The nervousness on the return trip was gone. Lu Xu and Yan Junqi carried the gifts they bought on their backs and hired a donkey cart to the dock. They had a meal on the shore with the boatman, replenished their supplies, and then walked back slowly.
In the evening, they missed the pier where they could dock, so they simply didn't hurry. They stayed on the boat, opened the cabin windows, lit a fire to bake steamed buns, and watched the stars and the moon on the boat.
There is no one around, the sky is low in the wilderness, thin clouds cover the moon, the stars are brighter, and Lu Xudu appears leisurely in the silence.
"I used to go out from home and walk on the mountain road to Guanyang. I went out early in the morning and could see a large number of stars. Even if I was too tired from walking, it was more comfortable to take a boat." Lu Xu leaned on the mat and lay on his back, feeling The water flowed through the bottom of the boat, and time seemed to slow down.
"Ah." Yan Jun responded. He was a little dizzy and extremely relaxed, leaning on the other side as if he was drunk and had no image. This night was the most relaxing night since he learned about his father's death.
When the ship arrived at Guanyang Pier, Lu Xu jumped off the ship with his stiff limbs and then handed his luggage to Tan Shitou. However, he saw a person on the patrol team at the pier that surprised him - Luo Shen.
Lu Xu immediately stopped caring and ran away, heading straight to Luo Shen, "Brother Luo! When did you come back? Did the journey go well? How is my brother? Is everyone okay?"
Luo Shen didn't even see the other person clearly, and his ears buzzed again. He frowned and said calmly: "You came back yesterday. Your brother is very good. He is responsible for transporting grain and grass in the rear of the army."
Lu Xu breathed a sigh of relief and kept saying: "Great, great! Then..."
Luo Shen: "Qiu Hu went to the front line with the army."
Lu Xu put another ladle of cold water in his pocket, "Frontline?"
Tan Shitou, who was running behind him, immediately froze on the spot.
Luo Shen said: "Qiu Hu was selected into the main army because of his heroic performance in the army."
Lu Xu didn't know how to react.
Yan Junqi approached and asked, "Is the main force still in Shuozhou now?"
Luo Shen looked at him, shook his head and said, "The army has set off to the west."
west……
Lu Xu had no idea at all.
He only knows that Shuozhou is to the north of Longxing, and where is Shuozhou to the west?
Tan Shitou asked: "Brother Dahu and the others were not injured, right?"
Luo Shen nodded.
Tan Shitou immediately became happy.
No matter where he goes, as long as no one is injured, everything will be fine!
Tan Shitou was very happy. He bid farewell to Luo Shen together with Lu Xu and others, and happily went to the city to announce the good news. Lu Xu had to be here. He saw Luo Shen yesterday and didn't even think about going over to inquire about the situation.
Nowadays, people from the Qiu family, as well as people from their alliance, like to go to the grocery store. Once they come, they deliver goods to the village. After collecting money or vegetables, eggs, grain, etc., they need to take them to the grocery store to sell them. Secondly, what is the shortcoming? Liang Shanbao, who is looking at the grocery store, has to replenish the goods. Thirdly, the grocery store is on East Street. The location is good and it is convenient to go anywhere.
Lu Xushui entered the grocery store by a familiar route, but unexpectedly saw Lu Zhou sitting behind the counter keeping accounts.
He rubbed his eyes in disbelief and looked again. It was really their Lu Zhou!
"Brother!"
Lu Wen, who was helping bundle the vegetables, also saw Lu Xu, put down the vegetables and shouted first.
Lu Xu turned his head, okay, there is another one here!
When Lu Zhou heard the voice, he also put down his pen, jumped off the stool, and walked over quickly, "Brother."
Lu Xu rubbed their heads, "Why are you two here?"
Liang Shanbao praised: "The two of them went to the city to sell fried dough sticks, and after they sold out, they came over to help us work and settle accounts. Xiaozhou is indeed your brother, so smart!"
