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Chapter 207 Maple Leaf Unknown Autumn

Zhao Rong recalled again in his heart the depths of Nuanxi Bamboo Garden yesterday, Qingjun's clumsiness when he tiptoed to kiss him and the tenderness of bowing his head.

And on the way to Duyou City, there are countless little Xiao Xiao who slept in his arms at night, dreamed, woke up, drowsy, or happily shouted "Zhao Lang, Zhao Lang, I have Zhao Lang"'s cute words.

Zhao Rong pursed his lips tightly.

Qing Jun and his little love are enough for him to live his whole life.

By the way, there is also Qian'er. In fact, Zhao Rong didn't think too much about Qian'er before, but Qing Jun suddenly mentioned it—presumably she had thought about letting him marry Qian'er a long time ago——Zhao Rong said I was a little dazed, oh, strictly speaking, Qian'er can be regarded as a housemaid, although he is the son-in-law, but Qing Jun took the initiative to arrange, and Zhao Rong can easily move into the house.

just.

Although Qingjun is not as feudal and rigid as the women of some dynasties at the foot of the mountain, he is also limited by this world and has conservative ideas.

And although Zhao Rong thinks that he is a bit overbearing and greedy like a man, he can't accept the arrangement of living women like maids and servants as goods.

He breathed out lightly, shook his head, let's wait for Qian'er to come back, the most important thing is to respect her wishes.

Apart from Qingjun, Xiaoxiao, and Qian'er, as for other "give other women a home"...

Zhao Rong laughed and scolded a scumbag in his heart.

That being the case, then keep some distance from other women and be polite when interacting, so as not to get too entangled in the end, get stuck in it, and can't bear to "want it all" again...

next to.

Yan Jidao glanced at Zhao Rong, only to see that he was tightly clutching the sleeve that had just been stuffed with paper with one hand, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he shook his head from time to time.

"Ziyu, is there something wrong with this couple?"

"Ah, no, Mr. Yan, there is no problem. The upper couplet of this pair was left by the student before. Mr. Zhu must have seen it. When he came to Yaxing, he helped the student to fill it in. It is very neat. Mr. Zhu here It's a wonderful person."

Yan Jidao nodded slightly when he heard the words, and saw that Zhao Rong's expression just now did not look like the possibility he was worried about, so he stopped thinking about it and said in a deep voice, "There is one more thing."

Yan Jidao took out a small stack of paper manuscripts, and several Confucian commentaries that Zhao Rong had never seen, and handed them to Zhao Rong.

"Your homework manuscripts these days have been corrected by Jin Shu for you before, and the corrections are generally good. This old man carefully read it."

He stared at Zhao Rong.

"Ziyu, your writing is indeed better than that of some of your senior brothers. It seems that you have listened carefully to the lectures given by the old man at the Taiqing Mansion, and you have learned a lot. You even gave some novel interpretations of some saintly words, but... "

At first, Zhao Rong listened to Yan Jidao's praise, and he still nodded, but the more he heard it, the more Zhao Rong guessed that there was a turning point. Seeing that Mr. Yan stared at him and stopped talking, Zhao Rong shook his sleeves and bowed in salute.

"Students are ignorant, please teach me sir."

Yan Ji stroked his beard with a serious expression, and did not help Zhao Rong, "But it's not enough, for you, this is far from enough!"

He pointed to the manuscript in Zhao Rong's hand.

"It must be because of your outstanding talent in poetry and prose. You can write boring classics with smooth flow of water, fireworks under the pen, and catchy reading, but these are just icing on the cake. Your understanding of some Confucian classics is still too shallow.

The two major arts of Confucian scholars, poetry and scriptures, the former will not be mentioned for the time being.

The research and study of Confucian classics should calm down and be meticulous and careful. Tzuyu’s articles on the classics have a lot of quotations from the classics, and you picked them at random. I expected that you should like to read books and dabble in a wide range of subjects, and even have a lot of knowledge about many classics. Ziyu has studied all kinds of knowledge, but these are vague and not refined. This is where Ziyu's current problem lies. "

"Ziyu, although you are still young, it is precisely because of this that you have to correct the problem of general knowledge and not repeat the mistakes of the predecessors."

