The Honest Man of the Red Chamber

Wang Guizhi secretly asked Jia Zhu, "Can you ask Qin Tianjian if there are any days when the sun suddenly turns to rain?"

Although Jia Zhu was surprised, she still agreed to ask, "Mother, what ancient prescription did you find? Do you need any rootless sunshine and rain water?"

She just wanted to see Jia Zheng suddenly drenched!

But how could Wang Guizhi tell her son Jia Zhu this? She smiled and said, "I don't know if it is, anyway, you can ask for me."

"Understood, mother." But with Jia Zhu's question, he gradually established some friendship with Qin Tianjian.

Qin Tianjian is responsible for observing celestial phenomena, calculating solar terms, and formulating calendars.It has been established since the Qin and Han Dynasties, but the new calendar brought by missionaries was added in the previous dynasty. The emperors of this dynasty are all pragmatic and do not believe that the sky will correspond to personnel. The entire Qin Tianjian has only 20 people and cannot be changed. Other officials, descendants of the world, non-special decree shall not be promoted or become an official.If there is a vacancy, the superintendent will fill it up step by step.In this way, although Qin Tianjian is important, it is not valued by others. It is rare that the eldest son of the Jia family suddenly approached them and asked about such things as the weather. How can we not make them excited?

What's more, in order to show politeness, Jia Zhu brought all kinds of gifts, especially men's wine, which is really rare!

This wine, also known as marching wine, fortifying wine.

Although Mrs. Jia dedicated the wine recipe to the imperial court when she was in Xiping, everyone knows that her wine is authentic. The taste is different from other imitations. Splitting a sword and stabbing in general.

Jia Zhuqian said, "I gave these two jars of thin wine to the adults for a taste." Then he explained his reason for coming, so that they would not dare to accept it, and without mentioning his mother's name, he borrowed Dr. Zhang's pretext, "Our Mr. Zhang, the doctor of the government, recently had an embarrassing situation, and he wanted to ask for some rain or shine this month, so if you dare to ask some adults, can you tell the villain about it?"

When they heard that it was such a trivial matter, the people of Jiazhu were very polite. Dr. Lubo and Wuguan Sichen took the things, and Lingtailang invited the subordinate officials and the supervisor to come out and agree.

Not long after, Jia Zhu took the list back to the mansion and handed it to Wang Guizhi.

Wang Guizhi pursed his lips when he saw it, "What is this?"

"There should be no rain tomorrow, but if there is wind in the next day..." Sure enough, it was impossible to find Qin Tianjian for the weather forecast.

Just as Jia Zhu was about to say goodbye, Baoyu, Meiyu, Yuanyuan and Lan Geer also came in, first went to the inner room to say hello to his sick father, and came out in a short time.

Yuanyuan was no better than Baoyu with Daiyu in her heart, she only thought about her mother, and seeing Wang Guizhi seemed displeased, she leaned on her mother and took the paper to look at it, curiously asking, "What is this?"

"Is this a joke?" Wang Guizhi hurriedly asked someone to bring in snacks and tea when he saw them.

Meiyu hurriedly said, "What kind of joke? Mother told us to listen too."

Seeing that the children wanted to listen, Wang Guizhi recounted the little tricks that the street jugglers used to tell about five hundred years of upper knowledge and 300 years of lower knowledge, "...it said, today is a sunny day! Hey, Isn’t it just a sunny day? The sky is bright and bright, and everyone doesn’t know it’s a sunny day, so everyone asks, what’s the day tomorrow? The man pretends to put the little man to his ear to pretend to listen to it, and then Suddenly it shouted, it said, it said. Everyone hurriedly asked, what did they say? The craftsman put on a straight face, and it said, let’s talk about tomorrow’s matter tomorrow.”

"Ha ha ha ha."

While Baoyu was laughing, she thought that she should explain it to Sister Lin, so that she could have a good laugh too.

Jia Zhu laughed again, and felt a little ashamed, and looking at the words written on the Qin Tianjian, it was really like a joke.But he also knew that they didn't intend to fool him at all.

"But how do people know what's going on with the sky? It would be great if we had Yuan Shoucheng here too."

Yuanyuan asked after she finished laughing.

Wang Guizhi thought for a while and said, "If it rains, you can record the changes in the whole environment. By comparing the daily data for more than three years, you can probably get a reliable reference data." She tried hard to recall Now, when I accompanied my daughter to the Science Museum, how did they engage in astronomy and meteorology?

"But it's raining and blowing, how can we record it?" Jia Zhu felt it was hard to estimate.

"It can be used as a wind vane, just like many ships have boatmen who use handkerchiefs to measure the wind direction and strength? Get several of the same one at a time, and then fix them in different positions, and measure them at the same time every day What do you think about tying a colored thread or something under it, and using the different colors of each section to show the strength of the wind?" Wang Guizhi saw that the children were thinking, "As for the humidity in the air, you can take a piece of rice paper, One is soaked in water, one is not soaked in water, put it in the same place to observe through one person..." This seems unreliable, how did the thermometer come from?She often sees hygrometers, but she doesn't know anything about the principle!

Meiyu clapped her hands and said, "This is fun, let's do it."

"Then let's do it." Jia Zhu also thought it was very interesting, and he took one of the windmills to Qin Tianjian after the bid was changed.

Qin Tianjian had no choice but Wang Guizhi came up with another idea, to take Jia Zheng to her village where there were many pine trees, mushrooms and poria cocos, to recuperate and treat illnesses.

Jia Zheng has been feeling bored in the house for the past few days. Although his wife is gentle and considerate, she takes care of him like a child. After all, he can't go out for more activities. visit.

"Okay."

With his promise, Wang Guizhi hurriedly went back to understand Jia Mu, and asked Li Wan to take care of the family and his younger siblings. She only asked Zhou Rui's family to hurry up and ask Dr. Zhang if there was any rheumatism and leg pain. If there is any patient, I will find one to follow the car. Anyway, the Zhuangzi will definitely be able to arrange it. I also asked the carpenter to make a lot of fishing rods of different lengths, and asked the embroidery room to twist some fishing lines. Some bells the size of nail shells came out.

Jia Zheng heard her nonsense, and couldn't bear to interrupt. Seeing that everyone had gone out, he said, "Where can't I buy fishing rods and lines? What's the use of letting them do it now? What are the bells for?"

She thought that she wanted to go sightseeing with him, and go fishing by the river.

Wang Guizhi didn't think about it for a while, but since they were asked to do it, he didn't bother to call back, "The two of us can't just wait with the fishing rods. There is a bell on each fish float, and it will ring when a fish bites the hook. Let's just pull the string." She must find a place with shallower water, and if she can't wait for a sunny day and rain, she will try to push him into the water on purpose.

She didn't know what was wrong with herself, she just wanted to see how embarrassed he was.

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Merry Christmas!

Today is short, tomorrow will make up.