The earth dog lying on his stomach by the fence door was about to bare his teeth when he saw the stranger come in, but he sniffed it out, and in an instant came to the man and licked his boots carefully.

The man crouched down and stroked the dog's head lovingly.

Seeing this, Zhang Yue walked up curiously and said, "Dare to ask you something?" ”

"Are you a new disciple of Sir?"

The other party glanced at Zhang Yue, lowered his head and asked.

"Yes." Zhang Yue felt that there was some different emotion in the other party's eyes, as if he was jealous.

After Zhang Yue answered, the other party was silent for a while and asked, "What's your name?" ”

At this time, I saw that Guo Lin had hurriedly run from the hall and said, "Senior Brother Han, are you here?" ”

Bro? Zhang Yue finally understood that the young man in front of him was the one who gave up school halfway as Guo Lin said before.

"Drop by here! Just come in and take a look, how is the junior brother? The young man replied.

"It's alright, you've been busy with homework lately, how are you doing? Still reading? Guo Lin asked.

Zhang Yue saw the young man biting his lip and said, "Has Mr. accepted new students again?" ”

"Yes, I came here a few days ago, and I have finished reciting the Book of Filial Piety."

The young man nodded, then looked farther away. Zhang Yue turned his head and saw that Guo Xuexue had walked out of the hall, and said in a trembling voice: "Is it Han Tao?" ”

The young man took a deep look at Guo Xuexuan, and suddenly turned around and rushed out.

"Senior brother! Brother! Guo Lin strode after him.

The figures of the two disappeared into the pine forest, and Zhang Yue looked at Guo Xuejiu, and his eyes were also slightly red.

Soon Guo Lin ran back, looked at Guo Xuexuan and Zhang Yue and shook his head. Guo Lin said in a low voice: "Daddy, the senior brother said that since he has already spoken, he will not go back to study here in the future." ”

Guo Xuexue sighed, turned his back and walked into the house silently.

Zhang Yue asked Guo Lin, "Why did this Senior Brother Han come back and leave?" ”

Guo Lin shook his head and said, "He may want to come back, after hearing that his county school has failed, he also wants to find another famous teacher." But his family was not well-off, his mother died the year before last, and his stepmother was very harsh on him. In fact, except for his father, no teacher in the county was willing to accept such a humble Shu Xiu to teach him the scriptures! ”

"Then he just came to ask Mr. Re-asking for his income, so why did he leave again?" Zhang Yue asked.

"Do you cherish your face, maybe you were going to open your mouth today, but after seeing me, I was afraid that I would lose face, so I changed my words and said no." Guo Lin sighed.

Zhang Yue finally understood, and he asked again: "Then why didn't Mr. move to the city to teach?" Shu Xiu will definitely be higher than Muraxue! You don't have to eat. ”

Guo Lin said: "Daddy has been here for a long time, so he can't bear to love the soil." In the past, when life was tight, his mother also asked him to move to the city, but he said that if he left, there would be no one to teach these children in the village! ”

"I see." Zhang Yue nodded and turned his head to look at the hut, but saw that most of the children in the school were still laughing and playing, and there were few serious ones, while Guo Xuexue was kicking the clogs and reciting the book in a subdued tone.

Guo Lin suddenly said: "In fact, if one of you and I can be admitted to the county school, my father will have a reputation, and there will be more people studying here in the future." ”

"But it's nothing if you don't pass the exam, my father often tells me that it's nothing if a person is poor or not, but it is enough to know loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness. Be loyal to the official family, filial piety to your parents, be honest to yourself, and be righteous to your friends. As long as my generation of scholars can talk about these things from time to time, even if they are poor all their lives, they can stand up to the sky! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yue nodded and said, "Senior brother has been taught." ”

Summer is scorching, and Pucheng has entered the scorching heat.

In summer, the days are long and the nights are short, and many children have to help the family work in the fields before dawn, so the children no longer come before dawn, and generally wait until after the hour. At this moment, the adults could not bear the scorching heat in the fields, and the boys were sent from the fields to study in the village school.

In the south, they are busy with farm work all year round, but in the north, they only study after October, which is called winter school.

Lu You has a poem that says that "children learn in winter, and they are next to each other in winter, but they are stupid but cherish themselves." The village secretary slept behind closed doors and did not look at people all year round. ’

Winter school is what children learn to play, but the teacher himself holds that the high school of the scholar does not associate with the peasants. After teaching in the morning, he slept behind closed doors, and he didn't see him from beginning to end for a year.

This is completely different from Zhang Yue's Mengxue in the city, at that time, except for himself and Xue Ming, most people studied very seriously, and the teacher's urging was also extremely strict.

The children in Guo Xuexue's village school frolicked and played, and few of them took reading as a serious thing.

However, the parents in the village school are not stupid, Guo Xuexue's village school is cheaper, at least let the children have a place to go after plowing the fields, if they can learn Braille, it would be better to learn some etiquette to receive people and things, and no matter how bad it is, you can write your name neatly without lack of strokes.

It's not that parents don't know the truth that 'if you can't endure the hardships of studying, you have to endure the hardships of life', because it is really too difficult to get ahead in the exam, and that is something that only the eunuchs have.

The Song Dynasty did not have a show of talent, and the fame of the people was raised, and it was only rewarded to provide a scholar to the Jinshi, which of the common people had such capital?