Zhao Rongsu listened attentively and remained silent.

In fact, he was also vaguely aware of this problem.

Before Zhao Rong regained his previous life memory, his own memory was extremely outstanding, but it was a pity that his comprehension was not good enough. In the words of Mr. Fang at the beginning, he was not enlightened before, and he was dull in reading and did not know how to think flexibly.

Later, Zhao Rong awakened the memory of his previous life, merged his personality, and began to think quickly and jump out of his mind, which made up for his shortcomings. Coupled with his habit of reading happy words and his original outstanding memory, he was very gifted in reading.

This is exactly the opposite of Zhao Rongxiu's talent in terms of cultivation.

When discussing learning with Lin Wenruo in Zhong Nanguo before, Lin Wenruo praised him more than once for being a rare seed for reading.

It's just that a genius is just a genius after all, and he can't become a saint without any accumulation.

Among the hundreds of schools in the world, no matter how good the talent is, it is necessary to concentrate on accumulating, delving into knowledge, and laying a good foundation honestly, in order to have a chance to achieve something.

Besides, Zhao Rong was not an old scholar in his previous life, but a young graduate of the Department of Humanities who studied ancient literature. Therefore, even with the fusion of memories from the two lives, he cannot compare with Yan Jidao in many aspects of Confucianism.

The latter is a Jindan Confucian who is proficient in Confucianism, Confucianism and Taoism. He has been cultivating the knowledge he is good at for many years. It is estimated that he is older than the combined age of Zhao Rong and the two kings.

However, according to Zhao Rong's understanding of the current Confucian system in the Xuanhuang Realm, Mr. Yan is still a scholar, or most of the 72 Confucian academies, including Linlu Academy, are like this.

This does not mean that they are too weak or not well-educated—they are almost all great Confucianists and mellow Confucians. If they are placed in a country under the mountain, they are at least the gentle suzerains of the literary world, let alone Confucianism and Taoism—but because the title of gentleman is too high. It is difficult to obtain, and Zhongzhou Confucian Temple has extremely strict conditions for its award.

It does not depend on your cultivation of Confucianism or Taoism, nor does it depend on the depth of your Confucianism.

It depends on whether your knowledge has been expanded and innovated on the path of predecessors, or whether you have taken a new path, created a new knowledge in the school, and opened up a brand new path for future generations. the way.

However, in the latter case, it is almost impossible. There is still a chance to dig a "small road", but it is almost impossible to think about a "great road". This is the way of a sage.

Whoever does it is sanctified.

Among the hundreds of schools of thought in the Xuanhuang Realm, this situation has disappeared for thousands of years. In the various schools of the hundred schools, there are almost no saints. This is still a great master like Confucianism, Taoism, and Mohism. In these small families, except for the patriarch who founded the sect, no one has set up another mountain to testify to the saint.

Of course, obtaining the title of gentleman certainly does not require such exaggerated knowledge.

For Confucian scholars, it is only necessary to accumulate a certain amount of new knowledge on one of the six arts of the gentleman.

In this way, Zhongzhou Confucian Temple can give titles as appropriate.

And if it can be further expanded, and a new theory is born on the three ways of heaven, earth and man in which a hundred schools of thought contend, then they can get their hands on the title of "sage", which is even rarer than "gentleman".

The "theory of body and function as one source" put forward by Zhao Rong in the debate on Confucianism and Taoism in the Zhongnan Kingdom can be roughly classified into this category. Although it has not yet reached the standard for obtaining the titles of "gentleman" and "sage" in Confucianism, it is still enough to make Yan Jidao After learning about it, I was amazed.

Zhao Rong also discovered that the system of various schools of thought in the Xuanhuang Realm was somewhat similar to the academic circle in his previous life.

Yan Jidao and other academy gentlemen are like those professors in the university where Zhao Rong was in his previous life, who were profound in knowledge but had not yet published top journals.

Zhao Rong also saw his prophetic advantage from his previous life.

At the same time, there are shortcomings.

In his previous life, Zhao Rong was fond of ancient Chinese, read official history and unofficial history, and also liked to read miscellaneous books. He even dabbled in remote knowledge such as ancient business names, ancient herbal prescriptions, etc., but he knew more about his major.

