By now, the daughter has learned everything, as can be proven by two small things.

The first thing was that Zhou Zhi drooled when he was a child, but his mother didn't take it seriously. The niece came to see her grandmother at home, and took a piece of dendrobium and soaked it in water for little Zhou Zhi to drink, and it was cured immediately.

Another thing is that when Zhou Zhi was a little older, he developed severe prickly heat, which later developed into skin ulcers. My mother hurriedly went to her niece to get some medicine.

The niece said that there was no need to prescribe any medicine and asked Uncle Yao to take Zhou Zhi to the Yangtze River to learn how to swim.

Remember, it is the Yangtze River, not the Hongshui River.

The water in the Yangtze River was cold, so my father taught Zhou Zhi how to swim for a week, and it really got better.

And every summer, little Zhouzhi would pester her father to go swimming in the river. After that, she never had prickly heat again.

However, when Zhou Zhi was a child, it was embarrassing every time he went to the doctor because he had to call people in their forties or fifties "sister."

Now the daughter has become the deputy director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of the County People's Hospital. The fourth cousin's sons are all abroad, so the daughter usually takes care of them more.

The fourth cousin's uncle's house is very beautiful. It is an independent small courtyard, quiet and elegant. The walls of the courtyard are full of orchids.

Unlike Mr. Yu’s house, the orchids are not placed on the ground, and the orchids are not placed on the ground, but steamed pine needles and pine bark humus. They are all made of coal and sand pots, which are very light and can be hung on a wooden frame against the wall.

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It's strange that with this planting method, the orchids bloom better than Mr. Yu's, and they don't take up much space.

This small courtyard, as well as the habit of raising flowers and fish, only came into being after my fourth aunt suffered a stroke.

My aunt was a people's teacher. She suffered a stroke and was paralyzed not long after her retirement. So her fourth cousin bought this small courtyard, tidied it up, planted flowers, and raised fish. Whenever she had nothing to do, she would take her out to bask in the sun, look at the courtyard, and read.

Listen to her.

After taking care of her for twenty years, her fourth aunt has no physical or mental problems. This is not something ordinary men can do.

Because his fourth cousin, Orion, was born in good health and had excellent fishing, shrimp and flower cultivation skills, and river shrimps and spicy dices were always available at home, many literary friends from the city often came to ask for some calligraphy seal flowers and orchid seedlings. In addition, it was before liberation.

The senior cadres have a very long service life and a very high retirement salary, so that my fourth aunt can enjoy this blessing.

Of course, Zhou Zhi believes that the most critical and important thing is that there was a drag on the fourth cousin's side at that time, and other girls were afraid to avoid him, fearing to marry and become the mother of other people's daughters;

However, through this incident, my cousin took a fancy to the fourth cousin's character and decided to stay with him without any hesitation.

One drink and one peck have consequences and causes, and the fate in between is also magical and indescribable.

This small courtyard is not big, with an area of ​​about 100 square meters, and a layout of two rooms with two sides.

The main room has now become the fourth cousin's creative room and reception room, with two side rooms, a master bedroom and a guest bedroom, two side rooms, a storage room and a kitchen and bathroom.

In today's Jiachuan, most of the similar courtyards are dilapidated, and people just want to move into buildings. Fourth cousin's uncle put a lot of effort into renovating it, and it is considered to be a great independent courtyard in Jiachuan.

There is a couplet posted on the door of the small courtyard, which reads: "The blue moon prefaces the present and the past, and the red spring returns."

"This couplet is amazing! The words are also good!" Dad couldn't help but praise when he saw the couplet.

A burst of laughter could be heard in the small courtyard: "Yuanjiang is not happy with this. How can anyone go to someone else's house and the first thing they say is praise their own son?"

Dad was stunned and turned to look at Zhou Zhi: "Did you write it?"

Zhou Zhi muttered silently in his heart: "I run a joint stall well, but I also encounter people who come to knock me out. I have to come up with a whole sentence and ask me to save it, which wastes a lot of my brain."

The fourth cousin had already stood at the door, his silver hair full of energy and energy: "The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the Yangtze River, rescue this life, don't you understand?"

Dad quickly said: "If you know it, you know it. If you don't know it, you don't know it. Fourth brother, please tell me."

The fourth cousin smiled and said: "This is a very special usage in Wuyan, which is called a couplet."

"My first couplet was deliberately arranged to embarrass this boy. Biyue prefaces Jingu, and the three characters "preface Jingu" are two squares and one flat. I made a mistake and it is called Guping."

"What should we do? We have to save the next sentence to ensure the smoothness of the rhythm."

"So the third character in the next sentence, 'gui', should have been in oblique tones, but now we have to use flat tones to save the 'preface' in the previous sentence."

"In ancient poetry, this move has an elegant name, called 'koi turning over the waves'."

"The koi carp breaks the waves, which is a last resort in the creative process. The water cannot be leveled, only then can it become waves."

Zhou Zhi was very angry: "It's enough to change the word 'preface' to a flat character. Fourth cousin, you did it on purpose. This is not called koi carp making waves, this is called making trouble!"

"Hahahaha..." The fourth cousin ignored Zhou Zhi's complaints and continued to explain to his father: "This is the first difficulty, and the next is the second difficulty. 'Modern and Ancient' are antonyms to each other, which is also called '

Self-aligned'."

"And these two words taken together just describe the scope of the verb 'preface' at the beginning of the sentence. This is the three difficulties."

"So you must find the three characters "ping" and "ping". Similarly, the last two characters must be self-aligned, and together they must express the range of the previous verb. At the same time, the content must conform to the theme of the New Year. Then this couplet should be used by you.

