A bowl of white noodles is served in a large bowl, on which the thick maroon sauce is poured on one side, exuding a rich meat aroma, and on the other side is neatly placed a handful of vegetables cut into thin strips, and the fresh color reflects the meat sauce and noodles, which is even more attractive. Whether Chinese food is ordinary or high-end, it pays attention to the color, flavor and taste, and this bowl of noodles has done it all. Xia Hongsheng walked up to Xu's father with the bowl of fried noodles, put the bowl in front of him, and sat down next to him without speaking. Before dinner was ready, Xia Hongsheng squeezed out the cook and made fried noodles by himself, at this time, Xu's father was hungry, and when he smelled the sauce on the noodles, his index finger moved.

You're welcome, Father Xu picked up the chopsticks, first leaned over and took a deep breath, and suddenly felt the rich aroma of meat filling his stomach, and saliva poured out of his mouth involuntarily, and he swallowed it quickly, but he didn't dare to lose face in front of these two boys. Stir the noodles in the bowl evenly, Xu's father picked up a mouthful and sent it to his mouth, his eyes lit up, and then he put down the chopsticks like flying, a mouthful of noodles in the mouth, before he chewed a few times, the next bite has been sent to the mouth again, sure enough, it is worthy of being a father and son, and the strength of eating noodles is exactly the same as Xu Qixian when he ate oil and noodles yesterday!

A big bowl of noodles disappeared in an instant, Father Xu put down the chopsticks, looked up at Xia Hongsheng and his son with some embarrassment, reached out and took the handkerchief handed by the maid and wiped his mouth, and then said: "Hehe, Jingshi Xian's nephew, it's the old man who is rude." Well, this noodle has an excellent flavor, and your old man understands your intentions. You are a smart person, but smart people are always easy to be mistaken by smart, I hope that in the future, you can not change your heart, do not forget the original intention, and benefit one party. ”

Xu Qixian's father ate Xia Hongsheng's gratitude to him from a bowl of fried noodles made by Xia Hongsheng, so he was very pleased.

The matter of tea was finalized in this way, Xu Qixian's father keenly saw the prospect of this kind of tea made by frying the method, so he made a decisive move, took over this business, and also pulled Xia Hongsheng to his own boat with a generous fifty-fifty share. This kind of courage is quite impressive to Xia Hongsheng, after all, this kind of thing is still a novelty, and Xu's father has only tasted the tea brought back by Xu Qixian, so he dares to respond to it with fifty-fifty points, and it can be regarded as a decisive killing.

The bucket of salt water at home has been completely used up, and the sister-in-law went to buy salt again, Xia Hongsheng specially dragged the sister-in-law back with almost the worst salt soil, ready to continue to carry out the real work when there is time. No way, since he knew that the salt business was run by the official family, and it was strictly forbidden to sell illegal salt, Xia Hongsheng's enthusiasm had faded a lot, and he gave priority to tea that could make money.

But before that, there is one more thing that is already in sight.

The one-day holiday in the academy is approaching, and it is said that this ten-day vacation should be a ten-day holiday, one day every ten days, but there is only one day in the academy, and the students are idle on this day, and they don't need to do schoolwork, so they have time to listen to Xia Hongsheng's flickering and join the interest group. The big-character poster has been prepared, and I didn't dare to drive any gentleman, it was Xia Hongsheng who wrote the manuscript himself, and then asked Xu Qixian to transcribe it, so he waited for the early morning of the ten-year holiday and posted it under the big locust tree in the academy.

Seeing the arrival of the mid-term vacation, the students are looking forward to being able to take a day off without going to school, thinking that whether it is a student in the Tang Dynasty or a student in later generations, the expectations for the week are probably the same. Xia Hongsheng prepared his own speech, and even prepared a speech, ready to stir up a good stir on the day of the mid-year vacation to attract as many students as possible to join his interest group.

In anticipation, the mid-year holiday finally arrived, Xia Hong got up early in the morning, ran to the academy and pasted the big red paper on the locust tree, and when the students got up and washed up and went to the yard, they saw the eye-catching red paper on the locust tree at a glance, and they could see the words written on it, so they all walked over curiously, wanting to see what was written on it.

"In the beginning of time, who preached it? The top and bottom are not formed, why should they be tested? Who can do it? Feng Yiwei is like, how can he know it? It's clear that it's too late, but what is the time? The triad of yin and yang, what is the origin and what is the transformation? The circle is ninefold, which camp is the degree? But what is the work, which is the first to do it? Maintain the Yan system, the heavens are extremely Yanjia? What should the eight pillars be, and what is the loss of the southeast? On the occasion of the ninth day, put the Angen? There are many Yukuma, who knows how many there are? What is the sky? Twelve? Sun and Moon Ann? Liexing An Chen? The opening paragraph of Qu Yuan's "Tianwen" was muttered by older students, but he saw the follow-up and wrote: "How can the sky be clear, why is the earth turbid, how can birds, beasts, plants and trees be born and destroyed, and why is the sky majestic and brilliant stopped with thunder?" What is the wind, what is the rain, what is the reason for the fogging of the snow moon, and what is the reason for the changes of the four seasons. Knowing is in the object, and the object is then known. I want to explore the truth of all things, are you classmates willing to go together? ”

