This is really a ghost. In later generations, the young woman got up in the morning after waking up from the drunkenness. She tripped when she was going out because she was too distracted. It was Tang Que who quickly helped her head not hit the door frame.

Tang Que thought so in his heart, but his subordinates did not hesitate to support Sister Lan who was already lying down.

Tang Que supported Sister Lan's arm with one hand, and stretched out the other hand to catch her waist. This girl really has a good skin, and she is as smooth and tender as water when touched, " Watch your step."

Because there is no capable man in the village to support foreign affairs, Sister Lan, who is Gao Li's personal girl, has to deal with the Zhuang men often. She is no longer the kind of housekeeper who blushes when she sees a man, but today something is wrong. See Looking at Tang Que, who was close at hand, breathing audibly, felt the warmth of his hands, and listened to Wen Yan's instructions, Sister Lan's face blushed slightly for no reason.

Before she could say thank you, she heard the "squeak" sound of the door behind the screen wall in front of her. Sister Lan hurriedly took two steps away from Tang Que.

"Ma'am, it's his announcement." It was Li Shi, a poisonous widow who walked out of the main hall behind the screen wall. Her hair bun style and makeup were the same as that night, but she was dressed in a more wealthy summer. Riyin mud skirt, "Tang Cheng... When did you learn arithmetic?".

Tang Que smiled and nodded as a salute, "It doesn't matter when I learned arithmetic, the important thing is that I can help my wife do the accounting."

"You can talk, you kid." Seeing Tang Que's eyes accidentally falling on her mandarin duck satin shoes, Mrs. Gao Li suddenly remembered what happened that night. After three months of absence, Tang Cheng in front of him How does it seem like a different person, from the nodding of the head just now, to the tone and words when speaking, to the calm and confident demeanor on his body, in short, the Tang Cheng in front of him doesn't look like a mountain farmer should have He looked more like a scholar than the students in Yunxi County School.

"Why? Mrs. Li doesn't want to ask me to do the bill?".

"Ah... let's go, let's talk in the study." After Gao Li answered casually, seeing Tang Que's smile was slightly teasing, and thinking about his lack of focus just now, he felt a little uncomfortable. In the past few years, she has been used to being tough on men from the bottom of her heart. This uncomfortable feeling is really awkward, not to mention that it is a half-grown child in her eyes that caused this feeling.

Gao Li's waist suddenly softened by three points while walking, and when the corners of his mouth curled up into a slight smile, his eyes flickered and he hooked Tang Cheng, seeing his wife's ultimate move to seduce a man , Sister Lan, who followed the two people, looked at Tang Que with some concern.

To be honest, Gao Li, who is already outstanding in appearance, puts on such a pose is really very seductive, and considering that she is in such a remote mountain village, the effect is basically killing, no wonder she can So many things have been stirred up among the people in the village.

"Tang Cheng, you just came like this, are you afraid that my sister-in-law Tang will pinch your ears and drag you back?" Gao Li's mouth became more intense, but the rippling in his eyes became more intense, and his voice was soft and waxy Get waxy.

Gao Li's set can basically be ignored by Tang Que, who has experienced some ambiguity in the office in later generations. Not only did he not show any fascinated expression on his face, but even his voice didn't change, and he was still smiling lightly and brightly. "Mrs. Li pays for hiring people, and I work hard to earn money. It's a normal thing, why did my mother pinch my ears?".

His question made Gao Li speechless, she couldn't talk about the man's restraint without revealing her shortcomings.Tang Que's question made Gao Li, who was about to watch him suffer, speechless.But after the initial depression, Gao Li felt an indescribable emotion in his heart. After all, what Tang Que said just now meant that he was treating her as a normal woman, not the demonized one in other people's mouth. Poisonous widow, think about Tang Que's performance during the period just now, Gao Li's heart suddenly surged with great surprise. This Tang Que in front of him has no fear or disgust since the first time he saw her. The expression, neither words nor eyes.

Suddenly realizing this, the shock to Gao Lishi can only be described as a tsunami. After being treated as an alternative by others for more than ten years, suddenly someone completely treats her as a normal person. No matter what, this The emotions are huge and shocking.

