After a while, Wan Mao came back, and there was no sound in the courtyard again, presumably the Nanyang Confucians had temporarily "truce", and they also wanted to meet this prince of the Zheng Pavilion.

Wan Mao bowed to Zheng Sheng again: "Son, Master, please come in for a while." ”

Zheng Sheng returned the salute: "There is Senior Brother Lao." ”

Wan Ziying took the two of them into the courtyard, the courtyard was really small, two sycamore trees with the thickness of an adult's waist pole stood in the yard one after the other, directly occupying two or three tenths of the open space in the courtyard, and the whole courtyard seemed very narrow.

"How does Master live in such a place?" Zheng Sheng asked.

"Huh? It was the Master's own request. Zheng Yun said, "Originally, the head of the family prepared a set of courtyards in Xing'an Lane for the master, which was much more spacious, but the master had to live here. ”

The eccentric old man, Zheng Sheng muttered to himself.

Entering the room, Zheng Sheng saw the smiling old master Qiu Chudao at a glance. And then take a look, ho! Six or seven old gentlemen, either gray or gray, were looking at him with scrutinizing eyes.

Zheng Sheng walked to the hall and saluted respectfully: "Master." ”

Qiu Chudao stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, disciple, let me introduce you to the masters." ”

Zheng Sheng rolled his eyes, and he discovered one of Qiu Chudao's major characteristics: thick skin.

Does this old man feel guilty? He ran away suddenly, so he had to follow. And now it's so natural to think of yourself as a teacher. You ran away on your own, are you still my teacher? What cheeky!

"This is Nanyang Bowang Sun Shangsun old master......"

"Master Wu Tong."

"Mr. Fang Yong."

"Come to the old master."

……

Qiu Chudao introduced a person, Zheng Sheng saluted him respectfully, six Confucian scholars, Zheng Sheng bowed six times. Zheng Sheng was furious, he felt that Qiu Chudao was deliberate, couldn't he introduce it all at once? Do you have to come one by one?

Zheng Sheng finished saluting. That Master Sun Shang didn't even give Zheng Sheng time to breathe, and immediately asked, "I heard that Zheng Shizi was already literate before Master Qiu's teaching?" Which book did you learn from? ”

Zheng Sheng replied: "I learned it from the Analects." ”

"Poof-" This is the sound of Qiu Fuzi choking on tea.

Sun Shang and Mr. Fang Yong beside him glanced at each other, and both found the joy in each other's eyes. Well, I didn't have old ears and was deaf, I heard it right.

Laiyang asked again: "Maybe a few words to recite silently?" ”

"Zi said: 'When you learn and learn it, don't you also say it?' ”

"The son said: 'Learn from the old and learn the new.'" ”

"Zi said: 'If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher.'" ”

“……”

Zheng Sheng cleared his throat and memorized a few of the Analects he had learned.

Master Qiu's heart was like ashes.

Master Sun flicked his hands and said: "Yes, these sentences are all clear and good sentences." However, I heard Qiu Fuzi say, you don't want to learn the classics of the sages, you just want to know 10,000 words? ”

Zheng Sheng glanced at Master Qiu, Qiu Chudao's face was a little better, and the old master seemed to think that Zheng Sheng had said every word at the beginning, and it was impossible to regret it.

"Back to Master, the disciple has never said that. I really want to learn 10,000 characters first, because in this way I can better understand the classics of the sages. ”

The masters had another silent exchange.

Qiu Chudao stood up: "Yes, yes, the old man's previous meaning is the same, after learning words, students can naturally read through everything, and they don't have to bother teaching words sentence by sentence." Wouldn't it be nice to be so worry-free and effort-saving! ”

The Masters were silent.

Zheng Yun weakly mentioned: "Ten thousand words? It's hard to memorize, right? He had to speak, knowing that if Qiu Fuzi really won this debate, it would be the Zheng family who went to learn first. 10,000 words? How is this memorized?

Qiu Fuzi shook his head: "How can there be 10,000 words?" There are no more than 1,000 commonly used words, and there is no need for rare words. ”

The Masters remained silent.

"Ahem." Zheng Sheng cleared his throat, "I don't think it's good. ”

And all the people looked at him. Master Qiu's eyes are like knives, boy, who are you?

"First, I actually studied hundreds of words before I studied with the Master."

"Second, based on the first point, in half a month, my master and I have only learned three or four hundred words."

