Chapter 2 The College Asks the Right Questions
Dysentery's surname is Lai, is a begging orphan, because of a scar on the head, so there is this nickname, no father, no mother, no relatives and no support, because often in Guanyin Bridge, Chaotianmen this piece of begging to live, Ye Xiaohuan They tossed and fell to Chaotianmen, opened this tofu shop, often relief and support the poor, send charcoal in the snow to give some food, this beautiful and kind girl in this neighborhood, beggars, people in the rivers and lakes are particularly popular, all say that this girl is not only handsome, righteous.
"Okay, today's tofu brain and fritters are full, and I will give Lao Zhaohua another copy", Xiao Huan knew that Xiao Zhaohua and Lao Zhaohua were ferromagnetic companions, and happily agreed to it, but Ye Xun's heart moved, and he shouted angrily: "Sister, Yuan Batian has come to bully you, Uncle Gen was injured by him, right?" "It's Yuan Batian's money shopkeeper Qian Wangba, one day we will have revenge, you are still young and can't be in a hurry," Xiao Huan couldn't hide it, so he had to persuade his younger brother in a low voice all the way.
Ye Xun is still young, but he is bloody and rebellious, jealous and hateful, not to mention that it happened to the closest person, he had to struggle to go to Qianzhuang desperately, and was hugged by Xiao Zhaohua and Xiao Huan, and persuaded for a long time before he gave up with righteous indignation. According to the distance of the patrons, the three of them first went to the nearby Chaotianmen area of the restaurant and wharf for delivery, and then went to the Guanyin Bridge and Hongya Cave a little farther away, so that the burden of the return trip was empty, and they could go to the market to pick up some fresh soybeans and go back. The cylinder in the store is almost empty, and I have to invite Zhang Stonemason, the stone mill has been grinding bald these days, and the discharge is much slower, so it's time to forge and forge the grinding disc, and sharpen the knife to cut wood.
In this way, all the way down, I first sent the big restaurant Yixiangyuan near the left, because Xiaohuan brine tofu is tender and delicious, it is the best ingredient of the famous mapo tofu, and the reputation is good, Wang Cai of Yixiangyuan bought more than half a basket of brine tofu and ten catties of five-spice dried beans, settled the account, the burden was much easier, and they walked more briskly.
Then there was the delivery of the Sichuan-style restaurant and workshop of the Zero Sect, and then arranged for dysentery and Ye Xun to go to the back door of Yichun Garden, and sent thirty bowls of sesame juice tofu brains that the girls loved to drink, and the burden was light, leaving only three or two catties of spiced dried tofu and a piece of old tofu, and it seemed that they were about to arrive at Zhendao Academy. Spiced dried tofu is Uncle Laogen's mastery, the new dried tofu is steamed, and then the quantitative star anise, red pepper, cinnamon, angelica, almonds, lotus seeds, bay leaves, cumin gauze bag in the cauldron, plus the Zigong coarse well salt slightly steamed for twelve hours, out of the pot after draining for three days after selling, fragrant and crispy and refreshing, after eating the mouth lingering fragrance, the past delivery, to the Zhendao Academy, a copper plate two, the five-spice dried bean curd are all snatched up, it is sought-after, deeply loved by the students after lunch.
Zhendao Academy is one hundred and twenty steps away from the riverbank, a large number of sparse peach trees and plum trees are planted in front of the courtyard, enter the gray brick wall courtyard gate, green bamboo and red plum are planted on both sides of the stone road, it is the spring day is warm, it is the peach blossom unrestrained, the apricot blossom contains buds, the green bamboo detour, the winding path is quiet. The academy is a black brick, black tile and black lacquer gate, the main gate is crowned with cornices, and the door plaque directly above the courtyard gate is "Zhendao Academy" four lines of black lacquer characters, which is rumored to be written by Yue Zhongqi, a friend of the dean Zheng Yi, and the peach wood board hanging on the left and right below is engraved with a pair of black lacquer couplets: If the road is like a river, it can become a Su Si anywhere; There is a sun and a moon, and the whole world is spring and autumn. Judging from the writing, charm and momentum of the plaques and couplets, the words are the hands of one person, but they are really the handwriting of Yue Zhongqi. From the wide open gate, you can see that the entrance is a rockery made of black boulders, on which are carved the two gold lacquer characters of the Mo family's "and love". Here you can see the peach and plum, listen to the bamboo wind, watch the river waves, and enjoy the autumn moon, it is really an elegant and quiet place to read and talk about the road.
