It’s often said that joy breeds sorrow, and I think that’s true.
There was an unseasonable incident at dinner, and halfway through dinner the eldest aunt had a message.
“Father, Mother, it’s like this. Jun’er his grandma see Jun’er intelligent, together they help out beam repair, don’t want to delay Jun’er, want to pay for Jun’er to enter the school.”
Zhu Pingan heard this news, subconsciously felt that something is not right, seldom heard of a mother’s family will be willing to help married daughters to raise children. As the ancients say, the girl who marries out splashes out the water, is the maternal family of the eldest aunt so open-minded, is Jun’s maternal grandmother willing, and is his aunt and uncle willing as well?
In ancient times, when students and teachers met for the first time, they had to present gifts to show their respect, called “Shu Xiu”. It was practiced as early as the time of Confucius, when it was salted pork, but now it’s all about money.
In the countryside Shuixiu to be much cheaper than the town, but also a year roughly consistent or so, that is, one thousand wen, paid in two installments, and other vegetables, eggs, meat and other gifts, you can spend is also quite a lot.
However, according to the great aunt’s family is good and not bad, but also may not be.
Listen to the Yue family is willing to pay for Jun’er to enter the school, the grandparents are very happy, they are very important to the oldest family, the oldest will be able to read, that Jun’er will certainly be very good at reading as well.
The grandparents are happy, and it is the great-uncle Yue’s family to pay, the mother Chen and the fourth aunt and the third aunt naturally will not be anything.
“Jun’er goes to Monk’s school, and swine’er can’t either, so he can take over Jun’er’s class and go herding cows.” Great Aunt saw that no one in her family objected, her face was all proud, and then the conversation turned to point to Zhu Pingan, “It’s almost fall, so raise the oxen to be stronger, and do farm work as well.”
You returned it to me the day before yesterday!
You want me to take over Brother Jun’s shift to herd cows? When has Jun ever herded a cow? Hair hasn’t even been touched.
The reason why Auntie arranged for Zhu Pingjun to herd the cows was because she remembered how smart the family swine used to be, and realized that she had to cut off the swine’s study before it was too late. On the one hand, it is afraid of the family money to spend, it would be better to let the swine child honestly farming like the second brother to provide for their own, on the other hand, it is also afraid of Zhu Pingan stole the limelight of their son, although their son has been calculated life is the star of literature and music.
“Sister-in-law, my family swine child still, the cow is so big, how can he put it.” Mother Chen frowned and objected, there were still some words in her heart that she didn’t say out loud.
When did your family’s Jun’er ever let go of a cow.
Third Auntie liked Zhu Pingan and also helped, “That’s right, the swine is not as tall as the cow’s legs.”
“Our cows are very honest and know their way around, so we let them go so that they don’t eat other people’s crops.” Great Auntie said, “The swine have been to the mountains with Second Brother, it’s not a big deal to herd a cow.”
Mother Chen didn’t feel comfortable with Zhu Pingan herding cows, but Great Auntie insisted, and the dinner table was uneasy.
“Compassionate mothers have many defeated children, it’s good for swine’s son to go and exercise, if it’s really impossible to herd, then it’s not too late to not herd again.”
Grandmother sided with Great Auntie, and her words were agreeable.
Mother Chen gambled at the dinner table and didn’t eat much, her hand reached under the table and pinched Father Zhu an unknown number of times.
Anyway, Zhu father bared his teeth many times at the dinner table.
“Mother, you eat more, herding cows is also good ah, I like our family’s cows.” Zhu Pingan stretched out his chopsticks to help Chen clip vegetables, his soft childish voice comforting Chen.
Her son’s understanding made Chen feel better, but when she thought of her sister-in-law’s children going to school and her own children having to herd cows as soon as they were born, her heart still didn’t feel very happy.
“Swine’s son is going to herd cows, in the future, give Swine’s son an extra half a cake per meal.” Grandfather spoke.
Grandfather generally didn’t meddle in the affairs of the family’s backyard, as long as things weren’t very out of the ordinary, he would turn a blind eye. Although he valued the oldest family, he was also fond of Zhu Pingan, his chubby grandson.
Night falls, the bright moon hides in the soft like fluff, light even like silk clouds shyly looking at the quiet world, spreading the light of that simple and clean. This posture as if a graceful beauty of the girl smiling at the earth.
The moon is quiet and gentle, not in the east room.
“Why should his son go to school and my son herd cattle. You do the work and contribute, Da Chuan also have already helped this so much, swine son so also have to go to herd cattle. Our family is owed to the old family?”
“You dead man ah, not a word!”
“Why did I marry a man like you, who doesn’t even dare to fart!”
For Zhu’s father, it was already not easy to leave more private money for the family, and it was probably too difficult for him to oppose his parents’ brother and sister-in-law’s words. It would be good for the boy to have more wrestling, he
Heart also have so think, again, mother also if can’t put then don’t put the words, that’s why there is no words at the dinner table.
But Chen’s can not care about these.
Poor old dad, a moment of silence for you.
Zhu Pingan was very unrighteous and flashed away, his own daughter in law, coax it yourself, seek your own happiness, old dad.
The shepherd boy rides the yellow ox, and the song vibrates through the forest.
This poem is simply a reflection of Zhu Pingan, riding on the back of the old bull, shaking his legs, a bamboo kettle on his waist, holding a fishing rod in his hand, a fishing rod hanging down a hemp line, tied to a handful of green grass on the hemp line. Tender grass just hanging in front of the cow’s head, the old yellow ox spreading hooves in the tender grass under the guidance of the hoof, all the way to the hoof.
On the back of the bull is a simple saddle made of bamboo by Zhu’s father last night, so Zhu Pingan’s body can also be made stable, and the bamboo is made of lightweight, and does not affect the old bull’s activities.
Zhu Pingan sat on the back of the bull, his thoughts drifted with the bull’s hooves.
Words, shepherd boy riding a yellow ox this poem is the Qing Dynasty Yuan Mei wrote it, all the poems of the Qing Dynasty chapter and verse can be used by themselves, life is only like the first time to see Nalan Seide, the red is not a ruthless thing Gong Zizhen, the river and mountain generations of talented people out of the Zhao Yi, and even see and see the Cang Yangjiazuo are not cheap themselves.
Qing Dynasty scholar eight-legged essay himself during graduate school also remembered a lot of, although can not recite by heart, but the general idea of what to remember a lot of it. The Qing Dynasty’s eight-legged is much more standardized than the Ming Dynasty’s eight-legged.
Poetry can be used, or modified to use, but the eight-legged essay can not necessarily be used directly, each eight-legged essay is a proposition, although the title is the original text of the four books and five classics, but there are so many books and five classics, they do not know the title is that. If you are lucky and the topic overlaps with the ones you remember, you are in good hands, but if the topic is different, then it’s all for naught.
In modern times, I was studying the ancient Chinese language, but let myself write an eight-legged essay, it is also never written, modern times are critical of the eight-legged essay, the school never taught how to write, and I do not know how to use the brush ah.
All in all, into the school is still very necessary.
Uh, it seems that the private school in Upper River Village is located on the short hill not far from the border with Lower River Village.
The hillside is rich in water and grass, so why don’t we go there to graze the cows?
