Jing Xingzhi's ancient daily life

Jing Xingzhi followed his words and asked, "What did the head of the mountain say?"

Wu Mingrui didn't make things difficult for Jing Xingzhi, he clapped his hands excitedly, and raised his brows in joy.

"Li Huasui was expelled from the academy. None of Zhu Da and his colleagues copied the Analects of Confucius [-] times. The dean said that he would personally check the handwriting and require it to be neat and free of mistakes!"

Jing Xingzhi recalled that there were twenty chapters in the Analects of Confucius, more than 5000 characters not counting the titles.Twenty times means starting at 30.

Even though Jing Xingzhi was mentally prepared for the huge difference in punishment, he also felt that the punishment for Zhu Da and others was too light compared to Li Huasui.

Jing Xingzhi said: "Zhu Da and the others may not even count as small punishments."

Wu Mingrui smiled and said, "You forgot, there is a monthly leave tomorrow afternoon, and after the monthly leave is a quiz!"

"What does Zhu Dana care about the most? Doesn't he care that you are ranked first by the masters every time and talk about it, this time he is afraid that he will not be able to be second or third." Wu Mingrui thought. Looking forward to the quiz.

Quiz?

Jing Xingzhi looked at Wu Mingrui's smile, and thought to himself that although Wu Mingrui had a good idea, he might not be able to do it.

Jing Xingzhi has a youthful memory. This memory is used to recognize people, and it’s okay to avoid major mistakes in behavior after contacting people. But let him use the knowledge that has not been sorted out in his mind to take the exam when he first arrives. He will definitely not be able to pass the local exam. students.

But he was ill, and suffered such a grievance, the masters should be able to understand it once he came down from the first place, right?

Jing Xingzhi silently numbered the number one in the first row of sorting out knowledge and monthly exams.

"I remember that brother Mingrui was fifth last time, and there is hope that he can make a dash and suppress Zhu Da." Jing Xingzhi encouraged his roommate.

The fonts used in the teenager's memory are traditional characters. Compared with the modern simplified characters, the strokes are complicated. I am afraid that it will take a long time to copy 30 characters.But the punishment came down the mountain, Zhu Da and the others dared not relax even if they thought about it, so they could only grit their teeth and chase them away.

Wu Mingrui looked at his roommate Jing Xingzhi, who was at the top of the next month's list, and touched his nose: "I don't dare to think of surpassing Xingzhi, but I want to try Zhu Da. It's really hard to let such people over my head. There is no light on the face!"

Jing Xingzhi nodded, and his eyes fell on his face again.

Wu Mingrui noticed Jing Xingzhi's gaze, and thought that his face seemed to have been looked at several times.He touched his face and asked, "Is there anything on my face? I'll see if it's stained with something dirty."

Jing Xingzhi was a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should say it or not.I also thought that my physiognomy was mediocre, and I couldn't speak well, so I was too sure.

So Jing Xingzhi shook his head and said, "It's nothing, it's just similar to a face I've seen in books."

Wu Mingrui became interested, and asked enthusiastically: "What face? I don't know when you are still reading miscellaneous books!"

"I guess I was wrong. Brother Mingrui, are you going home tomorrow? You didn't come back last month." Jing Xingzhi avoided talking about it.

Wu Mingrui rubbed his head with a headache: "If I don't go back, I have to go back. My mother asked my school boy who lives in the outer courtyard to urge me several times to let me go back this month."

Wu Mingrui was nineteen years old and was the only child in the family. But in the past two months, his mother and father had been arguing endlessly. It was really difficult for Wu Mingrui to be caught in the middle, so he simply gave up his half-year-old baby son and hid in the academy.Otherwise, with Wu Mingrui's love for his precious son, how could he not go home during the monthly vacation.

Jing Xingzhi was not sure that the unlucky green hat he saw was true, but he was sure that Wu Mingrui would be fine when he returned home.

So he poured a sip of chicken soup for Wu Mingrui: "I heard that brother Mingrui is the only son. Although family affairs are worrying, but for the sake of filial piety, you should pay more attention to it. Besides, it is the time when the child is babbling. If you don't go back, you may be afraid." I want to miss the child's first daddy."

