The sky is full of scorching heat, the leaves curl up on the cotton. The sea is distant, people are on the shore, children or toddlers. The four seasons are short, there is no resentment in life, spring, summer, autumn and winter are all looked forward to.
There is no sigh of sorrow, listening to the cicadas, spring is also joyful, autumn is also beautiful, the sound of the cicadas in the sky, the sound of the cicadas in the evening, the sound of the cicadas together, forming their own space.
There is no weariness, but listening to the cicadas, there is a light call early, there is a snore at noon, all day long, there is no break, the cicadas dance gracefully, the sound is clear.
The cicadas sing, the sound of the cicadas passing through the gauze, is blue by the seaside; the cicadas spread their wings and face, reflecting the blue sky on the horizon; the cicadas sing, is passed on forever, is the heart passing through the autumn cold.
Perhaps singing along the riverside with the rising sun, perhaps painting the mountains with the sunset. The wind blows continuously, the water ripples, the moon bends, the stars twinkle, the cicadas never change, it is still the same as before.
The sound of the waves by the seaside never stopped, accompanied by the sound of the seabirds and the movements of the cicadas on the trees, making the amusement park seem very lively.
Even more lively were the children. They carried their plates and whispered to each other as they lined up and walked in front of Li Longji and the others. It was as if they wanted to stay in front of everyone for a while, but they were afraid that the children behind them would rush them.
Xiao Bei led the way, bringing eleven children to squeeze in the line. Even the two younger children, Pan 'er and Jun' er, didn't allow others to help them carry their plates. The thin wooden plates could be lifted by the two of them, but if there was food on them, the two of them would probably have to work together to carry one plate. The premise was that they knew how to cooperate.
The child who said that he would eat as much as he wanted would not be stuffed. Li Longji only gave him a spoonful of rice. If it wasn't enough, he could get more, but if he really ate until he was full, it would be a crime.
"Gege Xiao Bao, I want this, and this." A child stood in front of Zhang Xiaobao and pointed at the two dishes in front of Zhang Xiaobao with his white, tender, and chubby little finger.
Li Longji and the other four were in charge of the rice and the main dishes. Jang Wong Clan and Madam Wang were pregnant, so they weren't in charge of much. They were only in charge of the fruits and soup. Li Longji's work wasn't heavy either. He was in charge of giving the others rice or small steamed buns. There were no wontons, dumplings or pies today, so he was worried that they wouldn't be able to handle it.
However, there were quite a lot of dishes, a total of twenty meat dishes and twenty vegetarian dishes.
The children had to choose four out of the forty dishes to eat. The child standing in front of Zhang Xiaobao had already gotten two meat dishes from Wang Juan, and now he still wanted a meat dish.
Zhang Xiaobao shook his head and said helplessly, "No, you can only choose two dishes of vegetables. The Chinese cabbage in vinegar is very delicious, or you can eat a bean sprout. There are shredded meat in the bean sprout."
The child's face was full of regret. After thinking for a while, she smiled and said, "I'm different today. I want two vegetarian dishes, but I want two meat dishes. Brother Xiao Bao, you must give me the cumin mutton in front of you."
"Oh? Why? "Zhang Xiaobao asked cooperatively.
There was a child next to him who was familiar with the situation and helped to say, "Because today is his sixth birthday. After today, he will grow up by one year. Unfortunately, I still have one month to go. I also want to grow up quickly so that I can do a lot of things for Tang Dynasty."
"Well, since it's a birthday, there should be two more dishes. The cumin mutton is for you. What's the fish next?" Zhang Xiaobao saw that it was the child's birthday and wanted to give him some preferential treatment, so he put the dishes the child had chosen on the child's plate.
"That's not enough. Double the price. I also want a coupon for Baby Candy House." The child continued to make demands, looking as if he had been given an inch and wanted a mile.
Zhang Xiaobao looked at the child who was holding the plate and said, "I'm afraid you can't hold it. About Baby Candy House, you can ask Sister Xiaobei. Sister Xiaobei is responsible for giving others coupons."
The child looked at her plate, rolled her eyes, and asked, "Can I give it to you once and then come back and buy more?"
