In the next few days, in addition to studying through documentaries, Li Shi would also discuss issues with "Bai Mangmang" from time to time.
At the end of the new year, and Li Shi's requirements were quite special and high, it was difficult for his assistant Zhang Huijing to find someone. Fortunately, there were free teachers available for him, so he was not in a hurry.
As time entered February, Li Shi gradually slowed down his study pace. Occasionally, he went to the supermarket and found that the supermarket had begun to sell lanterns, couplets and other new year products. Looking at these red things, for a moment, he felt that there was so much A touch of the year.
He immediately took out his phone and looked at the calendar.
February 4th is the 19th day of the twelfth lunar month, the beginning of spring, five days before the Little New Year in the north and six days before the Little New Year in the south.
"There are only eleven days until the Chinese New Year, and the days go by so fast."
After returning home, Li Shi made a video call with Chen Qiuye and Wang Yuelan to confirm the schedule during the Chinese New Year. Then he called his mother and told her that he would go back to pick her up on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and that they would be together in Tanzhou. Celebrate the New Year in the house.
I just finished the video call with my mother, and not long after, my assistant Zhang Huijing called me to report on the finishing work of the self-built house.
After hearing this, Li Shi said, "Okay, come to me tomorrow after you return to Tanzhou. It's the end of the year. Let's have a meal and give you a little bonus."
Zhang Huijing immediately smiled and said loudly: "Thank you, boss!"
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
At noon the next day, the two had a meal at the restaurant they used to go to. Li Shi gave her five months' salary as a bonus to reward her for her hard work since joining the company.
Her monthly salary is 10,000 yuan, and her five-month salary is 50,000 yuan.
Seeing so much small money, Zhang Huijing stood up excitedly on the spot and bowed.
It almost didn't scare Li Shi.
At around four o'clock that afternoon, Li Shi finally watched the 100th episode of the "General History of China" documentary: The End of the Imperial System.
"Another new force has quietly emerged."
"For two thousand years, many emperors have appeared in this eastern land...calling for the arrival of a new era."
The last episode was also finished.
Looking at the ending song and subtitles, Li Shi felt a little disappointed for a moment.
One hundred episodes of documentaries, carrying thousands of years of history, were displayed in front of him one by one like a magnificent painting.
At the moment it ended, he was somewhat in a trance.
After a while, Li Shi calmly opened the comment area and checked the comments of netizens on the last episode.
The most liked quote from netizens was Gu Hongming's famous quote.
Most of the comments below are people’s emotions.
There are a lot of things to say, but generally speaking, it is still within the scope of "taking history as a mirror."
He stood up, moved his limbs, and sat down again.
Li Shi called up the study panel and "looked" at it, then set his eyes on the tablet again, clicked on the catalog of the documentary, and compared the titles of each episode in the catalog, took out the study notebook, and started to compare them one by one. With memories:
"Chinese road, Chinese ancestors, the origin of agriculture, the origin of civilization, the era of states, the search for the Xia Dynasty, the rise and fall of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the civilization of the Shang Dynasty, King Wu's defeat of the Shang Dynasties, the regency of Zhou Gong... The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1894, the Reform and geming, the end of the imperial system .”
As his physical attributes improved, his memory became better and better.
Based on the previous foundation and the full-time study this time, looking at these titles and notes, he was able to mentally review the timeline represented by each title and the major events that occurred on the timeline.
This sitting lasted for more than an hour.
It was getting dark outside, and the light inside the house gradually dimmed.
Li Shi's eyes finally came to "the end of the imperial system."
After closing the notebook, this trip of memories gave him the feeling that "a moment is a lifetime."
I can't help but think of a sentence I once read: The page you turn over in the history book is their magnificent life.
At the same time, something touched my mind.
I called up the learning panel to check, and it was indeed upgraded. The study of Chinese history was promoted from the original (Introductory) to (Introductory+).
Learning and being promoted is naturally a happy thing, but unlike the previous excitement, this time, Li Shi's mood was particularly calm due to the "heavy" influence of history.
It's that kind of light happiness.
This is a very strange experience.
He had never experienced it before and it felt good.
After studying the documentary "General History of China", Li Shi completely relaxed, although he continued to read "Outline of National History" written by Qian Mu and "General History of China written by Lu Simian" to deepen his study of the general history of China. , but he significantly reduced the time he spent studying history.
I only spend two or three hours a day reading historical works.
Instead, I increased the post writing time from the original one hour to two hours, one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening.
The rest of the time, he spent drinking tea and chatting, reading casual books and chatting on QQ.