And Guo Xuezhi looked at Zhang Yue at the beginning, he had heard Zhang Yue's 'nickname' in Mengxue, and knew that he should be the master who was not serious about reading. I thought that this time I came to study the scriptures, probably in the name of the system, to fool the family.

This is also very normal, Zhang Yue has to work in the fields if he doesn't study at this age. Zhang Yue has the intention of studying to escape the hard work of farming. However, when Zhang Yue memorized the Book of Filial Piety, it made him change.

A few days ago, Zhang Shi brought Zhang Yue a futon, as well as his most cherished mosquito net, and when he left, he stuffed Zhang Yue with 300 yuan, so that he could buy what he lacked, study with peace of mind, and don't think about his family.

Zhang Yue had already finished reading the Book of Filial Piety, and then read the Analects. These days can be said to be a great benefit for Zhang Yue, no longer idle, every day feels that his mind is full of things, and his homework is also improving by leaps and bounds day by day.

In addition to reading, Zhang Yue likes to lie on the big stones in the pine forest with the grass roots in his mouth, watching the white clouds on the ridge float in front of him so leisurely, and the fresh air in the pine forest is intoxicating.

Not far away, the pedant's earth dog was lying in the sunny place, lazily turning his head and licking the bald hair on his back.

The lame slaves opened their fields behind the village school and watered and planted vegetables every day.

When the boys came to the village school, they continued to fight, preferring to crouch under the tree and watch the ants fight rather than pay attention to studying. The days in the mountains are so indisputable with the world, the years go by, except for the bitterness, it is really calming, and the troubles are all gone.

After being woken up by the children's slapstick that day, Zhang Yue walked around the grass house for a while, did the eighth set of radio gymnastics in the pine forest, and returned to the house with a little thirst to scoop water with a gourd and drink it.

The water in the tank was very cold, so when he drank the water, Zhang Yue drank it in small sips.

These principles of cherishing the body and cultivating the body, Zhang Yue understood but did not use them in his previous life, but in the Song Dynasty, where medical treatment was underdeveloped, he had to pick it up. Take the mosquito nets that you take with you wherever you go, which is a must-have in the south.

In ancient times, many people died of malaria, and having a mosquito net can save a lot of worry. As for getting up early to exercise, it is also a must, reading for exams is not only mental work, but also physical work, how can you study without a good body?

"Senior brother, what are you doing in the forest every day?" Guo Lin asked curiously.

Zhang Yue replied with a sigh: "Some of the techniques of ploughing the fields, I will not be able to read in the future, and I will always have to go back to farming, I am afraid that my kung fu will be wasted, so I will practice in the forest when I get up in the morning." ”

Guo Lin was relieved when he heard this, and then reprimanded: "Senior brother, I said a long time ago that if you don't sleep day and night, with your talent, if you are willing to work hard, you must be able to ......."

Zhang Yue yawned for a long time: "Senior brother is so hungry, I don't know what to eat for breakfast?" ”

"Eat tea soup this morning...... Where did I just go? Brother, brother! I'm not done yet, why did you leave? ”

But seeing that Zhang Yue had already walked to the kitchen of the West House, and the pedant Hun family was cooking tea soup.

As soon as the Hun family saw Zhang Yue, he said: "San Lang is here, eat a bowl of tea and soup." ”

"Great!" Zhang Yue took the tea soup from the hands of the scholar Hun and drank it.

The pedant Hun family smiled: "You came from the county town before, I am afraid that you will not be used to living in the mountains, but you are getting better and better." ”

Zhang Yue laughed, in fact, he was bitter in his heart, but he didn't say it.

"There is a master who cooks this good tea soup, how can I be willing to leave!"

The pedant Hun Jia frowned and smiled: "It's your sweet mouth." ”

Zhang Yue drank the bowl of tea soup that was thicker than porridge and then made a gesture to wash the dishes, and said casually: "Thank you, Master." ”

"Eh, put the bowl down, it's your turn to wash the dishes, do you want to eat again?"

Zhang Yue touched his stomach and said: "This tea soup is like porridge but not like porridge, like tea but not like tea, but Shi Niang is really delicious when cooked, but I just ate it too fast, and I haven't taste......d it yet."

"Now that it's well burned, eat another bowl." The pedant Hun family looks like he can't say anything.

The pedant Hun family put the tea bottom mung beans and green onions at the bottom of the bowl, first add some cold water to make a paste, and then rinse with boiling water.

Zhang Yue took it over and drank it and couldn't help but sigh again: "It's delicious!" It's delicious! It's warm all over my body. ”

"Hugh should be polite to me, and treat this place as your home!" Pedantic Hun family is colorful.

Guo Lin, who was following Zhang Yue, couldn't help muttering in his heart, his mother was not pretentious to people on weekdays, and he and his father had to look at her face at home.

But Zhang Yue is not only not afraid of her, but also can often please her, outsiders don't understand, and think that Zhang Yue is her own son.

After two bowls of warm tea soup, Zhang Yue had already returned to the house and was about to read.

At this time, Guo Xuezhu pushed the door in, but saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old woman behind him.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin were wondering, but when they saw Guo Xuezhi and said: "These two people will be your senior brothers in the future, and they will live here on weekdays, and if you don't understand anything in your homework in the future, you can ask them for advice." ”

Zhang Yue was taken aback, there are still girls in this era?