Chapter 11 Where is Li Bai?
When Li Bai got that very decent and lucrative job in Changgan Village, and was able to support himself and his sister with it, his life returned to peace again, and then he did it for more than a month, until the first light snow of this cold winter arrived.
During this period of time, he basically didn't do anything too out of line or too attention-grabbing, every day he went to teach the village children to read and write in the morning, practiced swords in the afternoon and took time to tutor his sister Lin Qingmei alone, and after eating at home in the evening, he used his meager 'salary' in exchange for pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to practice calligraphy on a piece of paper that was not cheap and slightly yellowed, and then day after day, the small days came over like this.
Anyway, for now, Li Bai feels quite satisfied and comfortable......
After all, his workload is not heavy, and the villagers are also very satisfied with his teaching results, and when the weather is bad or when there is a major festival, he can still be lazy openly.
It's a pity that the first snow of the day is still too small, and after he found out that his students didn't even think it was a force majeure climate factor, and still arrived at the 'village school' behind the village on time to wait, he could only show up, and just like that, in the light snow like goose feathers, he guided the twenty or so village naughty children whose cheeks were red from the cold wind to read aloud.
This is actually very bad, because no matter how small the snow is, it can freeze people, especially when these little kids are dressed in different thicknesses!
In short, Li Bai had secretly decided that after the morning reading class was completed, he had to go to the old man Muramasa Lin and say it well, and strive to include the windy days that are too cold or the current light snow days in the 'list' that must be closed in the future.
Otherwise, the village will have to pay for and work again to repair the big shed a little, and surround it with turf or planks or something, so that they can stay in it in the winter and shelter from the wind and snow?
Either way, it would have to wait until this morning's class was over, and now he had to dutifully stay in the cold wind and snow for at least an hour!
'The way of teaching is ...... specialization'
'Dou Yanshan, there is a righteous side. Teach the five sons, and they are all famous......'
'If you don't teach, it's ......your father's fault'
In this way, when the villagers in Changganli hid in their homes and began to spend the winter, their children and nephews were driven by them to the forest behind the village, wrapped in different thick clothes, and read aloud in the 'village school', which had been slightly sprinkled with a layer of white.
At this time, on the north path of the village in the small mountain village of Changganli, several pedestrians riding tall horses and carrying a group of more than a dozen porters were hurrying forward in the wind and snow, and now they were about to touch the entrance of the village.
"Alas......"
"This weather, it seems that today is not going to be better, Zhang Shilang, I really want to have a village ahead, why don't I wait to rest for the night, and then go tomorrow?"
"Yes, too!"
"But don't call me a squire in the future, Zhang is just a white cloth now, a flat-headed commoner, and he can't be the 'squire', the name."
'Ahh ’
"This, Zhang Gongyan is serious!"
"Alas......"
"The Shenlong mutiny failed, the female emperor refused to abdicate with her divine power, and she also killed and took the throne, imprisoned the crown prince Li Xian, deceived the heavenly court with clever words, and deposed and exiled us.
“!!”
"Zhang Gong is silent! Beware of misfortune coming out of the mouth, and bringing misfortune for nothing?! ”
"Humph! Anyway! ”
"This is to the border of Yaozhou, the mountains are high and the road is dangerous, there are countless demons and gods along the way, I have long expected that I will not be able to return to Beijing alive, and I am afraid of causing any disaster? It's a big deal that she's just dead, and I'm talking about her here, so what's the matter? ”
“……”
“……”
However, as soon as the old man in front of him with a snow hat finished speaking, the soldiers around him who were escorting him were all silent in an instant, and no one dared to talk, and even from the sudden white breath that came out of their mouths and noses before they exhaled, it could be known that their mood at this moment was definitely not very calm.
"Zhang Gong ....."
"Come on, there is a small mountain village in front of us, the weather is getting colder and colder now, we can spend the night there, and then go up the river tomorrow, and we will arrive in Yizhou in a few days."
"Yizhou?"
"Huh! Yizhou is still far away from Yaozhou, the mountains are high and the roads are dangerous, and it is in the middle of winter, I don't know if my old bones can survive there, and I don't know if it will be swallowed by a big demon halfway? ”
"That's it!"
