The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 5 Admission
Silent all night.

What surprised Bai Gui a little was that Bai Youde didn't force him to hand over the money left over from selling the mountain goods. He guessed that maybe it was because he was a little different from his peers this time, so that Bai Youde didn't treat him like a child anymore.

I didn't think much about it, because I walked a lot of mountain roads yesterday, and I was a little tired physically and mentally, so that night, Bai Gui slept very soundly.

When the dawn just broke, a few roosters in the yard shook their bodies, then stretched their necks and crowed.

The biological clock is ticking.

Bai Gui also got up, rubbed his sleepy eyes, let out a sigh of relief, rolled down from the kang, his clothes were very simple, he simply put on a layer of sackcloth and got out of bed.

As usual, he walked to the stable, ready to feed the black horse.

Horses are so delicate that they have to be fed four or five times a day, three times for grass and twice for feed, and they have to wake up at night to feed once.That's why there is a common name for horses without night grass and no fat.

It is not impossible to feed the horse a few times less on weekdays.

It's just that if you wait for a good horse to grow a bad horse, it's equivalent to causing the owner to lose dozens of taels of silver out of thin air, and you can't afford it.

The feeding on the third watch has always been done by Bai Youde.

Staying up late at night hurts.

Early in the morning, when the sky was still dark, Bai Gui heard the noise. He guessed that Bai Youde was going to the city, and it took a day to go to and from the city.

Starting from Bailu Village, if you take a carriage, it will take two hours to reach Chang'an City.

But there is no work in winter, and the owner will not give the rest of the money for the carriage freely, so he basically walks from Bailu Village to the city and back.

It takes half a day to go and half a day to come back.

A total of one day!
Feeding horses requires patience, and Bai Gui benefited from being taught by Bai Youde's precepts and deeds. He has long been used to how to feed horses, and how to feed them fat.

Wait for the half-big black horse to finish eating the forage.

A quarter of an hour passed.

Liu Mouer, who was sweating hotly, came out from the other side of the building, carrying tables, benches, and high wooden tables on his shoulders. .”

"Big, wait a minute."

Hearing this, Bai Gui felt a little embarrassed, put down the eggshell that had just been licked by the horse, and found a black lacquered board from a corner of the earthen house, two feet long and one foot wide, which was found in a broken kiln, taken from a piece of wood. door.

He had chipped it off with an axe, so the original shape couldn't be seen.

Fill another gourd of clean water, hang it on the waist, and use the previous grain bag to hold the old pen and inkstone gifted by Xu Xiucai.

There is no schoolbag.

School bags also have to be sewn with coarse cloth, and a foot of coarse cloth costs twenty or thirty cash.

During the Kangxi period of Shunzhi, the price of a foot of cloth ranged from more than [-] to [-] yuan, and in Jiaqing Daoguang, the price of a foot of cloth fluctuated between [-] and [-] yuan.Although forced to open the sea, foreign cloth rushed into the Qing market, but it was only limited to the coastal areas, and the inland area had not been greatly impacted, and the price was only a few cents lower than before.

During these years, it cost three or four hundred cash to make a suit of coarse clothes.

"This is the schoolbag that your father asked the master to ask for this morning. It was used by the young master. There are a few patches. Don't dislike it." Liu Mou'er touched a folded cloth bag from his waist, and looked at it with envy. fabric.

A cloth bag made by mixing fine-quality denim and white muslin.

But the fly in the ointment is that on the front of the cloth bag, there is a cyan patch the size of a bowl.

Some ugly.

Bai Gui was somewhat resistant to taking the schoolbag.

According to his understanding during this time, whether it is Lu Taiheng, the eldest master of the Lu family, or Lu Zilin, the master of the Lu family, are extremely stingy. This cloth bag seems to be destroyed, but it is actually worth 100 yuan if it is actually threaded and made into fabric. Much money.

Most of the wealthier families in the village saved their money and withheld it from their mouths.

I didn't say that in vain.

For example, Yan Jian in "The Scholars" couldn't close his eyes when he was alive and dying, just for the two bulbs of light grass in the lamp, which might cost oil.

After all, Bai Jiaxuan who can educate Lu Zhaoqian is a minority.

"It was given by the young master..." After hesitating for a while, Liu Mou'er still told the truth, maybe he didn't know what concealment was, "This morning your father begged the master to let you buy some books on credit. The young master heard it, and said that after entering school, you will sit next to him, and if he has spare books, you should read them first, and the schoolbag will be given to him."

Compared with the awe-inspiring boss, Bai Gui is more amiable.

When Bai Gui was born, Bai Youde hugged him and recognized him as a senior.Bai Youde and him are both regular long-term workers of the Lu family, and they have a very deep friendship.

It stands to reason that he shouldn't have said such gossip.

But it would be his fault if Bai Guibai were to thank Master Lu Zilin.

Does he know what's behind Lu Zilin's back, it's not a good thing.

"Lu Zhaopeng..." Bai Gui was confused for a while, then pulled himself together and put away the patched cloth bag.

It seems easy not to eat the food that comes from you.

But it's all sophistication.

If he hadn't carried the schoolbag presented by Master Lu today, the Lu family might not say anything on the surface, but in the future, it would be all the same to not let his family work as a long-term worker in the Lu family, or to find a reason to punish him or his father. trouble.

This is the same as socializing. If you don't thank you today, will you be overwhelmed tomorrow?

Be on guard.

Bai Gui bit his lip, put the contents of the food bag back into the school bag, lifted it on his shoulders, and turned his back to Liu Mouer. His face flushed for a while, after being cold by the wind and snow, and then his face returned to normal.

The road is quite slippery.

After the snow falls, the road surface is not slippery with the first snow that has just been stepped on, and there are many people who can walk, and the snow turns into ice, so we must be careful to prevent slipping.

The deer's house is not far from the ancestral hall.

He walked three to four hundred steps, and he arrived in less than a cup of tea.

In the building on the west side, through the window lattice, you can see a few half-grown children studying their books, all of them wearing padded jackets, with ruddy complexions, reading a book, and then reciting a passage.

"The sky and the earth are yellow, the universe is prehistoric..."

"The sword is called Juque, the pearl is called night light..."

"The Master said: When a disciple enters, he will be filial;

Some are still reading "Thousand-Character Essay" when they were in Meng Xue, while some Meng children who are progressing fast have already begun to recite "The Analects of Confucius".

Bai Gui saw that Liu Mouer's eyes flashed with envy.

But he didn't know whether Liu Mouer envied Mengtong's padded jacket or the books he read.

"Guiwazi, this table and stool are here." Liu Mouer rubbed his hands, then smiled flatteringly towards Lu Zhaopeng and Lu Zhaohai's table, "Eldest young master, second young master, Guiwazi today I'm studying in this school, if you two ordered him, just tell him, what, the master said, Guiwazi is your schoolboy."

Lu Zhaopeng and Lu Zhaohai looked as usual, as if they were used to flattery.

"Don't talk about it, uncle, you are busy with your affairs, your elder brother has two people to take care of, and no one can bully you." Lu Zhaopeng revealed a refined air, not like a young master in the country, but like Master Xu.

Bai Gui sat beside the two of them cautiously.

Liu Mouer put his table and stool next to Lu Zhaopeng and Lu Zhaohai, and sat next to them.

(End of this chapter)