The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

The combination of older children and younger children appearing in the street market looks very eye-catching, and the items sold by the children are too weird, and soon curious elders come to ask how this market is.

The place Lu Xiaoan chose was at the junction of the commercial area and the residential area, where the flow of people coming and going is extremely dense.But according to the rules, it is not allowed to set up a stall to sell goods here. When the child came to ask about it with his brother in his arms, the yamen servant really hesitated for a while.

From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty, most of the urban management was based on the Fangshi system, that is, the residential area and the trading area were separated. If you want to buy things, you have to go across the urban area to the other side, and at night you have to go back to the residence. Areas, commercial areas do not keep people, there will be government servants responsible for patrolling and supervision.

This grid-based management method is convenient for management and accountability. At the same time, it can also ensure that if the city encounters a foreign enemy invasion, there will be an extra route of retreat that can block the incoming enemy.In order to maintain this system, according to regulations, goods can be sold publicly outside the market, but private exchange is not allowed.

However, what the child sells is intangible things, which is really difficult to locate, and it is not a money transaction. You can’t ask him to collect taxes for changing milk for your brother, right?The yamen servants on duty today had a discussion and decided to turn a blind eye and pretend they didn't see it.

Lu Xiaoan patiently explained to the elders who came to inquire how he wanted to sell stories, and the children would tell him a story based on the key words put forward by the customer, and then as a reward—a cup of milk.

That's right, just a glass, any kind of milk will do.

Lu An felt that his brother's picky eating must be because he hadn't found his favorite milk, but he couldn't see a female animal and asked the owner for their milk. How weird, so he thought of a way to ask someone to give milk door to door.

At that time, when the milk as a reward came, he would let his younger brother drink it and try it. If the younger brother was willing to accept the taste, then he could discuss with the other party about buying milk.

Lu Xiaoan almost wanted to give ten thumbs up to himself who could think of this method!

As for the question of whether drinking different milks will cause diarrhea... the premise is that the picky eater brother Zheng'er is willing to drink it!When he was in Handan, the Yiren tried many ways to get the milk for his son to eat in one bite, but only one out of ten servings could deliver the milk to his son's mouth, and none of the milk was swallowed.

The record is very tragic.

Even his own father can't figure it out, and Lu Xiaoan thinks it might be difficult for him, but it's better to try than not to try.

His idea was very naive, and there were many loopholes in it, even a little dangerous, but Mrs. Lu and Zhao Ji still agreed, and she thought it was a good opportunity to exercise.

Talking freely in front of others, speaking in the eyes of others, or improvising, needless to say the pressure.But this kind of opportunity is very rare. Most ordinary people can have such an opportunity when everyone gives lectures publicly.

Being able to express all the thoughts in one's mind in words is a skill, but being able to concentrate on a speech without being flustered or distracted under the scorching gaze of others is even more of a skill.

Therefore, in modern times, caring parents would encourage their children to participate in more language performances. Of course, compared to the pre-Qin era, modern children are much happier. Even if they are not eloquent and shy to speak, they can still have Another opportunity to express yourself.

However, in the pre-Qin era, when interviews were the main thing, to have a good talent but not eloquent or stage fright was almost equivalent to a death sentence for an official career.

Mrs. Lu and Zhao Ji stood not far away to pay attention to the situation of the two sons, but to their surprise, Lu An and Zhao Zheng, who were surrounded by the crowd, were very calm.

Zhao Zheng turned his head around curiously to observe the talking adults around him, looking at whoever spoke, very clever.Lu An hugged his younger brother's small mouth and answered the questions of the people around him. Neither of the two children showed any signs of timidity.

After everyone asked, it wasn't that the little man's younger brother had nothing to eat but was very picky eaters, so the elder brother who was only seven years old (Lu Xiaoan: nine years old! It was nine years old!) took his younger brother out to find out what he likes to drink milk...

Uh……

Well, it's a child after all, so it's normal to have weird thoughts.

The men exchanged glances, and one of them bent slightly and asked, "Then what story will you tell?"

Lu An puffed out his small chest, "There are so many stories about An Erhui, uncle, just read it!"

