Chapter 291 Extra 10 Extraordinary and Inherited
Han Xing's parents and Cheng Shen's parents sometimes talk about their children's childhood.
"Our Han Xing has been such a pain in the ass since she was little!" Han Xing's parents said, "Before her, I didn't even know girls could climb so well!"
"This child is really brave." Old Mrs. Cheng couldn't help but sigh: "When she was at my house, she also crawled through the dog hole. We didn't even notice there was a hole there, but she knew it all."
As the two talked, their memories went to the misty Huizhou Jiangnan.
At that time, the Three People's Parties had just established their own regime. Although the Republic of China period had already begun, everyone still had old-fashioned ideas. After all, the previous presidents were equivalent to emperors, and the influence of the old guard was not weak.
Due to geographical reasons, the southern Anhui region is relatively closed, which means that people's thinking is far less open than that of people in nearby Nanjing and Shanghai.
At this time in Huizhou, boys were all learning Chinese classics, and foot binding was still the mainstream for girls. People basically got engaged and married before they were fifteen years old, and then continued the cycle after having the next generation.
For a local family like the Tian family, if a boy had a talent for studying, the whole family would support him to take the imperial examination. If he had no talent for studying, he would go out with the family's caravan to make a living and earn money to support the family. After all, with the one acre and two mu of land in the mountains of Huizhou, it was really difficult to support the family by farming.
The two brothers Tian Guangzong and Tian Guangqian had good academic performance and were arranged by their clan to go to middle school in the city at an early age. They only hoped that their children could be admitted to university and become "scholars" of the new era.
Compared to their brothers who can see a different world, the girls of the Tian family are still living the same life as they did decades ago or even more than a hundred years ago. Except for some new and unusual things in their home, there is not much change in their lives.
After getting up every morning, I would greet the elders at home, and then start learning poetry and books, focusing on the Women's Precepts, Women's Rules, and the Four Books for Women. After learning them all, I would copy Buddhist scriptures and practice calligraphy.
The afternoon is the time for art courses, including playing the piano, painting, and embroidery. If there is no teacher or space for piano or painting at home, then embroidery will be the main focus.
Day after day, from the time the child was locked up in the embroidery building at the age of six or seven until he became a monk, every day was like this. The only difference was that when he grew older, he replaced the four books of women and the arts of calligraphy and painting with the management of the household.
The girls in Huizhou have repeated the fate of their grandmother and mother generation after generation. Because the Tian family is under the control of the clan, the families that the girls marry into basically maintain a clean family tradition and their lives are pretty good. However, in such a peaceful life, a traitor suddenly appeared in the clan.
As the patriarch of a large family that manages hundreds or even thousands of people, it is difficult for the old patriarch to remember everyone in the family, especially the younger generation. The patriarch only knows a few of the best ones.
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In this situation, the patriarch heard the name of Forty-Eight Mother for the first time when she made all the cousins in the school cry.
"What's going on? My child lost to his sister and he's crying?!" The clan leader really didn't understand.
"Don't mention it, clan leader, please go to the school and take a look! Second uncle is so angry that he starts rolling his eyes!"
"Stop right there, Forty-Eight Madam!" said the second uncle, knocking on the ruler.
"I will stop if you put down the ruler!" Yi Hanxing bargained.
"You kid! Do you want me to teach you a lesson?" said the second uncle as he started to roll up his sleeves.
Several cousins helped Yi Hanxing block the route of the second uncle and mouthed words to Yi Hanxing, asking her to run faster.
Yi Hanxing disappeared in a flash.
When the clan leader rushed over, only the angry second uncle and a few crying children were left.
"Why are you crying?" The clan leader was genuinely puzzled. "Forty-Eighth Lady is your sister, right? Did she hit you?"
The crying child sobbed and shook his head: "I just feel so embarrassed!"
The patriarch looked at the child who was not crying beside him with an inquiring look.
The children rushed to explain to the clan leader, "Forty-Eighth Mother just came over and, after listening to us recite it a few times, she memorized the entire "Departure to the Capital"! She even said it was so easy."
"He was just stuttering while reciting his lesson, and happened to be standing in front of Forty-Eight Lady. He looked so bad that he couldn't help crying."
The clan leader finally understood what was going on: "It's good to have a sense of shame, but don't cry. Remember to study hard, and you'll be able to beat the girl this time."
After comforting the boy, the clan leader went to his second uncle and asked, "How did this kid get into the school?"
The second uncle also didn't understand, and finally went to Han Xing's parents' home with the clan leader to talk about the child.
Han Xing's father was very desperate: "My child is like this. If you can educate him well, then come and educate him. If you can't educate him, what else can I do?"
As he said this, Han Xing's father showed the clan leader and the second uncle the results of his battle of wits and courage with Yi Hanxing.
"I had locked the child and the Buddhist scriptures in the embroidery room and removed the ladder, but she actually made a rope out of a sheet and climbed down from the second-floor window."
Yi Hanxing thought, these were all things learned during the fire drill. It’s only the second floor, and he’s not even afraid of heights, so why is he afraid?
The patriarch had never heard of such an outrageous girl in his life.
"Where is she?" asked the patriarch.
"Caught him at the village entrance."
The clan leader and the second uncle holding a ruler hurried over, and Han Xing's parents followed. Originally, everyone wanted to teach Yi Hanxing a severe lesson, but facing Yi Hanxing, the clan leader and the second uncle felt they had no idea where to start.
No one has ever hit a girl! Aren't girls punished by copying books, being grounded, or skipping meals when they make mistakes? Who could have imagined that they'd encounter someone like this climbing through a window?
