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When Ji Mo came home at night, he received praise from his father - "much better than your brother at that time". Obviously, the comparison was Ji Kui, who used to be smart and lazy. He curled his lips when he heard such words, very upset Dissatisfied, but did not dare to say anything.

The authority of the patriarchs in ancient times is still something that people dare not challenge.

Ji Mo has been to several ancient times. They are different, but generally they have one thing in common, that is, parents have relatively great power over their children. Unless the parents voluntarily give up this part of power, otherwise, if the stick is swung down, they will be killed. There is no need to pay for children.

Children are more like their private property, they can be bought and sold, and they can also be controlled according to their temperament. This situation will not be better until the children become independent.

Children who have lived under the shadow of their father since they were young will not talk back to the old lion king when they grow up. What is suppressed layer by layer is not only the majesty formed by the parents' long-term control of their children, but also the feudal etiquette Hierarchical authority.

Such as the Ji family, who are accustomed to being servants and being led by medicine planters, is even more so. A whole family is like a small society with distinct levels. Each junior is like a set of screws, combining a behemoth like a family, resisting the tide of the outside world, and at the same time providing the soil for a safe life for the existence inside.

Ji Mo learned to observe words and colors in the first world. Every time he travels, he comes from infancy day by day. He still understands the order of the food chain in a small family. In ancient times, it was basically patriarchal. , Don't look at the father not talking, once the father speaks, it will be the most effective.

He will subconsciously please patriarchal roles such as father and brother. In comparison, maternal love is more natural, but it can be obtained without too much effort, and it can be put aside a little in many cases.

The family who had dinner were not idle. Mother Ji would help with simple and repetitive tasks, such as sorting medicinal herbs, root by root, leaf by leaf, and put them separately. Select the parts that cannot be used as medicine and put them separately. On one side, it can be used as fodder for cattle and sheep later.

Some toxic ones will be placed in other places, and they are not completely useless. It is also possible to treat them as fertilizers.

Father Ji took Ji Kui and Ji Mo out. There are actually four older brothers above Ji Mo, Ji Kui is the fourth, and the first three elder brothers have gone their separate ways.

In ancient times, people used to live in groups. The population of the Ji family in this area is already too large, which is equivalent to a large village with nearly a thousand people. The houses are very distinctive and are surrounded by circles, not like a few The earth buildings of the ethnic group are directly built into large circles, but are built one courtyard after another, and finally form two large circles, the inner circle and the outer circle.

The inner circle is full of direct lineages of the Ji family, and the direct lineages are composed of direct lineages. The outer circle is more complicated, such as the troops of the direct lineages, those who are married, and those who have changed their surnames to Ji because of their relatives. , For children, it is also difficult to distinguish between the inside and the outside. Except for the difference in the place of residence and the difference in invisible power, there seems to be no difference in other aspects of treatment.

Even if it is the most core direct lineage, it is still necessary to go to the field!

Every time Ji Mo thinks of this, he will feel that his direct descendants are not taking advantage at all. To be honest, the houses in the inner circle are not more beautiful!On the contrary, because the outer circle is surrounded, it is not easy to expand. If people live for generations, if people are not separated, it will be really crowded.

He had reason to suspect that the reason the three elder brothers went their separate ways after growing up was simply because they thought the place was too small to live comfortably.

In the center, an open space surrounded by various courtyards is the regular space for the Ji family’s small lecture hall. Ji’s father is one of the lecturers. After dinner, these people in the Ji family’s direct line will take turns to teach them some medicinal plants. teacher's knowledge.

This kind of knowledge explanation is very simple, starting from the basic medicinal herbs, telling them what kind of medicinal herbs are, what kind of medicinal herbs the Ji family is planting now, let the children have a concept first, distinguish the difference between medicinal herbs and weeds, don’t When it is in the ground, all the herbs are pulled out as weeds.

Then there are the properties of the medicine. This kind of explanation is very approachable. Children can understand such things as "sweet in nature", "cold in nature", "opening the five internal organs", and "establishing the kidney orifices". Let’s start with a hundred thousand whys, why “sweetness”, why “coldness”, what are the “five internal organs”, what are the “kidney orifices”… and so on, any one of them can pull out an article to remember the family’s The level is probably hard to generalize.

It's as if the simplest "11=2" can be a world-class problem. When a seemingly simple problem is carefully explained, it usually contains complex principles.

