The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 31 The Zhu Bai Family

After walking to this area dedicated to western learning.

Only then did Bai Gui feel in a trance. This was the end of the Qing Dynasty when new learning and old learning alternated. Many people were still studying the way of imperial examinations, and some educated people began to become enlightened gentry, learning Western ideas and embracing Western political systems.

Many people abandoned poetry, books, rituals and music, learned from the West, and tried to save the country.

There are also some people who hold on to the handicapped, draw on old knowledge, and want to find a way to become stronger from the pile of old papers.

Why wasn't the desolation of Shanxi merchants also related to the weakness of the Qing court.

There are no eggs under the overturned nest, and it is not a business to lose to a weak country!
"Yan Fu's Theory of Evolution..."

Bai Gui took a deep breath, his eyes dim.Some people may be unfamiliar with other books, but those who have studied basic education will definitely not be unfamiliar with this book. There is a famous saying in it, which is shocking, "Natural selection, survival of the fittest."

"It's a pity. If you want to reform the current problems, you must first reform the political system. Although practical learning is important, the Qing court is not loamy..."

He glanced at the brand-new, out-of-stock "Ethics of Ethics", and then shifted his gaze to the practical studies of "Chemistry Explanation" and "Botany". The delicate cover was covered with a thin layer of dust.

Wiping off the dust with his clean sleeve, he immediately recuperated and set his sights on the old school.

The way of the imperial examination is what he should consider now.

Only through the imperial examinations can one be born!
Stepping forward, moving around, he landed on Zhu Xi's "Four Books Chapters and Sentences" and looked through it. There are many new annotations in it, annotations on Zhu Zi's sentences.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Zi annotated the Four Books, calling the annotations in "University" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" chapters and sentences, and collecting the sayings in "The Analects" and "Mencius" as collective annotations, collectively called "Four Books Chapters and Sentences" .Then people added annotations based on Zhu Xi's annotations...

"Well, I've chosen, I want this jade pen..."

Bai Xiaowen was willing to spend money on gifts for his uncle, so he chose a jade pen worth two taels of money, with beautiful jade as the pen tube and wolf hair as the hair, it was very delicate.

Following Bai Xiaowen's urging, the others stopped hesitating. It was difficult to choose. If they bought an inkstone with a mid-range price or a few ingots of good ink, the cost would be around three or four dollars.

It's not that they don't have money to buy expensive gifts.

They are not Bai Xiaowen, they are neither related nor related to Mr. Zhu.

If the gift is heavy, it will appear that they are flattering.

"Since you have chosen the pen, inkstone, and ink, I will give you a book." Bai Gui smiled.

The pen, ink, paper and inkstone of the Four Treasures of the Study can be given away except paper.

No matter how precious paper is, it will be used, and pens, inkstones, and inks can be stored as treasures.One of the best inks is worth hundreds of taels of silver, comparable to gold.Some master ink makers were extremely wealthy.For example, "Kangxi Huizhou Fuzhi" records that Wu Quchen "made exquisite ink and lacquerware in his life, and people competed for treasures, and his ink was worth three times platinum (silver)."

Bai Gui also has no intention of competing for beauty, he only needs to do his best when he chooses to give the teacher apprenticeship ceremony, and he wants to overwhelm the limelight of his peers in order to win the favor of others.

And Mr. Zhu is precisely this discerning person.

He paused, lingered for a while from his old study, and took out a copy of Li Shizhen's stone engraving "Compendium of Materia Medica".

As the ancients said, if you are not a good look, you are a good doctor.

If you send the Four Books and Five Classics, there will be too many in the house, and it will not fit, and it will appear that you are not dedicated.If you send the classics of practical studies, if Mr. Zhu is an old master who never understands the past, he will be angry.At this time, although the classics of Western medicine were much more enlightened than Chinese medicine, they could not be compared with modern medicine.

Although sending medical books may not make Mr. Zhu happy, but it will not make him feel bored.

