245. Upward gift of chili
"This is the end of today's course. You can do more exercises after you go back to deepen your understanding."
“Hey…”
On the afternoon of that day, after Luo Yong taught the students of Class C of the Imperial College for one afternoon of mathematics class, he also distributed a set of exercise questions to each of them, asking them to take them home to do it.
The teaching courses in this era are not as detailed as those in later generations. A class is usually half a day. Mathematics classes are once every five days and every ten days. Taking advantage of the exam, Luo Yong will constantly propose the previous knowledge points for them to review to achieve the effect of deepening the impression.
The students who study here are not like those of later generations after graduation. They enter society to work. They all aim to become officials. A large part of the students who go out of this school will become parents and officials of the people.
It is precisely because of this that Luo Yong never plays a joke in teaching, even if the course of mathematics may not be that important to these students.
"Swish!"
"Swish!Swish!"
"Swish, swish, swish, swish!"
The get out of class ends early every afternoon. When the students are out of school, the sun is still very strong outside. So Luo Yong has seen such a scene every day recently. Rows of students are standing in the corridor, and there are squeaks and squeaks here. One handful of automatic umbrellas after another were bounced off the umbrella.
Most of these automatic umbrellas are sold from groceries in the north and south. Some people also bought automatic umbrellas from their shops and asked their families to change the umbrella surface again. Such umbrellas are naturally unique.
"Swish!"
"Swish!"
Amid these squeals, Luo Yong was particularly happy. Every squeal sound represented a large amount of income for him.
"Let's go." Qiao Junlin drove over in a donkey cart at this time.
"Oh." Luo got on the bus with a stack of homework collected from the students.
The summer in Chang'an City is extremely stuffy. In terms of temperature alone, it may not be much higher than in later generations, but the humidity is definitely much higher. In addition, there are neither air conditioners nor electric fans in this era, so summer is really hard to bear.
Luo Yong and Qiao Junlin returned home and were sweating profusely.
Master Zhao only had half a day of class and had already gone home by this time. Si Niang and Qi Niang had been idle at home for half a day. Wulang Liulang also came back from the school. Several children were sitting around the corridor and peeling edamames, not very energetic.
"Eat edamame tonight?" Luo casually put the stack of papers aside, and the person sat down in the corridor.
"Azhi said she wanted to make soup with edamame and bacon." When Liulang saw that his brother came back, he snuggled up to him. However, his face looked not very good, and his lips were a little white.
"But is the heatstroke?" Luo reached out and wiped the thin sweat from his forehead.
"I don't know..." Liulang leaned listlessly on Luo Yi's knee, like a kitten.
"Mr. Today, he asked him to recite the letter, but he couldn't recite it." Goro said from the side.
Goro and Rokuro are not in the same class. Goro has been in school before. He has some basic knowledge. Although there are differences in accents and teacher’s teaching habits, as long as you adapt, you can basically keep up with the class progress.
Although Liulang also learned some from his elder brother and sister at home, he did not learn systematically, and he was a hammer and a stick. It was not surprising that he could not adapt to the elementary school at this time.
"But I want my brother to teach you?" It is not easy to adapt to the new environment, especially in this era, there is no flower of the motherland. Most of the gentlemen are more strict.
"Goro has taught me." Liuro said.
"Call me brother." Goro was hanging his head and peeling an edamame at this time. When he heard this, he didn't raise his head back.
"Our gentleman said you memorized it wrongly, and many things are wrong."
"Our gentleman didn't say I was memorizing it wrong."
"Your gentleman has not taught well."
"You sir, really have a lot of things." The two brothers muttered and whispered.
"Brother, tell me." Liulang couldn't say that, so he came to Luo Yong.
"Your sir should teach you seriously." Can Luo Yong openly teach children badly?
In fact, Luo Yong also felt that Qilang and his husband had a lot of things. If they were a child, they could recite a lot of things. They would like to praise him but they didn't want him to spend money. They criticized him all day long, and he would criticize him for not much enthusiasm for learning.
"Sir, you are carrying something wrong, bring it to me?" Qiao Junlin also parked the donkey cart at this time, fed five more pairs, went to the well to wash his hands and faces, and swung the water beads to the under the corridor.
"Yes, ask him." Luo Yong patted Liulang's back and encouraged.
Qiao Junlin also came to Chang'an City since childhood. His foundation was not solid enough when he was a child. Later, he worked hard in this area.
Liulang took the book out of the house, and Qiao Junlin sat in the corridor, telling him the contents of the book bit by bit, which word should be pronounced, how to break the sentence, and what the content of this paragraph meant, all of which were carefully explained to him. Several other children were peeling the beans while listening.
After peeling the edamames, Luo Yong took them to the kitchen and saw Azhi cooking in the fire. There was some chopped bacon on the chopping board on the stove.