Zhendao Academy is also the place where Ye Xun's sisters and brothers often come to Panpan, the two sisters and brothers love the peach blossoms planted in front of the hospital, usually the three or five students of the academy come to the afternoon class, they talk about books and Taoism in the peach forest in front of the courtyard, some stubborn students are also playing and chatting here, but today it has reached the leisure time after class, but only three students stand on the side of the door with their heads down, "fragrant and crispy five-spiced dried seeds, buy some to eat", the leprosy head stepped forward and shouted, "Go, eat your dried seeds, Mr. Zheng's bamboo shoots fried meat is already full", A little fat man retorted angrily, "Hey, I've been beaten by Mr. again, or I'll help you", and laughed when he heard the sound of dysentery. "Gua Wazi, I can get you, I can't read big characters, why can't you go to heaven", the little fat man scolded angrily, obviously he was beaten quite heavily by Mr.'s hand, and his fat hand was red and swollen. Soon, three more teenagers came out with their eyebrows and eyes, apparently still punished by Mr.
Ye Xun was childlike and curious, and asked the little fat man: "Why did Mr. punish you for corporal punishment?" ”
"Today's gentleman's monthly exam is right, but he didn't come up", the fat man's cheeks were crimson, and he turned into Guan Gong's face.
"Isn't it the sky to the earth, the rain to the wind, the earth to the sky, what's so difficult", Ye Xun and Xiaohuan have studied, and the sisters and brothers often use this game for fun.
"Who can't recite the song of the pair, you little fart, Mr. today's topic is difficult to get to the sky, you know a hammer," the little fat man grew up by two years, and glanced at Ye Xun with disdain, and a few students next to him couldn't see it, "Go away, go away, don't delay us to think."
Ye Xun instead leaned in, "I'll help you come up, why thank me?" ”
"I can get you, little fart, the milk stinks and hasn't dried up, go home and eat milk", the little fat man turned around and scolded.
"I'm going to come up, why thank me? Worship me as a teacher? Ye Xun is small, but he has a big temper, and he has the temper of an old cow, Ye Xiaohuan and the leprosy head are smiling on the side, and they are happy to watch the jokes on the side.
"Okay, that's the title, little fart, do you know how to read?" The little fat man handed over a piece of paper for writing, and the font dragon flew and phoenix danced: Lotus monk painting on the river.
"The monk paints the "lotus" monk painting, and the word in the middle is the lotus word for "lotus", Ye Xun took the note and teased him stupidly.
The little fat man grinned and was dumbfounded: "Huh! You can't do it! ”
What's so difficult about this: "Hanlin Linti Hanlin Post", Ye Xun picked up a peach branch to make a pen and wrote seven words on the sand.
The little fat man and his entourage hugged the letter and the suspicious, "My ancestor, you are blind, it's really like that, go back to Mr.", and the group entered the academy with a smoke.
Ye Xun was so angry that he jumped to his feet, "Speaking doesn't count, speaking is a teacher."
After the tea, the three little fat men came out again, "You must have been blinded just now, not counted, against this couplet, count your true skills." As he spoke, he handed over a piece of straw paper for writing, and wrote: The inkstone is long, and it is written into a hundred poems.
Ye Xun's little face was tense, he groaned slightly, and wrote a line of words on the ground: The tip of the pen and paper is sharp, and the country is drawn for thousands of years.
The little fat man and his entourage were directly stupid, turned their faces and were happy, and compared their thumbs, "You little tooth, we have all the spiced dried tofu in your house, the price is still the same, and there is no need to apprentice", and ran back to the academy with a cigarette.
"What did you say just now, looking at his shameless appearance, I really want to take a brick and shoot it down", the leper looked around angrily, looking for something to fight, Ye Xiaohuan's sister and brother were happy to lean forward and back together.
Tea time, from the academy out of the Wu Yang Wu Yang out of a group of people, surrounded by a black cloth robe, wearing tortoiseshell glasses of the thin gentleman, the little fat man pointed to the three of them, the group of people according to Nan Yu'er The three of them hurriedly walked, "My mother, I'm in trouble, run away", the leprosy turned his head and left, and the two sisters and brothers were also blinded, what is this, "the disaster is because of the strong head", the two sisters and brothers grabbed the burden and left,
"Little brother, please stay, Lao Suo has something to ask, don't panic", Mr. hurriedly stepped forward and stopped Ye Xiaohuan's sister and brother, Ye Xiaohuan couldn't help but gently twitch his snort, and the fragrance of faint herbs came from his side.
"May I ask my little brother, the two lower couplets just now are not from you, little son, how dare you be rude!" The gentleman stepped forward, and the thin gentleman was quite embarrassed.
Ye Xun straightened his chest when he heard this, and muttered for a moment, "Just now, the two couplets were casually dealt with, and it was rude; A humble gentleman can only be virtuous and accept disciples."
