Early the next morning, Xu Ping was called up by Xiuxiu.

Yawned and went out of the room, and when he saw Xiuxiu's eyes red, he asked her, "Didn't you sleep well last night?" Are you not used to living here? ”

Xiuxiu lowered her head and did not speak.

She was still a child, and she suddenly left her parents and family, so it was strange that she could eat and sleep soundly. And last night Xu Ping asked her to boil the mutton bones, she didn't know what to cook it to, she didn't dare to sleep, and got up from time to time to look at the fire, for fear that it would be boiled and Xu Ping would complain.

Xu Ping didn't ask again, why should the little girl's mind be guessed, time can smooth everything out.

Xiuxiu waited to wash up, and Xu Ping came to the kitchen with a big bowl. Xiuxiu followed behind, up and down in her heart, not knowing if what she was doing was in line with Xu Ping's wishes.

Lifting the lid of the pot, Xu Ping took a deep breath: "It's so fragrant!" ”

It's a pity that Xiuxiu added too little water to hold a few bowls of soup. Picked up the scoop and filled it to his bowl, turned back to Xiuxiu and said, "Bring your bowl." ”

Xiuxiu's heart was relieved, and she said timidly: "Official, I'll do this kind of thing." ”

Xu Ping filled her bowl with soup and said with a smile, "How old are you?" People are not much taller than this pot, so I'll do this kind of thing. ”

There are still some coriander and green onion that I ate yesterday, Xu Ping picked it up and added it to the bowl of two people, and added a few grains of salt with a frown. Speaking of small landlords, they still eat this kind of large-grained coarse salt, and it is good to filter it to make fine salt when they are free.

After cleaning up, he said to Xiuxiu: "Isn't there any cooked mutton left over from yesterday?" You go and cut a few slices and put them in the soup to make it taste better. ”

Xiuxiu cut the mutton and wanted to put it all in Xu Ping's bowl, Xu Ping said: "This is a taste, what you drink is soup, you put more in the bowl." ”

The two returned to the hall with the bowl, Xu Ping took a sip, and couldn't help but say, "If there are two more baked cakes, this day will be perfect." ”

Xiuxiu whispered: "Official, there are no cooking cakes in the kitchen." ”

Xu Ping waved his hand: "I'll just say it, forget it if you don't have it." ”

Take another sip, remembering that it tastes better to add some chili peppers to the soup, look at Xiuxiu on the other side and drink it, and secretly look up at himself from time to time, so he didn't say anything more. Tomorrow, it's not good to make this little girl mess around, and then go outside to pick chili peppers, and the rice will not be allowed to eat Ansheng.

Xiuxiu felt a little sweet in her heart, and her panic when she came to the Xu family faded a lot. Ya Po didn't lie to her about at least one thing, this family can eat meat often.

After eating, Xiuxiu cleaned up and said to Xu Ping: "Official, Mrs. Lin said that you started school today, so I will call you up early, you can pack up and go." ”

Xu Ping nodded silently. He didn't want to go to school in his heart, how could he have read books for one or two decades in his previous life, but when it came to the Four Books and Five Classics, he was a layman, which was quite embarrassing. His three views have long been formed, and when he listens to an old scholar who is a dead scholar telling him about Confucianism, he will be resistant.

I can't bear it, I want to live well in this world, let everyone feel at ease, and I still have to do it. After packing up, he slowly walked out of his small courtyard.

In the yard, the villagers gathered together in twos and threes to squat on the ground to eat, they were also well-behaved, and boiled the water of the sheep yesterday, and ate the steamed buns deliciously.

When they saw Xu Ping coming out, they all saluted him one after another. Yesterday's unintentional move actually bought a lot of people's hearts, I don't know what Granny Hong thinks in her heart.

The study hall was next door to him, and when he came in, he found that Lin Wensi hadn't arrived yet. After sitting for a while, I got bored, looked at the table, and put a few books, nothing more than the Analects of Mencius, Zhou Yichun and Autumn, Shangshu and Shijing, picked it up and looked at it twice, and I wanted to doze off after two pages.

Just when Xu Ping was restless, Lin Wensi paced in.

Xu Ping hurriedly stood up and saluted, and said, "The teacher has traveled all the way, and he didn't greet you yesterday, so I hope forgive you." ”

Lin Wensi waved his hand: "My own family, don't worry." ”

Sitting down, Xu Ping saw that there was nothing on Lin Wensi's desk except for a few books, and he felt a little reluctant to go, and said, "Teacher sit down for a while, I'll go and tell Xiuxiu to order some tea." ”

Lin Wensi said: "We are not outsiders, so these false courtesies are exempt, and schoolwork is important." ”

So he picked up the book and tested what Xu Ping had taught before.

Where can Xu Ping answer, the previous gentleman couldn't listen to a word, the left ear entered the right ear and the wind blew out, and he remembered less than Xu Ping.

After asking a few words, Xu Ping answered what he asked, Lin Wensi closed the book and sighed: "Virtuous son-in-law, do you really have no intention of pursuing a career in this life?" Even if you don't participate in the imperial examination, it's good to read more virtuous books, otherwise wouldn't it be embarrassing to sit with people and not be able to speak? ”

Xu Ping was stunned for a moment. What is talent in this era? Officials are talents! But he has a stomach full of knowledge, but he has nothing to do with this, and he is both a little frustrated and a little unconvinced.

He replied curtly: "Xu is a student is still young, maybe he will be enlightened in a few years." ”

Lin Wensi nodded: "Yes." In the past two days, you have grown a lot better than before, and you really have to experience more things in the world to be sensible. Well, I will teach as usual, and you should study with all your heart and obey the destiny of heaven. ”

So he picked up "Mencius" and explained it while talking, regardless of whether Xu Ping could listen to it or not.

