"Ning'er, where is your box?" Fan Tiezhou asked with a smile on his hair.

He didn't see him for a few days, and he really missed his son.

"I only have one day off and I have to come back tomorrow night."

"It's too late to leave early the morning after tomorrow. Dad has a boat, so I promise you won't be late."

Fanning walked onto the boat and found that the boat was actually not small. There was a canopy in the middle, which was very neat and comfortable inside, and there was a small window on the canopy.

Fanning walked into the cabin and put down his baggage and looked around.

"Dad, is this ship new?"

"Fortunately, 70% new, I brushed it with tung oil again, and it looked like it was new."

"How is the business?"

"It's just the beginning, but there are seventy or eighty cents a day, which is much more than fishing. In the future, if you have more regular customers, you will earn at least two hundred cents a day."

Fan Tiezhou was in a good mood. His family still had more than ten acres of land. He could earn two jin of money a year for one acre of land, and he would have twenty or thirty jin of money a year for farming. With the addition of passenger transport, and with the land tax and exemption money, he would earn four to five jin of money a month on average. In the village, this is also a middle-class income.

"How is Mom?" Fanning asked again.

"Your mother is fine. She cooked a table of delicious dishes and was waiting for you to go back!"

Fan Tiezhou smiled again and said, "Your fourth uncle is not bad either. He teaches in a primary school. Everyone says he teaches better than Mr. Gu in the past. Your grandfather praised you for being able to do it!"

"I'm stupid if he doesn't say he is?"

Fanning was really not interested in his partial grandfather, but just for his father's sake, he responded casually.

"I won't say it anymore. He plans to reward you with five stagnant money. I don't know what happened. Your grandfather went to Wuxi and suddenly figured it out."

Speaking of the reward, Fan Tiezhou remembered something and said to his son: "Yesterday, the head of the Fan clan in the town came to me and gave us ten coins of money."

"Why do you have to pay ten cents of money?"

"This is the rule set by your third grandfather a few years ago. He donated all his property and set up a Fan family remedy fund. Each Fan family who was admitted to the school will be rewarded with five jin of money. If he was admitted to the four universities, he will be rewarded with ten jin of money and sponsored his children to study..."

Historically, Fan Zhongyan did donate most of his property to support his family's children in school.

Fan Ning lay in the cabin, resting his head on his hands, looking at the white clouds in the sky, and wondering how Fan Zhongyan is now?

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When he got home, Zhang Sanniang hugged him and cried hard. When she was having dinner, she found that her son had lost a little weight and she felt so distressed that she burst into tears.

She sat down at her son and kept picking up food for him, "Ning'er, this piece of meat is good, I'll keep it for you."

With a glance, she suddenly roared, "Fan Tiezhou, that chicken leg is for your son, who asked you to eat it?"

Fan Tiezhou picked up a chicken leg that he had bitten in his hand, and stayed there either without putting it or eating it.

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After dinner, Fan Tiezhou took the initiative to clean up the dishes and Zhang Sanniang took out two sheepskin coats from the box. She asked someone to buy them at Can Shu Town and made of good lake sheepskin.

"Dalang, Ning'er, you two come here to try it first, one for each person, hey! Last year, 700 cents were enough, but this year it has increased to the usual amount. Nowadays, the money is getting less and less used."

"My wife is right. I would have known that we would have bought it last year." Fan Tiezhou said with a pleasing smile.

Zhang Sanniang glared at him, "What's the point of saying this? Did our family have the money to buy it last year?"

She threw the sheepskin coat to her husband, "I'm too lazy to care about you when I sew the buttons myself."

She turned around and smiled at Fanning and said, "Good son, let me try it out to see if it's the size is right?"

Fanning wore a close-fitting sheepskin coat and put on a straight jacket outside, which made it much warmer.

"What's going on today?"

As soon as Fan Ning got home, he felt that his mother had no good face, and of course she was not treating herself.

