Chapter 22: A Trip to the Temple of Literature
Lunch was at the cool barbecue restaurant next to the Internet café, Song Yang Zhang Luo ordered beer, Meng Fanzhu shook his head and didn't drink it.
After decades of confusion in dreams, subconsciously and instinctively refuse to dizzy things in order to keep the body awake. Several other people didn't dare to drink more, just graduated from high school, and they were not affected by the drinking habits of college, so each person asked for 1 bottle of beer to be happy, after all, high school graduates are adults, and drinking some wine today can be regarded as a celebration of the success of the college entrance examination.
Zhang Zhengyi's three grades are average, but they performed well in the exam, and there should be no problem in the province, so the five boys are very happy at this time, and everyone is talking. Gao Wei said with a little pride: "My parents plan to take me to Singapore for a trip after my college entrance examination results come out." Zhang Zhengyi also said, "Me too, my family plans to go to Europe, and my parents have all completed the visa." "Cut" Song Yang deliberately put on a look of contempt, "You can send money to foreigners! My dad said that you can pick whatever you want in China, and you will buy a ticket and leave the next day after the results are released." Seeing that several classmates in front of him were competitive, Meng Fanzhu regretted that with his mature mentality, he could not experience this kind of happiness.
Everyone ate for a while, and after their stomachs were bottomed, they began to toast each other. Meng Fanzhu asked Song Yang who was sitting next to him in a low voice, "Have you thought about which university to apply for?"??
?????? The fat man chewed a few bites of his big waist and swallowed it, and said a little narcissistically, "I think I can go to 580, if the score is about the same, I will report to the National People's Congress, if it is not enough, I will report to China University of Political Science and Law, their admission score last year was 536, I think I am enough." ”
????“ Well, do uncles and aunts agree?" Meng Fanzhu was afraid that the fat man would make his own decisions.
???“ My parents support that BJ is definitely better than JL University. I didn't expect that my grades could improve so much in the last month or so, by the way, my parents asked me to ask you to go to dinner at home, saying that I was grateful to you. Speaking of this, Song Yang also felt a little emotional.
????“ Thank you, two brothers in one world, what are you polite about! Just go to BJ to work hard. Meng Fanzhu continued, "Anya and I must only apply to Peking University, and wait for the 11th to ask Zhou Ling how she did in the exam, and ask her where she plans to apply." As he spoke, he put his arms around the fat man's neck, leaned into his ear and whispered, "Tell me honestly, do you have any thoughts about Zhou Ling?"
Song Yang's face immediately turned red, "Uh~ It's a little bit, but we don't deserve others!" After the fat man finished speaking, he lowered his head a little disappointed?????.
?????? Meng Fanzhu encouraged, "A manly man, what is worthy of what is not worthy, if you really like it, come on, just treat others well." He also put his arm around the fat man's shoulder.
??????? At this time, Cao Lei said loudly, "Song Yang, you can't drink enough, it's less than half a bottle, your face is so red, how will you mix it up in college in the future!"
??????? How could the fat man admit it, "The fat man is called a red face, killing all directions!" As he spoke, he picked up the wine glass and Cao Lei, and it took more than an hour to finish eating.
?????? Meng Fanzhu didn't go to the Internet café with Song Yang and them, and the game can relax once in a while, but it's not interesting to play all the time. Songjiang is so big, there are so many places to go, and now that the weather is so good, it's better to go out for a walk than to stay in an Internet café with dirty air and chaos.
??????? At two o'clock, Meng Fanzhu took a bus to the Songjiang Confucian Temple, which is located next to Songjiang Engineering University. This is the youngest Confucian temple in the country. Completed in 1929, it was inscribed by General Zhang Xueliang, advocated by Zhang Huanxiang, then chief executive of the Northeast Special Region, and Zhang Jinghui, the successor governor, and raised more than 730,000 silver coins by the government and Chinese and foreign people.
??????? Because the surrounding environment was not renovated during the construction at that time, it was necessary to pass through a residential area, the street was not wide, and the entrance of the Temple of Literature was designed to be very small, so the scale of the Temple of Literature could not be seen from the outside.
Many people in Songjiang City have never been here, and outsiders don't know about it, so there are very few people who visit the Confucian Temple. I remember when I was just in elementary school, my father led me to worship Confucius and my ancestors, and when I entered the Temple of Literature and saw the grand buildings inside, I still remember it vividly!
?????? This year, I can only accompany my father to come, and I just started school on October 10 for more than 1 month, and I definitely can't come back.
Stopping in front of the gate of the Confucian Temple, walking through the 45-meter-long glazed carved shadow wall in the front yard, crossing the rainbow bridge on the flying frame moon-shaped pan pond, and passing through the Lingxing Gate painted by Hexi, Meng Fanzhu walked alone on the Yong Road, and his mind gradually merged with the surrounding pines and cypresses and exquisite buildings. Standing in front of Dachengmen, he stretched his clothes, tidied up his appearance, and walked into the middle courtyard.
