Prime Minister

Chapter 22
this day.

Guo Xueyan told Zhang Yue and Guo Lin that Miao Sanniang would not come to the private school for a while.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin were taken aback.

Only then did Guo Xuejie clarify the reason. It turned out that Miao Sanniang's father was a wealthy family in the county, and his family owned a lot of farmland.But this person has a big disadvantage, that is, digging.

This person treats his family and subordinates in a way that he can save as much as he can, even for himself. On weekdays, the food is sloppy, his clothes are worn for several years, and he only takes a full-fledged wife and does not marry a concubine.

Father Miao didn't love anything about food, clothing, housing, and anything. The only thing he loved was the two sons born to his wife.

Originally, he could have asked a female gentleman to teach his daughter to read at home, but Father Miao was unwilling and let her show herself outside to study in a school like Guo Xuejiu.If Miao Sanniang didn't insist on learning, Miao's father would even stop her from learning.

Now that Miao Sanniang has been studying for two months, Miao's father felt that Miao Sanniang was a waste of money to study, so she let her go home.Miao Sanniang cried all night to no avail, and in the end she didn't even have a chance to say goodbye to Zhang Yue and Guo Lin.

Zhang Yue was very sad to hear this news, after all, there was no place to eat in the future, but when he turned around, he saw Guo Lin's expression was really a bit sad.

This was also the case in ancient times. There were relatively few contacts between men and women, and it was possible for men and women to have feelings for each other after getting along for so long.

Since there was no way to get food, Zhang Yue had to focus on his studies and management of the classics.

The Book of Changes is the first of the Five Classics.

Guo Xueyan also didn't quite understand the explanation, but let Zhang Yue memorize it first.Zhang Yue doesn't blame Guo Xuejian, because the difficulty of the Book of Changes, from ancient times to the present, no one has ever dared to say that he really understands it.

There is nothing special about reading the Bible.Memorize every word and every sentence, familiarize it in your chest, and one day in the future, there will be a day when you will master it.The more you say it, the more it will come naturally.

No wonder it is not without reason that Confucianism is called elite education in this era.It's like raw rice, no one has a good stomach that can't digest it. Most of the impatient people are stuck in this halfway, reciting a belly of books, but they don't have the perseverance and hard work every day, so that they can't master it.

In the following days, Zhang Yue continued to discuss with his senior brother, but if he didn't understand something, he asked his senior brother Guo.

Zhang Yue was also afraid of disturbing his work, but Brother Guo said, "Although I have already learned the Book of Changes, I am afraid that I will forget it. If you ask me again, I can also review the old and learn the new."

Zhang Yue heard the words and put down his psychological burden.

"But junior brother, how can you memorize the Book of Changes so fast? Yesterday I saw that you were still reading the Meng Gua, and today you have read the Kan Gua and Li Gua. Did you sleep during the day, but you got up in the middle of the night and secretly lit the lamp and read it at night? ?"

Zhang Yue didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Brother, how can you speculate on me like that, am I the one who steals lamp oil to study?"

Guo Lin said: "Then why do you recite so quickly? I have to recite it for three to five days, but you can recite it in one day."

Zhang Yue thought for a while and said, "There is no other way. I don't know why I read it once and memorized it. Probably this is the so-called unforgettable!"

Guo Lin doubted: "You really are such a genius? But I see that you are not very good-natured on weekdays. Yesterday I asked you where you put the candlestick. You said you forgot, and it took a long time to find it. Forget it, it's not like that."

Zhang Yue smiled and said, "I only do this when it comes to studying."

"Then I'll give you the book, and you can recite a paragraph for me to read on the spot!" Guo Lin insisted.

Zhang Yue laughed...

Fortunately, Guo Lin is not a serious person: "If you work hard with your talent, you will definitely be able to enter the county school. This way, you can return to the city. I remember that last year, the county school ruled the classics. As long as you can answer six of the ten questions, it is enough."

"It's different when you enter the county school. In addition to the Zhang clan's clan in this county, the county school is a gathering place for heroes. After entering the county school, you can ask your classmates to learn from Xuezheng, and even Lingjun will teach in person, so After two or three years, the solution test will be somewhat successful."

Zhang Yue listened and nodded, it was a bit like getting into a good high school in order to get into a good university.These things are all too familiar to Zhang Yue, who has experienced the torture of Wenshan in the last life.

For a student of the Nine Classics Department, who relies entirely on rote memorization, the teacher is actually secondary, and the important thing is that the county school has a collection of Nine Classics.This set of nine scriptures given by Qingshi Xingxue is a version of the imperial prison.

The engraved version is not only beautiful, but it has been proofread for absolutely no typos.

What is engraved in the folk bookstore is equivalent to the dB book, which can be described as a series of typos.The other typos are fine, but if the Nine Classics is wrong by one word, and it happens to be tested in the future, it will be a shame.

There was a joke among scholars in the Song Dynasty. A scholar made a change question and wrote 'Kun is a kettle' as gold.The following students asked Xuezheng for advice, Xuezheng explained it clearly, and he was able to justify it himself.

The next day the students asked for advice.After the truth was revealed, the student said slowly: "I am afraid that what Mr. read is Jianben, and the prison book is the word for kettle."

This Jianben is the Jianyang Ben.