Chapter 9 Back to the Tang Dynasty to apply for a job

Gao Li Shiqiang, who has experienced the ups and downs of the world, suppressed the shock in his heart and tried his best to keep his face calm.

The three of them arrived at the study room while they were talking. It seems that the country rich man also liked to be arty. Although the room was decorated a bit nondescriptly, there were quite a lot of books of all kinds. Tang Que took a rough look at the three rows of bookshelves and estimated that The total volume is probably no less than [-] copies.

"There are geese raised in the village, right?" Tang Que asked casually when he took the teacup handed over by Sister Lan.

This question was really abrupt, and Sister Lan was stunned for a moment before she said, "Yes, there are chickens, ducks, and geese."

"Then I would like to trouble Sister Lan to help me find some goose feathers, the kind of hard feathers on the tail." After Tang Que said this, he looked at the bookshelf and turned to Gao Li and said: "I I want to see the collection of books in the mansion, Madam, don't you mind?"

"Ah... you can do whatever you want."

"Ma'am..." Gao Li couldn't figure out what Tang Que meant, so he simply waved his hand and asked Lan Caoer to follow suit.

After watching Lancao walk out of the study, Mrs. Gao Li, who withdrew his eyes, turned his eyes to Tang Que who was wandering around in front of the bookshelf. However, the curiosity in the beginning was gone, and it was more of inquiry, faintly mixed with A few traces of natural gratitude.

Watching Tang Que wander around the bookshelf with interest, watching him fold his arms in front of his chest with one hand propped on his chin, watching him walk leisurely at his feet... In short, in Gao Li's eyes, this All of Tang Cheng's behaviors have never been seen by anyone he knows well. They are a bit weird, but there is an indescribable demeanor in this weirdness. He is focused, calm, and yet somewhat Legend has it that talented scholars are informal and free and easy.

Naturally, Tang Que did not expect that Mrs. Gao Li behind him was observing him so carefully. Now he is the posture of the later generations when they visit the school library. The books in the bookshelf are nothing more than the Four Books and Five Classics. Collections or other collections, and occasionally a few similar books, but none of these aroused his interest.

When he walked slowly to the far right in front of the third cross shelf, Tang Que, who had only read books earlier, suddenly had a bright eye, and stretched out his hand to pull out the "Shuowen Jiezi".

"Shuowen Jiezi" referred to as "Shuowen" is a calligraphy book written by Xu Shen, a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who spent 21 years. It is the first dictionary in the history of Chinese language to analyze the shape of characters, explain the meaning of characters, and identify the pronunciation .Of course, this epoch-making book in the history of linguistics still has many important meanings, but those are not what Tang Que is interested in. What he is interested in is the most basic function of this book—a dictionary.

After Tang Que turned over the pages of the book and successfully found the character "Tang" using the radical search method, the stone in his heart fell to the ground completely.

Naturally, there is no problem with the counting when managing accounts. Tang Que won the championship of the mental arithmetic competition in the whole district anyway, so it is more than enough for daily use.As for writing, that's why he wanted goose feathers. Anyway, this is not a literary meeting or scientific examination, and there are high requirements for calligraphy.Among the three items, writing is the most troublesome, but Tang Que, as a graduate of the Chinese Department of 211 University, although he can't recognize traditional Chinese characters, some basic ones are not a big problem at all. There will be words that are too uncommon, and it is Tang Que, who is too short of money, who has considered these three points comprehensively, and then released the notice.But even though he thought so, he was still a little apprehensive. Now that he had this dictionary, at least he didn't have anything to worry about in front of him.

Putting "Shuowen Jiezi" on the desk, when Tang Que finished writing the poem "Ode to the Goose" by Luo Binwang, a famous poet of Empress Wu Dynasty, holding a goose feather in his hand and dipping the thick ink in the inkstone, Gao Li's master and maidservant The surprised and inexplicable expression on his face still remained unchanged.

It should be said that Tang Que can't write, but the eighteen characters in front of them are clearly in front of them, and from the surface, these characters are pretty good-looking; but if he can write , who... has anyone seen writing with goose feathers?Don't tell me you've seen it, but you haven't heard of it?

