he wrote it that way.

"A few days ago, Jiang Yang and I went to the riverbank to play with slingshots, and it reminded me of the scene when we went fishing with my second brother and his wife in the summer. I wrote it based on the situation at that time." Jiang Qingye replied quickly.

Song Li felt that although it was a little bit unsmooth, it was still pretty good considering Jiang Qingye's current age. She encouraged Jiang Qingye to keep up the good work, read more books, and go out more often, and he would definitely be able to write better poems.

Wu Mingde and Li Yun'an first delivered the rabbit to Li's shop, and then they went to the town together to buy two boxes of snacks and a basket of persimmons as gifts.

The two asked an old woman they met at Nanguan about Yang Yu. The old woman frowned and thought for a moment, then smiled and replied, "Oh, you are talking about Yang Qing's third brother. They just moved here. Go in this alley, the one at the end of the east side of the road is him."

"Thank you, grandma." Li Yun'an generously took two persimmons from the basket and handed them to the old woman. The happy old woman led them directly to Yang Yu's house.

The old woman pointed to the courtyard gate that was hidden by a sycamore tree and said, "This is it."

Wu Mingde and Li Yun'an thanked the old woman, and after she walked away, Wu Mingde reached out and knocked on the gate.