The custom of ascending has a long history," Chu Ci. Jiuhuai" has "the sad autumn breath also, the grass and trees shake down and decay, and the sorrow is like traveling far away." Mountaineering near the water is about to return, the sky is high and the air is clear, and the water is clear and lonely. ”

The Han Dynasty inherited the customs of Chu, which gradually evolved into the custom of climbing the Chongyang Festival, and it is recorded that the ancestor of the Han Dynasty had climbed the mountain during the Chongyang Festival.

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor would personally ascend, and the atmosphere of folk ascending also reached its peak. The Ming Dynasty poet Shen Shixing's "Wushan Xing" described it this way.

On September 9, Wu Shansheng praised the world.

There are 100,000 households in the city, and there are many people fighting for the door.

Clapping hands and singing the Taiping song, full of dogwood flowers.

This day is really wandering, and the life experience is always prosperous at this time.

Xu Hao led the kindergarten children to the mountain, the mountain was full of people, the paper kite was more lively, the blue sky was dense, so many that people didn't know which one to see, and their eyes would be dazzled after looking at it for a while.

The children collectively looked up and watched stupidly, Xu Hao also had the foresight to fly the fish kite, and Xiao Feng and other children clapped their hands and cheered.

Originally, climbing high and flying kites should be a child's thing, but just like the playgrounds of later generations were always crowded with adults, animated movies are also loved by adults with childlike innocence, so the adults on the mountain followed suit, and instead became the biggest force.

Xu Hao's paper kite is made of sixteen heavy paper, large, wide and long, the twine is extraordinarily thick, flying high, and has strong containment, so the child can't let it go at all, just stretch out his hand and pull it slightly, and he can't help but be a little disappointed in his happiness.

The paper kite put by the adults is at least twelve heavy paper, in the air, often with the strength of their paper kite to twist other weak paper kites, from time to time there are two lines touching each other, the weak paper kite will hang under the big one, or break the rope and fall down, or hang on the branch with the wind.

This is the tradition of releasing paper kites. It is difficult to avoid crowded places, and according to custom, it is a good thing for the kite to break, even if it is constantly at night, it has to be burned to buy or make new ones in the next year.

But not everyone will gladly accept that their paper kites are 'killed', especially those giant kites or celebrities who have written inscriptions, in order to win the face of the girl, parents who do not want to be looked down upon by their children, etc., in short, the money that is unwilling to spend is so quickly wasted, and they start to cry and scold each other. Even bloody brawls.

Of course, the vast majority of people just laughed, the children nervously looked at the fish paper kite in Xu Hao's hand, fortunately Xu Hao has a lot of experience in this, every time he sees the big paper kite come to twist the thread, almost touched, somehow, I saw him gently shake his hand, the rope was loosened, and the paper kite flew to another place flexibly.

Xu Hao also boasted and praised himself childishly: "You want to hang me." No way! ”

Xiao Feng and Xiao Liu, who witnessed it with their own eyes, also secretly admired the good skills of the elders to put paper kites.

Soon the children lost their patience and secretly took out their pocket money and calculated what to buy. I didn't forget to leave fifty wen to save up.

Xiao Feng and Xiao Liu each had 200 yuan, and the two brothers discussed for a long time, planning to buy 20 yuan for the shaved sweet sugar cane and 30 yuan for a small basket of delicious pears. Fifty wen for climbing rice crackers, ten wen for climbing small flags, and twenty wen for bamboo dragonflies. There are twenty wen for the colored flower ball, and there are exactly fifty wen left.

But when I went down the mountain, I saw something more interesting at a glance, and the plan changed accordingly, and I saw more delicious fish ball noodles, a bowl of ten wen, duck blood vermicelli soup, a bowl of twenty wen, Jinling xiaolongbao, Jinling beef pot stickers, etc., and soon all the money was spent, and when I saw the gorgeous and lifelike sugar man, the children who had no money showed a melancholy face.

Xu Hao ignored their pleading gaze, and did not allow Xu Ember and Li Fang to buy it for them.

The next day, Mrs. Gu, a neighbor, came to the door and said to the old lady: "By your old blessing, the magpie can't stop screaming on the eaves on the day you come back, and I hope my son can come back." ”

Xiao Yuying explained to Xu Hao: "Fusheng went to Liaodong to study for three years and never came back, her mother was the only one in the family, living on the ancestral land, and the eyes of her son were pierced. ”

Xu Hao snorted, he was not very familiar with his old neighbor Gu family, he only knew that the Gu family was a big family, Gu Fusheng was naughty and didn't like to read when he was a child, and later after his father died, Gu Fusheng seemed to grow up overnight, and the young people in the school village went to Liaodong to study.

Xinxue has given countless young people another way out, just like the liberal arts and sciences, the road of the imperial examination is too narrow after all.

It's strange to say, as soon as Mrs. Gu came home, she happened to hear someone knocking on the door, and the next person came out to open the door, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Madam, sure enough, the young master is back." ”

"I'm back." Gu Fusheng shouted, and said to the three porters behind him: "Be careful, Mother Wu, you watch, I'll go to see my mother." ”

Mrs. Gu's tears of joy fell, and she looked at her son carefully, higher and more energetic than three years ago, and said angrily: "You child, you have been gone for many years, and you don't even write a letter to your mother, so that I can remember it." Sometimes I dream that you fell into the river and met a robber, and I was so scared that I woke up crying. Yesterday the lights in my room froze and knotted, and the magpies screamed for a few days, and I guessed you were coming back, and you did, thank goodness. ”

Gu Fusheng said excitedly: "Why doesn't my son want to return early?" Just because I entered the school, I was in a hurry to learn everything. ”

Before he could say anything, the porter outside shouted, "Come out and pay, we still have to catch up with business." ”

He had no choice but to come out and pay for the pick, but the porter did not do it, and said, "Your chest is so heavy, and I don't know how much gold and silver it hides, and we have exhausted all our strength, so we should reward a few more." ”

Gu Fusheng was helpless, gave each person an extra three coins of silver, sent the people away, and then returned to the upper room.

