There was a very boring journey before the ship entered Shu, and Shi Tong could not play with me every day, everywhere I went, there were important official documents waiting for the post station, and took away the ones that were approved at the station. The weather was also very cold, and my in-laws didn't allow the children to play crazy on the deck, for fear of catching a cold, so we had to lock up in a room, Shi Tong approved, and I was reading, Mei Niang and Li Niang were kicking sandbags in the open space in front of me.

"Do you have to let them play here?" Shi Tong put down his pen and looked at me helplessly.

"Mother won't let them out." I deliberately misinterpreted his meaning, and he gave me a blank look and looked at the scroll in my hand.

"Actually, you can teach them to read." He thought of a way to play that he thought would be quieter.

I looked at him playfully and thought for a moment, "Are you sure?" ”

"Forget it." He understood what I meant, and if the two children were to study together again and again, it would be more noisy than this, and I couldn't help laughing, and Liniang and Meiniang stopped and saw me lying on the edge of their father's desk laughing, their eyes full of doubt.

"There are arbors in the south, and you can't think about it. Han has a wandering girl, unthinkable. The breadth of the Han cannot be swimmed. The Han is eternal, and it is impossible to think about it. "Walking on the Han River, I suddenly thought of the song "Han Guang", so I read it to the children. Wanting to see their reactions, Liniang asked me, "What do you mean?" ”

Mei Niang seemed to hear Shi Tong's words just now, she thought about it, and slowly said: "There are arbors in the south, don't think about it." Han has a wandering girl, unthinkable. The breadth of the Han cannot be swimmed. The Han is eternal, and it is impossible to think about it. ”

Shi Tong had already taken a pen and was about to approve the official document again, but at this time he looked at me in a daze, and I was also stunned for a moment, and my first reaction was to say to Shi Tong: "I read it for the first time." ”

He looked at Xiao Meiniang blankly, "Is it the first time you heard my mother read it?" ”

"Can't you read it?" She asked rhetorically.

"No, you read it very well." He thought for a moment, "At the turn of October, Shuo Ri Xinmao. There is an eclipse of the sun, and there is also the ugliness of the hole. The moon is small, and the day is small. Now the people are also mourning. ”

Mei Niang knew that her father was teaching herself, and when Shi Tong read the poem, she listened very carefully, and I pulled Li Niang into my arms and looked at them quietly. Mei Niang really retold it quickly, Shi Tong's face of ecstasy I really want to take a picture, it turns out that as a father, it is the same in ancient and modern times, at this time I bet he thinks Mei Niang is a prodigy. However, thinking about it, if it wasn't a prodigy, how could the fourteen-year-old Mei Niang be known by the deep palace, I sighed slightly.

"What's wrong with my mother?"

"It's okay, the poem I just read is from the "Book of Songs" called "Han Guang", which means that a man saw a girl swimming on the Han River, and fell in love, but the Han River is wide and wide, he can't swim over, and he can't pass the woodcut, so he is very helpless."

"What did Dad just read?" The person who asked this time was Mei Niang, so I laughed, alas, I can grab it, but I don't know what it means. I nodded her nose.

"Don't be so clever in the future, reading is a very happy thing for girls, you can only read the books you want to read, instead of grabbing memories to please your parents." I said to her with a straight face.

"Aren't boys happy studying?"

"No girl is free, so my mother won't force you to read, but she will allow you to read. You can read the books at home, and you can read them however you want, but remember, Mom and Dad don't force it. ”

"Got it, you didn't say Dad's poems." She nodded, but she hadn't forgotten to know the meaning of the poem, and it seemed she really wanted to know.

"What my father just read is also from the Book of Songs? The first paragraph of Xiao Yaming's "Turn of October" alternates fingers. It means that on the first day of October, there was a solar eclipse in the sky, which was a bad omen from heaven, and the people were panicked and scared. The whole poem is very long, talking about the solar eclipse phenomenon that occurred on the first day of October in the sixth year of the ancient Zhou Youwang, so that a series of natural disasters occurred later 'hundreds of rivers boiled and mountains collapsed', and put forward a warning to the politics of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Then it was revealed that King Zhou You favored his concubines, reused traitorous ministers, disrupted the government and harmed the people, and brought pain to the people, and also expressed the profound meaning of 'the sins of the people, the bandits descended from the sky, and the hatred was betrayed, and the job competition was carried out by the people'. ”

"Mother's song is better." Liniang in my arms nodded and said.

"Okay, my mother will go back and write down the whole poem and teach Liniang to memorize it, okay?" I smiled, sure enough, it was Li Niang, something too complicated was not suitable for her, she smiled and nodded.

"Then Daddy teach me!" Mei Niang turned to Shi Tong, Shi Tong hurriedly agreed, I think he is about to die of happiness. It should be a pleasure to teach a teachable talent, and I have no objection to it, because it is useless for me to stop it. Sometimes I'm afraid of Mei Niang, I don't dare to really teach her things, I'm afraid of intervening in history, and I'm even more afraid of changing history, I sometimes think, Mei Niang is this is my fault? Sometimes I silently shirk my responsibilities in my heart, but I understand that no matter what I think, Mei Niang's character has gradually formed, and I can't change it, let alone what can be corrected, all I have to do is wait.

Along the way in the future, he took Mei Niang, I took Li Niang, did not formally teach them to read, so I started teaching from their poems, I am more serious than Shi Tong, I will try to pick some simple poems to teach, so as to let Li Niang recognize more words, so our progress is much slower. And Shi Tong is different, he enjoys Mei Niang's intelligence very much, teaches Mei Niang to memorize almost all the poems he thinks is good, and then let Mei Niang come to me to read and write, Mei Niang seems to be very hard-working, and has invested great enthusiasm. Actually, it doesn't look like a child, and I often ask, 'Why don't you go play?' She refused, and always said, 'Daddy will teach a new one tomorrow.'" 'Alas! What kind of child?

So I invested more time in Liniang and Qiang'er, I really like Qiang'er, and Liniang is really well-behaved and sensible, she will gradually be intimate with me like Mei Niang. Mei Niang, because of Shi Tong's favor, has not so deep attachment to me, and seems to think that Li Niang and they have a part in persuading me to go home, so they are a lot kinder. It's just that behind my back, I always feel that there are a pair of eyes looking at me, which makes me very uncomfortable, but when I look back, there is really no one, I haven't said it to Shi Tong, and I think maybe I am too careful.

Entering the Three Gorges means that we have entered Shu, I do not allow Mei Niang to recite poems again, let people put tables and chairs on the deck, let the in-laws and children sit on the deck together and look at the scenery on both sides of the strait, the Three Gorges in the cold winter is actually another exquisite, I have taken a boat tour in the summer in modern times, and the tour guide at that time said that in fact, winter is the best time to watch the clouds and rain in Wushan. Shi Tong couldn't help laughing at me when he saw my excited expression, and asked me if I didn't want to recite poetry. I shook my head, and Li Niang asked why? I kissed her hard and said that she was studying too much and was stupid. After saying that, I didn't forget to twist Mei Niang's ears. She raised her eyebrows, a picture that couldn't stand me, she really looked like a scholar. I laughed and couldn't help but grab Shi Tong's arm: "You have taught her badly, and it is becoming more and more unlovable." ”

"Is there one? Daddy, have I taught a bad girl? He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and this time his in-laws laughed.

"No wonder Mei Niang has been weird to look at recently, sister-in-law, don't let the boss teach Mei Niang again." The father-in-law said deliberately blowing his beard.

"Yes." Said to her father-in-law like Liniang, and everyone laughed together. In hindsight, it seemed like one of our happiest times.