Chapter 18: Routine

Cao Muwen naturally understood that the housekeeper was still watching. As soon as he came in, he saw that the housekeeper's eyes were slightly red. I guess the owner had passed away, and he was also very sad. He said that this member of Li is good to his servants.

I've been busy until now, and I've been starving to death. I went home and found something to eat first. Cao Muwen thought so that it was really painful for the cold winter wind to blow on him who was hungry.

Before Cao Muwen said anything, he ran away when he saw this Fang. He said in his heart, "Hey, this boy is really impatient. He was just like this. He suddenly came to pull people and left, and forgot to tell me what's going on!"

Thinking about it by myself, it's not early now, and I'm embarrassed to disturb Brother Wei again. I have to go tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and then plan to go home.

When I walked to the bedside, I saw an old man lying quietly**, covered with a quilt. Cao Muwen gently lifted the quilt and began his work.

It's just a routine, and Cao Muwen quickly finished his work. Zhang Bantou and a group of government officials seemed to be suddenly relieved. When they came out of the Li family yard together, they all hugged their fists and rushed home.

Cao Muwen also said goodbye to everyone. At this time, Zhang Fang was smiling at herself and said, "Oh, I'll go too. My parents are still waiting at home." He waved his hand and turned his head and ran away.

Thinking about it by myself, it's not early now, and I'm embarrassed to disturb Brother Wei again. I have to go tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and then plan to go home.

In an instant, Cao Muwen remembered that there seemed to be a faint sense of pain on Mr. Li's white face just now. It's not the general appearance of the disease, but other more special reasons.

Alas, I'm thinking nonsense again. Cao Muwen shook his head, as if he was going to throw out the useless things in his mind. He trotted and flashed into the winter night a few times.

After the first day of the Chinese New Year, the speed of the year seems to have accelerated a lot, although it is said that the "Shangyuan Festival" will not be completed until the 15th day of the first lunar month. In the past few days, Cao Muwen can't help but socialize everywhere, although he doesn't know many people. However, he first paid New Year's greetings to Wei Manliang. Because I have eaten and drank a lot for nothing in the past six months, now I feel more "uneasy" when I think about it, so I bought more things and took them to see him with what I bought before.

Wei Manliang is still a simple and honest smiling face that will never disappear. Looking at Cao Muwen, he has a feeling of crying. This man is so kind that I hope he won't be cheated by others. After thinking about it, I sighed.

Wei Manliang couldn't help but have other relatives to visit. Cao Muwen was inconvenient to disturb his time for a long time, so he left and came back.

Because Cao Muwen has no relatives and friends to pay a New Year call, he has been a little bored for a few days. Fortunately, the curfew has been lifted during this period, and he can also enter and leave the capital at will, so he goes to the capital from time to join in the fun.

It is said that Beijing is indeed a big city in the country and even the world at that time. The whole Beijing city is divided into two cities inside and outside. The inner city is the palace - the important place of the Forbidden City and the residence of dignitaries, while the outer city is a place where ordinary people live. Among them, the urban construction has condensed the hard wisdom of countless people. "The palace is in the middle, with four layers of arches, the main seat facing south, the central axis is prominent, and the two wings are balanced and symmetrical", which is the biggest feature of Beijing in the planning and layout of the Ming Dynasty. Beijing was built on the basis of the capital of Yuan, but it is more majestic than Yuan. Judging from the layout of the whole city, Beijing is a city with a "convex" structure, and the outer city is wrapped in the south of the inner city, the inner city is wrapped in the imperial city, and the imperial city is wrapped in the Forbidden City. From the outer city to the Forbidden City, the outside of the city wall is surrounded by a wide and deep moat. In this way, the Forbidden City, where the emperor lived, became the center of the city, in layers of arches. Surrounded by the sky, earth, sun and moon altar, the Forbidden City is like the center of the universe. The buildings in Beijing are also laid on a central axis that runs through the north and south. Yongding Gate in the middle of the outer city is the starting point of this central axis, and the bell and drum tower north of Di'anmen, the back gate of the imperial city, is the end of this central axis. The largest buildings and scenes in the city are arranged on the basis of this central axis, organically arranged and combined on both sides, and then deployed around it with low, blue-gray quadrangle courtyards. The planning and layout of the whole city has formed a complete and harmonious and unparalleled huge architectural complex. The golden and brilliant palaces, arranged in thousands, are even more magnificent against the backdrop of the courtyard under the green shade.