When he was twenty years old, he was choked by a man called uncle. He coughed dryly, "If that's the case, I'll order one?" Then he saw the child's eyes turn to him, and then to the few people who were walking with him. A young man turned around and tilted his head slightly.

Although he didn't say a word, the young man seemed to have seen the meaning of his question, and explained one more sentence, "One of the people I'm traveling with has a horse that happens to be breastfeeding."

Lu An immediately sat upright, with a cute expression on his face.The man suppressed the hand that wanted to pinch Baozi's face, and said: "My key word is - stupid person, there must be a story about an extremely stupid person in the story."

The child blinked, and immediately said without thinking: "There was a man in Chu who crossed the river in a boat. When the boat reached the middle of the river, the sword on his body fell into the water, so the man took a dagger and scored on the side of the boat."

"And when the boat reached the shore, the man went into the water to look for the sword, but he didn't get it."

"He was very confused after landing~" The child deliberately tilted his head and looked around the crowd, stood up and raised his hands in a gesture of looking around, and said vividly, "He said, it's strange~ I obviously made a mark here before, Why is there no sword below?"

As soon as the child's voice fell, the crowd of onlookers who had been listening silently and carefully just now were all taken aback, and then laughed with a "coax--", but after Lu An finished speaking, he hugged his younger brother and sat back again, with a very serious face. , as if he didn't say or do anything just now.

Lu An's first guest laughed the loudest. He raised his hand and nodded at the sullen child, "You, your story is really narrow."

Lu An didn't answer, but silently raised his head and glanced at him, with all the words in his eyes - Where's the grandma?

The man supported his companion while clutching his painful abdomen, "Come on, I'll give it to you later, let me laugh for a while."

The companion supported by him had a higher smile than him, with handsome eyebrows, and he stood upright among the laughing crowd. He only had a faint smile on his face. Seeing Lu An nodded and remained silent, he said: " Then I too, can I tell a story too?"

Lu An hesitated for a moment. He looked at the two young men with their shoulders crossed, and it seemed that they were together.The person who was traveling with him that the guest mentioned just now is likely to be this person, so the reward at that time will probably be the milk of the same horse, which seems meaningless to Lu An who just wants to give his brother a taste.

But... Dad said that the first customer should give some benefits, so that other customers will be attracted. The popularity on the first day of opening is very important, so Lu An nodded.

The young man smiled shyly, "I want to hear...the stories of smart people."

Lu An didn't hesitate this time, "Several children were playing outside, and one child got into the urn mischievously and fell into the pottery urn full of water. The other children saw that they couldn't be rescued, so they wanted to find their family members."

"At this time, a boy broke the jar with a stone and released the water, and the boy was saved."

Compared with the story just now, Lu An told this story a little faster, without increasing his speech and gestures. His gestures were flat, indicating that others hadn't reacted after he finished speaking.

And the person who was the first to tell the story was stunned for a long while, he opened his mouth, looked at his companion with some hesitation, and asked Lu An when he didn't get a reply: "Dare to ask Mr. ...Where is Hui?"

Lu An pursed his lips, and he glanced at the young man who asked him, as if asking if he understood.The young man smiled slightly and said to Lu An: "I also want to hear the young master's thoughts, and ask the young master to clarify our doubts."

Lu An: ...

Why do you adults look like this?I can understand it just by looking at your expression!

But there is no way, as a seller, Lu An must show his professional ethics, he asked a question to the man, "Why can't the boy next to him save the child who fell into the water?"

"It's because..." The man got stuck halfway through his answer.

An urn is a container with a big belly and a small opening, and its height is not very high, but according to the description in the children's stories, its height must exceed what ordinary children or other children can't stretch out. "I see!"

He clapped his hands together, "The boy must have been submerged in water."

Lu An was silent for a while, then reminded him, "Xiao Langjun is submerged in water, what is the most important thing?"

"...to save people?"

"It's breathing." His companion reminded, "Getting the person out of the water is the second thing. Little, a child can't last long if he can't breathe in the water, so the most urgent thing is to find a way to let him breathe."

"To save the child, the best choice is to fish the child out, so that the child's life will be saved and the water jar will not be damaged. But there are only children present and they can't do it." The man interjected.

