Chapter 115: A Hundred Years of Education
Lao Zheng is a distant relative of Zheng Zuliang's family, and he can be regarded as a relative, and he has been a servant in their Zheng family for decades. He has seen a lot of what kind of guests he has ushered in, but like Liang Chuan, not only is the master polite, but even the young master's dog temper is so polite to him, that is not.
The young man in the sedan chair he had seen, this time for the second time. Anyone with a bit of status and status will not take a second look at an old man like him, and this young man will make him feel like a spring breeze. It stands to reason that such a young talent should have a bit of stature status, so that the old man will look up to him, but the sedan chair entered the mud pit of He Lu, and several cars even stepped on him in the mud, not to mention, the road was also bumpy, and he was quite guilty when he walked down.
Liang Chuan is not a delicate person, he is also embarrassed to sit in it by himself, let a few people suffer outside, and he wants to get off the sedan chair and walk back by himself. Lao Zheng didn't agree, the master had ordered, but it was not delivered to the door, then they couldn't go back, their master's words were the Chrysostom Jade Order, and he threw the lord's guests back, it wasn't a deception!
In the small mountain village, the children have never seen the big sedan chair, five or six children see the strangeness, wearing open pants with snot, chasing behind the sedan chair, happily singing nursery rhymes: "The groom official, sitting in the sedan chair, came to the small village of Helu, and lifted the butt and two rats. ”
Liang Chuan can be seen that He Lu's poverty is deeply experienced by even their local children. Lao Zheng drove the children, not wanting this group of little monkeys to follow around behind the buttocks, but the children love to play, and if you chase him, he sticks it up again, like kraft candy.
Fan Dianyuan sat on the ground, the green grass stems on the reddish red soil would not completely wither and yellow all year round, at most they would be slightly yellow, but the grass leaves were still blue and faint. Unlike them in northern Shaanxi, unlike them in northern Shaanxi, there is a decaying gray and yellow everywhere all year round. In the field, as long as you are willing to work, how can you starve to death, he pulled a grass stalk and put it in his mouth, looking at the children on the road chasing the sedan chair, and more than a dozen of them fled from the field to talk and laugh, and there were thousands of emotions in his heart.
Yesterday on Chinese New Year's Eve, the eldest lady brought Lao Cai to visit them and brought a bag of white flowers of rice to each of their families. This rice is so fragrant, it turns out that when a group of people went to the south, they were worried that they would not be able to eat the rice in the south, but they didn't expect the taste of this snow-white rice to be so fragrant! In my hometown, I can't get food in the field, or I am starving, so I can get one or two black buns to eat, and I can swallow them with water, just hope that my stomach will not be uncomfortable.
I really have a good fate, I met such a good owner in the south, she is still a little girl, she is beautiful and kind-hearted, just like a female bodhisattva, she gives her a group of hard-working people to eat and live, and now she is whipping him with a donkey whip to let them go back to their hometown, and they will not go back.
The farm work in the field is to be tired and panicked when the seedlings are planted in the first few days, but at that time, I just worked for the eldest lady, and the eldest lady can see it when she is tired! The sugarcane ridge should be repeatedly ditched several times, the soil in the field should be ploughed finely, and the mud and water in the seedling pit should be broken before the seedlings are planted, and the rotten farm manure should be watered. I don't know who taught the young man He Lu such a tossing method, he has never heard of such a serving method in his whole life. Now that the sugarcane seedlings have been planted, it is much more leisurely. If the sugarcane seedlings in the land do not grow fat or strong, then is there any reason for heaven?
He had never eaten sugar cane, and he had heard the dolls say that this thing was sweeter, sweeter than the honey and water on the mountain! He didn't dare to secretly gnaw and eat the expensive cane seedlings of the young lady of the owner like the dolls, because the dolls were ignorant and greedy. Recruit work for others and then eat other people's seedlings, that is not a mouse in a rice tank! The eldest lady values this sugarcane field so much, and she has to help others do things well if she inherits the kindness of others, otherwise she will be sorry for the conscience of heaven and earth!
A group of children chased Liang Chuan's sedan chair until they reached the door of He's ancestral hall. Originally, there were only a few children in twos and threes, but later the whole village was recruited by laughter and singing folk songs. It alarmed the entire He Lu again, thinking that someone had a big person or a happy event, such a big pomp, I haven't seen such a scene for some years.
In recent months, the people of He Lu have seen that this He Lu seems to have become different, first a large area of land has been developed, and then someone's family has begun to build big houses, and then there are officials in sedan chairs who come to their He Lu Village. It's a hell of a ghost when this small village in the ravine became so vibrant.
Most of the children are shabby, unkempt, with big snot bubbles hanging on their noses, and many children don't even have a decent pair of pants, and chase after the crowd with bare buttocks, from three-year-olds to eight- and nine-year-olds. They didn't know who was sitting in the sedan chair, but they knew that it must be a beautiful girl or a big man, and they looked forward to it like a child who had been to a zoo for the first time. followed to the He ancestral hall to see what the people in the sedan chair looked like.
