From Chief to Ball

The big news didn't happen in Mincheng, but Mincheng was the source of it. Under such circumstances, all kinds of people came to Mincheng.

It is for this reason that the Feng Caiguan came. On the one hand, he wanted to investigate the orchid trend, and on the other hand, he also wanted to see how Mincheng managed to use the machine first without a large-scale incident.

It was winter when he came to Mincheng. Not long after he arrived, he came across the miners' petition. He recorded the incident completely, and also recorded the speeches on the street, with lingering fears in his heart.

After observing in Mincheng for a period of time, and hearing a lot of folk rumors, I was full of curiosity about Nan'an.From the perspective of the bottom layer, we can see many different things. The people are also a group of people who like to use rumors and crooked poems to vent their emotions or remember their joy and anger. For example, after the orchid craze, there are many crooked poems and nursery rhymes about orchids.

The wind collector wanted to know what kind of scenes he could see in Nan'an, so he came to Nan'an wearing civilian clothes as requested by the wind collector.

Along the way, I saw many coal ships in the Min River. The wind collector knew the previous turmoil and saw the continuous flow of these coal ships. He also admired the vigorous and resolute style of the Nan'an County Magistrate.

When we arrived in Nan'an, it was evening, the sun was setting and people were coming and going on the streets of Nan'an.

Seeing Nan'an for the first time, the wind collector felt as if he had gone to another world.

The main road in Nan'an is a road called a cement road. It is not long, and the cost may be expensive. The street is clean and there is no loess like that of a dirt road. Slow down when you are in the place.

Not far from the city, there are some low two- or three-story red brick buildings, inlaid with glass, which are completely different from the streets in other places, and some people feel weird.

At the end of the main road, there is a school. The wind collector has heard the name of this school, and also saw the word Lan Xiang in big letters.He feels that these two words are very poetic, the blue is the sea, the sky is flying, like a fish jumping into the sea, like a bird soaring into the sky.

He had heard many people talk about this school in Mincheng, and the courses in it were also weird.Acid making, alkali making, blasting, bricks and tiles, construction, well digging, road paving, nature... It sounds like this school is weird.

Opposite the school is a cement-paved square with seesaws, wooden chairs and other things on it, and many children are playing on it.

Around the square are planted orchids that people in Mincheng denounced as the flower of the devil. Although the name of this orchid was the flower of a gentleman a year ago, it is now so smelly that no one cares about it. It is only planted in some places. It is said that it is Chen Jian bought it and gave it to all the people in Fujian County as a warning.

There is a pile of sand next to it, and a group of children are surrounding there, watching the two children wrestling and wrestling, applauding from time to time.There was also a group of children holding wooden sticks and using them as spears, "fighting" there, yelling, and beside them was a man with a broken leg who looked like a veteran pointing something with a smile.

"You are so brave and ruthless, no wonder there is a petition to strike..."

The wind collector shook his head, he liked this kind of atmosphere very much from time to time.

But as soon as he finished saying this, the Feng Caiguan felt his face turn red suddenly, and he looked around in embarrassment, as if he was afraid that someone would hear his comment just now.

Because not far in front of him, two young men wearing what Mincheng called sea soul shirts—the school uniforms of Lanxiang Academy—were squatting on the ground, writing and drawing with plaster pens.

A long string of numbers had been left on the concrete floor, obviously they were calculating a trigonometric function, and the two young men took it as a kind of entertainment while writing and drawing.

Caifeng senses that this is a kind of entertainment, because he took a look at the question and found that he couldn't understand it, but the two young people were enjoying it, as if they were immersed in the game.

There are still many marks of plaster pens that have been wiped off or left on the cement floor next to it. I don’t know how many people use this place as a pen and paper book, maybe it’s just for entertainment during leisure time.

The wind collector swallowed, feeling that it was easy to see lunatics in Nan'an, and this kind of thing would definitely be regarded as a lunatic elsewhere, but here, the people next to him turned a blind eye and were obviously used to it.

What's even more frightening is... When the people passing by, they would carefully miss the marks of the plaster pens on the ground, and the expression on their faces was not disgust or ridicule, but a kind of envy.

