Volume 1 A Small Mountain Village in the Cracks Chapter 45 Dates and Peanut Dumplings
When Tang Yi endured hunger and rushed back to Granny Ma's house, Li Lao actually invited a second gentleman for him.
"Alas, you don't know, the old man is an upside-down door, and he has never had much status in the family. The family has always been the child's mother, and since the death of his mother, I want to play the strict father, but ......"
Speaking of this, Li Lao seemed to remember something sad, only to see him wipe his tears, and then continued: "But the old man can't be ruthless." Old man, I also know how much a loving father loses, but the child goes early, I am really reluctant to do so!"
"Old sister-in-law, I know that you are a beautiful lady and a scholarly family, can you ask the old sister-in-law to help and supervise this child's career?"
Granny Ma saw that Li Lao was crying pitifully, and she couldn't bear to refuse, so she took the errand.
Tang Yi thought that he would only ask for a job after eating, so he even felt a little happy in his heart, and felt that he finally didn't have to be targeted by Li Laosan anymore. But before he could sit down, he was stopped by Granny Ma.
I have to say that Granny Ma is an extremely responsible person, and she feels that since she promised Li Lao, she must do a good job. Although Granny Ma's tutor is good and she has also studied some books, if she wants to say that she can teach Tang Yi to do business, even she doesn't believe it.
It's just that since she has already agreed, she must do something, right? So Granny Ma thought of copying books when her brother was enlightened.
Reading is a very hard thing, I remember that when my husband punished my younger brother for copying big characters, he had to finish copying every time before he was given food, otherwise he would be hungry.
As soon as Tang Yi heard that he had to copy the "Analects of Learning" ten times with a brush, and that the handwriting must be neat, but whenever there was a word scribbled, he had to write it anew, and he could only eat after writing, so he immediately stopped doing it, and hurriedly explained to everyone the relationship between him and Li Lao, saying that the two of them were not father and son, and Li Lao was just a stranger he rescued in Pearl Mountain.
But firstly, the image of a "loving father" and "a defeated son" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and secondly, there is no way up and down the valley under the Pearl Mountain, and their ancestors have lived here for generations, and they have never heard of anyone who can come up again after going down. Therefore, even if Tang Yi explained in every possible way, these people refused to believe it.
Everyone felt that Tang Yi was a disobedient son who was to avoid his studies, so several clan elders, Li Shi and Ma Mother-in-law reprimanded Tang Yi fiercely, until he bowed his head respectfully and apologized to the cheap old man, and then everyone continued to go back to eat.
And Tang Yi could only watch the delicacies on the table be filled into the stomach of the old guy Li little by little, and then swallowed his saliva silently.
As for eating, don't even think about it.
Tang Yi went to college in his previous life, but he never learned calligraphy in his previous life, let alone traditional Chinese characters. He could still recognize those traditional characters together to form the Analects, and let him write them silently, which would be more uncomfortable than killing him.
Although Granny Ma is kind-hearted, she is also a very strict person, seeing that Tang Yi didn't write a word for half a day with a pen, she hit him three times with a ring ruler.
Tang Yi is a true martial arts realm martial artist, it stands to reason that he shouldn't feel anything about the three ring rulers, but he just practices Confucian exercises, plus the martial saint moved his hands and feet on the ring ruler in Li Lao, so every time it falls in the palm of his hand, Tang Yi even feels that it hurts more than being shot by a poisonous snake.
In line with the principle of admitting cowardice when it is time to admit it, Tang Yi immediately succumbed to the ruler, regardless of the simplified and traditional characters, and wrote it directly on the paper.
It's just that he has never used a brush, and he doesn't even know how to hold a pen, and he holds the pen and writes according to the posture of holding a pencil, and the writing is naturally extremely ugly, so Tang Yi was once again hit by the three rings.
But it won't be just not, can it be learned suddenly after a few hits?
Granny Ma is only literate and not good at writing, so she invited Li Lao over and taught Tang Yi how to hold the pen hand in hand.
This time I finally know how to hold a pen, but the words that can be written are still like heavenly books, and what he writes is simplified, so seventy or eighty percent of the words Granny Ma doesn't know.
So Tang Yi was once again sadly beaten with three precepts.
After hearing Tang Yi's stomach gurgling, Granny Ma quietly stuffed Tang Yi's four nests with her back to everyone, and asked him to take out the Haoran Sword Qi Determination and copy it according to the book.
It's just that what Elder Li wants is not the incomplete Analects on Haoran's Sword Qi, but the complete version of the Analects, how could he allow them to cheat? Therefore, Tang Yi was obviously holding Haoran's Sword Qi, and he knew that it was the Analects, but when he opened it, he found that not a word was gone.
He also thought that those words had been sucked away by the last pattern, so he reluctantly put away Haoran Sword Qi and continued to draw his own simplified characters.
Although Tang Yi couldn't see the words on the sword technique, Granny Ma could see it. Therefore, when she found out that Tang Yi refused to copy, but still wanted to write those ghost drawings, she wanted to beat him a few more rulers, but fortunately, the 'loving father' came out to relieve him.
Li Lao said that this kind of writing is now used in his hometown, which calmed down Granny Ma.
On this day, Tang Yi stayed up until he was a child before he was let go by Granny Ma, and he hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of cold rice and fell asleep.
Since this day, Tang Yi has started a miserable life that lasts for more than a month, only when he and Li Laosan are in the threshing floor every morning, he can relax a little, and the rest of the time is basically practicing calligraphy.
