The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 501 Xiaodao, what a gentleman does not do
The little apprentice came with Mrs. Chang, the director of the Nursing Home.

This old Taoist once took his disciples to treat the children of the Nursing Home. Mrs. Chang knew him. This real Liu is a true ascetic.

Seeing the little apprentice "running naked", she knew that the Taoist temple had been robbed, Madam Chang didn't hesitate, she brought a few strong women to rescue Master Liu.

"Renren Liu, it's me! Lady Chang from the Nursing Home! Are you still there?"

Master Liu groaned, and sat up from the bed, but because of low blood sugar, his head became dizzy, and he lay down again, and the back of his head hit the bed, making a thud.

Several people heard the movement and looked for it with lanterns.

"Really Liu!"

"master!"

They yelled as they walked.

"Hey! He's not dead!" Master Liu responded angrily.

When Mrs. Chang entered the door, she saw him lying on the bed, thinking that the thugs had injured him, she was so frightened that she went forward and took out the lantern for a closer look.

Immortal Liu hurriedly huddled into a ball and shouted: "It's okay! I'm alright! Mrs. Chang doesn't need to come in!"

The little apprentice saw that the master was still naked!Hastily stepped forward and threw the clothes to the master, and then pulled Mrs. Chang to turn around and go out.

The master wants to save face, so it's not appropriate to tell a woman to see everything!
"Miss Chang, you don't know that today the group of thieves stripped us naked for fear that Master and I would hide money in our crotch, and then took all our clothes and pants!" The little apprentice said with grief and indignation.

Mrs. Chang sighed: "It's also those monks and Taoists who have committed crimes all the year round, and this year's incident happened. I think back then, when the Baoen Temple was still there, the princess of Jinwangfu suffered a lot in the temple."

The little Taoist said: "Then it's not good to beat us all to death! Isn't there a real monk like my master who is dedicated to the Tao?!"

After Master Liu changed his clothes and came out, Mrs. Chang advised him to go with her to the Nursing Home to live for a while, "After the limelight has passed, you can go back to the Taoist Temple."

"Okay, trouble you guys."

After being robbed all this time and almost getting punched, Zhenren Liu was no longer stubborn, and it was just the time when he couldn't explain why.

Zhenren Liu followed Mrs. Chang to the nursing home in a cart drawn by three short Mongolian horses.

The current Beijing Nursing Home is no longer the size it used to be.

Originally, the Nursing Home inherited more than 4000 mu of land from the original Cheng'en Temple. Now it has built more than 20 rows of three-story small concrete buildings, employs more than 100 teaching staff, and raises more than 500 children.

In a bad harvest year, there are parents who secretly leave their children at the gate of the nursing home, and wait for a good harvest year to find them again, and find a lame reason to go back.

These Chang girls also turned a blind eye to it. Anyway, Jin Wangfei always provides enough funds, and often writes to tell her not to worry about money. As long as someone sends a child, she will accept it. It doesn't matter if you raise it for a while, it's better than letting those people sell the child.

Therefore, when there were the most children in the nursing home, there were more than 3000 at one point.

Also because of this incident, the Nursing Home built many more concrete houses during the drought two years ago, and now all the extra dormitories have become low-rent houses.

The rent is still slightly higher than the low-rent houses in Taiyuan. The smaller houses are [-] yuan a month, and the larger ones are [-] yuan. There are schools and libraries nearby, and the configuration of canteens, bathhouses, and second-hand markets are similar to those in Taiyuan. It's almost the same over there.

This nursing home is not only an orphanage, but also the largest soap workshop in the capital. The soap produced here is of high quality and cheap. The workshop almost went bankrupt.

Later, in a fit of anger, the emperor ordered the former prime minister's eunuch to leave the soap workshop of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and then separated the soap workshop from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and replaced it with a concubine younger brother of Concubine You to take care of it. With their advantage that they are imperial merchants, they can easily get sulfur. , developed a sulfur-added soap.

The country folks with rotten skin and worms liked to use it, and it was welcomed immediately, which finally saved the soap factory from the brink of bankruptcy.

In the middle of the night, the emperor got a telegram from Taiyuan in the palace, saying that Princess Jin had successfully given birth to a boy weighing five catties.

