Chapter 52: Strange Thinking
Su Tiancheng has always kept in mind a rule of health preservation, that is, every night, or before going to bed, you must use hot water to burn your feet, the hot whole body is sweating, and the blood veins in the body feel unblocked, which is very comfortable.
He's always done it, and it worked well.
Su Tiancheng believes that as long as you pay attention to personal hygiene and insist on proper exercise, you will definitely be able to stay away from diseases.
In ancient times, the medical conditions were not very good, and after being contaminated with diseases, it was easy to have problems, in fact, most of these diseases came from the negligence of ordinary life, Su Tiancheng's first thing to pay attention to was to prevent diseases, if the health was not good, nothing could be done well.
Everyone in Sufu has adhered to this habit, including taking a bath frequently, and some people are starting to get used to it, but what kind of person is Wang Dazhi, if anyone is lazy, they will be beaten, so everyone will stick to it, and after a few months, everyone has become accustomed to it, if you don't burn your feet at night, and don't take a bath for three or two days, you won't be used to it.
When he arrived in Quwo County, Qu Qingze chose an inn with medium conditions and set a room, and Su Tiancheng and he lived in a first-class house.
The diet of the Ming Dynasty, according to the description in the book, was very good, but Su Tiancheng did not feel like this, after the crossing, the food in the restaurant was average, and the price was still very high, which was a bit outrageous.
According to the conversion of silver, in the high-grade restaurant in Pingyang Fucheng, a table of wine banquet requires at least more than two taels of silver, which can be used to buy five stone rice, calculated by the price of grain after a few hundred years, five stone rice is equivalent to 2,000 yuan, which is a very good wine banquet even in big cities.
The biggest problem is not here, the dishes in the restaurant are mostly steamed, the stir-fry is very few, and the taste is indeed not very good, and later he learned that the price of stir-fried vegetables is very high, and a lot of seasonings are needed, and these seasonings are very precious.
The only thing that reassures him is that today's food is green and natural food.
Su Tiancheng's stomach is good, and he is not very particular about eating and drinking, as long as he can fill his stomach.
The meal was arranged in a restaurant, and Qu Qingze asked for a little liquor as usual, the degree of liquor was not very high, and the taste was average. Men must drink, but they must also drink in moderation, if they are drunk every time, it is not a good thing.
"Brother, you're eighteen years old, and you still haven't been engaged, which is rare."
A man is considered an adult at the age of sixteen, and the coming-of-age ceremony in the Ming Dynasty is very grand, and to a large extent, formal engagement means adulthood.
"The township test is coming, if you can't think of these things, let's wait until after the township test."
"Admire, the brother's ambition is still not small, but the marriage event still needs to be considered, after dinner, let's go to the land of fireworks to see, how about it."
Su Tiancheng was a little embarrassed, he couldn't imagine that Qu Qingze would say such a thing, and he actually wanted to go to prostitution by himself, what kind of thing is this.
Scholars go to the land of fireworks, it's not an unsightly thing, the Qinglou woman, the outstanding thing is that the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all available.
Su Tian thought about refusing, and when he was about to say something, he suddenly had a vague feeling, behind the light gauze tent, the bright and green place, he was in a trance.
The last time he went to the Qinglou with Liu Joong Ki, he remembered it very clearly, no matter how good the Qinglou woman was, how affectionate she was, but there was a premise, that is, you had to have silver on you, and the poor were not qualified to go.
The bustard's mother in the Qinglou has a vicious look, which people are really rich, or powerful, they can all be seen, rich people and powerful people, in their eyes they are uncles, down-and-out scholars, in their eyes, pigs and dogs are not as good.
Su Tiancheng didn't want to go to Qinglou, no matter what Qu Qingze thought, when he came out to travel, his focus was to see the situation outside, not to think about the wind and snow.
"Big brother, let's go out for a walk, this time I came out to travel, I still want to learn something."
"Hehe, your idea is really strange, some scholars I have seen, when they come out to travel, they must go to the Qinglou, not that they really want to do something, it's good to go and see it."
"Everyone has their own ideas, and I really don't have much interest in those places."
"Oh, do you really think so, weird."
Qu Qingze had a taste of not giving up, Su Tiancheng smiled, determined to make some of his views clear.
