Chapter 31 The Farmer Discusses Fish
"The Son of Heaven is heroic, and the article teaches Cao. Everything is inferior, but reading is high. ”
When Zhu Ping'an returned to the window of the school with a brush and a black wooden board, Sun Laoxiu was teaching children to read this poem of persuasion. It can be seen that the private school education in ancient times had a great deal of freedom, of course, this freedom refers to the freedom of the master, and the teaching can be taught according to their wishes, unlike modern education, which is still limited by the syllabus.
The Master wants to instill in the children the importance of reading, so that they can take pride in reading so that they can settle down to read.
The children below did not understand the poetry, but they also shook their heads one by one and followed the master to read word by word.
Zhu Ping'an has long memorized this poem of persuasion, and he understands better than these children the meaning of the phrase that everything is inferior only to high reading. I have the advantage of hundreds of years of experience in ancient times, but it is not so big, you must have no problem with a college student to take the primary school entrance examination, but after you graduate from college, let you go to the college entrance examination, can you still be confident, this is the same, the ancient imperial examination is much more difficult than the college entrance examination or something. Although I said that I saw the luck twice, but just like that, it didn't have any effect, it didn't bring any changes to myself, and I couldn't watch the luck independently.
Thinking of this, Zhu Ping'an put the black plank on the stone again, and poured the water in the bamboo tube into the groove, ready to practice calligraphy with his work, the imperial examination, calligraphy is too important, this is the first impression to the examiner, naturally it is necessary to practice diligently.
When Sun Laoxiucai was reading the poem to the students, he inadvertently saw the chubby naughty boy outside the school playing the game of watering the stones again, it was really naughty, alas, such a big child in the county should also be educated, it is really a step behind step by step.
The master sighed, and felt more and more that he had to discipline the children in the school strictly, so he led the children to read them over and over again.
Outside the window of the school, Zhu Ping'an picked up a brush and dipped it in the water, and practiced a few traditional Chinese characters he had recently learned on the black wooden board. I didn't get tired of watching my brush words twist from twisting to slowly taking shape, and my interest in practicing calligraphy was even stronger.
The day was about to pass, Zhu Ping'an saw that the time was not early, and it was time for the master to assign homework to the children, so he packed up his things, walked through the bamboo forest, led the old ox, and walked down the hill.
The old scalper has Zhu Ping'an leading out to eat grass these days, and the oil is shiny, and he also forgave Zhu Ping'an for cutting its tail hair, and affectionately licked Zhu Ping'an's little hand with his tongue.
Coming to the bottom of the hillside, Zhu Ping'an let go of the old ox and walked slowly to the river, where he went down to catch fish in a basket.
The stream is clear, and the surface of the water flows slowly into a natural tune. Barefoot, he walked to the shallow water just below his calf and lifted the basket. As soon as the hand lifted the fish basket, he heard the crackling inside, the sound of the fish tail hitting the fish basket, and the splash of water splashed on Zhu Ping'an's face.
There was a yellow catfish that was about to catch up with the thickness of his small wrist in the fish basket and flicked his tail angrily in the fish basket, and there were five or six silver carp seven or eight centimeters long in the fish basket, all of which were also jumping in the fish basket, but the exit was too small and there were barbs made of bamboo, and they were helpless.
Don't be angry, you will make your outstanding contribution to enriching our table.
Seeing that you are dancing so excitedly, then braised crucian carp, braised crucian carp is the best.
But watching these fish being caught because they were greedy for the bait in the fish basket, think about it, the reason why I have been repeatedly teased by the black-bellied little Lori, isn't it the same, it's all gluttony. However, if you think about the fragrant chicken thighs and the soft and crispy dim sum, it looks like you've been teased a few times.
I carried the fish basket, put on my shoes, took the brush and the black plank, and climbed on the back of the ox and went home.
When I got home, I was cooking dinner at home, and when I saw Zhu Ping'an coming back with this fish basket, my grandmother praised Zhu Ping'an rarely.
"Oh, this catfish is so big, it's good enough for a good meal of fish soup." The eldest aunt came out of the house and looked at it deliberately, with a smile on her face, "Well, Bi'er is awesome, I said that Bi'er must be good at herding cattle." ”
After a while, the grandmother put the fish in a basin, dripped two drops of oil and said it was to make the fish spit out mud and sand, and then led several daughters-in-law to make dinner.
Zhu Ping'an stood in front of the basin and thought about it, and just saw the eldest uncle coming out of the room, he should have heard that there was a fish, and a meat dish could be added to dinner, which made the eldest uncle, who had been vegetarian for a few days, have a happy face.
Zhu Ping'an's eyes rolled, and he trotted all the way forward, pulled the eldest uncle's sleeve, and dragged him to the basin and said.
"Uncle, you see how well the little fish swim in the basin, they are so happy." It's a child's voice.
The eldest uncle nodded disapprovingly.
"But grandmother said you like fish stew, and you're going to boil them later!"
looked at the little nephew who was almost about to cry, and then saw the younger brother-in-law Chen who was looking here after hearing the voice, this brother-in-law is a pungent person, but she can't let her think that I made Yu'er cry, otherwise there will be trouble.
"Okay, okay, don't be sad, Uncle doesn't eat fish stew."
So the uncle said perfunctorily, thinking to himself, the child's mood is a gust of wind, which will coax him, and let his mother stew the fish later, and wait for the meal to be ready, maybe he will forget, even if he remembers, no one can say anything.
"Really?" Zhu Ping'an suddenly raised his head and then ran to the stove room and said loudly, "Grandmother, grandmother!" Uncle doesn't eat stewed fish soup anymore, I caught the fish, I want to eat braised fish! ”
The uncle who was still thinking about fooling his little nephew outside was messy in the wind.
However, Zhu Ping'an still ignored his grandmother's eccentricity, although the uncle just said that he would not eat stewed fish soup, but the stewed fish soup that his grandmother still made was only stewed catfish, and the remaining six small silver carp were still braised fish, which slightly balanced Zhu Ping'an's mind.
Dinner was speechless for a while, all the fish were caught by themselves, even the braised fish was fought for by themselves, but at dinner, grandmother only gave Zhu Ping'an a bowl of catfish soup, and there was only one piece of catfish meat in it.
Six braised silver carp, one to grandfather, two to the eldest uncle, said that the eldest uncle studied hard and worked hard, in the same way, and one was given to Zhu Pingjun, so that Zhu Ping'an was speechless, Brother Jun was always slapped by the master because he slept in the school, he worked hard, and I worked hard to herd cattle. The remaining two, one was given to the fourth uncle, saying that the fourth uncle's illness was not cured, uh, I forgot to say it, today the ditch was dredged at home, and the fourth uncle was sick again, and said that he was guilty of hemorrhoids, can you believe it!!! Is catfish a good thing, the catfish soup that my grandmother gave to the fourth uncle is full of large catfish, and the fourth uncle eats it more fragrant than anyone else, and there is no.
In the other one, the grandmother divided the two halves and gave them to the third uncle and Zhu's father, and Zhu's father gave the half to Zhu Ping'an. Zhu Ping'an gnawed half of the silver carp, looking at Zhu Pingjun who was happily gnawing on two silver carp, and had a new understanding of his grandmother's eccentricity.
Next time, I grilled two fish by the river and then brought the rest back, and I didn't have to eat the fish if I didn't save it.
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