May 5th, Tuesday.
Solar term: Start of Summer.
Auspicious: marriage, forming alliances, consecration, sacrifices, seeking medical treatment.
Inauspicious: moving, moving into a new home, building houses, raising beams.
When Zheng Qing was little, he had never really understood what kind of horse "raising a horse" meant. He had always felt that the character for "raise" was a phonetic substitute for "armor"; "armored horse" made much more sense—avoiding "armored horses" meant staying home obediently and not wandering around outside.
Only after growing up and learning that "raising a horse" referred to setting the main beam while building a house was the misunderstanding cleared up. At the same time, though, Zheng Qing became increasingly speechless about the old almanac. Like today's taboos: it already listed building houses, yet added "raising beams." Wasn't that redundant?
That said, life never lacked such "redundant" things.
For instance, after Lei Zhe and Augustus destroyed half a street in Beta Town, the town's Management Committee solemnly sent the two of them lawyers' letters and penalty notices; after Zheng Qing injured Sephrano, the Student Union held a hearing; and then there was the temporary notice issued by the university on Tuesday, declaring that Silent Forest was as silent as ever, while Beta Town North District was as safe as ever.
They all looked like clumsy farces.
Yet every actor in those plays performed with exceptional seriousness and dedication, as though everything they said and did was indispensable.
Somehow, Zheng Qing gained a deeper understanding of "order."
Today was Tuesday.
There was an astronomy class in the afternoon.
As the rotating chair of First University's Professor Joint Conference for May, Professor Emma was far more responsible than Professor Yao—and consequently much busier. So she inevitably slackened a little when it came to teaching.
According to the students from the