.On June 6th, eggs must be cooked in the sun. In Shaoxing folk, June 6th is the festival for washing and drying. Women dry clothes and men dry wheat. The wheat grains are not collected until the last exposure on June 6th, and the landowners harvest the wheat.
Renting is also after June 6th. Bedding and thick clothes at home must also be washed, dried and stored.
Early that morning, Yi Ting, Mu Zhenzhen, Zhou Ma, and Cuigu took advantage of the coolness of the morning to get up early to work and wash clothes by the well. Yi Ting originally liked to wash clothes in the Toumo River, but now
The water in the Touji River has dried up, and the only way to use it is from the well. Yi Ting worried: "If the weather continues to be dry like this, will the well water also dry up?"
Cuigu said: "If even the well water is drained, that person will have no way to survive."
After breakfast, Zhang Yuan came over and looked at the group of barefoot and clothed women beside the stone well. They were strong and healthy. Zhang Yuan could not help but think about how to reverse the golden lotus addiction of men nowadays. There were almost no scholar-bureaucrats who were not fond of small feet. He
The eldest brother Zhang Dai and the third brother Zhang E both have small feet. When the Manchus took over the Central Plains in later generations, they could strictly order Han men to shave their hair and hang braids, but they could not prevent Han women from binding their feet. However, Zhang Yuan is just thinking about it casually now. He is drought-resistant and has the ability to study.
"The young master is very knowledgeable and knows a lot. Please ask the young master how long the drought will last today?" Yi Ting laughed and nudged Mu Zhenzhen, who was fetching water from the well, with his elbow.
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Mu Zhenzhen said coyly: "Why should I ask? Sister Yiting, aren't you just asking?" Yiting said: "Zhenzhen, if you ask, the young master will answer more carefully." Futing often sees the young master in the study.
He taught Mu Zhenzhen how to read and write, and it was inevitable that he would be a little jealous when writing. This is also human nature - Mu Zhenzhen's face turned red, and he lowered his head and did not dare to look at anyone.
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "When Sister Yi Ting asks me, I answer carefully, and when others ask me, I don't answer at all. This is called a secret that cannot be revealed, but Ting is not shy. He smiled "gege" and said: "Then the young master said that the weather is going to be dry.
When will it be?" Zhang Yuan said: "The drought will not last forever, but it will be dry for a while. Don't worry, life will go on as usual." Yi Ting smiled and said: "The young master's words are like what those fortune tellers on the cross street said about riding a two-headed horse.
Talk." Wu Ling ran over and said, "Master, the books and clothes have been packed. Let's ask Uncle Shangshi to go with us."
Zhang Yuan is going to Kuaiji today to meet Shang Zhoude. He told his mother last night that he will live on the Baima Mountain of the Shang family in Kuaiji for a while. He will go home every three or five days. After all, there is still the matter of Yanghe Yicang.
He had to worry about it, so Shi Shuang carried the burden, Wu Ling carried the bookcase, and the three of them walked to Kuaiji. Now they had no choice but to walk. Less than half of the criss-crossed river ports in Shanyin City were no longer able to sail, bypassing the Temple of Prince Qiansu, and going straight to Kuaiji.
At the east corner of the city, he met the carriage sent by Shang and Zhoude to pick him up on the way. Zhang Yuan did not take the carriage and walked to the front of Shang's mansion. Shang and Zhoude had already received a servant to report that they came out of the wall gate to welcome him. They were very happy to meet each other.
, Zhang Yuandao: "Second brother, I have brought all my clothes and books today, and I am going to spend the summer studying in Baima Mountain.
Shang Zhoude smiled and said: "That's why I invited you here. It's the hot summer and it's best to come here to study." He welcomed Zhang Yuan to sit down in the main hall and said, "I've heard about your high school entrance examination in Hangzhou.
The good news at the beginning of the case is that the porters and coachmen at the canal port also know the name of Zhang Jiezi and Mr. Zhang. They say that you were the one who killed the evil gangsters in Hangzhou. What's going on?" Zhang Yuan then asked
After briefly describing the events of that day, Shang Zhoude said: "Then Yao Fu really committed many unjust acts and ended up killing himself." He also asked Zhang Yuan about helping Ma Qiancheng escape from crime. When he learned that it had happened, Shang Zhoude was very happy and said:
"Although my eldest brother has never met you, he has read several articles about your craftsmanship and has high praise for you. Jing Lan and Jing Hui also praise you."
