Ever since Ashi Zaizai was born, apart from being a bit greedy and wanting to eat sweets that his parents would not give him, he had never worried about food. He probably never thought that one day he would want to eat meat and he would not be able to sleep.
After thinking about it, I felt that I was really miserable.
I also miss my mother a little bit.
Fortunately, my mother didn't come with me, otherwise they would have been a pitiful family of three.
He finally understood why his father left his mother and came with him, because he would have starved to death by himself.
Ashi Zaizai sighed for a while, and finally felt a little happy when he ate roast chicken the next day.
The days went by stumblingly, and Ashi Zaizai gradually got used to such a life, and he also went from being outside the crowd to mingling with his peers. Later, because these people were too noisy and chattering, which annoyed him, he simply I became the leader and took charge of these people.
The more Ashi got along with his peers, the more he learned about the daily lives of these ordinary families. The adults were working hard to make money, and each family seemed to have varying degrees of distress.
This may be said that every family has a sutra that is difficult to recite. There are too many grievances, right and wrong involved in the sutra.
And there are black and white people in this world, some bully the good and fear the evil, some look down on the superior and flatter the inferior, some are sneaky and do no good, but there are also some who are kind and tolerant and live every day seriously.
However, the world is not 'black and white', and there are some people who are neither good nor evil.
The streets and alleys, where the fireworks and human beings dim, gather together too many different aspects of life.
Children of the same age also have simple and honest aspirations. Some want to be high officials, some want to make a lot of money, and some want to grow up early and work to support their families.
Ashi Zaizai touched his empty pocket, thinking that he was living a hard life and had to think of ways to make money to support his family.
He finally understood that his father was just working as a husband to make some money to ensure that the father and son would not starve to death. If he wanted him to do other things to improve their lives, he would not agree. He said that this was a test and experience for him. If you want to live a good life, find your own way.
Isn't this embarrassing?
Ashi Zaizai was shocked when he heard this at first. Has he reached the age where he wants to spend money to earn his own money?
He was only six years old, still a cub, and his father actually asked him to find a way to support himself?
But it doesn’t seem impossible. I just want to make money to support my family. What should I do?
He thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to learn sculpture from his father. He had many, many toys, each one lifelike, and many of them were made into mechanisms, so that he could run and jump.
Although he can't make too elaborate toys, he can still make wood carvings.
Li Lin saw that he wanted to learn on his own, so he naturally taught him. About a month later, Ashi Zaizai had already sold the small things he carved and sold them for copper plates.
After these days of hanging out with his peers in school, he no longer has the burden of being a nobleman. He can go up the mountains to catch chickens and go down to the rivers to fish, so he is happier making money. Although he earns a few copper coins every time he goes out, he still Very happy.
The days passed like this. Ashi Zaizai got up every morning to practice martial arts, and then went to the school with his father to attend classes. He came back at noon to have a meal and then took a nap. In the afternoon, he learned about herbal medicine and pharmacology or did other things. own things.
The school here only has classes in the morning. In the afternoon, you can stay in the school to practice writing or go home, so you are free in the afternoon. He is smart and has his father to help him. Naturally, his learning progress is beyond what others can catch up with even if they are on horseback. .
He knew a lot of words, and for a while he even liked reading various travel notes. After reading them, he felt that the world was big and people were small, and he thought that when he grew up, he would definitely go and see the vastness of the world.
Li Lin took him to live in this market for two years, watching him change from the young master of the Li family who never touched the spring water to a young boy who made a fire and cooked by himself when he was hungry. When he wanted to spend money, he would think for himself. Find a way to make some money, and no matter what situation you end up in, you won't starve to death.
People come and go in the market, and all kinds of grievances and grievances are staged. Sometimes it is difficult to tell who is real and who is fake. At first, Ashi Zaizai was also very surprised, but under his father's subtle guidance, he also understood the world. The right and wrong grievances are true and false.
He will look at things in the world with a normal attitude and use his own eyes and wisdom to distinguish between truth and falsehood.
If a child is randomly thrown out like this, he may learn things he shouldn't learn for some reason in this market, and he will grow crooked by then, but with his father by his side, he will guide him on the right and bright path. go.
The marketplace is his first place of survival experience.
Learn the principles of the world, distinguish right from wrong in the world, and even more, know not to look down on ordinary people because of your noble status. Everyone in the world is human, and so are you, and so is everyone else.
And when you are in a high position, you need to understand the needs of the people. Sometimes to you it is just a trivial matter like a dust, but to them, it is a future in life that they want to give everything and fight for.
One of the great shortcomings of the monarchy is that the person at the top can dictate how all the people in the world live.
If the ruler is benevolent, the people of the world will live a better life. If the ruler is unkind, then for the people of the world, it will be a disaster that will destroy the world.
The heir to the Li family needs to be someone who loves and cares for the people.
In the past two years, the father and son only returned to Licheng to reunite with Su Wan during the Chinese New Year. They had to leave again after the spring. Although Su Wan was reluctant to part with them, he still sent them away.
Two years later, Li Lin took his children to another place.
This time they left the market and went to a remote village, where they bought three acres of land and lived there. Then they began to study and farm with their children.
Ashi Zaizai thought that the life without eating meat was already very pitiful, but he didn't expect that the mountains were higher than the other. Let alone eating meat this time, if he didn't work hard, he wouldn't even be able to eat enough.
Only those who have experienced the hard work of farming can know the true meaning of "Every grain is hard-earned", know that all food in the world is hard-earned, and know what life is like for the people at the lowest level.
In order to have a bite to eat, Ashizaizai learned many skills to make money and survive on his own, from weaving bamboo baskets to hunting in the mountains with his father. However, his father only accompanied him, and whether he could hunt or not was up to him.
After two years of farming, Ashi Zaizai is now ten years old. Although he is still a little immature, he already has the gentle look of a young man with a hint of edge.
After Ah Shi turned ten, Li Lin didn't stay with him for too long. Instead, he took him all over the world. If he met a good scenery, he would stay and enjoy it. If he met someone, what would happen? Difficulties, but also to help solve difficulties.
Stop and go like this, embarking on the long journey of life...
