Three Kingdoms: I don’t want to fall in love in troubled times

Chapter 21 How difficult is it?
"Xu Jiashu?" Cai Yan raised his head and thought for a while, "I have never heard that the Xu family in Donghai has a descendant named Xu Jiashu."

At this time, there were indeed no wealthy families with the surname Xu in the Han Dynasty, at least none among the top tier. There was only one Xu family from Donghai who was somewhat famous.

But if the Donghai Xu family really had such a good-looking son, he would have become famous everywhere, and there would be no chance that there would be no news at all.

Generally, the children of noble families with good family backgrounds would start to build momentum early, such as telling stories about young and precocious wisdom, or going to respected family friends and elders to praise them with beautiful words such as "the talent of Wang Zuo" and "the good horse of thousands of miles".

After accumulating a certain reputation in this way, the state and county can naturally promote him as a filial and honest person and embark on an official career.Today's custom of criticizing people is, to put it bluntly, just a matter of nobles carrying each other's sedan chairs.

Since Cai Yan has never heard of the name, the person named Xu Jiashu must not be a serious official's son.

But it's not important. She has never valued family status. She grew up in Wu County and Kuaiji County since she was a child. Most of Cai Yan's friends are local nobles from Jiangdong.

For example, Gu Yong, one of Cai Yong's disciples, may be regarded as one of the few romantic figures in Jiangdong, but compared with the families of Luoyang and other princes, they can only be regarded as big rural families at best. Not for beauty.

Cai Yan took a closer look at the person in front of him. In terms of appearance and appearance, he was not inferior to those of the Xun family disciples who were "as bright as the sun and the moon in one's arms, and as independent as a solitary pine on a rock."

She thought that if she could do a first-month review at some time, she would also review this person and say something like "Xiao Xiao solemnly, cheerful and clear", so that those guys who manipulate public opinion would be furious. .

"I am a local from Luoyang, and I am here to copy the Five Classics." Xu Jiashu put down the pen and paper in his hand and explained that the "Xiping Stone Classic" is placed outside Taixue. Anyone can copy it, and it is not exclusive to the nobles.

"Really?" Cai Yan suddenly smiled brightly when he heard this, "This word is upright and strong, with strict laws. It is much better than me and Cai Jijiu's current word."

Cai Yan has a restless temper. When she came to Luoyang, she found that everyone here was putting on airs and thinking about imitating the sages in books to make her family famous. However, she didn't like to stay at home. It was the calligraphy written by the old man with an unattractive appearance who often came to Taixue in his early years.

"It is said that people can mature only after going through many things, but Cai Jijiu's characters are beautiful only when they are in their prime."

Xu Jiashu nodded in agreement and said that after Old Man Cai was in trouble, he could never regain his previous vigor. Now he is busy editing "Eastern View of Han Dynasty" all day long, occasionally having banquets and playing music, and he is completely different from the Eastern Han Dynasty version of Wei Zheng in his early years.

"That's right. If you want to learn, you have to learn this kind of forward-thinking calligraphy!" Cai Yan felt that this boy was very knowledgeable and decided to give him some guidance, "Let me see how you copy."

As he said this, he leaned over and looked at the words in Xu Jiashu's hand.

"What? It looks so awkward."

Cai Yan took a quick look at it and felt that the word was really strange - it was written like a child who had just started to learn. There were several typos in the transcription of just one sentence, and even the correct words could be seen with great skill. rusty.

Xu Jiashu, who had just started to get used to Han Dynasty calligraphy brushes, touched his nose and felt a little embarrassed.

Cai Yan frowned and said, "Maybe it's too cold outside at Taixue. I'll take you in to copy."

With that said, he was about to take Xu Jiashu to the Imperial Academy.

Imperial College of the Eastern Han Dynasty was first built by Emperor Guangwu of the founding of the People's Republic of China. At first, the lecture hall was "ten feet long and three feet wide." Later, after continuous expansion by Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, "there are 240 rooms and 850 rooms in total." The number of workers employed every year reaches 11, and the scale of construction has reached an unprecedented level.

By the time of Emperor Zhi of the Han Dynasty, there were more than 3 imperial students.Even after two disasters caused by the party's imprisonment, a large number of Tai students were arrested, but the number still remained huge.

When Xu Jiashu was marveling that there were such huge college buildings in this era, he found that students from the Imperial College kept coming up to talk to Cai Yan along the way, but she blocked them all with a cold face.

Xu Jiashu asked curiously: "Will all these imperial students become officials in the future?"

"How could it be?" Cai Yan asked coldly, seeming to be in a bad mood. "If so many concubine students can be officials, why should Xiaolian do it?"

"That's right." "Only those who are not filial and honest will come here. If they can be appreciated by Taichang or other noble people, they can naturally be recruited as officials; those who can study hard will also have the opportunity to serve as officials after passing the examination. Lang, if you really can’t make a name for yourself, just leave on your own.”

Cai Yan said, mentioning the imperial students who talked to him, with unspeakable disgust on his face, "Just don't imitate these people. Seeing that there are no men in our Cai family, they want to join the noble clan through me. If not ."

Oh--

Cai Yan immediately covered his mouth, it was over, he had spilled the beans.

She quietly looked at Xu Jiashu with her peripheral vision, and found that there was no strange color on his face at all, and secretly thought highly of him - even if he was not from a famous family, his tutoring was much better than that of these gangsters.

Then Xu Jiashu asked abruptly: "So I just told someone else's daughter that her father's handwriting is not as good as before?"

It is rude to scold a father when he is a son, but it was clearly Cai Yan who first belittled his father just now.

Cai Yan knew that he was making fun of her for concealing her identity, so she said confidently: "My father's handwriting was always better in his early years! Maybe his handwriting is not as good as mine now!"

She walked into a quiet room, pointed at some cases and said, "Your handwriting is too strange. Write it again and I will find fault with you."

"Okay", Xu Jiashu sat down obediently after hearing this.

As soon as he picked up the pen and started writing, Cai Yan behind him couldn't stand it anymore.

"The way you hold the pen is wrong, give me the pen." She sat down on the other side and corrected the beginner's mistakes bit by bit. Although she was merciless, she was not impatient at all.

If we put it in future generations, she might be a teacher who is very popular among students, Xu Jiashu thought to himself. The Chinese teacher and music teacher sounds very artistic at first glance.

"Don't get distracted."

Cai Yan saw him wandering around and clapped his hands gently.

"I was just thinking that since you are so good at teaching, you should come to Taixue to be a guest." Xu Jiashu lowered his head and wrote while saying treasonous words, "How can we only teach Confucian classics here, but we will produce a lot of nerds."

"As long as they can be officials, it doesn't matter whether these people will become idiots or not. I won't come here to serve as a sacrificial wine."

Cai Yan denied it, but her eyebrows were crooked. It was obvious that Xu Jiashu's words were to her liking.

After studying like this for an hour, Cai Yan helped Xu Jiashu correct his beginner's mistakes. He became more and more familiar with the Han Dynasty writing brush, and he quickly wrote works that amazed Teacher Cai.

"The structure is square and dense, the strokes are refined, and the momentum is majestic for the first time."

Where have you heard this?

Cai Yan touched his chin thoughtfully, "It's a pity that the writing power is really unsightly, and such a heavenly calligraphy was wasted."

She glanced at Xu Jiashu, who was still copying "The Analects of Confucius" obediently, and she was sure that this person had just learned calligraphy. Those clumsy mistakes could not be figured out by experienced hands, but he happened to know this novel and beautiful way of writing.

Could it be that he is really a genius?

(End of this chapter)