Chapter 14 There is no time in the mountains, and the peaches are sold in the downtown area
"Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate. The sun and the moon are shining, and the sun and moon are shining. The cold comes and the summer comes, and the autumn harvest is hidden in winter. ......”
At the foot of Zhongshan Zhongnan, Li Changqing rested at sunrise and sunset, reading "Thousand Character Text" in the mountains and wilderness, and his voice was not in a hurry or slow.
"A Thousand Words" is the last of the enlightenment books "Three Hundred Thousand", although it is only used to teach children to read and write, but it contains astronomy, geography, nature, society, history and other aspects of knowledge.
There are some words in it, and Li Changqing has only seen them for the first time.
There is no time in the mountains, and the cold does not know the year, and a week passes in a flash.
Li Changqing finished reading "Zengguang Xianwen" and "Kindergarten Qionglin", and only the last book "Aphorisms Lianbi" remained.
As the saying goes, if you read Enrichment, you can speak, and if you read Kindergarten, you will go to the world.
"Zengguang Xianwen" seems to be disorganized on the surface, but in fact it has an internal logic.
The vast majority of the sentences come from the subset of classics and histories, poems, songs, dramas, novels, and miscellaneous notes of literati, and their ideas and concepts contain Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. It is mainly from the perspective of 'human nature and evil', expounding on interpersonal relationships, fate, how to behave in the world, and views on reading.
"No one cares about the poor in the world, but the rich have distant relatives in the mountains. ”
"There are many brothers with wine and meat, and I have never seen a person in an emergency. ”
"If you don't believe it, but look at the wine in the feast, and pay tribute to the rich first. ”
"The yamen is open, and there is no reason to come in without money"
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With a cold gaze insight into social life, the dark phenomena in many aspects are highly summarized and displayed coldly in front of readers.
After reading "Enlargement" thousands of times, Li Changqing removed the negative and extreme parts, extracted the essence of it, and formed the crystallization of his own wisdom with Confucianism as the core.
"Kindergarten Learning" is relatively easier to understand than "Zengguang", and the whole book is extensive and all-encompassing, which can be called an encyclopedia of ancient China.
Li Changqing discarded some of these views that are difficult for modern people to agree with, and based on the commentaries, he analyzed and pondered the rules and regulations, customs and etiquette, weddings and funerals, eating and drinking utensils, palace treasures, literary affairs, and Taoism, ghosts and gods, and gained a very deep understanding of ancient politics, economy, and culture.
Ten days have passed since Xu Xing's task of 'cultivating 100 acres of vegetable land with a hoe within 15 days'.
Li Changqing not only did not delay the opening of the wasteland by reading every day, but completed the progress of nine football fields in the buff bonus of the book, and only needed to complete the area the size of three football fields in the remaining five days to complete the task.
After more than a week of irrigation by Li Changqing, the three peach trees have undergone qualitative changes, and the peaches that were originally gray and not slippery have become green.
Li Changqing tasted one again, and it was very crisp in his mouth, and the sweet juice burst out in his mouth to exude a unique fragrance.
"Sure enough, a week ago it was still hard, refreshing and astringent, but now it is sweet and crisp and has a very peculiar fragrance!"
After Li Changqing ate under the peach tree, he picked some and carried them home in a bag, planning to taste them for his parents, second uncle, and red beans.
"Hey, this peach doesn't look big, it's the same as the peach in the bottom pond of our pot, but it tastes really delicious!", Liu Cui'e ate it in her mouth, and grabbed several in her hand.
"Where did you pick it?", Li Dahai ate silently, leaving peach pits all over the ground before asking with satisfaction.
"Haha, it's from our peach tree!", Li Changqing said with a smile.
"Impossible, the peaches on our peach tree have been around for more than ten years, they are bitter and astringent, and no one has ever eaten them!", Liu Cui'e said with a look of disbelief on her face.
"How can our peach tree bear such fruit, you should be a grafted variety of peach tree and plum tree, right?", Li Dahai also guessed suspiciously.
"There are a lot of trees on the trees, wait for you to pick them with me, give some to the second uncle's family, and I will take the more to the county town and sell them!"
The family's savings are used to contract the barren forest, the economy is very tight, Li Changqing doesn't even have the money to pay the phone bill, and it is still very good to earn some money by selling peaches.
"It's really strange, these peaches were gray a few days ago, but now they are greener than leaves!", Li Dahai said curiously under the peach tree.
"Old man, don't go around! I just tasted one, and I brought home a flavor with Qingwa, come and help pick it!", Liu Cui'e said to Li Dahai after eating a peach.
Li Changqing soon found that the snakeskin bag he brought was not enough, and it was already full before he even finished picking a tree.
Liu Cui'e hurriedly ran home, brought two more snakeskin bags, and finished picking peaches from a tree.
Li Changqing rode Li Dahai's motorcycle, strapped two bags of peaches, and rode for nearly two hours to reach the fruit wholesale market in the county seat.
"Although your peach looks very green, it should be a hairy peach!"
The wholesalers in the market looked at it and said, and put Li Changqing aside.
Li Changqing asked several companies in a row, but the results were all about the same, and no one was willing to accept them.
It was not easy to come to the county seat, Li Changqing didn't want to go back with two bags of peaches, so he parked his motorcycle outside the fruit wholesale market and untied the two bags of peaches.
The wholesale fruit market not only wholesales fruits, but also retails fruits, and the prices are cheaper than ordinary fruit stores, so there are many people who come to buy fruits.
Generally, no hawker would be stupid enough to sell fruit outside the wholesale fruit market, and Li Changqing's broken motorcycle and snakeskin bag are extremely conspicuous.
However, most people just glanced at Li Changqing, didn't say anything, and entered the fruit wholesale market.
"Fellow, what are you selling?", and occasionally someone came up to ask.
"Peaches!"
"Yo, your peach is greener than a leaf, is it ripe?"
"Cooked!"
"What breed?"
"It's the peach on the tree at home!"
"How much is a pound, I haven't eaten the peach at home for a long time, give me a little, miss the lost childhood!"
"Thirty!"
"What, thirty? Even if it's an ordinary fruit store, it sells for ten yuan and three catties, and the fruit wholesale market can sell for two yuan and two cents, and you sell thirty here?", the person who asked immediately turned around and left.
Li Changqing was not in a hurry or annoyed, closed his eyes and read silently in his heart.
"Hey, fellow, are you still here? No one buys the thirty yuan a pound of peaches anywhere, not to mention that this is a wholesale market?"
After the person who asked just now came out, he saw that Li Changqing was still there, and stepped forward and said kindly.
Li Changqing knew that the other party was also out of kindness, and smiled at him in return.
"Eh, let's do it, I don't think it's easy for you, three dollars a pound, give me some, how about it?"
Seeing Li Changqing's appearance, the man sighed and said.
"No, thirty yuan is already very cheap, no matter how low it is, I'll be sorry for my peaches!", Li Changqing shook his head and said.
"Aren't you a peach, why are you still so expensive, can you try one?"
"Yes!"