Prime Minister

Chapter 15 The Book of Filial Piety
Summer night, an oil lamp.

Lights like beans.

Guo Lin carefully pulled out a small piece of Zhang Yue's flower cake, put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully, then pushed it aside and said, "Junior Brother Zhang, I'm full."

"Senior Brother Guo, you are very polite," Zhang Yue pushed the flower cake back, and then said as if to himself, "Why is the light so dim?"

Guo Lin was stunned for a moment, and quickly took the iron stick and turned the lamp brighter.Zhang Yue also brought his wood table closer to Guo Lin's table, so that he could do his homework tonight.

The two approached, and Guo Lin was obviously full after eating another half of the flower cake.Zhang Yue also took a piece of speech and said, "You don't eat more, why are you so hungry at night?"

Guo Lindao: "It's been like this for so many years. I'm really hungry, so I put a stone on my stomach."

Zhang Yue almost laughed and spat out the flower cake in his mouth. Is this already 'Kaiseki'?
Guo Lin didn't know why Zhang Yue laughed, but he laughed too.

Zhang Yue continued to copy the book, and the two also chatted without a word.

Zhang Yue copied half of the thousand-character text, and his eyelids were already fighting.No way, I was plagued by mosquitoes last night, and I urgently need to make up for sleep today.

You know, Zhang Yue is someone who doesn't get enough sleep for six hours on weekdays.

"No, no. I have to go to bed first." Zhang Yue put down his pen.

Guo Lin hesitated and asked, "Junior Brother Zhang, do you want me to call you tomorrow?"

"Call me?"

"Don't you start again tomorrow, and you only copied half of this thousand-character text?"

"No, I slept soundly last night. I must sleep soundly tonight. Brother Guo won't have to call me early in the morning! I'll explain it to your father."

Guo Lin felt inappropriate when he heard this, so he asked, "Junior Brother Zhang, why are you studying?"

Zhang Yuezhen took a pen to wash the ink, raised his head and thought about it, "Or become famous for being an official!"

Guo Lin was shocked when he heard this.

Zhang Yue put a pen on the bed and covered it with a cloth and was asked, "How?"

"Do you tell the examiner the same when you are due in the future?"

Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "No one can say big words in front of the examiner, but it's too tiring for us to be scheming among our brothers and sisters. "

Yuan Yin He Huan had no intention of not knowing that there were pedestrians walking down below.

Guo Lin comprehended Pin Zhangyue's words and said, "Junior brother really came from the city, any sentence can be quoted from the scriptures..."

Guo Lin realized something, but when he turned his head, he saw that Zhang Yue was already lying on the bed.

Guo Lin was stunned and stopped talking.

Zhang Yue closed his eyes, he knew that Guo Lin reminded him well, but for things like studying and studying, everyone has their own way. Very few.

Zhang Yue just thought for a moment, then his mind was empty, and he fell asleep instantly.

Sleep in seconds!

The next morning, Guo Xueji, who had finished teaching the boy, came to check Zhang Yue's homework yesterday.

Zhang Yue wrote only half of the thousand-character essay last night, so he was so sleepy that he went to bed, and today he slept until the sun was shining.

Seeing that Zhang Yue had only written half of his homework, Guo Xueyan read it for a while.

"This clean character is wrong, and it is treated as a bang! Female Muzhen Bang!" Guo Xueyan picked up a pen and changed the text for Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue thought that the other party would blame him, but he exposed it like this.

After Guo Xueyan finished the correction, he encouraged Zhang Yue with a look of relief: "Very good, very good, it really worked hard."

Does this work too?With such low requirements, you are not here to mock my tuition fees, are you?
Zhang Yue felt a little bad.

However, Guo Xuejian never said half a word of criticism to himself, but explained the thousand-character text to Zhang Yue from beginning to end.Guo Xueyan explained it very patiently, even more seriously than what he was taught by his teacher when he was studying in Mongolia.

Then Guo Xueyan taught Guo Lin's studies alone, and did not give Zhang Yue an audition.But when Zhang Yue was studying, Guo Lin could be by his side.This is not because Guo Xueyan hides his secrets, but Guo Lin learns more deeply than chapters, which is equivalent to the meaning that senior grades can take lessons from lower grades, but lower grades cannot listen to senior grades.

