On a rare sunny day, the Xie family went all over the mountains looking for crickets, and when others asked, they used the excuse of mowing the grass to fool the past.

Xie Shi's operation of "one cricket for ten dollars" is like a boulder thrown into a deep pool, and the waves set off will not disperse for a long time.

The Xie family was greatly shocked and inspired.

They saw in it a way to make money outside of farming that they had never thought of before - that is, selling crickets.

Ordinary crickets are naturally worthless, but special and precious varieties are different. For example, if they catch another such cricket, wouldn't it be ten times a fortune?

They are not greedy, they know that such valuable crickets are not weeds in the field, and if they catch a handful, even if they only catch one, it is a full ten dollars of extra income - this is a net profit that does not cost anything! That's more than a family earns in a year of hard work!

Knowing that his family wanted to catch crickets for money, Xie Shi didn't say a word and taught the whole family the methods of raising crickets and identifying cricket varieties that he had learned in his dreams.

With the method he gave, even the two sisters, who usually don't like to deal with insects, ran out of the door with a fresh energy, looking for hidden crickets in the fields, trying to use the fresh and hot knowledge vividly.

Others are also very serious in learning, and the inconspicuous crickets of the past are already alive and dancing copper plates in their hearts.

It is a pity that the autumn has passed, the sound of crickets has almost disappeared, the crickets active in the fields have disappeared with the autumn wind, everyone has an empty stomach to "raise crickets and distinguish crickets", but there is no target object, and it can not be performed.

The Xie family seemed to have been poured cold water on their heads, and they could only wait for the next year to take action after sobering up from their frenzy.

That's how the last days of leisure flowed.

The winter solstice has passed, and the weather is suddenly cold.

A cold wind passed through the night, and the windows rattled. When I opened the door in the morning, the persimmon trees in the yard were covered with frost.

In the second room of the east wing, Xie Shi, who had his eyes closed, was pulled out of the quilt by the Yu family and put on a newly made small cotton coat. The navy blue cloth and cotton were bought not long ago.

Wrapped in cotton clothes, with the round little face that slept red, he became a veritable little ball.

In the winter of previous years, he was still sleeping lazily at this time. From this year onwards, he can't do it, just because today is the day he goes to school.

For this reason, the whole family got up before dawn.

"Let's pick up my brother, study hard, remember to listen to Mr. ......" Old Xu hugged his good grandson for a long time, she finished reading, and Yu took over her baton.

Finally, Yu stopped reading, seeing that the eldest mother Liu was about to move, Xie Shi hurriedly picked up the bookbag, staggered to his father's side, and urged:

"Dad, let's go."

This bookbag was given to him by Xie Mei and Xie Lan sisters in order to celebrate their little cousin's schooling, and the surface of the bookbag was also embroidered with cute and cute ducks.

Xie Lin nodded silently, and as soon as his long arm fished it out, he picked up the little ball steadily, held it in his arms, and lifted the little guy's schoolbag with his other hand, and he glanced back before turning around:

"Dad, mother, let's go."

"Go, go, don't miss the hour."

The family silently looked at the big and small figures who pushed open the courtyard door and walked away in the cold wind.

……

The cold wind in winter made people's skin hurt, Xie Lin was wearing the cotton bought by his son and the winter clothes sewn by his wife, he didn't feel cold, but felt that this winter day was much warmer than before, he looked down at the little ball in his arms, and pulled his face into his arms: "Is it cold?" ”

Xiao Tuanzi shook his head, his furry head arched in his arms, and he hummed: "This dress is warm, not cold at all." ”

Xie Shi was held in his father's arms, only to feel swaying, and the sleepy insects that had not yet been dispelled had come back unconsciously.

The child who was growing up felt a lot, and the cold wind was blocked by the cotton clothes and his father's back, and the warm feeling made Xie Shi couldn't help yawning, and his eyelids gradually sticked.

It wasn't until he suddenly lost weight and was put down from his father's arms that Xiao Tuanzi, who was not yet awake, stepped on the ground with his feet softly, and turned around in a dizzy circle for half a circle, before he sat on the ground with "pia", and he opened his eyes blankly: "??? ”

The cub's innocent, confused eyes met the other pair of eyes, and he vaguely saw a fleeting smile.

When he stretched out his little hand and rubbed his sleepy eyes, he looked at it intently, but he suspected that the smile he had just seen was just an illusion.

In front of him was a scribe of nearly thirty years old, dressed in a blue and white patched straight patch, his head wrapped in a square scarf, his body was tall, his eyes were sharp, his nose was straight and straight, he had a mustache in the shape of a "one", his face was blown white by the wind, and he was meticulously neat from the strands of his hair to the corners of his clothes.

In short, at first glance, it looks like a strict teacher who is not easy to get along with.

Xie Shi was still confused, and his head was knocked on the melon.

Xie Lin saw that his son's apprenticeship came out of the oolong for the first time, and he was stunned, he didn't have the cleverness of the past at all, he was worried that the master who had said that he had been good had flown away, so he hurriedly urged: "This is Master Xu, what are you still doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and apprentice?" ”

Thinking of the apprenticeship procedure that the third uncle said, Xie Shi, who was wrapped in thick cotton clothes, immediately stood upright, and Master Xu stretched out his hand to arrange his clothes for him, leading him to step into the entrance gate.

Worship the statue of Confucius first, and then worship Mr. The round little ball slowly danced like a clumsy duckling when he bowed to the teacher.

Xie Lin on the side hurriedly and diligently offered the six salutes.

The so-called "Six Rites of Bondage" are celery, lotus seeds, red beans, red dates, longan, and ten dried meats.

