Act 11 Apprenticeship with Chen Jiru
"Original...... Our family is also a prodigy! You can also worship Xiucai as a teacher! Dumb Dad touched his head embarrassedly, there was always a feeling of unreality, "He shouldn't have beaten him when he was scribbling on the board before." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Old Man Guan also squinted his eyes with a smile, his grandchildren had two prodigies at once, how could this not make him overjoyed? It's the talented man who is commenting! Naturally, you can't go wrong!
Guan Kunyu heard Chen Jiru evaluate himself as a prodigy, and couldn't help sweating in embarrassment.
He just looked at his painting and felt awkward, but he couldn't think of what was awkward, and after listening to Chen Jiru's words, he understood what was going on, and sure enough, he and the master were not at the same level.
It turned out that although Guan Kunyu imitated a young child in brushwork, his mentality was still that of an adult, so he showed his feet in composition and light and shadow, no way, he was used to painting like this, and he couldn't change it suddenly, but fortunately, it made Chen Jiru mistakenly think that he was a genius.
It seems that apprenticeship should not be a problem.
Old Man Guan kicked his stupid father, who was still stupid, with a smile on his face, and said angrily:
"You rammer, what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and prepare for the bundle! Remember, two copies! ”
The stupid dad finally reacted this time, and quickly responded, and the 100-meter race seemed to jump out of the smoke. It is also a loss that the Guan family has assets, and if it is an ordinary homesteaders, it is really not easy to gather the things used in such a short period of time.
The bundle is a greeting gift for apprentices, and it is also used to refer to the salary of teaching. The rule of apprenticeship has always existed since ancient times, and Confucius also mentioned it, but there are also slight differences in the things that different families and different regions of the era.
In the Songjiang area in the early years of Wanli, entry-level families like the Guan family generally gave ten pieces of bacon to satisfy hunger, a jar of wine to moisten the tongue, and a horse of silk to protect against the cold. But the Guan family is a military household, there is meat, wine, and satin, but the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone do not prepare these on weekdays, and the tattered things used at home cannot be taken out after all, and the matter of apprenticeship is a temporary idea, so I had to search the house and add the wine to two jars to make up the number.
Chen Ji's Confucian realm is not as good as the Guan family, but he has not yet fallen to the point of living by restraints, he only took a piece of meat and a jar of wine, and he didn't want to charge more than the Guan family said anything. Wang Gongzi even symbolically took a jar of wine, just to taste it.
"I stay here just to relax, at most half a year will go home to study, for Kun Yu's enlightenment is just by the way, even the teacher can not count, can only say a point or two, this bundle, a piece of meat and a jar of wine is more than enough."
"Yes...... Chen Gongzi is a talented man, even if it is just a few sentences, such a thing is too cold. ”
Old man Guan looked embarrassed, if this matter spreads, their Guan family will definitely be pointed at, in the era of lack of entertainment, this kind of gossip spreads the fastest, and at the same time, it is also the easiest to be added to the vinegar, I am afraid that when the time comes, others will only say that you Guan family is stingy regardless of the truth.
Chen Jiru smiled and said seriously: "If Guan Baihu insists on this, then I should go home and study directly." If not, in the future, others will say that I, Chen Jiru, only teach people to read and write for half a year, but I will ask for it, do I want to clear my name or not? ”
"This ......" Old Man Guan has no choice, his military family's face is naturally not as good as Xiucai's clear name, so he can only look at Wang Gongzi for help.
Wang Gongzi smiled and said:
"Guan Baihu don't look at me, I only take a jar of wine. I don't have much time to teach him on weekdays, so I'll set a rule here, and when Kunru will come to me after the county exam, before that, I have to study hard to prepare for the exam, I won't teach him anything, and I'll go back after two ****. ”
"Huh!?"
Old Man Guan's head was full of black lines, and he thought that it would be a big profit to find Xiucai to be a teacher for his two boys, but he didn't expect these two guys to be more wonderful than the other!
Wooden method, the face of the old man Guan is naturally not as good as the two talents, so he can only grit his teeth and respond.
"Everything is up to the arrangement of Xiucaigong."
Then he looked around viciously, and warned the Guan family present with talking eyes.
"If anyone can't control their mouth and say what happened today, don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless!"
Everyone was submissive, and even the dull and dull father was frightened.
Since it is not a complete teacher, the etiquette of natural apprenticeship is much simplified, and the two children are bound and bowed, which is done.
Chen Jiru said happily:
"Get up tomorrow and teach you how to read first!"
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According to Mr. Guan, once he worships Xiucai Gong as a teacher, he has to serve more comfortably than his father, so the next day Guan Kunyu and Guan Kunru waited outside Chen Jiru and Wang Gongzi's door without eating.
