Poor family mother and son

Chapter 182 A Travel Journal?
Xiaobao is now "four-body diligent", very diligent!I'm going crazy!

With so many courses, is he going to be tied up in the state school?He wants to go on a study tour (play)!

He wants to see cotton seedlings, whether cotton is a flower, digs wells, racecourses, and...

Think about it, can't see it!

Thus, the correspondence between Xiaobao and Chu Qing has such an exchange:
Xiaobao: Mother, we have opened four new courses: Governing the People, Lectures on Martial Arts, Weir Water and Calculation.

Chu Qing: I can roughly understand the first three. What is the calendar class?

Xiaobao: Algorithms and calendars.

Chu Qing: What is the calendar?
Xiaobao: The astronomical phenomenon of the sun, moon, and stars.I don't understand either, anyway, that's what Mr. said.

Chu Qing: So mathematics and celestial bodies movement?Oh my god, Little Treasure, you've learned so well!

Xiaobao: Mother, Xiaobao misses you!

Xiao Bao suddenly didn't want to write to Chu Qing anymore.It took four or five days to go back and forth, and it took more than half a month for his mother to get a general idea of ​​what new subjects he had opened.

But is this what he meant to say?He wanted to say that he was going to study (play)!

But I can't say it directly, Xiaobao has always felt that his studies can make his mother happy, as a filial child, he can't be so ignorant.

Then again:
Xiaobao: Mother, today Mr. said [the way to govern the people is to be devoted to teaching. 】Do you know what it means?

Chu Qing: Mother is not very clear, does it mean that the best way to govern the people is to devote oneself wholeheartedly to promoting enlightenment?

Xiaobao: Mother is right!But do you know how to promote enlightenment?
Chu Qing: Can you think about such a profound question?Niang thinks that "duty" means being wholehearted, and "duty" means doing things in a down-to-earth manner, not in vain.As for how to promote it, at least it needs the cooperation of many parties, right?
Xiaobao: Who cooperates with whom?How to cooperate?
Chu Qing: For education, at least those who teach must cooperate with each other. For children, it is the cooperation between the school and the parents.For example, the state school wants to teach you to cherish food, so mother first cherishes food by herself, and then leads by example; the school does not waste food and sets rules.

Xiaobao: What if the people being taught don’t understand?

Chu Qing: Then you have to be patient and teach more! "Be honest", education is to be down-to-earth.

Xiaobao: Mother, Xiaobao misses you!

After such a toss, another half a month has passed.

After four months of correspondence, Chu Qing finally understood why Xiaobao mentioned "the people being taught can't understand" every time.

This is because there are too many subjects, and the child's knowledge storage is not enough, he can't understand it, and he is tired of learning!

"Chu Yuan!" Chu Qing shouted holding Xiao Bao's letter.

"Here we come, boss!" Chu Yuan jumped into the tent.

Chu Qing has been living in tents recently, just like in the grasslands. Anyway, the weather is warm, so she lives in various places, so that it is convenient for her to check the more than 100 million mu of cotton fields.

"Go back to Jizhou, go through the study tour procedures for Xiaobao for half a year, and then bring it here." Chu Qing ordered.

"Study tour? Will it not delay the child's homework?" Chu Yuan was worried.

"Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. He has to travel!" Chu Qing said.

"Come on! I'll be right back!" Chu Yuan didn't care if he understood or not, he just asked.He is only happy when Xiaobao is coming!
Without Xiaobao by his side, Chu Qing acted like a wooden man every day, and had nothing to say except business.It's so boring.

Xiaobao arrived in five days.His eyes were sparkling when he saw Chu Qing, but he stood there and blinked a few times before pounced on him.

This child is a bit strange, he is usually indifferent, and he does not have the emotions of children of the same age at all, but he always gives Chu Qing the feeling that he is restraining his emotions at any time.

Other children laugh when they are happy and cry when they are unhappy, very straightforward, but Xiaobao always has to think for a few seconds.

Even he misses mother so much, it is said that other children have already jumped on mother, but Xiao Bao reacted for a while, as if he was considering whether to jump on mother or not.

The only time when Chu Qing expressed it bluntly was when Chu Qing returned from injury at Baoqingsheng Beizhan in Xinlunzhou.

"What are you thinking?" Chu Qing hugged Xiao Bao, "Don't you know your mother?"

"Hee hee, mother has lost weight and darkened." Xiao Bao held Chu Qing's face in his hands.

"No way! Little Treasure has grown a lot taller!" Chu Qing tugged at Little Treasure's sleeves, which were a bit short.

When I'm not at home, the boys at home can't always pay attention to these details.

