Grandpa Mao once said: "If you want to write well, you have to get up early." To write beautifully, you must hone it diligently. ”

After Liu Chenxing finished eating the mutton soup, he planned to practice calligraphy.

It's just that people are easy to get sleepy when they are full, and the snow is too suitable for Meimei to sleep, so she simply used this as an excuse to snatch the dishes and chopsticks from Liu's hand and boil them with hot water to wash, and then began to practice calligraphy.

Although the family is living a good life now, the heating materials and process costs such as copper stoves are too expensive, and their family still can't afford to consume them.

Therefore, just like most people's homes are warmed, dig a deep pit in the main hall and make a fire in the pit to keep warm, which is the hearth used to eat mutton soup pot at noon.

The hearth was only dug and built in the hall, so Liu Chenxing carried a long case and knelt beside the hearth to practice calligraphy.

probably has a brother's high school jinshi, and he is a female lifter, and the Liu family no longer thinks that the jinshi is too far away, and the children may be able to be like their uncle, and they will also go to Chang'an to see it in the future, so the cost will be big.

Liu didn't dare to slack off, and on the days when she didn't go to the village school to teach, she would weave at home, and it would be good to earn an extra penny.

After a while, the sound of weaving came from the left room on the side.

After listening to the sound of weaving for thirteen years, I get up and go to bed every morning, and if I don't hear it one day, I may not be used to it.

It's just that it's too hard, and she can't repay it, and she can only make achievements in the imperial examination.

Liu Chenxing glanced at the left room, no longer affected by the sound of the machine, she concentrated on writing.

In fact, Grandpa Mao also said: "To learn words, you must have stickers!" ”

Liu Chenxing learned characters from copying Liu Wensu's characters.

Liu Wensu was able to go all the way to the capital, and won the first place in the second examination of the county and state, which shows that his words are not bad.

However, after so many years of copying, it has reached a bottleneck, and it is urgent to seek new breakthroughs.

But is it easy to get a famous copybook?

Liu Chenxing has no stickers to copy, so he can only lay down the basic skills and continue to practice block letters stroke by stroke.

First of all, I wrote the "Book of Rites and Learning", which was not finished at noon.

After thinking about it, I have written a piece of the "Five Classics" today, and yesterday I wrote "Erya" silently, and now I still have time, so I simply chose "Lao Tzu" to write it silently.

The snow was dark early, and the dictation was only halfway through, and the lead clouds were already hanging low outside the hall, and the light shining into the hall was naturally darker, and it was not as bright as the fire on the side.

Liu Chenxing sighed and finally stopped writing.

At this time, the furniture is low, and I have to kneel and sit, and the right hand holding the pen has been hanging in the air, immersed in the calligraphy and not feeling uncomfortable, but this stop, but it is stiff and sour.

Liu Chenxing stretched his arms and moved his muscles and bones, and did a set of modern eye exercises before getting up and leaving the case.

The light in the hall has been dimmed like this, let alone the left room on the side?

Listening to the uninterrupted sound of the machine, I had the heart to persuade A-Niang to stop weaving, and thought that although I could persuade A-Niang now, if I delayed A-Niang's weaving process today, A-Niang would be weaving late tonight, so I gave up.

Changing the pace of going to the left room, he went out of the hall and stood under the eaves outside the hall, letting the cold wind blow, and the head of the firewood that had been roasted all afternoon was much more sober.

Another cold wind hit, the hairband on the bun blew on the face, looked down and brushed off the hairband, and suddenly saw a touch of tender green on the bottom of the corridor.

Liu Chenxing thought he was dazzled, and he was busy looking carefully, but it was really green, but a weed sprouted.

The weather is strange these days, it snows in February spring, and now when I see a touch of spring, I chanted: "The New Year is not blooming, and I was surprised to see the grass buds at the beginning of February." The snow is too late in spring, so it wears the garden trees to make flying flowers. ”

Such a masterpiece is not made by Liu Chenxing, but "Spring Snow" by Han Yu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty of the Celestial Dynasty.

