Shen Yu looked at the rune paper with a calm face, and then at his son, and suddenly laughed.

Huai'an looked at him in amazement - another crazy one?

"Are you out of luck?" Shen Yu said: "Your kid is very lucky." ”

Huai'an: It's all starting to talk nonsense......

Shen Yu said to his wife: "Today, I asked my colleagues to help me find a Xixi, the original intention was to find a fallen son who was stranded in Beijing, who wanted to find a tribute from the previous session." ”

Xu Tinglan was also taken aback: "Gongshi?!" ”

"yes." Shen Yu couldn't hide his excitement in his expression: "So this kid is blessed, such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was actually touched by him." ”

Huai'an: ......

What is this blessing called? God thinks that there are not enough bigwigs around him, so he specially sent a tribute to be his tutor?

What is a Gongshi? Quasi-jinshi. A quasi-jinshi who is on the verge of the door is not good at preparing for the palace at home and tries to run to someone else's house to make a western seat, which is like a state-level civil servant who gives up his offer and runs to become a tutor, and he still teaches primary school students...... I'm afraid it's either a lack of money or a lack of heart.

He doesn't believe that it is a lack of money, Fan Jinzhong's social status and economic situation have been directly turned upside down, how many poor people are there in this world? Not to mention a tribute.

So I'm still lacking in heart......

So the question is, can a person who lacks a heart and eye pass the exam?

Huai'an spoke for a long time, and only after a while did he hold back a sentence: "Dad, you won't be deceived, right?" ”

Shen Yu was in a good mood today, everything he saw was particularly pleasing to the eye, and he smiled when he heard this: "You also think it's unbelievable? ”

When Xu Tinglan heard this, he couldn't care about getting angry, and followed Shen Yu to persuade him one by one: "You must cherish the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and don't change tricks anymore." ”

Huai'an had no other choice but to agree, but he really wanted to see what this unconventional tribute student was like.

Could it be that a merry and famous man who does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, proves his erudition and talent with the imperial examination, and then "endures the floating fame and changes to a shallow low singing"?

……

Three days later, Xie Yankai found Shen Yu, his distant cousin promised to come to make a Xixi, the pavilion fee was eighty taels a year, there was only one request, he had a nine-year-old son, hoping to take him with him to teach.

It's not a bad thing to have a child of the same age studying together, Shen Yu agreed without thinking about it, and went home and added a table and chair to the small study in the front yard.

Xu Tinglan ordered people to go to the bazaar to buy the "six rites" used by Qi apprentices, including dried meat strips, celery, red beans, red dates, longan, and lotus seeds.

Shen Yu asked him, "Do you know what these six gifts mean?" ”

Huai'an swept around and counted the same amount: "The meat strips are bunched up, and the celery is diligent and studious......"

The husband and wife looked at each other and smiled with satisfaction.

Listening to Huai'an's tone, he became unconfident: "Red beans are ...... Love is determined to have three lives, and red dates and longan lotus seeds are early births. ”

Shen Yu held his forehead, and Xu Tinglan took off his Buddha beads and hung them on his hands.

Biological, biological...... Keep your sanity with a smile on your face...... Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha...... After becoming a Buddha, you can escape into the empty door, and you will no longer have to be a father and mother for this child......

……

On the day of rest, the whole family got up early in the morning and waited for the new gentleman to come to the door.

Sister Peng seemed to know that today was a big day, so she didn't pick up clothes in the morning, ate a small bowl of egg custard, and rubbed two mouthfuls of scorched rings dipped in bean juice, and then sat upright, causing adults to laugh frequently.

Sister Peng glanced at everyone, frowned and glared, and warned everyone: "Don't laugh, serious!" ”

The crowd laughed even harder.

Halfway through the hour, the gentleman came to the door.

Mr. Lu Tingyu's name is Lu Tingyu, and his family has been cultivating and reading for generations, and when he read about his generation, he finally came out with a tribute.

He himself was younger than Shen Yu imagined, standing before he had time, tall, with a white face and beard, wearing a half-worn gray muslin jacket and a square scarf, gentle and elegant.

