What surprised Shopkeeper Gao even more was that, facing the book that was two fingers thick, the two little guys on the opposite side seemed to be even more excited. They nodded without hesitation and said, "Let's just copy the Torah."
So, shopkeeper Gao provided enough paper for the two of them, and then let them go back each holding a thick book of law.
Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu, who were holding the books, were feeling excited at this time.
In Lin Yuanqiu's view, to understand a dynasty, in addition to knowing the people's clothing, food, housing, transportation, and customs, the most important thing is to know the laws of the dynasty.
Also, only by understanding the laws of this society can we better protect ourselves and our families.
That's why Lin Yuanqiu agreed to copy the Torah without hesitation. Anyway, the book store doesn't press for it, so you can just copy and learn at the same time. In this way, after you copy the entire book, you will be familiar with 70% of the content in the book.
Lin Yuanqiu also thought that if possible, he might as well copy an extra book and use it as a collection of books at home. After all, if you buy such a thick Torah book, you can get more than one tael of silver.
Unlike Lin Yuanqiu who wanted to understand the laws and regulations in the book, Zhou Zixu was completely attracted by the 500-word copying fee.
I thought to myself, if one copy is worth 500 yuan, then two copies will be one tael, and four copies will be two taels of silver. Darling, I can get money much faster than copying a thousand-character essay.
Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu, who were in a happy mood at this time, did not know that in the next few days, they were almost fooled by the matter of copying books.
No, after finishing their afternoon classes, Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu had dinner quickly. Then I couldn't wait to return to the dormitory, polished my ink, licked my pen, and started copying the Torah.
There is a record in "Shang Shu Shun Dian": "Xiang is punished with a pardon, five punishments are ridicule, whipping is an official punishment, beating is a teaching punishment, gold is a redemption punishment, disasters are forgiven, and parents are punished for thieves."
Therefore, the first page of Dajing's Law talks about the many regulations in "Xiang Yi Xian Xing".
The so-called "image as punishment" means that the victim is allowed to wear clothes or utensils with some special symbolic "image", so as to punish and warn others. Regarding this paragraph in the book, Master often mentioned it when giving policy papers to them. So at this moment, Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu copied the relevant regulations without much trouble.
This also made the two of them suddenly feel that such a thick book of law was nothing more than that. It was said to be obscure and difficult to understand?
However, this confidence did not last long. When the sky gradually darkened, the two of them lit the oil lamps and began to copy the rules of the "Five Punishments of Exorcism". They no longer had the calmness they had before.
What about the third-class banishment of two thousand miles, and the third-class people all live in prison for one year, without a rod. Second-class people are sentenced to 2,500 miles of exile. Second-class people are all required to live in prison for two years, and they need to be given a cane. Or, after a year of domestic service, the criminal can be attached to the local area and the limit of exile is six years. Those who should not be exiled are three years. At the end of the period, they can return to their place of origin, etc.
Looking at these laws that seem to be similar, they are actually very different. Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu felt their eyes were dazzled, and they felt like they were about to mix into a pot of porridge.
So after a while, the first mistake appeared. Zhou Zixu heard an "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh on from me." It’s almost full.”
Now it's time to start again.
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuanqiu became more careful, thinking that he should not make such a mistake, otherwise he would have to copy it again and waste paper.
Just because he was afraid of what would come, a moment later, Lin Yuanqiu also made the same mistake as Zhou Zixu, writing "need to add a staff" instead of "no staff".
Lin Yuanqiu gritted his teeth and silently replaced the paper with the wrong writing on it.
But when he finally found the place for the continuation, he rewrote it for a short while. Zhou Zixu on the other side was about to cry again, "Ah ah ah ah, Brother Lin, I copied it wrong again!"
Lin Yuanqiu opened his mouth and was about to say, "It's okay. At worst, we can just copy it again."
It turned out that in the short paragraph I copied, the word "attached to the locality" was replaced by "attached to the locality".
You must know that this is a book of law, and there is absolutely no room for mistakes. Therefore, his copy had to be copied again.
I saw that Brother Lin, who was never prone to making mistakes, made two mistakes in a row just like me.
