Chapter 31: The Tavern The Great Confucian
Naturally, it is impossible to tell any more stories in the afternoon.
Although the little princess is playful, she is not naïve, she can be innocent, but it is impossible not to make mistakes when she is naïve. Once the little princess fails to pass the emperor's inspection, it is likely that Xie Shence's "storybook" will be laid off, so where will the little princess find a gentleman who can tell stories?
What's more, this gentleman also has a unique identity - Xie Shenwei's younger brother. This is definitely an advantage that no one in the Great Jin Dynasty has. The little princess naturally understood that the only way to break through Xie Shenwei's impregnable fortress was to start with his very beloved brother.
Therefore, even though there was some noon loss and some resistance to the boring scriptures, I still sat quietly for an afternoon, and became a good student who respected the teacher, and was even meticulous about the etiquette.
Xie Shence didn't understand the little princess's thoughts. I think that the famous saying when I was a student, "If you want to get a beautiful woman, you must first go to your best friend", but I was personally answered and correctly solved. It's just that Xie Shence still smiled bitterly in his heart, not only a little princess who wants to take his own line to win Xie Shenwei, but also a group of people in his own family! Which one doesn't want to persuade Xie Shenwei to start a family early by thanking Shence? It's just that today, where is the slightest effect?
Sympathy is sympathy, this kind of thing is not easy for the prince to help, and of course it is impossible for him to be this matchmaker.
Teaching is a big deal, and it can't damage the reputation of the grandfather and the emperors of the two dynasties. The name of "Emperor Family" must not be destroyed in his own hands. In fact, the crown prince and the king of Qi often asked the old lady for advice.
The emperor family deserves its name.
With a bitter face, the little princess finally barely grasped all the content that Xie Shence was going to say. With the introduction of the previous story, and Xie Shence's different jerky and boring way of the previous Confucians, the little princess's acceptance speed is still good, after all, people in this era do not have as many obstacles to reading classical Chinese as in later generations.
The day passed quickly, and Xie Shence did not have much sense of burden, but had a faint nostalgia.
Originally, he was a member of the academy, and his profession was a Chinese teacher, but he was still a little bit less than able to devote himself to the great cause of caring for the flowers and plants of the motherland. He was supposed to be the red flag bearer in the tide of socialist construction, but now he is the son of a bureaucrat who is fighting for feudal unification.
After the little princess left, Xie Shence went to the Taixue Shaofu Supervisor to sign the sign, and then went back. This is similar to signing in and out, it is a voucher for taking money, of course, if you have a good relationship with the prisoner, you can also be accommodating.
Xie Shence didn't expect that there were people waiting for him outside the prison room. And the person waiting for him was actually Sima Yu.
When Sima Yu saw Xie Shence come out, he asked with a smile, "Have a drink?"
It's like an old friend for many years.
How much flattered Xie Shence. Although the first reaction was that there must be a demon when something went wrong, he was immediately relieved, how could there be so many deceptions, and this person was still his cousin. I heard that his relationship with his grandfather is much closer than Sima Er's relationship with his grandfather.
Of course, it is limited to learning.
Sima Yu took Xie Shence to a tavern and was very familiar.
The tavern is small, really not big. A counter, a few tables and chairs, a shopkeeper, and a proprietress sell wine. It seems that the business is not bad, otherwise it will be difficult to survive in Jindu.
When the proprietress saw that it was Sima Yu, she didn't say anything, so she asked the shopkeeper to bring a small jar of old wine over, and then served a plate of cooked beef, a plate of peanuts, a plate of pickled duck eggs, and a plate of rice cakes.
Sima Yu poured two glasses of wine, one with Xie Shence. It's a cup, it's better to say it's a small tea bowl. Although this tavern is small and simple, the food is full of portions.
Sima Yu poured the wine, did not invite the wine, took a small bowl and drank it himself, then sandwiched a peanut, and said: "This tavern is nothing new, but the old wine tastes enough, the appetizers are sufficient, and the human touch is enough, so the business has always been passable."
Xie Shence didn't know what to say, or rather, didn't know how to say it.
Sima Yu didn't mean to let Xie Shence answer, so he took another sip of wine, sandwiched a salted duck egg, and then said: "Kyoto residence, it's not easy, but this tavern has been open for more than ten years, are you fifteen this year?"
Xie Shence said: "I turned fifteen two months ago."
Sima Yu said: "I remember the day you were born. This tavern is two or three years older than you. ”
Xie Shence said: "Everyone must have come here often."
Sima Yu said: "It's been eighteen years, and at that time, Wen Zhao (Xie Shenwei's character Wen Zhao) was not yet a full moon. If you have nothing to do, you will come every day, and in the evening, you will be here, drinking, chatting with people, you will feel very comfortable, and you will not ask for anything. The people who come and go are all men who are begging for a living, and the poor families will have a few men together, two jars of wine, and a few dishes every three or five days, and they will live very quickly. There are also those who only buy a bowl of wine, and the young master's family will give a small cup of broad beans. But after all, it is only a piecemeal transaction, just enough to make ends meet. Oh, don't call me everyone, I'm your uncle. ”
Xie Shence didn't know what to say again. So he asked a very stupid question: "Uncle is very familiar with the proprietress very well?"