On the third day, the 'loving father' regretted a little, he felt that the child was too bitter like this, so he wanted Granny Ma to interrupt Tang Yi's study career, but was rejected by Granny Ma with righteous words.
The loving father has many defeated children, the eldest is sad in vain, and the hardships must be borne as soon as possible, and the time is not light.
In fact, Li Lao felt that Tang Yi was suffering, he just wanted the full version of the Analects. But Granny Ma felt that Tang Yi's words were not up to par, and she had to continue to write "The Analects of Learning", and when the words passed the test, she could write the next one.
Li Lao was just afraid that he would offend Tang Yi too hard this time, and if he didn't collect the entire volume of the Analects, it would be difficult for Tang Yimo to write it next time.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is half a month.
This day happened to be the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, the Dragon Boat Festival! It was also Tang Yi's first birthday after coming to Wanluo Realm.
Everyone, including Li Lao, the 'loving father', didn't know what day Tang Yi had birthday, so as soon as he heard about Tang Yi's birthday today, he immediately canceled the morning practice project and allowed Tang Yi to make zongzi with everyone.
However, the afternoon practice could not be canceled, even if Tang Yi begged hard, Granny Ma still disagreed.
However, after hearing that Tang Yi wanted to eat candied dates and peanut dumplings, Granny Ma immediately urged everyone to look for candied dates, but where are the candied dates in Lijia Village?
After all, Lijia Village is a poor and remote area, so what kind of good rice can it afford? It is not even glutinous rice, it is just brown rice grown and self-cooked. The meat dumplings are better, the taste of brown rice is covered by the aroma of meat, but the date dumplings are much worse, and they always feel weird in the mouth.
It's just that what makes everyone strange is that Tang Yi actually burst into tears when he ate such an unpalatable date dumpling, and ate a large pot of dumplings into his stomach in one go.
Fortunately, there is such a 'loving father' as Li Lao on the side, saying that Tang Yi misses his mother, and these zongzi and his mother are wrapped in the same taste. Everyone suddenly realized, but at the same time, it was a little strange, since the zongzi wrapped by his mother tasted like this, why didn't you eat it?
After Li Lao finished eating a meat dumpling with an embarrassed face, he explained that the child missed his mother, and he couldn't bear to rob the child, so he didn't eat the date dumplings.
Li Lao's flickering suddenly attracted a burst of praise from everyone, saying that he is really a loving father, a model for fathers in the world, and so on.
In fact, these zongzi are not delicious, and Tang Yi doesn't like to eat candied dates and peanut dumplings, but when the candied dates and peanuts are chewed in his mouth, no matter how unpalatable the brown rice is, it has no taste, only full of memories.
I don't know how the second elder is doing now, there are no dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival this year. If you wrap it, do you still have your favorite brown sugar dumplings, and do you have your parents' favorite dates and peanut dumplings?
When everyone saw Tang Yi's sadness crying, they couldn't bear to disturb him, and even Granny Ma took the initiative to cancel his homework in the afternoon, but after Tang Yi woke up from his memories, he sat down at the desk without waiting for Granny Ma to urge, picked up the pen and copied the big characters.
This time, his handwriting is much more neat, although it is still far from being good-looking, but it can finally make people recognize what is drawn, although those simplified characters are still not used to it.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone found that Tang Yi had become much more diligent, and when he practiced swords in the morning, even if he was tired and out of breath, even if he was injured by a crossbow arrow, he never dodged an arrow again. If the sword in your hand is shaken away, then use your fist to smash the crossbow arrow, and when the fist can't hit it, you will receive an arrow.
Since that day, Tang Yi has never summoned the Natal Flying Sword, and even suppressed the Natal Flying Sword intentionally or unintentionally, not allowing him to come out and make trouble.
In the afternoon, he practiced calligraphy much more diligently, and Tang Yi even asked Li Lao for advice on how to write traditional characters, and wrote the "Analects of Learning" in traditional Chinese characters from the beginning.
The reason why Tang Yi wrote traditional Chinese characters was not because he wanted to take the top prize, but he still knew about himself, his academic performance in his previous life was not so good, and it was pure luck that he could be admitted to university. In this life, it is impossible to cross the single-plank bridge from the hosts.
If the champion is really so good to test, there will be no such thing as 'thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi'. Others have studied all their lives and failed to get the top prize, just because they are traversers, they should be the top score?
The reason why Tang Yi learned traditional Chinese characters was that he didn't want to be blind in his eyes after those traditional characters were separated in the future, as if he was illiterate. He doesn't ask himself to be able to write any splendid articles, as long as he can recognize the words on them and understand the meaning when he sees any exercise books in the future.
This is the experience gained from watching Haoran's sword qi duel before, except for the Analects on the sword technique, he all relied on the meaning of the sentences before and after. It is only because of the memorization of the Analects that those traditional Chinese characters can be recognized.
In case you encounter this god-level exercise in the future, you won't have to ask someone to ask.
However, Tang Yi thought too much, although there was a difference between good and bad exercises in the Wanluo Realm, there was actually no difference between superior and inferior. A person's achievements do not depend on the quality of the exercises, good exercises may make people take fewer detours, but it does not mean that they can be invincible in the world after learning these exercises.
What determines a person's ultimate achievement is his talent, understanding, heart, and perseverance. If these four are good, even if it is the most common ordinary boxing book, it can still be cultivated to the highest realm.