Chapter 4: The Hungry Mr. and the Dog

Legend can peep through the yin and yang, more powerful than the truth of the temple of the Guandi temple Taoist did not come, the little Taoist priest who stayed in the Taoist temple said that if today's demons are rampant, the Taoist is very busy, go to Weinan to catch a fox spirit who has become a spirit, and have no time to pay attention to the small things of the rich man like the Yun family, and wait for the beginning of spring to see if the Taoist has kung fu.

Yun Zhao really wanted Dao Ye to come quickly, hurry up and prove that he was not a demon, he had been annoyed to death by his mother in the past few days.

When he sleeps at night, he not only hangs a jade plaque around his neck to ward off evil spirits, but also can see the red cloth folded into a triangle when he lifts the pillow, and the door god is pasted on the door, and the window is full of talismans.

Yun Zhao was too lazy to shout, so Yun Niang kept shaking him, until he reluctantly shouted, and then he let Yun Zhao go.

During the day, as long as Yun Zhao was awake, Yun Niang would take him around, and he looked at the temples and Taoist shrines within a radius of thirty miles.

It wasn't until Yun Niang found that even if her son was standing at the feet of the Buddha, he was still calm and relaxed, and he didn't change into anything strange, nor did he become a fool again, that he could be regarded as letting go of the doubts in his heart.

Before I knew it, fifteen days had passed.

Many times, Yun Zhao looked up at the wild boar family of eight basking in the sun on the bald mountain and regretted a little, he felt that he should not have become smart so suddenly.

However, when I remembered that my mother drove wild boars like crazy that day, this trace of regret disappeared.

Today is a good day with the sun shining, Yun Niang took her newly-dressed son early in the morning, took the housekeeper maid, and the family went straight to Yushan.

On that tall mountainside, there is a seowon.

According to the mother, Yushan Academy has existed a long, long time ago.

In the past, it was one of the best academies in Guanzhong, and the previous generation of Confucian Mr. Hengqu used to teach apprentices here, and by the way to recuperate, at that time, the seat of Yushan Academy was hard to find, and there were talented people in the south of the Yangtze River who did not hesitate to travel thousands of miles to listen to Mr. Hengqu's class.

It is also because of the lecture experience of Yushan Academy that Mr. Hengqu finally returned to his hometown in Hengqu to establish the famous 'Guan Xue', and issued a swan song of 'establishing a heart for heaven and earth, establishing a life for the people, continuing to learn for the saints, and opening peace for all generations'!

Later, the Mongols entered Guanzhong, Yushan Academy slowly declined, during the Ming Taizu period, it was brilliant for a while, a large number of gentlemen were edicted to become officials, because of greed, lazy government and other things were killed by Taizu.

The gentlemen saw that it was too dangerous to be an official, and the other half was reluctant to go out of the mountain to become an official.

After the world was peaceful, the newly enthroned Emperor Yan Wang didn't kill officials at will, and the gentlemen here began to want to be officials.

It's a pity that the general trend has gone, and the natives in the southwest have already occupied most of the court by relying on their determination to become officials one after another, and it is too late for them to become officials.

In addition, the gentlemen who went out from here were too hard-headed, unwilling to only teach the Four Books and Five Classics, and even more unwilling to let their students use the tone of the ancients to undertake modern learning, and even more unwilling to accept King Yan as their emperor, and were deposed by the government to qualify for official learning.

Since then, Yushan Academy has been reduced to a private school for Mongolian learning, and it has gradually become unknown.

In the six years of the drought in Guanzhong, the people were not able to make a living, and when eating was a problem, there were fewer students, and the life of Yushan Academy was even more sad.

At least, after Yun Niang married into the Lantian Yun family, this academy was already dilapidated and about to be abandoned.

For the first time, Yun Zhao had a new understanding of his mother, and these words were definitely not something that the mistress of the rich man's house could say.

It can be seen that the housekeeper said that the mother is everyone's best lady is very credible.

Yun Zhao stood in front of the mountain gate and looked at the broken plaque of Yushan Academy that had fallen in the barren grass, and was inexplicably a little sad.

He walked into the haystack and tried to lift the plaque, but his hand grabbed the plaque, and before he could exert his strength, a piece of rotten wood was broken off by him.

"There's a great gentleman here."

Yun Niang saw that her son's eyes were full of doubts, so she hurriedly said.

"How powerful?" Yun Zhao didn't believe his mother's words at all.

"Anyway, my enlightened gentleman for your mother is full of praise for this gentleman!"

"Mother, when did you become enlightened?"

"Ah, your mother and I were enlightened when we were eight years old."

Yun Zhao groaned and didn't continue to ask, he felt that his mother was lying to him, Daming once an eight-year-old girl could show up?

If what my mother said was true, her upbringing must not have been too strict.

Yun Niang put the back basket up, and the bundle in the back basket still had some weight, and after walking seven or eight miles of mountain roads, it became heavier.

"Why don't you let them carry it?" Yun Zhao pointed to the housekeeper and his party who were far behind.

"It's already rude for me to ask my son for Mr., if you don't respect Mr. anymore, how can people come back to our family to teach you?"

Although Yun Zhao felt that eating in this world was the biggest thing, he still acquiesced to his mother's approach, and the two slowly walked up the steps to the high platform.

The first thing that catches your eye is a broken iron pot, not how special this pot is, but because there is a broken hall on the entire high platform, the only thing that can attract people's attention is this broken pot.

There was a piece of ice frozen in the rusty iron pot, and there was a black pottery bowl on the side of the broken pot, which was huge and dirty, and it seemed that no one had used it for a while.

The mountain wind was cold, and there was not a trace of ash under the iron pot, only a few half-broken pieces of burning firewood scattered around.

