When the three princes in the Ciqing Palace listened to this lesson taught by Yue Shanchang and sent people away, it was already after Shen Zheng. Before he returned to the palace from the public school, it was almost noon, so he left Yue Shan to have dinner in Ciqing Palace, walked for a while after dinner, and started the afternoon class without a lunch break.

At this time, he saw off the people, he looked at the sun that had gradually turned west, and couldn't help but be a little worried about the four princes who had not yet returned. Of course, he was by no means worried about what happened to his fourth brother, but worried...... People make trouble for Zhang Shou!

The fourth brother's temperament of not being able to sit still, he deeply understands that he has accompanied him to class in Ciqing Palace these days, and the classes of Yue Shanchang, Xiao Shanchang and Xu Shanchang are better, but the three of them in the Hanlin Academy are simply suffering!

It is rare to be released from the palace, and the four princes probably either went to Zhang Yuan, or jumped up and down in the public school......

After waiting and waiting, seeing that the sun was completely westward, the third prince, who was trying to concentrate on the post in Ciqing Palace, suddenly heard Chu Kuan's voice: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the fourth prince seems to be back." ”

The three princes shook their hands, and finally wrote crookedly, and the piece of paper that originally covered most of the post was invalid. He crumpled it into a ball and threw it in the paper basket irritably, and straightened his face, intending to turn around and condemn his fourth brother's laziness, but after a burst of talking outside, the fourth prince hurriedly rushed in, and it turned out that his eyes were red when he saw him.

"Wow, third brother, the scarecrow is so pitiful!"

The third prince was completely stunned by this headless and brainless words, and after seeing the fourth prince rushing over, he hugged his shoulder and cried there, he was even more at a loss, and he couldn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly patted people's backs and patiently comforted people as he did when he was a child. Finally, he roughly figured out what was going on from the mouth of the sobbing Four Princes.

After he left, Zhang Shou told two stories, and later Xiao Shanchang and another scholar of the Hanlin Academy also had an argument, and immediately after, the fourth prince asked Zhang Shou to continue to tell with great interest, and even listened to lunch while eating, and then he was abused again and again. The scarecrow is just one of them, but it is also the one that the four princes think is the saddest and most desperate!

His heart was full of curiosity, and the third prince immediately asked the fourth prince to relay it. However, the four princes, who patted their chests in front of Zhang Shou and promised that they would be able to tell the story completely, were dumbfounded when they really started speaking.

He only remembered that every plot was sad, and every turn was in a bad direction, but he was a little blind about how to organize the language. When at last the fields were barren, the carp was dead, and the sick child was dying, he could not help but twitch his nose and shed tears again, as if his nose was completely blocked.

"Woo woo, how can there be such a thing!"

Although the fourth prince's narration was incoherent, Chu Kuan was well-informed and generally understood the context of the whole story. He saw that the third prince was hurriedly soothing his younger brother who was emotionally broken, so he suddenly said: "Fourth prince, are the other stories of Master Zhang also in this style?" ”

The fourth prince who was sobbing was slightly stunned, then thought about it carefully, and then said sullenly: "Anyway, it's all this kind of very dark story, I choked in my heart when I heard it, but it was uncomfortable......"

He intermittently talked about "Overcharging Three or Five Buckets", "Medicine", "Juvenile Leap Earth", and "Fool...... Although some of the stories are impressive, and some of the stories can only be said in detail, the general tone has been very clear under his narration.

The scene in the story is no longer the world Chengping in the recital of the officials of the DPRK and China, and it is no longer the long song of the prosperous era in the poetry of literati and ink writers, but the ordinary life, which has a lot more heavy meaning. Chu Kuan hesitated slightly, and finally said out loud: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, if you can, it is best to ask Master Zhang to enter these articles in text and send them to Ciqing Palace, so that you can take a closer look." ”

The third prince has this intention, and Chu Kuan's suggestion can be said to be in the right place. He nodded immediately, and then looked helplessly at his fourth brother who was crying and crying, and finally said: "Father-in-law Chu go and fetch a basin of water, the fourth brother is really not looking good to go out like this, you have to let him wash his face and change his clothes!" ”

used a series of stories to tell the four princes to tears and run away, Zhang Shou didn't feel that he was a bad taste, or that he was fueling the seedlings. Compared with the so-called horror Grimm fairy tales, Mr. Ye Shengtao's collection of fairy tales is just more realistic and gloomy, but there is no kind of weird horror, in fact, in some aspects, it is similar to Lu Xun's article.

