Chapter 650: Research

Su You bowed to the old woman: "I am a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam. I missed Sutou, so I want to stay at my mother-in-law's house for one night. Is it possible?"

The old woman wiped her hands on her apron, feeling a little uneasy: "It doesn't matter, it's just that the family is poor and the food is poor. I'm afraid I'm neglecting the people."

Su You laughed and said, "It's not a big deal, mother-in-law. We'll bring the things with us. How about we cook tonight?"

The old woman waved her hands repeatedly: "No, no, no, there's no point in having guests come to your house to cook for yourself? Bride, bride, bring out some eggs and add some shepherd's purse custard to the master."

The scrambled eggs with shepherd's purse are delicious, but if you want the old woman to make Su You stir-fry in oil, let's not talk about whether there is a wok or not, and I don't respect scholars enough.

Su You smiled and stopped: "No, no, mother-in-law, we really brought a lot of things with us. We bought them all in Qiantou Xiangfu County. We just thought we would use them when we miss Sutou."

The old woman said: "The bride, you go to the field and call the elder man back. Tell him that you have someone to stay with and ask him to come back early."

The bride agreed and went. Su You asked Zhang Qi to take out bacon, sausages and canned food from the horse butt box. When the old woman made porridge, she chopped the sausages finely and threw them in to cook them together.

The child couldn't bear the smell of the fragrance anymore, and his reading of the Analects became more and more stammering.

Su You took out a paper bag from his bag, took out a few pieces of sesame candy and threw them to the child: "Let's put them away first, since we won't be able to read them anyway."

The old woman was moving a stool for Su You. When she saw this, she smiled and said, "Liu Ya, please thank the officials."

Su You touched Liu Ya's head: "I also have a child at home, one and a half years old, named Bian Guan."

The old woman smiled and said, "It's too late for an official to get married. I guess it's because the family is too strict about studying and taking exams for merit."

Su You also laughed: "That's a good marriage, otherwise the bride would not be around! Liu Ya, where did you read the Analects?"

Liu Ya raised her head: "Advanced eleven."

Su You asked: "Can you understand it?"

Liu Ya looked confused.

Su You asked: "Who asked you to read it?"

Liu Ya's eyes were full of tears: "You are an adult, you need to know how to memorize, otherwise you will have to fight..."

Su You sighed: "Which paragraph will you talk about tomorrow?"

Liu Ya cried and said: "It's the first eleven."

Su You smiled and said: "Why are you crying and sad? Open the book and I will help you preview."

Liu Ya opened the book honestly.

Su You said: "Confucius had many disciples, one of whom was named Zigong. One day, Zigong asked his teacher: 'Who is wiser, Master or Shang?' By the way, do you have any friends in primary school?"

Liu Ya replied: "Yes, the neighbor's Erniu and the Lin Wangdan from the next village."

Su You nodded: "Well, Zigong was studying under Confucius just like you at that time. This teacher is a classmate of Zigong, called Master Zhuan Sun. Zhuan Sun is the surname and Teacher is the given name. You should be very familiar with it.

Zizhang. This Shang is called Bu Shang, which is Zixia."

"The meaning of this sentence is like asking your teacher, teacher, teacher, Er Niu or Lin Wangdan, which one is more virtuous?"

Liu Ya chuckled, and then thought very seriously: "Er Niu came home with me after school, and Lin Wangdan went back to their village after school. Er Niu is better."

Su You smiled: "You are being intimate, it has nothing to do with moral character, but that's pretty much what it means. So the Master answered - Master said: 'A teacher is too good, but a businessman is not good enough.'"

"It means that Zi Zhang always does things a little too much, and Zi Xia always falls a little short."

"Then Zigong asked, 'How about the master's recovery?' It means that according to your opinion, Master, this means that Zizhang surpasses Zixia?"

"Confucius said: 'Too much is still not enough.' This means that excessiveness and undersatisfaction are both equally bad."

Liu Ya was confused, and Su You picked up three pebbles from the ground: "This means your home, this means your school."

Then he pushed the stone and said, "You come home from school and walk and walk. When you get here, you are hungry and can't walk anymore. Have you become Zixia?"

