The next day is the tenth day of the new year, although Mrs. Xu does not require the juniors to go to the main house every day to say goodbye, but every five and every ten days, except for Brother Yu and Shi Niang, who moved with Master Xu, the other mothers of the houseowners will take the initiative to bring their children to greet Mrs. Xu. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When Eleven Niang arrived, the two rooms of the big house had already finished saluting, so she had to go over and bow alone: "Grandmother is blessed!"

After Mrs. Xu accepted her salute, she beckoned to her and said, "Come here, sit down next to grandmother!"

Mama Yu hurriedly moved the **** pier to Mrs. Xu's right hand, but Brother Jin, who was sitting on Mrs. Xu's left, moved her little buttocks, moved her crescent stool out of half a seat, and beckoned to Eleven Niang: "Eleventh sister, here, here, here!"

Eleven Niang looked at Brother Jin who was sitting on the left, thought about it, and sat on the right.

Seeing her sit down, Brother Jin complained to her grandmother with a bitter face: "Grandmother-"

"Okay!" Mrs. Xu patted the back of his hand and comforted him: "Your eleventh sister is so old, how embarrassed to squeeze a stool with you!"

Xu Boyan, as a sister-in-law, came to greet his mother every day, and today is no exception, before Eleven Niang came, he should have gossiped with Mrs. Xu for a while, and when he saw that everyone had arrived, Xu Boyan respectfully said to his mother: "Mother, the younger generations have all arrived, I don't know if my mother can teach me today?"

Hearing this, Second Grandma Xu raised her head and glanced at Mrs. Xu, the second room has recently caused such a big bad thing to the Xu Mansion, Second Master Xu is still closed in the study, Mrs. Xu will not take this opportunity to divide the second room, right?

Today, my wife and son have nothing to do, so I want to hear what my brothers have learned recently. Mrs. Tai said with a smile.

Xu Boyan, Grandma Xu, and Second Grandma Xu should all claim to be.

Brother Jin was the first to jump out, and he shouted: "I'll come first, I'll come first, the heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate-", and recited the "Voice of the Empty Valley" in one breath.

After reciting, Brother Jin happily wanted to ask her grandmother for a reward.

Mrs. Xu asked him kindly, "Are you done memorizing?"

Brother Jin said cutely: "Mr. taught me here yesterday, I have memorized it all! Grandmother, you just said that you would reward your grandson, you can't lie to people!"

"Okay, good, reward, but grandmother just said that you have learned well, so you can be rewarded, and Brother Lang and Eleven Niang, who studied with you, haven't memorized it yet, you wait for them to memorize it and then ask for a reward!"

"Alas!" Brother Jin sat back with a bitter face, probably knowing that he would not get a prize this time.

"Brother Lang, you come!" Mrs. Xu said to him.

Brother Lang, who was named, stood up and saluted Mrs. Xu: "Grandmother, the child has only learned a thousand words, the heavens and the earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate——"

Brother Lang recited a few more paragraphs than Brother Jin, and he didn't stop until "Inch Yin is Competition", which happened to be the place where Eleven Niang carried it yesterday.

After reciting, he glanced sideways in the direction of Eleven Niang, Eleven Niang didn't see it, his eyes looked at his nose, and his nose looked at his heart.

"Yes, yes, it seems that I have worked hard, and I will reward a set of four treasures of the study. Mrs. Xu said to him.

Hearing that the prize was the four treasures of the study, Eleven Niang was depressed, if it was just this kind of prize, there was no need for her to be too jealous.

"Ahh

Mrs. Xu hit him and said, "If you don't study hard, Xu is study room and don't have the four treasures." ”

"But what the eleventh sister wants is definitely not the four treasures of the study-"

"Oh?" Mrs. Xu looked at him and asked, "Then do you know what reward Eleven Niang wants?"

"I know, I know-" Brother Jin raised his hand and said loudly: "Last time I told Sister Eleventh that there was a copy of "Chronicles of the Nine Domains of Chu State" in Daddy's study, Sister Eleventh kept saying that she wanted to read that book, and she said that the book must be better than three hundred thousand. ”

"Oh, what is three hundred thousand," Xu Boyan asked curiously.

"It's the three-character classic, the hundred-character surname, and the thousand-character text, the eleventh sister called them three hundred thousand, she said that this is a book for ignorant young children, she said that aspiring young people should also read the books of Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi, and Laozi, she said that she couldn't read it, so she wanted to see the books of the Nine Domains and Romance. Brother Jin said.

Eleven Niang stroked her forehead: Boy, don't you want to say so much!

Xu Boyan heard this and asked in surprise: "Eleven Niang, have you also read Confucius and Mencius's books?"

Eleven Niang bowed to Xu Boyan and said: "Uncle, how can my niece have such a great ability, I asked Mama Li to buy books for me, and the bookstore owner thought I was a showman for the exam, so he introduced these books to her, but when I took it back, I didn't understand anything except one or two words." ”

Xu Boyan said with a smile: "You don't have to be humble, you have only been studying for two months, and it is already very remarkable to be able to read the whole thousand-character text, the eldest master of the Fucheng family, memorized the thousand-character text in a month, but he is a rare young genius, and later he was admitted to the Jinshi, if you can memorize the thousand-character text to one hundred paragraphs today, the uncle will send you the "Chronicles of the Nine Regions of Chu State", and if you memorize it to two hundred paragraphs, you will go to the uncle's study to find it, and whatever book you like, the uncle will send it!"

"Really?" Eleven Niang's eyes lit up, although she had a little private money, but in this era, movable type printing had just become popular, but books were still very expensive, she only had 300 pieces of silver a month, and a Zhuangzi would cost 800 words, and she couldn't go out now to keep filial piety, so let Mama Li and Mama Zhou go to buy it, and what she bought was a subset of scriptures and histories, which were expensive and useless.

"Hehe, since your uncle said so, grandmother testifies to you, if he doesn't admit it then, grandmother seals his study and sends it to you. Mrs. Xu also echoed on the side.

Eleven Niang immediately began to memorize, although the thousand-character text is difficult to memorize, but fortunately, it was boring to practice words before, and after practicing, I memorized it.

When he memorized "the predicate helper, it's so good", Xu Boyan's whole person was excited, and he said a few good things, and then said regretfully: "Why are you a daughter, otherwise your achievements will not be weaker than the eldest master of your own family!"

Brother Jin cast a look of worship at Eleven Niang.

Grandma Xu and Grandma Xu both cast loving eyes on Eleven Niang.

These two aunts, I heard that they were personally selected by Mrs. Xu, although they do not have a prominent family background, but they focus on gentleness and virtue, whether they are for their children, or their concubines and concubines, they all love it the same, especially Xu Er's grandmother, Jun Ge'er, Sixth Niangzi, and Seventh Niangzi are extremely filial to them, and the aunts also respect the second grandmother very much, which makes the early summer of seeing too much Gongdou Mansion Douwen a little surprised.

Looking at the faces of the other people in the room, Eleven Niang said: "Uncle has won the award, and my niece can only memorize by rote, as for what these words mean, my niece understands as much as Brother Jin and Brother Lang." ”

Seeing what the eldest son was going to say, Mrs. Xu spoke first: "Girls, no matter how many books you read, it's in vain, and you can't participate in the imperial examination, you usually still have to learn from your grandmother to be a female red, just now your uncle said the reward, grandmother has given you a testimony, and you will go to empty his study later!"

Eleven Niang nodded yes.