Chapter 2: Two babies

It is indeed not very easy to sell a book stall.
After waiting for one day, Xu Zhen came to a young man, exchanged two clean cakes for a book, and took it home to study.
Xu Zhen squatted all day in the corner, backache and backache. I regretted it, and decided to go with everything in the future.
In the next few days, she took care of Xiaohua and tried to chat with Xiaohua.
It's a pity that the flowers are like gold and they never spoke.
Xu Zhen was bored and could not help teasing Xiao Hua when she was feeding medicine.
"What's your name, how old are you this year? Eight years old? Six years old?" Xu Zhen raised her hand and let Xiao Hua sit upright, "Get up and drink medicine."
Xiao Huahua wore an overly spacious big-sleeved shirt, the sleeves rolled into a thick bulge, and the long hem could almost be used as a bed.
She sat on her knees, holding the bottom of the bowl with both hands, her lips close to the cup, and drank gurglingly, and returned the wooden bowl to Xu Zhen after drinking.
Xu Zhen pinched her face: "It's a bit polite to drink medicine, why don't you take care of me, you stole the book." She paused and added, "But the reader's business is not stealing. Are you a reader?" Can't read or write?"
Xiaohua turned her head and looked at Xu Zhen for a while, still standing straight, her eyes down slightly, motionless, like a statue.
Obviously it was a small one, but the scar at the end of the eye was a bit solemn with vicissitudes.
Xu Zhen has been used to it for a few days, so she embarrassed her and said with a smile: "Okay, this is the last patch for today. Sit for a while and don't sleep directly."
Xiaohua Huafu looked up at her.
Xu Zhen also looked at her.
Facing the sunlight, she suddenly found that the eyes of the little girl seemed a little darker blue, like a pattern in obsidian, very beautiful.
Sure enough, there is the Hu people.
Neighbor children love joking about the Hu people, saying that this group of people eat raw meat and drink monsters.
Xu Zhen, as a traverser, naturally doesn't think so. I saw these eyes now, but I really like them. I want to see more deeply.
"Are you a Hu?" Xu Zhen asked, "Which race?"
She asked to play with little hope.
Unexpectedly, the whispering flower opened his mouth, and the sound of the dumb-saw rubbing sounded, making it difficult to hear clearly.
Xu Zhen was a little surprised, and asked: "Where is it?"
Xiaohua closed her mouth for a while and said, "Thank you."
Xu Zhen was very grateful and felt very happy. He thought the little girl was a polite kid.
She continued to chat with Xiaohua, and for a while, Xiaohua didn't answer much, but just sat with a dull look.
Seeing that she did not speak, Xu Zhen waved her hand and let her continue to rest, knowing that her body had not recovered.
The wooden door closed, and the door was completely silent.
Xu Zhen walked back to his house on straw sandals and was about to take a nap. Suddenly thinking of his expenses for the past few days, he hurried to the cupboard and turned over all the deposits.
After finding out that she only had more than twenty copper plates left, she covered her head in pain.
Too poor.
It seems that besides doing good deeds, making money is also very important.
Xu Zhen hid the money bag, ran to the kitchen and picked up a piece of meat patty, wrapped it in greased paper and ate a few bites, quickly walked out of the door.
The sound of people outside the door was rushing, pedestrians hurriedly walking, horseshoes hoaring in the distance, as if coming from the horizon, looking up, seeing the clusters of peaks, green overlaps, smog, smudged into paintings.
Occasionally the cold wind hits, the light shakes, and the blower dances in a streamer.
Once again, Xu Zhen was fanned by someone else's belt, shook her head dizzyly, and continued to bite the meatloaf.
Walking to the market, an old man ran behind her and shouted, "Sir, sir!"
Xu Zhen felt that her voice was familiar, and she looked back and found that it was the person who bought the science books of flowers, birds and fish from her a few days ago who called her.
She has always been patient with customers and stopped to say hello to old man.
Old Man opened the door and saw the road: "Sir, is there any book?"
Xu Zhen froze for a while: "Books? That undergraduate general book?"
Old Man said: "Yes, yes!"
In order to sell books, Xu Zhen brought books with him and said that he immediately pulled them out of his arms: "Of course there are, there are more than ten books in my family. How many do you want?"
Old Man took it, glanced at it, and said, "No, no!"
Xu Zhen asked: "What's wrong? It's the same book that was sold to you before."
Old man busy said: "I have finished reading this book, but my neighborhood-their grass and trees withered, but the few things are not in the album."
Xu Zhen understood, but was helpless.
There are so many flowers and plants in the world, she can't always write them all, that's too much effort, and she doesn't remember them all.
"It's gone." Xu Zhen said.
The old man suddenly looked disappointed. In order to support the author's career, he still paid three dollars and bought the book.
Old Man walked slowly and brought home with his book.
The neighbor was watering a broad-leaved, striped grass outside.
This is a small seedling he bought from a merchant in the Western Region. He spent a lot of money. It is said that it will grow expensive and delicious fruits when it matures.