Eunuch Wang bowed his hands to congratulate the emperor, and Li Xiaokun followed him to the telegraph room with sleepy eyes, and burst into tears when he heard that his mother and concubine had given birth to a little brother.

He lost a front tooth in the past two days, and his mouth opened to leak air!

The emperor hugged him angrily and amusedly, and said, "Why are you crying! From now on, you will be responsible for your younger brother's homework. Are you happy?"

When Li Xiaokun heard this, his crying stopped immediately.

The black eyeballs rolled around a few times, and suddenly he grinned.

Everyone in the house is happy.

Suddenly the telegraph started to rattle again. This time the telegram was very short. The little eunuch handed the translated content to the emperor. In Li Xiaokun's hand, let him see for himself: "I miss Akun very much, and hope to return soon."

Li Kun grinned again, showing his small white teeth missing a front tooth, then yawned and closed his eyes.

The emperor looked at it lovingly, sent the child to A Fang, and asked him to carry him back to his bedroom.

It was almost two hours past Li Kun's bedtime.

A Fang struggled to hug Xiao Shizi, and Li Kun just put his arms around A Fang's neck and fell asleep on her shoulder.The corner of the mouth is smiling, very happy and satisfied.

The next day, the guards of Prince Jin's Mansion set up theater stages in the most lively places in Taiyuan City, and called all the nearby theater troupes, saying that it was to celebrate that the princess gave birth to the second son of the Palace, and the prince invited all the people in the city Watch a play for ten days.

Not only are there theaters to watch, colorful lanterns and flags are hung on both sides of the street, there are also puppet shows and stilt walkers parading on the street, and the guards of the palace on both sides are holding baskets of copper coins and throwing them on the street.

The small vendors in the vicinity flocked here, and the whole city of Taiyuan became lively, filled with a festive atmosphere.

In order to celebrate the concubine's successful birth of a second son in the hospital, the Gynecology Hospital will hold a two-month free clinic to the countryside. With a big wave of his hand, Li Zhao donated 5000 taels of silver to pay for the medical expenses of the free clinic to the countryside.

Song Qingyue was lying in the hospital until the third day before she could get out of bed and move around a bit.

The pain at the moment of giving birth is still deeply rooted in her mind and has not completely subsided, and she can't feel happy seeing the baby, and the excitement of Taiyuan has nothing to do with her.

She felt uncomfortable all over, pain everywhere, and felt that something was wrong with her internal organs.

Li Zhao accompanied her to take care of her, wiped her body, massaged her legs and feet, and served tea and water. Song Qingyue joked with Li Zhao: "It would be great if you can lay eggs like a hen when you give birth to a child. Lay an egg and wait for it to do so." Hatching, and then growing up on its own after hatching. How can a human child be hatched in the mother's womb, and it will be as big as a human before it can be born. It really hurts my mother..."

Li Zhao laughed, and then said about the nanny: "Bai Nanny has already selected three, you choose two?"

Song Qingyue clicked her tongue irritably when she heard the word "Nurse", but Li Kun's "Nurse" really didn't leave a good impression on her.

She didn't know what was wrong with her this time, she completely lost the cautious, overflowing maternal love and endless patience that she had when she gave birth to Li Kun. My head is full of just wanting to mess it up.

Isn't he just a little kid?As long as you can't die, love whoever you want!My old lady doesn't want to serve her anymore!

Pregnancy in October is hard enough, and it will be even harder after birth.

Recalling the torment of the period after Li Kun was born, Song Qingyue's eyes suddenly became wet, her lips trembled, and she couldn't utter a word.

Seeing this, Li Zhao knew that her mind was heavy again. He put down the towel in his hand, sat on the edge of the bed, hugged her tightly in his arms, and said, "I will definitely send someone to watch her carefully this time. If you make a mistake again, don't worry."

Song Qingyue hugged Li Zhao's waist, and choked up with a wow: "I'm so bored, Li Zhao, I'm really bored now. I don't want to breastfeed him, breastfeeding is so painful, so uncomfortable... I feel good when I think of breastfeeding." Annoying! But, but, I feel it’s unfair to the second son. But I don’t know why, I just don’t love this one as much as I loved Akun back then! I’m not a good mother..."

