Villager of Daming

Chapter 241 Paving the way with illiterate pictures (second update)
"Just looking at the pictures and introductions, I really don't know if it's easy to use, so please build it quickly."

Zhu Yuanzhang is used to Xiaqiu Village's style of doing things. He always makes it first and then shows it to you.

Today there are only pictures, but not the real thing. Find a craftsman to make it. If it is useful, according to the above, build it in a piece, and it should be in an open place.

At the same time, keep a certain distance between the furnace and the furnace. If they are too close, they will be burned together, and people will be easily poisoned.

Zhu Biao turned around to find someone. He valued this very much. With more iron, people's lives would be more convenient.

"I can always produce good things at critical times. With more iron, it will be easier to plow the land."

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the tea next to him, and said to himself, he knew that many people used wooden or stone plows without iron, and the cooking was delicious, but they lacked iron pans and oil.

Rapeseed in the south of the Yangtze River is relatively good, while other places are more bitter.

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"Hanhan, drink some hot water?" The chief and Hanhan came to the door of the library, and there was a place next to him to boil water.

Below is a simple stove, without a chimney, with a copper pot on top, which can be used to burn coal and firewood. The stove has grates, and those without grates can only put firewood.

There is also a long table and two long benches for people to rest on. Bamboo tubes are sawed to make bowls. If someone wants to drink water, the person who watches over the fire can ask for it.

It belongs to the library's external convenience service. You can drink hot water to keep you warm in winter, and you don't have to go to other stores to ask for water when you are thirsty in summer.

"En!" Zhu Wentian sat down.

"Hey! Li Zhang and Hanhan are here, changing the dishes for you and cleaning them up."

The person in charge of watching the fire was a cripple, a veteran who couldn't do too much work, so he was recruited to be in charge of the stove, and he was paid a high wage of [-] Wen a day.

"Excuse me." The chief nodded.

"Xiao Wu, are you thirsty? Have a drink?" Another older man came with a ten-year-old child, who seemed to be a grandparent.

"Drink, I'm cold." Xiao Wu shivered.

"Xiao Wu, sit this way, there are noble people there, don't get your clothes dirty."

The older one took the child to the opposite side, and he smiled at Li Zhang and Hanhan with humility in his smile.

"Hanhan, why don't we change our clothes! People always avoid us outside." The commander didn't feel very good.

"No, less, it's a matter. Hehehehe!" Zhu Wentian disagreed. When he was dressed, others didn't want to make trouble, and he didn't want to keep arguing with some gangsters.

"No change, no change, this uncle, how old is the child?" the village head communicated with the other party.

"In the case of a nobleman, at the age of 11, Xiao Wu is called Uncle and Brother." The old man replied and instructed the child.

"Hello Uncle, Hello Brother." The child shouted timidly.

"Okay, um! Eat, here." Zhu Wentian took out a few pieces of caramel from his pocket, and pushed them on the table.

"Ouch! My Xiaowu won't eat, won't eat." The old man wanted to push back again.

"The things my family Hanhan gives out, don't just don't give us face." Li Chang's face darkened, and Xiao Wu swallowed his saliva.

"Thank you soon!" The old man reminded the child again.

"Thank you uncle, thank you brother." Xiao Wu's eyes lit up.

"Here." Zhu Wentian took out a handful of fried watermelon seeds from the other pocket, and pushed them over, and he took out a handful and put it beside the chief.

"Thank you brother!" The child thanked directly and asked.

"Old Xu, the head of the village will take it for Xiao Wu. You are welcome, head of the village, Hanhan, water." The fire watcher brought two bowls of water.

Then turn around and send two bamboo tubes of boiling water in front of the grandpa and grandson.

"Thank you, Uncle Li." Xiao Wu recognized him.

The old soldier sat across from the chief and stretched out his hand to grab melon seeds from the side of the chief: "Captain, these two are grandparents. There are many children in the family. There are four sons. They are not separated. Except for the fourth child, the other three are all married. .

Xiaowu's father worked in the mine, and his mother washed clothes for others. No one took the child with him, so Lao Xu took it with him when he went out.

The duck eggs are sold today, and it seems that they are all sold, which is good. I can go home earlier, and I usually have to sell them until the afternoon. "

As he spoke, he threw two five-spice watermelon seeds into his mouth, without licking them, but with the taste of sucking.

The chief took out a large handful of watermelon seeds from Hanhan's pocket, put them in front of the veteran, and said to the old man, "It's good to have many children and grandchildren!"

"Yes, yes, there is no war now, and it is stable. Xiao Wu will let the ducks go, and we will raise more ducks in the spring."

The old man was very proud when he heard that he had many children and grandchildren.

"Old Xu, this is the treasurer of the Danqing Library. Xiaowu wants to read a book, so tell the chief." The veteran introduced the chief again.

"Yo! The village head of Dongliang Village in Daming? I'm blind, I just know he's a nobleman." The old man's attitude changed again, and he seemed less scared.

"If you want to read, you can go in. The library didn't say who can go in and who is not allowed in. Ah! Is Xiaowu literate?"

The head of the village suddenly became embarrassed. He couldn't read, so what did he go in to see?
"Picture, Kui, look. Mmmmmmm!" Zhu Wentian reminded.

The chief slapped his forehead: "There are books, wait a minute."

As he spoke, he got up and went into the library, thumped up to the second floor, and came back in his twenties with an extra book in his hand.

"Xiao Wu, look, this is called Kuiben's four-character miscellaneous characters. Last year, the current emperor ordered someone to print it. There are pictures and characters, and you can learn to read by looking at the pictures."

The head of the village told Xiao Wu that the library would naturally not be short of the ones sealed by the imperial court last year.

The old man stopped his grandson: "Xiao Wu, come here and wash your hands, don't get dirty."

He led the child to the wooden basin next to it, where there was a place for washing hands, a bar of soap and a towel.

After washing and wiping it clean, Xiao Wu couldn't wait to open the book and look at the pictures on it. To him, words are pictures.

"Shoes, read the word...shoes, duck, read duck, big goose, goose..."

Xiao Wu forgot to be cold, and didn't bother to eat. He stared at the pictures in the book to identify them, and then read the words.

"Xiao Wu drinks water, takes the book back to read, and then goes inside to register." The head of the village is afraid that the child will be thirsty and cold.

"Ah! Thank you, Uncle." Xiao Wu carefully closed the book, put it aside again, and then picked up the bamboo tube to blow and drink, but kept his eyes on the book.

"Lichang, can people like us borrow books?" The old man looked into Lichang's eyes, wanting to get an affirmative answer.

"If only scholars can borrow it, and scholars don't need this picture-literate book, who can I give it to?
Take it back and read it slowly, or go in, go to the back, there are... not very well-dressed scholars, read it there, and you can ask them if you can't guess the word. "

The head of the village gave a very reasonable explanation, and by the way used the scholars.

"I dare not ask people, they are all learned." The old man smiled awkwardly.

The veteran finally ate the two watermelon seeds, and said from the sidelines: "Why can't you ask? The library gives them free reading and food, and others can't ask them?"

"That's the reason, the library is the state to teach the people, and if there is a lack of virtue, then they are not the people the library should teach.

Not to mention the poorly dressed ones, even if they are wearing silk and satin, if you catch them, ask them. I was wrong just now. Look at the ones on the first floor who spent money to sit and read. Ask him, and if you don’t tell me, you will return the money and you will never be allowed to enter. library. "

The head of the village recognized the words of the veterans, and one by one waited to take the imperial examination to become an official. Now that the child asks a word and you don’t tell me, if you really become an official, is it okay?

(End of this chapter)