But no matter how surprised, one thing is certain, that is, no matter what he uses, what he writes is words after all, and there will be no problem in keeping accounts.

Afterwards, Tang Que showed his "supernatural" level of mental arithmetic in the astonished eyes of the master and maidservants. Often, it was Sister Lan who had just reported the number in front of her, and Tang Que had already reported the answer casually. But at this time Gao Lishi on the other side didn't even fiddle with the beads in the abacus.

Gao Li certainly found it unbelievable that this hand was exposed, and Sister Lan's eyes were almost full of undisguised admiration. Feeling such eyes, Tang Que was in a good mood and at the same time a little ashamed. The characters used in "Ode to the Goose" are exactly the same as the simplified characters used by later generations. After all, it was a poem written by King Luo Bing when he was seven years old, so there is nothing too unusual.This avoided the embarrassment of him showing his ugliness and looking through the dictionary.As for the subsequent calculations, it is even simpler. The most difficult problem reported by Sister Lan is not more than two-digit multiplication, even if he has not been trained in mental arithmetic, he can handle it.

At this point, Gao Li no longer doubted Tang Que's ability to handle accounts, although she was still surprised how this Tang Cheng had such a great ability.

From this, Tang Que also knew the reason why Gao Li's sudden rush to recruit accountants was that Emperor Zhongzong had not long since re-elected to the throne, and he issued an edict to ask all the states in the world to re-count the fields, population and livestock, and to verify the local records. Although the Ministry of Household Affairs also knew that there was an obvious background of court disputes after the edict, the more so, the more the Ministry of Household Affairs did not dare to neglect it in the slightest. In addition to the incident, a large number of Yuanwailang and the principals of the four divisions of the headquarters were sent to the local area to supervise the battle. As a result, the first major policy arranged by the new emperor after he ascended the throne was vigorously promoted in the Tang Dynasty.

Originally, such a thing that would happen once every ten or twenty years was nothing, and the local government should follow the old methods to deal with it, but this time the situation was really wrong, and the local government was extremely nervous.Not to mention that the Ministry of Household Affairs has strictly ordered the completion of this matter to be within one year. It must be known that such a huge project used to take at least one and a half years, and it sometimes dragged on for two or three years; The faces of the household officials who came down to supervise the management also made officials at all levels feel chills.Please don't eat wine, please see that it is a business-like look, even the poor Beijing officials like Bing Jing who are filial in different ways are not accepted. What does this mean? Needless to say?

The household department was so tense that the local officials, who were thinking about the black hat on their heads, became more and more strict. Not only did they urge their book offices and knife and pen officials to die, but they also issued a notice to the masters of the big families in the area under their jurisdiction. Not only are they required to cooperate with the measurement of the acreage, but they must also submit the accounts of the family within the last four or eight years. As for the purpose of doing this, it is natural to plan for a rainy day. This is the capital to protect oneself. As for chasing the first three, it is natural to have something to talk about in case something happens. When the black yarn and even the life are lost, the needs are ignored.

As the landlord with the largest property within a hundred miles, the Gao Li family is a well-known wealthy household in Yunxi County, so naturally they can't hide from it.It is also because she has relatives from her natal family who work in the county government, so she understands the importance of this matter more and more, but there has never been any student in her village who is willing to be an accountant. It was nothing before, but now the accounts have to be handed in When the county government filed the record, it was in a hurry, and there was the notice outside the village school.

When Mrs. Gao Li was introducing to Tang Que the background that she had heard from her relatives, Sister Lan had already brought in the account books that Mrs. Gao had kept for the past few years, and piled them in a thick pile on Tang Que's body. On the side desk.

Flipping through the account book at the top, Tang Que, who was stunned for a moment, had a smile on his face when he saw what was recorded in the account book. With his smile, Gao Li's face turned red shy.

"Madam is shy! This is something that hasn't happened in many years," Sister Lan, who was standing on the side, thought.

Chapter 10 Go to elementary school after college

What Tang Que holds is not so much an account book, but a picture book is more appropriate. The wheat recorded in the account book is represented by drawing wheat ears, the soybeans are drawn as a small circle, and the hired Zhuang Han is the little man in the painting .As for the time, it is represented by drawing the sun, and the length of time is marked by the light outside the sun.In addition, there are many symbols that Tang Que can't see the actual meaning of. Obviously, these are also created by Gao Li. As for the meaning of these symbols, only she can decipher them.

