Master Mo was mad. When the news broke that Ding Youtian had won the top spot in the high school entrance exam, Master Mo's reaction was a little off. Ding Youtian was his student, and he should have been proud and pleased that his students had produced their first top scorer.

However, this is not the case.

After he knew it, he was silent for a long time, and then he sighed heavily.

Later, Mingyue and her mother noticed that he was becoming increasingly abnormal. He would often stare blankly, wondering what he was thinking. Sometimes, he would stare blankly while teaching students. He gradually began to throw things around, and would scold students and other teachers whenever there was nothing wrong.

Before Yang Jinyu left for the capital, Mingyue and her mother had tried to persuade him to visit Pu Ren Tang, but he refused. He insisted he wasn't insane, and couldn't possibly be. He was actually fine then, except for his erratic temper and his tendency to curse for no reason. His usual speech was pretty normal.

Until a month ago, he woke up in the middle of the night, sat up, and shook Mingyue's mother violently. His voice was filled with uncontrollable excitement. He told Mingyue's mother that he had passed the high school entrance examination and won the first place. Then he put on his slippers and excitedly walked around the room, shouting over and over again that he had passed the high school entrance examination!

Mingyue's mother was very frightened. She lit the lamp, put on her clothes, got out of bed and called Mingyue in panic. The mother and daughter entered the room and saw that he had fallen asleep again, which made Mingyue's mother wonder if she was dreaming.

The next few nights were fine, and Mingyue Niang had just let her heart go, but he woke her up again in the middle of the night. Then he rushed to the school with disheveled hair, raised his hands and shouted that he had graduated from high school!

After that, this happened every two or three nights, making Mingyue and her mother miserable. He didn't go to class for the next half month, and had a gloomy face all day long. He often sat alone in the study for a long time, like an old monk in meditation, motionless.

In the past few days, news came that the top scholar and Princess An Ning were going to return home. Mingyue and her mother did not dare to let Master Mo know about this and kept it a secret.

I don’t know if he strolled to school today and accidentally heard something said by a student there. It was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back. He went completely crazy and ran away from home out of the blue.

Ding Youtian wasn't sure if what he saw was Mingyue, so he didn't think much about it or take it to heart. Passing by a bookstore, he saw Chuqi standing in front of the door with his neck stretched out. He called out to the yamen runners holding whips and stirrups and asked, "Is my master here?"

Chu Qi smiled innocently and nodded, "To answer your Excellency, the old boss is out and hasn't come back yet."

"You, idiot, just keep calling me the same thing you did before."

"How can that be possible?" In the past, Liu Xiaqi was called the old boss and the young boss. Now the young boss has become the top scholar, and the top scholar will become an official. What else can he call him but sir?

He shook his head like a rattle.

Since Blind Liu was not there, Ding Youtian didn't say much to him. He just asked him to take care of the bookstore and then continued to move forward towards Dingxian Village.

The entrance to Dingxian Village was already packed with men, women, and children. Tian, ​​holding her baby, would occasionally run up the slope to gaze upwards. In the courtyard, Chang, Mr. Ding Sanye and his son, and the butcher's son all wore beaming smiles, overjoyed. Only Qiaofeng and Da Niu were quietly busy in the clinic.

School was dismissed after just one class this morning. Da Niu was studying medicine with Qiao Feng, both of them sorting dried herbs and sorting them into the medicine rack. Qiao Feng was testing Da Niu as they sorted, and when she couldn't answer or got her answers wrong, she patiently corrected her and explained.

"Sister Qiaofeng, you said that my father will stay in the capital to be an official after he becomes the top scholar. Will you go to the capital to live with us?" The big girl suddenly thought and asked Qiaofeng.

"I'm not going. I'm staying at the clinic. What if I follow you to the clinic? The villagers are sick and don't have money to go to town to get medicine. They can come to us for any illness or pain. I'd better stay here."

"But we've all left, and Brother Xiaomai is also in the capital. Are you really not going to stay here alone?"

"What does it have to do with me if he goes there?" Qiaofeng glared at Da Niu. Da Niu glanced at her and saw that her ears were slightly red. She pursed her lips and smiled secretly.

"Okay, you silly girl, what are you laughing at?" Qiao Feng pretended to strangle her, but she giggled and got up and ran away.

As the girl ran out of the clinic, she heard the sound of gongs and drums from the village entrance. "Oh, my father and mother are back!" As soon as she finished speaking, Tian ran out again, holding Ma Xiaolu in her arms. "Oh my, they're really back. Let's go, let's go to the village entrance to welcome them."

She held Ma Xiaolu, who was almost a year old, in one hand, and Da Niu in the other, and hurried down the slope. As they headed down the slope toward the village entrance, they passed Old Ding's house, where he was just emerging from the yard, his hands behind his back. He and Mrs. Meng hugged each other and cried for a while. Mrs. Meng then began to blame him again, blaming him for throwing away the gold nugget and calling him an old fool, destined to be poor.

Old Ding was so annoyed. Ever since his sons separated and moved on, Mrs. Meng had been actively trying to get close to him, often nagging him that even if all his sons were put together, they wouldn't be as reliable as him. Now that his wife had become an old, immortal old woman, he was so angry that he almost wanted to take off his shoes and slap Mrs. Meng hard!

But it was impossible. After the family was divided, he was afraid that if he got angry and hit Meng too hard, who would wash his clothes and cook for him if he paralyzed her? He now understood that sons were unreliable, and only the old partner who had been together since childhood could be relied upon.

Otherwise, he would have beaten Meng so hard that she would have cried for her parents and lost her way!

He came out angrily, looked up and saw Tian pulling the girl over, and spat inwardly. He wanted to take two steps in the opposite direction, but when he heard the deafening sound of gongs and drums, he couldn't help it and turned around and followed Tian towards the village entrance.

At the entrance of the village, Old Ding saw the eldest brother and his friends all there, all grinning from ear to ear. This guy made him furious. It turned out that after all the division of the family, they had finally been separated from the two old guys, but they were still brothers. Old Ding was furious. If these brats hadn't been unable to tolerate the fourth brother and hadn't often spread bad things about him in front of him, would he have had the intention to separate the fourth brother's family?

He cursed his eldest brother and the others in his heart, and wanted to turn around and leave, but he also wanted to experience the charm of his fourth son after he won the top prize. As early as when he learned that Ding Youtian was the top scorer in the high school, he had secretly run to his father's grave at night and cried bitterly, and even slapped himself several times.

He didn't want to use too much force, and the pain in his right gum was so severe that he couldn't chew food for several days. Especially after he learned that Jian was the legitimate daughter of the current god of war, Prince Pingnan, he regretted it so much that his intestines were about to break!

Old Ding was furious. That damn woman Meng was right. He was born to be poor!

But he was unwilling to give up. He suddenly wanted to recognize Si'er again. He gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and gave up his old face!

Old Ding quietly squeezed into the crowd, stretched his neck, and saw Ding Youtian and Jian Ning riding tall horses side by side from afar. His heart began to pound.