"It's useless to talk more, please lead the way, Zhang is up to you."
“……”
"Don't panic Zhang Gong, Gong is an important member of the imperial court, and he has his own blessings and heavenly protection, so it is expected that some barbarian demons will not dare to collide with the honorable driver? And a few of our brothers are still brave, and the barbarian demons are not enough to worry about, and they will be able to protect Zhang Gongquan! ”
"Brute? Not necessarily! ”
"That's it! Let's not talk about it, lead the way! When I have leisure in the future, Zhang will talk to you about the barbarians who are looked down upon by the people in the capital! ”
At the end of the narrative, after a short stay on the path at the entrance of the village, they rushed towards the small mountain village in the snow, led by the knights at the head, and soon connected with the village and the villagers of Changganli, who had already been notified by the pathfinder who had already gone first.
After a while, when they reached the land, they dismounted, intending to rest in the village house's house and several large adjacent farmyards nearby.
'The three talents, the heavens, the earth and the people. The Three Lights, the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. ’
'The three outlines, the monarch and the minister. Father and son, husband and wife. ’
'Spring and summer, autumn and winter. At this time, the luck is endless......'
However, at this time, when the group of people dismounted and finished tidying up, and were about to follow the village and the others into the house to rest, the old man among them suddenly stopped, and stopped and tilted his ears slightly, as if he was listening to something carefully.
"Huh?"
"Lin Cunzheng, where is that over there?"
After hearing the direction of the loud reading sound clearly, the old man who had been called 'Zhang Shilang' suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but point to the unclear forest behind the village with some surprise and asked.
"Ah......h
"Hui Shilang, over there is the village school of my Changgan Village, and it should be the naughty children in the village who are reading in the snow in the morning?"
To tell the truth, just now when he learned that his small mountain village had the opportunity to receive a former squire from the capital, the old man Muramasin was so excited and humble that he almost couldn't even straighten his waist, even if the other party was just a deposed and exiled passerby!
However, when he heard the other party ask about the village school of their village, he was rarely proud and straightened his waist and raised his head and introduced it.
"Village Studies?"
"What a village school! You guys clean up here for the time being, I'll go with this village Zhenglin old man to have a look, and then look for someone to call me when you're ready! ”
Looking at the courtyard where people were neighing and messing around, 'Zhang Shilang' thought about it, and immediately reached out and took the arm of the old man of the village Zhenglin, and motioned for the other party to take him to the village school where there were children reading some kind of wonderful article.
'It is said that water and fire, wood and gold and earth. These five elements are just a number. ’
'Ten cadres, A to Decay. Twelve, the Son to the ......'
“!!”
"Good!"
"Wonderful! Wonderful! Uncle, I don't know what kind of articles are read by children in your village school, why are they so catchy and contain such astronomy, geography and human ethics? ”
From just now to now, although he has only listened to it from a distance, this well-informed and knowledgeable old man, the deposed Zhang Shilang, heard a trace of mystery on the spot, so he couldn't wait to ask the old man Mura Zhenglin beside him.
"That's the "Three Character Classic", which is the reading material for the enlightenment of the naughty boys in my long cadre."
As he spoke, Lin Laitou's waist straightened up, and the old cold legs, which were originally sore and sore as soon as they arrived in the cold weather, also became neat.
Originally, he always thought that the "Three Character Classic" was just Li Bai casually finding some articles to fool things, but for the sake of making the children in the village literate, he didn't bother with it, but now when he heard the other party's praise, he became excited.
After all, this is the court's servant, and it is the praise of the former prime minister of the Tang Empire, and even the prime minister said that it is good, then it must be excellent, it seems that he did misunderstand Li Bai's baby before, and the treatment and attitude towards the other party in the future must be better.
"The Three Character Classic? Sure enough, it lives up to its name, although it sounds popular, but it is smooth and easy to remember, but I don't know who wrote it? ”
"Naturally, it's Li Bai, the teacher of the village school!"
"'Teacher'? Old man, De also! Only by correcting one's own body can one teach others and thus learn from them...... That's a clever statement! ”
"However, where is Li Bai, the teacher of the village school?"