After laughing, Tang Que frowned slightly. If this is the case, it means that he will spend time with Gao Li in the next period of time. He is not afraid of being restrained. I'm afraid I can't hide the embarrassment of looking up the dictionary when I can write words.

However, there is another thing that makes Tang Que happy. Judging by the thickness of this stack of account books that have been accumulated for eight years, it will take two months to sort them out into a form that can be sent to the county government for filing. , two months, which means that he can get at least seven consecutive incomes from this job.

Seven more!This is equivalent to 200 yuan in later generations. At this time, it is the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, prices are low and stable, and a meter is only seven cents. Think about how many things these seven guan can do?Thinking about Tang Zhang's plan to sell his childhood a month ago, he only asked for a price.

Although the family lost a strong laborer in the ensuing busy schedule, it was no problem to hire two people with the money.If there is one less person in the family to eat, if the seven pennies are used more carefully, after paying the official tax money, it should be able to support the past without buying new food.This also means that his family will not be in danger of running out of food until the autumn harvest. If it is handled properly, there may be a slight surplus.

Thinking of this in his heart, Tang Que walked out of Zhuangzi in a good mood, but as he got closer to home, he became worried about the matter of speech.Based on Tang Zhang's temperament, he would definitely not allow him to help Gao Li, let alone get along day and night.The reasoning doesn't make sense, the only way is to find a good excuse to hide the matter, at least to get the money in hand is serious.

But, how to find this reason?

……

When Tang Que came home, it was time to eat. He ate dry when he was busy and thin when he was free. This is the only condition in his family now.

Unable to stay in the hot room, Tang Que washed his hands and face by the well, took a large bowl of vegetable leaf batter handed over by Tang Zhang and drank it. After drinking more than half of the bowl in one go, he lifted the At the beginning, "Father, mother, I want to discuss something with you. These days are just free time, and there is not much work at home. I want to learn some literacy and calculation skills in the village school."

Hearing Tang Que's words, Old Tang's sucking of the batter stopped suddenly, and it was only after a while that he heard it again, "What's wrong with my son? When he was young, his family was in good condition, and he had two older sisters to help him. At that time, he refused to go to school, so why did he suddenly mention this?" Old Tang thought about this, and his face became a little heavy.

Although there is no need to spend money for repairs, it is tuition money, but if you want to go to the school, two meat sticks from the teacher and a set of four treasures of the study are absolutely indispensable. If you relax your hand a little bit, I'm afraid you won't be able to beat 150 Wen.This amount of money is really not a small number for the current situation of the family.But in the face of the only son in the family, what Lao Tang really loves is not the money, what he is afraid of is that his son wants to go to school because he can't bear the hardships in the field. If this is the case... Thinking of this, Lao Tang actually Some dare not think about it anymore.

He has seen too many such precedents in the village. He can't learn in the school, and he doesn't want to do the hard work in the field. After a long time, he becomes an idle bastard. How many once-prosperous families have ruined their families like this down.As a farmer who earns his living by digging in the ground, it is his duty to bear hardships, and it is also the foundation for standing up and supporting the family business. How can he live without this foundation?

It’s just that my son just recovered from a serious illness a few months ago, and he has been working steadily and steadily in the past three months. Didn’t the whole village praise him?It doesn't look like you can't suffer, so it's hard to say the words of admonition.After all, he was sixteen or seventeen. If it wasn't for the illness, he would have married and had children long ago, so he should always worry about his face.

Tang Zhang naturally understood what the head of the family was thinking, and she was not without worries, but this worry was immediately replaced by her distress for her son. Thinking about how tired his son was often in the past few months, he couldn't eat. Don't even want to talk about the scene, Tang Zhang feels sad for a while.

In the past few years, the family was in a good situation, and the farm work in the field could be done with the help of mountain visitors. If it was not enough, there were two son-in-laws to support her. She, an only son, had never experienced any hardship since she was a child. Like the tired hands from the past few months, although the son deliberately kept it from them, how could the mother not know?For this reason, she did not know how many times she secretly cried at night.Now that the son wants to relax, there is absolutely no reason for their incompetent parents to stop him.

