Chapter 183 Talent
Niuniu opened her eyes wide: "Why throw it into the river?"
"Then where should I throw it?" Brother Shen asked humbly.
Niu Niu said: "Why throw away good clothes? We always wash them and put them away."
Brother Shen: "Why put it away? I never wear my clothes a second time."
When Gu Mingda, who was standing by, heard this, he recalled the rumors that the masters of wealthy families were like this and would only wear new clothes once.
Niuniu wrinkled her nose when she heard this kind of behavior from a rich family. She asked in confusion, "Why did you only wear it once and it broke?"
Brother Shen didn’t think there was anything wrong with doing this, but after hearing what Niuniu said, he immediately felt guilty, as if he had done something wrong.
"I...I don't know...it's just that this is how we've always done it at home..."
Niuniu said: "In our village, many families are reluctant to throw away clothes that are full of patches."
Brother Shen felt more and more guilty and said, “I…then I will wear patched clothes next time!”
Niuniu looked at him in surprise and asked, "You have nice clothes, why do you wear patched clothes?"
Brother Shen didn’t know what to say, and said hesitantly: “This…this should make you happier?”
Niuniu just felt even more strange: "I'm not unhappy."
Brother Shen suddenly looked confused and asked, “I thought you wanted me to be frugal.”
Niuniu added: "Whether you are frugal or not is your own business."
Gu Mingda listened for a while and roughly understood where the problem went wrong in the communication between the two.
“Brother Shen, Niuniu doesn’t mean to blame you, so don’t take it to heart,” Gu Mingda explained.
Brother Shen stood there, tilted his head and thought for a long time, and said: "But I don't know what to do now. I didn't think there was anything wrong, but after listening to Niuniu, I suddenly felt that it seemed inappropriate to wear it once and throw it away."
After only one day of experiencing the life of an ordinary person, he felt the difficulties that ordinary people had to face. Clothes had to be worn once and then thrown away, and the food had to be very exquisite. The luxurious lifestyle of the past seemed like a dream.
Niuniu said: "Brother Chen, you can also wear the same clothes several times. You can also give away the old clothes you don't want to wear to others. This way you can save fabric and do good deeds."
Brother Shen immediately said: “Okay, I’ll listen to you, I like doing good things the most.”
Niuniu added, "Let's wash the dirty clothes on your hands. I'll teach you how to wash clothes. I'm telling you, I can wash clothes! I used to wash clothes for the whole family!"
Brother Shen didn’t hear the weirdness in Niuniu’s words, but nodded vigorously and praised: “Niuniu, you are amazing!”
Gu Mingda looked at his daughter with pity, thinking that the Zhang family’s current destruction might be the retribution for torturing Niu Niu in the past.
After Zhang Yunniang got the medicine from the little brother, her seasickness was almost cured, and she was able to get out of bed and walk that day. Seeing that her mother was fine, Niuniu treated little brother Shen even better, and she wanted to teach him all her life wisdom.
Most other people would just find these commonplace things funny, but Brother Shen felt like he had found a treasure.
Brother Shen was not smart enough and had poor learning ability. He happened to meet Niu Niu, who was a child herself, so she could only teach Brother Shen in a child's way. Niu Niu also had a good temper. If he couldn't learn it once, she would teach him twice until he learned it, without any impatience throughout the whole process.
Brother Shen actually learned a lot of things in this way.
He used to be a young master who had never done housework, but now he knows how to light the stove and boil water, and he also knows how to tidy up his house so that it doesn't become as messy as a pigsty.
Brother Shen didn't feel tired from the work, but instead found it very interesting.
"Niuniu, you are so amazing, you really know so many things!"
Brother Shen’s praise is also the best reward for Niuniu.
"I'll learn more and teach you slowly later." Niu Niu said while clenching her little fist.
Brother Shen looked at the young teacher with admiration.
The boat was bumpy and reading hurt his eyes, so Gu Mingda simply stopped studying. He just stayed with the children all day with Sun Jiaxing and taught them how to write poetry these days.
Gu Yan had already learned it, so he stood aside and didn't say anything.
Niuniu also understood it. Not only did she learn it herself, she also brought her new friends to learn it. At this time, she whispered to Brother Shen: "The virtual and the real are opposite, the level and the oblique are harmonious, and the parallelism should be neat. Dad said to write a river scene. Do you understand?"
Brother Shen had been shaking his head before, but he nodded this time. Gu Mingda had already explained how to write a poem in detail, and Niu Niu repeated it.
He was a useless student at home and had driven away many teachers. But now on the boat, following Gu Mingda and Sun Jiaxing, he learned a lot of knowledge.
For some knowledge, he understood it after Gu and Sun explained it once, but for some, he didn't understand it, but after Niu Niu explained it to him one or two more times, he would understand it.
Perhaps it was because these people explained it too clearly, Brother Shen actually felt that he was not so useless.
"The turbid waves are white, and the long river is yellow." Brother Shen said.
Gu Mingda looked at Brother Shen in surprise.
"What's wrong? Uncle Gu, did I write badly?" Brother Shen was a little panicked.
Gu Mingda sometimes couldn't understand why Brother Shen, a rich kid, seemed to care so much about what others thought.
"For a beginner, this is already very good. You seem to have a deep perception of colors. You may even have a talent for painting," Gu Mingda praised.
This casual compliment actually made Brother Shen cry with joy.
"Brother Chen, why are you crying? Isn't it a happy thing to be praised?" Niu Niu didn't understand.
After all, every time she was praised by her father, she would be happy for a long time.
"No one has ever praised me for my talent. My family thinks I am unlearned and unskilled," said Brother Shen.
Niuniu said: "Everyone has talent, it's just that we haven't discovered it before. Who knows, you can become an exceptional painter. Have you ever learned to paint?"
Brother Shen shook his head and said, “I even studied the Three Character Classic for a long time, and my family never expected me to do so.”
"Then let's learn to paint later, and then we can let those who say you have no talent take a closer look!" Niu Niu encouraged.
Brother Shen instantly had a direction, and made up his mind to ask his mother to hire a teacher for him when he returned to Beijing.
Gu Mingda listened to Niu Niu and others composing poems. Gu Yan's was quite standard, Niu Niu's was quite childish, but Gu Zhao was the only one who scratched his head for a long time and even had trouble writing a doggerel.
"Forget about it today, but if you write like this again tomorrow, I will punish you," said Gu Mingda.
Gu Zhao made a bitter face and asked, "Are you still going to write about the river scene tomorrow?"
"We'll talk about what to write tomorrow tomorrow. Don't try to be clever." Gu Mingda said.
Brother Shen at the side suddenly said: "It will probably rain tomorrow. Do you want to write about the scene in the rain?"
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