Guan Kunru was soon invited into the room by Wang Gongzi to drink tea and talk, leaving Guan Kunyu alone guarding Chen Jiru's door in a bored daze, and waited until lunchtime, dizzy and dizzy from hunger.
The toiling masses of the Ming Dynasty usually did not eat lunch formally, in order to be able to work in the fields while there was more sun, and at most carry some dry food with them to pad their stomachs during farm work, but fortunately, the Guan family obviously did not belong to the class of the toiling masses, so they have always maintained a good habit of eating three meals a day.
Smelling the fragrance wafting from the kitchen, Guan Kunyu's stomach rumbled, in order to be able to serve the teacher, he didn't eat breakfast, just waited for Chen Jiru to get up and serve him before eating, but who knew that he hadn't seen a figure until now.
"Today's chicken is roasted by my aunt, it's so fragrant......"
Guan Kunyu rubbed his stomach, the Guan family, which was in the expansion period, didn't have so much money to enjoy, not even a servant, whether it was to open up the wasteland or buy land, or to take care of it, it would take a lot of money, and if you want to eat your aunt's secret roast chicken, you can usually only eat it when there are guests.
"When was the last time you ate it, during the Chinese New Year?"
Guan Kunyu shook his head, he couldn't remember clearly.
"Ahh I only drank three glasses of wine yesterday, do you need to sleep so hard? ”
Guan Kunyu opened his mouth and wanted to mumble something, but at this time, the door behind him opened, and Chen Jiru, who was yawning, leaned out half of his body and knocked his head hard.
"I just heard someone say bad things about me behind my back!"
The corners of Guan Kunyu's mouth twitched, and he quickly put on a cute face, and turned around to quibble.
"Who...... Whoever dares to speak ill of his teacher, if I bump into him, he will not be let go! ”
"Huh." Chen Jiru squinted and laughed twice, and then talked about irrelevant things, "I heard that your aunt's roast chicken is very good?" ”
"Hmm."
"Very good, then I will punish you for a meal, you don't have to eat this time."
"Huh!? But I didn't eat in the morning!? ”
"Didn't eat in the morning?" Chen Jiru looked up at the sun, "It's noon, why haven't you had breakfast yet?" Are you waiting for me? Have you been waiting at the door until now because you want to serve and eat for your teacher? ”
When Guan Kunyu heard it, he felt that there was a play, maybe he could escape it, so he quickly nodded desperately.
"I see, you respect the teacher so much, waiting here to serve the teacher for breakfast, and because the teacher got up late, your stomach was empty, and the gluttonous worms were hooked by the fragrance of roast chicken, so you can't help but complain." Chen Jiru shook his head and sighed, looking at Guan Kunyu apologetically, "In this way, it is the teacher's fault to blame you, even if you have an empty stomach, you can stand in front of the door for a morning, you are a good boy, is it right for the teacher?" ”
Since Chen Jiru has exonerated himself, Guan Kunyu has nothing to say, so he quickly nodded and said:
"Master Chen is right!"
Then he hit his head hard.
"Originally, I didn't hear what you just said through the door, but now I can be sure that you are really complaining and saying bad things about the teacher!"
I'll go, it turns out that the focus is on this "inevitable complaint", Guan Kunyu wants to cry without tears, this guy is also cunning.
"Let's go, I'm going to eat for the teacher."
As soon as he heard about eating, Guan Kunyu breathed a sigh of relief, and silently followed, saying in his heart that Chen Jiru had a little conscience.
"Thank you, Master Chen."
Who knew that Chen Jiru was staring.
"What is there to thank for? The teacher does what he says, have you forgotten that the teacher just punished you with a meal? ”
"Yes...... Teacher, didn't you just say that I was a good boy? ”
"Yes, that's what I said, but does complimenting you on being a good boy have anything to do with punishing you for skipping meals?"
"This ......"
Guan Kunyu looked at the other party's distant back in a cold sweat, and began to doubt the correctness of his choice before he officially followed Chen Jiru to learn anything.
Eat one less meal, oh, it's just two meals, Guan Kunyu is not going to do anything about this, he is more worried about the performance of his parents after they get the news, if the guess is right......
"Gotta run away!"
Guan Kunyu wiped the cold sweat that kept coming out of his forehead like a sauna, and before the incident occurred in the east window, he quickly sneaked into the kitchen and touched a piece of cake, and ran away without a trace.
Before the others left, the lion's roar came from the courtyard.
"Dumb!!! You're causing trouble for my mother again!!! ”
The second uncle's mother took the hand of the stupid mother, "kindly" and "comforted": "Whoever has a child is naughty, you don't have to blame the stupid mother too much, even our family Kunru also has a naughty time, after all, he is a child." ”
The stupid mother looked at the second aunt with some doubts, very strange how she changed sex today, could it be that Kunru worshipped Xiucai as a teacher, and she was also a little immortal? As a result, before two seconds passed, the stupid mother regretted it.