Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 45
Up to now, the daughter has learned everything, and two small things can prove it.

The first one is that Zhou Zhi was drooling when he was a child, and his mother didn't take it seriously. The niece came to see her grandmother at home, and took a piece of Dendrobium to soak Xiao Zhou Zhi in water to drink, and it was cured immediately.

Another thing is that when Zhou Zhi was a little older, he developed severe prickly heat, which later developed into skin ulcers. My mother hurried to find this niece to prescribe medicine.

The niece said that she didn't need to prescribe any medicine, so she asked Uncle Yao to take Zhou Zhi to the Yangtze River to learn swimming.

Remember it is the Yangtze River, not the Hongshui River.

The water in the Yangtze River was icy cold, so my dad taught Zhou Zhi to swim for a week, and it really got better.

And every summer, Xiao Zhouzhi would pester her father to go swimming in the river, and the prickly heat never happened again after that.

However, when I was a child, it was very embarrassing to go to see a doctor every time, because he had to call people in their forties or fifties "sisters".

Now this daughter has also become the deputy director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the County People's Hospital. The sons of the four cousins ​​are all abroad, but the daughter usually takes care of her more.

The fourth cousin's house is very beautiful, it is a small independent courtyard, quiet and elegant, the walls in the courtyard are full of orchids.

Unlike Mr. Yu’s house, the orchids were not placed on the ground, and the steamed pine needle bark humus was used instead of soil. They were all made of coal sand pots, which are very light and can be hung on a wooden frame against the wall. .

It's strange, with this planting method, the orchids bloom better than Mr. Yu's, and it doesn't take up much space.

This small courtyard, and the habit of raising flowers and fishes, came about after my fourth aunt had a stroke.

My aunt is a teacher of the people. She suffered a stroke and was paralyzed shortly after she retired, so the fourth cousin bought the small yard, tidied up the yard, planted flowers, raised fish, and took my aunt out to bask in the sun, look at the yard, and read books when she was free. listen to her.

After 20 years of taking care of her like this, the fourth aunt's physical and psychological problems have not gone wrong, which is beyond what ordinary men can do.

Thanks to the good health of my fourth cousin, Orion, who was born in Orion, and has first-rate skills in fishing, shrimping and planting flowers, the family has a constant supply of river shrimp, yellow and hot peppers all year round, and many literary friends in the city often come to ask for some calligraphy, seals, flowers and orchid seedlings. The veteran cadres of the old cadres have super long working years and high retirement wages, so that the fourth aunt can enjoy this blessing.

Of course, Zhou Zhi thinks that the most important thing is that the fourth cousin had a burden around him back then, and other girls avoided him for fear that they would be mothers to other people's daughters after they married;
However, my aunt took a fancy to the fourth cousin's character through this incident, and she had no hesitation in going with him.

One drink and one peck, the effect and the cause, the fate in the middle is also indescribable.

This small courtyard is not big, the courtyard is about a hundred square meters, with a layout of one hall with two side rooms.

The main room has now become the creation room and reception room of the fourth cousin, two side rooms, a master bedroom and a guest bedroom, two side rooms, a storage room, and a kitchen and bathroom.

In today's Jiachuan, most of the similar courtyards are dilapidated, and people just want to move into the buildings. The fourth cousin has put a lot of thought into renovating here, and it is considered to be a very good single courtyard in Jiachuan.

There is a couplet pasted at the gate of the small courtyard, which reads "Biyue prefaces the present and the past, Danchun returns".

"This couplet is perfect! The words are also good!" Dad couldn't help but praise when he saw the couplet.

A loud laugh came from the small courtyard: "Yuanjiang is not happy like this, how could he go to someone else's house, and the first sentence is to praise his own son!"

Dad was stunned, and turned to look at Zhou Zhi: "You wrote it?"

Zhou Zhi murmured silently in his heart: "I'm running a joint stall, and when I meet people who come to kick the store, I have to come up with the whole oblique sentence for me to save, and I wasted a lot of my brain."

The fourth cousin has already stood at the door, with silver hair and hale and hearty spirit: "The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, Yuanjiang, the job of saving people, don't you understand?"

Dad hurriedly said: "If you know what you know, you don't know what you don't know. Fourth brother, tell me."

Uncle Sibiao laughed and said, "This is a very special usage in the five words, called couplet sentence rescue."

