Chapter 20 Depletion of Financial Resources (I)
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It turned out that Zhao Ping saw that the situation was wrong, and immediately took out the Tai Chi boxing method, grabbed before his aunt, and used the word unloading trick to snatch the needle from Li Hanmei's hand, but she didn't expect her needle to come too fast, although she finally grabbed the needle, but she was still cut by the needle, and the blood suddenly flowed out.
My aunt couldn't help but make a sound when she saw it, and then she fainted!
When Li Hanmei saw Zhao Ping's blood, she immediately fainted softly!
Li Hanmei was carried into the bedroom by her uncle. The cook and the mother also hurriedly helped the unconscious aunt back to the bedroom.
Lang Zhong came to see it and said that the two of them were not a big problem, saying that one was tired and fainted with fear, and the other was tired and fainted with worry, and prescribed soothing medicine.
The mother asked Chun'er, only to know that Li Hanmei ran to the street to cry and was tired and was found by Chun'er, so she used the money to buy some cloth strips, and then made a cloth villain, and Zhao Ping missed it by mistake, and wrote the word "Zhao Ping" after returning home, and then hid in the firewood room to stab the villain to get angry.
After hearing this, the uncle looked at Zhao Ping, and then at Li Hanmei, who was asleep, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing deeply.
The third day is an auspicious day for the zodiac.
The prefectural school held an opening ceremony for the new students.
As soon as the morning dawned, Zhao Ping was woken up by his mother, and personally combed Zhao Ping's hair, put on a black school hat, and put on a gray shirt with a black collar and a school uniform.
In ancient China, the entrance ceremony of new students was not only a grand "opening ceremony", but also highly valued, and the "entrance ceremony" was regarded as one of the four major ceremonies of life, on a par with the coming-of-age ceremony, wedding, and funeral.
The usual "opening ceremony" includes formal dressing, bowing to the teacher, purifying hands and hearts, and opening wisdom with cinnabar.
Zhao Ping came to the Great Song Dynasty and finally experienced the ancient "opening ceremony", which was held in the temple temple.
Coming to the school, Zhao Ping received two resentful glances, that was Wang Zihe's gaze, if it weren't for Zhao Ping, he would already be a student of the Tianjia class. And Zhao Ping's birth once again broke what he thought was the first place out of ten, and made him lose a big ugly in front of everyone.
Zhao Ping is in the Tianjia class, so he has to hold an apprenticeship to Yuan Xuezheng.
Zhao Ping first bowed to the holy master Confucius, knelt on his knees, and kowtowed nine times; Then there is Mr. Yuan Tao, three kowtows.
Yuan Tao sat on the circle chair, wearing a hair crown, a skirt inside, and a cardigan on the outside, with a serious face. After paying homage to Mr., the students presented him with a six-rite bundle.
The so-called six rites are the six kinds of gifts given to the master by the disciples during the ancient worship ceremony, namely, celery, which means diligence and studiousness, and diligence; Lotus seeds, lotus seeds are bitter, meaning painstaking education; Red beans, meaning red luck; Red dates, meaning early and high school; Longan, meaning the completion of merit; Strips of dried lean meat: to express the disciple's heart.
Due to the large number of gifts and the number of people on the scene, Zhao Ping only gave a gift list on the spot, and the gift was then delivered to Mr. Wang's house.
And Wang Zihe and some students who were already county school students did not attend the opening ceremony, but only watched as spectators.
After Wang Zihe looked at Zhao Ping with resentful eyes on the side, he looked at Yuan Tao twice, and finally looked up at the blue sky in a daze.
After Zhao Parallel finished the apprenticeship ceremony, and then washed his hands in the copper basin to show that he would study wholeheartedly from now on without distractions, and finally Yuan Tao used a red pen to express his wisdom at the heart of Zhao Ping's eyebrows, and then completed the opening ceremony.
It was originally a joy to receive a good material and beauty, but on the way, Yuan Tao became frustrated after meeting colleagues and friends who were strict.
Master Strict is two years older than Yuan Tao, and he should be the same as when he was raising his family, but he had to do his best to support his family, so that people have already suffered premature aging.
Without him, the strict original Hun family was able to give birth, and after giving birth to eight children, he lived five children, but all of them were daughters.
In this era of unfilial piety and no queen, in order to let the Yan family's incense continue, he took the initiative to give him a concubine, and this concubine did not live up to the high expectations of the Yan family, and gave birth to three children for him, and all of them were sons, and now the three sons are twelve years old, ten years old, and eight years old.
This was nothing in the past, it was easy to feed a family, and the Great Song Dynasty had always been very generous to literati, but unfortunately that was before.
Now in order to fight against the Hu people, the imperial court has lost a lot of money every year, and has to overdistribute the huizi.
Due to the indiscriminate distribution of Huizi, the price of goods has depreciated by at least three times.
Now it is still the original amount, but unfortunately it has changed from copper coins to huizi, so that it strictly has to copy books to support the family.
Now the three sons are crazy to grow their bodies, and they rarely even eat cheap meat every month, which is difficult to compare in the past.
Yuan Tao not only often gave him a strict master, but also often introduced him to the business of writing and copying books, but now the printing industry in the Great Song Dynasty is extremely developed, and even the candidates for the imperial examination can bring the printed small notes into the examination room, making the strict "business bleak".
Seeing that his friend's life was so difficult, Yuan Tao didn't feel good in his heart, and now he was powerless when he wanted to help him.
Because now the county school has been going on for three months, Yuan Tao still has to deal with the chattering Hun family at home.
