As for my master, he has learned more than Master Cao?
That's natural!
After all, she is not a mortal.
It's just that because I have to go to junior high school in the town, she can't teach me in person. It is also said that professional people do professional things. Master Cao, who has been doing this for generations, knows better when it comes to coffin-carrying and yin-zhi...
Master Cao took me to visit his coffin shop and gave an introduction at the same time.
"Xiao Wu, my coffin shop has two floors. The main room in the front of the first floor is about 100 square meters, and it is mainly used to store coffins. The back room is where I sleep."
"The second floor is a big back room, where I put the paper money I usually make and all kinds of paper people and horses. There is a small room in front of the window facing the street. It can be your bedroom. ?”
Of course I agreed, so I moved some luggage, clothes, etc. I brought with me to the room on the second floor facing the street and by the window.
It was only about ten square meters. It was shabby and old, filled with dust and cobwebs, and exuded a stale atmosphere.
I don’t know how many years no one has lived here!
I grimaced, it looked like I was afraid I would have to put a lot of effort into cleaning it.
I have to report to school tomorrow, but I can't get a good rest tonight, and I have to work hard. It’s also a bit sinful.
Master Cao looked at me like this and said to me mysteriously: "Xiao Wu, do you feel tired cleaning the room?"
"No, no, Master Cao, I didn't mean that."
I quickly denied it.
It would be impolite to eat and live in someone else's place and find it inappropriate to do so.
He chuckled: "It doesn't matter, I'll let you see what I can do first. You don't need to clean up the room. Someone will clean it for you after dark. Anyway, it will be done when you come back from your late self-study."
ah?
I'm a little surprised.
Could it be that Master Cao's coffin shop makes so much money that he still has spare money to hire people to help clean the house? This is unlikely!
But since the host said so, I didn’t want to say anything, so I followed him downstairs.
Master Cao heard that I got up early from the village and rushed to the town. Before breakfast, he brought out some food from the kitchen behind the house.
He told me proudly.
"I pickle all the salt eggs myself. I buy local duck eggs from Liu Laizi, who raises ducks. Try it, Xiao Wu! Apart from carrying coffins and making yin paper, what I am most proud of is This is the art of pickling salted eggs.”
In Sichuan and Chongqing dialects, salted duck eggs are called salt eggs, and lame means lame.
I looked at the breakfast he served.
There is a big bowl of porridge, a salted duck egg, and a bowl of pickles - mainly pickled radish and pickled ginger.
This is a simple breakfast that is very common in villages and towns in southwest Sichuan and Chongqing.
"Thank you, Master Cao."
I was growing tall and I was really hungry after not eating in the morning. At this time, I didn't care about being polite. I wolfed down the food and finished it.
I have to say, the salted eggs he makes are really delicious!
The egg white is white and tender, and the egg yolk is oily and has a good taste. And it doesn’t taste too salty.
I finished a big bowl of porridge quickly!
"Master Cao, I'll report to the school first. I'll help you with the coffin shop chores when I come back in the evening. Anyway, if you need my help, just tell me. My master also said that I will eat and live here. , I also want to do something."
"Yes, Xiao Wu, you go to school first. We'll talk about it when you get back from school."
There are two junior high schools in Lianghe Town.
In the district and in the town, one is in the west and the other is in the east.
Because in the 1970s and 1980s, there was actually a Lianghe District. Later, the districts were split and merged into towns, and Lianghe District disappeared, but the district middle school remained.
What I passed was the district high school. The teaching quality is better than that in the town, and more people are admitted to key high schools in the city every year. I heard in the town that there are more gangsters fighting...
The district is in the westernmost part of Lianghe Town. It is actually quite far from Lao Cao's coffin shop and requires passing through the entire town.
Although I always came to the town to go to the market and help my mother sell things, I had never been to the district.
This time when school started, I asked for directions while looking for it.
In fact, the school is already outside the main area of the town, next to a suburban road. There is a road extending into a mountain col. It has a gentle slope and slopes upward. It is about three to four hundred meters long.
At the end of the road is the main entrance of Lianghe District.