"My Shanglian was deliberately arranged to embarrass this kid. Biyue prefaces the present and the past, and the three characters 'preface to the present and the past' are two squares and one flat. There is a mistake called Guping."

"What should I do? I have to save the next sentence to ensure the smooth flow of Qi Yun."

"So the third character 'gui' in the next sentence should have used the oblique tone character, but now we have to use the level tone character to save the 'order' of the previous sentence."

"In ancient poetry, there is an elegant name for this trick, it's called 'koi turning waves'."

"The koi turned the waves, it was a last resort in the creative process. The water cannot be leveled, and the waves have just been formed."

Zhou Zhi was very angry: "Obviously just change the word 'Xu' into a flat tone. Uncle Si Biao, you did it on purpose. This is not called koi making waves, this is called making waves!"

"Hahahaha..." The fourth cousin ignored Zhou Zhi's complaints and continued to explain to his father: "This is the first difficulty, and the second is the second difficulty. 'Jingu' is antonym for each other. Inline self-correct'."

"The combination of these two words just fully expresses the scope of the verb 'order' in the sentence eye. This is the trilemma."

"So you have to find the three characters of Ping and Zheping. Similarly, the last two characters must be able to correct themselves, and when combined, they must describe the scope of the previous verb, and at the same time, the content must conform to the theme of the Spring Festival. Then this couplet you That's right."

"Together with all the requirements, it is not an ordinary test level."

"How did you think of it at the time?" Dad looked at Zhou Zhi in surprise. The couplet seemed good at first glance, but he didn't realize how difficult it was until he listened to the rationale.

Zhou Zhi simply pretended not to hear, and didn't bother to answer this question.

"Yuanjiang is talking in layman's terms again. This is called an inspiration, and it comes at your fingertips."

Uncle Si Biao said with a smile: "'Going back, the fields will never return', it seems to be picked up off-the-shelf, but this is actually the foundation of ancient prose that Xiao Zhouzhi has accumulated for ten years, just a small test."

"Take the word 'Danchun' used for 'Biyue'. It is hard for ordinary people to think of it. Because this allusion only appears in very few poems."

"In addition to Wen Tianxiang's 'Thousands of Gold Knot a Ranger, Thousands of Gold Buy Songs and Dances. Danchun Ying Mansion, Followers Siege Qulu'. The rest I remember is the song 'Danchun Illusion, Immortals Are Far, Naturally Clear, Wonderful, Dreams and Gods '."

"Beimenmen Market is not for 'Saiqu Road', and writing couplets is not for 'Yingdi House'?! This is called making good use of allusions."

"To be honest, even if you have a bachelor's degree or a master's degree in ancient Chinese, you may not be able to do it as neatly and skillfully as Zhou Zhi. Hahahaha..."

Dad was completely stupid, he did have "Wen Tianxiang Poetry Collection" at home, but he couldn't even memorize "Songs of Righteousness".

"Fourth cousin, my family agrees that I will transfer to liberal arts next semester!"

"You boy! You're playing tricks again!" The fourth cousin scolded Zhou Zhi, got into the wheelchair, and said to the grandmother, "Third Aunt, it's rare for you to come, so I'll recommend you to visit my small courtyard! I hope you like it!"

The grandma smiled and said: "The fourth son and my good grandson are serious scholars. Seeing you chatting, the third aunt just doesn't understand, and she is happy."

After finishing speaking, I saw that my father was also beside me, so I hurriedly added: "Yuanjiang is also counted."

Now it was Dad's turn to scratch his toes in embarrassment.

Mom, you might as well not look for love, don't pull me, I really can't count in this respect!
Also, what do you mean they are serious scholars?

The orchids are fragrant in the fourth cousin's yard. Looking at the goldfish and enjoying the flowers here makes people forget the vulgarity.

My aunt was also in the yard. There was a leopard skin on the wheelchair and a skin of an unknown animal on her lap. Tears were about to flow from her eyes: "Third aunt, I have trouble moving. I haven't seen your old man for a long time. .”

"Don't cry, don't cry..." Grandma quickly stretched out her hand to comfort her, "Didn't you see this again? Seeing that you are in good spirits, I feel relieved."

"I've tired Xiucheng for so many years. If I were another man, Third Aunt, I'm afraid I'd be gone long ago."

