Chapter 40: Reading

In this way, in the cheers of the residents of the whole building, Zhang Yangshen lived in the Baimeng community, not only was not thrown out as a god, but was also offered as a god.

Bai Meng has to admire the skills that have been passed down by others for thousands of years are really not covered, pretending to be a ghost is a professional level, to put it mildly, this is all psychology.

But it seems that it is indeed as Zhang Yangshen himself said, he has taken a fancy to the scenery of Ducheng, he has not come to harass Bai Meng in the past few days, he doesn't know what he is doing in his house, occasionally appears, meets the uncles and aunts who have begun to superstitious him, and sends some peach wood swords, golden bells, talismans or something, a group of people say that they sleep a lot, and Zhang Yangshen's reputation is even better.

One day, Li Ru also took back a small talisman and hung it on the wall like a baby, needless to say that it was also given by Zhang Yangshen. Bai Meng secretly opened and studied it while Li Ru was asleep, and found that it was just a piece of yellow paper with a few words written in cinnabar, without any peculiar taste, and he didn't notice anything unusual, so he hung it back.

Of course, Bai Meng was not idle these days, he first sorted out the information of the Nine Turns Jade Liquid and gave it to Qin Xinyue, and the two of them studied how to write a report and the market prospect of this commodity in the hospital from time to time. At the same time, the books that Qin Xinyue bought for Bai Meng also arrived, so Bai Meng climbed to the roof of the building early in the morning to read English every morning.

This process is not boring, and there is a little girl Li Ling with her. Li Ling has been on summer vacation, she did well in the final exam, first in the class, fifth in the grade, and the third year of high school will be the first year of school, and she has become the key training object of Ducheng No. 1 Middle School.

Although she was on vacation, Li Ling did not put down her studies every day, and climbed to the top floor every day for many years to read English, like the crazy English invented by a certain Yang back then, she opened her throat and read frantically for a morning, and her beautiful and fluent pronunciation was practiced in this way.

Recently, however, she was tasked with teaching Bai Meng to read The Wealth of Nations, correcting his pronunciation, and checking the results of his recitation.

Bai Meng is still ruthless, Qin Xinyue asked him to memorize it, and he really read it page by page to fully understand, the words and grammar in it are clearly understood by Li Ling, and then read it paragraph by paragraph, and memorize it paragraph by paragraph.

This process is slow to death, sometimes it takes half an hour to check a page of a book to get the same, and this kind of unsystematic learning, often learn the front and forget the back, fortunately, Li Ling and Qin Xinyue are very patient, and they work hard to explain to him over and over again.

Every day facing these tadpole-like English words, he has a strong urge to directly copy Li Ling's skills with spiritual injections.

It's just that he still held back, he only has five first-order spiritual injections left now, and he doesn't know that Ma Yue in the Year of the Monkey can have his own laboratory to make such injections.

With the passage of time,A week later, he also slowly realized the benefits of reading like this,The foundation is very solid,At the same time, hold an mp3 every day,Listen to BBC、CNN when you have time,Although I don't understand,But it's to cultivate a sense of language,Every day there is a slow voa dictation,To ensure that you don't get distracted,This is Qin Xinyue raised a small board to supervise,Play it over and over again until you hear something rough,A two-minute reading usually takes half an hour,Bai Meng can silently produce a dictation with a correct rate of less than 30%.

But it's still slowly improving.,Split the sentence to experience the small details such as the continuous reading accent in English.,It's very impressive to read it again.,Sometimes I hear a weird long word.,When you look at the original text, you find that it's just a few prepositions connected in a sentence.,The feeling of opening the mouth is very refreshing.,It will also stimulate the nerves to remember this thing very deeply.。

He was going back and forth between his home and the hospital every day, and the old man of the Qin Mansion was gradually recovering, and he could clearly feel the strength of his heart. Now he has a few hours of waking time every day, and after knowing that Bai Meng has made his body recover, he is very grateful to him and tells his granddaughter to repay Bai Meng.

In the face of Qin Jurisdiction's gratitude, Bai Meng was a little overwhelmed, but he was still very happy to see that the old man had really woken up, and estimated that he would be able to treat the Seven Injuries in another week, and he was ready to find an opportunity to discuss with Gao Shugen about opening the operating room again.

The situation of Qin Zhifu is not as good as that of his mother, there are a large number of cancer cells on the liver, and now it is not that the seven injuries will exceed the effect of the medicine, but that those cells will cause massive bleeding in the internal organs after they die.

The danger of this cannot be offset by a single mahjong, Bai Meng is ready to discuss with Gao Shugen, and then he may have to do the work of stopping the bleeding himself.

By chance, Bai Meng found a very interesting thing, Li Ling and Zhang Yangshen became New Year's friends.

Later, Bai Meng asked Li Ling what was going on, Li Ling told her that one day the power went out in the house, and it was too hot to do it, so she carried a chair and held a copy of the Tao Te Ching to read at the entrance of the building with a cool breeze. ”

"Why, it's interesting." Li Ling replied.

"Can you read classical Chinese at a young age?" Zhang Yangshen blew his beard and didn't believe it.

"I understand, I've read a lot of ancient books." Li Ling replied obediently, he is very well-behaved in the face of the old man, especially this old Taoist priest, who has white hair and beard but skin like a baby, and is very cute with a beard and eyes.

