Chapter 96: Why Sitting on a Wall and Holding an Umbrella
Light snow was already floating in the sky, whirling and dancing in the air. Li Guolou held an oilcloth umbrella to send Li Jinglue to the Anhui Fellowship Association. He ran directly to the residence of four fellow villagers. When he came to the door, he heard the sound of mahjong coming from inside.
Li Guolou couldn't help but smile. Instead of studying hard, five fellow villagers were playing mahjong in the room.
Li Guolou knocked on the door and shouted: "Inspection!"
There was a commotion in the room, laughter could be heard, the door opened, and Fan Dahui gave Li Guolou a big hug and said with a smile: "Fake foreign devil, we were talking about you just now."
Li Guolou broke away from Fan Dahui's fat body and said, "I'm not a real foreign devil, so don't be so enthusiastic."
The other four said hello to Li Guolou and continued playing cards. Since their friends were here, they would not stop playing cards. They would not leave the table until at least dinner was served in the clubhouse.
Zhu Dinghe said while playing cards: "Fake foreign devil, do you want to come and play for a while? Anyway, I won money."
Li Guolou smiled and said: "No need to be pretentious, just go ahead and fight. I'm just curious about why you moved into the same room. It turns out it was just for fun."
Fan Dahui refuted: "Hey, fake foreigners can't say that, we are not trying to save money. We can save a pot of charcoal stove in one night, who calls us poor."
Li Guolou rolled his eyes and said, "Then ask Lao Zhu to sell his paintings, and all five of you can live a good life."
Zhu Dinghe was extremely dissatisfied and said: "Why did the fake foreign devils get involved in my family? Will a person like me, who is self-reliant, use my family's money?"
Li Guolou replied: "Lao Zhu, you are dishonest. Who am I? Your family just deposited a sum of money on the counter for you. Do you think I don't know?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Mahjong was overthrown, and several other students began to criticize Zhu Dinghe for pretending to be poor, and insisted that "Old Zhu treat him as a guest."
Zhu Dinghe quibbled: "Isn't this just for the sake of long-lasting water? I have the most guests here."
It's hard to beat a good man with four mouths, and the other four students refused to give up. Zhu Dinghe could only agree to let them go out for a meal and drink together in the evening.
Watching the five of them bickering and quarreling, Li Guolou thought of his study tour career. Didn't his classmates quarrel and sometimes fight each other, but they still reconciled and ate, drank and had fun together. They were still studying.
Time is most worth remembering. The carefree days are fading away. Will the five students cherish the friendship in front of them? In the future, when they are far apart, will they still think that they were brothers sleeping on the same kang?
Li Guolou thought of his classmates in a foreign country. It was still freezing in England, and the landlord Smith's family gathered together to read the Bible. The scene of the naughty Xeliya holding the scissors in one hand and his pigtails in the other couldn't help but
came to his mind.
Zhu Dinghe saw Li Guolou in a daze and was very dissatisfied. He scolded: "Fake foreign devil, are you here to disturb the morale of the army? We study hard every night and live our lives without sleep. We can't compare with fake talents from rich families like you."
, take some practical actions to support our fellow villagers, and we will pay you back tenfold in ten years."
Li Guolou glanced at him and said: "What are you talking about, Lao Zhu? I want to plot against you. There is a big tree in my house that I will plot against for the rest of my life. You should plot it carefully. Don't commit a royal crime just to write a wrong word."
Taboo, nothing but joy."
Examination papers for examinees must be clean and tidy. If you make a mistake, you must paste it out with white paper and write it again. But it is best not to paste it. If you want to get a good ranking, you must write it on the examination paper in one stroke and make it pleasing to the eye.
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Examination candidates are like being locked up in a small dark room. They eat, drink, and have sex in a small cubicle without a door. They cannot come out for three days. They have to change their clothes when entering and do not allow candidates to bring notes and scriptures. But this can also be done.
