Time Travel: Remarrying a Little Wolf Dog

Chapter 33 7th Evening Lantern Festival

等下,她记得她昨天飘在医院的时候医院大屏幕上显示的日期是20XX年6月21日,她落水那天她记得是6月8日。

That is to say, only 13 days had passed in the real world, but more than a year had passed in ancient times.

The speed of time flow in modern times and ancient times is different and the difference is huge.

Su Yan silently calculated in her mind that if she could live to 80 years old in ancient times, that would mean she would live another 59 years, which would be less than two years in modern times.

What’s more, in ancient times, living to 80 was considered a long life, and there were not many such people in the whole society.

That means the time to return to modern times will be even earlier.

Two years is nothing compared to the long life.

She can go back and continue to go to school, continue to be cared for by her parents, and continue her friendships.

Everything is too late.

Thinking of this, Su Yan breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, when she returned, everything would not have changed at all. This was already the perfect solution.

From another perspective, she gained two lives.

How is this not a gift from God?

As for whether Master Xu Zhen had made a mistake in his calculations, and whether there were real immortals in this world, she had never thought about this.

She just got the answer and firmly believed that the answer was true.

Having gotten the desired result, Su Yan was finally able to put down the heavy stone in his heart.

From now on, I will temporarily put aside my modern relatives and live a good life in ancient times.

Dad, mom, brother and Mengmeng, we will see each other again.

wait for me!

He An discovered that Su Yan had changed a lot since returning from the fortune-telling trip.

She is no longer aimless like before and does whatever she thinks of.

Instead, it was as if I had a plan for my life and started working towards this direction little by little.

For example, now, Su Yan took the account book and asked him to teach her how to read.

He really felt like a teacher and taught Su Yan in a very professional manner.

But the account book cannot be regarded as a serious enlightenment literacy book, simply because the repetition rate is too high.

The numbers that come back and forth are all about land rent, purchases, social interactions, etc.

Su Yan finished learning very quickly.

He An had attended a proper school and knew the steps and books for educating students.

Seeing that Su Yan loved studying so much, he took Su Yan to the bookstore and bought a copy of "Three Character Classic".

Su Yan was overjoyed (Su Yan OS: I feel so familiar with the Three Character Classic!), and asked him to teach her two pages of characters every night, sometimes even more (Su Yan OS: Of course, the characters in some places are not much different from the simplified characters).

Now Su Yan helps Grandmother He with accounting and household management during the day, and comes back in the evening and enthusiastically asks him to teach her "Three Character Classic".

Her memory is not bad...or rather, very good.

Sometimes he only needed to teach her once and she would be able to recognize it the next time she saw her.

Of course she would forget sometimes, but she could still remember most of it.

Su Yan said: Some characters that look similar to simplified Chinese characters can be recognized quickly, but those that are very different from simplified Chinese characters and are complex can only be memorized slowly.

He An's heart is very complicated. Anyone who is a poor student and marries a wife who is a top student will have doubts about himself.

When he was in school, his teacher would beat him nine times in ten days. Every time the reasons were justified, but he felt ashamed and could not refute a word.

But there is no way, I just can’t remember it.

After finally learning the common words, he couldn't wait to ask his parents to drop out of school.

At that time, his parents just called him over and asked him, "Have you made up your mind?"

Young and ignorant He An raised his innocent face and said, "I don't want to go to school anymore." He added a little aggrievedly, "I can't keep up with others in school. I am always the last one to learn what the teacher teaches. Even the youngest Wang Shanlin learns faster than me."

He could no longer figure out whether he wanted his parents to refuse or agree.

He only remembered that he was not happy when his parents nodded in agreement.

All this unhappiness turned into disappointment when his brother heard that he could go out and play as much as he wanted after dropping out of school, and he also wanted to drop out of school. However, his parents refused to allow him to do so, and both of them beat his brother for this.

For the first time, he realized so clearly that his parents treated him differently from his brother, and he felt very confused.

Therefore, he did a lot of things later to prove that what he thought was wrong, but he only proved that he was right more and more.

Back to the point, although I occasionally regretted dropping out of school so easily over the years, most of the time I felt relieved that I could escape the fate of being a fool in school.

But now, the long-lost fear of being dominated by teachers and classmates has returned.

Although he tried hard to maintain his status as a teacher in front of Su Yan, he even got up in the middle of the night and secretly turned to the back of "Three Character Classic".

