"Qin'er, the last row of bookshelves in the study are the enlightenment books prepared for the two little ones. The sixth book from left to right is called "Early Childhood Enlightenment: Three Hundred Tang Poems". Go get it and show it to Miss Ruonan."
Facing the doubts from the enchantress Ruonan, Li Shu smiled slightly and gave instructions to Qin'er.
"Yes, miss."
Qin'er immediately got up to get the book.
"I can read, so Madam, you should keep the enlightenment books for yourself." The evil woman Ruonan also has a temper.
Enlightenment books? Three Hundred Tang Poems? Let me read enlightenment books, are you provoking me or humiliating me? !
"Haha, Ruonan girl is overthinking. The book "Three Hundred Tang Poems for Children's Enlightenment" that I asked Qin'er to get includes Du Gongbu's "Five Hundred Words of Thoughts on the Way from Beijing to Fengxian". There is a special note about the word "stinky" in this sentence, noting that the word "stinky" is pronounced as "smell" here. This book has been printed a long time ago. I can't predict the future, so I'll make a book in advance."
Li Shu smiled sweetly and spoke in a lazy voice.
ah?!
The demon woman Ruonan couldn't help but frown when she heard this. If that was true, then she really had read it wrong? !
"If you are a boy or girl, it is normal to read this poem incorrectly. Many pedants who have studied for decades still read it incorrectly. It is because they only know how to read books mechanically, but do not understand the principles in the books."
Li Shu sympathetically comforted the seductive girl Ruonan.
"Madam, are you saying that I don't understand the meaning of this poem? Doesn't this poem mean that you nobles have too much wine and meat in your homes, and they are all stinking up because you can't finish them, while the poor people on the streets outside are dying of hunger and cold."
When the evil woman Ruonan heard Li Shu's comfort, she felt even more uncomfortable. Li Shu had evil intentions. She seemed to be comforting but was actually being sarcastic.
She was mocking me for being like those pedants who only study hard!!
How outrageous!
I may not understand other poems, but this poem is so simple, how can I not understand it? !
The words of the demon woman Ruonan were full of personal emotions, and she continued, "The old man Du Fu deliberately used the nobles' excessive consumption of wine and meat to contrast with the poor people who died of starvation and freezing on the streets, showing that the rich and powerful nobles live luxuriously and are rich but unkind, which contrasts with the common people's difficult lives and hunger and cold. This expresses the old man Du Fu's sympathy for the poor and satirizes the rich and unkind nobles in the world!"
Zhu Ping'an lowered his head to drink tea, his shoulders shaking slightly.
"Miss Ruonan, you understand, but you don't understand this poem." Li Shu blinked and said softly.
"Did I say something wrong?" The enchantress Ruonan raised her eyebrows, her voice higher than her raised eyebrows, full of doubt.
What does it mean to understand and yet not understand? !
Understanding is understanding, not understanding is not understanding, what does it mean that you understand and not understand at the same time? !
"Miss Ruonan, you understood this poem from the line 'The rich have wine and meat, while the streets have frozen corpses'. The words are wrong, so your understanding is naturally off track. However, Miss Ruonan still grasped Du Gongbu's emotions. So, Miss Ruonan understood, but did not understand the meaning of this line of Du Gongbu's poem."
Li Shu said calmly.
“Please give me some advice, young lady.” The enchantress Ruonan’s words seemed to ask for advice, but in fact she was not convinced, and her eyes said the same.
"This line, 'The rich have wine and meat, while the poor have frozen to death on the streets', means that the rich have wine and meat in their homes, while the poor have died of hunger and cold on the streets. Du Gongbu was walking on the street, smelling the wine and meat from the rich, and seeing the poor people dying of hunger and cold on the streets, and he was inspired to write this poem."
"All nobles have the aroma of wine and meat in their homes, because they live in good conditions and naturally eat well. However, there are almost no nobles who have leftover wine and meat and let them go bad. Nobles may be unkind because of their wealth, but they are definitely not stupid. How could they be so stupid as to let wine and meat go bad? In addition, wine becomes more fragrant as it ages, and it will not go bad. If a noble is so stupid that even wine and meat can go bad, then he would not be able to keep his noble family business and would have become one of the poor people who are freezing and starving on the streets."
"Let me give you a simple example. For example, we have a table full of delicacies. Miss Ruonan just said that the five of us can't finish it, and we can't heat it up and eat it the next day. We can only throw it away and let it go bad... Haha, in fact, Miss Ruonan doesn't know that wealthy families have their own set of customs for eating. The food that is not finished on the master's table will be rewarded to the maids below to enjoy. It will not be thrown away and left to go bad."
"In addition, if Du Gongbu only picked out the stupid and stingy nobles who made the wine and meat smell bad, then his benevolence of protecting the poor scholars in the world would be too thin. He is the Du Gongbu who dared to point his pen at all the rich and powerful."
Li Shu smiled and spoke slowly to the enchantress Ruonan. At the end, the enchantress Ruonan blushed.
Yes, the enchantress Ruonan did blush.
Although Qin'er had not yet taken out the book "Early Childhood Enlightenment: 300 Tang Poems", and although she had not yet seen the annotation of this poem, she had been convinced by Li Shu, and now she also knew that she was wrong.
Especially the two points mentioned by Li Shu, the nobles may be rich and unkind, but they would never be stupid enough to let the wine and meat stink; Du Gongbu is the Du Gongbu who dares to point at all the nobles, not just the nobles who let the wine and meat stink.
These two points completely convinced her.
Sure enough, Qin'er came back soon with a book, and at Li Shu's signal, she handed the book to the evil woman Ruonan.
After receiving the book, the demon girl Ruonan first looked at its appearance. The cover was inscribed with nine large characters: "Children's Enlightenment: Three Hundred Tang Poems". This was a rubbing book. Although the book was new, it could be seen that it had been written for a long time.
"Men and women, please turn to the fifth or sixth poem. It should be Du Gongbu's poem, "Five Hundred Words of Thoughts on the Way from Beijing to Fengxian."
Li Shu gently reminded the evil woman Ruonan.
The charming woman Ruonan opened the book as Li Shu reminded her, and sure enough, the fifth poem was Du Gongbu's "Five Hundred Words of Thoughts on the Way from Beijing to Fengxian". Both the paper and the ink showed that they were written with great time and were definitely not made at the last minute.
After confirming this, the evil woman Ruonan began to read the poem carefully, looking for the line "The rich have wine and meat, while the poor freeze to death on the streets."
Seeing this, she couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Why is this poem so long? She originally thought it would only have four or at most eight lines, but she didn't expect it to be so long that it couldn't be finished on one page. It took more than two pages and had at least dozens of lines.
A rare long poem, the kind she couldn't memorize.
The seductive woman Ruonan spent a lot of effort just to find the line "The rich have wine and meat, while the poor are freezing to death on the streets" in this poem.
After finding this poem, I saw the approval next to it, "Here, 'stinky' is read as 'smell', which means taste."
Well, the clown turned out to be me. Even someone as strong as her couldn’t help but blush.