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Mr. Zhu was very clever since he was a child. He was admitted as a scholar at the age of 16. At the age of 22, he went to the provincial examination and won the first place in Wenjuren, that is, Xieyuan in the provincial examination.When I went to Beijing to take part in the examination the next year, because my father died of illness, I didn't get on the bus to keep my father's filial piety.

Fang Yun, the governor of Qin Province, loved his talent and came to the door to entrust him with an important task, but was rejected.So Mr. Zhu lived in Bailu Academy.

Bailu Academy is located in the northwest of Zishui County, also known as Silu'an.

The reason why it is called Silu'an is because Qiqi, the four sons of a small official family named Lu, passed the Jinshi examination in the Song Dynasty, so the emperor of the Song Dynasty appointed him to build a shrine to commemorate their merits.

A group of people arrived at the entrance of the academy, looked up, and saw four large plaques of the White Deer Academy on the two-person high gate tower, with auspicious patterns of white deer and white cranes engraved on the inlay.

The sound of Lang reading aloud in the academy can be heard in his ears, and the voices are endless.

Bai Jiaxuan said happily to everyone that the plaque was inscribed by Governor Fang Yun.

His father, Bai Bingde and Bai Youde had the same idea. When Mr. Zhu was not yet famous, he made a marriage promise with Mr. Zhu's father, and the eldest daughter married Mr. Zhu as his wife.

The few of them were family members, and they were not stopped by the porter. Instead, they walked straight through the courtyard and came to the living room of the inner house in the backyard of the academy under the leadership of the porter.

When Zhu Bai saw Bai Jiaxuan, as usual, he first asked about his mother Bai Zhao's well-being, and when he heard that the old man was holding his third son, a calf, to show off in the village recently, he showed a happy and joyful smile.

Bai Gui and the others lowered their heads, not daring to look around.

However, he still took a look at Zhu Bai's appearance. He was dressed in commoner clothes, an indigo cardigan, blue cloth pants, and woven shoes and socks with white ribbons on his feet. They should be bound, and normal women's feet are not that small. And pointed, like a crescent moon.

The appearance is graceful and luxurious, and there is a kind of solemnity, a kind of gentleness, and a kind of sternness in his eyes.

A standard late Qing woman who has read poetry and books!

Bai Gui labeled Zhu Baishi in his heart. This kind of woman is easy to get along with, as long as he doesn't offend any taboos.

He had seen many women with bound feet in Bailu Village and Bailu Town. Most of them were daughters of rich families. Girls from poor families had to work in the fields, so bound feet were still rare.

Some families who wanted to send their daughters to rich families as concubines also bound their daughters' feet.

Because it is impossible for a rich family to marry a woman with big feet.

"This is Xiaowen, isn't it? I didn't expect to grow so big?" Zhu Baishi and Bai Jiaxuan siblings talked for a while, and then stopped talking. They didn't want to neglect the young man standing by. This is the way of a tutor.

Zhu Bai took the lead in sizing up Bai Xiaowen.

She has small feet and cannot walk the mountain road, so it is impossible to return to her mother's house.

Basically, you have to be bound at home for the rest of your life.

"Yes, aunt! The forehead is Xiaowen."

Bai Xiaowen smiled, and called his aunt sweetly. It is impossible to say that he has any feelings for Zhu Baishi, but it is also impossible to say that he has no feelings. The bond of blood naturally endows feelings.

He trotted a few steps and arrived at the side of the kang, allowing Zhu Baishi to take a good look at his appearance.

In the family where men farm and women weave, elderly women generally have bad eyesight and nearsightedness because they handle weaving every day. Bai Xiaowen knew that his grandmother, Bai Zhao, was inconvenient, so he thoughtfully moved up to let Zhu Bai really see it. Really.

　Yesterday there were more than 200 recommendation tickets. I was stupid. Today there are more than 200 tickets. It is unlikely that there will be so many new book issues. I will try four updates tomorrow. If the recommendation votes are high, occasionally four updates and always three updates Make a bottom.

　　


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