Wentang

Chapter 24 Reading and Writing
The buddy pulled Che Yueshan to lead the way ahead, and the two soon came to the boundary of Sixingping.The villagers working in the field greeted him one after another, and Yue Shan responded enthusiastically.

However, those who turned their heads and greeted him began to point and point, most of them said that he was climbing high branches or deliberately elevating himself or something.

Although Yue Shan didn't hear it with his own ears, he knew that pink eye disease was not uncommon no matter in his past or present life.

He clearly remembered that when he was a child, he bought a new set of bar cabinets, and the neighbor's aunt was jealous for several days.

But people have no bad intentions, they just feel that people like themselves have suddenly changed and feel uncomfortable and psychologically unbalanced.

After a few days, when they reacted, they accepted it. We are still good neighbors, going to the market and working in the fields together...

This is also the case with the villagers surnamed Siping, and this is a normal reaction.As long as they don't taunt them to their face, pretending they don't know is the best way to deal with it.

Of course, it's not all jealousy.Some people with a more peaceful mind will say enviously that they should have children like Yue Shanzi.

Some are even considering whether to marry the Yue family.Even if his family doesn't know any noble people, he is still a good family with his fishing skills.

The man knew that Yue Shan and Zhou Shangyun had a good relationship, and when he arrived at Yue's house, he helped move the food into the house.

Seeing him sweating profusely from all the work, Yue Shan was very embarrassed and wanted to give him a fish.The buddy insisted on not wanting it, and it was Yue Shan who stuffed it into his arms, so he accepted it gratefully.

Yue Shan didn't know, but after returning home, the guy praised him like a flower, saying that Yue's family is a kind family.

Knowing about this, Zhou Shangyun also admired him for his deep understanding of the world and his tolerance for others at a young age, and he is even more optimistic about his future.

After sending the buddy away, Yue Shan washed off the sweat and dust on his body and took out the Analects of Confucius.

I habitually opened the book according to the way I read it in my previous life, and only realized when I saw the vertical lines. This is the Tang Dynasty, the book was written backwards, and the reading order was from top to bottom, right to left.

Turning the book over, I saw a familiar sentence: "Zi said learning and learning from time to time is not the same as saying it."

Well, the kind without punctuation.

After reading the books of this era, Yue Shan finally understood why the ancient illiteracy rate was so high.There is not a single punctuation mark from the beginning to the end of the whole article, and it is only damned if you can understand it.

This is simply deliberately embarrassing for beginners.

But what made him a little relieved was that the characters on the book were all regular script as he thought, and most of them could barely distinguish what they were.

Most of the remaining unknowns can be guessed based on the meaning of the context.There are only a very small number of people who really don't know each other.

This also made him breathe a sigh of relief. The level of reading and literacy has made a good start.

He was not in a hurry to learn to write, but read the Analects of Confucius carefully from beginning to end.

After reading it, he always felt that something was wrong, as if it was different from the version he saw in his previous life, but he was not sure where the difference was.

After all, he had only read it well in his previous life, and hadn't memorized them all.

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't figure it out, so I could only shake my head and let it go.Thousands of years have passed between the Tang Dynasty and modern times, and it is normal to have differences.

In fact, his feeling is right. There are three editions of the ancient Analects.Gu Lun, Qi Lun and Lu Lun, the modern Analects of Confucius is a collation of Gu Lun and Lu Lun.It's unfortunate that he has this one in his hand...

However, whether it is ancient theory or Qi theory, there is no essential difference, and it does not affect his reading.

Then Yue Shan once again realized the disadvantages of being poor.He couldn't afford a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so he couldn't even mark those words he couldn't recognize in simplified Chinese characters.

It leads to reading the entire Analects every time.

But soon he discovered a benefit of doing so, and he recited the entire Analects without knowing it.

Without a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, he used branches to write on the ground when practicing calligraphy.Yue Laosi and his wife saw that their son could really read and write, and they were very happy.

Although in this era there is no such argument that all things are inferior and only reading is high, the status of scholars is indeed very high.

In the eyes of ordinary people, that is Wenqu Xingxia.

Reading and literacy is such a big thing, Yue Shan naturally won't forget his younger sister Yue Shui'er, so he just found an excuse and let her join in.

At the beginning, Yue Shui'er was very happy when he heard that he was going to study, but within two days he withdrew.

Yue Shan can indulge her in other things, but this one is not good, forcing her to learn with him.

In fact, her resistance was not strong.She is used to obeying orders and dare not rebel against her parents.Especially the elder brother who is very good to him, he will not resist.

At first, the two brothers and sisters wrote in their own house, but later found that doing so would easily turn up the ground in the house and make it dusty, so they moved to the yard.

But there are no big trees in the yard to enjoy the shade, and there is nothing in the morning and evening, but the heat at noon is unbearable.

They moved the place of writing to under the big mulberry trees in the center of the village again.

Then the whole village knew that Yueshan could write, and the rumor of the old Taoist was brought up again, and it became even more legendary.

When Yue Shan heard these rumors, he almost couldn't recognize that this was his "experience".

Out of reverence for scholars, the area where Yueshan read and wrote has become a forbidden area in the village.Usually everyone passing by will bypass it, and no one will approach it.

But this is only for adults, children's curiosity is unfettered.

Within a few days, Yue Shan found that every time he was practicing calligraphy under the tree, there were several pairs of dark eyes staring at him from afar.

He knew that they were all village children.

Not all families are as patriarchal as Yue Laosi and his wife, letting the ten-year-old son rest at home and letting the six-year-old daughter go to work in the fields.

Most children under the age of ten just cut some hogweed, feed chickens and so on, and they don't know how to do heavy work in the fields.

As for those over ten years old, they are half of the labor force. After all, this is an era when you can get married and have children at the age of 12.

Usually these children ran around the village after finishing the work assigned by their parents. Recently, they had another thing to do, watching the Yue Shanzi brothers and sisters read and write from a distance.

Maybe they were warned by their parents not to disturb Yue Shan's study, so they just watched from a distance and dared not approach.

"Ah." Yue Shan sighed and put down the book in his hand, being watched by those eyes full of longing, he really didn't want to study.

He was a teacher in his previous life. Although he taught history, he also had a lot of morality.Seeing those children at this time, he committed another occupational disease.

"Come here." Yue Shan waved to that side.

The children panicked immediately, thinking that Yue Shan had been annoyed by their watching.He wanted to run but was afraid that Yue Shan would find his home, he wanted to get close but he didn't dare.A few timid ones even cried in fright.

Yue Shan understood what was going on with just a little thought, and he was even more pitiful to these children.

"Don't be afraid. I'm not blaming you for disturbing me. I'm just asking if you want to learn to write. I can teach you."

(End of this chapter)