“The Son of Heaven emphasizes heroism, and writings teach children Cao. All things are inferior, but only reading is superior.”
When Zhu Pingan returned to the window of the schoolhouse with a brush and a black wooden board, old Xiucai Sun was teaching the children to read this persuasive poem. It can be seen that the ancient private school education has a great deal of freedom, of course, this freedom is the freedom of the husband and son, instruction can be completely by their will to teach, unlike modern education is still subject to the limitations of the syllabus.
The teacher wanted to instill in the children the importance of reading, so that they would take pride in their studies, and then they would be able to set their minds on their studies.
The children below did not understand the meaning of the poem, but they all bobbed their heads and followed the husband’s reading word by word.
Zhu Pingan had long memorized this poem of exhortation to study, and knew better than these children the meaning of the saying that the only thing that matters is reading. Own in the ancient times have hundreds of years of experience advantage, but it is not so great, you a college student to go to the examination is certainly no problem, but after you graduate from the university to let you go to the college entrance examination again, you can still be confident, it is the same, the ancient imperial examination but than the college entrance examination and graduate school and what is much more difficult. Although he saw the qi luck twice, but it is just like that, and there is no use, did not bring any change to himself, besides, he can not watch the qi luck on his own.
Thinking of this, Zhu Pingan once again put the black wooden board on the stone, and pour the water in the bamboo tube into the groove, ready to practice calligraphy, the imperial examination, calligraphy is too important, this is the first impression to the examiner, naturally, you have to practice diligently.
Sun old showman in the students to lead the reading of persuasive poetry, inadvertently saw the school outside the chubby urchin again in the game of watering the stone, really naughty, alas, in the county so big children should be monks learning it, really a step behind step behind ah.
Husbandman sighed, more and more feel the need to put these children in the school of strict discipline up, so again led the children read up again and again.
Outside the window of the academy Zhu Pingan, picked up a brush and dipped it in water, practicing the few traditional Chinese characters he had recently learned on the black wooden board. He was not tired of practicing, and as he watched his brushstrokes go from being twisted and turned to slowly taking shape, his interest in practicing the characters grew even stronger.
As the day was about to pass, Zhu Pingan saw that it was getting late, and it was time for the teacher to give the children their homework, so he packed up his things, walked through the bamboo forest, took the old yellow ox, and walked down the hill.
The old yellow cow has been led out to graze by Zhu Ping
The old yellow cow had Zhu Pingan leading it out to graze these days, and with its shiny coat, it also forgave Zhu Pingan for cutting its tail hair, and licked Zhu Pingan’s hand with its tongue intimately.
Arriving at the bottom of the hill, Zhu Pingan let go of the old yellow ox and walked slowly to the river where he had caught fish in his own basket.
The stream was clear and the water slowly flowed to a natural tune. With bare feet, he walked to the shallow water just below his legs and lifted the fish basket. Hands only to lift the fish basket, heard inside the crackling, fish tail knocking the sound of the fish basket, water splash Zhu Pingan face.
Inside the fish basket, there is a tail of yellow catfish that is almost as thick as his own wrist in the fish basket angrily fluttering his tail, there are five or six chubs in the fish basket that are seven or eight centimeters long, also in the fish basket jumping and jumping, but the exit is too and there are barbs made of bamboo, and there is nothing they can do about it.
Don’t be angry, you will make your outstanding contribution to enriching our family’s table.
Seeing that you are so excited about jumping, then let’s braise it, braised crucian carp is the most delicious.
However, looking at these fish being captured because of their greed for the bait in the fish trap, thinking about it, wouldn’t it be the same reason why I have been repeatedly teased by the abdominal black loli, it’s all because of greed. However, thinking about the fragrant chicken legs, soft and crispy heart, it seems that he was teased a few times is not bad ah.
Lift the fish basket, put on the shoes, the brush and black wooden board with good, climbed on the back of the ox to go home also.
Back home, the family is cooking dinner, see Zhu Pingan carry this basket of fish back, grandmother rare praise Zhu Pingan a meal.
“Aiya, this catfish is really big, enough for a good fish soup.” Great aunt came out of the house to take a special look, with a smile on her face, “En, swine child is great, I’m sure swine child is good at herding cows.”
After a while, grandmother put the fish into a basin, dripping two drops of oil to let the fish spit out the mud, and then led a few daughters-in-law to work on dinner.
Zhu Pingan stood in front of the basin and thought about it, just in time to see his great-uncle come out of the room, he should have heard that there is a fish, dinner can add a meat dish, which makes the great-uncle who ate vegetarian for a few days have a happy face.
Zhu Pingan’s eyes turned, then ran all the way up, pulling his great uncle’s sleeve, dragging him to the basin and said.
“Great uncle, look how well the fish are swimming in the basin, they are so happy.” Completely in a childish tone.
Great-uncle disbelieved his head.
“But Grandmother, you like fish stew, you’ll have to cook them later!”
Looked at nephew almost about to cry out, and saw sniffing to this look at the sister-in-law Chen’s, this sister-in-law is a spicy, can not let her think that I made the swine child cry, or there will be trouble again.
“Okay, okay, don’t be sad, uncle won’t eat the fish soup.”
So uncle on the perfunctory said, thought, the child well mood is a breeze, this will coax him to live, later let the mother or fish stewed, later when the meal is ready, may not he forgot, even if you want to come up, who can not what.
“Really?” Zhu Pingan suddenly raised his head then ran to the stove room and said loudly, “Grandmother, grandmother! Big uncle won’t eat the fish soup stew, I caught the fish, I want to eat braised!”
Outside, the eldest uncle, who was still thinking of fooling his nephew, was confused in the wind.
But Zhu Pingan still ignored the degree of eccentricity of the grandmother, despite the fact that the eldest uncle just had not eat the fish stew anymore, but the grandmother still made the fish stew …… The good thing is that it is only the catfish that is stewed, and the remaining six chubs are still made of braised fish, slightly allowing Zhu Pingan to balance his psyche a bit.
Dinner a breathless, all the fish are their own catch, even braised fish are their own fight, the result of the dinner grandmother only gave Zhu Pingan share a bowl of catfish soup, which is only a piece of catfish meat.
Six braised chubs, one to the grandfather, two to the eldest uncle, it is the eldest uncle study fee brain hard, the same way, there is one to Zhu Pingjun, let Zhu Pingan is very speechless, Jun in the school always because of sleep by the teacher beat the palm of the hand, where he worked hard, I herding cows is hard, OK. The remaining two, one to the fourth uncle, the fourth uncle is not well, uh, forgot, today the family dredging ditch, the fourth uncle once again sick, and is hemorrhoids committed, you dare to believe ！！！！ Catfish is a hair product, okay? Grandma gave Uncle 4 catfish soup with big chunks of catfish, and Uncle 4 ate it better than anyone else, and nothing happened to him.
The other one, grandmother separated two halves and gave it to the third uncle and Zhu father, Zhu father gave that half to Zhu Pingan. Zhu Pingan nibbled on the half chub and looked at Zhu Pingjun who was happily nibbling on the two chubs, and had a newer understanding of the extent of his grandmother’s favoritism.
Next time, he would grill two fish by the river himself before bringing the rest back, so as not to have to eat the fish even if he took them back.
