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"This is the end of today's lesson. After you go back, you should do more exercises to deepen your understanding."

"Eh……"

In the afternoon of this day, after Luo Yong taught the students in Class C of Taixue an afternoon of mathematics, he distributed a set of exercises to each of them and asked them to take them home to do.

In the teaching courses of this era, the time allocation is not as precise as that of later generations. A class is usually half a day, and the math class is once every five days, and the test is once every ten days. Taking the opportunity of the exam, Luo Yong will continue to bring forward the previous knowledge points Give them a review to achieve the effect of deepening the impression.

The students who study here do not enter the society to participate in work like the students of later generations after graduation. They all aim to become officials. A large part of the students who leave this school will become the parents of the people.

It is precisely because of this that Luo Yong has never played tricks on teaching, even though the course of mathematics may not be that important to these students.

"Shh!"

"Shut! Swish!"

"Shhhhhhhh!"

Classes end early every afternoon. When the students leave school, the sun is still very bright outside, so Luo Yong can see such a scene every day recently. Rows of students stand in the corridor, amidst the swishing sounds one after another One after another, the automatic umbrellas were bounced off the umbrella surface.

Most of these automatic umbrellas are sold from Nanbei Groceries, and some people bought automatic umbrellas from their shops and asked their family members to change the umbrella surface again. Such umbrellas are naturally unique.

"Shh!"

"Swish!"

Amidst the bursts of swishing sounds, Luo Yong was in a particularly happy mood. Every swishing sound represented a large amount of income for him.

"Let's go." Qiao Junlin drove the donkey cart over at this time.

"Oh." Luo Yong got into the car with a stack of homework collected from the students.

The summer in Chang'an City is extremely sweltering. In terms of temperature alone, it may not be much higher than that of later generations, but the humidity is definitely much higher. In addition, there is no air conditioner or electric fan in this era, so summer is really difficult.

When Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin returned home, they were also sweating profusely.

Mrs. Zhao only had half a day of class, and she had already gone home by this time. The four mothers and seven mothers had been idle at home for half a day, and Wu Lang and Liu Lang had also returned from school. It doesn't look good.

"Eat edamame tonight?" Luo Yong casually put the stack of papers aside, and sat down on the porch.

"Azhi said he wanted to cook a soup with edamame and bacon." When that boy Liulang saw his brother come back, he snuggled up to him.It's just that the complexion is not very good, and the lips are a little pale.

"But heatstroke?" Luo wiped the thin sweat on his forehead with his hand.

"I don't know..." Liu Lang leaned listlessly on Luo Yong's lap, like a kitten.

"Mr. today asked him to recite the book, but he can't recite it." Goro said beside him.

Goro and Liulang are not in the same class. Goro has been to school before and has some background. Although there are differences in accent and teaching habits of the teacher, as long as he adapts, he can basically keep up with the progress of the class.

Although Liu Lang also learned some things from his brothers and sisters at home, he did not learn systematically. He was a hammer here and a stick there.

"May I ask brother to teach you?" Adapting to the new environment is not an easy task, especially in this age where there are no flowers of the motherland, and most of the gentlemen are relatively strict.

"Goro has taught me." Liu Lang said.

"Brother." Goro was peeling an edamame with his head lowered at this time, and when he heard this, he didn't turn his head back.

"Our husband said that you didn't recite it correctly, and many places are wrong."

"Our husband didn't say that I recited it wrong."

"You sir don't teach well."

"You sir have so many things to do." The two brothers muttered and chattered.

"Brother, tell me." Liu Lang couldn't say it, so he came to Luo Yong.

"You sir teach seriously." Can Luo Yong openly teach bad children?

In fact, Luo Yong also thinks that Qilang and his husband have a lot of things to do. Children, as long as they can recite a big difference, praise a few words without spending money, criticize and criticize all day long, their little enthusiasm for learning will be lost. He gave no criticism.

"Sir, what did you recite wrongly? Let me have a look?" Qiao Junlin also stopped the donkey cart at this time, fed five pairs, went to the well to wash his hands and face, and went to the porch with water beads.

"Yes, you can ask him." Luo Yong patted Liu Lang on the back and encouraged him.

Qiao Junlin also came to Chang'an City when he was a child, and his foundation was not solid enough when he was a child. Later, he worked hard in this area.

Liu Lang came out with a book in his hands, and Qiao Junlin sat on the porch, explaining to him the content of the book bit by bit, how to pronounce which word should be pronounced, how to break a sentence, and what the meaning of this paragraph is. Carefully, the other children listened while peeling edamame.

After the edamame was peeled, Luo Yong took it to the kitchen, and saw that Azhi was cooking on a fire, and there were some sliced ​​bacon on the cutting board of the stove.

Edamame salty broth soup is also a dish they often eat these days. On this hot day, if the meat bought in the morning is not eaten at noon that day, it will stink if it is designated at night, so it must be salted in time In fact, their family now eats more bacon than fresh meat.