Li Zhao hugged her, and said in a gentle tone: "Think too much, you just feel uncomfortable. After a while, you will not be so irritable when you take care of your body. Don't worry about breastfeeding. You can do it if you want to." Hey, don’t feed if you don’t want to feed, don’t embarrass yourself. Just think about yourself now, I’ll take care of the cub. Okay? Now close your eyes, sleep again, and feel comfortable when you’re full.”

Song Qingyue nodded obediently, and Li Zhao asked someone to come in to help Song Qingyue wash her body and change into a set of dry clothes.

Mrs. Zou said that it is not suitable to take a bath within seven days. When the concubine can get out of bed and walk around, she is allowed to stand and take a shower with boiled warm water.

Taiyuan held a celebration, although the emperor wanted to do it to drive away the bad luck brought by those monks and priests before, but thinking that there was no celebration when Li Kun was born, this second child is the second child after all, and he cannot be passed Brother, I had no choice but to let it go.

But even so, the emperor wanted to find something that represented auspiciousness from all over the country, so as to break through the nonsense of those monks and Taoists who had lost their minds in one fell swoop.

Just find any white tiger, white deer, white peacock, even if you get a big tortoise and send it to the capital with white ash!
Not to mention, there is really good news sent to the capital.

The things were sent by Song Xiaosi from the south, not white tigers, white deer, or white peacocks, but a kind of spice leaves from the far side of the ocean.

This leaf is different from ordinary fragrant leaves. It can neither be ground into powder nor used to soak in water. Instead, it is dried, rolled up, and lit.

After Song Chenrui got acquainted with this thing, he realized that it was very useful, so he immediately sent someone to the capital, and even applied to the emperor to form an ocean expedition team to find the legendary continent.

However, this thing did not get the emperor's attention at the beginning. The emperor even asked the eunuch to send the tobacco leaves to the imperial hospital, so he no longer cared about it. He also wrote back a letter to Song Chenrui, saying that if he wanted to explore the sea, the royal family of money could do it. Fund half of it, and let Song Chenrui figure out the rest.

But Eunuch Yang racked his brains to find auspiciousness for the emperor, and finally he suddenly remembered the sweet radish that had been planted in Huangzhuang and had been forgotten for several years!

It has been planted in Huangzhuang, and Eunuch Yang vaguely remembers that Princess Jin seems to have said before that this kind of sweet radish can be squeezed to make sugar like sugarcane in the south.

Coincidentally, there were dozens of catties of beets harvested last year in the cellar of Huangzhuang, so I hurriedly boiled syrup and sent it to His Majesty for a try.

Sure enough, the emperor heard that this kind of vegetable that can be boiled with sugar might be grown in the north, and the yield per mu was quite high. The matter of beets was written in the mansion newspaper to inform the whole country, and Mr. Xiaosu, Yin Xiaosu of Shuntian Prefecture, was asked to preside over the promotion and planting of this kind of sweet radishes around Shuntian Prefecture.

At the beginning of March, the emperor personally took a group of princes and grandchildren to Huangzhuang for the spring plowing ceremony.

Li Kun followed suit.It's a pity that he is still too young to help the emperor's grandfather hold the iron plowshare. The original plan was to let him stand on the ridge of the field and watch it. Seeds, follow the emperor's ass and put seeds in the pit, do what you can.

The emperor laughed happily, turned around and stroked his little head.

At noon that day, the emperor invited all the relatives, relatives, civil servants and generals who came to the spring plowing ceremony to eat a bowl of sugar water ice powder, held up the sweet radish, and solemnly introduced to everyone that the brown ice powder poured into the ice powder everyone ate today Syrup is made from this kind of white sweet radish, and this crop is officially promoted to everyone.

All the courtiers were pleasantly surprised and talked a lot.Because the north does not produce sugar, except for maltose, sugar is shipped from the south, but even the cost of maltose is too high, so the price of sugar in the north has always remained high.If they can be the first to plant this kind of crops and make sugar, at least they can make a good fortune in the first year!
Now the emperor is willing to introduce this crop to everyone, this is Jun En!
I want to take everyone to make money together!

