Grandpa is not vegetarian

"At the beginning of human beings, nature is good. The first word is to read people, look, standing with legs crossed like this, is it a person?"

Gao Yiqing stood up from the kang, put his hands on his sides, his legs spread apart, and then he laughed: "Sure enough, it's human! It turns out that reading is so easy! I don't know how difficult it is!"

"This is the simplest, and it's more difficult after that. The second word 'Zhi', you can't make a statement, right? It's a function word, with no real thing, but it's the most common. Sometimes it's used as '' "The color of the mountain is the color of the mountain, and there are other meanings. When you meet this kind of live words, you will talk about it one by one. After getting in touch with it a lot, you will remember it in the future. The following is a "beginning" son, When we start to talk about, for example, the beginning of the month, the first few days of a month, the first and second grades, the third and fourth grades, this is the truth, and at the beginning, thinking about the beginning, it is to recall the first days of the year, together, people At the beginning, it is the beginning of a person's life..."

Mu Yunyi broke apart the characters one by one, crumbled them into pieces and explained them. His family is relatively traditional. When he was three years old, he was taught by his grandfather to use a brush to trace the three-character scriptures in red. Wrong, and compared to other gentlemen in this era who just let the students memorize it by rote, what he said was more vivid and detailed, and the two brothers studied it seriously, and quickly memorized it.

Gao Yiqing clamored to learn the following, Mu Yunyi said: "One page a day, set the rules, you must follow the rules, you can't add more, and you can't decrease. The way to learn is to persevere. Don't think that four sentences a day The words are quite simple, but when you learn more in the future, it will become more and more difficult. Don’t learn the latter ones, just forget the former ones. Just memorize these 24 words now. When I come back tomorrow, I will take the exam. If you can’t memorize it, I’ll hit your palm.”

Gao Yiqing patted his chest and promised: "Brother Yuan Bao, don't worry, I will definitely remember it!"

Let the two of them read and recite at the same time, Mu Yunyi took out a needle and thread, sorted all sixty pages of paper according to the page number, bound them into a book, and then showed them the book first, Mu Yunyi took out a lot of cloth, and put it together It is the size of a book, with four layers densely packed together, wrapped with a whole piece of cloth as the book cover, and three neat scripts of "San Zi Jing" are embroidered on the front.It was not enough to put the book cover on, so he made a schoolbag out of cloth, and left room for it, so that when he had hundreds of surnames and thousands of characters, he could also put it in it.

Gao Yichun and Gao Yiqing knew that this opportunity to study was hard-won. They used to envy their eldest brother and second brother who could learn to read and write. Even the two sisters in the second room and their second uncle taught them, but they could not learn. According to grandma, they are destined to be farmers by birth, and they only need to learn how to take care of the land. Two older brothers are enough for studying.

Now they can also read and read. It is not an exaggeration to say that their dreams come true. How can they not cherish and work hard? The two of them held the book and carefully memorized and recited it. When they forgot, they quickly asked Mu Yunyi. The words are printed hard into my mind, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as hunger and thirst.

After Mu Yunyi finished finishing the book cover, he blew on the lamp: "Just memorize these first, and read it tomorrow. Reading too much at night will hurt your eyes."

The three boys were lying side by side under the quilt, Mu Yunyi was still in the middle, Gao Yichun and Gao Yiqing were on one side, the two brothers were so excited that they couldn't sleep, they were still reciting each other's sentences one after another, Gao Yichun said "the beginning of man", Gao Yiqing continued "Sex is inherently good", after reciting it once, starting from Gao Yiqing, and repeating eight short sentences, memorizing it over and over again, before falling asleep in a daze.

In the next few days, Mu Yunyi went to the county to tell stories during the day, and went home at night to teach the two children how to read. Everything needed by the family was added one after another. There are two relatively small low jars for storing rice and noodles. There are several jars on the window sill, containing soybean oil, meat oil, and soy sauce. There are rice spoons and shovels hanging on the wall. In addition, Gao Yichun and his brothers used a brush dipped in water to practice writing on it. Mu Yunyi has not formally taught them to copy, but only taught them how to hold the brush and the rules of writing, mainly to help them better understand the structure of the font.

This day, when Mu Yunyi was on vacation, he went to hire Niu Lao Si to bring Gao Yichun to a follow-up visit.

Gao Yichun evaded in every possible way: "No, really no, my leg is almost healed, I don't need to see the doctor anymore..."

"What's not necessary, just listen to me! Don't be afraid to spend money. I'll tell you, Brother Yichun, you can't bear to part with the money for medical treatment now. In the future, if your bones really grow crooked and become disabled, the money to be ruined is still to come. Listen. Mine, go for a follow-up visit!"

He went to the West Courtyard to find Ma Le again, and together with Niu Laosi carried Gao Yichun to the car. When he went out, Gao Yichun looked at the furtive eyes in the house, and took the copper he bought in the county a few days ago. Take out the lock and lock the door.

It's winter now, and a few days ago there were a few snowfalls. Although it wasn't too heavy, the north wind was howling and it was bitingly cold.

