After Zhang Heng left, Zhang Yue looked at this thick stack of hearts, and finally had something to do.

Guo Lin said: "You have written this well, no matter how many others can't find a mistake." I'll see, and if you can't finish it, I'll write some for you. ”

"Then how to save it, senior brother, you write a page for three and a half dollars, and I only have one dollar for a page."

Guo Lin said: "It's good that you know, but it doesn't hurt if you write slowly, the most important thing is not to have any mistakes or omissions, otherwise you will write in vain in a day." ”

Zhang Yue said: "If Senior Brother Zhen is the best to me, but if a page is wrong or missing, a word will be deducted, then I will copy a page in vain." If it's a mistake, I'm going to have to find money for them. ”

Guo Lin slapped his leg and smiled when he heard this, and said, "Senior brother, you will still laugh at this time." You really don't know what to say about you. ”

Zhang Yue smiled slightly, immediately poured water into the polished ink, and immediately picked up the pen and copied the book after adjusting the ink color.

Guo Lin stood behind Zhang Yue and looked at it for a while, he was a little worried that Zhang Yue's words were still unsatisfactory, or that he was sloppy because of his studies. Guo Lin saw that Zhang Yue drew clearly one stroke at a time, and it was written in regular script, and there was a little quaint meaning.

Guo Lin couldn't help asking: "Senior brother has come to the "Declaration Form" recently? ”

Zhang Yue was very happy to hear it, Guo Lin could see that his words had been practiced hard last night, although he was not proud, but he was also a little bit worthy.

"Senior brother really has good eyesight, can you take a look?"

Guo Lin said: "Let's make some progress, it seems that I have finally achieved results in letting you copy the scriptures on weekdays." Write like this, after a long time, the pen is self-contained, and the muscles and bones are self-contained. ”

"Okay."

So Zhang Yue continued to copy books, as Guo Lin said, copying books is also practicing calligraphy.

The Song Dynasty was an era of cultural peak, and scholars and scholars were intoxicated with the way of literature and ink and neglected martial arts. The same is true of the emperors of the Song Dynasty, who have been calligraphers for generations. Therefore, from top to bottom, the first-class pursuit of calligraphy has been formed, and writing a good character is another face of people.

Take advantage of the opportunity to copy books to practice calligraphy, and there is also free pen and ink for use, although there is only one dollar, but why not.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue couldn't help but calm down and continued to practice copying books as a skill.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin copied the difference, Guo Lin copied the policy, it should be made by the students in the school, and there is still the habit of the Tang Dynasty. The students' daily proud works must be copied, and they or their relatives and friends will ask senior officials to look at them and extend their reputations on their behalf.

For example, Ouyang Xiu, the eldest uncle in the political arena, brought Wang Anshi, Su Shi, and the three masters of the Su family.

Wang Anshi was recommended to Ouyang Xiu by Zeng Gong, Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong are fellow villagers, and Zeng Gong's sister married Wang Anguo, Wang Anshi's brother. And Zeng Gong is Ouyang Xiu's most proud disciple.

When Zeng Gong recommended to Ouyang Xiu, he said, "Gong's friends have Wang Anshi, and the text is very ancient, and the line is called its text." Although it has been named, there are few people who know Wang Anshi today. He is honest and self-respecting, and does not want to know others. ’

With Wang Anshi's temperament, if there was no support from Ouyang Xiu, Zeng Gong's recommendation would be much more difficult.

Guo Lin's characters are well written, so the students in the family studies invite the name of the paper.

Zhang Yue's handwriting is poor, and he copies the articles of those who have already passed the first reading, and then copies them for each student. Because the word is ugly, it cannot be publicized externally, but can only be digested internally.

What Zhang Yue copied was Fu.

There are genres such as poetry, fu, strategy, and theory in the Jinshi exam, but the heaviest weight is poetry fu, and fu is above poetry.

The quality of one article determines whether the candidate will stay or not, and the rest will be set up and down. This fu is not written by a famous master, and each article must be copied in thirty-six copies, which means that there are a total of thirty-six students in the family study.

