No matter how unhappy Brother Wen was, in the face of his good friend's nervous eyes, he still accepted the carved wooden box. He asked Xie Dou's birthday maliciously, and was ready to give him a good reply when the time came.

Fan.

Xie Dou honestly announced his birthday.

Brother Wen nodded seriously, indicating that he had remembered it.

At this time, Wang Hua came to look for someone to find the "master" who had disappeared for a long time and arrest Zhou.

Brother Wen had never seen Zhuzhou Zhou with his own eyes. He hung his arms around his father's neck in anticipation: Will Zhuzhou Zhou put out many antique small models for him to catch? If he catches them all, these small models will all be lost.

Does it belong to him?

This excitement only lasted until Brother Wen was placed on the couch filled with various things.

I saw a large circle of things placed in front of him.

First of all, there is a stack of enlightenment books, which are nothing more than "The Thousand-Character Classic", "Three-Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames" and the like. There is a thick stack of books there. It seems that all the books that other children have are in this stack of books.

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Next to it is a set of Four Treasures of the Study, which looks to be of much better quality than the one his father bought for him earlier. But even if the quality is high, it cannot hide the fact that it is a set of Four Treasures of the Study!

Then there was a small bow and a riding crop, both of which could be used by children on horses. However, Brother Wen was still young, so there were no arrows for him.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the restrictions on Han people's weapons were very strict. At the most extreme level, ten households were required to share one kitchen knife. If a kitchen knife was lost, ten households would be punished.

In the Ming Dynasty, the restrictions on the common people were relaxed a lot. Although civilians were still not allowed to conceal military weapons, bows and arrows, knives and guns, harpoons and other self-defense or hunting and farming tools, they were not prohibited from carrying them.

Scholars should practice their riding and shooting skills early, otherwise it will affect your annual examination results.

You must know that if you are good at riding and shooting, you can get extra points in the boy test. Even if your cultural scores are average, you will be made an exception to be a scholar!

So if you don’t have much confidence in your brain, you can practice riding and shooting from a young age and try to get high scores on this additional question.

No, Zhuozhou brought in the bow and horse.

It's just that most people use toy bows and horses, but his father is unique and all of them are usable.

We have all the civil and military items, and a few other items from scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are also put in, such as hoes used by farmers (there is no room for real hoes on the couch, so I chose a small flower hoe), ink fountains used by craftsmen, abacus used by merchants, etc.

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These are just put in place to suit the occasion. The Ming Dynasty had craftsman status. Once you became a craftsman, your children and grandchildren had to be craftsmen for generations to come, which greatly limited the scope of employment for your children and grandchildren.

Anyone with any ambition is not willing to do this business.

This is still secondary, the key is that these things are directly sold to real people!

For example, the ink fountain is a real ink fountain, the kind that can pop up straight ink lines on wood!

Brother Wen was a little suspicious that his father did it on purpose.

These piles are either labor tools or brain-consuming gadgets. If you choose any of them, you will be a social beast!

Fortunately, there are not all choices. There are also some toys bought from the market, such as a set of hammer balls.

The gameplay of this thing is similar to golf, which is to make several holes in the field and use a special pole to hit the ball into the holes.

The courtyards of wealthy people's homes were large enough, and they could use it as a venue directly in their own gardens. Literati and children alike loved to invite friends to play together.

There is also something called a grain board, which is a scene DIY toy. There is a layer of soil sprinkled on the grain board. Children can build small huts, hedges, and plant seedlings on it, and experience the joy of infrastructure and farming without leaving home.

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It’s simply an upgraded version of playing in the mud!

In addition, there are some common toys such as Go, kites, nine-link rings, and small spinning tops.

This is the normal baby used to catch a baby’s pregnancy!

Brother Wen's eyes lit up when he saw the pile of fresh toys, and his eyes lingered on each toy twice, and then he began to hum and move in front of him.

Children don’t make choices. Of course children want them all (toys)!

Just toys, all toys!

Brother Wen enthusiastically finished moving the toys one by one. When he looked up, his father was looking at him and smiling. He didn't say anything, but his eyes were a little scary.

Brother Wen pretended not to see it.

He looked at Ms. Zhao again and found that the smile on Ms. Zhao's face was a little dim. It was obvious that he was quite disappointed because he only grabbed toys.

Brother Wen paused and turned to look at the remaining social tools. He didn't know which one to grab to make his mother happy.

According to his true thoughts, he doesn't want any of them.

How can you cheat on such an important day? Good children shouldn't do this kind of thing!

It's all his father's fault. The things he picked were too serious and scary to look at.

Can’t it be made into a cute little model worth collecting?!

How about he just grab a bow horse?

Brother Wen was undecided when he saw Xie Qian take out a personal seal he carried with him and said with a smile: "Let me add a seal to Brother Wen and see if Brother Wen likes it."

seal!

This thing is similar to pen and ink when grasping the week, and generally represents official luck.

When it comes to studying, the ultimate goal is to "learn literature and martial arts, and become a member of the imperial family", so it can be said that we reach the same goal through different paths!

