Chapter 31 Farmers Discussing Fish
"The emperor values heroes and teaches his children by writing. Everything is of inferior quality, only reading is good."
Zhu Ping'an returned to the school window with a brush and a black board. At that time, the old scholar Sun was teaching children to read this poem to encourage students to learn. It can be seen that private school education in ancient times had a lot of freedom. Of course, this freedom refers to the freedom of the master. Classes can be taught according to their wishes, unlike modern education which is restricted by the syllabus.
The Master wanted to instill in children the importance of reading and make them proud of reading, so that they could settle down and study.
The children below did not understand the meaning of the poem, but they all shook their heads and followed the Master's reading word for word.
Zhu Ping'an has long memorized this poem to encourage students to learn, and he understands better than these children the meaning of the saying that everything is inferior, only reading is good. I have hundreds of years of experience in ancient times, but it’s not that big. It’s definitely okay for you as a college student to take the elementary school entrance examination, but after you graduate from college, can you still be confident if you are asked to take the college entrance examination? This is the same, in ancient times The imperial examination is much more difficult than the college entrance examination and postgraduate entrance examination. Although he saw his luck twice, it was of no use and did not bring any changes to him. Moreover, he could not watch his luck on his own.
Thinking of this, Zhu Pingan once again placed the black wooden board on the stone, poured the water from the bamboo tube into the groove, and prepared to practice calligraphy. During the imperial examination, calligraphy is too important. This is for the examiners. The first impression is naturally to practice diligently.
When Mr. Sun was reading a poem to encourage students to learn, he accidentally saw the chubby naughty boy outside the school playing the game of watering stones again. He was so naughty. Alas, in It’s time for children as old as the county town to start learning. They are really falling behind step by step.
The Master sighed and felt more and more that these children in the school should be strictly disciplined, so he led the children to read it over and over again.
Outside the window of the school, Zhu Ping'an picked up a brush and dipped it in water, and practiced a few traditional Chinese characters he had recently learned on the black board. I took the trouble to watch my calligraphy gradually take shape from twists and turns, and my interest in practicing calligraphy became even stronger.
The day was coming to an end again. Zhu Pingan saw that it was getting late and it was time for the master to assign homework to the children, so he packed up his things, walked through the bamboo forest, picked up the old scalper, and walked down the hillside.
The old scalper was led by Zhu Pingan out to eat grass these days. His hair was shiny and shiny. He also forgave Zhu Pingan for cutting its tail hair and licked Zhu Pingan's little hand affectionately with his tongue.
At the foot of the hillside, Zhu Pingan let go of the old scalper and walked slowly to the river where he carried a basket on his back to catch fish.
The stream is clear and shallow, with ripples. You can clearly see the aquatic plants, small fish and shrimps underwater. Zhu Ping'an walked to the stream with bare feet. The stream water just covered his calves. It was warm and cool, which was very comfortable. I walked to the place where the fish basket was placed in the morning. I reached out and lifted the fish basket. As soon as I lifted the fish basket, I heard a fierce crackling sound in the fish basket. This was the sound of the falling fish hitting the fish basket, and the crackling water splashed. It’s on Zhu Pingan’s face.
In the fish basket, there was actually a yellow catfish that was almost as thick as my small wrist. It was swinging its tail angrily in the fish basket. There were also five or six white silver carp that were seven or eight centimeters long in the fish basket. They were all jumping around in the fish basket, but the exit was too small and there were barbs made of bamboo, so they were helpless.
Don't be angry, you will make your outstanding contribution to enriching our family's dining table.
Seeing that you are dancing so excitedly, let’s braise it. Braised crucian carp is the most delicious.
But seeing these fish being caught because they were greedy for the bait in the fish basket, think about it, isn’t it the same reason why I have been teased by shady little lolita many times? It’s all because of greed. disaster. However, thinking about the fragrant chicken legs and the soft and crispy snacks, it seems like you are being teased a few times.
I picked up the fish basket, put on my shoes, took my brush and black wooden board with me, climbed on the back of the cow and went home.
When I got home, dinner was being prepared at home. When I saw Zhu Pingan coming back with this basket of fish, my grandmother gave Zhu Pingan a rare compliment.
"Oh, this catfish is so big, it's good enough for a fish soup." The eldest aunt came out of the house to take a look, with a smile on her face, "Well, the catfish is awesome, I just said the catfish is herding cattle. It must be good."
After a while, grandma put the fish in the basin, dropped two drops of oil to make the fish spit out the sediment, and then led her daughters-in-law to work on dinner.
Zhu Pingan stood in front of the basin and thought for a while. He happened to see his uncle coming out of the room. He must have heard that there was fish. He could add meat dishes to dinner. This made the uncle who had been vegetarian for a few days Uncle's face looked happy.
Zhu Pingan rolled his eyes, trotted forward, pulled his uncle's sleeves, dragged him to the basin and said.
"Uncle, look at how well the little fish swim in the basin. They are so happy." It was completely like a child's tone.
The uncle nodded disapprovingly.
“But grandma said you like to eat fish stew, and you will boil them later!”
Looking at the little nephew who was about to cry, he saw Wen Sheng looking here again My sister-in-law, Mrs. Chen, is quite fierce. I can't let her think that I made Xie'er cry, otherwise there will be trouble again.
"Okay, okay, don't be sad, uncle won't eat fish stew anymore."
So the uncle said perfunctorily, thinking to himself, a child's mood is like a gust of wind, now Coax him and let his mother stew the fish later, and wait until the meal is ready. Maybe he will forget it, and even if he thinks about it, no one can say anything.
"Really?" Zhu Ping'an suddenly raised his head and ran to the kitchen and said loudly, "Grandma, grandma! Uncle doesn't want to eat fish soup anymore. I caught the fish, and I want to eat it!"
The uncle who was still thinking of fooling his little nephew was messy in the wind.
However, Zhu Ping'an still ignored his grandmother's partiality. Although his uncle just said that he would not eat fish stew, his grandmother still made stewed fish soup. Fortunately, it was only stewed catfish, and the remaining six small The silver carp was braised in braised fish, which slightly calmed Zhu Ping'an's mind.
I was speechless for a while at dinner. I caught all the fish by myself, even the braised fish. As a result, my grandmother only gave Zhu Pingan a bowl of catfish soup with only a piece of catfish meat in it.
Of the six braised silver carp, one was given to my grandfather and two to my uncle, saying that it was because his uncle had to work hard to study. In the same way, one was given to Zhu Pingjun, which made Zhu Ping'an very speechless. , Brother Jun was always slapped on the palm by his master for sleeping in school. It was hard work for him, but it was hard work for me herding cows, okay? Of the remaining two, one was given to the fourth uncle, saying that the fourth uncle's illness has not recovered yet, uh, I forgot to mention it, today the house was clearing the ditch, and the fourth uncle became ill again, and he said it was hemorrhoids, can you believe it! ! ! ! Is catfish a good thing? The catfish soup that my grandmother gave to my fourth uncle was full of large pieces of catfish. My uncle ate it more deliciously than anyone else, and it didn’t cause any trouble.
On the other hand, my grandmother divided it into two halves and gave them to her third uncle and Zhu's father. Zhu's father gave the other half to Zhu Ping'an. Zhu Pingan gnawed on half a silver carp, and looking at Zhu Pingjun happily gnawing on two silver carp, he had a new understanding of his grandmother's partiality.
Next time, I will grill two fish by the river and then bring the rest back, so as not to eat the fish even after I bring them back. (End of this chapter)