He doesn't feel like he's pulling seedlings to grow. Many of the stories he told once entered the textbooks of junior high schools and even high schools in later generations, only the overall style was plain, except for the heavier juvenile leap earth at the end.

However, the three princes and the four princes who are not very old, they are not as ignorant as they were in the sixth grade of primary school, although they seem to be raised by the emperor to be coquettish by the emperor, but in fact, they know the world for a long time!

Although there is a way to take copper as a mirror, you can dress properly, take history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall, take people as a reference, and you can know the gains and losses. However, just reading the history of the scriptures, I can only see the emperors and generals, the rise and fall of existence, loyalty and treachery, but I can only get a glimpse of real life in some descriptions, but most of them are general.

Real life, in the literati's notes, can be compared with the notes and miscellaneous talks, which is lacking in vividness.

It's just that what Zhang Shou didn't expect was that not only the four princes, but also Zhu Ying among the people who listened to his story and were also depressed. Although she is not as emotionally exposed as the fourth prince, she rubbed a lunch in the public school, and Miss Zhu, who returned home in the evening, was listless and happy, which was in stark contrast to the radiant spirit when she went out in the morning.

Hearing the report from the next person, they had long known that Zhu Ying had gone to the public school to listen to Zhang Shou's public class, and Mrs. Tai and Jiuniang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law couldn't help but be inexplicable. Zhang Shou's class is said to be complicated and complicated, and many people who applied to observe it could not even say any questions, and after listening to the class, they fled in the wilderness, and it is said that the deterrent effect on these unconvinced people is very good.

In this case, what is the matter with Zhu Ying looking like this? Angry at Zhang Shou? It's impossible, I don't think anyone will have time to be alone with Zhang Shou in the public school, and Zhu Ying is not a person who ignores her because Zhang Shou is busy with business, so what's going on?

Although Zhu Hong was called, he might be able to ask what was going on, but after Mrs. Tai and Jiu Niang communicated in private, they still decided to call Zhu Ying to Qing'an Hall to inquire in person. didn't know if they didn't ask, but when they asked, the two of them couldn't cry or laugh.

"In this way, it turned out that Zhang Shou had nothing to do, telling the fourth prince and others the stories he had heard from Mr. Ye and Mr. Zhou when he was a child, but the left and the right were all depressed, and you were panicked when you heard it, so you will be unhappy when you come back! Yingying, how old are you, as for it? ”

"Of course!"

Zhu Ying raised her eyebrows angrily, and then said with an unconvinced face: "If grandmother and mother don't believe it, I'll tell you!" Although I certainly didn't speak as well as Ah Shou, I still remembered the most important things! ”

As if she was afraid that Mrs. Tai and Jiuniang would not believe it, Zhu Ying really started talking directly. The first "Overcharged Three or Five Buckets" successfully made the smiles on Mrs. Tai and Jiuniang's faces completely fade, and when the second "Medicine" was finished, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were already frowning. After that, the stories came out of Zhu Ying's mouth, and the two finally rubbed their eyebrows and sighed.

Jiuniang endured and endured, and then let Zhu Ying finish speaking, and finally smiled bitterly: "I understand Yingying's mood." Ah Shou's stories are miserable, indeed miserable, but they are completely different from those bloody miserable...... It's like a knife in the heart! ”

"Yes, yes, my mother is right, I just couldn't describe it for a while! I'm so uncomfortable! Zhu Ying circled a few times in front of her grandmother and mother, and finally exclaimed in annoyance: "I have always felt that Ah Shou is open-minded and optimistic, I really didn't expect him to make up such an uncomfortable story!" ”

"Who said he made it up, didn't he say he heard it from somewhere else?" Mrs. Tai immediately smiled, and saw Zhu Ying looking over with a disbelieving face, as if she wanted to say that it must be his excuse again, so she said earnestly, "You know, manpower is endless, Ah Shou is talented in calculating scriptures, and naturally he is slightly lacking in other aspects, and he himself admits it." ”

She paused, as if thinking about how to organize the language: "You just said that what Ah Shou is telling is not a legend with beautiful words, but it seems to be a folk tale passed down by word of mouth. So, as Ah Shou said, it wasn't what he thought, he heard it from others. ”

Jiuniang also nodded in agreement with Mrs. Tai: "That's right, and Yingying, although you don't paraphrase it so clearly, some of the sentences seem to have inadvertently repeated Ah Shou's original words, right?" It sounds like a market mouthpiece, but reading it carefully has a unique taste, and it is obviously the handwriting of a very knowledgeable celebrity. And to write this kind of thing, wind and frost or experience are indispensable. ”

