9. Reading
Tong Wanqing is among the women in Jiangnan, she is too tall and her legs are too long, and ordinary bath buckets are a little small for her. Now the one I use at home is a plus-size specially made by a carpenter, and I can't see it outside, and the weight is naturally not light.
Xu Xiaole doesn't have any meaning for tomorrow's work arrangement, anyway, as long as Luo Yun is here, he will definitely be the one who does the work.
I heard that in order to make his son tall and able to enter the palace as a Han general, Jin Yiwei likes to marry tall women who are like people who serve the emperor's honor guard. Over the generations, the children and grandchildren are not only tall, but also strong. The master of the thousand households in Suzhou once fell in love with Tong Wanqing, who knew that Tong Wanqing was too strong, and whoever dared to come to the matchmaker would beat him, so he gave up.
Xu Xiaole chased away the mosquitoes, went to bed and put down the mosquito net, and suddenly felt a little depressed. He took a deep breath, only to feel a faint fragrance in his lungs, which was the natural body fragrance of his sister-in-law who did not apply powder. Xu Xiaole couldn't help but think of the time when he could sleep with his sister-in-law two years ago, and he couldn't help but feel a resentment about "bunching his hair". The sister-in-law said that after the hair was tied, he was a man and could no longer sleep with her.
Xu Xiaole ran for most of the day, using the aroma to help him sleep, and soon fell asleep. He had slept so hard that he didn't know what it was like to dream. Tonight he dreamed, but it was a sunny afternoon, and he went to the back of the hut again, and found the crack made in heaven. The sound of water came from the window on the side, and it was my sister-in-law bathing.
Xu Xiaole came up, but this time her sister-in-law didn't find out......
Suddenly, the mountains shook, and Xu Xiaole panicked: Could it be that I peeked at my sister-in-law bathing, and it actually attracted the wrath of heaven and earth!
"Xiaole, wake up, Xiaole!"
Xu Xiaole opened his eyes and saw Luo Yun's big cake-like face.
"You're so ugly today!" Xu Xiaole felt that the sun was dazzling, and bent his arm to cover his eyes.
Luo Yun was puzzled when he heard this, and said, "Sister Wanqing asked us to work." ”
Boss Xu Xiaole turned over unhappily: "I have to recuperate, and when I get better to study, you can help me do any work." ”
"Oh...... Yes? Do you want to read? Luo Yun was so frightened that he took three steps back, wondering if Xu Xiaole had been robbed of something unclean. Xu Xiaole just turned his face to the wall, remembering the fragrant taste in his dream, and refused to pay attention to Luo Yun.
Luo Yunxin thought it was true, and went out to tell Tong Wanqing that Xu Xiaole wanted to study Yunyun and nourish his spirit in bed. Tong Wanqing is not stupid, of course she knows the temperament of her brother-in-law, so she ran upstairs and personally asked Xu Xiaole to help.
Xu Xiaole heard footsteps on the wooden floor outside on the bed, and knew that his sister-in-law was not so good at talking. He hurriedly ripped over his clothes, stood barefoot on the ground, looked around the room, and finally found a copy of the Analects, and pretended to read it aloud.
Tong Wanqing happened to walk to the door, and when she heard the sound of reading inside, she was quite surprised: What kind of medicine did this little slippery head take today? I'm actually reading! She thought about it, and felt that it was wrong: how could she suddenly read "Zi Yue"? Xu Xiaole's family is a generational medical household, as long as he can memorize a few medical classics, he can go to the county medical office or Huimin Pharmacy to get an iron job, do you still go to study with those Confucian students to take the Jinshi exam?
It's not that it's not bad to be admitted to the Jinshi, it's just that Tong Wanqing really doesn't believe that the little uncle she grew up watching can pass the exam. If he can really become a scholar all of a sudden, I'm afraid he will have to go to the City God Temple to ask for talisman paper to exorcise evil spirits.
"What are you reading?" Tong Wanqing pushed the door in, and when she saw Xu Xiaole, who was disheveled and disheveled, she frowned. However, his worries were put down, because this kind of nonsense is Xu Xiaole's consistent style, which proves that he is not evil.
"The Analects." Xu Xiaole said it confidently.