Liu Ya nodded.

Su You placed the second stone and started to move: "My husband praised you this day. You were very happy and walked briskly. You walked like this... Oops, I accidentally walked past the door of the house and arrived here.

Did he become Zi Zhang?"

Liu Ya nodded again.

Su You said: "Liu Ya, look at it now. Have Zizhang and Zixia arrived home? Are they still the same distance from home?"

Liu Ya smiled: "Guanren, you explained it very well. I understand."

Su You smiled and said: "Yes, you have to understand it first, then you can remember it easily. Then you can expand. Have you ever heard of the story of superfluous things?"

Liu Ya shook her head again.

Su You began to tell the story, and then he talked about the truth of "Yu Shi". Finally, he and Liu Ya played roles, one played the role of Zigong, the other played the role of the concubine, and then switched, and finally Liu Ya was asked to play the two roles. After a while, Liu Ya

Then he memorized this paragraph very fluently.

Liu Ya was happy now: "Grandma, I can memorize it! My husband will definitely praise me tomorrow!"

The old woman was also happy that her grandson was making progress: "Then wait for your father to come back soon. My dear grandson, you can recite it to him!"

When it was getting dark, the man at home came back. After counting his years, it turned out that he was younger than Su You, but the hardship of life made him look older than Su You.

After hearing Liu Ya's endorsement, the man looked at Su You and smiled: "We have a husband at home. He has been busy cooking millet these past few days."

Su You smiled and said: "Brother Liu is working hard, why don't you plant wheat?"

Liu Da said: "Of course it is good to grow wheat, but it consumes water. My land is on a slope and is not irrigated land. Planting millet will not worry about drought. Secondly, millet will last for a long time. If you keep it well, it will last seven or eight years."

It’s not a problem.”

Su You nodded: "I see. I heard from Brother Liu that we still have a lot of land at home?"

Speaking of this, Liu Da was not happy: "We have forty acres of land handed down from our ancestors. The county has designated our family as a fourth-class household. Last year, the county chief sent people to plant mulberry trees with us. What do you think of me?"

How do you plant mulberries on millet ground? Even if you plant them, they will die."

"As a result, the officials came again this year and said that families with mulberry trees should be regarded as third class, and young crops would have to be paid for, making life more and more difficult."

Su You nodded: "Is Murakami like this common?"

Liu Da said: "It's a lot, otherwise I wouldn't have gone to Xianggong Wang to make trouble, but it seems that there is nothing to do. The money and food that should be added must still be added."

Su You asked: "What about the youth loan that the county gave before?"

Liu Da laughed and said: "Yes, I gave them a lot of green seedlings, which is enough for a stone of wheat, but my family can't grow them, so..."

Su You somewhat understood that a poor family received a stone of wheat for nothing and consumed it directly, and from then on they were burdened with usurious loans.

Su You said: "With these three cents of interest and forty acres of land, I'm afraid it will be difficult."

Liu Da said: "The rain in the past two years has been pretty good, so I can bear it. The poor have a miserable life anyway."

"It's a good idea to leave Fengjian here. When the money starts to be drawn in the fields, I will go to Bianhe Wharf to work hard. I can't repay the loan. I should have enough interest."

The topic turned to money, and Su You asked: "Nowadays, people in Beijing are using treasure banknotes. You are doing the work at Bianjing Pier. You should know that, right?"

Liu Da said: "The treasure money is okay, it's light and easy. I just don't understand how this small piece of paper can be used as the copper coins of the past."

Su You explained patiently: "This is the consideration of the imperial court, for everyone's convenience. The copper coins are actually still in the treasury. If you have five copper coins in your hand, there are five copper coins stored in the treasury, so it will not depreciate."

Liu Da said: "Sir, that's not right. My father said that in the early days of the Republic of China, the price of rice was no more than ten cents. By the time of Qingli, the price of rice was more than thirty cents. After Emperor Xining, the price of rice increased.

It has increased from forty cents to seventy-five cents. One hundred catties of wheat sprouts were loaned to us by Zuozu."
Chapter completed!