If you eliminate the troubles, only poetry remains, then this Mingsheng Lake, Jiuyao Mountain under the Chenjiawu is simply a paradise, the rooster cries and the dog barks, the smoke curls, and the sound of Langlang's books shows the tranquility of the mountain residence after the snow.

Chen Caozhi's uncle and nephew read and practiced calligraphy together as before, Zong Zhi wrote down the reading difficulties accumulated in the past two months on a scroll of paper, and now Chen Caozhi answered them one by one, and Run'er was also listening.

Ran Sheng was full of confidence when he returned from Wu County, he already recognized all the words on the "Analects", Cao Zhi Xiaolangjun taught him, he was eager to show it in front of Run'er, and in the first two days after returning to Chenjiawu, Run'er was busy playing with the toys that Chen Caozhi bought for her, what nine consecutive rings, white porcelain whistle dogs, and a small pottery house, and had a lot of fun, and he didn't care about taking the test, Ran Sheng was in a hurry, and on the third day, Run'er remembered it, and asked him to read the "Analects" from beginning to end-

Ran Sheng's reading voice is really loud, the whole Wubao can hear it, and the more he reads, the louder his voice becomes, not reading, he is simply yelling at books, if Master Confucius has his voice, it can really be deafening, but I am afraid that there are more than 3,000 disciples in Confucius-

Ran Sheng roared: "Zi said: 'From, Mei (teaching) you know! Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and knowing is knowing. ’”

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Ran Sheng roared: "Zi said: 'People are not kind, such as courtesy! People are not benevolent, such as medicine (music)! Lin Fang asked—"

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Run'er reminded him: "Xiao Sheng, speak softly, you have already mispronounced eight words, and you will make the uncles in the East Building, the South Building, and the North Building laugh." ”

Ran Sheng's face suddenly turned red, and he couldn't read it anymore.

The little beauty Run'er smiled sweetly and said: "Xiao Sheng, you are already very powerful, you have read the "Analects" so well in just two and a half months, your voice is light, read it to me, I will remember which words are wrong for you, and I will teach you later." ”

Run'er is a teacher after all, and she doesn't call herself "Run'er" in front of Ran Sheng, she calls herself "I", but when she talks to her grandmother, ugly uncle, and brother, she is still "Run'er Run'er".

Ran Sheng was happy, and read it quietly, reading and reading, and his voice gradually increased-

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After the heavy snow on the ninth day of the lunar month, it was sunny for five or six days in a row, and the snow on the road gradually melted, Chen Caozhi took Ran Sheng and Laide to a trip to Baobao Mountain, and Laide drove an ox cart, carrying some rice, noodles and preserved vegetables and the like, and gave them to the two left-behind Taoists in the first balcony Taoist courtyard for the year.

The two Taoists were also very happy to see Chen Caozhi, Chen Caozhi was a disciple of Master Ge, half of the master of the Chuyang Daoist Academy, and the two Taoists were really grateful for sending rice and flour food in this cold weather.

Chen Caozhi put the more than 20 volumes of "The Biography of Gao Shi", "New Book", "Moral Theory" and "Dazhuang Treatise" back to the original bookshelf, and found ten volumes of "Pulse Meridian", thirteen volumes of Yang Xiong's "Fa Yan", two volumes of Wang Bi's "Zhou Yi Liu", and Dong Zhongshu's "Three Strategies of Heaven and Man", and brought them back to Chen Jiawu to transcribe and study.

In addition to reading and learning characters, Chen Caozhi has to paint every day, figure out the "Wei's Six Methods" left by the Wei Association, recall the pen and ink methods used by Wei Shi and Gu Kaizhi when painting, and explore and learn.

Zong Zhi and Run'er saw that Uncle Ugly went to Wu County, and they learned to paint again, and they admired it very much.

Chen Caozhi spent seven days to paint a "Mountain Dwelling Snow Scene", the first time to use a multi-angle perspective of the panoramic composition method to paint, after the painting felt that the overall composition of this painting is quite stiff, and Wei Shi's "Huan Yi Gift Flute", Gu Kaizhi's "Moonlit Night Pounding Clothes" is too far behind, I thought that I was too weak in the composition and layout, only painting a mountain, a stone, a flower and a tree is still considerable, and the ability to paint such a panorama is not enough.

But Zongzhi and Run'er were so happy that they went to ask their grandmother and Aunt Ying to come and see it, saying that this was Jiuyao Mountain painted by Uncle Ugly, and the painting was true.

Run'er was very studious, and begged: "Uncle Ugly taught me to paint, right?" ”

Chen Caozhi said with a smile: "Run'er wants to be the first lady in Wu County-"

Before I finished speaking, I remembered Lu Weirui, that day in the mountain behind Zhenqing Daoyuan, Lu Weirui said that she wanted to see the lovely Run'er.