Zhou Zixu didn't know whether to feel funny or cry. After all, this book of law is really difficult to copy.
But it's okay, the harder it is, the more it proves how powerful he is.
Recalling what his grandparents had said about him being sensible and capable, Zhou Zixu immediately became more energetic and became more careful.
Lin Yuanqiu was the same, copying almost word for word.
When the two of them finally finished writing this piece of paper and started on the next one, they accidentally made mistakes again.
Just like that, I copied it wrong, I copied it wrongly.
Before turning off the lamp and going to bed, Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu made a total of sixteen mistakes and wasted sixteen pieces of paper.
On the second day, after lunch, they took advantage of the lunch break to continue writing. But the copying situation is still the same as last night. From time to time there will be mistakes and omissions, or there will be some duplicates written accidentally.
Zhou Zixu sighed, if he keeps doing this, he might as well keep copying a thousand-character essay. Although it only takes a hundred words to copy, it is not easy to make mistakes.
Also, if too much of these papers are wasted, you will definitely have to spend money to buy them again.
It’s really not a good deal.
It’s just useless to worry about it. In the next two days of copying, there were still many mistakes.
The two couldn't help but find out the reason, and finally concluded that the reason why copying the thousand-character essay was so smooth before must be because they had memorized the contents of the book.
With this in mind, Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu simply put away their papers and brushes. The two held up the Torah and began to read the part about the "Five Punishments" one by one.
The two decided to wait until they had memorized all the rules before continuing to copy them, so that they would not make any mistakes.
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Soon it was the day of holiday again.
Like Zhou Zixu, when packing up the things he brought home, Lin Yuanqiu also put the Torah book into the book box.
If you have spare time during the two-day holiday, you can use it to memorize the Torah.
Lin Sanzhu would never forget coming to pick up his son. No, when Lin Yuanqiu arrived at the door of the private school with his book box on his back, he saw his father waiting there.
"Dad!" Lin Yuanqiu ran quickly towards Lin Sanzhu. He hadn't seen him for many days, but when he saw him again, he was naturally very kind.
"Why are you running so fast? Be careful not to fall."
Seeing the bookcase on his son's back, Lin Sanzhu hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him take it off. When he held it in his hand, he realized that it was a little heavy.
Lin Sanzhu wondered, "Why does this book box seem to be much heavier?"
"Dad, there are books inside."
Lin Yuanqiu said in his heart that in addition to the Torah, there were also a lot of paints in the book box, so he must have gotten rid of them.
Fortunately, Lin Sanzhu never went through his son's book box, otherwise he would be shocked and speechless when he saw so many paints.
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Mrs. Zhou has been a little excited these days, and the reason is naturally because of her eldest daughter's marriage.
Thinking about it, I had been worried that I would delay my daughter and that she would not be able to find a good family.
But now, there are only three families who have asked matchmakers to come to propose marriage, and this does not include those mentioned by the villagers.
Now Lin Dazhu and Mrs. Zhou are worried about how to choose a husband they like for their daughter.
As for Lao Lintou and the Wu family, it was a matter of their eldest granddaughter's life, and they didn't know how to decide for a while.
However, thinking that he was going home for the ten-day holiday in the late autumn, Old Lintou thought that he might be able to ask his grandson to help him make up his mind.
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Chapter 64 Making up your mind
It was already midnight when the father and son returned home. Fortunately, it got dark late in early summer, and there was still afterglow hanging on the sky.
Seeing her little grandson come back and having the meal ready, Mrs. Wu hurriedly shouted to Lin Yuanfeng and others to let them prepare the meal.
So as soon as Lin Yuanqiu stepped through the courtyard gate, he was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped when he saw several cousins carrying food to the main room.
Lin Yuanqiu can be sure that there is basically no possibility of seeing such a situation in other people's homes.
Because in the eyes of others, there is no reason for men to do housework.
But their family was different. His grandparents had never had any myths or taboos about men not being allowed to work in the kitchen.
Therefore, ever since I started doing embroidery work at home, whoever was free had always helped with the housework. In the words of Lao Lintou and Wu, "It is serious that the whole family works together to earn money and live a good life together."