Shen Yu was polite to him, invited him to a seat, and ordered someone to serve tea.

Lu Tingyu was not impressed by Shen Yu's courtesy, and in the face of the seniors who won the Sanding Armor that year, he behaved very humbly and politely.

Shen Yu is very satisfied, all parents nowadays hope to find a gentleman who follows the principles of etiquette and righteousness to teach their children, and guide him to be a gentleman who is clean and self-loving, filial and courteous.

Just listening to the meaning of Lu Tingyu's words, he came here to sit in the museum just to set up his own museum and open a private school in the future to accumulate experience. Could it be that you really have no intention of becoming famous in the future?

No matter how curious he is, he won't ask what went wrong in the palace test, and the people who came over on the single-plank bridge all knew that it was not easy to do business, so they tacitly did not mention this topic.

The two made a letter of appointment for a period of two years, and Shen Yu ordered Li Huan to call Huai'an.

Huai'an was specially dressed by his mother today, wearing a moon-white collared gown, and the two pairs of children's buns were neatly combed without a strand of broken hair, which looked well-behaved.

He wants to be a serious teacher. Mr. Lu took his little hand and took him to baptism, that is, he washed his hands in the copper basin brought by Li Huan.

Then first worship the portrait of the Holy Master Confucius, nine prostrations; Goodbye sir, three prostrations; Listen to his father's instructions, teach him to respect his teacher, learn diligently, and then kowtow.

Finally, I toasted tea to Mr. and listened to the instructions.

I saw Mr. Lu's expression serious, and his tone was slow and solemn: "I heard that you were already enlightened when you were four years old." ”

"Yes......"

"The ancients racked their brains and talked about the benefits of reading, so I won't say much about being a teacher." Mr. Lu said: "As long as you remember one thing, reading is like a tree, there is no quick reason, no matter how wise a person is, it is impossible to be full of economy overnight, you must concentrate and persevere, in order to achieve something." Of course, the "Four Books and Five Classics" and the Eight Strands of Shiwen are certainly boring, but you need to know that the purpose of studying hard now is to get rid of their suffering as soon as possible......"

Mr. Lu still said a lot of words, and the tea he said was cold, so he took a sip and put down the cup. Huai'an summed it up in the words of a modern teacher as follows: You read the book to death now, and then go to college and play casually.

Although he didn't go to college, he wasn't going to be deceived......

After the tea, Huai'an offered the "six rites" prepared by Shen Yu in advance, even if the ceremony was completed.

From today on, he is also the child of a teacher.

……

Today, I was resting and only apprenticed to the teacher and did not attend classes, so after the ceremony was completed, Mr. Lu said goodbye and left.

Huai'an kowtowed early in the morning, tossed until noon, and felt hungry again, but he didn't have snacks to eat, because he was going to his uncle's house as a guest today.

The carriage went south along East Fourth Avenue and exited the inner city from Chongwen Gate.

"Huh?" Huai'an asked strangely, "Where are we going?" ”

Don't think his father and mother think he has been disobedient recently, so they want to pull him out of the city and sell him.

Xu Tinglan said with a smile: "My uncle's family has a Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing. ”

"Ah!!h Huai'an screamed again and again, Huaiming hid in the distance, and even Sister Peng, who was sitting in her father's arms, covered her ears in disgust.

"Why didn't anyone tell me earlier, I'm so prepared!" Huai'an is very annoyed, to go to the suburbs for an autumn trip, you must bring fruit drink barbecue grill, fishing rod and fishing net sunscreen!

Shen Yu snorted slightly: "I told you in advance, I won't be able to read for three more days, and I won't even be able to sleep." ”

Huai'an shook his head and sighed: It's really seen through......

So he couldn't wait to see Chen Yong's cousin's heart, and was half divided by the excitement of the outing.

The carriage went all the way out of the city, the streets were clean and tidy, and there were no rows of dirty shacks inside and outside the city, and there were no unkempt beggars.

