People love the truth and hate lies. But when the truth and lies are presented at the same time, many people prefer to believe lies rather than truths. Maybe this is because the reality is too pale and cold, but the world built by lies is full of justice and harmony, right?

When Wu Zichen said two reasons for visiting, Jiang Shuiyuan subconsciously chose to believe that he was here to do his homework during the winter vacation, rather than wanting to see him in a mess. Even if he had vaguely guessed part of the truth, he was unwilling to expose it before he officially confessed. Everyone lives in the world with their own secret secrets, doesn't they?

Wu Zichen had a sumptuous lunch at Jiang's house, and played until three or four o'clock in the afternoon before reluctantly going back. In fact, he really wanted to stay and have a long talk with Jiang Shuiyuan, but Jiang Shuiyuan had no intention of retaining, so he was naturally embarrassed to stay cheekily.

In the following days, Wu Zichen looked for Jiang Shuiyuan to come out to play ball and go shopping every now and then, and sometimes he would go to the door together with Wu Yangzhen. In this way, everyone soon ushered in the beginning of the spring semester. A few days before the start of the school year, Jiang Shuiyuan was convened by Liu Xinying to attend an impromptu meeting of the Sinology Lecture Society, and the theme of the meeting was naturally to discuss how to deal with the upcoming national selection competition for middle school students.

In just one month during this winter vacation, Jiang Shuiyuan not only carefully read books such as "The Case of Song and Yuan Studies", "Treatise on Metaphysics of Wei and Jin", "History of Chinese Confucianism", etc., but also thought very carefully about the method of building the knowledge system proposed by Liu Xinying before, and thought that it took a lot of effort, but he always felt that he was still a long way from the second level of the realm and even the peak of the first layer of the realm, which made him a little depressed.

He walked into the Chinese Studies Lecture Forum depressedly, and saw Liu Xinying, Fu Shouzhang and others talking like stars and moons around an old gentleman in a cotton robe, and when he looked carefully, he found that the person was Liu Xinying's grandfather, Han Xianru, who had an elegant face with him. Before he could say hello, Han Xianru beckoned to him: "Little friend, do you remember my bad old man?"

Jiang Shuiyuan hurriedly bowed: "Hello Mr. Han! Last time I was fortunate to listen to your old man's arguments in Lianghuai Book City, and thanks to the guidance on reading strategies, I benefited a lot from it.

Han Xianru laughed, and then asked, "Then kid, do you still recite Zhang Yuzhao's "Sending Li Buddha's Preface"?"

"I barely remember," Jiang Shuiyuan immediately recited aloud: "The Buddha was dismissed from office, lived in the south of the Yangtze River, and studied tirelessly every day, especially the "Zhuangzi". …… Buddha will travel north, ask for a word as a gift. Yu is a Buddha who is born high and has no ambition, and is afraid of his passing and flows, so he is also a book. ”

Hearing that Jiang Shuiyuan had finished reciting the article of hundreds of words without stumbling at all, Han Xianru was even more happy, and called Jiang Shuiyuan to the front in a continuous voice, and asked kindly: "What about the "Summary of the Four Libraries of the Whole Book"?"

"I've read it roughly, but there are a lot of things I don't understand. Jiang Shuiyuan replied very frankly.

Liu Xinying rarely showed the appearance of a little daughter, shook Han Xianru's arm and said: "Grandpa, don't listen to his nonsense! It's not that you don't know that he has the ability to never forget, he said that he 'read it roughly', but in fact, he can already be proficient in reciting." ”

Han Xianru stroked his beard and said: "It's already very good to be proficient in recitation, you might as well tell you the truth, there are few people in the country who can do this! -- Don't say you don't understand, I don't understand the old man, and even if we look at the whole country, it is estimated that no scholar dares to claim to be able to read the entire set of "Synopsis of the Four Libraries"! For example, Mr. Yu Jiaxi, a famous modern paleophile and bibliographer, spent more than 50 years compiling "The Dialectic of the Synopsis of the Four Libraries", which is the result of his life's work and is also one of the most influential works in the history of modern Chinese scholarship. Even so, he didn't dare to claim to have read the entire set of "Four Library Synopsis", let alone wait for those who followed?"

The depression in Jiang Shuiyuan's heart was slightly relieved.

Han Xianru said: "Of course, the "Outline of the Four Libraries" may not be all right, you don't have to stick to prejudices when reading books in the future, you can carefully weigh the gains and losses of your predecessors according to your own understanding, figure out the rights and wrongs in the book, and your knowledge will definitely be able to improve day by day." But then again, why didn't you come to see me, an old man, during the winter vacation, but let the old man come to your school to see you? Why, do you think that this old man of mine is noisy and doesn't listen to your words, or are you afraid that the old man will lose face if I don't give you New Year's money?"

Jiang Shuiyuan said with a smile: "I want to visit your old man, and ask you some questions by the way, but I am only shallow in my studies, and I can find answers to many questions by reading books, and I dare not work lightly for you to be old;

Han Xianru waved his hand and said: "Those are just mundane affairs, you can leave them aside, for the old man, only the two things in the world are educating people and doing learning." If you have any problems in the future, just come to the old man, you can do it at any time, anyway, I am retired at home, and I am idle every day!" After a pause, he said to the other members of the Guoxue Lecture Club: "Of course, if you dolls have any problems, you can also come to the old man at any time." ”

However, this pause, coupled with the word "also", has clearly distinguished the different attitudes of Mr. Han towards Jiang Shuiyuan and other students. So Chen Di, Fu Shouzhang and others all looked at Jiang Shuiyuan with some taste, and even Liu Xinying was a little jealous: "Grandpa, although Jiang Shuiyuan is a little handsome, has a better memory, and has a smarter head, everyone is a student in Huai'an Mansion and a lover of Chinese culture, you have to treat everyone equally, you can't be partial!"

Han Xianru smiled: "Okay, good, good, as long as you don't think the old man is nagging, just come, I warmly welcome you!"

Seeing that the people who had the meeting today had arrived, Liu Xinying beckoned everyone to sit down, and then said: "The school will start soon, and the selection competition for the difficult study of Chinese culture is about to begin. In the past winter vacation, I believe that everyone has actively prepared for the game, watched the live videos of the previous sessions, and has a more intuitive understanding of the competition. I would like to ask you a few questions here, the first is whether you are proficient in the rules of the competition that is difficult in Chinese studies?"

"Yes!" everyone replied in unison.

In fact, there is little difference between the difficulty of Chinese culture and the ordinary debate competition, the positive and negative sides are composed of 4 people, such as the first debate (the main general), the second debate, the third debate, and the fourth debate, and the debate is conducted around a topic, and the competition duration is 60 minutes, including the opening argument, mutual attack, attack and debate summary, free debate and summary of the argument and other 5 links.

However, the particularity of the difficulty of Chinese studies lies in the fact that the topic is the content of Chinese studies, such as the "sound without sorrow" and "words are not complete" of Wei and Jin metaphysics, as well as the common classic topics such as "loyalty and filial piety come first", "sweeping the house and sweeping the world", and "starting a family and starting a business". Moreover, in the process of debate, the discourse system of traditional Chinese studies must be adopted, and the terms, conclusions or arguments of Western philosophy are not allowed, and violators will be punished directly!