Cong'er guessed right. This "clever" little girl was indeed not Dr. Yan Ying's biological daughter, but the daughter of his brother Yan Lai's concubine, because his younger brother secretly took a concubine, and the concubine died after giving birth to a daughter. , this unnamed daughter did not get the permission of his wife to enter the house, so he had to temporarily adopt him and his son together. Therefore, they both have the surname "Ji", and the two brothers and sisters are cousins.
Because the little girl was brought in from birth and grew up with "Chicken Brother", Yan Ying regarded her as his own, treated her without any distinction, and even doted on her even more. From the face of this unfortunate child, it can be seen that There is less than a little bit of "unhappiness", and I am as happy as a little swallow all day long, flying around, climbing up and down, enjoying all the happiness that belongs to childhood.
There is an old saying, "You see your age at the age of three." This clever little kid is already a slut when he is less than three years old! She is very good at observing words and emotions, accurately guessing the thoughts of adults, and she can cleverly use her unique method to express her catering in a tortuous and tactful way. Yan Ying is always amazed and feels that he can learn from this little child. , I learned a lot of methods, many of which were very unconventional, but very clever, and even somewhat "understanding" that should be beyond this age.
Once, when the little clever ghost wanted to go out to herd sheep with "Chicken Brother", but because she was still young, only three years old and not as tall as a little lamb, Yan Ying of course disagreed and asked her to stay at home with him. The mother was spinning wool and pretended to pose a question to the little girl: "There are many wolves in the mountain fruit. They are not only interested in eating goats, but also girls! Especially those who are three years old." Xiluzai! Are you surprised?"
At this time, the little clever guy pretended to be serious and said to his father: "Yes, I have heard that among the wolves, there is an alpha wolf with a big mouth and four rows of teeth. If Eating the meat of Xiluzai, President Zou will stop growing, and it will grow, and grow, until it pierces his own lips. If he eats anything more, he will starve to death! You don’t know. What?"
Yan Ying was surprised and asked again: "I'm just pretending to ask you. Do you understand why you are lying to me?"
The little clever guy replied: "Everyone pretends to ask me a question, and I can pretend to answer it! What are you talking about?"
The old man and the young man carefully made up two lies for each other. The old man lied to the little girl and said that there are many wolves on the other side of the mountain. They not only like to eat lambs, but also like to eat girls, especially three-year-old girls. The child asked her if she was afraid; the younger one said seriously that she had heard that the leader of the pack had four rows of teeth in his mouth. If he ate the flesh of a child, these teeth would grow. It keeps growing and growing until it pierces its mouth, and then it won’t be able to eat anything, and eventually it will starve to death. They also say don’t bully a child’s ignorance, thinking she doesn’t know!
The old man went on to say, I'm just pretending to ask you, why are you making up nonsense about me? The little boy replied, "If anyone asks me a false question first, of course I can pretend to answer him!" You can continue to brag if you have the ability!
After going back and forth twice, seeing the little girl's proud expression, Yan Ying felt that he was being "taught" by a little girl.
Yan Ying thinks that the most adorable thing about the little girl is that she sees everything in the world as equal to herself. She will have a serious dialogue with every sheep in her flock and give each sheep The sheep were all given names. After her brother put them all back and folded them, she would lie on the railing next to the sheepfold and sing the newly learned songs to the lambs. If any lamb heard it and said "baa baa" When she responded to the call, she would be particularly happy, and would throw the prepared peaches to these lamb "fans" as a return gift from the little star.
Like Zhao Wu, Yan Ying arranged for someone to take care of her children because of their personal friendship. Occasionally, she would come over to take care of her children. Those people whom the little girl and the boy called "parents" were just wet nurses for the little girl. Her husband, who was a wet nurse, took care of the two children here. When Yan Yu reached eight years old, Yan Ying arranged for him to study with Cong'er's mother and start studying classics such as the Book of Songs and the Book of Changes.
Cong'er is quite satisfied with having these two playmates. After all, they are not much different in age and they can still play together. If we establish a good relationship, it would be quite good to go out and explore the world together in the future!
The textbook of "Chicken Brother" is the only "word" that Xinwu can see in this world. He has never found that he is so eager to have a "book" to read.
He directed his little "car" and approached "Chicken Brother"'s desk. Fortunately, the desk is about 1 meter high, and Cong'er, who is being held in his arms, can just see the bamboo slips on the table with his small face: the finished bamboo slips are woven into rolls with cowhide ropes, and some rolls are already rolled. The volume he was reading was spread out from right to left, and there were some words written on it that were not clearly visible from the side.
Xin Wu observed carefully for a while, and he found that the bamboo slips here were painted on the green (front) side and then carved with a knife, instead of using a brush to ink on the yellow (back) side; the fonts on the bamboo slips had the meaning of crows instead of The typical characters in seal script are strong and strong, dignified and neat.
He recalled that when he was learning calligraphy, his teacher said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu, Yue, Chu, Cai, Xu, and Shu were popular in the southern countries of Wu and Shu. Therefore, he speculated that the font on it may be the same as Wu. Book. However, this type of font is different from the calligraphy of birds and insects engraved on bronze vessels. Those engraved on ritual vessels are all formal and dignified calligraphy, while those engraved on bamboo slips should be in common script for daily use, with silkworms on the horizontal strokes. The head and tail of the painting are already very similar to the original writing style of Spring and Autumn Li Cao.
Not surprisingly, there should be a knife on the desk, otherwise how could these bamboo slips be carved?
Xinwu looked carefully to the right side of the table and finally found a metal object with a wooden handle that looked like a carving knife.
What about the pen? There won’t be no pen! He looked on the table again and finally found a bamboo pen holder, with several brush tips exposed in the middle, some black and some white. It was estimated that some of them were new pens that had not been used.
Xin Wu remembered that in that era, this thing could not be called a "pen". The word "pen" was the unified title of Qin Shihuang. As the ancestor of the brush, its name at that time was "Buyu", which was made of rabbit arrow hair. In other places, it was called "Guanchengzi", "Maoweizi", "Zhongshuju", "Longxu" "Friends", "pointed slaves", etc., there are a lot of tricks.
But there is no paper! ——When mentioning this matter, Xinwu complained secretly, because paper had not been invented in this era, and when he wiped his big hands every day, he wiped them with small bamboo slices and leaves, which made his immature little butt look very... Fortunately, there is plenty of running water here. If his mother hadn't given him water to wash him carefully every time afterward, he would have almost collapsed.
