this day.

Guo Xuexue told Zhang Yue and Guo Lin that Miao Sanniang would not come to the private school for a while.

Zhang Yue, Guo Lin was stunned.

Guo Xuezhi made it clear why, it turned out that Miao Sanniang's father was a wealthy family in the county, and his family had purchased a lot of acres. But this person has a big drawback, which is picking.

This person's treatment of his family and subordinates is to save money, even for himself, coarse tea and light food on weekdays, clothes are torn and worn for several years, only marrying a wife and not marrying a concubine.

Miao's father doesn't love anything about food, clothing, housing and use, and the only thing he loves is the two sons born to his wife, who are spoiled to lawlessness, but for his daughter Miao Sanniang, he picks the door like an outsider.

could have asked a female gentleman at home to teach his daughter to read, but Miao's father was unwilling to let her show up outside to study in a township school like Guo Xueyu. If it weren't for Miao Sanniang's insistence on learning, Miao's father would have stopped her from studying.

Now Miao Sanniang has been studying for two months, and Miao's father feels that Miao Sanniang is a waste of money studying again, so he let her go home. Miao Sanniang cried all night to no avail, and in the end she didn't even have a chance to say goodbye to Zhang Yue and Guo Lin.

Zhang Yue was very sad to hear the news, after all, there was no place to eat in the future, but when he turned his head, he saw that Guo Lin's expression was really a little sad.

The same is true in ancient times, men and women have relatively little interaction, and it is possible for men and women to get along for so long and have feelings.

As for Zhang Yue, he was also sad for a while, and it seems that he will have nowhere to eat in the future. Without this channel, Zhang Yue had no choice but to focus on his studies.

The Book of Changes is the first of the Five Classics.

Guo Xuezhi also didn't understand the explanation, but let Zhang Yue memorize it first. Zhang Yue doesn't blame Guo for being a scholar, the difficulty of the Book of Changes, from ancient times to the present, Confucian scholars have never dared anyone to say that they really understand it.

There is nothing special about reading the Bible. Memorize every word and every sentence, be familiar with it, and wait until one day in the future, there will be a day when you will be able to understand it. If you talk too much, you will naturally say it.

It is no wonder that it is not for nothing that Confucianism in this era is called elite education. This is like raw rice, which cannot be digested without a good stomach, and most impatient people fold it halfway and memorize a belly of books, but they do not have to read it hard every day, so that it cannot be comprehended.

In the following days, Zhang Yue continued to learn from his senior brother, but if he didn't understand something, he asked Senior Brother Guo.

Zhang Yue was still afraid of disturbing his hard work, but Senior Brother Guo said: "Although I have already learned the Book of Changes, I am afraid that I will forget it. ”

Zhang Yue let go of his psychological baggage when he heard this.

"But junior brother, how can you memorize the I Ching so fast, yesterday I saw that you were still reading the Menggua, and today you have read the Kan hexagram, leaving the hexagram. Do you sleep during the day, but get up in the middle of the night and secretly light the lamp and read at night? ”

Zhang Yue cried and laughed: "How can senior brother speculate on me like this, am I the one who steals lamp oil to read like that?" ”

Guo Lin said: "Then why can you recite the scriptures so quickly?" I will recite it for three or five days, but you will be able to recite it in one day. ”

Zhang Yue thought for a while and said, "There is no other way, and I don't know why I read it once and memorized it." Probably this is called unforgettable! ”

Guo Lin was suspicious: "Are you really such a genius? But I see that your diary is not very good, yesterday I asked you where you put the candlestick, you said that you also forgot, looking for a long time to find it, if the truth is not forgotten, it will not be so. ”

Zhang Yue smiled and said, "I'm only doing this in my studies. ”

"Then I'll give you the book, and you can recite a paragraph to me on the spot!" Guo Lin insisted.

Zhang Yue laughed......

Fortunately, Guo Lin is not a more serious person: "If you work hard with your talent, you will definitely be able to enter the county school." Then you can go back to the city. I remember that last year, the county school and the scriptures were included, and there were 50 ways of sticking scriptures and ink meanings, as long as the ten questions could be answered in six ways. ”

"After entering the county school, it is different, except for the clan of the Zhang clan in this county, the county school is a place where the heroes gather. After entering the county school, he asked his classmates for knowledge, and even Ling Jun would teach in person, so that the solution test would be a little successful after two or three years. ”

Zhang Yue nodded when he heard this, this is a bit like taking a good high school entrance examination in order to be admitted to a good university. These things are very familiar to Zhang Yue, who has experienced the torture of Wenshan and the sea in his previous life.

For a student like him, who relies on rote memorization of the Nine Classics, in fact, the teacher is secondary, and the important thing is that the county has a collection of Nine Classics. This set of nine classics given after Qingshi Xingxue is engraved by the Guozi Supervisor.

The engraving is not only beautiful, but it is also proofread and absolutely free of typos.

The folk bookstore engraved it is equivalent to a dB book, which can be described as a typo. It's okay to have other typos, but if the Nine Classics are wrong by one word, and the scriptures will be tested in the future, where will they go.

There was a joke among the scholars of the Song Dynasty that there was a scholar who wrote 'Kun as a kettle' as gold. The following students asked Xuezheng for advice, and Xuezheng explained it clearly, and he was able to justify himself.

The next day, the students asked for advice. After the truth was revealed, the student said slowly: "I'm afraid what Mr. is reading is the Jianben, and the Jianben is the kettle character." ”

This building is the building of Yang.