Seeing this, the old man blurted out: "You can only water once in half a month. You poured it yesterday, and it will be rooted again."
The neighbor's face was not very good, and he turned his head and scolded: "What's wrong with you these days, reading this book and getting enchanted? How can there be flowers and grass that don't drink water."
Old Man said: "Why don't you believe it? This book is really good. The trees I planted are all alive."
The neighbor said: "That's okay since the tree itself, it has nothing to do with the book!"
Old Man saw that, but waved his hand and left.
The neighbor said: "You are really enchanted, so, let's bet."
Old Man asked: "What bet?"
The neighbor said: "Just look at my grass, will it be as bad as you said!-If you gamble, just bet thirty copper!"
Thirty copper is enough for ordinary people to eat for several days.
Suddenly, Old Man felt a little reluctant, and felt that the book seller looked really unreliable. What if he was caught?
He was hesitating, because the neighbor had been angry before, he deliberately irritated him at this time, so that the old man would not dare to lose the book.
The old man had some anger from nowhere, and felt that he was not kind enough, and he said loudly: "Gambling! Gambling! On three days, on three days, your grassroots must be rotten!"
When the neighbor heard this, he sat on the stone steps and laughed with his arms.
The results came out quickly.
Less than three days later, the stripes of this broad-leaved grass began to yellow. Neighbors were a little nervous, and they felt better in the sun the next day. As a result, the next day, he placed the broadleaf grass under the sun for a short time, and the originally sharp tip of the leaves became even worse, all withering and curling.
The old man saw it, he was happy, and ran to dig out one of them.
I saw all the roots were rotten.
At this time, the neighbor was not calm, staring at the old man and said: "Sao, that book... show me!"
Xu Zhen didn't know that her book caused a gamble, and the stakes were ten times that she sold the book.
She still struggles to find a job every day.
All the fair recruitment refused her for no reason, simply because Xu Zhen, the original owner of the body, was very unpopular.
After walking through the busiest market, Xu Zhen still did not find a job.
Tired of walking, she found a wall to lean on and rest.
I don't know if it was good luck. I turned around and saw that there was a recruitment advertisement for Qinglongshan Academy on this wall.
It was written above: "The chickens who have lost the morning will be more thoughtful.............This is also the time to seek for virtue."
It probably means that the academy engaged in a gathering of literati, and the manpower was insufficient. Therefore, it was necessary to find a few literary workers to help them work. If they performed well, they could stay in the academy as a permanent labor force.
Salary daily settlement, ten dollars a day.
Although it is not too much, Xu Zhen is still happy to make money as long as he serves tea and water.
She asked the people around and walked slowly to Qinglongshan Academy, found the mountain's house, knocked on the door and said aloud: "Is the mountain there? I came here as a short-term worker."
...
After half an hour.
She put on the light green shirt of the servant, and stood outside with red silk as a helper, serving tea to the guests.
At the forefront of the Yaki venue, the young man in white is on the ground covered with red silk. He plays the guqin on his lap and vibrates his strings with ten fingers. Someone around him accompanied him to form a natural music.
On both sides of the red silk, there are more than one hundred cases and cushions, and there are supplies such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone and so on.
Today, Qinglongshan Academy holds an elegant collection, and all the gentlemen and outstanding children of Jiangling School come here to say that they are discussing knowledge, but in fact they are competing with each other.
Xu Zhen stood beside.
After playing a tune on it, she walked to the front and delivered a drink.
She originally thought it would be over.
Unexpectedly, the third time he delivered wine, he met a drunkard wearing a red robe and had to talk to her about Confucianism.
Xu Zhen listened confusedly.
After talking about Confucius and Mencius, the man began to recite the text: "The reason why people are people..."
Xu Zhen took over for her: "Feite's biped is hairless."
The man shouted: "Wrong!"
Xu Zhen asked, "What should I take?"
The man raised his glass to the sky and replied, "One step at a time!"
Xu Zhen was silent, thinking: the student of this teacher is afraid that the college entrance examination will get zero points.
The man drank another glass of wine and asked Xu Zhen: "Which one are you from?"
Xu Zhen was too lazy to take care of her.
The man dangled a coin from his shirt: "Confucianism... or Taoism?"
Xu Zhen hurriedly said: "It's all!" He reached out and wanted to get the money.
The man screamed and stuffed the coin back into his shirt.
Xu Zhen almost lifted his glass and woke this man up.
Fortunately, Shan Chang came.
The mountain leader saw this drunk, his complexion suddenly, shouted to the literati and servants around him: "Quick! Quickly send Guozi Jijiu to the house!"
Then scolded Xu Zhen: "What are you doing here? Can you understand what the wine is saying? Go and go."
Xu Zhen was too late to explain, and the people next to him hurriedly hugged over: "Here is the Guozi Jijiu here?"
"What's wrong with her? Drunk?"
"This drunk is terrific. Hurry up and bring people back to the house!"
In a panic, there was a chaotic noise, and Xu Zhen also made a contribution, and also took the coin out of this drunkard's shirt and stuffed it into his own purse.
The Yaji is not over yet.
