Mr. Zhou Tongwen's casual essays, though casual by name, contained characters written so tidily that they were a pleasure to look at.
However, they truly justified being called casual, for the content was essentially like a diary. He flipped through them briefly and could say that the vast majority of the three volumes had no significant meaning, mostly consisting of —
"Nothing to do today, having tea!"
"Having tea!"
"This won't do, how can you allow yourself to be so idle, you must strive harder tomorrow."
"Having tea!"
To put it simply, a large part of it was meaningless repetition, with some interesting events from the village scattered throughout. The entries weren't consecutive; it seemed he would jot down something only when it came to mind, not on a daily basis.
Besides these, there were also some records of accounts, which were written alongside the casual essays without much care, yet Wang Sheng could tell that Zhou Tongwen was quite wealthy.
