stubborn thief

Chapter 27 Teacher
Wang Zuohang attacked Yaozhou.

Liu Chengzong thought about it and discussed it with Cao Yao, his elder brother Liu Chengzong, and his father Liu Xiangyu. Everyone believed that Wang Zuohang would march south and even attack the city.

But when I heard the news of Wang Zuohang's attack on Yaozhou from others, it was still surprising and surprising.

Because for Wang Zuohang, the attack on Yaozhou might just be an economic account. As the refugees and soldiers became more and more involved, he had to attack the state capital and loot the city to maintain food and grass.

But to outsiders, it looks more like a political move.

If you don't fight the city, Wang Zuohang is a refugee commander, a bandit, a robber, a horse thief, everything is fine, and he can't talk about a rebel.

If you attack the city, you will be the rebels.

With such a mood, Liu Chengzong and his brother returned home together. As soon as they entered the courtyard, they heard his father's hearty laughter from the central hall. From a distance, he saw a green-shirted guest in the guest seat, who was eating a tea bowl while twisting the fruit inside. laughing.

He had never seen his father eat tea like this.

The income of the nine-rank officials is not much different from that of ordinary people. At most, they are less than the upper ones and more than the lower ones. However, the work and entertainment, the living standards are slightly higher, and the corresponding expenses are also higher.

In the past, I always moved. I lived in Mizhi and Yan'an Fucheng for several years. What has not changed is that there are always various specifications of Shaanxi tea and Shaanxi wine at home for us to welcome and send.

Of course, these specifications are also within the standards allowed by the conditions. For the poor Huanglongshan tea foam, you can buy a big bag of three coins and silver in a good time; the more foam-resistant Shangluo Mountain Spring Tea and the better Lueyang Ziwu Xianhao, No matter how expensive or cheap, you have to prepare some.

But he has never seen tea like this. It's a bit fashionable - Qingshan Ke serves a Yaozhou celadon tea bowl, a lacquered wooden tray on a tea table, a willow chopstick, a Yao porcelain spoon and a pair of Qingdain Ke towel on the side of the plate. There is a small copper basin filled with water.

After drinking the tea in the bowl, the guests do not need to use the spoon, and hook their tail finger to taste the fruit in the bowl, and it looks like there are pine nuts and walnuts.

Anyway, Liu Chengzong never drank this stuff, and with his limited experience, he couldn't imagine the taste of these two kinds of tea, so that only then did he recognize the guests sitting in the hall, and said in surprise, "Sir?"

When he was a guest in green shirt, he wore a pair of tortoiseshell circle iron straight-leg circular glasses on the bridge of his nose. He had already heard the footsteps of someone walking, but he just thought it was an idler in the Liu family's house. He didn't raise his eyes to check, just waited to hear. Then the voice raised his eyebrows, pushed up the mirror and took a closer look, then smiled.

"Brother Ancestor is back?"

This ancestor is a joke of the names of the two brothers. In this era, people often call children brother, even if the emperor in the palace is called the eldest son, it will be called brother.

Liu Xiangyu deliberately restrained his smile and scolded: "Don't hurry up and greet Uncle Yang, two rude boys!"

The brothers immediately bowed their heads and saluted.

The guest was an old acquaintance with them, named Yang Dingrui, courtesy name Xingzhuang, from Ansai.

When Liu Xiangyu was teaching Confucianism in Yan'an Fucheng, Yang Dingrui had already taken the exam as a student. Because he still had the ambition to be a jinshi, he did not go to the local government or go out to find a job. He continued to study Confucianism, and occasionally taught contemporary classes. The teacher subsidizes the household.

Therefore, Liu Xiangyu and Yang Dingrui are half colleagues, and the two brothers are Yang Dingrui's students. Following him not only learned literature, but also laid the foundation for liking sports.

And in Liu Chengzong's place, Yang Dingrui was beaten a lot.

The reason lies in the glasses on Yang Dingrui's nose frame.

