Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 123 Teaching
"I know kung fu." Qi Muyuan's words are always so concise.

"Huh?" Du Jinning looked at him in disbelief.

"I was taken captive when I was a child, and I started practicing martial arts after I got home." Qi Muyuan finally explained.

Thinking of what Qi Bokun said, Du Jinning gave him a sympathetic look, and couldn't bear to refuse his kindness: "All right, you send me back. But you only need to send me to Zhuangzikou, and you can go back when you see someone." Anyway. It is not far from Zhuangzi.

The two walked in together, and after a while they saw Zhuangzi.It was not too late at this time, many people's roofs were just smoking, and a few farmers were walking on the ridge with hoes on their shoulders; some even drove a group of "quack" ducks from a distant river; There is also an old man carrying a vegetable basket filled with freshly picked vegetables, and two three or four-year-old children running around beside her, creating a warm and beautiful rural scene.

Du Jinning stopped and said to Qi Muyuan, "Okay, I'm fine, you can go back. Thank you very much."

Qi Muyuan nodded, then turned and walked back.

"Be careful on the road." Du Jinning urged from behind.

Qi Muyuan waved his hand without looking back, and walked away in a short while.

Think about it before dark, there are still some boarding students in the academy, the uncle who is watching the gate will also watch Qi Muyuan for a while when he sees him, and after that, he will be in the city, people come and go, nothing will happen , Du Jinning felt relieved, turned around and went home.

Du's new house is in the innermost part of Zhuangzi, near the hillside. Du Jinning walked for a while before seeing the door of the house. From a distance, he saw Du Fanghui standing at the gate waiting.She couldn't help quickening her pace and asked, "Fourth Sister, what are you doing standing here? What happened?"

Seeing her, Du Fanghui was overjoyed, and ran over in a hurry, complaining, "Why did you come back at this time? Your classmate came to look for you."

"Ah?" Du Jinning was taken aback, "What classmate?"

She hasn't officially entered the academy yet, and the only people she knows in the academy are Guan Jiaze and others.Even if other people met once, such as Liang Xiankuan and others, they would not know where her home was.

"It's the one I saw in the market today, the one whose mother sold tofu and dry goods, and was forced to pay her debts." Du Fanghui reminded.

Du Jinning came to a sudden: "So it was him?"

"You invited someone to come, but you ran away without a trace." Du Fanghui said, "I was going out to find you."

"Where did you make an appointment with him? I made an appointment tomorrow." Du Jinning said.

Thinking about discussing things with Guan Jiaze and the others today, she told Xu Chengyuan to come back tomorrow night at noon, but she didn't want this guy to be so impatient, so she came here tonight.

"Who's at home?" Du Jinning followed Du Fanghui into the door and asked.

"I called my mother back from the field."

Sure enough, when Du Jinning entered the main room, he saw Mrs. Chen sitting at the head, talking with Xu Chengyuan.Seeing Du Jinning, Xu Chengyuan quickly stood up and called out embarrassedly, "Junior Brother Du."

"Why did you come back so late? Your classmates have been waiting for you for a long time." Chen blamed, got up and took the things in Du Jinning's hand, and said to Xu Chengyuan with a smile, "Then you chat slowly, I will go to work went."

"Aunt Lao is here." Xu Chengyuan bowed his hands gratefully to Mrs. Chen, watched her leave, and then bowed to Du Jinning again, "Junior Brother Du, I'm really sorry, I, I...I didn't mean to rush you. It's just..." He sighed, "I want to learn it as soon as possible, and write it out as soon as possible to pay off the debt."

"It doesn't matter." Du Jinning was also in such embarrassment and urgent need for money some time ago—in fact, it is the same now. She really wanted to earn back Shu Xiu from the academy before the Chinese New Year, so she hurriedly wrote a storybook to open a teahouse.So she can understand Xu Chengyuan's mood.

"You sit down first, I'll get your storybook." Du Jinning said, went out to his room to find Xu Chengyuan's storybook, and then went back to the main room.

She put the script in front of Xu Chengyuan and sat down.

"You, have you seen it?" Xu Chengyuan looked at her with uneasy but expectant eyes.