Who knew that Yuan Tao returned to his small courtyard at night, and the Hun family, who had always been angry at him recently, suddenly took the initiative to greet him, and after taking his coat, he bent down and lowered his head to change his shoes, saying: "The officials have worked hard." ”
Yuan Tao felt inexplicable, could it be that the sun came out of the west?
After Yuan Tao skipped it, he suddenly found that there seemed to be a faint fragrance on the Hun family, and he couldn't help asking, "What kind of incense powder did you use?" ”
As soon as the Hun family looked up, he even wiped rouge on his face, and under the light, he also had the taste of.
She asked in a soft, shy voice, "The slave family asked you to guess." ”
Not even saying that he was old, Yuan Tao felt as if he was ten years younger, and some monkeys hurriedly helped the Hun family to the bedroom.
After the good things of the two finally passed, the Hun family said in excitement: "Official, the disciple you received today is the disciple of that family, and his family is the big family, why has this slave family named Zhao Ping never heard of it?" Guess how much he sent? ”
Speaking of which, his Hun family's voice unconsciously increased.
Yuan Tao frowned and asked softly, "What did he send?" ”
Hun Jia pinched the flesh on his waist with his hand, and then felt that this was wrong, so he even rubbed it gently, and asked lightly: "Official, does it hurt?" ”
Yuan Tao didn't seem to feel the pain on his body, and said: "I didn't look at the gift list at that time, so naturally I didn't know." What exactly was given? ”
His Hun family Yuan Qian's body trembled, grabbed his arm tightly and said, "All of the six rites are cultivated, plus 100 pieces of immortal soap, 10 immortal furnaces, and 500 immortal charcoals." ”
Yuan Tao was taken aback, and unconsciously lifted the quilt and sat up, and then slammed his fist on the bed.
The voice of the Hun family laughed and said, "What, is it too pleasantly surprised? Hurry up and cover the quilt, be careful of catching a cold, I have a cold, and now I am older, not as good as before. ”
After speaking, he pressed Yuan Tao down and gently covered him with a quilt. Yuan Tao shook his head, lifted the quilt again, sat up, and said, "Shocked is surprised, but not happy!" ”
When Yuan Qianshi heard that the tone was wrong, he also lifted the quilt and sat up, and asked, "What is just surprise or joy, you explain it clearly to the slave family." ”
Yuan Tao immediately pressed the Hun family and covered it with the quilt, and said after a long sigh: "Your body is worse." Alas, the six gifts were accepted, and the rest were returned. ”
Yuan Qian suddenly sat up again, regardless of whether he was covered with the quilt or not, and while twisting the old flesh on his waist with his hand, he cried and said, "Why did the old body marry you stupid nerd?" You have to push things out of things that no one else can dream of. This old family doesn't care anymore. Tomorrow, the old man will go back to his parents' house, and your grandson will bring it himself. ”
After saying that, he found another quilt and was about to leave in a huff.
Yuan Tao stretched out his hand and pulled it, but was dodged by Yuan Qian.
As soon as he went out, Yuan Qian suddenly turned around and said, "You can be high, you can enjoy the reputation of Qingliu, but are your friends strict?" You are helping Master Yan in private, and you are still looking for acquaintances, don't think that the old body doesn't know? ”
Yuan Tao shook his body a few times, and covered his face with the quilt and fell asleep.
Yuan Qian turned back, covered Yuan Tao with a quilt, and after thinking about it, he said, "These bundles of cultivation are not yours alone. This time, the eight people raised their hands to support your disciples, and your disciples must be very grateful, and everyone has a share. In addition, there is also a copy of the professors and academic records. ”
"Your disciple is not only literate, but also able to handle things, and all of this has been taken into account. Now, although this matter is made by the disciple, others feel that the favor is owed to you. ”
"That friend of yours, Master Yan, can give more due consideration. Alas, Master Yan is also hard, others are grandsons or even great-grandchildren, and he still works hard to copy and write to earn money, so give him five more yuan of fairy soap. That fairy soap is said to be priced at 300 wen in Changzhou and 500 wen in Chongqing, and Lin'an has been sold for a sky-high price of one or two silver. ”
"You don't want to know where the fragrance on the old body comes from, it's the fragrance of the fairy soap after use. Alas, such a sensible disciple really wants him to be his own grandaunt or granduncle. But his granddaughter or granddaughter is either married or crooked and cracked, which is difficult to see. ”
Yuan Tao also covered the quilt on the two of them, and then sighed and said after tightening the quilt: "It's a pity that the old man has always been pretentious, and he regards things as copper smells, but I didn't expect to be old and copper-smelling." ”
Yuan Qian shook his head, tapped Yuan Tao's forehead with his finger, and said angrily: "Official, have you really become a fool?" You have disciples who others envy. Only if you want literature can you have literary talent, and if you want silver, you have silver. This is a good thing that is difficult to find with lanterns and torches, and it turns into a copper stink in your mouth? ”
Yuan Tao let out a long sigh, then stopped speaking, and fell asleep unconsciously.
The next day, Wang Hai kept walking around the public room, and he didn't care about reading the official documents on the desk. The thing that the clan brother asked for was messed up, how could he have the face to see people.
Wang Hai looked at Zhao Ping's "Looking at the Sea Tide" on the table repeatedly. Changyuan" and Wang Zihe's "Crying River" poems, couldn't help but shake their heads again.
Who knows, when he was worried, Zhixue Qian Shao suddenly ran in hurriedly and shouted: "Professor, it's not good, it's not good." ”
Wang Hai was furious, flicked his sleeves, sat calmly on the circle chair, and asked in a deep voice: "Look at you like this, what kind of system have you become?" ”
After carefully looking at Qian Shao's face again, he couldn't help asking, "What's the matter with the scratches on your face?" ”