The wind collector felt that it was better not to draw conclusions lightly, and saw a small cloth pocket behind the two young men, which contained a few books.

The two of them were burying their heads in the calculations, and the Caifeng officer took out a book from the book pocket for a quarter of an hour, and looked at the title "Little Knowledge of Nature". It should be a book used by schools in Nan'an, and he didn't Never seen it elsewhere.

Looking at the first page, there is a passage written on the title page.

"Look up to observe astronomy, look down to observe geography, study the way of nature, and know the reason of darkness."

The meaning of the words Caifengguanzhidaoyouming is perceptible and imperceptible. After carefully tasting this sentence, I think it is very interesting.

Randomly flipping through a page, there was a simple river map drawn on it, which looked like a map, but it was very simple.

This page introduces the terms upstream, downstream, front of the mountain, and back slope.Turning another page is to assume that there is an iron smelting workshop. On the map, the upstream and downstream, cities, coal production areas, populated villages, wind direction, etc. are standardized, and the reader is asked where the iron smelting workshop should be built.

The wind collector took a deep breath, thinking, why are the things taught here so weird?But if you think about it carefully, these seemingly simple things actually coincide with some principles of heaven and earth.

But, is it really good to teach these things to young people?Or, is there any use in teaching these things?

However, this book called "Small Knowledge of Nature", which is slightly higher than the level of enlightenment, made the wind collector immersed in it, flipped through a few pages unconsciously, and secretly wrote down a few sentences in it.

When I turned another page, I found a small note in the book, with crooked immature handwriting on it.

"Don't choose Zhang Xiaoming next time when you choose a food committee member. I saw him secretly eating fried rice on the street during the ten-week holiday."

The wind collector snorted and laughed. I don't know if this note was written by the owner of the book, or if it was written by a classmate "Doctor Yu Shi" to expose it, but it is interesting.

After laughing, I faintly felt something was wrong.

Looking down at the young man who was busy checking the calculations, he thought, no matter who wrote it, this Zhang Xiaoming might really not be a food committee member.

How terrible.

Chapter 158

Put down the light book with only a few dozen pages, but because of that note, it seemed as heavy as dozens of people and stuffed it back into the young man's book pocket.

The wind collector didn't bother the young man who was still doing calculations under the faint setting sun, and gently walked around the long row of calculations.

Looking around, I found that several younger children were playing with flower ropes, and they seemed to be muttering something in their mouths.

He became interested immediately.

Nursery rhymes are the folks' favorite thing, and also the weirdest thing.Even though the transportation is inconvenient, nursery rhymes can spread quickly to different places. Often, some nursery rhymes are similar in two adjacent counties.

Some of these nursery rhymes are ignorant things between the sexes narrated by things familiar to children, and some are unforgettable common memories in counties and counties.

In short, this is a very important thing for the wind collector.

He wants to hear what these younger children are singing, especially when they are playing with flower ropes, the children will always sing something that does not rhyme but is catchy, sounds irrelevant but thinks carefully Terrible stuff.

"If you don't study hard, you will make great efforts when you grow up. If you don't study in school, you will mix cement in the future..."

The wind collector was stunned. He never thought that these nursery rhymes were about learning, which opened his eyes.

From the south to the north, he really had never heard such a nursery rhyme, and even if there were those who encouraged learning, they were all spoken in an adult tone.

This five-character nursery rhyme does not rhyme, and heavy words are still used in many places. It is obviously not the work of an expert, but it does not seem to be made up by children.

What kind of work is mixing cement? The wind collector probably guessed it, and even guessed that it must be a very tiring job that these children have seen on weekdays.

Putting it elsewhere, this nursery rhyme would definitely not spread, but on this concrete floor, it spread quickly.

Taking advantage of the replacement of a few Mongolian boys, the Feng Caiguan asked with a smile: "What you said about playing with the flower rope just now is very good. Are you willing to go to school?"

A child hummed and said, "Of course I do. My aunt's elder brother learned how to dig a well, and now he can get thirty silver coins a year. His family can eat meat every ten days."

"Thirty silver coins for digging a well?"

The wind collector was taken aback, thinking what kind of well was this dug?

"Didn't your Mr. Kaimeng tell you that being able to read and write is worthwhile in itself?"