Chapter 44: The End of Reading
Until Guo Peng got all the axes he was going to give to his father, Gu Hong's knife was still just a prototype.
"It could have been faster." Gu Hong was about to go crazy, and he noticed that in the days that followed, everything was done by Xin Kun herself, and every hammer was slowly hammered there with the largest hammer she could hold.
Gu Hong regretted it, he really regretted it, Xin Kun must be taking revenge on him. Retaliate against himself for thinking that he was expensive, and then, he beat slowly, making himself feel that the longer the time, the better he will be? But every time, when he wanted to reason with him, he was restrained by Guo Peng's cold eyes.
Guo Peng sincerely thinks that Xin Kun is serious, what if he is such a serious person, because he was interrupted in his train of thought and broke a masterpiece? At present, he is the one who pays the money, so theoretically, the knife is still surnamed Guo, what does it matter to the person with your surname Gu!
Gu Hong opened his mouth, and he felt that it made sense, leaving him speechless.
Guo Peng also knew that that night, he not only offended Xin Kun, but also offended Guo Peng. Let him beg for mercy, he really won't, so he can only find something for himself to do, such as borrowing two cows to turn over the ground for Xin Kun. But he couldn't turn the ground every day, so he went and watered the ground now when he had nothing to do. He felt that if he continued like this, he would become a farmer.
And it's the prince's birthday soon, they have to go back, the prince's gift is ready, but what about their own horse chopping knife? Why is it still a very beautiful iron bar with a knife handle?
Gu Hong didn't understand, Xin Kun obviously took less than an hour to get the handle of the knife right, but why was the blade so difficult?
"Let's go back to pay our respects, come back in a few days, don't worry, we will come back, I still have to help you farm?" Guo Peng is saying goodbye to Xin Kun.
At this time, Xin Kun was hitting the blade of the knife, she had just made a big hole in the back of the knife, and was about to put the black iron inside, why did this person come to tell her that these useless things?
"Okay, give me the black iron!" Xin Kun waved his hand and yelled at the people on the side.
These days, as one's own knife is formed, the shape of the black iron sheet is also different. Now, her knife was disemboweled, and she was about to put the black iron.
The old man gave her the black iron, and she nailed it into the open-backed knife and then closed it again, like a nail, and the bottom of the two sides of the closure were grooved.
This is a Japanese saber practice, but it is also different. The Japanese saber is made of hard steel on the outside, and soft steel is used in the U-shaped groove, so that the soft steel inside is the toughness of the entire blade.
And Xin Kun is soft steel on the outside and hard steel on the inside. In this way, the hardness of the entire blade is improved.
The action was done in one go, and the knife was slowly formed, and even a layman could see that the knife was about to take shape.
When she put the blade into the stove again, she remembered Guo Peng, "Alas, what do you want to tell me?" ”
"It's okay, it's okay, you're busy with you, I'm just going to say goodbye." Guo Peng hurriedly looked at her and waved to her.
"Oh, happy birthday to your father." Xin Kun nodded blankly, she remembered that last night, they had already said goodbye, why did they have to say goodbye again when they were working?
"I'll be back in a few days." Guo Peng doesn't mind at all, he knows him a little bit now, he is a person who concentrates on doing things. When he concentrates on his work, he can't hear the outside and doesn't want to bother with the outside world.
"Okay, I'm going to be down in a few days, I'll have to speed up." She muttered, not knowing who she was talking to.
Gu Hong breathed a sigh of relief, finally this was the best news he had heard in a while. He finally remembered that when he asked himself about his habits, he had said that he had no time when he planted the seeds in May. So dragged on until now?
However, when they left, Gu Hong was very pleased to see that Xin Kun was still working selflessly.
The one who sent them out was sent by the old man himself.
Cai Guan, who came to pick them up, looked at the expressions of the old man and Lao Li, one by one, how happy they were to send their little cousin?
Obviously, he received the news that Guo Peng helped Xin Kun to water the ground every day, and he had just seen that the land outside the village was much stronger than that time. He now believed the words of the peasant officials, and the yield on this land would be the highest.
"Your knife isn't good yet?" Cai Guan is also going back, he has already taken leave, these days, he doesn't want to see that 'little bastard'.
He sent a letter to Beijing and told his aunt that Guo Peng had only bought three weapons with 10,000 taels of silver, which meant very clearly, as a cousin, he had to give his parents a reminder now.
As a result, my aunt did not receive a letter, but Prince Ren sent someone to send 10,000 taels of silver tickets, the largest number of silver in Beijing. So, he finally knew how that little bastard was used to it.
Therefore, in addition to regularly carrying Xin Kun to the county government to study, at other times, he would deliberately avoid Xinjia Village even for disaster surveys.
Now, he felt that he should come over, he shouldn't be so eager to let everyone plant millet, but should be like Xin Kun, raising the land first, so he is still anxious!
However, after this period of time as a teacher for Xin Kun, he really had a lot of changes in Xin Kun.
This is really a smart boy, well, he thinks the stupid cousin is also right, Xin Kun that kid is a genius. Not only for striking iron, but also for reading, he is a genius.
Of course, there are also angry times, for example, he told him that the examination for children is divided into five tests, eight strands of essays, policy theories, scriptures, scriptures and poems, and legal endowments.
In other words, after every attempt, he can become a child, and that is only the first step of a long march. And that day, Xin Kun, who has always been very smart in reading, looked up and asked him very blankly, 'What is the scriptures, what is the scriptures and poems, and what is the law.' ’
That day, Guo Peng, who accompanied Xin Kun to listen to the class, was also a little dumbfounded, because he didn't know, he was just a child, as for it? What are those?
And Cai Guan didn't have any expectations for his cousin for a long time, but he really didn't think about it, and Xin Kun didn't know either. Xin Kun's explanation was that he was self-taught, not a formal school, so he really only knew two words.
Cai Guan didn't believe it at all, because he didn't have much time to really teach Xin Kun to read, all he could do was to specify a bibliography, and then let Xin Kun come every few days to see how well he was learning. Then, when he leaves, a new bibliography is assigned.
Xin Kun read all the books he designated, and he suspected that he had already known the topic of the eight-strand essays and strategies he had done. But the problem is also here, all the questions he came up with are whimsical, for a child who is not even a child, how can he seriously think about the topic in advance.
Moreover, he knew very well that even if he knew the topic, if he was really just a child who had studied on his own for a few days and did not have the slightest fame, he would not be able to write such a perfect article.
He is also a person who has been a champion, from the age of four to the present, he really can't put it down. He has carefully touched the papers since the imperial examination records.
Therefore, these articles of Xin Kun are by no means copied. Well, there is only one explanation, this kid is a genius.
At that time, Cai Guan had only one idea. The grandson of a craftsman's family, there are only two people in a village who can read and write, and one of them is a genius. Why can't he strike iron properly? Is it okay to keep them to stimulate these readers? He didn't think about it at all, Xin Kun didn't seem to think about going to school at all.