In this way, Zhang Yue also sat for the whole morning. It was almost noon, and the scholar Hun's family had already prepared the meal and called the two of them to eat.

On weekdays, Guo Lin and Zhang Yue have one table for eating and reading, which saves a lot of time.

But today there was a good meal, so I ate it in Guo Xueyan's house.

Zhang Yue has a big bowl of rice, which is so exciting that it is actually dry rice!In addition to a piece of meat, the rice also has fat from the meat. It must be steamed with bacon on the rice, and then the fat flows into the rice.

Zhang Yue couldn't help drooling.

On the side, Guo Xueyan held a bamboo tube full of wine, poured himself a drink, and asked Zhang Yue if he had slept well these few days while drinking.Are you used to living?

Zhang Yue answered truthfully.

Guo Xueyan chatted and laughed while drinking.

At this time, a villager brought some wild vegetables that had just been picked in the mountains, as well as eels caught in the stream.Guo XueJun, regardless of his status as a scholar, led them to sit down at the table and have a glass of wine.

From the conversation, Zhang Yue heard which family had children because they were poor and unable to raise them, so they abandoned them.From this occasional sentence or two, Zhang Yue understood that his life with Guo Xueyan was already hard, but there were more people who were inferior to them.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue glanced at the lame slave, but saw that he was still drinking porridge crouching in the corner, but the porridge was thicker than usual.

And the dog, who was as thin as a watchman, was also scraping food in the earthen basin.

Zhang Yue savoured the rice with contentment. In the hard years, there are always some sweet days.

It is easy to feel sleepy once you are full at noon, not when you are reading.Zhang Yue immediately continued to sleep during the day, began to take a nap, and slept until it was dark.

Zhang Yue opened his eyes and saw that Guo Lin was still copying and studying hard.

Seeing that Zhang Yue was awake, Guo Lin put down his pen and said, "Dad said that you can read the scriptures now. First, start with the scriptures of filial piety, and then proceed step by step."

"Okay!" Zhang Yue was sincerely happy, that's great, he can finally read the scriptures.After memorizing the scriptures, I can leave this village school, leave this unreliable teacher and find another brilliant.

Guo Lin said sternly: "Junior Brother Zhang is talented and smart, ten times better than me. If you are willing to calm down and study, and work hard, you will definitely be able to get famous in the future."

Zhang Yue said, "Why is Senior Brother Guo being too modest? You read well too!"

Guo Lin said with a wry smile: "Like me, I've been to the county a lot. I don't know what to compare with others except that I work harder than others. In two years, I'll be sixteen, and I won't be able to do anything in the fields. , If reading is no longer promising, then in this life I will not know what to do for a living."

Zhang Yue heard the words and said, "That's okay, if you don't do farm work, you can also be Mr. Accountant?"

Guo Lin asked curiously, "What is Mr. Accountant?"

If he really didn't understand anything, Zhang Yue explained: "It's... it's accounting, you just need to know how to calculate and learn. A good accountant in the county town has four or five dollars of money a month, and he doesn't need to be exposed to the wind and the sun."

"Study, Dad never taught me how."

"I'll teach you!" Zhang Yue patted his chest.

"You teach me?" Guo Lin was surprised.

"My family is in business, so it's not difficult to learn math," Zhang Yue said with a smile, "But I have no foundation in classics, Senior Brother Guo..."

Guo Lin smiled and said, "I'm not afraid at all. As long as you are willing to work hard, I will be more careful."

"Then Senior Brother Guo will have a heavier burden in the future."

Both of them laughed.

Zhang Yue said, "Since my husband said he wanted me to read the Classic of Filial Piety, where is the book?"

Guo Lin smiled slightly and said, "You don't need a book, just listen to me by me."

"What? No books?"

Guo Lin explained patiently: "In the morning, you also heard the pedant teach a thousand-character script to a boy, a hundred family names. He recites a sentence that the boys memorize, and repeats it a thousand times and remembers it in his mind, and there is no book in front of him. I have a book in my heart."

Zhang Yue thought for a while, I only know what it means to have a horse in my eyes and no horse in my heart.

Zhang Yue asked worriedly, "What if you memorized it wrongly? If I didn't study well, I was also mistaken by you."