When Zhao Rong's memory of his previous life was interrupted and he was staying up late writing his graduation thesis, he still remembered that he had painstakingly prepared this essay for more than half a year, and it was called "On the Controversy of a Hundred Schools of Thought in the Pre-Qin Dynasty".

For this reason, Zhao Rong looked through all the materials of the pre-Qin schools of thought he could find, and understood many of the ideas they advocated.

Now that Zhao Rong has benefited from his own memory, he still remembers a lot of theories of these schools of thought.

After waking up his memory, Zhao Rong often read miscellaneous books, dabbled in some books of various schools of thought in the Xuanhuang world, and understood the difference between them and the history of his previous life in this world.

Indeed, he discovered many "forgotten treasures".

However, as Yan Jidao said, because Zhao Rong's understanding of these knowledge is vague, but not good, he was unable to dig out these treasure chests.

It's like having inspirations, but you can't realize these inspirations by yourself, it's like keeping a treasure chest empty without a key to open it.

The situation is exactly the opposite of Yan Jidao's academic masters who are knowledgeable but lack a gleam of inspiration.

And this is one of the reasons why Zhao Rong entered Lin Lu Academy.

Here, he felt he could get the growth he needed...

With this in mind, Zhao Rong straightened his face, saluted Mr. Yan who had been staring at him, and said, "Sir, teach me."

Yan Jidao was speechless, turned around suddenly, and walked back to the leafy maple tree with a scissor, "Come here, give me a hand."

Zhao Rong was stunned for a while, then stepped forward, took a pair of scissors from the stone table, and went under the tree.

It's just that Zhao Rong is not familiar with this kind of farming, and he was a little afraid of hurting the maple tree, so he stood aside and observed Yan Jidao for a while.

I saw that his movements were skillful and orderly, and the originally lush leaves were cut off by him.

Yan Jidao turned his back to Zhao Rong, and suddenly said: "Ziyu, do you know that it's autumn, why aren't the maple leaves of this tree red?"

Zhao Rong took a look and found that this maple tree was indeed a bit weird, he said casually, "Is it lack of fertilizer?"

Yan Jidao shook his head, "The place where the four palaces of the Taiqing Dynasty are located is the blessed land of the immortal family. The land is fertile. Where is the lack of fertilizer here?"

Zhao Rong thought about it. He originally wanted to say that it was because of insufficient sunlight, but he looked at the maple tree whose maple leaves were not red, and found that the courtyard was open and there were no buildings to block the sunlight.

Zhao Rong pondered, "Is it because of the lack of water? I heard that Hongfeng has a high demand for clean water."

Yan Jidao shook his head again, stretched out his hand, and pointed to the well in a corner of the courtyard, "There is a water source in the ground, and the red maple is deeply rooted, why is there a shortage of water?"

Zhao Rong frowned slightly, and raised his head to look at the red maple, which was in a very good environment, but the maple leaves were not red.

Yan Jidao also looked up with him.

The two were silent for a while.

Zhao Rongning was speechless.

Yan Jidao looked calm.

a moment.

Yan Jidao said softly: "This red maple grows unrestrainedly because of its great fertility and the lack of water and sunlight, and it has grown into the luxuriant appearance it is today."

He withdrew his gaze and glanced at Zhao Rong.

"Looking healthy and thriving, but due to the disorderly luxuriance of the branches and leaves, most of the leaves cannot get sunlight, and the interior is not well ventilated. How do you think this maple leaf can be red?"

Yan Ji said in a deep voice: "Maple trees are supposed to be the most beautiful in autumn, but now they are not as red. Every year is not as good as every year. I even forget about autumn."

Yan Jidao stretched out his hand and waved, "Look at the huge Taiqing Four Mansions, whether it's trees or people, there are many, many, isn't it all like this?"

He stood with his hands behind his back, looked up at Wang Qiu's red maple, and whispered to himself.

"If it were planted in our Linlu Academy, it would never be like this, never."

Zhao Rong was silent, turned around and saluted with fists in his hands.

"Student Zhao Ziyu, taught by Mr."

(End of this chapter)