happy rebirth

At this time, there were no nail clippers, and people used scissors and files to cut their nails.As a member of the Xie family, Xie Jinhua has never been short on food and clothing. The tools he uses for manicures are more expensive than those used by ordinary people.Several pairs of scissors and files of different sizes are neatly placed in a wooden box. The handles of the scissors are made of gold wire, and the handles of the files are made of jade. Even the materials of the wooden boxes are different. generally.

As a well-trained senior life assistant, Li Yang changed several sets of scissors back and forth when he was helping Xie Jinhua to manicure.

But when Ke Qi manicures himself, he does it all with just a pair of scissors from start to finish.Therefore, Xie Jinhua at this moment is like a Westerner who is used to eating with a full set of knives, forks and spoons for the first time encountering an Easterner who can handle everything with two small wooden sticks.

Oh no.

It should be said that a Westerner who was used to being fed with a knife, fork and spoon met an Easterner who used chopsticks to eat by himself.

"It's really nothing..." Ke Qi decided to help Xie Jinhua gain ground, "How many ordinary people can make gold scissors and jade knives? They can't afford to use servants, and they can do it with a pair of big scissors." .The poorer people don’t even have scissors, and they wear them off a little while working. Oh, and there are people like my cousin, who likes to chew his nails. He opened his mouth and ate it all up."

Xie Jinhua only felt that Ke Qi had opened a door to a new world for him.

Ke Qi hooked the handles of the scissors with his fingers and turned them around.He suddenly thought, if he could make nail clippers, wouldn't this be an excellent business opportunity?No particularly hard-to-find materials are needed to make the nail clippers, and there are no overly complicated processes involved in the individual components.According to the physics knowledge in middle and high schools, the principle of leverage is used in the nail clippers, and it can be done as long as the force arm and fulcrum are calculated.

Of course, nail clippers are a delicate thing.

However, compared with all kinds of complicated jewelry sought after by ladies, nail clippers are not so delicate.Ke Qi had great confidence in the craftsmen at that time, and their skills simply amazed Ke Qi, a traveler.However, if it is purely handmade, nail clippers cannot be mass-produced.Even if human resources are cheap, the extremely cheap nail clippers of later generations can only be sold as luxury goods at this time.

Ke Qi's eyes fell on the handle of the file.

The handle of this knife is made of white jade, the quality of the jade is ice and clean, and the carving is exquisite.A knife handle is enough for poor people to eat for a long time.

For ordinary people, this file is a luxury.

Likewise, what if nail clippers were not sold as a luxury item?The poor have no use for them.The poor only want food and clothing, and nothing is more important than food and clothing.As Ke Qi said to Xie Jinhua, they usually rub off their nails while working.

The market is different, and the positioning of commodities will naturally be different.

And since he wanted to sell the nail clippers as a luxury, Ke Qi couldn't eat the whole business by himself.

Xie Jinhua saw Ke Qi staring at the manicure tool thoughtfully, thinking that Ke Qi liked it.What's your favorite pair of scissors?It's just that human beings are hopelessly partial in many cases.If other people stare hard at the scissors, Xie Jinhua will probably think that person's eyelids are too shallow.But at this time, it was Ke Qi who made this action. Xie Jinhua was more tolerant towards Ke Qi, so he couldn't help thinking about it.

Xie Si, who consciously experienced vicissitudes, recalled that when he was young—about five or six years old—he liked the flower tin on the forehead of the maid for a while, and especially wanted to order one on his forehead. Can not bear to look.It can be seen that it is unreasonable to like this kind of thing.

It's just the nature of youth.

Xie Jinhua was thinking about these things, and Li Yang had already trimmed his toenails for him.Li Yang wiped the scissors and files clean with a cloth towel, and put them neatly back into the wooden box.Xie Jinhua signaled Li Yang to pass the wooden box to Ke Qi, and said, "You can play with it."

Ke Qi held a box of things that he didn't need very much with a blank expression, and he didn't understand what Xie Jinhua meant.

However, under Xie Jinhua's slightly doting eyes, Ke Qi really couldn't refuse his kindness.

"Thank...thank you?" Ke Qi said hesitantly.

Xie Jinhua only felt that he was really understanding and guessed Ke Qi's intentions correctly, and said very boldly: "You are welcome!"

It's not late at night, but it's time to rest.Li Yang turned around and went into the inner room to make the bed.Xie Jinhua got off the couch and asked, "Di Ke and I still want to sleep together? I feel that my health is much better. It's enough to have Di Ke during the day, and it's okay to be separated at night."

Li Yang said with a smile: "Master, when you can grow as strong as a slave, you can sleep separately."

Xie Jinhua looked at Li Yang's thick waist, then looked down at his slender wrist, curled his lips childishly.Ke Qi joked on the side: "According to what Li Yang said, brother Xie will sleep with me forever." Xie Jinhua will never grow up like Li Yang if he is not reincarnated.

Xie Jinhua thought about it silently, and felt that he should not have the bad habits of grinding teeth, snoring, and talking in sleep, so he quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

On the second day, Xie Er bid farewell and returned to Xie's mansion.

