Siheyuan: Xu Damao corrects his evil ways

Chapter 242 Chapter 243, Shu Xiu and Emotion

In the past, the busiest thing in the yard was not other people's houses, but the Yan family.

According to Lao Xu, right after liberation, Yan Bugui made a big move, and through a student's parents, he hinted to other students to bring Shu Xiu to pay New Year's greetings.

Fortunately, Yan Bugui did not come forward directly, otherwise there would be no Teacher Yan.

That time Yan Jiaguang only had a small vat of bacon, not to mention wine.

But before he could taste Yanbu's precious meat, he was stabbed to the school leaders.

Fortunately, it was just after liberation, and there was indeed a shortage of teachers at that time. In addition, Yan Bugui did not show up directly and did not confiscate the money, so the items were returned in a timely manner. Coupled with the involvement of some favors, Yan Bugui was removed from that matter.

But I heard from Lao Xu that because of that incident, Yan Bugui had no chance of promotion from now on.

Lao Xu said that that time, the entire hutong neighborhood was shocked. Like running water, dozens of parents and their children kowtow to pay New Year greetings in front of Yanbugui's house one by one.

At that time, Yan Bugui was wearing a long robe, and his head seemed to have light.

The so-called Shuxiu is the apprenticeship fee. No art is taught lightly, and teachers also need to eat.

Therefore, when most people become apprentices, their parents have to prepare six rituals for the teacher, which correspond to the six arts of the gentleman.

Regardless of their moral character, ancient literati still had a certain respect for teachers' ethics. Generally speaking, they rarely ask for money, and most of them solicit sponsorships.

Like apprenticeship, you only need to practice six rituals: dried meat, celery, dried longan, lotus seeds, red dates, and red beans. Among them, dried longan personally feels doubtful. In the ancient north, it was not easy to find this thing.

Among them, only jerky, that is, bacon, is considered the officiant and given to the teacher. We can't really let teachers live a life of "eating without meat".

The other five rituals have various meanings for students. Celery = diligent study, lotus seeds = hard work, red dates = early high school, and red beans probably mean good luck.

This is the apprenticeship ceremony, and if you accept it, you will have a master-disciple relationship. But if you want to study, there is still another way to say it. Generally, like private schools and public schools in the village, most of them provide meals. That is to say, families with children in school must send meals to their teachers on a certain day. Of course, if there is a big family in the village, they will all support it. The landlord's family will support a teacher.

Then if the teacher wants something to happen at home, the parents of the students will prepare gifts early. If the teacher wants to travel far away, every household will try their best to give some money and food as gifts. There are rules for this.

Later, the fees were charged by semester, but the apprenticeship of Shuxiu was still intact. Or there is a private school teacher hired by a wealthy family, and he can be worshiped on a monthly basis.

That is to say, teachers in the early years did not make money by teaching and educating people. Instead, after the students have developed or become talented, they will give back to their mentors in the name of sponsorship.

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In future generations, education will be free. It also becomes various milk fees, material fees and so on.

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Ma Hua was stunned, but said nothing to Xu Damao. Just entering the backyard gate, I saw Xu Damao wearing a bib and preparing lunch. MCA also didn’t care about the new clothes he wore just for the Chinese New Year.

He immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Xu Damao "bangbangbang" three times.

The key point is that Xu Damao's family is not the only one in the backyard. Liu Haizhong also has many apprentices. In the past, he kowtowed when he was an apprentice, but since he became a disciple and in the new era, now he just bows.

No one has played kowtow for many years.

Now seeing Ma Hua like this, he directly restrained several disciples of the Liu family. He hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to his bangs.

Suddenly, the backyard was peaceful.

When the news in the backyard reached the front yard of the middle courtyard, the apprentices from the two courtyards who came to pay New Year greetings also imitated the same pattern, and they knelt with each other.

But it made Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui, who were chatting in the yard, extremely embarrassed.

Of the two of them, one is remembering the past, and the other has an apprentice but has no such contact.

After just a moment of awkwardness, the two of them laughed in unison, as if they were so open-minded.

This is how people are, when no one is around to help them feel embarrassed, they can only pretend not to be embarrassed.

Logically speaking, Xu Damao would entertain his apprentice today. Then one should imitate Liu Haizhong and sit at the table chatting with his disciples like a master, while the mother-in-law Lou Xiao'e is busy at home.

Originally, the couple had discussed the same thing last night, but plans could not change as quickly as this. No one expected that last night, Xu Shengli's performance made Lou Xiaoe busy for most of the night, forcing her to catch up on her sleep during the day.

I was not professional in taking care of the baby, but I stopped taking care of the baby for a long time. I forgot to pee the baby before going to bed and put a diaper on the place where the baby sleeps.

Yesterday, the naughty boy was very kind. He played all day during the day and fell asleep as soon as he got into bed at night.

But after a lot of trouble at night, neither Xu Damao nor Lou Xiao'e could sleep well.

Originally, there was a little cook named Yuyu who could grab the bag and come over to help, but today Yuyu went directly to Wang Furong's place with Shazhu's family.