"That's your skill too, you know how to pick men! Don't drop beans for those who celebrate Chinese New Year!"

The united house is of the older generation, and the grandmother is not much older than the fourth cousin in terms of age, and the aunt and aunt are in the same rank as the aunt, niece and daughter-in-law, and they are two sisters in terms of relationship.

The grandmother and aunt were left to chat alone in the small courtyard, and the fourth cousin took Zhou Zhi's family to the main room to chat.

The first thing Zhou Zhi said when he sat down was: "What is that leather thing on the fourth aunt's knee that protects against the wind?"

"Oh, that's a lynx."

The fourth cousin’s family used to be a hunter, and many good skins were handed down. Zhou Zhi liked to come here to play when he was a child, because there were skins, peacock feathers, pheasant feathers, and porcupine quills that were rarely seen in other families at that time.

And rhino horn and ivory.

The fourth cousin even used that big leopard skin to scare Xiao Zhouzhi, saying that the rings on it were open, and the rings on the leopard's body were open, which meant that the leopard had eaten people.

Zhou Zhi shrugged his nose, "What's so delicious?"

"Braised soybeans with bamboo rats." Uncle Si Biao smiled and said, "Mr. Jiang from your school sent it."

Biology teacher Jiang from Jiachuan Middle School, when he was young, he often followed his fourth cousin to learn hunting through mountains and ridges. Now there are two big herbariums in the laboratory building of Jiachuan Middle School, which contain more than 1000 specimens of animals and plants. Collected by the odd man over the years.

After my aunt had a stroke, the fourth cousin stopped going to the mountains and changed his career to fishing and catching shrimp.

The eldest sister was busy in the kitchen, and now she also came out to say hello to everyone, and then went to the kitchen again.

Seeing that my mother had already sat down, Dad had no choice but to stand up again: "Then I'll help with the cooking."

The fourth cousin had a smile on his face.

The mother didn't notice these details, and asked the fourth cousin: "Fourth brother, just now you said that Zhou Zhi's exchange of liberal arts is cheating and cheating, what do you mean?"

Uncle Si Biao smiled and said, "Because at this kid's level, it shouldn't be too easy to study a literature and history undergraduate or master degree in the future."

"Fourth brother, I still don't quite understand, please explain clearly."

Uncle Si Biao was a little helpless: "Let's put it this way, as long as Zhou Zhi can enter the university, if he chooses to study ancient Chinese literature, ancient Chinese history, etc., then he will be at ease."

"Even if he is idle in school and plays like crazy for four years, his grades can still be ranked high in the class. At the end of the school, even if he pinches his nose, he has to be issued a diploma!"

"Ah?" Mom was frightened: "You mean... you mean... Elbow is now... at the level of a college graduate?"

"It's just liberal arts, ancient Chinese or ancient history." Uncle Sibiao said, "And it only counts if you are advanced!"

"If you can't cross this threshold, it's still nothing."

"Of course, it doesn't mean that you will be idle when you go in, and you have to do a systematic reasoning, but compared to other students, it's not too easy."

"Oh." My mother was a little dazed: "But...but even if you can read it easily, what can you do? Come back and teach Chinese? Teach history?"

"Come back? Why do you want to come back?" Uncle Si Biao felt puzzled: "Can't you continue your studies?"

"The so-called brilliant and poor scriptures can't be finished in a lifetime."

"Can't you finish your undergraduate degree and get a master's degree, and then finish your master's degree and get a doctorate? Can't you stay in school as a teaching assistant, lecturer, or professor after finishing your doctorate?"

"Ask your kid, is that what he thinks in his heart?!"

My mother was completely shocked. Could this be the truth of the prophecy of the old hexagram master in Baimi Township? !

I have guaranteed this child to pass the sixteenth... I won't bother you, what he wants to do, let him do it himself... Anyway, what he will do in the end is something you can't even imagine...

"Hehehe...Actually, museums, archives, and libraries are all officially compiled." Zhou Zhi said with a blushing smile, "Mom, so it's not that there is no way out in liberal arts, but the threshold for a way out is a bit higher than in science. leave."

"But mom, don't worry, even if I enter college, I will never be idle and fool around. I will definitely try my best to achieve the goals that my fourth cousin said. I will try my best to achieve whatever level I can achieve."

(End of this chapter)