After watching the ceremony, Li Xiaokun felt something in his heart. He ran to the bookshelf in the Imperial Study Room, stood on tiptoe, pointed to a copy of "The Analects of Confucius Chapters" written by Zhu Zi on the top, and beckoned Wang Gonggong to help him take it down. In Zhang No.19, there is a paragraph:

Zixia said: "Although the way is small, there must be something to be seen; if you go far and fear mud, it is because a gentleman does not do it."

It means: Even a small skill must have its merits; but it may not work if it is to achieve a long-term goal, so a gentleman does not engage in it.

Here, the meaning of the original text of "The Analects of Confucius" is roughly: small ways can be glimpsed in a gap, and they are obsessed with one side. Although it is not fruitless to study them, if you only stick to these knowledge, it will hinder the greater cause. .

The Xiaodao in the original text does not specify what it is, but Mr. Zhu Xi’s commentary is as follows:

"Ni, Qu Sheng. Small roads are like the genus of farm medicine and divination. Mud is unreasonable. Yang said: "All the skills of a hundred schools of thought are like ears, eyes, noses and mouths. They all have their own understanding and cannot communicate. It is not nothing to behold, and it is far away. It will be muddy, so a gentleman will not do it.'”

Among them, "The small way is like the medicine and divination in the farm." It was written by Zhu Xi.

Now the Great Zhou Science Examination has also enshrined Mr. Zhu Xi as a saint, so what he said, he will naturally be what he said.

But Li Kun didn't think so.

This kid was taught by two deviant parents, Li Zhao and Song Qingyue.

He pointed to Zhu Xi's sentence: "Small roads are like farms for medicine and divination." He said loudly to the emperor's grandfather: "Imperial grandfather, this is not right. Farms are not small roads, but avenues related to the people's livelihood in the world. Otherwise, why would the emperor Grandpa is the son of heaven, but every year around the vernal equinox, he would go down to the fields in person, so what about the spring plowing ceremony? The medical profession is not a small way, I heard that the white mother said that if my mother and concubine knew the first aid technique, Kunkun would not have survived."

The emperor looked down at his grandson's immature face, and said pleasantly, "Do you remember the contents of this book?"

Li Kun shook his head honestly: "I read it twice, I can't remember everything, I only remember some of it. But I remember this sentence. When I read it with my husband, I thought it was wrong. Now that I think about it carefully, I think it's even more wrong! Grandpa, this sentence should be deleted. It is correct, or make corrections! This is not what Confucius said, but what Zhu Xi said. Confucianism should be based on what Confucius said! And my mother also said..."

Halfway through his speech, he suddenly remembered the experience of being beaten by the old Hanlin surnamed Wu, so he shut up.

There are some things that can only be said in front of the father, queen, mother and concubine, not in the capital palace.

The emperor joyfully hugged him onto his lap, pinched his little face, and asked, "What else did your mother say? Tell me."

"Stop talking!" Li Kun said.

"Why?" The emperor laughed.

Li Kun pursed his lips and said, "I said I would be spanked, and I would also be locked up and not allowed to go out to play."

"Say it! Grandpa won't hit you, nor lock you up."

"Really?"

"Ah."

"Let's pull the hook! Liars are puppies!"

The emperor laughed, stretched out his little finger to hook Li Kun's short and thin little hand, and then Li Xiaokun leaned over to the emperor's grandfather's ear and whispered: "My mother said that even what Confucius said may not be right. "

The emperor laughed out loud again, nodded and said, "This sounds like something your mother would say. Did your mother tell you whose words are right?"

Li Kun said firmly: "She said that seeing is believing."

The emperor smiled: "Your mother is right, seeing is believing. In this way, you can write an article based on what Zhu Zi said is wrong, write it tonight, and leave it to me tomorrow!"

"Ah!" Li Kun suddenly had a bitter face.

The emperor lifted Li Kun from his lap, and then pinched his chubby little black face: "If you can't pay it tomorrow morning, you won't be able to return to Taiyuan this year!"

"do not want!"

(End of this chapter)