However, compared to the thick enlightenment package and the Four Treasures of the Study prepared by his father, the seal Xie Qian displayed was much more pleasing to the eye.

This private seal is carved from the finest Shoushan stone. It is translucent and moist, and the color is as bright and charming as a ripe persimmon in late autumn. It has the flavor of the legendary "Shoushan Tianhuang".

Brother Wen reached out to pick up the seal and found that it said "from the valley, moved to the tree" written underneath.

Most names and characters of ancient people are closely related.

For example, Xie Qian's name comes from the poem "Logging" in the "Book of Songs", so when he chose the word, he chose "Yu Qiao" according to the poem.

The words engraved on a scholar's private seal all depend on his own preference. Xie Qian's seal covers his own name and character, which is very serious.

Some people engrave on the seals such things as "apricot blossoms and spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River", "floating life for half a day of leisure", "listening to the oriole in the depths" and "moonlight on the solitary mountain". These are purely elegant things that literati like to appreciate.

Tang Bohu was an extremely arrogant person, and he directly carved a private seal for himself as "the most romantic and talented man in the south of the Yangtze River".

When Tang Bohu was involved in the imperial examination fraud case and his career was completely hopeless, he even mocked himself by carving a "Nanjing Jieyuan" seal to commemorate his glorious moments. Whenever he needed to sell paintings, he took out the seal and put it on his paintings.

Add value to it.

He was the first person in the Nanjing Provincial Examination, and he was a real candidate for the exam. How many candidates have failed like him?

Regardless of whether the painting is good or not, just because of this seal, I would buy a painting to support him!

It can be regarded as joy in suffering.

Brother Wen clutched the seal and refused to let go, a series of memories about the literati's seal came to his mind.

The last thing Brother Wen thought of was: Where is Tang Bohu now? How old is he? Does he know any of his friends who were involved in the fraud case?

It is said that Tang Bohu's little friend is called Xu Jing, and he is a very rich man. After he met Tang Bohu, he was immediately shocked and became a man of heaven. Every day, he brought a bunch of losers with Tang Bohu to have fun and hang out in the flowers.

Think about it, they are both waiting at the emperor's feet for the exam, while others are struggling to prepare for the exam, and the two of them are romantic and happy together, spending money to buy fun all day long, what will be the result?

Of course, the result was that they were the first to win. Because they were the most high-profile and conspicuous among the candidates of that year, they were directly involved in an imperial examination fraud case during the Hongzhi period.

The one who was reported was the extremely wealthy Xu Jingmaiti!

How rich is this extremely wealthy Xu Jing?

After he was involved in the imperial examination fraud case, he was so sad that he went home and did nothing. He studied behind closed doors and waited for the court's amnesty order to allow him to return to the examination room.

Unfortunately, in the end, although he waited for the court's pardon, he died on the way to take the exam for the second time.

After Xu Jing died, one of his sons was allocated more than 10,000 acres of land alone.

His son is Xu Xiake's great-grandfather.

The inheritance inherited by this great-grandfather was distributed to Xu Xiake's generation, and could still be used by Xu Xiake to travel around China for thirty years.

It really makes those who hear it sad and those who see it shed tears.

These damn rich people!

A prodigal family will be defeated even for five generations!

Even a rich guy like Xu Jing was obsessed with the imperial examination. When he was old, he would go to Beijing to take another round of exams with all his old bones. It can be seen that that little official seal is really charming.

Alas, the official road is difficult to follow!

Brother Wen still doesn't know how to hide his emotions, and he can't control the wild and wild thoughts in his mind.

He grabbed the seal in his hand, his expression sometimes worried and sometimes sighing, looking at the ever-changing changes, amusing his relatives and friends.

You are so happy when you pick up a toy, but why do you sigh when you pick up a seal?

Even though Wen Geer looked picky and disgusted, this week-grabbing session ended successfully, and what was left was what Wen Geer was best at eating and drinking.

He and Xie Dou sat together, and there were several children among them. After eating and drinking, they met to play with the toys they had just received.

Xie Qian watched a group of little children run out noisily, turned to Wang Hua and said, "You are so unique in preparing these gadgets for catching Zhou."

How can ordinary people give their children real dicks?

Wang Hua said with a smile: "I can play with him later."

With Brother Wen's temperament, even if he uses fake books, fake pens, fake bows and fake arrows, he won't be willing to take them. It would be better to buy something that can be kept.

Xie Qian thought about it and smiled: "That's how it should be."

Wang Hua said: "It will cost you money."

Among the Shoushan stones, the Tianhuang stone is the first of the "Three Treasures of Seal Stones" and its price is not cheap. What's more, this seal is often used by Xie Qian and he cherishes it very much. It is obviously his favorite thing.

Xie Qian was able to use it to catch Zhou Wen because he truly loved this child.

Xie Qian said: "This kid has been so smart since he was a child. Who knows if we elders will have to take advantage of him in the future? A mark is nothing."
To be continued...