When this Zhang Shilang listened carefully to the sound of the children reading, and slowly followed the old man of the village Zhenglin and the two entourages to the grove of the village school, what he saw was only a group of naughty children from the mountain village who hurriedly left after reading the book rubbing their hands as if they had been pardoned and covering their faces that were red from the cold, and looked at them with curious eyes.
Therefore, Zhang Shilang, who looked left and right, and found that there did not seem to be any adult figures in this extremely simple open-air village school, so he couldn't help but turn around and ask strangely.
“??”
Li Bai didn't know who the old man Muramasa Lin was brought, because he said that he didn't know those people at all!
"Excuse me......"
"Is there anything you guys are up to?"
However, when he heard that the other party seemed to be calling his name and was still looking around, he couldn't help but take two steps forward a little strangely, and only after walking in front of the other party did he ask out strangely.
"Ah......h
"Xiaowa, let me ask you, what about your teacher?"
Looking at the little boy in front of him who came forward to talk, and then looked at the wooden sword in the other party's hand, the dress of Lisuo, and the strange animal skin vest tied to his body to protect him from the cold, 'Zhang Shilang' didn't think much about it, because he didn't have time to waste time with the other party, but hurriedly opened his mouth and asked again.
“??”
Li Bai couldn't help but be stunned again, the other party seemed to be still calling his name just now, why did he start asking his teacher again now?
If the other party wants to find his Li Bai's teacher, then he can't help it.
Because he has a lot of teachers, which one is the other party looking for? And, most importantly: those teachers of his are in different schools more than a thousand years later in another world, and here in this Tang Empire, they will definitely not be found!
Therefore, he didn't know how to answer the other party for a while.
“!!”
At this time, Lin Qingmei, a little girl who was originally in the distance and didn't know what to do, saw these strangers in extraordinary clothes being brought by Grandpa Muramasa, and after hearing the other party call her Li Bai's brother's name, she suddenly didn't know what she thought of, so she hurriedly rushed over to the ground, and grabbed the corner of Li Bai's clothes and asked timidly:
"Brother Li, Li Bai ......"
"They...... Who are they? ”
I don't know what's going on, at this time, her face is full of that anxious and panicked look, and her hands are holding on to it, as if she is afraid that these strangers in front of her will suddenly snatch her only Li Bai brother away?
"I don't know, I don't know these guys......"
Li Bai gently patted his sister's hand and signaled not to worry, before he also whispered into the other party's ear and replied.
"That ......"
"Then why did they just call your name?"
"How do I know?"
"You really don't know?"
"I don't know!"
"You're not lying?"
"Lie to you that you're a puppy!!"
“……”
When Li Bai and his sister Lin Qingmei were muttering quietly, after the 'Zhang Shilang' saw that there was indeed no shadow of an adult on the left and right, his heart was in a hurry, and he could no longer care about the little boy who had just come to him to talk and the little girl who looked at him timidly, but turned his head again to the village and asked:
"Uncle Lin, I don't know where Li Bai, the teacher of your village school, is?"
In Zhang Shilang's opinion, if the other party can teach those rural children to read aloud the kind of "Three Character Classic" that he has never seen and heard and has never heard of, and covers history, astronomy, geography, morality, benevolence, righteousness, sincerity, respect, filial piety and some folklore, then he must be an amazing strange person, and he will see it anyway.
"Huh?"
"But Zhang Shilang, Li Bai, the teacher of our village school, isn't it here?"
At this time, it was the turn of the old man of Muramasa Lin to be a little stunned and at a loss, but he didn't care so much, directly under the incredible gaze of the other party, stretched out his dark fingers that were a little dry in winter, and exclaimed to Li Bai, who was standing in front of him and whispering something to the little girl of Lin Dalang's family.
“!!”
"He's Li Bai?!"
"Exactly!!"
"How could it be ......"
"But he's Li Bai!"
“……”
"This old man, Xiao Ke can not change his name, he will not change his surname, it is Li Bai, I don't know what you are doing when you come to the door?"
Although he didn't know what the guy in front of him was looking for him, after thinking about it for a while, he was sure that he really didn't know the bad old man brought by this village, Li Bai asked again and bowed slightly.
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