Master Shaoxing is famous all over the world, that is my Qing Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty did not really prosper.

If someone calls Shen Fuxuan Master in person, our Master Shen will definitely be furious.

Because in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, "master" also specifically referred to teachers with higher status. Those who follow the chief officer to give advice are called staff members, friends or guests.

However, there is also a master among the guests, and the work is very complicated.

For example, if the employer likes to play chess, then the master will teach the chess skills and accompany the employer to play chess and have fun. Or if the employer likes to recite poetry, then the master will accompany the employer to study literature. What's more, if the employer likes women, then the master will take the employer to visit the kiln, and occasionally offer some skills in the house - to put it bluntly, it is literary and artistic help.

Others also drafted paperwork for their employers or taught their children part-time. Later, the confusion and fusion of the curtain guest and the master also originated from this kind of curtain guest who was a tutor, also known as Xixi or Xibin.

Shen Fuxuan thinks very highly of himself, and positions himself as the mastermind, so how can he disdain to be in the company of helpers, clerks, and tutors?

Actually, there is no difference at all, it's just a chain of contempt within the curtain guests.

Shen Fuxuan also often played chess with his benefactor, and also visited the kiln with his benefactor, and he was solely responsible for the correspondence. But his real role is to solve practical problems for his benefactor, and in popular terms, he is a dog-headed military advisor.

After more than ten years of career as a curtain guest, Master Shen has developed the habit of being easy and disgusting. He is only responsible for coming up with ideas, eating and drinking well every day, and the specific actions are run by others.

Now that he has come to the Black Mountain Ridge Village, Master Shen feels very unaccustomed.

Not to mention before, even when he was imprisoned, he could drink a little wine every day with a little silver. In this broken cottage, there is sorghum porridge all day long, mixed with unpalatable bran, and only eats two meals a day, which is simply not a human life!

The memories of two meals a day are too long ago for Master Shen, and they are still stuck in his youth when he was determined to take the imperial examination.

In the morning, the sun is all on the butt.

Master Shen wore a set of barbarian shirts, lying on a thatched bed with a shawl, drinking water with a stoneware bowl, and reciting poems to himself: "There are no flowers and no wine to live a Qingming Festival, and the taste is like a wild monk." There is no wine in this village, and I don't know how long it will last. Pity my concubine in the seventh room, who has just been accepted for less than ten months, and has to endure the pain of thinking about it...... No, my wife Yuan has always been arrogant, and the concubine in the family is afraid that she has already been kicked out of the house! ”

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock on the door.

Master Shen didn't bother to sit up, lay on the bed and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Wang Yuan's voice came from outside: "Sir, you have been cultivating for three days, it's time to officially teach me to read, right?" ”

Master Shen said casually: "I am suffering from a stubborn disease, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover in a year and a half. ”

"Bang!"

There was a loud bang, and the door was directly kicked open by Wang Yuan.

Like a dog with its tail stepped on, Master Shen jumped up from the bed in shock and said in a panic: "What do you want to do?" ”

Wang Yuan immediately bent his bow and arrows, squinted his eyes and sneered: "The boy's family is poor, and there is no extra rice and grain. Since Mr. is seriously ill, there is no need to waste food, I will send Mr. on his way to the west! ”

"Wait!"

Master Shen hurriedly moved his legs and feet, slapped his body indiscriminately, and made a look of surprise: "It's strange, the strange disease on my body has been cured without medicine, it must be the sorghum porridge in the cottage that is particularly nourishing!" ”

"Really? Then I congratulate Mr. on his recovery," Wang Yuan played with the earth bow in his hand and asked with a smile, "But Mr. has just recovered from his illness, does he have the spirit to teach me to read?" ”

"Yes, yes, I'm in good spirits," Master Shen smiled and flattered for a while, and then pretended to sigh, "Alas, I also want to teach you to read." But I don't have books, and I don't have pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, so how can I teach? It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice! ”

"Please follow me, sir." Wang Yuan had already prepared.

Master Shen held a feather fan in his hand, paced leisurely, and followed Wang Yuan out with his teeth. He was determined that Wang Yuan's family was poor and had no money to buy pen and ink books, so it was not his fault.

Wang Yuan went back to the house and brought a blackboard, which was to ask Carpenter Liu to plane the wooden board with nail wedges, and then use mountain lacquer mixed with sand to wipe it evenly.

"Chalk" is easier to find, the Black Mountain Ridge belongs to the karst landform, the limestone is all over the mountains, and the slaked lime can be obtained by firing and adding water.

For engineering dogs, none of this is a problem, and if you think about it, you can do it - because the flame temperature is not enough, it is certainly not possible to burn a large amount of high-purity quicklime, but it is more than enough to crush the limestone and calcine it in small quantities to make chalk.

Wang Yuan took out the chalk, pointed to the blackboard and said, "Sir, the wooden board is paper, and the lime is the pen." Please write the text on the blackboard. ”

Master Shen is estimated to be too idle, but he actually feels very interesting. After a little try, he smiled and said, "Hey, it can really be used for writing." ”

It's just a little unclean, no matter how you wipe it, it's like a layer of white ash on the blackboard.