Although it's just a school in a town, the name of the school on the gate was actually written in the handwriting of a famous great man!
When I stood at the school gate and saw it, I was a little surprised.
It’s not the inscription of the great man that surprises me, but the school’s Feng Shui...it’s really great!
"This is the Feng Shui pattern of three stars accompanying the moon? Master's "House Sutra" says that this kind of Feng Shui pattern is very rare. It is a good location for good fortune. Unexpectedly, the junior high school I studied was built in such a place. No wonder although It’s just a small town middle school, but it has produced some famous people.”
I felt a little enlightened.
What is the three stars accompanying the moon?
As the name suggests, it means that there are three stars accompanying the semicircular moon.
The three stars refer to Mercury, Mars and Saturn respectively.
There is an old saying: One dragon sweeps away the Spring and Autumn Period, three mountains cut off half the moon!
The school itself is at the connection between the main area of the town and the suburbs, neither far away from convenient life nor affected by noise. It is connected to the town by a small road.
This small road curves into the school gate in an arc - exactly in the shape of a half moon! At the same time, it also has the shape of a dragon. It is simply the most perfect "one dragon sweeps away the Spring and Autumn Period" form.
The school building is located in a mountain valley surrounded by three mountains, at the foot of the mountain.
It is a rare flat plateau. Standing here, especially on the rooftop of the teaching building, you can almost see the entire town of Lianghe.
Naturally, the three mountains leaning on the back represent Mercury, Mars, and Saturn respectively.
I stood in front of the school. When I looked up, I could see terraced fields with water on the leftmost mountain behind. There are also some waterfall-like waterfalls.
The mountain in the middle is the largest and looks very thick. The earth is very thick, which is Saturn.
The soil of the mountain on the far right is shale - red sand and gravel. If you dig up the ground, you can see the red color. Of course it’s Mars.
The perfect feng shui pattern of three stars accompanying the moon!
I shook my head and sighed: "I don't know which Feng Shui master was chosen to build the district middle school here. It's really amazing. This kind of place can be built even for an ordinary university. It's amazing, it's really amazing..."
Just when I was standing at the school gate in surprise, a discordant voice suddenly came from next to me.
"Is this awesome? He is indeed a bumpkin from the village. He has no experience. What are these things in the town? In the county and city, those are the ones who are eye-opening."
Um?
I frowned slightly and turned my head to look.
I saw a boy wearing jeans and a plaid shirt standing not far from me, followed by two or three "followers".
Judging from his clothes and temperament, he knew that he belonged to a relatively wealthy family in the town.
I guess he didn't hear what I said before. He only heard my last words like "It's amazing," and he mistakenly thought I was talking about the school being amazing and luxurious.
There is really no need to say anything to this kind of person.
So when faced with this kind of ridicule, I didn't reply. I just looked at him lightly and left directly.
To be honest, although my family's financial situation is not very good, we still have enough food and clothing in the countryside. After all, most things are self-sufficient.
My mother is very good at raising chickens, ducks, and pigs, and they taste better than others! So it's not cheap either.
But this guy seems to be in high spirits.
Directly blocking my way: "Hey! You are a little kid from the countryside. You didn't hear me when I was talking to you? At least answer me."
Maybe when many adults see this, they will think this is too bloody and too retarded. I feel the same way myself.
But to be honest, many people - especially boys, are really retarded in their words and actions during adolescence!
Otherwise, why is there such a thing as "middle school boy" on the Internet now?
This dandy boy, it was obviously him who was picking on me, talking to me inexplicably. I ignored him and he still felt offended?
Maybe it’s because I’m not well dressed, my clothes and pants are a bit old, and my shoes were sewn by my mother herself. It feels very superior.
"Step aside."
"No! Unless I apologize."
"My enemy! How dare you be so arrogant when you come from Xiangba Ba Head? Hurry up and apologize to Brother Chun. Otherwise, you may have been in a difficult situation during the past three years in the district."
"When our brother Chun was in elementary school, we were the top class! Do you know?"
Several attendants nearby also joined in, but they made me laugh.
"Super tyrant! I think they do look alike. Hahaha!"
?
