Sheng Fu

Chapter 386 The place where reason can't reach
The family's surname is Zhou, the old man in charge is named Zhou Fugui, and his son's name is Zhou Chang.

The conflict between father and son has been going on for some time, and other people in the village have also come to Zhou's house to mediate, but to no avail.

In the main hall, Liu Chun and Zhou Fugui sat across from each other, drinking tea dregs. Zhou Fugui didn't have much feelings for scholars. He had been crawling and rolling in the crop fields since he was a child, and his knowledge of scholars was only in legends.

The most difficult person in the world is a peacemaker, and Liu Chun didn't come here as a peacemaker today.

Zhou Fugui took a sip of tea and said in a word: "He wants to go to the city to ask for a living, but he just doesn't know how much he has. He is not a material for success."

Liu Chun took a sip of his tea. As a scholar from a decent family, Liu Chun had never drank such a bad tea, but Xingluo Spy was around, so he couldn't spit out the tea. Putting on a hat of ignorance of the sufferings of the world is not conducive to his entry into the cabinet.

I feel more and more that my suzerain is a great talent. I have chosen such assessment content that I don't know how to start, and I don't know how the rest of the people are now.

Once Zhou Chang and his wife leave the village and go to the city to seek a living, the family's farm work will fall to Zhou Fugui and his wife. It's very good, but how about a few more years?
What Zhou Fugui thought in his heart was in line with reality. As long as he grows crops every year, he can not only satisfy his appetite, but also sell some of the grain. Although the income is not much, there will be a calculation after a few years, and the water and soil at the foot of Henglong Mountain are fertile. , the crops are particularly willing to grow.

It is already the greatest blessing to encounter such a cropland.

Of course Zhou Fugui knew what was going on in his son's mind, and by taking root in the city, he would get to know more dignitaries and make connections, so that he would have more contacts in the future.

But this is unrealistic. First of all, Zhou Chang is just a tailor. Leaving aside whether his craftsmanship is good or bad, he is a person who can't stand on the stage. Why should those powerful people recognize Zhou Chang's Huang?
In addition, every inch of land and gold in the city is not a place for farmers to go.

Regarding the study of grandsons, Hengchang Academy has taught free lessons to children from poor families. When the little ones are a few years old, they will naturally be able to enter Hengchang Academy to study.

As for whether a name can be read out, that's another story.

Zhou Fugui said: "Mr. is a scholar, and he understands more truths than us. In fact, I don't understand any truths. I can only cultivate the land at home and have enough food and clothing."

"But my son has to go to the city, I'm really worried."

"People in the city have eight eyes in their stomachs, it's not a place he can go."

Liu Chun put down the teacup, and probably would never lift it up again.

After thinking about the rhetoric, he pondered: "It makes sense, being pragmatic is the most important thing for a person to do."

Hearing this, Zhou Fugui grinned and said, "Scholar's words are the most pleasant."

This old farmer doesn't really care about Liu Chun. In his impression, scholars are all dressed in fine clothes and accompanied by guards when they go out. It is impossible for them to come to such a remote place.

Even if Liu Chun is a scholar, he must be a poor scholar.

Liu Chun could sense these thoughts in Zhou Fugui's heart, but he was not angry at all. Although the people at the bottom are suffering, everyone who has been here knows that the lower the people, the more difficult it is sometimes to deal with.

He smiled and said: "You are always busy first, I will go and see what is going on with your son."

Zhou Fugui got up and said: "Sir, you must help me to persuade my son. Be a person and do things. Don't think too highly of yourself. You will hurt yourself sooner or later."

Liu Chun nodded with a smile, and strode out of the room.

Due to discord with his father, Zhou Chang, his wife and children recently lived next to the crop field. There is a temporary thatched hut. This thatched hut was originally used to keep watch at night to prevent wild boars from coming down the mountain at night to find trouble in the crop field.

After the family of three came here, they expanded the thatched cottage by one or two. The wife and children lived in the big house, and Zhou often lived in the small house. They cooked and boiled water in the big house on weekdays.

Opposite the thatched hut is a single-plank bridge with a gurgling stream under the bridge, and there are no fish or shrimp in the water. It can be regarded as a barren stream.

Liu Chun came on the single-plank bridge.

Zhou Chang had already met Liu Chun in the morning, but it was only at his father's place, and the two of them didn't have time to have a deep chat.

As for the knowledge of scholars, Zhou Chang was superior to his father. When he saw Liu Chun coming, he quickly asked his wife to move out of the table and chairs and make a pot of tea.

Zhou Chang got up to greet him and said, "It's really my luck that Mr. is willing to come to my thatched cottage."

Liu Chun waved his hand and said: "Don't be polite, today you just treat me as not a scholar, just as an ordinary friend, and it doesn't make sense to talk like this."

Sitting down and taking a sip of the tea, Liu Chun asked curiously, "Where did this tea come from?"

Zhou Chang replied honestly: "The tea leaves in the mountains, there are wild tea trees in the mountains, so I picked some. The taste is much better than the baby's breath that the big guys often drink."

Liu Chun picked up the teacup and took a sip. It was indeed much stronger than the tea dregs before, and his dry throat was also moistened a lot with this sip of tea.

"The taste is good. You want to go to the city to develop, but how about the tailoring skills?" Liu Chun asked softly.

Such a question from Mr. Zhou made hope surge in Zhou Chang's heart.

Liu Chun said again: "This is a heavy question, you'd better think it over before answering me."

There are some things that don’t need to be asked in detail. Zhou Chang wants to develop in the city, and his momentum is for class transition. First, he will take root in the city and multiply his capital silently. Some things cannot be done in one generation.

But if the workmanship is not fine enough, just ordinary level, then it is best not to go, or to farm honestly at home.

Faced with this kind of assessment, Liu Chun thought he was unlucky, so he pretended that he couldn't get into the cabinet, and he should be a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

There is no perfect law between father and son in this matter.

After a while, Zhou Chang said solemnly: "At present, the standard is above average, and it is still a lot worse than that old master."

"But I still want to go, as long as I enter the city, there will be many opportunities."

"Although the child can enter Hengchang Academy to study in the future, as a father, I can't always be busy in the crops. I have to accumulate daughter-in-law money for my son. If he succeeds in studying in the future, he has a little family to support him. It's not difficult to deal with it, even if he has no future in studying, but with the support of his family, it will be convenient for him to do other things."

"There are many things in the world, that is, I have a kind of wealth and roots."

"If I don't take this step, there is a high probability that my children will be as worthless as me in the future."

"One cannot only seek security in this world."

"In all fairness, the city is better than the village."

"It's a pity that my father doesn't understand these principles. My father always thinks that our whole family is worthless. We should work honestly and eat three meals a day."

Liu Chun took another sip of tea, and had to say that both father and son were reasonable, the father's idea did not need to take any risks, and the son's idea came with certain risks.

Putting aside utilitarianism, everyone has utilitarianism.

In order to achieve harmony between father and son, both parties must step down.

Liu Chun can't say anything about any of them, and the concept of the older generation is deeply ingrained, reasoning must be a dead end.

what can we do about it?

(End of this chapter)