013 Moon Reflected in the Reeds
Lu Cheng came and left inexplicably.
Xu Wen ignored him, went back to his room to get some things, and called Lian Linlin: "Let's go."
Lian Linlin looked at the cloth bag in his hand and asked curiously: "What is this?"
"Some of the bamboo branches that were cut before can be used as pens. Paper and pen are not easy to obtain, so using bamboo branches to write on the mud is also a way." Xu Wen said.
"Milt land... I know a good place!" Lian Linlin's eyes lit up and he said happily.
On the way, Xu Wen mentioned the end-of-month assessment that Lu Cheng said just now and asked Lian Linlin: "How is the old wooden farm's performance in the past?"
Lian Linlin shook his head: "My father never takes this kind of thing to heart. We are at the bottom of the day every month, haha!"
"Isn't it uncomfortable to give way to others every time I go out?" Xu asked.
"It doesn't matter, I don't go out anyway, haha." For some reason, Xu Wen always felt that the smile on his face did not seem to be really happy when Lin Lin said this.
"By the way, what about senior brother, didn't he say he wanted to come together?" Xu Wen changed the topic.
"Hehe, he can't come today. Daddy wants to do something and asks him to help. So, senior sister is senior sister, and learning to recognize words is also his senior sister!" Lian Linlin instantly became happy again and became happy.
In the afterglow of the sunset, the girl's eyebrows and eyes were extremely vivid, as if there was a light flashing.
Xu Wen looked at her and something moved slightly, but he immediately thought of something and quickly gave up all his thoughts.
"Okay, I will teach you, you can teach him too. Even if anyone under the master wants to learn to read, you can come and learn." Xu Wen looked away and said with a smile.
"Okay!" Lian Linlin said happily, then pointed ahead, "Look, it's there!"
What she brought here was indeed a good place.
It was a small lake. The sunset shone on the lake surface, rippling waves, and the breeze blew, bringing cold water, which made people feel refreshed. Occasionally, water birds rely on each other and flew across the lake surface, leaving behind ripples.
Reeds grow by the lake, and there is a smooth mud in the reeds, which is neither soft nor hard, and it is best to use it to write.
"So beautiful." Xu Wen narrowed his eyes and stared ahead.
"Yes! Dad brought me here! Wait for me for a while!" Lian Linlin said happily, ran to the reeds on the side to tinker for a while, then ran back, urging, "Let's start!"
Xu Wen took out a bamboo stick and asked, "What words do you want to learn?"
When ordinary people learn to recognize words, the first thing they want to learn is their own name.
Lian Linlin turned his head and asked, "How should we write wood of wood?"
Xu Wen looked at her deeply and wrote the word "wood" on the smooth mud.
"The wood is a tree, which is born from the ground. This horizontal line is the ground, the small vertical line above is the exposed part, and the three strokes below are the roots of the tree."
Wood is a pictographic character with simple shapes and has not changed since ancient times. Xu Wen can explain it very simply.
Lian Linlin's eyes lit up and she said, "It's easy to remember!"
She took the bamboo stick from Xu Wen, copied it on the soft mud, and wrote a few wooden characters.
She learned very quickly, and the strokes were a little stiff at the beginning, but after writing a few, she was exactly the same as Xu Wen's words.
"It's well written." Xu Wen praised.
Then, without waiting for him to teach, Lin Lin wrote two wooden characters together and blinked at him sly: "You don't need to teach me, I will do this character, Lin, this is my name."
Xu Wen raised his eyebrows: "How did you learn it?"
"Shuangmu is the forest, and Daddy gave me the name." Lian Linlin said.
What a good name...
Xu Wen mentioned "bian", changed the stroke of the character, and said, "The character is correct, but there is a little change in the way of writing. When two woods are written together, the left stroke should be written as a dot, which feels like two woods leaning against each other."
Lian Linlin just showed his mistake when he showed off his mistakes when he looked at him with a flat mouth and said angrily: "I don't, I just want to write like this. This is Lian Linlin's Lin!"
As she said that, she snatched the bamboo stick and wrote two words "四" on the ground, all of which were governed independently by two woods.
However, although she has only written a few, the fonts are already a bit beautiful, and it looks particularly cool and not ugly.
"Okay, even Linlin's forest is the most special, different from other forests." Xu Wen accommodated her with a smile.
"That's it!" Even Linlin said, and he laughed.
Then Xu Wen taught her three words: "Liang", "Work", and "Martial Arts".
The two characters "Craftsman" are written in the same way in ancient and modern times, and the characters are traditional and simple, but the characters are simple in shape, so Xu Wen still remembers it.
For beginners, if you want to chew too much, Xu Wen is very clear about this, so after teaching five words, he will not teach them, and let Lian Linlin practice it himself.
Even Linlin made a few jokes at the beginning, but now he is acting very seriously.
She repeated these five words, writing them all over the mud, and then smoothed them out again.
The sunset was setting, and the moonlight shone brightly. In just five words, Linlin wrote it hundreds of times. Xu Wen accompanied her patiently, without urging her.