"One plate per person. Where are you going to give it to? If you put more food, you can't eat. "Zhang Xiaobao still talked with her tirelessly.
"I'll give it to my mother. My mother likes to eat cumin mutton and fish. I don't like them. I like to eat drumsticks. I already have them. I won't put more food first. When my mother finishes eating, I'll come back and put more food.
They say that babies are stars in the sky. If a mother wants a baby, she has to pick it and put it in her stomach. The little star grows up little by little and becomes a baby.
It's very hard, so I can't always think about myself on my birthday. I have to think about my mother first. I want a coupon for eating cake with my family at Baby Candy House. "
The child explained the reason to Zhang Xiaobao.
Zhang Xiaobao didn't say anything. He doubled the amount and put more food on the child's plate, indicating that he could give the food to his mother first and then come back for another set.
At the same time, Xiaobei, who was in the line, took out a piece of paper and a pencil from her bag. She wrote "Free coupon for a premium pastry set" and squeezed over to give it to the child. She didn't carry printed coupons with her.
She said to the child, "Remember to find a few more people to eat with, or else you won't be able to finish it."
Waiting for the child to leave happily, Xiaobei thought for a moment and shouted, "Who else is celebrating their birthday today? I'll give you a free pastry coupon. Don't lie. Those who haven't celebrated their birthday, don't worry. Starting today, Baby Candy House will launch a free birthday event. In the future, as long as it's a child's birthday, they can go to any Baby Candy House to get a gift on their birthday. "
After shouting, Xiaobei squeezed back to the others and said, "How is it? I'm smart, right?"
"Smart, smart. Sister Xiaobei is the smartest," Pan 'er said, blinking her big eyes. She probably didn't understand what Xiaobei had just said.
With Xiaobei's shout, there really were a few children who cheered happily on their birthdays today. They also copied the child from before and said that their mother didn't come with them, so they should pack up and take them back. As for whether the food could last until they reached home and didn't spoil, that wasn't something they needed to consider.
Their fathers could only sigh helplessly. Who told them to only be responsible for providing the stars and not responsible for raising them in their stomachs?
A smile appeared on Li Longji's face. He felt that the child being able to say such words meant that his teachings were successful. In the future, the Tang Empire wouldn't have to worry.
Just as Li Longji was feeling happy, a child stood in front of him and asked, "I should call you 'Your Majesty', right?"
Just as Li Longji was about to nod, he suddenly thought of something and immediately said to the child, "You have to call me 'Uncle Emperor'. All the children in the Tang Empire are our treasures. We are all the children's Uncle Emperor."
"Really? Then, Uncle Emperor, I want two spoonfuls of rice. I'm strong and can eat a lot at home. My father says that he won't be able to support me for much longer. "
The child seriously said bad things about his father. How could someone who could come here to travel or do business be short of a bowl of rice?
Li Longji chuckled and gave the child in front of him two spoonfuls of rice, then called for the next child to come over.
With the words he just said to the child, all the children started calling him 'Uncle Emperor'.
Fortunately, there were not many children in the amusement park. After being busy for half an hour, all the children sat down to eat. Some had even finished eating. They sat there and did not get up. They were eating fruits in their mouths and watching the others eat.
There was still a lot of food left, but they couldn't throw it away. They shared it with the other adults. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also finished choosing dishes for their mother. They also held their plates and sat together to eat.
Li Longji also finished his lunch here. Surrounded by children, he wasn't worried that any of them would jump out to assassinate him.
Zhang Xiaobao drank a mouthful of soup, then looked at Li Longji and said, "Your Majesty, you don't want to give Cuckoo and me a chance to rebel. You treat all the children in the Tang Dynasty as your treasures. You've become the Uncle Emperor to all the children. If we want to rebel in the future, it will be very difficult. The children will listen to you."
"Haha." Li Longji laughed and said, "Don't worry. You and Cuckoo are their Brother Xiao Bao and Sister Cuckoo. If you want to rebel, they won't care. It's a family conflict. When I'm old, you can seize power."
"I don't think so. When you're old, Jun 'er will have grown up. For people like you, eighty years old is considered to be in the prime of their life." Zhang Xiaobao looked at Li Jun and said.
