A chest is worth a fortune,

Found in a sink.

There's also a new flag in there,

Adorned with some scary patterns.

The light singing, like a yellow warbler singing gracefully, flies on the cruise ship, accompanied by the cruise ship, riding the wind and waves, and treading the waves.

It was a girl who looked like she was six or seven years old, with big eyes and tan skin, and although the girl's voice was sweet, she was obviously not concentrating on singing, because the old man who taught her next to her frowned twice - this means that the girl's song was two syllables wrong.

After the girl finished singing, she lowered her head and fiddled with the corners of her clothes, waiting for the old man to count, the old man coughed a few times, and said: "Merida, you have to remember that music and dance are the soul of our gypsies...... The old man was ready to talk endlessly, but an old woman dressed like a witch came over next to her, rubbed Merida's head affectionately, and said, "Okay, okay, those words of yours, let's talk about them next time." Merida, like a bird, go out and play. ”

Merida raised her head, winked at the old man, and flew out briskly like a bird.

Hopefully, it's still too late! Merida said secretly in her heart.

From the third class to the deck, there was a flight of stairs, and Merida was running in a hurry, when she suddenly heard a singing voice:

"The school is open today, and I wake up early in the morning.

The classmates are still full of people and greet each other attentively.

The national flag is fluttering in five colors, and the rising sun is taking pictures.

The faster progress progresses, the more knowledge increases. ”

Hearing the singing, Merida was stunned: Haha, it really came in time!

A few steps onto the deck of the cruise ship, Merida saw the Qing children standing in the old place, singing.

Merida saw these Qingguo children by chance, they were very interesting, one looked a little bigger, always looked like a little adult, teaching the other two children to memorize some words they didn't understand; After saying this, he would take out some sand and let the two children draw on it, and draw and draw, and at noon they would give each person a piece of paper, and on both sides of the front and back they would draw something like firewood, but only the little adult-like child would draw better.

Carrying things and drawing, Merida will not be interested, just like grandpa said, the life of a gypsy is music and dance! Merida was interested in this little adult, who would teach the two children to sing every morning and evening, and Merida knew some Qing Mandarin and knew what they were singing. The tune sounded much more interesting than the old-fashioned ballads that her grandfather had taught her.

Merida leaned over quietly, and when the little adult saw her coming, he just glanced at her, and went on with his lecture; The children listening to the class at the bottom, one of them was already serious, standing solemnly listening to the class, and did not look around at all; When one saw her coming, he winked at her; Merida also stuck out her tongue and grimaced.

Merida came over in the past few days, morning and evening, and she already knew that the boy who looked like a reading seed was named Xiaoru, and the naughty one was called Xinru.

The little adult smiled when he saw Merida's grimace, revealing his white teeth. Turning his head, he began to take his lesson.

The three of them bowed together to the east, and then stood up, solemnly.

"You can't do without Hongyi, there is a long way to go!" The little adult said with a glance.

"You can't do without Hongyi, there is a long way to go!" The two children also said with a straight look.

"What I taught you today is 'The First Ambition of a Man', written by a man named Shen Xingong, I will sing it first, you listen," so he sang:

"A man's first ambition is high, and he might as well be young

The elder brother and younger brother were invited to do military exercises

The officer picked up the command knife and discharged the gun

The red flag fluttered on one side, and the copper drum was pounding

Exercise again and again, exercise every day until your body is good

In the future, the boy will be highly motivated to contribute to the country."

After singing, he began to teach the two children, Merida also hummed softly on the side, followed along, the tune is very simple, the lyrics are also very simple, after a while, a few people will be, the little adult began to teach those children to say poetry, Merida felt so boring, saw those people in Japanese clothes come over to relay, so she went to play by herself.

Those Qing children were Zhu Qiu and his two cousins: Fang Xiaoru and Fang Xinru. On that day, a few people traveled to the wharf, and it happened that a British cruise ship was going to San Francisco, passing through Hawaii, so they bought tickets and boarded the ship and left Yuezhou.

Although the Fang family was stolen some property by some ignorant servants, the Fang family was called the richest man in the party, and he had a lot of savings buried in a secret place, just in case. Therefore, Fang Wanrong and his party, although down, but not down, on the contrary, the rich at hand is very rich, and they bought four first-class tickets at once, Liu Fang and a group of children, Zhu Qiu and Fang Xinru Fang Xiaoru, Xu Ma and Mingkong Monk have a room. Originally, Fang Wanrong had no opinion on such an arrangement, but Zhu Qiu had an objection.

Zhu Qiu insisted on living in the third-class cabin with his two cousins, for no other reason, just to follow the old story of King Yue Goujian's lying down and tasting courage, but as soon as they went, Fang Liu and the others were not at ease, and after several discussions, the monk Mingkong persuaded Fang Wanrong, and agreed to Zhu Qiu's wishes, bought a ticket for a third-class four-person apartment, and ordered Xu Ma and the two to take turns to accompany them, Fang Wanrong agreed.

Its actual effect imitates the Yue King Goujian Yunyun, although there is this reason, but Zhu Qiu's true intention is not on it. Before Zhu Qiu got on the boat, he saw those people from a distance discussing entering the third-class cabin, and he intended to approach it in his heart, but whether it could really be the same as he thought, it depended on the heavens, and whether he would give this luck.

Zhu Qiu gets up early every day to take on the duties of the eldest brother and educate the two younger brothers. Originally, my mother wanted to invite Mingkong to do enlightenment, but Mingkong insisted on resigning, and second, Zhu Qiu handed over the secret book of the Purple Emperor to Mingkong for research, and Mingkong no longer had time and energy.