Finally, she finally came to her senses and looked up at the sky: "Ah, it's so late!"
"Well, are you tired? Go back." Xu Wen said.
"Wait!" Lian Linlin jumped up, but the result might be that he had been squatting for too long and his blood was not flowing, so he fell down.
Xu Wen was not careful at all, and reached out to pull her but couldn't hold her back, watching her fall into the mud pit.
The mud pit was very shallow, neither dry nor thin, and it was muddy all over Lin Lin. She leaned her hands in the mud, and there was no movement for a while.
Xu Wen was a little worried and shouted, "Sister Sister? Lian Linlin?"
"Hahahahaha!" Lian Linlin suddenly turned around and sat in the mud pit, laughing loudly, "Why am I so stupid? I can't stand myself, hahaha!"
Xu Wen was stunned and was amused by her.
A crisp and refreshing laugh echoed among the reeds, Lian Linlin jumped up, and a touch of mud on his body, saying, "Thank you for teaching me to read, I have something good for you!"
As she said that, she jumped to where she had hidden things at the beginning, fiddled with it for a while, and carefully held a net bag.
The moonlight shone on her hands, as if silver light was jumping in it.
"What is this?" Xu Wen looked at it.
There were some shrimps of all sizes jumping in the net pocket, all white, and the shell was as transparent as if it would glow.
"White shrimp! It's delicious. Come and give you one."
She washed her hands in the water on the side, picked up a white shrimp and handed it to Xu Jin, and then picked up one by herself, demonstrating to eat it for him to see.
The transparent shrimp shell was peeled off, and the meat inside became more and more white. She bit in one bite and urged Xu to ask while eating, "Eat, it's very fresh!"
Xu Wen had eaten raw shrimps before, but they were all handled by the master in a Japanese restaurant and served them. Standing by the lake under the moon, peeling the shrimps directly to eat. This is the first time.
However, when he peeled the shrimp shell and put the shrimp meat into his mouth, the fresh and sweet feeling instantly melted in his mouth, he suddenly had a real feeling about the world.
The shrimp in your mouth is real, the people in front of you are also real, and everything that happens is real.
This world once existed, and now it is fully presented to him.
All his experiences, all his feelings, and all his learning belong to him.
On that night, Xu Wen did not instantly enter a dreamless sleep as he lies in bed like he did a few days ago.
He lay on the bed, listening to the snoring around him, resisting the desire to turn over, and thinking about what had happened over the past period of time.
He accepted a legacy and met a man. From then on, the wonderful things unfolded, and he came to this world.
Unexpectedly, he remembered what Grandma Liu asked him in a small building in the imperial capital.
Why does a person live for a lifetime?
Why am I here for?
He thought of Lian Linlin, Lu Cheng, and the boys around him.
The moonlight shone through the bamboo window and shone on him. I don’t know how long it took, but he finally fell asleep unknowingly.
Although I slept late yesterday and had a short time of insomnia, Xu Wen didn't feel tired the next morning, and was as energetic as usual.
As usual, he finished picking the water and took a look at the place where the firewood was chopping.
A few days ago, Lu Cheng would complete the work in advance and wait for him to go to Huangzifang together.
But today, all the firewood was chopped, but no one was seen in Lucheng.
Recalling what happened last evening, Xu Wen smiled and went to the old wooden farm alone.
As soon as he stepped into the gate of Old Kiba, he stopped and was stunned.
A piece of open space was opened next to the shed where old wood was piled up, with several wooden racks neatly placed on it.
The shelves are big and thick, and they look like they are shelves, exactly the same as Xu Wen had imagined before.
He didn't expect that he only mentioned Lian Linlin yesterday and saw it today.
Lian Linlin was standing next to the wooden frame, gently stroked its surface with her fingers. Seeing Xu Wen over, she immediately showed off excitedly and said, "Look, my father did it last night! It's amazing!"
"One night? I did so much?" Xu Wen said in surprise.
"It's just a few racks, it's nothing to do." Master Lian came out of a shed and said indifferently.
As he said that, he glared at Xu Wen, with a bad expression, and Xu Wen was a little confused.
He snorted and ordered, "Aren't you very capable? Go and pack the warehouse for me today and tomorrow. You won't leave until you finish cleaning!" Then he directed his daughter, "You go and help too! What kind of writing are you learning, your father, I... go quickly!"
"Oh...oh!" Lian Linlin responded happily, and jumped to Xu Wen like a rabbit, "What do you want me to do?"
Xu Wen heard some of Master Lian’s implications and looked at him with surprise. Hearing Lian Linlin’s words, he withdrew his gaze and said, “There were still many wooden signs yesterday. Can you finish carving them?”
"No problem!" Lian Linlin said readily.
At this time, even the other disciples of the master came over, and Xu San said, "Master asked us to help too...what do we want to do?"
Xu Wen looked around them and laughed: "Let's open the warehouse first and put the shelves in!"
Chapter completed!