Edamame and salted meat soup is also the dish they often eat these days. On this hot day, if the meat they bought in the morning is not eaten at noon that day, it will smell bad until the evening. So they have to marinate it with salt in time. Now their family eats more bacon than fresh meat.
When Azhi saw Luo Yong come in, she took a bamboo basket from the wooden stand next to her, saying that it was sent by farmers who grew peppers outside the city.
Their batch of peppers was not early this year, so they matured relatively late. It was not until mid-June that the first batch of peppers began to mature.
"So many chili peppers can't be finished at the moment. Sanlang, do you think you want to dry them or make sauce?" Azhi asked Luo Yong.
"There are not many, so I keep some of them at home and give them to my neighbors. It's good for sweating in this hot day," said Luo Yong.
"Leave some for Master Zhao, too?" Azhi asked.
"Yes, leave some for Master Zhao." After all, he was a gentleman invited by his family, so he couldn't forget anything.
Luo Yong looked in the kitchen again and said that tonight there were four dishes, one soybean and bacon soup, one steamed eggplant, one fried loofah, and one fried egg. The ingredients were all ready, and it was almost impossible to put them in the pot.
Their family basically has this food standard. Occasionally, they buy some chickens and gooses to improve their food, and they have never stopped pork and mutton.
The weather was hot these two days, and Luo Yong saw that none of these dishes could be appetizing, so he started it himself, cut a few chili peppers, and stir-fry a spicy dish with bacon.
On this hot day, there was another big stove in the kitchen. Not to mention how hot it was, Luo Yong only cooked such a dish, and he was sweating all over again. Azhi arranged meals for them every day, which was really hard.
"You go outside for some breathing, I'll do the rest." Azhi said quickly.
"No problem, I'm sweating all over the place." Luo Yong felt that Azhi shouldn't have let Azhi do housework alone every day, and they should at least help occasionally. Si Niang and the others have been a little wilted these days, probably because they don't want to move.
"Hengzhi hasn't come back yet?" Luo Yong talked to Azhi while working.
"I was brought in early morning. I was going to live in Guiyifang tonight." As Azhi said, he added another piece of firewood to the stove: "I heard that I was looking for a blacksmith with great skills, and I could even make it for him. He spent money to invite people to Guiyifang, and built a shed on the open space of Xing Er and his yard, and made a local iron all day long."
"Xing Er and his yard are big enough."
"It's just that where he can fiddle with those guys. I heard that he bought some more wood in the past two days, but I don't know if Xing Er is happy or not."
"If he is not happy, he will naturally say."
"That's true."
Both of them were quick-witted, one of them cooked the fire and the other one cooked the dishes. In a few seconds, several dishes were prepared and served on the dinner table.
Fried edamame with chili, a loofah soup, and steamed eggplant and scrambled eggs, there are still four dishes in total, and the rice is mixed grains.
When the family was having a meal together, the children were so spicy that the plate of edamame fried by Luo Yong were so spicy that they were so hot that they were slapped. While they were slapped, the chopsticks were stretched straight into the plate.
After dinner, I took a cold in the corridor for a while and then took a hot shower, and I felt much more comfortable. Luo Yong felt much more relieved when he saw that those young people were not as depressed as in the afternoon.
I don’t say anything about raising children, and health is definitely the first priority.
According to the "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic", summer is a season for all things to flourish, and people should also adapt to this season to make the pores open, the qi of the Wei Dynasty is dispersed, and the mood is relaxed and relaxed.
In short, in summer, people cannot be bored.
Chang'an City is hot in summer, so it is still very beneficial to eat some chili occasionally.
On June 19th, the court was held on the 19th day of June. Luo Yong carried a load of peppers to the court, which attracted many officials to look at each other. When he entered the palace gate, a temple man in charge of leading the way smiled and took Luo Yong's burden over and helped him carry the load of peppers outside the hall.
The temples in the palace had a pretty good impression of this legendary coffin board. They all knew that Eunuch Xu learned the skills with him. Although not everyone had such an opportunity, everyone felt that this coffin board should have no prejudice against the temple people.
On the morning court that day, when everyone finished talking about the national affairs, Luo Yong started to report that he had a load of pepper to give to the saints and ministers.
After saying this, he ran to the hall, carried a shoulder pole, and carried his load of peppers in. The load of peppers was booming, making all the civil and military officials feel dazed...
Many people think in their hearts that the saints and the ministers don’t want to accept such a down-to-earth way of giving gifts.
The result was not like that. The saint gave him face and asked the palace servants to move half a load away. The remaining half load was left. The ministers with high rank above had no extra money. The officials with low rank below could not even have a chili stalk.
The following officials may not be clear about it. In fact, as early as when the pepper was released, several imperial doctors in the palace tasted and analyzed it themselves. The final conclusion was that most of them said that peppers can eliminate wind and sweat and ward off evil.
Chapter completed!