Seeing everyone looking at him, the man cupped his hands, but looked straight at Lu An, "Then, if you can't keep the child out of the water, then let the water out of the child. This is the reverse thinking. And the little boy in the story After thinking about this point, he immediately made a decision, between Tao Weng and Xiao Tong's life, he chose the latter, human life is more important than property, this is his wisdom, I don't know if the answer is right?"

Lu An didn't answer, but the young man who told the story said, "I think there's a little more..."

He paused, his eyes were as bright as stars, "Little boy's friend has already gone to ask for help, he could have just waited quietly without doing anything, maybe the adults will arrive soon, and there may be a way to save the little boy without breaking the urn, But, but he didn't wait."

"Because things change quickly, you don't have to seek a perfect solution when you are in the most crisis, and don't pin your hopes on others, but step forward to solve the problem first, solve the biggest downturn, and then make it perfect .”

He took a deep breath, and bowed to Lu An and the silent Zhao Zheng in his arms, "This kid is really smart, he has been taught."

"So that's the case. We haven't thought enough." The first young man suddenly realized that his eyes were shining when he looked at Lu An.

Lu An felt a little creepy for some reason when he looked at him, and the man in the stone blue robe also bowed to Lu An, "Xiao Lang is so smart, I wonder if he has a teacher?"

Lu An, who had just avoided one person’s salutation, hurriedly wanted to avoid another one, but now he was surrounded by people who wanted to listen to the story, and there was no way to make room for the small space, so he could only return the salute with his brother in his arms, "I am following Mr. Xun of Handan to study."

After a pause, he added: "It's just an ordinary story, the two gentlemen don't need to thank you."

Several people heard that his teacher was stunned, and they exchanged a look. The young man in the stone blue robe asked again: "Mr. Handan Xun... but Jixia Academy sacrificed wine to Xunqing?"

Lu An should be, everyone was in an uproar, they did not expect such a young boy to be a student of Handan Xunqing.

The status of Jixia Academy in the hearts of scholars is different. Even though there are almost all schools in various countries, Jixia Academy is like a place of pilgrimage for scholars all over the world. But all scholars, no matter what family they are in, go to see it. Take a look at the appearance of the school, and listen to the dream of the sound of reading aloud. In the eyes of everyone, it is the source of knowledge in the world, and it is also the best stage for those who are knowledgeable in reading.

Xun Kuang is only fifty years old, but he has served as the sacrificial wine of Jixia Academy several times, and he is honored as Qing, which shows that his profound knowledge is respected by others.

And this little boy actually studied under Xun Qing, and the melon-eating crowd who thought that the little boy was quite talented just now calmed down.In their view, since they are students of Master Xun, it is nothing to be so smart.

Several young people looked at each other, and then looked at Lu An more cautiously.They are scholars, different from ordinary people in Yewang City, so they naturally know the meaning of what Lu An just said.

This young man said just now that he was studying with Xun Qing, so he must be a serious apprentice. Although he may not be a disciple, he still has a serious teacher-student relationship and teaches serious knowledge.

This little boy is only six or seven years old, which is the age for ordinary people to start enlightenment. With Xun Qing's identity, of course it is impossible to give enlightenment to a child, so this child has already finished his elementary studies and is learning Confucian knowledge?

That's right, although the two stories just now are short, they clearly contain profound truths, and they have never heard of them before, so if they are Xun Qing's disciples, they can explain them.

Under the scorching gazes of these people, Lu An couldn't help but hugged his brother tightly and took a small step back. He looked at those people, coughed dryly, and said, "I don't know if you guys can make it happen? My brother is going to be hungry."

Zhao Zheng, who is not actually hungry: "..."

In the early morning of the next day, just as Lu Xiaoan came out to set up a stall with his younger brother in his arms, he saw these familiar young people crowding in front of him immediately.

On the third day...

Fourth day.

After Lu Xiaoan saw these people on the fifth day, he finally couldn't help but say euphemistically, "Young gentlemen, my brother...he doesn't like to drink mare's milk."

"It's okay," a young man showed a bright smile, "Don't worry Lu Xiaolang, we just bought a calving cow and a ewe. If your brother still doesn't like it, we can find another one."

Lu An: "..."