There were only two masters, Xie Jinhua and Ke Qi, in the grass garden, so Ke Qi couldn't help but relax a little more.After dinner, he took Xie Jinhua for a walk in the garden.This is actually to increase Xie Jinhua's exercise.It is the season when peach blossoms are in full bloom, and there is a beautiful peach forest in the garden.

As Xie Jinhua walked, he tested Ke Qi's homework.First, the content of the recitation, when Xie Jinhua read a certain sentence, Ke Qi immediately recited all the sentences before and after, or simply recited the whole text.Then came the interpretation, Xie Jinhua spoke the sentence, and Ke Qi expressed his own understanding.Finally, there was composition. Xie Jinhua gave a proposition, and Ke Qi had to quickly follow his train of thought and use this proposition to complete an ingenious composition orally.

If Ke Qi was an ordinary student, he would definitely suffer from a phobia of studying under such a rigorous assessment by Mr. Xie.

No wonder Xie San is always reluctant to play with Xie Jinhua on weekdays. There is no good result if a top student and a bad student are bound together forcibly.

But it is also a pairing of a top student and a bad student, but Ke You likes Ke Qi very much.

Xie Jinhua had already figured out Ke Qi's depth, and said: "If you maintain such a learning efficiency, you will definitely be able to enter Qiulin College. The elder brother is worried, and insists on finding another teacher for us. Well, if that Master is good at poetry and prose, you can also strengthen your studies in this area."

Xie Jinhua felt that he could teach Ke Qi well by himself, because Ke Qi's progress in these days was obvious to all, and it was all thanks to Xie Jinhua!Another person came to share the students with him, which made him feel like the cabbage he had worked so hard to grow was taken over by others.

However, Ke Qi is not very good at poetry.

Xie Jinhua can compose poetry, but he can't teach it.In his opinion, poetry depends on a feeling.I feel that everything is easy to say.

But it feels like this kind of thing is intangible, and Xie Jinhua really doesn't know how to explain it to Ke Qi in detail.

Fortunately, whether he can write poetry will not affect Ke Qi's future.After all, Ke Qi did not intend to become a great writer, reading is a tool for him.Although there are poems in Anchao's imperial examination, as long as the examinee's level is passable, they don't need to write any eternal masterpieces.

"Brother should be worried." Ke Qi said.He knew that Xie Jinhua was hiding his clumsiness, but the rest of the people didn't seem to know this.

The two of them had already walked into the peach forest while talking.

Ke Qi knew that junior two boys needed constant affirmation, so he said: "Brother Xie has confidence in me, but I am still very nervous. Qiulin Academy is famous all over the world, and I am always worried that I am not doing enough... Fortunately, with brother Xie, I will definitely study hard from brother Xie!"

The corners of Xie Jinhua's mouth curled up, and he said, "Don't worry."

Ke Qi is still in the period of filial piety.However, An Dynasty's filial piety is divided into two situations, one situation within three months, and another situation after three months.Within three months, people like Ke Qi who have lost their parents are not allowed to marry, have entertainment, drink alcohol or eat meat, and those who have official positions must be dismissed from the official residence for funerals, etc. All in all, it is very strict.After three months, "both buried and removed", although filial piety is still required, it is more relaxed than within three months.

Of course, within three years, marriage, scientific examinations, etc. are still not allowed.But it is all right for officials to return to their posts, businessmen to go out to do business, and students to continue their studies.Qiulin College will recruit students once a year in April and September.By September, Ke Qi had already completed three months of mourning.

The scenery in the peach forest is as beautiful as a gouache painting.The white-pink peach blossoms are like clouds and fog, and Ke Qi walks among them, as if in a fairyland.When Ke Qi went to the toilet and came back, he didn't see Xie Jinhua in the peach forest.He asked a man who was waiting in the garden.

The man said: "The young master chased Ah Huang over there, followed by Li Sang."

Ah Huang?Who brought the little milk dog from Luoquan Village here?Ke Qi is an authentic dog dad.As a dog lover, he ran towards that place without saying a word.After a while, he saw Xie Jinhua squatting under a tree.Xie Jinhua had a great time holding Ah Huang.

Xie Jinhua has always been restrained, but now he laughs very wantonly.

Ke Qi stopped in his tracks.

Ah Huang is a slender chubby man, with a domineering aura of "I am number one in the world" all over his body. The name "Ah Huang" should come from its coat color.Because the hair on its back is yellow.Xie Jinhua and Ah Huang heard the movement and looked towards Ke Qi in unison.

Xie Jinhua's eyes were shining brightly, as if they were filled with stars all over the sky.

There was disdain in Ah Huang's eyes, looking at Ke Qi was like looking at a stupid human being.

Ke Qi subconsciously took a step back.

This is a cat!Although Ke Qi likes dogs, he is a little afraid of cats.When he was very young, the neighbor's family had a very fierce cat, that cat could eat snakes!After eating the snake, it ran to Ke Qi's bed and vomited a pile of minced meat.Four-year-old Ke Qi had nightmares for several days because of this.

At that time, whenever little Keqi became disobedient, his grandma used to scare him like this: "The big cat is coming to scratch your little Chichi!"

Cats are simply Ke Qi's childhood shadow!

Ke Qi couldn't help but took a step back.

The dog smashed it!You actually have the same name as a cat!I'm sorry, Dad, let's swallow our anger and change our name.