Du Jinning nodded, thought about the wording, and asked him: "Have you tried taking this book of yours to a bookstore?"

Xu Chengyuan nodded, and said very dejectedly: "I took it, they won't accept it. They won't accept me as long as one or two hundred Wen."

"That's not how it was written in the script," Du Jinning said.

Xu Chengyuan immediately raised his eyes and looked at her with an attitude of listening carefully.

"When writing a storybook, you must first understand your readers." Seeing that Xu Chengyuan was a little confused and obviously did not understand the four words "reading objects", Du Jinning explained: "It is the people who read your books. Who are they? , what kind of stories they like to read, and how to write stories they like to read."

She picked up the notebook in her hand: "You are imitating my book "Unlucky Man Meets Dongting Red", the first two are not bad, but you have overlooked one point, those people with excellent knowledge are not busy being officials, Just because you are busy taking the imperial examination, not many people will come to the bookstore to buy your script to read."

Xu Chengyuan nodded thoughtfully.

"But look at what you wrote. The words and sentences are comparable to "Historical Records". People with a little knowledge can't understand it. What is the picture in the story? It's fun, how easy it is. But look at your words Ben, I have to do some research on what you mean by this sentence, what is this word, are you tired?"

Xu Chengyuan suddenly said: "I understand."

At first, when he read "Unlucky Man Meets Dongting Red", he thought it was because Du Jinning had never been to school and was not well educated, so the writing was all in vernacular, and he couldn't help feeling sorry for Du Jinning.Now I know that Du Jinning didn't know how to write, but wrote it on purpose.

"So, I should try to write in the vernacular?" He still has a strong comprehension ability.

Du Jinning nodded: "Let those who have only read "Three Hundred Thousand" understand it."

"I understand, thank you, Junior Brother Du." Xu Chengyuan stood up and gave Du Jinning a deep bow.

Du Jinning turned sideways and waved his hands: "In addition, when writing a storybook, you must first have an outline, which is the outline of the story. Try to make it ups and downs and suspenseful when setting the story at the beginning; at the same time, you must have character design. You should have a clear understanding of what kind of origin this person is, what kind of environment he grew up in, and what kind of character he is. The same thing is faced by different people, and their choices are different. Yes. The protagonist in the book, you have to let him have a shining point, integrity, kindness, tenacity and intelligence, so that the protagonist will be recognized by the readers, and thus create a sense of substitution, and feel that he is the character in the book..."

Xu Chengyuan felt as if a new door had been opened before him. He really didn't expect that such an inconspicuous book would have so many ways.If Du Jinning hadn't taught him, he probably wouldn't be able to write a good script in his whole life.

Du Jinning has traveled to this ancient time, and it is rare for someone to be interested in how to write a storybook, and he talked endlessly. Seeing that it was getting dark, he stopped talking and said, "Okay, let's stop here first. You go back and think about it carefully, rewrite this book, and then show it to me."

"Yes." Xu Chengyuan stood up and bowed respectfully, "Teacher, please be respected by the students."

His grades in Class A of the academy were considered excellent. Facing a kid like Du Jinning who hadn't yet entered the academy, he couldn't help but feel arrogance in his heart.But after listening to Du Jinning's words, he felt that he was better than studying for ten years, and he sincerely admired Du Jinning.

Du Jinning didn't want to have such involvement with him, so he got up to avoid his big gift, and said: "I dare not accept a student of your age, if it spreads out, people will laugh at it."

Xu Chengyuan's face turned red: "I was the one who was abrupt." But he made up his mind in his heart that he should treat Du Jinning as a teacher.

"It's dark and the road is hard to walk, you should hurry home." Du Jinning said.

Although this academy is also in the city, it does not involve the issue of entering the city gate, but the roads in ancient times did not have street lights, and the lights were dark in winter, so it would not be safe for Xu Chengyuan to go back like this.

Xu Chengyuan also remembered his mother, so he didn't stay any longer, and got up to leave.

When the two went out, they saw Du Fangfei watering the vegetable patch that had just been sown in the yard.Seeing Du Jinning and Xu Chengyuan coming out, she politely smiled and nodded at Xu Chengyuan, and said to Du Jinning: "It's getting late, mother told you to keep guests for dinner."

(End of this chapter)