The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 11 Open a small stove
Three days later, Bai Gui had mastered the first half of the thousand-character prose silently, and he had roughly mastered hundreds of traditional characters. Although the brush calligraphy he wrote was still a bit horrible, he could finally catch his eye.

So, take advantage of the early retreat time.

Bai Gui came to the east building, which was Xu Xiucai's dormitory.

At this time, the schoolchildren had already left in twos and threes. In the noisy ancestral hall in the past, only the sound of Xu Xiucai squatting down to wash pots and cook rice, and the crackling of hard wood. Xu Xiucai took out a cloth bag and a dozen big red dates from the book case, Three or four were dropped into the pot.

He took a few red dates with his hands, and seemed to feel that he hadn't enough, so he took a few more and handed them to Bai Gui, letting him have a taste.

When Bai Gui finished chewing a red date and spit out the date core.

Only then did Xu Xiucai make a sound, and said displeasedly: "It's lunch, why don't you go back? What are you doing here?"

He saw the scroll and the black lacquered board in Bai Gui's hands, with a brush between his thumb and forefinger.But after early school, he was not very happy to help others during this time.

It is appropriate to have questions, but they should be asked in class.

If you don't understand after class, you can ask further questions, but at this time, it has been a long time since school, and it is not appropriate to come to him.

"Returning to Mr., the students can already write the first half of the Thousand-Character Essay silently, so I came to ask Mr. for the second half of the que, how to learn."

Bai Gui hurriedly stuffed the red dates into his arms, then bowed and saluted.

"Are you familiar with dictation?" Xu Xiucai's expression eased a little. This is a reason. After being proficient in dictation in class, he didn't want to waste a little effort, so he came to ask for advice.

"Do you know..." Xu Xiucai just wanted to say a lie, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was inappropriate, so with a gentle face, he picked up a pen and wrote from the desk beside him, and asked, "Which word is this?"

Even if you can really write the whole article silently, you may not be able to grasp the essence of the article.Some cumbersome words can be quickly recognized by modular memory if they are placed in a line, but if they are taken out alone, some people who are not skilled in the art will be stretched.

Bai Gui secretly sighed that after Xu Xiucai used his brush, the words written were full of ink, rigorous and stretched, dignified and majestic.But at this moment, he just lost his mind for a while, and immediately said without thinking: "This is the word 'Zhong' (Zhong), which means 'collecting grave tombs and gathering heroes. Du Hao Zhongli, lacquered wall scriptures. It means: not only ancient and modern classics are gathered here, but also many talents, such as Du Du's cursive manuscripts and Zhong Yao's official script, the ancient lacquer writing excavated from the tomb of King Anli in Wei, and the ancient books from Qufu. Ancient Chinese scriptures found inside the walls of the Confucian temple."

"Do you know who Du Du is? Who is Zhong Yao? King Anli of Wei?" Xu Xiucai looked at Bai Gui with some surprise. Could it be that there is really a child prodigy who was born with knowledge.

"I don't know!" Bai Gui replied "truthfully".

Although the education in the previous life did not teach ancient classics such as the Thousand Characters, some famous figures in history did know it clearly, which is very different from the traditional Confucian education. Confucianism studies the classics first, and then the history books.

"Then why did you answer so clearly?" Xu Xiucai asked with a sigh of relief.

"It's because there are notes in the book, and I just memorized it as a rule."

Bai Gui shook his head.

It is indeed possible to hide clumsiness, but now is the age when Confucianism is declining and dying. Who knows when the imperial examination will be abolished.His purpose is to gain fame so that he can stand up.

The road to the imperial examination is that thousands of people compete to cross the single-plank bridge, and hundreds of boats compete for the stream. If you fall behind for a while, you will fall behind step by step.

If he wanted to stand out from these ignorant boys, he had to get Xu Xiucai to pay attention to him. With Xu Xiucai's attention, he could start a small business and get more capital.

Otherwise, he could ask Xu Xiucai to check the dictation in class.

Now there is no one else but the two of them, so Xu Xiucai can ask more questions.

"Bring me the book."

Xu Xiucai frowned. He memorized the thousand-character text fluently, but he was not very clear about the annotations, and he couldn't speak clearly. It's just that Bai Gui's interpretation was too shocking, and he needed to see if it was true.

Flipping through the book, it is indeed the case in the annotations. Although it cannot be said that it is not word for word, but the general idea is the same.

Next, Xu Xiucai recited a paragraph as if he didn't believe in evil, and asked Bai Gui to explain a paragraph.

Some of the allusions in the first part, Bai Gui can still complete the explanations familiarly, but as he gets to the end, he stumbles a bit. Some allusions can only be matched [-] to [-]%, but this is better than [-]% of the school children.

"You write all the first half of it silently."

Xu Xiucai closed the book, let Bai Gui sit on his desk and stool, then put the black lacquered board on the desk, and said.

The Banque Thousand-Character Essay has only five or six hundred characters, and it was quickly completed silently.

"I'll teach you the second half."

Xu Xiucai took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said coldly with a straight face: "The memory is not bad, but it is only considered good in Bailu Village. Zhou Yuan is about the same age as you, and has already memorized the four books. Now You are studying "The Legend of Gu Liang", and you still have a long way to go."

"This is just a schoolboy in a village, and there are people with similar qualifications than you, let alone a town or a county?"

"The same year I was a teacher was much more talented than you, but there are only a few people who have won fame."

"You need to remember."

Bai Gui nodded in agreement.

His hardworking talent is enough to make him surpass some of his peers with ordinary qualifications, and he is far behind some child prodigies!
For example, he knows that Zhao Yuanren, a native of Tianjin who is two years older than him, is the father of modern linguistics. Not only can he speak 33 dialects, but he is also proficient in seven foreign languages.The most powerful thing about this man is that he can quickly learn the local dialect whenever he goes to a place.

During World War II, this man went to France to participate in a conference. When he was at the Paris station, he used the local Parisian dialect with the staff. As a result, the other party thought he was a Parisian who had returned from a long trip, so he kindly brought up homework.

In 1920, the famous English philosopher Russell came to China to give lectures. Everyone recommended him as a translator. He could not only accurately translate Russell's jokes and slang, but also translated in the local dialect wherever he went.

Compared with the real child prodigies like Zhao Yuanren, he is far behind!
Speaking of Zhao Yuanren, he and Dr. Hu are both alumni studying in the United States, and they have a very close personal relationship.At the same time, he applied for the second batch of government-funded study abroad in Yanjing. Zhao Yuanren ranked second on the list, and Dr. Hu was fifth.Dr. Hu has a famous joke, which is "I can't do it, thank you." Decades later, when a government wants to hire this man, the man's reply is also these five characters.

The second half of the thousand-character prose was quickly taught by Xu Xiucai.

When Bai Gui was about to say goodbye and leave.

Xu Xiucai stopped him and said, "From now on, you can come to my teacher for advice every day during lunch, and before the third quarter of the unitary hour (17:45)."

"Thank you sir."

Bai Gui was suddenly excited, and quickly knelt down to Xu Xiucai to salute.

His careful thinking was finally not in vain.

He had won the treatment of Xu Xiucai who opened a small stove. He had noticed that only Zhou Yuan, who ruled the classics, had this treatment, and even the Bai brothers and the Lu brothers did not have this treatment.

Because Xu Xiucai's usual lectures have made them a little bit too much, it's not a secret.

　Everyone, don’t raise books, you can only test the water if you have to follow up, and ask for tickets, crying (;︵;`)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)