After Cui Xie had tested enough of the function of the hard disk, he reopened the "Book of Filial Piety" and checked the gaps and omissions against the printed copy at hand.
Looking at it, he suddenly found a problem—
He knows all these words! And looking at the vertical version of the book full of small characters, he didn't feel awkward at all, and his reading speed was almost not much slower than when he read the horizontal version of Simplified Chinese printed text before!
Before he crossed over, he rarely read traditional Chinese characters, and he didn't even bother to read vertical books. Why did he suddenly read so smoothly? Could this be the instinct of the body, even though the soul has been changed, can I still recognize the words that I should know
What about the book you've memorized
Cui Xie was a little looking forward to it. He closed the PDF and first recalled the contents of the big characters that he had just read: The first chapter of the first chapter. Zhong Niju, Zeng Zi served. The Master said, "The former king had the most virtuous and essential way to govern the world..."
what's next
He opened the book, skipped a small print and saw the phrase "civil harmony", and after a turn in his mind, he naturally took down "no complaints from top to bottom". After a few more paragraphs, when you encounter a missing spot again, you roll your eyes again, and you can continue to recite it again. After flipping through it so many times, I stumbled and memorized the entire book to the end.
It seems that he really did not inherit any memory from the original body, and the book had to be memorized by himself.
Fortunately, this body is thirteen or fourteen years old after all, when the brain is most active, the ability to memorize is quite strong. In addition, his soul is already an adult, and his understanding and concentration are better than that of a real child. Go back and follow the Ebbinghaus curve to consolidate it a few times, and do a few more sets of simulation questions, so you can remember it firmly
There are only four boxes of textbooks and real questions. In his previous life, he has been learning arithmetic and English since kindergarten. The textbooks, workbooks and papers he has done for so many years are no more than this!
Cui Xie motivated himself for a while, then closed his eyes and started to endorse again. After repeating this two or three times, I felt that it was almost the same, so I opened the PDF in my mind and concentrated on memorizing the small-character annotations at the back of the main text.
I don't know how long it took, the door suddenly creaked, and it seemed that someone was talking outside the courtyard, and the voice was quite high. He thought it was Cui Yuan who came back, and thinking about the old hen-like nagging before he left, he threw himself on the bed, pulled a quilt around him, pretended to be obedient and rested, and continued to endorse with his eyes closed.
But the voices outside got closer and closer, and he gradually realized that it was not Cui Yuan and his son who had returned, but an old couple talking in his courtyard. Both of them were very loud, and the voices poured into the room, as if he was talking about—
"The old servant of the Cui family only asked us to borrow someone to take care of the gatekeeper, just to help take care of the petty officials. If you choose a neat daughter-in-law, you can come here. You, an old lady, came to see what the young man is doing!"
... Could it be that he is so handsome that there are old ladies who come to watch him? But aren't the other passers-by all beautiful little ladies peeping, how can they become old ladies in exchange for him
Knowing that it was not Cui Yuan but a neighbor who had come, he would stop pulling the quilt, which had to be overlapped again.
He hurriedly got up and folded the quilt, when he heard the old lady outside shouting: "Cui Xiaoguan is sick in bed, what does a daughter-in-law deserve? I am the mistress of the Zhao family, when Mrs. Qian... The old lady also often hangs out with me, It's right for me to come and take care of the little officials! You haven't put on all the new clothes for the reception yourself, and you have to talk to others. What can you say to the old man in the village? !"
This is the neighbor entrusted by Uncle Yuan, right? That's right... refreshing old man...
He quickly folded the quilt, got up, dusted off his clothes, and went to the courtyard to welcome the guests. In the yard, the two old men stared at each other in good spirits, followed by two young women behind them, carrying baskets and water bottles in their hands, carrying their burdens, and snickering behind them.
Cui Xie hurried down the steps and cupped his hands in greeting: "Hello, two old people, junior Cui Xie, who just moved here today. The junior who should have come to visit, but the old man You Lao and his two sister-in-laws came in person."
The two old men stopped arguing immediately and turned to look at him. Four people's eight eyes fell on him, their eyes were bright, but no one spoke for a long time, staring at him a little at a loss. He put his arms down stiffly, smiled awkwardly, pointed back to the hall and said, "This is not the place to talk, old man, please follow me into the hall and sit down."
Zhao Yuanwai sighed twice, as if he had just regained his senses, twisting his gray beard and sighing: "As expected of the gentleman of the Beijing official, with such a decent appearance, we can't find such a handsome little brother in the whole county. ."
Mrs. Zhao was accustomed to bickering with her husband, so she subconsciously retorted after hearing him speak: "If you can't speak, don't open your mouth! What can't be found in the county, isn't Mr. Lang Zhong from our county? Although Mrs. is married from Fucheng. , but she has also been the daughter-in-law of our county in those years. If you want me to say, it is because of the feng shui aura of our Qian'an that the small officials have such a beautiful appearance!"
If it is said to be the daughter-in-law of Fucheng, that is an old neighbor who recognizes the original mother. In the future, you can ask about the original mother and the grandfather's family. Cui Xie squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Waifu, madam, you are very kind, we are all neighbors, and we don't need to call them big or small, just call the junior Cui Xie. The sun is shining in the yard, so the two of you quickly invite the house. Sit in."