Can't blame them though.A bunch of lads who don't take care of themselves very well and can't be expected to be considerate.

Besides, since I traveled through time, my life is like living in a dormitory. Even if I have a house in Jizhou, my home is like a military camp.

Every day, I am busy with my own work during the day, and I go back to my house at night, and take care of everything by myself.

Eating a meal is like going to a cafeteria, everyone is a cook.Only when Chu Qing cooks, the quality of the food is the best and the atmosphere is the liveliest.

But it's enough to eat enough, and it doesn't delay Xiaobao's growth.

Xiao Bao "inspected" around Chu Qing's tent inside and out.

Niangqin's tent is very simple, using military tents, which have more drying racks than the military, one inside and one outside the house.

The clothes hanger at the back of the house was made bigger, on which my mother's wet coat was hung to dry.

The one in the room is smaller, and now there are only a few handkerchiefs for washing face and feet hanging on it.

There are several books on the bedside of the mother, and there is a small table next to the bed, and the hand-copied "Historical Records" is spread out on it.

On the opened page is written: "Shanxi Raocai, bamboo, grain, rice, 旄, jade; Shandong many fish, salt, lacquer, silk, sensuality;
Jiangnan duonan, catalpa, ginger, laurel, gold, tin, lian, cinnabar, rhinoceros, tortoiseshell, pearls, tooth leather; Longmen, Jieshi Beiduo horse, cattle, sheep, fur, tendons and horns. "

Here is my mother's pen writing: "West of Heshan? Where is this place?" Next to it is a simplified version of Zhang Daxuan's map.

"Mother, are you reading "Historical Records"?" Xiaobao asked.

"Well, if you have nothing to do, just take a look."

"It's so boring, can you stand it?"

"It's okay, it's not boring. Can't you memorize a lot?"

"Mother, I have to memorize it. Who knows what will be tested in the exam. It's always better to memorize more. But you don't take the exam, so what are you doing?"

"Oh..." Chu Qing seemed to have thought of something: Xiaobao couldn't learn, was it because he didn't understand the class or didn't find interest?

"Mother, it's not for the exam. I think this travel book is pretty good." Chu Qing said.

"Travel notes? Mother, you said "Historical Records" is a travel note?!" Xiaobao was surprised.

"It's not a complete travelogue, sometimes I read it as a storybook."

"Storybook?! OMG!"

Well, it's a little childish this time.

"Yes," Chu Qing said, "Mother thinks that history is what happened. Isn't what happened just a story? If you want to talk about travel notes, look, the "Biography of Huozhi" that Mother is reading, there is ' Shopping Guide for Local Specialties', and 'Map Cannons' are being launched all over the world..."

"What is the 'Map Cannon'?"

...Uh, my God, how can I answer this when my mouth is full of trains?
"You know how to set off firecrackers, right? Use words like firecrackers to point out famous people all over the world, um, that's pretty much what it means."

"Then why do you say that 'map guns' are being launched all over the world?"

"Because it summarizes the customs of various places in words, and points out the habits of the local people, for example: the Bodi people in the border area have more child servants and servants;

People in the Sanjin area like to act bravely, have a fierce personality, and are unwilling to engage in agriculture and business;
People in the Zhongshan area are irritable and like opportunism. Many people are good at robbing tombs and making fakes, but there are more handsome men and beautiful women. There are many singing and dancing artists in the "entertainment circle".

People in Yan area are quick and fierce, and don't like to think about problems;
People in the Western Chu area: the folk customs are fierce and light, people are easy to get angry, and don't like to save money;

People from the Southern Chu area: Good at speeches and debates, but not very good at keeping promises...

You said, if the local people know about it, they can't beat the author of this book? "

"Hahahaha..." Xiaobao began to laugh: "Mother, what you said is so interesting, it really is like this!"

"What's more, there is a 'rich list' in this book." Chu Qing said again.

"What?"

"It is to rank the rich people in the order of one, two, three, and four. For example, this book selected the commercial giants of the Western Han Dynasty, and listed seven lists, which are:
The Zhuo family in Sichuan, the Kong family in Nanyang, Henan, the Bing family in western Shandong, the Dao family in eastern Shandong, the Shi family in Luoyang, Henan, the Ren family in Guanzhong, and the Wuyan family in Chang'an, the capital.

The order of appearance of these names is roughly the ranking.

The book also mentions their reasons for being selected in detail. For example, the Zhuo family is very good at operating iron mines. There are thousands of employees in the workshop. The iron ingots cast can overwhelm all the residents of Sichuan and Yunnan. It can be said that the country is invincible... "

(End of this chapter)