Wu Mingrui sighed, shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "You're right! I'll listen to you. When I come back, I'll bring you delicious food. My pastry is very good. I didn't dare to disturb your reading in the past, and I didn't dare to explain."

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The second day, afternoon.

The sun was shining, and the green bell for the end of get out of class sounded in the college.As soon as the bell rang, the monthly vacation began, and classes would start three days later.

Students in twos and threes, carrying books and laughing, hurried back to the dormitory.

Wu Mingrui stepped into the house, saw that Jing Xingzhi's things had been put away, and said, "Okay, your things are packed. Just wait for me for a while, I'll walk with you for a while."

Jing Xingzhi nodded: "Okay, hurry up."

Wu Mingrui turned his head to pack his things. He had just put two books in the book basket. After a thought, he turned his head and stared at Jing Xingzhi with burning eyes, and said, "Hey! If it's okay, why don't you stay at my house for a few days?"

Jing Xingzhi looked at Wu Mingrui with some doubts: "No, I'm still sick."

Wu Mingrui looked regretful: "It's my parents who are arguing recently. It's hard for me to be caught in the middle. I think there are guests here, and it can be eased. But since it's inconvenient, let it be. I'll invite you next time."

"Today is inconvenient, next time."

It is true that Jing Xingzhi still has something to do, he has to go back and give money to the boy's foster husband Tong.The boy's family is poor, and he studies all day long, relying on the family's foster husband, the elder brother named Afang, to support him.

Aside from the young man's family affairs, Jing Xingzhi plans to burn something for his friend Liu Fang, and then perform a ritual ceremony for Liu Fang...

Jing Xingzhi was thinking about Liu Fang, and his heart was aching, Wu Mingrui interrupted his thoughts with "I'm fine".

"Let's go." Wu Mingrui picked up his book basket, and wanted to take Jing Xingzhi's burden with him.

Jing Xingzhi's gaze caught his movement, and he immediately grabbed his bag: "No need! Brother Mingrui, I'll just carry it myself."

There is still silver in the baggage, which is heavy and heavy enough.Jing Xingzhi trusted Wu Mingrui's character, but he didn't plan to tell Wu Mingrui about taking the money, the two of them are not too close now.

"Okay then, take it yourself." Wu Mingrui saw that his roommate was still seriously ill and frail, so he wanted to help.

The two walked together for a while and then separated.

Wu Mingrui's home is in Huanshui County, where Huainan Academy is located, and Jing Xingzhi wants to go back to Mingxi Town below the county. He has to take a boat to the small pier of the town, and then walk for half an hour to return to Jingjia Village.

Say goodbye to Wu Mingrui, Jing Xingzhi didn't go to the pier to take a boat, but instead went to the streets and alleys in Huanshui Town that sell all kinds of funeral supplies in his memory.

A quarter of an hour later, Jing Xingzhi walked out of the street carrying the tightly packed water flying cinnabar, paper money, talisman paper, etc., and went to the pier to take a boat.

After drifting on the boat for about two quarters of an hour, Jing Xingzhi blushed facing the river, seeing the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River in early spring.

After getting off the boat, he stepped on the ground top-heavy, and Jing Xingzhi walked towards the "home" in his memory with fluttering footsteps.

He was walking along the pier when he was pulled over by a middle-aged man with a shaggy beard on the side of the road.

Jing Erniu looked at Jing Xiucai, who was blushing in the same village, and asked anxiously, "Jing Xiucai, why are you blushing like this? Are you sick? I'll take you back in my bullock cart, and I won't charge you any money." .”

After Jing Xingzhi knew that he had blown the wind, the wind and cold became heavier again.

His head was dizzy, and his eyes were squinting and trying to close. After watching for a while, he recognized that the person holding him back was Jing Erniu, who was pulling ox carts and transporting people to earn money from Jingjia Village.

Jing Xingzhi said: "It's Uncle Erniu. The river wind is too cold, and it's freezing. Let's take the car today, but I have to pay, otherwise I won't do it."

"Just give it, come up and sit down." Jing Erniu hurriedly pulled him into the car, for fear that the little scholar would faint on the way.