After coughing a few times and seeing that the head of the family still didn't speak, Tang Zhang put the rough clay bowl in his hand, "Cheng'er, it's a good thing that you want to go to school. It doesn't matter whether it's learning to calculate or learn to read. It's always good, at least in the future You don’t need to waste food and wine to hire a middleman for writing a document, and we, as parents, can still stop you from going? His father, do you think I’m talking about this reason?”.

When Mrs. Tang and Zhang spoke, Old Tang, who didn't know what to say, heaved a sigh of relief. If his son wanted to rest, let him rest. After all, he had done too much in the past three months.As for the work in the field at home, I just have to work harder. "Well, Cheng, if you want to go, go there for a month or so, and then listen to the master's advice so that you can give birth to a hard-working child. His mother, after you finish eating, take a hundred and fifty yuan to Mrs. Lizheng's place. Liu'er each weighs three catties and three taels of meat case, and buy a set of four treasures of the study for Mr., and also buy a box of four-color dim sum with the word "福" in the prefix." Although the one-month deadline is a living thing, But Old Tang did not neglect at all in preparing gifts for his husband, even if his son was only there for a month, the gentlemen in the village school would not let him belittle him.

Tang Que had carefully inquired about the situation of the village school some time ago, so he naturally knew that it was common practice to give two pieces of meat plus a copy of the Four Treasures of the Study.He naturally knew why the second elder did this, especially considering the current situation at home, he was even more moved.

After eating, Mrs. Tang and Zhang didn't even bother to brush the pot, so they went to the store opened by Mrs. Lizheng with money to buy things. This is the only grocery store in the village. Villagers measure oil and buy salt every day. it's here.

After Mrs. Tang and Mrs. Zhang came back, Tang Que went out with two pieces of meat that weighed six catties and six ounces in his left hand, and a snack box and the Four Treasures of the Study in his right hand. Walking far along the village road, it's not that they don't want to go, but Tang Que is determined not to, just kidding, what's the point of going to school at the age of seventeen or eighteen and asking parents to accompany others to smile?

Tang Que walked along the village road and met a few villagers. These people looked at the things he was carrying with surprise on their faces, "Tang Cheng, are you going to school?".

"Yes!" Tang Que didn't say much, and continued walking forward after agreeing.

"It's good to go to school, good to study, Tang Cheng, you really have ambition!" Not long after these words came from behind, Tang Que heard a burst of uncontrollable snickering.

He knew these were laughing at him, and to put it bluntly, the village school he was going to at this time was similar to the elementary school of later generations. Think about it, what would it be like for a person who should have graduated from high school to go to elementary school?If this catches up with later generations, I'm afraid it will be in the newspapers.Especially after considering that men in this era generally get married at the age of 15, this kind of behavior becomes even more ridiculous.It's not bad that the villagers didn't scold him for being insane.

"Is this the generation gap?" The generation here is not the generation of two generations, but the generation of the times. The difference is more than 300 years. How can they understand my thoughts?Thinking of this, Tang Que felt calm, and greeted the villagers generously and without any awkwardness, so that those villagers who wanted to laugh at him couldn't say anything.

In such a closed village, there are few new things. The few chickens in the family are enough to be discussed by the villagers for several days. The story of the only teenage son of the Tang family going to school is almost a gust of wind in less than two sticks of incense. It seemed to spread throughout the village.

Chapter 11 Go to elementary school after college

After hearing the news, he said everything, but needless to say, most of them had nothing good to say. To put it lightly, he only said that he was obsessed with phlegm, and he didn't know what his life was like. If it's ugly, just say that the boy of the Tang family is disobedient and unfilial. The old man who sold houses and land for him even lost his family. The good impression he left immediately disappeared with this incident, and he suddenly became another representative of the village's idle bastards.

Tang Que didn't know about these discussions, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. At this time, he was putting the meat strips and gift box on the table, and the person who watched him doing all this silently was a man over sixty years old with beard and hair. The grizzled old man.

