Chapter Forty-Eight: Cold Food Disperses
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This matter is so strange, how could no one know about the Guanglin School? Such a famous school is almost a temple in the hearts of the younger generation of the Great Jin Dynasty! It is not even known to ordinary people! This is completely unreasonable!
But in fact, no matter who Yang Yu and Shi San asked, no one shook their heads and said that they didn't know, a young man who looked like a scholar heard Yang Yu ask, stood there and shook his head and thought for a long time and said to him: "I have an official-run Shenwu School in Dajin, a private Zhixing School, and some old people who have retired from the court also have a new version of the school, but I have never heard of a Guanglin School!"
"That's not right!" Yang Yu said to Shi San.
"At the beginning, Mr. Jia and that Chang Long, even Mr. Lu knew about the Guanglin Academy, and that princess seemed to know, and besides, it was impossible for the old man to lie to me, why didn't anyone here even know that there was a Guanglin Academy here?"
Thirteen frowned and didn't seem to understand, but after looking around, he suddenly pointed in a direction and said, "Go ask him!"
Shi Sansuo pointed to the front of an open courtyard in the distance, a white-bearded old man was decocting medicine, and in front of her was a small red clay stove, on which sat a small clay pot, bubbling, and a smell of medicine came.
But the old man was holding a book and reading it with relish, as if he had forgotten what he was doing.
Yang Yu saw him, dressed in a blue and white robe, with wide sleeves and big sleeves, but his chest was stained with oil, as if he was eating Fasa's vegetable soup, but the old man seemed to be a scholar, and the matter of the scholar was naturally to ask the reader.
Yang Yu stepped forward and bowed his hand and said, "Dare to ask the old man, excuse me, do you know where the Guanglin Academy is?"
The old man was disturbed to read the book, his white beard trembled and he didn't seem to be very happy, he put down the book, saw Yang Yu in front of him saluting him, and immediately nodded with satisfaction: "Guanglin School really hasn't heard of it, I don't know if this little brother is asking if it's my Dajin Academy?"
"That's right, it's my Dajin school, it's famous!" Yang Yu said.
The old man suddenly rolled up the book in his hand and knocked it on his forehead and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't turn my mind just now, the little brother asked Guanglin Academy, right?"
Yang Yu and Shi San glanced at each other, he found this old man very interesting, but this expression now seemed to remind him of something, so he hurriedly nodded: "Exactly, did the old gentleman remember?"
The old man raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Little Brother Mo didn't ask about the Zhulin Academy, right? This Guanglin Academy, as far as I know, is unknown to outsiders, and the people in the capital will only say that it is another courtyard, so no one knows the Guanglin Academy in your mouth!
"Bamboo Forest Courtyard!" Yang Yu muttered twice, as if he didn't believe it, and asked again for the sake of safety: "Is it the academy that the imperial court attaches great importance to and has a lot to do with Xuantian Sect?"
"Hehe, people who are not my Great Jin Jingshi don't know much about this, what Guanglin refers to is the Guanglin Tablet in the Bamboo Forest Courtyard, all the disciples who are born in the Bamboo Forest Courtyard often claim to be the Guanglin Sect to the outside world! And the real academy of my Great Jin Dynasty is the Bamboo Forest Courtyard, thinking that this is an agreement reached between His Majesty the Emperor Bawu and Xuantian Sect, to set up a courtyard in Luoyang, the divine capital, and the location is chosen in the bamboo forest in the northwest corner of this Beijing Division!"
The old man patiently explained, and finally he said, "What you are looking for must be the Bamboo Forest Courtyard!"
"May I ask my uncle, where is this bamboo forest courtyard?" Yang Yu asked after thinking about it.
"Ah! That bamboo forest courtyard is in the green bamboo forest five miles away on the outskirts of Xicheng! Dare to ask the two little brothers, but is it for the spring enrollment of the other courtyard?" the old man asked.
This question made Yang Yu hesitate a little, but he still nodded.
"In a few days, it will be the Cold Food Festival, that is, the Qingming Festival! The people in the city will worship their ancestors and sweep the tombs, and as soon as the Cold Food Festival passes, the other courtyard will hold a spring enrollment, but it is limited to those students who have been recommended by Taixue from all over the world and young sergeants recommended by the military, and the real Dabi enrollment will not be carried out until the winter!" the old man kindly reminded.
"Oh, oh, that's clear, thank you, old man, well, why is the Qingming Festival you said called the Cold Food Festival?" Yang Yu asked again.
The old man smiled, stretched out his hand and stroked his beard and said: "When the ancestors are worshiped during the Qingming Festival, everyone has to carry fruits, wine and vegetables to the ancestors' graves to sweep the tombs.
"What is that?" Yang Yu asked in surprise.
The old man laughed again: "The two little brothers entered Beijing from other places at first glance, and it is not surprising that they don't know that the cold food is scattered, so let's put it this way, what do you think is the difference between my people from the Great Jin Jingshi and outsiders?"
"The difference? Okay, it doesn't seem to be any difference, right? I think everyone in Jingshi seems to be very leisurely, and they all walk slowly!" Yang Yu said.
"People from other countries say that I am a person from the Great Jin Dynasty, with a leisurely expression in wide clothes and big sleeves, as if I am a fairy, but I don't know that it is all because of the cold food!" the old man sighed.
He put down the scroll in his hand, and used iron tongs to clip out some of the red carbon in the red clay stove, making the fire much smaller, and the sound of "toot ......!" in the medicine jar was a little smaller, and then continued to solve Yang Yu's doubts.
"My Great Jin cultivation is prevalent, but this cultivation is not all ordinary people can cultivate, as far as I understand, the qualification is a gap that cannot be crossed, people without qualifications, and the cultivation is not related, but the world does not feel so, I don't know when it began, many people believe that through the power of medicine and stone can change the qualifications, so as to achieve the qualification of cultivation, and this is the origin of cold food!"
Yang Yu's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help asking, "Does that cold food powder really have such an effect?"
The old man shook his head and said: "I don't know, anyway, I haven't taken it, but this thing has a side effect, that is, the person who takes it, after a period of time, although the skin on the body will become smooth, but it will often be very itchy, and even can't touch the clothes, this kind of itching makes many people unbearable, and even the clothes are changed loose, the purpose is to reduce this itchy skin!"
"But what does this have to do with the Cold Food Festival?" Yang Yu was puzzled.
"The fame of the cold food powder is so great that His Majesty the Emperor of the previous dynasty are flocking to it, because the origin of this cold food powder medicine is not clear, and it must be refined before and after the Qingming Festival, so many people will change the name of the Qingming Festival to the Cold Food Festival!" the old man said.
Although Yang Yu learned about the real Guanglin Academy from this old gentleman's mouth, he also heard this relatively absurd story of cold food, which made him feel funny!
Today is not the Qingming Festival, counting the days tomorrow is, but what should I do today?
Shi Sandao: "Take a look!"