Zhang Yue calculated that it was about one and a half pages, I don't know if it was counted as two pages, or one and a half pages, if it was two pages, it would be seventy-two dollars, and the income was good.

Zhang Yue wrote it carefully, so he copied two articles.

By this time, the ministry had already arrived with a case: "Do not eat in the study, but eat outside." ”

"Is there a table?" Guo Lin asked.

"Nope." The little old man of the ministry shook off the words and left.

It's for them to squat and eat.

Zhang Yue didn't pay so much attention to it, when he was a child, there was no TV in the dining room, so it was common to run to the living room to eat with food.

But he was a little angry when he saw Guo Lin. Although he is poor, he has also inherited the teaching of poetry and books since he was a child. Meals must be eaten on the table, and must be 'on the left side of the eater, and on the right side of the person'.

Seeing the food on the ground, Guo Lin couldn't help but feel difficult.

Zhang Yue thought for a while and said, "Senior brother, we are new here, and it shouldn't be the place where the academy treats you and me lightly. There is no cloud on the kun hexagram, 'the straight side is big, and there is no disadvantage if you don't get used to it'. You and I have just arrived at the clan school, and they don't care about it at most, and they have no conflict of interest with each other, so they don't mean to chase us. ”

Guo Lin nodded and said, "That's right. We consulted with the ministry together. ”

Immediately, Guo Lin walked to the ministry and said, "There is no case for food, and it is not a courtesy." Although we are here to help books, we are also readers, so please treat them with the courtesy of readers. ”

The ministry was dissatisfied: "Something happened again? Eat and eat, how can there be so many famous halls, where can I find a food table for you in this eagerness? ”

Guo Lin wanted to say more, but Zhang Yue stepped forward and said: "I just passed by the shooting garden, there is a pavilion next to it, and I asked the ministry to allow us to go here for lunch." ”

"Whatever you want."

"Thank you for your ministry."

Guo Lin and Zhang Yue immediately walked to the pavilion with the food table. The rice is rice and is very tightly pressed, and the soup is salt soy soup. The rice and soup were double, and there was a plate of pickles eaten by Zhang Yue and Guo Lin.

Eat a meal at a pedant's house, but here you can eat a dry meal.

Zhang Yue had already picked up the rice and quickly took two large bites, then closed his eyes and felt the feeling of rice filling his mouth. This rice is cooked, with a barrel aroma and a soft and sweet flavor in the mouth.

This is a real wooden barrel rice, not a wooden barrel shell wrapped around the iron basin in a fast food restaurant.

"Slow down!" Guo Lin reminded.

Zhang Yue smiled and sandwiched a piece of crisp and delicious pickles, swallowed it with the rice, and then took a sip of the salted soy soup, which was rich in sauce.

This meal of rice made Zhang Yue happy.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin watched as the students in the clan school walked to eat one after another, and they were followed by scholars carrying bookcases and quivers for them.

In the afternoon, the students did not continue to go back to the day to continue their studies. At this time, scholars still have the saying that you can't sit for a long time when you are full, and it will hurt your blood and qi.

At this time, the disciples will go to practice shooting, throwing pots, and swimming.

Sitting there from morning to night and studying hard, this is something that only the rich do, and even when they are tired of reading, they will be scolded for sleeping day and night.

Only the poor don't read at night, and as for the yamen, they can't afford candles?

Zhang Yue saw Zhai Chang Zhang Heng again surrounded by a group of students and came to the arrow stack.

When the students were paying attention, Zhang Heng smiled slightly and took the bow from the scholar's hand. But seeing that Zhang Heng's figure was as straight as a pine, and his arrows were like beads, all of them hit the red battlement, and the students on the left and right cheered when they saw this.

Zhang Yue couldn't help but cheer in his heart.

Guo Lin said: "The patriarch is self-sufficient, don't provoke him." ”

After the meal, the two continued to transcribe the article.