Xu Ping only felt that his ears were ringing, he couldn't listen to a word, his heart became more and more irritable, he only felt that he had been studying for so many years, what truth could not be understood better than this poor pedant? But he still has to sit here obediently and listen to his training, and he looks down on himself.

Somehow, I remembered a small poem in Jin Yong's novel I read in my previous life, and blurted out: "How can a beggar ever have a second wife?" Have a lot of chickens next door? At that time, there was Zhou Tianzi, what did they say about Wei Qi? ”

After hearing this, Lin Wensi turned his head to look at him suddenly, and after a while, he put the book on the table and sighed: "If you weren't my son-in-law, I would have kicked you out!" What is the matter with reading the books of the sages? Knowing the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, tomorrow is the norm, the heart is self-cultivation, and the brilliance stands in the world! If you don't want to read it, you naturally don't read it, so why bother learning such shrews scolding the street! Don't say Zhou Tianzi, Song is still a guest, do the sages want to say Zhou or Song? The way of heaven is constant, not for Yaocun, not for death, the first to respect the way of heaven, and then to understand the people. That's it, think about it yourself these days, and start classes again after the Tianchen Festival! ”

Watching Lin Wensi slam the door and leave, Xu Ping was stunned. This style of painting is a little wrong, according to the novel, but even the champion of Dali was dumbfounded by Huang Rong, why is a fallen man so disdainful of these words? Shouldn't he have a good discussion with himself, and then suddenly realize that the sage books he used to read were all bullshit, and then look at himself with admiration?

But I gradually realized in my heart that many of the novels I read in my previous life were about cynical and frustrated literati, and I am afraid that they are not the mainstream in this world. This kind of nonsense is nonsense at first hearing, and normal readers will not communicate with you, and the purpose of reading books is to find the truth. Even if it seems to me that it is nonsense to search for truth in the books of the sages, it is only a limitation of the times.

If Xu Ping knew that the real protagonist of the story about this poem was about the same age as him, and he was shivering in the south of the Yanyu River at this time, he wouldn't know what to think.

Coming out of the study hall, Xu Ping also felt a little unbearable on his face.

Back in the small courtyard, Xiuxiu saw that his face was not good-looking, and asked cautiously: "Official, you came back so soon, are you not happy to read?" ”

Xu Ping said angrily: "Which one will be happy to enter the school?" ”

Xiuxiu was silent for a while, and whispered: "I have dreamed of entering the school since I was a child, even if it is only one day, it is good!" My younger brother is only five years old, so he helps his father shepherd the sheep, who doesn't want to read and write, what can the family do if they are poor? The official is really in the midst of blessings and does not know the blessings. ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "I understand these truths, people's status is different, their positions are different, and their views on things are naturally different, no matter how you say it, it makes sense." ”

looked at Xiuxiu, and suddenly said, "Do you want to read and write?" I'll teach you! ”

Xiuxiu was taken aback, and said in the future: "This is naturally good." It's just that since officials don't want to go to school, how can they teach people? ”

Xu Pingxin said, your sister, I can't teach you Zi Shiyun, can't I teach you to be upper, middle and lower?

said in his mouth: "If I can't do poetry well, Mr. will naturally be unhappy." But what's so difficult about teaching you a few vulgar words, writing two sentences in the village language, and being able to read and write? ”

Xiuxiu said happily: "That is also the blessing I cultivated in my last life!" ”

Xu Ping was worried about the big truths that Lin Wensi said, and said angrily: "Blessing is blessing, how can it be cultivated in the previous life?" It's just that you earned it yourself. I teach you, naturally because you are obedient and sensible, if you are naughty with me every day, the ghost will teach you! ”

Xiuxiu didn't care: "Then thank you official!" ”

After speaking, a person went to the study and fiddled with the pen, ink, paper and inkstone inside.

Xu Ping stood alone in the courtyard in a daze, and then seriously and carefully thought about his future, whether to study and participate in the imperial examination in the future and gain fame.

The conversation with Lin Wensi just now has clearly told him that in this era, if you want to study and become an official according to the normal procedure, it is useless to rely on grandstanding, and it will only backfire. Think about the three changes of Liu Yongliu, who enjoyed a great reputation in later generations, no matter how much the novelist touted and beautified him as a well-known talent in the world, how the emperor had no eyes, it was just a disadvantage. And most of the geniuses and eccentrics who were praised to the sky in later generations, and even the great thinkers who went down in history, were still this result, and the scientific field was unfavorable.

Why? Are they really all those in power who have eyes and no eyes, and are virtuous and jealous? Wang Anshi, the most outstanding thinker and politician of the Two Song Dynasty, was able to dominate the world in high school. Although he has been hacked for thousands of years by the admirers of his political opponents, the light of his ideas is there, and the ideological controversy he provokes has influenced this nation for thousands of years.

A real hero, born at the right time, Ze is the world, instead of hiding in the corner and sneering, rolling his eyes and pretending to be a master of the world. No one is born a god, there must be gains and losses, and there must be compromises and concessions when there is will. It depends on how to choose and understand between the gains and losses.

I want to sing the song of which mountain I go to, and I want everyone to be drunk and I am alone and arrogant, and I want to be maverick and free, so I naturally have to bear the consequences of this behavior. To put it mildly, the so-called ** also wants to set up a memorial arch, not every world has a disease.

From thought to action, do you really want to be fully integrated into the world?

Xu Ping was confused, this choice was too heavy, which made him a little panicked.

In the end, I finally sighed, this kind of life event should be put aside for a while, and I can be a farmer with peace of mind.