Behind the iron pot, there is a relatively complete small hall, and there are still some broken cornices on the cornices at the four corners, and the bells on the cornices have long been gone.

Half of the door fell to the ground, the cold wind kept pouring into it, and the other slightly intact door opened weakly, and a lean yellow dog poked out his head to look at Yun Zhao's mother and son, and then cautiously retracted his head, whimpered quietly, and then there was no sound.

Yun Zhao took a look, the pot was indeed frozen, and there was not a grain of rice in it, that is, at this moment, he was full of curiosity about this good gentleman who was about to meet, how did the powerful scholar in his mother's mouth get him to this point.

"In troubled times, scholars are not worth much!"

Yun Niang gritted her teeth and said to her son.

Yun Zhao smiled: "Let's give him a millet bun, can he teach me to read?" ”

Yun Niang sneered and said: "It's not so easy, the scholar has the backbone, and he won't be eaten if he starves to death!" ”

"Are there many people reading in my grandfather's house?"

"Many, your four uncles and seven cousins are all scholars, your father was your grandfather's protégé, but it's a pity that your father stopped studying after the exam, and was kicked out of the lintel by your grandfather, and your grandfather was kicked out of the lintel three times when her mother came home, and the prepared gifts were also thrown out.

Zhao'er, you must study hard in the future, and show them one of the champions, and take this breath for your mother! ”

Yun Zhao recalled the difficulty of the Ming Dynasty scientific examination that he knew, and stopped making a sound, as far as his ability to take the exam for an ordinary university in later generations, he couldn't even get the results of Tsinghua University and Peking University, and it was estimated that he would not be able to shine in this era.

Mother's will is naturally to be supported, so Yun Zhao nodded heavily, and his will was very resolute.

"Mr. Yuanshou is here?" Yun Niang raised her voice and called.

No one responded.

Yun Niang dragged Yun Zhao close to the broken hall, and shouted again: "Mr. Yuanshou is here, Yun Qin clan and young son Yun Zhao to meet you." ”

There was a barking of dogs in the temple.

Yun Zhao said to his mother: "Will it freeze to death, let's go in and see." ”

Yun Niang shook her head and said, "If Mr. Yuanshou dies of cold and starvation, he won't want us to see his broken appearance."

Let's go back and come back tomorrow. ”

Yun Zhao broke free of his mother's hand and entered the hall at the sound of his mother's call, and after a while, his voice came from the hall.

"Mother, come on, Mr. Yuanshou is about to starve to death."

Yun Niang was taken aback, took two steps forward, stopped again, and summoned Yun Fu, the housekeeper who was staying in the distance, and then walked into the main hall.

When he entered the door, he saw a person lying on the grass in the corner of the hall, and Yun Zhao was squatting beside that person to look at people's faces.

Yun Fu's face changed, and he hurriedly dragged Yun Zhao over from the man and whispered, "Be careful of being contaminated with the epidemic." ”

When Yun Niang heard this, she immediately covered Yun Zhao's mouth and nose with her sleeve and quickly retreated.

After a long time, when Zhiyun Zhao and the others were impatient, a middle-aged man with three locks of long beard, tall stature, and blue face held on to the door frame, and said to Yun Niang with difficulty: "You want to ask me to be the west seat of your family?" ”

Yun Niang hurriedly said: "Mr. Guoyuan, the family teacher, has already recommended Mr. to the little woman, and I ask Mr. not to refuse." ”

The middle-aged man squeezed out a smile and said: "A certain family is in today's situation, where are the conditions for picking and choosing." ”

Yun Niang was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Then please come to the cold house, succumb to the position of Xixi, and dare not be short of the four o'clock and eight festivals." ”

Mr. Yuanshou said: "Let's go, let's take up a new post and continue to stay in this Yushan Academy, a certain family is worried about starvation."

Hey? You are the head of the Yun family, and I have long heard that you only have a disabled son, so you have to ask me to teach him?

If that's the case, please go back, forgive a certain family for not being able to do anything. ”

Yun Zhao said with a smile on the side: "You are the fool!" ”

Mr. Yuanshou looked down at Yun Zhao, who was dressed like a green frog, and said slowly: "Gossip is really not to be believed!" ”

Yun Niang smiled: "My son was ignorant before, but half a month ago he suddenly opened his mind, and I want to report this to Mr. ”

Mr. Yuanshou took a closer look at Yun Zhao's eyes and shook his head and said: "The old things of King Chuzhuang in the past are just repeated, three years without a sound, a blockbuster, three years without flying, soaring into the sky, now, this baby really arouses the idea of a good teacher." ”

Yun Fu helped Xu Yuanshou out of the broken hall, and only after walking a few steps, he saw Xu Yuanshou stop and look back at the broken hall and sighed: "Old man, come out, we have a place to eat our belly." ”

The old yellow dog guarding the door of the broken hall slowly approached Xu Yuanshou, stretched out his tongue and licked his hand, and slowly turned back to the broken hall.

Xu Yuanshou burst into tears like rain, choked up and saluted the broken hall: "Brother dog, it's not that Xu Yuanshou is not strong-willed, he has really come to the end of the mountain, there are many jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains, and there is no point in sticking to it, you, you, you just follow me!" ”

There was silence in the hall, Xu Yuanshou knelt on the ground, his hands pounded the ground and cried, and he fainted again in a moment.

Yun Zhao walked into the broken hall again, and after a while, he dragged him out of the broken hall by the neck of the yellow dog.

After Yun Fu settled Xu Yuanshou, seeing that Yun Zhao was dragging the dog hard, he grabbed the yellow dog's neck and said to Yun Niang, who wiped her tears: "Go back and feed a few meals of food, and you will re-recognize your home." ”