There were more and more students watching in front of the big-character poster, Xia Hongsheng saw that the time was almost up, so he ran out of the schoolroom, separated the crowd, and then stood on a bluestone under the locust tree, took a deep breath and said loudly: "Fellow students, please listen to me!" ”

Xia Hongsheng bowed to the students in the academy and said: "One day it was raining, and when the younger brother saw the lightning and thunder, he suddenly had doubts, and wanted to know how this wind and rain and lightning were formed. How high is the sky, what is the earth, why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west, and why there are four seasons in the world. I want to know how mountains are formed, how water flows, why birds fly in the air, and why bugs burrow into the ground. Everything in the world has its own truth, from the vicissitudes of heaven and earth to the common things around him, the younger brother wants to explore its truth. I just don't know, do you have the same interest? ”

After speaking, Xia Hongsheng looked at the students below, but saw that they looked at Xia Hongsheng with a strange look one by one, and they were not moved at all, their eyes were like looking at a stunned patient, and even worse, they were already clamoring to run to call Mr.

Xia Hongsheng almost exploded, this is completely different from the expected scene! Don't these students have a little curiosity? No, even Old Master Yan has such a strong curiosity, there is no reason why these young students are not interested!

Gritting his teeth, Xia Hongsheng said loudly again: "Have you ever seen someone take millet from the fire?" Want to know why? Have you ever seen someone put their hand in a pan without getting burned? Have you ever seen something that can make people fly into the sky? Those pretending to be ghosts use knives to pull on yellow paper, and they can pull out red blood stains, do you want to know how this works? ”

This time, someone finally gave a reaction, and I saw a student laughing and asked, "Senior Brother Xia, are you trying to play tricks?" ”

Xia Hongsheng was suddenly angry, change your sister's trick, you are the trickster, your whole family is tricky!

The students below were making a lot of noise, and they really coaxed Xia Hongsheng to make a trick.

This scene did not develop according to Xia Hongsheng's expectations at all, shouldn't it have been an incendiary speech, why did the speech become a trick show before it started? !

Failed! Hmph, you can't teach them!

From a distance, I saw that someone really called the mountain chief over, Xia Hongsheng hurriedly turned around and tore up the big-character poster, and hurriedly jumped off the bluestone, but was squeezed up by the crowd, and couldn't rush out, and when he finally squeezed out, Yan Shigu had already arrived in front of him.

"What are you doing here? Isn't it going to disperse soon, and you still want to go to school for a day?! Yan Shigu shouted in a low voice to the surrounding students, and the group of students around him suddenly scattered, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"The students meet Master Yan." Xia Hongsheng hung his head and gave Yan Shigu a salute.

Yan Shigu nodded, took the red paper from Xia Hongsheng's hand, unfolded it and looked at it, returned it to Xia Hongsheng with a smile, and said, "What's the matter, failed?" ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded.

"The way of heaven is ethereal, who can find out to us mortals? Even the immortals you met in the mountains, aren't they still hiding in this world? You want to find like-minded people to study the way of things together, but you don't know that these students have only just entered the school, and they can't learn, who knows what the way of things is. The old man believes that these students care more about where to go today, than about these nihilistic problems. If you tell them about the changes in heaven and the truth of all things, in their eyes, it is not as pleasant to watch as a trick. Yan Shigu raised his hand and patted Xia Hongsheng's shoulder, and said in a wide voice: "Besides, at the beginning of Confucius's lecture, there were not many people who followed? To be utilitarian, this way of learning sometimes needs to have a call. You see, if it weren't for the fact that the old man still had a little name in Shilin, how could this Luanzhou Academy have the scale it has today? If you want to practice the way of things, and you do something first, to teach people the benefits of this way, then I will not be a person, and someone will come to me. ”

Xia Hongsheng was stunned for a moment, and then understood. It's not grounded, it's too hasty, too, those illusory problems, who cares, it's better to care about what to eat for the next meal. If you haven't felt the morning sun, who will know the warmth of the morning sun, who will know the fierceness of the shower if you haven't experienced the storm. The same is true of the way of things, how can you know the fragrance of flowers if you haven't smelled it. But if there is no fragrance of flowers, how can people attract people to smell?

If the way of learning is the hidden wildflower, what is lacking at the moment is the fragrance that tempts people to smell. As long as one day, the fragrance of this flower will be dispersed, and it will attract the appreciation of the world.

After that, I will diffuse the fragrance.

Xia Hongsheng was relieved, and Fang Cai's depression went away, this failed attempt was not a complete failure. At least Xia Hongsheng understood what he was lacking now, and had a more specific direction.