At the end of the seventh month of Bingzi, Jia Cong rode back from Guozijian Street in Andingmen, went around a big circle, and when he arrived at Ningrong Street, he did not enter the main gate, turned left and went to the clan school, the trees outside the hall were lush, and the noise of the autumn cicadas was bursting, Jia Cong sat down on the stone pier to watch, looked into the window, and listened to them read.

The enlightenment education of this era is not like modern times, which are divided into grades and go hand in hand, regardless of whether people's learning progress can keep up or not. In ancient times, ethnology, social studies, and private schools were really taught according to their aptitude, and the content of each person's reading aloud was not the same every day, and the progress was slow, and the young ones were still reading "Prodigy Poems", "Sound and Rhythm Enlightenment", "Seven Words and Miscellaneous Words", "Five Words and Miscellaneous Words", and the faster "Analects", "Mencius", "University", and "The Mean", of which the four books of "Mencius" had the largest number of words, and they were often learned last.

The sound of reading at noon is wah-la-woh, Chinese is a syllabic word, memorizing those miscellaneous words that are relatively flat, enlightenment, is the basic skill of pairs, eight shares, the first step of eight shares, is to learn the pair, this kind of enlightenment and cultivation from an early age, so that the ancients from a young age to the use of ancient Chinese texts, it will go deep into the bone marrow, of course, the same as today's people, are to come step by step, there is no one born to know.

"Has Master Cong's son studied? Then it can be sent to the township for the test, this show is not safe, the county school is taking the exam every year, and the Guozijian Yougong also has to take the exam, and there is a big stack of bamboo paper...... "Sun Fu is bored.

"After that, Guozixue will take the "Mao's Poems" production art a few articles, write a few articles silently, a few articles each of law, arithmetic, and calligraphy, and do not take the four books, and enter the tribute academy at the beginning of August......" Jia Cong said a little tired, and went to the Guozi Supervision Hall, and the doctor also warned him, but fortunately he gave some amber pearls privately, otherwise the doctor didn't want him to live, after all, he was a registered tribute student, and he wandered around for a few years, and he didn't come back to listen to the class.

"Don't come out with any moths, this township test is also troublesome, no wonder so many high-powered people come in person, and send teams of officers and soldiers to patrol, guard, and monitor, that's it, there are people who are not afraid of death every year. According to me, there are no more than two kinds of people who walk in the four bridges and the flying rainbow bridge, one is for fame, and the other is for profit. Nowadays, I can't find people who study and don't seek fame and fortune. Long Aotian burped and looked stupid.

Jia Cong was surprised that this rough man was not stupid in his heart, otherwise he would not have been able to do Jia Zhen and Jia Rong's incident at the beginning, and said with a smile: "You are right, you are a person who has seen the world, then tell me, am I for fame or profit?" ”

"Master Cong is both rich and rich, and he wants fame and fortune." Long Aotian's expression was very serious.

Jia Cong nodded sympathetically, with the meaning of meeting a bosom friend.

At this time, in the school, all the clansmen, clansmen and relatives finished reading aloud, Jia Dairu named one by one, and asked the students to come up and hand in their homework, he looked at it while guiding, Jia Yan handed it over nervously, Jia Dairu shook his head and sat on the podium chair, dissatisfied with the shoddy Shiwen in his hand, and said sternly: "Red flower!" ”

Jia Yan thought for a while and said, "Qingtong! ”

"Hmm......" Jia Dairu said helplessly: "That's right! Go back and copy "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment", "Five Words and Miscellaneous Words", and "Seven Words and Miscellaneous Words", each one hundred times, and hand it over to me tomorrow! ”

Jia Yan's face was full of frustration, and the students in the room were so frightened that their faces were colorless, it was strange that Jia Dairu didn't say anything wrong, the students' learning progress was different, some understood, and some didn't.