The old man's face was pale, and he was also wearing a neat regiment-collared robe and Confucian uniform in the summer, with every button tightly buttoned. The first time Tang Que saw him, the word "teacher's dignity" came to Tang Que's mind.

This old master Yan is the Xuezheng recommended by the village school, and Yan Qingchen who has returned to his hometown from the position of Jinzhou Taoism.

"You really never went to school before?" After Tang Que put away his things, Old Master Yan looked him over carefully before asking with deep doubts.

It's no wonder that Old Master Yan is puzzled. People who have gone to school have very different personalities from those who have not. Tang Que in front of him, let alone in this small village, no one would be able to see the abnormality even in the state school. Such a person Isn't it weird that he didn't go to school all day?

"I grew up in the village since I was a child, and I really never studied. Because I heard a playmate in the village school say, 'If you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening', so I have the heart to learn, and I still want to learn. Master, please record."

Tang Que's answer made Old Master Yan more and more astonished. No matter from his brows and eyes, the intangible demeanor on his body, or the words in his mouth, the young man in front of him seemed gentle and gentle. The appearance, that is the talent brought from the root, such a person is really rare.

Old Master Yan thought about Tang Que's age after he was astonished, but he couldn't help shaking his head secretly and lamenting that it was a pity that he entered school too late, and he really let down his good study.After doing the edict for a long time, the most unsightly thing is the current situation. Thinking of this, Old Master Yan became somewhat dispirited, but he still said: "The ancients valued death in the morning, and you have a good future. The big trouble is failure of ambition, as long as you are willing to work hard, God will reward you for your hard work, why should you be afraid of not being famous?".

Tang Que knew the source of Old Master Yan's words. Speaking of which, it was a text he had learned in junior high school. It was about Zhou Chu, a famous official of the Jin Dynasty. People regard it as the three major evils together with the white-fronted tiger in the mountains and the mixed dragons under the bridge. Later, Zhou Chu knew that he had the intention of repenting, so he went to Soochow to find famous scholars Lu Ji and Lu Yun.At this time, what Old Master Yan said was almost exactly the same as what Lu Yun said to Zhou Chu that day, and it was very suitable for the current situation. The only difference was that Zhou Chu had done too many bad things in the past, while Tang Que himself was too old.

Tang Que saw that Old Master Yan was full of regret when he said these words, so he knew that Old Master Yan was just talking, but he didn't care. After completing this routine procedure of admonishment and exhortation, Tang Que thanked Yan Xuezheng Then walked out.

At that time, there were quite a lot of subjects in the education system. In the government school, there were Jinshi subjects, Mingjing subjects, Dao subjects, law subjects, arithmetic subjects, calligraphy subjects, etc., but there were only ten subjects in this small village school There are two kinds of Ming Jing and arithmetic, and it is completely different from the official school, there are more students studying arithmetic here than Ming Jing.There is no other reason, but the villagers are just trying to tell the truth.

Hearing that Tang Que said that he wanted to read Mingjing, the elderly handyman in the village school led him to the warehouse in the backyard to pick up the textbooks, which were divided into three categories.The "Five Classics of Justice" edited and annotated by Kong Yingda, a great scholar in the Zhenguan Dynasty, is the teaching material stipulated by the imperial examinations and official studies, and is also the most important homework for the students of Mingjing science; After it was compiled and published in the world, it became one of the necessary textbooks for ancient scholars to study academic examinations.The whole set of anthology is more than 2000 pages, divided into three volumes and printed, the weight is quite heavy.

In addition to the above two sets, because Tang Que had never been to school, he received another one each of "Rabbit Garden Book House" and "Thousand Character Essay". "Thousand Characters" is no stranger. As for "Rabbit Garden Book", also known as "Rabbit Garden Book", it was originally an enlightenment textbook written by Jiang Wang Li Yunling and his staff Du Sixian in the Zhenguan Dynasty. It was compiled in the Rabbit Garden in the Wangfu, so it took such a strange name.This book is the same as the later "Mengqiu" and "Children's Learning Qionglin" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the first book that students learn when they start to learn to read.

Because these books were collected from wealthy businessmen in the county, and students were not charged a penny, the effect of both the paper and the engraving and printing was very poor, but it was barely readable.