Guo Lin shook his head and said word by word, "It's not a good word."

Speaking of which, Guo Lin seemed to have some unpleasant memories.

"If I recite one wrong word, I will have no food for one meal, and if I recite two wrong words, I will have no food for a day."

Zhang Yue was stunned for a while.

"Of course Junior Brother Zhang won't be hungry, but reading is like that. Not only the filial piety scriptures, but also other scriptures and meanings in the future. For some scriptures and scriptures, my father would have to go out of ten miles and eight villages to borrow them, and then return them back after memorizing them. , Some people are in a hurry, so they have to copy them down overnight. Only in private schools will they always be prepared, but even so, there is often only one set each time, and it is used by classmates in turn."

Reading is really not easy, Zhang Yue sighed deeply.

"You have to recognize that character, right?" Zhang Yue said.

Guo Lin thought for a while and said, "Daddy's filial piety, if you are proficient in memorizing it, I will give you the book. If I borrow it on weekdays, I am afraid that I will not cherish it and damage it. Or if I hold the book in my hand, I always think about tomorrow. Read it again, so much so that you don’t even want to read it.”

Zhang Yue thought to himself, he bought a sea of ​​books that he didn't read in his last life, didn't he know there was a word for decorating the facade?
Guo Lin continued to explain: "In this way, you have the book in your hand, and if you want to return it, you will study hard day and night. When you become proficient in memorizing it in the future, you will memorize the scriptures on the paper yourself. In this way, you will not only be silent once, but also have time to spare. You can also use it to read.”

If it is true that 'books cannot be read unless they are borrowed', it is better to borrow books to read.

Guo Lin's reading method of 'no book in hand, book in heart' turned out to be an excellent way to study.It seems that the ancients have long been well versed in paperless teaching.

Guo Lin smiled and said, "Okay, I will recite the filial piety scriptures for you. At the beginning, my husband recited a sentence, and I followed it. I only recited it for three days, and my father praised me."

Guo Lin immediately recited: "Zhong Niju, Zeng Zi served. The master said: The first king had the most virtuous and essential way to obey the world, the people were in harmony, and there was no grudge between the upper and lower. Do you know this?"

Zhang Yue read it again.

At the moment, Guo Lin recited a sentence, and Zhang Yue followed it.

After reading the eighteen chapters, Zhang Yue estimated that it took about an hour or so.

But seeing Guo Lin smiling, he said to Zhang Yue, "How difficult is it? This memorization is like reading a book. The first time is a rough reading, and the whole chapter is roughly read. The following is a chapter-by-chapter memorization."

"It took me three days to memorize it, and my father praised me for being smart."

Guo Lin's meaning is that I don't know how many days you can recite this filial piety?
Zhang Yue remembered that Ouyang Xiu once talked about his own reading method. He recited three hundred words a day, and accumulated over time, he could memorize all the scriptures in about three and a half years.

Reciting 150 characters a day is the standard for middle school students. As for the half of middle school students, it can be reduced to [-] words a day, and the accumulation will eventually become big.

It seems that [-] words a day is not many, but the Classic of Filial Piety is written in classical Chinese, and recitation is based on a good word.This is not to recite memory for a short time, that is, it must be memorized to the standard.

Regarding the question of being able to recite the filial piety scriptures in a few days, Zhang Yue stretched out his hands, expressing no pressure, although he understood that in terms of reading performance from childhood to adulthood, he was only a Chinese man.

The Book of Filial Piety is about 2000 characters long, and Guo Lin memorized it within three days, so he should be regarded as a genius.

After listening to Guo Lin's recitation, Zhang Yue went to bed early.

after sleep.

Zhang Yue returned to the daytime scene, listening to Guo Lin's chanting word by word, and then reciting it himself.

Zhang Yue couldn't help but sigh that this is not the same as reading in the daytime. No matter how people read during the day, they will always be distracted, disturbed by others, wind and rain, thunder and lightning, hungry, and think of it. Or physically tired, but you don't have these problems yourself.

At the same time, Zhang Yue also discovered that reading in dreams has a great advantage, that is, it does not cost any lamp oil.

When Zhang Yue woke up the next day and checked it out, he had memorized the entire scripture of filial piety!

Guo Lin used it for three days, but he only used it for one night!
(End of this chapter)