Therefore, Guo Xueyan also spent a lot of time, borrowing the Book of Changes from the county school to give Zhang Yue.Instead of reciting it by himself or lending them the copy that Guo Lin copied.

The purpose is to keep the original text correct.When it comes to reading, you still have to be responsible for yourself.

In the Song Dynasty, many ministers from poor backgrounds left a good story of borrowing books and copying them when they were studying in the county school.For example, Liu Zhi, a famous minister, studied in the state school, and read Guliang's "Spring and Autumn Annals" and Fan Weizong's "Hanshu", which he read by hand.

Having said this, Guo Lin paused and said: "Sir has taught a total of twelve disciples, including you and me, and no one has ever been admitted to the county school. Before, Senior Brother Han could have tried, but he gave up halfway. ."

"What if you don't enter the county school?" Zhang Yue asked.

Guo Lindao: "Since the establishment of the county school in this county, there has never been a scholar other than Zhang clan studies or county school who has been admitted in the Fajie test. You may have heard of Zhang Xu in the county school. He entered the county school at the age of 12. , the essays and poems are among the best in the county, but no one can guarantee that he will pass the test."

"With your qualifications, if you work hard, you can enter the county school in the future. As for me, I will have to work hard, maybe one or two. I want you to pass the test in the future, but I didn't pass the test, then I have no face."

"If you are admitted to the county school and fail to pass the test, that's not ordinary!" Zhang Yue said again.

Guo Lindao: "It's different. Entering the county school can not only save the cost of anointing, but I heard that grain and rice have also been subsidized recently. In the future, everyone in the county will respect you three points and call you a "maocai".

Guo Lin's long talk was to make Zhang Yue firm up his determination to take the county school entrance examination and to stimulate his potential.

"Let's give it a try!" Zhang Yue replied.

After Guo Lin said this to Zhang Yue, he didn't want to promote the biggest person, not Zhang Yue but himself.

Guo Lin's reading can be described as a three-timer, but now that he looks at it, he is even more diligent.Sometimes when he was tired of reading at night, he used a bamboo stick to prick his knees.

It's all for the sake of the cantilever thorns.

This is self-abuse.

Zhang Yue saw that his brother was like this, and he didn't dare to be a fool himself. Even during the day, he reduced his bedtime, from two hours naps to one hour.

In the evening, after dark, read a book for an hour, then go to bed and sleep until the hour before getting up.

But for Zhang Yue, reading for ten hours during the day, and then reading for ten hours after going to bed, is it a good feeling?So Zhang Yue woke up with the words of the Nine Classics crawling in his eyes.

Although the days of studying in the past few months were hard, it made Zhang Yue think of the time when he was in the third year of junior high school and high school.I don't know why, but now that I think about it, Zhang Yue particularly liked those years.

It was not through his own efforts to get into a good school, but because he liked the self who worked so hard. He thought of "the one who chased the moon and was also illuminated by the moon, and he has never encountered such a person in the future".

Later in life, he only learned to 'fishing'.

But one day Zhang Yue got up at night, and he went to Guo Lin to hide in the pine forest and cry.

Guo Lin slapped the tree with his fist while crying: "I've been studying so hard, but why am I still not familiar with the Nine Classics? I'm so stupid, I'm not as good as my junior and junior, I'm really useless, I failed my father's intentions."

"Sanniang! Sanniang! I miss you so much, you know."

Zhang Yue heard the words...Senior brother is really boring, and he doesn't mention it to me on weekdays.

Now that he is studying like this, Zhang Yue is really worried that Guo Lin's body will not be able to bear it.But what Zhang Yue didn't expect was that Guo Xueyan was the one who fell ill first.

Summer goes to autumn, time flies like an arrow.

After the fall, Zhang Yue had already memorized the Book of Changes and Erya, and when he was about to read his scriptures, Guo Xueyan fell ill.

Guo Xueyan had a cough at first, then a high fever, and then asked the local doctor in the village to diagnose it as typhoid fever.Typhoid fever was very serious in ancient times.

Knowing this, Guo Xueyan couldn't teach, and the boys didn't come. His family boiled some herbs planted in the mountains for him every day.

Guo Lin is the most filial person. Seeing that Guo Xueyan has no money to buy medicine for treatment, he is very anxious.

Out of desperation, Guo Lin decided to find a job to treat Guo Xuejiu... This job is a commission.

Serving books is copying books for others, which is a livelihood specially provided for readers.

Many celebrities have had this experience.

Ban Chao, for example, was recorded in Han books as a poor family, and he often served as an official servant to support him.After working hard for a long time, he quit his job and wrote a sigh, saying, "If you have no other ambitions, you should follow the example of Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian in order to obtain the title of marquis.
There is also Kan Ze, a famous minister of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.The Records of the Three Kingdoms records that 'a farmer from a family background is fond of learning in Zhize, living in poverty and without capital, and often serves as a bookmaker to provide paper and pen. After writing, he recites and reads'.

In the Song Dynasty, Cai Ding's family background was small and poor.Father leather, relying on the county jailer to serve as a book to live, funded to study, travel to the village school, a little called'.

It can be seen that many poor scholars all started from the 'commission book'.

As for the place that provided Guo Lin with this livelihood, it was the Zhang clan a few miles away.

(End of this chapter)