The villagers were originally called by Zheng Chun to worship the Dragon King. Unexpectedly, during the worship process, Su Hao, who had always been languid, suddenly broke out. Not only did he beat the official, he also kicked the Feng Shui master away and beat him himself.
The well team chose the well location. Everyone followed Su Hao and others around the field and watched a good show. Now that the show has not ended yet, it is halftime, and everyone just
Everyone went back to their homes.
"I never thought that an idiot like Su Hao would dare to quarrel with an official?"
"He is too stupid to read, how can he recognize who is an official?"
"Look at him talking to that Feng Shui master. It seems that even the Feng Shui master can't talk to him."
"It's no wonder, Su Hao is also a scholar."
"Xiucai..."
On the way from the well to the village, everyone was still talking about it. The focus of the discussion was none other than Su Hao, who had made a big splash. Of course, everyone had different opinions on the outcome of this matter.
Some people say that Su Hao is the descendant of Wenquxing, so he can see the location of wells more accurately than Chen Shenhan. Some people are quite disdainful, saying that Su Hao can't even identify the crops, so he has no ability to see the location of wells. He is obviously afraid of
The official scolded me, so I pretended to be a ghost.
People in the village are well aware of Su Hao's high scores and low energy. There has been a popular joke in Longkou Village about Su Hao.
That was two or three years ago. Su Hao was only 15 years old and went to Longguang Academy in the county town to study for a few months. On the day he returned to the village, he passed by a crop field and couldn't help feeling sour.
My cousin from the fifth service asked:
"Old farmer, what is this thing in the field, with red stems, green leaves and white flowers?"
When the uncle saw that this boy had read some books, he ran up to him and called himself an "old farmer". He was so angry that he picked up a hoe and made a gesture of beating him.
Su Hao was frightened and ran away, shouting: "Help, someone was killed in the buckwheat field!"
My cousin couldn’t laugh or cry: “You kid still knows this is a buckwheat field!”
From then on, Su Hao called buckwheat "red stalks, green leaves and white flowers", which became a common allusion among the villagers to ridicule nerds.
Su Hao's family situation can only be described as "poor". When Su Hao's grandfather was in his generation, his family's situation was pretty good. Judging from the composition of future generations, he was probably considered a wealthy middle peasant. When Su Hao arrived,
In his father's generation, the situation began to take a turn for the worse. When Su Hao was only four or five years old, his father contracted tuberculosis. He struggled for five or six years and spent countless money, but in the end he failed to save a single life.
After Su Hao's father died, there were only three people left in the family: Su Hao, his mother Yang Gendi, and Lu Xiu'er, who had been adopted as a child bride and was going to be Su Hao's child bride. Fortunately, the ancestors still left more than ten acres of land, which was rare in the southern countryside.
It can be considered that there is some basis for settling down and establishing a life.
The terrible thing is that Su Hao, as the only male in the family, has been instilled in his family with the concept of imperial examinations since he was a child. He only reads the Four Books and Five Classics all day long, never goes out or steps behind the door, and leaves all the work in the fields to his mother and the Five Classics.
younger sister.
In rural areas, the quality of life of a family depends on how much land they have and how much labor they have. Su Hao's family has a lot of land, but the lack of labor is a big problem. Yang Gendi and Lu Xiuer worked hard to farm.
Although I have more than ten acres of land, the harvest is still much worse than that of other families. After a year, I can barely make ends meet, with no savings at all.
If Su Hao just eats and doesn't work, that's it. The key is that Su Hao is not only unable to make money, but also very good at spending money. He has to take exams in the county and provincial capitals, and often goes to the county to seek advice from academy teachers, so The expenses and the gifts given to the teacher were not small sums. The income from the fields was not enough, so to support his studies, he had to use his old capital.
It was the last wish of Su Hao's dead father to train Su Hao to become a scholar. The widowed mother Yang Gendi inherited her late husband's will. No matter how much money Su Hao spent on studying, she gritted her teeth and supported it. From the death of Su Hao's father to now, The family has sold three acres of their ancestral property, and Su Hao has only just passed the examination to become a scholar. If he wants to pass the imperial examination, it is estimated that the more than ten acres of land in the family may not be enough. .
Everyone in the village said that if Su Hao could really get on the gold medal list, that would be it. If he failed the exam and the fields were sold out, Su Hao's family would have no choice but to become beggars.
The villagers were pointing behind them, but Su Hao just regarded it as a breeze blowing on his face. He and Lu Xiuer walked side by side towards home, thinking about how to deal with their new life in the Ming Dynasty.
Lu Xiuer walked with her brother, feeling a little excited and a little worried. The excitement was because her brother, who usually looked like a loser, suddenly became so domineering. The worry was, of course, whether the well location pointed out by Su Hao could be used. If the well turns out to be dry again, the official will tell him that he will be arrested and put in jail.
"Brother, can water really be dug out of the place you pointed to?" Lu Xiuer asked Su Hao for the tenth time.
Su Hao smiled and said: "Of course, you don't know who your brother is."