Everyone in Jingjia Village knows about Jing Xingzhi, and they all feel sorry for the two children of this family.Brother Fang, the eldest child supporter, is only eighteen, and Jing Xingzhi, the head of the family, is only fifteen this year, not far from sixteen. He has been studying all the time, and life is really miserable.

It was only when Jing Xingzhi was admitted as a scholar, and became a granary student, exempted from tax for ten acres of land, and the school returned two stones of grain in January, life was looking up.

Jing Erniu smiled and took out the jacket he had covered himself with in the morning to keep out the cold, and handed it to the little scholar: "Mr. Xiucai, don't think it's dirty, put it on and cover yourself."

"Thank you, Uncle Erniu, I'm not welcome." Jing Xingzhi really felt cold, he took over the big jacket and wrapped himself up tightly.

Jing Erniu looked at his clothes and said, "Mr. Xiucai, you are too thin. You have worked so hard to study. You have to take good care of yourself. We are still waiting for you to be selected as a scholar!"

"I'm still growing taller, so I lost some weight." Jing Xingzhi smiled.

He is actually not short now, he is even taller among his peers, but he is very thin and looks like a bamboo pole.

"Then eat more later, I heard from my family that Brother Fang made a beautiful puppet, twelve, and bought 12 taels!" Jing Erniu gave a light slap while talking. Cow butt, drive the cow away.

Jing Xingzhi was surprised by the words in his mouth: "Twelve... puppets?"

Did the word puppet exist in ancient times?

There are still twelve numbers, and a set has come out.Generally, if you can do it, you just try one by one, not to mention that the Jing family is so poor, doing twelve things is not like what the Fang brother in memory can do!

Jing Xingzhi thought of a possibility, and his heart skipped a beat.

He reached out and grabbed Jing Erniu's shoulder, and asked eagerly, "Uncle, what do those twelve look like?"

Jing Erniu looked at him strangely: "Brother Fang said you drew it, and he followed suit. There is an ox, which is interesting, and there is a mouse, such as a dragon or a tiger, according to the zodiac. Yes, one for each zodiac sign."

Jing Erniu's eyes and words made Jing Xingzhi withdraw his hand sensitively.Jing Xingzhi laughed dryly: "I drew it, but I don't know if it can be sold for money, or Brother Fang can do it."

Jing Niuer couldn't help laughing: "Haha, that's right, your brother Fang is a capable child from all over the world. He is handsome, and his complexion is fair after sunbathing all day long. How many people envy you!"

"Don't blame Uncle Erniu for talking too much. From now on, you have to treat Brother Fang well. You have been in school for so many years, and you are all confessed by Brother Fang." Jing Erniu turned his head to look at the little scholar and said.

Compared with the little scholar who returns to the village once a month, the person in the village who gets along every day is Brother Fang.The guy from Jing Erniu's family likes Brother Fang, and will help him every day. In Jing Erniu's heart, Brother Fang is a bit more important than Xiao Xiucai.

"Uncle Er Niu, don't worry, I know." Jing Xingzhi nodded solemnly.

He didn't know about the puppet at first, and he planned to be honest with his brother.Growing up with teenagers, teenagers are suffering, and it is even more difficult for Brother Fang.

"Hey, you don't think I talk too much. My family likes Brother Fang, and Brother Fang even gave me a cow puppet. My little brother sleeps with it every day." Jing Erniu smiled. Teeth, eyes narrowed.

The bullock cart was shaking, and Jing Xingzhi was even more dizzy from the shaking. He nodded a little dizzy, and then fell into his own guesses and couldn't extricate himself, wishing to arrive at Jing's house in the next moment.

The ox cart swayed all the way, and the people on the road soon filled up the ox cart, and the people in the village even mentioned the matter of the puppet, which hooked Jing Xingzhi's heart again and again.

As if seconds passed like years, they finally saw the Jing family.

But at this moment, the door of Jing's house was blocked. Five or six tall and strong people blocked the door of Jing's house tightly, and they could hear unkind shouting and cursing.

The Jing family was poor, and they couldn't live on in the early years, so they borrowed some money from outside.These people must have heard that Brother Fang had made money, so they came to collect debts.