To cheat, bribe the examiner, and the test questions will be sent to the examiner by the invigilator. Another trick is to put secret codes on the test paper. This is something that every invigilator will do. There are big and small invigilators, and the admission ranking is
No, the top three are
Appointed by the emperor. The royal taboo is the most taboo. To write the name of a sage or the emperor's family, you must use the missing pen. Candidates who forget this will have their test papers relegated to the sidelines. Many candidates fall into this hurdle. Sometimes the papers are graded
The examiner is kind-hearted and likes this test paper, so he will help the candidate to make some changes, so that the candidate will win the exam. This is a great gift, and will be passed down everywhere in the future. In ancient times, this kind of thing happened endlessly, and a "word" would change
A person's life.
Li Guolou's words touched the minds of five students. They usually spend a lot of money writing articles, but once they enter the strict examination room, they will be confused and their performance on the spot is not ideal, which means they have wasted two years. Several people sighed together.
, telling about the geometry of fortunes. They all went to blind man Huang to have their fortunes told. The words of blind man Huang were so mysterious and subtle that people felt that they had deep meaning, and they could not guess it for a while.
Zhu Dinghe said: "Hey, I have a strange thing. I had a strange dream last night. I dreamed that I was holding an umbrella and riding on the wall. Just when I was about to jump off the wall, I was kicked awake by a rice bucket.
Already."
Fan Dahui scolded angrily: "I still want to blame you. Sleep well, but you put your hand on my face. If I don't kick you, who will I be kicking?"
Zhu Dinghe argued: "Am I holding an umbrella? Of course I have to stretch out my hands."
Cao Kexing thought about it and said: "Lao Zhu, you dreamed of riding on the wall. This dream is not good. You cannot rely on both ends and are in a dilemma. This is the outcome you will face."
Zhu Dinghe asked: "What about the umbrella?"
Cao Kexing said: "That means you are doing useless work. What's the use of sitting on the wall with an umbrella?"
Zhu Dinghe scratched his scalp and said: "Hey, I don't take it seriously. It's not good if the omen is not good. Anyway, if I don't win, I will go back to be a small landlord. It's a pity that I was raised by a second wife, and I can only live a moderately prosperous life in the future.
My hometown will never come out again, and my father will not spend any money on me anymore."
Zhu Dinghe is the oldest here. He is almost forty years old. His father above him is still alive and he can still live a carefree life. When his father dies and the head of the family becomes the eldest brother, how can he still devote all his attention to it?
Even if he spends time on exams, his wife and children must also be supported by him. With the title of scholar, there is no big problem in finding a decent job.
Seeing that Zhu Dinghe was in a low mood, Li Guolou laughed loudly, clapped his hands and said: "Congratulations, congratulations to Lao Zhu, you will definitely be named on the gold list this time. There is no problem in the top thirty. How can you listen to Brother Cao's words?
, he told the opposite of everything.”
Li Guolou is the best at deceiving people. Few people can refute his eighteen fallacies, and I don’t know how many people have been fooled by him.
Zhu Dinghe became energetic. The five students from the Qing Empire all looked down upon the intellectuals like Li Guolou who had been bought with money. They slandered Li Guolou's talents behind his back, saying, "Anyone who can speak the language of foreign devils is
Traitor!" Li Guolou, who was not an honest man, had always been the target of their criticism and attacks. But they also knew a little about Li Guolou's abilities, and now they suddenly became his close friends.
"Fake foreign devil, don't show off. Let's drink together tonight." Zhu Dinghe invited Li Guolou to have a drunken party.
Drinking is something that the more you drink, the more you like it. Li Guolou is now an alcoholic. He obviously has something to do in the afternoon, but when he thinks of drinking with his friends, he doesn’t want to do anything serious. He thinks that it’s snowing, so he shouldn’t be busy. He makes up a perfect reason.
Already as stable as a mountain, he sat down on the kang.