Gao Yichun had an injury on his leg and couldn't wear all his clothes. Fortunately, there was a carriage to block the wind. Mu Yunyi took out the quilt from home and spread it inside, wrapped Gao Yichun up, and asked him to wear only his middle clothes to hide inside to keep out the cold.

Gao Yiqing was wearing a deep coat bought by Mu Yunyi, black cotton boots on his feet, a big belt around his waist, a beautiful Chinese knot on the bottom, and a cloak on top. He looked like a little adult, able to He was very excited to go to town, sitting on the car deck and giggling all the time.

Looking at the appearance of the two brothers, Mu Yunyi felt that in the future, if we get more good people to make them fat, and teach them good manners, they will look like sons and brothers.

When I arrived in the town, I asked Master Jiang for a follow-up visit. After seeing it, Master Jiang nodded and praised: "It is well maintained, and the board can be removed in about half a month. Have you finished applying the ointment I gave you last time? Do you want to take it again?" A bottle?"

Gao Yichun quickly said: "No need, no need, now there is no pain or swelling, it's very good."

Master Jiang didn't insist: "It's okay if you don't take it. Go back and have a good baby. After the new year, you can try to walk on the ground. After the first month, you will be almost ready, but don't do heavy work at the beginning. To be safe, you have to take care of it for half a year. , to be the same as in the past.”

After paying [-] Wen for the consultation, Mu Yunyi felt relieved, finished business, and started to go shopping at the market.

Today is the fifth day of the lunar new year, which is the day of the market in the town. On the fifth day, tenth day, and fifteenth day of every month, people from several surrounding villages will come to the town to go to the market to sell their own products and buy some more. Apply something home.

Mu Yunyi spent [-] Wen to buy two bolts of cotton cloth, and another [-] Wen to buy [-] catties of cotton. He was going to go back to make a new quilt, and bought lamp oil, soap powder and other daily necessities: "Let's buy more! Ten catties of bacon, as well as radishes and potatoes, are delicious in winter, but I don’t know if they can be preserved well.”

Gao Yichun said in the car: "You don't need to buy radishes and potatoes here. Let's go back to the village to buy them. You don't need so much beef and mutton. You can buy a catty or two of water and oil, refine them and put them in a jar when you cook. Just order it. These days, bone soup and meat bibimbap are enough. Save the money for the New Year. You only buy some peppercorns and aniseed ingredients. When we go back, we bought radishes and marinated them in jars, enough for the winter. gone."

"Who would pickle that thing, it will stink if it's not done properly."

Gao Yiqing said next to him: "My brother can pickle. The pickles, salted eggs, and bacon that our family used to eat in spring and summer were all made by my brother. They are even more delicious than Aunt Ma and Aunt Hua!"

"Really?" Mu Yunyi said in surprise, "Since this is the case, I will buy everything, and when we go back, we will make bacon and pickles by ourselves, and by the way, pickle a jar of salted eggs and salted duck eggs, or wait for the heavy snow to fall Come, life will be difficult!"

Speaking of which, the money is really not spent. This time Mu Yunyi brought two taels of silver out, and spent more than half of it as soon as he changed hands. These days, the daily copper coins are spent like running water. There is not much left of that little savings, and I wanted to buy more delicious and useful things, but in the end I reluctantly quit the job, bought steamed buns and pancakes for ten yuan, and took them to the car to share with everyone , and then announced to go home.

After arriving home, he heated up the kang and asked Gao Yiqing to accompany his brother to read at home. He and Ma Le went out to continue shopping. They bought another hundred catties of radishes, two hundred catties of potatoes, one hundred eggs, and one hundred duck eggs. The three pots were moved home one after another. Under Gao Yichun's command, they boiled brine in the pot, added seasonings, cut carrots, washed eggs...it took a long time to get everything done.

There is also the question of quilts. Mu Yunyi learned embroidery out of interest, but he didn't learn how to cut. Twenty eggs were sent.

Later, I stay in Ma Le for dinner. Potato, radish and mutton soup. The staple food is pancakes mixed with white flour and corn flour. In terms of cooking, Mu Yunyi's cooking skills can only be regarded as mediocre. Using an induction cooker and liquefied petroleum gas is fine. I really don’t like the fire. If the fire is too high, the pancakes will become mushy. If the fire is too low, the stuff will slide to the bottom of the pot because of the white flour. Everything is Ma Le and Gao Yiqing’s busy work. He can only help to hold the firewood. End dishes.

After dinner, Ma Le was about to go back. Mu Yunyi expected to give him ten cents as wages, but he definitely didn't want it, so he wanted to get ten eggs for him to bring back. Ma Le desperately refused: "Yichun and I have been together since we were young. As he grows up, he should be helped to see a doctor, not to mention that I didn't help much, and I spent two good meals in vain..." He looked at the book in Gao Yichun's hand enviously, hesitating and finally didn't Speak up and say goodbye.

"Brother Ma seems to want to learn characters too." Gao Yiqing said.

"En." Gao Yichun replied, and then looked at Mu Yunyi carefully.

Mu Yunyi smiled: "Why are you looking at me like that? I don't have the time to teach him, but it's yours to teach you the knowledge. I think he looks good, and it's your boy. If he is free , you can let him come during the day, and you will teach him and it will be over."