Zhao Yuanwai laughed so much that the wrinkles on his face were squeezed together, and he said repeatedly, "What Mrs. Member Wai, since Brother Xiao Xie wants to get close, just call us Master Zhao and Grandma Zhao."
Cui Xie called according to his words and invited them into the house.
When Wang Xiucai checked out, because of the disaster at home, he was shy, so he left some of the tables and chairs he bought while living here to offset the rent, so the furniture in the house was complete. Cui Xie greeted people in the main hall and sat down. He wanted to pour some water to entertain the guests, but the two servants of the Zhao family quickly put the bamboo basket and teapot on the coffee table, and brought out a plate of new walnuts, A plate of pickled pear sticks, a plate of red sand fruit, a plate of milk crust, and poured a cup of hot water for each of the three.
The old lady smiled and said, "Little official man... Brother Xiao Xie, try it. This is home-made jasmine soup, and you can't buy it outside."
Cui Xie picked up the water glass and smelled the fresh aroma of jasmine flowers. The water has a light honey taste, light and sweet, and the fresh air is soaked in the water, and the mouth is full of fragrance after swallowing. It feels a bit like modern jasmine honey tea, but the water color is pure and transparent, and it is completely No tea smell.
When he first wore it, he still wanted to sell some delicious food to amaze the people of the Ming Dynasty, but he was amazed by the people of the Ming Dynasty with a sip of water, he took two sips with a cup in his hand, and praised: "It's so fragrant, is this brewed with jasmine? "
Mrs. Zhao said with a bit of pride: "This is a tea bowl that has been smeared with honey in advance, and the bowl is put upside down on the fresh jasmine flower, and then rinsed out with water after absorbing the fragrance. It's not difficult to do, but it's a small place like Qian'an. , there are only a few families who can grow the jasmine flowers from the south. The old lady has one in the house, if Brother Xie likes it, I will ask the gardener to share one with you."
Cui Xie said with a smile: "How can I take the things that my grandma loves. Besides, there are only three men in my family, all of them are rude people. I'm afraid that I won't be able to support such a good flower."
Mrs. Zhao looked around the house and said, "Yes, you have few family members, so I'm afraid you won't have time to take care of them. I know a girl named Qian, who is a good girl. You might as well buy a few people to help you grow. Getting flowers and plants, serving tea and pouring water, people don’t say that red sleeves add fragrance…”
Master Zhao coughed a few times and scolded: "What is it that adds fragrance to the sleeves, your son just doesn't study hard, and makes a little girl mess with him! Don't use your woman's opinion to harm Xiao Xie brother. , everyone in the capital is not allowed to use a girl to serve in order to study well!"
Cui Xie hurriedly picked up a pot to refill the two old men, interrupting their quarrel, and said with a wry smile: "I understand the kindness of the old lady, but my father is the official of the ministry and academy. Xu Zidi uses servants, so he doesn’t dare to buy people to serve. Besides, we didn’t bring much money with us, so we can’t say we’ll have to ask servants to run some business in the future, and we’ll have to ask two elderly people to take care of them.”
The old couple ignored the quarrel, looked at him in shock and asked, "Really? How could this be? Isn't your master a fifth-grade high-ranking officer? Why was your family in our county as the rich man? Being an official makes you poor?"
Cui Xie really wished he couldn't expose the true faces of Lang Zhong and his wife, but unfortunately in this era, "the son does not tell the father's fault", if he really told the truth, others might sympathize with him in person, but he would talk about his unfilial piety behind his back.
Moreover, he was a minor, and he came back with two servants who had no social status, so it was easy for people to bully him. The status of the eldest son of Yuan's direct descendant whom Wupin Lang favored was very different from that of the unpopular ex-wife's son. If it was known that he was abandoned by his father, maybe someone would dare to blackmail and bully him.
He sighed and endured his disgust and said, "Our two families are neighbors. I can see how my family is doing. I can see from the two walls. I don't want to make a swollen face as a fat man, and I don't want to be a son. My father is an official. Inexpensive and expensive, and the price of rice beads in Beijing is expensive, grandfather and grandmother are still sick in bed today, and there are many brothers and sisters at home... Although my family has some business, I have to live frugally."
The expressions of the two old men changed when they heard it, and they sighed a few times, but they didn't know what to say.
Cui Xie raised the pot and flushed them with white water, and said with a smile, "The two old people don't have to be so careful, what to say and what to say, just treat each other as if I were your junior."
Zhao Yuanwai first sent the servants out and instructed them not to talk about the Cui family's family background outside.
Looking back at Cui Xie, the tension and restraint on his body was much worse before, but he felt that he was amiable and pitiful, and his eyebrows were not so bright and eye-catching that people dared not get close.
He smiled kindly: "Brother Xie, don't worry, my wife and I are not talkative, and I will teach the family members when they come back, so I don't let anyone hear the slightest bit of wind outside. Our two families are also old Friends, let me tell you a big one, my old man will only treat you as a pro-grandson in the future, if you have money, just say it, don't talk to us."
Cui Xie said with a smile, "Master Zhao has been worrying too much. I only brought two servants and a couple of boxes from home. I will definitely have a hard time in the future. How can the neighbors see it? Ashamed of being poor, instead of asking people to guess why I am so shabby, it is better to explain it clearly, so as to save people from guessing behind the scenes, and I don’t know what to say.”