"Hmph! Ten coins of money are what my son deserves. It's his business for him to be unhappy. Why do you need us to return it to the family?"

Seeing that his father looked embarrassed, Fan Ning asked, "Dad, what's going on?"

Fan Tiezhou sat aside and smiled bitterly: "Your fourth uncle was admitted to the county school affiliated school, but the family did not give him any rewards. Two days ago, your grandfather heard that you had received ten coins of money. He was angry and ran to the family to ask for money.

But the family refused and your grandfather was so angry that he asked us to return the ten-spot money to the family. Of course your mother refused, so your mother kept blaming me."

"It's been!"

While sewing buttons, Zhang Sanniang said to her son: "Don't think your mother is a person who is jealous of money. I have my own qualities in doing things. Yesterday, your grandfather sent five stagnant coins and I had no objection to the reward for the grandson, but why did it be said that it was compensation for the separation of the family? I confiscated it in anger."

Fan Tiezhou was threading the needle, and he quickly put down the needle and thread to explain, "Since he mentioned the compensation for the separation, it means that he still felt guilty about this. Besides, he is old and it is normal to say the wrong thing. I believe his original intention is to give Ning'er a reward, and there is no other meaning."

"Anyway, I won't want that five-spoon of money, and I don't want to owe others favors."

Zhang Sanniang has a knife-like mouth and a tofu heart. Although she was angry with her husband and asked him to sew buttons by herself, she saw that he picked up the needle and threaded it, so she went forward and took back the sheepskin coat.

"Forget it, I'll sew it for you! Don't let anyone say I'm bullying his son."

Fan Tiezhou breathed a sigh of relief, and his wife finally calmed down.

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The next morning, Fan Tiezhou took Fan Ning to his grandfather's house.

On the way, Fan Tiezhou said: "Your fourth uncle was really a child prodigy when he was a child. He could speak less than one year old, could read at the age of three, and went to school at the age of five, and was the first in every exam. Your grandfather even took him to the county to find the most famous fortune teller, and the prime minister gave you eight words to the grandfather."

"What eight words?" Fan Ning asked with interest.

"Official roads and business roads are expensive!"

Fan Tiezhou sighed, "It is these eight words that make your grandfather like a demon, and he will cultivate your fourth uncle at all costs, obey him and love him very much."

Fan Ning was silent for a moment and asked his father again, "Yesterday, my mother said that my fourth uncle was admitted to the county school affiliated school, but the family did not give any rewards. Why?"

"There are many reasons. On the one hand, the old patriarch and your grandpa at that time had a bad relationship. Of course, we can't blame the family for being unfair. In fact, there is another reason."

Fan Tiezhou looked at both sides and lowered his voice, "Some things can be told now that your fourth uncle was not admitted to the county school affiliated school at that time. Your grandfather finally asked someone to spend money to send him to school."

Fan Ning was stunned, "Didn't the Fourth Uncle get into the exam?"

"no!"

Fan Tiezhou shook his head, "Even the county school spends money. He spent 200 taels of silver to buy a quota for the attendees. In order to support his studies, he almost emptied your grandfather's fortune."

Fan Ning suddenly understood his grandfather's almost pathological persistence, and he was determined to get the fourth uncle into the exam, because he spent a lot of money on the fourth uncle. If the fourth uncle couldn't pass the exam, the money would be wasted.

When I arrived at my grandfather's house, I saw my grandmother Yang scolding a young man squatting on the ground. My grandmother looked much better and better.

"Grandma!"

Fanning shouted and ran over.

Yang immediately smiled and pulled Fan Ning up and down, and said with a smile: "My son has become a scholar!"

People rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles. In the past, Fanning wore shorts and was barefoot, but no matter how he looked, he was a cowherd in the countryside.

Now he is wearing a scholar's straight body, a square scarf, and thick-soled cloth boots under his feet. He is indeed like a young scholar.
To be continued...