The patriarch's helplessness was too obvious, so Yi Hanxing asked, "What do you want from me?"
"What for?" the second uncle asked, "Ask you if you know you're wrong!"
"What did I do wrong?" Yi Hanxing asked back.
"You, you, you!" The second uncle was angry.
Yi Hanxing was still puzzled. He just asked a question in return, but the Second Master got angry so easily.
"Your family is clearly putting you under house arrest, yet you actually climbed out the window and left. You're disrespecting your parents!"
Yi Hanxing refused to admit this big accusation.
"Our Tian family is a family that has been passed down through poetry and literature, and established through the imperial examinations. Our ancestors have always said that the most important thing for us is to let our descendants study! My parents put me in solitary confinement, so I missed the time to study. I came out to obey our ancestors' teachings and study hard."
The clan leader took a deep breath and said, "Then why didn't you just stay quiet and eavesdrop when you were reading? You even made your cousin cry!"
Han Xing's parents couldn't help but glance sideways: So you accepted that your child eavesdropped?
"I didn't want to either. Mainly because I didn't expect it to be so difficult for my cousins to endorse."
Yi Hanxing, who was a Versailles man, was delighted to receive the order from the clan leader Guan Xiulou.
It's just the Embroidery Building, would Yi Hanxing care? As soon as the adults left, she turned around and took out the buttons she had made with the door knocker, put them on the furniture at home, and returned to the first floor.
Decades later, the clan leader looked at the two little kids from Yi Hanxing's family and the two kids sent back by Yi Hongxing, and said to his grandson tremblingly, "When I see them now, it's just like when I saw your 48th aunt back then!"
Han Xingniang and Old Lady Cheng also sighed: "These kids at home are really better than their fathers. Why don't they just blow the roof off the house?"
When summer vacation comes, the kids who go to school in the city return to the village, making the elders in the family dream back to the days when Yi Hanxing was a naughty child.
The four-member team consisting of Yuanbao, Tianmihu, 冂冂, and Koukou left no grass growing wherever they went.
"Sister-in-law, your grandchildren prepared a great gift for us! They knew we were going to kill a chicken, so they did it for us. But we didn't dare eat the chicken they killed! Who knows what they wanted from the chicken?"
Han Xingniang had no choice but to apologize: "I'm sorry, I'll give you the money based on the current price of chicken."
"You really need to keep an eye on them. These kids are really making a fuss."
Han Xingniang smiled bitterly: "Look, we are already old, how can we take care of a child?"
"We discovered this. If we hadn't discovered it and eaten it directly, what would happen if something went wrong?"
“I know, the child is back.
I will definitely teach them a lesson." Han Xingniang promised.
After finally sending away the distant relative who had complained, Han Xingniang asked the four children in confusion, "Why did you kill the chicken?"
"I told them that no matter how strong the acid or alkali is, it cannot be completely neutralized in the human stomach. They didn't believe me, so they tried it on a chicken," Yuanbao replied.
"Oh, you're doing experiments." Han Xing's mother suddenly realized, "Han Xing told me that strong acids and alkalis are very dangerous. Where did you get these strong acids and alkalis?! Huh?!!!"
The children scattered so quickly that Han Xing's mother didn't even have time to get a feather duster.
The clan leader looked at the bustling Han Xing's door and couldn't help shaking his head: "My dear brothers and sisters, you have worked hard!"
As a staunch worker-peasant fighter, the patriarch thought quietly: I don't know where the ancestral tomb of Han Xing's family is buried. Although the children in this family are promising, they are too difficult to deal with, aren't they?
In the past, there was Tian Guangqian who didn't want fame, Yi Hanxing who went against his family, and Yi Hongxing who quietly did great things and joined the Workers' and Peasants' Party. Later, there was Tian Xiude, the "famous" divorced secretary. They gave birth to the next generation. These children are all very smart and there is no stupidity. They just obviously inherited the fine traditions of their elders. Every day they help Hanxing's father and mother, who have low blood pressure, to recover their health.
Thinking of this, the clan leader suddenly looked forward to the children meeting and getting along with Yi Hanxing. This battle between the naughty kids and the adult naughty kids would be a good show, right?
The patriarch got up and performed Ba Duan Jin again.
"Dad, didn't you say you wanted to rest? Why are you exercising again?" asked the young patriarch and former captain.
"What do you know! I, your father, have to take good care of myself. Only by living long enough can I see the 'retribution' of some people!" Han Xing's father said, "Otherwise, I have been angered by this naughty kid for so many years?!"
The old patriarch has never been so eager for Yi Hanxing to return home to visit relatives. It would be best if he could take his children to study in the school affiliated with his workplace. Just thinking about it makes him feel so angry!
The excited patriarch received more news to help him exercise his blood pressure.
"Grandpa! Please go and take a look! It's bad! Those little brats brought all the little brats from the village to blow up the manure pit!"
"What?" the patriarch exclaimed, "Why would they disturb the manure pit for no reason?"
When the tribe leader asked the children this question in confusion, Koukou rubbed his fingers awkwardly and said, "We just want to invent an automatic manure spreading machine that spreads manure evenly from the center!"
The clan leader: This is such a legitimate reason! I can’t stand it: “How can I stand this?!”
The clan leader who couldn't bear it any longer saw that his clan grandson was also the current captain: Would you rather die than let my friend die?
The captain looked at the clan grandfather and wanted to slap his leg: Tell me, why are you running so fast? ! !
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