Dacheng Hall is located in the huge courtyard square, with the heart of pilgrimage, step through the nine steps into the main hall, face to see the main seat of the Confucius statue, on both sides enshrine the four holy images of the Buddha Yan Yuan, the Zong Sheng Zeng Shen, the Shu Sheng Kong Ling, the Ya Sheng Meng Ke. Perhaps it was an illusion, but the hall that should have been shady made Meng Fanzhu feel a kind of warmth when the sun shone on his body.
After the establishment of the Republic in 49, the previous mode of worship was abolished, and there were no futons for bowing in front of the icons, and there were no offering tables for offering offerings and incense burners on the altar. There have only been a few sacrificial activities in Songjiang in recent decades, and the scale is not large, and the descendants of the four surnames of Confucius and Mengyan are basically worshiping by themselves every year. Kong Mengyan once had four surnames as the same surname, and each generation used the same words, even if they didn't know each other, they felt very cordial when they saw their respective generations. Songjiang and even the four surnames of the Northeast people are from the east of the Guandong, at that time many ancestors could not save their lives, and they could not eat, so the etiquette requirements between the generations were not very strict. The SD ancestral land still retains strict customs of respecting the elders and inferiority. Every time he returned to Guanli's house, Meng Fanzhu was a little uncomfortable. The traditional generation is considered to be a big generation here in Songjiang, but it is not over there, I don't know if SD got married late, and many runny little children are also grandparents.
Meng Fanzhu stood in front of the holy icon, concentrating and meditating, with piety, first bowing nine times to the statue of Confucius, and then to the ancestor Mencius.
After the ceremony, as soon as I straightened my body, the system interface suddenly appeared in front of me. A line of prompts and a progress bar appear in a prominent position in the middle of the interface: Special talent energy has been collected, the system has been upgraded for the first time, please keep the position.
Meng Fanzhu's body stiffened and he didn't dare to move. He didn't know whether to keep his position, whether to keep the position he was standing in at his feet, or whether he was not leaving the Dacheng Hall. For the sake of insurance, Meng Fanzhu was like a guard standing guard, with a tall posture, looking at the holy elephant, motionless.
This stop is 1 hour, during which a couple came in with their four or five-year-old daughter to visit, and the family of three felt very strange when they saw Meng Fanzhu motionless. The cute little girl also ran to Meng Fanzhu's side and followed his line of sight to see what was fun, it was worth looking at it so preoccupiedly, she didn't find anything, she poked Meng Fanzhu's arm with her fingers, the girl's mother quickly pulled the child away, and the three of them left Dacheng Hall very quickly, as if they were being chased by something.
The progress bar was finally finished, the upgrade was over, and Meng Fanzhu let out a long breath. Standing for an hour with his physical fitness is not a matter at all, but it is uncomfortable that he does not dare to move, which is very embarrassing. I wiped the cold sweat on my head and carefully observed the difference in the interface after the upgrade.
There are no major changes in the interface, but there are more auspicious cloud patterns around it. There is a question mark flashing on the lottery icon, click on it, and a prompt box will pop up:
The system upgrade is complete.
Each lottery no longer specifically refers to upgrading a specific skill in the Six Arts
- Skill book upgraded to six art books (such as the number of books can upgrade any skill in the number of arts)
- Characters can be designated to upgrade any skill in the Six Arts as needed
The amount of talent required for each lottery has been increased to 20,000
Add the lottery refill function, you can recharge before the wheel stops, and the cost of talent is a multiple of the talent value of a single draw.
Different of the six art books required for skill improvement (1 for beginner, 3 for intermediate, 10 for advanced, 50 for master, 100 for grandmaster, and 500 for saint)
Open the Talent Mall, you can use Talent Points to buy items
After reading it, Meng Fanzhu was dumbfounded, this difficulty has increased too much! What is the difference between this and no system. Although it is possible to specify the skills and raise functions in the six arts, the overall price has risen a bit outrageously. If such a skill is advanced by lottery, assuming that you can draw the desired Six Arts Book every time, you still need at least 280,000 talent points, which is equivalent to the talent value recognized by nearly 3 million people. But buddy hasn't left the novice village yet, so he will engage in inflation without raising wages, how can he mix it up in the future!
Meng Fanzhu closed the prompt box, and an extra treasure chest icon appeared below the lottery icon. Click on it to pop up a mall page. It's very simple, and the top row is a six-item category column, that is, the number of Lile Imperial Shooting Books. Below is nine items of the grid, each grid is an item icon, next to the name and the required talent value, the page can be pulled down, there are many items, but the icons are gray, because the poor! The first page is the "gift" item by default, and the six item pages can be switched.
Meng Fanzhu glanced at it roughly, the first item on each page is a skill book, with a price tag of 50,000 talents, which is 5 times more expensive than the lottery, this is still the cheapest......! It's all sky-high.
Sighing, Meng Fanzhu turned off the interface, bowed to Kong Sheng and the ancestors again, and turned to leave.
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