Therefore, Guo Xuexue also spent a lot of effort to borrow the Book of Changes from the county school to Zhang Yue. Instead of reciting or lending them the copy that Guo Lin copied by himself, as a professor did with children.

The purpose is to maintain the correctness of the original text. When it comes to reading, you still have to be responsible for yourself.

In the Song Dynasty, many ministers from poor backgrounds left good stories of borrowing books and copying them when they studied in the county school. For example, the famous minister Liu Zhi studied in the state school, and he had 'Wai Fake Gu Liang's "Spring and Autumn Biography", Fan Weizong's "Book of Han", handwritten and read'.

Speaking of this, Guo Lin paused and said: "Mr. has taught a total of twelve disciples, including you and me, and no one has ever been admitted to the county school. ”

"What if you don't go to the county school?" Zhang Yue asked.

Guo Lin said: "Since the establishment of the county school in this county, there has never been a scholar outside the Zhang clan school or the county school who can be admitted in the Fa Xie test. You may have heard of Zhang Xu in the county school, he entered the county school at the age of twelve, and his articles and poems are among the best in the county, but no one dares to guarantee that he will pass the solution test. ”

"With your qualifications, if you work hard, you can enter the county school in the future, and as for me, I should work hard, or one or two. I want you to pass the exam in the future, but I didn't take the exam, senior brother, so I won't have any face. ”

"If you are admitted to the county school, you can't solve the test, it's not ordinary!" Zhang Yue said again.

Guo Lin said: "It's different, entering the county school can not only save the cost of anointing the fire, I heard that there are also subsidies for grain and rice recently, and everyone in the county will respect you for three points in the future, and call you a Maocai." ”

Guo Lin made a tirade to ask Zhang Yue to strengthen his determination to take the county school entrance examination and stimulate his potential.

"Let's give it a try!" Zhang Yue replied.

After Guo Lin said this to Zhang Yue, he didn't want to promote the biggest person, not Zhang Yue but himself.

Guo Lin originally read three watches and five watches, but now that he looks at it, he is even more diligent. Sometimes when he was tired of reading at night, he would prick his knee with a bamboo stick.

It's all for the sake of the cantilever thorn strands.

This is masochism.

Seeing that his senior brother was like this, Zhang Yue didn't dare to hang his son, and even the daytime and sleep were reduced, from two hours of napping to one hour.

At night, after dark, read a book for an hour, and then go to bed until midnight.

But for Zhang Yue, how can it be pleasant to read a book for ten hours during the day and read it for ten hours after going to bed? So much so that Zhang Yue woke up from sleep, and his eyes were full of the words of the Nine Classics.

Although the days of studying in the past few months were hard, it reminded Zhang Yue of when he was in the third year of junior high school and the third year of high school. I don't know why, so far I think about it, Zhang Yue likes those years very much.

It's not through his own efforts to get into a good school, but he likes himself who works so hard and works so hard, and he thinks of 'the self who chased the moon and was also illuminated by the moon, and he never met it again'.

Later in his life, he only learned to 'touch fish'.

But one day, Zhang Yue got up at night, and he went to Guo Lin to hide in the pine alone and cry.

Guo Lin cried and hit the tree with his fist: "I've been reading so hard, but why can't I read the book of the Nine Classics well?" I'm so stupid, I'm not as good as being lazy every day, I'm really useless, and I've failed my father's intentions. ”

"Sanniang! Sanniang! I miss you so much, you know. ”

Zhang Yue heard this...... Senior brother is really sullen, and he doesn't mention it to me on weekdays.

Now that he is studying like this, Zhang Yue is really worried that Guo Lin's body will not be able to bear it, and once he gets sick, then let alone studying, he will lose his life. However, what Zhang Yue didn't expect was that it was Guo Xuexue who fell ill first.

Summer goes to autumn, and time is like an arrow.

After the autumn, Zhang Yue had memorized the Book of Changes and Erya, and when he was about to read his scriptures, Guo Xuezhi was sick.

Guo Xuexue had some cough at first, then a high fever, and then asked the local doctor in the village to treat it as typhoid fever. Typhoid fever was a serious disease in ancient times.

Knowing this, Guo Xuexue could not teach, and the boys did not come, and his Hun family boiled some herbs grown in the mountains for him every day.

Guo Lin is a person of filial piety, and when he saw that Guo Xuexue had no money to buy medicine for treatment, he was very anxious in his heart.

In desperation, Guo Lin decided to find a livelihood to treat Guo Xuexue... This livelihood is a maid's book.

Helping a book is copying books for others, which is a livelihood for readers.

Quite a few celebrities have had this experience.

For example, Ban Gu, the Han Book records that Ban Gu's family is poor, and he often provides for official servants. After a long period of hard work, he dropped out of work and sighed: "The husband has no other ambitions, and he should still follow Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian to make meritorious contributions to foreign lands, in order to win the title of marquis, and An Neng can write for a long time?

There is also Kan Ze, a famous minister of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms. The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms records that 'the family is a farmer, Zhize is studious, poor and has no money, and often serves as a maid for pen and paper, and what is written is finished, and it is also recited all over again'.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a Cai Ding's family background was small and poor. Father's Ge, according to the county prison officials and maids to make a living, qualified to make a school, travel to the township school, a little called'.

It can be seen that many poor scholars started from 'domestic books'.

As for the place that provided Guo Lin with this livelihood, it was the Zhang clan who was a few miles away.