Chapter 25: The Housework of the Officials (7)

When eating dinner, Qin Yuzhen didn't see her son Zhao Qian. couldn't help but ask Zhao Jiaren, "Where did Da Lang go?" ”

"He went to deliver a suicide note to his comrades." Zhao Jiaren replied.

"Send a suicide note?" Qin Yuzhen repeated puzzled. Then it took a lot of effort to remember what the suicide note meant. At this time, Qin Yuzhen asked in surprise: "Where did the suicide note come from?" ”

"We all have to write a suicide note before we go to war. I also wrote. If they die honorably, the troops will send their suicide note home. This time, Dalang's unit experienced many bloody battles, and many of his comrades-in-arms were sacrificed. Da Lang wants to send their suicide notes back to the hometown of those soldiers and give them to their families. ”

Although this question clearly answered Qin Yuzhen's question, it made Qin Yuzhen even more puzzled and asked, "Then why do you want Da Lang to send it." ”

"The bird we raised died, and you took the child to dig a pit and bury the bird. At the end, he told the children a story that a tree would grow in the place where the bird was buried, and the reincarnated bird would sing on the tree. Da Lang's comrade-in-arms is dead, what's the problem with sending the suicide note back to his hometown? ”

Qin Yuzhen was speechless when she heard such an explanation. Raising and burying small birds was a matter of many years ago, when children were very young. It's also a shame that Zhao Jiaren remembers it so clearly. But after thinking for a while, Qin Yuzhen suddenly felt a little awake, and she asked unhappily: "Are you accusing me, thinking that human life in my eyes is not as good as a bird?" ”

was questioned by his wife like this, Zhao Jiaren suddenly found that he really felt that his wife had a cold reaction to Zhao Qian's suicide note, and couldn't help but ridicule him. However, this could not be admitted under any circumstances, so Zhao Jiaren immediately pretended to be stupid and shook his head. "Absolutely not!"

Qin Yuzhen actually felt a little excessive in her heart, maybe because of this, she couldn't accept criticism from others. Seeing Zhao Jiaren pretending to be stupid, Qin Yuzhen looked left and right angrily, and finally sat back in his seat with a gloomy face. Zhao Jiaren didn't say anything and sat down silently.

When his son expressed that he wanted to send suicide notes to those comrades who died gloriously, Zhao Jiaren didn't say anything, just simply agreed, but Zhao Jiaren thought a lot in his heart. He very much hopes that his son Zhao Qian can go around through this incident, and then have more observations and understanding of the grassroots of the Great Song Dynasty.

But as a psychiatrist, Zhao Jiaren knows very well what it is to be clever and promote seedlings. Now that Zhao Qian can let go of the things in his heart, it is good. The experience of Zhao Qian joining the army this time has proved that Zhao Qian is a very normal and motivated young man, so all his reactions are expected by Zhao Jiaren. That's it, Zhao Jiaren almost forgot the perspective barrier caused by Zhao Qian being forced to join the army.

The instructor specially placed by Zhao Jiaren felt that Zhao Qian was always different from others, and that was because others joined the army for a better life, or even for some kind of ideal. For example, in the report of the Red Turban Army, Zhang Shijie praised a young man named Qin Mohuan, believing that Qin Mohuan maintained the ideal of expelling the Tatars and recovering China, so even in the face of various limitations as a local power, Qin Mohuan was able to always pursue progress and get close to the Great Song Dynasty.

Compared with these people, Zhao Qian thinks that joining the army is a kind of 'distribution' and a kind of 'lowering status'. It was this kind of thinking that greatly reduced the effect of Zhao Qian's training. However, Zhao Jiaren is also very helpless, some things are not up to him. If it is the 21st century, Zhao Jiaren can certainly educate children with equality, labor is the most glorious, working people are the masters of the country, only different positions, no different status, and so on.

In such an era with natural status and identity differences, Zhao Qian, who already has a gap in status and consciousness, is already amazingly close to the people. Zhao Jiaren is really unwilling to make more unreasonable demands on his son.

Hopefully, this child will be able to ...... in this experience Let's untie the knot. Zhao Jiaren looked forward to it silently. But he didn't know who to tell him about it.

In the past few years when Zhao Qian went out to be a soldier, his family has gradually become accustomed to eating for a family of four. During the meal, Zhao Xun, who was alive and well yesterday, buried himself in eating, and got up after eating to leave. Qin Yuzhen stopped Zhao Xun, "Erlang, where is that little lady you fancie?" ”

When Zhao Jiaren heard this, he immediately interrupted his wife's words. "Erlang, you go back first. I told you to come to me in three days, and you did as I said. ”

Zhao Xun listened to his father's words and slipped away without saying a word. Zhao Jiaren waited for his wife to finish eating, and then asked, "Why don't we go for a walk in the palace?" ”

The palace and the back garden where Zhao Jiaren now lives are separated by a West Lake, and the back garden has a small pier by the West Lake. Qin Yuzhen listened to Zhao Jiaren's suggestion and said sullenly: "Are you going to accuse me?" ”

"I'm not accusing you. Everyone is such a life, who has what experience. Zhao Jiaren sighed.

"When I see these kids coming around like this, I'm anxious." Qin Yuzhen said depressedly.

"They have their own lives, and if the world were the same, where would we have cotton clothes to wear now. Now you and I are still dressed in animal skins and leaves, and hunt outside with sticks. Slash-and-burn farming is an extremely advanced production method for us. ”

"But they can't do that. Da Lang is just coming and leaving. Erlang is about to get married when he falls in love with the little lady. Auntie follows you, hum! I think she can't do this to be the Taiping princess of the Tang Dynasty. San Lang, the two of us were so disciplined back then! ”

"Shh Zhao Jiaren asked his wife to whisper, and then leaned into his wife's ear and said, "If we really follow the rules, can I be an official?" Can you be a queen? ”

Qin Yuzhen knew that Zhao Jiaren was not afraid that others would know about this at all, but to make Qin Yuzhen happy. Even if this is actually not ridiculous, but with Zhao Jiaren's thoughts, Qin Yuzhen also burst out laughing. In fact, if you think about it carefully, Qin Yuzhen also admits that the world is always changing, and she is also one of the characters at the center of the whirlpool of change. It's just that now that the children are changing so fast, Qin Yuzhen feels that her heart can't withstand such drastic changes.

After laughing a few times, Qin Yuzhen asked Zhao Jiaren, "San Lang, I see that you are calm, how did you deal with such a change?" ”

Zhao Jiaren said: "After these recent events, I suddenly figured out one thing. In the past, I have seen some people say that officials have no selfish affairs. I think that's nonsense. Now I finally feel that this makes a lot of sense. ”

Looking at Zhao Jiaren's serious expression, Qin Yuzhen sneered again and responded, "Nonsense! ”