"When did you learn to read Feng Shui?"
"I have known it for a long time." Su Hao said, "I read so many books every day, am I reading them in vain?"
"The book also talks about Feng Shui?" Lu Xiuer asked.
"Of course, what do you think the book says?"
"How would I know? I don't know how to read."
"It's okay, I'll just teach you how to read from now on."
"Really? But it's useless for girls to learn how to read at home..."
The brother and sister returned home talking as they walked, pushed the door into the house, and were greeted by Yang Gendi. She walked around Su Hao several times to make sure that not a single hair on Su Hao was missing, and then she muttered: "Bodhisattva bless you, As long as my son is fine."
"Mom, what are you nagging about?" Su Hao asked. He had the memory left over from the original body, and there was no psychological barrier to calling Yang Gendi mom. He remembered that this peasant woman, who was not yet 40 years old, was very important to her son. She was so caring that she almost took out her heart. Yang Gendi didn't touch any of the delicious food at home, and she didn't let Lu Xiuer eat it. All of it was left to Su Hao. Since her husband's death, Yang Gendi has not bought anything. A new piece of clothes, but every time Su Hao asked for money to buy books or go to the county town to pay a visit to his husband, Yang Gendi never spared the money.
Just now, when all the men in the village went to worship the Dragon King, Yang Gendi arranged for Lu Xiuer to watch Su Hao from a distance, fearing that something might happen to Su Hao who was not familiar with the world, so she went to the mountain pond in the distance to fetch water to irrigate the fields. When she got home, she heard her neighbor talk about what happened at the worship site, which frightened her out of her mind. Just as she was about to go out to find Su Hao, she saw Su Hao and Lu Xiuer coming back talking and laughing.
"Hao'er, I heard that you beat up the official?" Yang Gendi asked eagerly what happened after making sure that Su Hao was not injured.
"Hit." Su Hao said bluntly.
"Then what did the official do to you?"
"What does he dare to do to me?" Su Hao said, "He doesn't know how to dig a well himself, but he is very interested in engaging in feudal superstition. If I go to the county magistrate and file a complaint against him, he won't be able to bear the consequences."
"Don't go." Yang Gendi said, "Son, the official official didn't care about you. This is the blessing of Bodhisattva. You must not dare to cause trouble again. I heard people say that if the people don't fight with the officials, we
Ordinary people, how dare you mess with an official?"
Su Hao smiled and said: "Mom, don't take the official officer too seriously. I asked, the official officer named Zheng Chun is just a little shrimp in the county government. It's okay to bully the common people, but in the county magistrate
He doesn't even dare to fart in front of me."
After all, Yang Gendi was a rural woman and didn't have much idea about these things. After hearing her son speak so confidently, she felt slightly relieved and then asked about the next thing:
"Hao'er, I heard that you went down into the well? Did the official punish you?"
"Mom, my brother wanted to go down the wells by himself. He went down five wells, and then he pointed out a place and told the official that if he dug a well there, he would be able to get water." Lu Xiuer answered for Su Hao.
"Is this true?" Yang Gendi's eyes widened. How could she understand her son? When did he learn to read Feng Shui?
Su Hao had no choice but to read in the book he was reading: "Mom, this is all true. The Feng Shui master hired by the official is just a magic stick and doesn't understand anything. In the book I read, there is something about how to find water.
, I made it clear. The place I pointed at was not random, it all coincided with the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, and it was very particular."
"That's good, that's good. If we can really pump out water, our whole village will be saved." Yang Gendi knew that although her son's emotional intelligence was not very good, he had a decent character and was not making up lies.
Man. Since what he said is so certain, the matter about the location of the well is probably correct.
"Mom, is the meal ready? I'm really hungry after running around in such a big circle." Su Hao said.
"I'll do it right away." Yang Gendi said and ran to the kitchen.
Seeing Yang Gendi going to cook, Lu Xiuer went to the firewood shed, carried a basket on her back and shouted towards the kitchen: "Mom, I'm going to pick firewood."
"What firewood are you picking?" Su Hao asked in confusion.
"Of course it's firewood." Lu Xiu'er rolled her eyes at him. She went out to collect firewood every day. This nerdy brother actually knew nothing about it, which was really annoying. Lu Xiu'er was very disdainful of Su Hao's enthusiasm for the imperial examination.
It's just that I can't resist Yang Gendi's will. Other families have 17-year-old young men who can work alone in the fields. Who is like their family, who still rely on women to farm the fields?
"Make a fire?" Su Hao still didn't understand. The nerd had never paid attention to this matter before, so Su Hao didn't have any information about it. He walked into the kitchen and saw Yang Gendi busy lighting the fire to cook porridge, so he asked
Said: "Mom, isn't our house burning straw? Why did Xiu'er say she was going to collect firewood?"
Yang Gendi said helplessly: "Hao'er, this is none of your business. You must be tired after running for a long time. Go back to your room and rest. You will be fine after eating."
Alas, seeing that his ex was really a foodie, Su Hao sighed secretly in his heart.