Wentang

Chapter 26 Memory
Yue Shan didn't regard teaching those children to write as a big deal, and he didn't even mention it when he got home.Yue Shui'er is only six years old, and naturally she doesn't understand, and besides, she will not take the initiative to strike up a conversation because she is relatively born with her parents.

So Yue and Lao Si didn't know what happened during the day, and the family had a happy dinner.

There is fish and meat, not to mention how moist it is.And after so long, Yue Shan has gotten used to the smell of fish and eats it with relish.

Just after eating, Yue Shan took out his own dagger and said, "Father, sharpen this knife, it's too blunt, it can't even cut twigs."

Yue Laosi took the dagger, tested the sharpness with his thumb lightly scratched on the blade, and rejected Yue Shan's suggestion: "It's still usable, don't sharpen it. Let me know next time you're cutting a branch, and I'll help you." you."

Yue Shan wanted to be speechless, rolled his eyes and said, "I cut the branches to learn to write, and the tools for catching fish should also be made from the cut branches. These branches are special, you can't cut them out, only me Just cut it."

Mother Yue Shan, who was sewing new clothes under the moonlight, raised her eyebrows and shouted:

"Yue Laosi, you worthless moji, you can do whatever Shanzi asks you to do. If you delay his important affairs, I want you to look good."

As the so-called mother is more valuable than her son, since Yue Shan became a "genius", Yue Shanniang's status in the family has risen sharply, and she dared to reprimand Yue Laosi from time to time.

In normal times, some people would say that she does not obey women's morals, but now everyone will only say that Yue Shanniang is good at managing the house and teaching her children well.

Fourth Yue is also just habitually stingy, seeing his wife and children's attitude, he immediately realized that their family is not as poor as before, and there is no need to be so careful.

He wasn't angry either, he took out the whetstone with a smile and began to sharpen it.

Yue Shan squatted aside to watch how he sharpened the knife.

His family used a bronze dagger for cooking. It wasn't that the family was rich and extravagant enough to use bronze, a precious metal, as a knife.On the contrary, it is precisely because of poverty that bronze is used.

As mentioned above, the peak iron output in the Tang Dynasty was only about [-] tons, and in the early Tang Dynasty it might only be a few tens of tons.

Most of these irons are used to make war equipment, and very little can be used to make daily necessities.

Although copper is a precious metal, its output is high and its popularity is high. Bronze tools are more common.It was not until the steel output in the Song Dynasty reached more than [-] tons that iron tools became popular.

This data will not be mentioned if it is not necessary in the future, as long as everyone knows it.

This bronze dagger is the treasure of the Yue Shan family, and under normal circumstances, it will be passed down as an important asset for decades and generations.Therefore, if it is not blunt, it will not be polished if it cannot cut things, because the knife will become smaller after one sharpening.

This wear and tear seems insignificant, but it is more serious when it comes to the length of time of decades.

As the so-called quantitative change leads to qualitative change, each grinding will be less, and the damage will be serious if the number of grinding is too high.This is the reason why the iron pestle is ground into a needle.

Originally, his family's bronze dagger was not yet ready to be polished.But Yue Shan used it to cut the wooden strips twice, and it felt so sour.

When carving wooden horseshoes, the reason why blood blisters were worn on the hands had a lot to do with this dagger.

Yue Lao Si didn't say anything, but his actual actions showed that he still cherished this knife, but lightly sharpened the "line" part of the blade.

Yue Shan didn't say anything, it doesn't matter if you grind more or less, as long as it works.

After sharpening the knife, Yue Shan began to weave new fish cages.It turned out that the one wasn't broken, I just wanted to make a new one this time.

Originally, he just wanted to improve his family's life by catching fish, but it turned out to be his main source of income, and he traded fish for anything he needed.

This time he added fish cages because he wanted to buy some "big things" - pens, inks, paper and inkstones.

He had had enough of not having pen and ink.Every time I read, I can't write down what I feel when I read it, which is really uncomfortable.

Living in the age of the information explosion, he has seen a wide range of knowledge intentionally or unintentionally, some of which he didn't even know he had read.

Reading the Analects at this time, those scattered memories will always pop up.I didn't feel much when I watched it back then, but when I think about it now, I think it's just a wise saying.

Every time he reads the Analects of Confucius, he can have many insights.Some are interpretations that I didn’t know where I saw them in my previous life, and some are my own perceptions.

This situation surprised even himself.After reading so many books, the insights I brought are not as deep as the simple and old Analects in front of me.

After a little analysis, he knew the reason, and he was single-minded.

There are too many past life books, and it is difficult to study one book exclusively.The purpose of reading is not pure, just to expand knowledge or to show one's erudition in front of others.

When I read a book, I look at the ten lines without asking for a deep understanding. It is strange to have any great insights.

But now he only has a book of Analects by his side, and his life is monotonous without a computer or mobile phone, and he has no one to chat with, so he can only read books.If you focus on it, your understanding will naturally become deeper.

What made him miserable was that it was easy to forget these insights simply by using his brain, and less than one tenth of them could be remembered.

That's why he wanted to buy pen and paper so urgently, just to record these feelings.

In addition to these insights, he also wanted to record certain other memories.

Because he found that a lot of knowledge is gradually forgotten after being used for a long time.For example, he couldn't remember exactly which year the first Opium War took place.

This is still professional knowledge, and non-professional forgetting is faster.Now he doesn't even know whether the water is h2o or ho2.

It doesn't matter about the Opium War or something, h2o may be too advanced to be useful, but there is still a lot of knowledge that can be useful.

He is very clear that his advantage over the ancients lies in this knowledge.Without this knowledge, he might just be an ordinary person.

So I want to record as much as I can think of now, so as not to forget everything in a few years.

Seeing that his son was going to weave a fish cage, Yue Laosi's hazy eyeballs immediately showed a light of vigilance.Look around like a hunter for any suspicious peeps.

Yue Shan secretly admired his vigilance, who said the ancients were stupid?They are shrewd.

He is not the kind of person who sacrifices himself for others. Right now the fish cage is his only source of income, so naturally he refuses to share it with others.

When his family's living conditions improve in the future, he doesn't mind sharing it with fellow villagers when he no longer relies on fishing.

If you are poor, you will take care of yourself alone, if you are rich, you will have wives and concubines... Bah, those who are successful can also help the world.That's what Mencius said.

Yue Shui'er also winked and ran over to help Yue Shanniang before she could speak.

Naturally, Yue Shan wouldn't ask her to do any work, just pass branches or something.

The whole family just kept silent and busy with their own work, but there was some warmth in it.Yue Shan enjoys this kind of life very much.

As soon as we made a cage bottom, I heard someone shouting outside the door: "Is the fourth brother at home?"

Hearing the sound, Yue Shan hurriedly hid the bottom of the cage in the kitchen.

Only then did Fourth Yue respond: "Here, who is it?"

He only heard the people outside shouting loudly: "I, Feng Luokung."

(End of this chapter)