Chapter 2 I want to drop out of school
A mother cannot do anything ruthless when she teaches her son a lesson.
After Xu Yuanzuo took the medicine, he could already walk on the ground at dinner. He just had to control his waist and drag his legs, which looked a bit funny.
My mother has already cooked the dishes and my sister is serving the food.
With the dim sky outside, Xu Yuanzuo still saw the white hair on his mother's sideburns and the crystal sweat beads on his forehead.
This is a strange feeling, which is familiar but resentful; it is obviously resistant, but it is also particularly close.
Xu Yuanzuo felt that he might be schizophrenia.
"Why are you still standing there? Sit down and have a meal!" The mother was still angry and shouted at Xu Yuanzuo.
Xu Liangzuo had already sat in his seat and gave his brother a gloating smile.
Xu Yuanzuo was over step by step and sat down with gritted teeth. Thankfully, it was slightly better than expected.
There was only one bowl of brown rice for dinner, and the vegetables and fish were very fresh.
The vegetables are grown by our own home in the open space behind the house, and the fish are cooked in the afternoon.
This is the convenience of the Jiangnan water town.
"After I go and reimburse my teacher for the meal, right?" Xu's mother couldn't help but say after eating half of the meal.
Xu Yuanzuo didn't say anything, but Xu Liangzuo shook his eyes at his brother and looked like he was asking for a proof.
"Did you hear it?" Xu's mother was furious.
"Mom, don't say anything..." Seeing that his mother was angry, Xu Yuanzuo acted to hit him with chopsticks, and quickly leaned back and said, "Okay, okay, whatever you say is good. Just don't get angry when you eat, and your stomach hurts."
Xu's mother was so amused and remembered that her husband shook her sleeves and went out for a year. She was distressed and said, "I haven't read the book, but I have learned it so frivolously."
Xu Yuanzuo was complaining about his injustice, but he didn't say anything. The four hundred and fifty years of generation gap is really difficult to grasp the standards of frivolity and humor.
At this time, it’s better not to say less mistakes.
Xu Yuanzuo had just delayed it, and the plate of vegetables had been almost eaten by his sister and brother. Although the vegetables had a bitter taste - mainly because of the poor quality of salt, eating fish was even more painful. In this environment, fish was cheap enough to be given for free, and two or three pounds of big fish were only one or two cents of silver. When they met a more diligent child, they would go to the river to catch fish by themselves.
Logically speaking, fresh wild river fish steaming is extremely delicious. Unfortunately, the ginger used to cook and remove fishy fish are more expensive than fish.
Just two onions, a little salt, and a little sauce, it would be fine if you don’t mention the taste of the fish.
After eating only two chopsticks, Xu Yuanzuo was completely out of interest and tried hard to finish the rice, which was considered to have completed the task. Everyone in the family thought that Xu Yuanzuo had just been punished and had no appetite to eat, so no one advised him.
After each of them finished their supper silently, there was no blackhead outside. The Xu sister went to the river at the back door to wash dishes. Xu's mother called her two sons, gritted her teeth and carried a basket of eggs, about four or five, and was about to go out.
"Mom, I thought about it, but I still didn't go." Xu Yuanzuo glanced at the eggs in the basket and couldn't move them a step away.
The only ones who can eat eggs at home are myself and my younger brother. My father didn’t stay at home for long, so he usually beats two eggs during dust and farewell party.
Xu's mother's eyes suddenly widened.
"Mom, I won't go." Xu Yuanzuo said: "It's too hard to support two scholars at home, so let A Niu study."
A Niu is Xu Liangzuo's nickname and has not been called by anyone for a long time. When he heard his brother calling him like this, the touch he had just woken up was wiped out without a trace.
"Anyway, my brother is not a good source of study." Xu Liangzuo retaliated.
Xu Yuanzuo used his weight to squeeze his younger brother away and said to his mother: "Mom, my son has been opened today. I feel that his mind was useless in the past, so I plan to change my ideas and try again. However, this day is not waiting for anyone, and my son can't endure hard in the school. So he stopped his studies first and waited for my younger brother to pass the exam, and I will go back to study and study."
Xu's mother's arms, holding the basket, were slowly straightened, and the blue egg was indeed quite heavy.
After Xu Yuanzuo took over nearly 90% of his new brain, he suddenly discovered that the "scholar" who grew up in the Longqing period of Jiajing was far inferior to his future man 450 years later.
If you evaluate your level of ancient Chinese and familiarity with the Yuandian of the Classics, Xu Yuanzuo believes that it is probably feasible to be a student in the northern mountainous areas, but in the Jiangnan articles, it is probably a hell level difficulty.
Even if you have a smooth journey in the exam and become a student, it will be extremely difficult to get a juren in Nanzhili, which is full of talents. Once you embark on the road of no return to the imperial examination, you will probably be trapped in this life. You should stop first and see if you can do something else, and study by yourself at the same time, and make up for the foundation from scratch.
It can be said that this is the most responsible and efficient way to the family and yourself.
"The emperor values heroes, and the article teaches you..." Xu's mother recited softly, tears in her eyes vaguely visible.
