Liaozhai: A scholar should draw a sword

Chapter 41 When Will The Bright Moon Come?ask the sky

"Master, you...you...why..."

In the morning, Qiuxiang entered the room with the wash water, and when she saw the master, her eyes widened as if she had seen a ghost, and she stammered.

Fortunately, the copper basin in his hand did not shake to the ground.

The master is still the same master, but she feels that the master seems to have changed overnight.

Zhou Yu frowned: "You girl, what are you doing so early in the morning?"

"Master, wait a moment..."

A Xiang came back to her senses, quickly put the washbasin on the stand, and then took a bronze mirror and handed it to Zhou Yu.

"Master, look in the mirror, don't you feel much younger?"

Zhou Yu took the mirror and looked at it... Hey, don't say it, it's really like this.

Although the former owner was only 30 years old, but due to staying up late and studying hard since childhood, his body was weak and his face had wrinkles early on.

Therefore, it looks like it is ten years older than its actual age.

After Zhou Yu took over this body, the situation improved as his realm improved.

However, this time the changes are indeed great, the wrinkles are gone, the skin is smooth and rosy, looks like a young man in his twenties, full of youthful vitality.

"Hahaha, the master really rejuvenated this time."

Zhou Yu happily handed the bronze mirror to Qiuxiang.

It is not difficult to guess, it must be the reason for a leap in the realm, maybe the life span has also increased.

After all, it seems that there is only one level of difference between a scholar and a juren, but the span of this level is actually quite large.

According to the normal admission ratio, the chance of passing the provincial examination is about [-]%.

In other words, on average, only one lucky person among a hundred scholars has the chance to be promoted to Juren.

One can imagine how difficult it is and how cruel the competition is.

Zhou Yu's change also aroused the amazement of all the servants, saying that the master is getting younger and younger.

When I came to the academy after breakfast, as expected, a group of students also cast surprised glances.

Zhou Yu, of course, would not explain anything, and began to attend class as usual: "Today, I will focus on explaining the method of sentence punctuation..."

This is why Zhou Yu found that many students had serious problems with punctuation, so he took the time to explain it.

In his previous life, many people thought that the ancients did not have the concept of punctuation, which is actually a big mistake.

Of course, ancient Chinese has a certain way of punctuating sentences, but official texts are all punctuated, but there is no fixed format.

For example, use dots, circles, and horizontal lines to break sentences.

Including books printed by some large workshops, they will not be densely packed, and will use specific symbols to break sentences.

It's just that the books at that time were too expensive, so many small workshops printed a large number of shoddy books for huge profits.

This kind of book has almost no sentences, and it is widely circulated among the people... After all, it is relatively cheap.

Therefore, most of the so-called ancient books handed down to later generations were printed by such small workshops, leading many people to think that ancient books were like this.

To give a simple example, if there are no sentences in government official documents or military intelligence, it may lead to misjudgment of the original meaning of the text, and the error can be as far as a thousand miles away.

Also, if the minister presented the memorial to the emperor without a sentence, would it be possible for the emperor to bother to complete the sentence?

I'm afraid I just threw it aside and looked at it lazily.

The same goes for taking entrance exams.

Not to mention short essays, long essays are written densely and densely, and different marking officers may determine several different writing contents.

Therefore, Zhou Yu also attached great importance to this, and specially set aside a class time to explain the importance of sentence punctuation to a group of students.

And also taught students three basic sentence punctuation: that is, the most commonly used comma, period, colon, double quotation marks.

Under the current environment, these four punctuation points plus modal particles are basically enough, at least it is much better than punctuating sentences with ink dots.

When school was over that afternoon, several students headed by Zhu Erdan made a fuss together, saying that they would invite the three gentlemen to drink together in the evening.

The kindness was hard to give up, so Zhou Yu, Lin Xingde and Qiao Sheng came to Yichun Courtyard with a few students.

Yichun Courtyard is a courtyard-style hook-and-lane place.

Here, you can drink, listen to music, enjoy dancing, and of course you can stay overnight.

Most of the girls in Yichunyuan are talented. For example, the girl Zhou Yu met last time called Xiaowan is good at playing flute.

Seeing Zhou Yu coming, the old lady was so enthusiastic...

After all, Zhou Yu has a different status, and he can be regarded as a frequent visitor of Yichun Courtyard, so he naturally needs to receive him as a VIP.

Soon, the food and drink were set up in the yard, and several girls including Xiao Wan came over.

When they come here, besides performing arts, they also have to sit together and drink with them, perform drinking orders, even recite poems, match pairs, etc. to help them enjoy themselves.

This is the fancy drinking method, referred to as Huajiu.

For the ancient literati, drinking flower wine was the most popular way of entertainment, and it was also a kind of elegance of life.

Of course, the premise is that there must be that spending power.

Many scholars are so poor that even three meals are a problem. How can they have spare money and energy to drink flowers and wine?

Just think.

Or you can go to the wilderness to find a broken thatched hut, light an oil lamp, and then lie down quietly...

Maybe there will be adventures in sleep.

Several girls performed their performances one after another, composing poems, singing songs, dancing, playing the piano, blowing the flute...

Then accompanied by wine orders, poems and chats, the atmosphere was joyful.

Taking advantage of the wine, Xiao Wan acted like a baby in Zhou Yu's arms: "My family heard that Master Zhou is full of knowledge and speaks well.

Since everyone is so happy tonight, why doesn't Master Zhou compose a poem to cheer up the wine? "

"Yes, sir, let's have a song!" Several students echoed.

Several girls also gathered around Zhou Yu, swaying and acting like a baby.

"Master Zhou, are you okay..."

"Master Zhou, come on..."

"My family wants to hear Master Zhou recite poems..."

"Hahaha……"

The hospitality is hard to come by, Zhou Yu laughed and stood up, glanced at the girls, and chanted while pacing:
"Looking horizontally, it looks like mountains and peaks on the other side. The distance and height are different. I don't know the true face of Minshan, but because I am in this mountain."

This is a famous poem handed down by Su Shi, but Zhou Yu changed Mount Lu to Min Mountain in the suburbs of Guobei County.

Although there is Su Shi in the current history of the world, very few poems have been handed down, which gave Zhou Yu a lot of room to play.

"it is good!"

"Nice poem!"

Several students couldn't help clapping their hands loudly.

One of the girls blushed, stomped her feet and said coquettishly: "I won't come, Mr. Zhou took the opportunity to make fun of him..."

At this time, Qiao Sheng came over with a glass of wine, and said with admiration, "Mr. is indeed a poetic talent. I would like to present you with a glass."

"Hahaha, too much praise..."

Zhou Yu smiled heartily, and stepped forward to raise his glass.

"Sir, how about singing another song while drinking?"

Zhu Erdan started booing again.

"Yes, yes, sir, sing one more song!"

"Master Zhou, sing another song..."

Several girls followed suit.

"it is good!"

At this time, Zhou Yu was also three points drunk from drinking, and he was so passionate for a while, he subconsciously raised his eyes to look at the sky...

The sky was gray, with no stars or moon.

So with a thought, he raised his wine glass and sang a song "Shui Tiao Ge Tou · When Will the Moon Come?"

"When will the bright moon come? Ask the blue sky for wine. I don't know the palace in the sky, what year is this eve.

I want to return by wind, and I fear Qionglou Yuyu, the heights are too cold.

Dancing clear shadow, like in the world.

Turn Zhuge, low tenants, and sleepless.

There should be no hate, what is long to other times.

People have sorrows and sorrows and joys, and moons have yin and qing, which is difficult to complete.

Nung, moon and new moon. "

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(End of this chapter)