Although Cao Muwen has entered such an "international metropolis" several times in the past six months, he has not carefully appreciated it. I remember seeing this famous saying: a city with a long history is a work of art in itself. As an ancient historical capital, Beijing is not only a humanistic custom and architecture, but also its own layout, which is a great artistic achievement. For the first time, Cao Muwen walked on the streets of Beijing during the "classic" period and looked at the busy street shops during the Spring Festival.

"It feels much better than Beijing 500 years later," Cao Muwen suddenly had this idea. Although the noise is loud, the streets are indeed orderly. If he hadn't stayed in Beijing 500 years later, his eyes would have been blackened as Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden.

I saw some naughty boys playing in groups at the entrance of the alley on the street, holding more or less fireworks and firecrackers in their hands. After lighting, he pretended to scream and ran away. After a crackling sound, they all gathered together and clapped their hands and shouted happily. Cao Muwen stood aside and watched with interest.

I heard a faint cheer from afar, and I was also curious, so I followed the sound. There were also many people beside him who seemed to be like Cao Muwen. After hearing this good voice, they also went forward. Cao Muwen went with this stream of people. He came to an open land, which seemed to come out of the corner of the city wall, surrounded by some wooden boxes and goods. A large open space was vacated in the middle, and many people surrounded a large circle and blocked the situation inside. Many people tiptoed to look in. This is another cheering sound from the waiting circle, "Good footwork!" There seems to be some kind of performance.

Cao Muwen looked up and found that there was a strange thing standing in the field. A wooden shelf about two meters high stands a wooden board with a hole in the middle. Suddenly, Cao Muwen thought of it, and suddenly there were many black lines in his heart. Although I prefer football, for some well-known reasons, Cao Muwen has not been in contact with it for a long time, except for occasionally watching Europeans on TV.

Cao Muwen wants to see what this Chinese football is like? Then squeeze into the circle. Cao Muwen took advantage of his height to squeeze into the circle and raised his feet slightly, so that the scene inside could be seen clearly. I saw several people in the scene. As soon as some of them performed, everyone next to them watched it on one side and cheered the audience around them from time to time.

Cao Muwen looked carefully and found that these people were all dressed in the same clothes. Dressed short, without cloth boots on his feet, he wore short cloth shoes, his ankles were tightly wrapped with cloth straps all the way to his calves, including his trouser legs, and his hair was tightly tied up. They are all neatly dressed and full of fierceness.

The man is padling Cuju with his footbow, and he hasn't kicked out all kinds of tricks. Or crutch or cring, or pedaling or twisting. The ball flipped up and down, sometimes above the top of the head, and sometimes around at the feet. Several times, it seemed that when Cuju was about to fall to the ground, the man unexpectedly stretched out his foot to save the ball, and the crowd exclaimed and praised the man's exquisite footwork. There are voices in the circle from time to time. "It's good for this swallow to return to the nest" and "this move is exquisite."

Cao Muwen also sounds wonderful. After careful consideration, it is estimated that the ancients also named these foot techniques, but I don't know much about them. But the person who watched it was indeed full of tricks and was indeed ornamental. Seeing that the human body is also short and thin, he is the kind of person who is extremely sensitive at first sight. However, people with this kind of physique can only have some performance competitions.

Chinese traditional culture emphasizes "harmony" and "mediocre". In most cases, the social and cultural psychology is to emphasize "culture" and light "martial arts", and this is especially true in the Song and Ming Dynasty. What people admire is the gentleness of modest gentlemen, and the more contemptuous and competitiveness of the martial arts. Therefore, under this social culture*, Cuju has gradually evolved from a confrontational competition to a performance competition.

At this time, the situation of two teams playing against each other in the previous dynasty is rare, and more commonly seen is the performance Cuju seen today, which is called "white fight".

Cao Muwen thought that in Chinese sports, it seems that there is a non-direct confrontational advantage, and there are few achievements in real confrontational sports. It can be seen in the Olympic award-winning events, and Chinese football is a typical representative of them. This seems to be convenient for the inextricable relationship between historical cultural traditions.

Somehow, Cao Muwen suddenly had a strange idea. I remember I saw a news before, saying why football, which is popular all over the world, is not so popular in the United States? One remembers that he is deeply puzzled by the small influence of the United States, the world's leading and one of the world's leading sports power, on football.

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