It can only be said that it is barely usable.

Master Shen had a bad stomach, and he actually wanted to take revenge. He deliberately did not start from the basics such as horizontal and vertical skimming, but only wrote a few words casually, then pointed to the blackboard and said, "I will teach you the "Three Character Classic" first. At the beginning of people, nature is good, learn these six words first, and then teach others after learning well. ”

"At the beginning of man, nature is good. Sir, I will. Wang Yuan glanced at it and found that the simplified and traditional characters of these six characters were the same.

Master Shen smiled: "It's not enough to be able to read, you have to be able to write!" ”

Wang Yuan took the chalk and wrote out six words: "Sir, I do know." ”

This is going to be written?

Master Shen was a little confused, so he quickly erased the words on the blackboard and said, "Not only do you have to write according to it, but you must also be able to write silently." ”

Wang Yuan smiled and wrote again.

How so?

Master Shen was momentarily stunned.

Chinese characters have a complex writing system, and it is incredible for beginners who have not even mastered horizontal and vertical skimming to learn six Chinese characters in an instant.

"Ahem!"

Master Shen coughed twice to hide his surprise, and wrote "Sex is similar, Xi is far away", pretending to be calm: "The six words just now are too simple, most children can learn them at once, and I will teach you these six more complex words." ”

Among these six characters, two characters are inconsistent in traditional and simplified characters.

Wang Yuan carefully memorized the writing method, and soon said: "Sir, I remember it again, and I will write it to you silently." ”

When Wang Yuan wrote out the words again, Master Shen was completely stunned. He stared at Wang Yuan like a monster: "You won't be teasing me again, right?" You've definitely learned it before! ”

"Not really." Wang Yuan replied.

It's strange if you haven't learned it, for this kind of statement, I don't believe it when I kill Master Shen.

Master Shen began to search his intestines and scrape his belly, and came up with a rather obscure Tang poem. Not to mention the children of the barbarian land, even many students did not know, and immediately wrote this poem and said: "Learning is about talent. If you can memorize this poem within a stick of incense and learn how to write it, then you have the talent to take the imperial examination. If you can't learn, it's better to give up as soon as possible, and you and I can get together and disperse. ”

[Ten branches of the sea, hanging the garden is celebrated. Fern Hua hair morning tree, rhombic color turned towards the mirror.

Suddenly, the wind is blowing, and there are floating clouds. It is also admired by everyone, and there is no need to be right. 】

Master Shen is purely deliberately disgusting, leaving simpler vulgar characters and not writing, and using all the most complex orthographic characters.

As a result, 12 of the 40 Chinese characters in the poem are different in simplified and traditional Chinese, and the strokes are particularly complicated, which makes beginners how to quickly grasp them?

The moment Wang Yuan saw this poem, he couldn't help but complain in his heart: I believe in you, this bad old man is evil and hateful!

When Master Shen saw Wang Yuan's expression, he felt extremely happy and proud. From the time the two of them knew each other, he had been suffering from deflatedness, and now he had finally played tricks on this child.

At the same time, Master Shen was inexplicably sad, thinking that he Shen Weitang had been conceited for half his life, and he had actually been reduced to competing with a child.

What a shame!

Wang Yuan did not debunk the other party's tricks, but only seriously sought the meaning of the poem, and then began to learn to memorize. In less than a stick of incense, he wrote Tang Shimo out and said with a smile: "Sir, I will do it again." According to what you just said, I should have the talent to take the imperial examination, right? ”

Master Shen's eyes widened in disbelief, and he muttered to himself, "How can this be? How so? Is there really a natural seed for reading? ”

Until this moment, Master Shen finally began to face Wang Yuan, he had always regarded Wang Yuan's reading as a joke.

Barbarian children who don't even have a household registration, what is it if the imperial examination is not a joke?

But now, maybe it's a possibility.

However, even though Wang Yuan showed amazing talent and Master Shen had accepted this student from the bottom of his heart, he was still unwilling to admit defeat easily, because this matter was about the dignity of a teacher.

Master Shen chose to continue to put the score, shrunk the font very small, wrote the entire "Three Character Classic" on both sides of the blackboard, threw down the chalk and said: "You read it slowly, I'll go to the house to sleep for a while, and then come to me when you can completely recite the silent writing." ”

This kind of teaching method is purely free-range sheep breeding, and there is no system at all, and other children are absolutely confused, and even give up the idea of reading because of this.

But Wang Yuan was very satisfied, if he really wanted to start learning from horizontal and vertical skimming, he would feel bored and impatient.

In fact, Master Shen regarded this as a test, and thought: You can master the "Three Character Classic" in this way, so what if I accept you as a student?

The "Three Character Classic" of more than 1,000 words, plus memorizing traditional Chinese characters, Wang Yuan only took two days to complete it - how could he be a student of 985 and 211 in his previous life, and it is much easier to memorize the "Three Character Classic" than to memorize the postgraduate examination materials.

Two days later, Wang Yuan found Shen Fuxuan again: "Sir, I can already recite and write silently." ”

"Are you really done?" Master Shen was surprised.

Although Shen Fuxuan was quite expectant of this, and even expected it, Wang Yuan's speed still amazed him.