The system wants to instill knowledge into Xie Shi's little brain melon anytime and anywhere, and harvest every trace of energy. It diligently popularized science, regardless of whether Xie Shi understood it or not:

[Celery is good at diligence, lotus seeds are painstaking education, red beans mean good luck, red dates mean early high school, longan means merit and consummation, all in order to get a good fortune.] ］

[As for dried meat?] Ten strips of dried meat are bundled with preserved meat, "Zuo Biography" is loaded, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Dun, a doctor of the Jin Dynasty, hunted in the first mountain, saw someone starving and dying under the shade of the mulberry, and gave him the dried meat, the latter took the dried meat but did not eat it, but said that he would take it home and leave it to the old mother, Zhao Dun then gave him two bundles of dried meat. Later, this person became a soldier next to Jin Linggong, and when Jin Linggong wanted to kill Zhao Dun, the armor turned against him in order to repay his kindness and protect Zhao Dun to escape. ］

[Since then, "bondage" has become a classic of retribution for kindness.] In ancient times, the apprenticeship ceremony was only a bundle, and with the passage of time, it gradually developed into the "six rites". ］

Xu Fuzi accepted the six salutes and bowed slightly.

Then comes the final step of the apprenticeship: hand purification.

Xie Shi put his hand into the small basin next to him to wash and scrub it clean, then raised his head obediently and looked at Master Xu.

“……”

Xu Fuzi, who had a serious expression, paused slightly, and then picked up the red pen, and the tip of the pen was lightly touched in the middle of Xie Shi's eyebrows.

- "Mole" means "wisdom", and "mole" means "enlightenment".

A round cinnabar mole appeared at the center of Xiao Tuanzi's eyebrows, and he couldn't help but look down at the reflection in the basin, and found that it was just a little crooked, and immediately relaxed and bent his eyebrows.

At this point, the apprenticeship has been completed, and the names of teachers and students have been decided. Schelling turned around and left, making an appointment to pick up someone after school.

And Xie Shi was still standing in front of the basin, admiring the reflection in the water, feeling that his appearance had gone to the next level.

Xu Fuzi noticed this move and was stunned. I finally understood what he meant by staring at him just now.

At a young age, you still love beauty?

Xu Fuzi looked at him deeply, stretched out the ring ruler in his sleeve, and knocked on Xie Shi's shoulder lightly and heavily, waking him up.

"A saint cultivates the essence of the inside, but not the end. Given by the parents of the skin, self-cultivation lies in reading. Master Xu had a straight face, "Since you have entered my door, you must be careful in the future." ”

"Huh?" Xie Shi looked at him with blinking eyes.

"Smack!"

The ruler waved lightly in the air, whipping the air, making a sound that was enough to make every child "change color".

Xu Fuzi's expression was serious: "Can you remember?" ”

"Remember what?" Xiao Tuanzi raised his face, revealing an innocent and blank expression, "Master, I don't understand. ”

For him, a "little illiterate" who has not yet been enlightened, Xu Fuzi dragged the text when he opened his mouth, which was too profound.

Xu Fuzi's face froze slightly, and he was silent for a moment before he said, "...... You just have to remember and study hard. ”

Xu Fuzi got up and walked out, Xie Shi hurriedly followed him, and the two turned into the middle room of the main hall of the house, where there were already several Mengtong, all around seven or eight years old, only the child sitting in the middle of the first row looked smaller and had a round face.

"One, two, three, four, five." Xie Shi counted with his fingers, and finally pointed to himself, "Six!" ”

Including him, there are now a total of six students in the private school.

Xu Fuzi arranged for him to sit on the vacant seat to the right of Xiao Yuan's face, and before he sat down, Xiao Yuanmian next to him had come over excitedly.

"You're the new junior brother?" Xiao Yuan's face stretched out his hands and gestured at Xie Shi's height, and exclaimed, "It looks so small, is it five years old?" ”

Without waiting for Xie Shi to answer, he first introduced himself: "My name is Xu Shouwen, and I am six years old this year. In the future, I will no longer be the youngest junior brother. As he spoke, Xu Shouwen couldn't help laughing. He smiled, and his little round face suddenly became more round.

Xie Shi is also a self-cooked person, and he does not reject Xu Shouwen's self-familiarity, but likes this little round face. He showed his invincible and well-behaved smile: "Hello senior brother, my name is Xie Shi, and I am four years old this year." He tilted his head and asked uncertainly, "It's not wrong to call Senior Brother, right?" ”

Xu Shouwen smiled and showed a mouthful of snow-white teeth: "That's right, that's right, I'll be a senior brother in the future!" ”

Two children of the same age also have similar interests and hobbies, and they chatted passionately unconsciously.

"Smack!" The ruler slammed on the table with a loud sound.

It turned out that the two of them were moving too much, and Xu Fuzi, who had checked the homework of the other big children, had come over with his hands behind his back for some time, and he directly called him: "Xu Shouwen." ”

Xu Shouwen hurriedly stood up, his small round face tightened: "...... Pedant! ”

"Jing Xing Weixian, Ke Nian is holy." Xu Fuzi randomly extracted a sentence from "Thousand Character Text", "Continue to memorize." ”

Xu Shouwen's head suddenly sweated.

He stumbled and then said: "Virtue and virtue are famous, and the shape is upright." The voice of the hollow valley is heard, and the empty hall is used to listening......"

After only reciting a few sentences, he couldn't memorize it anymore. Xu Fuzi glanced at him, and he stretched out his left hand with a bitter little round face.

Smack, smack, smack. Triple hits.

The sound of the ring ruler hitting the palm of his hand made Xie Shi next to him feel empathetic pain, and he was stunned and trembling.

If you can't memorize a book, do you want to be beaten?

…… Woo woo go to school so scary, I'm going home.