Li Jun looked at them in confusion and said in a crisp voice, "I want to grow up quickly."
"Yes, yes, grow up quickly and don't give them a chance to rebel. Haha." Li Longji was even more happy.
After lunch, Li Longji and the others, except for Jang Wong Clan and Li Jun, played with the children in the amusement park.
To the adults, the entertainment that the children enjoyed was no longer interesting. However, they were in a good mood to see a group of children running around.
Li Longji was sweating all over. As he drank the sour plum soup, he sighed and said, "When I was young, I couldn't play with so many things. It wasn't that I didn't have the money, but that no one could think of it. The children in the Tang Dynasty are blessed. There are more than four thousand amusement parks all over the Tang Dynasty. All the children can play whenever they want. It's really good."
"Uncle Emperor, when the children grow up, they will also sigh like you. They say that they didn't play with many things when they were young. As long as we work hard, the children in the future will be able to play with more things." Xiao Bei continued from the side.
"Oh? Xiao Bei can think of this? Let me ask you, when you grow up and the children have fewer things to play with, what will you do? "
Li Longji had never seen the sea in the south. When he went to Jili Province, it was still winter. It wasn't fun at all. Now that he saw the sea breeze and the layers of blue waves, his mood suddenly became exceptionally good. He smiled and asked Xiao Bei.
Xiao Bei took a deep breath and felt the moist sea breeze and the salty taste of the fresh sea. He replied, "When I grow up and the children have fewer things to play with, it can only mean that the development of the Tang Dynasty has become negative. Everyone who grows up is a sinner.
Big Brother and Big Sister said that to judge the quality of a country's system, you just need to look at the living conditions of the country's elderly and children. You don't need to look at how advanced the tools are or how high the food production is.
The production of tools and food is only a matter of production technology, not a complete explanation of whether the system is good or bad, because other people can slowly learn and research the technology, but the real unifying factor is the love and hatred that the people of this country have for this country. "
"Our Xiao Bei really knows a lot," Li Longji praised.
"We don't. We don't understand a lot of what Big Brother and Big Sister told us, but we've memorized it. What we didn't understand in the past, we'll understand bit by bit. When we understand, we'll tell the things we know to the younger children.
Just like the cicadas that are chirping non-stop now, their lives are very short. Big Sister said that the longest one can live is less than 20 years, and that's the kind that lives in the soil.
Even so, they keep flapping their wings and chirping, passing on what they know to the next generation. Winter goes and spring comes, and the cycle never changes.
Perhaps in the future, people can easily fly into the sky, but the chirping of cicadas will never disappear. In the river of time, the life of a cicada is no different from that of a human. In ten thousand years, the lifespan of a human and the lifespan of a cicada are the same.
The difference is that on the surface, humans are smarter than cicadas, but the same thing is that from birth to death, we've always been pursuing. This has never changed. Civilization is also a struggle. "
As Xiao Bei spoke, he spread his arms and let the sea breeze flutter his clothes.
This time, not only was Li Longji shocked, but even the Jang Wong Clan and Wang Shi were also shocked. Clearly, these words should not have come out of Xiao Bei's mouth.
Madam Zhang and Madam Wang looked at their son and daughter. They saw the two of them holding hands and looking at the sea calmly. They could not understand how the two of them had taught their younger brother and sister. Could it be that the immortals were so powerful?
No wonder the two of them had to personally take care of their younger brother and sister. If it were the two of them, they definitely would not have been able to teach Xiao Bei and the others to become like this.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan heard Xiao Bei's words, and at the same time, they felt the gazes from others.
But neither of them turned around. To them, this was nothing. It was nothing more than a little philosophical thought. Many of the children of their time could do it. Some of the children could even say things like, "It's snowing, spring is coming."
Besides, it was not like Xiao Bei was the only one who thought of this.
Sure enough, when Li Longji was in a state of shock and wanted to ask, Xiao Bei said it himself.
"When we have nothing to do, we always think about other things. Also, there are a lot of stories like this in older brother and older sister's stories. The more we learn, the more we think. Don't be surprised. Ambition is not dependent on age. Without ambition, you can live for a hundred years in vain.