When it was Jia Lan's turn, Jia Dairu continued to ask: "Red flower! ”

Jia Lan said without thinking: "Green leaves! ”

"Hmm......" Jia Dairu was noncommittal, and looked at Jia Lan carefully for a few seconds: "Go down." ”

Jia Lan was secretly happy in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, and when he got out of the school after class, Jia Yan cursed Jia Dairu in a low voice, and asked Jia Lan with his hands clasped: "Brother Lan, safflower can be to green leaves, why can't it be to Qingtong?" ”

"Look at the sound rhythm enlightenment, this is to talk about peace." Jia Lan puffed out his mouth: "The word safflower, red is yangping, and flower is yinping, both are flat, and you can only use two words to match it." The word Qingtong, green is yinping, and tong is yangping, which is not right. Yin Ping and Yang Ping are flat sounds, upper sounds, going sounds, and entering sounds are voices, and the two words green leaves are all voices. ”

"Sir hasn't taught me either, isn't this deliberately going to be difficult with me?" Jia Yan complained that his mother was Lou, and said hatefully: "Look down on our small family!" When Xue Pan came in, he didn't see Mr. make it sad......"

"Don't talk about that...... Mr. is not taught, but among the sound rhythms, five words, and seven words, he is familiar with them, and he can understand them, and they are all regular, which is called understanding. What's wrong with your little family? Small doors and small households do not need to talk about so many rules, I have a lot of etiquette at home, my mother is through the four books and five classics, strict discipline, my grandfather once served as the son of the country to supervise the wine, a large family of people to welcome flattery, see them lively and laughing, I went to my father since I was a child, this room has no roof beam, my mother often said, can not let people think that there is a father without a mother...... I'm not happy......"

Jia Yan is very righteous to Jia Lan, Jia Lan is introverted, a Xifu banquet did not come, grandfather Jia Zhengdu had to send someone to invite, grandfather sent someone to invite his grandson, this is very strange, Xifu people say that Jia Lan "cow heart is weird", there must be a reason. Jia Yan's righteousness was in the school at that time, someone inadvertently hit the inkstone, Jia Yan didn't follow, Jia Lan wanted to calm things down.

At this time, Jia Yan didn't listen to Jia Lan's words at all, some people said that "the prodigy of Xifu" came, and the students chattered and watched for a while, and some people didn't dare to come up because of the view of the door, or fear, Jia Yan and Jin Rong were stuck, some were envious, admired, and some were sour and jealous, and finally dispersed in a hurry.

Jia Cong visited Jia Dairu, and Jia Lan invited: "Is Uncle Cong going to Daoxiang Village with his nephew?" I'm not young, only one year younger than Uncle Cong, I'm eleven years old this year, my mother said that I would go to the county exam in February next year, and I wanted to ask my uncle for advice. ”

"Okay, Master, Brother Rui, I'll go first, and I'll give a gift if I pass the exam." Jia Cong said goodbye, Jia Dairu felt that he had a lot of face, this famous prodigy was taught by him, didn't he say that he was a teacher with outstanding ability, Jia Dairu smiled and nodded, waved his hand and scolded his grandson: "Look at you, you have already passed the age of the weak crown, and you are not as good as others!" ”

Jia Rui flinched in fear, ashamed and unwilling.

The uncle and nephew chatted while entering from the back corner door of the Grand View Garden, the left hand side is the kitchen, the kitchen manpower has not yet been arranged, the right hand side is the Wuyuan Garden, the first thing that catches the eye is the folded Zhulan board bridge, the stream under the bridge is gurgling, the bridge is a delicate rockery stone, the mountain stone is covered with all kinds of vines, Qing Ge vine rose, Du Ruo Wu, standing far away, the fragrance is sent with the wind, the mountain stone path turned out of Xue Baochai, Ying'er master and servant, Xue Baochai walked across the bridge: "Brother Cong is coming to see the sister-in-law?" ”

"Yes," Jia Cong said, Jia Lan glanced at them, and they didn't call anyone.

"Then let's stop by."