I wish I could finish reading it ahead of time so that I can act like a top student in front of my wife for a few more days.

But a poor student is a poor student, and it won’t change just because he is older!

Looking at those words that were so strange that they seemed like strangers he had never seen before, facing the light, he had to admit that he had enough reasons to drop out of school.

This is even more tiring than collecting grain and more difficult than opening a store.

He would rather go to the dock to carry bags for a day than learn Chinese characters for a quarter of an hour!!!

While silently cheering himself up, he lit a lamp and studied hard on the "Three Character Classic".

I pray that I can hold on for a few more days so that I can enjoy the feeling of being admired by Su Yan.

(Su Yan: Not really. I am also a top student! How can I admire someone just because he taught me to recognize a word?)

After working hard for two hours, He An was moved to tears by his own hard work.

He didn't have this much energy when he was in school! If the teacher saw how hard he worked, maybe he would be gentler when beating him!

It was getting late and it would be dawn soon.

Let's stop here for today. He An looked back at his achievements tonight.

!!!

······Only two pages have been turned.

No, what's going on? He has been studying for two hours! How could he only turn over two pages?

He An flipped through the pages again and again, not wanting to believe it, and tried to see if he had flipped over the pages with his clumsy hands.

The results prove: No!

It was over. He Ansheng lay on the bed helplessly. Su Yan could only study at least two pages each time. He was about to be exposed.

No, he has to save himself.

He also started his education at the age of six and attended school for four years.

It’s not that I can’t even memorize the "Three Character Classic". Think about it, think about it, I have memorized this book many times back then.

He An lay on the bed and tried hard to recall, hoping to open his Ren and Du meridians and remember what happened that year.

But when he thought about it, he could only think of the ruler that the teacher had changed several times, the old man who was the gatekeeper at the school secretly opened the door for him when he was late, and the cakes that the teacher's wife gave him after each beating...

He thought he had a good memory. His teacher had 135 hairs in his beard (he counted them secretly while the teacher was sleeping). The food in the school increased by 10 cents per month. There were 15 people in the school and 17 stools. There were two osmanthus trees at the door and a bird's nest on the tree. One year a big bird hatched three eggs... He still remembers it to this day.

But why can’t I remember what’s in the textbook?

He An was very distressed. He was so distressed that he fell asleep in just one minute...

In this world, just like the paper that wraps fire, it is impossible to hide a poor student pretending to be a top student. Just as He An expected, he was soon exposed.

Of course, what exposed him was not the secret reading in the middle of the night, but something more fatal.

Su Yan has learned his limits. In other words, he won't be able to do it again.

Facing He An who was trying to lower his head and pretend to be a quail, Su Yan asked in disbelief: "······Didn't you say that you started learning at the age of six, and when you were ten, your teacher said there was nothing you could teach, so you dropped out of school and went home to study on your own?"

He An was a little embarrassed after being exposed on the spot, but he answered Su Yan's question confidently, "I was sent to school at the age of six, and dropped out and went home at the age of ten. The teacher did say that he couldn't teach me and told me to leave quickly."

Su Yan was stunned. She didn't expect that he was such a person who could master one of the important branches of Chinese culture - word games - without any guidance.

He An was young and shy after all, and felt a little embarrassed when being stared at.

He An: "...why are you looking at me like that?"

Su Yan sighed: "Get to know you again."

Although his true identity as a pretending top student was revealed and he could no longer receive Su Yan's admiring gaze, He An was still relieved.

The polarization between him lighting a lamp and staying up late to study textbooks every night and teaching his wife calmly during the day almost broke him apart.

He has been tiptoeing when getting up at night recently, and he vaguely hopes that Su Yan will wake up in the middle of the night and expose the dragon, so that he will die early and be reborn.

But Su Yan always slept soundly and never woke up once.

This made him feel both disappointed and lucky.

I continue to wait anxiously for the day when the gate knife above my head will suddenly fall.

Now it’s good, Su Yan finally found it.

Although he would not be able to enjoy the admiring gaze of his wife in the future, he did not find it so difficult to accept the thought that he would not have to deal with "Three Character Classic" anymore.

Now the sky is blue, the water is clear, the grass is green, and the flowers are red.

The food is delicious, the bed is soft, and the world is beautiful!

······

He was so excited for several days as if he had taken medicine. Su Yan deeply understood how much the poor students disliked studying.