Zhang Yuan then asked Jing Lan, how are the Jing Hui sisters in Beijing? Shang Zhoude smiled and said: "It's good. Both sisters have written letters. They are at Dan Ran's place. It will be interesting to let her show you later." In Shang,
After lunch at the mansion, Zhang Yuan asked Shi Shuang to go back. While Wu Ling stayed behind, Shang Zhoude accompanied Zhang Yuan and his servant by boat to the tea garden dock at the foot of Baima Mountain. The Dongdachi can still be used for boating, but the water level is obviously a lot lower.
The bank of the river is much higher, but the bank of the new river is still damp, and the boundary is as clear as a line. When Wu Ling came ashore at the tea garden pier, Wu Ling carried a bookcase on his back, and Shang's servants moved the daily utensils of Zhang Yuan and his servant to the three huts in the middle of the mountain.
Zhang Yuan saw that this thatched cottage was very elegant and clean, and it didn't look like it had been inhabited for a long time. Shang Zhoude smiled and said, "My little sister had people clean up this bamboo pavilion thatched cottage a few days ago."
It’s been cleaned and tidied up, but she always kept it in mind when you said you would come here to study and spend the summer last year.”
Shang Zhoude sat with Zhang Yuan in the bamboo pavilion for a while, then went down the mountain, saying that if Zhang Yuan had anything to do, he would ask Wu Ling to go to the house to send a message. There would be a small boat moored at the pier below, and the servants would deliver the remaining three meals on time.
Come on, please just relax and study here, Zhang Yuan.
After Shang Zhoude came down the mountain, Zhang Yuan stood in front of the thatched cottage and squinted at the flowing water of Dongdachi at the foot of the mountain. Although it had not rained for half a year, the place did not appear to be dry. The mountains and waters were still green, the camellia trees were lush, and the ten-acre chrysanthemum garden was green.
Compared with the scorching heat in the city, the mountainside is cooler. Under the incandescent sunshine, there is no other sound except the chirping of cicadas. At the foot of the mountain, Zhou Ji silently came to and from Wuling and asked: "Master, are you going to study in seclusion?" Zhang Yuan said with a smile:
"Why, you're bored just after you came here?" Wu Ling said with a smile: "How could it be? The young master has made progress in his studies and gained fame, and Xiao Wu is also famous. Young master, you don't know, right? I, Xiao Wu, am walking on the cross street.
, some people pointed out that this is the book boy at the head of Dong Zhang Zhang’s case, and Xiao Wu also felt that he was very impressive." Zhang Yuan laughed.
There are three rooms in the hut, and the one on the left is the study room. Wu Ling moved the books in the bookcase to the bookshelf, and suddenly said: "Master, come and see, there is a painting here, it seems that it has not been finished yet."
Zhang Yuan went over and saw that it was an ink-brush landscape painting. It was Baima Mountain and Dongdachi. It was purely painted with ink and ink, with a faint and distant outline, and a quiet artistic conception. It is a common panoramic composition in Chinese paintings, Baima Mountain, and the water flowing under the mountain.
Surrounded by the bamboo pavilion and thatched cottage in the middle of the mountain, the painting has not yet been completed. This should be the pen and ink of Shang Danran. Shang Danran had the cottage in the middle of the mountain cleaned, and she came to spend the summer temporarily. This painting was painted in this cottage, and it has not yet been completed.
I wonder if you will go up the mountain to continue painting tomorrow?
Zhang Yuan sat down on a bamboo chair with a smile, shook his folding fan gently, and said: "Xiao Wu, take out the first volume of "Spring and Autumn Interpretation" and read a few pages to me."
Wu Ling was afraid: "Master, I haven't studied for a long time, and I have forgotten some words." Since the Qing guests from Xi Zhang came to read to Zhang Yuan, Wu Ling rarely touched books. He didn't like reading, but he could read so well.
The reason why Zhang Ruoxi asked Zhang Yuan to read with him when he was teaching literacy at home was because Zhang Yuan shook his head and said, "Xiao Wu, you are really unimproved. You see, Mu Zhen is so eager to learn."
