Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 31 Farmers talk about fish

   "The son of heaven values ​​heroes, and articles teach children. Everything is inferior, but reading is high."

  When Zhu Ping'an returned to the school window with a brush and a black wooden board, Mr. Sun Xiucai was teaching children to read this poem to encourage learning. It can be seen that the ancient private school education has a lot of freedom. Of course, this freedom refers to the freedom of the master. The teaching can be taught according to their wishes, unlike modern education that is still restricted by the outline.

  The master wants to imbue the children with the importance of reading, so that they can be proud of reading, so that they can settle down to study.

  The children below didn't understand the poetry, but they shook their heads and followed the master to read word by word.

   Zhu Ping'an has long memorized this poem encouraging students to learn, and he understands better than these children the meaning of the saying that all things are inferior, but reading is high. I have an advantage of hundreds of years of experience in ancient times, but it is not that big. It is definitely no problem for you to take the elementary school entrance examination as a college student, but if you are asked to take the college entrance examination after you graduate from university, can you still be confident? This is the same, in ancient times The imperial examination is much more difficult than the college entrance examination and postgraduate entrance examination. Although I saw the luck twice, it was just like that, it was useless, and it didn't bring any changes to me, besides, I couldn't watch the luck independently.

Thinking of this, Zhu Pingan put the black wooden board on the stone again, poured the water from the bamboo tube into the groove, and prepared to practice calligraphy. Calligraphy is very important during the imperial examination. This is the first impression given to the examiner. It is about practicing hard.

When old Xiucai Sun was leading the students to read poems to encourage learning, he inadvertently saw the chubby naughty boy outside the school playing the game of watering stones again. It's time to learn, it's really a step behind.

  The master sighed and felt more and more that these children in the school should be strictly disciplined, so he led the children to read it over and over again.

  Outside the school window, Zhu Ping'an picked up a brush and dipped it into the water, and practiced the few traditional characters he had learned recently on the black wooden board. I took the trouble to watch my brush calligraphy turn from twists and turns to gradually taking shape, and my interest in practicing calligraphy became even stronger.

   Another day was coming to an end, Zhu Pingan saw that it was getting late, and it was time for the master to assign homework to the children, so he packed up his things, walked through the bamboo forest, took the old scalper, and walked down the hillside.

  The old scalper was led by Zhu Pingan to graze these days, and his hair was shiny. He also forgave Zhu Pingan for cutting its tail hair, and licked Zhu Pingan's little hand with his tongue affectionately.

  When he reached the foot of the hill, Zhu Pingan let go of the old scalper and walked slowly to the place by the river where he lowered his basket to catch fish.

  The water in the stream is clear and shallow, with ripples, and the aquatic plants and small fish and shrimps under the water can be seen clearly. With bare feet, Zhu Ping'an stepped into the stream. The stream just covered his calves, and it was warm and cool, which was very comfortable. In three or two steps, I walked to the place where the fish basket was placed in the morning, stretched out my hand to lift the fish basket, and when I lifted the fish basket, I heard a fierce crackling sound in the fish basket. It's on Zhu Ping'an's face.

In the fish basket, there was a yellow catfish that was almost as thick as my small wrist, flicking its tail angrily in the fish basket, and there were five or six silver carp with a length of seven to eight centimeters, all jumping in the fish basket Jumping and jumping, but the exit is too small and there are barbs made of bamboo, so they can't do anything.

  Don't be angry, you will make your outstanding contributions to enrich our table.

  Seeing that you are so excited to dance, let’s braise it in braised sauce. Braised crucian carp in braised sauce is the best.

   But watching these fish being caught because they were greedy for the bait in the fish basket, think about it, isn’t it the same reason why I have been teased by the black-bellied little loli many times? It’s all caused by greed. However, think about the delicious chicken legs, soft and crispy snacks, it seems that you have been teased a few times, it's not bad.

  I picked up the fish basket, put on my shoes, took the brush and the black wooden board, and climbed on the back of the ox to go home.

  Back home, dinner was being made at home, and seeing Zhu Pingan come back with this fish basket, grandma gave Zhu Pingan a rare compliment.

"Oh, this catfish is so big, it's good enough for a fish soup." The auntie came out of the house to take a look, with a smile on her face, "Well, the pig is awesome, I just say that the pig is herding cattle Sure."

  After a while, the grandmother put the fish into the basin, dripped two drops of oil to make the fish spit out sand, and then led a few daughters-in-law to work for dinner.

  Zhu Pingan stood in front of the basin and thought for a while, and just happened to see his uncle coming out of the room. He must have heard that there was fish, and he could add a meat dish for dinner. This made the uncle who had been vegetarian for a few days look happy.

  Zhu Ping'an rolled his eyes, ran forward all the way, pulled his uncle's sleeve, dragged him to the basin and said.

   "Uncle, look how well the little fish swim in the basin, they are so happy." It was completely childish.

  The uncle nodded disapprovingly.

   "But grandma said you like to eat stewed fish soup, and you will cook them later!"

  Looking at my little nephew who was about to cry, and then seeing my sister-in-law Chen, who is looking at Wensheng, this sister-in-law is a pungent one, so she can't let her think that I made him cry, otherwise there will be trouble again.

   "Okay, okay, don't be sad, uncle doesn't eat stewed fish soup anymore."

So the uncle said in a perfunctory way, thinking to himself, a child is in a gust of mood, which will coax him away, let his mother stew the fish later, and wait for the meal to be ready later, maybe he will forget it, even if he thinks about it , no one can say anything.

   "Really?" Zhu Pingan suddenly raised his head and ran into the kitchen and shouted, "Grandmother, grandma! Uncle doesn't eat stewed fish soup anymore, I caught the fish, I want to eat braised in soy sauce!"

  The uncle who still wanted to fool his little nephew outside was messed up in the wind.

However, Zhu Pingan still ignored the degree of eccentricity of the grandmother. Although the uncle just said that he would not eat the stewed fish soup, the stewed fish soup that the grandmother made was fortunately only stewed catfish, and the remaining six small silver carp were still braised in brown sauce. Fish, let Zhu Ping'an's mental balance a little bit.

  Dinner was speechless for a while, all the fish were caught by myself, and even the braised fish was fought for by myself. As a result, grandma only gave Zhu Pingan a bowl of catfish soup for dinner, and there was only one piece of catfish meat in it.

Of the six braised silver carp, one was given to the grandfather, and two to the uncle, who said that the uncle was struggling with his studies. Similarly, the other one was given to Zhu Pingjun, which made Zhu Pingan very speechless. It's because my master slapped my palm because I was sleeping. He worked hard there, and I worked hard to herd the cows, okay? Of the remaining two, one was given to my fourth uncle, saying that my fourth uncle is still ill, uh, I forgot to mention, today my family dredged the ditch, and my fourth uncle fell ill again, and he said he had suffered from hemorrhoids, dare you believe it! Catfish is hair, okay? The catfish soup that my grandmother gave my fourth uncle was full of large pieces of catfish. My uncle's food tasted better than anyone else, and there was nothing wrong with it.

   Another one, the grandmother split the two halves and gave them to Uncle Zhu and Father Zhu, and Father Zhu gave the half to Zhu Pingan. Zhu Pingan gnawed on half a silver carp, and looked at Zhu Pingjun happily gnawing on two silver carp, and had a new understanding of the degree of eccentricity of his grandmother.

  Next time, I will grill two fish by the river first and then bring the rest back, so as not to eat the fish.

  (end of this chapter)