5, Enrollment
No words all night.
What surprised Bai Gui was that Bai Youde did not force him to hand over the remaining money he had sold the mountain goods. He guessed that perhaps it was because he was a little different from his peers this time, so that Bai Youde no longer regarded him as a half-baby.
The ancients were very precocious, and there were many people who got married at the age of fourteen.
I didn't think much about it, because I walked a lot of mountain roads yesterday and felt a little tired physically and mentally, so that Bai Gui slept particularly sweetly that night.
When dawn just broke, several roosters in the yard shook their bodies, then stretched their necks and started to roar.
The biological clock rings.
Bai Gui also got up, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and vented his anger, rolled down from the kang. His clothes were very simple, but he just put on a layer of shirt and got out of the bed.
As usual, he walked to the stable and prepared to feed the dark horse.
A horse is a delicate thing. It has to be fed four or five times a day, and it has to be fed twice a day. At the third update of the evening, it also has to wake up and feed it once. Therefore, it is the common name for horses without night grass.
It’s not bad to feed horses a few times on weekdays.
But waiting for the horse to grow a slow horse is like losing dozens of taels of silver out of thin air and not being able to afford to be guilty.
The feeding at the third day of the day has always been done by Bai Youde.
Staying up late at night hurts people.
When it was early and the sky was still a little dark, Bai Gui heard the noise. He probably had to go to the city and travel around the city for a day.
If you start from Bailu Village and take a carriage, it will take two hours to get to Xi'an City.
But in winter, I don’t have enough time to keep my spare time, and my boss will not give me any extra money to ride a carriage, so I basically walk, walk from Bailu Village to the city, and then walk back.
I went there for half a day and came back for half a day.
A total of one day!
Be patient with feeding horses. Bai Gui has benefited from teaching by Bai Youde by saying and doing things. He has long been accustomed to how to feed horses and feed fat.
Wait until half of the dark horse finishes eating the forage.
A quarter of an hour passed.
Liu Mou'er, who was sweating, walked out of the Xiafang on the other side, carrying a table, a long bench, and a high wooden table on her shoulders. "Guiwazi, your father said he would send you to the school, and we'll leave now."
"Big, wait a moment."
When Bai Gui heard this, he was a little embarrassed. He put down the egg shell that had just been licked by a horse and found a black lacquered wooden board from the corner of the earthen house. It was two feet long and one foot wide. It was found in the broken kiln and taken from a door.
He cut it with an axe and couldn't tell what he was like.
He poured another gourd of clear water, hung it around his waist, and used his previous grain bag to pack the old pen and old inkstone given by Xu Xiucai.
No schoolbag.
You have to sew a coarse cloth with a schoolbag, and a coarse cloth of one foot long costs twenty or thirty cents.
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Shunzhi, the price of one foot of cloth was between more than ten and twenty. When it was in Daoguang of Jiaqing, the price of one foot of cloth was floating between thirty and forty. Although it was forced to open the sea and foreign cloth rushed into the Qing market, it was only limited to the coastal areas. The inland had not yet suffered much impact, and the price was only a few cents lower than before.
During this year, I had to make a piece of coarse cloth clothes with three or four hundred widgets as a base.
"This is the schoolbag your dad asked the master in the morning. It was used by the eldest master. There are a few patches, don't dislike it." Liu Mou'er touched a folded cloth bag from his waist, looking at the cloth with some envy in his eyes.
Mix the best thick blue cloth and white muslin to make a cloth bag.
But the only drawback is that there is a bowl-sized green patch on the front of the cloth bag.
Somewhat ugly.
Bai Gui was a little resistant to the schoolbag.
According to his understanding during this period, both Lu Taiheng, the master of the Lu family, and Lu Zilin, the master of the Lu family, were extremely stingy. The cloth bag seemed to have been destroyed, but in fact, the thread was removed and made into fabric could be worth more than 100 cents.
Most of the money from the wealthy family in the village is saved and they are buckled from their mouths.
I didn't say that for nothing.
For example, Yan Jian in "The Scholars" couldn't close his eyes when he was alive and died, just because the two stems of lamp grass in the lamp may be exhausted.
Bai Jiaxuan, who can teach Lu Zhaoqian, is a few people after all.
"It was given by the eldest young master..." After hesitating for a while, Liu Mou'er still told the truth. Perhaps he didn't understand what hiding means. "This morning, your father begged the master to ask for some credit and to buy books for you. The passerby heard it and said that after entering school, you should sit next to him. If he has free books, you should read it first. That's where to give the schoolbag."
Compared to the awesome boss, Bai Gui is more friendly.
When Bai Gui was born, he was held by Bai Youde and recognized him as a big deal. Bai Youde and he were both long-term workers used by the Lu family and had a deep friendship.
It is logical that he shouldn't say these gossips.
But if Bai Guibai wants to thank his master Lu Zilin, this is his fault.
Did he know what cowards Lu Zilin is behind him, he is not a good thing.
"Lu Zhaopeng..." Bai Gui was confused for a while, then he regained his energy and collected the patched cloth bag.
It seems easy to not eat food that comes from pity.
But it's all about human nature.
If he hadn't carried the schoolbag given by Mr. Lu today, the Lu family might not say anything on the surface, but later on, it would be a troublesome to not let his family work as a long-term worker in the Lu family or find a reason to punish him or his father.
This is the same as social engagement. If you are not grateful today, will it be a big deal if you are about to make a comeback?
Beware.
Bai Gui bit his lip, put the things in the food bag back on his schoolbag, lifted them on his shoulder, and turned his back to Liu Mou'er. His face turned red for a while, and was cold by the wind and snow, and then his face turned as usual.
The road is quite slippery.
After the snow, the road surface is not slippery after just trampling, but there are too many people walking, and the snow has turned into ice, so you have to be careful to slip.
The Lu family is not far from the ancestral hall.
He arrived after a three or four hundred steps of the journey, less than a cup of tea.
In the west house, through the window lattice, you can see several half-year-old children reading books. They were wearing cotton jackets and had a rosy complexion. They looked at the book and memorized another passage.
"The heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is vast and vast..."
"The sword is called Juque, and the pearl is called Luminous Light..."
"The Master said: When a disciple enters, he will be filial; when he leaves, he will be careful and trustworthy, love the masses, and be kind to the benevolent. If you have the extra effort, you can learn literature..."
Some are still reading the "Thousand Character Classic" when they were in elementary school, while some children who are fast-paced have already started to recite the "Analects of Confucius".
When Bai Gui saw it, a hint of envy flashed in Liu Mou'er's eyes.
But he didn't know whether Liu Mou'er envied whether Meng Tong wore a cotton jacket or a book she read.
"Guiwazi, put the table and stool here." Liu Mou'er rubbed his hands, then smiled flatteringly at Lu Zhaopeng and Lu Zhaohai's table, "Big Master, Second Master, Guiwazi is studying in this school today. What do you two have to instruct him? Even if you have any instructions, what, the master said, Guiwazi is your two children."
Lu Zhaopeng and Lu Zhaohai looked as usual, as if they were used to flattery.
"Stop talking, uncle, you are busy with your business. Brother Gui has two people to take care of, and no one can bully him." Lu Zhaopeng revealed his elegance, not like the young master in the countryside, but like Master Xu.
Bai Gui sat restrainedly next to the two of them.
Chapter completed!