When he heard that he was selling fried dough sticks in the city, Lu Xu looked at Lu Wen subconsciously. He was a little surprised, but not too surprised. Lu Wen was courageous and only wanted to make money. He also became familiar with Tan Shitou and the others with him and dared to go to the audience. It is reasonable for Yang to sell fried dough sticks, but this is a bit too courageous. How old is Lu Wen? He is such a young person, and he is not afraid of being robbed with money?
When Lu Xu heard about the settlement, he was confused.
Later, he remembered that Lu Zhou was sitting at the table with a brush just now, writing and drawing. When will their Lu Zhou settle accounts and learn to write? !
Lu Xu asked Lu Zhou to bring him the account book for a look. Lu Zhou walked over nervously and brought the account book over.
Lu Xu also read Yan Junqi's handwriting every day, and he could tell at a glance that Lu Zhou's handwriting was really not good. The horizontal lines were uneven and the vertical lines were not straight, and the ink was shaking crookedly. Some places looked like they had been traced several times before they were right. He also found typos, but——
When did their Lu Zhou learn to write? !
Why doesn't he know?
There is a word in this ledger that he doesn't even recognize!
Lu Xu turned to Yan Junqi and asked, "Did you teach him?"
Yan Junqi shook his head.
He also only taught Lu Zhou some children's poems, which were all taught by the way when he was teaching Wenzhen. Lu Zhou learned quickly, and he would teach Lu Zhou a few more poems after memorizing them, but he never taught Lu Zhou systematic reading or accounting.
Yan Junqi looked carefully and found that many words in the ledger were misspelled with the same sound. Lu Zhou really didn't recognize many words. He wrote "leek" as "jiucai", "egg" as "dan" and "duck egg" as "yadan". , and also drew circles of different sizes on the side to distinguish them. Yan Junqi guessed that Lu Zhou memorized these words from the poem he had memorized. He secretly memorized those words when he was practicing calligraphy in the yard and writing them to Wen Zhen.
Although the nouns were wrong a lot, Lu Zhou calculated the numbers correctly and remembered the numbers correctly.
Lu Xu put down the account book and was silent for a moment. When Lu Zhou was twirling his fingers in fear, he suddenly held Lu Zhou's head with both hands and lifted Lu Zhou up like a carrot. Then he rubbed and pulled Lu Zhou's ears for a while. He gritted his teeth in joy and said, "Okay, you, I didn't even notice it! We still have such a genius child in our family!"
Lu Zhou: "..."
Lu Zhou was scared and stiff, not daring to move. He observed quietly and couldn't tell whether his brother was happy or unhappy.
Lu Xu dug out the "Meng Lin" and "Suzhou Sutra" he bought from his bag, and photographed Lu Zhou in his arms saying to himself, "As expected of his brother, he and I are so in tune with each other."
Lu Zhou was stunned: "Give it to me?"
Lu Xu: "Here you go!"
Lu Zhou showed a delighted smile and heard Lu Xu say: "Xiao Wen, Shi Tou, Shan Bao, and you all, please learn from me. Is it okay for you to be such an adult and ask my brother to keep accounts for you?!"
Lu Zhou froze.
Lu Wen was also dumbfounded. He was picking vegetables, his hands were full of mud, and his black fingers pointed at himself, "I want to learn too?"
Lu Xu: "Of course you have to learn. Lu Zhou can write, but you still don't know how to read!"
Lu Wen was angry.
That idiot Lu Zhou wants to study. What does Lu Xiaowen have to do with him? !
Tan Shitou and Liang Shanbao were also stunned. They watched Lu Xu take the book out of Lu Zhou's arms and opened it for them to see. They watched Lu Xu read to them one, two, three, four, five, ten hundred thousand, ten thousand. , everything looks similar! It’s more convenient to draw horizontal and vertical lines!
