He himself didn't even figure out how he got to play with them step by step. Maybe they started working on the small farm together?
Maybe earlier, they ran away from home together to see someone start serving in the military?
As he grew older, his friends would go home to do farm work after school and holidays, leaving him alone. He was very bored, so he couldn't help but go see what Bai Shan was doing.
Bai Shan is reading a book!
Bai Erlang felt bored after peeking at it, and turned around to leave, but saw Bai Shan holding the book and laughing. He couldn't help but look back, and saw that his eyes were narrowed when he smiled, but he still stared at his hands intently.
books to read.
Bai Erlang moved forward curiously. He recognized at a glance that this was the book Zhou Man was holding in his hand a few days ago, "What kind of book is this?"
Bai Shan quickly closed the book. When he saw it was him, he felt relieved. He reopened the book and said, "Why did you come to my house? Aren't you going to play with your friends?"
Bai Erlang sat next to him familiarly and squeezed over to read together, "They have to work in the fields and can play with me later. What kind of book is this? Is there a story in it? Why are you laughing?
So happy?"
Bai Shan is like a little old man who rarely laughs, let alone laughs as happily as he does now.
Bai Erlang was stunned and crowded around Bai Shan to read dozens of books, and he was fascinated by them.
Bai Shan thought it was time to have lunch, so he put the book away, and Bai Erlang came back to his senses.
He quickly grabbed him and said, "Show me."
Bai Shandao: "I've seen too much, it's time to rest, and it's time to have lunch."
"I'm not tired or hungry. You can go rest and eat. Show me the book first..."
"No!"
Bai Erlang was a little annoyed, "Why are you so stingy? I gave you my favorite snack last time."
Bai Shan said with a serious face: "We have to rest and eat first. Otherwise, if our uncle and the others know that we don't eat or take a nap, they will be able to guess that we are reading miscellaneous books. Do you know what a long stream of water means?"
It also takes a lot of willpower for him to control it, okay?
Although Bai Erlang really wanted to watch it now, Bai Shan had always been smarter than him, and what he said might be right, so he reluctantly agreed.
Bai Shan did what he said. After the break, he took him back to the study, took out the book and read it with Bai Erlang.
Bai Shan was very happy to have friends reading miscellaneous books together, and excitedly discussed it with Bai Erlang.
Bai Erlang instantly forgot to go play with his little friends. After breakfast every morning, he ran to Bai Shan to play (read a book). Most of the time he would meet Zhou Man, who came to read a book with him.
So in the study, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang read the miscellaneous books brought by Zhou Man, while Zhou Man rummaged through the Bai family's study for various books related to medical skills.
Zhou Man had a lot of books accumulated in his hands, so Bai Shan and Bai Erlang read them alternately without disturbing each other.
It's a pity that Zhou Man said that she didn't have much money, and she wanted to save money for a big thing, so she couldn't always buy books. He could only read a book over and over again. Alas, it was so boring. He could only follow them to do homework and
Endorsed.
In fact, he really wanted to give Zhou Man his pocket money and let her buy books on her behalf, or she could tell him where the bookseller was and he could buy it himself.
But she said that it was a bookseller that she could only meet by chance, and the copper coins and silver they used were not theirs. Only she had that kind of money, so she couldn't buy it.
When Bai Erlang was still young, he foolishly believed it. When he grew up, due to inertia, he never doubted it.
After marrying Mingda, he was very excited when he talked about the various miscellaneous books he had read since he was a child, but Mingda was very confused and asked: "Although I am not well-read, I have also read the books in the palace.
Quite a few, every year a batch of books printed by outside bookstores are sent in, including a lot of miscellaneous books. From your description, these miscellaneous books are all good, but why have I not seen any of them?"
Bai Erlang was about to say that Zhou Man and a powerful bookseller bought this...
But when the words came to his lips, Bai Erlang realized belatedly that in so many years, he seemed to have never seen similar miscellaneous books in bookstores outside, let alone the names of the authors on the miscellaneous books. He had not seen any of them.
Pass.
Such a powerful author cannot only write one book in his life, and those books are of good quality, and they should not exist only in the hands of "favorite booksellers". Even bookstores in small places like Luojiang County do not have such books in the capital.
It is impossible not to see any shadow in a large bookstore.
Bai Erlang swallowed his words, and He Mingda smiled and said: "I was making nonsense with you, maybe I remembered it wrong."
Mingda looked at him and smiled and didn't ask about it again.
Bai Erlang didn't ask Zhou Man where those books came from. He just found out the miscellaneous books that had sneaked into his house at some point and put them on the top of the bookshelf. Those who were destined to see them would naturally see them. If not, they would be allowed to gather dust on them.
Bar.
The three of them grew up together, and their belongings were all mixed together. Even if they wanted to separate them, they might not be able to tell them apart clearly.
Books and homework are the most mixed-up things. Bai Erlang can still find the homework booklets of Bai Shan and Zhou Manluo.
Now that they had found those books, Bai Erlang simply found those homework and the textbooks that they accidentally took notes on, and stuffed them on the top of the bookshelf.
The books he wrote himself are placed in the middle of the bookshelf so that people who come into the study looking for books can see them at a glance.
Mingda quietly watched him tossing back and forth, and motioned for people to help without saying a word.
But Bai Erlang seriously refused. The books in the study were all treasures, how could they let them do it?
He has to put them up one by one.
After following Mr. Zhuang for many years, Bai Erlang may not have an average talent for reading, but he has learned a lot about caring for books.
Later generations did not know that Bai Erlang arranged the bookshelves in this way to hide some books and show off the books he had written. When they found the books on the top shelf, they thought of the deep friendship between their ancestors and those two people, and they were moved.
The ancestors are collecting the books and precious manuscripts given by those two people.