"Third, ahem, in fact, I asked Master Qiu to only teach me words because my disciples are not good at memorizing, but they are good at memorizing. It's just that I'm lazy and don't want to endorse. A smile appeared on the corner of Zheng Sheng's mouth, Old man Qiu, revenge is coming, how does it feel?

"Also, I also let my two little slaves learn words, the two of them are not too stupid, but this method of literacy is very boring, and the two of them only learned twenty or thirty words in half a month. So, I don't think this method of literacy can be so generalized. ”

Qiu Fuzi's body trembled, rebel! What a traitor!

Looking at the signs that Qiu Fuzi was about to faint, Zheng Sheng didn't want to really anger him, and began to talk, "However, if these words can be compiled into some kind of catchy, good-sounding and fun sentences, it must be feasible." ”

The masters got together and discussed for a while, and then Laiyang Master said: "The current enlightenment articles also have the ability to teach people to read and write, but there are many repetitive words, and it is impossible to summarize all the common words. How to make a catchy article with all the words? Excellent enlightenment article indeed. It's just that it's hard! ”

"When I was studying with Master Qiu, I wanted Master to help me compile it, I don't know how much Master has compiled now?"

Qiu Fuzi was thinking about the utility of such an article, and when he heard Zheng Sheng's words, he couldn't help but change his face, he was making up this article? Why didn't he know?

The masters made eye contact again, and Wu Tong said, "Oh, Master Qiu has already started writing?" ”

Qiu Chudao shook his head awkwardly: "There is no idea, it has not started yet." ”

Fang Yong stroked his beard and said: "Then everyone will try to write, and after it is done, take it out and evaluate each other, how about it?" ”

The masters immediately agreed to this proposal. Then, everyone said goodbye, presumably in a hurry to go back to creation.

Zheng Sheng thought that a thousand-character essay might not be easy to come up with. The old masters are going to worry about writing books during this time.

Qiu Chudao waited for the masters to leave, and looked at him with blazing eyes: "Boy, has the article been made up?" ”

"Nope!"

"Good!" Qiu Fuzi took a breath and began to go crazy: "Then you dare to demolish the old man's platform!" I'm mad at me! ”

Old Master Qiu jumped up and had red eyes: "The old man was refuted by his disciples today, and he was speechless several times and became a joke!" ”

Zheng Sheng looked up and asked him, "Why did the master say goodbye without saying goodbye?" ”

Qiu Chudao's anger suddenly subsided, and he smiled awkwardly: "At that time, your uncle came to me to discuss the matter of the school. I was in a hurry, so I didn't talk to you. ”

"Is there such a hurry?" Zheng Sheng asked, "I didn't even leave a word." Besides, no one has been to the small courtyard in those days? ”

Qiu Fuzi stroked his beard and was silent.

Zheng Sheng was so angry that the roots of his teeth hurt.

Qiu Chudao's heart went up and down, and he was relieved to see that Zheng Sheng no longer asked.

When he left, the reason was complicated, on the one hand, Qiu Shuzhi knew that he felt a lot of guilt for Qing'er, after all, he had no way to teach, and the girl didn't mind him, and she still served thoughtfully. Qiu Chudao couldn't stay there in peace. Then, Qiu Chudao found that Zheng Sheng had a strong learning ability, and there was no difference between him and him, or a different person, for Zheng Sheng, there was not much difference. His Qiu Chudao's ability did not play a role at all. Therefore, Qiu Chudao ran away.

Then, the patriarch of the Zheng clan invited him to be the chief of the mountain, and Qiu Fuzi thought that this was another rich bond, and then thought that he could renew the relationship between master and apprentice with Zheng Sheng.

So, the old master is here again.

Zheng Sheng saluted Master Qiu: "That's fine, Master farewell, Master goodbye." By the way, Master has made up a good book, and I'm still waiting to see it. ”

Qiu Fuzi was dumbfounded, and he hurriedly said, "What does this matter have to do with me?" Why do I want to make a book? ”

Zheng Sheng innocently said: "Master, this article is for teaching enlightenment, without this article, how can it be taught?" ”

Qiu Fuzi reacted and muttered, "Yes, yes, but isn't this embarrassing old man?" ”

Not to mention how the old master Qiu, who is not good at rhetoric, will scratch his ears and scratch his cheeks to create literature.

Zheng Sheng left Qiu's mansion and went back to Zheng's house directly.