In the Ming Dynasty, glasses were basically popular among the wealthy classes such as officials, eunuchs, merchants, etc., but most of them were reading glasses, and people were rarely short-sighted.

One is that ordinary people rarely need excessive use of eyes; the other is that scholars have the need to be an official, and to be an official requires not only knowledge, but also physical requirements.

In the learning process, because the educational resources are not concentrated, it is not that one teacher teaches four or five students to dozens of students later, and generally one teacher teaches four or five students. Sitting and standing is almost a rigid rule in the reading process.

Basically, there is no chance to lie on the table and write and read.

Yang Dingrui suffered from short-sightedness since he was a child because he was born in a cold environment and did not have a decent teacher to discipline him.

In this era, myopia is called near-sightedness and far-sightedness, which is a kind of disease.

When Liu Chengzong was studying with him, Yang Dingrui couldn't afford crystal glasses, so he could only close his eyes to read, and when he saw that Liu Chengzong had something to learn, he pulled out his ruler and slapped his ass.

Since he believed that myopia was a disease, Yang Dingrui did not less often seek medical advice, did not eat less decoctions, did acupuncture and moxibustion, and finally put on a pair of glasses to solve the problem.

In Yang Dingrui's words, he read the words of ancient doctors and finally believed that the disease should be prevented. It is most reliable to massage the meridians and go out for exercise while reading.

That's why the Liu brothers passed down a set of massage techniques-similar to eye exercises in another memory, and they often took them out for running, climbing, and hunting after a few hours of reading.

Of course, Yang Dingrui used his bow for hunting, and the two brothers were only responsible for running, climbing, reciting the scriptures and carrying their prey.

Until they went to official Mizhi with their father, the contact with Yang Dingrui was cut off. Later, I heard that Yang Dingrui was admitted to Beijing and went to Beijing, and the distance was even more distant.

"Okay, teachers and students don't have to see each other, let's sit down. I haven't seen each other in [-]. When we meet, let the two children sell the gold first." Yang Dingrui raised his arms and raised his palms to stop the brothers. , turned his head to Liu Xiangyu and smiled: "Little lion babies have become men!"

The brothers sat down, and the eldest brother Chengzu smiled and said, "I heard the letter from the Sixteenth, saying that the adults of Fucheng came to the door, and we both rushed back. I didn't think it was the gentleman who came."

Yang Dingrui wore a wide robe and smiled with a gentle temperament. He waved his hand and said, "I'm not an adult, but I've been a second officer for a few years."

Er Zuoguan, in fact, means second-in-command. Tongju, Tongzhi, Zhoutong, county magistrate, and master registrar are all Erzu officials.

For example, in a county, the chief is the magistrate, the county chief and the chief registrar can be called assistants, with the exception of the fourth-ranked official of the yamen, which is called the chief.

Because many officials work, only Dianshi is responsible for dealing directly with the people in the county. Dianshi is not the leader of the county government, but the leader of the people.

He returned to Yan'an to serve as an official. Under the avoidance system, he was promoted all the way as a local. Unless he was transferred to Lin Province, he could only be a second officer and could not govern.

As he said that, his smile faded and he shook his head: "I quit, I quit."

Yang Dingrui smiled politely, but the moment he restrained his smile, Liu Chengzong felt a sudden shock in his heart.

Not only because he was thrown to him by his father for discipline when he was a child, but his ass was pumped many times.

It was also because he knew that a gentleman who seemed to be a gentleman had a particularly strong personality.

"Why did you resign, sir?"

"I can't do it anymore, it's similar to your father. Now there is a shortage of nearly half of the chief officials and assistants of the two counties of Yan and Qing.

Then he pointed to the glasses on the bridge of his nose: "I can't be the chief officer either."

The atmosphere became heavy, and Yang Dingrui said, "I'm afraid the imperial court is in Shaanxi...it won't work."
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Note: Can be near and far cowardice - "Jingyue Quanshu" Volume 27.

(End of this chapter)