As soon as the words came out, Xie Shence was very embarrassed, this was really stupid.
Sima Yu glanced at Xie Shence with strange eyes, "Didn't you see it?" ”
When the two came, it was still early, and after a few sips of wine at this time, the number of people in the tavern gradually increased. They were all short and barefoot men, with better outfits, but no more than a pair of torn leather boots on their feet.
At this time, people came and went, Xie Shence actually felt that the business was quite good, the shopkeeper's legs were fast, and the proprietress gradually sweated on her forehead.
Sima Yu said: "At this time of day, it is always the busiest, and sometimes when I have time, I will also go to help."
Xie Shence suddenly gave birth to a sense of sadness, when the wine is sold, the purifier is washed after the pot?
Sima Yu looked at Xie Shence in a daze for a while, and he didn't bother. When someone familiar greets me, he will respond with a smile, and when he is done, he will bow his head and drink and eat.
Thank you for coming back to your senses. Why does this scene tug at the heartstrings?
A man walked into the tavern with a little girl of four or five years old in his arms, knelt down in front of Sima Yu, and Sima Yu couldn't pull it up. The man hugged his daughter and thanked Sima Yu for healing the girl, and he must kowtow to thank him. Sima Yu no longer insisted, got up and straightened his clothes, sat upright, bowed to the man with a serious face, and then helped the man up. Pulling the black and thin little girl, Sima Yu checked the pulse of the little girl, and soon her face was happy, and she said: "That's it, don't freeze at night in the future."
The man thanked him happily and walked away with the girl in his arms.
Xie Shence was curious about Sima Yu's relationship with the people here.
Sima Yu sat down again, drank wine slowly, chewed salted peanuts, and said to Xie Shence: "It's been more than ten years, and I am familiar with every household around here. The man just now, when I met him for the first time, he was only six years old, and now his daughters are six years old. ”
Six? The little girl's body looked like she was five years old at most. But soon calm returned. Teenage children in black Africa are not as healthy as six- and seven-year-olds in developed countries.
Sima Yu continued: "His daughter-in-law is still my matchmaker." smiled, picked up the wine bowl, thanked Shence and signaled, and the two of them drank it all in one gulp.
After that, the two were silent for a long time.
It was getting dark, and the people in the tavern came and went, and came and went, and at this point there were gradually fewer. After the last man who drank had settled the bill and the shopkeeper left, the proprietress also sat down and poured wine for the two. Soon, a boy with a small bag on his back also entered the tavern.
"This is my son." The proprietress said to Xie Shence.
Xie Shence smiled slightly.
The child put it and walked into the back hall, put away the backpack, and came out of the front hall, and the proprietress beckoned him to come over. So the small square table was filled.
Xie Shence is not well adapted to this situation.
Sima Yu was examining the school's homework for the little boy, and also helped to explain the problems that Mr. Shushu did not understand. The little boy listened very carefully, and his meticulous little face was full of concentration. Because he knew that his uncle was very powerful, and the study school was reluctant to accept him back then, but it was the uncle who led him later, so he could go to the study school. Moreover, the uncle should be very knowledgeable, and when Mr. Shushu saw him, he had to perform a discipleship salute. And where the gentleman can't explain clearly, he can speak very thoroughly and understandably.
Uncle took good care of their family, he and his mother.
When it was dark, after Sima Yu had taught the little boy, he and Xie Shence paid for the wine and left. In fact, the proprietress also confiscated the wine money. On the contrary, Xie Shence and Sima Yu helped wash some dishes and wine bowls.
After leaving the tavern and taking a few big breaths, Xie Shence felt a lot more relaxed.
Sima Yu looked at him, his eyes were extremely bright in the night. said, "I appreciate the way you teach Wanting. No one has used this method before, not only me, but almost everyone has not used your way, and of course they don't dare. You...... It's different with us. ”
Xie Shence didn't know what was going on tonight, and he couldn't say anything.
Sima Yu continued: "Nowadays, the so-called Qingliu celebrities and university Confucian scholars, the only people I identify with are your grandfather and Lu Laoru. The rest are empty of names. Only Shang Qing talks about metaphysics, pursues novelty in behavior, and is not a prostitute listening to music on weekdays, how can it be beneficial to the country and the people! It's just a fame and reputation fisherman. I don't like people like that. But there was nothing I could do about it.
When I was young, I was wild and uninhibited, thinking that except for the three sons of Confucius and Mengxun, who else would have the ambition to change the world's style of learning and correct the world's Taoism. But I didn't want to meet her.
People are really strange, I have always scoffed at the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, coarse cloth in her mouth but it is more warm than the saint's classics, the feelings of helping the world, I gradually can't leave everything I disdained before, and I found that life is becoming more and more real, and life is actually more and more enthusiastic. Therefore, I gave up everything I had before, concentrated on my studies, lived every day with my heart, experienced coarse tea and light food, and felt the people and things around me. If you don't blink an eye, it's eighteen years. ”
Xie Shence admired him very much. He is a poet who gave birth to the wrong family.
Letting go of fame and fortune, letting go of hundreds of millions of family fortunes, and letting go of monstrous power is just to be able to truly feel life and understand life, which is not even a poetic dwelling, but a poetic dwelling.