The grocery store suddenly became busy. Those who saw something bad, greased their soles and tried to run away were all caught by Lu Xu. One by one, they all stood in a row according to their size.
The ink and the brush were ready-made, so Lu Xu directly asked Yan Junqi to write "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten million" on the wall.
If you don’t know them, count from the beginning.
There are also "two cents per catty", the common "eggs", "duck eggs", "green vegetables", "radish"...
Yan Junqi wrote on the wall, Lu Xu drew simple drawings on the words, and compiled a wall of pictures and literacy on the spot.
It doesn't matter if you don't know how to write. Just trace the gourd and the scoop. If you read it three times a day, you will be able to recognize it.
As for the wheat, millet, and beans that were difficult to distinguish, Lu Xu had an idea and asked Tan Shitou to boil a paste, dip a few grains of each in the paste, and stick it to the wall. As long as the mind does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties. Lu Xu is resourceful, makes specimens online, and has real objects on display, so he is not afraid that they will not recognize him.
Liang Shanbao thought this method was very good, "In the future, I will boil the eggs and keep the shells and stick them on the wall!"
Tan Shitou: "Then let's cook it tonight, one egg, one duck egg, and write for the mountain goods shop, apple, pear, walnut, chestnut, hawthorn, date..."
Liang Shanbao: "Yes, yes, yes, write that for the mountain goods shop too!"
Everyone brainstormed and asked Yan Junqi to write the names of various objects on the wall. In the midst of the fun, Lu Zhou was the only one who felt a little lost.
He and Lu Wen were the youngest, standing at the front and seeing the most clearly. He wrote many words wrongly.
Lu Zhou lowered his head and silently opened the book that Lu Xu bought for him. This "Menglin" also has illustrations. There are fish, birds, insects, chickens, ducks, geese, trees, flowers, grass... The book is beautifully printed. The body and paper are also very good. Twelve Moon will definitely like it very much when he sees it.
However, this literacy book is not the kind of blind book that Yan Junqi showed Wen Zhen, the kind of book with only words and nothing else, and every sentence must be memorized.
Lu Zhou felt depressed as he touched the valuable Meng Shu that Lu Xu had carefully selected.
Going home in the afternoon, Lu Wen sat on the boat and looked through the illustrated book. After Yan Junqi and Lu Xu drew and wrote on the wall, Lu Wen became less repelled by this kind of book with pictures and text. It was just these illustrations...
At what time will it rain?
Why do the mountains on the bottom and the clouds on the top represent the sky?
How can a curved line be a snake?
Is the snake-like thing an eel again?
What the hell, can you draw? It's not as good as his elder brother's painting on the earth wall with a stick of charcoal.
Lu Wen closed the book and asked Lu Xu: "Brother, how much does this book cost?"
Lu Xu: "Three liang."
Lu Wen lost his voice: "How much? Three taels?! You bought this thing for three taels of silver?!"
Lu Xu: "Be careful, if you drop the book into the river I will throw you in to fish it out!"
Lu Wen curled his lips and returned the book to Lu Zhou, three liang. With such a thin book, those who read it are all fools, right? !
Lu Zhou was lost in thought while touching the book.
A Mongolian book cost three taels. He wanted to take the college entrance examination like Yan Junqi. How much money would he have to spend on books?
Lu Zhou was worried and depressed, but Lu Xu couldn't understand. He asked in confusion, "What's wrong? You're looking sad? You don't like studying either?"
Lu Zhou said hurriedly: "No, I didn't..."
Lu Xu touched his head and felt soft. He understood. He understood best. Brother Devil gave him a kind hand and comforted his younger brother softly: "I didn't ask you to finish reading in one day. Take your time. Recognize one or two words a day. Take your time." Just admit it all, it doesn't matter if you don't, you don't have to take the imperial examination, you just need to be able to write your name, write letters, and keep accounts."
Lu Zhou tilted his head, his expression becoming duller, Lu Wen covered his face, God, he couldn't bear to watch anymore.
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