In this case, Damao could only get busy by himself.

Fortunately, by the time Xu Damao was almost ready, not long after Ma Hua entered, Lou Xiao'e heard the noise outside and got up.

First, he tidied up the room briefly, at least his clothes were tidied. He opened the door curtain, holding a cup and chatting with Xu Damao. When he saw Lou Xiao'e, Ma Hua knelt down and "bangbangbang" to Lou Xiao'e. Just make Lou Xiaoe lose her ability.

This is the first time in her life that someone kowtows to her!

Lou Xiao'e hurriedly shouted: "Da Mao, let Ma Hua get up quickly. This kid is too polite."

Seeing that his wife was at a loss, Xu Damao first asked Ma Hua to get up, then walked to Lou Xiao'e, with his back to Ma Hua, pretending to take something from Lou Xiao'e's hand, and handed Lou Xiao'e a red envelope.

She winked at Lou Xiao'e, and Lou Xiao'e instantly understood that this was a favor that Xu Damao had not given just now, and was specially reserved for Lou Xiao'e as a favor.

He hurriedly stepped forward, first refilled some water for Ma Hua, and then patted the red envelope on Ma Hua's hand. He smiled at Ma Hua and said, "Ma Hua, I heard from your master that your family has found a partner for you. Where is he from? How does he look like? Like? At home..."

When there is a woman at home, socializing becomes easier. For example, when Lou Xiao'e didn't get up, Xu Damao didn't ask Ma Hua how he was doing at home. Have you ever visited any relative's house? There is nothing else to say about wine.

But Lou Xiao'e is different. It should be said that women are talented in this area, and they can always ask some questions that Damao has not paid attention to.

Marriage in MCA is also a long-standing problem.

It turns out that when he was helping in the kitchen, several members of his family lived together, and few people looked up to him as a girl from the city. In the countryside, MCA doesn’t dare to look for it. It’s not that I look down upon them, I’m just afraid that they won’t be able to live without rationing in the city.

Originally, my parents were in poor health, and my younger siblings were all too young except for the middle child who worked part-time.

The monthly apprenticeship salary of more than ten yuan from MCA is not enough to buy food for the family and medicine for the parents.

First, due to Liu Lan's incident, things changed, and this allowed the family to have a full meal every now and then.

After following Xu Damao again, life became really easy when I could get extra money.

Xu Damao has no other abilities but crooked ideas. After knowing the situation of his apprentice's family, he gave him a bad idea.

Let him lead his younger brother who was doing odd jobs and directly start doing the kind of things that Yanbu's family did. That is to say, go to the countryside to exchange for coarse grains and earn some price difference in the middle.

Only then did the life of the Mahua family really get better.

Therefore, being kind to others does not mean how much money or things you give them. It's not that people are about to starve to death, so you should still teach them the truth that "a gentleman is always poor".

That's what Yi Zhonghai did.

Xu Damao will only show MCA a path and tell him all the tricks and risks involved. Should he do it or not? How far he can achieve it is his own business.

Like now in the Ma family, the second brother of MCA no longer goes to the pigeon market. He only goes to the countryside every now and then, and then the sick old man of the MCA is there to watch over the pigeon market.

Even if someone was arrested in the police station and saw Mr. MCA like that, he would just turn a blind eye and let him go.

Xu Damao's idea for MCA was to ask MCA to hug Section Chief Wu's thigh tightly. In any case, MCA would be asked to help with whatever they said.

In less than half a year, the house was ready. Section Chief Wu also helped with the work of MCA's younger brother, so that he could join the factory when he was old enough.

MCA was grateful to Xu Damao. Although the work Xu Damao taught him was not so glorious and advanced, it helped the MCA family get rid of their once poor life.

Otherwise, if I continue step by step, I still don’t know when I will be able to stop worrying about having enough to eat.

Not to mention the issue of getting a wife.

This is not to say that girls these days also dislike poverty and love wealth. It can only mean that people who are suffering these days are really suffering.

No one wants to let their girl jump into the fire pit.

If a family like MCA does not change, it will be MCA that carries the whole family behind its back.

But now MCA has changed. From the day he divided the house, his life has undergone a fundamental change. At that time, someone was acting as a matchmaker for MCA.

But MCA was not sure at that time, fearing that he would be taking the blame for someone else and would not dare to agree to the girl.

Until one time, Ma Hua returned to the city with the things designated by the section chief, and was stopped by the inspector on the way.

At that time, MCA really thought he was finished. According to his thinking, if something like this happened, the office would report it to the factory, and the factory would completely blame him and fire him.

At that time, MCA was so frightened that he was shaking all over, but according to Xu Damao, he didn't say a word, he just said that he wanted to inform the logistics department of the factory.

The institute called the steel rolling mill, and within half an hour, Section Chief Wu arrived at the institute in person. Even the people and belongings were saved.

Moreover, Section Chief Wu did not even criticize. Instead, he praised MCA for doing well and even gave him ten yuan as a consolation.

Only then did Ma Hua know that what Xu Damao taught him was true, and Xu Damao was really doing it for his own good.

(End of this chapter)