Uncle Emperor, when we go out to sea in a while, you don't have to worry. You don't have to be afraid of falling into the water. We can easily pick you up. As long as there are no reefs below and no storms above, mere waves are a small matter. "
"Uh!" Li Longji was speechless. He did not know how powerful a person was when Confucius said that they were born with knowledge, but he saw the extent to which people who learned later could learn.
He turned his head to look at his son and daughter. There was a trace of reluctance in his heart, but also a trace of determination. His two children were now very obedient and smart, but he could not bring them back to the palace. Although they would be very happy to be with the current Jun 'er and Pan' er every day, he still had to put them beside Xiao Bao and Cuckoo.
The education method of the two people was indeed very taxing. Ordinary children would not be able to enjoy such treatment, but the results were obvious.
*****
In the afternoon, after enjoying the sea breeze for a while and basking in the sun, the two pregnant women of the Jun Wong Clan were accompanied by guards to their home.
The two of them could not go out to sea to the lighthouse, and there was no need for that. It was more important for them to recuperate.
Li Longji and the others set off by boat to the lighthouse closest to the shore. It was about sixty nautical miles away, which was a distance of more than a hundred kilometers.
Although this distance was not far on land and could be reached in less than four hours when the road was flat, it was a different matter on the sea.
It was estimated that even if they went to the lighthouse at the fastest speed, they would only arrive at night.
Zhang Xiaobao did not let anyone send a signal to the lighthouse. He wanted to give them a surprise and bring them more food for daily consumption. Of course, it might be better if they could go to the farthest lighthouse, but it was too dangerous and would take too long. Li Longji still had to go to the Shiwan Mountains to wander.
When they went to the lighthouse, they did not take a big boat, but a medium-sized boat that was slightly larger than a fishing boat. Only on this kind of boat could they feel the charm of the waves.
If Zhang Xiaobao took his younger siblings out, he would use a smaller boat and give his younger siblings life jackets to feel the ups and downs of the waves.
However, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan admitted that Li Longji's equestrian skills were very good. It was not just good, including equestrian archery. When it came to swimming, not to mention others, Xiao Bei alone could kill ten Li Longji in the current sea.
Although Li Longji swam very well in the unsinkable lake in the capital, and had also swam in a large pool without salt water, it was very easy for him to swim around.
That was different. There was salt in the sea, and the buoyancy was greater than that of fresh water. However, there were also waves in the sea. Not everyone could surf and swim through the waves, and not everyone could swim back after being hit by the waves.
For an expert swimmer like Li Longji who was born in calm water, two waves would be enough to make him dizzy.
Li Longji was also self-aware. He obediently put on a life jacket and even carried a bag with food and water on him, in case he accidentally fell and was washed away by the waves and died of thirst before anyone could save him.
"Uncle Emperor, don't be afraid. I'll be by your side. If the boat really capsizes, it's probably impossible for me to bring you back, but it's still possible for you to float on the water."
Xiao Bei ran to Li Longji's side and sat down. The other children also had their own responsibilities. Although Xiao Yuan and the others' swimming skills were slightly worse than Xiao Bei's, it depended on who they were compared to.
Gao Lishi, Wang Ju, Empress Wang, Wu Huifei, and Pan 'er were all guarded by Xiao Bei and the others. The two people in charge of rowing the boat were also good swimmers.
Next to them were three large ships, two gunboats, and one troop transport ship. They were heading towards the nearest lighthouse.
"Xiao Bao, the hawksbill turtle said it can be found here. How do we find it?" This was the first time Li Longji was so close to the waves. In order to ease the tension in his heart, he could only talk to Zhang Xiaobao.
Zhang Xiaobao held a telescope in his hand and looked at the sea. He didn't care about the current wind and waves. He wanted to see if there were any sharks, even though there weren't many situations where sharks capsized the boat.
When he heard Li Longji's question, he replied, "After we reach the lighthouse, I'll go down and see if I can catch one."
Today is my birthday. I wish my mother good health and all the best. I also wish my brothers and sisters happy. I wrote a short essay in front of it for the readers.
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