Liu Chenxing did not plagiarize the poetry of the ancients, but because of the content of the imperial examination, he continued to recite Tang and Song poems every day, in order to improve his poetry level.

After reciting them day after day, he understood the poetry of these poems, and asked himself to recite a poem according to the situation he saw, and then imitate it.

Just as he was about to settle down and rack his brains to imitate a song, he saw the courtyard gate being pushed open from the outside, and two people in cloak drove an ox cart pulling goods into the courtyard.

The sky was overcast, and there were all kinds of snowflakes, so I couldn't see who it was, but as soon as the two similar tall figures appeared, Liu Chenxing recognized them at a glance.

"Auntie! Aye picks up Brother and comes back! ”

Liu Chenxing shouted to the left room, took an umbrella from under the eaves, and greeted him with his shoes.

Liu Qianli jumped off the cow lane: "Ah Xing, it's cold in the courtyard, what are you doing when you come down!?" Hurry back to the house! Aya dragged the cow to the backyard and tied it up, and then went back to the house! ”

Liu Chenxing stood aside with an umbrella and said with a smile: "I'll go to the kitchen to make wine for Aye." ”

When Liu Qingshan heard this, he also jumped out of the ox cart and took the opportunity to say: "Aya said that the family knows that I am coming back, and I stewed a leg of mutton in the morning, don't forget to drink when you drink, and get me a lamb bone with meat!" ”

Just like modern boarding students who go home from vacation, every time Liu Qingshan comes back from vacation, Liu will do his best to get a table of good food.

Liu Chenxing also thought about his brother a little, so he responded: "I know, I'll pick a big lamb bone for my brother!" ”

After speaking, he went into the kitchen, beat turbid wine, and picked up lamb bones.

Now the conditions at home are better, unlike in Lao Liu's house, turbid wine is exclusive to Mr. Liu.

Because the degree is very low, it is no different from the modern Sichuan mash, and it has become a daily drink at home.

Liu Chenxing skillfully scooped a bowl of turbid wine from the wine jar, picked two big lamb bones, and waited until he returned to the main hall to warm the two things by the hearth, Liu Shi had already come out of the left room, Liu Qianli and Liu Qingshan also cleaned up, and the family sat around the hearth and gossiped.

Liu Qianli threw up the hot wine handed by his daughter, only to feel warm from his mouth to his heart, and sighed with an empty bowl: "It's still Ah Xing's intimacy, unlike this kid Qingshan, if it weren't for him to participate in some book club, I would have sold the mountain goods and returned!" ”

Selling wild game is still a major income for the Liu family.

Liu Chenxing thought that modern processed goods could be sold at a higher price, so he came up with the idea of letting the prey be marinated into dried meat and then sold.

If you encounter a hare with good fur, you can also dispose of the fur and keep it in storage, and then take it to the county to sell it in winter.

In the same way, in view of the fact that there are no fresh vegetables in winter, it is the ancient Chinese cabbage - woad cabbage, Liu Chenxing dried the wild mushroom fungus and other mountain delicacies that he usually picks, and sold them in winter, which is better than the fresh mountain delicacies in spring and summer.

Liu Qianli is going to the county seat to sell these goods today, he goes about once every ten days, and it just so happens that Liu Qingshan has a ten-day break from studying, so he can pick up his son and go home together.

Therefore, Liu Qingshan knew that his Aya was hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, and pursued filial piety under the stick, but he still had a strong desire to survive and bit down a big mouthful of mutton, and defended himself: "What if you don't see more before the exam?" Who let me have a sister who is only thirteen years old to participate in the imperial examination? In case I get behind Ah Mei, where will my brother's face go? ”

Hearing this, Liu Chenxing thought about the county test in the near future, and his big black eyes flashed with a touch of inevitable.

Since you are struggling with the village school and have nothing to do, then you can get out!