Of course, Zhu Ying didn't think that her grandmother and mother were underestimating Zhang Shou, she widened her eyes slightly and muttered for a moment, then nodded thoughtfully and said: "It seems right, Ah Shou has been in that small village since he was a child, and he has never left from beginning to end, no matter how smart he is, the world is hot and cold, and people are warm and cold, he shouldn't have seen so much!" ”

"Oh, it's a good thing he can meet these knowledgeable and erudite teachers, otherwise wouldn't it be in vain? It's all my father's bad son, my mother and my life-saving benefactor's son, he actually scruples about this and that, and almost hurt others! ”

Seeing that her granddaughter habitually began to fight for Zhang Shou again, Mrs. Tai couldn't help but laugh. However, she also had to admit that in the past 16 years in the countryside, even if Zhang Shou was born with a good skin, the reason why he did not become a complete country boy is definitely the relationship between education and edification.

There is poetry and writing in the belly, which is definitely not just talking. Even if the officials are upright, as long as the officials become bigger and bigger, and the more and more people govern them, they will move to the body and cultivate their qi, and after 20 years, no matter how ordinary they looked in the past, they will unconsciously be majestic and self-reliant.

As for the high-ranking officials with obscene appearances, it does not exist at all, not to mention that eight or nine out of ten will be eliminated in the first-level examination, and even if they are lucky enough to pass the Jinshi, it will be difficult to have a chance to go up again. And born from the heart, Zhang Shou can have such a demeanor and demeanor today, his own efforts may be very important, but teachers and resources are more important. If there is no one to teach, no books to read, Zhongyong will be oblivious to everyone!

Therefore, after appeasing Zhu Ying, who was once depressed, and coaxing people to go back to the room happily to take a bath first, Mrs. Tai saw that Zhu Jing and Zhu Tingfang's father and son did not come back, and there was only Zhu Er in the house except for Zhu Ying.

"Although Zhang Shou's mentor said that Mrs. Ge blocked him alone, the emperor knew that there was a problem, but he didn't ignore it, but the more extraordinary ideas he revealed, the more he couldn't hide it. This is the so-called stand out from the crowd. ”

Jiuniang naturally agreed with Mrs. Tai's judgment, but she couldn't help but still have doubts in her heart: "But the tenants in Ashouna Village are all people arranged by the government at the beginning, he was weak and sick at first and didn't go out, and now the old Mr. Ye and Mr. Zhou, maybe there are other people, how did they meet?" ”

This is also because secondly, she paused, and then continued: "And how can these people end up in such a village on the outskirts of Beijing? How can you avoid the eyes and ears of the people in the village? And why avoid the eyes and ears of the villagers? ”

Mrs. Tai just thought that this question was incredible: "What you asked is exactly what I want to ask." If someone teaches him power and strategy, then he must not have a good heart, but if you look at what Ah Shou has done since he reopened Jiuzhang Hall, you can see that most of the time it is others who look at him when he is young and think that he is a bully, so he steps on it, and as a result, he stepped on a sharp nail. ”

She felt funny when she said it, and the corners of her mouth curled: "As for him, he really doesn't care much about being promoted and getting rich." ”

"yes, yes." Jiu Niang couldn't help but smile too, "But for more than a year, you have also seen how he has been promoted and made a fortune." ”

Mrs. Tai slapped the handrail with a smile for a while: "You have been home for so long, and you finally have the lively and joking temperament of the bride back then, and this son-in-law finally recognizes it well!" In short, since they taught our son-in-law arithmetic, he also made a little bit of a foundation in history, and taught him the world, so that he not only has poetry and books in his belly, but also does not leak a drop of water in dealing with people, and our family also remembers their feelings. ”

Although Mother Li, who was standing under the eaves, couldn't hear what the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were saying, the laughter in the room was clear, so she couldn't help but recite Amitabha Buddha in her heart, thinking that now that the lady has returned, the two sons and the eldest lady are all married, and everything is prosperous.

When she saw someone hurrying over at the courtyard gate, she hurriedly greeted her, not wanting anyone to disturb the conversation in the house. Hearing the report clearly, she hesitated for a moment and then turned around and returned to the door, "Mrs., Mrs., the head of the Song Association of the Guangdong Guild is holding a letter to ask for a meeting, saying that it is a hundred thousand urgent matters!" If Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Tai are afraid that he is a foreign man, he is willing to write a letter and submit his love for him! ”