Chapter 240: My Grandfather
"Honey, let's plant a cash cow here. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Bingyu said, pointing to the place under her feet
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This is the only passage to the wilderness of the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also the south gate of the capital, where countless people come and go every day, choose to plant a cash cow here - enough to swagger!
Qing Xuan thought about it and replied, "Okay, the lady likes it, let's plant it here." ”
He took the cash tree sapling out of his bosom and carefully buried it in the ground. Every twenty minutes, they water the sapling, apply fertilizer, and wait quietly for it to grow. After about half an hour, they were amazed to find that the little sapling was growing as fast as if it were blowing! They continued to water the tree, fertilize it, catch insects and ......, and this time, the tree lived up to expectations and bloomed.
They waited and waited, and finally, under each flower, there was a bunch of fruits like copper coins. The fruit shook and shook in the wind, like strings of wind chimes. Qing Xuan hugged the trunk of the tree and shook it gently, and the fruit fell. As soon as the fruit landed, it immediately turned into a silver ingot with white flowers and heavy flowers!
"Money, pick it up, our money ......" Bing Yu stretched out his hand and shook it in the air, shouting in a low voice.
Qing Xuan, who was lying on the side, pushed her hard: "Lady, wake up......"
Bing Yu woke up from her sleep and found that it was a dream, so she said angrily: "Look at you, why are you waking me up, I was about to pick up money." ”
"You want to get rich and want to go crazy, you can dream of picking up money in your dreams." Qing Xuan patted her head and laughed at her.
"Well, I dreamed that we planted a fortune tree, and then a lot of silver fell from under the tree, and I was about to pick it up, but you woke me up." Bing Yu said with regret.
"It's not easy to plant a cash cow, I'll take you to plant it in two days." Qing Xuan stretched his waist and prepared to go down to the ground to put on his shoes.
"The saplings of the cash cow are so expensive, one costs 100,000 taels!" Bingyu pursed her lips. asked her to pay 100,000 taels to buy a sapling, she was really distressed.
"Scarcity is expensive. It's not a good thing, that's why it's so expensive. ”
Qing Xuan stomped his shoes and went to the ground, opened the curtains, and there was a white scene in front of him.
"When is it snowing...... he exclaimed, "come and see, what a beautiful view." ”
Bing Yu put on her clothes and came over, her black hair scattered behind her head, more than a foot long. A snow-white neck peeked out from the collar, and the skin on the neck was as smooth as the snow outside the window.
She has an oval face and bright eyes. A temperament that radiates from the inside out, giving people a sense of nobility and inviolability.
"It's snowing." She looked out the window, on the walls of the courtyard, on the ground, everywhere covered with white snow.
Outside the wall, the branches of the half-exposed apricot tree were covered with beautiful tree hangings.
"You know what? In my hometown, whenever there was a heavy snowfall, the people in my village would go up to the mountains to catch game, pheasants, hares, and what they saw.
My grandfather had a shotgun, and when it snowed, he would carry it up the hill on his back, and when he came down, he would bring back some roe deer, pheasants, and so on.
Once he took me up the mountain, and you know how thick the snow is on the mountain? Not up to my knees! My grandfather and I split up. At that time, I noticed a series of footprints on the snow, because it had just snowed, and there were not many people walking on the snow, so the footprints of the animals were clear. I don't know what animal left it, but I followed the footprints one foot deeper and one foot shallow. When the footprints were gone, I reached out there and touched it, good fellow, I thought I had touched a rabbit. When I picked it up, I guess what, it was a mouse! ”
"Hahahaha......" she covered her mouth, almost laughing.
"When I was young, when the fruit was ripe in the fall, I went out with a sack on my back. When you come back in the evening, make sure to come back with a bag of fruit. When my mother saw this, she beat me with a stick. Hehe, I don't know how many sticks were discounted. She's really good at it.
At that time, I didn't realize that stealing people's things was shameful, I just thought it was fun. A big bag full of fruits, what a sense of accomplishment. ”
"I'm so grateful to my mom, I don't know what I'd be like today if it wasn't for her. Although I hated her so much at the time. ”
When he said this, his eyes kept looking out the window, as if he were talking to her, and as if he were talking to himself. Those pasts, the pasts that played an important role in his upbringing, are in his eyes today's rare treasures, worthy of his cherishing.
Bingyu looked at the man's back, and after listening to the story of his childhood, she felt that she loved him even more. When they first met, she treated him as a child, bent on protecting him and wanting to be his god. Now, she suddenly found that she needed a day even more, and that day happened to be him who had grown up.
Yes, he grew up, just in an instant, he grew from a willful child to a man who knows how to be grateful and willing to take responsibility. She felt that she could finally get rid of the pretense of being strong on weekdays, and then, be a gentle little woman wholeheartedly.
"Lend me your shoulder." She said softly.
"Huh? Uh-yes. He leaned over and rested her head on his shoulder. This little woman is the one he will protect in the future, he said in his heart. There was no grandiose rhetoric, he just put her in his heart.
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The sky warmed up little by little, the snow on the ground gradually melted, and the apricot tree in front of the mansion of Qingxuan's family also began to bloom, growing bigger and bigger, just waiting for the spring rain to call, and the flowers and branches immediately trembled.
Qing Xuan pushed open the window, and the fresh air rushed in his face, diluting the turbid gas in the room a lot. The flower and bird screen in the living room also seemed to be affected by the air, and for a while it seemed extraordinarily energetic, as if the birds on the screen were about to spread their wings and fly.