Seeing Luo Yong coming in, Ah Zhi took a bamboo basket from the wooden shelf next to him and said it was sent by a pepper grower outside the city.

They planted this batch of peppers not too early this year, so they matured relatively late. The first batch of peppers did not start to mature until mid-June.

"There are so many peppers, but I can't finish them all at once. Saburo, do you want to dry them or make sauce?" A Zhi asked Luo Yong.

"It's not much, I keep some at home, and share the rest with the neighbors. In this hot weather, sweating is good for the body." Luo Yong said.

"Leave some for Master Zhao?" Azhi asked.

"Yes, leave some for Mrs. Zhao." After all, he is the gentleman invited by the family, so we can't forget him for anything.

Luo Yong looked in the kitchen again. There were only four dishes tonight, one soy and salty broth, one steamed eggplant, one fried loofah, and one scrambled egg.

This is basically the standard of food in their family. Occasionally, they would buy some chickens and geese to improve the food, and the pork and mutton were never broken.

The weather was hot these two days, Luo Yong saw that none of these dishes were appetizing, so he did it himself, chopped some chili peppers, and fried a spicy dish with bacon and edamame.

On this hot day, there was a big stove burning in the kitchen, not to mention how hot it was, Luo Yong only had to cook such a dish, and he was sweating all over again. Ah Zhi prepared meals for them every day, really It is also hard work.

"You go outside to get some air, and I'll do the rest." Azhi said hastily.

"It's okay, I'm sweating all over anyway." Luo Yong felt that Ah Zhi shouldn't be left alone to do housework every day, they should at least help out occasionally, Si Niang and the others are a little bit sluggish these days Yes, probably because he doesn't want to move.

"Hengzhi hasn't come back yet?" Luo Yong talked to A Zhi while working.

"Someone brought a message early in the morning, saying that we will live in Guiyifang tonight." Azhi said, adding another firewood to the stove: "I heard that I am looking for a blacksmith with excellent craftsmanship, and even They could be typed out for him, and he spent money to invite people to Guiyifang, where he set up a shed in the open space of Xing Er’s yard, where he tinkled iron all day long.”

"Xing Er's yard is big enough."

"That's where he can play with those guys. I heard that I bought some wood in the past two days. I don't know if Xing Er is willing or not."

"If he is not happy, he will naturally say so."

"That's true."

The two of them were fast with their hands and feet, one of them lit the fire and the other cooked the dishes, and they prepared a few dishes and served them on the table in a few strokes.

One chili fried edamame, one loofah soup, plus steamed eggplant and scrambled eggs, there are still four dishes in total, and the rice is multigrain rice.

When the family was eating together, the plate of edamame that Luo Yong fried was so spicy that the children were so spicy that they stuck their chopsticks straight into the plate while they were eating.

After dinner, take a cool off on the porch for a while, and then take a hot bath, the whole person will feel refreshed. Seeing that those little ones are not as sluggish as in the afternoon, Luo Yong is also in his heart. I feel more at ease.

When it comes to raising children, nothing else is said, health must come first.

According to the "Huangdi Neijing", summer is the season when all things prosper, and people should also follow this season to make the interstitial muscles open, the defensive qi to flow, and the mood to be comfortable and outward.

In short, one cannot be bored in summer.

Chang'an City is sweltering in summer, and it is good to eat a little chili once in a while.

On the [-]th day of June, Luo Yong carried a load of hot peppers to the court, which attracted many officials' attention. After entering the palace gate, an eunuch who was leading the way smiled and took Luo Yong's load over. , Helped him pick this load of peppers out of the hall.

The eunuchs in the palace probably have a good impression of this legendary coffin board, and they all know that the servant Xu learned the craft from him. Although not everyone has such an opportunity, everyone feels that this A coffin board should have no prejudice against eunuchs like them.

This morning at the court, after everyone had finished talking about state affairs, Luo Yong said that he had a load of chili peppers to share with the sage and the ministers.

After saying this, he ran to the outside of the hall, picked up a pole, and brought in his load of peppers. The load of peppers was booming, and all the civil and military officials were in a daze...

Many people thought in their hearts that such a down-to-earth way of gift-giving, the saint and the ministers probably don't want to accept it.

The result was not like that, the sage was very generous, and let the palace servants remove half of the load with his mouth open, and the remaining half of the load would be divided among the high-ranking ministers at the top, so there was nothing extra, and the low-rank ones at the bottom Officials, they can't even tell the difference between a chili pepper.

The following small officials may not be clear about it. In fact, as early as when the chili pepper was released, several imperial doctors in the palace tasted and analyzed it in person. The final conclusions are that the chili pepper can drive away wind and sweat, and ward off evil. .

That's why there is today's Luo coffin plate facing upwards to present peppers, which the saint and the ministers are scrambling to ask for.