Although Zhu Qiu was young, after all, at the time of the Purple Emperor's trial, he had experienced the thirty-six reincarnations of the past, present and future, and he had already learned more than enough about this classic, and it was naturally more than enough to be the enlightenment of the two cousins.

On this day, the wind and the sun are beautiful, the sea and the sky are the same, the three of them asked their mother and the Liu family to say goodbye, and then went to the deck, Ma Lei was never interested in this scripture, so he naturally went to the side to fight boxing and practice martial arts, but Xu Xilin, leaning on the railing on the side every day, happily watching Zhu Qiu teach his younger brothers.

Speaking of which, Xu Xilin at this time, although he was the chief helmsman of Hongmen, he also had an official position in the Qing Dynasty. The deputy superintendent of the Shaoxing Mansion School, although the official position is not large, but in Shaoxing, which is outstanding, it is an extremely respectable position. Since he is the deputy superintendent of the school and has been a teacher of scriptures, Xu Xilin is naturally no stranger to teaching, looking at Zhu Qiu's teaching of scriptures, although he is smiling and silent, he is quite appreciative of Zhu Qiu's grasp and explanation of the scriptures. As for Zhu Qiu's teaching methods, he was even more interested.

Fang Xinru and Fang Xiaoru are also very smart, it has only been four days since they got on the boat, and several people have already learned the chapter of Liren, and the scriptures are well read, and the general idea is also clear. After learning Liren today, Zhu Qiu did not continue to talk about Gongye Chang, but silently thought about the kung fu of a cup of tea, and then said to the two younger brothers:

"Now we're going to Hawaii to make a living, and the people there don't speak our Chinese, but another language—English. If you don't say it, I'm afraid there will be a lot of difficulties. Today I will begin to teach you. ”

After Zhu Qiu finished speaking, he really began to start talking about 26 letters, Xu Xilin on the side couldn't help but be extremely surprised, he could speak some Analects, for a seven-year-old Han child, it is not a particularly rare thing, Xu Xilin's hometown is located in Shaoxing, this kind of child is everywhere, and he himself is five or six years old to memorize the Analects. But how can a seven-year-old Han child be able to understand Yi? What Elder Mingkong said seems to be true, Hongmen Zhongxing may really be on this little Zhuqiu. So, Xu Xilin also cleaned up the thoughts of the visitors on the side and listened carefully.

Zhu Qiu repeated the 26 letters, and said some of the similarities and differences between the Chinese and English languages, and saw that the sun was high, took out the watch in his arms, looked at the hour, and saw that it was nearly eleven o'clock, let the two younger brothers rest for a while, and copied the words for half an hour, and then went back to the cabin to rest.

At this time, the Japanese who were listening suddenly rushed to Zhu Qiu, knelt on the deck, kowtowed, and said, "Please take us in and teach us the classics!" ”

Zhu Qiu stopped, Xu Xilin on the side also stopped, protected the Fang family brothers behind him, and saw that Zhu Qiu didn't speak, thinking that Zhu Qiu didn't understand Japanese, so he translated and said: "Brother Qiu, these Japanese want you to accept them and teach them the Han classics." ”

Zhu Qiu was happy at Xu Xilin, these Japanese had been listening to him for three days, Zhu Qiu didn't care, and he didn't pay much attention. At this moment, several people knelt in front of him, and Zhu Qiu carefully looked at the few Japanese kneeling at his feet: a man in the prime of life about thirty years old, wearing ordinary Japanese samurai clothes, with a sword and a wakisha stuck in his waist, and a burden tightly held in his hand. Kneeling on the ground side by side with him were three Japanese children, all dressed in single clothes, one looked a little older, about ten years old, the other was smaller, but five or six years old, and the other, also about five or six years old, looked closely, but it was clearly a girl.

It was the boy who was about ten years old who spoke, and the man in the prime of life was holding the burden of his hand, his muscles were exposed, and he didn't know whether he was nervous or humiliated.

Seeing that Zhu Qiu didn't speak, the ten-year-old child said again: "Please take us in and teach us the classics!" ”

Seeing that Zhu Qiu was still silent, the middle-aged man grabbed his burden hard, slammed his head on the deck, and said, "Ichiro Tsukahara asked Mr. to agree to Yoshio-sama's request, please!" ”

Zhu Qiu looked at Xu Xilin, Xu Xilin smiled and said nothing, Zhu Qiu said to the middle-aged man in Japanese: "The burden in your hand should be wrapped in a knife and a wakicha, right?" Take the knife out and I'll take a look. ”

After listening to this, Ichiro Tsukahara hesitated for a while, looked back at the three children, gritted his teeth, put the burden in front of him, bowed, and then opened the baggage, respectfully took out the knife from it, picked it up with both hands, and sent it to Zhu Qiu.

Zhu Qiu saw that the sword was a little taller than his stature. Zhu Qiu stretched out his hand to take it, put the tail of the knife against the deck, held the handle of the knife with his right hand, and gently pulled out some of the knife. It seems that the knife has not been cared for for a long time, and a thin layer of rust has grown on the surface of the knife. Zhu Qiu closed his eyes and gently rubbed the knife back and forth with the two fingers of his left hand, as if he was communicating with the sword soul in ancient times.

After a while, Zhu Qiu Huoran opened his eyes and said to Ichiro Tsukahara: "This is the sword of the Japanese Sword Saint Miyamoto Musashi, why is it in your hands?!" ”