Chapter 19: The Dogs
It turned out to be a boy of seven or eight years old, wearing a fat and large garment, with patches falling and a wide strip of cloth wrapped around his waist, and the large clothes were firmly fastened to his body.
Look closely at the hair is meticulously combed, the face is clean, and a pair of black eyes reveal an aura, which attracts love. Qing'er saw that he was a child, and he was born smart and cute, so he immediately relaxed and said with a smile: "What, you also like this book?" ”
The child first dodged back timidly, and immediately came up when he heard Qing'er ask, and said excitedly: "I like books if they are books!" ”
Qing'er didn't realize it when she heard it, it turned out to be a little bookworm!
couldn't help but smile and teased him: "This book is neither a story, nor a literary brilliance, just a book about some common sense of life, what is there to read?" ”
The child glanced at Qing'er and said proudly: "It turns out that you don't understand anything!" Books are useful, there are those who read to kill time, and those who read to increase knowledge and wisdom, but if you only read the former, then you will not grow! ”
The child said adult words in his mouth, Qing'er couldn't help laughing, and was about to continue teasing him, but saw the child sit up straight suddenly, and disappeared like a rabbit.
Qing'er smiled and shook her head, and was about to continue reading, but saw a little fat man running at the entrance of the alley, followed by a domestic servant, and the two ran in the direction of the little bookworm. Qing'er couldn't help frowning, thinking that Yun Niang wouldn't be able to come back for a while, so she simply chased in that direction.
In the distance, I heard only a child's voice, panting and scolding: "Dog, you thief, this time you have stolen money!" I'm going to take you to the yamen and accuse you of stealing my books!" ”
The dog was getting up from the ground, not dusting off his dirt, but hurriedly holding a book on the ground in his arms, crying, "I didn't steal!" The last time I helped you write your homework, you promised me, as long as you write well, you will lend me ten days! ”
"Hmph, Mr. hit my palm, why should I borrow it from you?" The little fat man put his hand under the dog's nose, shook the red, swollen and shiny palm and shouted, "Ten ring rulers, it hurts me to death!" It's all because of you! ”
As he spoke, he came up to grab the book, and the dog held the book tightly with his arms, bent over, and asked while hiding around, "Where did I write badly?" What did the gentleman say? ”
"Hmph, it's just that it's so well written, it's not like it came from my hand! You just stumbled me in front of my husband, and this time I have to teach you a good lesson. The little fat man stopped grabbing books, and suddenly turned back to the servant and said, "Call me!" ”
Qing'er saw that it was a child quarreling, and she didn't want to get involved, but she saw the servant striding in front of the dog, picking up the dog and falling to the ground, raising her leg and kicking it.
Qing'er immediately became furious, rushed over and hit the back of the servant's neck with her elbow, and the man shook twice and fainted to the ground. Qing'er hurriedly turned around to scold the little fat man, but he was nowhere to be found.
At this time, the dog picked up the book on the ground, dusted the floating soil and put it in his arms, pulled up Qing'er and ran.
Qing'er was led by him to turn around for an unknown number of turns, and finally stopped in a very prosperous place, the dog let go of his hand and said to Qing'er's hand: "It's safe here!" Rest assured, he doesn't dare to go wild here. ”
Qing'er smiled: "What kind of great book, worthy of being beaten?" ”
The dog carefully took it out, and Qing'er couldn't help but be stunned when she looked at it, it was actually this "University"! Shaking his head and laughing: "This book is also worth grabbing?" Don't you gentlemen teach? ”
The dog's expression was gloomy, his mouth was curled, he glanced at Qing'er embarrassedly, turned his head and whispered, "I...... It's a remnant, and Mr. doesn't accept it! Moreover...... My family doesn't have any money. ”
"Oh? Isn't your homework well written? ”
The dog's face lit up when he heard this, and he said proudly: "I will eavesdrop whenever I have time, and those homework will not be difficult for me!" In fact, with this book, it doesn't matter if you listen to the lecture or not. I wanted to borrow ten days to memorize the book and return it to him, but now it seems that I can only copy it down and return it to him tomorrow morning, so as not to cause trouble. ”
"It should have been copied down, and it's convenient to check it when you use it."
"Paper...... Too expensive! I can't take the imperial examination, so copying it down is in vain and burdensome to my family! ”
"Cumbersome?"
The dog squirmed and said, "I'm skinny, but I'm not as strong as a nine-year-old child, I don't want me anywhere, and I can't help the family make money at all!" ”
Qing'er was shocked when she heard this, and thought that he was only seven or eight years old, and this child was too short and thin! I couldn't help but feel hidden, and said gently:
"It doesn't matter, with you being so smart, knowing more words, and then learning abacus, when you grow up, you can go to a pharmacy, a pawnshop or something to be a bookkeeper, and you don't have to use your strength."
The dog blushed, stared at Qing'er and said hatefully, "Are you deliberately humiliating me?" I'm cheap, you want to hear that, right? ”
Qing'er was stunned for a moment, and it took a long time to realize that she realized that she couldn't even do it to Mr. Accounts, hey, it seems that she can only do manual work.
sighed, looked at the dog's angry face, and said with a wry smile: "What is there to humiliate, I am also a lowly!" ”
When the dog heard this, his eyes lit up, and he grabbed Qing'er's hand excitedly and shouted, "Really? No wonder you came to save me, it turned out to be a person all the way! What's your name? How to read words? Can you teach me? Where did you get the book......
Qing'er couldn't help but smile when she saw him asking questions like a cannonball, but she didn't want to say too much. There are not many people in this small city, so don't be too ostentatious, lest the people of Guoguolou find out that they are not stupid, rub his head and smile:
"I advise you to return the book to the little fat man in a while, and don't cause trouble for the family. I'll come here tomorrow at three o'clock to bring you a few books, and I'll just be able to finish them. ”
The dog stared at the shining eyes and said excitedly, "Really? Not deceiving? That's great! I read books very quickly, and I'm careful not to get them dirty. I'll give him back the book in a moment......"
Since then, Qing'er often lends books to dogs, and he reads books very quickly, and he can memorize the whole book in ten days.
Qing'er was very impressed, and only said that she could be regarded as an endorsement, but she didn't expect that there was such a demon in this world! Yun Niang must have confused her with this kind of demon.
It is said that Yun Niang saw that Qing'er had passed the literacy barrier, and was about to give him a lecture on "The Female Commandment", but she didn't want Qing'er to shirk it again and again, so she wondered if she had no growth in learning, but unexpectedly, a few days later, she found out that she secretly watched "Historical Records" in private!
This night, Yun Niang called Qing'er to the back room and discharged several books such as "Female Commandment", "Internal Training", and "Female Fan Jielu", and asked Qing'er to choose one to read carefully. Qing'er looked at these books blankly, her eyes straightened, and she was speechless for a while.
Yun Niang seemed to have anticipated her reaction, and gushed about her righteousness, saying that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, even if she is born with talent, don't show off, you must know the truth of being clumsy...... A sentence made Qing'er drowsy.
Yun Niang saw that Qing'er was so stubborn, and she didn't feel angry and funny. After all, I thought that "Historical Records" is a serious history book, and there is no harm in reading it, and I am now in the hook column, using "The Female Commandment" to teach people, if others know it, it will be a big joke.
Thinking of this, my heart was cold, so I went with her.