It's a pity that later generations didn't pay attention to it, which caused the pearl to become dusty, and these books and manuscripts have been hidden on it.
Sure enough, their grandfather/father is not reliable at all and cannot compare to them.
The filial descendants wrote down this incident to promote the deep friendship between their ancestors and his two senior sisters and brothers, and also indirectly illustrate their filial piety, intelligence and diligence.
Otherwise, like their fathers and grandfathers, who would have discovered such precious books and manuscripts on the top of the bookshelf?
Most of these books and manuscripts were later lost during the war, but because they were numerous enough, many were still preserved.
Later generations used these annotations and manuscripts to speculate on the respective thoughts of Bai Shan, Zhou Man and Bai Cheng, as well as their respective growth processes.
Bai Erlang is considered to be the most outstanding miscellaneous writer of that era. He created as many as thirty-eight volumes of zhiguai zanzao in his lifetime. These were all printed and sold. Who knows how many manuscripts there are that have not been published?
Because unpublished manuscripts have been discovered, many authors in history have published miscellaneous stories under the guise of Bai Erlang, but all of them were subsequently found to be fake by descendants of the Bai family.
From the book annotations and manuscripts they left behind, it is not difficult to see that Bai Erlang was a very confident person. He once said that he was not as smart as Zhou Man and Bai Shan, and he was not as talented as his elder brother in reading.
Standing behind time and looking forward, even he himself was surprised that he would reach this point, because his goal from the beginning was to read and write, not to be bullied by others, inherit the family property in the future, and become a wealthy man like his father.
squire.
After his father determined that he did not have the talent to study and did not have the self-discipline and struggle of his elder brother, he made it clear to him that in the future, his elder brother would be an official outside and he would take care of the family business at home.
Even his eldest brother said that in addition to the ancestral property, he was willing to give him most of the land.
His grandmother and mother had already done the math for him. Apart from the ancestral property, they would also give Bai Dalang a portion of the land and shop, and give him the rest.
His grandmother said that even if he only got half of it, he would still be the richest man in Qili Village and Baimaguan Town.
In the future, he can live a good life lying down, and he can eat one plate of snacks and lose another...
So Bai Erlang has known since he was a child that he doesn't need to work hard to live a good life at worst. Anyway, his family is not bad. As long as he doesn't engage in prostitution and gambling, he will not only live happily by himself, but also leave a legacy for future generations.
Huge family fortune.
In the end, I was able to reach this point, partly because of Mr. Zhuang, and partly because of Bai Shan and Zhou Man.
There is no doubt about Mr. Zhuang's teaching ability. Even Bai Erlang, a child with ADHD, can listen to many courses.
Bai Erlang really doesn't like reading. Those words and sentences that are difficult to understand give him a headache.
He only likes to read miscellaneous books and storybooks with strong storytelling, which are simple and easy to understand. If Mr. Zhuang hadn't been able to tell complex and difficult textbooks as stories, and Bai Shan and Zhou Manbi were around to think about too many things, he would have
Don't even want to learn.
But as he studied and studied, he also learned something interesting.
There are indeed many interesting things in the book.
Although he failed to get into Yizhou Prefectural School, his studies in Yizhou Academy were not bad. As long as he was not compared with Bai Shanzhouman, he was confident that he was no worse than others.
So in Yizhou, everyone gave in to the arrogant Ji Hao step by step, but he wouldn't give in, and he didn't give in to the Yizhou palace. At worst, he could go home and inherit the property. What would he be afraid of them doing?
This kind of self-confidence lasted long, long after he entered the capital.
The feeling was not deep when he was admitted to the Imperial Academy. Although he was not the descendant of an official, his family was also the descendant of the Bai family of the aristocratic family. Let alone distant relatives, if the same generations were counted forward, who would still have the same ancestor?
It's just that the eldest son has inherited more property and his status has become more noble. Counting all the ancestors to the beginning, who is not born to the same father and mother?
Therefore, he does not feel that he is inferior to his direct descendants, nor does he feel that he is any worse than his classmates.
Until entering the palace.
The palace is the most noble and humble place in the world.
The most noble people in the world live there, as well as the meanest people in the world. It is normal for them to flatter others and suppress others. Although the dirtiest things cannot be done in front of them, students of Chongwen Hall, they have stayed in the palace for a long time.
, even if you have never been treated like that, you can still see it.
What's more, it is the place closest to the imperial power.
Only then did Bai Erlang gradually realize that there were differences between people. Whether he wanted to admit it or not, they existed objectively.
Since it exists, it is better to face it calmly than to defend and avoid it.
The teacher said that the roads in this world are muddy and full of thorns. We do not want to avoid them. No road in the world is completely smooth. Rather than hiding, it is better to tread calmly.
No matter whether it is mud that touches our feet or thorns that drag us down, what we have to do is to keep our heart and move forward courageously.
So even if he knew that his cognition since childhood was biased, but his husband never said he was wrong, and Bai Shan and Zhou Man never said he was wrong, then his original intention was correct.
In this case, he will not change his mind.
But he also learned to restrain himself and face this deviation calmly.
He knew that compared with Princess Mingda, his status was not high. If it were higher, he was a distant relative of the Bai family of a small aristocratic family; if it was lower, he was the son of a country squire, and his status was not worthy of Mingda.
But my husband said that the most important thing in life is to feel comfortable. He confidently felt that Mingda’s thoughts were the same as his, and Mingda’s thoughts were indeed the same as his.
Later people commented that Bai Cheng was able to achieve such an achievement because, first, his happy family environment fostered his frank and frank character; second, the teachings of his mentor Mr. Zhuang; and third, because he had people like Bai Shan and Zhou Man around him who interacted with each other.
Supervision.
His success is not accidental, which shows the importance of educational environment.