Xianshu is naturally the Internet.
The main chat on WeChat is with Qiuye and Yuelan, and the chat on QQ is with the recently added female netizen, "Bai Mangming" who is 67% similar to the female celebrity, Teacher Bai.
If nothing else was considered, Li Shi found that he was particularly able to chat with Teacher Bai, a mature woman in her forties.
The two chatted about everything from history to literature, and recently started discussing the Internet.
"Maybe it's because I've read too many books and my mental age has become older?"
Li Shi thought so.
He doesn't care that his mental age is getting older. Anyway, he is used to being older in everything.
When chatting with Teacher Bai, Li Shi simply thought that it would be good and interesting to make a netizen with whom he could have a common topic and whom he could chat with.
I didn't think much about anything else.
A few days later, it was February 8, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Little New Year in the north.
Although the weather is getting colder, except for shopping malls and supermarkets selling New Year goods, other places in the city still don’t have much of a New Year atmosphere.
Sometimes Li Shi misses his childhood, when he lived in the countryside. Although his family had little money and lacked material resources, during the Chinese New Year, the adults used money to buy him cheap new clothes on the streets of the town and grind soybeans for soy milk. Make tofu, kill the head of the New Year pig, eat some butchered vegetables... He seems happy.
The same goes for other children in the village.
Everyone gathers together. Your family will eat lard residue at this party, and their family will eat fried tofu later. Then, looking forward to double-digit New Year's money and candies at most, they will play with pictures and burn dry straw in the fields. Running all over the village.
"Ever since I went to college, moved to the city, or grew up, I don't think it's good to celebrate the New Year. When it comes to the Chinese New Year, I'm afraid of people asking about my grades, my job, my relationship... and myself, I'm afraid that people will come to collect debts, ugh."
Li Shi loaded the prepared cigarettes and alcohol into the trunk of the Bentley, then went to the bank to withdraw cash, bought red envelopes at the supermarket, then drove out of the city and took the highway straight to his hometown of Zhaoyang County.
This trip back was to pick up my mother and come to Tanzhou to celebrate the New Year.
When I got to town, I first went to my cousin's house, put down some cigarettes and alcohol, and then returned to the village.
I walked around the village and sat at the homes of the cousins who had lent money to their families. The younger ones left cigarettes and alcohol, while the older elders gave them red envelopes for New Year greetings. Two thousand dollars in cash.
He also made it very clear that this year he took his mother to the city to celebrate the New Year. If something happens after the New Year, he might not return to the village, so he wished her a happy New Year in advance.
After completing the circle, when he got home, Li Shi was dumbfounded when he saw the pile of things his mother had prepared.
Two cured chickens, two cured ducks, three pieces of cured meat, half a leg of fresh pork, a snakeskin bag of dried mushrooms, fried tofu, croquettes, free-range eggs, dried day lilies, dried lilies, etc., the most important thing , and two live chickens with wings and feet tied with string.
"Mom, didn't you say you don't need to get anything? You..."
Li's mother Zhou Xiaocui said directly: "It's not prepared for you."
Li Shi was speechless immediately. If it was not prepared for him, it was naturally prepared for her daughters-in-law...
Without saying a word, he stuffed it directly into the trunk of the car.
Finally, looking at the two live chickens, he said to his mother: "Either we take one, deal with it now, and eat it tomorrow for the Chinese New Year, and let the other one go home for Nagu to raise. It's not easy to raise in the city, after all." There are still a few days until the Chinese New Year.”
Before returning, Li Shi and Li Qiaona chatted for a while and talked about things in the village.
Li Shi gave her a suggestion: "Nagu, your current household registration is in the village. I think you can run for election when it changes next year."
Li Qiaona was stunned for a moment: "I haven't thought about this."
Li Shi smiled and said, "You can think about it."
Li Qiaona pondered for a moment. She was a resolute person. When Li Shi pointed it out, she immediately figured it out and said immediately: "Then I'll talk to Uncle Shu first."
Li Shi nodded, took out the last red envelope in his pocket, handed it to her, and said, "Okay, I'll leave first. This red envelope is a New Year red envelope for the third grandpa and the third grandma. Please give it to me."
The third master and third wife are her parents.
I didn’t eat in the village at noon. It was still early to rush back to Tanzhou. I looked for a restaurant outside to deal with it. It was only three o’clock in the afternoon when I arrived at Phoenix Bay.
The room was packed before Wang Yuelan went to Yangcheng.
The home originally had four large suites, a nanny's room, a storage room, and a study room.