As the important guests of Xu Zhen's table returned to the house, the mountain leader asked Xu Zhen to stand behind him, supporting the scene with a tray.
The academies touted each other, and it was time to answer at the scene.
The title is undecided. An old gentleman went to the front to pick a piece of paper, and the words "Confucianism" were written on the paper.
So everyone raised their pens to write their views on today's Confucianism.
Xu Zhen looked at what Shan Chang wrote next, and some of them could not understand it, but he could understand the meaning. He said that the beautiful scenery of the river and the river could not be separated from the old Master Kong.
There was another sound of the piano.
Everyone put the rice paper that was answered into the tray.
Xu Zhen and several short-workers collected plates one by one and placed them at the forefront.
Several short-workers held up the rice paper one after another and recited the literary verses written by the literati.
Xu Zhen's turn.
Xu Zhen is still not familiar with traditional Chinese characters.
Finally, he sneered for the next time.
Everyone whispered: "Qinglong Mountain is really down, even the maidservant has this virtue."
"I just saw her talking with Ji Jiu, it seems that Qinglong Mountain is trying to climb a branch."
"Waiting for the sake to sober up, if you remember, I'm afraid it will be abandoned, hahaha."
Some people whispered whispered, others said it directly.
A woman in a blue dress raised her voice and said: "Qinglong Mountain is a place where culture is contaminated, but this maidservant can't even read the article."
Shan Chang helped to help Zun: "This is a new servant who is naturally nervous."
The woman in blue smiled and said: "I think this kind of personage can easily affect the children, so it is not suitable to stay in the college."
The mountain leader was speechless.
The woman in blue is not enough, and asked Xu Zhen: "Do you know the meaning of the word you just said?"
Xu Zhen looked at Shan Chang, and Shan Chang glared at her, wondering what the secret code was.
Upon speculation, she secretly thought: Is it because of poor performance that she won't get a salary? Then don't you just work in vain? How does this work!
After thinking about it for a while, Xu Zhen decided to cope with it, at least to protect the boss's face.
She said, "Know."
The blue-clothed woman did not let her explain, but said: "This article extols Confucianism, but do you know that the pre-Qin Jixia Academy, Huang Lao's academic strength over a hundred schools, are well-deserved everyone."
The study of Huang Lao is Huang Di and Lao Zi, that is, Taoism.
Xu Zhen did not expect that this overhead dynasty had not formed a scene of pushing Confucianism just like the later generations, and hundreds of schools still have a say.
She sighed for a while, and when she was over, she did the right thing: "I know."
The woman in blue dress disdainfully said, "Well, since you also know that Huang Lao's doctrine is capable of overwhelming a hundred schools, why don't you admit that Huang Lao's learning is better?"
Xu Zhen said: "Huang Lao advocates adapting to nature and calling for "extraordinary abandonment of profits" and "inexpensive and rare goods" to make people wantless and demandless. How could this be so simple?"
The woman in blue listened to Lao Zhuang's remarks, and she could not help sitting up straight and earnestly.
After frowning and thinking, she said, "Why can't it be so simple, all the animals in the mountains are undesirable, without laws and regulations, so they are happy. What can't be done without action and self-modification?"
Xu Zhen asked: "Can you be like the animals in the mountains, can you be satisfied if you eat and wear warm clothes?"
Blue Girl Road: "Nature can."
Xu Zhen said: "Why do you still want to compete with me for Confucianism and Taoism? You are obviously not content."
The blue woman was speechless for a moment.
No one can think of the quietness of the yaque in the elegant collection. The lady of Baihong Academy and the maid of wine delivery will refute the advantage.
Still a maid who reads typos, stutters, and looks clever!
And Mr. Girl, but Mr. Bai Hong Academy with the best reputation today! Last year, Bai Hong came out with a female flower, which made Jiangling follow the scenery for a while.
What level is Mr. Lito, let alone.
What is the origin of this maidservant?
Everyone did not know, and asked one after another, and found that no one knew the maidservant.
Xu Zhen took advantage of the effort of the people to shake God, and hurriedly read the rice paper behind him. After all of it, he quickly walked down and walked behind the mountain leader.
When she saw few guests looking at her, she whispered and asked, "Shanchang, I just performed well?"
Shan Chang ignored her.
Xu Zhen asked again: "Yes, what did you want to express when your eyes twitched?"
Upon hearing this, Shan Chang was angry and turned angrily: "What do you say I want to express?"
Xu Zhen asked: "Let me give her some color to see?"
Shan Chang said angrily: "I'm telling you not to provoke that person!"
Xu Zhen surprised: "Ah? Why?"
Shan Chang said: "Do you know what her grandfather is?"
Xu Zhen shook his head.
Mountain Chang hated that iron was not steel, and said sadly: "It is the work of Zheng Sanpin's Ministry of Industry, which can't afford to offend.
Xu Zhen froze for a moment, and after getting closer, he tentatively asked, "Then my wages today?..."
The mountain leader took out a dozen copper plates and threw them to Xu Zhen, cursing: "Hurry up and walk away."