Seeing that Changsun Wuji had made up his mind, Changsun Sheng and Gao Qiuniang both showed approving smiles on their faces, and said to Gao Jian: "Shilian, since Wuji wants to do this, you can agree." ”

Gao Jian said in his heart, Wuji has been clothed and fed since he was a child, and it is not unhelpful for him to suffer some hardships.

Mencius said: "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically. ”

Children are always pampered, how can they know the hardships of life?

He said to the eldest grandson Wuji: "This is your own decision, you have to stick to it to the end, but you don't have to live in a grass hut." During the day, you can study with me in the hut, and return to the manor at night to rest at night. If you have made up your mind, then come with me tomorrow to the cemetery to build a straw hut. ”

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In the fields of the moon, the wind is howling.

The snow that fell half a month ago has not completely melted.

The vast land is covered with snow.

Gao Jian asked the servants to pull the materials for building the shed with an ox cart, and led the eldest grandson Wuji to the Gao family cemetery.

The roads in the fields are potholed, and the snow on the roads has been trampled and solid in some places, and it is still in a soft state in others.

The ox cart walked on it, making a creaking sound.

Gao Jian and the eldest grandson Wuji wore filial piety clothes, their hands wrapped in the sleeves of their robes, and followed behind the ox cart.

From time to time, the cold wind pours into the mouth and nose, choking people breathlessly.

Gao Jian is a stubborn person who insists on his own ideas in everything he does.

Like the building of a straw hut, he could have ordered his servants to do it.

But he had to do it himself, and he had to practice it.

When he arrived at his father's grave, he and the servants unloaded the things used to build the tent, and ordered the servants to go back, leaving only him and the eldest grandson Wuji.

Gao Jian asked the eldest grandson Wuji: "Do you know how to build a grass shed?" ”

The eldest grandson Wuji grew up in a rich family, not to mention building a straw shed, he didn't know what the straw shed looked like, so he asked: "Is it the same as the house where the tenants live?" ”

Gao Jian said: "That's a grass house, and we built a grass hut." The thatched house has earthen walls on all sides. The hut has only one roof, built directly on the ground, and has no walls on all sides. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji suddenly realized: "Is it the same as the military tent where the soldiers live?" ”

Gao Jian said: "The appearance is the same, but it is smaller than the military tent, and the materials used are also different." Let's start now, while building, I'll talk to you and listen. ”

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Gao Jian first chose four points in the open space next to Gao Li's tomb.

These four points form a rectangle, one zhang long and seven feet wide.

Then he said to the eldest grandson Wuji: "Let's dig a pit with a big bowl mouth and half a foot deep in each of these four places." ”

After speaking, he handed the eldest grandson Wuji an iron pickaxe, and took one himself, and the two of them each chose a place and used the iron pickaxe to dig a pit on the snow.

The eldest grandson Wuji used his hands to pick up the snow on the surface, revealing the loess surface below, and grabbed the pickaxe to dig downward.

As the tip of the pickaxe landed, the eldest grandson Wuji screamed "ah" in his mouth.

The ground had been frozen so hard that when a pickaxe fell, only a white spot appeared on the ground. The strong impact shook the eldest grandson Wuji's hands to a faint pain.

The cold wind blew, and the cold was to the bone, and the eldest grandson Wuji's hands were a little numb.

Gao Jian looked at it and smiled slightly: "Swim hard, take your time." ”

After that, he took off his mink robe and revealed a short brown, and began to dig holes himself.

The eldest grandson Wuji was not prepared in advance, so he could only work in a wide robe.

Because of the small age and light force, it took half an hour to cut the soil on the surface of the ground.

Gradually, my hands began to feel warm, and then I felt hot, and my body was oozing sweat, and I no longer had the cold I had at the beginning.

He just felt that the robe on his body was particularly in the way, and finally understood the reason why Gao Jian wore short brown in advance.

After an hour, Gao Jian had already dug the other three pits.

The pit chosen by the eldest grandson Wuji was only half dug up.

He really couldn't do it anymore, and blisters appeared on both hands, and when he tried a little harder, he felt a lot of pain.

After digging three pits, Gao Jian saw that the eldest grandson Wuji had not finished digging a pit, so he smiled secretly and said:

"Work hard, finish this hole. I'll tie the pillars first. ”

After speaking, he ignored President Sun Wuji and went to the side alone.

The eldest grandson Wuji was helpless, so he had to continue to plane down with a pickaxe.

Fortunately, the soil below is softer than above, and there is more experience, and the eldest grandson Wuji took about a moment to finally dig the soil pit.

Then, a little embarrassed, he walked up to Gao Jian and whispered, "Uncle, I'm done." ”

Gao Jian was squatting on the ground to tie up the wooden pillar, looking up at the eldest grandson Wuji, and saw that his hands were covered with mud, and his face was mixed with sweat and muddy water, and he had become a big flower face. His body was also mixed with mud, pitiful, like a defeated rooster.

He said with concern, "Tired, aren't you?" Quickly wipe off the sweat. In the cold winter season, when you sweat, the first thing to pay attention to is to keep warm. ”

Seeing that the eldest grandson Wuji had suffered enough, Gao Jian praised with a smile: "Wuji is good, it is not easy to dig such a big pit by yourself." Don't be discouraged, it's not that you're slow or bad, it's that you're still young and have little strength. When you grow to be as big as your uncle, you will definitely not lose to your uncle. ”

People are like the same, and they want to give back, and children are no exception.