"I'll test you...... Just say the first sentence, the Tao is the way, the very way, the name is famous, the name is not famous, how to explain it? Zhang Yangshen solemnly glanced at Li Ling a few times, revealing the meaning of the school examination.

Li Ling has read a lot of ancient books, "Tao Te Ching" is not the first time to read, but the pre-Qin text is a little bit of meaning, a few sentences is a sage's life of understanding condensed, with the growth of experience and knowledge, each time you read there may be a different understanding, the ancients read a hundred times its meaning is self-revealed, there is also such a reason.

Moreover, the words of these books have a sense of beauty that is subdued and frustrated, and they are also very beautiful when they read it, and Li Lingqia is a person who knows how to appreciate this beauty.

Zhang Yangshen only asked the first question, no matter how sloppy she looked, she could also explain, and immediately explained in a crisp voice.

"The first word 'Dao' indicates the method of cultivating immortals and cultivating the truth, and 'Ke Dao' can be practiced according to the method of cultivating the Dao Method." In fact, 'non-constant Dao', the ancient people changed it to Heng in order to avoid the emperor, which means that the Tao is not eternal, but the change is different from person to person. ”

Zhang Yangshen didn't speak after listening, but just asked, "What about the second half of the sentence?" ”

"The name can be named, the previous 'name' is the name of the treasure weapon or cultivation method of things, which can be named and defined, 'non-constant name', nor is it immutable, which means that the things and methods you see are not the things or methods that the predecessors have seen, in addition to the meaning that things will change, there are also different experiences and perspectives for each person, even if you see things at the same time, you will be blind and touch the elephant."

Zhang Yangshen nodded, and said with a smile: "It makes sense...... I also know that it is a shun......"

Li Ling laughed, but Zhang Yangshen immediately snorted coldly: "But it's all nonsense!" You are reasoning in both sentences, which varies from person to person, so that Lao Tzu is not sick, and he said one sentence twice. ”

"But that's how the books explain it, didn't the ancients pay attention to confrontation and intertextuality?" Li Ling was not angry, she was very respectful of the hundred-year-old Taoist priest, and when she saw that he said that what he said was wrong, she hurriedly asked for advice.

Seeing Li Ling's attitude, Zhang Yangshen stroked her little head with great satisfaction, and explained: "Ancient characters are difficult to write, before there is no paper, there is no beautiful endowment, these pre-Qin characters, every word is reasonable. Lao Tzu understood the truth that we don't understand, this is the law of this world, the one that all things are born of, he doesn't know how to call it and describe it, and he says it under the strong name, but he can't say it, and what he says is not true. ”

"Huh? No, no, if you understand it this way, then what this book says is also fake? Li Ling was extremely smart, and immediately pointed out the loophole in Zhang Yangshen's words, "But this first sentence is also false, and then it becomes true later, this is a paradox!" ”

Zhang Yangshen laughed mysteriously: "How can there be so many true and false, the Tao is not lightly transmitted, how did this Tao Te Ching come about?" ”

Li Ling recalled for a moment and said: "When Lao Tzu rode a green ox west to Guguan, Guan Ling Yin Xi knew that he was going to hide and asked Lao Tzu to write a book. So Lao Tzu wrote down 5,000 words, which is the Tao Te Ching. ”

"Yes, he wrote it after he was withheld, of course it's fake." Zhang Yangshen squinted his eyes and smiled, "This book is about the way of heaven, it is the rule of man, what kind of cultivation exercises, put it in the first sentence, all fall behind, in fact, he is telling us that the Tao is not asked in the book, it is not to understand a few nouns, it is realized by himself, and what you said varies from person to person seems to be right, but it is wrong." ”

Li Ling was dizzy by what he said, and said with a headache: "Oh, I was dizzy with what you said, but you, a Taoist priest, are also strange, and you actually said that your own Taoist book is a false scripture, which is really bold!" ”

Speaking of which, Li Ling also laughed, and Zhang Yangshen shook his head again: "I didn't say that books are false scriptures, it's just that there are few people in this world who really know how to read." ”

"How do you call being able to read?" Li Ling asked.

"After going through it a few times, you will read it." Zhang Yang Shinto.

"That's too slow, is there a fast one?" Li Ling asked again.

"Read all the 5,300 and 5 volumes of the Orthodox Dao Collection and the 180 volumes of the Wanli Continuation Dao Collection." Zhang Yangshen said patiently.

"So much, how can you finish reading it?" Li Ling stuck out his tongue, frightened.

"yes, my hair is gray after reading it."

Zhang Yangshen pointed to his hair and strode out, but Li Ling's heart moved, and he said loudly: "Grandpa Zhang, Grandpa Zhang, can you teach me to read?" ”

Zhang Yangshen, who had his back to Li Ling, showed a triumphant smile, but did not answer, but slapped Li Ling on the head three times and walked away with his back.

Li Ling secretly said in his heart: "This old Taoist priest is very interesting, this is the method that the Bodhi Ancestor hinted at Sun Wukong back then, do I want to go to him in the middle of the night?" But where is the back door to the building? ”

Li Ling didn't tell Bai Meng about the rest of the matter, but the old and the young often studied ancient texts together, and Zhang Yangshen didn't ask Li Ling about learning martial arts again, nor did he pass on Li Ling's martial arts, and the two seemed to just discuss ancient books.

When Bai Meng couldn't guess Zhang Yangshen, Yan Yaxiang called her and told him that Haipeng Hotel would review the bid tomorrow and ask him to be a judge.