The thin gentleman took off his glasses from the bridge of his nose, wiped them with a thin cotton cloth, looked at the tofu burden beside Ye Xiaohuan and said: "White tofu, tofu white, be honest and erudite Li Bai."
Ye Xun looked at Mr. 's dark face and upright body, and said in his heart: "Black inkstone, black inkstone, black for the official iron bones."
"Heaven is a chessboard and stars are the sons, who dares to be right". Mr. blush, his own young proud, well-read, his own province and township try to solve the Yuan, famous in the southwest, was a yellow-mouthed child prevailed, can't help but move the heart of competitiveness, the face showed a smug color, indeed, this couplet above the sky into the right, majestic, the first to grab people, the back of the word "right" pun, Mr. thought to himself for a son out of this absolute, the face can not help but show a smug color.
"The earth is the piano and the road is the string, and I don't want to play", Ye Xun thought about it for a long time, stood up and coped, and used the earth to enter the pair, the battle was neat, and the lower link was also magnificent and modest. It seems that this child has a good chest and a beautiful belly, but his family education is extraordinary.
"Little urchin, it's really shocking," Mr. sincerely exclaimed, and couldn't help but love and pity talents, "I'll give you another topic, if you can complete it, I will arrange for the academy to let you study for free, and teach you what you have learned in life, and never waste your talents," Mr. said with a smile and a twisted beard.
Ye Xun usually has a longing for the academy and Mr. He bowed his head and saluted, "But according to Mr.'s orders, the kid didn't dare to refuse."
"Good, good, it's really teachable", Mr. couldn't help but bow his head slightly, "This door of the gate of Zhendao Academy was originally my best friend Sichuan and Shaanxi Governor, Fuyuan General Yue Junmen personally granted, now Yue Junmen is a traitor framed, in prison, hanging this door is mostly criticized, and the students are very inconvenient, is in need of replacing the door, I and you to the friends of Hongru have worked hard, has not been able to do so, then test you, plan to be a pair of door couplets, I don't know what you think?" ”
"Mr. is a kid, I don't dare to refuse," Ye Xun agreed, and couldn't help but meditate while pacing, while looking at the riverbank, moving to the peach forest, and the bamboo sea, his face couldn't help but sweat beads, Ye Xiaohuan and the leprosy head didn't expect this opportunity, and couldn't help but be nervous for Ye Xun, the little fat man and the students didn't expect an ignorant boy to be so favored by Mr., and they all gathered around and whispered and discussed.
This thin and upright gentleman, is the dean of Zhendao Academy Zheng Yi, he is the word Nanshan, the number Luoxia layman, originally a person from Yanting in Chengdu Prefecture, a teenager in the Sichuan imperial examination, has won the township test solution yuan, because of the friendship with the wealthy Yuan Tiandi of Chongqing Prefecture, invited by him, he hereby went to Chongqing to open a academy, recruit students, teach the way of reading and entering, self-cultivation and self-cultivation to help the world and govern the country.
Ye Xun walked around at the door of Zhendao Academy, looking for inspiration, and suddenly had an idea, his eyes fell on the black lacquer plaque of the academy, and he bowed to Mr. Zheng: "The boy is rude, please advise Mr.", Mr. Zheng nodded, signaled the little fat man to go to the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and put it on the big stone platform in the peach forest, only to see Ye Xun not in a hurry, slowly unfolded the five-foot square snowflake rice paper, dipped in the Huizhou pine smoke ink in the river pond inkstone, raised his arms and pressed the frustration, and wrote down two lines of big characters in the flowing water:
The study of scriptures and history articles is true to self-cultivation in the world, and the Tao Li Fragrance Academy is rational and reasonable
Although the font is slightly immature, it is well-organized, the structure is beautiful, and the handwriting is thick and light, but it is also careless and majestic. The upper and lower couplets explain that people should study and cultivate the way of the world, and also promote the purpose of teaching and educating people in Zhendao Academy.
"Wonderful, wonderful, I, Zheng Yi, have been adrift for half my life, and finally have a wishful disciple, and I can pass on the mantle"! Zheng Yi had tears in his eyes, clapped his hands and smiled on his back, "Is Mr. crazy", and the crowd of people who gathered around looked at each other, wonderful and inexplicable.
"Child, tomorrow you will pack up and enter my Zhendao Academy to study, all the reading fees will be borne by the teacher, there will be supper at night, and there will be a warm water bag in winter", Mr. said happily, not forgetting to be witty, the children of the academy looked at each other and asked puzzledly: "Mr. has lost his heart and gone crazy." Where did the cold-eyed "Zheng Baohei" go in the past??
Ye Xiaohuan's sister and brother leaned down without discussion, "But according to Mr. 's orders, thank you, Mr."