The dude was a little confused and didn't know why I laughed suddenly. He must have recited it silently a few times, but his expression changed drastically, and he turned around and glared at the younger brother fiercely.
Then he reached out and tried to pull my collar. I took a step back and shouted loudly.
"Teacher! There is someone bullying a classmate here."
Because I saw a person who looked like a school teacher passing by. There were many of them, and I didn’t want to confront them. As for reporting to the teacher, I don’t have any psychological burden when facing bad people...
"What are you doing! In the first year of school, do you want to write off demerits?"
The teacher came over and scolded them several times.
These guys left in despair.
The teacher took a few glances and probably saw that I came from a rural area, but there was no discrimination at all. Instead, he said enthusiastically: "The classmate came by himself? Didn't his parents come with him?"
I nodded: "There are many things going on around the house and I'm busy. I don't want to trouble my parents."
"You are filial and a good classmate. Come on, I will take you to the Academic Affairs Office to report."
Along the way, I chatted with him and found out that his name was Chen Xue. He is a math teacher and head teacher, and he will be teaching new first-grade students this year. He also said that he hopes I will be assigned to his class.
I hope so too.
After all, it seems that this teacher is quite upright, not the kind of bad teacher who favors others and likes rich people.
Maybe it was fate, so I went to the Academic Affairs Office to report, submitted various documents, and completed the procedures. I found out that I was assigned to the third class of the first grade of junior high school.
When I looked at the class teacher, it turned out to be Chen Xue!
…
The tedious process of enrolling other new students will be ignored, and school will officially start in the afternoon.
I had some lunch in the cafeteria, walked into the classroom of Class 1 and Class 3, and found that most of the people were sitting there.
Well, I didn’t have any requirements for the seat, so I walked to a seat by the window and sat down. Although the seat next to it seemed to be occupied, with textbooks placed on the table, the seat by the window was empty.
I need to explain here that when I was in junior high school, my seats were always in pairs. It's a special kind of double desk, with a total of four pairs horizontally and eight vertical rows.
That is to say, under normal circumstances, there are sixty-four people in each class.
I sat down in my seat and put down the textbooks and stationery I had picked up in the morning. Then, I noticed that the classroom became very quiet.
It seems like... a lot of people are looking at me?
This struck me as strange, but I didn't think much of it.
It wasn't until two minutes later that I knew why.
And I sigh with emotion, it’s true that we are on the wrong road!
Because I saw a pretty little girl walking in my direction - obviously, she was the person who was sitting next to me before, and also my future deskmate.
And the playboy who was deliberately looking for trouble at the school gate in the morning followed the little girl with a playful smile.
Well, don’t think that today’s students are precocious, in fact we started at that time.
Of course, I'm only in the first year of junior high school, so I just have a vague impression of girls. There won't be much else, after all, I'm only twelve or thirteen years old.
"Hello, my name is Yao Nan. If you sit here, we will be at the same table."
cradle?
There are still people with such strange names!
I was stunned.
She was probably used to it, so she explained with a smile: "Yao is the female omen Yao, and Nan is the nan of the nan tree. It is not the cradle where the baby sleeps."
"Oh, sorry, sorry..."
I apologized and scratched my head. I also moved my own books to my side of the table, worried that they would take up too much space.
And that dandy kid, with a follower, sat behind me and Yao Nan.
"Yao Nan, you don't allow me to sit next to you, let this poor guy from the countryside sit next to you? This is not good."
"Is there anything wrong? Wang Dachun, you'd better be honest. If you are disobedient or naughty in school, I will sue your parents when I go back!"
"My parents don't have time to worry about me."
Wang Dachun pursed his lips, then patted my shoulder with his hand, and said rudely: "Hey, little kid, why don't you change places with me? I won't hold you accountable for your unreasonable behavior towards me at the school gate this morning. .”
What?
Don't hold me accountable for my unreasonable actions!
This guy is really shameless.
It was obvious that he was deliberately looking for trouble and provocation, but it turned out to be my problem?
I replied directly to him.
"Don't change!"
"Shameless!"
"roll!"
This word completely pissed him off. He stood up and rolled up his sleeves, apparently wanting to hit me.