Ji's family doesn't have too much high-level content, and they can't tell them, so the explanation of medicinal properties has been cut down a lot, and it has been popularized a lot. For example, a certain medicinal herb planted in the ground has a headache and fever. It can be boiled to drink, or a leaf can be used for those who have a cough. It does not contain pharmaceutical ingredients, but simply talks about the most basic functions of the branches, leaves, and rhizomes. It is only such a medicinal property that children should remember it. In detail, it is necessary to take the real thing and let the children pass it on.

When the wilted herb fell into Ji Mo's hands, he was already even more pitiful, bent over, with the leaves hanging down like hands, looking very helpless.

Taking a closer look at the appearance of the herbs, he found that they were the ones he came into contact with today. Ji Mo raised his head and looked at Father Ji who was separated by a few children's heads.

Smiling, he passed the medicinal herbs to the people around him. In the open air, one person sat on a small futon. There was no need for a table, and there was no room for shelter. The seats could be changed at will. The discipline of this small class was excellent, and no one messed up. Speaker.

The Ji family has very strict regulations in this regard, and they don't allow them to speak casually in class. If anyone can't hold back their words, they will be kicked out by the lecturer, and it will be difficult to get in again next time.

Those who came to attend the class were not only the children from the inner circle, but also those from the outer circle. The number of places was small and the number was large.

The classroom environment filled with a little competitive atmosphere will obviously make everyone more concentrated, and everyone is afraid of being kicked out.

Before the children came here, they were all told by the adults. If they were kicked out, they didn't know what the long-term impact would be, but they knew that they would have their legs broken by the adults when they went back.

In this case, the children sitting on their respective futons did not even make small movements.

The class time was short. After talking about the medicinal properties of one herb, Father Ji did not immediately explain another herb. How long to water, how much water is watered, and how much water is wet, the specific measurement method will also tell them.

After I finished talking about this, it was already very dark and I couldn't see clearly, so Father Ji stopped talking and let the children go.

The children who got up picked up their futons and ran away holding the futons. There was laughter all of a sudden. Ji Mo walked up to Ji's father, and Ji Kui was with him. If Ji Mo chose the seat by himself, he would definitely sit Ji Kui was about to sit in the back seat closest to Father Ji, and he was holding a futon, so listen to him.

"Your field will be watered tomorrow. Take your time and let your brother help you." Father Ji picked up Ji Mo and walked back. Ji Kui followed with three futons in his arms. It was getting dark. Not knowing his expression, Ji Mo just responded happily, what could be better than his father thinking about him?

Once again, he would still enjoy the feeling of being cared for and loved.

It's just that the master's whereabouts are still not easy to find.

After what happened to Aunt Ji last time, this time seeing his master’s surname Ji, Ji Mo knew that he had to look for people around him first, but it’s a pity that children like him can’t easily enter the ancestral hall, and the genealogy can’t be easily opened , the writing is different, he may not be able to understand it, and he can't go around asking who is Ji Sang, he will feel strange if he is heard.

There are more than 200 people in the inner circle, and there are more than 800 people in the outer circle with the surname Ji. To find Ji Sang among these people, you must also consider that the name may be the same, or the same sound may be different. It's not an easy task.

Ji Mo, who has no good solution for the time being, can only use a stupid method, starting from the inner circle, try to figure out what the name of each family is, listen to it roughly, skip the ones that don’t have the sound of "Ji Sang", and start with the family as a unit. A little bit of inquiry, all like a child is curious and talkative.

This is a long-term job, and the family relationship in ancient times is also very complicated!Which family and which family may be brothers, and then their wives may be related, and then they are separated and what, and after a circle, they may hear repeated names again, and then they know "Oh, they were originally It's family."

Ji Mo, who followed Ji Kui to water the fields early the next morning, saw Ji Kui's unrestrained watering method. The water in the water ladle fell on the side of the herbs in a beautiful parabola, half working and half playing. It seemed interesting, and the work was completed after changing the direction a few times.

However, that is also for older children, and for Ji Mo, not to mention whether the arc raised by the little water ladle is good-looking or not, first of all, it is not far enough, and it is not a problem to water two or three plants at once.

Therefore, when Ji's father said "take your time, let your brother help you", he really put the bulk of the work on Ji Kui!

Not to mention that Ji Kuigao was unhappy, Ji Mo felt that he couldn't do this. He could still do small things like watering. First of all, he needed a small bucket that could move and leak water on both sides, so that he could walk in the field for a while. It should be feasible to control the flow rate by adjusting the size of the hole and the flow rate by adjusting the speed of walking.

When Ji Kui finished watering his field and looked back, he saw Ji Mo walking in the field carrying a string of leaky bamboo tubes. Together with Mo's smile, he gave Ji Kui a critical blow, which was different from what he thought!