Chapter 34 Passing the Assessment
Helan Minzhi bent down and bowed his hand, Yang Xijiu looked at the gentle child in front of him, and raised his hand gently: "Sit down!" Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and knowing is knowing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info is good! ”
"The child is only so young, this book of Confucius, the words of the sage may not have been involved. Sir, let's say something this easy-to-understand! The sacrificial lady sat beside him, covered her mouth with her hand and smiled softly, and said quippedly.
"The son is young, but he has also learned a thing or two about the words of the sage, but he has read this sentence, and he can barely move." Without waiting for Yang Xijiu to speak, Helan Minzhi replied respectfully after sitting down.
The priest who originally wanted to refute his wife came to his senses now, and his eyes lit up and looked at Helan Minzhi: "Since you can understand, you might as well say one or two, and it can be regarded as a test for you." ”
After finishing speaking, he looked at Mrs. Yang: "Sister has always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, since she came to visit with children today, it must be for the sake of studying." Even if this sentence is my test of him, as long as the explanation is transparent and not deviant, it will be fine. ”
In this door, Mrs. Yang and Helan Minzhi did not mention anything specific at all. It was only a few minutes to see this priest, but what he wanted to do was clearly seen. couldn't help but make Helan Minzhi a little frightened, these people who often serve as officials in the court are really old and sophisticated.
"Why don't you go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, look at what you said, even your broken place can be regarded as the Three Treasures Palace? Hum! Mrs. Yang picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and glared at him in vain.
"It's the little brother's gaffe, it's the little brother's gaffe." The priest quickly smiled and confessed his mistake.
"You're right, though. The grandfather has passed away, and Shun'er is struggling with her two children in Chang'an City. Now that he is at the age of entering school, you look at the arrangement to see if you can study in Taixue? Without continuing to make trouble, Mrs. Yang looked at Yang Xianjiu with a formal expression.
Mrs. Saijiu also carried three points of sadness: "Shun'er is also a hard-working child." ”
"Alas! Sister rest assured, the younger brother has his own considerations. ”
"That's good, that's good."
Helan Minzhi listened to the conversation between the three of them on the side, and his heart gradually settled down. Although his uncle looks old-fashioned and serious, he is also respectful and polite on weekdays. But he is not a pedantic person, and it can be seen that the old man still knows how to be flexible.
"Son, come, explain to my uncle, what is known as knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and knowing is knowing."
Helan Minzhi stood up and blurted out: "This sentence is from the Analects. A sentence of "Politics", which means that knowing is knowing, and not knowing is not knowing, so that is the real wisdom. ”
After finishing speaking, he looked up at Yang Xianjiu slightly as if he was waiting for his judgment, but he already had the answer in his heart, and I don't know how many times I learned this sentence in the junior high school textbook.
"Okay, this sentence, you know it very clearly, not bad."
"Thank you, uncle, for the compliment."
"Sit down!" After finishing speaking, he picked up the teacup and looked at Helan Minzhi: "Zhi'er, this life will inevitably have some ups and downs, and there will always be setbacks." Go to school, take the imperial examination, and make a name for your mother in the future, do you understand? ”
Listening to the old man's earnest teachings, he nodded slightly: "Yes"
"Sister, I will order my son to go to school. Within a few days, there will be officials from the Taixue under the supervision of the prince of the country to send the certificate of student status to the house. ”
"Thank you very much, then." Mrs. Yang said thank you very seriously.
"You don't have to be like that between my sister and brother."
Perhaps seeing that the atmosphere was gradually becoming serious, Mrs. Sai picked up the teacup and said with a smile: "Come, drink tea, drink tea." Every time there is our master, the atmosphere becomes serious, which makes everyone uncomfortable. ”
"Humph!" Squinting at Mrs. Saijiu, she snorted coldly and picked up the teacup in front of her and sniffed it, then took two sips lightly, and continued: "Son, although I appreciate your honest attitude. But tea, it's better to drink more. Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, my northerners have drunk a lot of milk, and goat's milk is the mainstay. Nanren drink more tea, which is what is in front of you. Therefore, the southerners ridiculed us as Hulu, and there was a lot of shame on our bodies, hahaha. ”
He laughed as he spoke, and Helan Minzhi had to laugh. This habit of the Tang people makes him not very acceptable, and he laughs at himself generously.
"I can't get used to their behavior, drinking goat's milk with a fishy smell? Drinking tea is a literati? Cut! Mrs. Yang didn't eat that, and she looked very disdainful when she picked up the teacup and drank it all.
"Hahaha, sister, what people say is not unreasonable. This mutton is a little fishy, and goat's milk naturally can't run away from this breath. ”
Listening to him, his face is old-fashioned, but he can also tell jokes, which seems a little weird and indescribably funny. provoked everyone on the spot to laugh again and again.
After a while, lunch came up in the sake brewery, and compared to the samurai's food, it looked a little shabby. There are only three small plates in front of no one, one is a black pickle, and the other is a plate of meat that has been cooked. The other plate came with a big steamed bun, Helan Minzhi deliberately broke it, and the pure steamed bun didn't sink at all.
The ancients had a saying, but they didn't say anything when they ate or slept without saying anything. If it is not an important banquet, everyone rarely talks at the family banquet on weekdays. Especially this kind of old-fashioned old man who has pursued Confucian classics all his life, he has nothing to say when he eats.
Although shabby, Helan Minzhi eats very steadily and with peace of mind. There is no intrigue at this dinner table, and the porridge and side dishes are eaten safely. After eating, I ordered another big steamed bun. I ate the light meat that I didn't eat until the end, the pickles with a different flavor, and finally drank two bowls of porridge.
This is not a special wine house, everyone else has two meals, they have to eat three. In fact, every official in the court will prepare three meals a day in the morning, noon and evening. This meal in the morning, around three o'clock in the morning. Because at this time, the head of the family often gets up to get ready for the morning pilgrimage. If you don't eat something, then the super long early dynasty, these pillars of the country, don't faint on the spot?
When I came back from the next court, it was already noon, and it had been nearly ten hours since the last meal. Not to mention these old men, even a young man is hungry, so he will prepare a lunch. Dinner in Fuchu is relatively late, and it is eaten again after sunset.
It is not to show that the aristocratic officials are nobler than ordinary people, so they have to eat one more meal. It's really a poor person, he doesn't know the difficulty of being an official, he has to get up at three o'clock in the morning, a normal person, who can eat at three o'clock in the morning. Only by paying can you have a harvest.