Run'er said: "Uncle Ugly is saying that if Run'er wants to be the first lady in Wu County, she has to learn to paint, right, then Uncle Ugly should teach me quickly." ”

Zong Zhi is naturally not to be left behind, and he also wants to learn to paint.

Chen Caozhi said: "Now Uncle Ugly hasn't learned how to paint himself, what can he teach you?" Run'er is only seven years old after the New Year, too young, practice the words for another year, practice the pen power, when you are eight years old, Uncle Ugly began to teach you to paint, Zongzhi and Run'er learned at the same time, the two will be more interested together——"

When he said this, a thought flashed through Chen Caozhi's mind, and he thought: "Wouldn't it be good to let Lu Weirui teach Run'er to paint?" When he was in Wu County, he felt that Lu Weirui was not far from him, and when he visited the patient, he was even closer, his breath smelled, and his fingertips could be touched, but now that he is back in Qiantang, the distance of space also highlights the disparity in the status of the two sides, and he feels that the beauty is like a flower across the clouds, and the beautiful and innocent Lu Weirui is out of reach.

Chen Caozhi rarely thinks about this, he is now studying diligently every day, classics, metaphysics, calligraphy, music, painting, he feels that there are too many things he needs to learn, and what the soul of his previous life has brought him is a learning method that achieves twice the result with half the effort and the comprehension ability that far surpasses his peers, and also allows him to have a clear and clear direction of effort.

Chen's mother Li loves to listen to her son Chen Caozhi play the "Long and Short Qing" flute song, every day after dinner, Chen Caozhi will go to his mother's room to play a song, and his mother will say, in the past, your sister-in-law's gonghou also played well, and now Run'er often goes to play with the gonghou, but unfortunately no one teaches her.

On the twentieth day of the lunar month, the west building of Chenjiawu was very lively, the second son of Laifu came to Zhen to marry the daughter of the yellow tenant household, and the festive atmosphere continued until the New Year.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, two days before the Chinese New Year, the patriarch Chen Xian came to Chen Caozhi, saying that the sixth brother Chen Man begged to let his second son Chen Liu return to Chenjiawu, saying that near the end of the year, Chen Liu had no clan and no clan, and he was very desolate, and he was remorseful about what he had done before, as long as he could return to the clan, he would be willing to accept other punishments - what did Chen Cao mean?

Chen Cao sighed in his heart: "The fourth uncle is really too kind-hearted and soft-hearted, and the people who have just been expelled from the clan want to take him back!" After thinking about it, he said: "Fourth uncle, let's invite the sixth uncle and other uncles and brothers to the ancestral hall to discuss together, some things are better to explain clearly in person, after all, the expulsion of Chen Liu from Chenjiawu was approved by the clan, and now the clansmen need to discuss it together, what my Xilou Chen clan needs is to work together, I don't want the sixth uncle to resent me." ”

Chen Xian immediately went to summon the men over the age of sixteen in the clan and the elders of the clan to the ancestral hall to discuss, in the "orderly hall", there is a seat on the fourth floor of the east, west, north and south, and there are only two people in the west building, Chen Caozhi and his mother, who look weak, but because Chen Caozhi is about to obtain the exemption of the six-grade official, the Chen family in the west building can be said to be very important in the clan.

Chen Mandai's son's speech, the old tears were rampant, most of the clansmen in the "Orderly Hall" were pitiful, thinking that although Chen Liu had all kinds of nots, but after all, he was a descendant of the Chen family, and this New Year's homeless, no ancestors to sacrifice, it was really desolate, and now that he had repented, he should also be given a chance to reform himself, so he looked at the patriarch Chen Xian and Chen Caozhi one by one.

Chen Caozhi knew that it was difficult to disobey the will of the people, and he had discussed it with the fourth uncle in advance, so he said: "But it is up to the patriarch to decide." ”

Chen Xian nodded and said: "Chen Liu's expulsion from the clan is a big deal, if he is hastily accepted and returned to the clan, it will be too child's play, it is not enough to punish the stubborn, do not remember the old evil, allow him to return to the clan, for the sake of uniting the clan, my Qian Tang Chen clan must not be brothers, I decide, depending on what Chen Liu does next year, if the county has a good reputation, he will be allowed to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, if he continues to be evil, he will never be allowed to return to Chenjiawu!" ”

The clansmen in the "Orderly Hall" all nodded again and again, Chen Manyuan was worried that Chen Caozhi would not let Chen Liu go, and now he was satisfied with such a result, so he hurriedly thanked the patriarch, and thanked Chen's mother Li again.

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