The students in the village school came in irregularly, so the rotation teaching system was implemented, just like the students in the impoverished mountainous areas in later generations, there are one, two, three ages in one classroom.The enlightenment time of students in the Tang Dynasty is quite similar to that of later generations. They were six or seven years old at the earliest, and no more than eight or nine years old at the latest. Tang Que is the only one who went to the first grade of elementary school in the sixteenth seventeenth year. When the servant led him in, the little kids stared at him curiously, and then some students burst out laughing, even the teacher who was teaching was stunned.

The next class was unavailable. The students in the room kept turning their heads to look at Tang Que, who was sitting at the end. Some were snickering, some were making faces. Mr. Ren punished four students in a row with a ruler. Didn't hold it down either.

This kind of situation made Tang Que uncomfortable. He took advantage of the break between classes and went to find his husband directly. The purpose was to ask him to explain "The Rabbit Garden Book Mansion" to himself, and then he went home to study on his own. The husband only needed five days for inspection. Once is enough.

Mr. Na is also worried about this, Tang Que's proposal can be said to be exactly what he wants, but what will be the effect after returning home?Anyway, a person who is enlightened at the age of sixteen or seventeen will not be of much promise, and there is no need to delay others because of him.

Then, after the teacher assigned homework to the other students, he took Tang Quedan to the simple study and recited "Rabbit Garden Book House".After Tang Que marked the sentences, and marked the unfamiliar traditional characters with the simplified characters learned later, the task of the husband was considered complete, and he got up and left without delay.

No matter how simple "Rabbit Garden Book Mansion" is, there are some allusions in it. Although these allusions are familiar to readers, Mr. Tang doesn't think that Tang Que, who has just been enlightened, can know it. Originally, he wanted to wait. After going through the pronunciation and characters for the first time, I would go into detail about these allusions, but was stopped by Tang Que's words of farewell.

Watching Tang Que go away with a thick stack of books, the gentleman shook his head and let out a long sigh. He was completely hopeless about this student.

After Tang Que left the village school, he didn't go home. Instead, he got into the forest behind and copied the mountain road to Gao Li's village.

Although she lives in a village, and there are still many people in the village who share her fields, Gao Li's village has been almost isolated from the village since the neighbors moved away. No one in the village is willing to come here. As for the Zhuangzi, except for the gossip that Mrs. Gao and Li sometimes can't help hearing to go out to "seduce" men, no one else is willing to come to the village to attract people's eyes. After coming here for three years, I still can't recognize everyone in the village.

When Tang Que walked into the second yard, Sister Lan was coming out with a wooden basin to pour water, seeing him holding a large pile of books, she hurriedly put down the wooden basin in her hand and came to help, "What are you doing, why did you buy so many books? ".

Hearing this, Tang Que smiled and said nothing. After entering the study and putting down the book in his hand, he went straight to the bookshelf without caring about the sweat on his body. After a while, he pulled out "Shengjiao Xu" and "Lanting Pavilion" with a smile on his face. These two volumes of Fatie.

Both of these books are written by Wang Xizhi, the sage of calligraphy. "The Preface to Lanting Collection" is naturally famous, but its rules are not easy for beginners to master calligraphy. On the contrary, it is the "St. "Teaching Preface" is more suitable for Tang Que who is just learning to write calligraphy.

Now that there are textbooks, copybooks, brushes, ink, paper and inkstones, a stable income, and even a study room, after everything is ready, Tang Que is determined to study hard while doing accounts.He has been a top student since he was a child in later generations, so he doesn't feel hard when he thinks of studying, but he has faint expectations like before the college entrance examination.

Chapter 12 Work-study

When Sister Lan walked in with a basin of clear water, Tang Que, who had put down the stickers in his hand, felt that his whole body was sweaty and uncomfortable. It was nothing for a man in the later generations to be shirtless in summer. He took off the half-arm gown, and washed his bare upper body with cold well water.

Sister Lan didn't expect him to be like this, she turned her head away and at the same time couldn't help sneaking a glance over, who would have thought that Tang Que, who looked gentle and gentle, would have a good physique, looking at Tang Que who was eye-catching at six dollars With curvy abdominal muscles and a well-proportioned and vigorous body, Sister Lan, who has always been calm and not shy in scolding Zhuang Han, unexpectedly blushed for no reason.