Before he knew it, it was dark, and Guo Lin had finished copying, but Zhang Yue still had more than a dozen articles that he hadn't finished.

Guo Lin first picked up Zhang Yue's article and proofread it first, picking out a mistake and missing words, and then saw that Zhang Yue was writing slowly and said, "I'll copy it for you!" ”

Zhang Yue said: "It's dark, senior brother go down the mountain first, otherwise the road will be difficult to walk?" ”

"Then I'll leave you alone to go down the mountain?"

Guo Lin immediately took half of it and copied it for Zhang Yue. Zhang Yue said as he wrote: "The Kun hexagram says, 'Han Zhang Kezhen, or from the king's affairs, there is no end.'" I kind of get it. ”

What this means is that you don't want to do things well, but you must explain everything. It doesn't hurt that the book can be copied slowly, but it is not about ability, but about attitude.

"The truth can be obtained from the book, but it is not yet your own, and you need to grind it in the end. Senior brother, did you say that I was right? ”

Guo Lin nodded: "Senior brother is right, this is virtue, only virtue can carry things." Experiencing this can be regarded as grinding your mind. ”

Zhang Yue talked to Guo Lin and spread it outside the house.

When the ministry heard this, he smiled without stroking his beard: "That's interesting." ”

By the time it got dark, Zhang Yue had already completed the transcription and handed over the thirty-six articles to the ministry.

The ministry said, "How much are these worth, ask the fasting chief, and I don't bother to care about your business." ”

"Thank you for the ministry!" Zhang Yue and Guo Lin saluted together, and then prepared to say goodbye and go down the mountain.

"Wait!" The ministry asked, "How do you get down the mountain when it's so dark?" ”

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin glanced at each other.

The ministry said, "I have some pine oil here, go and break some branches and bark, and I'll make you a torch!" ”

Zhang Yue Guo Lin was overjoyed when he heard this, there are still good people.

At that time, the ministry was given to Zhang Yue, and Guo Lin made a torch. The two brothers went down the mountain together.

Zhang Yue was in a good mood at the moment and said interesting things, but Guo Lin told with a solemn face: "Let's walk back and walk, if you listen to the strange sound behind you, don't look back, just go straight forward." ”

"Why?"

"You just listen to it, you see that the mountain looks like a grave, let's just walk over quietly."

Zhang Yue saw that Guo Lin was like this, and it was not easy to say it again, and the atmosphere was a little depressing. The moonlight on the horizon was dim and the stars were sparse, and the four fields were pitch black, and the two brothers were holding torches side by side. The torches illuminated the square inch in front of them, but they added a lot of courage to the two of them.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin walked together for several miles at night before returning home.

At this moment, the torches were almost burned out, but fortunately I saw a lantern lit in the distance, hazy in the night. When they got closer, the two saw Guo Xuexue holding on to his sick body, and he was waiting for him and Guo Lin outside the door with her Hun family with a lantern.

Guo Lin almost burst into tears when he saw this scene, threw away his book bag and knelt down in front of Guo Xuexue and said, "Daddy's child is not filial, so late to come back, tired of waiting outside the house." ”

Zhang Yue then arrived and hurriedly said: "Sir, it's mine, it's not me, I copied the book late, and I'm tired of my senior brother accompanying me to copy it until now." ”

Guo Xuexue helped Guo Lin up and said: "It's good to come back, the old man is just worried, how did you come back?" ”

Zhang Yue said: "Sir, it was the ministry that made me a torch, and my senior brother and I came all the way back. ”

Guo Xue said: "Then thank you, okay, you go in and wash up, you haven't eaten at home?" ”

The pedant Hun said: "There is also a piece of cake." ”

"Divide each of you in half, and when you have eaten the bread, go and rest. I'm tired after a busy day! ”

"There is no shortage of fathers and children, and the children need to read for a while!" Guo Lin said.

"I'll be with my brother." Zhang Yue said on the side.

"Okay." Guo Xuezhu nodded, and then instructed the Hun family, "Quickly extinguish the lantern, it costs oil!" ”