No one, just give for the sake of giving. If it's not for the material, it's not for the spiritual.

was praised and recognized by Gao Jian, and the eldest grandson Wuji's sense of honor was satisfied.

He pulled himself back together with a knowing smile on his face.

Gao Jian took out a linen sweat towel, helped Changsun Wuji wipe the sweat off his forehead and face, and said while wiping: "On such a cold day, you have to dry it quickly if you sweat, otherwise, you will suffer from the wind cold." ”

wiped his face, and then wiped the hand of the eldest grandson Wuji,

Gao Jian saw that the blisters on his hands had worn out, and asked distressedly, "Does it hurt?" ”

The eldest grandson Wuji endured the pain, gritted his teeth and said, "It hurts a little." ”

Gao Jian praised: "Wuji is really strong. Let's continue to do it, we can't rest when we sweat, and if we stop, we will freeze people. ”

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The two of them worked together to lift the two support frames tied into the shape of a "man" and put the bottom into the planed pit.

At the top of the "human" shaped support frame, there is a small cross.

In the cross at the top, a beam is placed to connect the two supports together, forming the frame shape of a roof.

Straighten the roof frame, fill the four pits with earth, tamp them, and fix the frame of the hut.

Then, on this frame, nail horizontal purlins and vertical rafters, lay a foil fence on the outside, and lay a grass fence on top of the foil fence, and then from the bottom to the top, press a layer of wheat straw with mud.

At the very top, which is equivalent to the ridge of the roof, the top of the hut is made by applying mud and tiles.

The north end of the straw shed, from the inner layer to the outer layer, was also sealed in the order of foil hedge, straw shed, and wheat straw.

At the south end of the hut, hang a rollable felt, which can be rolled up or lowered at any time as needed.

Inside the hut, a thick layer of wheat straw is spread on the ground, and the wheat straw is covered with felt.

The servants brought a few cases, bedding, books, and the four treasures of the study, and after they were arranged, it was a very unique study.

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A grass hut was set up, and Gao Jian and the eldest grandson Wuji spent a whole day.

At noon, the servant brought lunch, the so-called lunch is just rice porridge, and the two of them felt that it was more delicious than the delicacies of the mountains and the sea.

After everything was packed up and arranged, the eldest grandson Wuji was exhausted, his whole body was like a broken frame, lying in the grass shed with the bedding, he didn't want to move anymore.

Gao Jian wanted him to go back to the manor with the servant who delivered dinner, but he was afraid that he would be blown by the wind on the road and suffer from the cold, so he left him to live in a straw hut.

When night fell, Gao Jian lit the oil lamp in the grass shed, put down the felt rolled up on the door at the south end, and lay down with the eldest grandson Wuji, although it was not as warm as the home with the brazier, but he did not feel particularly cold.

Gao Jian couldn't help but sigh at the wisdom of his predecessors, and the grass hut built according to the method passed down from generation to generation can really play a role in protecting against the wind and cold.

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The light was like a bean, the night was silent, and the eldest grandson Wuji beside him had fallen asleep deeply.

Gao Jian helped the eldest grandson Wuji tuck the corners of the quilt, feeling a little sorry for this ten-year-old child, secretly hating himself for being ruthless, and even couldn't bear to let him go to the digging pit with blisters on his hands.

However, he forgave himself in an instant, and he felt that all this was for the sake of the eldest grandson Wuji.

The wilderness of the harsh winter was eerily silent, without the slightest sound.

Gao Jian suddenly felt terrible, not the cold of the winter night, but the boundless silence.

This is the first day, and there are still about 700 days to go.

He needs to make a good calculation of how to spend the long days of filial piety in the future.

In the following days, the eldest grandson Wuji did not live in Gao's manor, but lived with Gao Jian in the grass shed of Gao's cemetery.

Every day, the domestic servant brought a simple meal, and the two of them lived a life of study and seclusion.

There is no hustle and bustle of the city, no disturbance from the world.

Away from all kinds of desires and temptations in the world, Gao Jian and the eldest grandson Wuji's hearts have become extremely quiet and focused.

What could be more tempering a person's soul than being pure-hearted, living in isolation, and thinking about life with a pure heart?

During the two years of filial piety at his father's grave, Gao Jian looked at the subset of scriptures.

The books he had read before were constantly purified, precipitated, and then sublimated in the depths of his heart.

Suddenly, he had deeper insights and thoughts on history and literature.

Gao Jian was doing literature while guiding his eldest grandson Wuji to read.

In the past two years, the eldest grandson Wuji finished reading the "Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "University", "The Mean", "Analects", "Mencius", "Book of Changes", and finally dived into the ocean of historical books.

Taking history as a mirror and using historical events to confirm the wise words of the sages, the eldest grandson Wuji's mind and vision have become broader and broader.

In his small mind, there is a vast and boundless world.

During this period, a lot of things happened in Beijing, and occasionally there were also frugal friends who visited, and they always talked about the affairs of the DPRK and China.

Only these times will stir up his peaceful life, which often makes Gao Jian feel uneasy.