It was a bit inconvenient for Tang Que to wipe his back after washing. It was fine to carry some water with him, but Sister Lan stepped forward and took the handle of the towel, "I'll help you."

After Tang Que handed over the towel, he stood upright. Sister Ren Lan helped him wipe the water droplets under his shoulders. He hadn't wiped it twice, but suddenly felt two big balls of slippery, greasy softness, which were worn in Fu Tianli. Thin and flimsy, Tang Que was shirtless, so he could even feel the two lumps of soft red beans very clearly.

"This girl is a good asset." When Tang Que turned around, Sister Lan who suddenly turned back was blushing. Sister Lan, you have to pay more attention," Tang Que said with a smile, and he took the towel in his hand, and his movements naturally helped her wipe off the thin layer of sweat on her forehead.

Originally, Sister Lan was scolding herself for being so distracted that she couldn't stand firmly on her feet, but Tang Que's actions just resolved her embarrassment, "You have a sweet mouth", pretending to be angry, she just took it The towel helped Tang Que wipe it up, as if what happened just now had never happened.

Seeing Tang Que turned back again, Sister Lan couldn't help thinking again, "What if he hugged me just now?" Thinking of this, her face blushed again, "Maybe I'm going to put this Maybe this is true. Although I was born as a slave, I still look pretty good, and I have some private houses. His family is poor, so he won’t despise me! If I can marry such a man... ", Xin Xin Thinking of this without thinking, Sister Lan, who was still feeling ashamed just now, felt an inexplicable regret in her heart.

"Okay, let's start to do the accounting!" Tang Que felt sad when he saw Sister Lan's face full of love after putting on his half arm. He had already taken the opportunity to tease her, so how could he handle it like this.Speaking of it, it was all caused by lack of money, the family's situation was so miserable, how could he have the heart to pick flowers?

"I'm going to invite Madam over here now." After giving Tang Que a complicated look, Sister Lan turned and left the room.

Perhaps it was because Gao Lishi and Tang Que hadn't been so close to a man for a long time. When Gao Lishi and Tang Que shared a book to make accounts, they were not used to it for a long time, and their sitting posture was tense and uncomfortable. Fortunately, Tang Que was a very serious person who never cared about anything since he was a child. He did things in a down-to-earth manner, and Gao Li had experienced many things in the world, so he gradually calmed down. One report and one write, the cooperation is very tacit.

Perhaps it was a habit formed when he was in school. Tang Que was really desperate when he did things. He didn't put down the quill pen in his hand until the dusk fell. Calculating the time, it happened to be the time when the village school finished school. , After hastily finished his meal, he put the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, "Rabbit Garden Book House" and "Shengjiaoxu" in a green cloth bag and went back. Naturally, these were all approved by Mrs. Gao Li.

When he still walked around the mountain and returned home from the village school, Tang and Zhang were waiting for him to come back for dinner, thinking about the good tea and rice he ate at night, and looking at the batter in the old man's bowl, Tang Que felt really uncomfortable , so while drinking the batter, he came up with the idea of ​​"discounting". I can buy four buckets of rice. Four buckets of rice doesn’t sound like much. It’s equivalent to five catties in future generations, but five catties a day, after two months, it’s three hundred catties.It really echoed a sentence that Tang Zhang often said, "If you can't eat and drink, you can't be poor forever."

After making up his mind, Tang Que calmed down. After drinking the batter and putting down the bowl, he returned to his room and almost couldn't wait to open "The Rabbit Garden Policy House". Going there, the whole book is composed of four-character sentences that rhyme, using a four-character pattern to put things like "Meng Mu moved three times" and "Qin destroyed the six kingdoms" in the order of dynasties, and there are very few uncommon words in it. , its posture is very similar to the later generations of Lotus Falling Drum Ci or jingles, which are not only catchy, but also very easy to recite because of the clues of the times.

Hearing the sound of reading aloud from his son's room, Tang and Zhang looked at each other, then shook their heads lightly in unison. How great would it be if the child could do this when he was six or seven years old?

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