The mountain behind the academy is also the mountain behind Kuiqiu Mountain, the old mountain of the academy has a quiet environment like a fairyland, so he lives here, in the courtyard of the old mountain chief of the back mountain, there are a few golden roosters to come, which is given by friends, and the old mountain chief treats them delicately and takes care of them personally. The golden rooster is also really good-looking, the rooster's upper back is dark green, the others are mainly golden yellow, and the lower body is red, there is a golden yellow filamentous feather crown on the head, which is scattered to the back of the neck, and the back of the neck has orange-brown and inlaid with black thin edges of fan-like feathers, shaped like a glamorous shawl, flashing with dazzling brilliance, like a colorful brocade. What's more, the rooster's tail feathers are extremely long, more than twice the size of its body, and it flutters rhythmically up and down with its steps when walking. Xia Hongsheng came up with the idea of the golden rooster tail feathers.

"Senior brother, the old mountain chief is really majestic, just here, my brother has been overwhelmed by the majesty of the old mountain chief, this trip must not be good, let's go back!" Seeing that he had arrived outside the wall of the old mountain chief's residence, Xu Qixian finally remembered the old mountain chief's usual strictness, and he was stunned in his heart and retreated.

"Oh, Brother Xu, we're here to pick up things, it's to clean up for the old mountain chief to fulfill our filial piety, and we're not here to do bad things, what's there to be afraid of?!" Xia Hongsheng grabbed Xu Qixian and dragged him into the courtyard of the old mountain chief. Xu Qixian was still stunned, he didn't understand that his junior brother had only been in a coma for a few days, how could he speak so routinely, and he thought he wasn't a person in a trance.

The two of them quietly followed the root of the wall into the courtyard of the head of the academy, entered a small courtyard, and turned a short corridor, and heard a low sound of "cooing" in the distance. Xia Hongsheng's eyes lit up, and he rushed over with an arrow step, and looked inside with the courtyard door, and sure enough, he saw a few golden roosters stopping at the cockscomb and wagging their tail feathers, like a victorious general, shrugging their heads and pacing slowly. Xia Hongsheng looked left and right, great, no one! Xia Hongsheng cautiously went into the yard with his waist bent, Xu Qixian gritted his teeth, and quietly followed with a look of being a thief. I saw Xia Hongsheng slowly approaching the golden rooster, the golden rooster heard the movement, turned his head and looked at Xia Hongsheng, but he was not frightened at all, just glanced at it and continued to turn around and peck at the millet in front of him. Hey, pretty high-profile! This is the pride and prejudice of chickens! Hmph, Xia Hongsheng sneered a few times in his heart, these golden roosters are not afraid of people, that's better!

So Xia Hongsheng quietly stretched out his hand and saw that the golden rooster still didn't move, so he stretched out his hand violently with lightning speed, grabbed the long tail feathers of the golden rooster, and pulled it back violently, and pulled the tail feather down. The golden rooster suddenly screamed, and Xia Hongsheng turned around and ran. Xu Qixian was dumbfounded at the moment, and he said that he was just picking up things? Hearing the sharp crow of the golden rooster, he woke up in shock, and quickly pulled out his legs and ran out. In the end, he was older, his body was mature, his legs were longer, and he quickly caught up with and surpassed Xia Hongsheng under the desperate run, and the two of them rushed back to the front yard as soon as they slipped away.

The two of them returned to the classroom, it was noon at the moment, and there was no one else in the school, Xia Hongsheng and Xu Qixian were panting, closed the door tightly, and sat back on the chair. As soon as he sat back in the chair, he saw Xu Qixian jump up again, and said to Xia Hongsheng with a sad face: "It's over, I thought I was just really picking up some things, but I didn't expect that you would steal the treasure of the mountain chief, this time you injured the golden rooster, you and I can't eat and walk around, this academy may not keep me waiting, it's over, this time for my brother, I will definitely be dismissed from the academy, and I will be beaten to death by my father when I go home!" For no reason, you have to deceive your brother like this, and your brother will be miserable by you this time! ”

"Brother Xu, don't panic, only you and I know about this matter, you and I don't say it, how can anyone else know? The so-called 'confess leniently, sit in prison, resist strictly, and go home for the New Year', as long as you and I don't let go when the mountain chief asks, no one can stand you and me! Xia Hongsheng didn't care, took out the tail feather from his long sleeves, and said to Xu Qixian, who turned pale as soon as he saw the tail feather: "Brother Xu, don't worry, and see that the little brother will make a trick for you, please borrow a knife!" ”

Xu Qixian still looked stunned, and when he heard Xia Hongsheng using a knife, although he was angry, he still wanted to see what Xia Hongsheng was so eager to do when he stole a golden rooster tail feather from the mountain chief, so he took out a knife inlaid with agate that he had been carrying with him and handed it to Xia Hongsheng. Xia Hongsheng took the knife, and his eyes immediately reddened, damn, rich people are luxury, according to the market situation in the Tang Dynasty, this knife is enough for me and my sister-in-law to live for ten years without worrying about food and clothing! Xia Hongsheng pulled out the knife, pressed the golden rooster tail feathers on the table, carefully scratched the left and right sides lightly, cut out the shape, and then kneaded the soft hair, held it in his hand and tried it, well, it's not bad. Xia Hongsheng held the tail feather in his hand, dipped the end of the cut out shape in ink, and then pulled over a piece of paper to copy the article, and the brush was a vertical line of words. It's good, although it can't be considered too smooth, but at least it makes Xia Hongsheng's writing speed many times faster! The world's first quill was born in my hands, and what a deserving achievement! Xia Hongsheng was happy in his heart, and immediately picked up the pen again, and quickly copied the article in a few minutes.