That’s right.”

"All the requirements added together are not an ordinary test level."

"How did you think of it at that time?" Dad looked at Zhou Zhi in surprise. He thought this couplet was good at first sight, but when he listened to it, he realized how difficult it was.

Zhou Zhi simply pretended not to hear and didn't even bother to answer the question.

"Yuanjiang is talking in layman's language again. This is called inspiration, and he can pick it up at his fingertips."

The fourth cousin smiled and said: "'Come back, I will never return to the countryside', it seems to be a ready-made, but it is actually Xiao Zhouzhi's ancient literary foundation that he has accumulated for ten years, just a small test of his skills."

"Take the word 'Danchun' used for 'Bi Yue'. It is difficult for ordinary people to think of it, because this allusion only appears in very few poems."

"In addition to Wen Tianxiang's 'Ten thousand gold knots the knights, thousands of gold buys songs and dances. Dan Chun Ying's mansion, followers block the road'. The only other song I remember is 'Dan Chun's illusion, the gods are far away, naturally it is pure and strange, and the dream is also magical.

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"Beimenmen Market is not a 'Sea Qu Road', and writing couplets is not for the purpose of 'showing the light of the house'?! This is called making good use of allusions."

"To be honest, even if a bachelor's degree or a master's degree in ancient Chinese comes to the scene, they may not be able to do it so neatly and thoughtfully. Hahahaha..."

My father was completely stupid. He did have "Collected Poems of Wen Tianxiang" at home, but he couldn't even recite "Song of Righteousness".

"Fourth cousin, my family has agreed that I will transfer to liberal arts next semester!"

"You kid! You're being opportunistic again!" The fourth cousin scolded Zhou Zhi, got on the wheelchair, and said to grandma: "Third aunt, it's rare for you to come here. I'll push you to visit my small courtyard! I guarantee you'll like it!"

Grandma smiled and said: "The fourth child and the good grandson are the serious scholars. Seeing you chatting, the third aunt just can't understand, and she feels happy in her heart."

After I finished speaking, I saw my father was also beside me, so I quickly added: "Yuanjiang also counts."

Now it was Dad's turn to scratch his toes in embarrassment.

Mom, you might as well not ask for compensation and don't pull me, I really can't count in this aspect!

Also, what does it mean that they are serious scholars?

The orchids are fragrant in the fourth cousin's yard. Watching goldfish and admiring flowers here makes people forget all the tackiness.

My aunt was also in the yard. There was a leopard skin on the wheelchair and a skin of an unknown animal on her legs. She was almost in tears: "Third aunt, I have difficulty moving. I haven't seen you for a long time."

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"Don't cry, don't cry..." Grandma quickly stretched out her hand to comfort: "Don't you still see it? Seeing that you are in good spirits, I feel relieved."

"So many years have brought trouble to Xiucheng. If it had been another man, Third Aunt, I'm afraid he would be gone long ago."

"That's also your skill, you know how to choose men! Don't drop the beans during the Chinese New Year!"

There is an older child in the unitary room. In terms of age, my grandmother is not much older than my fourth cousin. In terms of seniority, she and my aunt are aunt, nephew and daughter-in-law, and in terms of love, they are two sisters.

Grandma and aunt were left chatting alone in the small courtyard, while the fourth cousin took Zhou Zhi and his family to the main room to chat.

The first thing Zhou Zhi said when he sat down was: "What's that piece of leather on my fourth aunt's knees to protect her from the wind?"

"Oh, that's a lynx."

My fourth cousin's family used to be hunters and passed down many good skins. When I was a child, Zhou Zhi liked to come here to play. It was because there were skins here that were very rare to see in other families at that time, such as peacock feathers, pheasant feathers, and porcupine quills.

There are also rhino horns and ivory.

The fourth cousin even used that big leopard skin to scare Xiao Zhouzhi, saying that the rings on it were open. If the rings on the leopard were open, it meant that the leopard had eaten people.

Zhou Zhi shrugged his nose: "What smells so good?"

"Bamboo rat stewed with soybeans." The fourth cousin smiled and said, "This is sent by Teacher Jiang from your school."

Mr. Jiang, a biology teacher from Jiachuan Middle School, often followed his fourth cousin across the mountains to learn hunting when he was young. Now there are two eldest specimen rooms in the laboratory building of Jiachuan Middle School. There are more than a thousand specimens of animals and plants in them.

Collected by a strange person over the years.

After my aunt suffered a stroke, my fourth cousin stopped going to the mountains and switched to fishing and shrimping.

The eldest sister was busy in the kitchen, and now she came out to say hello to everyone, and then went to the kitchen again.

When my father saw that his mother had already sat down, he had no choice but to stand up again: "Then I will help with the cooking."

A smile appeared on the fourth cousin's face.

My mother didn't notice these details and asked her fourth cousin: "Fourth brother, just now you said that Zhou Zhi changed to liberal arts as a cheat. What do you mean?"

The fourth cousin smiled and said: "Because with this guy's level, it shouldn't be too easy to get a bachelor's or master's degree in literature and history in the future."

"Fourth brother, I still don't quite understand. Please explain it clearly."

The fourth cousin was a little helpless: "Let's put it this way, as long as Zhou Zhi can enter university, if he chooses to study ancient Chinese literature, ancient Chinese history, etc., then he will have an easy time."

"Even if he idles around in school and plays like crazy for four years, his grades will still be at the top of the class. Even if he is the last in school, he will be given a diploma even if he pinches his nose!"
To be continued...