The custom of climbing high has a long history. In "Chu Ci. Jiuhuai", there is "How sad is the air of autumn, the grass and trees are shaking and declining, and they are as if they are traveling far away. ≈ climbing the mountain and approaching the water and sending them back, the sky is loneliness, the sky is high and the air is clear, the silent and the harvest is sloppy and the water is clear."

The Han Dynasty inherited the customs of Chu, and thus gradually developed the custom of climbing high in the Double Ninth Festival. According to records, Emperor Gaozu of Han once climbed the mountain on the Double Ninth Festival.

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor would climb high himself, and the atmosphere of climbing high among the people reached its peak. The "Wushan Xing" by the Ming Dynasty poet Shen Shixing described it in this way.

The wind is beautiful on September 9th, and the Wushan Mountains are prosperous and the secular world is praised.

There are 100,000 households in Helu City, and there are many people fighting for the door to go out.

Palm sings of Taiping Song, and they are all fighting to wear dogwood flowers.

It's really unrestrained to travel on this day, and your life experience is always prosperous at this time.

Xu Hao led the kindergarten children to the mountain. The mountain was full of people, and the kites were even more lively. The blue sky was densely packed, so many that people didn't know which one to see, and they would be dazzled after a while.

The children watched collectively, and Xu Hao was also prescient in letting the fish kite fly, while Xiao Feng and other children clapped their hands and cheered.

Originally, climbing high and flying kites should be a matter for children, but just like the amusement parks in later generations are always crowded with adults, animated movies are also loved by adults who have not lost their childlike hearts, so the adults on the mountain benefited from it and became the biggest force.

Xu Hao's kite is made of sixteen-fold paper, big, wide and long, the twine is particularly thick, flying high, and has strong restraint, so the child cannot let go at all, and just stretches out his hand and pulls it slightly, and he can't help but feel a little disappointed in his joy.

The kites that adults put on at least twelve levels of paper. In the air, they often rely on the strength of their kites to snatch other weak kites. From time to time, two lines will contact each other. The weak kites will hang under the big ones, or fall down with a broken rope, or hang on the branches under the wind.

This is the tradition of flying kites. It is difficult to avoid places with dense people. According to custom, it is a good thing to break the kite. Even if it keeps going, it will have to burn it at night. I will buy or make new ones next year.

But not everyone will readily accept their kites' death, especially those who have been written by giant kites or famous scholars. In order to win the performance of girls, parents who do not want to be looked down upon by their children, they are unwilling to spend the money they spend so quickly, and they clamor and even fight with each other.

Of course, most people just laughed. The children looked at the fish kite in Xu Hao's hand nervously. Fortunately, Xu Hao had a lot of experience in this. Every time he saw the big kite coming to twist the thread, he almost touched it. Somehow, he saw him gently shook his hand, loosen the rope, and flew to another place flexibly.

Xu Hao still boasted and praised himself with a childlike innocence: "I want to come and tease me. There is no way!"

Xiao Feng and Xiao Liu and the others who witnessed it with their own eyes also secretly admired the elders' good skills in flying kites.

Soon the children lost their patience and secretly took out the pocket money from their pockets, calculating what to buy. They did not forget to leave fifty cents to save it.

Xiao Feng and Xiao Liu were two hundred entries each. After a long time of discussion, they planned to buy the peeled sweet sugarcane for twenty cents, a small basket of delicious pears for thirty cents, a small rice fruit for climbing, a small flag for climbing, a bamboo dragonfly for twenty cents, and a colorful flower ball for twenty cents, and a fifty cents left.

But when I went down the mountain, I saw something more fun at first sight, and the plan changed. I saw better fish ball noodles, ten cents a bowl, duck blood vermicelli soup, twenty cents a bowl, Jinling Xiaolongbao Jinling beef pot stickers, etc. Soon all my money was spent. When I saw the gorgeous and lifelike sugar man, the children who had no penny showed melancholy.

Xu Hao ignored their help-seeking gazes and did not allow Xu Jin and Li Fang to buy them.

The next day, the neighbor's wife Gu came to visit her and said to the old lady: "I borrow your old blessing. The magpies couldn't stop calling on the eaves on the eaves on the day you came back, and I hope my son can come back."

Xiao Yuying explained to Xu Hao: "Fusheng went to Liaodong to study for three years and never came back. Her mother was the only one in the family. She lived on the land of her ancestors. She was looking forward to her son's hope for her eyes."

Xu Hao nodded. He was not very familiar with his old neighbor Gu family, and only knew that the Gu family was a big family. Gu Fusheng was naughty when he was a child and did not like to study. Later, after his father passed away, Gu Fusheng seemed to have grown up overnight and learned from the young people in the village to study in Liaodong.

New studies have given countless young people another way out, just like liberal arts and science, the path to imperial examinations is too narrow after all.

It’s strange. As soon as Mrs. Gu got home, she happened to hear someone knocking on the door. The servant came out to open the door and couldn’t help but say happily: “Madam, the young master is back.”

"I'm back." Gu Fusheng shouted, and said to the three porters behind him: "Be careful, Mom Wu, look at me, I'll go to pay homage to my mother."

Mrs. Gu's tears of joy came down. She looked at her son carefully. She was taller and more energetic than three years ago. She said angrily: "You child, I have been away for many years, and I didn't even write a letter to my mother, so I was worried. Sometimes when I dreamed that you fell into the river and met a robber, I was so scared that I woke up from crying. Yesterday, the lamp flowers in my room were browned and then, and the magpies screamed for a few days. I guess you were going back. It was really back, thank God."