"Brother, look! There are no more homeless people on the streets! Huai'an asked with a smile: "They can also go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

"Hmm." Huaiming smiled bitterly and responded perfunctorily.

Then he turned his head to look out the window, and carefully hid the color of compassion. He couldn't bear to tell his young brother that the Mid-Autumn Festival was imminent, and Wu Qi, the old man of the small pavilion, ordered the demolition of those shacks in order to rectify the appearance of the city, and drove all the homeless people out of the city.

In fact, it is a bit biased to say this, although the father and son of the Wu family are not good people, they are not so perverted as to deliberately disregard people's lives.

The imperial court relied on the taxes of the people, and could not watch a large number of people abandon their homes and famine, so they had to spare no effort to expel and force them to return to their hometowns. However, when the people returned to their hometowns, they had no food rations, and they had to face exorbitant taxes and government assessments, so they had to wander around Gyeonggi in search of new means of livelihood.

Huai'an naively thought that the imperial court had taken disaster relief measures so that these wanderers could return home.

Chapter 43

Swinging their little feet and humming a song all the way, they came to their uncle's manor in the suburbs. The garden is the first time that the Chen family came to the capital, the location is excellent, by the mountains and lakes, the faintly visible blue brick courtyard is hidden in the mountains and bamboo forests, there is a bit of Jiangnan taste.

It is said that there is also a hot spring nearby, and several of the mountain villas next to it are all imperial villages, and the royal family often comes here to play.

My uncle was nearly fifty years old, and had two sons and four daughters, all four of whom were married, and the two sons were released from their foreign posts, and their daughters-in-law followed them, leaving only a small number of grandchildren and grandchildren by the old couple's side.

He was in charge of ordnance, Fu Kan, etc., but he liked calligraphy and painting, and Shen Yu did what he liked, and he took a famous painting from his collection to honor his uncle.

Huai'an couldn't wait to see Chen Yong's cousin, but the eldest brother and eldest cousin were discussing calligraphy and painting with the elders, and his cousin, who was about the same age as him, pulled him outside to play, and he looked around and didn't see Chen Yong.

"He's ......" Hearing Huai'an ask about Chen Yong, the third cousin frowned slightly.

"What's wrong?" Huai'an saw the strange looks of his cousins and cousins, and asked nervously: "What happened to his family, it's very uncomfortable, you won't isolate him, right?" ”

"How so?" The second cousin hurriedly explained: "It's almost as long as he isolated us. ”

"Huh?" Huai'an was confused, how could it be......

The second cousin said: "He locks himself in the room every day, writes and paints and calculates, I don't know what he is fiddling with, he only comes out when he eats." ”

The third cousin said: "Grandfather feels sorry for him, let him be happy." We didn't dare to pull him out to play, and my grandfather would think we were bullying him. ”

"Whew!" Huai Anxin thought, this is to blame on my uncle, what is the matter between children, and what are adults blindly mixed with.

The third cousin said again: "Huai'an, do you have time to persuade him, so you can't hold back the problem?" ”

"Okay, wrap it up on me!" Huai'an's sense of mission arose spontaneously, and he decided to talk to his cousin when he returned to the capital.

The big and small ones are not worry-free, hey, what can I do if this family leaves him Shen is seven years old......

……

Before the meal was served, Shen Yu followed his uncle to the study alone to talk, and Chen Chong asked first, "Is your mother okay?" ”

Shen Yu said: "Mother's health is okay. ”

Chen Chong said: "She has had a very hard life in her life......"

As his mother's elder brother, Chen Chong has always had a lot of complaints about Shen Yu's father, but now that Master Shen is gone, the dead are the greatest, and all the dissatisfaction has only turned into a sigh.

"Yes." Shen Yu also said: "Mother takes care of the housework day and night, raises our brothers to grow up, and has worked hard all her life. ”

Chen Chong nodded: "It's so good, it's just that it's inevitable that it's tiring." You send the appropriate people back, and make sure that they are brought to Beijing safely. The capital is not more spacious than the hometown house, and I usually don't need this Zhuangzi, so you can send her to live in it when you have time, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, which can make her feel happier. ”