Mingshi

Chapter 14 Father's Decision

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After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, he thought about the experience on the paper in the volume of Analects he read in the afternoon, and Luo was confident that the status of the master of the Lu family must be extraordinary.To understand the Analects to this extent, it is impossible to be a commoner.

Putting down the Analects of Confucius, put on his shoes on the ground, pushed the door and went out, and saw the eldest brother chopping wood with an axe.

"Brother, I'm coming!"

"Bang!" Luo Qing chopped down with an axe, "No need, I'll finish chopping this little firewood soon."

Luo Xin stopped talking, and stood aside squinting his eyes and looking at the evening sky. After standing for a while, he felt a little cold on his body.Then he stood in the middle of the courtyard and played Tai Chi.

"Little brother, what kind of punch is this?" Luo Qing had already finished chopping firewood and was looking at Luo Xin curiously.

"Tai Chi!"

"Tai Chi! I heard it's Taoist Kung Fu, but it's really good to play, but I don't know if I can get into it."

Luo Xin smiled and continued to practice Taijiquan. Footsteps came from outside the door, and he saw his father pushed open the door and walked in with a bag on his shoulder.

"Father!" Luo Qing went up to meet him, and Luo Xin also stopped and walked towards his father.

"Xin'er, go into the house and see what dad bought you?"

Looking at the bag on Luo Ping's shoulders, Luo felt enlightened, and hurriedly followed his father into the house.

"His father is back!" Luo Shi also put down the needle and thread in his hand, and got down from the kang.

Luo Ping carefully placed the bag on the table, and then untied it gently, Luo Xin's eyes lit up.Inside the bag were a brush, an inkstone, a piece of ink, and a knife of paper.

"I finally saw these things!" Luo Xin felt excited.

"Father, how much copper did these cost?"

"Five hundred Wen!" Luo Ping smiled innocently, but his eyes were shining brightly at Luo Xin: "Xin'er will definitely make a lot of money."

After the words fell, he glanced at the painting on the wall.Undoubtedly, the old man felt that if Luo Xin could draw such a painting, he had spiritual wisdom, and he would definitely honor his ancestors in the future.

Luo Xin's heart was sour, he never thought that his frugal father would spend [-] Wen to buy the Four Treasures of the Study for him, especially buying a knife of paper.Today's daimyo, paper is not cheap, it is a luxury.Five hundred Wenfang Four Treasures plus five hundred Wen Shu Xiu, one tael of silver is spent.This is only a year's cost, what about next year?Luo Xin sighed softly, gently stretched out his hand to caress the paper on the table, a warm current surged in his heart.

"My road to Daming begins here!"

"The Chinese New Year is only a few days away." Luo Ping sat on the stool and said, "Tomorrow I will take Xin'er to apprentice, so that when the Chinese New Year is over, Xin'er can go to school to study."

"Thank you dad!" Luo Xin said softly.

"Xin'er's study is a time-consuming thing, and you can't just study for one year. This time, because Xin'er happened to earn a car, how can there be such a coincidence in the future? Today I have gone to the county's bank, After the fifteenth day, I will go to a bank, and I can earn a lot of money in a year, so Shu Xiu, who believes in studying, will be solved, Qing'er."

"father!"

"The three mu of land at home will be handed over to you, and you have to take care of it."

Luo Qing puffed out his chest and said, "Father, I have grown up, and I will definitely take care of the fields."

"Xiang Ling, when I'm not at home, the house will be handed over to you."

Luo Shi nodded and said: "Father, don't worry, I will take care of the house. But you must pay attention to safety outside."

"I know!"

Luo felt a little bitter in his heart. For him to study alone, the whole family was serving him. This emotional debt made him a little breathless.

"father……"

"Xin'er, don't feel burdened. As long as you pass the exam as a scholar like your uncle, your family will be exempt from tax and corvee. If you feel that you owe it to your family, you should study hard. Try to be a scholar in ten years and come back."

"Ten years? How could I have waited so long!" Luo Xin secretly thought, took a light breath and said, "Yes!"

the next day.

Luo Ping took Luo Xin to visit Lin Chang, a private school scholar in the village. After Lin Chang received Shu Xiu, he told Luo Ping to start classes on the [-]th day of the first month.He didn't ask too much. He is an old man in Shanglin Village. He knows every household very well. Naturally, he knows that Luo Xin has never read a book, so he doesn't have Kao Luoxin.

Luo Xin went home with his father, and his father began to make bookcases for Luo Xin.Luo Qing was playing with a big knife in the yard, and Luo Xin took out the copybook that Steward Lu gave him in the house and prepared to copy it.It's not that he wants to practice calligraphy, his calligraphy has reached the level of mastery, there is no need to continue practicing, unless he wants to create a new font.

No need, Luo Xin didn't want to be a great calligrapher.He just needs a process to let the people around him know that he is practicing calligraphy, and no one will be surprised when the time comes.

Looking at the piece of paper, Luo Xin hesitated for a moment, suddenly his eyes lit up, he put down his brush and ran to the yard to see that his father was about to finish a bookcase.Then ran up to:
"Daddy, make a flat panel, just like a panel, just this big." While speaking, Luo Xin gestured for the size.

"doing what?"

"Practice calligraphy!"

"Practice calligraphy?"

"Well, use a brush dipped in water to write on the wooden board, so that you can save paper."

Luo Ping stretched out his hand and patted Luo Xin's head and said, "Xin'er is smart! Daddy will make it for you right away."

In less than a quarter of an hour, Luo Ping finished a wooden board, and Luo Xin ran into the room with the board in his arms, put his eyes on the table, took a bowl of water from the water tank, and put it on the wooden board Beside, dipped the brush in water and began to write on the wooden board.After writing a word, I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart.It's hard to write well, and it's not easy to write badly!
Luo Xin wanted to make his handwriting better, so the handwriting he wrote at the beginning should not only not be good, but should also be bad.But it is really not easy for him who is used to writing beautiful words to write bad words.

After practicing for more than two quarters of an hour, Luo Xin looked at the writing on the wooden board and nodded in satisfaction, the writing was much uglier.The door was pushed open, and Dad walked in, holding a bookcase in his hand.Open the bookcase, take out a palm-sized gourd from it, put it on the table and say:
"Xin'er, this little gourd is used to hold water. Hurry up and put the Four Treasures of the Study into the bookcase to see if it fits. If there is something inappropriate, Dad can correct it for you."

Looking at his father's expectant eyes, Luo Xin put down the brush and put each item into the bookcase, then raised his smiling face:

"Thank you Daddy!"

"Just fit! Just fit!" Luo Ping stood aside and rubbed his big hands excitedly.

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