The boy of moderate stature opened his small white teeth and asked with a simple smile: "Drink up what?"
Su Qingluan vaguely felt that he said "drink up" or something like that, but thought it must be an accent problem, so he said again: "Be like the light and the dust."
After saying this word, Su Qingluan suddenly realized a problem: because his parents were also proficient in writing, and Su Xuanhe had been going to Master Zhou's school, and so had Mr. Xu Kekuan, who taught Su Xueyan abacus and accounting. He is a scholar, so among the people Su Qingluan often comes into contact with, there are not many "illiterates" in the true sense.
But looking at the entire Huaxi Village, there are probably not many people who are as "literate" as my parents - the evidence is that during the second recruitment, they even asked to go to Mu Xingzhi's side. Only then did everyone's list be recorded - this was just a list, there was no complicated written content.
So looking at the confused young man across from her, she suddenly realized - could the words she thought were "commonly used vocabulary" be "super-class" to the people in front of her?
Thinking of this, Su Qingluan wanted to explain what "harmony with light and dust" roughly meant.
Unexpectedly, before Su Qingluan opened her mouth, someone took the lead: "Tch, you can't even understand such a simple statement, and you still want to take advantage of my sister?"
Su Su Qingluan turned around and found that Yang was still chatting with the other party's female relatives, and that they were a few steps away from her and the "contract" brother opposite. It was obvious that she wanted to "create opportunities" for the two children. However, behind Su Qingluan, a "little tail" followed.
The speaker was none other than Su Xuanhe who had been angry from the beginning. Because he hadn't made much noise since just now, he wasn't that conspicuous. When he was following Su Qingluan, even Su Qingluan himself didn't notice it.
The little guy curled his lips in disdain and glanced at the "contract" brother, making it clear that he looked down upon him.
This made Su Qingluan a little interested: his younger brother still had a bit of a temper, and he was probably the only one among his peers in the village who went to school, and because he gradually became familiar with Mu Xingzhi, he learned from Song Bo. He has a little bit of boxing and kicking skills, so he can barely be regarded as a "civilian and martial artist" among children of the same age.
Precisely because of this, when he meets this kind of "adult" who is not better than him in every aspect, he looks down on him a little. The Yang family had taken Su Qingluan to "blind dates" several times in the past, so Su Xuanhe, a little carrot boy, naturally didn't have the chance to see it with his own eyes, but this time, it seemed that he had a lot of opinions about the man.
Although Su Qingluan was not very angry because of her brother's words, she still felt that it was unacceptable to look down on this or that just because she had learned a few words - this brat had just recognized a few words now. He started to go crazy after just one word. If he really got a decent degree, he wouldn't be able to turn his nostrils to the sky?
So Su Qingluan smiled calmly and said: "So, Xuanhe must know what Heguang Tongchen means?"
Su Xuanhe nodded proudly: "Master Zhou once said that this word refers to a peaceful way of living without fighting against the world, embodying the Taoist idea of governing by doing nothing!"
Su Qingluan said in her heart, it seems that Master Zhou is not the kind of rotten scholar who only respects Confucianism. He also teaches Taoist allusions to these students. So she then asked: "What's the origin of the words?"
In fact, Su Qingluan also knew that this problem was a bit difficult. Under normal circumstances, it is very rare for children under ten years old to know what the word "harmony with light and dust" means and what it means.
When Su Qingluan was still in college, she thought this word was very beautiful, so she looked up the allusion of this word. If I had to say it, it can be regarded as "learning now and selling it now" - because she knew that the idioms with allusions were really limited, including this one. "Like light and dust", you can even count them on two hands.
Sure enough, Su Xuanhe scratched his head, his face slowly turned red, and after a moment he shook his head: "I don't know."
Su Qingluan smiled and said: "The words come out of the Tao Te Ching, dampen its sharpness, resolve its confusion, harmonize its light, and become the same as its dust. This is called Xuantong."
Su Xuanhe's eyes shone brightly: "Sister, I know so much!"
Su Qingluan felt a little weak when her younger brother looked at her like this, but she still said bravely: "So there is no end to learning, how can you look down on others just because you know a word?" After speaking, he pointed at Brother "Contract" and said, "Apologise to people."
Su Xuanhe glanced at Brother Contract. Although he was still a little unconvinced, he was not as rude as before. He lowered his head obediently: "I was wrong. Brother He, I'm sorry."
Seeing this, Su Qingluan smiled and touched Su Xuanhe's hair, and looked at Brother Contract: "I'm really sorry, my brother just said something outrageous."
Brother "Contract" smiled and waved his hand: "Hey, it's just a kid's joke, how can I take his words to heart? That's too petty."
Su Qingluan said in her heart, okay, okay, this brother seems to be a broad-minded person. Otherwise, if Su Xuanhe's words just now were met by someone who is narrow-minded, I guess even if he is embarrassed to argue with a child, there will be nothing wrong. Face.
Thinking of this, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
As a result, before I could fully relax, I heard the other person say: "I don't understand what you mean, but it's useless to think about it. It's only serious for farmers to work hard and marry a wife. That's right. Yes, I heard that your sister’s name is Yan’er, your brother’s name is Crane, and you seem to be called Bird, too, why do you and your family all have bird names?”
The eldest brother opposite smiled with no grudge at all, which made Su Qingluan unable to catch her breath. She couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth: The premise of feeling that this dear man is "broad-minded" is that he can choke people to death without repaying their lives. ah.
The most important part of the Dragon Boat Festival outing is actually the morning time. Because Huaxi Village also has a not too narrow river, there is a dragon boat race in the village every year.
It’s just that because the population in the village is really small, there are even fewer young adults who can participate in dragon boat racing, so simply, the dragon boat racers even have to be brought from the town and other nearby villages, which is considered to be around the Dragon Boat Festival every year A grand event of "friendly exchange".
It was such a lively and festive festival, but Su Qingluan felt tired from the bottom of his heart - as if his soul had been hollowed out.
So when it was almost noon, when Su Qingluan came to visit Mu Xingzhi carrying the last rice dumpling, Songbo opened the door and came out. The first thing he asked was: "Ms. Su, what trouble have you encountered?"