Bingyu brought breakfast to the table, which was sweet potato porridge, scallion pancakes, sweet and sour radish skin, and boiled eggs. She served the porridge and called him over to eat. Because the broad beans were too hard, and the teeth of the two of them were not very good, the broad beans were left to the housekeeper and the servant. This stuff happens to be their favorite food.
Qing Xuan sat down at the table, picked up the porridge and drank two sips, where Bing Yu was peeling egg shells.
"Yesterday I went to the street and found that there were a lot of outsiders in the capital. Most of them are dressed as scholars, and they are very open-mouthed, and almost all the academies and inns in the capital are filled with them. Qing Xuan swallowed a mouthful of porridge and said.
"I think they are probably candidates sent by the state and county libraries to take the examination, and it seems that this year's imperial examination will be very lively again." Qing Xuan glanced at the egg that Bing Yu had peeled in his hand.
Bing Yu threw the egg into his porridge bowl and said, "Yes, even I want to join in the fun." ”
"Really? If you want to go, then let's go and sign up, anyway, it is said that the exam will have to wait for a few days, we will go to the township test first, and then we can participate in the exam after passing. Qing Xuan watched the egg fly into his bowl, and his mood was extremely comfortable.
"I don't know where to sign up?" Bingyu pursed her lips and began to peel the second egg.
Qing Xuan bit the scallion pancake, and the oil on the pancake smeared his lips shiny, "I know, just go to Jianye City." After eating in a while, we went there to sign up. The radish skin in his mouth creaked with a bite.
"Hmm."
Hearing that she could go to Jianye to sign up, Bingyu was overjoyed, and had breakfast haphazardly, and the two went to Jianye City to sign up together.
The official in charge of registration in Jianye City registered the names of the two of them and said, "I remember that the exam will be held here ten days later." If it expires, you'll have to wait until next year. ”
Bing Yu looked at the official, although his expression was serious, but his heart should be very good. If I hadn't reminded them like that, I couldn't help but feel a lot warmer in my heart.
The exam is coming up in ten days, so I have to hurry up and find a book to read.
Where to find books? Bing Yu looked at the bookcase at home, there was only a "Book of Songs", a "Historical Records", and then an atlas of "The Art of the Craftsman", but it is said that the exam questions include so many books such as astronomy, geography, Buddhist etiquette, music, cards, chess, music, wine, Chinese medicine, ancient crafts, calligraphy and painting art, ancient common sense, poetry couplets, etc., where to borrow them for a while.
In modern times, there are libraries and the Internet, and you can find any book you want to read. But this is in the Tang Dynasty, where is there any library? Even if there are academies or libraries in various places, they are also borrowed from internal students, so how can they be lent to an outsider casually?
Bing Yu was in a hurry, and Qing Xuan said, "Otherwise, I'll go to my master's place to have a look, even if he doesn't have it there, he can borrow it for me." ”
"Well, that's a way to do that, too."
Qing Xuan went to Cheng Biting Jin's mansion on the front foot, and Bing Yu thought here, it was better to go to the gang and see if there were any books that could be used in the study there.
The two went their separate ways.
In the evening, the two of them entered the house with their front and back feet, and the housekeeper saw that the young master and the young master's wife had come in with a pile of books, and hurriedly called the maid to come and help. The maid was clumsy and accidentally knocked off two bundles of bamboo slips, Bingyu said distressedly: "Be careful, be careful, this is a borrowed book, and it is difficult to compensate if it is damaged." ”
There were more than 20 books in total, and they were piled up like a hill on the table in the study.
This time, in addition to eating and sleeping, the two of them spent all their time chewing books. Ten days, more than 20 books, an average of more than two books a day. The books are so thick, and they are all ancient characters, and it is a headache to look at. Even going through it from front to back can take a lot of time, not to mention that you have to remember that the melon is ripe?
Fortunately, Bingyu usually read the "Book of Songs", "Historical Records", "Three Character Classic", "Disciple Rules" in the unit, in which she has encountered a lot of ancient characters, she has found the pronunciation and explanation on the Internet through the handwriting input method, which undoubtedly played a very big role in her reading these classical books.
"The 'Refuge in the Three Jewels' is the first lesson in becoming a true Buddhist. Bingyu held a copy of the "Buddhist Sutra" and asked Qing Xuan, who was sitting opposite her.
Asking each other questions in this way is stronger than simply memorizing them by yourself.
"Buddha, Dharma, Sangha." Qing Xuan didn't raise his eyelids, he was reading "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", which happened to turn to the chapter on the "Four Qi" of Chinese herbal medicine, saying that Chinese herbal medicine is divided into four qi according to its medicinal properties, which are cold, hot, warm and cool.
Here hot drugs such as: cinnamon, cloves, cumin, ......; Cold drugs such as: dandelion, diding, banyan root, ......; Warm drugs such as: green onion, ginger, ephedra, ......; Cooling drugs such as: peppermint, burdock, chrysanthemum......
"Let me ask you, what are the medicinal properties of dandelion? What are the indications? Qing Xuan raised his eyelids and asked.
Qing Xuan had a round face, his eyes were as big as a little swallow in Huanzhu Gegli, and he was always watery, and his small nose and mouth were almost the same as those two eyes. Bing Yu likes to look at his eyes the most.
Now, after her pair of phoenix eyes met his eyes like a pool of lake water, she felt that she was falling straight down, and she was about to fall to the bottom of the lake all of a sudden.