Xu Yuanzuo was quite surprised and looked at the housewife who had one daughter and two sons in front of him, who was over thirty years old and had a stout figure.
Tsk, in the Jiangnan articles, such a housewife can recite a few words of encouragement to learn. With a 90% new brain, she still wants to be a candidate?
Dream!
"If you don't study and improve yourself, you won't have a good background." Xu's mother wiped her tears and said: "Your father... is in a lowly business, just to accumulate some money so that your brothers can make the best and change the family."
"Mother, there are three difficulties in studying." Xu Yuanzuo gently pulled his mother's sleeve and sat down at the table and slowly advised: "It's a difficult time to learn at home. Jiangnan is the place where the children of all the children have not spoken yet, and they listened to "Poetry" and "Book". When they first learned to write, they copied calligraphy from the Jin and Tang Dynasties. In their spare time, they were all Song and Yuan books. When they entered the school, they no longer knew how far they had left their son."
Xu's mother looked dark and said coldly: "I'm sorry to have you born in this small family."
Xu Yuanzuo smiled and said, "The son can get the love of his mother, which is far better than being born in a wealthy family." Seeing that his mother's color was slightly clear, he continued, "The second is the difficulty lies in her talent. Which talented men who have taken the path of fame and fame are not remembered and have extraordinary talents? They live like their son. Look at A Niu, who entered school two years later than me, and now the progress is much higher than me. My brothers and A Niu are so uneven in qualifications, let alone those talents?"
Xu's mother frowned and said to herself: This is not bad. Logically speaking, they are all my sons, and there is no reason why they are so much worse. I am afraid that this talent is really determined by God, and it is impossible to use mortals at all.
"The third is to work hard." Xu Yuanzuo spread his hands: "Mother, those talented men with profound knowledge and talent should also read from morning to night, and then read with candles and night. After reading, they also have to copy and write. Just candles, lamp oil, pens, ink and paper, they will have to pay two taels of silver for a month!"
"You are just lazy!" Xu's mother stared at her eyes.
"What's more, I'm just lazy!" Xu Yuanzuo quickly followed his mother's words and agreed.
Xu's mother put the basket on the table and sighed deeply. She obviously accepted the reality that her eldest son did not go to school, but she still couldn't let it go.
For the first time, Xu Liangzuo felt that his brother spoke well and was definitely not "stupid and stupid" as outsiders said. However, he put these three on his head, but he felt a dazed in his heart.
Needless to say, he is a family student, and his mother is the same as his brother. He is naturally the same as his brother. With talent, he is better than his brother, but he is still a bit far away from not forgetting it. As for hard work, well, I am afraid I am not as hardworking as my brother.
In this way, don’t I have no hope of making a name for myself?
"Mother," said Xu Yuanzuo, "The so-called pursuit of two rabbits is not the only one. Even if my family can have a scholar who changes his family, he must be with A Niu. It is better to concentrate on letting A Niu study hard. I will make a career here and make up for the family. When A Niu achieves something, I will be ready and just about to take the exam."
"What can you do now?" Xu's mother looked at Xu Yuanzuo with disgust: "You can't lift your shoulders and you can't resist."
"My son is smart." Xu Yuanzuo gently tapped his temples and added in his heart: It's still 90% new!
Xu's mother sneered.
Xu Yuanzuo smiled and said, "Actually, my son already had an idea to go and do business with his father."
Xu's mother's face, which had just relaxed, was immediately covered with dark clouds. She said with a dark face: "Your father is forced to do business. Do you think he is willing?"
Xu Yuanzuo gritted his teeth gently. His mother just said that his father was engaged in a cheap career and obviously looked down on businessmen.
Alas, despising businessmen is a privilege of wealthy families. What qualifications do we have to despise businessmen if we can’t even eat eggs?
Xu Yuanzuo shook his head slightly and said, "Mother, the country is not stable without farmers, and no business is not rich. Since Confucius said, "Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are the pillars of the country, it can be seen that the four people are indispensable."
Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, this is what Guanzi said. Xu Yuanzuo was afraid that his mother had never heard of Guanzi and lacked persuasion, so he deliberately put it on Confucius' head.
Unexpectedly, Xu's mother looked at the lamp with her eyes squinted and said disdainfully: "The sayings of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce come from "Guanzi"."
Tsk! Look, it’s true that you don’t go to the imperial examinations!
The liberal arts primary school master was not embarrassed, and said with admiration: "Mother is so knowledgeable, and my son admires her!"
"It's useless to flatter me!" Xu's mother said: "If you don't want to study and improve, you can learn craftsmanship and do business without mentioning it!"
How could Xu Yuanzuo be willing to be a craftsman?
"Mother, isn't it good for the son to inherit his father's business?" Xu Yuanzuo said.
"What's your father's business? Look at this family, look at our mothers! It's okay if you live a tight life. You've been out for a year or two, and there's not even a person at home..." As Xu's mother said, she didn't know how touched the heartstring, she burst into tears, and cried out loud: "I'm so miserable!"
Chapter completed!