She simply didn't know what to say.

But everyone has their own destiny, and she doesn't intend to force others to become academic masters or something like that.

Now He An seems to be as happy as a puppy having fun everywhere.

She would never destroy his little happiness.

And it’s not that she has trouble finding someone to teach her. She has a ready-made teacher—Grandma He.

He An said that she used to be a girl from a scholarly family, and marrying his grandfather was a marriage of lower status.

I usually like people who are hardworking and motivated, and I always look at my grandchildren who love reading with a different eye.

Su Yan originally thought that she didn’t know many words (traditional Chinese characters), and was afraid that she would be disliked if she asked Grandmother He to teach her.

Now that she is following He An, she can at least learn a few words, and she has the confidence to ask Grandmother He to teach her.

As expected, Grandma He liked children who read. When she asked him, he agreed on the spot without any hesitation.

He also gave Su Yan a set of four treasures of the study and a copybook of calligraphy, so that Su Yan could learn to copy them.

This person is the one who is truly well-informed. She also talked about the "Three Character Classic" from the shallower to the deeper and from the deeper to the deeper, from the obscure to the essential. Even Su Yan, who has been impacted by modern big data, was attracted by it.

Originally, I was thinking about learning to read, but later on, learning to read became secondary.

I was always fascinated by the stories told by Grandmother He. In her eyes, every sentence and every word seemed to have its own soul and unique meaning.

For the first time, Su Yan was shocked by this culture that had not yet been tainted by modern technology and impetuousness, and was completely fascinated by it.

Grandmother He was very happy to see that she liked it so much. She would often talk while Su Yan listened. Sometimes they would also discuss, and Su Yan would often come up with some insights that would enlighten her.

Sometimes they would even discuss and have long talks under the light of a lamp.

When it was late, he slept with Grandmother He in her clothes, like a close friend, and they became close friends regardless of age difference.

If this wasn't her own grandmother-in-law (grandson's wife), she would have wanted to become sworn brothers with her.

The two of them seemed to be in their honeymoon period and were inseparable. Poor Grandfather He and He An had to stay alone in the empty room every day.

Grandfather He is fine, at least his wife is still at home.

He An was in great pain. After finishing his work with Grandpa Su and his men to transport new grain, he turned around and found that his wife went out early and came back late every day. He could hardly say a word.

The key point is that he didn't dare to say anything. Who asked his wife to meet his own grandmother?

He also thought about attacking Wei to save Zhao and asked Grandfather He to speak up to stop this phenomenon.

Unfortunately, Grandfather He thought the same.

The two of them hypocritically shirked responsibility, flattered each other, and made roundabout hints, and found that the other party had the same plan as themselves.

The broken ship of friendship can capsize at any time, and we broke up on the spot without saying anything more.

But after a few days, the two people who were alone in the empty room had to get together again to relieve their loneliness.

Then they parted ways again because of who was going to persuade them to separate.

This went on for a few times, and seeing that Grandmother He Su Yan did not come to mediate and ignored them at all, she became discouraged.

The two of them finally sat in the yard drinking tea calmly, but they felt that they were just like the tea, very bitter.

This situation continued until the Qixi Lantern Festival, when the two close friends finally separated - Grandmother He was old and had long stopped attending such lantern festivals, and Su Yan had never seen one and wanted to see it for himself.

Therefore, on the day of the Qixi Lantern Festival, He An was able to have Su Yan all to himself for a day. (Grandfather He: I am the same, I can finally talk and eat with my wife!!!)

The Qixi Festival was also called the Qiqiao Festival in ancient times. It was originally established to commemorate the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on the Magpie Bridge. Gradually, it evolved into a blind date festival for unmarried men and women in ancient times.

On this day, unmarried men will carry a lantern and unmarried women will walk on the street holding their carefully prepared needlework works.

They can look at others openly without having to worry about rumors.

If you meet someone you like, you can give the other person something you have as a token of trust.

If the other party accepts, it means he agrees, and they become a couple. After the Qiqiao Festival, the man can go to the house to propose marriage.

This was absolutely not allowed in ancient times when ethics and morals were very strict and people believed in parents' orders and matchmaker's words.

This is only allowed on the Qiqiao Festival, so this day is also a rare day when both men and women can indulge themselves.

Every year on this festival day, almost every family goes out to celebrate, except for the elderly grandmothers.

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