Fu Huang: Husband, here is a ginseng

"Everyone, look, there's smoke!"

Tiezhu saw black smoke coming out of the weeds in front of him and shouted in surprise.

Everyone looked in the direction the iron pillar was pointing, and everyone was extremely excited: "Gao girl (Miss Gao) is so amazing. She has come up with this idea. From now on, we don't have to worry about having no water to drink in the mountains."

We walked to the place where the black smoke was coming out. The weeds there were particularly green, and there were also wild vegetables.

Gao Zhijun squatted down to dig wild vegetables, and the villagers also helped. However, the head of the village and the clan leaders looked at the rising black smoke and thought: If we had known this method before, perhaps we wouldn't have to flee from famine!

After digging up wild vegetables and herbs, Gao Zhijun asked the young men in the village to weed within a hundred meters around the black smoke as a circle, and come to dig a well tomorrow.

Based on the moisture level of the soil and the greenness of the weeds, Gao Zhijun estimated that water would be found if she dug 100 meters.

If it is not a drought year, it would take about thirty meters to dig out water.

"Girl, you are so amazing! You can come up with this method!"

The village head said with praise and gratitude.

"Uh, Miss Gao is amazing!"

Everyone praised it unanimously.

Huo Jinqian was delighted when he heard everyone praising Gao Zhijun.

Gao Zhijun felt embarrassed by the compliments and lowered her head in embarrassment.

This was not because she was good, but because she plagiarized the achievements of her ancestors. She felt guilty about it: "I saw this in a book."

When they heard that she had read it in a book, the village head and his friends thought Gao Zhijun was even more amazing. For a woman to be able to read and write was really amazing: "A girl can read? That's amazing!"

"I know a little."

Gao Zhijun didn't dare to look at everyone, because she knew a lot more than just a little.

In order to complete the task, she knows eight languages, not just a little bit, but is proficient in them.

Ancient characters were written in regular script, which is used by many primary and secondary school students today. She also learned it because of a task. She studied with a calligraphy master for half a year. Everyone praised her calligraphy and said she was very talented.

"Even if it's just a little bit, it's still a big deal. Jinqian is the only educated person in our village, and the others can't even read a single word."

The village head said with some regret.

He actually wanted to produce a few scholars in the village, but the village was too poor to support scholars.

"Uncle Lizheng, when things settle down, I think we should let the children in the village go to school, not for the sake of passing exams, but just to learn how to behave in society.

If you are illiterate, it is easy to make mistakes and go astray.”

Gao Zhijun felt that after settling down at her destination, the first priority was to let her children go to school.

Reading is not for fame, but for self-cultivation.

If you can't even support your wife and children, how can you have correct values?

"Illiterate, what does that mean?"

Huo Jinqian asked in confusion about this new word.

Oh my god, I accidentally used a modern word. How do I explain this?

She felt that she was the first fool to dig a hole for herself and bury herself in it.

He cleared his throat and said, "Illiterate people are just like Tiezhu and his friends, who can't read a single word. Some people don't know how to behave in society, don't know how to distinguish right from wrong, and can't be people with correct values."

"As the ancients said, after being sold, he still helped count the silver. This means that he could not distinguish between good and bad people and blindly trusted others, which led to him being sold by others. He still thought that others were doing it for his own good and happily helped count the silver."

"So, Uncle Lizheng, reading is very important. When things settle down, the village can collect money to build a house and invite a teacher to come and teach the children in the village to read and let them distinguish right from wrong."

Gao Zhijun explained illiteracy and did not forget to find a way out for the children in the village.

"I understand what the girl said, but the village is too poor and we can't afford a teacher."

The village head is also powerless, after all, everyone has to make a living.

Gao Zhijun felt the same way. She was thinking too simply. The only hope of the ancient people was to have enough food to eat.

If you can't even get enough food, how can you talk about self-cultivation? Isn't that bullshit?

"The head of the village is right. Let's wait until life in the village gets better before we discuss this.

After all, food is the most important thing for people. Only when you are full can you talk about reading and distinguish right from wrong. "

Gao Zhijun did not dwell on this topic. After all, she was an outsider and everything depended on the wishes of the villagers.

However, Huo Jinqian was unwilling to change the subject. From Gao Zhijun's conversation, he felt that her knowledge and insights were better than his own, and her learning was higher than his own, so he had a feeling of mutual admiration.

"My sister is more knowledgeable than me. Isn't the purpose of studying to pass the imperial examinations? Is there anything else?

Besides, isn't it a waste of money just to distinguish right from wrong and cultivate one's character?"

Huo Jinqian asked without quite understanding.

"Cultivate your character, manage your family, govern your country, and bring peace to the world! If a person's character is not good, how can he love the people and bring peace to the world?"

Gao Zhijun just gave a simple explanation.

This explanation was incomprehensible to the villagers who could not read a single word, but it was understandable to Huo Jinqian who was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics.

Even the current Da Coward cannot compare to what my sister said.

"What a great saying: cultivate your character, manage your family, govern your country, and bring peace to the world!"

Huo Jinqian read it over and over again, muttering to himself.

Cultivating oneself, regulating the family, governing the country and bringing peace to the world is actually a passage in the "Book of Rites. Great Learning" written by Zengzi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Originally, it was written that one should cultivate oneself after one's heart is right, regulate one's family after one cultivates oneself, regulate one's family after one regulates one's country, regulate one's country after one regulates one's country and bring peace to the world. This is the right name that many people used to motivate themselves in their previous lives.

Ancient people read books because they felt that "books can contain a golden house and a beautiful woman."

Modern people read books in order to improve their own cultivation, broaden their minds and have their own values.