Wu Ling thought to himself: "Sister Zhenzhen is very studious, why didn't the young master let her convince me?" He said, "The young master is reading more and more obscure words. It's really hard for me to read, and it's hard for the young master to listen. Young master, I'm not talking about Miss Shang."
Will you come to read to the young master?" That day, Shang Danran and Zhang Yuan were talking under the peach tree at the dock in Shang's back garden, and Wu Ling listened a lot.
Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Your ears are quite pointed...
That’s all, I’ll read the book myself.”
This time Zhang Yuan brought four volumes of "Chun Qiu Jie" and two volumes of "Zuo Shi Bo Yi" by Lu Zuqian.
Huang Zufu's two volumes of "Questions on the Spring and Autumn Classics", three volumes of Yang Weizhen's "Spring and Autumn Annals", and Wang Li's three volumes of "Spring and Autumn Ci Ming". Most of these books he dug out from the collection of his great-uncle Zhang Rushuang. Yes, Wang Li's "Chun Qiu Ci Ming" was purchased from a bookstore. Wang Li was the author of Jieyuan, Huiyuan and Dianzhao during the Chenghua period. The original text of Wang Li's scientific research was "Spring and Autumn", which was carefully selected by Zhang Yuan. Carefully select and decide to study the Eight-part Gu of Spring and Autumn Classics of King Quinoa. One evening, Shang's servant went up the mountain to deliver a food box. There were fish and meat, two kinds of good vegetables, a fresh soup, and Hua white rice. The food was all delicious. Clean and delicious.
After dinner, Zhang Yuan asked the servant where was the best place for bathing in Dongdachi at the foot of the mountain?
The servant said: "Master Zhang, please do not swim in the Dongdachi. Although the water has been much clearer and shallower due to drought recently, some parts of the Dongdachi are several feet deep. If you want to take a bath, you can go to the Zuoyin Spring under the Juyuan Garden. The spring water there is It’s extremely clean. My second master always gets water from there when making tea.”
Zhang Yuan asked the servant to take him to find the hidden spring. He passed through the chrysanthemum garden and walked down the mountain path for more than a hundred steps. He saw a spring of cool water gushing out from the gap in the mountain. A foot below the spring, the spring water gathered into a A small pool with a radius of several feet. The water in the pool is clear and shallow, surrounded by green trees. Fortunately, the spring water does not dry up even if it doesn't rain for half a year.
The servant said that the deepest part of the small pool was only three feet. If the water was not deep, it would not be cold. Zhang Yuan went down to explore with bare feet. It was refreshing and pleasant, just in time for a bath. He said happily: "Wonderful, wonderful, this Baima Mountain is really a good place to spend summer." .”
Zhang Yuan, Wu Ling's master and servant finished bathing in the small pool under the hidden spring. Wu Ling went back to the thatched cottage to get an earthen jar, filled it with spring water and went back to make tea. The tea was prepared by people from Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It was the best quality. Tianchi tea, sitting in the hidden spring to cook Tianchi tea, the fragrance of tea is timeless.
At night, Zhang Yuan read more than ten pages of a book under the lamp, drafted a Spring and Autumn Festival title and wrote a 400-word eight-legged essay. He heard the rustle of the wind outside the hut, and the faint sound of dogs barking in the distance, which was very like a Chinese chat room. The scene of a scholar reading at night in an ancient temple in a deserted village. The scholar in that situation is always waiting for a romantic encounter. He put down his pen and walked outside the hut for a while. The hut looks simple, but in fact it is very elegant. The doors and windows are all made of wooden panels. Camphor wood and mint and calamus are planted around the hut, which can repel mosquitoes. No wonder Wu Ling said just now: "It's strange that there are no mosquitoes here."
Zhang Yuan went to sit on the bamboo pavilion. The breeze was blowing and the heat of the day had completely disappeared. Looking at the lights of Shang's mansion at the bottom of the mountain from a distance, he really felt that he was left behind and independent. He thought to himself: "Looking up the mountain from that mansion , three huts and a solitary lamp, it is also very interesting. I wonder if Dan Ran has ever gone to the mountain to look at it at this time. Will she come to the mountain to study with me tomorrow? Well, she will definitely do it."
I was delayed by something today, so I couldn't update the second time. I'm sorry, I'll try my best tomorrow.!