Mrs. Gu said with concern: "Son, what skills have you learned?" ”

Gu Fusheng said: "After my son went to Liaodong, he entered the Maritime College, I don't like navigation geology and the like, and I have learned limited from the article, and I have only successfully learned a few foreign Chinese languages, and I can speak with the Arabs." ”

Since ancient times, there has been a profession of translation, since the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, foreign exchanges have been frequent, and the demand is not small, especially for readers who are a little literate and proficient in a certain Chinese language, and the capital and even the coastal areas that attach importance to trade, from the government to the rich merchants, can be described as Luoyang paper expensive.

Now there is no need to talk about foreign exchanges, so Mrs. Gu said happily: "In this way, my son's life's job has been lost." I saw that Xu Liu next door had learned what French, and now he has the pavilion of Jinling University, and I want him to introduce the Xu family. There is a hundred and eight taels of silver a year, and the people in the village flatter him as a master, my son has such a ability, can talk to the barbarians, am I afraid that it is not better than him? Wait for me to take you to Xu's house, while the old lady and the third master are here, and also go to the university to do a museum or go to the court to get an errand, I'm afraid it's more than ten taels and one month. Great, it's also me who asks for Buddha and burns incense every night. Ask the Bodhisattva for the benefits. ”

"Mother doesn't need to worry." Gu Fusheng knew that in order to support his daily expenses, his family had no savings, which was why he was ashamed to write a letter, "Mother, I became a master for the prefect of Zhucheng in Shandong, and I was a translator for him with a salary of ten taels of silver per month. ”

"Yo!" Mrs. Gu was overjoyed. I didn't expect my son to be so capable, and he is no longer the idle boy who only knows how to spend money, so much money a month? I can't even think of it. It's a pity, "Since you can make so much money, you shouldn't come back, so why don't you go again?" ”

"I'm not going." Gu Fusheng held his mother's hand. "I have my mother in mind, so I will be doing it for a year, and I will come back specially after resigning from the prefect. I'm in addition to salary. There are also the coils given by the eldest lord, the rituals given by those merchants, and the money earned in other places, anyway, they add up to a thousand or several hundred taels of silver. ”

"Amitabha." Mrs. Gu was even more happy, "My mother hasn't seen the face of silver for a long time, I remember when your father set me, a gold Ruyi, a silver ingot of fifty taels, I thought silver was cute at that time." But after marrying, I realized that the Gu family was glamorous on the outside and empty on the inside, but it was just some ancestral land. Alas, we won't mention the past. Bring me all that little money from you, so that I can give birth to my mother. ”

Gu Fusheng saw that his mother valued the silver he earned so much, and he was naturally very happy, so he hurriedly found the key, took out the silver in the box, and sealed the official ingots.

"Mother, I'm hungry."

"Oops! I didn't have any dishes today, I ate in Xufu, and I only had a bowl of spinach and roasted tofu at home. Mother Wu, go buy a duck and a roast chicken, and cook for the young master. ”

"No, I'll buy it myself."

After saying that, he ran out, Mrs. Gu looked at her son's back with emotion, and Mother Wu in the courtyard also said with emotion: "The young master has completely changed, he has a great future, and the empress dowager is blessed for half her life." ”

"yes!" Mrs. Gu was so happy that she hurriedly turned around and hid the silver and put it away.

Soon, Gu Fusheng bought a duck ham and waited for him to come back, and asked Wu's mother to beat half a catty of Chen Shao, Mrs. Gu has been vegan since her husband's death, and she has not touched the meat, and she watched her son eat with a smile.

Gu Fusheng asked casually while eating how the income of the field was, was it enough? Mrs. Gu sighed: "Don't mention it, after you went out, less than a year, none of the tenants in the countryside came to pay the rent. The Xu family is far away in the capital, and I have never had much contact with the Xiao family, so I am embarrassed to open my mouth for help. However, it is against the two rooms at the corner of the street, ten dollars a month, a few mouths in the family, and I have to send you money every month, and most of the money and grain are gone. The second uncle of the Wang family is busy again, and he has no time to help our family collect rent. ”

Gu Fusheng shouted: "Okay, these tenants are so hateful, I will teach them a lesson tomorrow." ”

Mrs. Gu hurriedly said: "Don't be busy, isn't this the third master back, send someone to let go, and pay more than half of the rent before last year." This year's drought is dry, there is no way, you have to go to Xu's house first, first, to thank you, and second, to meet the third master and the old lady. ”

"I see."

In this way, Gu Fusheng went to Xu's house first, walked around the village, stopped for a few days and went to the countryside in person, and found his tenant to repay the rent. When those tenants saw that the young master of the Gu family was back, they naturally didn't dare to let go, but they just begged hard, saying that God won't take care of anything this year, young master, don't be angry, you will definitely deliver it on time in the future.

Gu Fusheng learned his skills, his horizons were broad, and the young man's face was tender and soft-hearted, so he couldn't look down on the land rent committee, so he just gave up. (To be continued......)