Tong Wanqing heard of this book, and said in her heart: It's really a random reading. She said, "What do you do when you read the books of Confucian scholars?" With this effort, it is better to memorize the medical book well, and it will be good to find an errand in the future. ”
Xu Xiaole was crying when she heard this: "Sister-in-law! How can you dissuade people from reading! Don't you know that everything is inferior, only reading is high? If I can get a jinshi, won't it be difficult for our family to practice medicine for generations? ”
Tong Wanqing sneered and laughed: "How many people do you take from a science and technology?" I'm afraid that the emperor's family will take ten, hundred, or thousand times more, well, even if it is 10,000 times, it will definitely not be able to take it from you. You don't cheat and cheat, either you read a good medical book, or you go down to help. ”
Xu Xiaole had no choice but to pretend to be in pain: "Okay, I have to go back to my old business and study hard in medicine." Master Confucius, I can't ...... with you."
Tong Wanqing's patience ran out, slapped Xu Xiaole on the head, and shouted: "Go to the study and study hard, and take your own futon by the way...... How long has this mattress been changed, why does it smell sour? Hug it away, take it away! ”
Xu Xiaole escaped a labor, his heart was happy, he picked up the quilt and went to the study. Although he didn't like the study very much, and always felt that the number of books was a little overwhelming, but the thought that the sister was going to live in it was also going to live in, and the guest room and the study were next to each other, separated by a staircase from the other two bedrooms, so it was really promising!
Xu Xiaole didn't know how beautiful his ancestors were, and he didn't even confirm whether the doctor Xu Shen that Jinyiwei from Beijing was talking about was his grandfather. Anyway, his father died when he was very young, and his grandfather only had a name for him, and as far as the neighbors heard, it seemed that his father was a quack doctor recognized by everyone, and his grandfather had no sense of existence at all.
The only evidence that proves that the Xu family is indeed a generational medical household is the medical books in the full study. There are also many manuscripts, as well as boxes full of medical records left by ancestors.
In this era when medical skills are equal to life-saving techniques, family doctors have a natural advantage to accumulate more prescriptions and medical cases, and avoid taking more detours - detours are human life!
However, these are meaningless to Xu Xiaole, who does not like to study medicine at all. My sister-in-law doesn't read much, let alone medical skills, so she only asks him to endorse books. The book can be memorized, but who will tell him how to use the five elements of yin and yang? How to divide the number of ups and downs? What does the Nine Needles look like? Even if you finish your studies, will you go out to collect medicine and die in the mountains like your eldest brother?
As soon as Xu Xiaole thought of these questions, the sky became hazy, so he closed the door and removed the box with the title of "Nine Spirits True Interpretation" from the bookshelf. This boxwood box is exquisitely made, with a thick bread pulp, and a somewhat quaint atmosphere. When Xu Xiaole flipped it out of the bookcase, there was a handwritten note of an ancestor in it, with the year name of Baoyou Nian, and it didn't seem to be the emperor of the dynasty.
Now lying in this box is Xu Xiaole's "good friend", which is a secret drama that has only recently appeared on the market. These secret scenes were sold openly in the bookstore, but in order to avoid hindering the weather, the shop would cover the outside with a veil.
Xu Xiaole is not good at reading, but he is an expert in this, he knows the secret drama pictures of various bookstores well, and he also has a lot of research on the version, and knows that the best secret drama is painted by a person called "Ou Boting Master".
Now Xu Xiaole is particularly cherished by this set of "Thirty-six Palaces", a total of thirty-six pieces, which is the handwriting of the master of Ou Boting, taking the meaning of "Thirty-six Palaces are all spring" in Tang poems. It is also a well-known Qiyue Bookstore engraving in Suzhou, each of which has a posture, the brushwork is delicate, delicate, and the scene is realistic as the eye.
Xu Xiaole's first look was the hue, and he only felt that his blood was full of blood. After looking at it for a long time, I was not only delighted, but also a little playful, and vaguely understood the rigidity and softness of the lines in the paintings, the demeanor of the characters, and other kinds of appreciation. It can be seen that the secret drama diagram is not a simple profanity.
Xu Xiaole was watching with relish, and suddenly stretched out a hand behind him, and suddenly pulled the album, only to hear a chaotic sound.