"Huh! Senior brother, you can actually write with chicken feathers?! Xu Qixian has already straightened his eyes, reached out and grabbed the piece of paper to get in front of him, that's right, it's that article, although the words are not as good as the brush, but in the end they are all written correctly, and the speed is there, towards the time of the whole article, it is good to write less than half of the article with a brush!

Xu Qixian looked at the quill in Xia Hongsheng's hand in surprise, then looked at the paper in his hand, and suddenly patted his head: "Senior brother, you stole the golden rooster tail feathers of the mountain chief, just to make this kind of pen that writes faster?" ”

"Yes, Brother Xu also knows that the younger brother was punished by Mr. for copying five times, which is too slow, I'm afraid I won't be able to finish writing at night, so the younger brother thought of making this quill pen, and the writing is much faster than the brush." Xia Hongsheng was still a little proud.

"No!" Suddenly, I heard Xu Qixian's shout, which startled Xia Hongsheng, who was getting sè, and saw Xu Qixian's face straight, and said to Xia Hongsheng solemnly: "Senior brother, Mr. often teaches us that a gentleman stands up and acts meticulously. A gentleman is not expensive and difficult, he is not expensive to inspect, and his name is not expensive, but he deserves it. That is to say, if we want to be a gentleman, we must be upright, appropriate and reasonable, whether it is standing, studying or acting. Today, although the junior brother makes this quill, although it is ingenious and workable, the means are not in line with the way of a gentleman, and he is inferior. If you want to make a quill, go and ask the chief of the mountain for permission from now on. Even now, the husband should take responsibility, and if he does it, he will be punished, and you and I will bear it. Now you want to evade your responsibility, and such an unrighteous act is not the work of my generation? I waited for Mr. to learn the way of a gentleman, how could we let these bad thoughts stain my chest?! Senior brother, come with me to see the mountain chief! ”

Xu Qixian's words became more and more severe, and in the end, there was a kind of gentleman's majesty, and the righteousness on his face made Xia Hongsheng unable to say half a word of rebuttal, as if there was a heroic aura lingering on his body, which was intimidating. Xia Hongsheng was shocked, and then felt that his face was hot and ashamed. The big husband must be responsible, and the Tang people still attach so much importance to this, but their own descendants, who are much more advanced than them, have forgotten? Once upon a time, I was also so upright, when did I become a villain who evaded responsibility?! Is this the creed of the Tang people, or the spirit of a scholar? Xia Hongsheng only felt that Xu Qixian's words were like a slap in the face, the ancients emphasized morality, but what is the way of being a person? It must be true to words, to be fruitful, to be moral, and to be responsible!

Xia Hongsheng was ashamed and wanted to dig a crack in the ground to get in, and quickly bent down and bowed, Tang people can still pay so much attention to responsibility, and he, an advanced future person, can't lose to them!

"The little brother was covered with lard for a while, did something wrong, and wanted to try to evade accountability, but at this moment I heard the words of the senior brother, it was like a stick in the head, and I woke up the person in my dream with a word! Although the younger brother is young and young, he also knows that a gentleman behaves in a way and should have a righteous spirit, so he went with Senior Brother Xu to see the mountain chief, bowed his head and admitted his mistakes, but with punishment, he never dared to complain. Xia Hongsheng bowed to Xu Qixian and said, this time, he had a deep and true understanding of the values of the Tang people, if you want to survive in this era, you must transform your own values to conform to the universal principles of the Tang people, otherwise, you will eventually be criticized and will not fit in.

"Okay, this is my junior brother! Let's go, let's go together and admit our mistakes to the mountain chief! Xu Qixian saw that Xia Hongsheng's attitude was extremely sincere, so he immediately relieved his face, breathed a sigh of relief, happily grabbed Xia Hongsheng, turned around and was about to run out. However, when he turned around, he was immediately stunned: "Shanshan Shan...... First ...... first, first served"

Xia Hongsheng saw that something was wrong with Xu Qixian, so he looked up and followed Xu Qixian's eyes to look out, and saw two figures standing outside the window, but it was not the mountain chief and his husband!

"Okay, what a picture of the senior brothers, the two of you, although your knowledge cannot be top-notch in my academy, this brotherhood is a model." The old mountain chief had an interesting look, stared at Xia Hongsheng and Xu Qixian back and forth, and spoke.

Xia Hongsheng's face suddenly turned discouraged, and the two of them hurriedly walked out of the school, and after going out, they directly bowed down and knelt in front of the two old masters: "The disciple is wrong, let the mountain chief and Mr. punish him, there is no other word!" ”

The mountain chief looked at Xia Hongsheng and Xu Qixian, his eyes wandered back and forth on the faces of the two, and then he looked at the quill in Xia Hongsheng's hand, and opened his mouth, but instead of blaming them, he opened his mouth with some curiosity and asked: "Jingshi, you and Qi Xian went to the back mountain to steal my golden tail feathers, just to make this thing?" Why can this chicken feather be written? Can you explain a thing or two to the old man? Kindness...... Wait, the old man just watched you write with chicken feathers outside the window, like flowing water, extremely fast, and let the old man try it too! ”

Xia Hongsheng was taken aback, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that his husband was embarrassed behind the mountain chief, and he was eagerly glancing at himself, so that he could quickly explain to the mountain chief. Looking at Mr.'s annoyed and caring face, Xia Hongsheng suddenly had a sour nose, quickly twitched hard, immediately turned around, and said respectfully: "Tell the mountain chief, this thing is called a hard pen for the time being, the difference between it and the soft pen is that the thick dot painting of the soft pen is a slender dot painting, replacing the surface with a point, replacing the rough flat pen surface with a slender line, removing its flesh tendons and preserving its bone ......"