Gu Fusheng said excitedly: "Don't your son want to return early? He just rushed to school and was eager to learn the money."

Without saying anything, the porter outside shouted, "Come out and pay, we still have to rush for business."

He had to pay to pick up the money, but the porter refused to do it and said, "Your box is so heavy, I don't know how much gold and silver you hide. We have used all our strength, so we have to reward a few more."

Gu Fusheng had no choice but to give each person three more coins of silver, send him away, and then return to the room.

Mrs. Gu said with concern: "Son, what skills have you learned?"

Gu Fusheng said: "After my son went to Liaodong, he entered the Maritime Academy. I don't like sailing geology, and I have learned only a few foreign linguistics. I have succeeded in saying what I can say to the Japanese Arabs."

Since ancient times, there has been a profession of translator. Since the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, foreign exchanges have been frequent and demand is quite large. Especially for scholars who are a bit literary and proficient in a certain language, those who attach importance to trade in the capital and even coastal areas, from government to wealthy businessmen, they can be said to be expensive in Luoyang.

Now there is not to mention foreign exchanges, so Mrs. Gu said happily: "So, my son's lifelong job has been settled. I saw Xu Liu next door who has learned some French. Now he has obtained a museum in Jinling University. He wants him to be a servant of the Xu family. He has a fortune of 180 taels of silver a year. The villagers flatter him and call him "Master". My son has such a skill. I am afraid that he can talk to the barbarians. I am afraid that he is better than him? When I take you to the Xu family, while the old lady and the third master are there, he will also go to the university to do a museum or go to the court to do an errand. I am afraid that it will take more than ten taels and a month. It's great. It's also the benefits I ask for Buddha every day, burn incense every night, and ask for Bodhisattvas."

"Mother doesn't need to worry." Gu Fusheng knew that in order to support his daily expenses, his family had no savings, which was also the reason why he was ashamed to write a letter. "Mom, I became a master of the prefect of Zhucheng in Shandong. I was a master of the magistrate of Zhucheng every month. I was a translator for him. I just talked to merchants from Japan and North Korea. The salary of the chief master is not as high as mine."

"Oh!" Mrs. Gu was overjoyed. She didn't expect that her son was so capable. She was no longer the idle young master who used to be the idle and only knew how to spend money. She had so much money for a month? She really didn't dare to think about it. It was a pity, "Since you can earn so much money, you shouldn't come back. Is it okay to go again?"

"I won't go." Gu Fusheng held his mother's hand. "I remember my mother in my heart, so I will be in my heart for a year and resigned from the prefect who came back specially. In addition to my salary, I also have the money given by the master, the rituals given by the merchants, and the money earned from other places. Anyway, I have a total of 1,000 taels of silver."

"Amitabha." Mrs. Gu was even more happy. "Mom hasn't seen silver for a long time. I remember when your father decided to me, a gold-free and a fifty tael silver ingot. I thought silver was cute at that time. But when I got married, I realized that the Gu family was glamorous outside and empty inside, but just some ancestral land. Alas, let's not mention the past. Come and take some of your silver for my mother."

Seeing that his mother valued the money he earned so much, Gu Fusheng was naturally very happy. He hurriedly found the key and took out the silver in the box. He sealed the official ingots one by one. Mrs. Gu was so happy that she smiled and took two ingots on her face and rubbed them for a long time.

"Mom, I'm hungry."

"Oh! There is nothing to eat today. I ate it in Xu Mansion. I only have a bowl of spinach and tofu at home. Ma Wu, go buy a duck and a roast chicken to serve the young master."

"No, I'll buy it myself."

After saying that, he ran out. Mrs. Gu looked at her son's back with emotion. Ma Wu in the yard also said with emotion: "The young master has changed completely, he has a great future. The wife will be blessed for the rest of her life."

"Yes!" Mrs. Gu felt happy and quickly turned around and hid the money and kept it.

Soon, Gu Fusheng bought duck ham and came back and asked Wu Ma to beat Chen Shao half a catty. Since her husband died, Mrs. Gu cleaned up vegetarian food and did not touch the meat. She smiled and watched her son eat with big mouthfuls.

While eating, Gu Fusheng asked about the land supply. Is it enough? Mrs. Gu sighed: "Don't mention it. After you left, less than a year, no tenants in the countryside came to pay the rent. The Xu family is far away in the capital. I have always had no contact with the Xiao family, so I feel embarrassed to ask for help. But I rely on two rooms at the intersection of the street, which cost ten yuan a month. The family opened its mouth a few times and had to send you money every month. Most of the money and food were dumped. The second uncle of the Wang family was busy and had no time to collect rent for our family. Now the firewood and rice are expensive, and the days are very hard."

Gu Fusheng shouted: "Okay, these tenants are so abominable. I will teach them a lesson tomorrow."

Mrs. Gu said hurriedly: "No, isn't it busy? I'm going to send someone to speak. The rent I had paid before last year was over. There was a drought this year, and there was no way. You have to go to the Xu family first. First, thank you, and second, I'll pay my respects to the third master and the old lady."

"I see."

In this way, Gu Fusheng went to the Xu family first, walked around the village, and went to the countryside for a few days in person, found his tenants and rented them. When the tenants saw that the young master of the Gu family had returned, they naturally did not dare to be foolish. They just pleaded hard and said that God would not take care of anything this year. Master, don’t be angry, and they will definitely deliver it on time in the future.
Chapter completed!