Li Shi disliked that the previous study room was too small, so he transformed one of the smaller suites into the current study room. There are three remaining suites, one is the master bedroom, and the other two are about the same size, with good views, and are far away from the main bedroom. The one that is farther away will be arranged for my mother to live in, and the one that is closer to the master bedroom will be occupied when Chen Qiuye and Wang Yuelan come back.
There is an old man here, so be careful and don't blatantly sleep in the same room.
My mother has a restless personality and starts busying herself as soon as she gets home. Zhang Luo is sure to have a busy year this year.
Li Shi stayed with her until her mother became familiar with the electrical appliances in the kitchen, and then she occasionally went to calligraphy and reading books.
On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, a small year, the mother and son did some general cleaning and cooked six dishes. Before the meal, they offered sacrifices to the Kitchen God and their ancestors.
In the next two days, although Li Shi deliberately didn't study much and stayed with his mother, the old man still felt bored. He bluntly said that he had to go back to his hometown early after the New Year. The city was too boring and boring.
It wasn't until the morning of the 28th of the twelfth lunar month that her mood improved. She got up early in the morning and took Li Shi to drive to the supermarket to buy fresh vegetables. She said that when Chen Qiuye and the others arrived at noon, they must let her go. They can enjoy sumptuous hot meals and dishes as soon as they walk in.
After returning from shopping for groceries, Li Shi helped. When it was almost ten o'clock, he drove to the high-speed rail station. After waiting for a while, he picked up Chen Qiuye and Wang Yuelan who were pushing two oversized suitcases.
The two of them were wearing the same down jacket, one white and one khaki, standing together, so attractive.
After getting in the car, Chen Qiuye sat in the passenger seat. She was very excited at first, but as the car drove across the river and got closer to home, she began to become nervous.
Wang Yuelan in the back seat was okay. She was Chen Qiuye's "cousin" today.
But Chen Qiuye was Chen Qiuye. For such a "ruthless person", no matter how big the problem was, she would only be nervous for a moment. She quickly adjusted her mood. When the car was parked in the garage, there was no trace of any nervousness on her surface.
Even a little impatient.
"Let's go up quickly, don't let Auntie wait too long."
With that said, Chen Qiuye walked straight towards the elevator. After walking a few steps, he came back, took Wang Yuelan's arm and pulled her with him.
A few minutes later.
Everyone was sitting in the living room. Mother Li held Chen Qiuye's hand and sat together. She stared at her face with a smile on her face for a while, then turned to Li Shi and said, "Qiuye is so beautiful, she looks even better in person than in the video." She’s beautiful, it’s a pity that she doesn’t deserve you, Shitou, you’re too high-spirited.”
Li Shi smiled along with his mother.
But Chen Qiuye immediately said: "Auntie, Shitou has been trained very well by you. You don't know, but I am actually the one who actively pursues him."
This sentence immediately made Mother Li happy.
Looking at Chen Qiuye, the more he looked at it, the more pleasing he became.
Of course, the old man did not neglect Wang Yuelan, his "cousin", and took her to chat with the same enthusiasm.
After chatting for a while, they started to eat. After eating, they cleared the table and then went to the kitchen to clean up and arrange the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Ingredients such as fish maw need to be soaked in advance.
There were two women accompanying his mother. Li Shi came to the study and read with peace of mind.
What he read today was Qian Mu's "Outline of National History". In the days before, he had read fifteen introductions and one autobiography of the book. Today he finally read the first chapter: "The Origin of Chinese Culture in the Central Plains"
"The modern exploration of ancient history can be described in two ways: first, the excavation of prehistoric relics. Second, the review of legends and myths."
"The excavation of prehistoric relics can be divided into three parts..."
"Gansu Qingyang in the Paleolithic Age, Zhoukoudian in the capital, Lantian in Shaanxi, etc., Yangshao Culture in the New Age, Longshan Culture in Anyang, etc... Especially the excavation of the Yin Ruins in Anyang, I really want to see it."
When studying history, if you only read the words in books, you won’t get much intuitive experience.
After reading this, Li Shi had the idea of waiting for the Chinese New Year and following the historical sites to visit them.
Just then, there was a sudden knock on the door.
I got up and opened the door and saw that it was indeed my mother.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
Mother Li didn't say anything at first. After walking into the study, she asked in a low voice: "Shitou, what's going on with Qiuye's cousin? How come she is so familiar with the house, especially the kitchen, where everything is placed, more than Qiuye It’s still clear.”
Wishing my fellow Taoists a happy New Year.
(End of chapter)