Lin Yuanbai and Lin Yuanhuai were naturally happy to see their fifth brother back, and they walked over quickly. As for Lin Yuanbai, just as he was about to call out Brother Gouzi, he quickly remembered what Nai said earlier and immediately changed his words, "Fifth brother, you are back!"
As if he thought of something, Lin Yuanbai hurriedly put the bamboo basket containing the buns into Lin Yuanqiu's hand, "Here, hold this in your hands. There is also your favorite braised fish in the kitchen. Fourth brother will bring it to you right now." !”
After that, he quickly ran to the kitchen.
After a while, Lin Yuanbai came over cautiously holding a large pottery bowl in both hands, "Hey, I cooked two braised fish today!"
Lin Yuanhuai nodded, "There are two more in the water tank. Nai said, when we go back to Wangzhang Village to release the water to catch fish, our family will buy some to keep."
When the two of them were talking, the joy in their eyes almost overflowed.
Every time at this time, Lin Yuanqiu would be happy for himself from the bottom of his heart, happy that he could live in such a family. Although life is ordinary, the loving elders, harmonious relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, respectful brothers and sisters, loving sisters-in-law, and the harmonious atmosphere of a family are the most precious.
After Lin Sanzhu put the book box in his son's room, the family started having dinner.
Lin Yuanqiu saw that his sister-in-law's belly was already very big. He calculated the time, and it should be more than six months. In more than three months, he will be a little uncle.
I don’t know who my nephew or niece looks like. Seeing her sister-in-law's peaceful face, Lin Yuanqiu felt that if she gave birth to a little niece, she would look like her sister-in-law. But after he saw his eldest brother's handsome face, he felt that it must be good to look like him.
In short, no matter whether he looks like a big brother or a big sister-in-law, he looks good anyway.
After finishing dinner, Lin Yuanqiu got up and was about to go back to the house when he was stopped by Old Lin, "Yuanqiu, wait a minute, I have something else to say to you."
Lin Yuanqiu only thought that his grandfather wanted to ask him about his studies in private school, so he didn't think much about it. After returning to his seat, he waited for the question.
Unexpectedly, they sat there for more than a quarter of an hour. When there were only three brothers, his father and his mother, and the eldest aunt and the second aunt left in the hall, his father finally spoke about what he wanted to ask.
Lin Yuanqiu really didn't expect that his grandfather would actually talk to him about his eldest sister's marriage. No, no, no, what he meant was that he would help give him an idea.
Lin Yuanqiu was stunned. How could he make up his mind about choosing a husband to marry?
Also, shouldn’t we ask the eldest sister what she wants to choose as a husband and let her make her own decision?
Lin Yuanqiu was about to say this when Lin Sanzhu, who was sitting next to him, stopped and said, "Dad, how can a little kid like my dog know about this important matter of getting married?"
When Mrs. Wu heard that her third son opened his mouth, he immediately hit him with a "bang" from the tickle in his hand.
Oops, Lin Sanzhu covered his head and bared his teeth. His mother was really cruel. Although she thought this, she didn't stop saying, "Dad, this is Chunmei's lifelong event. How can you ask Gouzi? What can a little kid like him know? Dad, you should let your elder brother and sister-in-law make their own decisions."
Lin Dazhu shook his head, "Third brother, your sister-in-law and I are really at our wits' end. Thinking that Yuan Qiu has studied a lot, we may not necessarily have more knowledge than him, so we wanted him to help us distinguish it."
Mrs. Zhou also nodded, "Yes, yes, yes, let Yuan Qiu help me distinguish them."
Upon hearing this, Lin Sanzhu felt relieved, as long as he didn't help make decisions.
But they all say that the ugly words come first. After thinking about it, Lin Sanzhu said, "Brother and sister-in-law, we have agreed today. You asked my dog to help you distinguish it. If there is anything wrong with you in the future, you Don’t blame it on my dog.”
"That's right, you can't blame my Yuanqiu family at that time." After hearing what her husband said, Feng quickly followed suit.
Lin Dazhu and Zhou shook their heads together, "No wonder, no wonder, third brother and sister, don't worry."