"Scholars go to the Qinglou, understandable, think that the Qinglou woman, is also extraordinary, but my thoughts are a little different, the reader will eventually have to serve the court, I participated in the county examination and the government examination, I thought that everything is inferior, only reading is high, but now I feel that blindly dead reading is not good, learning to apply is the best, only by doing it yourself, the knowledge in the books, combined with practice, in order to be able to truly master the knowledge, this time out of the experience, learn something, It's much more precious than books. ”
Qu Qingze looked at Su Tiancheng, his eyes flickered a little, along the way, he introduced the situation to Su Tiancheng, Su Tiancheng listened very carefully, never interjected, when he expounded his views, he talked eloquently, what he said made sense, this is not the performance of ordinary young people, it is said that Su Tiancheng is just a student, he has not really gone out to practice, how can he have so much knowledge.
Qu Qingze was secretly a little frightened, Su Tiancheng's development trend is really difficult to predict.
"Brother has such thoughts, I also agree, so let's go out and go around, I don't know if Brother Lu Dao can afford to eat, I'm afraid I'm a little tired after a day's journey."
"I don't have a problem."
After the two left the inn, they walked directly to the street, Wang Dazhi followed behind, Su Tianyuan came to ask him to rest, but Wang Dazhi resolutely refused.
At this time, it is about two o'clock in the evening, equivalent to more than eight o'clock in the evening in later generations, at the turn of spring and summer, the weather is a little cool, there are still a lot of people on the street, most of the shops are not closed, of course, the high-rise buildings are invisible, the pavement of the street, are paved with bluestone, it looks tight.
Quwo county seat, can not be compared with Pingyang Fucheng, but this place is somewhat famous, once was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, Wu Gong according to it to prosper Jin, Wen Gong according to it and hegemony, is called Tianfu Xiongfeng, three Jin Dynasty important land, and later it is known as one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization.
The biggest problem in Quwo is the lack of food, which is more prominent in the counties under the jurisdiction of Pingyang Fucheng.
"Brother, when you come to Quwo, you must go to Xie Yuan Lane and Qiaozi Lane to have a look."
"That's a must go, I heard that Li Shangsi and Li Yongpei are the Xie Yuan of the Yongle period, the Xie Yuan of the father and son, I am very respectful, Li Tingbao and Li Rixu father and son are both lifters, and they are also amazing."
"Hehe, it's in the past, I'm sure you're even more powerful than them."
"Big brother, don't say that, they are all role models for scholars."
The so-called Xie Yuan Lane and Qiaozi Lane are actually two alleys, because Li Shangsi and Li Yongpei father and son have successively high school Xie Yuan, and later generations named Xie Yuan Lane in order to commemorate, which is a bit old. As for Li Tingbao and Li Rixu, one is a person in the Jiajing period, and the other is a person in the Longqing period, and the place where they live is named Qiaozi Lane.
These places, hundreds of years later, were great monuments, but that's what they are now.
Xie Yuan Lane and Qiaozi Lane are both in the county seat, Su Tiancheng and Qu Qingze went to take a look, there was no special impression, Su Tiancheng didn't want to worship, these are all false, the imperial examination still depends on their own ability.
"It's still early, why don't you go to the Ancient Academy to have a look?"
Hearing Qu Qingze say this, Su Tiancheng immediately became a little vigilant.
There were many academies in the Ming Dynasty, which was because there were too few county schools and government schools in various places to accommodate so many scholars, so the academies were born, because the academies were private, and the government-run ones were very different.
The starting point of the academy was good, but after its development, some abnormalities slowly appeared.
Since the Jiajing and Wanli years, the imperial court has cleaned up a lot of academies, which has become the biggest controversy, many scholars support the academy, and even support the views of the academy, the most famous academy is Donglin Academy.
The party struggle in the court is so strong, and there is some relationship with the academy, the scholars of the academy, formed a group, one is prosperous, one is lost, it can be said that the seeds of party struggle, in the academy, germinated.
Of course, these are some summaries hundreds of years later, and the benevolent will see the wise.
Su Tiancheng never wanted to mix with it.
"Forget it, it's already this hour, let's go back to the inn and rest."
"My brother has always studied in the county school and the government school, so do you have some other views on the academy?"
"That's not true, I've always been studying in the official school, and I'm not very familiar with the academy, so I don't pay attention to it, and it's even more unnecessary to say go and see it."
A strange expression appeared on Qu Qingze's face again, and Su Tiancheng saw all this.
He already had some guesses, this time he came out to travel, Qu Qingze must have some kind of purpose, otherwise he would not accompany him, and when he arrived in Quwo County, some of the suggestions put forward seemed to be targeted, faintly pointing in a certain direction.
Regardless of whether Qu Qingze is tempting or not, Su Tiancheng has his own independent ideas, he will not go along with many thoughts, bury himself in practical things, and realize his own goals, which is the most important thing.