Li Guolou held up the teacup, stretched out his hand, and said, "Old Zhu, I'll give you some face. I'll give you a cup of tea. I'll give Blind Man Huang at least three hundred copper coins."
Fan Dahui interjected: "I don't believe what Huang Xiazi said. The year before last, he said that I was in high school and he had already forgotten me this time. But for the sake of luck, I didn't expose his lies, and I didn't get two ounces of money or a penny.
Give him less."
Zhu Dinghe said impatiently: "Rice bucket, why are you interrupting me? He is just a man from the rivers and lakes, and people from high school are praising him by the way. If I win, I will also say a few good words to the blind man Huang, this kind of thing
Who will expose him? Isn’t he being cautious?”
Cao Kexing said: "Fake foreign devils, I've served you tea. Don't show off, we're still going to play mahjong."
Zhu Dinghe scolded angrily: "Xiao Cao, you fight, but I won't fight. It's a pleasure to have friends over. I'll chat with the fake foreign devil and watch the snow scene together later."
Fan Dahui said: "I won't fight either. What's the meaning of my kick? I still need to ask the fake foreign devil for advice. You three can play mahjong with your feet raised."
Wei Hanyu waved his hand to mess up the mahjong on the table, and said with great enthusiasm: "No more fighting, it's time for us good brothers to go out and play. A snowball fight is better than playing mahjong."
The interest in playing in the snow increased, and everyone became as excited as children. They looked at the snow falling outside the window, hoping that it would snow harder. They all clamored for Li Guolou to hurry up, and they started to change their shoes and get ready to go out.
Li Guolou said: "Lao Zhu's dream is a good dream. He will become rich and powerful in the future. I can guarantee that Lao Zhu's ranking this time will be the highest among you."
Zhu Dinghe's face was getting better and better. He was ready to have a big meal with a stroke of his pen. He would spend all the money and extraneous things that he would not take with him in life or death.
Li Guolou said: "Old Zhu dreamed that he was riding on the wall, which was a hint that he was about to change the door. The jump of Lao Zhu was like a carp jumping over a dragon gate, shocking the world and crying ghosts and gods."
The students all marveled together and said: "That makes sense." Zhu Dinghe was delighted when he heard this and said anxiously: "You fake foreign devil, what kind of good omen does it mean for me to hold an umbrella? You can explain it clearly."
Li Guolou smiled and said: "Lao Zhu, this is a better explanation. If you open the umbrella, it means that when you jump off the wall, you will be as stable as a rock and there will be no mistakes. Sitting high, isn't it high school?"
Cao Kexing originally thought that Li Guolou was making nonsense, but now he was persuaded by Li Guolou. He stood up and cheered: "Yes! Sitting high up, that's high school. What I just said was wrong. Congratulations to Lao Zhu."
You."
Everyone in the room was cheering and cheering, surrounding Zhu Dinghe and congratulating him on having a sweet dream.
Fan Dahui said anxiously: "What about me, you fake foreign devil? What good sign does my kick have?"
Li Guolou glanced at him and said, "You mean you have followed Lao Zhu all your life, and your ranking in the imperial examinations has fallen behind him. If he is the boss and you are the second child, your official position will never be as big as his."
Fan Dahui got what he wanted and heard good words. He even kicked Zhu Dinghe and was successful.
Li Guolou secretly laughed in his stomach. This was called psychological suggestion. No matter how things develop in the future, he had given Zhu Dinghe a shot in the arm. "Sitting high" and "taking risks in danger" can all explain that the dream was originally false.
Zhu Dinghe's face turned red and he shouted: "I'll treat you to some flower wine tonight!"
"Ouch!" The five students cheered and ran to the street. The snowy world, the snow cellar and the ice and sky could not withstand their passion. Snowballs were flying around while shouting, and Li Guolou was able to resist the five students alone.
People attacked, and bursts of laughter filled the streets.