When he arrived at the entrance of the ancestral hall, Liang Chuan walked down from the sedan chair. A group of children don't seem to be big officials or official ladies in gorgeous clothes, Liang Chuan looks like an ordinary peasant, and he wears the same burlap clothes as his father at home.
Liang Chuan didn't expect that he would sit in a sedan chair, and there were so many children next to him to open the way for him, happy.
He Baozheng was coming back from the field, his feet were still covered with red mud, he was wondering what kind of big man came to Liang Chuan, and he was only looking for this posterity, and the entire He Lu now has such a ability to make Fengshan's Xinghua characters come to him.
Looking at it from a distance, it turned out to be Liang Chuan who came down from the sedan chair! He Baozheng walked over and patted Liang Chuan from behind, startling Liang Chuan. He Baozheng teased Liang Chuan and said: "What kind of moth are you kidding, now the party is so big, you have to get a sedan chair to sit in and out, it will cost a lot of money." ”
Liang Chuan knew that He Bao was teasing himself, rubbed his hands, and said with a smile: "This sedan chair is so uncomfortable, I trembled so much that I was about to vomit." It's not me rented, it's a friend's house, and he insists on sending me back, I don't have that spare money, I have to have that kind of kung fu, I'd rather buy some wine and meat to eat. ”
"I guess you're not such a particular person, this person, it's easy to go from simple to luxurious, it's difficult to go from luxury to simple, you are a good posterity, these things that talk about pomp and circumstance are still less touched, and the family business is saved, listen to my old man."
"Yo, I've been taught such a big impression today. Hey, did you see that just now? Liang Chuan pointed to the large group of children and said, "Who are these children, so many, are you afraid of being abducted and sold outside?" ”
Trafficking? He Baozheng was stunned for a moment, looked at Liang Chuan like a fool, and said, "Abduction and trafficking of children? That is, you can figure out that the peasant family does not have enough to eat, but there are many children, and I wish that other people's families wanted to take a few to raise, who would do this? ”
Liang Chuan forgot that there are really many children in this society now, where is there any family planning caused by the phenomenon of orphans, if you want a child to be raised by relatives and neighbors, except for the little girl sold to a prostitute, who would do this kind of unconscionable thing.
"There's no school in the village, it's good to read some books, and there will be a way out in the future. Rolling in the mud every day, I can only hold the shelf in the future, and the son of the shepherd will be the shepherd, so that there will be no day for generations to come out. Liang Chuan didn't laugh anymore, and said seriously.
"Heh, your Zhang Daguan's tone is getting bigger and bigger now. Study? Who doesn't want to read, but do you know how much it costs? Please Mr. don't need money, but who is a gentleman with a little status who doesn't want to go to that prosperous and rich place to be a gentleman, come to our little ditch and mess around with us? He Baozheng patted the mud on his body, found a wooden stick and scraped the mud on his feet.
"Don't say that the gentleman is willing to come, but a few families here have the money to afford to read and write. Every family has a tight life, and they don't even know where the rice will be cooked tomorrow, so there's a fart for reading? Can it be eaten as a meal? Who's going to do that thankless job? Have you read books, are literate, and know these great truths, but you can't feed your stomach first when you're hungry? ”
Liang Chuan, judging from his thinking as a modern person, He Baozheng is a thorough idea of the uselessness of reading. He shook his head, which was regarded as a denial of He Baozheng's statement, and said: "You are wrong, there is a golden house in the book, and there is a thousand golden millets in the book." It's right that you can go to the ground if you don't study, but you can read and read, and you have won a fame, and the hard life of several generations has completely changed, you don't have to face the loess and eat with your back to the sky, don't say that you can be a big official in the court, that is, you can be a secretary in the county, and it is not a trivial matter for us Helu Village! ”
He Baozheng said: "I don't know if there is a golden house in the book, I only know that it is not easy to train a doll to study. Don't think about it, I know what you said may be right, but some people are born to be mud legs, don't worry about what you shouldn't think! ”
Liang Chuan said: "Baozheng, you said yesterday that our village is getting worse and worse. I also promised you, to let the village come more and more, you look at these little dolls all day long only know how to catch grasshoppers and dig birds' nests, don't you feel distressed. You don't have to worry about what school, if not, let's use your He clan ancestral hall as a school, as for Mr. and other reading expenses, I'll find a way, I will try to let our little dolls in He Lu go to school! ”
He Baozheng's rough hands trembled a little with excitement, and he couldn't say anything in his mouth! It's not that he doesn't understand what reading means to farmers, but that life forces them to have no choice, and this young man actually told him that there is a way to solve the problem of children's reading, which is a merit, a great good deed! There was even a little flutter in his eyes, and he muttered, "There is hope, there is hope." ”